Fat chance they'll give you sudo permissions either. Often, hosting companies charge mucho dinero to add features to your site that you could add yourself if you had shell and sudo. Once you've paid for all those services, you might as well be colocating your own box.
I was using "web hosting" as an example of a "nix box you don't have root on," and "servers" as an example of "things that run at kernel-level or otherwise require superuser permissions to run." Also, Internet appliances that run nix tend not to give users root; otherwise, the user could circumvent the manufacturer's revenue stream. Besides, "kernel module" (Linux equivalent of a Hurd server) and "server" (the kind that handles network requests) overlap somewhat, e.g. in the TUX web server.
Deja News is an example of using one protocol (WWW, or HTML over HTTP) as a front end to another (NNTP). OP is asking for something similar with a WWW front end to Gopher.
Do regular users have a hard time adding services to Linux? I'm root on my own boxes, and I can load and unload kernel modules all day.
Ever tried to run a server over your dial-up connection? It's almost impossible to (legally) get root on a machine with a fast connection to the Internet. For example, Internet hosting companies tend to run several customers on one box; fat chance they'll give away the root password so you can screw it up for other customers. They may give you shell (even this is rare), but they don't give you root. Short of colocating your own dedicated box (very expen$ive), unprivileged userspace services are the only way to run servers on your site.
I'll be too busy chatting with all of my AIM and ICQ buddies to care.
There are already Jabber-to-TOC and Jabber-to-ICQ gateways that let Jabber users chat with users on other servers, and they're getting ready to install MSN and Yahoo! gateways.
The AIM 4.x license agreement states, in effect, `By installing this software, you agree to the terms.... You may not use client software not approved by AOL Inc. on AOL's AIM servers.' This is why I use AIM 2.1 (the fastest Win32 AIM client that AOL ever made) on my Windows 98 partition, alongside Everybuddy. I know there's Jabber, but I found its AIM gateway to be a bit unreliable.
Jabber is a Free instant messaging system with a Free server and several Free clients. No AOL needed; however, there are gateways to Yahoo!, MSN, AIM, and ICQ if you have an account on those services.
If a patented invention is actually new, useful, and non-obvious, the patent should be granted. Slashdotters have a beef with the USPTO's inability to see the stupidity in applications for patents on inventions such as XOR cursor, spreadsheet recalculation, one-click shopping, DDR SDRAM (by its biggest competitor), etc. for which the patent owner builds its business around suing its competitors. (Read More...)
Making the same mistake[?] Everything 2 users make. Now to the topic:
this article about Mandrake Linux with Java
...is about bundling Java 2 Platform Standard Edition, the runtime environment. Mandrake is bundling only the class runner, not the development tools. The development tools still are not available in those parts of the world that lack fast, cheap Internet connections.
the source code is available. This is sufficient for 99.9% of us. Let's get real here.
The JDK cannot be put into a Linux distribution. The Sun Binary Code License (under which the JDK is released) doesn't even allow redistribution of the JDK binaries to those who don't have the money to pay cents per minute for telephone line access (local toll calls are the standard outside of the US) to connect to the Internet.
Clayfighter (cartoon fighting) was released on at least the SNES and possibly on other consoles as well. There were multi-player puzzle battle games in the arcades long before they were on N64.
How many controllers did Clay Fighter or Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo[?] support? Quite a bit of innovation was required to make the largely two-player genres work well for four players.
The ethernet isn't for local multi-player, its for the cable modem
Cable is often limited to 80 kilobits upstream or worse. Besides, what if you live in an area where the city has contracted Time Warner as your local cable monopoly? After the merger, you will have to have an Intel architecture x86 box running a Microsoft brand Windows 98/ME brand operating system and the AOL client to be able to use your cable modem. Unless Nintendo licenses the AOL protocols for the GAMECUBE console, you won't have cable access.
DSL modem
Until the fiber-to-the-curb infrastructure is complete, DSL is available only within 12,000 feet of the central switch. In a large city such as Houston, there are huge gaps in DSL coverage, meaning essentially that a fellow has to pack up and move next to the telco's central switch to get a DSL connection.
But what case could Sega make for continuing to have copyrights on Genesis games?... Why would they even WANT to try to defend their rights?
Because if Sega doesn't defend the copyright on Sonic the Hedgehog.gen, Sega also isn't defending the trademark "Sonic the Hedgehog®" meaning Sega won't be able to make money off Sonic games anymore. If Sony PS2 kills Dreamcast and the GAMECUBE console can't keep up, I'd bet we'll see some heavy cross-licensing (Super Smash Bros. 2[?]: Sega vs. Nintendo, anyone?) like we saw with the CD-i system.
console games used to have a 6 year lifespan. That's shrinking to 3 years.
Try 5 years:
PSX (1994); PS2 (2000).
Genesis (1989); Saturn (1994); Dreamcast (1999) but Sega realized Saturn was a lost cause anyway.
SNES (1991); N64 (1996); GAMECUBE (2001).
The PC cycle is twice as fast anyway, and PCs cost $1000 instead of $250.
The PS2 is quite advanced but hard to code for.
The PSX had a decent libc (C runtime library) when it was first released. Sony PS2 was rushed too fast to get a libc developed.
Since nintendo's PowerPC comes from IBM it probably doesn't have altivec and that leaves it depending on the (for a risc chip) weak FPU powerpc's are known for.
Which is more than overcome by the hardware everything on the chipset. (This is how Sony overcame the lack of an FPU in PSX.) Besides, how do you know that the FPU hasn't been enhanced in PowerPC Gekko (not to be confused with Mozilla Gecko or Geico Direct auto insurance)?
and I don't see how Microsoft (with the best outlook)
Helix Code has a better outlook, and it's called Evolution.
Remember back when consoles were milked of all their power before abandoning the system.
Fifteen years, and the NES console is still being milked. Download an emulator and head over to NESdev and get some of Chris Covell's NES software, or try my GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops for the NES.
you would think that by now all console manufacturers would notice that just about all gamers want BROADBAND
And there will be broadband adapters for both the Sony PS2 and GAMECUBE consoles. They're just not ready right now because broadband reaches very few homes in the target markets. Not all gamers can afford to pack up and move to a location where decent non-AOL non-Windows-only-in-TOS DSL/cable service is available.
Why not just add in an ethernet port?
And force players to buy a network hub, four GAMECUBE consoles, four copies of each game, four monitors, and four speaker systems? I'd rather
It wouldn't take much porting to get the GNOME desktop and GNOME applications to work on the Windows 2000 system, seeing as how the Cygwin POSIX layer, the XFree86 server, and GDK/GTK+/Glib are already ported.
The SMS game binaries (commonly called ROMs) are still under copyright in the United States because Congress has recently followed a policy of perpetual copyright, using a loophole in the Constitution to extend all subsisting copyrights every 20 years or so. This policy is reflected in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?]. No copyrighted work created on or after January 1, 1923, will ever expire into the public domain.
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Fat chance they'll give you sudo permissions either. Often, hosting companies charge mucho dinero to add features to your site that you could add yourself if you had shell and sudo. Once you've paid for all those services, you might as well be colocating your own box.
I was using "web hosting" as an example of a "nix box you don't have root on," and "servers" as an example of "things that run at kernel-level or otherwise require superuser permissions to run." Also, Internet appliances that run nix tend not to give users root; otherwise, the user could circumvent the manufacturer's revenue stream. Besides, "kernel module" (Linux equivalent of a Hurd server) and "server" (the kind that handles network requests) overlap somewhat, e.g. in the TUX web server.
Deja News is an example of using one protocol (WWW, or HTML over HTTP) as a front end to another (NNTP). OP is asking for something similar with a WWW front end to Gopher.
Do regular users have a hard time adding services to Linux? I'm root on my own boxes, and I can load and unload kernel modules all day.
Ever tried to run a server over your dial-up connection? It's almost impossible to (legally) get root on a machine with a fast connection to the Internet. For example, Internet hosting companies tend to run several customers on one box; fat chance they'll give away the root password so you can screw it up for other customers. They may give you shell (even this is rare), but they don't give you root. Short of colocating your own dedicated box (very expen$ive), unprivileged userspace services are the only way to run servers on your site.
Start your own IM network, and make it "standards-compliant."
We already did. It's called Jabber.
I'll be too busy chatting with all of my AIM and ICQ buddies to care.
There are already Jabber-to-TOC and Jabber-to-ICQ gateways that let Jabber users chat with users on other servers, and they're getting ready to install MSN and Yahoo! gateways.
The AIM 4.x license agreement states, in effect, `By installing this software, you agree to the terms. ... You may not use client software not approved by AOL Inc. on AOL's AIM servers.' This is why I use AIM 2.1 (the fastest Win32 AIM client that AOL ever made) on my Windows 98 partition, alongside Everybuddy. I know there's Jabber, but I found its AIM gateway to be a bit unreliable.
Jabber is a Free instant messaging system with a Free server and several Free clients. No AOL needed; however, there are gateways to Yahoo!, MSN, AIM, and ICQ if you have an account on those services.
If a patented invention is actually new, useful, and non-obvious, the patent should be granted. Slashdotters have a beef with the USPTO's inability to see the stupidity in applications for patents on inventions such as XOR cursor, spreadsheet recalculation, one-click shopping, DDR SDRAM (by its biggest competitor), etc. for which the patent owner builds its business around suing its competitors. (Read More...)
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Making the same mistake[?] Everything 2 users make. Now to the topic:
this article about Mandrake Linux with Java
the source code is available. This is sufficient for 99.9% of us. Let's get real here.
The JDK cannot be put into a Linux distribution. The Sun Binary Code License (under which the JDK is released) doesn't even allow redistribution of the JDK binaries to those who don't have the money to pay cents per minute for telephone line access (local toll calls are the standard outside of the US) to connect to the Internet.
Clayfighter (cartoon fighting) was released on at least the SNES and possibly on other consoles as well. There were multi-player puzzle battle games in the arcades long before they were on N64.
How many controllers did Clay Fighter or Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo[?] support? Quite a bit of innovation was required to make the largely two-player genres work well for four players.
Umm, you don't need any AOL clients on Windows PCs to use a Time Warner cable modem
Better get all your surfing in real fast because that will change once AOL buys Time Warner.
The ethernet isn't for local multi-player, its for the cable modem
Cable is often limited to 80 kilobits upstream or worse. Besides, what if you live in an area where the city has contracted Time Warner as your local cable monopoly? After the merger, you will have to have an Intel architecture x86 box running a Microsoft brand Windows 98/ME brand operating system and the AOL client to be able to use your cable modem. Unless Nintendo licenses the AOL protocols for the GAMECUBE console, you won't have cable access.
DSL modem
Until the fiber-to-the-curb infrastructure is complete, DSL is available only within 12,000 feet of the central switch. In a large city such as Houston, there are huge gaps in DSL coverage, meaning essentially that a fellow has to pack up and move next to the telco's central switch to get a DSL connection.
But what case could Sega make for continuing to have copyrights on Genesis games? ... Why would they even WANT to try to defend their rights?
Because if Sega doesn't defend the copyright on Sonic the Hedgehog.gen, Sega also isn't defending the trademark "Sonic the Hedgehog®" meaning Sega won't be able to make money off Sonic games anymore. If Sony PS2 kills Dreamcast and the GAMECUBE console can't keep up, I'd bet we'll see some heavy cross-licensing (Super Smash Bros. 2[?]: Sega vs. Nintendo, anyone?) like we saw with the CD-i system.
console games used to have a 6 year lifespan. That's shrinking to 3 years.
Try 5 years:
The PC cycle is twice as fast anyway, and PCs cost $1000 instead of $250.
The PS2 is quite advanced but hard to code for.
The PSX had a decent libc (C runtime library) when it was first released. Sony PS2 was rushed too fast to get a libc developed.
Since nintendo's PowerPC comes from IBM it probably doesn't have altivec and that leaves it depending on the (for a risc chip) weak FPU powerpc's are known for.
Which is more than overcome by the hardware everything on the chipset. (This is how Sony overcame the lack of an FPU in PSX.) Besides, how do you know that the FPU hasn't been enhanced in PowerPC Gekko (not to be confused with Mozilla Gecko or Geico Direct auto insurance)?
and I don't see how Microsoft (with the best outlook)
Helix Code has a better outlook, and it's called Evolution.
If you want 100 clones of mario kart but from nintendo.
Bull schmidt, Nintendo pioneered several genres on N64:
Remember back when consoles were milked of all their power before abandoning the system.
Fifteen years, and the NES console is still being milked. Download an emulator and head over to NESdev and get some of Chris Covell's NES software, or try my GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops for the NES.
you would think that by now all console manufacturers would notice that just about all gamers want BROADBAND
And there will be broadband adapters for both the Sony PS2 and GAMECUBE consoles. They're just not ready right now because broadband reaches very few homes in the target markets. Not all gamers can afford to pack up and move to a location where decent non-AOL non-Windows-only-in-TOS DSL/cable service is available.
Why not just add in an ethernet port?
And force players to buy a network hub, four GAMECUBE consoles, four copies of each game, four monitors, and four speaker systems? I'd rather
They've lost a lot of ground to Sony, and now Sony has launched the PS2 months before Nintendo's next-generation system will be ready.
Do you know what the going rate for a PlayStation 2 console is? USD $5,000. Do you know what the MSRP for the GAMECUBE console is? $200-$250.
I downloaded the Flash plugin for Windows Netscape 4, and it works fine with Mozilla M18.
It wouldn't take much porting to get the GNOME desktop and GNOME applications to work on the Windows 2000 system, seeing as how the Cygwin POSIX layer, the XFree86 server, and GDK/GTK+/Glib are already ported.
When GNOME had the old site layout, its logo was still the footprint, but the mascot was David the Gnome (who could be seen in the Bonsai section). Who's KDE's mascot? Logo: gear ... mechanical ... android robot ... Mega Man! No, that's TM & © Capcom. Make a few modifications, make him cuter... voila! Player 2 in GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.
The SMS game binaries (commonly called ROMs) are still under copyright in the United States because Congress has recently followed a policy of perpetual copyright, using a loophole in the Constitution to extend all subsisting copyrights every 20 years or so. This policy is reflected in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?]. No copyrighted work created on or after January 1, 1923, will ever expire into the public domain.
what's going to happen when the copyright expires
Copyright expires? I thought Congress made copyrights perpetual in the United States, exploiting a loophole in the Constitution.
Sometimes, Google adds a page to the index before it GETs the full text and returns it in keyword searches for pages that link to it.