Easiest solution I use it to load up a game... Say Unreal Tournament. HAve tcpdump open on my linux box to watch outgoing packets from my game machine. Those packets will show you what port they're trying to acess. (Say, 7777 in UT's case) and wether or not it's TCP or UDP. Then using ipchains and the ipmasqadm autofw wrappper, just forward those ports to that machine. Every game I've tried to play I've used this solution from. Everything from Madden 2000 to UT:)
Remember, this box is only going for $200 or whatever. There is only so much you can do with that kind of budget.
Not always... I'm sure they may go over the $200 limit and still charge consumers the price. They make a lot of revenue in games... They'll probably have one of those stupid deals with their online service like the DreamCast is suppsoedly going to do...
I doubt they'd go too much over the budget... but still. Marketing is screwy. I remember the beatles Anythology Album being sold her for $3 cheaper then the music store bought it for. Supposedly the attraction made them a lot of money...
I wish there was a cheap solution to programming your own Playstation and Playstation 2 programs. I think it would be neat to see some open source programs written and playable under a stand alone console. I was always interested in it, but I'm sure Sony might lose money doing it that way. It'd be neat if they could charge a small fee for a program or a specific burner that could do it. (becasue their commercial, don't flame me for that).
I always wanted to write games since I've been playining the Atari and 8-Bit Nintendo. Infact, I tried messing with some game and code a while back for the Emulators when they came out and had a blast trying to make my own moving charachters, etc. Just an idea to be thron around... very doubtful Sony would even take it serious since there are soo many develoeprs for commercial.. However this would bring in a lot of unknown talent to commercial Vendors? Think of 989 Studios seeing little Johny programming a RPG and liked his skills, they could offer him position...
Just food for thought...
I like the idea of console online gaming, it'd be nice to play someone in Syphon Filter 2 and *NOT* see them in the split screen... other then the 2 tv link (never used much huh?)... I just doubt it's going to catch on quick because they'll start with atleast a $20 fee... Where most gamers also use an ISP for $20 a month or more if cable...
Dude, there have been only three stories about OS/2 posted on Slashdot ever. Just three! If anything, the Slashdot editors are biased against OS/2, not for it.
How much coverage do you want? There hasn't been much doing in the OS/2 Community form what I've seen. I used to be an avid OS/2 user when I ran a 3 node bbs, but I gave it up and went linux/bsd. I pop my head in #os/2 on EFnet and some other networks and rarely do I see any talk of new features or applications. (Yes there are people still developing applications, but not as many as there should). I don't think/. is biased against OS/2 at all. I just think there's a lack of happenings IMO.
Can someone explain to me why I would want to purchase a piece of proprietary Linux software? How do you expect Linux to survive and grow? It's going to have non open source software so businesses can profit. I'd rather have open source software, but if it's a good stable product I'll purchase it. It's great we alternatives like LaTeX and Abiword, but if Corel is going to pull many other businesses in with the office suite, so be it. It's great IMHO.
What's next? Open source hardware? This way we can have a totally 'free' computing enviorment?;)
This is a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway so I understand it better. If Corel's Office suite is a Wine app, does this mean it will natively run under Windows? It sounds like a Windows version packaged with all the dll's and scripts for the WINE package....
From what I recall with security B1 is every drive, wether being tape, hard drive, zip, etc requires it's open seperate access with different levels... So if you own a file with 'mandatory' access you can't even touch it?
I think it would be interesting to see how Linux would handle it. While most of us would have no use for it, I wonder how many Universities and Colleges are going to pick on the SGI B1 release. I think it'd be great to see it popping up and being used. While I love using hte IRIX cluster at PSU, I think it'd be great to have an Alternative Linux (with b1 security of course) running for students to work on projects also...
The spam that's the hardest to stop is the spam from your provider itself. They might promise all the security in the world, but they'll still feel free to send you messages about their special offers. Then I guess I should stick with my cable company.:-) The only email I received from them is a monthly note pertaining to recieving the bill.
It's been a while since I've had dialup, but I believe those providers are the ones your mentioning? I remember getting all kinds of offers on different plans when I had dialup. Not only from my ISP, but the other local isp's trying to get me to convert...
Nowadays I have a filter setup for Spam, and a forwards folder setup for all the jerks that decide "whoah, this is cool" and forwards it to everyone they know.
Who cares about Spam taking on the intenret? How about we take out the multiple forward button?:-)
Does this mean I'm going to see "Julie and her girlfriends lick each other at http://www.spammedshit.com" on my cell phone?
Annnnyways... My cell phone is an older cell one phone and doens't have messaging capibility. Does the messaging capibility come in a plan at a flat rate or do you get say 50 free messages, and pay for the rest? I've never even thought about picking it up before...
Well I'm proud to see there are developers working on gpl'd drivers for DVD playerd under Linux. However, isn't this illegal? The driver has to show how it unencrypts the dvd doesn't it? Or is this done mainly through hardware? I haven't read up on too much hardware about DVD's, but I have gotten engineering tours of Specialty Records and saw the different types of DVD's (18 looks like it would be a mother for #cable-dvd traders to trade and burn at 18 gig):)
Anyways, while I'm happy that there are still people working on DVD under Linux, I'm still boycotting DVD's. It's hard to walk past the DVD section at Circut City and not buy a DVD player...
I certianly hope the MPAA loses and has to allow DeCSS to be continued.... I WANT A PSX2...:\
... the we'll get to the point where there will be so many diverse "flavors" of Linux and BSD that you will have to "port" all software you want to use so that it works with your machine.
While there are way too many flavors of Linux floating around, this TrustedBSD may serve a good purpose. It's aiming at B1 level security, so it'll be much more secure that normal x86 unix clones. What's Linux secutiry at? c2? Never reached c1 yet I believe.
Is there anyway to standardize it all?
POSIX does a great job. A lot of source code just needs a minor tweak or fix to compile on other platforms, which there are a few utiliteis at aid in doing that itself... If we standardize it all, we'd be stuck in the same rut... Options are great. I do think it's silly to have a specific linux distribution for a piece of hardware, but to have choice likes this BSD is good... to have Slackware vs Almost_slackware_but_changed_the_opening_installat ion_ascii 9.42b is quite silly:)
I would say the $250,000 price is perfect. Many smaller websites are bought out for a much higher price. If your brining in around $20,000 in banner ads and atleast $60,000 in labor. I'd sketch up a chart for this company and submit it to them. IF they're noty happy with it move on. I'm usre oyu can find many other companies that would be willing to buy it after they've seen one company was very intrerested in the project.
Internet revenue is going to rise and rise and rise. I certianly wish I was talenteded enough to design or contribute to a business on the web in some way, but UNIX administration and being a college student at the time doens't help me be anything more then a mere/. reader/poster. (And not a good one at that)
But anyways, not to jump ship... I think around a 400% of the websites cost + income can be very reasonable. I'm sure they should understand inflation and bring more money in banners...
If windows does become open source some will come out with a new windows thats half the line of code and actuall stable.
Nope. Microsoft probably has propiratary compilers that are necessary to compile the released source code. These compilers will be made freely avalible for $189, $89 for the upgrade.
LINKS TO PENN STATE PAGES: Unless authorized by the Executive Director of University Relations (who will consult with the University Licensing Committee on trademark issues when necessary), no company or organization may place a link on its site to any Penn State web page. Links from government and educational (e.g., other university) web pages are permitted.
I'm a Penn State student, but I've never seen any enforcement to this policy. And the Link you posted cannot be viewed from a non psu.edu account:-) (probably why you pasted it)
But anyways, Aren't Universities required to have a similar policy so their services can't be used under any commercial enviorment?
I'm very suprised that many people don't mention the lack of viruses for Linux in business nature. I think it would be a very big plug for the operating system if RedHat or similar companies let the "dumb" user know that viruses are highly unlike to effect you if your running Linux or even any flavor of UNIX... Well, except for the big WORM that effected Solaris (?) many years ago...
I wonder if Mcaffee or Norton will port their virus scanners to Linux in the future... That'd definately get quite a chuckle from me.:-)
Apple is a hardware company, the chances of them risking the cannibalization of their HW sales by having a full MacOS running on intel is pretty slim, IMHO
You have to remember this is where Apple made their biggest mistake. Not letting 3rd parties develop hardware for them cost them their share of computing as we know it today. Back in the day there was soo much Apple, but now I rarely see mac's around anymore, even in educational facilities. I'm not a fan of Apple, but I think they better be smarter then they were last time, otherwise they'll be watching intel's IA64 and AMD hand their ass to them.:-)
I just turned down a 6-figure job offer from a local company, after I found out that they are converting all of their (perfectly good as they stand) web servers from Solaris on UltraSparc to 'Beowulf Clusters' of (cheap) Intel PC's running 'Linux'.
Well, would you mind tossing over the information on the company here so I can start making 6 figures? My current status of "Beer Man" at a minor leauge ball park isn't cutting it anymore...
Anyways, Linux is 'the cool thing' to do at the moment, but it is really helping it improve and grow up. I'd rather Linux be the 'cool thing' then have an unstable desktop/server like NT running most of the places I partake in business with. It scares me seeing car dealerships using Windows NT to protect their payrools and normal accounts. I was tempted to break into the system and change my bill from $4000 for the transmission to a nice $0. They hired me to resetup their network from the clueless idiots that set it up and now they have a nice secure Linux based server firewalling their internet access... Oh welps, opinions are great.:-)
I wasn't insulting the UK at all. All I was doing was repeating what I've been told my.uk people on irc. This way 'years' ago, that's why I said it may be wrong.
Well I guess I should go back to 3rd grade... 'cause I rarely notice CmndrTaco make a grammatical error'... Who the hell cares anyway. We're not paying for Slashdot. I could see bitching if you paid 40 a day for/. on your door step:)
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I don't know about this... I kinda liked having my laptop on my lap in the middle of winter keeping my legs warm...
Easiest solution I use it to load up a game... Say Unreal Tournament. HAve tcpdump open on my linux box to watch outgoing packets from my game machine. Those packets will show you what port they're trying to acess. (Say, 7777 in UT's case) and wether or not it's TCP or UDP. Then using ipchains and the ipmasqadm autofw wrappper, just forward those ports to that machine. Every game I've tried to play I've used this solution from. Everything from Madden 2000 to UT :)
Not always... I'm sure they may go over the $200 limit and still charge consumers the price. They make a lot of revenue in games... They'll probably have one of those stupid deals with their online service like the DreamCast is suppsoedly going to do...
I doubt they'd go too much over the budget... but still. Marketing is screwy. I remember the beatles Anythology Album being sold her for $3 cheaper then the music store bought it for. Supposedly the attraction made them a lot of money...
I always wanted to write games since I've been playining the Atari and 8-Bit Nintendo. Infact, I tried messing with some game and code a while back for the Emulators when they came out and had a blast trying to make my own moving charachters, etc. Just an idea to be thron around... very doubtful Sony would even take it serious since there are soo many develoeprs for commercial.. However this would bring in a lot of unknown talent to commercial Vendors? Think of 989 Studios seeing little Johny programming a RPG and liked his skills, they could offer him position...
Just food for thought...
I like the idea of console online gaming, it'd be nice to play someone in Syphon Filter 2 and *NOT* see them in the split screen... other then the 2 tv link (never used much huh?)... I just doubt it's going to catch on quick because they'll start with atleast a $20 fee... Where most gamers also use an ISP for $20 a month or more if cable...
Welps, that's just my 2cents...
How much coverage do you want? There hasn't been much doing in the OS/2 Community form what I've seen. I used to be an avid OS/2 user when I ran a 3 node bbs, but I gave it up and went linux/bsd. I pop my head in #os/2 on EFnet and some other networks and rarely do I see any talk of new features or applications. (Yes there are people still developing applications, but not as many as there should). I don't think /. is biased against OS/2 at all. I just think there's a lack of happenings IMO.
http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/Nano.html
http://www.itri.loyola.edu/nanobase/
http://www.dvtech.com/pages/pages/Tec NANO.htm
Nanotechnology is very intersting. Hope you enjoy writing the paper. :-)
What's next? Open source hardware? This way we can have a totally 'free' computing enviorment? ;)
This is a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway so I understand it better.
If Corel's Office suite is a Wine app, does this mean it will natively run under Windows? It sounds like a Windows version packaged with all the dll's and scripts for the WINE package....
I think it would be interesting to see how Linux would handle it. While most of us would have no use for it, I wonder how many Universities and Colleges are going to pick on the SGI B1 release. I think it'd be great to see it popping up and being used. While I love using hte IRIX cluster at PSU, I think it'd be great to have an Alternative Linux (with b1 security of course) running for students to work on projects also...
It's been a while since I've had dialup, but I believe those providers are the ones your mentioning? I remember getting all kinds of offers on different plans when I had dialup. Not only from my ISP, but the other local isp's trying to get me to convert...
Nowadays I have a filter setup for Spam, and a forwards folder setup for all the jerks that decide "whoah, this is cool" and forwards it to everyone they know.
Who cares about Spam taking on the intenret? How about we take out the multiple forward button? :-)
Annnnyways... My cell phone is an older cell one phone and doens't have messaging capibility. Does the messaging capibility come in a plan at a flat rate or do you get say 50 free messages, and pay for the rest? I've never even thought about picking it up before...
Anyways, while I'm happy that there are still people working on DVD under Linux, I'm still boycotting DVD's. It's hard to walk past the DVD section at Circut City and not buy a DVD player...
I certianly hope the MPAA loses and has to allow DeCSS to be continued.... I WANT A PSX2... :\
Now we're going to have 12 other types of clusters posted by trolls!
Can you imagine... Jessica 2 cluster?
sheesh :-)
While there are way too many flavors of Linux floating around, this TrustedBSD may serve a good purpose. It's aiming at B1 level security, so it'll be much more secure that normal x86 unix clones. What's Linux secutiry at? c2? Never reached c1 yet I believe.
Is there anyway to standardize it all?
POSIX does a great job. A lot of source code just needs a minor tweak or fix to compile on other platforms, which there are a few utiliteis at aid in doing that itself... If we standardize it all, we'd be stuck in the same rut... Options are great. I do think it's silly to have a specific linux distribution for a piece of hardware, but to have choice likes this BSD is good... to have Slackware vs Almost_slackware_but_changed_the_opening_installat ion_ascii 9.42b is quite silly :)
Internet revenue is going to rise and rise and rise. I certianly wish I was talenteded enough to design or contribute to a business on the web in some way, but UNIX administration and being a college student at the time doens't help me be anything more then a mere /. reader/poster. (And not a good one at that)
But anyways, not to jump ship... I think around a 400% of the websites cost + income can be very reasonable. I'm sure they should understand inflation and bring more money in banners...
Nope. Microsoft probably has propiratary compilers that are necessary to compile the released source code. These compilers will be made freely avalible for $189, $89 for the upgrade.
geesh
I'm a Penn State student, but I've never seen any enforcement to this policy. And the Link you posted cannot be viewed from a non psu.edu account :-) (probably why you pasted it)
But anyways, Aren't Universities required to have a similar policy so their services can't be used under any commercial enviorment?
I believe your going to get the exact opposite of what you believe. :-)
Oh god. That .au was just... just... TERRIBLE... I feel dumber for listening to it. :-)
Anyyyways :)
I wonder if Mcaffee or Norton will port their virus scanners to Linux in the future... That'd definately get quite a chuckle from me. :-)
You have to remember this is where Apple made their biggest mistake. Not letting 3rd parties develop hardware for them cost them their share of computing as we know it today. Back in the day there was soo much Apple, but now I rarely see mac's around anymore, even in educational facilities. I'm not a fan of Apple, but I think they better be smarter then they were last time, otherwise they'll be watching intel's IA64 and AMD hand their ass to them. :-)
(just my little opinion)
Well, would you mind tossing over the information on the company here so I can start making 6 figures? My current status of "Beer Man" at a minor leauge ball park isn't cutting it anymore...
Anyways, Linux is 'the cool thing' to do at the moment, but it is really helping it improve and grow up. I'd rather Linux be the 'cool thing' then have an unstable desktop/server like NT running most of the places I partake in business with. It scares me seeing car dealerships using Windows NT to protect their payrools and normal accounts. I was tempted to break into the system and change my bill from $4000 for the transmission to a nice $0. They hired me to resetup their network from the clueless idiots that set it up and now they have a nice secure Linux based server firewalling their internet access... Oh welps, opinions are great. :-)
I wasn't insulting the UK at all. All I was doing was repeating what I've been told my .uk people on irc. This way 'years' ago, that's why I said it may be wrong.
Yes, I knew that, but wasn't there a centralized isp for the whole region? Like I said, I may be wrong... hehe
Well I guess I should go back to 3rd grade... 'cause I rarely notice CmndrTaco make a grammatical error'... Who the hell cares anyway. We're not paying for Slashdot. I could see bitching if you paid 40 a day for /. on your door step :)