I thought that I read the memory addressing in 64bit windows was also set to 32bit addresses. Would this means that current 64bit windows binaries also limit this? It'd be pretty cheasy to have multiple processes with IPC's to fully load the games, or anything into memory.
Mozilla has an activex component, so you can just setup an accept-install CAB then execute the page. Just make sure to only execute the program from an IE user agent.
But instead of making it fun, will they take away some of the better parts of MMO's?
REAL Content? Asherons Call 1 was the only game I could stand for longer than a month because there was always so much content.
Reason for dropping it: Costs too much money to add more and more content into the game.
PVP for some edge? If you havn't played in a PVP, You feel physically scared making a mad dash in & out of town fearing a random player coming around and taking a run at you. I wouldn't make PVP manditory, but its definitly an interesting piece.
Reason for dropping it: Costs too much to balance PVP vs. non-PVP combat.
You're assuming that they won't liquidate all but the legal arm of the company. I don't think they're even taking in new purchases. If they stopped producing their products, they're not on the line to keep 'expensive' support engineers around to take care of them. Hell, they could run their org. from a wireless web cafe if they laid everyone off.
Someone would mention to Darl that the wireless access point he's sending email from are actually Linux based. All of a sudden it dawns on him: 1. Linux, Wireless, Evil 2.... 3. Profit!
Obviously, but the parent wanted an EXTERNAL option . He's looking for a chassis that has multiple drives inside, and the raid is done outside the machine. (Or inside Linux's subsystems as my example listed).
If you look in the External storage solutions at Adapter you'll find that there are NOT SATA/IDE interfaces. As for internally, you can use SATA hard-drives in the setup, but no matter how you slice it, a 12-drive storage array is not a viable option for:
Small businesses (5k for the chassis, n for the fiber channel, etc..
People who want to 'carry it away' frequently
RAID 5 is supported through the Linux natively, so all you'd need are the seperate drives to add to the virtual array. Just make sure to ALWAYS have every disk available. Rebuilding an array isn't that fast.
As for a standalone box, I don't know anything that's sub-SCSI, but I imagine someone sells something similar. It'd be really slow though. Firewire can average out around 14MB/s and firewire 2 is still missing critical mass. If in doubt, get a 4 channel firewire card, 4 drives and tape them to eachother!
How much access to local system resources does the application need? (Tools for interfacing with system)
How often does the tool need to receive updates? (More updates means more effort distributing for non-citrix setups)
What is the time taken for each update?
(Simply for manpower running around mnaking changes)
How does the non-upgraded version function with the upgraded system?
(backward compat means less need for single cut migration. Citrix guarantees this)
What are the bandwidth requirements of the software with VS. without citrix? (It may be that the amount of data you're transfering to/from the server is actaully lighter than the graphical snapshot of the cistrix app.)
My main reason for staying away from Citrix has been the price point. My customer base isn't large enough to justify the expenditure. It makes updates easier, but if the tool has a very easy migration/upgrade path and it isn't an insanely heavy network abuser, i'd go without Citrix.
"If that won't start a flamewar on here, nothing will.)"
Well, I can't totally disagree with you on this, but just a few notes of my own:
1. If you're an all Linux shop and you're small enough to not have a single CISCO product, addiung one means that the admin needs to learn a totally new environment. If you're bored and mgmt doesn't care, sure go for something new.
2. Cisco's are easier to setup out of the box. I can't dispute that because Ciscos were desinged from the ground up for their purpose. But (there had to be one), once Linux has been fully deployed (as I've done a few times), the Linux server does gain some subtile advantages over the Cisco.
1. Mgmt: Going back to point 1, the Linux one requires no teaching for Linux shops. The Linux server will always be more work, but if production hardened, neither box will require much work.
2. Flexability: The Linux box is free form and you can throw anything into it in order to accomplish the task that you need. This could also be concidered a disadvantage when it comes to security. Make sure to judge the security impact of the change when you implement a new feature.
3. Price: I said it ha! PC's are dirt cheap. You probably won't want to put a typical distro on the firewall. The biggest pain you'll have is upgrading the kernel, since you usually have to rebuild them on any non-trivial firewall implementation.
4. Future: Linux development is moving fast. You aren't locked into Cisco's development / release speeds. With Linux, you have the option of using production hardened components or release 0.1 experimental code if you wish it.
1. Use colocation/Web hosting as the primary site. Their uptimes are usually very strong.
2. You will need a second line. Mandatory. If you really want insane uptime, you'll need dynamic routes ala BGP from both ISP's. If you don't need that much, you could maybe work with an automated probe-and-dnsupdate script which can run outside the network. It would switch the primary DNS to and from the backup IP address which is on the isolated network.
3. Have an equalized DNS entry for both IP addresses. It gives the client a 50% chance of connecting once its dead, but its better than nothing.
4. Tell the site visitors to connect to www1.mysite.com if they're having troubles reaching your site and have www1 pointing to your backup IP. Make sure your DNS servers are network redudant as well, or the whole excersize is pretty pointless.
That is always a threat. Any newb looking at these packages won't have a flipping clue on if a package is from a good site, signature or not! It is either them searching for the internet for driver X then who knows what they'll get back, or else they get a signed drivier that has a better chance of success. Ideally, if you approve the root cert for linuxdriversondemand.org or whatever site, any driver from that site should be able to get certified against that site's keys. If you don't know where the driver is coming from, then suspect the worst.
As for the second point, I was thinking more along the lines of Warcraft 3, which saves ALL the data from the session and play with the playback at one's pleasure. But you're answers were informative and interesting.. Ok, now lets get an external viewer so ppl don't have to buy the games / have all patches the same, etc... to see it.
but if you want to get people more hyped over gaming contests, it'd be cool to see a playback option in FPS's where you can replay the entire battle. It'd increase the competative analysis, plus it would be fun for spectators.
And during live events, it'd be nice if there was a seperate spectator server where people can login see the activity from the match in real-time without directly affecting the match.
THe only plus I have with MDI is that it isolates the program from the clutter of the rest of the system. Of course there are those that like the clutter, and there are those that don't have clutter. So, the point is pretty subjective, but assuming that a lot of people are used to MDI, someone should 'concider' support for it. Hell, many MS windows based tools went down the non-MDI approach (VB,Dreamweaver,etc..) just to fall back to it in todays world. Why could be an inherent breakage in how we use our desktops. I don't know. On to the meat!
Gimp is great to learn from if you've be nursed off mspaint.exe for too long, but even I, a casual photoshop user since 3 would notice the dramatic differences between PS and gimp. Once you get past the layers and the drawing, which gimp does just fine, you start to see the little things everywhere that PS has (and people use) and where gimp has yet to get to, (or ignored).
This is about respect for the community. They don't have to acknowledge Linux, but we don't have to acknowledge their OS either. If I was asked a question about JDS, I'd promptly send them a link to http://www.sun.com/service/warrantiescontracts/ I t's a two way street, and if they don't want to acknowledge us, we shouldn't be doing them any favors.
Mind you, this all originated from a bunch of flea bags from Sun who really did look like idiots in my mind. This may not even reflect what Sun really represents BECAUSE SUN DOESN'T REPRESENT THEMSELVES AS ANYTHING! We are just left to guess and say, ok, does Sun want Linux in bed with us, or do they want to opt-in on the Microsoft roller coaster.
She isn't arguing the legal stand-point of Sun's position. She's arguing that sun is 'using' the community without being a good neighbor. They want to reap the rewards of the community without paying respect back.
IBM may sell billions in Linux and they definitly contribute to Linux for (among other things) profit, but they also actively promote the community, and their practices.
The article Pamela quoted makes Sun out to be the same old corporate game of playing friendly until you have the upper hand, then locking in like they always have.
If Sun really wants to play with OSS in the long run, they have top start shutting up these inconsistent spouting mouthpieces.
VMWare lies to the OS all the time. Should OS vendors start sueing VM companies? No? What's the difference? VMWare is using a public API known as IBM-PC.
Wine emulated the Win32 API which as far as I have seen is an API and AFAIK can be used for any use.
If microsoft had a set of proprietary hooks that only specially licensed products could use, would it be concidered fair use to use those functions? Answer: It depends. If the functions were ment to be run outside of the OS, then yes, you have grounds to assume that because MS is using this highly undocumneted function, then anyone can. But, if the function was never intended to be used outside of the core product, then the person emulating it would be in violation.
Windows doesn't have the same control over the use of their core system simply because almost all their drivers, API, etc. are well known and fair use applies that anyone can write a windows driver (or windows driver loader) based on the specifications of the API's.
If the public interfaces were licensed public domain, and the rest of the kernel was licensed as GPL, the 'entire work' could be licensed under the GPL. You could still rip out the public domain code and do whatever you like with it. But, the GPL code must remain licensed under the GPL, or GPL compatible license.
I believe that 8 was never certed for 2.1AS whereas 9 is certified for 2.1AS. There was a small GLIBC patch to 8, but it works beautifully afterwards.
I've heard AS3 will only be certified for 10g, you know, upgrade or get no support.. blah... That also makes me assume that they'll go with NTPL in 10g. Either that, or they'll make special builds for each OS release (see ugly)..
This only applies to Kernel and GPL programs. They aren't required to release programs that were built for the kernel, nor do programs that are linked against LGPL programs/libraries.
Now, say a program calls the GPL'ed iptables command assuming that the program is deeply tied to iptables, would that mean that the program must carry the same license as the userspace tool? I can't say.
I think this applies to the programming for programmers issue that the author had in mind when she was writing it. If you really want something that's easy for the common user, you'll have something like redhat-configure-packages,etc..
The specified line means nothing to most end users. I have a hard time getting my users to find/use cmd.exe!
I concider Video games in the same general field of entertainment value. You have your movies that are pure tripe for the masses, neither innovative nor educational. Then you have your 'mature' movies that cater to those who really enjoy the art of film making etc.. Not to say they don't overlap, but they don't really overlap as much as one would hope.
Apply the same for video games, but then realize that the niche video game industry doesn't materialize. Instead of young video gamers building emersive experimental games, they build second rate knock-off's of last generation games.
I do believe that there are a few 'art house' video games in the world which have actually impacted the industry and our lives in general, but I think they're too few and far between to develop a following.
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I thought that I read the memory addressing in 64bit windows was also set to 32bit addresses. Would this means that current 64bit windows binaries also limit this? It'd be pretty cheasy to have multiple processes with IPC's to fully load the games, or anything into memory.
Mozilla has an activex component, so you can just setup an accept-install CAB then execute the page. Just make sure to only execute the program from an IE user agent.
But instead of making it fun, will they take away some of the better parts of MMO's?
REAL Content?
Asherons Call 1 was the only game I could stand for longer than a month because there was always so much content.
Reason for dropping it:
Costs too much money to add more and more content into the game.
PVP for some edge?
If you havn't played in a PVP, You feel physically scared making a mad dash in & out of town fearing a random player coming around and taking a run at you. I wouldn't make PVP manditory, but its definitly an interesting piece.
Reason for dropping it:
Costs too much to balance PVP vs. non-PVP combat.
You're assuming that they won't liquidate all but the legal arm of the company. I don't think they're even taking in new purchases. If they stopped producing their products, they're not on the line to keep 'expensive' support engineers around to take care of them. Hell, they could run their org. from a wireless web cafe if they laid everyone off.
...
Someone would mention to Darl that the wireless access point he's sending email from are actually Linux based. All of a sudden it dawns on him:
1. Linux, Wireless, Evil
2.
3. Profit!
Obviously, but the parent wanted an EXTERNAL option . He's looking for a chassis that has multiple drives inside, and the raid is done outside the machine. (Or inside Linux's subsystems as my example listed).
If you look in the External storage solutions at Adapter you'll find that there are NOT SATA/IDE interfaces. As for internally, you can use SATA hard-drives in the setup, but no matter how you slice it, a 12-drive storage array is not a viable option for:
Small businesses (5k for the chassis, n for the fiber channel, etc..
People who want to 'carry it away' frequently
RAID 5 is supported through the Linux natively, so all you'd need are the seperate drives to add to the virtual array. Just make sure to ALWAYS have every disk available. Rebuilding an array isn't that fast.
As for a standalone box, I don't know anything that's sub-SCSI, but I imagine someone sells something similar. It'd be really slow though. Firewire can average out around 14MB/s and firewire 2 is still missing critical mass. If in doubt, get a 4 channel firewire card, 4 drives and tape them to eachother!
Add all the MX records of your ISP's domain to your own MX records, but put them all at a much lower priority. I assume...
How much access to local system resources does the application need? (Tools for interfacing with system)
How often does the tool need to receive updates?
(More updates means more effort distributing for non-citrix setups)
What is the time taken for each update?
(Simply for manpower running around mnaking changes)
How does the non-upgraded version function with the upgraded system?
(backward compat means less need for single cut migration. Citrix guarantees this)
What are the bandwidth requirements of the software with VS. without citrix?
(It may be that the amount of data you're transfering to/from the server is actaully lighter than the graphical snapshot of the cistrix app.)
My main reason for staying away from Citrix has been the price point. My customer base isn't large enough to justify the expenditure. It makes updates easier, but if the tool has a very easy migration/upgrade path and it isn't an insanely heavy network abuser, i'd go without Citrix.
If your On-board NIC supports it, run everything on another PC with BOOTP/NFS if you really want to. You'd be able to change everything on the fly.
Mind you, if everything's setup already, i'd just let it be.
"If that won't start a flamewar on here, nothing will.)"
Well, I can't totally disagree with you on this, but just a few notes of my own:
1. If you're an all Linux shop and you're small enough to not have a single CISCO product, addiung one means that the admin needs to learn a totally new environment. If you're bored and mgmt doesn't care, sure go for something new.
2. Cisco's are easier to setup out of the box. I can't dispute that because Ciscos were desinged from the ground up for their purpose.
But (there had to be one), once Linux has been fully deployed (as I've done a few times), the Linux server does gain some subtile advantages over the Cisco.
1. Mgmt: Going back to point 1, the Linux one requires no teaching for Linux shops. The Linux server will always be more work, but if production hardened, neither box will require much work.
2. Flexability: The Linux box is free form and you can throw anything into it in order to accomplish the task that you need. This could also be concidered a disadvantage when it comes to security. Make sure to judge the security impact of the change when you implement a new feature.
3. Price: I said it ha! PC's are dirt cheap. You probably won't want to put a typical distro on the firewall. The biggest pain you'll have is upgrading the kernel, since you usually have to rebuild them on any non-trivial firewall implementation.
4. Future: Linux development is moving fast. You aren't locked into Cisco's development / release speeds. With Linux, you have the option of using production hardened components or release 0.1 experimental code if you wish it.
1. Use colocation/Web hosting as the primary site. Their uptimes are usually very strong.
2. You will need a second line. Mandatory. If you really want insane uptime, you'll need dynamic routes ala BGP from both ISP's. If you don't need that much, you could maybe work with an automated probe-and-dnsupdate script which can run outside the network. It would switch the primary DNS to and from the backup IP address which is on the isolated network.
3. Have an equalized DNS entry for both IP addresses. It gives the client a 50% chance of connecting once its dead, but its better than nothing.
4. Tell the site visitors to connect to www1.mysite.com if they're having troubles reaching your site and have www1 pointing to your backup IP. Make sure your DNS servers are network redudant as well, or the whole excersize is pretty pointless.
That is always a threat. Any newb looking at these packages won't have a flipping clue on if a package is from a good site, signature or not! It is either them searching for the internet for driver X then who knows what they'll get back, or else they get a signed drivier that has a better chance of success. Ideally, if you approve the root cert for linuxdriversondemand.org or whatever site, any driver from that site should be able to get certified against that site's keys. If you don't know where the driver is coming from, then suspect the worst.
15% You're getting 0wned. Us BCers pay 14.5% :-) Mind you, some provinces really have insane sales tax.
As for the second point, I was thinking more along the lines of Warcraft 3, which saves ALL the data from the session and play with the playback at one's pleasure. But you're answers were informative and interesting.. Ok, now lets get an external viewer so ppl don't have to buy the games / have all patches the same, etc... to see it.
but if you want to get people more hyped over gaming contests, it'd be cool to see a playback option in FPS's where you can replay the entire battle. It'd increase the competative analysis, plus it would be fun for spectators.
And during live events, it'd be nice if there was a seperate spectator server where people can login see the activity from the match in real-time without directly affecting the match.
THe only plus I have with MDI is that it isolates the program from the clutter of the rest of the system. Of course there are those that like the clutter, and there are those that don't have clutter. So, the point is pretty subjective, but assuming that a lot of people are used to MDI, someone should 'concider' support for it. Hell, many MS windows based tools went down the non-MDI approach (VB,Dreamweaver,etc..) just to fall back to it in todays world. Why could be an inherent breakage in how we use our desktops. I don't know. On to the meat!
Gimp is great to learn from if you've be nursed off mspaint.exe for too long, but even I, a casual photoshop user since 3 would notice the dramatic differences between PS and gimp. Once you get past the layers and the drawing, which gimp does just fine, you start to see the little things everywhere that PS has (and people use) and where gimp has yet to get to, (or ignored).
This is about respect for the community. They don't have to acknowledge Linux, but we don't have to acknowledge their OS either. If I was asked a question about JDS, I'd promptly send them a link to http://www.sun.com/service/warrantiescontracts/
I t's a two way street, and if they don't want to acknowledge us, we shouldn't be doing them any favors.
Mind you, this all originated from a bunch of flea bags from Sun who really did look like idiots in my mind. This may not even reflect what Sun really represents BECAUSE SUN DOESN'T REPRESENT THEMSELVES AS ANYTHING! We are just left to guess and say, ok, does Sun want Linux in bed with us, or do they want to opt-in on the Microsoft roller coaster.
She isn't arguing the legal stand-point of Sun's position. She's arguing that sun is 'using' the community without being a good neighbor. They want to reap the rewards of the community without paying respect back.
IBM may sell billions in Linux and they definitly contribute to Linux for (among other things) profit, but they also actively promote the community, and their practices.
The article Pamela quoted makes Sun out to be the same old corporate game of playing friendly until you have the upper hand, then locking in like they always have.
If Sun really wants to play with OSS in the long run, they have top start shutting up these inconsistent spouting mouthpieces.
VMWare lies to the OS all the time. Should OS vendors start sueing VM companies? No? What's the difference? VMWare is using a public API known as IBM-PC.
Wine emulated the Win32 API which as far as I have seen is an API and AFAIK can be used for any use.
If microsoft had a set of proprietary hooks that only specially licensed products could use, would it be concidered fair use to use those functions? Answer: It depends. If the functions were ment to be run outside of the OS, then yes, you have grounds to assume that because MS is using this highly undocumneted function, then anyone can. But, if the function was never intended to be used outside of the core product, then the person emulating it would be in violation.
Windows doesn't have the same control over the use of their core system simply because almost all their drivers, API, etc. are well known and fair use applies that anyone can write a windows driver (or windows driver loader) based on the specifications of the API's.
If the public interfaces were licensed public domain, and the rest of the kernel was licensed as GPL, the 'entire work' could be licensed under the GPL. You could still rip out the public domain code and do whatever you like with it. But, the GPL code must remain licensed under the GPL, or GPL compatible license.
I believe that 8 was never certed for 2.1AS whereas 9 is certified for 2.1AS. There was a small GLIBC patch to 8, but it works beautifully afterwards.
I've heard AS3 will only be certified for 10g, you know, upgrade or get no support.. blah... That also makes me assume that they'll go with NTPL in 10g. Either that, or they'll make special builds for each OS release (see ugly)..
Team fortress was for Q1, Team fortress classic was a mod for Half-Life, which is actaully what everyone's talking about.
This only applies to Kernel and GPL programs. They aren't required to release programs that were built for the kernel, nor do programs that are linked against LGPL programs/libraries.
Now, say a program calls the GPL'ed iptables command assuming that the program is deeply tied to iptables, would that mean that the program must carry the same license as the userspace tool? I can't say.
I think this applies to the programming for programmers issue that the author had in mind when she was writing it. If you really want something that's easy for the common user, you'll have something like redhat-configure-packages,etc..
The specified line means nothing to most end users. I have a hard time getting my users to find/use cmd.exe!
Get me flamed for this,
I concider Video games in the same general field of entertainment value. You have your movies that are pure tripe for the masses, neither innovative nor educational. Then you have your 'mature' movies that cater to those who really enjoy the art of film making etc.. Not to say they don't overlap, but they don't really overlap as much as one would hope.
Apply the same for video games, but then realize that the niche video game industry doesn't materialize. Instead of young video gamers building emersive experimental games, they build second rate knock-off's of last generation games.
I do believe that there are a few 'art house' video games in the world which have actually impacted the industry and our lives in general, but I think they're too few and far between to develop a following.