I heard somewhere that once stores started selling it, those of us that bought it via steam would get it activated.
This is a contractual matter between vivendi and valve. If it was up to valve, it would have been activated after it cleared QA.
Anyway.... this is all thirdhand.... but I might be skipping the kegger, my friend's band and possible date tonight to play HL2 if they do decide they can activate it.
Meijer, for those who don't know (and since they're a regional store, I suppose there would be many that don't), is the name of a chain of stores that are individually frickin' huge.
No kidding. The one that opened up in a town I used to live in had everything. A-frames for houses to phones and clothes. Imagine a Home Depot + Super WalMart + a mall food court. And they seemed to treat their workers alright.
It has a memory stick slot. With flash memory being sub-$100 per gig... I can see using that as the movie medium. Hell, before my apartment fire torched it... I was watching movies and subtitled anime on a Dell AXIM on my commute in every morning( BUS). The PSP has a much better screen.
Sure we might have to convert our DVDs... but that is not a big deal.
Well, you see, games about getting out of bed, going to work, scooping cat poop into a bag and such never really took off.
Besides the little game called sims. Ask around the office or school about sims? Bet you will be suprised who does. It will be secretaries, married folks... and ask them what other games they play? None....
Huge lightly tapped market of folks willing to empty virtual cat poop.
I recently lost most of my cd's/boxes in an apartment fire. Hell, lost all my computers. I was still able to head on over to my parent's place, install steam and get some CS going.
There are positives with steam. You are always some bandwith and an account away from gaming.
Thank god my HDs with BACKUP cd images survived. Without my cd ripping software I would be even more SOL.
Piotr PS. Protect your machines... store em low(heat + smoke) and kill power when evacuating.
I am buying it through steam not only because they get more money, but also because I trust steam will be around for a while. So when I am at my parents visiting, I can install steam..... I have all my valve games in a couple of hours. No digging to find reg code, find the cd, find the updates......
With steam, all I need to have is my login. So far valve has done an ok job with steam considering they are the first people to do this.
I used icard at sebring this year. The system was launched a year ago in sebring(february) but it did not work at that event. Starting a month later, all panoz racetracks(including sebring and road atlanta)had icard.
Review: Nice idea but horrible implementation. I found the interface very flawed. Basically, you can get the order of the cars, last lap speed and some details on the car/driver. You can't get a list of lap times, fastest laps or other usefull items. The speed could also use some work. Even though I go to these racetracks once a month, I will not consider purchasing an icard because the product is that bad.
CART had a system last year where you rented a handheld that let you do icard stuff as well as multiple video feeds. The cost was under $100 a weekend. I never used that system, but the demo looked cool.
I wish these racetracks would just go to some sort of java applet that ran on phones. Most people that go to these things have phones capable of doing this. I think nascar does this with nextel phones. The racetracks would not have to invest much $$$, and I would pay $10 a day to use it.
>>What I want to know is can you take C++ code you've developed under SPARC Solaris and port it to x86 Solaris with a reasonable chance of compiling first try?
Works here. We are doing several projects that required a recompile to port from sparc to x86. The biggest problem seems to be the 2gig barrier or x86 and getting the same versions of all the utilities. That is more of a managemnet/sys-admin problem though.
I wish instead of focusing on video or a glossy desktop Sun would come out with a distro that supported all their authentication modes. That means a stable distro that is tested with both SunOne directory(ldap) and NIS+. Documentation for both should be just as good as it is on the solaris side.
It is great that they added in an fm transmitter, but this may be the mp3 player for me for another reason. They added in mp3 recording with a line in. That means I can go, but a couple good mikes and record every show I go to. Hopefully the quality will be great.
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Try doing it through an ssh compressed tunnel. "ssh -C me@myhost.edu" It runs a lot faster. It works over dialup( saved me whan I was dialing via 28.8 in mid 90s. If you are using X to windows, putt and verious other ssh clients will create the tunnnel and compress it.
We are talking about a small amount of money that needs to be raised. All the people viewing this advertising are guaranteed to be in a small geographical area. I bet that several businesses would be willing drop a few hundred a month ot advertise. As long as your costs don't skyrocket, you may be set. I think you should be able to at loeast cover costs.
>>First, I like the idea of Andover and VA Linux >>marrying. Both companies seem to be to be of the >>rare breed that "get it", and seem to do the >>right thing in almost all circumstances.
I met most of the VA crew including Larry a few years ago and was impressed. They do get it. Both the business and the linux side.
They are the only company who I would buy an assembled computer from. They do it right. The machines that we bought from them run 100% stable and have never given us problems. They are not alway the cheapest, but the quality AND support we got was worth it.
On the personal side they were doing linux before it became fashionable. They also tend to know what is going on in the community. Recently they have been hiring like mad, snagging developers(ie. Raster and Mandrake) like crazy. Not all of these guys are as high profile, but a lot of them are really important. Few other companies contribute as much as them even though they are not a software house.
>>>Currently, the utah GLX project (glx.on.openprojects.net) has GLX support from Matrox G200 and G400 cards, ATI RagePro (and derivatieves), and some (not in the main source t ree) support for S3 virge cards.
>>>The speed of the project is amazing - after gX00 support was implemented, they got the ATI driver running in under a month
A lot of this is thanks to John Carmack( of Id fame.) He has put in a lot of time getting the ATI drivers working and tracking down bugs in the G200/G400 code. He has provided a lot of design advice and code.
Does this get rid of the 2GB file limit or is this a problem deeper in the kerenel?
I am about to combine backups onto 1 machine and it looks like Slowaris86 will have to do. Please someone rescue me from this. I have enough Slowaris experiance to avoid it if I can.
Umm... didn't Microsoft "invest" in RealNetworks to the tune of $10 million, grab all the knowledge they could, and then screw them over?
Actually, Realnetworks is led by a former Microsoft executive. What happened is that Microsoft invested in Realnetworks and in return was allowed to licence the Realplayer 4.0 technology.
One week later Realplayer 5.0 was released and Microsoft was screwed. Realplayer 4.0 was only out for a couple of weeks. Realnetworks got a lot of money while maintaining control of their technology. Microsoft was forced to release their mediaplayer without support for the newest streaming technology.
I have had a cable modem from Intermedia/@home for 4 months and am generally satisfied. They do DHCP, but they confirmed that it is really static and one doesn't have to use it. It is bound to a username( dhcp -h) and not a MAC so I have used many NICs without a problem. The service has gotten better over time( I was a beta customer, got a free install) and I have only had one extended outage this Monday morning. The problems with cablemodems in my are is latency. The slowdown occurs someplace in the extended @home network and not locally. Sites on the net are usually about 200ms away. The pipe is wide(usually 1mb) but it has latency problems. The problem with DSL in my area is that you have to deal with Bellsouth. I have worked with them when I was involved with an Inetrnet Cafe and that is a huge drawback, They regularly reset our line and performed maintenence wihtout teling us. The prices of the two services are also different. Cablemodems cost $50 to install and $40 a month. DSL is $400 to install and $60 a month.
"For all those who were worried about Red Hat becoming the next Microsoft"
Redhat GPLs all work and will therefore not become the next Microsoft as long as they keep up this policy. If you don't like it, take their distribution and fix its faults or develop something better. In my view SuSe is much worse as a "feature" of their distribution is a propriatary piece of software, YAST. If they were to ever become the standard distribution they would have complete control. Therefore it is RedHat or Debian or Mandrake for me. Piotr
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>>A year ago, I still though different, but let's >>face the facts: the more Linux reaches the >>masses, the more this will become an issue. The >>2.1.44 kernel stands out as a "shining" example >>of what can happen if things go real bad, but >>there have been others that were not quite as >>bad, but still unfinished and/or shaky enough to >>undermine Linux' reputation if too many newbies >>would have gotten hold of them.
I have heard this argument before. Linux wasn't built by lowering our standards for the lowest common denominator. It is a quality kernel. We have mad progress in the past because we went on to better things, not because we were looking for mass acceptance or ease of use. Compatibility, relability and functionality are valid reasons to change our operation.
I do not beleive that we should cater to the needs of the most clueless user at the cost of the greater community. If we can do it without sacrificing quality or speed great, but it shouldn't be our driving force. Piotr
I have an recently purchased Octane that I administer in the room with me. As soon as the Irix client is released, I will report back. All the sleepless nights adminestering the sucker may now prove worthwhile. Piotr
Are you using 2.1.x or 2.2? If you are, bugs were fixed in the sound drivers. While this is good, it wound up breaking realplayer as it was programed to use some of these bugs. The program rpopen( http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ ) will allow you to emulate these bugs and realplayer will work. If you have some problems using this program, just email me.
You don't have to worry about converting from EST to GMT ant then to your local time. It is available now. http://play.rbn.com/?zd/livenow/live/live_28.rm
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I heard somewhere that once stores started selling it, those of us that bought it via steam would get it activated.
This is a contractual matter between vivendi and valve. If it was up to valve, it would have been activated after it cleared QA.
Anyway.... this is all thirdhand.... but I might be skipping the kegger, my friend's band and possible date tonight to play HL2 if they do decide they can activate it.
Meijer, for those who don't know (and since they're a regional store, I suppose there would be many that don't), is the name of a chain of stores that are individually frickin' huge.
No kidding. The one that opened up in a town I used to live in had everything. A-frames for houses to phones and clothes. Imagine a Home Depot + Super WalMart + a mall food court. And they seemed to treat their workers alright.
"It can't play DVD's."
It has a memory stick slot. With flash memory being sub-$100 per gig... I can see using that as the movie medium. Hell, before my apartment fire torched it... I was watching movies and subtitled anime on a Dell AXIM on my commute in every morning( BUS). The PSP has a much better screen.
Sure we might have to convert our DVDs... but that is not a big deal.
Well, you see, games about getting out of bed, going to work, scooping cat poop into a bag and such never really took off.
Besides the little game called sims. Ask around the office or school about sims? Bet you will be suprised who does. It will be secretaries, married folks... and ask them what other games they play?
None....
Huge lightly tapped market of folks willing to empty virtual cat poop.
I recently lost most of my cd's/boxes in an apartment fire. Hell, lost all my computers. I was still able to head on over to my parent's place, install steam and get some CS going.
There are positives with steam. You are always some bandwith and an account away from gaming.
Thank god my HDs with BACKUP cd images survived. Without my cd ripping software I would be even more SOL.
Piotr
PS. Protect your machines... store em low(heat + smoke) and kill power when evacuating.
I am buying it through steam not only because they get more money, but also because I trust steam will be around for a while. So when I am at my parents visiting, I can install steam..... I have all my valve games in a couple of hours. No digging to find reg code, find the cd, find the updates......
With steam, all I need to have is my login.
So far valve has done an ok job with steam considering they are the first people to do this.
I used icard at sebring this year. The system was launched a year ago in sebring(february) but it did not work at that event. Starting a month later, all panoz racetracks(including sebring and road atlanta)had icard.
Review:
Nice idea but horrible implementation. I found the interface very flawed. Basically, you can get the order of the cars, last lap speed and some details on the car/driver. You can't get a list of lap times, fastest laps or other usefull items. The speed could also use some work. Even though I go to these racetracks once a month, I will not consider purchasing an icard because the product is that bad.
CART had a system last year where you rented a handheld that let you do icard stuff as well as multiple video feeds. The cost was under $100 a weekend. I never used that system, but the demo looked cool.
I wish these racetracks would just go to some sort of java applet that ran on phones. Most people that go to these things have phones capable of doing this. I think nascar does this with nextel phones. The racetracks would not have to invest much $$$, and I would pay $10 a day to use it.
>>What I want to know is can you take C++ code you've developed under SPARC Solaris and port it to x86 Solaris with a reasonable chance of compiling first try?
Works here. We are doing several projects that required a recompile to port from sparc to x86. The biggest problem seems to be the 2gig barrier or x86 and getting the same versions of all the utilities. That is more of a managemnet/sys-admin problem though.
I wish instead of focusing on video or a glossy desktop Sun would come out with a distro that supported all their authentication modes. That means a stable distro that is tested with both SunOne directory(ldap) and NIS+. Documentation for both should be just as good as it is on the solaris side.
In Georgia it is illegal too. So they just added a 0. Everyone still types it in without it, but for the law they can say that it is not your social.
It is great that they added in an fm transmitter, but this may be the mp3 player for me for another reason. They added in mp3 recording with a line in. That means I can go, but a couple good mikes and record every show I go to. Hopefully the quality will be great.
Try doing it through an ssh compressed tunnel.
"ssh -C me@myhost.edu"
It runs a lot faster. It works over dialup( saved me whan I was dialing via 28.8 in mid 90s. If you are using X to windows, putt and verious other ssh clients will create the tunnnel and compress it.
We are talking about a small amount of money that needs to be raised. All the people viewing this advertising are guaranteed to be in a small geographical area. I bet that several businesses would be willing drop a few hundred a month ot advertise. As long as your costs don't skyrocket, you may be set. I think you should be able to at loeast cover costs.
Anyone know any places to buy these things online. I have seen tons of reviews, but I can never find a reseller.
>>First, I like the idea of Andover and VA Linux >>marrying. Both companies seem to be to be of the >>rare breed that "get it", and seem to do the >>right thing in almost all circumstances.
I met most of the VA crew including Larry a few years ago and was impressed. They do get it. Both the business and the linux side.
They are the only company who I would buy an assembled computer from. They do it right. The machines that we bought from them run 100% stable and have never given us problems. They are not alway the cheapest, but the quality AND support we got was worth it.
On the personal side they were doing linux before it became fashionable. They also tend to know what is going on in the community. Recently they have been hiring like mad, snagging developers(ie. Raster and Mandrake) like crazy. Not all of these guys are as high profile, but a lot of them are really important. Few other companies contribute as much as them even though they are not a software house.
>>>Currently, the utah GLX project (glx.on.openprojects.net) has GLX support from Matrox G200 and G400 cards, ATI RagePro (and derivatieves), and some (not in the main source t ree) support for S3 virge cards.
>>>The speed of the project is amazing - after gX00 support was implemented, they got the ATI driver running in under a month
A lot of this is thanks to John Carmack( of Id fame.) He has put in a lot of time getting the ATI drivers working and tracking down bugs in the G200/G400 code. He has provided a lot of design advice and code.
I wonder how many people will show up for work Monday. Might it be time to retire and live in the sun.
Does this get rid of the 2GB file limit or is this a problem deeper in the kerenel?
I am about to combine backups onto 1 machine and it looks like Slowaris86 will have to do. Please someone rescue me from this. I have enough Slowaris experiance to avoid it if I can.
Umm... didn't Microsoft "invest" in RealNetworks to the tune of $10 million, grab all the knowledge they could, and then screw them over?
Actually, Realnetworks is led by a former Microsoft executive. What happened is that Microsoft invested in Realnetworks and in return was allowed to licence the Realplayer 4.0 technology.
One week later Realplayer 5.0 was released and Microsoft was screwed. Realplayer 4.0 was only out for a couple of weeks. Realnetworks got a lot of money while maintaining control of their technology. Microsoft was forced to release their mediaplayer without support for the newest streaming technology.
I have had a cable modem from Intermedia/@home for 4 months and am generally satisfied.
They do DHCP, but they confirmed that it is really static and one doesn't have to use it. It is bound to a username( dhcp -h) and not a MAC so I have used many NICs without a problem. The service has gotten better over time( I was a beta customer, got a free install) and I have only had one extended outage this Monday morning.
The problems with cablemodems in my are is latency. The slowdown occurs someplace in the extended @home network and not locally. Sites on the net are usually about 200ms away. The pipe is wide(usually 1mb) but it has latency problems.
The problem with DSL in my area is that you have to deal with Bellsouth. I have worked with them when I was involved with an Inetrnet Cafe and that is a huge drawback, They regularly reset our line and performed maintenence wihtout teling us.
The prices of the two services are also different. Cablemodems cost $50 to install and $40 a month. DSL is $400 to install and $60 a month.
In my area at least DSL is not an option.
Piotr
"For all those who were worried about Red Hat becoming the next Microsoft"
Redhat GPLs all work and will therefore not become the next Microsoft as long as they keep up this policy. If you don't like it, take their distribution and fix its faults or develop something better.
In my view SuSe is much worse as a "feature" of their distribution is a propriatary piece of software, YAST. If they were to ever become the standard distribution they would have complete control. Therefore it is RedHat or Debian or Mandrake for me.
Piotr
>>A year ago, I still though different, but let's
>>face the facts: the more Linux reaches the >>masses, the more this will become an issue. The
>>2.1.44 kernel stands out as a "shining" example
>>of what can happen if things go real bad, but
>>there have been others that were not quite as
>>bad, but still unfinished and/or shaky enough to
>>undermine Linux' reputation if too many newbies
>>would have gotten hold of them.
I have heard this argument before. Linux wasn't built by lowering our standards for the lowest common denominator. It is a quality kernel. We have mad progress in the past because we went on to better things, not because we were looking for mass acceptance or ease of use. Compatibility, relability and functionality are valid reasons to change our operation.
I do not beleive that we should cater to the needs of the most clueless user at the cost of the greater community. If we can do it without sacrificing quality or speed great, but it shouldn't be our driving force.
Piotr
I have an recently purchased Octane that I administer in the room with me. As soon as the Irix client is released, I will report back. All the sleepless nights adminestering the sucker may now prove worthwhile.
Piotr
Are you using 2.1.x or 2.2?
If you are, bugs were fixed in the sound drivers. While this is good, it wound up breaking realplayer as it was programed to use some of these bugs. The program rpopen( http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ ) will allow you to emulate these bugs and realplayer will work. If you have some problems using this program, just email me.
You don't have to worry about converting from EST to GMT ant then to your local time. It is available now. http://play.rbn.com/?zd/livenow/live/live_28.rm