I had 2.5.34 or something compiled and going. But unfortunatly I wasn't savy enough to hack the nvidia interface to compile against it. So I went back to 2.4
Maybe if one of the kernel hackers could spend an hour or so getting the nvidia drivers to compile without unresolved symbols, itd open the door up to alot of power gaming users and developers (eg myself).
Even though the NVidia drivers don't come with source, there is one source file which is what gets compiled against the kernel - I got as far as getting it to compile, but unfortunatly since the device module interface has changed somewhat there were unresolved symbols that I didn't know howto fix (though all the unresolved symbols where imported from the source file - so it is fixable).
I've been doing the same thing for the past 11 months - working for a software company (in Canada, I come from Australia) - I'll be going home in another months time, to get ready for university, starting in Feb/March.
I've found this experience is invaluable to me - I've learn't 100x more than my buddies who are doing a Soft/Computer Engineering or Com Sci.
Gonna be a bit weird going to university with all the youngans we used to scoff in secoundary school;-).
Anyhow, I'm just interested in how long you worked for before going to University? Like 1 year seems plenty for me, but there is probably a "magic number" somewhere thats as good as it gets.
so there really are jobs out there that you can't wear simple shorts and tshirts for? I alway thought those were just bad stories I was told as a kid so as I'd dress good..
I'm interested in talking to you about this keyboard (As I want to get one, but $600AU is a bit much unless im certain), couldya email me? crazney AT crazney DOT net.. or irc me (crazney / crazney_ / crazney__ on irc.openprojects.net)
So, I tried that - went to 2.5.39 - used that nvidia patch.. and I guess they've broken the interface since, cause the patch didnt help. I had to move around some include files it couldn't find (irq_vectors.h) - but now it seems devfs_unregister_chrdev / devfs_regsiter_chrdev (i think those are the functions) no longer exist in the kernel.. I'm not exactly sure what to replace them with, so I give up;-).
Other than the nvidia stuff, everything else seemd ok - but I'm back to 2.4 now.
-- Linus agreed that if the VM is as good as it seems to be, indeed the upcoming release deserves to be called 3.0. But he also pointed out that there are many silent users who tend not to speak up until there is an official release. He asks, "people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series, please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x thing." ---
So does this mean that us semi-power users should be going ahead and testing the 2.5 kernel? If so to what degree.. Should we be running 2.5 on our desktop boxes? What about video drivers (nvidia) and all that?... When does it actually get into the 'testing' time frame, hence things start to become stable?
I finished school last november, i decided to take a year off.
Probably the best thing I've ever done. I've become more independant, learnt a whole heap and had a good time. Luckily my position at university is saved for me.
I moved to Canada during this year, got a job and settled down. I'll be moving back to Australia in under 2 months - sure I'm looking forward to going home, but I'll miss things over here.
By the sound of the questions you ask, alot of good coders would probably screw them up in the heat.
I know I could probably screw them up quite easily.
why? Because with those questions your testing invterview skills, not programing skills. I'm a shy and nervice guy, as such in an interview I'd likely get paranoid and worried and just blunder everywhere (and probably try to answer too quickly). Even though I know the answer. Someone who is good at being interviewed would take it calmly and answer calmly, correctly.
And as you probably know, most good programing geeks arn't exactly totally out there and self confident.
What you want to do is two things: a) Look at their previous work. What projects have they worked on, what have they done personally in there own time. Ask them to submit any work they can do. b) Make them feel comfortable and then ask them technical questions, but in a chatty way so they don't feel pressured, it shouldn't be a Q&A type session.
Disclamer: I've never interviewed people or been interviewed. But I am a programer, and have had two jobs as one (one I'm in now).
Several things you have to consider before saying 'transgaming suck' because they implement copy protection in there games is:
a) Loki games were used by more people who didn't buy the games than did. Piracy _did_ contribute to putting them out of business. b) Many gaming companies require copy protection for contracts nowerdays (not so much when Loki was around). Especially if the game is going to be downloadable. Its part of the contract normally: No copy protection, no port.
It may not run after some upgrades, but thats easily fixed as it will just re-grab a new executable that will run. (actually if it detects you as pirating the game it will still run, just with a nice easter egg *grins*). No personal or statistical information is transfered to TransGaming in this process.
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however, there is still no usefull word count feature.. which makes OpenOffice a lot less useful than it should be.
100th year, 90th Tour de France. they paused for a little while for WW 1 and 2.
So you are both correct.
The story says:
Was this inevitable, and what does it say about the influence of TV on Western cultures?
Last time I checked, the magnetic polls hadn't flipped yet.
Bhutan is in the east, not the west.
ohhh cool,
i'll give these a shot when I get home, thanks.
btw, following the linux-kernel list might be useful, but I already get 40-odd msgs from the wine-devel list, another list is just too much..
I had 2.5.34 or something compiled and going. But unfortunatly I wasn't savy enough to hack the nvidia interface to compile against it. So I went back to 2.4
Maybe if one of the kernel hackers could spend an hour or so getting the nvidia drivers to compile without unresolved symbols, itd open the door up to alot of power gaming users and developers (eg myself).
Even though the NVidia drivers don't come with source, there is one source file which is what gets compiled against the kernel - I got as far as getting it to compile, but unfortunatly since the device module interface has changed somewhat there were unresolved symbols that I didn't know howto fix (though all the unresolved symbols where imported from the source file - so it is fixable).
craz
Which university is that?
Cheers
craz
I've been doing the same thing for the past 11 months - working for a software company (in Canada, I come from Australia) - I'll be going home in another months time, to get ready for university, starting in Feb/March.
;-).
I've found this experience is invaluable to me - I've learn't 100x more than my buddies who are doing a Soft/Computer Engineering or Com Sci.
Gonna be a bit weird going to university with all the youngans we used to scoff in secoundary school
Anyhow, I'm just interested in how long you worked for before going to University? Like 1 year seems plenty for me, but there is probably a "magic number" somewhere thats as good as it gets.
so there really are jobs out there that you can't wear simple shorts and tshirts for? I alway thought those were just bad stories I was told as a kid so as I'd dress good..
Actually, its definatly playable, my housemate has been playing it under linux for the past few days, and is happy with it.
Visit this link to see how other users are finding it.
David
or NOT...
;-)
Your web page doesnt say anything about OGG support, so I'm guessing its NOT what he's looking for.
craz
Hey,
I'm interested in talking to you about this keyboard (As I want to get one, but $600AU is a bit much unless im certain), couldya email me? crazney AT crazney DOT net.. or irc me (crazney / crazney_ / crazney__ on irc.openprojects.net)
cheers and thanks
David
If this was a laptop, i'd be interested.
If it was also low cost, i'd be super interested.
Wow, theres a novel idea - a light, lowcost, low power laptop.
Okie dokie..
;-).
;-)
So, I tried that - went to 2.5.39 - used that nvidia patch.. and I guess they've broken the interface since, cause the patch didnt help. I had to move around some include files it couldn't find (irq_vectors.h) - but now it seems devfs_unregister_chrdev / devfs_regsiter_chrdev (i think those are the functions) no longer exist in the kernel.. I'm not exactly sure what to replace them with, so I give up
Other than the nvidia stuff, everything else seemd ok - but I'm back to 2.4 now.
Cheers
craz
Linus said:
--
Linus agreed that if the VM is as good as it seems to be, indeed the upcoming release deserves to be called 3.0. But he also pointed out that there are many silent users who tend not to speak up until there is an official release. He asks, "people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series, please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x thing."
---
So does this mean that us semi-power users should be going ahead and testing the 2.5 kernel? If so to what degree.. Should we be running 2.5 on our desktop boxes? What about video drivers (nvidia) and all that?... When does it actually get into the 'testing' time frame, hence things start to become stable?
Cheers
craz
Perhaps you could look at cvsfs? Don't know if it actually works, but meh..
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsfs/
Hi,
I finished school last november, i decided to take a year off.
Probably the best thing I've ever done. I've become more independant, learnt a whole heap and had a good time. Luckily my position at university is saved for me.
I moved to Canada during this year, got a job and settled down. I'll be moving back to Australia in under 2 months - sure I'm looking forward to going home, but I'll miss things over here.
I highly recommend taking a year off.
cheers
You could always try it in Wine [1] [2] [3]
David
Anyone know a URL to screenshots of this new 'beutiful' desktop?
Thanks
Umm,
if I were you, I'd just return it. (if you are certain its the mobo).
Tell them that it smells and makes you feel ill. They will most likely replace it rather than risk any legal action.
The thing is, its gotah be a fault board, because no one else seems to have the problem (otherwise there would have been a recall).
Cheers
Well, im not sure about everyone else.. But I know us developers at the WINE project have found the new APIs (documented here) to be anything but useful..
Well, the register does say "what Microsoft has got in there is a grotesque, badly-documented pile of poo it doesn't fully understand itself." (in regards to the fact that the few new APIs microsoft released doco's on are other useless or all together wrong!.)
David.
By the sound of the questions you ask, alot of good coders would probably screw them up in the heat.
I know I could probably screw them up quite easily.
why? Because with those questions your testing invterview skills, not programing skills. I'm a shy and nervice guy, as such in an interview I'd likely get paranoid and worried and just blunder everywhere (and probably try to answer too quickly). Even though I know the answer.
Someone who is good at being interviewed would take it calmly and answer calmly, correctly.
And as you probably know, most good programing geeks arn't exactly totally out there and self confident.
What you want to do is two things:
a) Look at their previous work. What projects have they worked on, what have they done personally in there own time. Ask them to submit any work they can do.
b) Make them feel comfortable and then ask them technical questions, but in a chatty way so they don't feel pressured, it shouldn't be a Q&A type session.
Disclamer: I've never interviewed people or been interviewed. But I am a programer, and have had two jobs as one (one I'm in now).
Cheers
David.
Hi,
Several things you have to consider before saying 'transgaming suck' because they implement copy protection in there games is:
a) Loki games were used by more people who didn't buy the games than did. Piracy _did_ contribute to putting them out of business.
b) Many gaming companies require copy protection for contracts nowerdays (not so much when Loki was around). Especially if the game is going to be downloadable. Its part of the contract normally: No copy protection, no port.
David.
It may not run after some upgrades, but thats easily fixed as it will just re-grab a new executable that will run. (actually if it detects you as pirating the game it will still run, just with a nice easter egg *grins*).
No personal or statistical information is transfered to TransGaming in this process.
David
TransGaming's kohan package size are as follows:
* Kohan IS: 150 Mb
* Kohan SAE: 152 Mb
* Kohan AG: 226 Mb
Thats pretty good.
David
We actually tested it down to a 300 and it worked fine, but the video's are just bad at 300.
Cheers
David