I can't see why everyone else doesn't also response 'Tribes 2'. This is THE most impressive thing I have seen running on my Linux box, apart from maybe VMWare, but that's no game...
Tribes 2 has incredibly graphics, the game runs BETTER under Linux than Windows on my 500Mhz Athlon / 64MB DDR Radeon / 384MB. And it is totally immersive. If I just had ping times of less than 500ms everything would be sweet!
I have had many long, terribly unsatisfactory phone calls to M$ tech support. Their latest version of Access (2002) which comes with Office XP is one of the causes. It crashes like a fucking bitch every time you scratch yourself.
Anyway, the point...
Each call starts out the same. I get someone who can just barely speak English (this is in Australia, by the way) and who has ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE. They openly admit this. For example:
Me: "Access crashes all the time. When I open a form based on a SQL Server table, and..."
Them: "Hang on sir. I think you need to talk to our developer support team. I am merely handling incoming phone calls. If you want to speak to someone how has a clue, you will need to pay us $290. Do you have a credit card?"
Me: "But... But... Access keeps FUCKING CRASHING!!! Fix it. Don't charge me $290. Just FIX THE FUCKING THING. Please."
Them: "I will put you through to office developer support and they will explain to you the different methods of payment."
... call transferred...
Me: "OK. Screw this paying $290 per cause-of-a-crash bullshit. If it was so fucking crashy, you shouldn't have released it and charged like a wounded bull for it."
Them: "You can view our web site for free if you have the latest version of Internet Explorer. Also, if you pay us $290 and we find that the fault is already listed on our web site, we will refund your money" (!!!)
Me: Slams phone down in disgust.
This has happened probably 30 times now.
In contrast to this, there has not been one Linux / Open-Source software problem that I haven't been able to solve by searching on the net and asking questions in newsgroups.
2 things:
Firstly, I have dealt with more than my share of crappy accounting packages, and I would be VERY surprised if they didn't run under Wine. They are mostly DOS-based apps with a Win3.1 GUI slapped on them. Some are even upgraded to be 'compatible with Windows95'.
Second, who cares about accounting software, or Joe's ever-so-important flowcharting app, or Trish's Win200-based email address harvester? I think we are taking the wrong approach if we are attempting to install Linux on EVERY box RIGHT NOW. It sounds like a company I despise. Some people will have to use Windows for at least the next 5 years, and we should just deal with it and put our efforts into something useful - like pulling in users through easier channels than Win32 emulation, and watch the apps get re-written.
Get your own back from SPAMMERS! Click the link and follow through to each of the SPAMMER's advertisments you wish to 'pay back' for their fine services. The cost to the SPAMMERS per click is displayed next to each advertisment. Only one click per day per person per advertisement is counted...
http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home&Keywor ds=bulk+email
I think I speak for all Australians when I say:
"Kerry, you are a fucking idiot!"
Everything he touches turns to shit, whether it's TV networks, airlines, or now the whole fucking ecosystem.
Get your own back from SPAMMERS! Click the link and follow through to each of the SPAMMER's advertisments you wish to 'pay back' for their fine services. The cost to the SPAMMERS per click is displayed next to each advertisment. Only one click per day per person per advertisement is counted...
http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home&Keywor ds=bulk+email
Check out http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/evas.html (sorry I can't figure out linking in Slashdot. I think my account is broken)
Evas from the new Enlightenment does this sort of thing (hardware alpha-bending, anti-aliased text, etc). There is a neat little demo included in Evas which shows off the features. I'm not sure about transparency (which I suppose this article is about). I think I remember reading some threads on the E developers list where Rasterman said that there are some very dirty ways of achieving this (transparency) with a BIG performance hit, but he wasn't interested in supporting it seriously until X offered some better tools. Or something. Anyway, if you're interested, check out the mailing list archives.
What's up with the DRI drivers???
I find them VERY fast - more so than Windows (2000). I get 10% better FPS under Quake 3, and it just FEELS smoother - no slowdowns under heavy load. nVidia's driver have problems. It's fine if you install Redhat (or should I say Linux 7.1) and don't ever upgrade your kernel or X server, but for everyone else (ie real Linux users) there are some fairly sad compatibility problems with the nVidia drivers. They are still compiled against xfree86-4.0.2. They don't work with the kernel pre-emption patch. They are on-again / off-again with -ac patches. And with 2.5.0 opening, you can guarantee the compatibility problems will only widen.
There are some VERY good reasons...
1) When you re-start after a crash (which is usually the fault of Mozilla), you get an option of opening each page you were viewing when it crashed. Very nice...
2) It IS still a lot faster. At least on my 500Mhz Athlon / 256 MB. Some people tell me I should upgrade. I say "I don't need to; I run Linux". And then they say "Ah... but what about Mozilla. It's SLOW." And I say "I don't need to; I run Galeon". And they shut up.
3) The config system is well thought out. Things are where they should be, and everything behaves as expected.
4) The themes are SUPER cool. And they acutally work, unlike Mozilla themes, which need to be re-written every new moon and are sub-standard anyway.
5) The rendering is actually faster than Mozilla. I don't know why this is, since it's based on Mozilla, but it's true.
In summary, I think there are a LOT of things besides the speed improvements that Galeon has to offer. When I upgrade to an Athlon XP, or possibly a Clawhammer, I will still use Galeon.
Step 1: Fuck the world, quick!
Step 2: Ask questions later... when the world is not in a position to do anything about it
I'm REAL glad you guys in the US voted in that trigger-happy terrorist for president... NOT!!!
Can't comment yet as I'm just downloading now, but in the meantime: where have the themes gone? Whenever I try to download others, I'm met with a 'page not found' error. Is this because Mozilla is moving faster than the theme developers can handle? Is there actually more choice than 'classic' and 'modern'? Not that these aren't good themes anyway. I'm just wondering...
Keep up the good work! (Oh and fix that bloody 'print selection' bug.)
Doesn't seem to work for me.
However http://spamcop.net does wonders. A couple of weeks ago I contacted dodgy list-seller, http://www.incnet.com.au and complained about them continuing to sell my details to others when I had emailed AND phoned (it's a local call - I'm in Sydney) and asked to be removed. I talked to a guy who said "Oh YOU'RE the bastard that reported us to Spamcop. We had a LOT of trouble because of that". He then bullshitted on about how he was going to sue me for causing him financial loss. So I called the Australian Direct Marketing Association and put in a formal complaint and haven't heard from either since. I assume he was talking shit at the time and got into trouble over it since.
Anyway, the moral is that Spamcop does seem to do something, and it's a lot easier than personally emailing all involved with each piece of spam you recieve.
My hunch is that the rate of innocent civilians killed : terrorists killed is something like 10:1
Of course, it is incredibly difficult to get statistics on these sort of things. There are live counters on the web which show the number of AMERICAN civilians killed / found / unhappy because of the towers coming down, but no such stats from the other side.
I saw on ABC (Australian) news a couple of nights ago that the US was sending in B-52s to carpet bomb the place. FUCKING B-52s AND CARPET BOMBS!!!!
That is not how to eradicate terrorism. That is responding to 1 small faction's terrorism with terrorism on the NATIONAL scale.
The sooner someone puts George Bush in the front-line the better.
The Bush family is in bed with the oil cartel & weapons manufacturers, not the scientific community. Anyway, you can't have too much scientific research going on, because the knowledge gained may tend to enspire people to think for themselves. ie "Why are we blowing the fuck out of Afghanistan civilians?"
War on terrorism. Yeah, right.
War on Bush's enemies, maybe..
Strange. I've got an Irongate board (Biostar M7MKA) with a Slot A 700MHz Athlon and AI All In Wonder with AGPgart compiled in - never had a problem. I don't doubt its an issue - but it may not be THAT widespread.
And even if it is - what is AMD going to do about it? Why aren't you hassling the folks who hack agpgart for assistance in implementing the workaround?
I started with the kernel developers, and they said they approached AMD 9 months ago with the problem. Initially (for the first 2 months) AMD stalled on producing any info on the problem or a workaround, and they then told the kernel developers that they'd rather implement a solution in-house.
And that brings us to today, where they haven't done anything yet.
If your Irongate chipset works for you, you are VERY luck.
Unfortunately I have noticed the same thing on my 1.4GHz Athlon with a DDR chipset from ASUS (it uses the 761 variant of the Irongate).
I can get around this by using the VESA frame-buffer driver for X. It is pathetically slow, and you obviously don't get any accelerated OpenGL, but at least it doesn't lock up X every time I type 'startx'. I am hoping that your hunch about AMD never fixing this turns out to be wrong. I have purchased 2 games from Loki - Heretic 2 and Shogo, and now cannont play them at all as my system refuses to start x with the ATI driver. It used to work fine with my old TNT2, but as you observed, this is because of nVidia's work-arounds which are not available in the kernel AGP support.
So for now at least, I still need to keep my Windows partition for games. And this means throwing more money at Microshaft for Windows XP:(
The Irongate Chipset (AMD 751 / 761) has a serious hardware flaw that causes the motherboard to stop responding about 75% of the time the AGPGart is activated.
About 13 months ago, AMD confirmed this flaw affected all Irongate chipsets. 1 month later, all Windows drivers for Irongate chipsets had work-arounds implemented. 3 months after this, nVidia had incorporated similar work-arounds into their binary-only NVDriver.
And that just leaves the kernel agpgart.o.
AMD have been repeatedly emailed by me and apparently everyone else with Linux + Irongate + non-nVidia card, and sometimes receive a carbon-copy of AMD's standard response:
"AMD are aware of this issue, and are currently hashing out a solution with various distributions of Linux".
Until this issue is fixed (which it never will be), AMD can suck me off while enjoying the negative publicity their non-existant customer support gains them.
The Irongate Chipset (AMD 751 / 761) has a serious hardware flaw that causes the motherboard to stop responding about 75% of the time the AGPGart is activated.
About 13 months ago, AMD confirmed this flaw affected all Irongate chipsets. 1 month later, all Windows drivers for Irongate chipsets had work-arounds implemented. 3 months after this, nVidia had incorporated similar work-arounds into their binary-only NVDriver.
And that just leaves the kernel agpgart.o.
AMD have been repeatedly emailed by me and apparently everyone else with Linux + Irongate + non-nVidia card, and sometimes receive a carbon-copy of AMD's standard response:
"AMD are aware of this issue, and are currently hashing out a solution with various distributions of Linux".
Until this issue is fixed (which it never will be), AMD can suck me off while enjoying the negative publicity their non-existant customer support gains them.
Borland's tech support is very good. They have a refreshingly positive attitude towards their customers after dealing with the likes of Microsoft; and unfortunately I have to do this a fair bit...
Their product, however...
Oh dear!
I have Kylix (version 1, Desktop Developer)The IDE is horribly clunky and buggy. It runs under wine. It crashes regularly when doing simple things with drop-down boxes etc. It is an absolute terror under Enlightenment (my fav window manager); I have to run Gnome / KDE to get the windows to behave 'normally' and stop jumping around erratically. Summary: the IDE is yucky. I'm waiting until they port it fully to Linux before upgrading. It's 'usable', but only because I have to...
The 'seamlessly integrating with Linux apps' bit also seems a little... unfinished. It currently doesn't work with the latest mysql client libraries; you have to download mysql-3.22.32 AT THE LATEST and compile the client libraries from that. Also I have had very erratic behaviour with these mysql libraries. On more that one occasion, I have gone to bed with an app in perfect working order, gotten up, made a few changes, compiled, and found that the app locks hard when opening a mysql connection. The only way around this (short of paying Borland for support - which I suppose I'll have to do sooner or later) is to (wait for it) COMPLETELY uninstall Kylix, and re-install, then load up the project and compile, and voila! it all works. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
After having said all this, Kylix is quite obviously a VERY powerful tool, if not quite finished. Kylix 2 doesn't appear to address concerns regarding the IDE - as I said I will wait until this is done before upgrading. There is definitely potential in there, and hopefully withing 6-12 months I will have a tool capable of replacing M$ Access, which fully gives me the shits, but I use it every day 'cause I have to.
Perhaps AMD should spend less time dreaming up bullshit catch-phrases like quadruple-cranking data-blasting jesus-saving architecture and put some R&D into their chipsets so they don't lock up when I start X. It has been 14 months since this problem was acknowledged by them, and they are STILL 'hashing it out with Linux distributions', whatever that means...
You are Quite Correct in your statement that the western world don't understand why other don't like them.
I attended a recent blockade of the WTC building in Sydney, named the 'M1' protest. The police were there in VERY large numbers, with their wacking sticks, and quite revved up and ready to put them to good use. The protestors all linked arms and basically stopped anyone from entering the WTC building for the duration of our protest. We had 13-year-olds in the crowd, and we were all quite peaceful, occasionally singing, and occasionally dancing to some pretty cool trance:) The police came in on foot, on horse-back, and in minibuses, and DROVE through the blockade in an attempt to disperse us. This was INCREDIBLY stupid, and I am supprised that someone was not seriously hurt / killed. It was obvious that they weren't just there to "keep the peace". They were there on behalf of the WTC to rough us up and encourage us to stay home, be nice little consumers, and shut our fucking mouths next time instead of have the audacity to protest against them. The media coverage was another thing. They showed many shots of protestors apparently "out of control" and needing to be subdued. I did not witness ANY of this. I think that the clips were VERY carefully selected and arranged quite out of context. I can assure you that any "out of control" action on our parts was as a result of even worse "out of control" action on the part of the pigs (cops for those who don't know) and the WTC. I was utterly disgusted at the commercial media coverage, and DEEPLY saddened as I realised that the corporate world do in fact control the media, and therefore the average Joe's perception of what is actually going on in the world.
Another example, also involving the angelic WTC:
I heard on community radio here in Sydney the other day that a reporter had made repeated attempts to discover the number of civilian casulalties in the "War on Terror" aka the "War on America's Enemies". It was apparently impossible to discover this figure. There are countless websites that give you hourly updates on the number of people killed in the WTC attack, but the information from the other side of the fence is being very carefully suppressed. And the reason is that the:
a) American government
b) WTC
c) richest bastards in the world
are all very closely linked, and control the information supply, at least in key areas like this. I saw on ABC news a week ago that the FBI is using Hollywood studios to edit their footage, and that the American govt speTo use another example or corporate control infringing on the rights of the living...nds as much on propaganda as it does on weapons and ammunition. This is frightening.
The difference between the Taliban and the WTC is that the WTC understand and control the media much better than the Taliban. But their ideals are the same.
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I can't see why everyone else doesn't also response 'Tribes 2'. This is THE most impressive thing I have seen running on my Linux box, apart from maybe VMWare, but that's no game...
Tribes 2 has incredibly graphics, the game runs BETTER under Linux than Windows on my 500Mhz Athlon / 64MB DDR Radeon / 384MB. And it is totally immersive. If I just had ping times of less than 500ms everything would be sweet!
You should check out Enlightenment - both 0.16.5 and 0.17.
I have had many long, terribly unsatisfactory phone calls to M$ tech support. Their latest version of Access (2002) which comes with Office XP is one of the causes. It crashes like a fucking bitch every time you scratch yourself.
..."
...
Anyway, the point...
Each call starts out the same. I get someone who can just barely speak English (this is in Australia, by the way) and who has ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE. They openly admit this. For example:
Me: "Access crashes all the time. When I open a form based on a SQL Server table, and
Them: "Hang on sir. I think you need to talk to our developer support team. I am merely handling incoming phone calls. If you want to speak to someone how has a clue, you will need to pay us $290. Do you have a credit card?"
Me: "But... But... Access keeps FUCKING CRASHING!!! Fix it. Don't charge me $290. Just FIX THE FUCKING THING. Please."
Them: "I will put you through to office developer support and they will explain to you the different methods of payment."
... call transferred
Me: "OK. Screw this paying $290 per cause-of-a-crash bullshit. If it was so fucking crashy, you shouldn't have released it and charged like a wounded bull for it."
Them: "You can view our web site for free if you have the latest version of Internet Explorer. Also, if you pay us $290 and we find that the fault is already listed on our web site, we will refund your money" (!!!)
Me: Slams phone down in disgust.
This has happened probably 30 times now.
In contrast to this, there has not been one Linux / Open-Source software problem that I haven't been able to solve by searching on the net and asking questions in newsgroups.
Linux tech support wins hands down.
2 things:
Firstly, I have dealt with more than my share of crappy accounting packages, and I would be VERY surprised if they didn't run under Wine. They are mostly DOS-based apps with a Win3.1 GUI slapped on them. Some are even upgraded to be 'compatible with Windows95'.
Second, who cares about accounting software, or Joe's ever-so-important flowcharting app, or Trish's Win200-based email address harvester? I think we are taking the wrong approach if we are attempting to install Linux on EVERY box RIGHT NOW. It sounds like a company I despise. Some people will have to use Windows for at least the next 5 years, and we should just deal with it and put our efforts into something useful - like pulling in users through easier channels than Win32 emulation, and watch the apps get re-written.
Get your own back from SPAMMERS! Click the link and follow through to each of the SPAMMER's advertisments you wish to 'pay back' for their fine services. The cost to the SPAMMERS per click is displayed next to each advertisment. Only one click per day per person per advertisement is counted... http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home&Keywor ds=bulk+email
Dude you are some sort of legend.
I've seen scripts like the one above, but yours just takes the cake...
I think I speak for all Australians when I say:
"Kerry, you are a fucking idiot!"
Everything he touches turns to shit, whether it's TV networks, airlines, or now the whole fucking ecosystem.
Get your own back from SPAMMERS! Click the link and follow through to each of the SPAMMER's advertisments you wish to 'pay back' for their fine services. The cost to the SPAMMERS per click is displayed next to each advertisment. Only one click per day per person per advertisement is counted... http://www.overture.com/d/search/?type=home&Keywor ds=bulk+email
Check out http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/evas.html (sorry I can't figure out linking in Slashdot. I think my account is broken) Evas from the new Enlightenment does this sort of thing (hardware alpha-bending, anti-aliased text, etc). There is a neat little demo included in Evas which shows off the features. I'm not sure about transparency (which I suppose this article is about). I think I remember reading some threads on the E developers list where Rasterman said that there are some very dirty ways of achieving this (transparency) with a BIG performance hit, but he wasn't interested in supporting it seriously until X offered some better tools. Or something. Anyway, if you're interested, check out the mailing list archives.
What's up with the DRI drivers???
I find them VERY fast - more so than Windows (2000). I get 10% better FPS under Quake 3, and it just FEELS smoother - no slowdowns under heavy load. nVidia's driver have problems. It's fine if you install Redhat (or should I say Linux 7.1) and don't ever upgrade your kernel or X server, but for everyone else (ie real Linux users) there are some fairly sad compatibility problems with the nVidia drivers. They are still compiled against xfree86-4.0.2. They don't work with the kernel pre-emption patch. They are on-again / off-again with -ac patches. And with 2.5.0 opening, you can guarantee the compatibility problems will only widen.
There are some VERY good reasons... ... but what about Mozilla. It's SLOW." And I say "I don't need to; I run Galeon". And they shut up.
1) When you re-start after a crash (which is usually the fault of Mozilla), you get an option of opening each page you were viewing when it crashed. Very nice...
2) It IS still a lot faster. At least on my 500Mhz Athlon / 256 MB. Some people tell me I should upgrade. I say "I don't need to; I run Linux". And then they say "Ah
3) The config system is well thought out. Things are where they should be, and everything behaves as expected.
4) The themes are SUPER cool. And they acutally work, unlike Mozilla themes, which need to be re-written every new moon and are sub-standard anyway.
5) The rendering is actually faster than Mozilla. I don't know why this is, since it's based on Mozilla, but it's true.
In summary, I think there are a LOT of things besides the speed improvements that Galeon has to offer. When I upgrade to an Athlon XP, or possibly a Clawhammer, I will still use Galeon.
Step 1: Fuck the world, quick! ... when the world is not in a position to do anything about it
... NOT!!!
Step 2: Ask questions later
I'm REAL glad you guys in the US voted in that trigger-happy terrorist for president
Can't comment yet as I'm just downloading now, but in the meantime: where have the themes gone? Whenever I try to download others, I'm met with a 'page not found' error. Is this because Mozilla is moving faster than the theme developers can handle? Is there actually more choice than 'classic' and 'modern'? Not that these aren't good themes anyway. I'm just wondering...
Keep up the good work! (Oh and fix that bloody 'print selection' bug.)
What police state?
You guys are just tripping.
Doesn't seem to work for me.
However http://spamcop.net does wonders. A couple of weeks ago I contacted dodgy list-seller, http://www.incnet.com.au and complained about them continuing to sell my details to others when I had emailed AND phoned (it's a local call - I'm in Sydney) and asked to be removed. I talked to a guy who said "Oh YOU'RE the bastard that reported us to Spamcop. We had a LOT of trouble because of that". He then bullshitted on about how he was going to sue me for causing him financial loss. So I called the Australian Direct Marketing Association and put in a formal complaint and haven't heard from either since. I assume he was talking shit at the time and got into trouble over it since.
Anyway, the moral is that Spamcop does seem to do something, and it's a lot easier than personally emailing all involved with each piece of spam you recieve.
My hunch is that the rate of innocent civilians killed : terrorists killed is something like 10:1
Of course, it is incredibly difficult to get statistics on these sort of things. There are live counters on the web which show the number of AMERICAN civilians killed / found / unhappy because of the towers coming down, but no such stats from the other side.
I saw on ABC (Australian) news a couple of nights ago that the US was sending in B-52s to carpet bomb the place. FUCKING B-52s AND CARPET BOMBS!!!!
That is not how to eradicate terrorism. That is responding to 1 small faction's terrorism with terrorism on the NATIONAL scale.
The sooner someone puts George Bush in the front-line the better.
The Bush family is in bed with the oil cartel & weapons manufacturers, not the scientific community. Anyway, you can't have too much scientific research going on, because the knowledge gained may tend to enspire people to think for themselves. ie "Why are we blowing the fuck out of Afghanistan civilians?"
War on terrorism. Yeah, right.
War on Bush's enemies, maybe..
It does. Try harder.
Unfortunately I have noticed the same thing on my 1.4GHz Athlon with a DDR chipset from ASUS (it uses the 761 variant of the Irongate). :(
I can get around this by using the VESA frame-buffer driver for X. It is pathetically slow, and you obviously don't get any accelerated OpenGL, but at least it doesn't lock up X every time I type 'startx'. I am hoping that your hunch about AMD never fixing this turns out to be wrong. I have purchased 2 games from Loki - Heretic 2 and Shogo, and now cannont play them at all as my system refuses to start x with the ATI driver. It used to work fine with my old TNT2, but as you observed, this is because of nVidia's work-arounds which are not available in the kernel AGP support.
So for now at least, I still need to keep my Windows partition for games. And this means throwing more money at Microshaft for Windows XP
The Irongate Chipset (AMD 751 / 761) has a serious hardware flaw that causes the motherboard to stop responding about 75% of the time the AGPGart is activated.
About 13 months ago, AMD confirmed this flaw affected all Irongate chipsets. 1 month later, all Windows drivers for Irongate chipsets had work-arounds implemented. 3 months after this, nVidia had incorporated similar work-arounds into their binary-only NVDriver.
And that just leaves the kernel agpgart.o.
AMD have been repeatedly emailed by me and apparently everyone else with Linux + Irongate + non-nVidia card, and sometimes receive a carbon-copy of AMD's standard response:
"AMD are aware of this issue, and are currently hashing out a solution with various distributions of Linux".
Until this issue is fixed (which it never will be), AMD can suck me off while enjoying the negative publicity their non-existant customer support gains them.
The Irongate Chipset (AMD 751 / 761) has a serious hardware flaw that causes the motherboard to stop responding about 75% of the time the AGPGart is activated.
About 13 months ago, AMD confirmed this flaw affected all Irongate chipsets. 1 month later, all Windows drivers for Irongate chipsets had work-arounds implemented. 3 months after this, nVidia had incorporated similar work-arounds into their binary-only NVDriver.
And that just leaves the kernel agpgart.o.
AMD have been repeatedly emailed by me and apparently everyone else with Linux + Irongate + non-nVidia card, and sometimes receive a carbon-copy of AMD's standard response:
"AMD are aware of this issue, and are currently hashing out a solution with various distributions of Linux".
Until this issue is fixed (which it never will be), AMD can suck me off while enjoying the negative publicity their non-existant customer support gains them.
Borland's tech support is very good. They have a refreshingly positive attitude towards their customers after dealing with the likes of Microsoft; and unfortunately I have to do this a fair bit...
... unfinished. It currently doesn't work with the latest mysql client libraries; you have to download mysql-3.22.32 AT THE LATEST and compile the client libraries from that. Also I have had very erratic behaviour with these mysql libraries. On more that one occasion, I have gone to bed with an app in perfect working order, gotten up, made a few changes, compiled, and found that the app locks hard when opening a mysql connection. The only way around this (short of paying Borland for support - which I suppose I'll have to do sooner or later) is to (wait for it) COMPLETELY uninstall Kylix, and re-install, then load up the project and compile, and voila! it all works. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Their product, however...
Oh dear!
I have Kylix (version 1, Desktop Developer)The IDE is horribly clunky and buggy. It runs under wine. It crashes regularly when doing simple things with drop-down boxes etc. It is an absolute terror under Enlightenment (my fav window manager); I have to run Gnome / KDE to get the windows to behave 'normally' and stop jumping around erratically. Summary: the IDE is yucky. I'm waiting until they port it fully to Linux before upgrading. It's 'usable', but only because I have to...
The 'seamlessly integrating with Linux apps' bit also seems a little
After having said all this, Kylix is quite obviously a VERY powerful tool, if not quite finished. Kylix 2 doesn't appear to address concerns regarding the IDE - as I said I will wait until this is done before upgrading. There is definitely potential in there, and hopefully withing 6-12 months I will have a tool capable of replacing M$ Access, which fully gives me the shits, but I use it every day 'cause I have to.
Perhaps AMD should spend less time dreaming up bullshit catch-phrases like quadruple-cranking data-blasting jesus-saving architecture and put some R&D into their chipsets so they don't lock up when I start X. It has been 14 months since this problem was acknowledged by them, and they are STILL 'hashing it out with Linux distributions', whatever that means...
You are Quite Correct in your statement that the western world don't understand why other don't like them.
:) The police came in on foot, on horse-back, and in minibuses, and DROVE through the blockade in an attempt to disperse us. This was INCREDIBLY stupid, and I am supprised that someone was not seriously hurt / killed. It was obvious that they weren't just there to "keep the peace". They were there on behalf of the WTC to rough us up and encourage us to stay home, be nice little consumers, and shut our fucking mouths next time instead of have the audacity to protest against them. The media coverage was another thing. They showed many shots of protestors apparently "out of control" and needing to be subdued. I did not witness ANY of this. I think that the clips were VERY carefully selected and arranged quite out of context. I can assure you that any "out of control" action on our parts was as a result of even worse "out of control" action on the part of the pigs (cops for those who don't know) and the WTC. I was utterly disgusted at the commercial media coverage, and DEEPLY saddened as I realised that the corporate world do in fact control the media, and therefore the average Joe's perception of what is actually going on in the world.
...nds as much on propaganda as it does on weapons and ammunition. This is frightening.
I attended a recent blockade of the WTC building in Sydney, named the 'M1' protest. The police were there in VERY large numbers, with their wacking sticks, and quite revved up and ready to put them to good use. The protestors all linked arms and basically stopped anyone from entering the WTC building for the duration of our protest. We had 13-year-olds in the crowd, and we were all quite peaceful, occasionally singing, and occasionally dancing to some pretty cool trance
Another example, also involving the angelic WTC:
I heard on community radio here in Sydney the other day that a reporter had made repeated attempts to discover the number of civilian casulalties in the "War on Terror" aka the "War on America's Enemies". It was apparently impossible to discover this figure. There are countless websites that give you hourly updates on the number of people killed in the WTC attack, but the information from the other side of the fence is being very carefully suppressed. And the reason is that the:
a) American government
b) WTC
c) richest bastards in the world
are all very closely linked, and control the information supply, at least in key areas like this. I saw on ABC news a week ago that the FBI is using Hollywood studios to edit their footage, and that the American govt speTo use another example or corporate control infringing on the rights of the living
The difference between the Taliban and the WTC is that the WTC understand and control the media much better than the Taliban. But their ideals are the same.