To support the S/390-style virtualization, plex86 would need to include from-scratch drivers or models for a reasonable amount of the hardware a guest OS might use. Of course, they could leverage the Linux source for some of this.
But by then, you're essentially running a stripped-down Linux kernel, and plex86 already has support for that.
If nothing else, I want to update my DirectX driver knowledge to DirectX8
DirectX 8's support for DirectDraw (2D) video is now a mere wrapper around Direct3D. This will increase performance on systems whose drivers are heavily optimized for 3D (e.g. for Quake benchmarks) but horrible in 2D.
There should be some kind of expiration period where the original owner can pay an extra fee and get the domain back, but this amount of time should be automatic with no exceptions.
Including when NSI claims to "have technical problems" releasing expired domains? They claim it's a bug in the script that expires the domains.
"Unlike Napster, which is becoming subscription-based, Scour, which has succumbed to legal pressures, and Gnutella, which suffers from scalability issues, BitHive relies on no central servers or corporations to run."
Neither does Napster. With Napigator, users can connect to OpenNap directory servers and share their files without needing some big corporation's help (unless you count VA Linux's SourceForge, which hosts the OpenNap website). And this To demonstrate the legitimacy of OpenNap, simply make a Linux kernel tarball available on one of the servers, and run an OpenNap segment on your local network to ease the bandwidth problem. With that kind of cred[?], RIAA won't be able to touch it.
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of
our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
It looks like somebody needs to change http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicspam.jpg
It's unfortunate that the term for "legal work for a good cause" sounds just like a term meaning perpetual copyright: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?], the act that extended the term of all subsisting and new copyrights by 20 years and set a precedent that every 20 years, 20 more years are added.
XFree86 4 already works on Windows NT and Windows 2000; however, there is buggy 16-bit legacy code in Windows 9x's kernel and GDI that keeps the X server from working properly (according to the XFree86 for Windows FAQ). This should be less of a problem once Windows 2000 Personal (codename Whistler) is released.
They needed an X server and a commercial unix emulation package to do this.
KDE too started out relying on proprietary software but (with Trolltech's help) phased it out. Once XFree86 4 begins to work around buggy 16-bit code in Windows 9x (it already works fine on NT/2K) or Whistler is released, we will have our free X11 server for Windows. And it shouldn't be too much work to move from Uwin to Red Hat Cygwin, another POSIX layer for Windows.
The Windows equivalent of Galeon (i.e. a stripped-down web browser using the Gecko engine from Mozilla) is k-meleon (no, despite the K, it has nothing to do with KDE).
This is because for a disk to be bootable, it has to contain a chunk of code in its bootstrap that is byte-for-byte identical to some code held on ROM.
Fair use; no functional part of the game is being copied. The boot sector is simply a 14 KB magic cookie for "Dreamcast format CD" that happens to be executed. There are ways to route around the trademark issue also, such as displaying "NOT" right above any instance of "Licensed by Sega" as soon as your program gets control in Bootstrap 1. Case in point: Sega tried this with the Sega Genesis console (a "Trademark Security System"), resulting in Sega v. Accolade. From what I've read, this byte-for-byte copying is considered fair use; otherwise, what amounts to a perpetual patent could be achieved through copyright law.
as if any major game manufacturers besides id want to port to Linux
You forgot Loki. <ot>(Too bad Tribes 2's online registration is an invasion of privacy similar to that of MS Office 2000; the program accesses the manufacturer's server when the app is first started, possibly sending personal information.)</ot>
Anyway, the goal of any for-profit corporation is to make a profit; that's where the term "bottom line"[?] comes from. If a game house can release games for Dreamcast without paying Sega royalties, the company saves several dollars on every unit shipped. This. Adds. Up. Big. Time.
it doesn't list me near the top of a search for my own stuff!
TheIndex.com does not list pornographic or personal websites. According to the Submit URL page:
"TheIndex does not accept personal, pornographic, hacking, or "warez" website links. This includes personal sites about rock or movie stars, Star Wars, your trip to Swaziland or whatever. We are for business and professional website links only and all sites are reviewed thoroughly prior to acceptance."
TheIndex seems to be a directory with a good search feature rather than a true search engine. It leaves out all the personal home pages that have the real scoop on countless subjects the big boys that sell banners just won't touch.
Could have used stylesheets for extra irony
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Search engines are starting to ignore text drawn in the same color as the background, so that "xxx xxx porn free sex" type stuff doesn't spam the listings.
MPAA uses CSS (content scrambling system) to hide movie data from us. Think about it, the author could have chosen to use CSS (cascading stylesheets) to hide the DeCSS (content scrambling system) code from casual users, requiring the Other DeCSS (cascading stylesheets) to retrieve it.
Who really gives a rat's ass if your Dreamcast, or toaster, or microwave, or TV set can run Linux? I purchased these devices with these respective intentions in mind - to play video games, make toast, and reheat foods.
Yes, but Linux on a console lets the average Joe develop software for that console. With Ethernet drivers and a port of XFree, you get a cheap X terminal (with a joystick for a mouse). And with the portable Allegro library, you can download games from the Internet, compile them for Dreamcast, burn them to a CD-R, and play your heart out.
need to whore myself past the Kap -- >
<karmawhore>
Slashdot previously ran this story about getting NetBSD to run on the Dreamcast console.
</karmawhore>
Or try Allegro, but watch out for i-opener effect
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The free, easy-to-code-for Allegro library already runs on DOS, Windows, Linux framebuffer, and X11; they've started on BeOS. As soon as Mesa3d or some other OpenGL-compatible library is ported to Dreamcast...
...Sega is going to realize that its revenue stream (game royalties) has been cut off. Think i-opener. We're going to see Sony PS2 become cheap in comparison, as Sega tries to make a profit on consoles as games are ported to Debian GNU/Linux for Dreamcast Consoles.
The GNU General Public License is a copyright license. Copyrights and trademarks are two distinct Licensable Rights (I hate the term intellectual property). Unlike copyrights, trademarks do not have to be original, just distinctive in the field at the time of registration. Trademark registrations can also be renewed (for extra money) ten years at a time, unlike copyright which is automatically
perpetual for any work created on or after January 1, 1923.
Every user on the Napster Network connects to the same central server. However, there are other central servers that run the Napster protocol (and allow formats other than MPEG Layer 3 Audio; use it for mirroring the Linux kernel tarballs?), and you can run your own on a nix box or winbox. The lawyers may shut the lawyers shut the Napster Network down, but the success of one big red H shows that the game of whack-a-mole is a surprisingly weak form of resistance. Resistance is futile.
The most bandwidth I can use is limited by... my input devices (including video camera), and the number of individuals who want to see my content all at one time (strong added).
Remember, more people will want to see what you have than you think. There are hundreds of millions of people on the Internet; unless multicast gets REAL good REAL fast, you're going to have a problem serving even 0.1% of the world's population (6 million simultaneous users).
Remember, there *is* such a thing as too much porn.
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To support the S/390-style virtualization, plex86 would need to include from-scratch drivers or models for a reasonable amount of the hardware a guest OS might use. Of course, they could leverage the Linux source for some of this.
But by then, you're essentially running a stripped-down Linux kernel, and plex86 already has support for that.
If nothing else, I want to update my DirectX driver knowledge to DirectX8
DirectX 8's support for DirectDraw (2D) video is now a mere wrapper around Direct3D. This will increase performance on systems whose drivers are heavily optimized for 3D (e.g. for Quake benchmarks) but horrible in 2D.
(still can't believe a plex86 developer has the same name as one of my video game characters)There should be some kind of expiration period where the original owner can pay an extra fee and get the domain back, but this amount of time should be automatic with no exceptions.
Including when NSI claims to "have technical problems" releasing expired domains? They claim it's a bug in the script that expires the domains.
'mirrors' points right to www.kernel.org!
That's because Kernel.org is the Linux kernel mirror system.
Now, for a cute link, try here. Or here. (Ness looks so precious.) Or here.
(it's a lot cuter than goatse.cx...)"Unlike Napster, which is becoming subscription-based, Scour, which has succumbed to legal pressures, and Gnutella, which suffers from scalability issues, BitHive relies on no central servers or corporations to run."
Neither does Napster. With Napigator, users can connect to OpenNap directory servers and share their files without needing some big corporation's help (unless you count VA Linux's SourceForge, which hosts the OpenNap website). And this To demonstrate the legitimacy of OpenNap, simply make a Linux kernel tarball available on one of the servers, and run an OpenNap segment on your local network to ease the bandwidth problem. With that kind of cred[?], RIAA won't be able to touch it.
I wish I could switch to another broadband company, but nothing else is available in my area.
<sarcasm>
So make "your area" a different area. Move to another area.
</sarcasm>
It's unfortunate that the term for "legal work for a good cause" sounds just like a term meaning perpetual copyright: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?], the act that extended the term of all subsisting and new copyrights by 20 years and set a precedent that every 20 years, 20 more years are added.
I run Unigraphics on NT using Exceed, and lemme tell ya, it's not all it's cracked up to be!
So quit using Exceed and start using XFree86 for NT.
...and use Cygwin, the Windows NT port of XFree86 will immediately become useful.
XFree86 4 already works on Windows NT and Windows 2000; however, there is buggy 16-bit legacy code in Windows 9x's kernel and GDI that keeps the X server from working properly (according to the XFree86 for Windows FAQ). This should be less of a problem once Windows 2000 Personal (codename Whistler) is released.
They needed an X server and a commercial unix emulation package to do this.
KDE too started out relying on proprietary software but (with Trolltech's help) phased it out. Once XFree86 4 begins to work around buggy 16-bit code in Windows 9x (it already works fine on NT/2K) or Whistler is released, we will have our free X11 server for Windows. And it shouldn't be too much work to move from Uwin to Red Hat Cygwin, another POSIX layer for Windows.
The Windows equivalent of Galeon (i.e. a stripped-down web browser using the Gecko engine from Mozilla) is k-meleon (no, despite the K, it has nothing to do with KDE).
There are no 3rd party advertisements what so ever on microsoft.com
Microsoft probably wants more people to subscribe to their security bulletins and get the information directly from them and not a third party.
Smells like Microsoft is protecting its right to sell advertisement space in Microsoft Bulletins.
This is because for a disk to be bootable, it has to contain a chunk of code in its bootstrap that is byte-for-byte identical to some code held on ROM.
Fair use; no functional part of the game is being copied. The boot sector is simply a 14 KB magic cookie for "Dreamcast format CD" that happens to be executed. There are ways to route around the trademark issue also, such as displaying "NOT" right above any instance of "Licensed by Sega" as soon as your program gets control in Bootstrap 1. Case in point: Sega tried this with the Sega Genesis console (a "Trademark Security System"), resulting in Sega v. Accolade. From what I've read, this byte-for-byte copying is considered fair use; otherwise, what amounts to a perpetual patent could be achieved through copyright law.
as if any major game manufacturers besides id want to port to Linux
You forgot Loki. <ot>(Too bad Tribes 2's online registration is an invasion of privacy similar to that of MS Office 2000; the program accesses the manufacturer's server when the app is first started, possibly sending personal information.)</ot>
Anyway, the goal of any for-profit corporation is to make a profit; that's where the term "bottom line"[?] comes from. If a game house can release games for Dreamcast without paying Sega royalties, the company saves several dollars on every unit shipped. This. Adds. Up. Big. Time.
it doesn't list me near the top of a search for my own stuff!
TheIndex.com does not list pornographic or personal websites. According to the Submit URL page:
TheIndex seems to be a directory with a good search feature rather than a true search engine. It leaves out all the personal home pages that have the real scoop on countless subjects the big boys that sell banners just won't touch.This is why I'm sticking with Google.
Who really gives a rat's ass if your Dreamcast, or toaster, or microwave, or TV set can run Linux? I purchased these devices with these respective intentions in mind - to play video games, make toast, and reheat foods.
Yes, but Linux on a console lets the average Joe develop software for that console. With Ethernet drivers and a port of XFree, you get a cheap X terminal (with a joystick for a mouse). And with the portable Allegro library, you can download games from the Internet, compile them for Dreamcast, burn them to a CD-R, and play your heart out.
need to whore myself past the Kap -- >
<karmawhore>
Slashdot previously ran this story about getting NetBSD to run on the Dreamcast console.
</karmawhore>
The free, easy-to-code-for Allegro library already runs on DOS, Windows, Linux framebuffer, and X11; they've started on BeOS. As soon as Mesa3d or some other OpenGL-compatible library is ported to Dreamcast...
The GNU General Public License is a copyright license. Copyrights and trademarks are two distinct Licensable Rights (I hate the term intellectual property). Unlike copyrights, trademarks do not have to be original, just distinctive in the field at the time of registration. Trademark registrations can also be renewed (for extra money) ten years at a time, unlike copyright which is automatically perpetual for any work created on or after January 1, 1923.
Every user on the Napster Network connects to the same central server. However, there are other central servers that run the Napster protocol (and allow formats other than MPEG Layer 3 Audio; use it for mirroring the Linux kernel tarballs?), and you can run your own on a nix box or winbox. The lawyers may shut the lawyers shut the Napster Network down, but the success of one big red H shows that the game of whack-a-mole is a surprisingly weak form of resistance. Resistance is futile.
The most bandwidth I can use is limited by ... my input devices (including video camera), and the number of individuals who want to see my content all at one time (strong added).
Remember, more people will want to see what you have than you think. There are hundreds of millions of people on the Internet; unless multicast gets REAL good REAL fast, you're going to have a problem serving even 0.1% of the world's population (6 million simultaneous users).
Remember, there *is* such a thing as too much porn.
Or too many users viewing the same pornogram[?].