unless one is willing to use proprietary driver, but who is? *cough*
That is the main reason why I can't sleep at night. You see I have a GeForce, and I sometimes like to play games under Linux. But the GeForce only has proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration. Yeah I have to admit - I sometimes use them. I don't really know when my problem started. All I know is that I'm pretty fucked up now, and I know it has something to do with nVidia's proprietary drivers. I hear that someone is trying to write a DRI driver for nVidia cards, though. Man that would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Imagine it. 5 times slower, and hardly any features of the proprietary drivers, and crashing all the time and stuff... I hope it's not just a rumour.
Grow up dude. If you're in a position like me, where you HAVE a fucking Radeon 64MB DDR and can't use it because the DRI drivers don't support S3 Texture compression, or lock immediately when running Tribes 2, or are slow as shit running Neverwinter Nights, or TV-out isn't supported because they don't give a shit, or capture doesn't work because the authors have a problem with gcc-3.x then you say "fuck it!" and borrow your best friend's Geforce, and install the evil proprietary drivers and STFU.
Still re-coding for register_global_variables...
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God damn! I'm half-way through re-writing our website to remove our dependance on the depreciated register_global_variables stuff which I learned to live with and then was told was a stupid idea. I'm hoping they don't break too many other things 'cause being a php beginner, the whole process is a bit of a nightmare.
When I got my phone connected here, Telstra mis-spelled my name. My name is incredibly uncommon.
About a month later, I was looking through the logs on the mail server at work ( as you do ) and saw an error about an unknown user, which just happened to be made up of my first initial, and then my last name... mis-spelled just as Telstra had ( at my company dot com dot au ).
I immeditately called Telstra and confronted them, and they denied everything. The girl was quite rude about it and implied that I might also have stories about little green men carrying experiments out on my while I was asleep.
I absolutely INSIST that Telstra sold my details, consisting of ( but not limited to ):
- my first and last name - my employer
The above I can deduce from the logs on the mail server at work.
This is especially fucked since Blizzard refuse to offer a Linux version of Warcraft. They don't want the market themselves, but don't want anyone else to have it either.
Anyway, go easy on my mirror. Broadband is fucking expensive here in Australia. Ask our local monopoly, Telstra, about it...
Windows users have a fair point that not many games are released for Linux because the market is less than 5% of the Windows market.
You can't seriously tell us you expect them to support about 5% of the Linux market.
If you have an Alpha linux box, it's not so you can play games on it. It's because you're serious about what you're doing. And if you are good at what you're so serious about doing, you can afford to buy a cheap-as-buscuits x86 system.
But email them and complain, by all means. Maybe you can ask them if it will run on the latest $10,000 professional GPU, and if they can write support for those lasergun things you point at the screen. Those are cool. Oh, Oh, Oh, and force feedback. Gotta have force feeeeeeeeedbaaaaaack!
I told you so. Fair enough - I was wrong about the individuals involved. But I knew The Canopy Group was behind it.
The Canopy Group are run by the kind of scum you typically find at the top of the ruling elite in each country. The problem for us is that reality seldom affects a court's decision, since there is so much 'incentive' coming through the back door. These 'investors' have such an astronomically large amount of money that it won't matter who did what.
Consider also the outcome from our 'win' against Microsoft. Hopefully we don't have the same kind of win against The Canopy Group...
No, actually, it is Israel. The old USSR _used_ to be No 2. But since the mid 1990's, Israel has had the honour. See here, here and here for details. Note that although they are being outdone in nuclear weapons, their large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons more than makes up for it...
Terrorist sponsoring? You need to check up on what your own regime sponsors. Israel, for instance. They have the 2nd largest stockpile of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (tm) on Earth. And you _know_ where they got it from. And you _know_ who has the biggest stockpile.
Not impressed with the Israel example? Well how about Iraq? You know where Saddam got _his_ weapons, don't you?
How about Cuba? How about Turkey? Indonesia? All these people have been oppressed for years under a military dictatorship sponsored by the US.
I don't sponsor anything but common sense and equality.
I've always thought that the Export Regulation laws were screwed. Why would Iran, Syria, or whoever want to build a supercomputer to simulate a nuclear explosion, when they only have to ask the fucking yankees nicely and they will gladly provide them with the real thing "oh sure it killed millions of people & animals and poisened hundres of millions for millions of years to come, but think of how many american lives it saved".
Seriosly, nuclear explosions have been studied to death (pun intended). Anyone serious about taking a shot at the US (I'm sure there are some out there) only need pay a laughably insignificant amount of money either on the black market or to the arms manufacturers who don't give a frig about what the Pentagon would like.
Preventing SMP and supercomputer technology (and the fucking web browser I'm using, for fuck's sake) from entering [insert anti-american country here] is just demonstrating american arrogance. I'm sure it is done in the same spirit as all the bans on medical equipment entering Iraq. Can't have the fuckers healing themselves! The yankees aren't too keen on keeping their karma high, are they?
With the bad taste over the phantom 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (tm) still in our mouths, those of us who disagree with the owner of the largest stockpile of 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (tm) on Earth chuckle at the US predicament.
You see, the companies that have elevated your country to its current position in international thuggery are quite willing and able to give your jobs to less well paid workers in other countries . Usually these slave-labour countries are run by a military dictatorship, much like the one the multinational corporations would like to have everywhere.
Several contradictions US society must deal with if they want to evolve from where they are:
1) You can't steal everything. Even with all the wars US has started and all the 'rights' it has won and 'deals' it has signed, it must pay the world for the goods and services it uses. Currenty it does not. Currently, the US foreign debt is climbing by over $US 1 billion per day. 2) Military dicatorships are not acceptable, except when they allow US corporations to rape the country's local resources - including the people in slave labour camps. 3) American patriotism is the greatest force on the planet, except when tbe individuals insist on charing so much for their sevices, and it becomes more profitable to employ foreigners in slave labour camps.
I could go on and on, but those who agree with me need no more reminders, and those who don't agree with me already have their heads in the sand by now.
"The global demand for Linux-based Internet solutions is not only staggering â" but skyrocketing," said Ralph Yarro, president of the Canopy Group Investment Company. "Major solutions providers are under a great deal of pressure to provide a full range of Linux-based Internet solutions ranging from hand held devices to enterprise level connectivity. Leveraging the strength of Lineo in the embedded market will allow OpenLinux to scale to meet the needs of all business customers."
Also from the same page the chairman of the Canopy Group Investment Company, Ray Noorda is a former Novell CEO.
What do you think the chances are that Novell knew of the code copying (if it occured that is) but chose to not pursue it, and this Ray Noorda tipped The Canopy Group off as to the potential litigation value in it, so they bought it up, and drummed up a bit of support for it so they could turn around later and hit all the 'skyrocketing' growth potential Ralph Yarro was talking about?
Touchy? Arrogant? I think you're forgetting who got all upset about a few building falling over and then got retribution by forging evidence of 'Wigwams of Masturbation' and blackmailing the rest of the world into supporting an illegal invasion of a defenseless country. All for your stupid American pride. So who is touchy? And arrogant?
I'm surprised the Americans even realise Australia exists, let alone have preconceived notions about their supposed inferior exposure to large numerals. Getting smarter, are we?
Re:SCO still packs a punch?
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WTF? Buying them out is exactly what they want. The most satisfying outcome, by far, will be to watch them jump up and down crying blue murder until their day in court, at which point they are told to go fuck themselves, and their share price drops off the scale.
Anything else is better than what they deserve.
By the way, if you want to tell the managing director of SCO Australia what you think of him, his mobile number is: 0419 660 016 SCO
Exactly. Rupert fucking Murdock has been selling up a storm against Iraq in the local media here in Australia. And his reasoning is simple: do what the governments say, get permission to buy the remaining media companies.
Money, government and news should NEVER be associated with each other in any way.
I bet that greedy war-monger of an arse-fuck ( Rupert Murdock ) is behind this.
Democracy carries with it the assumption of independant media. Without it, there is no news - only government propoganda. What is the difference between what the US is striving for and what they just removed from Iraq? Answer: George Bush is uglier that Saddam. Other than that, same same.
The only 2 sites I've ever found that required IE were Westpac's and NineMSN's.
Westpac serves up a a crippled left-hand menu thingy for Mozilla, unless you tell Mozilla to masquerade as IE, and then it works fine. I have told Westpac about it several times, and they usually ignore me, or call back a week later and tell me to upgrade to the latest version of Netscape. When I tell them that I already have, they ask for the version number, and say, "Oh, sorry. Not as recent as version 7; try version 4!". Tosses...
NineMSN is a join project between the Nine Network and Microsoft, so it's not too surprising that it doesn't work correctly with Mozilla. By the way, the only thing that doesn't work is the live chat feature - I went there one time to talk with some guests on Nine's "60 Minutes" program and was told to upgrade my browser AND operating system. I sent them that I'd just made a.NET account to use their stupid chat, and told them what happened, and invited them to bite me, and the fuckers pulled my.NET account.
But apart from that, I've never had any problems with this 'IE only' crap that I hear others complaining about.
Give me some examples of sites that are IE-only, someone. Please.
Why rats? I suppose rats are seen as disposable. With the current world situation (Iraq, Palestine, Tibet, Cuba......) does this really surprise you? Rats don't conjure up as much emotion as squids - squids have a kinda unique, rare quality about them.
I assume the researchers would not approve of using their children's brains in their experiments. According to science and capitalism, the right to life and freedom from torture is directly proportional to the intelligence and wealth of the individual.
Would you apply this line of reasoning to ALL areas? What if the job were researching Bush's all-feared biological weapons? Or GM products?
The problem is that if everybody decides to look the other way (and everyone can find a reason why they should take their money and shut up), then some pretty fucked up things get done, and people are left wondering, "How did it come to this?"
Now I'm not saying that the world is going to end because someone's harvesting prices off the net. I'm just questioning your "Me first, no-one else 2nd" argument.
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That is the main reason why I can't sleep at night. You see I have a GeForce, and I sometimes like to play games under Linux. But the GeForce only has proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration. Yeah I have to admit - I sometimes use them. I don't really know when my problem started. All I know is that I'm pretty fucked up now, and I know it has something to do with nVidia's proprietary drivers. I hear that someone is trying to write a DRI driver for nVidia cards, though. Man that would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Imagine it. 5 times slower, and hardly any features of the proprietary drivers, and crashing all the time and stuff... I hope it's not just a rumour.
Grow up dude. If you're in a position like me, where you HAVE a fucking Radeon 64MB DDR and can't use it because the DRI drivers don't support S3 Texture compression, or lock immediately when running Tribes 2, or are slow as shit running Neverwinter Nights, or TV-out isn't supported because they don't give a shit, or capture doesn't work because the authors have a problem with gcc-3.x then you say "fuck it!" and borrow your best friend's Geforce, and install the evil proprietary drivers and STFU.
God damn!
I'm half-way through re-writing our website to remove our dependance on the depreciated register_global_variables stuff which I learned to live with and then was told was a stupid idea.
I'm hoping they don't break too many other things 'cause being a php beginner, the whole process is a bit of a nightmare.
The major shareholders in SCO ( The Canopy Group ) are the ones behind the lawsuit.
However it is possible that another shareholder could try to sue them.
I would think that most shareholders would already have sold their shares in disgust. If they haven't, they deserve to loose their investment.
When I got my phone connected here, Telstra mis-spelled my name. My name is incredibly uncommon.
... mis-spelled just as Telstra had ( at my company dot com dot au ).
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About a month later, I was looking through the logs on the mail server at work ( as you do ) and saw an error about an unknown user, which just happened to be made up of my first initial, and then my last name
I immeditately called Telstra and confronted them, and they denied everything. The girl was quite rude about it and implied that I might also have stories about little green men carrying experiments out on my while I was asleep.
I absolutely INSIST that Telstra sold my details, consisting of ( but not limited to )
- my first and last name
- my employer
The above I can deduce from the logs on the mail server at work.
What a load of bullshit!
I'm currently downloading the game engine and artwork (sound & graphics).
They will soon be available at: game engine and artwork.
This is especially fucked since Blizzard refuse to offer a Linux version of Warcraft. They don't want the market themselves, but don't want anyone else to have it either.
Anyway, go easy on my mirror. Broadband is fucking expensive here in Australia. Ask our local monopoly, Telstra, about it...
Now come ON!
Windows users have a fair point that not many games are released for Linux because the market is less than 5% of the Windows market.
You can't seriously tell us you expect them to support about 5% of the Linux market.
If you have an Alpha linux box, it's not so you can play games on it. It's because you're serious about what you're doing. And if you are good at what you're so serious about doing, you can afford to buy a cheap-as-buscuits x86 system.
But email them and complain, by all means. Maybe you can ask them if it will run on the latest $10,000 professional GPU, and if they can write support for those lasergun things you point at the screen. Those are cool. Oh, Oh, Oh, and force feedback. Gotta have force feeeeeeeeedbaaaaaack!
I told you so. Fair enough - I was wrong about the individuals involved. But I knew The Canopy Group was behind it.
The Canopy Group are run by the kind of scum you typically find at the top of the ruling elite in each country. The problem for us is that reality seldom affects a court's decision, since there is so much 'incentive' coming through the back door. These 'investors' have such an astronomically large amount of money that it won't matter who did what.
Consider also the outcome from our 'win' against Microsoft. Hopefully we don't have the same kind of win against The Canopy Group...
Looks like their economy is going down the toilet anyway.
On the other hand, I have no patience for Koreans. 95% of my SPAM comes from Korea.
So either way really
No, actually, it is Israel.
The old USSR _used_ to be No 2. But since the mid 1990's, Israel has had the honour.
See here, here and here for details.
Note that although they are being outdone in nuclear weapons, their large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons more than makes up for it...
Terrorist sponsoring?
You need to check up on what your own regime sponsors. Israel, for instance. They have the 2nd largest stockpile of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (tm) on Earth. And you _know_ where they got it from. And you _know_ who has the biggest stockpile.
Not impressed with the Israel example? Well how about Iraq? You know where Saddam got _his_ weapons, don't you?
How about Cuba? How about Turkey? Indonesia? All these people have been oppressed for years under a military dictatorship sponsored by the US.
I don't sponsor anything but common sense and equality.
I've always thought that the Export Regulation laws were screwed.
Why would Iran, Syria, or whoever want to build a supercomputer to simulate a nuclear explosion, when they only have to ask the fucking yankees nicely and they will gladly provide them with the real thing "oh sure it killed millions of people & animals and poisened hundres of millions for millions of years to come, but think of how many american lives it saved".
Seriosly, nuclear explosions have been studied to death (pun intended). Anyone serious about taking a shot at the US (I'm sure there are some out there) only need pay a laughably insignificant amount of money either on the black market or to the arms manufacturers who don't give a frig about what the Pentagon would like.
Preventing SMP and supercomputer technology (and the fucking web browser I'm using, for fuck's sake) from entering [insert anti-american country here] is just demonstrating american arrogance. I'm sure it is done in the same spirit as all the bans on medical equipment entering Iraq. Can't have the fuckers healing themselves! The yankees aren't too keen on keeping their karma high, are they?
With the bad taste over the phantom 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (tm) still in our mouths, those of us who disagree with the owner of the largest stockpile of 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (tm) on Earth chuckle at the US predicament.
You see, the companies that have elevated your country to its current position in international thuggery are quite willing and able to give your jobs to less well paid workers in other countries . Usually these slave-labour countries are run by a military dictatorship, much like the one the multinational corporations would like to have everywhere.
Several contradictions US society must deal with if they want to evolve from where they are:
1) You can't steal everything. Even with all the wars US has started and all the 'rights' it has won and 'deals' it has signed, it must pay the world for the goods and services it uses. Currenty it does not. Currently, the US foreign debt is climbing by over $US 1 billion per day.
2) Military dicatorships are not acceptable, except when they allow US corporations to rape the country's local resources - including the people in slave labour camps.
3) American patriotism is the greatest force on the planet, except when tbe individuals insist on charing so much for their sevices, and it becomes more profitable to employ foreigners in slave labour camps.
I could go on and on, but those who agree with me need no more reminders, and those who don't agree with me already have their heads in the sand by now.
OMG OMG OMG!
MOD PARENT UP!
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Also from the same page the chairman of the Canopy Group Investment Company, Ray Noorda is a former Novell CEO.
What do you think the chances are that Novell knew of the code copying (if it occured that is) but chose to not pursue it, and this Ray Noorda tipped The Canopy Group off as to the potential litigation value in it, so they bought it up, and drummed up a bit of support for it so they could turn around later and hit all the 'skyrocketing' growth potential Ralph Yarro was talking about?
Touchy?
Arrogant?
I think you're forgetting who got all upset about a few building falling over and then got retribution by forging evidence of 'Wigwams of Masturbation' and blackmailing the rest of the world into supporting an illegal invasion of a defenseless country. All for your stupid American pride.
So who is touchy?
And arrogant?
I'm surprised the Americans even realise Australia exists, let alone have preconceived notions about their supposed inferior exposure to large numerals.
Getting smarter, are we?
WTF?
Buying them out is exactly what they want.
The most satisfying outcome, by far, will be to watch them jump up and down crying blue murder until their day in court, at which point they are told to go fuck themselves, and their share price drops off the scale.
Anything else is better than what they deserve.
By the way, if you want to tell the managing director of SCO Australia what you think of him, his mobile number is: 0419 660 016 SCO
Exactly.
Rupert fucking Murdock has been selling up a storm against Iraq in the local media here in Australia.
And his reasoning is simple: do what the governments say, get permission to buy the remaining media companies.
Money, government and news should NEVER be associated with each other in any way.
I bet that greedy war-monger of an arse-fuck ( Rupert Murdock ) is behind this.
Democracy carries with it the assumption of independant media. Without it, there is no news - only government propoganda. What is the difference between what the US is striving for and what they just removed from Iraq? Answer: George Bush is uglier that Saddam. Other than that, same same.
Westpac's nagivation menu is broken unless your browser calls itself IE.
And the MSN site doesn't support live chat stuff with Mozilla.
You didn't read my post very well, did you?
The only 2 sites I've ever found that required IE were Westpac's and NineMSN's.
.NET account to use their stupid chat, and told them what happened, and invited them to bite me, and the fuckers pulled my .NET account.
Westpac serves up a a crippled left-hand menu thingy for Mozilla, unless you tell Mozilla to masquerade as IE, and then it works fine. I have told Westpac about it several times, and they usually ignore me, or call back a week later and tell me to upgrade to the latest version of Netscape. When I tell them that I already have, they ask for the version number, and say, "Oh, sorry. Not as recent as version 7; try version 4!". Tosses...
NineMSN is a join project between the Nine Network and Microsoft, so it's not too surprising that it doesn't work correctly with Mozilla. By the way, the only thing that doesn't work is the live chat feature - I went there one time to talk with some guests on Nine's "60 Minutes" program and was told to upgrade my browser AND operating system. I sent them that I'd just made a
But apart from that, I've never had any problems with this 'IE only' crap that I hear others complaining about.
Give me some examples of sites that are IE-only, someone. Please.
Why rats? ......) does this really surprise you?
I suppose rats are seen as disposable.
With the current world situation (Iraq, Palestine, Tibet, Cuba
Rats don't conjure up as much emotion as squids - squids have a kinda unique, rare quality about them.
I assume the researchers would not approve of using their children's brains in their experiments. According to science and capitalism, the right to life and freedom from torture is directly proportional to the intelligence and wealth of the individual.
Would you apply this line of reasoning to ALL areas?
What if the job were researching Bush's all-feared biological weapons?
Or GM products?
The problem is that if everybody decides to look the other way (and everyone can find a reason why they should take their money and shut up), then some pretty fucked up things get done, and people are left wondering, "How did it come to this?"
Now I'm not saying that the world is going to end because someone's harvesting prices off the net. I'm just questioning your "Me first, no-one else 2nd" argument.
I see why you remain anonymous now
1) Your post doesn't seem relevant to mine at all
2) I AM using Gentoo.
3) WTF?