Book piracy is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus, people want to own the book and feel it in their hands.
You'd think so, huh? But this has going on for years now. In the beginning the only SF and technical books were available, but by now you can find anything that's reasonably popular.
Reading of a CRT screen is doable, if you pick a good font and set your refresh rate really high (> 100 Hz), but it stays uncomfortable. A laptop is much better, and many PDA's are just as good as a real book.
If you were sane, you'd have archived all those floppies on a cd-rom. It's disquieting how many boxes fit on a single cd:)
BTW, there exist many free PC emalutors:
Dosbox is by far the best. It's a true emulator, portable, has a built in DOS, and is trivial to setup (no config files, uses the file system instead of disk images). Only major problem is the lack of protected mode support (if you also want to play some more recent games:)
DOSEMU is also pretty good, and it will run most games, but it's configuration file is a mess, and it requires Linux/i386 (they were working on a CPU emulator, so it might work on other platforms by now).
Bochs is another true emulator, not targeted specifically to games as Dosbox is. As a result, it is slower and more cumbersome to setup, but it supports protected mode games. Bochs is your only hope if you want to play protected mode games on most non-intel platforms.
MESS, the console and home computer counterpart of MAME, has an IBM PC and PC/XT emulator. They probably go for hardware emulation accuracy. I've never used it.
Flopper is a tool that lets you run games that were distributed as bootable floppies. I have no such games, so I've never used it:)
I did it yesterday. You just plugged it in and it worked (*). No special modules, no kernel recompile, no boot parameters. Apparently, the whole ide-scsi mess isn't necessary anymore. Just plug in and launch xcdroast. Dead simple
However, I didn't know that, and I'm supposed to be an experienced Linux user. I only discovered it because I was in a hurry, and forgot to do the ide-scsi thing before I installed the cd burner. I've guided newbies through the ide-scsi thing countless times, and now I discover I made the whole thing much more complex than it actually was.
So I think an important problem is that many experienced people just don't learn new, easier ways of doing things. After all, they already know how to do it using the old way, why would they look for another way? And because of this they keep propagating overly complex solutions.
Another illustration is installing new fonts. With all the new font infrastructure work, all you need to do to install a new font is to throw it in your fonts folder. That's it. Just like Windows. It's surprising how few people actually know this. (If you don't believe me, here is a screenshot.)
(*) OK, you have to set the master/slave jumper correctly, but there's nothing that Linux can do about that.
Make sure you also send the mail to:
-Local/regional newspapers.
-The school/school council/principal/teachers/newspaper.
-Local government official(s).
Err, don't do that, unless as a last resort, if they don't fix the bug months after you've posted the exploit to bugtraq. You want them to fix the bug, not to sue you. Also remember you'll have to give up your anonimity before any of those three groups will listen to you.
Don't ever change your score, even if you give yourself a lower score, even if it's just for a demonstration. Any university will go berserk if a student does that, even if he acts in good faith.
And you'll wind up with a very freaked out administration. What you want to do is to bring the problem to the attention of one of the techies that run the system, they might react sanely.
What's even better is to send the developers an anonymous bug report (not from a university IP etc.), and, if they don't react, to BugTraq or another security list.
You might also want to wait until you're graduated:)
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No, Perl5 has no switch. There are several ways to emulate one (some less ugly than others) but there is no true switch statement. From the perlsyn manpage:
There is no official "switch" statement in Perl, because there are already several ways to write the equivalent.
No, OS/2 up to version 2.0 was jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM. It was released under both the IBM and Microsoft brands, so you had MS OS/2 and IBM OS/2 which were essentially the same product. Google, or look at a boot screen or some promotional material.
Kylix has been available for years now, yet I have never seen a Windows application migrated to Linux. (Just checked freshmeat, it knows of 30 Delphi programs that run on Linux. Some of those might use GNU Pascal or Free Pascal instead of Kylix).
Enter REALbasic. It has more or less the same design goals as Delphi, but it doesn't actually run on Linux, you just can create Linux applications from the Windows and Mac version (quote:REALbasic 5.5 will add the ability to create Linux applications from Windows or Macintosh computers.). It will thus be pretty useless for Linux programmers. Most users on other platforms probably won't bother to generate Linux binaries, let alone test them. For people switching from Mac/Windows to Linux it isn't very useful either, because they would need to keep their old platform around to make any changes.
Does anybody think of a movie based on a game that doesn't suck? At the moment the only game adaptations I can think of are Wing Commander, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and, well, none of those qualify:)
I get very, very few banners, and mozilla deals with any popup that might get through. The site I got that list from seems to be down, so I've put it here.
If you'll read the page you'll see "SVG is not switched on by default in official Mozilla builds". It's been this way for months. I believe there are some legal problems, IIRC they're using a GPL'ed library to do the rendering or something.
If the programmers still have doubts, don't switch. It sounds like they just did a couple benchmarks, and didn't port the complete system yet. Until they demonstrate everything works on Linux, you should stick to SCO. Your first priority should be with the firm, not with your/. karma. So just do that little update to 5.0.7.
(Unless that little update breaks your system. In that case you've got nothing to lose with switching:)
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Book piracy is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus, people want to own the book and feel it in their hands.
You'd think so, huh? But this has going on for years now. In the beginning the only SF and technical books were available, but by now you can find anything that's reasonably popular.
Reading of a CRT screen is doable, if you pick a good font and set your refresh rate really high (> 100 Hz), but it stays uncomfortable. A laptop is much better, and many PDA's are just as good as a real book.
You want Dosbox.
If you were sane, you'd have archived all those floppies on a cd-rom. It's disquieting how many boxes fit on a single cd :)
BTW, there exist many free PC emalutors:
Have you ever installed an ATAPI CD burner?
I did it yesterday. You just plugged it in and it worked (*). No special modules, no kernel recompile, no boot parameters. Apparently, the whole ide-scsi mess isn't necessary anymore. Just plug in and launch xcdroast. Dead simple
However, I didn't know that, and I'm supposed to be an experienced Linux user. I only discovered it because I was in a hurry, and forgot to do the ide-scsi thing before I installed the cd burner. I've guided newbies through the ide-scsi thing countless times, and now I discover I made the whole thing much more complex than it actually was.
So I think an important problem is that many experienced people just don't learn new, easier ways of doing things. After all, they already know how to do it using the old way, why would they look for another way? And because of this they keep propagating overly complex solutions.
Another illustration is installing new fonts. With all the new font infrastructure work, all you need to do to install a new font is to throw it in your fonts folder. That's it. Just like Windows. It's surprising how few people actually know this. (If you don't believe me, here is a screenshot.)
(*) OK, you have to set the master/slave jumper correctly, but there's nothing that Linux can do about that.
Don't ever change your score, even if you give yourself a lower score, even if it's just for a demonstration. Any university will go berserk if a student does that, even if he acts in good faith.
And you'll wind up with a very freaked out administration. What you want to do is to bring the problem to the attention of one of the techies that run the system, they might react sanely.
What's even better is to send the developers an anonymous bug report (not from a university IP etc.), and, if they don't react, to BugTraq or another security list.
You might also want to wait until you're graduated :)
Most likely he was downloading the other songs from Ten too.
No, OS/2 up to version 2.0 was jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM. It was released under both the IBM and Microsoft brands, so you had MS OS/2 and IBM OS/2 which were essentially the same product. Google, or look at a boot screen or some promotional material.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Microsoft OS/2.
Actually, it was just about utilising computer resources as efficiently as possible.
Kylix has been available for years now, yet I have never seen a Windows application migrated to Linux. (Just checked freshmeat, it knows of 30 Delphi programs that run on Linux. Some of those might use GNU Pascal or Free Pascal instead of Kylix).
Enter REALbasic. It has more or less the same design goals as Delphi, but it doesn't actually run on Linux, you just can create Linux applications from the Windows and Mac version (quote:REALbasic 5.5 will add the ability to create Linux applications from Windows or Macintosh computers.). It will thus be pretty useless for Linux programmers. Most users on other platforms probably won't bother to generate Linux binaries, let alone test them. For people switching from Mac/Windows to Linux it isn't very useful either, because they would need to keep their old platform around to make any changes.
Does anybody think of a movie based on a game that doesn't suck? At the moment the only game adaptations I can think of are Wing Commander, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and, well, none of those qualify :)
He posted the article to Kuro5hin too. You can find it here.
Lots and lots of dance and similar junk. I think I'm staying away from IPv6 for a while.
$ wc --lines /etc/hosts /etc/hosts /etc/hosts | wc --lines
12954
$ grep doubleclick
262
I get very, very few banners, and mozilla deals with any popup that might get through. The site I got that list from seems to be down, so I've put it here.
Maybe you should read the post in between. And look at the authors of the posts you comment on.
Oh, that's pretty damn cool. Here's an explanation so others won't have to do the googling again :) It apparently works in Opera, too.
Rather crude, but highly effective.
If you'll read the page you'll see "SVG is not switched on by default in official Mozilla builds". It's been this way for months. I believe there are some legal problems, IIRC they're using a GPL'ed library to do the rendering or something.
Seems to be a pretty version of Pogo.com, which is basically a lot of puzzle/casino games coupled with an irc-like chat.
If you want a realistic driving experience, drive a real car.
I played for a few weeks, but quickly lost interest.
You often keep playing games after you lose interest?
(Unless that little update breaks your system. In that case you've got nothing to lose with switching :)