try running it on modern hardware, you'll find it takes less than 2 seconds to load the desktop.
(You'll probably have to stick it in a virtual machine though as I remember windows 3.11 having overflow problems if you have too much memory installed)
Since I started off the recient DirectX 9 development under wine I'll tell you why I did it.
1: I was using cedega, some of the games I wanted to play had bugs in them but cedega isn't open source so I couldn't fix the bugs myself. 2: (and probably the main reason for my decision) Everyone used to complain that the reason no one used Linux on the desktop was because it didn't have games support so I decided to attempt to give Linux uses support for some games out of the box.
Also, crossover has done a lot of work on office and I use openoffice so there was no real incentive there for me to do any work.
If you would have rather that I didn't work on DirectX 9 instead of say improving KDE then you are probably on you own.
HD-DVD only have one level of encryption that keeps getting broken all the time. Blu-Ray has two levels of encryption, one of them can apparently only be broken for an individual Blu-Ray disk and player.
So if you looking for something that can easily be ripped/ played on free software then you need to back HD-DVD.
If your hearings as good as mine: Buy the some on ITunes, Re-encode into mp3 format using the record what you hear option on windows. Happily listen to your new drm free mp3 version of the song on whatever player you like.
On windows you don't even have to do that, all you have to do to rip itunes songs is hit the record what I hear button, play the song in itunes and rip away.
Does it really matter if we have global warming or not? we still have to shift from using fossel fules because someday fairly soon there going to run out and were all going to be left looking like overpopulated third world countries.
I do give a fuck about global warming, but for all those nay sayers you still have to tell me what your going to do when the fossel fules run out.
Ok, instead of the bible call it TV, look at all of TV over the period that it's been about (about a hundred years) and most of it is astonishingly acurate from what you would find in the other historical record, the problem is most of it is also fiction.
Extend for 1000 years, grep repeat, TV = Religon I think not.
Evolution doeesn't work in the way, humans started using tools so we evolved to walk of two feet, the fact that we started walking on two feet was just down to chance and it happened to be really usefull for tool use then it won out due to survival of the fitest.
If there was no shortage of food and resources then there's no reason that the pre-humans that didn't walk on two feet would have died out at all so the two species could have quite happley lived together.
(Sory, the spell checker in firefox has stopped working!)
In a thousand years time you could look at CSI and say that to some extent it was historically accurate, that doesn't make it any more than a work of fiction.
and it is also my primary Internet connection
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I think this guys got part of the argument, but the real argument is that code has to perfectly describe the job it has to do without being overly complex or to slugish. Juniors are great, but you should always have their code reviewed at least twice by senior programmers and you should always have a senior programmers code reviewed once, you could even go the whole hog and use XP as a development process and get continuous review by lots of different people.
You need to do all of this because if the code isn't "perfect" then your going to have bugs and bugs mean bad data coming through, unreliable software and never ending maintenance of the software.
A lot of software also need to be future proofed to some extent so that new features can be added for the next release and that required practices and disciplines that junior developers won't have.
But in the end a good programmers a good programmer, you'll get a lot more out of a junior whose a good programmer than you would out of someone with years of experience in many different fields who couldn't program a good solid application to save their life. And probably the only way of finding out if someones a good programmer is talking to them in an interview and putting them on a few months probationary period. (of course a good mix of jobs that have been held for a reasonable length of time mixed with a reasonable amount of open source development should give you a pointer in the right direction) and if they've done open source work then at least there's some code you can look at!
The defaults are not sane e.g. they allow post and debug to most extensions. The defaults should be secure and it should be for the administrator to make changes to the configuration that may be unsecure.
Lets say you have some content you want to share across a number of servers. Because Windows doesn't support symlinks you have to setup a virtual directory in IIS that points to the correct server..
The problem is as soon as you throw in scripting it doesn't work any more.
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try running it on modern hardware, you'll find it takes less than 2 seconds to load the desktop.
(You'll probably have to stick it in a virtual machine though as I remember windows 3.11 having overflow problems if you have too much memory installed)
You'd be surprised how 'fat' you have to be to be overweight, it's not actually that fat atall.
You don't even have to be that fat to be obese.
And being a little underweight is defiantly better for you than being a little overweight.
Since I started off the recient DirectX 9 development under wine I'll tell you why I did it.
1: I was using cedega, some of the games I wanted to play had bugs in them but cedega isn't open source so I couldn't fix the bugs myself.
2: (and probably the main reason for my decision) Everyone used to complain that the reason no one used Linux on the desktop was because it didn't have games support so I decided to attempt to give Linux uses support for some games out of the box.
Also, crossover has done a lot of work on office and I use openoffice so there was no real incentive there for me to do any work.
If you would have rather that I didn't work on DirectX 9 instead of say improving KDE then you are probably on you own.
Wine have just moved the direct 3d layer from glx over to wgl, this should mean that it will compile on windows any time soon.
And as soon as it gets directX 10 support you should be able to run the DX10 only games on XP.
HD-DVD only have one level of encryption that keeps getting broken all the time.
Blu-Ray has two levels of encryption, one of them can apparently only be broken for an individual Blu-Ray disk and player.
So if you looking for something that can easily be ripped/ played on free software then you need to back HD-DVD.
That's why I use tor if I'm browsing anything remotely dodgy.
If your hearings as good as mine:
Buy the some on ITunes,
Re-encode into mp3 format using the record what you hear option on windows.
Happily listen to your new drm free mp3 version of the song on whatever player you like.
On windows you don't even have to do that, all you have to do to rip itunes songs is hit the record what I hear button, play the song in itunes and rip away.
Does it really matter if we have global warming or not? we still have to shift from using fossel fules because someday fairly soon there going to run out and were all going to be left looking like overpopulated third world countries.
I do give a fuck about global warming, but for all those nay sayers you still have to tell me what your going to do when the fossel fules run out.
China certainly isn't communist, it may be a dictatorship but that just makes it a dictatorship.
Ok, instead of the bible call it TV, look at all of TV over the period that it's been about (about a hundred years) and most of it is astonishingly acurate from what you would find in the other historical record, the problem is most of it is also fiction.
Extend for 1000 years, grep repeat, TV = Religon I think not.
Evolution doeesn't work in the way, humans started using tools so we evolved to walk of two feet, the fact that we started walking on two feet was just down to chance and it happened to be really usefull for tool use then it won out due to survival of the fitest.
If there was no shortage of food and resources then there's no reason that the pre-humans that didn't walk on two feet would have died out at all so the two species could have quite happley lived together.
(Sory, the spell checker in firefox has stopped working!)
In a thousand years time you could look at CSI and say that to some extent it was historically accurate, that doesn't make it any more than a work of fiction.
sure your not the one trolling?
I've found that the best way to get and keep contacts is to be good.
I think this guys got part of the argument, but the real argument is that code has to perfectly describe the job it has to do without being overly complex or to slugish. Juniors are great, but you should always have their code reviewed at least twice by senior programmers and you should always have a senior programmers code reviewed once, you could even go the whole hog and use XP as a development process and get continuous review by lots of different people.
You need to do all of this because if the code isn't "perfect" then your going to have bugs and bugs mean bad data coming through, unreliable software and never ending maintenance of the software.
A lot of software also need to be future proofed to some extent so that new features can be added for the next release and that required practices and disciplines that junior developers won't have.
But in the end a good programmers a good programmer, you'll get a lot more out of a junior whose a good programmer than you would out of someone with years of experience in many different fields who couldn't program a good solid application to save their life. And probably the only way of finding out if someones a good programmer is talking to them in an interview and putting them on a few months probationary period. (of course a good mix of jobs that have been held for a reasonable length of time mixed with a reasonable amount of open source development should give you a pointer in the right direction) and if they've done open source work then at least there's some code you can look at!
could you please point me to a tool to create/edit/delete symlinks that can be hosted on a different server. thanks.
The defaults are not sane e.g. they allow post and debug to most extensions. The defaults should be secure and it should be for the administrator to make changes to the configuration that may be unsecure.
Lets say you have some content you want to share across a number of servers.
Because Windows doesn't support symlinks you have to setup a virtual directory in IIS that points to the correct server..
The problem is as soon as you throw in scripting it doesn't work any more.
IIS is very easy to configure, except when it doesn't do what it says on the tin, in which case it's impossible to configure.
I've never had that kind of problem with apache.
I pay about $2 a litre. or about $7.5 per us gallon.
What do you pay?
that's why they invented suicide bombers.
I think your only not allow to use them in war, there's nothing to stop you using them against civilians as part of the police state.
The best distro I've found so far is Linspire, you know the one that actually comes with licenses for dvds and mp3s
Exhibit 1, Religion.