If you are having trouble finding out when the show will air in your area, go to this link: whatson and enter your zipcode. Then go to TV schedule and click on monthly program summary. This will show all shows showing for the current month. In my area (Houston, TX) Code Rush doesn't appear to air until April 22 at 5:00am.
>This is on par with technological trends. In particular, note that when CD-ROM first came out, hard drives were around 300MB, and that was huge, and CD's had a whopping 640MB.
The first cdrom game (I believe) was ManHole for the Mac. It came out in 1988, and hard drives were definitely not averaging 300MB at that time. I think a 300MB hard drive at that time would have been ~ $1500.
I got the ManHole date from here since I couldn't remember. http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/gameDesign/game_d esign2.html
>If you write cracking software, I think you'd have to prepared to face some legal action.
You are probably correct about that. Corporations are trying very hard to outlaw debuggers now since they can be used to crack software. I believe the FSF has a paper about the implications of outlawing debuggers (I don't have the url).
IMHO I think that a developer should not be held responsible for any software that they write. It should be the user that is punished if the software is used in an illegal way. I would say that programs should be protected under first amendment, but even that has become very compromised lately.
I help out with the Debian distribution on a daily basis, but I guess since I am not on the official debian maintainer team (it has been closed nearly a year, maybe more) I will not get a letter? Is this only for the top Linux developers or for anyone who contributes to help further Linux?
I believe that the anti-microsoft fud is largely grounded in fact. I work for a company that has WinNT, Solaris and Linux computers. Our WinNT servers that are in normal use seem to have to be rebooted at least once a week (I know this from the outage emails that go out). All the important services for my group have been converted over to our linux server, which has only crashed twice in 2 years due to an air conditioning problem (90F+ in server room). Also, even the Solaris machines have crashed but only rarely (not due to heat though they have a separate air unit). Win98 is worse than all the others combined. Before I reinstalled my machine IE was crashing my entire system several times a day.
So although I believe NT is a very unstable OS, if anyone says "NT crashes hourly" then they are either installing it incorrectly or have very bad hardware. That said, it seems if you do have a problem in NT it is much harder to fix the system than under linux, usually the only way to correct the problem is to reinstall NT.
BTW - I use Debian so that may have affected my opinion on how easy it is to fix problems in Linux.
(I hope that didn't sound too much like anti-microsoft fud.)
Debian's goal is to be the most open source distribution (iirc). Corel is basing its distribution off of Debian and currently has the title of most closed Linux Distribution.
Hopefully they will see the error in their ways and correct this problem very soon.
John Carmack is helping out with the open source community quite a lot. He is currently helping write the matrox g200/g400 glx drivers. Also, remember what the first real linux game was? Doom! So please do not complain when companies can not completely open the source to their main source of revenue.
Debian 2.1 includes apt now, you can use apt with dselect or apt by itself. I personally do not understand why people do not like dselect. Once you read the instruction page for the command keys it is very easy to use. However, you can select a generic system type before you run dselect during install. This allows you to just pick the install option inside dselect and not look anything else in dselect.
Why not buy a DVD player for your television? I see your point though, I have a computer dvd player before I completely converted to linux. Now the only thing I can use it for is an expensive cdrom drive.:( There are patches to support the dvd udf format and there are mpeg2 players for linux (iirc) I think what we still need is a css decryption software.
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If you are having trouble finding out when the show will air in your area, go to this link: whatson and enter your zipcode. Then go to TV schedule and click on monthly program summary. This will show all shows showing for the current month. In my area (Houston, TX) Code Rush doesn't appear to air until April 22 at 5:00am.
>This is on par with technological trends. In particular, note that when CD-ROM first came out, hard drives were around 300MB, and that was huge, and CD's had a whopping 640MB.
d esign2.html
The first cdrom game (I believe) was ManHole for the Mac. It came out in 1988, and hard drives were definitely not averaging 300MB at that time. I think a 300MB hard drive at that time would have been ~ $1500.
I got the ManHole date from here since I couldn't remember. http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/gameDesign/game_
There is more information about Phantom Menace release here
>If you write cracking software, I think you'd have to prepared to face some legal action.
You are probably correct about that. Corporations are trying very hard to outlaw debuggers now since they can be used to crack software. I believe the FSF has a paper about the implications of outlawing debuggers (I don't have the url).
IMHO I think that a developer should not be held responsible for any software that they write. It should be the user that is punished if the software is used in an illegal way. I would say that programs should be protected under first amendment, but even that has become very compromised lately.
I help out with the Debian distribution on a daily basis, but I guess since I am not on the official debian maintainer team (it has been closed nearly a year, maybe more) I will not get a letter? Is this only for the top Linux developers or for anyone who contributes to help further Linux?
-Chris
Check SUSE's ftpsite they have a driver for the i810 graphics chipset
lftp ftp.corel.com:/pub/linux> cat THIS_IS_A_TEST_DIRECTORY
This test directory contains a partial Debian tree and is used
for testing purposes only.
This is NOT the soon to be released CorelLinux Distribution.
I believe that the anti-microsoft fud is largely grounded in fact. I work for a company that has WinNT, Solaris and Linux computers. Our WinNT servers that are in normal use seem to have to be rebooted at least once a week (I know this from the outage emails that go out). All the important services for my group have been converted over to our linux server, which has only crashed twice in 2 years due to an air conditioning problem (90F+ in server room). Also, even the Solaris machines have crashed but only rarely (not due to heat though they have a separate air unit). Win98 is worse than all the others combined. Before I reinstalled my machine IE was crashing my entire system several times a day.
So although I believe NT is a very unstable OS, if anyone says "NT crashes hourly" then they are either installing it incorrectly or have very bad hardware. That said, it seems if you do have a problem in NT it is much harder to fix the system than under linux, usually the only way to correct the problem is to reinstall NT.
BTW - I use Debian so that may have affected my opinion on how easy it is to fix problems in Linux.
(I hope that didn't sound too much like anti-microsoft fud.)
If you are using the glibc version of netscape try going back to the libc5 version. glibc netscape crashes on me every few minutes it seems.
Debian's goal is to be the most open source distribution (iirc). Corel is basing its distribution off of Debian and currently has the title of most closed Linux Distribution.
Hopefully they will see the error in their ways and correct this problem very soon.
John Carmack is helping out with the open source community quite a lot. He is currently helping write the matrox g200/g400 glx drivers. Also, remember what the first real linux game was? Doom! So please do not complain when companies can not completely open the source to their main source of revenue.
Thanks John for your support!
-calc
Debian 2.1 includes apt now, you can use apt with dselect or apt by itself. I personally do not understand why people do not like dselect. Once you read the instruction page for the command keys it is very easy to use. However, you can select a generic system type before you run dselect during install. This allows you to just pick the install option inside dselect and not look anything else in dselect.
Why not buy a DVD player for your television? I see your point though, I have a computer dvd player before I completely converted to linux. Now the only thing I can use it for is an expensive cdrom drive. :( There are patches to support the dvd udf format and there are mpeg2 players for linux (iirc) I think what we still need is a css decryption software.
The last time I played quake I don't remember any body parts flying.
Another G200 driver project can be found at:
f o/g200-dev
http://lists.on.openprojects.net/mailman/listin