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Personally Quake II is the one that I think was probably the best in terms of style (after Doom II of course!), I never really liked Quake that much. Currently I play quite a lot of UrbanTerror which is a free Q3 total conversion which is like Counterstrike. UrbanTerror works fine in Linux and they have a Linux section of the support forums.
The other Linux games I have a Wolfenstine and Tribes 2 but after playing them for a bit I found that I always end up going back to Quake 3.
I don't actually miss the fact that there are not many Linux games -- there are enough for the time I have to play them.
> There are still a _lot_ of people running 6.2 on production machines --
> has anyone considered what role, if any, freshrpms.net could play after
> the 31 March in terms of potentially continuning support for 6.2 via
> security patches?
If anyone can "consider" things for freshrpms.net, I guess it'll be me;-)
I've thought about this indeed... but for me, it's 7.0 that is more
problematic, as I still have about 30 or 40 servers running it, and only
one (installed a month ago with a proprietary IVR software that was _only_
supported on 6.2, argh!) 6.2 left.
One of the first things I'll try is experimenting with dist-upgrade from
7.0 to 7.3... but as it's quite a major step (despite they're both 7.x,
kernel, glibc and bootloader are different!), I fear the results,
especially since most of my servers are in various countries and physically
unaccessible...:-(
I'll see...
Matthias
For machines that are remote upgrading via a CD is a real problem, I wish debian's installer wasn't so off putting...
Gaim is client side, rather than server side. The main advantage of this is that AOL, etc. cannot block GAIM from accessing their networks...
Good point, AOL, Yahoo and the other commercial services are often doing stuff to block other clients.
I've been using a mixture of Gabber and GAIM for the last month or so.
Gabber has nicer logs and supports PGP signing of presence (jabber) and SSL encryption (jabber again) but GAIM supports IRC and the new Yahoo protocol (I haven't got around to compiling a new on for my Jabber server).
read the source of the page, elgoog doesn't just make dir=rtl, it actually changes everything server side.
I admit I didn't bother reading the source before because I know the only way to switch the scroll bar is a dir=rtl attribute on the body element... however I now have read the source and this is what line 8 looks like:
The Chinese don't give a fuck about the Google search page, or the results page either.
They're being blocked simply as collateral damage, the target of the Chinese filters is the google cache.
You see people were using the Google cache to gain axcess to Google's mirrors of sites that the Chinese were blocking, such as Tibet.org
Perhaps, but that doesn't explain why China has also blocked access to AltaVista -- AV doesn't have a cache.
One of the the most convincing argument I read on/. last time this was discussed was that it was commercial pressure from Chinese portals that was behind the blocking (not happy with the competition from Google)... but I guess this is just speculation...
I suspect that the US and UK and other governments spy agencies already have access to whatever electronic communications they want to tap.
This is the case in the UK with regard to phones, however phone tap data is never used in court here because the state might then have to admit how they got it -- they would rather not convict people then admit their sources and the extent of the eve dropping that is going on.
I suspect that draft proposals like this are based on the old trick -- suggest something totally over the top and impossible to implement
then let well meaning people water it down, claim that government cares and listens and at the end of the day still get away with yet another outrageous new law and yet more erosion of privacy and civil liberties.
But then again I'm probably not cynical enough, it's probably far worse than I can imagine already...
Arial Unicode was available for download with a click-through licence that basically required you to say "I own a copy of FrontPage 2000". I don't have a down-loaded version to hand to check the exact words. I noticed it had been removed from the MS web site a few weeks ago and I just assumed that they had re-organised their web site -- they have never seemed to care about the persistance of URIs...), but I guess I was wrong and it was a conscious decision to remove it.
The reason why Arial Unicode is (was?) important is that as far as I can make out it's the only way to put several languages on the web (using Unicode), specifically Indic ones, including Punjabi and Gujarati. The site that uses these languages I worked on can be found here.
There is no support for Indic languages in X11 (or OSX AFAIK). Gnome2 and Pango should fix this though:-)
Windows still has the best internationalisation support (most languages), but a default Red Hat install with the latest Mozilla is getting very good -- all the demo languages on the Unicode web site work with no problems and also all the UTF-8 samples on this page work -- this is better then Windows 2000 (I have not tried with later versions).
...I'm not sure I see the point... I know it's BSD instead of Linux, but most of the functionality is the same...
I'd have said the same thing a while ago, before I'd actually got my hands on a new Mac...
A few months ago I was lent an iBook (long term) and I thought 'great', a UNIX shell it'll be easy to do stuff on it just like it was a Linux box... then I realised that the shell had no syntax highlighting, it didn't have vim... etc it's like ssh'ing to a Solaris box when you are used to Linux -- not very friendly at all.
I decided that it would be far quicker to set the machine up so that it could boot YellowDog since I'd then have all the things I'm used to, (I have been using RedHat on my desktop for several years), rather than bothering to work out how to make OSX more like a Linux environment.
The iBook now triple boots, YellowDog, OSX and OS9 and it spends 99% of it's time in YellowDog.
The only thing that I don't like about the hardware is the one button mouse, but a cheap optical Logitech USB wheel mouse works in all the OSs so I never use the built in mouse.
YellowDog is mostly a good RedHat clone, with some improvements, like having apt-get. I don't know what their Gnome or KDE is like -- I use WindowMaker and I'm very happy with it.
I wonder if this reference to obtaining 'full rights' would be satisfied by paying for software licenses to be changed from commercial ones to the GPL and/or another Free license? If so that would be interesting.
UK Government will consider obtaining full rights to bespoke software code or customisations of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software it procures wherever this achieves best value for money.
I think some of the most interesting things that have been written about SOAP have come out of the REST thesis, probably the best two introductory articles on REST and the ones on XML.com by Paul Prescod; Second Generation Web Services and REST and the Real World.
...the spec'd time for the 60/75GXP is shorter than 333 hours per month...
Actually if you read the PDF datasheet from IBM (linked to from here the Deskstap 6GXP page) it does have the figure of 333 hours use per moth for 5 years on page 50.
I'm rather pissed off at this since I brought one of these drives a few weeks ago and it's running my desktop machine, which is on 25/7... it's OK so far but it would be a pain if it dies, but since/home/ is NFS mounted it wouldn't be the end of the world.
If I had read about this before I went out to get a new drive I would have brought a brand other than IBM.
It seems to be a chicken-and-egg situation at the moment -- I'm doing quite a lot of work producing Dublin Core metadata in XHTML and RDF format for a content management system, however no search engines yet support the indexing or searching of this metedata.
When they do then a proposal like this might make (some) sense.
Actually I haven't looked at the web site, so I'm not going to comment on it.
I recieved the interview extract in an email and thought it was interesting because it it was a senior US official admiting that the US intervention preceeded the Russian invasion, this was not generally known at the time.
One thing that seems to get glazed over an awful lot is that during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the rebel groups were being backed by the United States and others.
Also before the USSR invasion:
Ex- National Security Chief Brzezinski Admits: Afghan Islamism Was Made
in Washington
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Natioan
Security Adviser in 'Le Nouvel Observateur' (France), Jan 15-21, 1998,
p. 76
* Note: There are at least two editions of 'Le Nouvel Observateur.' With
apparently the sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version
sent to the United States is shorter than the French version. The
Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version. *
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his
memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began
to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet
intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to
President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that
correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid
to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet
army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote
a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion
this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But
perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to
provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we
knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they
intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in
Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of
truth. You don't regret anything today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the
effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to
regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I
wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the
USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry
on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about
the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic
fundamentlaism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or
the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the
liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic
fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to
Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a
rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading
religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in
common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan
militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing
more than what unites the Christian countries.
*** Translated from the French by Bill Blum Author, "Killing Hope: US
Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" and "Rogue State: A
Guide to the World's Only Superpower" Portions of the books can be read
at: http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
Last year I took some photos of the posters mentioned in the article, some of which had some very witty comments written on them...there are people in the UK who are not happy with what is happening...
AS much as I hate to say anything positive about the British Government (RIP etc) I often point people to the standards that the www.open.gov.uk site uses:
I one thing that worries me is the potential of crackers using Portsentry's use of ipchains to fsck stuff up -- for example in the UK a hell of a lot of HTTP traffic comes from the Planet Online cache in Leeds (cache.pol.co.uk) as ISP's such as Freeserve use them.... now what happens when someone spoofs this host connecting to a port that triggers Portsentry and your box vanishes for a tonne of people....
I was planning to evaluate it too but I'm not happy about it installing a new kernel and also what about the GPL -- they are distributing patched Linux kernels???
All I want is a way to run IE 4 and 5 on my AMD 300 with 128 Mb of RAM for testing web pages and last time I tried VMWare it was way too slow... --
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Personally Quake II is the one that I think was probably the best in terms of style (after Doom II of course!), I never really liked Quake that much. Currently I play quite a lot of UrbanTerror which is a free Q3 total conversion which is like Counterstrike. UrbanTerror works fine in Linux and they have a Linux section of the support forums.
The other Linux games I have a Wolfenstine and Tribes 2 but after playing them for a bit I found that I always end up going back to Quake 3.
I don't actually miss the fact that there are not many Linux games -- there are enough for the time I have to play them.
Yeah I was wondering about that the other day (people other than RH supporting 6.2) and since I've been using FreshRPMS apt to update Redhat boxes for a few months I asked this question on the FreshRPMS list:
For machines that are remote upgrading via a CD is a real problem, I wish debian's installer wasn't so off putting...
Good point, AOL, Yahoo and the other commercial services are often doing stuff to block other clients.
I've been using a mixture of Gabber and GAIM for the last month or so.
Gabber has nicer logs and supports PGP signing of presence (jabber) and SSL encryption (jabber again) but GAIM supports IRC and the new Yahoo protocol (I haven't got around to compiling a new on for my Jabber server).
The article and discussion on the Linux Games site can be found here.
I only noticed it because I have Linux Games as a slashbox on the front page of slashdot...
I admit I didn't bother reading the source before because I know the only way to switch the scroll bar is a dir=rtl attribute on the body element... however I now have read the source and this is what line 8 looks like:
</head><body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000 link=#0000cc vlink=#551a8b alink=#ff0000 onLoad=sf() dir="rtl"><script LANGUAGE="javascript">IE switches the scroll bar to the left when the direction attribute on the body element is set to right-to-left:
<body dir="rtl">More information about right-to-left languages and HTML can be found in the specification.
Perhaps, but that doesn't explain why China has also blocked access to AltaVista -- AV doesn't have a cache.
One of the the most convincing argument I read on /. last time this was discussed was that it was commercial pressure from Chinese portals that was behind the blocking (not happy with the competition from Google)... but I guess this is just speculation...
Whats the situation with regard to mod_perl with Apache 2.0? Is it ready yet?
I suspect that the US and UK and other governments spy agencies already have access to whatever electronic communications they want to tap.
This is the case in the UK with regard to phones, however phone tap data is never used in court here because the state might then have to admit how they got it -- they would rather not convict people then admit their sources and the extent of the eve dropping that is going on.
I suspect that draft proposals like this are based on the old trick -- suggest something totally over the top and impossible to implement then let well meaning people water it down, claim that government cares and listens and at the end of the day still get away with yet another outrageous new law and yet more erosion of privacy and civil liberties.
But then again I'm probably not cynical enough, it's probably far worse than I can imagine already...
Arial Unicode was available for download with a click-through licence that basically required you to say "I own a copy of FrontPage 2000". I don't have a down-loaded version to hand to check the exact words. I noticed it had been removed from the MS web site a few weeks ago and I just assumed that they had re-organised their web site -- they have never seemed to care about the persistance of URIs...), but I guess I was wrong and it was a conscious decision to remove it.
The reason why Arial Unicode is (was?) important is that as far as I can make out it's the only way to put several languages on the web (using Unicode), specifically Indic ones, including Punjabi and Gujarati. The site that uses these languages I worked on can be found here.
There is no support for Indic languages in X11 (or OSX AFAIK). Gnome2 and Pango should fix this though :-)
Windows still has the best internationalisation support (most languages), but a default Red Hat install with the latest Mozilla is getting very good -- all the demo languages on the Unicode web site work with no problems and also all the UTF-8 samples on this page work -- this is better then Windows 2000 (I have not tried with later versions).
mblase said:
I'd have said the same thing a while ago, before I'd actually got my hands on a new Mac...
A few months ago I was lent an iBook (long term) and I thought 'great', a UNIX shell it'll be easy to do stuff on it just like it was a Linux box... then I realised that the shell had no syntax highlighting, it didn't have vim... etc it's like ssh'ing to a Solaris box when you are used to Linux -- not very friendly at all.
I decided that it would be far quicker to set the machine up so that it could boot YellowDog since I'd then have all the things I'm used to, (I have been using RedHat on my desktop for several years), rather than bothering to work out how to make OSX more like a Linux environment.
The iBook now triple boots, YellowDog, OSX and OS9 and it spends 99% of it's time in YellowDog.
The only thing that I don't like about the hardware is the one button mouse, but a cheap optical Logitech USB wheel mouse works in all the OSs so I never use the built in mouse.
YellowDog is mostly a good RedHat clone, with some improvements, like having apt-get. I don't know what their Gnome or KDE is like -- I use WindowMaker and I'm very happy with it.
I wonder if this reference to obtaining 'full rights' would be satisfied by paying for software licenses to be changed from commercial ones to the GPL and/or another Free license? If so that would be interesting.
AFIK it is a protocol devised by Dave Winner from Userland and Microsoft, it has been rubber stamped by the W3C, and it's specifications can be found on their site: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1.
I think some of the most interesting things that have been written about SOAP have come out of the REST thesis, probably the best two introductory articles on REST and the ones on XML.com by Paul Prescod; Second Generation Web Services and REST and the Real World.
There has been quite a bit of interesting discussion on SOAP on the W3Cs Technicial Architecture list, see this thread: SOAP breaks HTTP?.
Zarquon wrote:
Doh! LOL.
However many times I preview my posts here I always seem to make daft mistakes... ah well, never mind :-)
Cutriss wrote:
Actually if you read the PDF datasheet from IBM (linked to from here the Deskstap 6GXP page) it does have the figure of 333 hours use per moth for 5 years on page 50.
I'm rather pissed off at this since I brought one of these drives a few weeks ago and it's running my desktop machine, which is on 25/7... it's OK so far but it would be a pain if it dies, but since /home/ is NFS mounted it wouldn't be the end of the world.
If I had read about this before I went out to get a new drive I would have brought a brand other than IBM.
It seems to be a chicken-and-egg situation at the moment -- I'm doing quite a lot of work producing Dublin Core metadata in XHTML and RDF format for a content management system, however no search engines yet support the indexing or searching of this metedata.
When they do then a proposal like this might make (some) sense.
Actually I haven't looked at the web site, so I'm not going to comment on it.
I recieved the interview extract in an email and thought it was interesting because it it was a senior US official admiting that the US intervention preceeded the Russian invasion, this was not generally known at the time.
Also before the USSR invasion:
Supposing someone installs XP in a virtual VMWare, or Plex86 machine, and then cloned it several times.... Hmmm...
I think I'll just install IE6 on a Win95 VMWare machine in since I only need it for testing web pages :-)
Well I have never found it and I can't find it in the latest version for Linux either... is this a windows only feature?
Last year I took some photos of the posters mentioned in the article, some of which had some very witty comments written on them...there are people in the UK who are not happy with what is happening...
AS much as I hate to say anything positive about the British Government (RIP etc) I often point people to the standards that the www.open.gov.uk site uses:
open.gov.uk - W3C standards http://www.open.gov.uk/services/standards.htm
Every time I look at them I'm shocked buy how good they are!
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Eric Lee has written an article on ICANN and others called Who rules cyberspace?, it's written from a labour movement perspecive.
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I one thing that worries me is the potential of crackers using Portsentry's use of ipchains to fsck stuff up -- for example in the UK a hell of a lot of HTTP traffic comes from the Planet Online cache in Leeds (cache.pol.co.uk) as ISP's such as Freeserve use them.... now what happens when someone spoofs this host connecting to a port that triggers Portsentry and your box vanishes for a tonne of people....
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I was planning to evaluate it too but I'm not happy about it installing a new kernel and also what about the GPL -- they are distributing patched Linux kernels???
All I want is a way to run IE 4 and 5 on my AMD 300 with 128 Mb of RAM for testing web pages and last time I tried VMWare it was way too slow...
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