There is a program called everybuddy that allows you to use AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Chat all in one program. I haven't checked it out lately, but it was pretty cool when I did.
They're constantly working on adding more chat types into it. It does requires accounts for each of the services, but that's not too hard to handle.
I forget the site, but try searching on freshmeat for it.
I'm on Gaim right now. There have been a few bugs, but 0.9.19 seems rather stable to me.
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From what I understand of this, there is no Lilo prompt. You turn on the computer, and the linux kernel starts to load. So basically the time it normally takes your computer too boot from the begining of the kernel loading until you get to the login prompt is now the total boot time.
I'm guessing that this would make dual booting the system out of the question.
From the looks of this, realSERVER 8.0 will allow the SERVING of quicktime files. It dosen't mention anything (at least not specifcally) about realplayer being able to play quicktime movies. This means we still will not be able to view quicktime 4 movies under linux.
As for quicktime serving, The quicktime server software is already available for free for linux, and from what I've heard from people who've run real server, real server itself is a pain in the ass.
This however does not mean that you can encode from within linux. The encoding itself must be done on a macintosh (or possible windows, i'm not sure), due to the unavailability of the codecs for linux. I'm not sure how realserver handles the encoding, but this could bring qt encoding to other platforms.
Didn't I read a few months ago that Real also licensed Windows Media for their servers as well? I suppose more companies will be buying real server.
I suppose we'll have to see how this turns out, but I think it's basically going to expand an already too big streaming company.
The major issue with this that I see is when do you reach the point where you're peering rather than purchasing bandwith? For example: You start a small ISP. You buy a T1 or a T3 from a backbone provider. As you grow, you add a few other connections and multi-home your network. At what point do you become big enough that those pipes to the backbone providers become peering points, and should be free? If peering was free for anyone, once you got big enough you, you'd get all of your bandwith for free? Even if you only apply this rule to providers with a backbone, what constitues a backbone? What if you have two datacenters across town from each other? That could be considered your "backbone". The way I see it is that providers shouldn't have to give free bandwith unless they recieve something in return. That return could just be faster access for their customers to reach sites hosted by the opposing company. Once an ISP gets big enough, other ISPs should have no issue at all wanting to do free peering with them, which in most cases is how it works at this point (in most cases). Gah. Ok, I'm done babbling.
Do you realize how long auto-makers in this country have made really shitty cars?
That would probably be why none of them have a monopoly.. and in fact American made cars are not being bought as often as imports these days.
This however is not the case with computers. A majority of people out there buy Windows simply because that's what the software runs on. Not exactly a choice.
I know quite a few people like this as well, but they're skilled in other things. Just because someone dosen't know computers, dosen't mean they dont' know anything.,
he didn't mean to post that. Just like the other hundred or so other people, he clicked a link that posted it for him. The information dosen't match yours, because it describes HIS setup. If you clicked the link, you might want to look for one under your name.
The difference is that Apple is not bundling this program with the operating system. The problem with Netscape/IE wasn't so much that IE was free.. It was that IE was bundled with every computer that ran later versions of Windows 95 and all version of windows 98 (as well as NT/2000). Why would someone who isn't very computer literate download and install netscape when they already have a web browser pre-installed?
How many posts have you seen on slashdot from people complaining about having to reboot into windows in order to play games? Chances are people would not want to have to reboot into the games themselves. Expecially if each individual game required another reboot.
The next problem with this is saved games. If you're booting off of a cd-rom, how do you plan on saving your games? You can't make assumptions about the file system type or sizes on the user's machine, so you can't really just use the hard drive since it's not already mounted. Unless of course you want these people with "no clue about computers" manually mount the file system from within linux.
I would definitly buy Linux versions of these games, but making the game boot linux directly into the game would not be the best idea.
Does something seem kind of frightening to anyone else about putting GPS systems on soldiers? All I need is for the enemy to figure out how to access the system, and be able to pinpoint my exact location by sattellite.
The bitrate is the quality of the audio, not the amount of compression.
Since this apparently dosen't compress the audio as much as mp3 does, it requires a larger filesize in order to maintain the same quality level of the audio.
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One such attempt is gaim actually. As of version .18 I believe you can compile it with --enable-oscar.
Not sure how well it works, but the support is there
There is a program called everybuddy that allows you to use AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Chat all in one program. I haven't checked it out lately, but it was pretty cool when I did.
They're constantly working on adding more chat types into it. It does requires accounts for each of the services, but that's not too hard to handle.
I forget the site, but try searching on freshmeat for it.
I'm on Gaim right now. There have been a few bugs, but 0.9.19 seems rather stable to me.
From what I understand of this, there is no Lilo prompt. You turn on the computer, and the linux kernel starts to load. So basically the time it normally takes your computer too boot from the begining of the kernel loading until you get to the login prompt is now the total boot time.
I'm guessing that this would make dual booting the system out of the question.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00 /03/15/0715227.shtml
Real licensed the windows media codecs too, so Microsoft only can blame themselves
From the looks of this, realSERVER 8.0 will allow the SERVING of quicktime files. It dosen't mention anything (at least not specifcally) about realplayer being able to play quicktime movies. This means we still will not be able to view quicktime 4 movies under linux.
As for quicktime serving, The quicktime server software is already available for free for linux, and from what I've heard from people who've run real server, real server itself is a pain in the ass.
This however does not mean that you can encode from within linux. The encoding itself must be done on a macintosh (or possible windows, i'm not sure), due to the unavailability of the codecs for linux. I'm not sure how realserver handles the encoding, but this could bring qt encoding to other platforms.
Didn't I read a few months ago that Real also licensed Windows Media for their servers as well? I suppose more companies will be buying real server.
I suppose we'll have to see how this turns out, but I think it's basically going to expand an already too big streaming company.
Windows NT is based on VMS, so the first one isn't far off.
The major issue with this that I see is when do you reach the point where you're peering rather than purchasing bandwith? For example: You start a small ISP. You buy a T1 or a T3 from a backbone provider. As you grow, you add a few other connections and multi-home your network. At what point do you become big enough that those pipes to the backbone providers become peering points, and should be free? If peering was free for anyone, once you got big enough you, you'd get all of your bandwith for free? Even if you only apply this rule to providers with a backbone, what constitues a backbone? What if you have two datacenters across town from each other? That could be considered your "backbone". The way I see it is that providers shouldn't have to give free bandwith unless they recieve something in return. That return could just be faster access for their customers to reach sites hosted by the opposing company. Once an ISP gets big enough, other ISPs should have no issue at all wanting to do free peering with them, which in most cases is how it works at this point (in most cases). Gah. Ok, I'm done babbling.
Do you realize how long auto-makers in this country have made really shitty cars?
That would probably be why none of them have a monopoly.. and in fact American made cars are not being bought as often as imports these days.
This however is not the case with computers. A majority of people out there buy Windows simply because that's what the software runs on. Not exactly a choice.
Well, click on the link provided in this story and you'll see a link to "Aqua Triumphant in "Barbie Girl" Lawsuit"
I know quite a few people like this as well, but they're skilled in other things. Just because someone dosen't know computers, dosen't mean they dont' know anything.,
I found out when I noticed that /root/.bash_history was linked to /dev/null. DOH!
I believe that Blood used the Duke Nukem 3d engine. So both.
he didn't mean to post that. Just like the other hundred or so other people, he clicked a link that posted it for him. The information dosen't match yours, because it describes HIS setup. If you clicked the link, you might want to look for one under your name.
Why couldn't this have been posted last night?! I was at Exodus Waltham and I could have looked around for the cage. Hmph.
That's what I've heard as well. I believe he was being sarcastic.
Internet Explorer is free, can we port that to Linux?
Apple is giving away a product, not code.
The difference is that Apple is not bundling this program with the operating system. The problem with Netscape/IE wasn't so much that IE was free.. It was that IE was bundled with every computer that ran later versions of Windows 95 and all version of windows 98 (as well as NT/2000). Why would someone who isn't very computer literate download and install netscape when they already have a web browser pre-installed?
Metro-X also has multi-head support. I'm currently in the middle of setting up 40+ 2 or 3 monitor machines.
XFree86 4.0 introduced this support as well.
It exists.. it's called VM Ware
How many posts have you seen on slashdot from people complaining about having to reboot into windows in order to play games? Chances are people would not want to have to reboot into the games themselves. Expecially if each individual game required another reboot.
The next problem with this is saved games. If you're booting off of a cd-rom, how do you plan on saving your games? You can't make assumptions about the file system type or sizes on the user's machine, so you can't really just use the hard drive since it's not already mounted. Unless of course you want these people with "no clue about computers" manually mount the file system from within linux.
I would definitly buy Linux versions of these games, but making the game boot linux directly into the game would not be the best idea.
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My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Does something seem kind of frightening to anyone else about putting GPS systems on soldiers? All I need is for the enemy to figure out how to access the system, and be able to pinpoint my exact location by sattellite.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Hm.
The bitrate is the quality of the audio, not the amount of compression.
Since this apparently dosen't compress the audio as much as mp3 does, it requires a larger filesize in order to maintain the same quality level of the audio.