This is too easy, use XPCOM - it stands for Cross-Platform COM (Component Object Model) XPCOM Documentation. XPCOM is binary compatible with COM, and uses XPIDL - Cross platform Interface Definition Language. XPCOM is everything COM is plus Cross Platform. Don't let anyone tell you to forget about anything like COM for Linux! Mozilla uses (created) XPCOM and is used on all sorts of Unic variants - and the same component can be used on any computing system that the core XPCOM architecture has been ported to. Currently this consists of the main computing platforms - Mac, Windows, Unix and possibly OS/2, Be and others I don't keep track of. Joseph Elwell.
Solution for cell phone dilemna or Mobile Virgins
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I've got one solution and two new question, or "One Step Forward, two steps back." First the good news, I found a device that allows me to connect any phone device to a cell phone (only certain cell phones supported). It's called Axcell. From the faq "The AXCELL offers a standard RJ-11 connection to any telephone device.", looks like it gets about 9600baud. egad!
Now the new questions: 1) Are there other devices like this Axcell? I've got a Sony Zuma, but I'm willing to purchase a new mobile phone - anyone have experience with these things? I'd like to find a cell phone that offers a higher access speed.;)
2)How can I fake a dial tone? I tried to hook my Virgin up to a hotel phone line. This line does not require you dial any special number or prefix to get out, but it does not have a normal dialtone. Instead of a continuouse dial tone, instead it's like a repetitive beep where each beep is a dialtone. My Virgin wouldn't dial, it said it did not hear a dial tone. I just need a way to trick the machine into thinking it's hearing a dial tone so that it will start dialling.
For starters this webplayer is definately running Linux. There's no doubt that this is true. It looks like Merinta has updated their website since I initially looked and it does appear that the machines currently run a Java OS - but that must apply only to their new machines. Check this out: a press release from Merinta that specifies that the Machines in the VirginConnect deal run Linux!
Personally, I like the screen - the Machine costs me 0$ (I was one of the first 10,000 to sign on), and my girlfriend liked the keyboard & ($1.50) trackball combo that she ran over to Fry's electronics to pick one up for her computer. The keyboard/trackball is built into one device (for those who don't know) and uses infared to communicate to the base(the color LCD screen); super cool if you ask me.
The horrible refresh smear is indeed awful. I'm hoping that Merinta will work out a deal with Mozilla to embed Gecko instead of that espial browser. But that would be a ways off.
The USB ports are only meant to work with keyboards and mice (but probably only specifice ones - that they don't give you a list of). I don't think drivers are downloaded on the fly - so if it's not there, you can't use it. Forget about a USB compatible ethernet card - I'm sure they didn't put USB ethernet drivers in the machine.
There might be some hope in opening the device with a screwdriver and pulling an I-opener stunt - however the "must use it 10 hours a month" deal will get you hosed if you break it. They make you pay something like 500$ if you do consistently (i think they give you 3 months) fail to use it 10 hours a month AND do NOT to return the device. That price goes down each year - until the end of the third year when the machine is oficially yours.
For starters, Merinta is the manufacturer of the neato toy you have. And Prodigy provides you with your free 56K ISP.
The Machine runs Linux! and the web browser is by Espial that fakes being Netscape 4.x very well (frames, javascript and Layers wow). Java support is included, and many ports on the machine are accessible. I can use a java applet to telnet to another machine, but I can't telnet back in. And the wiredX (or is weirdX) Java applet that is an X client didn't work.
Those USB ports are currently only good for plugging in keyboards and Mice (or so I'm told). They say in the future they'll support printers but no plans for ethernet card support.
Supposedly there's no hard drive. But I know there's a way to browse the filesystem. I think file:/// works, if not Click on all the dropdowns for in the Help menu - one of these will put you in the filesystem.
It comes with Real (not G2) the old 16K version - that only plays sound! They should be upgrading to a newer version soon - hopefully. It might be Merinta's fault that virginconnect members don't get the Real G2 player. If you check out their "IBrow" (that's what Merinta calls it) add-on software you'll see Real G2 listed. My guess is Merinta charges extra to install that!
Updates to the virgin webplayer happen via Castanet remote software - I'm not familiar with this; and have not had any upgrades happen (that I've noticed) since I logged started.
Did I forget anything? I did a whole mess of research on these things. The machine would be so much less of a toy if I could hook up a high speed connection to it.
Anyone had any success getting a high speed connection connected to the webplayer?
Another thing I'd like to figure out is if there is a cell phone (or some mobile networking hardware) that I can use that I can plug into the phone line input. The machine - when booting up dials prodigy - If I can use a mobile phone line (rather then my land line) I could hook up the machine to run in my car with a DC to AC converter and a cell phone that allows standard phone lines to be connected through.
I really like the option to let Mandrake decide how the partitioning should be done - including resizing your windows partition (something like fips?). I have problems deciding how much space to allocate all the time - and I've been using linux for years. Just the other day I tried installing (Redhat) linux on my g/f machine and didn't allocate enough space for/usr for the installation to work! I said "fuck it" and went with one big honking "/" partition. I know why I shouldn't do that - but I also know it'll work for now - and it's bad enough that I had to consider partitioning in the first place. Finally someone gets it: The hardest part about linux is installing it. (which has been getting better and better really fast recently with the advent of GUI installers)
I also really like GRUB. I'll have to find a URL for that - say goodbye to lilo, and hello to GRUB - It's like the dosGUI version of lilo.:)
Anyways, cheers to the Mandrake people. Joseph Elwell.
When I was in Florida for Spring Break the hotel I stayed in had a playstation controller coming out of the television. Their onscreen menu system had a handful of games that you could play. I didn't do too much tinkering, but there was an odd box on the back of the television that was called something like remotetvsystem - that had a wire running into the wall.
Anyone ever flown Virgin? I know when I flew Virgin from Los Angeles to London the tv that popped out of my arm rest was controlled by an old style Nintendo controller (the one with 2 red buttons, A & B). This rig had headphones, and what was most certainly an old Turbografx! unless someone ported Bonks Adventures to another system...
I haven't bought a music cd or tape in almost 6 years. But just yesterday I was telling my friend that because mp3.com makes it so easy to listen to all my music at work or anywhere I go, I'm going to have to go out and buy more albums so that I can beam them to mp3.com.
My.mp3.com isn't doing anything more than speeding up the ripping and distribution process for users. If they just distributed a cd ripper program and a mysql/perl server suite would anyone be complaining? Joseph Elwell.
Pranks living on in the commercial world isn't quite a new thing. Here's a classic: Mozilla vs. IE. This one started as a prank by a bunch of Microsoft cronies - but then backfired the next day. Joseph Elwell.
Setting a few people straight: Playstation 2 development is already done in linux:) does this imply that it would be easier to port linux to the PSX2?
Quite possibly - as a matter of fact the PSX 1 development kit uses GCC as it's compiler! doesn't that mean there's already GPL code that targets the PSX. My bet is the PSX2 dev kit will ship with GCC also. I'm a little shocked no one has ported linux to their PSX. Although with a hard drive and a modem, it'll suddenly be useful to be running linux on it.:)
By the way: Screw hopes for an ethernet card by default - that can be bought seperately and use with the USB port. The important thing is that if the system comes with a default modem installed, more games will take advantage of it; then when you buy your ethernet adapter, there will games for it. If it doesn't come with either then games won't come with networking either.:(
Now if only Sony could figure out that a default of 2 controllers aren't enough. Not enough games come out with 4 player modes for the PSX because the system only has two ports standard. And a few too many games that say they support the 4player multitap don't work well with the tap!
Mozilla has a lot of really nice features as far as cookies are concerned. First of all YES Mozilla has a checkbox to only "Accept cookies that get sent back to the originating server only". (Get this: There is an image checkbox that does the same thing! Which blocks images (read ads) from servers that aren't the originating server)
Not only does it slice and dice, Mozilla allows you to view your stored cookies - and delete them wholesale or individually.
You can also ad whole domains that you would like to block images from. And, although the interface isn't quite complete, you can ad domains that you will <b>always</B> block cookies from too. One post I saw wanted the ability to view cookies and delete them real time in the sidebar. It would be trivially easy to skin a new Mozilla that has the Cookie Manager window in the sidebar so that you could actively watch cookies and delete them in real time.
Joseph Elwell.
<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org">Make it better.</A>
There goes my only chance at getting into the Beta Test. I figured, as long as Slashdot doesn't find out I might get in. But with only a 1,000 slots, oh well. If you make it in instead of me - please don't email me just to flaunt it. Joseph Elwell.
I've been using the crypto version for a couple of days now (as a third party developer on the Mozilla project). I've noticed a lot of SSL sites actively enforce browser agents be what they believe to be the most current web browsers. Wellsfargo does this among others. In paticular wellsfargo won't let you sign in with Mozilla because it asks you to "Upgrade" to Netscape 4.X. That's a downgrade in my opinion.
I've created a template form that you can fill out and then copy the results into your e-mail client to mail off to websites that aren't allowing you to log in because it thinks you should "Upgrade your browser".
My friend bought an Ethernet card just 2 days ago. I think it was by SMC - it was a cheap 10/100 card for about 15$. What surprised me is the CD he handed me when he asked me to install the card - because he couldn't figure it out. Popping it in I saw directories like dosutils, img, root, etc... I looked at him and said, "Did it come with any instructions?" he pointed to the back of the box that had detailed instructions for linux and 1 sentence for windows. For windows it said "Windows will detect and configure the card automatically." sure... It didn't. I was stunned - I told him that the cd contained no windows drivers and instead was an TurboLinux CD. "It might contain Linux drivers", I said sarcastically. He didn't get it.
Sadly enough I bought Quake 3 for Linux, not because I like Quake 3 - I don't - but because I'm hoping that my purchase will help show game companies that there is a market in developing and porting games to the Linux platform. I would like to be able to buy every game that comes out for Linux, but to tell the truth I don't have any interest in the games currently on Loki's product page. With this in mind, what would you think is the best way for me - as a consumer and a Linux user - to show game companies that I do want games ported to Linux?
Dosemu has been working really good as far as emulation goes. It could be a little faster - but I'm not complaining there. I loved playing Carmageddon (the first one) under dosemu nearly 2 years ago. However one critical component still seems to be missing - sound!
The README.txt for DOSEMU v1.0 pl0.0 says: " The sound driver is more or less likely to be broken at the moment. Anyway, here are the settings you would need to emulate a SB-sound card by passing the control to the Linux soundrivers."
Until sound is working game play is fairly limited. Joseph Elwell.
I'm seeing a lot of posts that ask about this or that. Try downloading Mozilla. Mozilla currently supports Javascript up to 1.5 and CSS 1 & 2. Download the build - give it a shot.
The SSL code will be included in the tip - not the mozilla tree. This means - no one will see the code that is owned by RSA. So using cvs on the tree wont get you all the crypto code - it will probably download at least one small binary file that includes the patented RSA code. Which later this year will fall into public domain.
Don't forget to help out on the Mozilla project - Mozilla runs great on Mac, Linux, Win32 and all sorts of variant UNIX operating systems as well as OS's I've never even heard of. Joseph Elwell.
$149 hmmm. Taking a look at that last article about the 1.5Ghz Intel chips priced around a small yugo! Well, Microsoft must be shooting to release these X-Boxes when the Intel price drops to 45$. Using the current trends, with 300MHz Celerons still at 75$ The X-Box should be out sometime in 2004. I'm not waiting that long. Joseph Elwell.
From an Anonymous Coward, "DES sucks. Let's see Blowfish, RC4, RC2, Twofish, IDEA, RSA, 3DES, Safer, etc. on the standard, precompiled, linux distros (with the crypto source already in there too). I want to be able to create encrypted file systems right out of the box. It should even be an option in the setup program. That way, when the MPAA/RIAA kick down the door searching for copies of DeCSS or MP3s, you can just hit the power switch and be safe." What I wouldn't do for the ability to create an encrypted file system right out of the box. I'm so sick of hearing stories about Government granting searches of home computers. Joseph Elwell.
Is it me, or should there have been a Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project? GNOME certainly wouldn't have won. But even the darling Linux probably wouldn't have won this one.
Post your winner for the Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project below. Joseph Elwell.
You don't, but not by much. Not trying to knock you - I'm positive the votes were swayed towards Windows when I voted too. According to the poll Linux is at 36%. Windows(NT&9x) is at 30%
Although if you add in the "I hate everyone crowd" to Windows that pushes windows users over: at 38%. And we all know only windows users are angry at everyone.:) Joseph Elwell.
CmdrTaco specifically said "(and note that WINE doesn't count.;)".
It would be a lie to say "CmdrTaco specifically said this was a WINE free zone.".
It's one thing to say that CmdrTaco asked for discussion about ports - it's another to say that CmdrTaco won't allow discussion of WINE also.
I don't know what you think "open forum" is... but if I want to reply to let someone know that their games run under wine, I can, will and will be moderated up for it - because heck: It just applies. Joseph Elwell.
All I want to know is where I can get my hands on the software he used to encrypt his files! If he encrypted this 5 years ago - and it's still strong then I gotta get my hands on this.
Anyone know what program he used? was it PGP? was PGP even around 5 years ago? Joseph Elwell.
I've noticed a lot of people asking for Games like Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft etc. I'm wondering if these people know that WINE has been running these games since barely after they came out. PEOPLE: go download WINE. Maybe the game you want ported works already!
A little note: Most DirectX games will work flawlessly. Last I checked Direct3D did not work well.
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This is too easy, use XPCOM - it stands for Cross-Platform COM (Component Object Model) XPCOM Documentation. XPCOM is binary compatible with COM, and uses XPIDL - Cross platform Interface Definition Language. XPCOM is everything COM is plus Cross Platform. Don't let anyone tell you to forget about anything like COM for Linux! Mozilla uses (created) XPCOM and is used on all sorts of Unic variants - and the same component can be used on any computing system that the core XPCOM architecture has been ported to. Currently this consists of the main computing platforms - Mac, Windows, Unix and possibly OS/2, Be and others I don't keep track of.
Joseph Elwell.
I've got one solution and two new question, or "One Step Forward, two steps back." First the good news, I found a device that allows me to connect any phone device to a cell phone (only certain cell phones supported). It's called Axcell. From the faq "The AXCELL offers a standard RJ-11 connection to any telephone device.", looks like it gets about 9600baud. egad!
;)
Now the new questions:
1) Are there other devices like this Axcell? I've got a Sony Zuma, but I'm willing to purchase a new mobile phone - anyone have experience with these things? I'd like to find a cell phone that offers a higher access speed.
2)How can I fake a dial tone? I tried to hook my Virgin up to a hotel phone line. This line does not require you dial any special number or prefix to get out, but it does not have a normal dialtone. Instead of a continuouse dial tone, instead it's like a repetitive beep where each beep is a dialtone. My Virgin wouldn't dial, it said it did not hear a dial tone. I just need a way to trick the machine into thinking it's hearing a dial tone so that it will start dialling.
Joseph Elwell.
Personally, I like the screen - the Machine costs me 0$ (I was one of the first 10,000 to sign on), and my girlfriend liked the keyboard & ($1.50) trackball combo that she ran over to Fry's electronics to pick one up for her computer. The keyboard/trackball is built into one device (for those who don't know) and uses infared to communicate to the base(the color LCD screen); super cool if you ask me.
The horrible refresh smear is indeed awful. I'm hoping that Merinta will work out a deal with Mozilla to embed Gecko instead of that espial browser. But that would be a ways off.
The USB ports are only meant to work with keyboards and mice (but probably only specifice ones - that they don't give you a list of). I don't think drivers are downloaded on the fly - so if it's not there, you can't use it. Forget about a USB compatible ethernet card - I'm sure they didn't put USB ethernet drivers in the machine.
There might be some hope in opening the device with a screwdriver and pulling an I-opener stunt - however the "must use it 10 hours a month" deal will get you hosed if you break it. They make you pay something like 500$ if you do consistently (i think they give you 3 months) fail to use it 10 hours a month AND do NOT to return the device. That price goes down each year - until the end of the third year when the machine is oficially yours.
Joseph Elwell.
The Machine runs Linux! and the web browser is by Espial that fakes being Netscape 4.x very well (frames, javascript and Layers wow). Java support is included, and many ports on the machine are accessible. I can use a java applet to telnet to another machine, but I can't telnet back in. And the wiredX (or is weirdX) Java applet that is an X client didn't work.
Those USB ports are currently only good for plugging in keyboards and Mice (or so I'm told). They say in the future they'll support printers but no plans for ethernet card support.
Supposedly there's no hard drive. But I know there's a way to browse the filesystem. I think file:/// works, if not Click on all the dropdowns for in the Help menu - one of these will put you in the filesystem.
It comes with Real (not G2) the old 16K version - that only plays sound! They should be upgrading to a newer version soon - hopefully. It might be Merinta's fault that virginconnect members don't get the Real G2 player. If you check out their "IBrow" (that's what Merinta calls it) add-on software you'll see Real G2 listed. My guess is Merinta charges extra to install that!
Updates to the virgin webplayer happen via Castanet remote software - I'm not familiar with this; and have not had any upgrades happen (that I've noticed) since I logged started.
Did I forget anything? I did a whole mess of research on these things. The machine would be so much less of a toy if I could hook up a high speed connection to it.
Anyone had any success getting a high speed connection connected to the webplayer?
Another thing I'd like to figure out is if there is a cell phone (or some mobile networking hardware) that I can use that I can plug into the phone line input. The machine - when booting up dials prodigy - If I can use a mobile phone line (rather then my land line) I could hook up the machine to run in my car with a DC to AC converter and a cell phone that allows standard phone lines to be connected through.
Joseph Elwell.
I really like the option to let Mandrake decide how the partitioning should be done - including resizing your windows partition (something like fips?). I have problems deciding how much space to allocate all the time - and I've been using linux for years. Just the other day I tried installing (Redhat) linux on my g/f machine and didn't allocate enough space for /usr for the installation to work! I said "fuck it" and went with one big honking "/" partition. I know why I shouldn't do that - but I also know it'll work for now - and it's bad enough that I had to consider partitioning in the first place. Finally someone gets it: The hardest part about linux is installing it. (which has been getting better and better really fast recently with the advent of GUI installers)
:)
I also really like GRUB. I'll have to find a URL for that - say goodbye to lilo, and hello to GRUB - It's like the dosGUI version of lilo.
Anyways, cheers to the Mandrake people.
Joseph Elwell.
When I was in Florida for Spring Break the hotel I stayed in had a playstation controller coming out of the television. Their onscreen menu system had a handful of games that you could play. I didn't do too much tinkering, but there was an odd box on the back of the television that was called something like remotetvsystem - that had a wire running into the wall.
Anyone ever flown Virgin? I know when I flew Virgin from Los Angeles to London the tv that popped out of my arm rest was controlled by an old style Nintendo controller (the one with 2 red buttons, A & B). This rig had headphones, and what was most certainly an old Turbografx! unless someone ported Bonks Adventures to another system...
Sony knows were they're going.
Joseph Elwell.
I haven't bought a music cd or tape in almost 6 years. But just yesterday I was telling my friend that because mp3.com makes it so easy to listen to all my music at work or anywhere I go, I'm going to have to go out and buy more albums so that I can beam them to mp3.com.
My.mp3.com isn't doing anything more than speeding up the ripping and distribution process for users. If they just distributed a cd ripper program and a mysql/perl server suite would anyone be complaining?
Joseph Elwell.
Pranks living on in the commercial world isn't quite a new thing. Here's a classic: Mozilla vs. IE. This one started as a prank by a bunch of Microsoft cronies - but then backfired the next day.
Joseph Elwell.
Quite possibly - as a matter of fact the PSX 1 development kit uses GCC as it's compiler! doesn't that mean there's already GPL code that targets the PSX. My bet is the PSX2 dev kit will ship with GCC also. I'm a little shocked no one has ported linux to their PSX. Although with a hard drive and a modem, it'll suddenly be useful to be running linux on it. :)
By the way: Screw hopes for an ethernet card by default - that can be bought seperately and use with the USB port. The important thing is that if the system comes with a default modem installed, more games will take advantage of it; then when you buy your ethernet adapter, there will games for it. If it doesn't come with either then games won't come with networking either. :(
Now if only Sony could figure out that a default of 2 controllers aren't enough. Not enough games come out with 4 player modes for the PSX because the system only has two ports standard. And a few too many games that say they support the 4player multitap don't work well with the tap!
Joseph Elwell.
Mozilla has a lot of really nice features as far as cookies are concerned. First of all YES Mozilla has a checkbox to only "Accept cookies that get sent back to the originating server only". (Get this: There is an image checkbox that does the same thing! Which blocks images (read ads) from servers that aren't the originating server)
Not only does it slice and dice, Mozilla allows you to view your stored cookies - and delete them wholesale or individually.
You can also ad whole domains that you would like to block images from. And, although the interface isn't quite complete, you can ad domains that you will <b>always</B> block cookies from too. One post I saw wanted the ability to view cookies and delete them real time in the sidebar. It would be trivially easy to skin a new Mozilla that has the Cookie Manager window in the sidebar so that you could actively watch cookies and delete them in real time.
Joseph Elwell.
<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org">Make it better.</A>
There goes my only chance at getting into the Beta Test. I figured, as long as Slashdot doesn't find out I might get in. But with only a 1,000 slots, oh well. If you make it in instead of me - please don't email me just to flaunt it.
Joseph Elwell.
I've created a template form that you can fill out and then copy the results into your e-mail client to mail off to websites that aren't allowing you to log in because it thinks you should "Upgrade your browser".
Joseph Elwell.
My friend bought an Ethernet card just 2 days ago. I think it was by SMC - it was a cheap 10/100 card for about 15$. What surprised me is the CD he handed me when he asked me to install the card - because he couldn't figure it out. Popping it in I saw directories like dosutils, img, root, etc... I looked at him and said, "Did it come with any instructions?" he pointed to the back of the box that had detailed instructions for linux and 1 sentence for windows. For windows it said "Windows will detect and configure the card automatically." sure... It didn't. I was stunned - I told him that the cd contained no windows drivers and instead was an TurboLinux CD. "It might contain Linux drivers", I said sarcastically. He didn't get it.
Joseph Elwell.
Sadly enough I bought Quake 3 for Linux, not because I like Quake 3 - I don't - but because I'm hoping that my purchase will help show game companies that there is a market in developing and porting games to the Linux platform. I would like to be able to buy every game that comes out for Linux, but to tell the truth I don't have any interest in the games currently on Loki's product page. With this in mind, what would you think is the best way for me - as a consumer and a Linux user - to show game companies that I do want games ported to Linux?
Joseph Elwell.
Dosemu has been working really good as far as emulation goes. It could be a little faster - but I'm not complaining there. I loved playing Carmageddon (the first one) under dosemu nearly 2 years ago. However one critical component still seems to be missing - sound!
The README.txt for DOSEMU v1.0 pl0.0 says:
" The sound driver is more or less likely to be broken at the moment.
Anyway, here are the settings you would need to emulate a SB-sound
card by passing the control to the Linux soundrivers."
Until sound is working game play is fairly limited.
Joseph Elwell.
I'm seeing a lot of posts that ask about this or that. Try downloading Mozilla. Mozilla currently supports Javascript up to 1.5 and CSS 1 & 2. Download the build - give it a shot.
The SSL code will be included in the tip - not the mozilla tree. This means - no one will see the code that is owned by RSA. So using cvs on the tree wont get you all the crypto code - it will probably download at least one small binary file that includes the patented RSA code. Which later this year will fall into public domain.
Don't forget to help out on the Mozilla project - Mozilla runs great on Mac, Linux, Win32 and all sorts of variant UNIX operating systems as well as OS's I've never even heard of.
Joseph Elwell.
$149 hmmm. Taking a look at that last article about the 1.5Ghz Intel chips priced around a small yugo! Well, Microsoft must be shooting to release these X-Boxes when the Intel price drops to 45$. Using the current trends, with 300MHz Celerons still at 75$ The X-Box should be out sometime in 2004. I'm not waiting that long.
Joseph Elwell.
From an Anonymous Coward, "DES sucks. Let's see Blowfish, RC4, RC2, Twofish, IDEA, RSA, 3DES, Safer, etc. on the standard, precompiled, linux distros (with the crypto source already in there too).
I want to be able to create encrypted file systems right out of the box. It should even be an option in the setup program. That way, when the MPAA/RIAA kick down the door searching for copies of DeCSS or MP3s, you can just hit the power switch and be safe."
What I wouldn't do for the ability to create an encrypted file system right out of the box. I'm so sick of hearing stories about Government granting searches of home computers.
Joseph Elwell.
Is it me, or should there have been a Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project? GNOME certainly wouldn't have won. But even the darling Linux probably wouldn't have won this one.
Post your winner for the Most Stable/Usable Open Source Project below.
Joseph Elwell.
It does use java, but I think Java is only used to install the Program - probably a Win app. I don't think their service actually runs in Java.
If you load the page under Linux it says something like "Could not find a binary for type Linux ELF 2.2.xx"
There's some sort of javascript doing "sanity" checks. Anyone get around that problem?
Joseph Elwell.
You don't, but not by much. Not trying to knock you - I'm positive the votes were swayed towards Windows when I voted too.
:)
According to the poll
Linux is at 36%.
Windows(NT&9x) is at 30%
Although if you add in the "I hate everyone crowd" to Windows that pushes windows users over: at 38%. And we all know only windows users are angry at everyone.
Joseph Elwell.
CmdrTaco specifically said "(and note that WINE doesn't count. ;)".
It would be a lie to say "CmdrTaco specifically said this was a WINE free zone.".
It's one thing to say that CmdrTaco asked for discussion about ports - it's another to say that CmdrTaco won't allow discussion of WINE also.
I don't know what you think "open forum" is... but if I want to reply to let someone know that their games run under wine, I can, will and will be moderated up for it - because heck: It just applies.
Joseph Elwell.
All I want to know is where I can get my hands on the software he used to encrypt his files! If he encrypted this 5 years ago - and it's still strong then I gotta get my hands on this.
Anyone know what program he used? was it PGP? was PGP even around 5 years ago?
Joseph Elwell.
If Linux doesn't run Diablo II flawlessly the day it ships - I will not be running Linux until it does. Or I'll have to at least buy another machine.
Diablo ruled my life once, I hope Diablo II can do the same.
Joseph Elwell.
I've noticed a lot of people asking for Games like Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft etc. I'm wondering if these people know that WINE has been running these games since barely after they came out. PEOPLE: go download WINE. Maybe the game you want ported works already!
A little note: Most DirectX games will work flawlessly. Last I checked Direct3D did not work well.
Joseph Elwell.