I think Kazaa will die like Napster or AudioGalaxy did.
Don't use Kazaa. Please try edonkey2000 network. It's free, it's available not only for Windows, and you don't need to watch any commercials.
Getting bent out of shape and spewing ill-informed vitriol as if they were all conspiring to screw you isn't going to help the situation.
I haven't wrote about conspiracy. What I mean is that it's impossible to play UT2003 on Open Source system yet. Imagine person who bought full UT2003, tried to run it in Linux, didn't work, so he play only in Windows forever, becouse "Linux is to hard to configure becouse UT2003 is bitching about some S3TC".
Having recently installed the latest nVidia driver for Linux I can assure you that it is open source. A source tarball is available for those who wish to compile their own.
I am afraid you don't know what are you talking about. "Source" is needed to compile module with any kernel version. But main part of module is just binary - and you can't have source. And if nVidia driver works unstable on your system you can only hear "you have crappy motherboard".
This is why no gaming company wants to support linux
This is very interesting. I remember everyone was bitching to RedHat, becouse there was software released "only for RedHat". It was easy to run it in Debian in Slackware. But people wrote "RedHat is bad". Now there is a game which work only with nVidia cards. It's impossible to run it on other cards. But noone is angry. Everyone is happy, becouse there is new game available for Linux. Even, if it's impossible to play.
PS. I know DRI is talking to S3, and maybe UT team is going to create version with uncompressed textures, but it's impossible to play now
What a terrible joke. Linux is Open Source kernel. GNU/Linux is Open Source operating system. UT2003 works only with closed source nVidia drivers. Compare it with Return To Castle Wolfenstein which works perfect with my old Voodoo3. Please do not talk about "Linux support" until S3TC will be deleted from UT2003.
"Some older music fans may hate hip-hop, nu-metal, or techno,"
Older? I am 23. There is almost no good music I can buy today in stores. There are Dio and Ozzy albums, but these performers ale little old. There are few good newer bands like Evergrey, but in general - new music sucks. 10 years ago there was some nice tunes on MTV (for example by Dire Straits, GNR, Aerosmith, ZZ-top or even... Roxette), today it's impossible to find there something which isn't crap.
Probably people who buy todays popular music aren't real fans, they don't love this music, just listen to it. When there will be something new in TV - they will buy something new.
People who produce music are responsible for this situation. For new group it's very hard to put track on radio or TV. Of course there is possibility to put mp3 on net (hey, that was napster official mission), but it's hard to gain big set of fans this way.
We just need to wait until music producers realize what is wrong, so maybe they will stop promoting shit in radio/TV and good music will back on scene.
Hey moron... The post said that 3D support for Radeon cards is abysmal and non-existant for the 8500.. Both of these are completely untrue. Support is not abysmal for the first gen Radeons, and there is support for the 8500.
That's why I point him to DRI website, R200 drivers are there.
BTW thanks for calling me moron, I hope you feel much better now
3D support for the Radeon series of cards is abysmal and non-existent for the 8500 and higher cards.
Please check DRI website and stop writting this.
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Why would you want to move? Well, from what I hear, extracting some of your meta-data is already hard/imposible from Sourceforge --- this seems like a trend that is likely to continue, so perhaps you should get out while you still can.
I have two projects on SourceForge. Please tell me when exactly should I expect problems. I hadn't single SourceForge problem yet. I am not SF fanatic, I just like this service (and for example IRC support) so tell me what is wrong with it.
Well, we could always play freeciv [freeciv.org] on an xbox.
You can also play FreeCiv on old pentium with S3 video. Is playing on Microsoft hardware more cool?
I see no reason to buy Xbox and run Linux there. AFAIR in Xbox there is nVidia video - and you probably know that there are problems with nVidia drivers for Linux.
Games like Warcraft never interested me. Number one task for WineX is best game of 2001 - Civilization 3.
Few weeks ago I downloaded CVS snapshot as usual, and - as usual - tested Civ3. But first time ever - Civilization3 worked in Wine. I played few hours with only one problem - lines in F4 view (peca/war/etc) weren't visible. So I've asked on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, but nobody answered. Then I updated my CVS snapshot and... from this time Civ3 never worked again. When I click "New Game" - nothing happens.
I just haven't got time to back to old version (AFAIK it's possible with CVS), so I am asking here - is Civ3 working for you in WineX? (it could be something wrong on my system)
There is a forum but nobody wrote yet, that Civ3 is working for him/her.
I run it on my game ( Escape Of the Unicorn ) and found first memory bugs. This tool is great - we will fix a lot of leaks now!
Valgrind is very slow, but it's worth to run it on all programs you are writting. It even displays some bugs related to SDL/XFree86, but a lot of its output is usable.
Is there standard command line compiler in Kylix? Is it possible to compile existing programs - for example Linux kernel - with it? It will be nice if gcc wouldn't be only choice.
I've never understand what people seen in Enlightenment. It was huge and slow. Many people think that there is only twm, fvwm, KDE (kwm) and Enlightenment. But there is a lot of fast, and beautiful window managers! Look at Window Maker, IceWM, BlackBox! What's the reason to use Enlightenment? How many people ever used it, not just installed and turn on two times monthly? What expected person, who created Enlightenment? Everyone should use it, becouse everyone talk how beautiful it is? Linux is dead on desktop? Bullshit! Today we have working browsers (Mozilla/Galeon, konqueror, opera). Today we can watch, capture and even edit movies. Office suites are going forward (yes, I know your "is it compatible with DOC?"). And you can play games in Linux, just look at RTCW - what are differences between Linux and Windows versions?
I was amazed with Visual Pinball, it's great tool and it's really fun to play. But could you point me to sites with tables? I found only few with google... Where are those 100s of tables?
The only other major weakness I see in Blender is that its output format isn't documented, another problem that goes away as soon as the source is opened.
This is not a problem. You can write your own exporter in Python, all you need is Blender module documentation (available in many places).
I think I agree with you. I had to buy a Blender book just to figure out how to use the darned thing. The interface was "confusing".
I learned Blender interface without any book - just few tutorials and list of keys from WWW. I contacted Blender Shop becouse I wanted to buy book, but there were too many problems (very long shipping to Poland) so I resigned. Blender has strong community, well designed interface (yes), and is extensible with Python. So it won't die even if code won't be free.
1. Current HDD capacities far exceed most users current demands.
So all we need is another generation of Windows, which will increase disk usage. For example every run of application will save on disk detailed log (something like strace) to help find problems when something will halt operating system. This will be extremely useful today, inside "War With Terrorism". Don't let your computer be infected - buy new opearating system with extended logging features. Buy it now, or your computer will be destroyed or will help terrorists. You have been warned.
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I think Kazaa will die like Napster or AudioGalaxy did. Don't use Kazaa. Please try edonkey2000 network. It's free, it's available not only for Windows, and you don't need to watch any commercials.
official (closed source) client: edonkey2000free (GPL) client: mldonkey
free, Windows-only client: emule
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Getting bent out of shape and spewing ill-informed vitriol as if they were all conspiring to screw you isn't going to help the situation.
I haven't wrote about conspiracy. What I mean is that it's impossible to play UT2003 on Open Source system yet. Imagine person who bought full UT2003, tried to run it in Linux, didn't work, so he play only in Windows forever, becouse "Linux is to hard to configure becouse UT2003 is bitching about some S3TC".
However, what's S3TC?
Patented OpenGL extension this game is using.
Having recently installed the latest nVidia driver for Linux I can assure you that it is open source. A source tarball is available for those who wish to compile their own.
I am afraid you don't know what are you talking about. "Source" is needed to compile module with any kernel version. But main part of module is just binary - and you can't have source.
And if nVidia driver works unstable on your system you can only hear "you have crappy motherboard".
This is why no gaming company wants to support linux
This is very interesting. I remember everyone was bitching to RedHat, becouse there was software released "only for RedHat". It was easy to run it in Debian in Slackware. But people wrote "RedHat is bad". Now there is a game which work only with nVidia cards. It's impossible to run it on other cards. But noone is angry. Everyone is happy, becouse there is new game available for Linux. Even, if it's impossible to play.
PS. I know DRI is talking to S3, and maybe UT team is going to create version with uncompressed textures, but it's impossible to play now
For me giving up Civ3, EQ or Warcraft3 isn't worth making the switch (yet).
Please check what you can do with WineX first.
What a terrible joke. Linux is Open Source kernel. GNU/Linux is Open Source operating system. UT2003 works only with closed source nVidia drivers. Compare it with Return To Castle Wolfenstein which works perfect with my old Voodoo3.
Please do not talk about "Linux support" until S3TC will be deleted from UT2003.
Blender is a highly specialized piece of software that less than 1% of the computing population would ever even download and run.
Yes. Just like Apache, ftpd, sshd or LaTeX.
Of course, a lot of the high end software such as Maya and Softimage is already being offered on Linux,
But there is no free tool which I could use to make 3D objects for my game.
Swapped file is FAKE. Please stop posting unchecked stories. Thank you very much.
"Some older music fans may hate hip-hop, nu-metal, or techno,"
Older? I am 23.
There is almost no good music I can buy today in stores. There are Dio and Ozzy albums, but these performers ale little old. There are few good newer bands like Evergrey, but in general - new music sucks. 10 years ago there was some nice tunes on MTV (for example by Dire Straits, GNR, Aerosmith, ZZ-top or even... Roxette), today it's impossible to find there something which isn't crap.
Probably people who buy todays popular music aren't real fans, they don't love this music, just listen to it. When there will be something new in TV - they will buy something new.
People who produce music are responsible for this situation. For new group it's very hard to put track on radio or TV. Of course there is possibility to put mp3 on net (hey, that was napster official mission), but it's hard to gain big set of fans this way.
We just need to wait until music producers realize what is wrong, so maybe they will stop promoting shit in radio/TV and good music will back on scene.
Hey moron... The post said that 3D support for Radeon cards is abysmal and non-existant for the 8500.. Both of these are completely untrue. Support is not abysmal for the first gen Radeons, and there is support for the 8500.
That's why I point him to DRI website, R200 drivers are there.
BTW thanks for calling me moron, I hope you feel much better now
3D support for the Radeon series of cards is abysmal and non-existent for the 8500 and higher cards.
Please check DRI website and stop writting this.
Why would you want to move? Well, from what I hear, extracting some of your meta-data is already hard/imposible from Sourceforge --- this seems like a trend that is likely to continue, so perhaps you should get out while you still can.
I have two projects on SourceForge. Please tell me when exactly should I expect problems. I hadn't single SourceForge problem yet.
I am not SF fanatic, I just like this service (and for example IRC support) so tell me what is wrong with it.
Well, we could always play freeciv [freeciv.org] on an xbox.
You can also play FreeCiv on old pentium with S3 video. Is playing on Microsoft hardware more cool?
I see no reason to buy Xbox and run Linux there. AFAIR in Xbox there is nVidia video - and you probably know that there are problems with nVidia drivers for Linux.
Games like Warcraft never interested me. Number one task for WineX is best game of 2001 - Civilization 3.
Few weeks ago I downloaded CVS snapshot as usual, and - as usual - tested Civ3. But first time ever - Civilization3 worked in Wine. I played few hours with only one problem - lines in F4 view (peca/war/etc) weren't visible. So I've asked on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, but nobody answered. Then I updated my CVS snapshot and... from this time Civ3 never worked again. When I click "New Game" - nothing happens.
I just haven't got time to back to old version (AFAIK it's possible with CVS), so I am asking here - is Civ3 working for you in WineX? (it could be something wrong on my system)
There is a
forum but nobody wrote yet, that Civ3 is working for him/her.
I run it on my game ( Escape Of the Unicorn ) and found first memory bugs. This tool is great - we will fix a lot of leaks now!
Valgrind is very slow, but it's worth to run it on all programs you are writting. It even displays some bugs related to SDL/XFree86, but a lot of its output is usable.
Windows CE on palmtops? PalmOS is still on top. .NET...
Xbox? Failed completly.
And now
Maybe something is changing in this world? IMHO 20 years is enough.
Is there standard command line compiler in Kylix? Is it possible to compile existing programs - for example Linux kernel - with it?
It will be nice if gcc wouldn't be only choice.
I've never understand what people seen in Enlightenment. It was huge and slow. Many people think that there is only twm, fvwm, KDE (kwm) and Enlightenment. But there is a lot of fast, and beautiful window managers! Look at Window Maker, IceWM, BlackBox! What's the reason to use Enlightenment? How many people ever used it, not just installed and turn on two times monthly?
What expected person, who created Enlightenment? Everyone should use it, becouse everyone talk how beautiful it is?
Linux is dead on desktop? Bullshit! Today we have working browsers (Mozilla/Galeon, konqueror, opera). Today we can watch, capture and even edit movies. Office suites are going forward (yes, I know your "is it compatible with DOC?"). And you can play games in Linux, just look at RTCW - what are differences between Linux and Windows versions?
Have you played Visual Pinball?
I was amazed with Visual Pinball, it's great tool and it's really fun to play. But could you point me to sites with tables? I found only few with google... Where are those 100s of tables?
'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'
Then buy a cat. And stop calling crackers hackers.
What's bad in using Linux-2.4 on 486?
The only other major weakness I see in Blender is that its output format isn't documented, another problem that goes away as soon as the source is opened.
This is not a problem. You can write your own exporter in Python, all you need is Blender module documentation (available in many places).
I think I agree with you. I had to buy a Blender book just to figure out how to use the darned thing. The interface was "confusing".
I learned Blender interface without any book - just few tutorials and list of keys from WWW.
I contacted Blender Shop becouse I wanted to buy book, but there were too many problems (very long shipping to Poland) so I resigned.
Blender has strong community, well designed interface (yes), and is extensible with Python. So it won't die even if code won't be free.
1. Current HDD capacities far exceed most users current demands.
So all we need is another generation of Windows, which will increase disk usage. For example every run of application will save on disk detailed log (something like strace) to help find problems when something will halt operating system. This will be extremely useful today, inside "War With Terrorism". Don't let your computer be infected - buy new opearating system with extended logging features. Buy it now, or your computer will be destroyed or will help terrorists. You have been warned.