as always, just set you threshhold to above 1, and all is good.
If you don't want to do that, ask Rob et. al to have a switch to turn off ACs for you, and maybe have a way to not see posts based on a regular expression that you set up on your prefs page. Of course the harder everyone tries to get rid of Trolls, the more they will appear. That is their nature, they want to annoy and pester you until you can't stand it anymore. I believe the AMA will be recognizing it as a disease soon, and will hopefully a pill to counter act its affects by 2005. Until then, the AMA are asking that if you see a Troll, to put it out of its (and our) misery, go to any clinic and they will give you a small bat that should do the job, in a crunch, a shovel will do. (no plastic ones though) Detailed instructions accompany the bat. The unfortunate thing is that we can't just ignore them either, they will simply try harder to get our attention.
I tried the other day..XFree 4.0 doesn't support it, supposedly 4.01 is supposed to (from the matrox website). With kernels above 2.3.48 (or something) you can do multihead with frame buffers on the console. Any time I tried to get X to start on hte second monitor Linux would crash. Plus the second monitor is not accelerated, so even catting a file is _really_ slow. Having said all that, 2.3.48 was the first kernel to ever have support for G400 dual heads..I'm sure they have worked out a lot of bugs since, and will continue to do so.. I just wanted to say that while it sounds real cool and all, the G400 isn't all that great.
Corel's Linux distro is pretty much an attempt to make Linux easier for Windows users to switch over. While it isn't for a "real" Linux user, I suppose, it is a great "My First Linux," so to speak. In what way? because it has a nice GUI? all it is is a dressed up KDE. Because it doesn't include a bunch of daemons preinstalled for you? yeah "real" linux users wouldn't be able to figure that out I guess. I find it quite strange that "everyone" calls Corel's distro only for newbies. Corel wants to make Linux easy to use, and I think they have done that. They want to bring (more) major applications to Linux, and they are doing that (Corel Office 2000, Corel Draw is on it's way, etc) One thing they will never be able to do is to take the power of Linux away from users. Linux is still an Open OS. If you think Corel Linux is missing something, install it, if you don't like their version of KDE, don't install it, install your own WhizzBangWM (tm).
_I_ don't fscking care! As a dedicated Linux user what _I_ want is CHOICE
You are singing the same tune, only with different words. You don't mind closed source software, and will use it. The OSN (Open Source Nazis) on the other hand only want to use open source software. You both seem to think that the other is completely wrong, and are completely insane for thinking what they are thinking. The OSN seem to want choice (in Open Source Software [or Free Software depending on which camp you are in]), you, and people like you, want choice in commercial closed source software, or in free/open [source] software. thats all well and good, basically you both just want choice, but the way you speak is all the same, flame people who think differently from you.[usually becuase they flamed you first]
What I'm trying to say is that you should look at the meaning behind posts before you flame. Everyone wants the same thing. Choice.
if you are Canadian. It's Canada Post's site, you can pay bills, send secure mail, etc, etc. I've never tried it myself, I just use my bank's site to pay all my bills. Pretty nifty though.
to quote Loki president Scott Draeker from a recent slashdot interview: 5) Reject ratio (Score:5, Interesting) by FascDot Killed My Pr
I'm assuming that your (current) modus operandi is to call up a company and say "Hey, can we port your game to Linux?" Given that assumption:
1) How many companies have you talked to? 2) What percentage of them rejected the request? 3) Of those that rejected, what were their reasons? (fear of "open source", lack of demand, etc.)
Scott:
I'm going to respond in general terms, as many of your questions apply to ongoing negotiations.
We've spoken to the majority of game companies. When we complete a deal, we turn that into product fairly quickly. Other deal negotiations are ongoing.
The single most important factor for getting a game ported is market size. Everything else is easy to address. If a company feels that they will see sufficient unit sales, then they are quite happy to discuss having a port done.
If you write crap code and people crack your software if you write crap code and someone cracks it thats one thing...but it is always only a matter of time before your code gets cracked. How do you avoid this? To some extent adopt the open source method, release often. but with each new version, change how everything works, thus making it harder to crack. good luck getting customers though.
I don't think rebel.com is a start up...Corel sold the netwinder to Hardware Canada, for some money, and %25 stake in the company...I believe hardware canada relaunched itself as rebel.com.and yeah they are still selling them
every distribution i've seen is either lacking something i want/need or doesn't give me enough control over how and what it installs. Slackware comes the closest to providing the kind of control i am interested in; perhaps the best plan is to build on Slackware. slack rocks. But you have the same control if you use RH, or debian, or stampede... With RH, to get more control during the install go to advanced mode and you'll have complete control of each and every package that gets installed. (not too sure if this is true with the newer ones...) after RH gets installed, run rpm -qa....if you see something you don't like, rpm -e it. You don't like what is starting up? take it out of the rc scripts. I've never used debian, but from what I understand, it is _quite_ configureable. As you said as well, just use the kickstart option to have complete control over the RH install.
If a distro is missing something you want, go grab the source and compile...if you are a slack user, then you must know all about this. (source code is available for other distros for slack ya know =P)
Its kinda weird that you mention a "custom kernel" in your ideal distro..for the distro you are going to need a very generic, everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink kernel so you can boot up after installing and have things work..its a real pain to try and do a network install when your network card isn't supported by the generic kernel. Once you get it installed, grab the latest kernel and compile away!
...not quite sure why you mention well-thought-out Makefiles...that is more application dependant. I like the idea of just source on the install media, and compile away after you choose what OS you want...don't try it on a 486 though!
Of course that is what the spindoctors will make them say: they have been doing it all along to show the evils of patenting. but if they're not saying it now, I will not believe them.
I don't think anyone would...but really, that is beside the point, as long as it puts an end to stupid patents (ya, like thats gonna happen) it works for me.
this isn't in direct response to what Tim has said, but it is nevertheless on topic. What if Amazon.com isn't evil? What if they are purposely setting a precident that you can't patent stuff like this on for web? As Tim said in his letter "you're not the only one who can play the patent game". What if by showing that "playing the patent game" makes you lose all around (customers hate you, you get boycotted, and eventually your patent will not hold up). I think its a great thing that amazon is doing. maybe I'm just an optimist, but I think in the end this is what their actions will show. I mean _really_, any basic web programming course you take will teach you how to do this "1-click shopping" deal, how the heck does Amazon think they invented it?
nope, you can release as often as you want...I released mine 3 times in one week, and all they did was edit the little blurb I put up for changes to make it a little shorter..
I remeber last year (or was it two years ago?) when MS had a beta Media Player for Linux, and was supposed to release a full version "in a few weeks"...that page was there for a few months....
..I didn't like the MS natural keyboard, I guess I have larger-than-average hands, but I gotta find something soon. I tried out the MS natural for about two weeks, and hated it. My speed went down, typing mistakes were way up..and I still found it uncomfortable to type. I realize it takes a while to get adjusted, but I think two weeks is long enough. about 3 years ago I either broke, or severly sprained both my wrists playing basketball, since then, my right wrists makes very strange noises when I roll it around. shit, last night I played Quake for the first time in a few years, and I had to stop after about 10 minutes because the back of my hand, and wrists were _really_ hurting (I don't use the mouse). I think I might try out one of those Kinesis keyboards before too long..
oh yeah, just for anyone who is wondering about those MS natural keyboards, go ahead and try 'em, MS offers a 30 day money back gaurentee. I had no probs returning mine, even though it had some ashes in it =P
depends what you want...if you like cheap drinks, go to stoney's from 8 - 10..buck a drink. its usually fairly quite until like 10:30 or so.. If ya like Belgique (sp?) go to the Royal Oak. If ya like free beer, go to the OLS functions.
...loosen that tin foil hat..you are way to paranoid! I was at the last OLS, Corel sponsered it as well, all they had was a simple sign that said "Corel", and I think they gave away a copy of wordperfect.
This is not a trade show, and Corel realizes that. I hope that they do sponser it again this year, because it ain't cheap to bring in a bunch of speakers, and rent rooms in a nice Hotel for the talks...also there is _tons_ of free beer at OLS!
I am also a member of the Ottawa LUG, it has been around for longer than Corel has been interested in Linux, and they don't participate too much with us...from what I can remember over the past year they have gave away a few copies of WP (I got one:), and paid for a few buses to drive us down to Montreal for an Installfest and gave us a few copies of their beta 2 Corel Linux.
About what you said about Americans, I would have to agree, but all the IPO's are based on American greed, rather than their self centered-ness.
I mean, aren't we moving to a 64-bit world? alpha's are already there, sparc's are already there...intel will eventually get 64-bit desktop machine...why shoot laptop users in the foot with another release of old technology? Sure, it eats less power, but you won't be able to run the latest-greatest-64-bit-only app.
case 1: You have a lowend pentium or a 486, with little RAM ( 16 MB). Running X, a WM, and some graphical browser, will make your system _crawl_!! Even if you are on T3 connection by yourself, web pages will load up very slowly, and the whole experience will just suck.
case 2: You can't currently run X. If you are telnetted into some box, and want to grab a file off of freshmeat, or run a quick search on altavista, a graphical browser isn't even an option.
case 3: You have a beefy box. But you have a some what slow connection (spent all your money on cool hardware;) Pages load _way_ faster in lynx/links and w3m, and the only info you really want is the text anyway, unless you are surfing one-handed.
Now, Andover has been bought out by VA, well great. Now the "leading opensource news site" is owned by $5 billion corporation that has a vested intrest in promoting its services above others. Fantastic. A couple days ago CmndrTaco said that it was "funny" that Time was reporting on AOL's jacked up AOL 5.0. Will it be 'funny' now when slashdot reports on VA's screwups? Or will VA just never make screwups, is that it? Ever hear of journalistic independence? I guess not.
uhhh..I don't think so. What sort of power does VA now wield? If VA doesn't like what/. is writing about, what are they going to do, fire cmdrtaco, hemos, et al.?! No way. Why, because all of the/. community would hate/boycott 'em for that, and you really don't want to get on the bad side of the/. community. If a bad story does come up about VA, then I'm sure people will hear about it from other sources, and if it doesn't come up on/., then I am sure that some hell will be raised about it. Will we see more VA promotions? maybe...but I don't think that is a bad thing...they are a pretty good company that is supporting linux, and this website. its fine by me.
whad'ya mean "few things"?!! Pascal rocked!! It was my first language...man was it sweet! It reads a hell of a lot nicer than C/C++ and java, not quite as nice as Smalltalk, but now we're talking about way different leagues here.
And interfaces, come-on, borland TP 7 has to be the best UI I've ever seen..well again, smalltalk express by parkplace digitalk (I think) again takes the cake.
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umm, try out xanim. I watched it fine in Linux.
as always, just set you threshhold to above 1, and all is good.
If you don't want to do that, ask Rob et. al to have a switch to turn off ACs for you, and maybe have a way to not see posts based on a regular expression that you set up on your prefs page.
Of course the harder everyone tries to get rid of Trolls, the more they will appear. That is their nature, they want to annoy and pester you until you can't stand it anymore. I believe the AMA will be recognizing it as a disease soon, and will hopefully a pill to counter act its affects by 2005. Until then, the AMA are asking that if you see a Troll, to put it out of its (and our) misery, go to any clinic and they will give you a small bat that should do the job, in a crunch, a shovel will do. (no plastic ones though) Detailed instructions accompany the bat.
The unfortunate thing is that we can't just ignore them either, they will simply try harder to get our attention.
I tried the other day..XFree 4.0 doesn't support it, supposedly 4.01 is supposed to (from the matrox website). With kernels above 2.3.48 (or something) you can do multihead with frame buffers on the console. Any time I tried to get X to start on hte second monitor Linux would crash. Plus the second monitor is not accelerated, so even catting a file is _really_ slow.
Having said all that, 2.3.48 was the first kernel to ever have support for G400 dual heads..I'm sure they have worked out a lot of bugs since, and will continue to do so..
I just wanted to say that while it sounds real cool and all, the G400 isn't all that great.
Corel's Linux distro is pretty much an attempt to make Linux easier for Windows users to switch over. While it isn't for a "real" Linux user, I suppose, it is a great "My First Linux," so to speak.
In what way? because it has a nice GUI? all it is is a dressed up KDE. Because it doesn't include a bunch of daemons preinstalled for you? yeah "real" linux users wouldn't be able to figure that out I guess.
I find it quite strange that "everyone" calls Corel's distro only for newbies. Corel wants to make Linux easy to use, and I think they have done that. They want to bring (more) major applications to Linux, and they are doing that (Corel Office 2000, Corel Draw is on it's way, etc)
One thing they will never be able to do is to take the power of Linux away from users. Linux is still an Open OS. If you think Corel Linux is missing something, install it, if you don't like their version of KDE, don't install it, install your own WhizzBangWM (tm).
_I_ don't fscking care! As a dedicated Linux user what _I_ want is CHOICE
You are singing the same tune, only with different words. You don't mind closed source software, and will use it.
The OSN (Open Source Nazis) on the other hand only want to use open source software.
You both seem to think that the other is completely wrong, and are completely insane for thinking what they are thinking.
The OSN seem to want choice (in Open Source Software [or Free Software depending on which camp you are in]), you, and people like you, want choice in commercial closed source software, or in free/open [source] software.
thats all well and good, basically you both just want choice, but the way you speak is all the same, flame people who think differently from you.[usually becuase they flamed you first]
What I'm trying to say is that you should look at the meaning behind posts before you flame. Everyone wants the same thing. Choice.
..the article taken down, 1984? and which ministry took it out? Yup, thats right minitrue!
if you are Canadian. It's Canada Post's site, you can pay bills, send secure mail, etc, etc. I've never tried it myself, I just use my bank's site to pay all my bills. Pretty nifty though.
to quote Loki president Scott Draeker from a recent slashdot interview:
5) Reject ratio
(Score:5, Interesting) by FascDot Killed My Pr
I'm assuming that your (current) modus operandi is to call up a company and say "Hey, can we port your game to Linux?"
Given that assumption:
1) How many companies have you talked to? 2) What percentage of them rejected the request? 3) Of those that rejected, what
were their reasons? (fear of "open source", lack of demand, etc.)
Scott:
I'm going to respond in general terms, as many of your questions apply to ongoing negotiations.
We've spoken to the majority of game companies. When we complete a deal, we turn that into product fairly quickly. Other deal
negotiations are ongoing.
The single most important factor for getting a game ported is market size. Everything else is easy to address. If a company feels
that they will see sufficient unit sales, then they are quite happy to discuss having a port done.
If you write crap code and people crack your software ...but it is always only a matter of time before your code gets cracked. How do you avoid this? To some extent adopt the open source method, release often. but with each new version, change how everything works, thus making it harder to crack.
if you write crap code and someone cracks it thats one thing
good luck getting customers though.
I don't think rebel.com is a start up...Corel sold the netwinder to Hardware Canada, for some money, and %25 stake in the company...I believe hardware canada relaunched itself as rebel.com.and yeah they are still selling them
every distribution i've seen is either lacking something i want/need or doesn't give me enough control over how and what it installs. Slackware comes the closest to providing the kind of control i am interested in; perhaps the best plan is to build on Slackware. ....if you see something you don't like, rpm -e it. You don't like what is starting up? take it out of the rc scripts.
slack rocks. But you have the same control if you use RH, or debian, or stampede...
With RH, to get more control during the install go to advanced mode and you'll have complete control of each and every package that gets installed. (not too sure if this is true with the newer ones...)
after RH gets installed, run rpm -qa
I've never used debian, but from what I understand, it is _quite_ configureable.
As you said as well, just use the kickstart option to have complete control over the RH install.
If a distro is missing something you want, go grab the source and compile...if you are a slack user, then you must know all about this. (source code is available for other distros for slack ya know =P)
Its kinda weird that you mention a "custom kernel" in your ideal distro..for the distro you are going to need a very generic, everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink kernel so you can boot up after installing and have things work..its a real pain to try and do a network install when your network card isn't supported by the generic kernel. Once you get it installed, grab the latest kernel and compile away!
...not quite sure why you mention well-thought-out Makefiles...that is more application dependant.
I like the idea of just source on the install media, and compile away after you choose what OS you want...don't try it on a 486 though!
Of course that is what the spindoctors will make them say: they have been doing it all along to show the evils of patenting. but if they're not saying it now, I will not believe them.
I don't think anyone would...but really, that is beside the point, as long as it puts an end to stupid patents (ya, like thats gonna happen) it works for me.
this isn't in direct response to what Tim has said, but it is nevertheless on topic.
What if Amazon.com isn't evil? What if they are purposely setting a precident that you can't patent stuff like this on for web? As Tim said in his letter "you're not the only one who can play the patent game". What if by showing that "playing the patent game" makes you lose all around (customers hate you, you get boycotted, and eventually your patent will not hold up).
I think its a great thing that amazon is doing.
maybe I'm just an optimist, but I think in the end this is what their actions will show. I mean _really_, any basic web programming course you take will teach you how to do this "1-click shopping" deal, how the heck does Amazon think they invented it?
nope, you can release as often as you want...I released mine 3 times in one week, and all they did was edit the little blurb I put up for changes to make it a little shorter..
I remeber last year (or was it two years ago?) when MS had a beta Media Player for Linux, and was supposed to release a full version "in a few weeks"...that page was there for a few months....
rm -rf /path/to/previous/version/of/netscape
tar -zxvf new_version_of_netscape.tar.gz
cd new_version_of_netscape
./nsinstall
hit enter a few times
and you are done.
too hard for you?
for reasons why the rpms aren't out. read the other replies to your comment.
..I didn't like the MS natural keyboard, I guess I have larger-than-average hands, but I gotta find something soon. I tried out the MS natural for about two weeks, and hated it. My speed went down, typing mistakes were way up..and I still found it uncomfortable to type. I realize it takes a while to get adjusted, but I think two weeks is long enough.
about 3 years ago I either broke, or severly sprained both my wrists playing basketball, since then, my right wrists makes very strange noises when I roll it around.
shit, last night I played Quake for the first time in a few years, and I had to stop after about 10 minutes because the back of my hand, and wrists were _really_ hurting (I don't use the mouse). I think I might try out one of those Kinesis keyboards before too long..
oh yeah, just for anyone who is wondering about those MS natural keyboards, go ahead and try 'em, MS offers a 30 day money back gaurentee. I had no probs returning mine, even though it had some ashes in it =P
depends what you want...if you like cheap drinks, go to stoney's from 8 - 10..buck a drink.
its usually fairly quite until like 10:30 or so..
If ya like Belgique (sp?) go to the Royal Oak.
If ya like free beer, go to the OLS functions.
...loosen that tin foil hat..you are way to paranoid!
:), and paid for a few buses to drive us down to Montreal for an Installfest and gave us a few copies of their beta 2 Corel Linux.
I was at the last OLS, Corel sponsered it as well, all they had was a simple sign that said "Corel", and I think they gave away a copy of wordperfect.
This is not a trade show, and Corel realizes that. I hope that they do sponser it again this year, because it ain't cheap to bring in a bunch of speakers, and rent rooms in a nice Hotel for the talks...also there is _tons_ of free beer at OLS!
I am also a member of the Ottawa LUG, it has been around for longer than Corel has been interested in Linux, and they don't participate too much with us...from what I can remember over the past year they have gave away a few copies of WP (I got one
About what you said about Americans, I would have to agree, but all the IPO's are based on American greed, rather than their self centered-ness.
that this falls under the "Stuff That Matters" dept. If you are looking for straight news, you might want to check out segfault
I mean, aren't we moving to a 64-bit world? alpha's are already there, sparc's are already there...intel will eventually get 64-bit desktop machine...why shoot laptop users in the foot with another release of old technology? Sure, it eats less power, but you won't be able to run the latest-greatest-64-bit-only app.
I laugh at you c.r.o.c.o! You will never be able to type faster than me!! and now I can take over the WORLD!!! bwwahahahaha (manic, evil laughter)
LOL
case 1:
;) Pages load _way_ faster in lynx/links and w3m, and the only info you really want is the text anyway, unless you are surfing one-handed.
You have a lowend pentium or a 486, with little RAM ( 16 MB). Running X, a WM, and some graphical browser, will make your system _crawl_!! Even if you are on T3 connection by yourself, web pages will load up very slowly, and the whole experience will just suck.
case 2:
You can't currently run X. If you are telnetted into some box, and want to grab a file off of freshmeat, or run a quick search on altavista, a graphical browser isn't even an option.
case 3:
You have a beefy box. But you have a some what slow connection (spent all your money on cool hardware
case 4:
you are hardcore. Who needs X anyway?!
Now, Andover has been bought out by VA, well great. Now the "leading opensource news site" is owned by $5 billion corporation that has a
/. is writing about, what are they going to do, fire cmdrtaco, hemos, et al.?! No way. Why, because all of the /. community would hate/boycott 'em for that, and you really don't want to get on the bad side of the /. community. If a bad story does come up about VA, then I'm sure people will hear about it from other sources, and if it doesn't come up on /., then I am sure that some hell will be raised about it.
vested intrest in promoting its services above others. Fantastic.
A couple days ago CmndrTaco said that it was "funny" that Time was reporting on AOL's jacked up AOL 5.0. Will it be 'funny' now when slashdot reports on VA's screwups? Or will VA just never make screwups, is that it?
Ever hear of journalistic independence? I guess not.
uhhh..I don't think so. What sort of power does VA now wield? If VA doesn't like what
Will we see more VA promotions? maybe...but I don't think that is a bad thing...they are a pretty good company that is supporting linux, and this website. its fine by me.
whad'ya mean "few things"?!! Pascal rocked!! It was my first language...man was it sweet! It reads a hell of a lot nicer than C/C++ and java, not quite as nice as Smalltalk, but now we're talking about way different leagues here.
And interfaces, come-on, borland TP 7 has to be the best UI I've ever seen..well again, smalltalk express by parkplace digitalk (I think) again takes the cake.