I know that failsafe won't require a numa architecture to run under linux, but the link mentions this running on ccNUMA based Origin servers. I haven't heard anything about numa support for linux, and it would be a very cool thing to have. It would definitely help Linux grow out of the strictly peecee image it has. I have no idea what it would take to implement that though, if it could be some sort of subsystem, or if it would have to be a seperate branch from the smp capable kernel. Does anyone have any resources for NUMA on linux?
You can get a domain name for 30DM (about $15USD) at joker.com for one year. I got zombierevenge.com from them just yesterday:) It hasn't shown up in the root dns servers yet though (!!!) It's through corenic.net, which is almost as hard to make changes with as nsi on a bad day.
Well, I went ahead without mikmod support. It plays mp3's about 6 times as fast, with no audible output, and dies shortly afterward. And I don't have that sound card that breaks it either.
My specific problem is that it couldn't find the configure thingy for mikmod. I was hoping to be able to recycle the previous libs, but it didn't quite work out. Actually, I copied some wraper thingy over and it bitched about not being able to find a bunch of.o's. oops:)
Make sure that you rebuild and replace the libraries if you're upgrading. I tried to just replace my executable, and it completely blew up. And I'm too lazy to figure out how to get all the libs I want to compile, so I'll go back to work now and wait for the debian packages to arrive.
This is one of the first attempts at OSS gaming, and it may well be the last if cheaters don't cut the crap.
It's not the first (Civ: CTP, Doom, everything at linuxgames.com), and there's no way it will be the last. For one thing, imagine all the people who get drawn into game development when they find out they can cheat. Cheating's fun at first, but then they strive to make something better. And cheating isn't bound to OSS games (remember diablo?). A product can be designed to be relatively cheat-resistant, but no online game is completely cheat-proof. At least read the article before posting. He's not talking about closing the whole source, just by adding a closed source cheatguard.
They do it because they can. I didn't learn anything new from the article other than that etoy.com was not-for-profit, and they registered their domain before etoys even started. It just states the obvious, which is best summarized by the closing line:
If this spate of foolish lawsuits continues -- and there is every indication that it will -- the next few years will see a web where the law becomes a tool for the slow to retard the fast and the big to stymie the small.
For libra: Heads up! Hackers will exploit Y2K hoopla as the perfect diversion. While the rest of the world screams "fire," they're quietly gutting the corporate data cores and decrypting sensitive financial records on Linux-based parallel supercomputers. They will attempt to high-five each other, and miss. Don't worry, a Gemini firewall admin takes the heat. That's exactly what I was talking about five minutes ago! It should be fun for non libras, too... and not just because clinton said not to.
Here's something that's not a complete rip off
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The lower end model is priced at $1300 for what is basically a 266MHz K6-2 w/ 32M and a netcard. This thing is a lot cooler IMO. It's just a deck, but it's only $300, and it plays audio cd's, cdr's and cdrw's with mp3's. And it has a remote.
The article didn't say much about the company's agreements with its clients. But unless they violate their stated privacy policy or otherwise violate thier legal agreements, is it really illegal? I mean, your boss can read your email at work and get away with it because they claim property over the network. It's a privacy invasion, but it's beyond the scope of the law. Now, if someone was reading network traffic on a network that they didn't own, that would be completely different. From the article, it looks like they were trying to have copies sent to them, and screwed up and had the mail sent only to them instead. I could see some sendmail newbie making that mistake pretty easily.
It sounds like you have one machine handling all of these. Breaking these tasks onto separate boxes (If you've made the mistake of telling customers the same thing for #3 and #4 (ie, mail.isp.net instead of mail.isp.net and pop.isp.net) it might be impossible to split those two tasks away from each other) I suppose you could spam everyone and tell them to change that, and then have your router redirect that port to the appropriate machine for the people who forget.
I stayed up all night playing it just to bring a detailed review and too many screenshots. You can read about it here We've gotten a lot of cool comments from voodoo extreme visitors too.
All too often I see these poor people thinking they have made a first post. tsk! There are so many news sites where you could make a first post and be sure about it. Hell, you can make a first post on a two week old story at http://dtheatre.com
They should have M&S permanently lost somewhere and focus on the lone gunmen. They're already the next most popular characters. It would be an almost perfect spinoff that would appeal to geek culture. Or maybe chris will focus on harsh realm and make it not suck as hard as millenium.
First the crap with the 486DX/SX/487 being the exact same chip, then some other stuff,and now this. Intel is just like microsoft, except their stuff works most of the time. Their processors are bloat, their business tactics are, at times, very dishonorable. I'm running a dual celeron 300a system at 450MHz. And it works great because it's a fast core that's sold cheap to compete with AMD. I spent a lot of money on a dual slot motherboard, and I'm sure intel got a nice chunk of that. A lot of the people who work at intel are really nice, but if you go high up enough, some of those people are complete dicks. I hope the athlon makes them a little more humble.
I remember reading that there wouldn't be any more posts about geeks in space on the normal news. Not that I have anything against it; I listened to one, and I was very entertained. And once again, I shall use this opportunity to drop a shameless plug: Digital Theatre News
Is this really a bad thing? I could see this seperating the proprietary from the open when open standards are becoming stronger and propreitary solutions weaker. I, and I assume many slashdot readers, have been using commercial solutions less and less as open alternatives become available. Commercial vendors will see this as a bad thing, and so will lawmakers when no one can sell software. It seems as though any new law concerning electronic information is written by a neo luddite... that is to say it's made harsh and out of fear under the cover of protecting people. I'm inclined to believe that it won't stop until it's so bad that our entire legal system will have to be redesigned. I see the UCITA as one step closer to that, and convenient for people like myself in the meantime. I know that sounds selfish, but most people don't seem to mind when their rights are taken away, and maybe that will wake them up.
On the other hand, much of the computing industry is driven by entertainment, very little of which resides in the context of open source and standards. Take, for instance, DVD. Anything that would let you watch DVD movies on your linux box can't be open source because of the encryption codec, I think (I'm not especially clear on that issue). And I'd hate if something like DIVX couldn't be avoided because of something like UCITA, and I'd have to end up going to the theatre and getting carded all the time.
I apologize for any inaccuracies, it's hard to read the manual from my soapbox.
I agree that a close bond to parents is important, but you're missing the point of giving children access to computers in a public environment. A lot of kids improve their education at places like these. If you read more books at an early age, you might have learned to spell correctly. Taking somehting into your hands and learning how to use it can be very helpful to you. And there's an excellent social environment if there are responsible people running it. Kids learn to share, they help each other learn, and they get kicked out if they're not being responsible. Their parents are encouraged to come with them to learn, even though many don't. Would you mind having your kid "babysitted" by a book? Computers help kids think on their own, but TV tends to think for them. Please don't get that confused.
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I know that failsafe won't require a numa architecture to run under linux, but the link mentions this running on ccNUMA based Origin servers. I haven't heard anything about numa support for linux, and it would be a very cool thing to have. It would definitely help Linux grow out of the strictly peecee image it has. I have no idea what it would take to implement that though, if it could be some sort of subsystem, or if it would have to be a seperate branch from the smp capable kernel. Does anyone have any resources for NUMA on linux?
There's a review of it at Cnet
squake segfaults on me!!! I'm running a 2.2.x kernel on debian 2.2. anyone else plagued by this? I want texty quake, dammit!
You can get a domain name for 30DM (about $15USD) at joker.com for one year. I got zombierevenge.com from them just yesterday :) It hasn't shown up in the root dns servers yet though (!!!) It's through corenic.net, which is almost as hard to make changes with as nsi on a bad day.
Well, I went ahead without mikmod support. It plays mp3's about 6 times as fast, with no audible output, and dies shortly afterward. And I don't have that sound card that breaks it either.
My specific problem is that it couldn't find the configure thingy for mikmod. I was hoping to be able to recycle the previous libs, but it didn't quite work out. Actually, I copied some wraper thingy over and it bitched about not being able to find a bunch of .o's. oops :)
Make sure that you rebuild and replace the libraries if you're upgrading. I tried to just replace my executable, and it completely blew up. And I'm too lazy to figure out how to get all the libs I want to compile, so I'll go back to work now and wait for the debian packages to arrive.
This is one of the first attempts at OSS gaming, and it may well be the last if cheaters don't cut the crap.
It's not the first (Civ: CTP, Doom, everything at linuxgames.com), and there's no way it will be the last. For one thing, imagine all the people who get drawn into game development when they find out they can cheat. Cheating's fun at first, but then they strive to make something better.
And cheating isn't bound to OSS games (remember diablo?). A product can be designed to be relatively cheat-resistant, but no online game is completely cheat-proof.
At least read the article before posting. He's not talking about closing the whole source, just by adding a closed source cheatguard.
They do it because they can. I didn't learn anything new from the article other than that etoy.com was not-for-profit, and they registered their domain before etoys even started. It just states the obvious, which is best summarized by the closing line:
If this spate of foolish lawsuits continues -- and there is every indication that it will -- the next few years will see a web where the law becomes a tool for the slow to retard the fast and the big to stymie the small.
For libra:
Heads up! Hackers will exploit Y2K hoopla as the perfect diversion. While the rest of the world screams "fire," they're quietly gutting the corporate data cores and decrypting sensitive financial records on Linux-based parallel supercomputers. They will attempt to high-five each other, and miss. Don't worry, a Gemini firewall admin takes the heat.
That's exactly what I was talking about five minutes ago! It should be fun for non libras, too... and not just because clinton said not to.
The lower end model is priced at $1300 for what is basically a 266MHz K6-2 w/ 32M and a netcard. This thing is a lot cooler IMO. It's just a deck, but it's only $300, and it plays audio cd's, cdr's and cdrw's with mp3's. And it has a remote.
The article didn't say much about the company's agreements with its clients. But unless they violate their stated privacy policy or otherwise violate thier legal agreements, is it really illegal? I mean, your boss can read your email at work and get away with it because they claim property over the network. It's a privacy invasion, but it's beyond the scope of the law. Now, if someone was reading network traffic on a network that they didn't own, that would be completely different. From the article, it looks like they were trying to have copies sent to them, and screwed up and had the mail sent only to them instead. I could see some sendmail newbie making that mistake pretty easily.
It sounds like you have one machine handling all of these. Breaking these tasks onto separate boxes (If you've made the mistake of telling customers the same thing for #3 and #4 (ie, mail.isp.net instead of mail.isp.net and pop.isp.net) it might be impossible to split those two tasks away from each other)
I suppose you could spam everyone and tell them to change that, and then have your router redirect that port to the appropriate machine for the people who forget.
Those screenshots aren't from the thing that just came out. Take a look at these. They show a lot of the new features and fun stuff.
I stayed up all night playing it just to bring a detailed review and too many screenshots. You can read about it here We've gotten a lot of cool comments from voodoo extreme visitors too.
Pedabyte, of course.
I know what I want for christmas now :) Of course, there's always the problem of finding enough slugs for my sadistic appetite.
All too often I see these poor people thinking they have made a first post. tsk! There are so many news sites where you could make a first post and be sure about it. Hell, you can make a first post on a two week old story at http://dtheatre.com
They should have M&S permanently lost somewhere and focus on the lone gunmen. They're already the next most popular characters. It would be an almost perfect spinoff that would appeal to geek culture. Or maybe chris will focus on harsh realm and make it not suck as hard as millenium.
Dr Evil is running MCI. He will take over the world's communication networks for only... One Hundred Billion Dollars!
First the crap with the 486DX/SX/487 being the exact same chip, then some other stuff,and now this. Intel is just like microsoft, except their stuff works most of the time. Their processors are bloat, their business tactics are, at times, very dishonorable. I'm running a dual celeron 300a system at 450MHz. And it works great because it's a fast core that's sold cheap to compete with AMD. I spent a lot of money on a dual slot motherboard, and I'm sure intel got a nice chunk of that. A lot of the people who work at intel are really nice, but if you go high up enough, some of those people are complete dicks. I hope the athlon makes them a little more humble.
I remember reading that there wouldn't be any more posts about geeks in space on the normal news. Not that I have anything against it; I listened to one, and I was very entertained. And once again, I shall use this opportunity to drop a shameless plug:
Digital Theatre News
Is this really a bad thing? I could see this seperating the proprietary from the open when open standards are becoming stronger and propreitary solutions weaker. I, and I assume many slashdot readers, have been using commercial solutions less and less as open alternatives become available. Commercial vendors will see this as a bad thing, and so will lawmakers when no one can sell software. It seems as though any new law concerning electronic information is written by a neo luddite... that is to say it's made harsh and out of fear under the cover of protecting people. I'm inclined to believe that it won't stop until it's so bad that our entire legal system will have to be redesigned. I see the UCITA as one step closer to that, and convenient for people like myself in the meantime. I know that sounds selfish, but most people don't seem to mind when their rights are taken away, and maybe that will wake them up.
On the other hand, much of the computing industry is driven by entertainment, very little of which resides in the context of open source and standards. Take, for instance, DVD. Anything that would let you watch DVD movies on your linux box can't be open source because of the encryption codec, I think (I'm not especially clear on that issue). And I'd hate if something like DIVX couldn't be avoided because of something like UCITA, and I'd have to end up going to the theatre and getting carded all the time.
I apologize for any inaccuracies, it's hard to read the manual from my soapbox.
If it's the same one I saw, it's bogus. But I can't remember it either :)
I agree that a close bond to parents is important, but you're missing the point of giving children access to computers in a public environment. A lot of kids improve their education at places like these. If you read more books at an early age, you might have learned to spell correctly. Taking somehting into your hands and learning how to use it can be very helpful to you. And there's an excellent social environment if there are responsible people running it. Kids learn to share, they help each other learn, and they get kicked out if they're not being responsible. Their parents are encouraged to come with them to learn, even though many don't. Would you mind having your kid "babysitted" by a book? Computers help kids think on their own, but TV tends to think for them. Please don't get that confused.