Re:A full DirectX Win32 wrapper?
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Winex 3.0 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
KDE is worth using now?
I think we have to be fair in acknowledging that Loki had no market because there aren't enough gamers using Linux. This is changing, albeit slowly, and I've seen a number of friends and colleagues consider the switch from MS to Linux. The can consider such a move largely because of WineX. Once there is enough gamers using Linux and willing to use Linux as a primary platform for games then ports will make sense.
It think it would be interesting to get some details out of BioWare on their experiences with putting out a Linux port for Neverwinter Nights. Many Linux gamers, frustrated with the wait and perception of "vaporware", turned to Wine/WineX to play the game under Linux. Now that the client is out in public Beta (and it works great, BTW), they are able to play it natively. The big question is was all this effort worth it to BioWare's bottom line, because that is what makes a project like this possible.
I find they make excellent coasters for my desk. Its kinda nice getting a new coaster everyone and while, and I like leaving a coffee ring on the AOL logo. Its very satisfying, I heartily recommend it.
Its called "security", a concept you may be unfamiliar with or unable to comprehend.
AOL's methods are very clumsy, but the fact remains that they have taken this action because of spam pouring into their network from other networks. Seems a little bit strange, doesn't it? AOL blocking others because of their inability to stop spam?
Try to understand the world beyond the neat and tidy little rules dictated by RFCs that I doubt you've read for yourself. Aaron's email itself says that his issue isn't about the RFCs violations. I expect that if you had read the actual links in the parent post you would have gleened that (it is possible that you are actually more concerned with the RFC violations than the motivations behind them, and if that is the case... my bad). To save you some work:
My concern is that more and more companies and
individuals are slicing out those portions of the Internet that they
don't think that they would ever want to interact with in relatively
blind and poorly managed ways.
I would have agreed back in the day when you could have some level of trust that other networks were competantly managed. You can't trust in that now. You simple can't. The commericial entities that have (infested) grown on the Internet since the 1990s have changed what was once a bunch of inter-connected networks dedicated to exchange of information, free discussion, and whatnot. The inability (impossibility?) to scale efforts to ensure that every single host connected to the network is not a threat to security (itself an issue that has become far more important that originally thought) has lead to acts like this.
Now while a few loud people rant about how evil and stupid AOL is for "slicing out those portions of the Internet that they don't think that they would ever want to interact with", some of us can actually think about it. I suspect those same loud people, Directrix1 included, are also those who do or would quite happily block several Class A networks assigned to Asia because of all the spam they get... because they don't think that they would ever want to interact with anbody in Asia.
Thats right, its not just DSL as the article title suggests. Its broadband. You know what broadband is, its a high-speed network of misconfigured proxies, infected Windoze boxes, and Denial of Service agents.
IMO too much time is spent ranting about how Tha Man is keeping the $30/mo broadband user down by not allowing the minority who know how to run a secure server to use their residential line as a commercial line. We should be putting a hell of a lot more energy bitching about the masses of clueless users who randomly click on any email attachment they get, setup their P2P apps in slut-mode, and otherwise connect to the Internet in such a way that they become:
just another hop for viruses to propagate through
just another misconfigured AnalogX proxy or Lovgate infected SMTP/NNTP open relay
just another DDoS drone host
Its sad, but the majority of broadband users have forced this action. If people understood the concepts of due diligence and responsibility we wouldn't have David Ritz and others spending huge amounts of time battling USENET spam, ISPs getting slammed with DoS all the time (and I mean that litterally), and spam gangs doing automated scans of broadband networks for open relays so they can spread their email polution.
Its a myth that spam only comes from networks in Asia that don't give a damn. It comes from Ma and Pa's Windows 98 box that got infected with one of several variants of Lovgate and helps spam the planet, all from their speedy little DSL/cable connection.
Before the/. community jumps down AOL's throat at this carpet-bomb tactic, we need to realize that it is a business response to the realities of security on broadband networks. If users took responsibility for their connections and had good firewalls, anti-virus and intelligent email practices then this problem probably wouldn't exist.
This confirms a rumor I heard (probably on/.) some time ago. I loved the show, I thought its juxtaposition of high tech and low tech fringe society was excellent. Not enough people gave it a chance. Those that did after I raved about it loved it, then Fox yanked it so that their stupid teen cop show spew could get the time slot.
Aside from yet another redudant RTFA comment (bad Taco, no biscuit)... releasing the game for the XBox and no other console does not equal making the engine and/or ports of the engine so that it could be used on other platforms for other titles. They just simply aren't the same thing, and there is no way Microsoft would be able to get ID to sign something that restricts the use of their engine, including all future license agreements, to a particular platform.
If you are a Slackware fan and haven't tried Gentoo, you owe it to yourself to check it out. I like Gentoo a lot, I also like Mandrake a lot. They are both excellent at what they do, that being a source-based distro and a package-based distro, respectively.
No, all MP3s and P2P traffic will have the evil bit set. What could be more evil than stealing the hard work of musicians by distributing digital copies of their music? Look at what MP3s have done to Metalica?! Once upstanding members of the musical community... now washed-up has-beens.
Please note that.ogg will be an exception, because software released under the BSD license can never be evil.
I can hardly believe that I just read that Gentoo would adopt RPM. The backlash for this move should be significant! NOOOOOOOOO! "Note: This is an April Fool's joke.". Gotta love it.
Of course, its quite comforting to get this news on April 1st rather than any other day. I think I'll observe a day of mourning for what could have been, and then get back to compiling updates from source on April 2nd. Hehe.
Bloat is bloat. Its all about giving your bloated admins the flavor of CLI bloat they need to get the job done and manage the server effectively, and keep services available for bloated users.
<sarcasm>Everything was so simple, streamlined, and scaled so effortlessly when until those lousy users were allowed to get their dirty little paws all over the interweb.</sarcasm>
Cygnus... or if you need to give MS more $, MS SFU
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Windows 2003 Going Gold
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· Score: 2, Informative
"Yes, you can't browse the web from the CLI"
Of course you can.
Its called Windows + Cygnus + Lynx. Cygnus is also a good way to make a Windows server more friendly to admins who like the GNU environment, increase interoperability with UNIX platforms, and do some admin of the Windows server with XFree86 is you so desire.
Absolutely! Boondock Saints is an excellent movie, well worth seeing and owning if you have a collection that includes Satch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and other films of that ilk. I was commenting on this flick myself and got the good ol' "you suck because someone already said this"/. error.
Firefly on DVD? I'll be all over that like a fat kid on a smartie.
The release md5sums are posted on the Mandrake download page for the 9.1 ISOs, and the release images conform with what is on the site. When I downloaded them there was no md5sums91 file available on the mirror, so I checked them against the site for confirmation.
AC, I will be sure to be sensitive to the possibility of petty jealousy from/. mods in the future. Believe it or not, I hadn't occured to me that someone would get childish and upset about it.
After seeing the mod down I figured that some detailed information on the two unavailable mirrors would be of interest, despite the information being ABSOLUTELY USELESS since the mirrors had stopped accepting connections.
BTW, when I started the Czech mirror seemed to be a bit faster for my connection from N. America than the other early mirrors, so it might be a decent option for those who can't wait. There is one up now from the United States:
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/iso/ (Hawaii)
This is not a troll. Please try not to mod comments down due to jealousy or being asleep at the wheel.
Mandrake put up a release notice on their site over 2.5 hours ago, and the mirrors list has been dynamically updated as access and load changed. The German mirror (ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de) is no longer listed and accepting connections, however I was able to pull the three disks down at about 360 kB/s average. ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/iso/ was also fairly rapid, but was overloaded before the Esslingen server was.
There are currently no North American servers listed for the i586 ISOs, many still carry the RC images however.
I've already sucked it down from the German mirror (no longer listed on Mandrake's site) and I'm burning the 3rd disk and starting a test install shortly... w00t!
I'm not exactly sure how that relates to the Red Hat Network (which has pretty much become the "pay for timely upgrades to our free operating system" club), but I felt it was worth saying.
Back in the day it was a great addition to Red Hat, Mandrake, or distro foo. Unfortunately they couldn't keep up with new distro releases and made it a huge pain in the ass to upgrade independant of the Ximian desktop.
Once Evolution and Gnome enhancements usually only found in Ximian made it into the mainstream Linux desktop I abandoned Ximian completely and never looked back.
Meanwhile, north of the border, equivalent laws were passed in Canada but nobody bothered to notice or put up a fuss if they did.
Canadians are reported to have consented to monitoring enmass with comments such as "oh well, what can you do?","I sure hate those Liberals, maybe next time I won't vote for them" and "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care?".
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KDE is worth using now?
I think we have to be fair in acknowledging that Loki had no market because there aren't enough gamers using Linux. This is changing, albeit slowly, and I've seen a number of friends and colleagues consider the switch from MS to Linux. The can consider such a move largely because of WineX. Once there is enough gamers using Linux and willing to use Linux as a primary platform for games then ports will make sense.
It think it would be interesting to get some details out of BioWare on their experiences with putting out a Linux port for Neverwinter Nights. Many Linux gamers, frustrated with the wait and perception of "vaporware", turned to Wine/WineX to play the game under Linux. Now that the client is out in public Beta (and it works great, BTW), they are able to play it natively. The big question is was all this effort worth it to BioWare's bottom line, because that is what makes a project like this possible.
I find they make excellent coasters for my desk. Its kinda nice getting a new coaster everyone and while, and I like leaving a coffee ring on the AOL logo. Its very satisfying, I heartily recommend it.
AOL's methods are very clumsy, but the fact remains that they have taken this action because of spam pouring into their network from other networks. Seems a little bit strange, doesn't it? AOL blocking others because of their inability to stop spam?
Try to understand the world beyond the neat and tidy little rules dictated by RFCs that I doubt you've read for yourself. Aaron's email itself says that his issue isn't about the RFCs violations. I expect that if you had read the actual links in the parent post you would have gleened that (it is possible that you are actually more concerned with the RFC violations than the motivations behind them, and if that is the case... my bad). To save you some work:
I would have agreed back in the day when you could have some level of trust that other networks were competantly managed. You can't trust in that now. You simple can't. The commericial entities that have (infested) grown on the Internet since the 1990s have changed what was once a bunch of inter-connected networks dedicated to exchange of information, free discussion, and whatnot. The inability (impossibility?) to scale efforts to ensure that every single host connected to the network is not a threat to security (itself an issue that has become far more important that originally thought) has lead to acts like this.Now while a few loud people rant about how evil and stupid AOL is for "slicing out those portions of the Internet that they don't think that they would ever want to interact with", some of us can actually think about it. I suspect those same loud people, Directrix1 included, are also those who do or would quite happily block several Class A networks assigned to Asia because of all the spam they get... because they don't think that they would ever want to interact with anbody in Asia.
IMO too much time is spent ranting about how Tha Man is keeping the $30/mo broadband user down by not allowing the minority who know how to run a secure server to use their residential line as a commercial line. We should be putting a hell of a lot more energy bitching about the masses of clueless users who randomly click on any email attachment they get, setup their P2P apps in slut-mode, and otherwise connect to the Internet in such a way that they become:
- just another hop for viruses to propagate through
- just another misconfigured AnalogX proxy or Lovgate infected SMTP/NNTP open relay
- just another DDoS drone host
Its sad, but the majority of broadband users have forced this action. If people understood the concepts of due diligence and responsibility we wouldn't have David Ritz and others spending huge amounts of time battling USENET spam, ISPs getting slammed with DoS all the time (and I mean that litterally), and spam gangs doing automated scans of broadband networks for open relays so they can spread their email polution.Its a myth that spam only comes from networks in Asia that don't give a damn. It comes from Ma and Pa's Windows 98 box that got infected with one of several variants of Lovgate and helps spam the planet, all from their speedy little DSL/cable connection.
Before the /. community jumps down AOL's throat at this carpet-bomb tactic, we need to realize that it is a business response to the realities of security on broadband networks. If users took responsibility for their connections and had good firewalls, anti-virus and intelligent email practices then this problem probably wouldn't exist.
I'll be buying one, thats for damn sure.
Aside from yet another redudant RTFA comment (bad Taco, no biscuit)... releasing the game for the XBox and no other console does not equal making the engine and/or ports of the engine so that it could be used on other platforms for other titles. They just simply aren't the same thing, and there is no way Microsoft would be able to get ID to sign something that restricts the use of their engine, including all future license agreements, to a particular platform.
If you are a Slackware fan and haven't tried Gentoo, you owe it to yourself to check it out. I like Gentoo a lot, I also like Mandrake a lot. They are both excellent at what they do, that being a source-based distro and a package-based distro, respectively.
This is a great idea though, anyone care to make a Half-life mod involving tormenting spammers? heh
... like pictures of Killcreek?
Afterall, they got vile things like the Internet rolling, and give gobs of money to horribly destructive and Big Brotherish projects like reiserfs v4.
What is Latin for "loser grammar nazi"?
Please note that .ogg will be an exception, because software released under the BSD license can never be evil.
I can hardly believe that I just read that Gentoo would adopt RPM. The backlash for this move should be significant! NOOOOOOOOO! "Note: This is an April Fool's joke.". Gotta love it.
Of course, its quite comforting to get this news on April 1st rather than any other day. I think I'll observe a day of mourning for what could have been, and then get back to compiling updates from source on April 2nd. Hehe.
Bloat is bloat. Its all about giving your bloated admins the flavor of CLI bloat they need to get the job done and manage the server effectively, and keep services available for bloated users.
<sarcasm>Everything was so simple, streamlined, and scaled so effortlessly when until those lousy users were allowed to get their dirty little paws all over the interweb.</sarcasm>
Of course you can.
Its called Windows + Cygnus + Lynx. Cygnus is also a good way to make a Windows server more friendly to admins who like the GNU environment, increase interoperability with UNIX platforms, and do some admin of the Windows server with XFree86 is you so desire.
Firefly on DVD? I'll be all over that like a fat kid on a smartie.
The release md5sums are posted on the Mandrake download page for the 9.1 ISOs, and the release images conform with what is on the site. When I downloaded them there was no md5sums91 file available on the mirror, so I checked them against the site for confirmation.
After seeing the mod down I figured that some detailed information on the two unavailable mirrors would be of interest, despite the information being ABSOLUTELY USELESS since the mirrors had stopped accepting connections.
BTW, when I started the Czech mirror seemed to be a bit faster for my connection from N. America than the other early mirrors, so it might be a decent option for those who can't wait. There is one up now from the United States:a ke/iso/ (Hawaii)
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandr
Mandrake put up a release notice on their site over 2.5 hours ago, and the mirrors list has been dynamically updated as access and load changed. The German mirror (ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de) is no longer listed and accepting connections, however I was able to pull the three disks down at about 360 kB/s average. ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/iso/ was also fairly rapid, but was overloaded before the Esslingen server was.
There are currently no North American servers listed for the i586 ISOs, many still carry the RC images however.
I've already sucked it down from the German mirror (no longer listed on Mandrake's site) and I'm burning the 3rd disk and starting a test install shortly... w00t!
I'm not exactly sure how that relates to the Red Hat Network (which has pretty much become the "pay for timely upgrades to our free operating system" club), but I felt it was worth saying.
Back in the day it was a great addition to Red Hat, Mandrake, or distro foo. Unfortunately they couldn't keep up with new distro releases and made it a huge pain in the ass to upgrade independant of the Ximian desktop.
Once Evolution and Gnome enhancements usually only found in Ximian made it into the mainstream Linux desktop I abandoned Ximian completely and never looked back.
Does this mean I can drive an SUV to the corner store guilt-free?
If you answered yes, they you are a hypocrite.
Canadians are reported to have consented to monitoring enmass with comments such as "oh well, what can you do?" ,"I sure hate those Liberals, maybe next time I won't vote for them" and "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care?".