Maybe I'm just a little warped but the name NeCoRo instantly popped up "Necrotic" in my mind. I was half wondering when the the article would mention that these things had real cat skin or something. Either way it's freaky.
What's wrong with a real pet? Dogs in particular. you can get them for nothing at a pound and they will love you back. Why have an expensive emulation that doesnt even come close when you can have the real thing. Yes pets can be messy but they can be trained you know
Sterlings page looked as if it could have been exiting. Unfortunately its just a famous authors "Links I think are cool" page that you find on most of the homepages on the net. When reading a column by an author I like I expect to hear about the authors life, insights from him etc. A bunch of links to wierd places on the web has been done time and time again. Come on Bruce! we all know you can do a LOT better than that
Come on guys! Give us a bit more info than that. Whats the hardware setup? We want to hear all about the lovely geeky hardware setup and drool uncontollably. Anyone got any ideas?
As far as I remember from my college physics course the problem with unstability in larger atoms is that the electrical force overcomes the strong(nuclear) force.
Protons and neutrons are bound by the strong force together. Unfortunately with so many positive charge protons together they tend to repel each other. In order to counter this the nucleus in the higher atoms normally contains a lot more neutrons than protons to spread the protons out a bit so the electrical force is not so great between closely packed protons.
I may be slightly off here becasue it's been a while but thats the general explanation.
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Yes the extensions do make the difference but guess what. Those extensions are SUPPORTED IN LINUX. Nvidia have been great about supporting all their groovy extensions as OpenGL extensions. (non official ARB one yet) Take a look at the extensions offered next time you boot up Quake 3 in the Driver Info. In some cases the OpenGL extensions NVIDIA supply surpass the DirectX feature
NVIDIA's OpenGL offering is IMHO a GREAT driver. I'm doing OpenGL programming using it and getting great speed and visual accuracy. Also for a 3rd party Kernel Module its damn stable - cant't remember when it last crashed (never on the 0.96 release I think)
The guy who wrote this Colorg (Rick) , also maintains cLIeNUX (Client orientated Linux) and was awarded the Efnet #Linux "King of the Geeks" crown a few days ago for SH.ASM. I've had a look at the code.
The idea is to try to make a porttable ( to an extent ) assembler so asm written on one Arch can port easily to another.
The cool thing about this is it only needs Bash. no other external utils.
Tre Geek Cool
At the moment not all the instructions are support and it doesnt do Elf and A.out - Only flat listings
Seen this on the BBC here in Ireland about 2 nights ago. The device is far from the holy
grail of bionic limbs. It has only one small motor with a wormwheel to open and close the "thumb" slowly. No other joints or digits or senses. Its being tested on children with partial hands and from what i seen they seem to adapt to it very quickly.
Hopefully this nerve hookup tech evolves quickly
to include feedback ( a really small bit of pain would be easy to produce from a pressure sensor for a _really_ crude hack as an indicator i suppose).
I seen one kid in a clip accidently crush his parents hands slightly.
Full feedback is still a bit far away
For all those worrying about potenrial virii flashing your CPU with bad code and making it worthless - Fear not!. The uploaded microcode is lost on a reboot and needs to be reloaded every time.
The worst a virus using this technique could do is crash your PC and theres lots of easier ways to do that.
I've tried the/dev/microcode on 2.3/2.4 simply for the coolness factor. No system differences on my by now old PIII 500 and no loss or gain of any percievableness on any benchmarks I ran.
Every games company seems to be trying to stuff in 3d into their games at the expense of playability.
When I load up pacman or asteroids (2 examples of incredibly addictive but non-visually stunning games) so I really want to fly around a 3d scene rotating and using mouselook with 15 keys bound to control my player?.
Games like Quake3 are more suited to a FPP viewpoint but the games deveopers have to realise that some are not. Personally I found Mario 64 visually better than the older mario games but at the expense of the playability. Cameras swinging around you as you go near walls make it difficult to know which way you are actually moving.
This is why emulators are so popular with ppl. There simply isnt some game genres available today like there was over 5 years ago. Sure we all like great grapihcs and sound but only if they contribute positively to the game. Give me pacman with hi resolution graphics and 3d sound effects and I'll play it. Give me the same game with a 3d engine pasted on top that needs a Geforce 2 GTS and I'll get annoyed with it after 10 minutes.
Wine doesnt do CPU emulation (ok for the nitpickers in some cases theres a tiny bit of mucking around).
WINE is an implementation of the WIN32 API and others for Unix. It also has a loader for loading windows executables into memory and doing a bit of translation on some of the adresses that the app might try to relocate itself to to fit in with the way we have things set up on *nix.
From there on in its basically the x86 processor executing x86 code. Any library calls to win32 are either hanled by WINE's inbuilt WIN APIS or at your choice native windows dll's which undergo the same treatment as the programs loaded into memory as described above.
Basically wine on a PPC wont run x86 Windows apps. Youd need to run wine compiled on an x86 under BOCHS or similar for this to work.
If an app breaks under windows with a move to a new 64bit processor because of problems with some of its assembly code theres little or nothing WINE can do about it and it will fail under WINE too
Like every RPM, DEB you download you of course can never be 100% certain of its integrity. You cant even be confident of the integritiy of source unless you meticulously read each line. At some stage you simply have to trust ppl:).
Packages signed with keys are all very well but how mant ppl actually verify them?. How many RPMS have you grabbed from rpmfind.net and installed. ?
As someone who sees attemplts against his own system on IRC every day and sees newbies announce to the world at general "Hi I'm running wu-ftpd on Redhat 6.0 and ARRGHH what the hell just happened?" who's this guy on my box!?" I decided to investigate the feasability of providing safe versions of commonly run services.
Libsafe is quite good but cant catch everything and breaks quite a few programs if you set it up in ld.so.preload.
The Stackguard compiler is definitely more robust and seems to work well during the course of my tests.
I've prepared RPMS of BIND8.2.2pl5 and Wu-FTPD 2.6.1 with Stackgaurd 2.0 Stout for RH Linux 6.2. As I've just prepared the rpms this week on my Slackware 7.1 system I dont know how well they perform as they haven't recieved a great deal of testing (No bug reports so far tho)
The RPMS are available at http://indigo.ie/~fowler/ELSL/ with more daemons to come soon and hopefully DEBS. Try them out and mail me with any problems (My email address can be read from the reuslts of rpm -qpi file.rpm)
Good luck and keep safe on the net Gnubie_ Efnet #Linux
Sure the tech is old but its been proven to work lots of times. Every new system has bugs that gets past the fault simulators.
The last thing NASA needs right now is another goof-up. The money involved in deploying systems like this plus the training for the crew must have hurt on their shrinking budget.
Wouldn't any microbes from earth that made it onto the spacecraft by now have been killed by cosmic radiation? The craft has been in space for several years now. Even the most hardy microbes should have perished by now?
Even if microbes did make it through space and survice an impact what is the chances that any alien life would be compatible with ours?
Since 96 I've being mucking with 3d engines in the hope of maybe someday getting a game together. It started of in good old Pascal and x86 asm on Turbo Pascal and Is now several thousand lines of C openGL code ( all my hand optimised inner loops in the asm gouraud shader gone for ever:)
Now i'm at the point where I need a good 3d modeller - Tried loads available for Linux and they didnt suit my needs so I've started writing one.
I'm glad I'm doing this for fun and I dont have a deadline. If you'd have asked me in 96 when I'd have something finished I'd probably have guessed at a year:) Probably in 2004 the modeller will have the feature set I require;)
So my advice is - Go for it - But above all dont set yourself deadlines - Just have fun and learn something new.
First of all - Thank you to the Kdevelop team!. Kdevelop is imho KDE's killer app. I havent used it to program one line of C++ or KDE code, all of my code is C (openGL stuff and believe it or not I load my Glade generated code into Kdevlop for easy GTK hackng). I have OpenGL and GTK docs available in HTML format in the IDE at the simple click of a button and its easy to add more in the doc toolbar. Kgdb is a excellent frontend to gdb. It lets you view structs in a tree form (Invaluable for linked lists etc etc).
Even if you dont use KDE its worth installing the libs just for this one app
Ouch nasty!, Just because one particular chipset design has problems doesnt mean that Coppermine is going to lose out. At the computer shop I work at we are using good old pc133 RAM with the Advance 5 133 Chipset from VIA. So far we have had absolutely no problems with these boards. I would highly recommend them to someone looking for a coppermine solution.
ps If your looking for fast reliable RAM you can pick up pc100 RAM that will run 100% at 133 (look for the 222 refresh rating) pretty cheaply.
I'm glad to see Corel do this. Quite recently the project leader of the Corel division responsible for porting their Office suite over to Linux using WINe accidently posted a message to the Wine-Devel mailing list instead of their internal Corel Wine-devel mailing list. In it he stated that as the were hoping to push for a Beta release of Corel Office that they would have to lower priority on handing patches back to the wine devlopers from their own internal version of wine.
With this announcement Corel have shown that even though they may not currently have the time to submit patches back, they want to give back something to the developers who have worked so hard on WINe. The BSD-like license of WINe means that they legally dont have to do this.
http://www.tuxgames.org has 75 petitions available for you to choose from. Tuxgames seems to be a reseller of commercial linux titles from Loki etc. If a reseller can go to a Software house with a petition from 10,000 people as marketing proof then we might get those games we so dearly want:)
The service I have seen advestised in the UK and Ireland connects to what I believe are call the Hotbird Satellites. The cards that come with this service use the small "horn" at the centre of your dish. This requires power and must be drawn from the actual card supplied. In windows you have to click a button to power up the dish from your satellite card. It wasnt a box that sat between a NIC and your dish but actually a dedicated card. Unless someones written a driver then I'm afraid these satellite services won't be much use under linux
A week ago I was watching the 6 o' clock news here in Ireland. A report on AOL's new software devel house for 400 ppl here was mentioned. They showed screenshots of software engineers and they were all using MOZILLA. Ok It was just a really quick screenshot and I didnt see MSVC++ open with AOL-Mozilla.cpp being editted:)
How is Netscape going to pull itself out of the pit and back into direct competition with IE? Can you say "Mozilla on every single AOL users desktop" ?
I'd have to say Kwite too. Infact I do most of my coding now in Kwrite (The rest in Kdevelop which embeds kwrite I believe).
Its small fast, does syntax highlighting for nearly everything and is extremely easy to use. The "open recent" feature is really handy. It has everything I need in a code editor.
Kudos to Jochen Wilhelmy (digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de) for this lovely little editor!
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What's wrong with a real pet? Dogs in particular. you can get them for nothing at a pound and they will love you back. Why have an expensive emulation that doesnt even come close when you can have the real thing. Yes pets can be messy but they can be trained you know
Sterlings page looked as if it could have been exiting. Unfortunately its just a famous authors "Links I think are cool" page that you find on most of the homepages on the net. When reading a column by an author I like I expect to hear about the authors life, insights from him etc. A bunch of links to wierd places on the web has been done time and time again. Come on Bruce! we all know you can do a LOT better than that
Come on guys! Give us a bit more info than that. Whats the hardware setup? We want to hear all about the lovely geeky hardware setup and drool uncontollably. Anyone got any ideas?
Protons and neutrons are bound by the strong force together. Unfortunately with so many positive charge protons together they tend to repel each other. In order to counter this the nucleus in the higher atoms normally contains a lot more neutrons than protons to spread the protons out a bit so the electrical force is not so great between closely packed protons.
I may be slightly off here becasue it's been a while but thats the general explanation.
NVIDIA's OpenGL offering is IMHO a GREAT driver. I'm doing OpenGL programming using it and getting great speed and visual accuracy. Also for a 3rd party Kernel Module its damn stable - cant't remember when it last crashed (never on the 0.96 release I think)
The guy who wrote this Colorg (Rick) , also maintains cLIeNUX (Client orientated Linux) and was awarded the Efnet #Linux "King of the Geeks" crown a few days ago for SH.ASM. I've had a look at the code.
The idea is to try to make a porttable ( to an extent ) assembler so asm written on one Arch can port easily to another.
The cool thing about this is it only needs Bash. no other external utils.
Tre Geek Cool
At the moment not all the instructions are support and it doesnt do Elf and A.out - Only flat listings
Seen this on the BBC here in Ireland about 2 nights ago. The device is far from the holy
grail of bionic limbs. It has only one small motor with a wormwheel to open and close the "thumb" slowly. No other joints or digits or senses. Its being tested on children with partial hands and from what i seen they seem to adapt to it very quickly.
Hopefully this nerve hookup tech evolves quickly
to include feedback ( a really small bit of pain would be easy to produce from a pressure sensor for a _really_ crude hack as an indicator i suppose).
I seen one kid in a clip accidently crush his parents hands slightly.
Full feedback is still a bit far away
For all those worrying about potenrial virii flashing your CPU with bad code and making it worthless - Fear not!. The uploaded microcode is lost on a reboot and needs to be reloaded every time.
/dev/microcode on 2.3/2.4 simply for the coolness factor. No system differences on my by now old PIII 500 and no loss or gain of any percievableness on any benchmarks I ran.
The worst a virus using this technique could do is crash your PC and theres lots of easier ways to do that.
I've tried the
Every games company seems to be trying to stuff in 3d into their games at the expense of playability.
When I load up pacman or asteroids (2 examples of incredibly addictive but non-visually stunning games) so I really want to fly around a 3d scene rotating and using mouselook with 15 keys bound to control my player?.
Games like Quake3 are more suited to a FPP viewpoint but the games deveopers have to realise that some are not. Personally I found Mario 64 visually better than the older mario games but at the expense of the playability. Cameras swinging around you as you go near walls make it difficult to know which way you are actually moving.
This is why emulators are so popular with ppl. There simply isnt some game genres available today like there was over 5 years ago. Sure we all like great grapihcs and sound but only if they contribute positively to the game. Give me pacman with hi resolution graphics and 3d sound effects and I'll play it. Give me the same game with a 3d engine pasted on top that needs a Geforce 2 GTS and I'll get annoyed with it after 10 minutes.
Wine doesnt do CPU emulation (ok for the nitpickers in some cases theres a tiny bit of mucking around).
WINE is an implementation of the WIN32 API and others for Unix. It also has a loader for loading windows executables into memory and doing a bit of translation on some of the adresses that the app might try to relocate itself to to fit in with the way we have things set up on *nix.
From there on in its basically the x86 processor executing x86 code. Any library calls to win32 are either hanled by WINE's inbuilt WIN APIS or at your choice native windows dll's which undergo the same treatment as the programs loaded into memory as described above.
Basically wine on a PPC wont run x86 Windows apps. Youd need to run wine compiled on an x86 under BOCHS or similar for this to work.
If an app breaks under windows with a move to a new 64bit processor because of problems with some of its assembly code theres little or nothing WINE can do about it and it will fail under WINE too
Am I the only one who finds netscape to be stable ? granted I visit only about 10-20 webpages regularily-but it never crashes on me.
Even with java I dont crash. Maybe Im offtopic but the amount of bithching I see here about NS is amazing.
I Cant reember the last time NS rashed on me
Like every RPM, DEB you download you of course can never be 100% certain of its integrity. You cant even be confident of the integritiy of source unless you meticulously read each line. At some stage you simply have to trust ppl :).
Packages signed with keys are all very well but how mant ppl actually verify them?. How many RPMS have you grabbed from rpmfind.net and installed. ?
Yes - this is the libsafe i mention in my previous post. It causes some programs to crash or behave badly. - for example XV coredumps.
As someone who sees attemplts against his own system on IRC every day and sees newbies announce to the world at general "Hi I'm running wu-ftpd on Redhat 6.0 and ARRGHH what the hell just happened?" who's this guy on my box!?" I decided to investigate the feasability of providing safe versions of commonly run services.
Libsafe is quite good but cant catch everything and breaks quite a few programs if you set it up in ld.so.preload.
The Stackguard compiler is definitely more robust and seems to work well during the course of my tests.
I've prepared RPMS of BIND8.2.2pl5 and Wu-FTPD 2.6.1 with Stackgaurd 2.0 Stout for RH Linux 6.2.
As I've just prepared the rpms this week on my Slackware 7.1 system I dont know how well they perform as they haven't recieved a great deal of testing (No bug reports so far tho)
The RPMS are available at http://indigo.ie/~fowler/ELSL/ with more daemons to come soon and hopefully DEBS. Try them out and mail me with any problems (My email address can be read from the reuslts of rpm -qpi file.rpm)
Good luck and keep safe on the net
Gnubie_ Efnet #Linux
The last thing NASA needs right now is another goof-up. The money involved in deploying systems like this plus the training for the crew must have hurt on their shrinking budget.
Even if microbes did make it through space and survice an impact what is the chances that any alien life would be compatible with ours?
Since 96 I've being mucking with 3d engines in :)
:) Probably in 2004 the modeller ;)
the hope of maybe someday getting a game together. It started of in good old Pascal and x86 asm on Turbo Pascal and Is now several thousand lines of C openGL code ( all my hand optimised inner loops in the asm gouraud shader gone for ever
Now i'm at the point where I need a good 3d modeller - Tried loads available for Linux and they didnt suit my needs so I've started writing one.
I'm glad I'm doing this for fun and I dont have a deadline. If you'd have asked me in 96 when I'd have something finished I'd probably have guessed at a year
will have the feature set I require
So my advice is - Go for it - But above all dont set yourself deadlines - Just have fun and learn something new.
First of all - Thank you to the Kdevelop team!. Kdevelop is imho KDE's killer app. I havent used it to program one line of C++ or KDE code, all of my code is C (openGL stuff and believe it or not I load my Glade generated code into Kdevlop for easy GTK hackng). I have OpenGL and GTK docs available in HTML format in the IDE at the simple click of a button and its easy to add more in the doc toolbar. Kgdb is a excellent frontend to gdb. It lets you view structs in a tree form (Invaluable for linked lists etc etc).
Even if you dont use KDE its worth installing the libs just for this one app
Just because one particular chipset design has problems doesnt mean that Coppermine is going to lose out. At the computer shop I work at we are using good old pc133 RAM with the Advance 5 133 Chipset from VIA. So far we have had absolutely no problems with these boards. I would highly recommend them to someone looking for a coppermine solution.
ps If your looking for fast reliable RAM you can pick up pc100 RAM that will run 100% at 133 (look for the 222 refresh rating) pretty cheaply.
With this announcement Corel have shown that even though they may not currently have the time to submit patches back, they want to give back something to the developers who have worked so hard on WINe. The BSD-like license of WINe means that they legally dont have to do this.
Kudos to the Corel Wine Developers!
Personally I want to see...
Descent 3 (Porting underway but severely delayed)
Any good racing game
Half-Life
The service I have seen advestised in the UK and Ireland connects to what I believe are call the Hotbird Satellites. The cards that come with this service use the small "horn" at the centre of your dish. This requires power and must be drawn from the actual card supplied. In windows you have to click a button to power up the dish from your satellite card. It wasnt a box that sat between a NIC and your dish but actually a dedicated card. Unless someones written a driver then I'm afraid these satellite services won't be much use under linux
How is Netscape going to pull itself out of the pit and back into direct competition with IE? Can you say "Mozilla on every single AOL users desktop" ?
Its small fast, does syntax highlighting for nearly everything and is extremely easy to use. The "open recent" feature is really handy. It has everything I need in a code editor.
Kudos to Jochen Wilhelmy (digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de) for this lovely little editor!
I mearly wanted to inform people (in an article about newbies and Linux) on what IMVHO is a good source of information for linux users!
Perhas my post was very slightly off topic, but flamebait? I think someone needs to RTFMG (Read the fine moderators guide)
Gnubie_