- Last time I checked it wasn't slashdot.us either
- Yes, even americans do wander in some "foreign" websites (as if it meant anything on internet) and voice their opinions. What's wrong with it either way ?
I was under the impression that a lot of the old games are merely dos version packaged with dosbox. I know I use some game I got from GoG under linux, just unpacking it and launching it "by hand".
Am I missing something? I don't see how hard it would be to just package the same thing with a linux version of dosbox...
Linux IS a good platform for games. As said, you can see what's happening at every level, which mean no need to workaround weird unexpected behaviors and stuff.
Linux isn't a good platform for some game developpers, because of the small user base. But for Valve, aside from the initial work of porting their Source engine, it only means more reach. Having the engine already work on macs probably helped a lot. And if great games start to be available on Linux (and I mean more than one AAA game per year, at most), it might also leverage the linux presence.
Giving the user the choice is the only sensible choice for people working with their brains, and Valve's pretty good at it.
Having your terminal session stored on disk mean that everything
you see is suddenly on your filesystem, and staying on it if your/tmp is backed by the harddrive.
No. If you open(O_CREAT) a file than immediately unlink it, and use the opened handle to store temporary data, that data has no more chance to hit the disk than regular memory being swapped out.
Try to learn a bit about buffer cache and such stuff.
This "bug" is about someone ignorant about security and how an OS works having his naive assumptions contradicted by reality.
So, the fact that it does work with the current implementation of some terminal emulator doesn't count as reality?
I didn't say that there is no good way to do this correctly...
This really sounds like how it was designed to work.
Thats what/tmp is for, after all, is it not? Sounds like the problem would be solved by partitioning different users data into seperate, appropriately secured/tmp files.
Is bash history a "flaw" too? I'm sure plenty of people don't know that it's a text file anybody with access to it can read.
Bash history is a different kind of threat; it's only about what command you used. Sure, you could get a few hostnames from it, but no more.
Having your terminal session stored on disk mean that everything you see is suddenly on your filesystem, and staying on it if your/tmp is backed by the harddrive.
Easy: block every unknown/encrypted data stream in the backbone of internet. Tada, no more TOR, problem solved.
I'm joking of course, but wouldn't be surprised if some people where thinking about it.
A small summary about how the french government think it can help funding music (and art in general):
- put tax on blank media, check (but the money don't go to artist)
- put tax on internet subscription to fund movie industry, check (search for COSIP tax, but still not a penny for artists)
- put another tax, again on internet subscription, to fund the music industry, in progress (guess who won't get anything from this? artists)
For those that don't know, the fact that we're paying taxes on blank media doesn't mean we can use them to copy our own stuff, and taxes on internet subscriptions doesn't mean anything for both subscribers, and people behind music/movies. Only some cash stream for a few very poor corporations...
If taking the most ugly thing that appeared before the iPad and four models that does have the same look after is indicative, then yes, we can see a radical shift in design caused by the iPad.
I won't search for tablets from the "before" era, but today there is a lot of different models, and not all of them imitate the apple look. I can look at Archos, Acer and Dell tablets and tell them appart.
Not that I like Java, but having those hs_err_pid files doesn't mean that java is the culprit. Error in native code execution is.
Seeing the amount of native library used by minecraft (jinput, lwjgl, openal...), they might be at fault. Or badly used. But it would be more or less the same if he's gone with another language I guess.
Well, of course it's them saying it, but the current developper said they aimed for a quite long game. Sadly Google don't want to give me back the link that said it.
Please replace "The French don't like..." by "The French government don't like...". In addition, you can add "The French don't like their government", as they are only working for large corporations now, without even trying to hide this fact.
The main point : every service provider must log information about what anyone did, when, and how; including login, password, and anything available to identify someone. And it's not even on a case by case basis, but an obligation for all service provider...
No, my hatred is not exclusive to the PS3. Since I play mostly on PC and don't have an Xbox360, the same goes for some titles here (not the two you mentionned, they are really overrated).
However Xbox exclusives tend to show up on PC after a while lately, but with PS3 exclusive we can barely hope for a port on the PSP (I'm still talking about Disgaea) or nothing at all.
Any PS3 games that will not play on the 360? Or maybe just quit consoles and try computer gaming again. Haven't touched a computer game since the 32-bit Amiga era.
I'd say, Disgaea 3. That's one game that make me want a PS3... Sadly, as good as it is, it's still not good enough to counter Sony "bend-over" policy.
I really hate it when titles that can perfectly work on every recent system get locked down to one without reason (at least, good reason).
Even better, set both your system and sudo so that nothing ever goes root...
Using system user accounts instead of root mean that even if someone goes berserk, he won't have full access on the system; and restrict sudo to only run some commands as other users, instead of using ALL everywhere...
Well, since we haven't been able to find all those underwater dolphin cities, they must have some nice occulting technology, which seems like a great achievement.
It's interesting, but you missed another point.
Way before the HADOPI mess, copying of CD/DVD/YouNameIt was already prohibited, because you'd have to circumvent some kind of protection (yes, breaking DVD CSS is illegal here, although totally stupid).
So, for a long time, it was illegal to made a private copy of almost any media, and yet we were paying for it. Now, they want to extend this tax without any reasoning behind it.
In short, the french government doesn't even try to hide anymore when raising a new tax/extending existing ones.
There's a bad history of the same thing, like french internet providers that had to pay another tax to "help" some industries (guess which...), and in exchange they had a reduction of their VAT. Recently, this reduction was lifted, but the tax remains...
No, not really. Some advanced stuff might still need Java, but I've installed LibreOffice recently on a system with no JRE at all, and aside from some complaint on the first launch, it's now working fine.
Slashdot Mirror
- Last time I checked it wasn't slashdot.us either
- Yes, even americans do wander in some "foreign" websites (as if it meant anything on internet) and voice their opinions. What's wrong with it either way ?
You missed chromium/chrome :)
https://developers.google.com/chrome/chrome-frame/
Nonsense; we all know it's going to be half-life 2 episode 2.1!
I was under the impression that a lot of the old games are merely dos version packaged with dosbox. I know I use some game I got from GoG under linux, just unpacking it and launching it "by hand".
Am I missing something? I don't see how hard it would be to just package the same thing with a linux version of dosbox...
Linux IS a good platform for games. As said, you can see what's happening at every level, which mean no need to workaround weird unexpected behaviors and stuff.
Linux isn't a good platform for some game developpers, because of the small user base. But for Valve, aside from the initial work of porting their Source engine, it only means more reach. Having the engine already work on macs probably helped a lot. And if great games start to be available on Linux (and I mean more than one AAA game per year, at most), it might also leverage the linux presence.
Giving the user the choice is the only sensible choice for people working with their brains, and Valve's pretty good at it.
And totally inefficient if you dare to use your own access point yourself even once. Great.
No. If you open(O_CREAT) a file than immediately unlink it, and use the opened handle to store temporary data, that data has no more chance to hit the disk than regular memory being swapped out.
Try to learn a bit about buffer cache and such stuff.
This "bug" is about someone ignorant about security and how an OS works having his naive assumptions contradicted by reality.
So, the fact that it does work with the current implementation of some terminal emulator doesn't count as reality?
I didn't say that there is no good way to do this correctly...
This really sounds like how it was designed to work.
Thats what /tmp is for, after all, is it not? Sounds like the problem would be solved by partitioning different users data into seperate, appropriately secured /tmp files.
Is bash history a "flaw" too? I'm sure plenty of people don't know that it's a text file anybody with access to it can read.
Bash history is a different kind of threat; it's only about what command you used. Sure, you could get a few hostnames from it, but no more. /tmp is backed by the harddrive.
Having your terminal session stored on disk mean that everything you see is suddenly on your filesystem, and staying on it if your
When dealing with real security needs, you might want to know if data only seen through SSH end up on your hard-drive.
Easy: block every unknown/encrypted data stream in the backbone of internet. Tada, no more TOR, problem solved.
I'm joking of course, but wouldn't be surprised if some people where thinking about it.
That would be a logical step, right ? wrong.
A small summary about how the french government think it can help funding music (and art in general):
- put tax on blank media, check (but the money don't go to artist)
- put tax on internet subscription to fund movie industry, check (search for COSIP tax, but still not a penny for artists)
- put another tax, again on internet subscription, to fund the music industry, in progress (guess who won't get anything from this? artists)
For those that don't know, the fact that we're paying taxes on blank media doesn't mean we can use them to copy our own stuff, and taxes on internet subscriptions doesn't mean anything for both subscribers, and people behind music/movies. Only some cash stream for a few very poor corporations...
with the exception of the list of games I've bought (oh, no!)
Not even a google away (it's only a guess) : http://steamcommunity.com/id/firehed/games/?tab=all
If taking the most ugly thing that appeared before the iPad and four models that does have the same look after is indicative, then yes, we can see a radical shift in design caused by the iPad.
I won't search for tablets from the "before" era, but today there is a lot of different models, and not all of them imitate the apple look. I can look at Archos, Acer and Dell tablets and tell them appart.
Not that I like Java, but having those hs_err_pid files doesn't mean that java is the culprit. Error in native code execution is. Seeing the amount of native library used by minecraft (jinput, lwjgl, openal...), they might be at fault. Or badly used. But it would be more or less the same if he's gone with another language I guess.
At least, for now, on Steam, you're still buying a multiplayer game : http://store.steampowered.com/app/12750/
Well, of course it's them saying it, but the current developper said they aimed for a quite long game. Sadly Google don't want to give me back the link that said it.
Granted, Valve could have added this as a menu option, but there IS split screen for Portal 2 on PC, you just have to fiddle a bit in the config files
http://segmentnext.com/2011/04/20/how-to-play-portal-2-split-screen-coop-on-pc/
(not tested, but since it's based on the L4D split screen trick that worked...)
Please replace "The French don't like..." by "The French government don't like...". In addition, you can add "The French don't like their government", as they are only working for large corporations now, without even trying to hide this fact.
You want something fun about this ? Try reading about the LCEN in France (sorry, I only have link in french, try wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_pour_la_confiance_dans_l'%C3%A9conomie_num%C3%A9rique)
The main point : every service provider must log information about what anyone did, when, and how; including login, password, and anything available to identify someone. And it's not even on a case by case basis, but an obligation for all service provider...
No, my hatred is not exclusive to the PS3. Since I play mostly on PC and don't have an Xbox360, the same goes for some titles here (not the two you mentionned, they are really overrated).
However Xbox exclusives tend to show up on PC after a while lately, but with PS3 exclusive we can barely hope for a port on the PSP (I'm still talking about Disgaea) or nothing at all.
Any PS3 games that will not play on the 360? Or maybe just quit consoles and try computer gaming again. Haven't touched a computer game since the 32-bit Amiga era.
I'd say, Disgaea 3. That's one game that make me want a PS3... Sadly, as good as it is, it's still not good enough to counter Sony "bend-over" policy.
I really hate it when titles that can perfectly work on every recent system get locked down to one without reason (at least, good reason).
Even better, set both your system and sudo so that nothing ever goes root... Using system user accounts instead of root mean that even if someone goes berserk, he won't have full access on the system; and restrict sudo to only run some commands as other users, instead of using ALL everywhere...
Well, since we haven't been able to find all those underwater dolphin cities, they must have some nice occulting technology, which seems like a great achievement.
It's interesting, but you missed another point.
Way before the HADOPI mess, copying of CD/DVD/YouNameIt was already prohibited, because you'd have to circumvent some kind of protection (yes, breaking DVD CSS is illegal here, although totally stupid).
So, for a long time, it was illegal to made a private copy of almost any media, and yet we were paying for it. Now, they want to extend this tax without any reasoning behind it.
In short, the french government doesn't even try to hide anymore when raising a new tax/extending existing ones.
There's a bad history of the same thing, like french internet providers that had to pay another tax to "help" some industries (guess which...), and in exchange they had a reduction of their VAT. Recently, this reduction was lifted, but the tax remains...
No, not really. Some advanced stuff might still need Java, but I've installed LibreOffice recently on a system with no JRE at all, and aside from some complaint on the first launch, it's now working fine.