Moderate that question up.. it's pretty key. We already have a really well-written implementation of OpenGL in MESA, lacking only the license fee to get the logo/stamp on it. Can MESA now claim OpenGL compliance? Have they changed the licensing/legaleze of using that mark?
I'm wondering about emulator programming.. Linus said something about "emulators on steroids". From the various comments, can anyone tell if the processor instruction can be dynamic, done in user space? ie can I pop open a MacOS/ppc vm and have it get the cpu instructions while I run another host os a-la VMWare?
I've always thought that simple access to the card itself being protected is pretty unreasonable (ie if you have the number & epiration date, you have the keys to the store).
Isn't it time now in this day of ease of access to information to add something smarter to credit cards for security?
I'm working to create a text-based musical notation copy of a music book that has fallen into the public domain. I was wondering what license I could release it under- technically, the files are information, not program logic. The music format is human-readable, but also parsable by graphical notation programs. Hmm, any suggestions?
>If copyright law interferes with this, then I'm >going to copyright my personal information.
Hmm, that's actually a fairly interesting idea. Could this be done to thwart having your phone number resold etc? Copyright your name, phone number, and address and then sue people who sell it for infringement? Hmm. It seems to me that there is already established the idea that personal information has value, it seems logical that the person whose information it is should be considered the owner. If companies have to pay ME for my phone number/mailing address, I can set the price high so it's not worth the effort for them to spam me with advertisements
This book is excellent. You can learn enough from it to get way into the internals of the server, and the focus on perl is warranted. With mod_perl + apache, there is a near perfect marriage of performance and development time.
I knew many of the things discussed in it, but the added detail of the chapters taught me many new things. If you have access to a mod_perl server to develop on, this book will fill your head with great ideas for features, design strategies, and even does a great job of cataloging "fun" CPAN modules out there for the taking.
You can also set up your domain to be a handler (check out Doug McEachern & Lincoln Steins _Writing Apache Modules With Perl & C_ for detailed instructions) such that the actual link itself is just a query to a program. They could then do a scheme a-la pathfinder where the URLS are garbled unless you surf through all the advertising crap.
I'm all for that method. If you gotta have the crap to support the content, by all means post the crap:)
I think you're KIND OF right.. these games are mostly quake engine which is more or less
Game code -> renderer -> support libraries
which would be the executable calling either the software renderer or an opengl renderer. The openGL renderer (mesa) could work in software, but at the expense of being HIDEOUSLY slow (less than 1 frame per second), and possibly lacking in card-specific extensions. It's kinda messy really, but normally you have like the game executable, a.so file for the renderer, which in turn depends on the card api (glide for 3dfx) or a driver for open gl acceleration on a TNT for example. The reason the companies are going hardware-only is probably because the difference between what you can do in software vs hardware accelerated is phenomenal.. even quake2 or unreal look pretty hideous in software rendering. A tnt1 card is cheap- something like $80 now, and does really amazing 2d as well as the 3d acceleration.. I recommend it as the baseline in a new box!
Hmm, I am now more or less desparate to get home to try this on the tnt card. The readme says he uses a tnt2, and there is an.so file for TNTgl in there. This would be rather phenomenal, as it would be the first game that is actually playable using 3dacceleration that is non-3dfx on linux.
Hmm, I am now more or less desparate to get home to try this on the tnt card. The readme says he uses a tnt2, and there is an.so file for TNTgl in there. This would be rather phenomenal, as it would be the first game that is actually playable using 3dacceleration that is non-3dfx on linux.
Hmm. Apache isn't really tuned for the kind of speed that test was checking for.. something silly like 30 requests at once from one client for a 2k file (I forget the details). In the real world, the test was pretty useless as a benchmark, as you don't really get that kind of load in most situations.
The thing about Apache is that you can make it do more or less anything, and it keeps running. Tune the box, throw it some ram & scsi, you reach within a few percentage points of what any server can do in a reasonable real-world situation, plus you can plumb it to interface with anything.
The real answer to tests like this is to either craft a benchmark based on real-world situations, or what the heck.. pick something that linux blasts NT on and counter with that.
Doesn't matter much to me. I'm so sick of seeing billboards, ads everywhere. I don't define myself as a pure consumer, I'd rather just not see all that stuff plastered everywhere. Some things in the world actually can exist without advertising attached, and I'm quite happy to pay to keep advertising out of my house.
seriously though, that's not logically linked. The fact that a company is putting ads into a hardware controller is just plain annoying. You don't want your microwave to suddenly flash "eat at joe's", or your car to come with a mcdonald's logo sprayed on it. Has nothing to do with system stability. People will vote with their wallets, Phoenix will hurt from it.
You know, having worked through a project involving encryption with a major university & various "high-tech" companies, the biggest problem is just explaining to people how stuff works and what it can be used for. As soon as anything sounds vaguely threatening (read: difficult to understand) they start trying to kill it
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As far as I can tell, it doesn't have all the instructions necessary for a full accelerated opengl. I ran quake 2 with it, and it seems to slow to a crawl whenever there is a muzzleflash on the screen.
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Anyone find an iso image? if you do, could you drop me an email or convince his Taconess to post it?
Don't forget that this is the first of several.. A quake1 package and a quake2 package are also going to make it to stores. I think this is a great thing.. id games are some of the best ones out there, and the fact that win32 gamers will see these boxes sure helps raise the perception of Linux as a gaming OS
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Moderate that question up.. it's pretty key. We already have a really well-written implementation of OpenGL in MESA, lacking only the license fee to get the logo/stamp on it. Can MESA now claim OpenGL compliance? Have they changed the licensing/legaleze of using that mark?
I'm wondering about emulator programming.. Linus said something about "emulators on steroids". From the various comments, can anyone tell if the processor instruction can be dynamic, done in user space? ie can I pop open a MacOS/ppc vm and have it get the cpu instructions while I run another host os a-la VMWare?
I've always thought that simple access to the card itself being protected is pretty unreasonable (ie if you have the number & epiration date, you have the keys to the store).
Isn't it time now in this day of ease of access to information to add something smarter to credit cards for security?
I'm working to create a text-based musical notation copy of a music book that has fallen into the public domain. I was wondering what license I could release it under- technically, the files are information, not program logic. The music format is human-readable, but also parsable by graphical notation programs. Hmm, any suggestions?
>If copyright law interferes with this, then I'm
>going to copyright my personal information.
Hmm, that's actually a fairly interesting idea. Could this be done to thwart having your phone number resold etc? Copyright your name, phone number, and address and then sue people who sell it for infringement? Hmm. It seems to me that there is already established the idea that personal information has value, it seems logical that the person whose information it is should be considered the owner. If companies have to pay ME for my phone number/mailing address, I can set the price high so it's not worth the effort for them to spam me with advertisements
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This book is excellent. You can learn enough from it to get way into the internals of the server, and the focus on perl is warranted. With mod_perl + apache, there is a near perfect marriage of performance and development time.
I knew many of the things discussed in it, but the added detail of the chapters taught me many new things. If you have access to a mod_perl server to develop on, this book will fill your head with great ideas for features, design strategies, and even does a great job of cataloging "fun" CPAN modules out there for the taking.
You can also set up your domain to be a handler
:)
(check out Doug McEachern & Lincoln Steins _Writing Apache Modules With Perl & C_ for detailed instructions) such that the actual link itself is just a query to a program. They could then do a scheme a-la pathfinder where the URLS are garbled unless you surf through all the advertising crap.
I'm all for that method. If you gotta have the crap to support the content, by all means post the crap
Dan
Game code -> renderer -> support libraries
which would be the executable calling either the software renderer or an opengl renderer. The openGL renderer (mesa) could work in software, but at the expense of being HIDEOUSLY slow (less than 1 frame per second), and possibly lacking in card-specific extensions. It's kinda messy really, but normally you have like the game executable, a .so file for the renderer, which in turn depends on the card api (glide for 3dfx) or a driver for open gl acceleration on a TNT for example. The reason the companies are going hardware-only is probably because the difference between what you can do in software vs hardware accelerated is phenomenal.. even quake2 or unreal look pretty hideous in software rendering. A tnt1 card is cheap- something like $80 now, and does really amazing 2d as well as the 3d acceleration.. I recommend it as the baseline in a new box!
Hoonis
Anyone try it yet?
Anyone try it yet?
Hmm. Apache isn't really tuned for the kind of speed that test was checking for.. something silly like 30 requests at once from one client for a 2k file (I forget the details). In the real world, the test was pretty useless as a benchmark, as you don't really get that kind of load in most situations.
The thing about Apache is that you can make it do more or less anything, and it keeps running. Tune the box, throw it some ram & scsi, you reach within a few percentage points of what any server can do in a reasonable real-world situation, plus you can plumb it to interface with anything.
The real answer to tests like this is to either craft a benchmark based on real-world situations, or what the heck.. pick something that linux blasts NT on and counter with that.
Doesn't matter much to me. I'm so sick of seeing billboards, ads everywhere. I don't define myself as a pure consumer, I'd rather just not see all that stuff plastered everywhere. Some things in the world actually can exist without advertising attached, and I'm quite happy to pay to keep advertising out of my house.
"heh", nice counterpoint Bill :)
seriously though, that's not logically linked. The fact that a company is putting ads into a hardware controller is just plain annoying. You don't want your microwave to suddenly flash "eat at joe's", or your car to come with a mcdonald's logo sprayed on it. Has nothing to do with system stability. People will vote with their wallets, Phoenix will hurt from it.
"heh", nice counterpoint Bill :)
You know, having worked through a project involving encryption with a major university & various "high-tech" companies, the biggest problem is just explaining to people how stuff works and what it can be used for. As soon as anything sounds vaguely threatening (read: difficult to understand) they start trying to kill it
As far as I can tell, it doesn't have all the
instructions necessary for a full accelerated opengl. I ran quake 2 with it, and it seems to slow to a crawl whenever there is a muzzleflash on the screen.
Anyone find an iso image? if you do, could you drop me an email or convince his Taconess to post it?
Hoonis
I used to judge high school forensics. Heard that
poem perhaps 7 times/day every weekend.
Actually I was being kind of a bastard there, it sucks that he died really, I was more venting at
bad readings of his kid poems than the man.
/me fwaps himself
SARah CYNthia SILvia STOUT
WOULD not TAKE the GARbage OUT
DUM ba DUM ba DUM ba DUM!
I hated that stuff
Don't forget that this is the first of several..
A quake1 package and a quake2 package are also
going to make it to stores. I think this is a great thing.. id games are some of the best ones
out there, and the fact that win32 gamers will
see these boxes sure helps raise the perception
of Linux as a gaming OS
Hoonis