No, more like him leaning up against your car, and having a panel fall off or collapse as he does so. Even though I think the person who submitted the Ask/. was earnest, I agree with what others have said - if they're really vulnerable, someone will break into it eventually, and the lost client will find out about it on their own. Just be as far away from scene of said crime as possible, and don't do anything that's going to tie you (or appear to tie you) to said crime. _____
Did you guys try PostgreSQL? Seems like it might've been a good middle ground - a more full-featured, transaction-based database system, with (admittedly) slightly less features than Oracle, but a lot less cost (it's free!). _____
Try duplicating Apple Tech Library CDs (on 3 burners at a time on a PPC Debian box, no less), since my workplace became approved to do Apple service work in-house, which took about 3 spindles worth (~150 CDs) to make all the necessary duplicates for 8 sets.
(Yes Virginia, there really are legal uses for CD burners!) _____
Probably more like the (now ancient) A/UX operating system that Apple produced for the olden 680x0-based Macs. I believe that was a branded UNIX, back in its day. _____
Umm. You mean GNUStep, surely - OpenStep is pretty much the same code that was in NeXTStep, just cleaned up for portability purposes. It's not "open source", however. And DPS is, as the person you replied to claimed, Adobe's proprietary technology, and uses code licensed directly from Adobe (so does Solaris' X server, probably some of the same code even). There are and have been efforts, based largely upon GPL'd versions of the Ghostscript package, to duplicate Display PostScript functionality, but I just don't know if it will every fully materialize. _____
Hmm, what license is gcc under? The GPL? and what did they do to their Objective C modifications to gcc? Release them?
Yeah, because they had to. Way back in the early days of NeXT, the ObjectiveC compiler that was developed at NeXT, based heavily on GCC, had to be (iirc) wrested from their hands, in effect - they were forced to release it, because of the fact that they did base it so heavily on GCC, using much of the code right out of the GCC codebase. NeXT kinda messed up there - so Steve Jobs and friends already know better than to try that again.
What they didn't release was the code to Aqua, which was totally propietary.
No kidding - Quartz is mostly based upon PDF and Display Postscript code licensed from Adobe. Releasing that would run afoul of the terms they licensed the code under (just like NeXT tried to do with their ObjectiveC compiler, way back in the day, but got nailed on).
Apple can't release the Sorenson codec because they don't own it.
No, but according to Sorenson, Apple has some kind of exclusive arrangement such that Sorenson can't release the source to their codec to anyone else without Apple's approval. _____
Haven't you read previous articles about this? No on'e s stealing RAMBus's technology - they sat in on the JEDEC meetings where SDRAM technology was being devised, then patented stuff they heard about at the meetings. They have no right to backstab these companies who are trying to implement technology openly, so please don't claim they do.
That's the trouble with doing stuff in an open fashion - there's always someone who comes along who's just out to screw everyone else. _____
Bridge/terminal adapter would probably be a more accurate term - but, like with ISDN terminal adapters and the ever-inaccurately-named "cable modems", average Joe knows it as a "modem", because it hooks his computer to the amorphous thing he knows as the Internet, and so that's what corporations are going to call them - just so the customer has some idea what they're talking about. Even though the use of the term is a complete misnomer, which anyone who knows what an actual modem does would understand. _____
Damn straight. It's funny, parents who want to adopt a child are subject to strict regulations, but anybody who can have 'em the old-fashioned way can just go screw whoever they want and have one. No prerequisites, no checks, no making sure this person is competent, responsible, and capable.
Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with that? _____
Yeah, I'll bet. Nothing will ever happen there - and even if it did go forward, just watch Microsoft threaten said venture out of existence.
Trust me, it's not going to happen. Microsoft will not allow it. _____
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Palm's not trying to be the "do-all, be-all" device that the Newton (and some other *cough*CE*cough* handhelds) have tried to become. It is designed to have a specific set of tasks which it does well, with some room for expansion, but Palm and the other makers of devices using PalmOS (IMO) understand that that is the mistake that will kill the PDA market - trying to be too overzealous, and doing too much in such a small device (and then just doing SO much of what it tries to do either not so well or just plain badly). _____
Diablo, just like the rest of Blizzard's stable o'games, will never be ported to Linux. Why? Well, I don't know. Ask Blizzard. (Of course, they won't answer your question either - they might tell you there's not enough demand for it. Though I think we all can say that's a total load.) _____
Well, you can't because Microsoft published it. Microsoft will never allow a title published under their name to be ported to Linux, I promise you. Just like future Bungie titles won't be ported to Linux - once again, Microsoft is now wearing the pants in that relationship (since they bought Bungie).
Try Kohan, it looks to be quite good, and should be available on Linux soon (if it's not already). _____
Umm. Loki didn't have anything to do with ALSA. Sam Lantinga (one of Loki's dev guys) developed SDL (which is used in the porting of games to Linux), and Loki has developed OpenAL in cooperation with Creative (who I'm not super-pleased with, but hey)...
And yes, I don't think much of the DigitalRiver ordering system either (I ordered a batch of games - over $200 worth - last summer, and it did the same thing to me, I had to call up DR, then they cancelled my order and I just had to reorder). So I agree, they need to either FIX that, or as someone else mused, maybe drop DR altogether and buddy up with TuxGames for their online orders.
Also, as far as the exceedingly long delay on SMACX is concerned, was there ever any final statement on that? Why the hell it took so many months to get it shipped? I played the demo LAST SUMMER (after downloading it while at DefCon - the demo was rather a blast!). Or do we still not know why? _____
Except you can't. InterVideo will only sell it to OEMs (for putting in set-top units and as part of preinstalls), not to end users. That's one reason many people have been working on open-source DVD players - the commercial DVD player for Linux aren't even available to the end user. _____
Xine supports subtitles too (as long as your display driver supports XVideo). CSS support is easily added by grabbing and building a CSS-enabled DVD plugin. I've watched several movies with it, and its playback quality is quite good. _____
Anybody can sign a package. That doesn't mean shit. As another posting mentioned, any fool can setup a GeoCities page, or similar, and provide their keys for verification, and still provide trojaned packages.
Why do some people think package signing is an end-all, be-all solution to trojan binaries? It's just one more way to lull yourself into a false sense of security. And of course, I think it's funny that people bitch that the Debian package format doesn't support it, considering that for all practical purposes, it gains you absolutely ZIP.
Maybe the Debian way has some advantages - keep all your packages in trusted archives, where they've been verified and tested, instead of relying on digital signatures to keep bad things from happening. You'll note having a real pen-and-paper signature from a person doesn't stop them from doing bad things either. _____
Yeah, that or a Western Digital. Anyone remember the Caviar series 2 drives? Those were the WORST. I remember shipping lots of them back.
Wonder why they stopped making SCSI drives? Oh yeah, because their drive reliability was so bad, no one would buy their SCSI drives unless they needed something dirt cheap (and I'll bet 9 times out of 10, they discovered why the drives were so cheap). _____
Why do you think they bought Bungie? You do know that the X-Box version of Halo will be the first to ship, right? They needed a platform title, and apparently nobody else inhouse came up with anything management deemed "good enough", so they dug into the cash reserves, and bought up another company with a promising title, and told them "This game will be on the X-Box. It will not be on any other console. The X-Box version will come first. No questions." _____
Yes, the P4 has WAY more memory bandwidth. But if you read the article, you'd see that because of the much longer cache lines (among other things, I'm sure), the memory bandwidth is being used FAR less efficiently. So that additional bandwidth is just getting completely wasted. In applications that use large chunks from system RAM, they can benefit from the longer cache lines, but if an application does quick jumping around in memory, the longer cache lines end up being a liability.
Intel needs to do some severe retooling of the P4 before it's really ready for the market. Until then, I have a feeling AMD's market will be doing nothing but growing. I know if I were buying a new box right now, I'd be going AMD. _____
And tell me, how would you telnet into a Novell box? Especially one that's been running for 4 years straight? (i.e., it's probably running NW3.12 or so, something before 4) _____
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No, more like him leaning up against your car, and having a panel fall off or collapse as he does so. Even though I think the person who submitted the Ask /. was earnest, I agree with what others have said - if they're really vulnerable, someone will break into it eventually, and the lost client will find out about it on their own. Just be as far away from scene of said crime as possible, and don't do anything that's going to tie you (or appear to tie you) to said crime.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Did you guys try PostgreSQL? Seems like it might've been a good middle ground - a more full-featured, transaction-based database system, with (admittedly) slightly less features than Oracle, but a lot less cost (it's free!).
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Try duplicating Apple Tech Library CDs (on 3 burners at a time on a PPC Debian box, no less), since my workplace became approved to do Apple service work in-house, which took about 3 spindles worth (~150 CDs) to make all the necessary duplicates for 8 sets.
(Yes Virginia, there really are legal uses for CD burners!)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Probably more like the (now ancient) A/UX operating system that Apple produced for the olden 680x0-based Macs. I believe that was a branded UNIX, back in its day.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
SysV is irrelevant - to obtain the UNIX branding, you have to meet TOG's Single UNIX Specification (version 1 for UNIX95, version 2 for UNIX98).
BTW, The Open Group are now the sole proprietors and licensors of the "UNIX" mark.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Umm. You mean GNUStep, surely - OpenStep is pretty much the same code that was in NeXTStep, just cleaned up for portability purposes. It's not "open source", however. And DPS is, as the person you replied to claimed, Adobe's proprietary technology, and uses code licensed directly from Adobe (so does Solaris' X server, probably some of the same code even). There are and have been efforts, based largely upon GPL'd versions of the Ghostscript package, to duplicate Display PostScript functionality, but I just don't know if it will every fully materialize.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Hmm, what license is gcc under? The GPL? and what did they do to their Objective C modifications to gcc? Release them?
Yeah, because they had to. Way back in the early days of NeXT, the ObjectiveC compiler that was developed at NeXT, based heavily on GCC, had to be (iirc) wrested from their hands, in effect - they were forced to release it, because of the fact that they did base it so heavily on GCC, using much of the code right out of the GCC codebase. NeXT kinda messed up there - so Steve Jobs and friends already know better than to try that again.
What they didn't release was the code to Aqua, which was totally propietary.
No kidding - Quartz is mostly based upon PDF and Display Postscript code licensed from Adobe. Releasing that would run afoul of the terms they licensed the code under (just like NeXT tried to do with their ObjectiveC compiler, way back in the day, but got nailed on).
Apple can't release the Sorenson codec because they don't own it.
No, but according to Sorenson, Apple has some kind of exclusive arrangement such that Sorenson can't release the source to their codec to anyone else without Apple's approval.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Haven't you read previous articles about this? No on'e s stealing RAMBus's technology - they sat in on the JEDEC meetings where SDRAM technology was being devised, then patented stuff they heard about at the meetings. They have no right to backstab these companies who are trying to implement technology openly, so please don't claim they do.
That's the trouble with doing stuff in an open fashion - there's always someone who comes along who's just out to screw everyone else.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Bridge/terminal adapter would probably be a more accurate term - but, like with ISDN terminal adapters and the ever-inaccurately-named "cable modems", average Joe knows it as a "modem", because it hooks his computer to the amorphous thing he knows as the Internet, and so that's what corporations are going to call them - just so the customer has some idea what they're talking about. Even though the use of the term is a complete misnomer, which anyone who knows what an actual modem does would understand.
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If you grab the downloadable version, you can run it in Wine. I played it in a build from a recent source tree - it worked great.
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And "Psychic Pigs Network" sounds like they're still more effective than Microsoft tech support.
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Damn straight. It's funny, parents who want to adopt a child are subject to strict regulations, but anybody who can have 'em the old-fashioned way can just go screw whoever they want and have one. No prerequisites, no checks, no making sure this person is competent, responsible, and capable.
Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with that?
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Yeah, I'll bet. Nothing will ever happen there - and even if it did go forward, just watch Microsoft threaten said venture out of existence.
Trust me, it's not going to happen. Microsoft will not allow it.
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Palm's not trying to be the "do-all, be-all" device that the Newton (and some other *cough*CE*cough* handhelds) have tried to become. It is designed to have a specific set of tasks which it does well, with some room for expansion, but Palm and the other makers of devices using PalmOS (IMO) understand that that is the mistake that will kill the PDA market - trying to be too overzealous, and doing too much in such a small device (and then just doing SO much of what it tries to do either not so well or just plain badly).
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Diablo, just like the rest of Blizzard's stable o'games, will never be ported to Linux. Why? Well, I don't know. Ask Blizzard. (Of course, they won't answer your question either - they might tell you there's not enough demand for it. Though I think we all can say that's a total load.)
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Tried FreeCraft? http://www.freecraft.org/ - check it out. I think it works with WC2. (Maybe someday it'll work with StarCraft too?)
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Well, you can't because Microsoft published it. Microsoft will never allow a title published under their name to be ported to Linux, I promise you. Just like future Bungie titles won't be ported to Linux - once again, Microsoft is now wearing the pants in that relationship (since they bought Bungie).
Try Kohan, it looks to be quite good, and should be available on Linux soon (if it's not already).
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Umm. Loki didn't have anything to do with ALSA. Sam Lantinga (one of Loki's dev guys) developed SDL (which is used in the porting of games to Linux), and Loki has developed OpenAL in cooperation with Creative (who I'm not super-pleased with, but hey)...
And yes, I don't think much of the DigitalRiver ordering system either (I ordered a batch of games - over $200 worth - last summer, and it did the same thing to me, I had to call up DR, then they cancelled my order and I just had to reorder). So I agree, they need to either FIX that, or as someone else mused, maybe drop DR altogether and buddy up with TuxGames for their online orders.
Also, as far as the exceedingly long delay on SMACX is concerned, was there ever any final statement on that? Why the hell it took so many months to get it shipped? I played the demo LAST SUMMER (after downloading it while at DefCon - the demo was rather a blast!). Or do we still not know why?
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Except you can't. InterVideo will only sell it to OEMs (for putting in set-top units and as part of preinstalls), not to end users. That's one reason many people have been working on open-source DVD players - the commercial DVD player for Linux aren't even available to the end user.
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Xine supports subtitles too (as long as your display driver supports XVideo). CSS support is easily added by grabbing and building a CSS-enabled DVD plugin. I've watched several movies with it, and its playback quality is quite good.
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Anybody can sign a package. That doesn't mean shit. As another posting mentioned, any fool can setup a GeoCities page, or similar, and provide their keys for verification, and still provide trojaned packages.
Why do some people think package signing is an end-all, be-all solution to trojan binaries? It's just one more way to lull yourself into a false sense of security. And of course, I think it's funny that people bitch that the Debian package format doesn't support it, considering that for all practical purposes, it gains you absolutely ZIP.
Maybe the Debian way has some advantages - keep all your packages in trusted archives, where they've been verified and tested, instead of relying on digital signatures to keep bad things from happening. You'll note having a real pen-and-paper signature from a person doesn't stop them from doing bad things either.
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Yeah, that or a Western Digital. Anyone remember the Caviar series 2 drives? Those were the WORST. I remember shipping lots of them back.
Wonder why they stopped making SCSI drives? Oh yeah, because their drive reliability was so bad, no one would buy their SCSI drives unless they needed something dirt cheap (and I'll bet 9 times out of 10, they discovered why the drives were so cheap).
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Why do you think they bought Bungie? You do know that the X-Box version of Halo will be the first to ship, right? They needed a platform title, and apparently nobody else inhouse came up with anything management deemed "good enough", so they dug into the cash reserves, and bought up another company with a promising title, and told them "This game will be on the X-Box. It will not be on any other console. The X-Box version will come first. No questions."
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Yes, the P4 has WAY more memory bandwidth. But if you read the article, you'd see that because of the much longer cache lines (among other things, I'm sure), the memory bandwidth is being used FAR less efficiently. So that additional bandwidth is just getting completely wasted. In applications that use large chunks from system RAM, they can benefit from the longer cache lines, but if an application does quick jumping around in memory, the longer cache lines end up being a liability.
Intel needs to do some severe retooling of the P4 before it's really ready for the market. Until then, I have a feeling AMD's market will be doing nothing but growing. I know if I were buying a new box right now, I'd be going AMD.
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You do know who published Asheron's Call, don't you?
Three guesses.
Still don't know? It's Microsoft. Microsoft will NEVER actually let any game with their name all over it be ported to Linux. Trust me.
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And tell me, how would you telnet into a Novell box? Especially one that's been running for 4 years straight? (i.e., it's probably running NW3.12 or so, something before 4)
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