I just compiled the Garnome distribution of 2.2 and I see that Nautilus STILL fails to auto-update its contents. In Konqueror when I run 'touch blah' in a terminal, 'blah' immediately appears. Not so with Nautilus. If it's already open, you need to hit the "Reload" button. Is there a fix for this?
Cool. Everything appears to compile fine here as well. Though Galeon now has "Erroneous Button" labeled for my Back button. If I can't fix that I might recompile an older GTK2 version I still have on my hard drive that was working fine. I hope Ximian does something with it soon, but since they haven't even comitted to 2.0 yet, I don't have my hopes up. I want Evolution using GTK2 dammit! That's basically the only app I use that needs upgrading (I'm now too spoiled on the slick smooth fonts). And while Ximian's file selector is still kinda piss-poor, it's still a lot better than the stock Gnome's (The home dir shortcut really helps).
Hmmm....I'm still using RedHat 7.3 (I usually skip every few releases). I wonder if it's the version of GCC they're using....If you don't mind, please post your results.
Unforunately, the past 2 releases are broken. Somewhere down the road the compile fails. I'm still using 0.19.3 as a result. Maybe they finally fixed everything with 0.21.0.
I hope you downloaded ATAPI drivers for your CD-ROM. Gens wont work without it. It took me awile before I actually read the manual to find that out. And I've run SonicCD, EccoCD, Sega Classics, and even a few bin files of other SegaCD games. All worked like a charm.
Heh....yes, the manual says that you can't use it with the CDX - but what they really mean is that the combo didn't have the proper shielding to acheive FCC approval. And the "special attachment" never materialized. you just had to remove the special ring and it attached fine - though again the combo did look rather ugly. I never noticed any television or radio interference while using it though. Who knows, perhaps I kept annoying my neighbors!:)
And I was actually crazy enough to use the CDX as my portable CD player! It was 1994, I was still in college, and I was flat broke. And after spending $400 in this sucker (oh, wait - *I* was the sucker) I had to make due. I bought a large portable CD carrying case with a strap to hold it. Kinda worked out well, even if I did confuse people that saw me using it. The headphone jack broke in it after a while, leaving me to use the line-out headphone, which the volume control did not control. But I still have it. I should sell it now that the windows emulator Gens plays all of my SegaCD games pefectly.
I'm probably even rarer than you - I have the Sega CDX (The portable Genesis/Sega CD unit) with the 32x on it. It looked like a mushroom since the 32x was wider than the CDx. And the only games I had was Virtua Racing, MK2 (actually the best console version of all, and Corpse Killer, one of the few 32x Sega CD games).
They also claim that games are as high as they are due to piracy. But the Nintendo Gamecube has not seen any piracy yet, and yet the prices of their games are exactly the same as the PS2 and X-Box.
Cool....does Apple happen to have a similar guide to porting Unix apps to use the Cocoa interface? I know OSX supports X apps natively, but it would be nice to be able to make, say, the Gimp to be a true Mac app.
Whoa, there, cowboy. I wouldn't go as far as to say that they should be kissing our ass as you seem to feel. And "darkies" is a bit extreme, don't you think? They are still human beings, after all. Like I said, I think the practice _is_ scummy, just not actionable. If someone wants to boycott them over it, it's their right, but making them pull out of third-world countries altogether certainly isn't going to be helping the people the protestors claim to care about. Now, if their gripe was that the sweatshop labor reduces American jobs, then I can see that point.
....they should really look at this and attempt to partner up with Wal-Mart and produce a Linux version of AOL. They're desperate for revenue right now, and appealing to the $200 PC market would be a good niche to get in on. They could have sold a $250 version which includes a "free" year of AOL or something. Still not a bad deal to the price-conscious shopper.
One could say that Wal-Mart is benefiting the citizens of the third-world countries that they allegedly utilize. If they didn't get the (albeit measley) salary from Wal-Mart, where else would they get it from? If there were better alternatives there, I would imagine that they would be taken as well. And if Wal-Mart were to decide to pay more for labor, then they may as well just use U.S citizens for that, but that would put those third-world citizens completely out of a job (or maybe they'd go work for Nike for something).
That's not to say that the practice isn't scummy, but it's probably worse to deny them the opportunity of sweat shop labor to begin with.
That's what's always burned me up about CD prices when compared to cassette prices. Promotion and management costs are the same, yet cassettes cost much more to produce, while being far cheaper than CDs. Whenever charges of price-fixing of CDs surface, I wish more news outlets would point this out. Then I would like so see some RIAAAA head try to talk their way out of that one....
I mean it used the real DVD menus (I don't think geeks are THAT crafty to come up with a menu system as good as the one that the Phantom Menace had, which this one does). As far as quality, you barely see any artifacts, even though its downsampled. Plus it's got 5.1 sound, and no camn-in-theater production is going to give you that.
....It was realeased on the warez scene back in August, yet the movie isn't due out until November. And it was the real DVD, not some badly-made bootleg (though slighty downsampled to fit on a DVD-R, you can barely tell the difference).
"That's why it's always been difficult for me to believe software piracy is anywhere near as bad as these companies make it out. If it was they'd be lowering prices to drive the bootleggers out of business. Instead of protection against pirates it seems more a case of these companies wanting to build greed-protection mechanisms instead."
To add to your point, I also find fault with the logic that piracy is the reason why games cost as much as they do. The Sega Dreamcast enjoyed 9 months of being warez-free, yet during that time games were still $40-$50. Once the Dreamcast warez scene hit, prices did not suddenly go up as a result.
A better example would be the Nintendo Gamecube. So far, there is no piracy, and may never be due to their buring of game DVDs backwards, but are the games $20-$25 as a result? Nope, they cost just as much as everyone else.
....We're not talking about the same situation here. It's not like the designers of the CSS routines sued 2600, it was the MPAA. Apple can't claim that reverse engineering is doing anything other than what it was allowed to do, making the hardware interoperable. The MPAA was able to claim that DeCSS could be used to make illegal copies as well. That's the difference.
Now, if this software allows people to easily copy songs off of the iPod (which Apple prevents by using hidden folders, easy to counteract, I know), I could see the RIAA having something to say about that.......
If they were smart, they could blow this predicament out of proportion with an ad campaign that warns that P2P software spys on your every move and can fuck your normal computer operations.
Kinda like the "drug money supports terrorism" ads...
The PC iPod comes with MusicMatch and a plugin to interface with the device. But that software sucks royally, and chose to go with Ephpod (www.ephpod.com) instead. It's free software, and does a decent job of transferring songs and handling playlists. It's definitely not perfect, but its good enough to switch from MusicMatch altogether.
There's also XPlay, but the software costs $30, and was mainly useful for interfacing with Mac-formatted iPods. Now that there are FAT-32 iPods, I don't really see the need for it anymore.
If only Apple released a version of iTunes for Windows. Surely it couldn't be that hard! I think they made a big mistake by not doing so. Newbies are going to use MusicMatch and assume that the iPod sucks since the Windows interface is so shitty, not being aware that other alternatives are there.
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DC's already got you beat with that.....
Plus he was on the Fox show "Herman's Head" for several years. (Why I remember this I have no idea.....)
Anyway, he used his normal voice in that movie.
Plus there was "Tuesday's with Morrie", a poignant TV movie with Jack Lemmon, 2 years before his death. That was played completely seriously.
XBMP plays files over Linux Samba shares just fine. I do it myself.
I just compiled the Garnome distribution of 2.2 and I see that Nautilus STILL fails to auto-update its contents. In Konqueror when I run 'touch blah' in a terminal, 'blah' immediately appears. Not so with Nautilus. If it's already open, you need to hit the "Reload" button. Is there a fix for this?
Cool. Everything appears to compile fine here as well. Though Galeon now has "Erroneous Button" labeled for my Back button. If I can't fix that I might recompile an older GTK2 version I still have on my hard drive that was working fine. I hope Ximian does something with it soon, but since they haven't even comitted to 2.0 yet, I don't have my hopes up. I want Evolution using GTK2 dammit! That's basically the only app I use that needs upgrading (I'm now too spoiled on the slick smooth fonts). And while Ximian's file selector is still kinda piss-poor, it's still a lot better than the stock Gnome's (The home dir shortcut really helps).
Hmmm....I'm still using RedHat 7.3 (I usually skip every few releases). I wonder if it's the version of GCC they're using....If you don't mind, please post your results.
Unforunately, the past 2 releases are broken. Somewhere down the road the compile fails. I'm still using 0.19.3 as a result. Maybe they finally fixed everything with 0.21.0.
RE: Gens
I hope you downloaded ATAPI drivers for your CD-ROM. Gens wont work without it. It took me awile before I actually read the manual to find that out.
And I've run SonicCD, EccoCD, Sega Classics, and even a few bin files of other SegaCD games. All worked like a charm.
Heh....yes, the manual says that you can't use it with the CDX - but what they really mean is that the combo didn't have the proper shielding to acheive FCC approval. And the "special attachment" never materialized. you just had to remove the special ring and it attached fine - though again the combo did look rather ugly. I never noticed any television or radio interference while using it though. Who knows, perhaps I kept annoying my neighbors! :)
And I was actually crazy enough to use the CDX as my portable CD player! It was 1994, I was still in college, and I was flat broke. And after spending $400 in this sucker (oh, wait - *I* was the sucker) I had to make due. I bought a large portable CD carrying case with a strap to hold it. Kinda worked out well, even if I did confuse people that saw me using it. The headphone jack broke in it after a while, leaving me to use the line-out headphone, which the volume control did not control. But I still have it. I should sell it now that the windows emulator Gens plays all of my SegaCD games pefectly.
I'm probably even rarer than you - I have the Sega CDX (The portable Genesis/Sega CD unit) with the 32x on it. It looked like a mushroom since the 32x was wider than the CDx. And the only games I had was Virtua Racing, MK2 (actually the best console version of all, and Corpse Killer, one of the few 32x Sega CD games).
They also claim that games are as high as they are due to piracy. But the Nintendo Gamecube has not seen any piracy yet, and yet the prices of their games are exactly the same as the PS2 and X-Box.
What a crock......
Cool....does Apple happen to have a similar guide to porting Unix apps to use the Cocoa interface? I know OSX supports X apps natively, but it would be nice to be able to make, say, the Gimp to be a true Mac app.
Right. And I don't see how making AOLinux can have a negative impact on regular Linux users. Don't like AOL? Dont use it, end of story.
Whoa, there, cowboy. I wouldn't go as far as to say that they should be kissing our ass as you seem to feel. And "darkies" is a bit extreme, don't you think? They are still human beings, after all. Like I said, I think the practice _is_ scummy, just not actionable. If someone wants to boycott them over it, it's their right, but making them pull out of third-world countries altogether certainly isn't going to be helping the people the protestors claim to care about. Now, if their gripe was that the sweatshop labor reduces American jobs, then I can see that point.
....they should really look at this and attempt to partner up with Wal-Mart and produce a Linux version of AOL. They're desperate for revenue right now, and appealing to the $200 PC market would be a good niche to get in on. They could have sold a $250 version which includes a "free" year of AOL or something. Still not a bad deal to the price-conscious shopper.
One could say that Wal-Mart is benefiting the citizens of the third-world countries that they allegedly utilize. If they didn't get the (albeit measley) salary from Wal-Mart, where else would they get it from? If there were better alternatives there, I would imagine that they would be taken as well. And if Wal-Mart were to decide to pay more for labor, then they may as well just use U.S citizens for that, but that would put those third-world citizens completely out of a job (or maybe they'd go work for Nike for something).
That's not to say that the practice isn't scummy, but it's probably worse to deny them the opportunity of sweat shop labor to begin with.
Please mod this asshole (literally) down.
And never is the world without the sun shining on at least a part of it at any time :)
That's what's always burned me up about CD prices when compared to cassette prices. Promotion and management costs are the same, yet cassettes cost much more to produce, while being far cheaper than CDs. Whenever charges of price-fixing of CDs surface, I wish more news outlets would point this out. Then I would like so see some RIAAAA head try to talk their way out of that one....
I mean it used the real DVD menus (I don't think geeks are THAT crafty to come up with a menu system as good as the one that the Phantom Menace had, which this one does). As far as quality, you barely see any artifacts, even though its downsampled. Plus it's got 5.1 sound, and no camn-in-theater production is going to give you that.
....It was realeased on the warez scene back in August, yet the movie isn't due out until November. And it was the real DVD, not some badly-made bootleg (though slighty downsampled to fit on a DVD-R, you can barely tell the difference).
"That's why it's always been difficult for me to believe software piracy is anywhere near as bad as these companies make it out. If it was they'd be lowering prices to drive the bootleggers out of business. Instead of protection against pirates it seems more a case of these companies wanting to build greed-protection mechanisms instead."
To add to your point, I also find fault with the logic that piracy is the reason why games cost as much as they do. The Sega Dreamcast enjoyed 9 months of being warez-free, yet during that time games were still $40-$50. Once the Dreamcast warez scene hit, prices did not suddenly go up as a result.
A better example would be the Nintendo Gamecube. So far, there is no piracy, and may never be due to their buring of game DVDs backwards, but are the games $20-$25 as a result? Nope, they cost just as much as everyone else.
....We're not talking about the same situation here. It's not like the designers of the CSS routines sued 2600, it was the MPAA. Apple can't claim that reverse engineering is doing anything other than what it was allowed to do, making the hardware interoperable. The MPAA was able to claim that DeCSS could be used to make illegal copies as well. That's the difference.
Now, if this software allows people to easily copy songs off of the iPod (which Apple prevents by using hidden folders, easy to counteract, I know), I could see the RIAA having something to say about that.......
If they were smart, they could blow this predicament out of proportion with an ad campaign that warns that P2P software spys on your every move and can fuck your normal computer operations.
Kinda like the "drug money supports terrorism" ads...
The PC iPod comes with MusicMatch and a plugin to interface with the device. But that software sucks royally, and chose to go with Ephpod (www.ephpod.com) instead. It's free software, and does a decent job of transferring songs and handling playlists. It's definitely not perfect, but its good enough to switch from MusicMatch altogether.
There's also XPlay, but the software costs $30, and was mainly useful for interfacing with Mac-formatted iPods. Now that there are FAT-32 iPods, I don't really see the need for it anymore.
If only Apple released a version of iTunes for Windows. Surely it couldn't be that hard! I think they made a big mistake by not doing so. Newbies are going to use MusicMatch and assume that the iPod sucks since the Windows interface is so shitty, not being aware that other alternatives are there.