Slashdot Mirror

I've recently done this with a small webserver to keep it running. Some sort of deposit had appeared on top of the electrolytic capacitors on the motherboard, and the machine became unbearably unstable.

I took out one of it's mirrored drives and connected it in a different (larger) machine and then booted it using Usermode Linux.
I found it was best to be running 2.6.7 on both the host and the uml and it is bridged onto the host's network, so it appears exactly as before.

- Brian.

The difficult/annoying part in pirating xbox games is getting a modded xbox. I, for one, just find it too much of a hassle to mod, and until I do it would be impossible for me to get free xbox games (not that I would :P).

And how often to the 'end users' need to actually crack the software? No-cd cracks, keygens, and all the other stuff are available and as easy to get as the pirated software itself. GameCopyWorld, Packetnews, Suprnova, and a couple of clients are all you need, my friend.

wireless: use NDISwrapper. Sure, not the purest way to go but if you have a centrino laptop with an Intel 2200 card, it's the only way you'll get wireless working (unless you use the existing development drivers, and hard code a lot yourself...)

The 2.6 kernel (and Fedora Core 2) is a different matter, though -- I couldn't get ALSA working in spite of a lot of updating kernels, modules, BIOS settings etc. The newer hardware (like Centrino) is even worse where free software is concerned. It really sucks when an upgrade is a step back.

Man, I'm late with this one. By now since there's 568 responses, I hope it gets noticed. I'll be a weenie and post it to a top response.

If your clients are just looking for something to check email, web access and are willing to save in .txt they should get a Psion 5mx. I've done plenty of research on this because that's what I need for my trip round the world. They run off AA batteries which last 20-30 hours.

But of course, it's not the newest and latest, and the screen is black and white. But if your clients are geeks, there is a linux version of it.

Good retailer of refurbished ones. Linux version.

If anyone buys one, please mention my name: Dave Smith. I'm riding a small motorcycle round the world and Paul at Psionflexi has been really helpful.

This really is a good thing, especially because it takes Linux to the English (and French) mainstream market; coupled with the release of pre-installed Linux laptops and desktops thins can really help the consuper market take off. In time, this should level out the rough edges - and Kernel panic is IMHO not one of them.
However I got there first. My booklet on the same subject is out since 2001, is FDL'd and there for grabbing. http://dazero.sourceforge.net/ldz-en.html/

that's funny. First thing I did with my HP/Compaq nx8000 was to put FC2 on it. Runs very nicely thanks. Only piece of h/ware that needed wrangling was the wirelss adaptor.

I've got Slackware running good on my IBM Thinkpad T22, with a Cisco Aironet wireless card, and mini-PCI (3Com I believe), kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x. It works like a champ. I've set up Quickswitch to easily use different network profiles and different XF86Configs at login (to use super-duper scrolling mouse). It's really as easy as a desktop. In fact, I'm using it now. For more detailed info: click here.

This is set up dual-booting Win2000, which I very rarely boot.

Star Control 2. If you've played it, you know, if not, the open source re-make is making good progress. A shame that #3 was so bad.

Also good luck getting Linux to run right with the Intel Pro(tected source code) Wireless LAN

(I'm going to ignore this article's request specifically for games that would objectively look better now than they did back then, believing that this is irrelevant to their enjoyment today. Rather, these look better subjectively, due to the fact that there have been few if any attempts to replicate them, or perhaps none sufficient to surpass them.)

Master of Orion 2.
In fact, now that there's a lousy sequel (http://www.quartertothree.com/reviews/moo3/moo3-1 .shtml gives an amusing overview), it looks even better.

Star Control 2
Nothing quite like it has been even attempted since. (Save a lousy, almost irrelevant sequel.) There's a sourceforge project to port it to modern systems(http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

System Shock 2.
It beat Half Life to the stores, yet actually did a lot of things better (well, besides sales). Still considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made. There's a graphics patch out there called Rebirth. (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/ssh ock_rebirth.htm)

Wizardry 8
These days, virtually all commercial computer RPGs are either D20 games (AD&D or otherwise), or Diablo clones. Both good and bad ones are starting to feel like generic clones of each other. Even after three years, Wizardry 8 was just about the last decent stat-heavy dungeon crawler. For something different.

And of course since I'm trying to recommend games that not everyone has played, I'll throw Planescape Torment in there. There's even a completely unknown unofficial patch for it that makes it seem better today:
http://www.accesswave.ca/~cthorpe/

TTDX is a great game, linux version is also available with many improvements over the original: Openttd

Check out this free implementation of it....

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/

I never played the original, but this game was really fun!

I just finished replaying both Ultima 7 and Ultima 7.5 on my much more modern machine, thanks to Exult.

I'd say the Ultima series has aged very well. I had a blast replaying the game, and I was more immersed than I've been in a long time.

As for immersion... I'd have to give kudos to the Civ series... I still replay Civ II all the time, but Civ III has me so hooked my wife is ready to divorce me.

Have you never tryed media player classic? You can do all the shit you're talking about, including fast forward/rewinding, configuring codecs..and the upside? Download real and quicktime alternative and it will play your real/quicktime files too.

Winamp5 just isnt that good a player for video. It doesnt do well on files that have more than one audio track, doesnt seem to play dvds all that well, and like you said, slow to load. Media player classic has no playlist, but is a MUCH better media player.

Its available here if you care to try it out.

Indeed.
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
I use it all the time to view movie trailers and the like.

jh

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1002056&group_id=4421&atid=1044 21

Well, on Windows, there is probably no better player than Media Player Classic, which already can run Real stuff via Real Alternative. Also, mplayer is available for windows, though I've not tried playing Real with it outside Linux.

As for Real themselves, I kinda like what they are doing now, but old grudges die hard. I am torn between wanting to support people doing the right thing and feeling they haven't been punished nowhere near enough for past things yet.

Just to give one example, KPlayer at version 0.5.1 is already light years ahead of any Real stuff and plays RealMedia just like any MPEG, AVI, MP3 or Ogg Media. It's MPlayer based, and its KDE interface is absolutely awesome.

Bye-bye Real!

However, it's probably not a place to discuss it unless you have something to contribute to resolving it.

This problem rules. It is very efficient, and changing id3 tags take literally a few mouse clicks. A very well put together program.

hsqldb is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, supporting a rich subset of ANSI-92 SQL (BNF tree format). It offers a small (less than 160k), fast database engine which offers both in memory and disk based tables. Embedded and server modes are available. Additionally, it includes tools such as a minimal web server, in-memory query and management tools (can be run as applets) and a number of demonstration examples.

Mckoi SQL Database is an SQL (Structured Query Language) Database management system written for the JavaTM platform. Mckoi SQL Database is optimized to run as a client/server database server for multiple clients, however it can also be embedded in an application as a stand-alone database. It is highly multi-threaded and features an extendable object-oriented engine.

Juk is a quite good clone of itunes for KDE (not the shopping stuff, just a library manager)

You can transfer files to your ipod with gtkpod

Better prefer to launch a proprietary software with a windows emulator.

Avoid the ID3 tags !

It would be trivial to set it up so that double-clicking a tar ball in kde or gnome would launch an installer script

Something like Kconfigure might do the trick...

Of course, it's not as easy as InstallShield(tm) but it's still kinda cool :)

I use easyTag and it's working out great. It supports changing ID3 tags, changing filename to match ID3 tag, CDDB searches, etc.

http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ is an open source equivalent.

A lot of people also use Hsql, another free, open source, small foot-print Java database.

Now there's iTunes running in Linux. Good.

On the other ahnd, there's an Ogg Vorbis for QuickTime Plug-In, currently just for OS 9, OS X and Win32:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=41359

But one keeps wondering how much of an effort it would be to combine the two, thus getting Ogg Vorbis functionality within iTunes running under GNU/Linux on i386 and PPC??

What about gtkpod?

It's still beta stuff, but there's also some publications along with the code on the site.

I believe porthole was mentioned here a few days ago. Link

Also: please copy and paste this post to every other person that has whined about slashdot, and has not donated money or clicked on ads!

So you think throwing more money at a bug is all that's needed to fix it? You must be a PHB.

Another pointer towards the cookies is in this bug report and comments

The SunRay appliance is a thin client that basically runs an X "client" allowing connection to remote servers. The SunRay server software (currently only available for Sparc, but as the article portends, will be ported to LINUX) provides the SunRay appliances with the information to get going (a list of login servers, for example). The appliance basically connects to a Sun server's X.

The SunRay appliance hardware is pretty small, and individually unimpressive--which makes it kind of impressive. The SunRay appliance boots entirely from flash, so they're quiet and light. The small processors make them generate little heat, as well.

They behave similar to something like PXES or the myriad of other thin client solutions. That software turns your system into a remote workstation for any xdm server. That works on any Intel system (maybe there are ports?_ from floppy, USB, flash, TFTP...

An interesting thing is, if you have a LINUX box running xdm, you can use the SunRay appliance as a remote thin client for that server. You still need a SunRay server to get the appliance to behave on the network first, though.

Unfortunately not. Nor does it seem to use MODS XML for record storage (which, incidentally, will be used by OpenOffive.org's bibliographic and the bibliophile project, which hopes to do cross searching across the open source literature databases.

SRW/U hopes to supplant Z39.50. Not only does it use MODS, but it still uses ZeeRex and CQL .

For more nerdy e-refererence stuff, check out darcusblog

Classes such as VLayoutNode and HLayoutNode are a great help. If you take a look at E.g. the main Whisper window the actual GUI creation code (In the constructor) is around 100 lines. You just nest widgets inside Views (Or derivative classes of View) and the Window and LayoutNode code will take care of most of the laying out work for you.

It could be easier, but it's certainly much easier than E.g. Win32, or even MFC (In my opinion, and I'm biased, and I havn't done very much MFC programing at all apart from one small dialog based application but that sucked enough to warn me off anything more complex with MFC!)

There are a bug report and comments at sourceforge, looks like there is something unsound about handling the cookies.
Maybe the new color scheme threw a bad spell...

For what its worth, I'd already found that but thanks -- I was actually refering to that *version* of Nautilus -- it had several other features that are now missing.

Also worth pointing out is that there's no good reason why I shouldn't get that nice info screen *and* my tree view.

But for other peoples' ideas on how to browse files, make sure you check out what Raster's working on these days (looks great):

Enlightenened File Manager

For what its worth, I'd already found that but thanks -- I was actually refering to that *version* of Nautilus -- it had several other features that are now missing.

Also worth pointing out is that there's no good reason why I shouldn't get that nice info screen *and* my tree view.

But for other peoples' ideas on how to browse files, make sure you check out what Raster's working on these days (looks great):

Enlightenened File Manager

...get it configured as an ethernet switch, rather than a Layer 3 router.

The poster didn't say how he had the cards connected together. My understanding is that he could make a layer 2 switch by bridging all the ethernet interfaces. It'd cut down on all the IP routing overhead. Still, I'd recommend getting a dedicated Gigabit switch. The PCI bus just wasn't meant to handle this amount of traffic.

Scummvm could be much easier solution for playing those old LucasArts games. But as you have virtual machine installed it doesn't matter anymore so much.

But anyone else that wants to try virtual machines for solely playing LucasArts games should try Scummvm first.

http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/

No, it really wasn't. You're thinking of Menuet.

See that "bugs" link at the top or bottom of the page? Click it.

Since reading isn't your strong point, I'll duplicate it here: bugs.

have you ever used fluxbox with linux?
fluxbox
there is no way any windows desktop can beat that speed.

Also, as the previous poster said, once you've installed the VMWare Tools, you don't need to press and release Ctrl+Alt in order to change the VMWare window focus; you can seemlessly move your mouse between the guest and host OS's (among other functionality).

(Tell-Sell mode)

The latest TiVo hack... Soon coming to a Freenet or MUTE node near you... It's amazing!

(/Tell-Sell mode)

A little later, it'll be all over the general file-sharing networks, without ever having left a trace to its origin. At that stage, the cat is irrevocably out of the bag.

The point you raise is interesting: it doesn't matter that anonymous networks like Freenet or MUTE are not currently used by a lot of users; they _are_ used by ~1000-~10000 users. When more than a view of those start sharing it at high-usage filesharing networks, the cat is out of the bag. I can indeed imagine really high-profile hacks (say: like the utopical patch that'll break DRMS and/of TCPA in a few years, or so ;) to be "released" in either the two-stage way I just described, or by using virusses (as a last resort).

Interesting...

I would love to see a new competitor in this market.

I would love see Bochs get to a point where it can seriously challenge these products. Waiting for VMWare to fix some stupid bug is very very aggravating. Virtual PC's are too much of a PITA in my experience.

You _might_ try Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/). It is is an x86 processor emulator, so it is really, really slow compared to VMWare or VirtualPC (which use the processor directly). But, if you use a fast machine and an old Windows install, it _might_ work for you. I used it in a Windows host with Linux (without X), and it worked well enough for me to do a lot of basic things.

There are some bug reports about it on the slashcode bugtracker, report 1002074 and 1002056. It appears that it primarily affects people using Firefox and Mozilla, while Microsoft IE works fine (conspiracy?).