Well, they may be more open about it, but IE has the advantage that when a bug/hole is fixed it takes a small download to fix it, ware with mozilla and 99% of other OSS progs, takes ether a complete re download to fix it, a download of a source patch then a recompile, or possibly even fixing the source yourself (assuming you know enough about the internals of the program to fix it)
solaris is a server OS and is likely going to serve files to windows users, the point is to stop viri before before some dumb ass in acounting double clicks on that happy.exe file that was in his email
I dont buy that it can read 800k disks, people have been tring to read them in normal floppy drives ever sence it came out, I can sure as hell bet that apple has tried in order to reduce costs
and whats up with the C64 audio, I used to be realy into emulation and most of the fun was that it was, well emulating hardware,
I knew someone who paid to beta test win98, when I asked why he paid for a beta that he knew would be buggy as hell, he got realy mad at me and wouldnt speak to me for a week
I messes around with the BeOS on my p120. It was fast as hell but it was near the end so there wasn't much around to actually do!
I loved beos, it was a great little OS super fast loading with hardware detection each time it loaded, a fast responding GUI, possibly the best File system ever, but one thing it lacked that really killed it was the fact that there was never any good software for it, the included web browser (net+) was the best you could get for the system and it dint support java/java script/flash or anything else. because it lacked hardware OpenGL there was never any games for it. and the apps that were available such as newsreaders and email clients were basic at best and tended to crash. even with all that I would still be running it if it wernt for the fact it doesn't support my hardware anymore, but thats what happens when a company goes under
All versions of BeOS(with the exception of the download version) can run on Pre G3 PCI macs (Be claims apple changed how to interact with the hardware making it impossible for beos to load) but if you bought it the cdrom was a hybrid that would boot on them.
the PPC version was getting less and less suport once the G3's came out
when I saw the headline I was thinking a universal way of configuring a linux system buts its just a kernel config tool, its not much of a tool ether, if the thing were to auto detect my hardware and compile for it I would be impressed. what I found funny is they claim "make xconfig" as a new tool, I used that like 7 years ago on slackware.
what linux needs is a universal way of configuring a linux system so that you can pick any disto you want without worrying about how hard will it be to configure
the EULA is not the problem, Its the fact they have to disable the copy protection (illegal in the USA) in order for it to even load linux,mame or whatever.
I find it silly that people are risking large fines or maybe even jail time just so they can run linux on it, come on its a low end pc. I know what your thinking "MS losses money on every sale" that has to be the biggest urban legend wile its true when the thing was first released they lost a few dollars, but like all consoles once they pay for the initial production costs they break even on the sale, hell if you have 200$ to spend on a linux system walmart.com has lindows equipped thing that's far more useful then a xbox and it counts as an actual linux sale
most auto ticket things dont take into acount time ware you have no choice but to run a red light, for example if your sitting in the middle of an intersection tring to turn and the light turns red you have to turn or else your holding up trafic, the camera will take your pic. They simply dont have the AI to deturmin if you desirve a ticket or not. At least they dont tell your insurance
sorry for the bad spalling I dont have a checker installed yet
Its best to use 650 disks for online distribution, older cdr drives don't work with 700 disks and many people use cdrw disks and 650 RW disks ares still the norm
the digital out is only crippled when playing wma 7.1 + files that use DRM, and then only creative cards are affected, mp3/cd/plain wma and everything else works just fine, I don't know if the current creative drivers disable the digital out or if its just future drivers
Like I said over the past few years, before then they tried their hardest to have a monopoly over sounds cards, they pretty much had it for a while, I cant think of even one dos game that dint use a sound blaster
I had a Aureal 1 card (still do some ware) other then that neat 3d effect with only 2 speakers it was crap, but in only cost me like 15$
its going to be a lot harder to crack then decss, decss works on the local computer, DRM in this case connects to the net to verify that you can play it and then gets the encryption key , maybe when wine/winex runs WMP7+ corectly linux users will know the joy of having drm music;)
I dont know if the crossover plugin works with DRM or not
maybe I'm just too much a hardware purist, I don't want crippled hardware even if I don't do anything that triggers it becoming crippled, supporting DRM is one thing if you like drm for some reason more power to you, but I feel sorry for anyone who has the audigy connected via the digital out, If DRM takes off game companies will eventually use it as another copy protection device, again something the audigy is good at that will cripple the hardware, if creative was so much afraid of the digital out being used as a copy device they shood not of put a digital out on it to begin with
creative was becoming one of the better hardware companies over the past few years, coming out with nice sounding soundcards that are well supported under windows, Linux and even beos(well when be was alive anyway- did you know beos had emu10k1 drivers well before linux), but this DRM crap goes to far, disabling the digital out so you its harder to create copies that sound like the original, I don't have a problem with DRM for the most part as long as it stays out of my way. but hardware that cripples itself when something uses DRM is just lame, I think I'm going to go out and get a new soundcard, anyone know of any good brands/chipsets that are well supported under Linux that sound good and costs under 70$
its not that uncommon to build your own stereo equipment, people have been doing it for as long as there was stereos. In fact most car stereo junkies I know of build their own speaker boxes as it is much cheaper then paying someone else to do it and chances are will look better as it matches the look of your car. Had the guy made his own speaker I would be impressed
for what you would use these things for that's not a problem, if the things a simple web, internet server,mp3 server , or just a mini game emulator, your not going to write to disk that often. for logs you can point to a ram drive, save game files wont be a problem ether (the ps2 flash cards hold up just fine). Your not going to be doing things on this thing that require lots of tmp files or file rewrites (if you run gcc on the thing your just asking for problems)
the idea is for protection, if you shoot some mugger with your umbrella, hopefully they run away thinking they've just been shot with a real bullet. as for just carrying a shotgun with you, your going to get some bad reactions from police and people on the street
"My father was a soldier. He used to give me manuals on explosives and guns."
Talk about the gift that keeps on giving, "hey what did you get for x-mas??" "My dad gave me that new transformer!" "That's nothing my dad gave me books on how guns and explosives work! I cant wait too try them out!"
the GPL is just another EULA, its up to who ever created the software to sue. If they are lucky they could get some support from the free software community, but 99% of GPL software is written by people in their free time who don't have the money to sue, the thing about it is, is that most GPL software is free and as such there is no loss of money if someone steals your code, I think the most you can get is the software that uses the code to open the src that uses the gpl code, but IANAL
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Well, they may be more open about it, but IE has the advantage that when a bug/hole is fixed it takes a small download to fix it, ware with mozilla and 99% of other OSS progs, takes ether a complete re download to fix it, a download of a source patch then a recompile, or possibly even fixing the source yourself (assuming you know enough about the internals of the program to fix it)
solaris is a server OS and is likely going to serve files to windows users, the point is to stop viri before before some dumb ass in acounting double clicks on that happy.exe file that was in his email
I keep my floppy drive for 3 reasons
1)hardware that only gives drivers on floppys (common with network cards)
2)WinXP requires the drivers for my raid to be in the A drive in order to install windows
3)Linux boot disks for when something happens to my boot sector (aka windows install)
I dont buy that it can read 800k disks, people have been tring to read them in normal floppy drives ever sence it came out, I can sure as hell bet that apple has tried in order to reduce costs
and whats up with the C64 audio, I used to be realy into emulation and most of the fun was that it was, well emulating hardware,
I knew someone who paid to beta test win98, when I asked why he paid for a beta that he knew would be buggy as hell, he got realy mad at me and wouldnt speak to me for a week
I messes around with the BeOS on my p120. It was fast as hell but it was near the end so there wasn't much around to actually do!
I loved beos, it was a great little OS super fast loading with hardware detection each time it loaded, a fast responding GUI, possibly the best File system ever, but one thing it lacked that really killed it was the fact that there was never any good software for it, the included web browser (net+) was the best you could get for the system and it dint support java/java script/flash or anything else. because it lacked hardware OpenGL there was never any games for it. and the apps that were available such as newsreaders and email clients were basic at best and tended to crash. even with all that I would still be
running it if it wernt for the fact it doesn't support my hardware anymore, but thats what happens when a company goes under
All versions of BeOS(with the exception of the download version) can run on Pre G3 PCI macs (Be claims apple changed how to interact with the hardware making it impossible for beos to load) but if you bought it the cdrom was a hybrid
that would boot on them.
the PPC version was getting less and less suport once the G3's came out
hehe
;)
I realized that I repeated myself about 2 seconds after I hit submit
when I saw the headline I was thinking a universal way of configuring a linux system buts its just a kernel config tool, its not much of a tool ether, if the thing were to auto detect my hardware and compile for it I would be impressed. what I found funny is they claim "make xconfig" as a new tool, I used that like 7 years ago on slackware.
what linux needs is a universal way of configuring a linux system so that you can pick any disto you want without worrying about how hard will it be to configure
Two questions:
1:Can the Linux XBOX even use the Nvidia??
2:With the PS2 Linux can you compile stand alone PS2 games and apps that don't require loading linux first??
the EULA is not the problem, Its the fact they have to disable the copy protection (illegal in the USA) in order for it to even load linux,mame or whatever.
I find it silly that people are risking large fines or maybe even jail time just so they can run linux on it, come on its a low end pc. I know what your thinking "MS losses money on every sale" that has to be the biggest urban legend wile its true when the thing was first released they lost a few dollars, but like all consoles once they pay for the initial production costs they break even on the sale, hell if you have 200$ to spend on a linux system walmart.com has lindows equipped thing that's far more useful then a xbox and it counts as an actual linux sale
My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Q???
ahh damn now what are we supposed to use to remember the planet order
most auto ticket things dont take into acount time ware you have no choice but to run a red light, for example if your sitting in the middle of an intersection tring to turn and the light turns red you have to turn or else your holding up trafic, the camera will take your pic. They simply dont have the AI to deturmin if you desirve a ticket or not. At least they dont tell your insurance
sorry for the bad spalling I dont have a checker installed yet
Its best to use 650 disks for online distribution, older cdr drives don't work with 700 disks and many people use cdrw disks and 650 RW disks ares still the norm
the digital out is only crippled when playing wma 7.1 + files that use DRM, and then only creative cards are affected, mp3/cd/plain wma and everything else works just fine, I don't know if the current creative drivers disable the digital out or if its just future drivers
Like I said over the past few years, before then they tried their hardest to have a monopoly over sounds cards, they pretty much had it for a while, I cant think of even one dos game that dint use a sound blaster
I had a Aureal 1 card (still do some ware) other then that neat 3d effect with only 2 speakers it was crap, but in only cost me like 15$
its going to be a lot harder to crack then decss, decss works on the local computer, DRM in this case connects to the net to verify that you can play it and then gets the encryption key , maybe when wine/winex runs WMP7+ corectly linux users will know the joy of having drm music ;)
I dont know if the crossover plugin works with DRM or not
maybe I'm just too much a hardware purist, I don't want crippled hardware even if I don't do anything that triggers it becoming crippled, supporting DRM is one thing if you like drm for some reason more power to you, but I feel sorry for anyone who has the audigy connected via the digital out, If DRM takes off game companies will eventually use it as another copy protection device, again something the audigy is good at that will cripple the hardware, if creative was so much afraid of the digital out being used as a copy device they shood not of put a digital out on it to begin with
creative was becoming one of the better hardware companies over the past few years, coming out with nice sounding soundcards that are well supported under windows, Linux and even beos(well when be was alive anyway- did you know beos had emu10k1 drivers well before linux), but this DRM crap goes to far, disabling the digital out so you its harder to create copies that sound like the original, I don't have a problem with DRM for the most part as long as it stays out of my way. but hardware that cripples itself when something uses DRM is just lame, I think I'm going to go out and get a new soundcard, anyone know of any good brands/chipsets that are well supported under Linux that sound good and costs under 70$
its not that uncommon to build your own stereo equipment, people have been doing it for as long as there was stereos. In fact most car stereo junkies I know of build their own speaker boxes as it is much cheaper then paying someone else to do it and chances are will look better as it matches the look of your car. Had the guy made his own speaker I would be impressed
for what you would use these things for that's not a problem, if the things a simple web, internet server,mp3 server , or just a mini game emulator, your not going to write to disk that often. for logs you can point to a ram drive, save game files wont be a problem ether (the ps2 flash cards hold up just fine). Your not going to be doing things on this thing that require lots of tmp files or file rewrites (if you run gcc on the thing your just asking for problems)
the idea is for protection, if you shoot some mugger with your umbrella, hopefully they run away thinking they've just been shot with a real bullet. as for just carrying a shotgun with you, your going to get some bad reactions from police and people on the street
"My father was a soldier. He used to give me manuals on explosives and guns."
Talk about the gift that keeps on giving, "hey what did you get for x-mas??" "My dad gave me that new transformer!" "That's nothing my dad gave me books on how guns and explosives work! I cant wait too try them out!"
the GPL is just another EULA, its up to who ever created the software to sue. If they are lucky they could get some support from the free software community, but 99% of GPL software is written by people in their free time who don't have the money to sue, the thing about it is, is that most GPL software is free and as such there is no loss of money if someone steals your code, I think the most you can get is the software that uses the code to open the src that uses the gpl code, but IANAL
how cool is that, 1000 hours. I wonder how much it would cost for all those large hard drives + tivo