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  1. he spoke some truth on Dave Taylor Interview · · Score: 0

    ok I love the bit on

    How does Linux game development differ from Windows game development?

    oh debigging dont we just love it

    and yes the documentation with direct x is very YOU WILL USE IT THIS WAY or bill wont be happy

    and yes doing things in winnt you surprise how fast they can go but simple things NO so slow

    ah well

    windowed games uha yeah realy
    go read what apple GUI boys have to say !


    a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)

  2. I wonder on Fifteen Years of X · · Score: 1

    how big a tape did you have to have ?

    ah well
    a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)

  3. YEAH nice what about JDK 1.2 on Sun and 3Com agree to embed Java into Palm Pilot · · Score: 1



    ok before somebody moans

    java is a good lang because it is strongly typed
    the implemetation of java is whats been lacking java needed to be more GUI it has all the programming features that you wanted this is what they added with 1.2 ,1.1 on the other hand is basic and you should have no probs running it on small little machines with 4mb ok

    Ive done it and it worked fine

    so lets get the GUI stuff working

    if you want speed spend a year writeing machine code (i did oh what fun hex keypad are)


    a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)

  4. BT where forced into it media hype they saved it on BT funds UK Crypto Heritage Park · · Score: 1

    they tryed to sell it but there where lots of nice trees that they could not cut down so had to give it over to the people

    and yes it was the first computer and the US did not help but where helped by it

    the reason why histroy books are wrong is that it was all so very hush hush

    everything was destroyed

    hmmm apples are nice

    a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)

  5. they might be flawed on New Tiny Display w/ Full Colour · · Score: 0

    by my wired thinking(back yard soldering) this is the wrong way to go the resolution just won't be good enough as it will be perfect for some range and not any other

    computers on your belt like Cyrix at Cebit will only take off when voice recognition is here.
    ((it's a long way off))

    reflective CMOS is as BAAADDD way to go but

    good luck

    new hardware is a good thing if only to show how it should NOT be done

    have fun people

  6. Re:errn *meep* (look here my friend) on Intel's StrongArm Roadmap · · Score: 1

    Ok yes digtital did some work with ARM and their CPU but acording to the guys who live upstairs where I worked

    (ARM)

    they took most of the desighn and then improved it so they could make more money and left digital to their own devices, Digital wail on about itsy but have a look at what

    EPOC has done and will do very clever little OS


    their are people wandering around with the suits I surpose I dont work their anymore always the way tho

    there was mutter about controlers for HD anyone ?

    have fun

  7. Hmm they said they had GNU/linux working AND .... on Gcc for the IA-64. · · Score: 1

    well they said they had GNU/Linux working already on IA64 a while back the thing is that with IA64 all of the Brains is in the compiler

    so ?

    well intel will want to keep all of its dirty little secrets of the compiler to itself or anybody can reproduce the silicon easy peasey because the machine is dumb and the compiler knows all !!

    Hmm so whats going on

    ??

    anybody

    cheers john

  8. what on the CD the non GPL'd stuff ?? anyone on RedHat 6.0 is Out · · Score: 0

    does anyone know what is on the CDs not the GPL'd stuff

    redhat are cool for letting you download all of the os unlike SUSE or Caldera because you just get tryouts and so on pooh

    but I want to know what is on the CD I am going to buy !?

    any flaws ??

    john

  9. Caldera provide a NEWBIE form of linux on Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 Review · · Score: 2

    ok why do I say that I have seen the ditro and it looks good but has a few bugs but updates are a comeing

    first caldera is THE distro to Lure 9X users away from their over indulagance in hardware

    I managed to get my whole house to go over to it a DirectX programer and a VB (doodler not a programer) and that says something why because they wanted to use something to get work done and Caldera has this and thats it !

    it works it dosnt want you to recompile the kernal it dosnt want you to edit .conf files so it is perfect for the over 45's office still working in dos spreadsheets they are NEWBIE's and this is what they want !

    redhat if for performace and tweaks caldera is not ok thats my Veiw anyway


    HAVE FUN install it on the office machine and watch people gwap !!!

  10. EPOC Will surprise you !!!! on Palm VII Field Trial · · Score: 1

    well you know EPOC symbian style

    know what im talking about ? no?

    oh well here we go

    first of all Colour (im in the UK) is on the new PSION it is 32 bit and comes in 2 model's one a bit like the palm but smaller and NO scribbling (handwriting recognition ) PSION think that most of the stuff is checking Box's and basic entry don't ask me I haven't seen this one !

    But what I have seen is colour sub notebook if that the right term for it psion have always been the king when it came to keyboards in a small way hell typing on a CE machine doesn't cut it !

    they are very cool!
    psion batteries last weeks/months not the days stuff and they are doing it again !!(advanced batterys like those sony wanted to use)

    full word (a WP), as in their word that is in the OS and has a word count A Novelty for CE machines they make you go get one of the net ! bah

    import export from all major WP hell I want one to KEEP

    and this stuff is going to be on a mobil phone soon ! hah not for the peoples of USA tho as feds wont let them use GSM as they cant break it.

    ah well sorry guys but you chose the wrong path as 3com has a 40% share in Symbian so they will use it soon it is far superior to 3Com palm OS lets face it

    go ahead make my day quote some figures !

  11. whats going on with XFree86 ??????? on Problems w/ LT Rage Pro and XFree86 on Red Hat 5.2 · · Score: 1

    Look I know that it is all free and you can get at the source and all but this simply wont do!!!

    can't you provide a framework that will allow the companies like ATI to just write a small little interface and distribute it as a binary.

    the other thing they would have to do is provide help for the open 2D source.

    Manufacturers would I think in general like to support the GNU movement but have to much to lose in the way of competitors copying them so by offering them the chance to show off their cards in OpenGL as long as they help with the 2D side of things any thoughts ??

  12. Y DOSNT my FireGL 1000 Pro WORK in LINUX on BeOS, Win95 and Dual Video Cards · · Score: 1


    basicly the surport for the fire gl 100 pro which is a agp card is sooo bad for my mates box dont know why I am useing Xfree 3.3.3-1 and it is SLOWW
    (tryed emailing the people that wrote it but no reply)

    I have tryed all the old tricks but nothing works in a 800 600 res it defualts to "no acc" in the additional options and the monitor settings for his screw up all the time anybidy have an Xconfig file or can tell me why

    cheers trying to conevert him and this is not helping

    (maybe even a beta of Xig openGL X (-; oh well)

  13. Cooperation is a Very Good Thing (tm) on TWINE - Wine and Twin converge · · Score: 1

    there is alot of coperation between KDE and Gnome and people help each other out but in a differant way its like
    how shall we do this ? is that the best way ?
    then they tend to go off write code and then look at what each other has done !

    this is a cool way to go about things two free desktops its got to be good !

    and why do we need 20 differant word processors well dont you hate it when word **** yeah well thats why people like differant things and whatch the kde office and soon a gnome port im sure this is what M$ are afraid of and rightly so
    vi for those terminals and editing scripts
    emacs for programing
    and something else (corel) for WP thats me what about you ?

    differant I bet thats why their are 20 because we can Have choice !!!!!!!!!!!!

    freedom thats what its about people are diffrent every machine should not be the same !

  14. FACE IT ONLY 3DFX boards are going to take it on Quake 3 article with Linux · · Score: 1

    basicaly Quake 3 will be hardware only john (carmack) said so. So why are people complaining about hardware the basics are this:

    : linux mac and windows all on one disk most of the disk is graphics and sound anyway no need to reproduce this!

    : you HAVE to have one of the surported cards (AARRRGHHHH)

    : the card surport in linux will be 3DFX only to start with


    OK thats it folks and if you want proper graphics get a SGI OK (a real openGL implementation)

    john got sick of the software render OK

    dont you just love it

  15. RIGHT ON THE SPOT (GET A NAME THO) on Harmony project Dead? · · Score: 1

    nothing else to say realy

  16. well I wouldnt be here unless it was good on Slashdot wins Cool Site of the Year · · Score: 1

    I realy dont know how site that are crap survive
    yours is cool and well thats it !