First of all, I'm not a hardcore gamer. I do play Diablo II with Wine, and play the native NWN game on Linux - and surprisingly, the former works better.
Even though I haven't been following the Wine project eagerly, I see it as my best way out of Windows because of games (I have pretty much everything else covered by Linux).
Hence my question: I guess you have had your share of requests to port Direct* APIs to whatever platform Wine supports today. How hard has it been? Would you say that Direct* _is_ a better all-rounded API for games than what is available on the platforms that Wine runs on today?
Well, just think of it this way: the author is looking for advice. Maybe you think you're the Man Of The Day(tm) when it comes to software design, but then maybe you're talking absolute rubbish.
Such a thread is interesting to the author just as a melting pot of ideas from which he can pick... Well... Whatever he thinks fits his theory.
See, you may well output a thousand line summary of what you think is great, he will only, maybe, pick some tens of it. But:
* the synthesis of it won't be yours, it will be his; * be sure that any valuable contributions _will_ be credited to the original author (who knows, this may be you).
I don't quite understand the "insightful" moderation, honestly.
Linux can now be used to debug your car's network - provided a hardware interface exists.
If it doesn't, I bet it will not be long before someone implements one. And since CAN is used in pretty much every automation in modern cars, who knows. "An open firmware for your Passat", anyone?
I've been using Linux for more than ten YEARS. In my first years using it, I loved the "it's unlike Windows" thing, I learnt the command line...
Now? I use KDE (been using it for five years), have a terminal open, know about the X clipboard mouse shortcuts (you'll never see me do C-c, C-x, C-v), use vim daily... Heck, I can even view the calendar from KDE's clock without being an admin by default! (don't believe me? Try and click on the clock in a default WinXP install with a "limited" user account)
I've been doing so for so long that getting "back" to Windows is a huge setback: no vim, no "middle click is paste", feeble command line (no pipes, no job control and whatnot). All things that I've been using for so long that I just cannot do without them.
Just like other people can't do without Windows+e, C-c, C-v and whatnot.
Linux just is my work environment. I'm just not at ease with any other work environment now. Just like many people out there won't be at ease with anything else than Windows.
Unfortunately, as far as O'Reilly is concerned, you have to admit, a good number of their books are just good, very good.
Sure, any book must be taken with a grain of salt (you have the net to fill your mill for grains of salt) but I've never been disappointed by my purchases from them. "The Art of SQL", for instance, is a gem. And I don't know of any alternatives for such a book.
OK, maybe some influential people there can be "bought" (case in point here), but they do know how to pinpoint good authors and make them write good books. You may not like some parts of them, but what is good is good. As long as O'Reilly keeps on producing such gems, I'll keep on buying (some of) their books.
Everybody here knows that money for money can only produce mediocre goods (I think I need not mention examples), and I don't think O'Reilly is up to that stage. Yet?
From your text above, something quite crucial is missing imho: does this disclosure apply to past, present or future versions of Windows?
Also, what is a "Windows work group server"? Would that be a PDC, or a simple server on a given workgroup with no domain control features whatsoever?
And finally...
> Microsoft should be able to impose reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions to ensure that this access to the disclosed specifications is > granted for evaluation purposes only
"For evaluation purposes only"? Uh, does it imply that these documentations provided do no even need give enough information for a _functional_ implementation, or am I too cynical?
IMHO, the wording is far too imprecise, and certainly not worth the 10k asked by Microsoft.
Bah, I guess a fund collect could be raised and the specs handed out to the Samba team. At least, they would be able to tell us whether the 10k are actually worth it, since they already know a lot about these protocols.
I really don't get it. So, they want to filter out content so that no one sees any copyrighted material anywhere on the net. What next? Sue movie theaters for displaying trailers of films you didn't pay to see in the first place?
Heck, if you don't even get a preview/prelisten of the movies/songs you are interested in in the first place, how do you know whether you'll want to buy them later? And they still wonder why their revenue is on the decline?
> One would think that any assembly styling themselves as being open-minded and advocating open debate would be > above something as petty as a dress code.
The saddening truth is that dress code pettiness is to be obeyed when you want to address people that count (their money).
Free software wouldn't be anywhere close to where it is today if its only promoters wore only jeans and T-shirts.
Vista sells in boxes, sure. Now, what percentage is that compared to bundled Vistas in computers?
The same goes for OS X. Even more so that the vast majority of people who want to delve into the Mac world of computing will do it for the first time won't care whether their OS is called Tiger, Leopard of whatever feline species they can think of...
Really, it may only be a mistake for long time Mac users out there - and they probably won't even regard it as a mistake anyway.
So, this guy will drive as fast as possible with an M5 all across the US. Which means, he will barely do 250 miles with a full tank.
Now, this same guy unloads all gizmos, settles for a 330d instead, doesn't break any speed limit: all of a sudden he can do more than 600 miles with a full tank.
Meh.
Turbo Diesels are THE way to go if you want to travel "fast". Not because they can do 155 mph (some actually can, the 335d is one of them), but because they can go a looong way before refueling. No wonder Diesels represent more than 70% of luxury care sales in Europe. Not having to refuel twice a week also accounts for comfort - and you'll always be faster at your destination.
... To file a suit against Microsoft for deliberate obstruction to an international, public interest organisation... At the International Court of Justice in La Haye.
This court may not have that great an influence, but just for the symbolic value of it, I say the ISO should do it. Heck, the new P MSmembers need not even appear as defendants on this one.
And if you have indeed read TFA, you'd have read also that this is only that Kaspersky makes this problem stand out. You don't need Kaspersky to trigger that bug:
> Although the problem occurs where users are running Kaspersky security products, it's a > kernel leak that lies at the root of problem (the problem's not confined to systems > running Kaspersky software, that just that this application seems to exacerbate the > issue).
> 2: Absence of a full email client. I suggest they grab Mozilla's Thunderbird. I have no trouble with it at all.
Excuse me, but what place is there for a mail client in an _office document_ suite? Just because Microsoft does it with Office (read: Outlook, but I think I don't need to mention it at all) doesn't mean you have to bundle a mail client with an office suite at all.
Mail clients are plenty already, why bundle yet another one?
If BSD people are unhappy about the current state of GCC, whatever their objections are, why don't they just fork it again? After all, this was what egcs was all about.
If their fork proves worthy, leaving license problems away, people will start using it (even the Linux kernel). As many people, including God Linus, say, "code talks"! Instead of reinventing the wheel, fork and improve!
Egcs has ultimately become the "real" GCC after all, hasn't it?
From the end of the summary, the very end in fact:
[...],possibly on sharks
Can the author of the news please elaborate? I just don't see how this discovery possibly relates to an undeservedly frowned upon species of fish...
I must violently disagree with the Offtopic moderation to the above post.
Spelling is a very common problem in the so-called "developed countries" (hahahaaa.. *hrm*) today, to an extent that I, a non native English speaker, can even spot spelling or even grammar errors in comments on Slashdot. You should be ashamed, period.
Really, "learn to spell" is not offtopic, quite the opposite, it's dead on.
Some time ago, I was operator on a French IRC channel and we have decided to apply a "mode Pivot" (from Bernard Pivot, a renowned French TV presenter of a cultural program named "Apostrophes"). We were five ops and had a hard time to keep up kicking the people making spelling/grammar errors. I lurk on IRC from time to time now, and it's even worse: people there just CAN NOT SPELL PROPERLY. Heck, IRC is not limited to 160 chars per message. "Kestu fé" is NO equivalent to "Que fais-tu", neither is "wt r u doin" to "what are you doing".
While typos can be "pardoned", plain mispelling from the start is a simple lack of proper education.
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First of all, I'm not a hardcore gamer. I do play Diablo II with Wine, and play the native NWN game on Linux - and surprisingly, the former works better.
Even though I haven't been following the Wine project eagerly, I see it as my best way out of Windows because of games (I have pretty much everything else covered by Linux).
Hence my question: I guess you have had your share of requests to port Direct* APIs to whatever platform Wine supports today. How hard has it been? Would you say that Direct* _is_ a better all-rounded API for games than what is available on the platforms that Wine runs on today?
Well, just think of it this way: the author is looking for advice. Maybe you think you're the Man Of The Day(tm) when it comes to software design, but then maybe you're talking absolute rubbish.
Such a thread is interesting to the author just as a melting pot of ideas from which he can pick... Well... Whatever he thinks fits his theory.
See, you may well output a thousand line summary of what you think is great, he will only, maybe, pick some tens of it. But:
* the synthesis of it won't be yours, it will be his;
* be sure that any valuable contributions _will_ be credited to the original author (who knows, this may be you).
I don't quite understand the "insightful" moderation, honestly.
Linux can now be used to debug your car's network - provided a hardware interface exists.
If it doesn't, I bet it will not be long before someone implements one. And since CAN is used in pretty much every automation in modern cars, who knows. "An open firmware for your Passat", anyone?
Yes, that's about it, really.
I've been using Linux for more than ten YEARS. In my first years using it, I loved the "it's unlike Windows" thing, I learnt the command line...
Now? I use KDE (been using it for five years), have a terminal open, know about the X clipboard mouse shortcuts (you'll never see me do C-c, C-x, C-v), use vim daily... Heck, I can even view the calendar from KDE's clock without being an admin by default! (don't believe me? Try and click on the clock in a default WinXP install with a "limited" user account)
I've been doing so for so long that getting "back" to Windows is a huge setback: no vim, no "middle click is paste", feeble command line (no pipes, no job control and whatnot). All things that I've been using for so long that I just cannot do without them.
Just like other people can't do without Windows+e, C-c, C-v and whatnot.
Linux just is my work environment. I'm just not at ease with any other work environment now. Just like many people out there won't be at ease with anything else than Windows.
Err, who modded parent "insightful"?
Unfortunately, as far as O'Reilly is concerned, you have to admit, a good number of their books are just good, very good.
Sure, any book must be taken with a grain of salt (you have the net to fill your mill for grains of salt) but I've never been disappointed by my purchases from them. "The Art of SQL", for instance, is a gem. And I don't know of any alternatives for such a book.
OK, maybe some influential people there can be "bought" (case in point here), but they do know how to pinpoint good authors and make them write good books. You may not like some parts of them, but what is good is good. As long as O'Reilly keeps on producing such gems, I'll keep on buying (some of) their books.
Everybody here knows that money for money can only produce mediocre goods (I think I need not mention examples), and I don't think O'Reilly is up to that stage. Yet?
Unfortunately, that seems to tell a lot.
Money and common sense (and/or ethics) just seem to be strangely opposed... Why am I (not) surprised?
Retracting your common sense/ethics arguments because you find yourself in "debt" to money-makers just looks cheap, doesn't it?
From your text above, something quite crucial is missing imho: does this disclosure apply to past, present or future versions of Windows?
Also, what is a "Windows work group server"? Would that be a PDC, or a simple server on a given workgroup with no domain control features whatsoever?
And finally...
> Microsoft should be able to impose reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions to ensure that this access to the disclosed specifications is
> granted for evaluation purposes only
"For evaluation purposes only"? Uh, does it imply that these documentations provided do no even need give enough information for a _functional_ implementation, or am I too cynical?
IMHO, the wording is far too imprecise, and certainly not worth the 10k asked by Microsoft.
Bah, I guess a fund collect could be raised and the specs handed out to the Samba team. At least, they would be able to tell us whether the 10k are actually worth it, since they already know a lot about these protocols.
I really don't get it. So, they want to filter out content so that no one sees any copyrighted material anywhere on the net. What next? Sue movie theaters for displaying trailers of films you didn't pay to see in the first place?
Heck, if you don't even get a preview/prelisten of the movies/songs you are interested in in the first place, how do you know whether you'll want to buy them later? And they still wonder why their revenue is on the decline?
These guys should get a clue from RadioHead.
> One would think that any assembly styling themselves as being open-minded and advocating open debate would be
> above something as petty as a dress code.
The saddening truth is that dress code pettiness is to be obeyed when you want to address people that count (their money).
Free software wouldn't be anywhere close to where it is today if its only promoters wore only jeans and T-shirts.
Vista sells in boxes, sure. Now, what percentage is that compared to bundled Vistas in computers?
The same goes for OS X. Even more so that the vast majority of people who want to delve into the Mac world of computing will do it for the first time won't care whether their OS is called Tiger, Leopard of whatever feline species they can think of...
Really, it may only be a mistake for long time Mac users out there - and they probably won't even regard it as a mistake anyway.
Goes further than this. I run FF with the NoScript plugin, and all I get is a link to go to salon.com. Not even this "cannot set a cookie" message.
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/10/20/realnetworks-releases-realplayer-fix-for-zero-day-activex-flaw/
Seen in the firehose.
So, this guy will drive as fast as possible with an M5 all across the US. Which means, he will barely do 250 miles with a full tank.
Now, this same guy unloads all gizmos, settles for a 330d instead, doesn't break any speed limit: all of a sudden he can do more than 600 miles with a full tank.
Meh.
Turbo Diesels are THE way to go if you want to travel "fast". Not because they can do 155 mph (some actually can, the 335d is one of them), but because they can go a looong way before refueling. No wonder Diesels represent more than 70% of luxury care sales in Europe. Not having to refuel twice a week also accounts for comfort - and you'll always be faster at your destination.
... To file a suit against Microsoft for deliberate obstruction to an international, public interest organisation... At the International Court of Justice in La Haye.
This court may not have that great an influence, but just for the symbolic value of it, I say the ISO should do it. Heck, the new P MSmembers need not even appear as defendants on this one.
> The KB article that Adrian links to states that very clearly
The KB article says:
> This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:
> The files include extended attributes.
> You copy lots of files in a single operation.
Not that clear. "The files" mean what? All files copied? Just two of them? Also, "the" following conditions: "both", "either"?
And if you have indeed read TFA, you'd have read also that this is only that Kaspersky makes this problem stand out. You don't need Kaspersky to trigger that bug:
> Although the problem occurs where users are running Kaspersky security products, it's a
> kernel leak that lies at the root of problem (the problem's not confined to systems
> running Kaspersky software, that just that this application seems to exacerbate the
> issue).
A comment above already mentions that.
> In some countries the exact opposite is true!
Yes, and France is one.
(offtopic, but makes me wonder why on earth Orange signed/wanted to sign an exclusivity deal with Apple, knowing what the laws were in France)
> 2: Absence of a full email client. I suggest they grab Mozilla's Thunderbird. I have no trouble with it at all.
Excuse me, but what place is there for a mail client in an _office document_ suite? Just because Microsoft does it with Office (read: Outlook, but I think I don't need to mention it at all) doesn't mean you have to bundle a mail client with an office suite at all.
Mail clients are plenty already, why bundle yet another one?
Is it me, or is this guy just trying to generalize from another misguided artcile dated no later than a week ago?
If BSD people are unhappy about the current state of GCC, whatever their objections are, why don't they just fork it again? After all, this was what egcs was all about.
If their fork proves worthy, leaving license problems away, people will start using it (even the Linux kernel). As many people, including God Linus, say, "code talks"! Instead of reinventing the wheel, fork and improve!
Egcs has ultimately become the "real" GCC after all, hasn't it?
From the end of the summary, the very end in fact:
[...],possibly on sharks Can the author of the news please elaborate? I just don't see how this discovery possibly relates to an undeservedly frowned upon species of fish...
I must violently disagree with the Offtopic moderation to the above post.
Spelling is a very common problem in the so-called "developed countries" (hahahaaa.. *hrm*) today, to an extent that I, a non native English speaker, can even spot spelling or even grammar errors in comments on Slashdot. You should be ashamed, period.
Really, "learn to spell" is not offtopic, quite the opposite, it's dead on.
Some time ago, I was operator on a French IRC channel and we have decided to apply a "mode Pivot" (from Bernard Pivot, a renowned French TV presenter of a cultural program named "Apostrophes"). We were five ops and had a hard time to keep up kicking the people making spelling/grammar errors. I lurk on IRC from time to time now, and it's even worse: people there just CAN NOT SPELL PROPERLY. Heck, IRC is not limited to 160 chars per message. "Kestu fé" is NO equivalent to "Que fais-tu", neither is "wt r u doin" to "what are you doing".
While typos can be "pardoned", plain mispelling from the start is a simple lack of proper education.
Everyone, huh?
Everyone is far from being a citizen of a so-called developed country, less much able to own a cell phone, computer or even a watch.