Such a shame that LinuxPPC is not _that_ great (imho).. Linux is GREAT on PPC processors, I love it.. but what you will find is that I run debian:) Sure, even unstable is a bit outdated on there, but the fact that you have even an outdated apt is SO nice! I could never imagine going to a redhat based install again. Debian has already been, an will remain free.
LinuxPPC had commercial backing though, i still don't see a helixcode/ximian release for ppcDebian.. oh well, perhaps now LinuxPPC will lose their support too ?;)
I have a G3 powerbook, and can vouch that in MacOS when playing Quake3 the tap is considered the 2nd button whist the physical button is considered the first button. MacOS itself sees the 2nd button as the first button (or not at all if you disable taps)
In ppcLinux, I use chorded keys (fn-ctrl, fn-meta) for my 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons.. and I prefer it to a real 3 button mouse, it appears to be a lot harder to accidently lose the text you copied and plan to paste.
The question is if there is a Joe Average Linux User yet.. it is and always has been the Joe Informed Linux user who either RTFM or WTFM (wrote the fsck(8) manual) that is the average linux user..
But Linux has recently begun attracting more Newbies.. but unlike Linux's past where these newbies needed help fscking their drives, mounting their drives.. these users do NOT want to know about mount/unmount or fsck. What they DO want is a distribution already setup with AutoMountD (amd), the lpp kernel patch, Gnome or KDE (although I'd recommend gnome), easy to setup PPP/broadband... make it so that the user can graphically configure an onboot pppd demand dialer, they want that! Have Hylafax or Sendfax setup with gfax or kfax..
That is what the emerging linux users want. They don't want no stinkin' rpms.. at least not in the current state, they want apt-get.. and not just regular apt-get, gnome-apt.
My users can click "My Computer" and "Control Panel" on their linux box.. Don't tell a user about their home directory, it is "My Documents".. These names aren't chosen only because of Microsoft, although that is one reason... a user does not know or want to know what "$HOME" is, they want to know their documents are there.. that is it! The simplier the better.
What the new users want, I have already given... and they like it. With the programs listed above, custom gnome-menus (using generic names, not the name of applications as is a common error), and a lot of Microsoft-made TrueType fonts, my users have never been happier.. well, except OpenOffice is too slow and buggy to actually be used on a Pentium Classic 133:)
I aquired a G3 Pismo Powerbook from Apple in August, my best purchasing decision ever. I love the thing, as long as it runs linux that is. The OS9 on it via default was terrible, at least for my needs. I put debian-ppc on there, yaboot is setup and I have it working dualboot for those who say it cannot be done.
The highly superior quality of the Apple hardware, and the excellent linux compatability (no win-devices) made me, and others very happy customers.. but would you for any reason, recommend purchasing a PPC _desktop_ machine for use with linux? Does PPC offer the enduser/developer anything that x86 doesn't other then an affordable platform to test big endian code on?
I as others must feel, am sorry for your situation.. I hope you recover 110%.
I am horrible at math, and have been considering changing majors. I am currently doing Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and have been fiddling with the idea of changing to CS. All of my friends tell me to go CS, I know cs, I breath cs... but my academic advisor pointed something out to me, even if I switch.. sure I may pass the CS courses even if I would've failed the EE/ECE courses, but I still will fail math. Only change if you cannot do the courses related to your major, otherwise you will still get hung up on math.
Of course, CIS has much less math then CS or ECE/EE but if you cannot pass Calc1/Calc2 you will have no chance of making it though the school. My suggestion is to take the hard math courses at a community college where it will be cheaper, the grade after the transfer is irrelevent, and will probally be much easier. This is what I'll do:)
LaTeX is awesome, and should run on all platforms. Of course it is not your mom's format, but what is more powerful then TeX? Easier then HTML, renders the same on all machines, and automates much of the problems associated with larger projects. With a brilliant WYSIWYG editor for LaTex/TeX, even your mother could use it to make dazzling slides, books, research papers, or grocery lists! Of course, you could use Nedit, Vim, or even (stinky) Emacs. The perfect tool, if only more would use it!
I guess you haven't played with the quake1 sourcecode or opengl. If you wanted a 3d UI for mozilla, it would be best done via straight opengl. It would be pointless to tie it to quake, quake1 wasn't even written for opengl, which is it's major downfall. Mozilla is huge anyhow, I'd recommend playing with something really small.. I've done some development on Quakeforge, and although we have a lot of contributors... it isn't a bad idea to start even smaller if you don't think you can handle it.
Recently to better aquaint myself with OSS (sound) I took libosd for onscreen displays and wrote a small programm that used it to change the sound volume. Programs that provide api's for plugins is a GREAT way to write from scratch solid programs that are also contributing to a larger goal. We could always use new XMMS plugins, etc..
One of my earlier works was an importer for LW object files into a Slideshow presenter called Achtung!. We could always use more gimp filters too.
Seriously consider plugins as a good way in, it will help you become familiar with the rest of the project. Once you are familiar with the rest of the project, you have now learned how to work with these larger opensource applicaitons.
I had this back in Bucks County outside of Philadelphia before I moved to Florida. At first everyone thought it was stupid, but after it was implimented nobody really cared. It wouldn't effect me in the least because I already do it, although the county I am currently in doesn't require it:)
>I don't understand why PDF still exists - let alone latex:)
Try writing a novel in Microsoft World, sure you could do it.. I'm sure most authors do. Now try writing it in LaTeX, providing you know it well enough, you will never go back.
It is believed by many to be the next best thing to hand-typesetting. Mathmatical formulas may be clearly represented. It is free and open.
With LaTeX, "The user only needs to learn a few easy-to-understand commands which specify the logical structure of a document. They almost never need to tinker with the actual layout of the document"
Footnotes, Endnotes, Table of contents, etc are easily generated... in WYSIWYG editors like Word, this must be hand-produced.
What is considered reasons not to use LaTeX (from the Not So Short Indtruction to LaTeX2e manual by Tobias Oetiker):
* it does not work well for people who have sold their souls...
* design of a new layout is difficult and takes some time.. (slated for next major version)
* It is very hard to write unstructured and disorganized documents
* Your hamster might, dispite some encouraging first steps, never be able to fully grasp the concept of Logical Markup.
PDF doesn't seem to be much furter off, but closed. Of course, adobe managed to make easy to use tools for the Windows platform for PDF, which is why it is more common. It is not uncommon for Professors at institutions to provide class slides in postscript, dvi, or pdf.
LaTeX can be used for more than books, slides can be done as well. I have always said... "It is a shame that linux doesn't have any tools as powerful as powerpoint". True, LaTeX may not allow for the dynamic features available in powerpoint, but LaTeX probally would fair just as well as PowerPoint on static slides. (Haven't personally tried though)
LaTeX is awesome, and has a purpose. I do not think that LaTeX should or will ever replace HTML.. The difficult thing with HTML is that a lot of people do not have standards compliant browsers. Sure, you could use that imagemap.. or you can use a lot of tables and confusing use of tables. It is more socially acceptable to use the table.. when was the last time you saw an imagemap ? Nobody does them, but they would save a hellva-lot of time for some applications.
(in many of these instances, the resulting filesize is proballly smaller with the table).
If every brower supported HTML 4 perfectly and efficently, it wouldn't be such a big deal.
For them to do this, they must own the copyright. I don't know much about copyright law, but this is how it seems:
For them to own the copyright, they must perform the filming themselves. Unless the players themselves and arena in the games are copyrighted, the olympic games probally has the players sign a waver.
By doing this, the players themselves are now copyrights of the games, and any filming of them are modifications of the original work. But this means that the modifications are still copyrightable, the media company filming must sign a waver. This gives the olympic committee the full copyright. The question is, if audience members are filmed, they are copyrights of themselves, so they should be allowed to have control in fair use, as they had made a modification to the work.
If you appear on television, you should be one of several owners of the film. Linux cannot change licenses because of all of the copyrights within it, (regardless of contraints applied by the GPL)
Copyright law to me seems fscked' if everything and their mother is copyrighted, who owns what?
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True, but not in linux. But you can use MOL if you can manage to get the sound working in it.
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PowerPC is a great architecture, although not for everyone, it is definately filling a need.
pppLinux (debian-woody in my case) is very stable, runs X perfectly, and is fast. Almost every app I throw at it, runs on it. Gnumeric, Abiword, Evolution, etc. they all run fine. I can run MacOS under linux with the gpl'ed Mac On Linux, in the x86 world only vmware and plex86 have this capability. Vmware costs $$ and plex86 is not properly evolved yet.
PowerPC also has some other platforms you might not think about supporting too, how about AmigaOS? Darwin? BeOS? I'm sure the *BSD have support as well. I bought my PowerBook because I wanted a laptop without the Microsoft tax. I have never been more pleased by a purchase, although I did have an apple tax:(
My personal opinion is that if you are looking for a great system, with lots of stability, Risc architecture, and scability PowerPC is a great option. I definately recommended as a laptop, though desktops are good too. Having an x86 box around is of course never a bad idea, at least until more ppc users emerge. Case in point: currently.asf and DiVX;) playback is only available on x86 due to the use of Windows dlls run though an emulator.
NOTE: i have heard a lot of people say "get tuxtops then" or such. I have not found any x86 laptops as nice as the apple powerbooks, none of the x86 boxen from such companies have hardware supported nearly as well as the powerbooks. Don't have to worry about WinModems on Macs.
Oh yeah, my powerbook looks stylish as well (especially the Debian bumper sticker on it)
During one day of my senior year of highschool, my homeroom teacher dyslexicly swaped my attendance with another student's, making me appear absent.
I went to all of my classes that day, and got to my 8th period (last) class which I had a final in. The teacher told me that I could not take the final because I had not attended classes during the day and was only attending his final.
Obviously, I was not happy. I tried to get him to let me get signatures by my teachers to say I had attended, tried to get him accompany me to see the teachers, nothing worked. I muttered under my breath, "this is fucked up". He told me that I would have to go to the principal for for not attending classes and for my foul language. I told him that I didn't do anything wrong, and disciplinary action could not be taken if I was not legally in attendance btw, saying whatever the fuck I want is my own fucking right.. but i didn't say that.
I was sent to the principal's office, given in-school suspension, told to get signatures by teachers, and was allowed to take the test.
It was funny that the teacher would only allow me to prove that I was in school for the purpose of hurting, not helping me.
This has to be a prank.. there isn't anything new in these screenshots. It looks just like any other windows9x/nt4+ with windowblinds (the one screenshot with the different borders is using a hack called windowblinds) and with larger icons.. there is nothing pointing to me that A) anything in there is different than any other windows and B) that nothing different in there isn't possible with even mspaint.
QNX is an operating system, the windowing interface if you chose to use it is called Photon (Xwindows is also available), and the now-older photon gui is what the Mac theme and Sawfish themes stole.
Sawfish is a windowmanager for Xwindows. A window manager controls your windows (duh), how they look.. what happens when you click what button, etc. It IS the borders on your windows, but also can control other things.
Xwindows is the graphical windowing system for unix machines.. otherwise you will be stuck with a text console sort of like dos (but more powerful).
Unix machines are more powerful than dos, more secure, and have more customizability. and there are many free varients and clones.
I'm in the philadelphia area too.. and would REALLY love it if there was a protest i could join;) unfortunly.. like another said, it would be lost in the barrage of other protests.
I don't think a lot of people are aware of this yet, since it has happened so recently... but Halflife has a 5 on the winehq list since mid-june. Hopefully this gets moderated up so everybody notices it:) P.S. There is a patch for quakeforge to run Halflife bsp's.. it is buggy and it isn't a complete client, but may eventually be worth it's weight in gold.
With this latest news, we (Quakeforge) have been goofing with this idea for about 10min now:) I doubt we will ever see Quake ported, unless the processing is done on a more powerful processor and just rendered on the palm, would also need a much bigger disk capacity. The only thing we have thought of that would be remotely possible is a PalmOS port, but it wouldn't be able to run on any current hardware , only in emulation:)
I have 3 that I don't use... they are too loud. Although otherwise they are nice. Ibm made a soft-click board but it is extremely rare and even then was expensive:(
Have seem to have the idea that you must put standard audio on minidiscs; However, sony also uses them for Digital Video. It would be trivial to put a file system on them with mp3's, unfortunately no one appears to have done so.
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Such a shame that LinuxPPC is not _that_ great (imho).. Linux is GREAT on PPC processors, I love it.. but what you will find is that I run debian :) Sure, even unstable is a bit outdated on there, but the fact that you have even an outdated apt is SO nice! I could never imagine going to a redhat based install again. Debian has already been, an will remain free.
;)
:)
LinuxPPC had commercial backing though, i still don't see a helixcode/ximian release for ppcDebian.. oh well, perhaps now LinuxPPC will lose their support too ?
If only LinuxPPC had been wise and used debs
Is this the first time we have slashdotted a phone system ? "All circuits are busy now", heh! Way to go :)
With the macrovision complient, that means you can or cannot record dvds onto it ? :)
I have a G3 powerbook, and can vouch that in MacOS when playing Quake3 the tap is considered the 2nd button whist the physical button is considered the first button. MacOS itself sees the 2nd button as the first button (or not at all if you disable taps)
In ppcLinux, I use chorded keys (fn-ctrl, fn-meta) for my 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons.. and I prefer it to a real 3 button mouse, it appears to be a lot harder to accidently lose the text you copied and plan to paste.
The question is if there is a Joe Average Linux User yet.. it is and always has been the Joe Informed Linux user who either RTFM or WTFM (wrote the fsck(8) manual) that is the average linux user..
:)
But Linux has recently begun attracting more Newbies.. but unlike Linux's past where these newbies needed help fscking their drives, mounting their drives.. these users do NOT want to know about mount/unmount or fsck. What they DO want is a distribution already setup with AutoMountD (amd), the lpp kernel patch, Gnome or KDE (although I'd recommend gnome), easy to setup PPP/broadband... make it so that the user can graphically configure an onboot pppd demand dialer, they want that! Have Hylafax or Sendfax setup with gfax or kfax..
That is what the emerging linux users want. They don't want no stinkin' rpms.. at least not in the current state, they want apt-get.. and not just regular apt-get, gnome-apt.
My users can click "My Computer" and "Control Panel" on their linux box.. Don't tell a user about their home directory, it is "My Documents".. These names aren't chosen only because of Microsoft, although that is one reason... a user does not know or want to know what "$HOME" is, they want to know their documents are there.. that is it! The simplier the better.
What the new users want, I have already given... and they like it. With the programs listed above, custom gnome-menus (using generic names, not the name of applications as is a common error), and a lot of Microsoft-made TrueType fonts, my users have never been happier.. well, except OpenOffice is too slow and buggy to actually be used on a Pentium Classic 133
I aquired a G3 Pismo Powerbook from Apple in August, my best purchasing decision ever. I love the thing, as long as it runs linux that is. The OS9 on it via default was terrible, at least for my needs. I put debian-ppc on there, yaboot is setup and I have it working dualboot for those who say it cannot be done.
:)
The highly superior quality of the Apple hardware, and the excellent linux compatability (no win-devices) made me, and others very happy customers.. but would you for any reason, recommend purchasing a PPC _desktop_ machine for use with linux? Does PPC offer the enduser/developer anything that x86 doesn't other then an affordable platform to test big endian code on?
I as others must feel, am sorry for your situation.. I hope you recover 110%.
BTW: Do you still think you work for Microsoft?
I am horrible at math, and have been considering changing majors. I am currently doing Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and have been fiddling with the idea of changing to CS. All of my friends tell me to go CS, I know cs, I breath cs... but my academic advisor pointed something out to me, even if I switch.. sure I may pass the CS courses even if I would've failed the EE/ECE courses, but I still will fail math. Only change if you cannot do the courses related to your major, otherwise you will still get hung up on math.
:)
Of course, CIS has much less math then CS or ECE/EE but if you cannot pass Calc1/Calc2 you will have no chance of making it though the school. My suggestion is to take the hard math courses at a community college where it will be cheaper, the grade after the transfer is irrelevent, and will probally be much easier. This is what I'll do
LaTeX is awesome, and should run on all platforms. Of course it is not your mom's format, but what is more powerful then TeX? Easier then HTML, renders the same on all machines, and automates much of the problems associated with larger projects. With a brilliant WYSIWYG editor for LaTex/TeX, even your mother could use it to make dazzling slides, books, research papers, or grocery lists! Of course, you could use Nedit, Vim, or even (stinky) Emacs. The perfect tool, if only more would use it!
I guess you haven't played with the quake1 sourcecode or opengl. If you wanted a 3d UI for mozilla, it would be best done via straight opengl. It would be pointless to tie it to quake, quake1 wasn't even written for opengl, which is it's major downfall. Mozilla is huge anyhow, I'd recommend playing with something really small.. I've done some development on Quakeforge, and although we have a lot of contributors... it isn't a bad idea to start even smaller if you don't think you can handle it.
Recently to better aquaint myself with OSS (sound) I took libosd for onscreen displays and wrote a small programm that used it to change the sound volume. Programs that provide api's for plugins is a GREAT way to write from scratch solid programs that are also contributing to a larger goal. We could always use new XMMS plugins, etc..
One of my earlier works was an importer for LW object files into a Slideshow presenter called Achtung!. We could always use more gimp filters too.
Seriously consider plugins as a good way in, it will help you become familiar with the rest of the project. Once you are familiar with the rest of the project, you have now learned how to work with these larger opensource applicaitons.
I had this back in Bucks County outside of Philadelphia before I moved to Florida. At first everyone thought it was stupid, but after it was implimented nobody really cared. It wouldn't effect me in the least because I already do it, although the county I am currently in doesn't require it :)
>I don't understand why PDF still exists - let alone latex :)
Try writing a novel in Microsoft World, sure you could do it.. I'm sure most authors do. Now try writing it in LaTeX, providing you know it well enough, you will never go back.
It is believed by many to be the next best thing to hand-typesetting. Mathmatical formulas may be clearly represented. It is free and open.
With LaTeX, "The user only needs to learn a few easy-to-understand commands which specify the logical structure of a document. They almost never need to tinker with the actual layout of the document"
Footnotes, Endnotes, Table of contents, etc are easily generated... in WYSIWYG editors like Word, this must be hand-produced.
What is considered reasons not to use LaTeX (from the Not So Short Indtruction to LaTeX2e manual by Tobias Oetiker):
* it does not work well for people who have sold their souls...
* design of a new layout is difficult and takes some time.. (slated for next major version)
* It is very hard to write unstructured and disorganized documents
* Your hamster might, dispite some encouraging first steps, never be able to fully grasp the concept of Logical Markup.
PDF doesn't seem to be much furter off, but closed. Of course, adobe managed to make easy to use tools for the Windows platform for PDF, which is why it is more common. It is not uncommon for Professors at institutions to provide class slides in postscript, dvi, or pdf.
LaTeX can be used for more than books, slides can be done as well. I have always said... "It is a shame that linux doesn't have any tools as powerful as powerpoint". True, LaTeX may not allow for the dynamic features available in powerpoint, but LaTeX probally would fair just as well as PowerPoint on static slides. (Haven't personally tried though)
LaTeX is awesome, and has a purpose. I do not think that LaTeX should or will ever replace HTML.. The difficult thing with HTML is that a lot of people do not have standards compliant browsers. Sure, you could use that imagemap.. or you can use a lot of tables and confusing use of tables. It is more socially acceptable to use the table.. when was the last time you saw an imagemap ? Nobody does them, but they would save a hellva-lot of time for some applications.
(in many of these instances, the resulting filesize is proballly smaller with the table).
If every brower supported HTML 4 perfectly and efficently, it wouldn't be such a big deal.
For them to do this, they must own the copyright. I don't know much about copyright law, but this is how it seems:
For them to own the copyright, they must perform the filming themselves. Unless the players themselves and arena in the games are copyrighted, the olympic games probally has the players sign a waver.
By doing this, the players themselves are now copyrights of the games, and any filming of them are modifications of the original work. But this means that the modifications are still copyrightable, the media company filming must sign a waver. This gives the olympic committee the full copyright. The question is, if audience members are filmed, they are copyrights of themselves, so they should be allowed to have control in fair use, as they had made a modification to the work.
If you appear on television, you should be one of several owners of the film. Linux cannot change licenses because of all of the copyrights within it, (regardless of contraints applied by the GPL)
Copyright law to me seems fscked' if everything and their mother is copyrighted, who owns what?
True, but not in linux. But you can use MOL if you can manage to get the sound working in it.
PowerPC is a great architecture, although not for everyone, it is definately filling a need.
:(
.asf and DiVX ;) playback is only available on x86 due to the use of Windows dlls run though an emulator.
pppLinux (debian-woody in my case) is very stable, runs X perfectly, and is fast. Almost every app I throw at it, runs on it. Gnumeric, Abiword, Evolution, etc. they all run fine. I can run MacOS under linux with the gpl'ed Mac On Linux, in the x86 world only vmware and plex86 have this capability. Vmware costs $$ and plex86 is not properly evolved yet.
PowerPC also has some other platforms you might not think about supporting too, how about AmigaOS? Darwin? BeOS? I'm sure the *BSD have support as well. I bought my PowerBook because I wanted a laptop without the Microsoft tax. I have never been more pleased by a purchase, although I did have an apple tax
My personal opinion is that if you are looking for a great system, with lots of stability, Risc architecture, and scability PowerPC is a great option. I definately recommended as a laptop, though desktops are good too. Having an x86 box around is of course never a bad idea, at least until more ppc users emerge. Case in point: currently
NOTE: i have heard a lot of people say "get tuxtops then" or such. I have not found any x86 laptops as nice as the apple powerbooks, none of the x86 boxen from such companies have hardware supported nearly as well as the powerbooks. Don't have to worry about WinModems on Macs.
Oh yeah, my powerbook looks stylish as well (especially the Debian bumper sticker on it)
The dvd pay-per-view lock is what DiVX did, note that DiVX died.. wonder why.
During one day of my senior year of highschool, my homeroom teacher dyslexicly swaped my attendance with another student's, making me appear absent.
I went to all of my classes that day, and got to my 8th period (last) class which I had a final in. The teacher told me that I could not take the final because I had not attended classes during the day and was only attending his final.
Obviously, I was not happy. I tried to get him to let me get signatures by my teachers to say I had attended, tried to get him accompany me to see the teachers, nothing worked. I muttered under my breath, "this is fucked up". He told me that I would have to go to the principal for for not attending classes and for my foul language. I told him that I didn't do anything wrong, and disciplinary action could not be taken if I was not legally in attendance btw, saying whatever the fuck I want is my own fucking right.. but i didn't say that.
I was sent to the principal's office, given in-school suspension, told to get signatures by teachers, and was allowed to take the test.
It was funny that the teacher would only allow me to prove that I was in school for the purpose of hurting, not helping me.
This has to be a prank.. there isn't anything new in these screenshots. It looks just like any other windows9x/nt4+ with windowblinds (the one screenshot with the different borders is using a hack called windowblinds) and with larger icons.. there is nothing pointing to me that A) anything in there is different than any other windows and B) that nothing different in there isn't possible with even mspaint.
QNX is an operating system, the windowing interface if you chose to use it is called Photon (Xwindows is also available), and the now-older photon gui is what the Mac theme and Sawfish themes stole.
Sawfish is a windowmanager for Xwindows. A window manager controls your windows (duh), how they look.. what happens when you click what button, etc. It IS the borders on your windows, but also can control other things.
Xwindows is the graphical windowing system for unix machines.. otherwise you will be stuck with a text console sort of like dos (but more powerful).
Unix machines are more powerful than dos, more secure, and have more customizability. and there are many free varients and clones.
I'm in the philadelphia area too.. and would REALLY love it if there was a protest i could join ;) unfortunly.. like another said, it would be lost in the barrage of other protests.
I don't think a lot of people are aware of this yet, since it has happened so recently... but Halflife has a 5 on the winehq list since mid-june. Hopefully this gets moderated up so everybody notices it :) P.S. There is a patch for quakeforge to run Halflife bsp's.. it is buggy and it isn't a complete client, but may eventually be worth it's weight in gold.
With this latest news, we (Quakeforge) have been goofing with this idea for about 10min now :) I doubt we will ever see Quake ported, unless the processing is done on a more powerful processor and just rendered on the palm, would also need a much bigger disk capacity. :)
The only thing we have thought of that would be remotely possible is a PalmOS port, but it wouldn't be able to run on any current hardware , only in emulation
Speaking of ibm ps/2 keyboards:
:(
I have 3 that I don't use... they are too loud. Although otherwise they are nice. Ibm made a soft-click board but it is extremely rare and even then was expensive
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Eric Windisch
Apparently, prey is still in development from the look of 3drealms' website
Have seem to have the idea that you must put standard audio on minidiscs; However, sony also uses them for Digital Video. It would be trivial to put a file system on them with mp3's, unfortunately no one appears to have done so.
None of them think of running linux because they can't play halflife ;)