I drive a Saab and I've gotten used to the placement of the key. When I get into a non-Saab I get confused find the where to put the key, especially if it's dark and the lock doesn't light up. And I think it's easier and quicker to get the key in and out of the central mounted lock than a lock mounted on the steering column.
If you change cars a lot this might be a problem, if you drive a Saab all the time, it's not a problem.
When Law Enforcement listened in on suspects who have Onstar it caused the accident detection system to not work correctly (whilst the car occupants were being monitored):
"When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored. After "vehicle recovery mode" was disabled, the court said, passengers were notified by the radio displaying an alert and, if the radio was not on, the system beeping."
Red Hat 5.2, sometime around 1999, I installed it so I could compile my homework, for a C programming class, instead of having to use hyperterminal to connect to school, from which I then had to telnet to the CS dept's Solaris system.
Later moved to Debian and never looked back, and now using Debian & Ubuntu on different computers.
Wow, 10 years using Linux!:)
It looks like this is an engineering release; a pre-beta. Which may be buggy, I'm sure the beta release will be better. However, it looks like is not yet for general release and a production release should be ready for the 1.1 release of AIR.
From: Prerelease Program Coordinator...
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008
Subject: First engineering drop of AIR for Linux now available on prerelease website
Attention Linux Prerelease Users and Developers,
Today we are very excited to announce that we are making available our first engineering drops of AIR running on Linux on our prerelease website. From the very beginning, it's been our goal to bring AIR to Linux. Today marks the first in a series of upcoming milestones that will support attaining that goal.
To help set expectations around this announcement, please note the following:
* AIR Linux will target our 1.1 release later this year and not the upcoming 1.0 release. Whereas our Mac and Windows 1.0 builds are about to ship, the Linux release is targeted for the second half of this year.
* The AIR Linux builds are not yet feature complete (think alpha stage). It's very important that you read the release notes to understand what features are currently unavailable. If you have an existing application, there's a reasonable chance that certain parts of your application may not run. We will continue to post new builds on our prerelease website going forward.
* The AIR Linux builds are not as stable as Mac and Windows (again, think alpha stage). Since these are the first builds we're posting to our prerelease website, there are many issues that we still need to address. The issues we know about are described in our release notes posted on the new Linux prerelease forum. If you encounter other issues, we'd appreciate it if you could please search our bug database and submit a bug if the issue has not yet been reported.
* Our current plan is to support the following distributions of AIR: RedHat Desktop Linux 4, RedHat Enterprise Linux v5, Novell Desktop Linux 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and Ubuntu 6.06. This list will change between now and when we ship.
* We have created a new forum dedicated to Linux topics. If you are experiencing issues or have questions, please post on the Linux forum. You can subscribe to this new forum by logging into prerelease, selecting the "Linux" forum, and then selecting "Subscribe."
* Bugs can be logged through our prerelease website. Under the "Resources" section, click on the "Report Bugs/Feature Requests" link. Next, click the link "Report AIR Bugs/Feature Requests - Linux"
We are particularly interested in feedback from developers running multiple distributions of Linux that might be able to compare install experiences or differences in performance.
If you have any questions related to AIR Linux, please post them to the new Linux prerelease forum which is now live. Below is a FAQ that provides additional information.
Be sure to view the release notes for this engineering drop by logging into the Linux forum on the prerelease website.
>Funny how they benchmark two of the very few popular games that have native Linux clients, indeed.
That's the point. So they can compare the Windows version, the Linux version, & the Windows version on both Wine & Cedega. This lets the folk doing the benchmark figure out how much overhead there is to wine & cedega and show if it perform better, worse, or the same than playing games natively.
Considering that many of the games ported to Linux are released a year or two after their release on Windows it's not surprising. And usually by that point the Windows version of the game is selling at $20 or less and the new Linux port is usually $40+ it's not surprising sales would be low. Plus, $40+ for a "older" game?
On the other hand, companies like Id, work on and release their ports at around the same time as the Windows release.
Here's damned near everything you'd want from Postal on one dual-layer DVD: Postal 1, Postal 2: Share the Pain, Apocalypse Weekend, A Week in Paradise (aka "AW7"), and Eternal Damnation. One disc gets you all this for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
>and so an unsuccessful species is dying out, as has happened many times in the past.
I was under the impression that the reason for the weak gene pool was because of over-hunting by humans.
I don't think it's necessarily HR's fault. How you get people to be loyal to a company who is only in the country looking for cheap staff? You know many companies will leave for the next cheap place that the big analyists will start recommending.
And to can compare what is happending in Indai to the "Dot Com" era in the US. Lot's of people entered the tech market for the money, many jumped jobs every 6 months for better paid jobs. If you were in anyway good technically you could command a premium wage. Sounds famaliar? (Then the arse fell out of the market).
Indian developers in India are basically doing the same thing, they're taking advantage of a tight labour pool. And the really good developers/techies in India are getting good wages and aren't likey to jump ship to some "new" US (or European) company looking for low-cost India programmers.
For example I know of a manager who was told to hire the 3 new employees in India. He was was there for 2 weeks, settled on 3 lads and on the start date only one showed up. I'm sure the other 2 got better jobs based on the job they had in hand, or got headhunted.
I've been saying to others that at the moment I suspect that any company trying to start an India technical operation at the moment will have a hard time of it because all the good technical people already have good paying jobs and the only people they'll be likely to recruit will be medicore. Unless they pay good wages, and lead to an expectation of a long-term job.
I think at the moment if a company wants good staff for less money they may do better looking at locations inside the US such as Salt Lake City and other mid-Western states.
It's a hoax! They're actually really on Mars and trying to pretend they're in North Dakota. It's easy to tell because of the shadows and when he hit the golfball it so obviouly was in a lighter gravity. And one could tell that they used filters to make the lighting look earthlike...
>- Aside from the politics and issues surrounding.xxx,
But, that is where the problems arise. It showed that the US government is willing to affect what ICANN's does based on internal pressure.
"Previously, the U.S. had indicated that it would sever any government connection to Icann." (from one of the Wsj.com articles).
And they (the US government) went back on their word. (The rest of the world doesn't matter if it was from another administration).
I do agree that overall the US government has been a benign influence on the Internet. And using the.xxx situation as a reason is lame, but it does prove that a government will use it's influence for political reasons.
Reading the article the E.U.'s opinion is:
Ms. Reding says she wants the current framework, which gives the Commerce Department ultimate oversight over Internet governance, to be replaced with no government oversight - U.S. or otherwise.
Is all this overblown? I think it is, and the current system seems to work fairly well, but I think we do need to get the governments (any government) out of ICANN's business and let the geeks run things. But, I doubt if business will let them...
On another note, it's interesting how the WSJ, try to deride Ms. Reding opinion, because she is from "small" Luxembourg: "Her outsized responsibilities". Do you think they'd say the same thing if she was Rhode Island?
>Computers are great, but they aren't very useful for growing food or anything
You are correct. But the computer can teach them new methods to grow food, and to learn new things. But, more importantly most of the world's populations live in cities. And for some reason many of the comments imply that most of the people these are aimed at live in farmland or agricultural communities. (How do you expect families to grow food living in a shanty-town?)
But, they don't, most people live in cities, and the people these are aimed at in miserable conditions, with little (chance of a) education, and awareness of the world, and of all the knowledge that is in the world. How do you expect families to grow food living in a shanty-town?
By, providing these computes many of these children may be able to experience and learn things that they wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
If you change cars a lot this might be a problem, if you drive a Saab all the time, it's not a problem.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-132934.html
"When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored. After "vehicle recovery mode" was disabled, the court said, passengers were notified by the radio displaying an alert and, if the radio was not on, the system beeping."
Red Hat 5.2, sometime around 1999, I installed it so I could compile my homework, for a C programming class, instead of having to use hyperterminal to connect to school, from which I then had to telnet to the CS dept's Solaris system. Later moved to Debian and never looked back, and now using Debian & Ubuntu on different computers. Wow, 10 years using Linux! :)
It looks like this is an engineering release; a pre-beta. Which may be buggy, I'm sure the beta release will be better. However, it looks like is not yet for general release and a production release should be ready for the 1.1 release of AIR.
...
A friend forwarded me the release announcement which I posted on my blog a few weeks ago http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/16/adobe-air-for-linux/, full announcement below, except for any e-mail addresses which I removed.
From: Prerelease Program Coordinator
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008
Subject: First engineering drop of AIR for Linux now available on prerelease website
Attention Linux Prerelease Users and Developers,
Today we are very excited to announce that we are making available our first engineering drops of AIR running on Linux on our prerelease website. From the very beginning, it's been our goal to bring AIR to Linux. Today marks the first in a series of upcoming milestones that will support attaining that goal.
To help set expectations around this announcement, please note the following:
* AIR Linux will target our 1.1 release later this year and not the upcoming 1.0 release. Whereas our Mac and Windows 1.0 builds are about to ship, the Linux release is targeted for the second half of this year.
* The AIR Linux builds are not yet feature complete (think alpha stage). It's very important that you read the release notes to understand what features are currently unavailable. If you have an existing application, there's a reasonable chance that certain parts of your application may not run. We will continue to post new builds on our prerelease website going forward.
* The AIR Linux builds are not as stable as Mac and Windows (again, think alpha stage). Since these are the first builds we're posting to our prerelease website, there are many issues that we still need to address. The issues we know about are described in our release notes posted on the new Linux prerelease forum. If you encounter other issues, we'd appreciate it if you could please search our bug database and submit a bug if the issue has not yet been reported.
* Our current plan is to support the following distributions of AIR: RedHat Desktop Linux 4, RedHat Enterprise Linux v5, Novell Desktop Linux 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and Ubuntu 6.06. This list will change between now and when we ship.
* We have created a new forum dedicated to Linux topics. If you are experiencing issues or have questions, please post on the Linux forum. You can subscribe to this new forum by logging into prerelease, selecting the "Linux" forum, and then selecting "Subscribe."
* Bugs can be logged through our prerelease website. Under the "Resources" section, click on the "Report Bugs/Feature Requests" link. Next, click the link "Report AIR Bugs/Feature Requests - Linux"
We are particularly interested in feedback from developers running multiple distributions of Linux that might be able to compare install experiences or differences in performance.
If you have any questions related to AIR Linux, please post them to the new Linux prerelease forum which is now live. Below is a FAQ that provides additional information.
Be sure to view the release notes for this engineering drop by logging into the Linux forum on the prerelease website.
That's the point. So they can compare the Windows version, the Linux version, & the Windows version on both Wine & Cedega. This lets the folk doing the benchmark figure out how much overhead there is to wine & cedega and show if it perform better, worse, or the same than playing games natively.
Don't you mean 4? England. Scotland Wales Northern Ireland.
There are some claims that Loki were doing well selling Linux games, but went out of business because of poor management decision: Google search
It is $29.99 for the Postal Pack.
It is $45 or 30 quid for Cold War.
Considering that many of the games ported to Linux are released a year or two after their release on Windows it's not surprising. And usually by that point the Windows version of the game is selling at $20 or less and the new Linux port is usually $40+ it's not surprising sales would be low. Plus, $40+ for a "older" game? On the other hand, companies like Id, work on and release their ports at around the same time as the Windows release.
http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=136&n
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=24
And, the Postal Fudge pack is out for ~$30US
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?ident
I just wish Cold War was a bit cheaper, but I'm hoping I can get a family member to get a copy for Xmas.
>and so an unsuccessful species is dying out, as has happened many times in the past. I was under the impression that the reason for the weak gene pool was because of over-hunting by humans.
And to can compare what is happending in Indai to the "Dot Com" era in the US. Lot's of people entered the tech market for the money, many jumped jobs every 6 months for better paid jobs. If you were in anyway good technically you could command a premium wage. Sounds famaliar? (Then the arse fell out of the market).
Indian developers in India are basically doing the same thing, they're taking advantage of a tight labour pool. And the really good developers/techies in India are getting good wages and aren't likey to jump ship to some "new" US (or European) company looking for low-cost India programmers.
For example I know of a manager who was told to hire the 3 new employees in India. He was was there for 2 weeks, settled on 3 lads and on the start date only one showed up. I'm sure the other 2 got better jobs based on the job they had in hand, or got headhunted.
I've been saying to others that at the moment I suspect that any company trying to start an India technical operation at the moment will have a hard time of it because all the good technical people already have good paying jobs and the only people they'll be likely to recruit will be medicore. Unless they pay good wages, and lead to an expectation of a long-term job.
I think at the moment if a company wants good staff for less money they may do better looking at locations inside the US such as Salt Lake City and other mid-Western states.
Both Debian Unstable & Ubuntu Dapper come with Nautilus 2.14.1 (and I'm sure other distros do too:
Debian Unstable
Ubuntu Dapper
It's a hoax! They're actually really on Mars and trying to pretend they're in North Dakota. It's easy to tell because of the shadows and when he hit the golfball it so obviouly was in a lighter gravity. And one could tell that they used filters to make the lighting look earthlike ...
>What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?" I guess the paper boy could use it ...
Ubuntu supports both suspend to ram and suspend to disk. Work fairly well on my Dell 700m laptop.
In Soviet Russia your inner-ear remote controls the overlords ... er hold on, have I the geist of this?
For a minute there I thought the title of the story was:
...
The History of Snot
For just a second I was envisoning: Slashdot, news for nerds, boogers shat matters
But, that is where the problems arise. It showed that the US government is willing to affect what ICANN's does based on internal pressure.
"Previously, the U.S. had indicated that it would sever any government connection to Icann." (from one of the Wsj.com articles).
And they (the US government) went back on their word. (The rest of the world doesn't matter if it was from another administration). I do agree that overall the US government has been a benign influence on the Internet. And using the
Reading the article the E.U.'s opinion is: Is all this overblown? I think it is, and the current system seems to work fairly well, but I think we do need to get the governments (any government) out of ICANN's business and let the geeks run things. But, I doubt if business will let them
On another note, it's interesting how the WSJ, try to deride Ms. Reding opinion, because she is from "small" Luxembourg: "Her outsized responsibilities". Do you think they'd say the same thing if she was Rhode Island?
Great demo, but the guy sounds like Strongbad. I don't know if I can trust an AppServer presented by Strongbad ...
You are correct. But the computer can teach them new methods to grow food, and to learn new things. But, more importantly most of the world's populations live in cities. And for some reason many of the comments imply that most of the people these are aimed at live in farmland or agricultural communities. (How do you expect families to grow food living in a shanty-town?)
But, they don't, most people live in cities, and the people these are aimed at in miserable conditions, with little (chance of a) education, and awareness of the world, and of all the knowledge that is in the world. How do you expect families to grow food living in a shanty-town?
By, providing these computes many of these children may be able to experience and learn things that they wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.
Ain't anyone here read Stephenson's "The Diamond Age"?
Also a lot of this info is probably contained in IBM's Red Books: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi ?query=linux+performance
How do you plan to updates these? Do you want people to comment on how Red Hat Network or Novell's (Ximian's) Red Carpet or Zenworks?
SCO UNIX is an operating system (OS). The tools mentioned that SCO UNIX is including are Open Source Software (OSS).
Come on lads get your acronyms correct, RTFM!Other way to limit how long people stay might be some kind of bandwidth leveling. The longer your on the slower it gets .... :D