Well there is a HOWTO on doing load ballencing. Linux has supported this for many years. As for the beauties of WinCE, the thought of my toaster bsod'ing scares the hell out of me. "Toast Protection Fault: About, Retry, Burn"
Have you ever used VC++, its error messages make gcc's look beautiful. On an unrelated side note, the add at the top of this window is for "Code Warrior for Red Hat Linux." Ironic, no?
Microsoft has trouble making 2d stuff fast. They don't write the most effecient code on the planet. If I knew jack squat about writing anything for X I would do something of this sort just cuz it would be a cool proof of concept, even if it didn't work.
What exactly is Xvideo? I'm under the impression that I'm using my tv tuner card under X right now, infact i'm watching tv as I type. What does Xvideo do?
I disagree that anti-alasing is needed. I have netscape using tt-fonts and it looks absolutely beautiful. Well smaller fonts look like ass but, eh, it happens.
Uhm...X didn't have a standard UI until gnome? What kinda crack are you smoking, and where can i get some? First off gnome is not the standard X UI. There isn't one, and I don't think there ever will be one. Second, KDE predates GNOME by over 2 years. CDE predates KDE. And as for granting gtk the credit for giving X a ui, KDE runs on qt, CDE is motif, both of which aren't gtk and are in no way related. Also, XFree isn't following up on the example set by redhat and gnome. XFree has been around longer than either of them, and XFree is working on a stable 4.0 release, unlike the less than stable gnome 1.0 release. While redhat and gnome do deserve credit, it's no where near what you are giving them.
It depends, on UNIX systems if the programmer used the correct data types, then all it should take is a recompile. Now if winsock is anything like the rest of windows then the programs all use int, or something of the sort, and it's going to be ugly for windows programmers.
Could you please provide some references? If you are refering to the dvd page creative had linked from their linux page it isn't creative doing the porting. It's actually weird, creative WAS helping this guy out, and did give him some info and what-not, but then just stopped and pretended he didn't exist anymore. I did my part by sending a polite email to creative explaining that if they will not support linux I will not be able to buy their products in the future. I go into windows almost never, only to watch dvds pretty much. A guy from creative replied saying that creative was not able to release enough info for a driver because of their contracts with the dvd people and with whatever company made the mpeg decoder chip, can't think of their name off of the top of my head. If creative is going to do anything about dvd support or not, I don't know. At this point I don't give a damn if they do provide binary only libraries (i hate binary kernel mods cuz they just create too many problems). I just want to watch dvds in linux.
macrovision only affects copies to VHS. DVD to DVD would come out fine, hell DVD to beta would look great. And the disc itself doesn't have the macrovision. The player inserts the macrovision into the video stream before it hits your tv. I know the creative labs dxr2 has an option to disable macrovision, and you can pick up rather cheap boxes that will filter it out. Macrovision is actually quite weak in reality.
Actually no matter how much effort they put into copy protecting they will fail in the end. Even if you had hardware only decoders, you could still attach a device to the VGA out of the mpeg card that could grab the signal and save it to disk (i dunno if such a device exists). Sure it would go through a D/A conversion but the signal loss would be almost non-existant. Also, serious bootleggers will be able to get hacked drives that will allow you to read the raw sectors from the DVDs. No copy protection scheme is ever absolute.
Last time I tried this program (and it seems to be the same version) it was only video (no sound) and it was dog slow on my pII-300. The quality was amazing, even though i had to wait about 30 minutes to get 4 minutes into "The Usual Suspends" and if i moved the window the decoder froze. Could be good if someone implimented sound and made it faster.
IIRC US laws requires that a company allow you 72 hours to cancel an order made via internet/phone. So assuming the 72 hours hasn't yet expired you should still be able to cancel the order. Failing that, if the product hasn't shipped yet it should be possible to cancel it, and if it has been shipped, uhm...you could always refuse the package, you'd probally eat the shipping though.
Most root exploits work in the same fasion as the IE one did. You find an area where you can stuff data in past the end of a variable. Most root exploits on unix could also very easily cause the program to crash, it's just by throwing in code to execute some arbitrary program, usually/bin/sh you can gain a root account.
They seem to think that if they jump up on their soap box and keep yelling "EMULATORS ARE ILLEGAL!!!" that it will somehow make it true. Emulators are NOT illegal, look at things like em86, wine, wabi, bochs. All of these are emulators and intel and microsoft never once said that they were illegal. True most console emulators are used for illegal purposes, but that doesn't make the emulator itself illegal. You can use a knife to kill someone, but that doesn't make owning a knife illegal. Nintendo's complaints about snes9x are completely stupid. For starters the snes is a dead platform. I don't think any new developement is being done on games and I doubt the console sales even exist at this point. Also, some of us use emulators for playing games we already own. Pretty much the only game I ever play with it is Zelda: A link to the past. I own both a snes and zelda. I just prefer playing it on my computer. It's just easier and more fun. Also, I recently got ultrahle to work with zelda64 and have decided that after I start my new job in the summer one of the first things I'm going to buy is a nintendo 64 and a copy of zelda64. I never realised how much I loved that game until I started playing it often. My only problem is I hate the thought of supporting Nintendo. I'm convinced that they aren't a game company but merely a law firm in disguise. It wouldn't shock me if they have more lawyers than coders.
I think creat is one of those iffy words, like potatoe vs. potato, both are considered correct, just potato is commonly used. And strcmp is short for stringcompare. C was developed on teletypewritters and keystrokes were expensive so as many of them as possible were cut out. Dropping vowels is a common practise among computer nerds for shortening works.
BTW, ignore my spelling errors. Eye cant spel wurth a dam. Yet I am quite a good coder...
* Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute Snes9x in both binary and * source form, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, * providing that this license information and copyright notice appear with * all copies and any derived work.
Sounds pretty much open to me. Just because it isn't GPL doesn't mean that it's not open.
I don't think that the speed of light being negative would matter or not. In e=mc^2, c is being squared, if c is negative it would still be positive when it was squared. The only way e could be negative and still satisfy e=mc^2 is if m were also negative. Unless of course c is imaginary, and I don't even want to begin thinking about an imaginary speed of light.
Actually the speed of light is no more a constant than the speed of sound. Both change speeds depending on the medium, but in opposite directions. Sound travels faster through solids than through gasses, light travels faster through gasses than solids. What most people refer to as the "speed of light" is the speed of light through a vacuum.
As for the speed of sound issue, I think people did believe it was imposible to acheive at one point, and with good reason. As an object travels through our atmosphere it compresses the air infront of it and expands the air behind it. This increases the density of the air directly infront of the object, which also increases the speed of sound travelling through that air, so the faster you go, the faster sound travels. It's easy to say that it's possible once it's been done, but try to imagine people working only with theory. It's a lot more difficult.
AFAIK it hasn't been proven either way. Travel into the future is very possible, just fly right up against the event horizon of a black hole, and hope that you have some huge friggan engines so you can fly away. When you fly away from the black hole you will notice that time has traveled slower for you than it has for the rest of the universe. Ie, it will have been minutes for you but could have been millenia(sp) for the rest of the universe.
I still refuse to admit that anything of this sort is technology. Everything from microsoft claiming turning on and off only the red / green / blue component of a pixel is a new technology, to these idiots claiming that redirecting an http request is a new technology. What isn't technology these days? It seems that as long as a computer is involved it's patentable.
I think that ext[23] will remain popular because for many ext2 is the linux fs. Sure XFS might be great for some. But I imagine most people will just stick w/ ext2. Also, converting from ext2 to xfs would most likely be a very difficult task.
Re:Excuse my ignorance but...
on
UK Linux Conf
·
· Score: 1
I don't see how cp could possibly preserve meta-data. There is no copy() system call. All cp does is open the original then create a new file, read that data from the original and write it to the new file. Meta-data would certainly be lost in this situation. mv could preserve the meta-data w/o modification since it makes a system call to do all of the work. Things like tar definately would need to be changed. The changes would only take a few minutes, but then multiply that by 1000s of apps. Also, you lose some compatability with other OSes. Now while I think meta-data isn't an entirely bad idea, I think there are other ways of implimenting it that would require less work, and possibly could be more extendable in the future. Ie, having a separate directory something like.meta/ that would contain all of the meta data. Sure you would still have to modify cp and some utils to preserve the meta data, but things like tar would require no modification.
You are wrong. You can write your own driver in a clean room fasion (if you haven't seen the source code). You can't base a driver on the source code though unless the license that the code is under allows this.
Well it's not true. Unless I passed out during the movie at some crucial point. Yoda is NOT annakin's father. "Luke: turn you to the dark side I will, yes."
Slashdot Mirror
Well there is a HOWTO on doing load ballencing. Linux has supported this for many years. As for the beauties of WinCE, the thought of my toaster bsod'ing scares the hell out of me. "Toast Protection Fault: About, Retry, Burn"
Have you ever used VC++, its error messages make gcc's look beautiful. On an unrelated side note, the add at the top of this window is for "Code Warrior for Red Hat Linux." Ironic, no?
Microsoft has trouble making 2d stuff fast. They don't write the most effecient code on the planet. If I knew jack squat about writing anything for X I would do something of this sort just cuz it would be a cool proof of concept, even if it didn't work.
What exactly is Xvideo? I'm under the impression that I'm using my tv tuner card under X right now, infact i'm watching tv as I type. What does Xvideo do?
I disagree that anti-alasing is needed. I have netscape using tt-fonts and it looks absolutely beautiful. Well smaller fonts look like ass but, eh, it happens.
Uhm...X didn't have a standard UI until gnome? What kinda crack are you smoking, and where can i get some? First off gnome is not the standard X UI. There isn't one, and I don't think there ever will be one. Second, KDE predates GNOME by over 2 years. CDE predates KDE. And as for granting gtk the credit for giving X a ui, KDE runs on qt, CDE is motif, both of which aren't gtk and are in no way related. Also, XFree isn't following up on the example set by redhat and gnome. XFree has been around longer than either of them, and XFree is working on a stable 4.0 release, unlike the less than stable gnome 1.0 release. While redhat and gnome do deserve credit, it's no where near what you are giving them.
It depends, on UNIX systems if the programmer used the correct data types, then all it should take is a recompile. Now if winsock is anything like the rest of windows then the programs all use int, or something of the sort, and it's going to be ugly for windows programmers.
Could you please provide some references? If you are refering to the dvd page creative had linked from their linux page it isn't creative doing the porting. It's actually weird, creative WAS helping this guy out, and did give him some info and what-not, but then just stopped and pretended he didn't exist anymore. I did my part by sending a polite email to creative explaining that if they will not support linux I will not be able to buy their products in the future. I go into windows almost never, only to watch dvds pretty much. A guy from creative replied saying that creative was not able to release enough info for a driver because of their contracts with the dvd people and with whatever company made the mpeg decoder chip, can't think of their name off of the top of my head. If creative is going to do anything about dvd support or not, I don't know. At this point I don't give a damn if they do provide binary only libraries (i hate binary kernel mods cuz they just create too many problems). I just want to watch dvds in linux.
macrovision only affects copies to VHS. DVD to DVD would come out fine, hell DVD to beta would look great. And the disc itself doesn't have the macrovision. The player inserts the macrovision into the video stream before it hits your tv. I know the creative labs dxr2 has an option to disable macrovision, and you can pick up rather cheap boxes that will filter it out. Macrovision is actually quite weak in reality.
Actually no matter how much effort they put into copy protecting they will fail in the end. Even if you had hardware only decoders, you could still attach a device to the VGA out of the mpeg card that could grab the signal and save it to disk (i dunno if such a device exists). Sure it would go through a D/A conversion but the signal loss would be almost non-existant. Also, serious bootleggers will be able to get hacked drives that will allow you to read the raw sectors from the DVDs. No copy protection scheme is ever absolute.
Last time I tried this program (and it seems to be the same version) it was only video (no sound) and it was dog slow on my pII-300. The quality was amazing, even though i had to wait about 30 minutes to get 4 minutes into "The Usual Suspends" and if i moved the window the decoder froze. Could be good if someone implimented sound and made it faster.
IIRC US laws requires that a company allow you 72 hours to cancel an order made via internet/phone. So assuming the 72 hours hasn't yet expired you should still be able to cancel the order. Failing that, if the product hasn't shipped yet it should be possible to cancel it, and if it has been shipped, uhm...you could always refuse the package, you'd probally eat the shipping though.
Most root exploits work in the same fasion as the IE one did. You find an area where you can stuff data in past the end of a variable. Most root exploits on unix could also very easily cause the program to crash, it's just by throwing in code to execute some arbitrary program, usually /bin/sh you can gain a root account.
They seem to think that if they jump up on their soap box and keep yelling "EMULATORS ARE ILLEGAL!!!" that it will somehow make it true. Emulators are NOT illegal, look at things like em86, wine, wabi, bochs. All of these are emulators and intel and microsoft never once said that they were illegal. True most console emulators are used for illegal purposes, but that doesn't make the emulator itself illegal. You can use a knife to kill someone, but that doesn't make owning a knife illegal. Nintendo's complaints about snes9x are completely stupid. For starters the snes is a dead platform. I don't think any new developement is being done on games and I doubt the console sales even exist at this point. Also, some of us use emulators for playing games we already own. Pretty much the only game I ever play with it is Zelda: A link to the past. I own both a snes and zelda. I just prefer playing it on my computer. It's just easier and more fun. Also, I recently got ultrahle to work with zelda64 and have decided that after I start my new job in the summer one of the first things I'm going to buy is a nintendo 64 and a copy of zelda64. I never realised how much I loved that game until I started playing it often. My only problem is I hate the thought of supporting Nintendo. I'm convinced that they aren't a game company but merely a law firm in disguise. It wouldn't shock me if they have more lawyers than coders.
I think creat is one of those iffy words, like potatoe vs. potato, both are considered correct, just potato is commonly used. And strcmp is short for stringcompare. C was developed on teletypewritters and keystrokes were expensive so as many of them as possible were cut out. Dropping vowels is a common practise among computer nerds for shortening works.
BTW, ignore my spelling errors. Eye cant spel wurth a dam. Yet I am quite a good coder...
> Pity it isn't under an open-source license.
From COPYRIGHT in the source code:
* Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute Snes9x in both binary and
* source form, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee,
* providing that this license information and copyright notice appear with
* all copies and any derived work.
Sounds pretty much open to me. Just because it isn't GPL doesn't mean that it's not open.
I don't think that the speed of light being negative would matter or not. In e=mc^2, c is being squared, if c is negative it would still be positive when it was squared. The only way e could be negative and still satisfy e=mc^2 is if m were also negative. Unless of course c is imaginary, and I don't even want to begin thinking about an imaginary speed of light.
Actually the speed of light is no more a constant than the speed of sound. Both change speeds depending on the medium, but in opposite directions. Sound travels faster through solids than through gasses, light travels faster through gasses than solids. What most people refer to as the "speed of light" is the speed of light through a vacuum.
As for the speed of sound issue, I think people did believe it was imposible to acheive at one point, and with good reason. As an object travels through our atmosphere it compresses the air infront of it and expands the air behind it. This increases the density of the air directly infront of the object, which also increases the speed of sound travelling through that air, so the faster you go, the faster sound travels. It's easy to say that it's possible once it's been done, but try to imagine people working only with theory. It's a lot more difficult.
Finally, talking in bold doesn't make you right.
AFAIK it hasn't been proven either way. Travel into the future is very possible, just fly right up against the event horizon of a black hole, and hope that you have some huge friggan engines so you can fly away. When you fly away from the black hole you will notice that time has traveled slower for you than it has for the rest of the universe. Ie, it will have been minutes for you but could have been millenia(sp) for the rest of the universe.
I still refuse to admit that anything of this sort is technology. Everything from microsoft claiming turning on and off only the red / green / blue component of a pixel is a new technology, to these idiots claiming that redirecting an http request is a new technology. What isn't technology these days? It seems that as long as a computer is involved it's patentable.
I think that ext[23] will remain popular because for many ext2 is the linux fs. Sure XFS might be great for some. But I imagine most people will just stick w/ ext2. Also, converting from ext2 to xfs would most likely be a very difficult task.
I don't see how cp could possibly preserve meta-data. There is no copy() system call. All cp does is open the original then create a new file, read that data from the original and write it to the new file. Meta-data would certainly be lost in this situation. mv could preserve the meta-data w/o modification since it makes a system call to do all of the work. Things like tar definately would need to be changed. The changes would only take a few minutes, but then multiply that by 1000s of apps. Also, you lose some compatability with other OSes. Now while I think meta-data isn't an entirely bad idea, I think there are other ways of implimenting it that would require less work, and possibly could be more extendable in the future. Ie, having a separate directory something like .meta/ that would contain all of the meta data. Sure you would still have to modify cp and some utils to preserve the meta data, but things like tar would require no modification.
Oh, yah that's entirely legal. Sorry, I thought you meant check out the source code to XFS.
You are wrong. You can write your own driver in a clean room fasion (if you haven't seen the source code). You can't base a driver on the source code though unless the license that the code is under allows this.
Well it's not true. Unless I passed out during the movie at some crucial point. Yoda is NOT annakin's father. "Luke: turn you to the dark side I will, yes."