Except that a lot of it isn't theirs to reveal - like the MPEG-2/DVD decoding chips on the Dxr3 decoder card. The chips are made by Sigma Designs, and just have Creative's name slapped on. (Specifically, it's the Sigma Hollywood+.) I don't know about the Dxr2 (I'm guessing the situation is similar tho).
As someone else commented, hijacking searches based on keywords can lead down a road that Lycos probably should not go down. Once they start controlling content of searches in that fashion, what's the next step from there?
Keep in mind that AltaVista is owned by Compaq now, and many Compaq machines default the preinstalled browser(s) to an AltaVista portal page customized for the user. They're probably counting all the searches done through the portal pages too. And consider, also, that most of the machines that HAVE that on them (their Presario line - aimed at the "common joe" (read: moron)) are bought by people who've probably not had a lot of computer exposure (read: morons). Therefore, AltaVista's gonna see a lot of that. (Remember that Compaq got AltaVista as part of the purchase of Digital...)
I already have acquired myself one (as part of Creative's Encore Dxr3 6x DVD kit), and hope to be able to play my DVDs on Linux someday instead of rebooting to Win95 for the job.
You're telling me THAT'S why IE for UNIX sucks so badly? (Yes, it sucks. I've heard that from all the people who tried to run IE for Solaris/SPARC.)
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Try reading... they said there's not going to be a NEW Q3Test. v1.08 is available, but the much-heralded v1.09 will NOT be released - Carmack has decided to go straight on into a finalized demo release.
You lose all rights to hold the company accountable for their faulty and bloated code.
Well, I don't recall having that option with most commercial software anyway. Try reading those MS EULAs sometime - you have 90 days (iirc) in which to claim product defect, and have the product either repaired or replaced. Nothing about refunds - no, they don't GIVE refunds. Nor do most reputable software shops - the best you can usually get once you've opened the box is store credit on another product. And after the 90 day period on that MS EULA, MS effectively disavows any fault (of ANY kind) with regard to the product. So you're not gaining that much.
I admit, I recently bought a copy of Applix's ApplixWare for Linux - I also admit I pirated it previously. I thought that the price was fair though, and I could afford it. Also, unlike pretty much every MS product nowadays, it has a nice, BIG, spiral-bound manual. Don't get that with most software of ANY kind lately. If I'm gonna buy commercial software, I'd rather buy it from a company that offers a good, stable product that does what I need at a fair price. (Yes, I think $100 is a fair price for an office suite - $200 for an upgrade is NOT. And yes, I think including a real manual is a very nice feature, too.)
Nod. Those apps make a lot of use of MIT shared memory, and AccelX has often in the past had a broken MITSHM implementation. (Doesn't seem like it'd be so hard... the official X11 source tree has all the code right there, but...) Of course, I still don't know about their DGA situation - do they have DGA at all? If so, are they making ANY attempt to be compatible with XFree86? (Yes, XiG, XFree86 is STILL the setter-of-standards.)
Compared to Windows, XFree's mouse cursor is unresponsive. You can just feel the difference when you use each for a period of time.
Yes, but only because Windows dedicates a separate process to the mouse pointer. If the system's locked itself down though, it doesn't matter if you can move the mouse pointer - locked is locked. (Even moreso with M$ products.)
I'm keeping my hopes high. I had the opportunity to take in Dirk Hohndel's presentation on XFree86 4.0, and I've since played with the current XFree86 4.0pre source release. It's coming along quite well - I had some minor things to deal with with the tdfx driver, but it's FAST. Fastfastfast. And this isn't a fully accelerated driver yet, either. (The final release will, from my understanding, have ALL drivers that can using the XAA interfaces.) There's no automated config-generation tool yet, but that will (of course) be remedied before the final release as well. And with multihead and GL/DRI support... these are features that XiG charges big bucks for.
Get ready XiG. Your market may begin evaporating sooner than you'd like to believe.
Heh. I've used XiG's AccelX server - one word to describe it. "Crashfest". All I had to do was switch out of X, and *bewm* lockup. I haven't had that problem with XFree86.
Maybe it's just me, but I hope that XFree86 4.0 will start the first nail in AccelX's coffin.
WordPerfect for Linux and ApplixWare for Linux can both generate formats that M$ Word can understand (Word reads WP format, Applix's Words app generates RTF). That's usually not a big problem. The main problem, IMHO, is that these users have been "brainwashed" in a way - they think the pretty GUI surface is all that matters, and the software industry has found it quite convenient to perpetuate that myth for the "common user".
Of course, some of us actually care about what's underneath the surface, and aren't willing to be told that when the computer fucks up, it's always "your (the user's) fault".
If you have a BIOS password, a locked case, no removable drive booting enabled, and a LILO password, people can't just reboot your Linux box and change your password. But it's true - the whole Unix security model goes to hell once a would-be attacker gets physical access to a machine. Linux, NT, Solaris, whatever.
And also, encrypted FS? That's a big assumption there, don't you think? Does NT even support having its filesystem encrypted? (I know you can do FS encryption on Linux...) Not everybody uses an encrypted FS, even if their OS supports it.
Because all the platforms they've put NT on in the past either with 32-bit (PPC) or ran in 32-bit mode while running NT (AXP, aka Alpha). I'm sure it'll take a whole new API (AGAIN) to address 64-bit architectures like the Merced. (No, I refuse to call it the I-word. That is the most evil name I've heard for a product in awhile.)
Are you on crack? This is standard M$ drivel (they mentioned this just recently in one of their "oh-so-objective" (yea right) articles about Linux's "shortcomings"), and should be thrown away out of hand. You're telling me users and groups are bad? (They're not exactly that different from what NT employs in the way of security) And don't tell us "well, it only applies ownership and permissions to files" - Unix systems treat EVERYTHING as files.
... NT would end up on top.
Ok. You _have_ to be on crack. You're telling me that an OS that crashes regularly, has a bloated GUI tied quite closely to its innards, has service packs regularly released that cause it to blow up... all these things don't take any points off it? The Linux box (yes, only one, and it does all that's needed) I run at work is quite stable. If I install a broken package, it doesn't kill the whole system. It doesn't need a GUI constantly loaded and sucking down resources. It just sits there and does its job. Oh, and did I mention it doesn't crash?
The NT workstations at my school crash regularly. All I have to do is open a terminal window and a few Netscape windows, and *BOOM* hard lock. These are configs shipped FROM THE MANUFACTURER with NT 4 WS installed. I'd trust them no further than I could throw them.
From who? Those who never have and never will play those "violent" games anyway. I like to play Quake2 (especially since I got all my new gear.. yummy) and shoot up some bad guys. It's a stress releaser. Probably the only thing that keeps me from ACTUALLY shooting people.
If you want to play tag, or shoot people without killing them, go play tag, or paintball, or something like that. Those are things that can quite easily be done in real life. Like the current generation of kids don't have their brains glued to TV and computers enough - great, let's have them take all their outdoor activities onto the computer instead.
Sorry, but this seems kinda ridiculous to me. If you wanna play non-violent group games, play non-violent group games.
Not I. It'd hafta be damn spiff for me to even consider paying 35 bucks for a browser. I've only heard about it, but I'm not big on MDI interfaces. I think I'd much rather stick with Netscape for when I need/want the pretty pictures, and Lynx for when I want no-frills browsing.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Every distro uses either libc5, glibc 2.0 or glibc 2.1. (I happen to use debian potato - glibc 2.1 distro.) As long as they're using the same basic components that EVERY Linux distro has (libc, X libraries, Qt libraries (yes, they're even available as Debian packages:p)), that's just completely ridiculous. If they're not, they should be dragged into the street and shot. In the head. With an elephant gun. Twice. At close range. (I'm not serious, but you know what I mean...)
I second that. How long has it been anyway? I've been hearing for the past year or 2 now (at least) how "oh, Opera's working on a port and it'll be out RSN"... yeah. Okay. Sure, we believe you.
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Come on folks. At this rate, they MIGHT finish their port of Opera to Linux and the Qt widget set (blah. I dont care so much about the license of Qt - I just think it's ugly. Give me Gtk or give me death.) before Mozilla gets a final version out.
Also, it's kinda funny how Opera claims their browser is more up-to-date than anyone else's... Hmm. They don't support HTML 4. (Netscape and IE do.) They don't yet have support for CSS 2. (IE supports it, albeit somewhat brokenly, and Mozilla is aiming for complete CSS2 support.) Do they support DOM?
Come on, Opera. Lets see some progress here. You've been working on ports to several different platforms for how long now? And have any of the ports been completed? How many new versions have you released for Windows while the different ports have languished? Was the original source written with any kind of portability in mind AT ALL? Or is it being completely rewritten because it was too Win32-centric?
That's not a real MAC address - it's just a fake MAC address that the machine on the other end of the PPP connection can use for ARP/proxyARP purposes. All Windows machines will report the same thing for the MAC address of the "PPP adapter" device.
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Except that a lot of it isn't theirs to reveal - like the MPEG-2/DVD decoding chips on the Dxr3 decoder card. The chips are made by Sigma Designs, and just have Creative's name slapped on. (Specifically, it's the Sigma Hollywood+.) I don't know about the Dxr2 (I'm guessing the situation is similar tho).
As someone else commented, hijacking searches based on keywords can lead down a road that Lycos probably should not go down. Once they start controlling content of searches in that fashion, what's the next step from there?
Just be careful what you wish for.
Keep in mind that AltaVista is owned by Compaq now, and many Compaq machines default the preinstalled browser(s) to an AltaVista portal page customized for the user. They're probably counting all the searches done through the portal pages too. And consider, also, that most of the machines that HAVE that on them (their Presario line - aimed at the "common joe" (read: moron)) are bought by people who've probably not had a lot of computer exposure (read: morons). Therefore, AltaVista's gonna see a lot of that. (Remember that Compaq got AltaVista as part of the purchase of Digital...)
Any word on if Sigma's H+ will be one of those?
I already have acquired myself one (as part of Creative's Encore Dxr3 6x DVD kit), and hope to be able to play my DVDs on Linux someday instead of rebooting to Win95 for the job.
You're telling me THAT'S why IE for UNIX sucks so badly? (Yes, it sucks. I've heard that from all the people who tried to run IE for Solaris/SPARC.)
Try reading... they said there's not going to be a NEW Q3Test. v1.08 is available, but the much-heralded v1.09 will NOT be released - Carmack has decided to go straight on into a finalized demo release.
You lose all rights to hold the company accountable for their faulty and bloated code.
Well, I don't recall having that option with most commercial software anyway. Try reading those MS EULAs sometime - you have 90 days (iirc) in which to claim product defect, and have the product either repaired or replaced. Nothing about refunds - no, they don't GIVE refunds. Nor do most reputable software shops - the best you can usually get once you've opened the box is store credit on another product. And after the 90 day period on that MS EULA, MS effectively disavows any fault (of ANY kind) with regard to the product. So you're not gaining that much.
I admit, I recently bought a copy of Applix's ApplixWare for Linux - I also admit I pirated it previously. I thought that the price was fair though, and I could afford it. Also, unlike pretty much every MS product nowadays, it has a nice, BIG, spiral-bound manual. Don't get that with most software of ANY kind lately. If I'm gonna buy commercial software, I'd rather buy it from a company that offers a good, stable product that does what I need at a fair price. (Yes, I think $100 is a fair price for an office suite - $200 for an upgrade is NOT. And yes, I think including a real manual is a very nice feature, too.)
Nod. Those apps make a lot of use of MIT shared memory, and AccelX has often in the past had a broken MITSHM implementation. (Doesn't seem like it'd be so hard... the official X11 source tree has all the code right there, but...) Of course, I still don't know about their DGA situation - do they have DGA at all? If so, are they making ANY attempt to be compatible with XFree86? (Yes, XiG, XFree86 is STILL the setter-of-standards.)
Compared to Windows, XFree's mouse cursor is unresponsive. You can just feel the difference when you use each for a period of time.
Yes, but only because Windows dedicates a separate process to the mouse pointer. If the system's locked itself down though, it doesn't matter if you can move the mouse pointer - locked is locked. (Even moreso with M$ products.)
I'm keeping my hopes high. I had the opportunity to take in Dirk Hohndel's presentation on XFree86 4.0, and I've since played with the current XFree86 4.0pre source release. It's coming along quite well - I had some minor things to deal with with the tdfx driver, but it's FAST. Fastfastfast. And this isn't a fully accelerated driver yet, either. (The final release will, from my understanding, have ALL drivers that can using the XAA interfaces.) There's no automated config-generation tool yet, but that will (of course) be remedied before the final release as well. And with multihead and GL/DRI support... these are features that XiG charges big bucks for.
Get ready XiG. Your market may begin evaporating sooner than you'd like to believe.
Heh. I've used XiG's AccelX server - one word to describe it. "Crashfest". All I had to do was switch out of X, and *bewm* lockup. I haven't had that problem with XFree86.
Maybe it's just me, but I hope that XFree86 4.0 will start the first nail in AccelX's coffin.
WordPerfect for Linux and ApplixWare for Linux can both generate formats that M$ Word can understand (Word reads WP format, Applix's Words app generates RTF). That's usually not a big problem. The main problem, IMHO, is that these users have been "brainwashed" in a way - they think the pretty GUI surface is all that matters, and the software industry has found it quite convenient to perpetuate that myth for the "common user".
Of course, some of us actually care about what's underneath the surface, and aren't willing to be told that when the computer fucks up, it's always "your (the user's) fault".
NTFS only journals on its metadata. That's why. They call it a "journalling" filesystem, but it only is in that sense.
If you have a BIOS password, a locked case, no removable drive booting enabled, and a LILO password, people can't just reboot your Linux box and change your password. But it's true - the whole Unix security model goes to hell once a would-be attacker gets physical access to a machine. Linux, NT, Solaris, whatever.
And also, encrypted FS? That's a big assumption there, don't you think? Does NT even support having its filesystem encrypted? (I know you can do FS encryption on Linux...) Not everybody uses an encrypted FS, even if their OS supports it.
Because all the platforms they've put NT on in the past either with 32-bit (PPC) or ran in 32-bit mode while running NT (AXP, aka Alpha). I'm sure it'll take a whole new API (AGAIN) to address 64-bit architectures like the Merced. (No, I refuse to call it the I-word. That is the most evil name I've heard for a product in awhile.)
Uhh. The kernel does NOT use libc. AT ALL. It wouldn't very well be able to BOOT if it did!
Areas of weakness include ... security model.
... NT would end up on top.
Are you on crack? This is standard M$ drivel (they mentioned this just recently in one of their "oh-so-objective" (yea right) articles about Linux's "shortcomings"), and should be thrown away out of hand. You're telling me users and groups are bad? (They're not exactly that different from what NT employs in the way of security) And don't tell us "well, it only applies ownership and permissions to files" - Unix systems treat EVERYTHING as files.
Ok. You _have_ to be on crack. You're telling me that an OS that crashes regularly, has a bloated GUI tied quite closely to its innards, has service packs regularly released that cause it to blow up... all these things don't take any points off it? The Linux box (yes, only one, and it does all that's needed) I run at work is quite stable. If I install a broken package, it doesn't kill the whole system. It doesn't need a GUI constantly loaded and sucking down resources. It just sits there and does its job. Oh, and did I mention it doesn't crash?
The NT workstations at my school crash regularly. All I have to do is open a terminal window and a few Netscape windows, and *BOOM* hard lock. These are configs shipped FROM THE MANUFACTURER with NT 4 WS installed. I'd trust them no further than I could throw them.
And did I mention you're on crack?
...with the call for less violence in society...
From who? Those who never have and never will play those "violent" games anyway. I like to play Quake2 (especially since I got all my new gear.. yummy) and shoot up some bad guys. It's a stress releaser. Probably the only thing that keeps me from ACTUALLY shooting people.
If you want to play tag, or shoot people without killing them, go play tag, or paintball, or something like that. Those are things that can quite easily be done in real life. Like the current generation of kids don't have their brains glued to TV and computers enough - great, let's have them take all their outdoor activities onto the computer instead.
Sorry, but this seems kinda ridiculous to me. If you wanna play non-violent group games, play non-violent group games.
Well, chess is, by nature, a 'violent' game. It's basically a game of medieval conflict and wartime strategy.
Not I. It'd hafta be damn spiff for me to even consider paying 35 bucks for a browser. I've only heard about it, but I'm not big on MDI interfaces. I think I'd much rather stick with Netscape for when I need/want the pretty pictures, and Lynx for when I want no-frills browsing.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Every distro uses either libc5, glibc 2.0 or glibc 2.1. (I happen to use debian potato - glibc 2.1 distro.) As long as they're using the same basic components that EVERY Linux distro has (libc, X libraries, Qt libraries (yes, they're even available as Debian packages :p)), that's just completely ridiculous. If they're not, they should be dragged into the street and shot. In the head. With an elephant gun. Twice. At close range. (I'm not serious, but you know what I mean...)
He's saying that it won't be open-source. Not anything about its availability on Linux.
I second that. How long has it been anyway? I've been hearing for the past year or 2 now (at least) how "oh, Opera's working on a port and it'll be out RSN"... yeah. Okay. Sure, we believe you.
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Come on folks. At this rate, they MIGHT finish their port of Opera to Linux and the Qt widget set (blah. I dont care so much about the license of Qt - I just think it's ugly. Give me Gtk or give me death.) before Mozilla gets a final version out.
Also, it's kinda funny how Opera claims their browser is more up-to-date than anyone else's... Hmm. They don't support HTML 4. (Netscape and IE do.) They don't yet have support for CSS 2. (IE supports it, albeit somewhat brokenly, and Mozilla is aiming for complete CSS2 support.) Do they support DOM?
Come on, Opera. Lets see some progress here. You've been working on ports to several different platforms for how long now? And have any of the ports been completed? How many new versions have you released for Windows while the different ports have languished? Was the original source written with any kind of portability in mind AT ALL? Or is it being completely rewritten because it was too Win32-centric?
I think an explanation of this is in order.
That's not a real MAC address - it's just a fake MAC address that the machine on the other end of the PPP connection can use for ARP/proxyARP purposes. All Windows machines will report the same thing for the MAC address of the "PPP adapter" device.
Windows really just runs on two platforms, x86 and alpha
Well, not from here on out, since M$ officially dumped AXP as a target architecture for Windows NT. They're back to x86-only. Surprise, folks.