Is it too much to ask that we have some confirmation that Doom3 is actually a good game before/. spams us with 15 stories a day on it?
There's tons of games coming out all the time, many are better than the mediocre junk id foists on us in the name of selling graphics engines, why dont they get covered?
Reading the Silmarillion is the worst advice you can give to a LOTR fan, they are bound not to be a fan after it. It is as dull as dishwater, and not as useful for cleaning dishes with.
Looked into the doc and yeah you're right, prefork is the default on Unix which makes sense. I don't know the specifics, but on NT it uses a multithreaded model - but I seem to recall reading that thread safety issues are irrelevent on NT.
It's nice to have the option to change the model if for instance you were serving static content.
PHP runs fine with Apache 2.0, just enable prefork to make it work the same as Apache 1.3.x with child daemons. Hell, if you are running fairly limited libraries in PHP you can get away without.
More info on Prefork at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/prefork.html
There's probably some USE flag you can set to force a prefork build in Gentoo.
Still, i'm one of those odd people that prefer to roll their own Apache install.
Well the soundcard in question is an au8830 chipset based one, it shows up in/dev/pci or wherever it's supposed to, i run kernel 2.6.7 on Gentoo. Both the Alsa codebase in the kernel and the seperate distribution is broken for this card.
Fortunately, I have an onboard CMedia chip which is fairly decent.
I agree with the grandparent poster though, it should just work. Getting compile errors on a kernel build after specifically naming a chipset isn't ideal.
As an aside, on FreeBSD you just need to change into the Aureal directory in ports and do make && make install to get working sound with this card. Even though it's obsolete, every version of windows i've tried has detected it out of the box.
I agree with the poster, I owned an Atari ST and an Amiga, and now both are rusting away in the Garage because everything they can do can be done on modern hardware with modern operating systems faster and better.
If you really insist on booting your OS off a 720k floppy and waiting another 3 minutes for your application to come up, then being limited to 100k for a sample then who am I to stop you...
agreed, free^H^H^Hdom is all well and good but if it involves crap software that is hard to use and doesnt perform as well as commercial software then I will spend my dollars.
I'm happy to troll about it, I spent 2 days trying to get my soundcard working in Linux and eventually gave up and switched to the onboard sound chip, which breaks every other kernel release.
I would imagine it's on the roadmap for MonoDevelop.
Side question, how far along in terms of usability, functionality is MonoDevelop compared to SharpDevelop? It's one of the Apps I used a fair amount on Windows and was fairly decent, not as good as VStudio but decent, and a code editor / ide is something I miss on Linux.
Clearly one of the biggest concerns is the degree of compatability between.NET and Mono & the lack of many of the API's that exist on Windows - which face it will be the primary development environment.
I'm sure someone will point out that MS will extend.NET beyond the standards thus marginalising Mono, but i'm sceptical of whether this will happen - it's in their interests to keep the core platform and language specs consistent, the API's are another matter...
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Planetdoom is fanboi land and PCGamer's opinion isn't worth the paper the four page advert from the publisher is printed on.
Actually you'll find that a TNT2 has very good throughput, the lack of T&L will hurt in DOom3 tho.
Is it too much to ask that we have some confirmation that Doom3 is actually a good game before /. spams us with 15 stories a day on it?
There's tons of games coming out all the time, many are better than the mediocre junk id foists on us in the name of selling graphics engines, why dont they get covered?
Reading the Silmarillion is the worst advice you can give to a LOTR fan, they are bound not to be a fan after it. It is as dull as dishwater, and not as useful for cleaning dishes with.
Which in turn plunders from previous works of fantasy and mythology wholesale.
64 bit hasn't got any kind of widespread uptake yet, theres a 64 bit OS on the way and MS have to support stuff they release...
I eventually fixed it by switching from the Gentoo 2.6 Kernel to the Standard 2.6 Kernel.
I prefer Gentoo as I come from *BSD land and portage makes me feel at home & things are laid out in a way I find more comfortable.
Looked into the doc and yeah you're right, prefork is the default on Unix which makes sense. I don't know the specifics, but on NT it uses a multithreaded model - but I seem to recall reading that thread safety issues are irrelevent on NT.
It's nice to have the option to change the model if for instance you were serving static content.
Well I just started an emerge -uD world and it will take some time... 174 packages to blast through, half of them monsters like perl or X.
I installed maybe a month ago?
Or just run through the handbook at www.gentoo.org, it's just type this, type that etc.
PHP runs fine with Apache 2.0, just enable prefork to make it work the same as Apache 1.3.x with child daemons. Hell, if you are running fairly limited libraries in PHP you can get away without.
More info on Prefork at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/prefork.html
There's probably some USE flag you can set to force a prefork build in Gentoo.
Still, i'm one of those odd people that prefer to roll their own Apache install.
I'm completly beffudled as to why /. devotes so much coverage to iD.
Doom was good fun, The Quake series got less so over time - but I guess Quake 3 was a laugh if Halflife multiplayer wasn't about.
We've seen it all with FPS, there's nothing new in the genre and iD don't add anything new.
At the moment it has become a kind of spend 500 dorrah to experience the shadows.
Noone asked if we thought shadows were worth 500 dorrah.
Well the soundcard in question is an au8830 chipset based one, it shows up in /dev/pci or wherever it's supposed to, i run kernel 2.6.7 on Gentoo. Both the Alsa codebase in the kernel and the seperate distribution is broken for this card.
Fortunately, I have an onboard CMedia chip which is fairly decent.
I agree with the grandparent poster though, it should just work. Getting compile errors on a kernel build after specifically naming a chipset isn't ideal.
As an aside, on FreeBSD you just need to change into the Aureal directory in ports and do make && make install to get working sound with this card. Even though it's obsolete, every version of windows i've tried has detected it out of the box.
Unless you get Zend studio personal edition, and that's free.
Homesite is pretty solid also.
I agree with the poster, I owned an Atari ST and an Amiga, and now both are rusting away in the Garage because everything they can do can be done on modern hardware with modern operating systems faster and better.
If you really insist on booting your OS off a 720k floppy and waiting another 3 minutes for your application to come up, then being limited to 100k for a sample then who am I to stop you...
agreed, free^H^H^Hdom is all well and good but if it involves crap software that is hard to use and doesnt perform as well as commercial software then I will spend my dollars.
I'm happy to troll about it, I spent 2 days trying to get my soundcard working in Linux and eventually gave up and switched to the onboard sound chip, which breaks every other kernel release.
You don't sound snide at all, getting sound cards to work in Linux isn't exactly a science, and every other kernel seems to break them.
User: My Etch A Sketch has crashed what should I do?
Support: Shake it.
$80k canadian? is that enough to buy a CD player?
They should outsource to the UK, wages and cost of living here are only 50% more...
I would imagine it's on the roadmap for MonoDevelop.
Side question, how far along in terms of usability, functionality is MonoDevelop compared to SharpDevelop? It's one of the Apps I used a fair amount on Windows and was fairly decent, not as good as VStudio but decent, and a code editor / ide is something I miss on Linux.
Clearly one of the biggest concerns is the degree of compatability between .NET and Mono & the lack of many of the API's that exist on Windows - which face it will be the primary development environment.
.NET beyond the standards thus marginalising Mono, but i'm sceptical of whether this will happen - it's in their interests to keep the core platform and language specs consistent, the API's are another matter...
I'm sure someone will point out that MS will extend
Actually the best way to earn Karma is to point out the way that the parent post is Karma whoring ;)
Running PHP on multithreaded webservers on Win32 is fine, it's only an issue on Unix.