If you can't get it to compile, you probably don't have the required development libraries.
You need SDL (find the SDL-devel RPM, available from lokigames.com), and you also need smpeg (also available at loki). Just install those, and their *devel packages and it should compile fine.
I've played with it some more since I made this post, and one thing I've noticed is that its ability to play greatly depends on the video you're playing.
The Matrix trailer works GREAT, like flawless... I've tried some intros to some other movies, with varying results. Some of them have messed up video, with audio working fine. Some segfault it.
The 2 little movies side by side thing occured when I had it in 32bit color mode.
Make sure you have it in 16.. go in XF86Config and search for any 32 and change it. If you want to really be sure, make the refresh rate different for 16 and 32 bit color modes, then check to see what your monitor says when you run X.
After seeing this on Gnotices yesterday, I grabbed it and gave it a try.
It really does work great... just be sure to strictly follow the directions on the page (X in 32-bit color mode will NOT work right).
If you get segfaults, try the SDL rendering method - OpenGL seems to crash for me.
The video works great on this Athlon 750, but I hear the audio gets out of sync if you have a lower end machine (audio is decoded in realtime, so if the video lags it gets progressively out of sync).
I know what you're getting at, but that relates more to the official "goals" of the American justice system than employment.
But in this case, it's irrelevent. Whether or not you are "supposed" to be ready to rejoin society is meaningless to someone doing the hiring. And this is OK, as businesses shouldn't be required to adhere to whatever philisophical or fundamental views of society our justice system dictates.
If an employer doesn't feel comfortable hiring an ex-jay walker, he shouldn't have to.
Thanks for clearing this up... I witnessed the same thing happen at Gnotices (although on a much smaller scale, and with much friendlier criticism).. and I just felt really bad for the Nautilus developers.
To think they've been working on this for so long, give us screenshots, only for a buncha kids who know nothing about it say Nautilus/Eazel sucks. There were some really anal criticisms here too that didn't even remotely relate to functionality. That's something I would expect from the "typical" Windows crowd (not all, of course).
So, to the Nautilus developers: Good job and thanks for the hard work. Too much work in the open source community goes unappreciated
As Windows progresses, I see more and more UNIXisms being added. Most of them (like mount points), are transparent and low-level and the normal user never sees the difference. You also see more visible things like their "Task manager" which is basically cron. On the low-level, if they continue to support the existing legacy interface and API, all of their UNIXisms will be messy and wrong.
This just goes to show that the quote saying something like "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, poorly" is very true.
OK, this isn't meant to be inflammatory - but how does that imply American's reject Non-American software without at the same time imply that Europeans reject GNOME because it's US-based?
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Even with Starcraft 64 (which was either just released or not released in stores yet?), it took _forever_ to get to the N64... which seems really silly since it would have sold pretty well had they released it earlier... but now it's like, the N64 is nearing its final year, and the game has already lost its fresh feeling.
I can't remember nor find where that information was posted, but I can confirm what he's saying.
What I do remember from whatever it was that I was reading, was that CLX was a more cross-platform compatible VCL, and eventually Delphi for Windows may move over to it.
Your concerns are fairly valid, and I've thought of this ever since the product was announced.
Borland's current plan is to make the bcc compiler free for download, and sell the development environment. They said themselves that they're doing everything they can to support people who wish to develop open source Delphi applications under Linux.
So, yeah, the result is gonna be a lot more apps for i386, with other platforms left behind. This is the kind of thing Linux was previously pretty good about (with most things gcc-based), but it seems all of that is about to change.
You can't really blame Borland though. Their compiler is probably pretty strictly x86-only. They have to support the largest market, and supporting other platforms would just be more hassle than it's worth to them.
However, it's not entirely out of the question for other open source projects (such as Free Pascal, which supports multiple platforms, not just x86 IIRC) to attempt to add Kylix compatibility. Then, it would just be a matter of changing Makefile's to replace 'bcc' with some other open source compiler that supports everything. The reason I say this is because there are already projects attempting this for Delphi. But, of course, all of that will take time as everything else.
Not suprisingly, many of you guys are hoping that DOOM 3 will stay true to the original and not just be Quake 4. While I agree with this, I'm not so sure id will stay true to the original very far.
As you know, JC has recently been in "research" mode, and I'm sure JC is well-aware of the "yet another FPS" complaints. For these 2 reasons, it leads me to believe that DOOM 3 will take a different direction than previous DOOMs. The most suprising part of his.plan (about DOOM 3) was that he said it would focus on single player gameplay, which contradicts what I originally suspected he'd be working on.
What other direction can a FPS-series take? I'm not sure, but I really suspect we're in for a surprise. The people at id seemed to reject Adrian's request for DOOM 3 for the same reasons some of you guys would probably, and I'm sure they took that into consideration.
I have an Athlon 750 w/ the ASUS K7V (KX133) board.
An interesting note about this board is that on the box, listed among its various features is a Linux 'icon', with a checkmark and the text "linux-tested.com". Apparantly this is some sort of certification for Linux hardware.
I was curious about this, so I went to linux-tested.com and read up. Asus actually paid these guys money to put this board through various Linux tests (both distro and non-distro specific), and it passed everything. This is a really nice thing for Asus to do, and I thank them for it.
Yes, it will be competitive with the Celeron. Even though it does have less Level 2 cache, the effective 200mhz bus will make all the difference in the world -- Not to mention the Athlon core which is still far superior to the PPro core of the Celeron. The Celeron 2's had relatively dissapointing performance, and it's likely that Duron will perform much better and cost less.
As for the memory, not much will change probably. Duron's will be using basically the same chipset for Socket A (KZ133 and AMD 750). There are several places to buy "Athlon-tested" memory though, so I don't really see why this is a problem.
This guy makes some excellent points regarding the merit of their concern on this matter. I really don't think MS could easily answer those, which immediately shows how stupid all of this is of them. But, I have a feeling the angle MS will take with this will be "none of that matters, this is a copyright issue".
This is unfortunate, when a company relies on technicalities and silly laws to protect its misguided efforts to monopolize. That's all it is, really.
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If you can't get it to compile, you probably don't have the required development libraries.
You need SDL (find the SDL-devel RPM, available from lokigames.com), and you also need smpeg (also available at loki). Just install those, and their *devel packages and it should compile fine.
I've played with it some more since I made this post, and one thing I've noticed is that its ability to play greatly depends on the video you're playing.
The Matrix trailer works GREAT, like flawless... I've tried some intros to some other movies, with varying results. Some of them have messed up video, with audio working fine. Some segfault it.
The 2 little movies side by side thing occured when I had it in 32bit color mode.
Make sure you have it in 16.. go in XF86Config and search for any 32 and change it. If you want to really be sure, make the refresh rate different for 16 and 32 bit color modes, then check to see what your monitor says when you run X.
The mpeg people?
read above... the DivX codec is not related to the dead Circuit City stuff.
eh.. the DivX codec has nothing to do with the (now dead) DVD-rental crap.
After seeing this on Gnotices yesterday, I grabbed it and gave it a try.
It really does work great... just be sure to strictly follow the directions on the page (X in 32-bit color mode will NOT work right).
If you get segfaults, try the SDL rendering method - OpenGL seems to crash for me.
The video works great on this Athlon 750, but I hear the audio gets out of sync if you have a lower end machine (audio is decoded in realtime, so if the video lags it gets progressively out of sync).
Yes, it's ok if they want to do those things. Nobody's forcing them to work there... and if the employee agrees to it, more power to them.
Yeah, if they're an EOE then they shouldn't discriminate against them, otherwise they're contradicting their policy.
I know what you're getting at, but that relates more to the official "goals" of the American justice system than employment.
But in this case, it's irrelevent. Whether or not you are "supposed" to be ready to rejoin society is meaningless to someone doing the hiring. And this is OK, as businesses shouldn't be required to adhere to whatever philisophical or fundamental views of society our justice system dictates.
If an employer doesn't feel comfortable hiring an ex-jay walker, he shouldn't have to.
Thanks for clearing this up... I witnessed the same thing happen at Gnotices (although on a much smaller scale, and with much friendlier criticism).. and I just felt really bad for the Nautilus developers.
To think they've been working on this for so long, give us screenshots, only for a buncha kids who know nothing about it say Nautilus/Eazel sucks. There were some really anal criticisms here too that didn't even remotely relate to functionality. That's something I would expect from the "typical" Windows crowd (not all, of course).
So, to the Nautilus developers: Good job and thanks for the hard work. Too much work in the open source community goes unappreciated
Oh, sorry, that should have read "Task Scheduler".
As for legacy, you are wrong.. legacy is a relative term, and you can definitely consider the drive lettering convention legacy.
I say this because they're getting rid of it at the low level, and only exists to the user.
This is true.
As Windows progresses, I see more and more UNIXisms being added. Most of them (like mount points), are transparent and low-level and the normal user never sees the difference. You also see more visible things like their "Task manager" which is basically cron. On the low-level, if they continue to support the existing legacy interface and API, all of their UNIXisms will be messy and wrong.
This just goes to show that the quote saying something like "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, poorly" is very true.
OK, this isn't meant to be inflammatory - but how does that imply American's reject Non-American software without at the same time imply that Europeans reject GNOME because it's US-based?
Even with Starcraft 64 (which was either just released or not released in stores yet?), it took _forever_ to get to the N64... which seems really silly since it would have sold pretty well had they released it earlier... but now it's like, the N64 is nearing its final year, and the game has already lost its fresh feeling.
I don't think so.. it seems Blizzard has never expressed any interest in supporting Linux
I can't remember nor find where that information was posted, but I can confirm what he's saying.
What I do remember from whatever it was that I was reading, was that CLX was a more cross-platform compatible VCL, and eventually Delphi for Windows may move over to it.
Your concerns are fairly valid, and I've thought of this ever since the product was announced.
Borland's current plan is to make the bcc compiler free for download, and sell the development environment. They said themselves that they're doing everything they can to support people who wish to develop open source Delphi applications under Linux.
So, yeah, the result is gonna be a lot more apps for i386, with other platforms left behind. This is the kind of thing Linux was previously pretty good about (with most things gcc-based), but it seems all of that is about to change.
You can't really blame Borland though. Their compiler is probably pretty strictly x86-only. They have to support the largest market, and supporting other platforms would just be more hassle than it's worth to them.
However, it's not entirely out of the question for other open source projects (such as Free Pascal, which supports multiple platforms, not just x86 IIRC) to attempt to add Kylix compatibility. Then, it would just be a matter of changing Makefile's to replace 'bcc' with some other open source compiler that supports everything. The reason I say this is because there are already projects attempting this for Delphi. But, of course, all of that will take time as everything else.
So, I really don't know how you should feel.
Not suprisingly, many of you guys are hoping that DOOM 3 will stay true to the original and not just be Quake 4. While I agree with this, I'm not so sure id will stay true to the original very far.
.plan (about DOOM 3) was that he said it would focus on single player gameplay, which contradicts what I originally suspected he'd be working on.
As you know, JC has recently been in "research" mode, and I'm sure JC is well-aware of the "yet another FPS" complaints. For these 2 reasons, it leads me to believe that DOOM 3 will take a different direction than previous DOOMs. The most suprising part of his
What other direction can a FPS-series take? I'm not sure, but I really suspect we're in for a surprise. The people at id seemed to reject Adrian's request for DOOM 3 for the same reasons some of you guys would probably, and I'm sure they took that into consideration.
I have an Athlon 750 w/ the ASUS K7V (KX133) board.
An interesting note about this board is that on the box, listed among its various features is a Linux 'icon', with a checkmark and the text "linux-tested.com". Apparantly this is some sort of certification for Linux hardware.
I was curious about this, so I went to linux-tested.com and read up. Asus actually paid these guys money to put this board through various Linux tests (both distro and non-distro specific), and it passed everything. This is a really nice thing for Asus to do, and I thank them for it.
"rambus is suck" ?
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Well, it's not just _a_ distro anymore. It's Red hat, Mandrake, SuSE, and many, many others.
Not really, I think you have to be by your computer, which is doing the 'hosting' for you. On top of that, it requires Windows.
Yes, it will be competitive with the Celeron. Even though it does have less Level 2 cache, the effective 200mhz bus will make all the difference in the world -- Not to mention the Athlon core which is still far superior to the PPro core of the Celeron. The Celeron 2's had relatively dissapointing performance, and it's likely that Duron will perform much better and cost less.
As for the memory, not much will change probably. Duron's will be using basically the same chipset for Socket A (KZ133 and AMD 750). There are several places to buy "Athlon-tested" memory though, so I don't really see why this is a problem.
This guy makes some excellent points regarding the merit of their concern on this matter. I really don't think MS could easily answer those, which immediately shows how stupid all of this is of them. But, I have a feeling the angle MS will take with this will be "none of that matters, this is a copyright issue".
This is unfortunate, when a company relies on technicalities and silly laws to protect its misguided efforts to monopolize. That's all it is, really.