Sun JDK is not DFSG compliant, but you can download fakeroot and javapackage, download the JDK 1.5, and create your own deb out of it using javapackage.
It's a great compromise. You get java, properly in your package managment, and they get to keep their principals.
WHAT is news about this? Happ and others have sold pre-assembled controller interfaces (USB based mostly, some encode to PS2) for YEARS now. They are much higher quality than these known dubious x-arcade sticks and buttons.
It's an advertisement, plain and simple, what can YOU not understand about that?
The best part is that even though that article was april fools, slashdot can use it as having informed the public;)
I'm certain there will be plenty of mods done, but Valve isn't releasing one, and there's not one in the box, and I don't want to play one, so why do I need steam?
Automated updates is nice, but most modern games check for updates when they start anyways.
Steam made AWESOME sense for CS/etc to me, but not for HL2.
Friends are important to ONLINE FPSs. Halflife 2 is not an online game, and there is not HL2 multiplayer.
Yes, it includes CS:S, but most of the people buying HL2 could not give a flying fuck about a 5+ year old mod and simply want to play a fun singleplayer game.
It was still 802.11b. I can't find a link, but basically they have a special ESSID set aside which embeds the DS's ID in some way. Say it's maybe (and I'm making this up so I know i'm wrong) 1231231##### where that's your DS ID. If it sees anyone else with that beginning ESSID, it knows there's another DS around.
They did it so as not to play by the rules of 802.11b but to still KNOW whether it's a DS or a computer. I don't know any more details as what I read was mostly marketing, not technical, in nature.
1. There isn't much/any compression on a real time AC3 feed, as you can use up the entire bitrate. It's not like a dvd where you have to worry about space constraints.
2. I can guarantee you that the D/A converter in my receiver is MUCH higher quality than the shitty ones in the sound card, not even counting all the electrical noise inside a computer case.
I've NEVER been able to get rid of that list tiny bit of hiss coming out of any sound card's analog output.
3. having 3 1/8" to dual RCA splitters plugged out the back, then 6 line level RCA cables going to my receiver, is NOT the way to carry a clean signal.
Remember, I'm mainly talking about an HTPC, going into a REAL sound system (not a shitty klipsh/whomever puts out a 300$ "all in one" pc system with tiny plastic speakers) used for watching movies and playing games on a big screen.
Name another audio "solution" which is BUYABLE TODAY which does real time digital 5.1 encoding. DTS or DD, I don't care as my receiver does both, but I want 5.1 through a digital interface (coax or optical).
I'll give you a hint: There are zero on the market. The only possible contender is that new intel pro-audio onboard thing, but NO ONE has plans to impliment it yet.
NOTHING by creative does this, nor do those "7.1" fortissimo/etc cards.
File transfers. Either they're blocking them, which makes their service useless as you'll have to turn on/off the proxy to send/receive files, or every file sent through IM is going to go through them.
That could really add up, especially with that gaim-based filesharing thing coming out...
It's not software, it's a settings file. You should know the difference. Do you consider it downloading software if your pop email server changes and you have to change a setting in firebird/outlook/whatever?
IMSmarter works by acting as a SOCKS4 server, so every packet from your IM client (AIM in your case) goes to their server first.
They offer that auto-config for people who aren't smart enough to find the connection options dialog and change it themselves.
"Valve is already using Steam to track pseudo-demographic data on their players' computers--RAM, graphics cards, processors and speed, OS, and those manner of things"
Not entirely true in the way you say it. The first time you install Steam, it pops up a dialog saying "this is your system **cpu/mem/etc stats here** do you want to share this info with Valve?"
It's not constantly scanning and sending back data, it does it once and VERY obviously asks you.
I'd like to see just 1 kerry voter who voter FOR kerry, as opposed to against bush.
If the democrats would put up someone worth voting for, people would do so. That kerry lost an election against someone like bush is possibly a testament to how he would have done in office.
You weren't REALLY going to buy one if a simple article like this COMPLETELY changed your mind. You'd know about tivo's history, and actually read the article where they said they might eventually have to put their foot down to macrovision, and are ready for that day.
FF runs as the local user, which for windows 99.9% of the time is in the administrator group, discounting work computers with strict domain settings. That means FF fucked, computer fucked.
10:15:56 up 156 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
Nice load average there. I'm sure this is a heavily used PDC/file server/some sort of corporate machine and not just some box sitting in your closet doing nothing.
That really depends on what your goal is. Since you can't move X-sessions around (eg I can't start an app remotely on my desktop, then "move" its display to another desktop, or freeze it "Screen" style), I prefer the following setup on my debian boxes:
-NO "real" X11 server installed -vnc4server installed, started up as a replacement for my X server -vncfb running locally for when I'm "at" the computer -real vnc from my windows box to take control
If you just want to go in and check something out that requires a WM, X11 is great, or if you want to do it just for one "session" it's great, but to leave anything running X11 just doesn't cut it.
For example, on my home filesharing box I leave azareus and a jabber client running, so I can vnc in to check my messages and check how downloads are going. Can't do that with JUST X.
All it would take is for slashdot to announce that they now look for a meta tag called "allowcaching: true" or the like. I don't think I'll EVER have anything on my server posted on slashdot, but I'd sure as hell take the 20 seconds to add that tag to my base template.
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Sun JDK is not DFSG compliant, but you can download fakeroot and javapackage, download the JDK 1.5, and create your own deb out of it using javapackage.
It's a great compromise. You get java, properly in your package managment, and they get to keep their principals.
WHAT is news about this? Happ and others have sold pre-assembled controller interfaces (USB based mostly, some encode to PS2) for YEARS now. They are much higher quality than these known dubious x-arcade sticks and buttons.
;)
It's an advertisement, plain and simple, what can YOU not understand about that?
The best part is that even though that article was april fools, slashdot can use it as having informed the public
I'm 99.9% certain that's wrong, but can't find any links either way.
:)
I do remember that HLDM was unplayable upon first release (even over lan), so might as well not have been there.
Either way
I'm certain there will be plenty of mods done, but Valve isn't releasing one, and there's not one in the box, and I don't want to play one, so why do I need steam?
Automated updates is nice, but most modern games check for updates when they start anyways.
Steam made AWESOME sense for CS/etc to me, but not for HL2.
Friends are important to ONLINE FPSs. Halflife 2 is not an online game, and there is not HL2 multiplayer.
Yes, it includes CS:S, but most of the people buying HL2 could not give a flying fuck about a 5+ year old mod and simply want to play a fun singleplayer game.
It was still 802.11b. I can't find a link, but basically they have a special ESSID set aside which embeds the DS's ID in some way. Say it's maybe (and I'm making this up so I know i'm wrong) 1231231##### where that's your DS ID. If it sees anyone else with that beginning ESSID, it knows there's another DS around.
They did it so as not to play by the rules of 802.11b but to still KNOW whether it's a DS or a computer. I don't know any more details as what I read was mostly marketing, not technical, in nature.
Few things you're missing:
1. There isn't much/any compression on a real time AC3 feed, as you can use up the entire bitrate. It's not like a dvd where you have to worry about space constraints.
2. I can guarantee you that the D/A converter in my receiver is MUCH higher quality than the shitty ones in the sound card, not even counting all the electrical noise inside a computer case.
I've NEVER been able to get rid of that list tiny bit of hiss coming out of any sound card's analog output.
3. having 3 1/8" to dual RCA splitters plugged out the back, then 6 line level RCA cables going to my receiver, is NOT the way to carry a clean signal.
Remember, I'm mainly talking about an HTPC, going into a REAL sound system (not a shitty klipsh/whomever puts out a 300$ "all in one" pc system with tiny plastic speakers) used for watching movies and playing games on a big screen.
That's exactly what I'm referring to. I can't find anyone with plans to stick it on a board.
Soundstorm IS necessary.
Name another audio "solution" which is BUYABLE TODAY which does real time digital 5.1 encoding. DTS or DD, I don't care as my receiver does both, but I want 5.1 through a digital interface (coax or optical).
I'll give you a hint:
There are zero on the market. The only possible contender is that new intel pro-audio onboard thing, but NO ONE has plans to impliment it yet.
NOTHING by creative does this, nor do those "7.1" fortissimo/etc cards.
File transfers. Either they're blocking them, which makes their service useless as you'll have to turn on/off the proxy to send/receive files, or every file sent through IM is going to go through them.
That could really add up, especially with that gaim-based filesharing thing coming out...
It's not software, it's a settings file. You should know the difference. Do you consider it downloading software if your pop email server changes and you have to change a setting in firebird/outlook/whatever?
IMSmarter works by acting as a SOCKS4 server, so every packet from your IM client (AIM in your case) goes to their server first.
They offer that auto-config for people who aren't smart enough to find the connection options dialog and change it themselves.
I've not had tomcat itself crash in years. What was the stack trace?
My guess is, based on crashing and slowness remarks, that whomever coded the app you're using sucks.
It's like blaming PHP/Perl/c++ for a shitty program that happens to be written in said language.
Does the fact that phpnuke has tons of security vulnerabilities and is slow as hell mean php sucks?
"Valve is already using Steam to track pseudo-demographic data on their players' computers--RAM, graphics cards, processors and speed, OS, and those manner of things"
Not entirely true in the way you say it. The first time you install Steam, it pops up a dialog saying "this is your system **cpu/mem/etc stats here** do you want to share this info with Valve?"
It's not constantly scanning and sending back data, it does it once and VERY obviously asks you.
I asked about this on the list for FC1 to FC2, and the developers SPECIFICALLY said DO NOT DO THIS.
I trust them over you.
I'd like to see just 1 kerry voter who voter FOR kerry, as opposed to against bush.
If the democrats would put up someone worth voting for, people would do so. That kerry lost an election against someone like bush is possibly a testament to how he would have done in office.
Have you been to a generic techie forum where gentoo zealots (different from regular gentoo users) abound?
It's hilarious. People will discuss opt flags like it's gospel when they don't even know what they mean or do.
You weren't REALLY going to buy one if a simple article like this COMPLETELY changed your mind. You'd know about tivo's history, and actually read the article where they said they might eventually have to put their foot down to macrovision, and are ready for that day.
You are lying. I am 100% certain of this.
FF runs as the local user, which for windows 99.9% of the time is in the administrator group, discounting work computers with strict domain settings. That means FF fucked, computer fucked.
10:15:56 up 156 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
Nice load average there. I'm sure this is a heavily used PDC/file server/some sort of corporate machine and not just some box sitting in your closet doing nothing.
I thought the exact same thing as you, but in the article on physics world they put an "n".
For once the blurb got it right, and the article got it wrong. What's next, MS linux? Cats and dogs dancing together?
He placed it there because that's microsoft's version number for ME.
That really depends on what your goal is. Since you can't move X-sessions around (eg I can't start an app remotely on my desktop, then "move" its display to another desktop, or freeze it "Screen" style), I prefer the following setup on my debian boxes:
-NO "real" X11 server installed
-vnc4server installed, started up as a replacement for my X server
-vncfb running locally for when I'm "at" the computer
-real vnc from my windows box to take control
If you just want to go in and check something out that requires a WM, X11 is great, or if you want to do it just for one "session" it's great, but to leave anything running X11 just doesn't cut it.
For example, on my home filesharing box I leave azareus and a jabber client running, so I can vnc in to check my messages and check how downloads are going. Can't do that with JUST X.
Analysts say the price cuts show the VoIP market is not only competitive, but it's serious. http://img1.exs.cx/img1/598/seriousbusiness10.jpg
All it would take is for slashdot to announce that they now look for a meta tag called "allowcaching: true" or the like. I don't think I'll EVER have anything on my server posted on slashdot, but I'd sure as hell take the 20 seconds to add that tag to my base template.