Do a search for "Linux," for crying out loud, and take a gander at the first thing that shows up for display: Right, a sponsored link from Microsoft that lies about Linux.
Strange. I went to MSN Search (had to Google for it to find it =) and the results were following: News links to my local newspaper Kaleva (stories regarding Solaris release, one big company getting IBM gear, and stuff about the Simputer), then, in order, linux-aktivaattori.org, linux.fi, www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux ("Linux was invented here") and flug.fi (Finnish Linux User Group).
Maybe they won't bother to push the FUD in this miserable backwater I'm living in? =)
Re:Openvms is downloadable too. Most reliable OS.
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I recently read an article which had pointers on how to get the license (and, more importantly, how to run OpenVMS in SIMH emulator, though as an UNIX-head myself, I found the said emulator far more interesting in purposes of trying out v7 UNIX - though my reaction was mostly "I give up, this ancient piece of junk doesn't have GNU tools". =)
"Dost thou have any idea of the number of dead people and creatures there are? I thought not. The dead of the ages are mine to summon and control. The graves of belovedancestors will spew forth their contents into an army. A special treat for the living, mine undead monsters will be. Imagine a skeletal dragon that cannot be killed. Consider a cabal of everliving mages eternally enthralled to me. And the most beautiful part of my plot is that, as the living die in these battles, and they will die, they will swell the ranks of the undead host. I will rule supreme -- a world of the dead!"
But every fan should be aware that One Should Never Expect A Release. Nethack is beyond years! The Next Release is always the Most Anticipated Game - however, part of the thrill is that one never knows what year it's coming out. And of course, once the release is actually out, the next version immediately becomes the Most Anticipated Game...
You might want to check out the "Sick Windows Tricks" page, which has the ancient Windows apps monkeyed to work with modern Windows versions.
Right now, I'm still running Win98SE to play games and do ocassional video trashing. (actually I just got a new comp and haven't even yet bothered to move the Windows partitions over... strangely long Linux uptime too...) There hasn't been much reason to upgrade, really. But if Longhorn (or any intermediate XP-based cashcow release) comes with single-player Reversi, yeah, I'll be upgrading *right* away! =)
You could always surprise them by creating a whole new character. Imagine their surprise when they log in and see a Level 1 Brownie Necromancer called "Choppatron, the Shortest Guy Ever" in their character list... or something...
Hey, wow, this is the same guy who was mentioned earlier. He pays people to turn their machines into spam zombies, and pays $1 per CPU hour (and people don't realize the program usually uses less than 1% of the CPU resources...)
(insert machine breath sound) The power to exploit one's human resources is insignificant compared to the power of Aquiting Franchises and Producing Crap.
(Meanwhile in another place: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of Origin, Bullfrog and Westwood fans had screamed in unison...")
Debian folks often think RPM is inferior packaging format. Of course, it is, if you're going to build a coherent distribution. But it is a good format if you're distributing third-party software. Why is this so? RPM depends are primarily libraries which can come from anywhere. Debian's depends are primarily other packages, hopefully ones from your distribution, possibly not.
There's always alien. "alien whatever.rpm" will generate just beautifully compatible.deb package. And you can always use Alien to generate a tarball out of.rpm. And there's always the "repairing with vi and toothpick" option: RPMs are actually cpio(1) files with a funny header. (.debs are ar(1)-glued tarballs. Slightly easier to extract than cpio files, in my opinion.)
That means they've been developing BugZilla since just after the start of World War II,
Of course! The real sensation in Bugzilla is that it is the Original Bug Tracking System, as old as the oldest electronic computers and certainly as old as the oldest bugs. The original version was written in COBOL and was used to track moth migrations. It was one of the decisive technological leaps that decided the outcome of the war. Since the Germans didn't have moth tracking system, their computer scientists never got very far because their clothes kept getting eaten by the moths.
Yeah, it is compatible with Word and RTF and whatever.
But what file format does it use natively? A brand new Apple XML mystery format that's theoretically importable to everywhere else but no one practically bothers to write support for? Or OASIS format, which everyone should support but few do?
They don't care how good it looks? But still, it looks pretty damn good =)
Yup. Urban Terror rules. The only bad thing about Urban Terror was that last summer, every time I went playing Q3A, everyone was playing UT and no one was playing Q3F. I hope ETF will have more players.
But I wasn't complaining. Urban Terror's popularity is completely justified. Really great playability.
Solitaire with RSS support? Certainly - the current solitaire games are pretty boring. Make the game background to resemble a normal desk, add some decorative pictures of normal everyday solutaire-playing-desk objects, like coffee mugs and, oh, top of the newspaper peeking from the edge of the window. With actual headlines.
Not necessarily. If you're going to use patent's implementation in a proprietary program, source code for that patent's implementation has to be out somehow; this would pretty much leave BSD-licensed code only for use in specific isolated modules/libraries for which you can publish the source code. BSD says you don't have to distribute the source, the patent says you have to. Yeah, in that way, it's clearly dragging toward GPL though...
I was more worried of dual-licensed software like Blender. But I think Blender's case would be pretty simple: If you incorporated the patented methods there, if you use GPL, you're free to use these pantents, if Blender License, you have to specifically negotiate agreement with IBM. (BL specifically says BL has no authority over external libraries Blender links with, which means their use would need to be negotiated as well; I suppose same goes for software patents.)
Problem: my 40 gig disk, over two years old, had been making a lot of noise. Then, one day, when I returned home, much to my horror, processor use was way up and I saw a lot of kernel read errors in xlogmaster's kernel monitor. Aieeeeee! Since the machine worked just fine otherwise, or at least earlier, I decided the damage wasn't big yet. Powered the whole thing down.
Then came the biiiiiig boring part.
I went to the store and picked up a nice 80 gig ATA133 disk.
Went to home. Old disks away. New drive in.
And BIOS didn't know anything about the drive. Some troubleshooting later it was clear that the BIOS was to blame. (A P3-600 from summer 2000...) And since this thing was getting pretty ancient anyway, rather than trying to upgrade the BIOS, I got a new motherboard. And processor. And fan. And memory. And eventually new power source. And then, on top of that, a chassis.
Then was the day when I finally had the critical parts. I booted up Gnoppix. (Luckily, there are CD burners on the university. Otherwise, there would have been even more chicken/egg-stuff here.)
Gnoppix was an excellent distribution to work with. On the old hard drive, I had been using reiser3 and ext2 (root partition); For the new hard drive, I had chosen to use xfs and ext3. And the surprising thing? Gnoppix supported both. Okay, it's been a while since I had used livecd distros, but still. There even was GNU parted, didn't need it yet though.
With Gnoppix I could easily copy the old disk contents to the new disk. Very, very little hassle. Luckily, no noticeable file loss occurred. I could even mess around to get grub reinstalled on the new drive. Booted it, and wham, it worked like charm, just like before it went down. Recompiled the kernel to match my new hardware and I was back in business - well, not really until I got the new chassis, but still.
Yeah! q1dm6 rules! And recently I was overjoyed to find no less than two remakes of the level for Quake 3 Arena. Great fun. And some time ago we had tons of fun playing this thing 1on1 on Nintendo 64, too. Anyone remade (or re-built) this thing for Doom 3 yet? I just got Doom 3 myself this week and remake of dm6 is exactly what I've been looking for ever since.
As for machinima angle... ummmm.... well, they should make some based on the level. Definitely. Some cool movies set on those extremely familiar surroundings. =)
UOGateway doesn't technically need to run on Wine. My recollections are pretty hazy, but ages ago, I just pulled the server list file from UOGateway web server, grepped the server's IP from the file (it's a normal XML file), typed it to Iris config file, then found to my great irritation that Iris needs the aforementioned 3D data to run.
Though getting the normal UO client to work along with such hazy manual hacks under Wine - now, that might be pretty interesting...
What would be the easiest way to run the client on Linux? All FAQs I've seen still refer to the long-dead native client. I know Iris exists, yet all I have at hand is the 2D data, this thing wants 3D data (which is presumably downloadable completely legally through some way or other), and my Windows partitions are out right now so I can't use the real thing, even on Wine.
Slashdot Mirror
Already been done. Didn't someone already write a "Slashdot file system" program that posted files as comments and retrieved them from there?
Strange. I went to MSN Search (had to Google for it to find it =) and the results were following: News links to my local newspaper Kaleva (stories regarding Solaris release, one big company getting IBM gear, and stuff about the Simputer), then, in order, linux-aktivaattori.org, linux.fi, www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux ("Linux was invented here") and flug.fi (Finnish Linux User Group).
Maybe they won't bother to push the FUD in this miserable backwater I'm living in? =)
I recently read an article which had pointers on how to get the license (and, more importantly, how to run OpenVMS in SIMH emulator, though as an UNIX-head myself, I found the said emulator far more interesting in purposes of trying out v7 UNIX - though my reaction was mostly "I give up, this ancient piece of junk doesn't have GNU tools". =)
Well, it couldn't be worse than Cluedo Crusade where a gruesome murder mystery is solved with a little help from Space Marines...
"Dost thou have any idea of the number of dead people and creatures there are? I thought not. The dead of the ages are mine to summon and control. The graves of beloved ancestors will spew forth their contents into an army. A special treat for the living, mine undead monsters will be. Imagine a skeletal dragon that cannot be killed. Consider a cabal of everliving mages eternally enthralled to me. And the most beautiful part of my plot is that, as the living die in these battles, and they will die, they will swell the ranks of the undead host. I will rule supreme -- a world of the dead!"
- Horance, in Ultima VII: The Black Gate
And I bet the MP3s sound just wonderful on this high end player. Chirp chirp, schwoosch =)
But every fan should be aware that One Should Never Expect A Release. Nethack is beyond years! The Next Release is always the Most Anticipated Game - however, part of the thrill is that one never knows what year it's coming out. And of course, once the release is actually out, the next version immediately becomes the Most Anticipated Game...
You might want to check out the "Sick Windows Tricks" page, which has the ancient Windows apps monkeyed to work with modern Windows versions.
Right now, I'm still running Win98SE to play games and do ocassional video trashing. (actually I just got a new comp and haven't even yet bothered to move the Windows partitions over... strangely long Linux uptime too...) There hasn't been much reason to upgrade, really. But if Longhorn (or any intermediate XP-based cashcow release) comes with single-player Reversi, yeah, I'll be upgrading *right* away! =)
You can find the license from the beta tarball
The "BitTorrent Open Source License", in its own words, seems to be derived from the Jabber Open Source License.
You could always surprise them by creating a whole new character. Imagine their surprise when they log in and see a Level 1 Brownie Necromancer called "Choppatron, the Shortest Guy Ever" in their character list... or something...
Hey, wow, this is the same guy who was mentioned earlier. He pays people to turn their machines into spam zombies, and pays $1 per CPU hour (and people don't realize the program usually uses less than 1% of the CPU resources...)
(insert machine breath sound) The power to exploit one's human resources is insignificant compared to the power of Aquiting Franchises and Producing Crap.
(Meanwhile in another place: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of Origin, Bullfrog and Westwood fans had screamed in unison...")
RPMs have never been a problem for me.
Debian folks often think RPM is inferior packaging format. Of course, it is, if you're going to build a coherent distribution. But it is a good format if you're distributing third-party software. Why is this so? RPM depends are primarily libraries which can come from anywhere. Debian's depends are primarily other packages, hopefully ones from your distribution, possibly not.
There's always alien. "alien whatever.rpm" will generate just beautifully compatible .deb package. And you can always use Alien to generate a tarball out of .rpm. And there's always the "repairing with vi and toothpick" option: RPMs are actually cpio(1) files with a funny header. (.debs are ar(1)-glued tarballs. Slightly easier to extract than cpio files, in my opinion.)
Just go for Ethernet-over-Power hub. You get 120 easily. And in Europe, you can go up to 230!
Of course! The real sensation in Bugzilla is that it is the Original Bug Tracking System, as old as the oldest electronic computers and certainly as old as the oldest bugs. The original version was written in COBOL and was used to track moth migrations. It was one of the decisive technological leaps that decided the outcome of the war. Since the Germans didn't have moth tracking system, their computer scientists never got very far because their clothes kept getting eaten by the moths.
Someone please call Neal Stephenson...
Yeah, it is compatible with Word and RTF and whatever.
But what file format does it use natively? A brand new Apple XML mystery format that's theoretically importable to everywhere else but no one practically bothers to write support for? Or OASIS format, which everyone should support but few do?
...or good enough to tell a difference between a clever video game video and a forgettable hollywood movie...
They don't care how good it looks? But still, it looks pretty damn good =)
Yup. Urban Terror rules. The only bad thing about Urban Terror was that last summer, every time I went playing Q3A, everyone was playing UT and no one was playing Q3F. I hope ETF will have more players.
But I wasn't complaining. Urban Terror's popularity is completely justified. Really great playability.
Solitaire with RSS support? Certainly - the current solitaire games are pretty boring. Make the game background to resemble a normal desk, add some decorative pictures of normal everyday solutaire-playing-desk objects, like coffee mugs and, oh, top of the newspaper peeking from the edge of the window. With actual headlines.
Feel free to implement. I'm too coffeed today.
Not necessarily. If you're going to use patent's implementation in a proprietary program, source code for that patent's implementation has to be out somehow; this would pretty much leave BSD-licensed code only for use in specific isolated modules/libraries for which you can publish the source code. BSD says you don't have to distribute the source, the patent says you have to. Yeah, in that way, it's clearly dragging toward GPL though...
I was more worried of dual-licensed software like Blender. But I think Blender's case would be pretty simple: If you incorporated the patented methods there, if you use GPL, you're free to use these pantents, if Blender License, you have to specifically negotiate agreement with IBM. (BL specifically says BL has no authority over external libraries Blender links with, which means their use would need to be negotiated as well; I suppose same goes for software patents.)
Problem: my 40 gig disk, over two years old, had been making a lot of noise. Then, one day, when I returned home, much to my horror, processor use was way up and I saw a lot of kernel read errors in xlogmaster's kernel monitor. Aieeeeee! Since the machine worked just fine otherwise, or at least earlier, I decided the damage wasn't big yet. Powered the whole thing down.
Then came the biiiiiig boring part.
I went to the store and picked up a nice 80 gig ATA133 disk.
Went to home. Old disks away. New drive in.
And BIOS didn't know anything about the drive. Some troubleshooting later it was clear that the BIOS was to blame. (A P3-600 from summer 2000...) And since this thing was getting pretty ancient anyway, rather than trying to upgrade the BIOS, I got a new motherboard. And processor. And fan. And memory. And eventually new power source. And then, on top of that, a chassis.
Then was the day when I finally had the critical parts. I booted up Gnoppix. (Luckily, there are CD burners on the university. Otherwise, there would have been even more chicken/egg-stuff here.)
Gnoppix was an excellent distribution to work with. On the old hard drive, I had been using reiser3 and ext2 (root partition); For the new hard drive, I had chosen to use xfs and ext3. And the surprising thing? Gnoppix supported both. Okay, it's been a while since I had used livecd distros, but still. There even was GNU parted, didn't need it yet though.
With Gnoppix I could easily copy the old disk contents to the new disk. Very, very little hassle. Luckily, no noticeable file loss occurred. I could even mess around to get grub reinstalled on the new drive. Booted it, and wham, it worked like charm, just like before it went down. Recompiled the kernel to match my new hardware and I was back in business - well, not really until I got the new chassis, but still.
Yeah! q1dm6 rules! And recently I was overjoyed to find no less than two remakes of the level for Quake 3 Arena. Great fun. And some time ago we had tons of fun playing this thing 1on1 on Nintendo 64, too. Anyone remade (or re-built) this thing for Doom 3 yet? I just got Doom 3 myself this week and remake of dm6 is exactly what I've been looking for ever since.
As for machinima angle... ummmm.... well, they should make some based on the level. Definitely. Some cool movies set on those extremely familiar surroundings. =)
UOGateway doesn't technically need to run on Wine. My recollections are pretty hazy, but ages ago, I just pulled the server list file from UOGateway web server, grepped the server's IP from the file (it's a normal XML file), typed it to Iris config file, then found to my great irritation that Iris needs the aforementioned 3D data to run.
Though getting the normal UO client to work along with such hazy manual hacks under Wine - now, that might be pretty interesting...
What would be the easiest way to run the client on Linux? All FAQs I've seen still refer to the long-dead native client. I know Iris exists, yet all I have at hand is the 2D data, this thing wants 3D data (which is presumably downloadable completely legally through some way or other), and my Windows partitions are out right now so I can't use the real thing, even on Wine.
So, where do I get the client data?
Definitely.
And after that is done, let's make the bathhouse in Buccaneer's Den a bit more "true to the spirit of the offline Ultimas". =)