> Then again, I'm running Excel in Crossover Office; all those Windows libraries > aren't "preloaded" for me. Maybe that's why XP and Vista have such large system > requirements?
Windows does do something to this end. I forget what they call it, but the OS will automatically determine which applications are used most frequently and will do some sort of speed optimizations for them. I'm guessing it either prelinks the applications or keeps some dlls in memory.
On another side of this.. I wonder how many people complaining about the speed of OpenOffice (on Linux) have attempted to prelink it first? Some claim it can increase the speed by 50%.
It appears that Red Hat Fedora uses prelink by default.
Need to run Linux at work but corporate policy won't let you? (or plan to install Linux anyway, but need that killer-app for Windows?)... Boss won't buy you a copy of VMWare?
Buy your own copy for personal use and simply install this "player" on your work PC. Need multiple users wanting to emulate an OS and don't have terribly high demands? One copy of vmware... multiple players.
I'm drooling.
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I believe that with Quake 3, every time you quired the master servers, it would authenticate with your key and your OS. ID stored a hash of all keys with the most recently used OS. Of course, you could find out for sure by simply looking at the source... http://www.icculus.org/quake3/
Yeah... because ID has never supported Linux on any of their products before.;-) But you're right, it is nice... and I must admit that having a Quake port essentially sold me on Linux (otherwise I would've needed to keep DOS around!)
The first time I saw Linux, my friend demonstrated rendering the original Quake in a window, while running Netscape 3, and an xterm. Of course, seeing all of that, I was hooked... I ran home, fired up xmodem, and started downloading my first slackware install;-)
I don't know about with MSN.. but you can use GaimPhone with SIP providers. In particular, you can use GaimPhone with Sipphone.. which is partnering with Google.
Thus... you can not only do audio through Gaim(Phone), you will soon be able to do it with others through GoogleTalk.
The odd thing is that while they have a Linux flash player, there is *still* no shockwave player for Linux... but I think we stopped complaining about that at least 5 years ago.
These fonts are under a special license. It is fairly open and specifically allows for distribution; however, it may not have met Novell's licensing requirements for their "Open" SUSE version.
The thing about allofmp3.com isn't that it is cheap (which it is)... I'd happily pay more money for music if I knew it wasn't DRM laden and was provided lossless or via a high-bitrate OGG.
Allofmp3.com provides quality OGG files which are not laden with DRM. That is their power.
Heck, I'd buy regular-ol' compact disks if I could know with certainty that they weren't copy-protected.
I have a similar experience. In my college years, I learned TCL, Java, and Scheme, over a weekend each. TCL/TK, I learned while a passenger on a road trip to Florida (to visit my school of choice). I learned Java in a glorious cram-session on the first weekend of the semester for my Java class.
Was I a master at these languages? Of course not. I was pretty confident I could write programs in these languages, provided I would need a reference handy. After two weeks and being throughly bored of playing with Java's ClassLoader, I suspect I reaching that goal (of mastery). I asked questions my professor didn't have answers to, eventually discovering the answers myself. Sometimes I'd already have the answer, but I'd ask anyway;)
Now for me, C# is a slightly different story as it touched on some topics I hadn't dealt with in some time, or invited new concepts. I also wasn't as focused (older, etc). I still wouldn't say that I know it, only because I haven't used it enough.
> "totally oblivious to the fact he's got a > quarter-mile of traffic stacked up behind him, and > will get offended if you flash your lights at him > to pass."
Of course, you're probably passing him because you're speeding. He has every right to have a quarter-mile of traffic stacked up behind him if he is going the speed limit.
It is good for driving. I would rather have a photograph of where I'm driving than simply having drawn lines.
One real-life example is that when planning a trip to Hollywood, I found that we would be passing a very large junction off I-5. The "regular" map made the situation look ambigious, while loading the satillite images really cleared it up.
It is great to know that "if you see a car dealership, you've gone too far." With classic maps, you were stuck with the basic driving directions (which aren't always accurate or making sense) and basic geographical features (like rivers). Satellite images represent a revolution in map-making.
Another non-3d solution is to run a framebuffer-bound X server (no physical display) and launch multiple copies of region-bound VNC servers.
The advantage of this over GGI is that one or more of the displays can be shutdown without whacking the entire system.
There are a couple ways of looking at this. VNC might provide for faster video with more artifacts. GGI might be less robust, but might be better for video -- just be prepared to adjust the audio syncronization.
For anyone looking to do this with free software.. it has been around for YEARS. Infact, it was around before XFree86 supported Xinerama! Unfortunately, it does NOT do 3d acceleration; however, I'm providing this information for anyone else still interested.
Take a look at GGI + XGGI. Run an X11 server on each host and run XGGI, targeting each.
In the US in general, unless you live in the center of a city, you can't do ANYTHING without driving. You can't buy bread without a car.
In Pennsylvania, only speciality beer stores can sell beer and they can only sell you upto 12 bottles at a time, no more. Beer distributors can sell larger quantities, but I've never seen a distributor sell quantities in quantities less than 20. Liquor stores are owned by the state. Many resturants do not even have liquor licenses due to the high cost and high risk it carries in the state.
In the suburbs, buses stop running at 5pm, cabs can only be gotten by calling the cab company, and even then, they might not be open -- and are quite expensive.
Which only run on their expensive, proprietary operating system. No, Windows isn't cheap. Take a look the pricing for a non-OEM copy of Windows XP.. and it doesn't even come with any software to run on it.
I remember these things called CD-ROMS from the early 90's. They had a whooping 650 megabytes compared to the 256-500 megabyte harddrives at the time. Can you imagine it? Harddrives being *smaller* than the removable media? Sure, it wasn't writable by end-users, but it was at least available in read-only form.
In the late 90's all the harddisk manufacturers scrambled to build the biggest and fastest disks. Unfortunately, our removable media has fallen behind. I'm sorry, but the maximum DVD size is what? 15.9 gb -- if we use both sides of the medium. This just isn't enough when there are portable music players sporting 80gb harddrives.
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> in the age of terrorizm
Otherwise known as the age of brainwashing.
> Then again, I'm running Excel in Crossover Office; all those Windows libraries
> aren't "preloaded" for me. Maybe that's why XP and Vista have such large system
> requirements?
Windows does do something to this end. I forget what they call it, but the OS will automatically determine which applications are used most frequently and will do some sort of speed optimizations for them. I'm guessing it either prelinks the applications or keeps some dlls in memory.
On another side of this.. I wonder how many people complaining about the speed of OpenOffice (on Linux) have attempted to prelink it first? Some claim it can increase the speed by 50%.
It appears that Red Hat Fedora uses prelink by default.
Of course! Ah.. such fond memories ;-)
Need to run Linux at work but corporate policy won't let you? (or plan to install Linux anyway, but need that killer-app for Windows?)... Boss won't buy you a copy of VMWare?
Buy your own copy for personal use and simply install this "player" on your work PC. Need multiple users wanting to emulate an OS and don't have terribly high demands? One copy of vmware... multiple players.
I'm drooling.
I believe that with Quake 3, every time you quired the master servers, it would authenticate with your key and your OS. ID stored a hash of all keys with the most recently used OS. Of course, you could find out for sure by simply looking at the source... http://www.icculus.org/quake3/
Yeah... because ID has never supported Linux on any of their products before. ;-) But you're right, it is nice... and I must admit that having a Quake port essentially sold me on Linux (otherwise I would've needed to keep DOS around!)
;-)
;-)
The first time I saw Linux, my friend demonstrated rendering the original Quake in a window, while running Netscape 3, and an xterm. Of course, seeing all of that, I was hooked... I ran home, fired up xmodem, and started downloading my first slackware install
Wow.. I'm feeling old
I don't know about with MSN.. but you can use GaimPhone with SIP providers. In particular, you can use GaimPhone with Sipphone.. which is partnering with Google.
Thus... you can not only do audio through Gaim(Phone), you will soon be able to do it with others through GoogleTalk.
The odd thing is that while they have a Linux flash player, there is *still* no shockwave player for Linux... but I think we stopped complaining about that at least 5 years ago.
> bitstream-vera-1.10-169.noarch.rpm
These fonts are under a special license. It is fairly open and specifically allows for distribution; however, it may not have met Novell's licensing requirements for their "Open" SUSE version.
License for Bitstream Vera:
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
Xen is (currently) primarily for servers where those missing features won't be too badly missed (except, perhaps, for PAE).
The thing about allofmp3.com isn't that it is cheap (which it is)... I'd happily pay more money for music if I knew it wasn't DRM laden and was provided lossless or via a high-bitrate OGG.
Allofmp3.com provides quality OGG files which are not laden with DRM. That is their power.
Heck, I'd buy regular-ol' compact disks if I could know with certainty that they weren't copy-protected.
Eclipse isn't just for Java.. I've been using it for Python development for some time.
I have a similar experience. In my college years, I learned TCL, Java, and Scheme, over a weekend each. TCL/TK, I learned while a passenger on a road trip to Florida (to visit my school of choice). I learned Java in a glorious cram-session on the first weekend of the semester for my Java class.
;)
Was I a master at these languages? Of course not. I was pretty confident I could write programs in these languages, provided I would need a reference handy. After two weeks and being throughly bored of playing with Java's ClassLoader, I suspect I reaching that goal (of mastery). I asked questions my professor didn't have answers to, eventually discovering the answers myself. Sometimes I'd already have the answer, but I'd ask anyway
Now for me, C# is a slightly different story as it touched on some topics I hadn't dealt with in some time, or invited new concepts. I also wasn't as focused (older, etc). I still wouldn't say that I know it, only because I haven't used it enough.
> "totally oblivious to the fact he's got a
> quarter-mile of traffic stacked up behind him, and
> will get offended if you flash your lights at him
> to pass."
Of course, you're probably passing him because you're speeding. He has every right to have a quarter-mile of traffic stacked up behind him if he is going the speed limit.
Someone has ported tomboy to windows... (announcement and screenshots), but haven't yet released it.
- 0.2.2-.tar.gz
A quick google search has found the following file, however (NOTE: I have not tested and cannot endorse use of this file):
http://www.polystimulus.com/UNSTABLE-tomboy-WIN32
It is good for driving. I would rather have a photograph of where I'm driving than simply having drawn lines.
One real-life example is that when planning a trip to Hollywood, I found that we would be passing a very large junction off I-5. The "regular" map made the situation look ambigious, while loading the satillite images really cleared it up.
It is great to know that "if you see a car dealership, you've gone too far." With classic maps, you were stuck with the basic driving directions (which aren't always accurate or making sense) and basic geographical features (like rivers). Satellite images represent a revolution in map-making.
Another non-3d solution is to run a framebuffer-bound X server (no physical display) and launch multiple copies of region-bound VNC servers.
The advantage of this over GGI is that one or more of the displays can be shutdown without whacking the entire system.
There are a couple ways of looking at this. VNC might provide for faster video with more artifacts. GGI might be less robust, but might be better for video -- just be prepared to adjust the audio syncronization.
For anyone looking to do this with free software.. it has been around for YEARS. Infact, it was around before XFree86 supported Xinerama! Unfortunately, it does NOT do 3d acceleration; however, I'm providing this information for anyone else still interested.
j pg
Take a look at GGI + XGGI. Run an X11 server on each host and run XGGI, targeting each.
Take a look at the following screenshot:
http://www.ggi-project.org/resources/images/doom.
Now, imagine that each of those tiles was displayed on a separate physical display, each running X11. You can do it.
In the US in general, unless you live in the center of a city, you can't do ANYTHING without driving. You can't buy bread without a car.
In Pennsylvania, only speciality beer stores can sell beer and they can only sell you upto 12 bottles at a time, no more. Beer distributors can sell larger quantities, but I've never seen a distributor sell quantities in quantities less than 20. Liquor stores are owned by the state. Many resturants do not even have liquor licenses due to the high cost and high risk it carries in the state.
In the suburbs, buses stop running at 5pm, cabs can only be gotten by calling the cab company, and even then, they might not be open -- and are quite expensive.
Which only run on their expensive, proprietary operating system. No, Windows isn't cheap. Take a look the pricing for a non-OEM copy of Windows XP.. and it doesn't even come with any software to run on it.
I remember these things called CD-ROMS from the early 90's. They had a whooping 650 megabytes compared to the 256-500 megabyte harddrives at the time. Can you imagine it? Harddrives being *smaller* than the removable media? Sure, it wasn't writable by end-users, but it was at least available in read-only form.
In the late 90's all the harddisk manufacturers scrambled to build the biggest and fastest disks. Unfortunately, our removable media has fallen behind. I'm sorry, but the maximum DVD size is what? 15.9 gb -- if we use both sides of the medium. This just isn't enough when there are portable music players sporting 80gb harddrives.
Quakeforge runs fine on a voodoo class card, especially in an SLI configuration. The glide drivers are open source.
Quakeforge also has a software renderer if you don't have 3d acceleration.
It also doesn't appear possible to mount removable devices or bind directories.