Though i also live in Europe....
But then i dont use a virusscanner anyways...
I have the knowledge to avoid virusses as i was never afected, except for that bootfloppy virus on my old Atari;)
I dont, but i can understand we care when GNOME a free desktop alternative gets some positive publicity or gets used by a major company like SUN, but i dont need to know anything about the election stuff, sertainly not if its just a RMS troll...
RMS is my hero, no its not, but i respect that man cause he stands for something....and not a lot of people can say that, neither can i...
Creating a 3d interface only makes the whole interface concept more complex and will enlarge the learning curve if you ask me.
Creating a Simple 2d interface build up out of 3d objects/widgets could lower the CPU load, cause instead the GPU is used for drawing complex interfaces. You could then show the Interface in a 3d structure to show how the program works or how it calls functions on what objects. So people can understand how the layering and program works even for non programmers...(this can also be done with 2d objects ofcourse, but i guess management needs a good visual to understand what your saying.)
When the whole 2d interface is in 3d ala vectors, that means you can rescale your whole interface with ease, more idea's come up here like texture mapping a streamming video on a cube, you can move,rescale and turn it around with great ease again, without giving your cpu a hard time.
I think we should use that great GPU in our computer systems for something more usefull things then games and rendering, sure people can come up with good idea's about this...
Everything is becoming 3d today, which i think sucks, but in the end thats way we are going, now if we implent a 2d interface in a open 3d API, then all kind of programmers and creative people can start playing around with trying to design nice 3d working interfaces which will be of ease in use. But we can keep going on with the way we are working now.
It isnt funny, but never the less here i my few words on this:
"I think we shouldnt support WinModem type of hardware, cause i prefer hardware solutions over software/hardware tweak really bad cheapo things."
But then who am i, what i do like about this is that we see money offered to create Open Source projects, now its know that programmers are hired to work on Open Source projects, but maybe we will see more company's and or persons offering money to get some work done. Although 20k isnt a very lot of money for a couple of weeks/months work its is for a twenty year old hacker who's skillz should not be overlooked.
Quazion
The Art of making Computer Games is a bit dead....
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When i got my first Atari ST i played loads of computer games, when i look back at some i dare too say that they are art, look at stuff from the Bitmap Brothers like Gods or Speed Ball, it had great game play looked awesome and had good sounds also.
It where creative games with a original game play i guess, but best of all the grafics where real pieces of art for the time it was created in.
Today you only get a 3d engine with some objects in it, yes ofcourse some are nicer to look at then others, but still i think the oldschool 2d grafics look better, way better!
Playing Pirates or Dungeon Master night and day was a great way to spend my teenage years, but nowadays i only get a 3d shooter with some puzzles and a crappy storyline, they are just here too sell off, what happend with people being very creative ?
Sure i missed some good games from these days, which are art, and maybe when i was young there was a load of crap around too, but still i think some games should be in a museum and some should be not. They arent all Art...but some are yes they are.!
With Linux i can do that within half an hour, cause i know how and what to install, the copying of the total files takes less then 10 minutes, and once its booted i need to config X a bit and the soundcard and it time to play mp3's and watch movies, when your still busy detecting hardware and rebooting when installing your video drivers with your expensive OS. Its just another reboot, and reboots take time, when installing Linux i dont have to reboot at all thanks to SuSe, But the difrence is it took me pretty long before i knew howto install my OS fast and howto use it, the other OS was easy to learn and very hard to master, cause i couldnt know if the software crashed or if it was a hardware problem, my OS was Hard to learn, easy to master and nowadays i know my hardware is oke, uase when its not my software crashes then i fix it and i have a very stable running machine, but paying again for software never, i'd rather code it my self.
blabla, i wonder why i even responded to this reply, but i somethimes just have to rant a bit;P
Quazion.
So now i can create new Filters against .biz SPAM.
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Lets say all SPAM from non.biz domains is illegal and its legal from the.biz domain, meaning i would only need to filter.biz mail out.
Just some weeks ago we had some people from an IBM partner over the floor at my company talking about visual age for java and websphere.
They also mentioned this Eclipse explaining what it was, they didnt say much and i was pretty bored after the long talk about visual age for java and the really good looking debugger it had, but never the less they gave me the this site http://www.eclipse-workbench.com/ which should explain more about Eclipse and the Workbench around it, its some new way to include all IBM develop tools in one workbench and intregrate them all or something and its used for java and stuff and thats all i remember but maybe the site is usefull anyways..
Quazion
More Info,they even have a GUI Interface for it =)
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Q: When I specify SDL_FULLSCREEN in X11, the screen goes black and my window is centered in the middle, instead of covering the whole screen!
A:
X needs to be able to switch to the desired resolution. For this to work, you need to have the resolution listed in the 'Modes' line in your XFree86Config file (and your Monitor must support it). SDL does not currently support changing resolutions on X servers that do not support the XVidMode extension.
The following example is taken from my config for XFree86-4.0.1, but 3.3.x is similiar. Note that if your monitor isn't capable of using these video modes, the X server will drop these modes from the list of available video modes.
Example:
Note the different entries for 8 & 16 bit screendepth. I.e. the 320x240 resolution is *not* available when X is started with 16bit depth (the default).
To test these entries, restart X after you modified XF86Config and press ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus to cycle through the resolutions.
I thought SDL would scale the stuff in the wrong resolution, this way in fullscreen it doesnt matter what res your really in but it would look like an 320x200 screen:), i am not sure about this...
What i am sure of is that SDL does depth changing which costs some extra cpu time but what the heck, you wanna write your game in 24bit colormode still 16bit people can run it with some more cpu overhead...
I wonder, your 256 serial connections problem with linux, did you mention this on the kernel mailing lists ? and if so did you get a bad responce or no help at all..
Cause i know the guys from www.planetarion.com a massive multiplayer space game had some problems with some kernel things with there database mahcines and the kernel hackers where very helpfull if i recall correctly in helping to fix the problem, yes they maybe you cant order them around, but then atleast you can try to fix it in a community way, so it will help us all =)
When can open source be bad for business ?
Only when you really want to sell it as close source, but you can cause its allreaddy writen with an open source licence.
There is no real other draw back, except maybe that some people can think its less secure cause 'hackers' can find holes in the software to exploit them.
I hear people saying things about its free, and all the other things they think that is open source, but it just means you are able to read to source, this gives you no right to use the source for your own good. There still things like copyright etc....on it.
I have been using open source software for about 4 years now and the only con i have found overall that there is a load of unfinished and undocumented software that or doesnt compile really nice on my system or fails to do what they say it does. But then this also has happend to me with closed source software except that i couldnt compile that myself, so i see no real difference here except that i could have fixxed the open source software myself cause i had the source.
Last stuff i am goign to say is that i think cause of not enough people jumping in the train of open source your options are a bit limited if it comes to use only open source software for all your needs, maybe all the software is around, but that doesnt mean they always work as good as there closed source counter parts. But open source is like giving away you ingredients its an honest way of business, cause you can check whats going on, you can check for qualitie ( or however you write that word.) and be damn sure it works liek you want it to work, even if it would take the same time as writing the software your self, you have the option.
Quazion...
Ps. Maybe i should have checked for spelling errors.
Want something todo in the mean while, check
http://www.freeciv.org a Online Multiplayer and Singel version of the civ classics and civ II rules. It has *nix and Windows Ports and even Amiga and os/2 and more...
First its A Local Exploit which makes it harder to start exploiting right away, so we wont see a worm to make use of this until there is some major Remote Exploit. The Patch is already out there, just recompile your kernel and if you dont then your a retarted system admin ( or whatever they said about it ), Keep your Systems update or dont whine about security.
I haven't read the story/mails cause i cant seem to reach them from my computer here, but i just had to repond to the its a local and the its local and just as bad as remote...
Any exploit is bad until you fix it, UPDATE!
and if you think like i do that the information
on your computer systems doesnt really matter to you anyways dont whine afterwards when you loose it!
One more thing, if you dont Update your system regulary then most rootkits will find a way to become root even without the New Kernel Root Exploit, and i think most systems arent updated anyways so this wont change the Linux World in a couple of hours.
And it learned me a lot about how humans advanced tru time...
And yes it has voilence in the form of war, but also diplomatic features, you can communicate to win and setting blood war off and space race as a winning goal will force users to go for science instead of war...
Since law wont do anything to break up these Monopolies, we will have to wait until the big up coming Revolution of the less mindless people getting fed up about it within the next decade.
Some will stand up and change the world, the only good thing i can see in this is that the world will become closer to one big place, cause everything relates to everything instead to just some local affairs...we will fight not religion but wealthy companies, who will buy guns then, not terrorists but companies protecting them selfs. Who knows what the future will bring =)
Quazion.
*humans tend to create and then destroy...its history...*
i think you have some points here, you get this free windows media player icon when you install it on your desktop, now try to delete the shortcut, it will aks if you want to delete windows media player cause thats what the sort cut is called, my grandma wouldnt want to do that cause she just installed the crappy thing but doesnt want the thing on her desktop after she found out that its starts automaticaly when you double click sound/video files or when needed over then net, but doesnt dare to delete the whole program. And i know many more of these user unfriendly bits in the MS UI.
In response to KDE i think KDE is slow in comparance to the MS UI, but it beats the crap out of it in stablity and consistentsie, like the MS UI somethimes is waiting for something for a couple of seconds to read the file properties or what ever it waits for, really a pain. (this is true under all windows versions as far as i know.)
Then yeah overall maybe KDE is better...
I think loads of Open Source projects should find some people whom like to work on Optimizations of those programs, cause these toolkits and stuff are slow as hell! or is it just me ?
Like Microsoft isnt using the same technology, like it innovates....
My oppinion is that Microsoft has a really nice userfriendly OS, for as far you dont run into problems or not understandeble error messages, even my grandma knows how to operate the machine once installed. No steep learning curve which Linux ofcourse has, i am running Gnome 1.4 at the moment, and i dont think its ready for the average user yet, but it has come a long way now i installed it again a since a year ago. Dont know about Ximian, But i think MS and Ximian Technology is just as inferior.
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Though i also live in Europe.... ;)
But then i dont use a virusscanner anyways...
I have the knowledge to avoid virusses as i was never afected, except for that bootfloppy virus on my old Atari
Quazion.
I dont, but i can understand we care when GNOME a free desktop alternative gets some positive publicity or gets used by a major company like SUN, but i dont need to know anything about the election stuff, sertainly not if its just a RMS troll...
RMS is my hero, no its not, but i respect that man cause he stands for something....and not a lot of people can say that, neither can i...
Quazion.
PS. and again i just had to say something...
Creating a 3d interface only makes the whole interface concept more complex and will enlarge the learning curve if you ask me.
Creating a Simple 2d interface build up out of 3d objects/widgets could lower the CPU load, cause instead the GPU is used for drawing complex interfaces. You could then show the Interface in a 3d structure to show how the program works or how it calls functions on what objects. So people can understand how the layering and program works even for non programmers...(this can also be done with 2d objects ofcourse, but i guess management needs a good visual to understand what your saying.)
When the whole 2d interface is in 3d ala vectors, that means you can rescale your whole interface with ease, more idea's come up here like texture mapping a streamming video on a cube, you can move,rescale and turn it around with great ease again, without giving your cpu a hard time.
I think we should use that great GPU in our computer systems for something more usefull things then games and rendering, sure people can come up with good idea's about this...
Everything is becoming 3d today, which i think sucks, but in the end thats way we are going, now if we implent a 2d interface in a open 3d API, then all kind of programmers and creative people can start playing around with trying to design nice 3d working interfaces which will be of ease in use. But we can keep going on with the way we are working now.
Quazion.
I personaly i am going buy a PCMCIA GSM card, although i have no idea how these work at the moment.
It isnt funny, but never the less here i my few words on this:
"I think we shouldnt support WinModem type of hardware, cause i prefer hardware solutions over software/hardware tweak really bad cheapo things."
But then who am i, what i do like about this is that we see money offered to create Open Source projects, now its know that programmers are hired to work on Open Source projects, but maybe we will see more company's and or persons offering money to get some work done. Although 20k isnt a very lot of money for a couple of weeks/months work its is for a twenty year old hacker who's skillz should not be overlooked.
Quazion
When i got my first Atari ST i played loads of computer games, when i look back at some i dare too say that they are art, look at stuff from the Bitmap Brothers like Gods or Speed Ball, it had great game play looked awesome and had good sounds also.
It where creative games with a original game play i guess, but best of all the grafics where real pieces of art for the time it was created in.
Today you only get a 3d engine with some objects in it, yes ofcourse some are nicer to look at then others, but still i think the oldschool 2d grafics look better, way better!
Playing Pirates or Dungeon Master night and day was a great way to spend my teenage years, but nowadays i only get a 3d shooter with some puzzles and a crappy storyline, they are just here too sell off, what happend with people being very creative ?
Sure i missed some good games from these days, which are art, and maybe when i was young there was a load of crap around too, but still i think some games should be in a museum and some should be not. They arent all Art...but some are yes they are.!
Quazion.
With Linux i can do that within half an hour, cause i know how and what to install, the copying of the total files takes less then 10 minutes, and once its booted i need to config X a bit and the soundcard and it time to play mp3's and watch movies, when your still busy detecting hardware and rebooting when installing your video drivers with your expensive OS. Its just another reboot, and reboots take time, when installing Linux i dont have to reboot at all thanks to SuSe, But the difrence is it took me pretty long before i knew howto install my OS fast and howto use it, the other OS was easy to learn and very hard to master, cause i couldnt know if the software crashed or if it was a hardware problem, my OS was Hard to learn, easy to master and nowadays i know my hardware is oke, uase when its not my software crashes then i fix it and i have a very stable running machine, but paying again for software never, i'd rather code it my self.
;P
blabla, i wonder why i even responded to this reply, but i somethimes just have to rant a bit
Quazion.
Lets say all SPAM from non .biz domains is illegal and its legal from the .biz domain, meaning i would only need to filter .biz mail out.
When does life get so simpel ?
Quazion
Just some weeks ago we had some people from an IBM partner over the floor at my company talking about visual age for java and websphere.
They also mentioned this Eclipse explaining what it was, they didnt say much and i was pretty bored after the long talk about visual age for java and the really good looking debugger it had, but never the less they gave me the this site http://www.eclipse-workbench.com/ which should explain more about Eclipse and the Workbench around it, its some new way to include all IBM develop tools in one workbench and intregrate them all or something and its used for java and stuff and thats all i remember but maybe the site is usefull anyways..
Quazion
check http://www.sealsystem.org/
here @ freedos.org
I have used it for formating and fdisking fat16
and fat32 filesystems, or to remove linux
partitions without a linux bootflop or bootcd.
And i know people using DOS for there daily
programming, creation of Embedded Systems and
ofcourse webbrowsing and chatting....
Quazion.
They will sell those combatgames to your kids, let the console call home to the US Army and then hire the kids who have greatest score's.
;)
Quazion.... paranoid like hell...
Q: When I specify SDL_FULLSCREEN in X11, the screen goes black and my window is centered in the middle, instead of covering the whole screen!
A:
X needs to be able to switch to the desired resolution. For this to work, you need to have the resolution listed in the 'Modes' line in your XFree86Config file (and your Monitor must support it). SDL does not currently support changing resolutions on X servers that do not support the XVidMode extension.
The following example is taken from my config for XFree86-4.0.1, but 3.3.x is similiar. Note that if your monitor isn't capable of using these video modes, the X server will drop these modes from the list of available video modes.
Example:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "3dfx"
Monitor "Samsung LCD"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "320x240"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Note the different entries for 8 & 16 bit screendepth. I.e. the 320x240 resolution is *not* available when X is started with 16bit depth (the default).
To test these entries, restart X after you modified XF86Config and press ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus to cycle through the resolutions.
Hmm...
:), i am not sure about this...
I thought SDL would scale the stuff in the wrong resolution, this way in fullscreen it doesnt matter what res your really in but it would look like an 320x200 screen
What i am sure of is that SDL does depth changing which costs some extra cpu time but what the heck, you wanna write your game in 24bit colormode still 16bit people can run it with some more cpu overhead...
Quazion.
I wonder, your 256 serial connections problem with linux, did you mention this on the kernel mailing lists ? and if so did you get a bad responce or no help at all..
Cause i know the guys from www.planetarion.com a massive multiplayer space game had some problems with some kernel things with there database mahcines and the kernel hackers where very helpfull if i recall correctly in helping to fix the problem, yes they maybe you cant order them around, but then atleast you can try to fix it in a community way, so it will help us all =)
Quazion.
Hmmm this makes me wonder,
When can open source be bad for business ?
Only when you really want to sell it as close source, but you can cause its allreaddy writen with an open source licence.
There is no real other draw back, except maybe that some people can think its less secure cause 'hackers' can find holes in the software to exploit them.
I hear people saying things about its free, and all the other things they think that is open source, but it just means you are able to read to source, this gives you no right to use the source for your own good. There still things like copyright etc....on it.
I have been using open source software for about 4 years now and the only con i have found overall that there is a load of unfinished and undocumented software that or doesnt compile really nice on my system or fails to do what they say it does. But then this also has happend to me with closed source software except that i couldnt compile that myself, so i see no real difference here except that i could have fixxed the open source software myself cause i had the source.
Last stuff i am goign to say is that i think cause of not enough people jumping in the train of open source your options are a bit limited if it comes to use only open source software for all your needs, maybe all the software is around, but that doesnt mean they always work as good as there closed source counter parts. But open source is like giving away you ingredients its an honest way of business, cause you can check whats going on, you can check for qualitie ( or however you write that word.) and be damn sure it works liek you want it to work, even if it would take the same time as writing the software your self, you have the option.
Quazion...
Ps. Maybe i should have checked for spelling errors.
Want something todo in the mean while, check
http://www.freeciv.org a Online Multiplayer and Singel version of the civ classics and civ II rules. It has *nix and Windows Ports and even Amiga and os/2 and more...
Becarefull its very very addictive...
Quazion.
First its A Local Exploit which makes it harder to start exploiting right away, so we wont see a worm to make use of this until there is some major Remote Exploit. The Patch is already out there, just recompile your kernel and if you dont then your a retarted system admin ( or whatever they said about it ), Keep your Systems update or dont whine about security.
I haven't read the story/mails cause i cant seem to reach them from my computer here, but i just had to repond to the its a local and the its local and just as bad as remote...
Any exploit is bad until you fix it, UPDATE!
and if you think like i do that the information
on your computer systems doesnt really matter to you anyways dont whine afterwards when you loose it!
One more thing, if you dont Update your system regulary then most rootkits will find a way to become root even without the New Kernel Root Exploit, and i think most systems arent updated anyways so this wont change the Linux World in a couple of hours.
Quazion.
No more MS Os's on the Desktop ?
Or Linux Everywhere ?
Both sound bad, what we want i guess is
a competitive playing ground for OS designers.
We dont want the best the greatest the fastest,
we want something usefull and workable or atleast i do.
Linux is usable for me at the moment,
i dont care who wins or who is in war.
Quazion.
I heard some Hacker groups where planning cyberwar against Afganistan and Iraq, then they will be needing loads of machines.
Dont know but this could be related.
Quazion.
Prolly you have NT boxxes hanging on the TR, add a NIC to one Set IP routing on and Use Ethernet to get on The Network...one Cross Cabel will do..
Yes it costs you an extra box, but it could be just some old p166 or something..
Have Fun..
http://www.freeciv.org/
its free, its civ, its addictive...
And it learned me a lot about how humans advanced tru time...
And yes it has voilence in the form of war, but also diplomatic features, you can communicate to win and setting blood war off and space race as a winning goal will force users to go for science instead of war...
Quazion.
Since law wont do anything to break up these Monopolies, we will have to wait until the big up coming Revolution of the less mindless people getting fed up about it within the next decade.
Some will stand up and change the world, the only good thing i can see in this is that the world will become closer to one big place, cause everything relates to everything instead to just some local affairs...we will fight not religion but wealthy companies, who will buy guns then, not terrorists but companies protecting them selfs. Who knows what the future will bring =)
Quazion.
*humans tend to create and then destroy...its history...*
i think you have some points here, you get this free windows media player icon when you install it on your desktop, now try to delete the shortcut, it will aks if you want to delete windows media player cause thats what the sort cut is called, my grandma wouldnt want to do that cause she just installed the crappy thing but doesnt want the thing on her desktop after she found out that its starts automaticaly when you double click sound/video files or when needed over then net, but doesnt dare to delete the whole program. And i know many more of these user unfriendly bits in the MS UI.
In response to KDE i think KDE is slow in comparance to the MS UI, but it beats the crap out of it in stablity and consistentsie, like the MS UI somethimes is waiting for something for a couple of seconds to read the file properties or what ever it waits for, really a pain. (this is true under all windows versions as far as i know.)
Then yeah overall maybe KDE is better...
I think loads of Open Source projects should find some people whom like to work on Optimizations of those programs, cause these toolkits and stuff are slow as hell! or is it just me ?
Like Microsoft isnt using the same technology, like it innovates....
My oppinion is that Microsoft has a really nice userfriendly OS, for as far you dont run into problems or not understandeble error messages, even my grandma knows how to operate the machine once installed. No steep learning curve which Linux ofcourse has, i am running Gnome 1.4 at the moment, and i dont think its ready for the average user yet, but it has come a long way now i installed it again a since a year ago. Dont know about Ximian, But i think MS and Ximian Technology is just as inferior.
They both have there good sides and bad ofcourse.