Just one question.....where did you find that?? I looked five seconds ago and I couldnät find any link on Creatives linux page or developer page to this site...
This is already being done.....the new XFree86 4.0 server with it's GLX and Mesa capabilities will be "our" version of DirectDraw and Direct3D. ALSA is headed towards becoming the DirectSound and (correct me if I'm wrong) the XFree server will also handle the configuration of gaming devices (joysticks etc) so there's the DirectInput.....now...did I miss anything?
It's very, very, very hard to balance the abstraction and technical level of an answer to someone when it's a topic as wide and deep as computers. If somone asks me something at work (How does XYZ work, whats that, whats this) it's always a challenge to know what to include and what to keep out of the answer. Some people might say...."but if your coworker who's got a degree in yada-da-da and has been working with dii-dum for two years, of course you know approx how much he/she knows" and the answer is....of course not....some people have been working with the same thing all their life (and have a very narrow but deep field of expertise) or have very nice education on paper (but not in their head)....what I'm saying is that before you actually know the person asking the question...been working with him/her for a while etc. you have no idea if the person asking the question:
"But if I have RAM in my computer what do I need cache for" is expecting
A) The RAM is a biiiiig and slow warehouse and the cache is a small and fast one with lots of people working in it B) Two blueprints, one of a PC100 SDRAM and one of a pipeline burst cache memory module C) Something else
So the hesitance and "incorrect level" of the answers doesn't have to be gender-related....
If I don't make any sense it's because english isn't my native language!:) (I love hiding behind that fact)
I've got the Thinkpad 390E myself and I've also used the 600 and 700 series. All of them handle the built-in touchpad as a three button PS/2 mouse (hey someone actually thought when they came up with that instead of making an entirely new protocol)
I've never played any other version of Civ than the original one, but at least in that one you could press space to tell a unit to "chill" until the next turn....
Im not sure why or if it's just slow.....anyway...here's the text on the page if thats all you want (and the server keeps crawling).
Loki Hack 1999
Make your contribution to Civilization! No, not all civilization, but rather you have the chance to take part in our Loki Hack 1999 contest to improve our Linux port of Civilization: Call to Power. (Then again, by making Civilization better, you can make civilization better, too. You get the idea.)
What is Loki Hack 1999? It's a special contest in cooperation with Activision, Inc., the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase, where you can show off your Linux hacking skills to everybody...and win prizes to boot! First prize is a dual-processor screamer of a machine, running Linux, of course.
Here's how it works: apply to enter below and tell us about yourself. Thirty participants will be selected based on experience and involvement in Linux development--strong C++ skills are a must--and chosen participants will be notified via e-mail. Then, if you're chosen, you can show up to our invitation-only hackfest, which will run for 48 hours in a secure setting, on October 11-13, 1999 at the Atlanta Linux Showcase at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
Any and all changes and improvements worthy of improving Civilization: Call to Power (and, by extension, civilization as a whole) will be included in an upcoming special-edition update for the game. The best of the best will receive that beast of a computer. So what are you waiting on? Fill out the form below and get hacking!
Im not saying Alpha, SPARC etc are dead, Im saying it's strange to use transmeta as an example of how strong the competition is....AMD, Alpha, SPARC whatever would have made a better choice IMHO
What do competitors say? When the Federal Trade Commission investigated Intel on antitrust charges last year, whom do you think the giant chipmaker cited to prove that it has serious competition in the microprocessor market? Transmeta.
Is it only me or does it feel like the fact that Intel when under antitrust charges has to prove it's got competition uses a company that hasn't produced anything yet (not bashing transmeta, stating a fact). This is an even worse example of competition than the one Microsoft used in court that mentioned Redhat. Even though you could argue about if RH is a threat to MS they at least have a product out on the market. Seems like Intel had a hard time finding their competition;)
It's a general explaination howto GPL your programs, it's not a part of the GNU Public License that you are supposed to change, it's a small help for others reading it. It's included in the exactly same way in the kernel sources for instance.
The thing is (AFAIK), that Microsoft pushed their 3.1 betas out to all program vendors so that they could get started on the apps before 3.1 was released, and it was in these 3.1 betas the warning messages were displayed if you ran DR-DOS. The warning messages later disappeared in the final product, but about then most people "knew" that DR-DOS didn't work with Windows and this is the real case. Caldera knew that Windows would run just fine ontop of DR-DOS and Microsoft threw in bogus warning messages. MS isn't required to make their product run ontop of several OS'es but considering that it already did, and then putting in bogus warnings and spreading the rumour to the IT business, that's maybe not a very legal business practice.
When every desktop user has a MS webserver running (unknown to many of them of course) and a security flaw is found that lets you read/alter files on the harddrive.....previous exploits of MS web servers etc. has been limited to mostly NT boxes running webservers (hopefully with an admin that has at least some education)......and suddenly every MS user who doesn't care about, or know how to, turn the server off is a server admin faced with a security risk (and the need of patching it).....oh I really see the benefit for the customer here....not
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I can verify this. I called to the London-office of Goldman, Sachs & Co where they told me that you had to:
A) Already have an account worth at least $5.000.000 B) Preferably been a long time customer of Goldman, Sachs & Co C) The account must be 4 months old at least, but if it is only 4 months chances are still slim since older customers have a greater chance of "gettin' any"
There are no laws against it, but any sane corporation would of course keep a big chunk of it's own stock and sell a chunk of it to their own staff. I thus have a hard time seeing Microsoft doing anything like this. And what do you think such a move would do to their "Linux is a big competitior" argument in court??
And you prove it quite well in a few simple statements:
You compare EXT2FS with FAT32 (which is an ugly FAT16 hack) and claim EXT2FS sucks by comparison
You say XFS will *not* be an improvement, you should read up on what a journalling filesystem is
Linux supports FAT32 and is compatilbe with mainstream PC systems, by far more compatible than all proprietary OS'es (which one can mount FAT, FAT32, NTFS, SAMBA etc. etc.)
I can agree MS produts are easy to use, cause they make all decisions for you..which requires that you can *trust* what the software engineer decided for you.
I once saw a japanese poem at a friends home...and it came right back to me right now, quite suitable:
If you think you are important, go get a jug of water. Set the jug on the table before you and let the water calm down. Stick your hand in the water. When you remove your hand the water will take it's place causing waves...but eventually the waves will go away. You can move your hand around in the water creating greater waves but as you remove it, eventually even the greatest of waves will calm down. And this my friend is what happends with you after you are gone. You will create waves but even those waves will cease with time....
Sounds to me like Linux is a jug of water and Microsoft is sticking it's hand in it....
(Of course the poem sounded better when it was in the translation I read with respect of rhyme etc.....this was just a feeble attempt of translation):)
Pardon me, but this seems like a huge pile of paranioa...of course it's not good if companies can track every aspect of their consumers life. But on the other hand, as e-commerce develops, as the internet become a bigger part of society, as the government of every country matures (provided they *do* and I think they will), the laws and regulations will change to protect the rights of each individual. Each country that doesn't want to protect it's citizens in this way should probably be abandoned. It's just a theory, but I think as everything matures, so will the controlling functions..........but still....it's good to have paranoid people watching your back sometimes:)
I haven't read enough of the book to give an opinion about if it's right or wrong (TM). But it's at least good to hear descriptions of people who "use the net" daily in other words than: Information overflow Information burnout 24/h connected Internet as a replacement for real life etc....
Well....I could be wrong...just my 0.02$:)
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I know...I know.....and just to make it impossible instead of really bloody hard....I'm not a US citizen which rules me out of the IPO game :(
Why didn't I buy a gazillion of these stock before the IPO.....(and now to include a favorite topic on slashdot)
Imagine the beowulf cluster I could build with all the money I'd earn!
Just one question.....where did you find that?? I looked five seconds ago and I couldnät find any link on Creatives linux page or developer page to this site...
This is already being done.....the new XFree86 4.0 server with it's GLX and Mesa capabilities will be "our" version of DirectDraw and Direct3D. ALSA is headed towards becoming the DirectSound and (correct me if I'm wrong) the XFree server will also handle the configuration of gaming devices (joysticks etc) so there's the DirectInput.....now...did I miss anything?
And if you had a NT server on the network, would it be called Jeltsin??? ;)
Almost each time I've seen him on TV he seemed a bit unstable
(of course not a Soviet leader, but almost)
It's very, very, very hard to balance the abstraction and technical level of an answer to someone when it's a topic as wide and deep as computers. If somone asks me something at work (How does XYZ work, whats that, whats this) it's always a challenge to know what to include and what to keep out of the answer. Some people might say...."but if your coworker who's got a degree in yada-da-da and has been working with dii-dum for two years, of course you know approx how much he/she knows" and the answer is....of course not....some people have been working with the same thing all their life (and have a very narrow but deep field of expertise) or have very nice education on paper (but not in their head)....what I'm saying is that before you actually know the person asking the question...been working with him/her for a while etc. you have no idea if the person asking the question:
:) (I love hiding behind that fact)
"But if I have RAM in my computer what do I need cache for"
is expecting
A) The RAM is a biiiiig and slow warehouse and the cache is a small and fast one with lots of people working in it
B) Two blueprints, one of a PC100 SDRAM and one of a pipeline burst cache memory module
C) Something else
So the hesitance and "incorrect level" of the answers doesn't have to be gender-related....
If I don't make any sense it's because english isn't my native language!
//David
CEO says one sentence (26 words). Yahoo manages to make a news article with something like 200 words which tells us what he said....impressive
I've got the Thinkpad 390E myself and I've also used the 600 and 700 series. All of them handle the built-in touchpad as a three button PS/2 mouse (hey someone actually thought when they came up with that instead of making an entirely new protocol)
That foobar guy i see mentioned everwhere should get the award.....he must have contributed tons of software :)
I've never played any other version of Civ than the original one, but at least in that one you could press space to tell a unit to "chill" until the next turn....
Im not sure why or if it's just slow.....anyway...here's the text on the page if thats all you want (and the server keeps crawling).
Loki Hack 1999
Make your contribution to Civilization! No, not all civilization, but rather you have the chance to take part in our Loki Hack 1999 contest to improve our Linux port of Civilization: Call to Power. (Then again, by making Civilization better, you can make civilization better, too. You get the idea.)
What is Loki Hack 1999? It's a special contest in cooperation with Activision, Inc., the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase, where you can show off your Linux hacking skills to everybody...and win prizes to boot! First prize is a dual-processor screamer of a machine, running Linux, of course.
Here's how it works: apply to enter below and tell us about yourself. Thirty participants will be selected based on experience and involvement in Linux development--strong C++ skills are a must--and chosen participants will be notified via e-mail. Then, if you're chosen, you can show up to our invitation-only hackfest, which will run for 48 hours in a secure setting, on October 11-13, 1999 at the Atlanta Linux Showcase at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
Any and all changes and improvements worthy of improving Civilization: Call to Power (and, by extension, civilization as a whole) will be included in an upcoming special-edition update for the game. The best of the best will receive that beast of a computer. So what are you waiting on? Fill out the form below and get hacking!
I really hope that:
1) They get sued by RIAA (or whatever the organizations with the men in black are called)
2) RIAA (or any other org) get their butts spanked in court
3) People read about the courts ruling and SDMI (and all similar techs) disappear before they get a hold of the market
Im not saying Alpha, SPARC etc are dead, Im saying it's strange to use transmeta as an example of how strong the competition is....AMD, Alpha, SPARC whatever would have made a better choice IMHO
What ever gave you the idea Transmeta is owned by MS you troll?
What do competitors say?
;)
When the Federal Trade Commission investigated Intel on antitrust charges last year, whom do you think the giant chipmaker cited to prove that it has serious competition in the microprocessor market? Transmeta.
Is it only me or does it feel like the fact that Intel when under antitrust charges has to prove it's got competition uses a company that hasn't produced anything yet (not bashing transmeta, stating a fact). This is an even worse example of competition than the one Microsoft used in court that mentioned Redhat. Even though you could argue about if RH is a threat to MS they at least have a product out on the market. Seems like Intel had a hard time finding their competition
It's a general explaination howto GPL your programs, it's not a part of the GNU Public License that you are supposed to change, it's a small help for others reading it. It's included in the exactly same way in the kernel sources for instance.
The thing is (AFAIK), that Microsoft pushed their 3.1 betas out to all program vendors so that they could get started on the apps before 3.1 was released, and it was in these 3.1 betas the warning messages were displayed if you ran DR-DOS. The warning messages later disappeared in the final product, but about then most people "knew" that DR-DOS didn't work with Windows and this is the real case. Caldera knew that Windows would run just fine ontop of DR-DOS and Microsoft threw in bogus warning messages. MS isn't required to make their product run ontop of several OS'es but considering that it already did, and then putting in bogus warnings and spreading the rumour to the IT business, that's maybe not a very legal business practice.
When every desktop user has a MS webserver running (unknown to many of them of course) and a security flaw is found that lets you read/alter files on the harddrive.....previous exploits of MS web servers etc. has been limited to mostly NT boxes running webservers (hopefully with an admin that has at least some education)......and suddenly every MS user who doesn't care about, or know how to, turn the server off is a server admin faced with a security risk (and the need of patching it).....oh I really see the benefit for the customer here....not
I can verify this. I called to the London-office of Goldman, Sachs & Co where they told me that you had to:
A) Already have an account worth at least $5.000.000
B) Preferably been a long time customer of Goldman, Sachs & Co
C) The account must be 4 months old at least, but if it is only 4 months chances are still slim since older customers have a greater chance of "gettin' any"
Now where did I put those $5.000.000??
There are no laws against it, but any sane corporation would of course keep a big chunk of it's own stock and sell a chunk of it to their own staff. I thus have a hard time seeing Microsoft doing anything like this. And what do you think such a move would do to their "Linux is a big competitior" argument in court??
You compare EXT2FS with FAT32 (which is an ugly FAT16 hack) and claim EXT2FS sucks by comparison
You say XFS will *not* be an improvement, you should read up on what a journalling filesystem is
Linux supports FAT32 and is compatilbe with mainstream PC systems, by far more compatible than all proprietary OS'es (which one can mount FAT, FAT32, NTFS, SAMBA etc. etc.)
I can agree MS produts are easy to use, cause they make all decisions for you..which requires that you can *trust* what the software engineer decided for you.
I once saw a japanese poem at a friends home...and it came right back to me right now, quite suitable:
:)
If you think you are important, go get a jug of water.
Set the jug on the table before you and let the water calm down.
Stick your hand in the water.
When you remove your hand the water will take it's place causing waves...but eventually the waves will go away.
You can move your hand around in the water creating greater waves but as you remove it, eventually even the greatest of waves will calm down.
And this my friend is what happends with you after you are gone. You will create waves but even those waves will cease with time....
Sounds to me like Linux is a jug of water and Microsoft is sticking it's hand in it....
(Of course the poem sounded better when it was in the translation I read with respect of rhyme etc.....this was just a feeble attempt of translation)
Pardon me, but this seems like a huge pile of paranioa...of course it's not good if companies can track every aspect of their consumers life. But on the other hand, as e-commerce develops, as the internet become a bigger part of society, as the government of every country matures (provided they *do* and I think they will), the laws and regulations will change to protect the rights of each individual. Each country that doesn't want to protect it's citizens in this way should probably be abandoned. It's just a theory, but I think as everything matures, so will the controlling functions..........but still....it's good to have paranoid people watching your back sometimes :)
I haven't read enough of the book to give an opinion about if it's right or wrong (TM). But it's at least good to hear descriptions of people who "use the net" daily in other words than:
:)
Information overflow
Information burnout
24/h connected
Internet as a replacement for real life
etc....
Well....I could be wrong...just my 0.02$
Topic says it all.....
L/P: cypherpunk