Miranda is one app that keeps me on Windows... and it keeps reminding my why all other clients suck. Every now or then I'll try GAIM, but I actually prefer CenterICQ....
Miranda is small, modular, has simple & coherent interface (looks like a native application, not some sort of freakish eXXXTreeeme-Teeenage-Mega-Skinzz-application), protocols galore, etc.
Of course they did! Or they would if they hadn't signed away the rights to dictate how their music is delivered/distributed.
I'm so fucking sick of bands whining about "sorry, but the big bad label WE, BEING OF SOUND MIND, SIGNED WITH did it!"
Either make sure you control the distribution, or stop fucking whining about it not being your fault. If it happens it's because the band LET IT HAPPEN. Fuck.
How many more years are bands going to be able to claim ignorance? 'Wooahhh.. the label put on copy-prevention measures? Who knew?! Hehe.. and we 'forgot' to sign their right to do that away in our contract with them.. oops.. 'forgot', nudge-nudge-know-what-I-mean?'
Sorry, if they signed in the last five years, then they're just as guilty as the label. That's how long these schemes have been around, how long it's been COMMON KNOWLEDGE.
Didn't know about DenyHosts, wrote something similar in sshd_failed_ips.pl. I didn't want a deamon or cron job when it's completely unnecessary, though me script does depend on TCP wrappers (any dist. not running that by default?)
Don't know about these, but Sweden is doing research on micro-satellites and those can be deployed within an hour or two using a normal jet-fighter (Viggen/JAS)
>We are currently running dual-xeons only (heavy i/o and/or memory throughput,
webserver and java servlet engines) and I'm curious how a dual-opteron would deal with that kind of load.
Umm.. the Opterons would smoke the Xeons like nothing you've seen...
The lik to the forum was described as "I get many emails and forum queries asking me about a Linux version.", so I made a reasonable assumption that if I went there I'd see queries asking him for a linux version. I don't need to see that, I need to see:
"This is what I have"
"This is what I've tried"
"This is what happened"
.. none of which was provided in the place it should have been. Doing it Right would have saved everyone a lot of time and trouble.
If he's using SDL/GL/OpenAL (if that really is the whole story, often the bigger problem isn't the game but editors and tools), then what actually is the problem? With the APIs for Graphics, Input and Sound out of the way, and with him presumably on top of endian-issues.. what's left?
I'm not stupid or naive, but his "question" is very badly formulated, so general as to be virtually worthless for giving advice.
Maybe he should just copy his files over to a linux system, install the required libraries and tell us what the output of 'make' is, and we can take it from there. If he's using (soon to be defunct) CodeWarrior on Mac and CW or VS on Windows, then the obvious course is to move over to GCC wholesale. Again, it's a matter of try and see where it takes you, and come back if there's some specific problem.
...If you told us what APIs and toolkits you used (I went to the site, couldn't see this info anywhere). If you meant to be multi-platform, I assume you're using SDL or some such? If not, then my recommendation is to port to SDL first of all.
Then it really is mostly about minor tweaks to get running "everywhere". Well, assuming you've got a somewhat sane codebase.
I say this as someone with absolutely no experience:-p
Me and a friend used to, for a short period of time, exchange 'raps' about our Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale CRPG parties. Stuff like:
oh-oh-oh-OH!
Revin' it up for
this party of five,
listen up boy,
think our team's for hire?
well, I guess we might be,
that's left to see,
but you've better be in
for a BIG fuckin' killing spree!
Now, listen up
yeah, yeah, YEAH!
Ling's gonna rap
a little tune for you,
'bout fist in the hand
and the master plan.
Think a blade is best?
Yeah, me too,
but Ling's got a
might fine palm for _you_
if you feel a shiver,
oh-oh -- *too late*
time for 'lil you to
dis-integrate.
Yeah joining up the front
is the man ah-ha,
strong silent kind
of vorpal fright.
Tebat is his name
and his game's this
a fighters kiss
shit, I'm sure you'll
be missed.
Ooookay. So that's out... I think those are mine, his was much better (not a big feat, I know).
It was a revision 1 Abit KT7A-RAID. It doesn't "officially" support the XP-series of CPUs either, but it'll work if you know what you're doing. You have to set some specific settings in the BIOS to get it stable, but it really is stable. The XP2400+ was the last CPU you could just plonk in there and run, since it was the last one to run at 266MHz bus (there might be some higher speed grade mobile part too, but let's not go there).
Many older boards support this particular CPU even though the the official word is "Max 1.4GHz Thunderbird". Best way to know if it can be done and what's required is to use Google Groups.
Of course, getting hold of a cheap 2400+ XP probably isn't easy nowadays, so it's probably not a worthvile upgrade unless you can find a used one for cheap, in which case it can be a great upgrade.
>Try that now, buy a machine, and in a year buy a new processor and try to stick it in the machine. You won't be able to do it.
Wanna bet? If I buy Socket-939 today, in a year I will easily be able to get a nice dual-core S939 CPU and plug in. There's a lower-grade dual-core that hasn't even been officially announced yet, much less released. Of course, in a year I wouldn't go for that when I can change my Venice 3200+ into a nice 1MB cache dual-core 4800+ or something even better.
Just for the record, let us remember that the last Socket-A CPUs left AMD two months or so ago (there was a picture at TheInq from the last batch shipped). Likewise, S939 will be with us at least another year.
You know, just because you might have to plan for it, doesn't mean it's "impossible".
I forgot the best part; my old Socket A MB (KT7A-RAID) ran on SDRAM of course, so when I upgraded that MB, I moved 512MB of SDRAM to my old linux server (K6-2 based FIC-503+), which up till that point was running on 80MB of EDO.
So on x86 when you think about upgrading that 2 year old CPU to something new
Stop blathering. On Socket-A I went "Duron 800", "Athlon 1333" and then "AthlonXP 2400+". That's three processor upgrades on one platform and the VERY SAME MOTHERBOARD.
Just recently I bought a new Socket-A MB (they're dirt cheap) and 2GB of DDR (which is similarly dirt cheap), so the last CPU has seen a MB upgrade too.
And do you know what? I play modern games on that sucker.
(I'll go S939 soon with a nice Venice and get a real use for all that memory)
I watched it, and it sure as hell beat the pants off the "Bones" pilot (featuring David Boreanaz) which I thought was horrible, but it wasn't all that. Sure, Michelle Forbes is a favourite, and seeing her do some Trinity-esque asskicking was fun, albeit somewhat cheesy.
It's always hard to tell with pilots though (as anyone who's watched the original Buffy pilot can tell you). I guess it could be saved.
But with my luck Fox will kill the fantastic "The Inside" for some more "Bones":-\
A corporation can go "Listen, we can't change over to GNU/Linux, what with the cost of retraining, are you crazy?!" and most people would agree. At the same time many many turn around and go "And oh yeah, we're going to lay everyone off and move the whole company to India". Not much talking about "retraining" costs then.
I guess it's going to come as a huge surprise in a few years when their standard of living has equalized and the ask for more money to continue slaving away...
(though China will probably be good for a long long time, because they've got a nice little regime to make sure the people doesn't get to enjoy the full effect of a rise in standard of living. A vote for the corps is a vote for continued repression of the people of China, but hey, at least we get cheap clothes to buy for our tax-free dole-check.)
> They could also improve Opera's bizarre (imo) interface.
What you find as bizarre I find is the reason to pay for Opera. If they fuck up the interface I'd have no reason to stick with Opera over FF, so let's hope they don't do that.
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Miranda is one app that keeps me on Windows... and it keeps reminding my why all other clients suck. Every now or then I'll try GAIM, but I actually prefer CenterICQ....
Miranda is small, modular, has simple & coherent interface (looks like a native application, not some sort of freakish eXXXTreeeme-Teeenage-Mega-Skinzz-application), protocols galore, etc.
I heard Sony management got a great deal on this book: Rootkits : Subverting the Windows Kernel.
That recommendation is just... the glazing on the pig
Any comments on the CNET CWP-854 which I've seen sold as a "linux solution"?
I want something native (no ndiswrapper), and stable... with WPA.
"Yeah, we tried selling AMD products, but customers didn't want them!"
HTH. HAND.
>The band had no voice in the matter.
Of course they did! Or they would if they hadn't signed away the rights to dictate how their music is delivered/distributed.
I'm so fucking sick of bands whining about "sorry, but the big bad label WE, BEING OF SOUND MIND, SIGNED WITH did it!"
Either make sure you control the distribution, or stop fucking whining about it not being your fault. If it happens it's because the band LET IT HAPPEN. Fuck.
How many more years are bands going to be able to claim ignorance? 'Wooahhh.. the label put on copy-prevention measures? Who knew?! Hehe.. and we 'forgot' to sign their right to do that away in our contract with them.. oops.. 'forgot', nudge-nudge-know-what-I-mean?'
Sorry, if they signed in the last five years, then they're just as guilty as the label. That's how long these schemes have been around, how long it's been COMMON KNOWLEDGE.
Didn't know about DenyHosts, wrote something similar in sshd_failed_ips.pl. I didn't want a deamon or cron job when it's completely unnecessary, though me script does depend on TCP wrappers (any dist. not running that by default?)
to not buy Blizzard products (yes, this includes WoW), but that's just me.
Don't know about these, but Sweden is doing research on micro-satellites and those can be deployed within an hour or two using a normal jet-fighter (Viggen/JAS)
Working on the assumption that you weren't trolling, here's how things looked about two years ago.
Conclusion then: "the Opteron simply destroys the competition."
Today AMD has dual-core Opterons and Intel have... well, they have the same old Xeons with a miniscule FSB-bump?
>We are currently running dual-xeons only (heavy i/o and/or memory throughput, webserver and java servlet engines) and I'm curious how a dual-opteron would deal with that kind of load.
Umm.. the Opterons would smoke the Xeons like nothing you've seen...
Yeah, that description really sucked. Here's the path: IE -> Internet Options -> Program -> Manage Add-on's.
Or better, if you'd read liks
The lik to the forum was described as "I get many emails and forum queries asking me about a Linux version.", so I made a reasonable assumption that if I went there I'd see queries asking him for a linux version. I don't need to see that, I need to see:
.. none of which was provided in the place it should have been. Doing it Right would have saved everyone a lot of time and trouble.
If he's using SDL/GL/OpenAL (if that really is the whole story, often the bigger problem isn't the game but editors and tools), then what actually is the problem? With the APIs for Graphics, Input and Sound out of the way, and with him presumably on top of endian-issues.. what's left?
I'm not stupid or naive, but his "question" is very badly formulated, so general as to be virtually worthless for giving advice.
Maybe he should just copy his files over to a linux system, install the required libraries and tell us what the output of 'make' is, and we can take it from there. If he's using (soon to be defunct) CodeWarrior on Mac and CW or VS on Windows, then the obvious course is to move over to GCC wholesale. Again, it's a matter of try and see where it takes you, and come back if there's some specific problem.
That's the way I see it.
...If you told us what APIs and toolkits you used (I went to the site, couldn't see this info anywhere). If you meant to be multi-platform, I assume you're using SDL or some such? If not, then my recommendation is to port to SDL first of all.
Then it really is mostly about minor tweaks to get running "everywhere". Well, assuming you've got a somewhat sane codebase.
I say this as someone with absolutely no experience :-p
Me and a friend used to, for a short period of time, exchange 'raps' about our Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale CRPG parties. Stuff like:
oh-oh-oh-OH!
Revin' it up for
this party of five,
listen up boy,
think our team's for hire?
well, I guess we might be,
that's left to see,
but you've better be in
for a BIG fuckin' killing spree!
Now, listen up
yeah, yeah, YEAH!
Ling's gonna rap
a little tune for you,
'bout fist in the hand
and the master plan.
Think a blade is best?
Yeah, me too,
but Ling's got a
might fine palm for _you_
if you feel a shiver,
oh-oh -- *too late*
time for 'lil you to
dis-integrate.
Yeah joining up the front
is the man ah-ha,
strong silent kind
of vorpal fright.
Tebat is his name
and his game's this
a fighters kiss
shit, I'm sure you'll
be missed.
Ooookay. So that's out... I think those are mine, his was much better (not a big feat, I know).
Just for fun, m'kay?
>Can I ask what board that is?
It was a revision 1 Abit KT7A-RAID. It doesn't "officially" support the XP-series of CPUs either, but it'll work if you know what you're doing. You have to set some specific settings in the BIOS to get it stable, but it really is stable. The XP2400+ was the last CPU you could just plonk in there and run, since it was the last one to run at 266MHz bus (there might be some higher speed grade mobile part too, but let's not go there).
Many older boards support this particular CPU even though the the official word is "Max 1.4GHz Thunderbird". Best way to know if it can be done and what's required is to use Google Groups.
Of course, getting hold of a cheap 2400+ XP probably isn't easy nowadays, so it's probably not a worthvile upgrade unless you can find a used one for cheap, in which case it can be a great upgrade.
>Try that now, buy a machine, and in a year buy a new processor and try to stick it in the machine. You won't be able to do it.
Wanna bet? If I buy Socket-939 today, in a year I will easily be able to get a nice dual-core S939 CPU and plug in. There's a lower-grade dual-core that hasn't even been officially announced yet, much less released. Of course, in a year I wouldn't go for that when I can change my Venice 3200+ into a nice 1MB cache dual-core 4800+ or something even better.
Just for the record, let us remember that the last Socket-A CPUs left AMD two months or so ago (there was a picture at TheInq from the last batch shipped). Likewise, S939 will be with us at least another year.
You know, just because you might have to plan for it, doesn't mean it's "impossible".
I have a truecrypt container on my system that I, I'm sad to say, have forgotten the password for. I think I'll keep it around, just-because.
If I'm "arrested" I can reference this post where I say that I've forgotten the password, so there's nothing at all suspicious about it.
Wait, did I just spoil it by adding that?
I forgot the best part; my old Socket A MB (KT7A-RAID) ran on SDRAM of course, so when I upgraded that MB, I moved 512MB of SDRAM to my old linux server (K6-2 based FIC-503+), which up till that point was running on 80MB of EDO.
Now that's what I call an [cheap ass] upgrade.
So on x86 when you think about upgrading that 2 year old CPU to something new
Stop blathering. On Socket-A I went "Duron 800", "Athlon 1333" and then "AthlonXP 2400+". That's three processor upgrades on one platform and the VERY SAME MOTHERBOARD.
Just recently I bought a new Socket-A MB (they're dirt cheap) and 2GB of DDR (which is similarly dirt cheap), so the last CPU has seen a MB upgrade too.
And do you know what? I play modern games on that sucker.
(I'll go S939 soon with a nice Venice and get a real use for all that memory)
>First we get Morgan Freeman going over
I'm sorry, I must have missed something terribly important. Morgan Freeman is now a nerd? Or what/where did he go over to?
I watched it, and it sure as hell beat the pants off the "Bones" pilot (featuring David Boreanaz) which I thought was horrible, but it wasn't all that. Sure, Michelle Forbes is a favourite, and seeing her do some Trinity-esque asskicking was fun, albeit somewhat cheesy.
It's always hard to tell with pilots though (as anyone who's watched the original Buffy pilot can tell you). I guess it could be saved.
But with my luck Fox will kill the fantastic "The Inside" for some more "Bones" :-\
Let's try the same thing:
"I was going to buy Kung Fu Hustle on DVD, but I was like... I've already given The Conglomorate more than enough money, so I downloaded it instead.
I thought Ron Gilbert "debunked" all this madness rather throughly in his SAGalicious article.
A corporation can go "Listen, we can't change over to GNU/Linux, what with the cost of retraining, are you crazy?!" and most people would agree. At the same time many many turn around and go "And oh yeah, we're going to lay everyone off and move the whole company to India". Not much talking about "retraining" costs then.
I guess it's going to come as a huge surprise in a few years when their standard of living has equalized and the ask for more money to continue slaving away...
(though China will probably be good for a long long time, because they've got a nice little regime to make sure the people doesn't get to enjoy the full effect of a rise in standard of living. A vote for the corps is a vote for continued repression of the people of China, but hey, at least we get cheap clothes to buy for our tax-free dole-check.)
> They could also improve Opera's bizarre (imo) interface.
What you find as bizarre I find is the reason to pay for Opera. If they fuck up the interface I'd have no reason to stick with Opera over FF, so let's hope they don't do that.