Do you want goddamn screenshots or something? "Official support" means just that the guys at tech support are authorized to say that they aren't touching Win'98. It does not mean a squat on whether the game actually works.
I am running Civ IV, WoW, GTA:SA, and Galciv 2 on my Windows '98 computer and they work, in fact, I'm logged on to EU-Skullcrusher on WoW RIGHT NOW.
Only problems that I've seen so far are from copy protection. For example, GTA:SA does require a crack so that the Win2k-requiring Securom 7 is removed - the game itself works perfectly. Knights of the old republic II is so far the only game that I have not been able to play. The version on the shelf works, but when you patch it, the copy protection is upgraded to a version requiring win2k (same as with GTA:SA, Securom 7) too.
I already mentioned WoW, Galciv2 and GTA:SA in another post. I can add Civilization IV too. Games require DirectX 9, Win'98 has DirectX 9. So yeah, everything pretty much works.
My gaming computer has Geforce 4 Ti4200, 1,2 GHz Celeron and 384 MB of memory, 250 GB worth of HDD and a new DVD-RW drive too. Seems to fill the requirements just about ok. How would Win'98 slow it down?
While MS may have stopped supporting win98 in terms of patches etc, the industry stopped supporting it a long time ago. MS also stopped supporting it for much of their office products quite a while back. Even hardware such as printers have been not supporting the old OS in the last few years.
I've had a single Win'98 installation since about 1999. Never needed to reinstall or anything. I still use it for my gaming - it has DirectX 9, so it runs World of Warcraft, Galciv2, GTA:SA, and so on. I have no need to upgrade to 2000 or XP. (For "real work" I use Linux).
One of the reasons why I have not upgraded is also that Win'98 is the last Windows that has full, native DOS easily accessible, so that older games work. In the recent years this argument has lost significance due to DosBox, though, but many DOS4GW games did not work properly only some time ago.
"You're crazy to run Win'98 in todays internet" is not exactly true. Win'98 has only one service that is being offered and that is the samba file/printer sharing. Turn that off and you have no open ports on a Win'98 machine - compared to Win2000 or XP where you have loads of ports active (think of all the RPC worms of the yesteryear). Yes, my Win'98 is behind a firewall, but even if it weren't I wouldn't be too concerned. I'm not using samba sharing (and yes, I've verified this with nmap).
The only attack that works would be against the TCP/IP stack itself (read: Winnuke), but that has been patched ages ago.
I'm going to keep running my Win'98 until games will require DirectX 10. Then I'll make a decision on whether I'll upgrade to Vista or check out how Cedega works at that point (Also, Dosbox probably runs everything by then). Why should I pay for intermediate versions (2k, XP, 2003 server) when Win'98 does everything that I want? Win'98 is light (compared to multimedia-laden XP) and secure enough for a single-user environment.
Use 6to4, not a tunnelbroker. Google for 6to4 Linux if you need help (Windows XP starting from SP1 supports this automatically). Anyway, with 6to4, the nearest gateway is found by IPv4 anycast address (192.88.99.1) so you don't even NEED to know the tunnel brokers.
Galciv 2 would be a proof to the contrary. As are many strategies published my Matrix Games. There ARE hit indie games (there may not be much in the way of REVENUE, but the profits are good). Galciv II of the starforce fame was (and still is) on the RETAIL Top 10 lists in US, Canada and also in Europe (at least in play.com). Total budget was something on the order $500000 or so, IIRC. Ok, not just two guys in a basement, but still, very small developer and in my books an "indie".
When something is good, the word-of-mouth advertising can do wonders.
I was not referring to 2.6.x.y, but to specifically 2.6.16.x, as per this bit of news: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6386 - in effect a "Stable" branch based on 2.6.16 started as soon as 2.6.17 is released.
Considering how much stuff has recently been moved to userland in Linux (udev, hotplug, hal, FUSE (filesystems), etc) I think we're heading in that direction. SELinux is also something that could be considered "compartmentalized".
At least so I thought, ie. once 2.6.17 is out, there will be a separate branch based on 2.6.16 (2.6.16.y, continuing past the current series) that would constitute as a "stable" branch where no new features would be added, and focus would be on fixing bugs and stability..
...every self-respecting network operator has RPF (or some other antispoof-ingressfilter) enabled at the edge. Gone are the days of spoofing, just like respecting IP packet's loose/strict source routing options and other similar exploits:)
What's the point in creating a virtual world and the trying to make it into reality? I thought the whole point of a virtual world was escapism. Online game Second Life already has developed a notary for verifying contracts, and that means that it won't be too long before virtual lawyers rear their ugly heads. Why bother escaping to world that has all the bad parts of reality?
An associate is working in a highly ranked financial institution in London - dealing with commodity trading. We were talking the other day and I mentioned WoW. He said that he's not going to touch it - "No way I'll start playing a game where a big part is tracking all the goods going through the auction house and making profit with farming - I can do that in real world and get paid for it".
What next.. "illegal sharing through car radios"?.. "in the news today the RIAA demanded that automakers comply with new requirements to prevent passers by and non-drivers from "illeagally hearing" music from car stereos which "by law" is only entitled to the owner/operator of the vehicle alone."
Already true in Finland for Taxi drivers - when there's a passenger, either the radio is switched off or the driver (or Taxi company) pay's levys to the RIAA equivalent here.
They're selling me a TCP/IP connection to a global network with a service level guaranteed to varying degrees of accuracy depending on how much I pay. Unless it's spelled out in the contract, artificial restrictions should not be allowed.
No, you are most likely not guaranteed anything. At least if you are getting your standard, residential, consumer-oriented connection.
Even if you are willing to pay up for guarantees (ie. get a connection with a Service Level Agreement that has desired parameters (such as 99,99% uptime)), they hardly ever guarantee bandwidth to anywhere on the global network. You CAN get guarantees for bandwidth within the same ISP (for example, for connecting two offices together and making sure that they always have enough bandwith for 30 VoIP calls).
The speed of the access line does not mean a thing. My friend has a 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection - and yes, he gets this speed from the ISPs own ftp server at nighttime hours, but you wouldn't expect him to get 1Gbps from anywhere on the Internet, right?
What's more interesting is a system I saw years ago that was supposed to recognize whether a cat was carrying something in its mouth (like a mouse) by looking at its profile. No more "presents" left for you to step on when you get out of bed in the morning.
You mean Flo control is patented? (See picture on page 2, ie. click next)
Isn't this a general trend? Western companies have a hard time starting up over in Asia. KFC/Nike/etc have just begun to crack the Chinese markets, so it's no surprise (to me) that other companies have had trouble in Japan.
There is an anedcotal story about how Nokia started selling their phones in China. Originally they just copied their western ad campaings, focusing on individuality, how you can customize your phone with differently colored cases, personalizing software etc, in effect "make this phone like no other according to your taste"
Sales didn't pick up, and they studied the problem, noting that the group mentality in Asia is quite different from the West, where everyone is individualist. So the new campaign went with the idea of "Get our phone - just like everybody else". And the results were much better...
just using the word "radiation" presents bias -- people assume this equals the same kind of radiation they've been told to fear from nuc plants and atom bombs.
That's why you don't use rapeseed oil. There is algae that can be grown in a closed-loop system (i.e. not allowing vast quantities of water to evaporate, needing constant irrigation from ground water) that can be also grown in an industrial process (i.e. using already industrial land) that produces 10,000 gallons of biofuel per acre.
Got a reference for this? I would be interested in finding out some more.
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....does it have instructions on how to hack firmware so that the mirror lockup functionality is behind a single button on 20D or 5D? I especially wouldn't mind replacing 5D's "Direct Print" with a mirror lockup button.
No, just taken a look at the circuit diagrams. My point was that there is no digital output at all after the decryption => even legitimate users have "analog" quality full of quantization errors (altough they are probably not all that noticeable).
It should be noted that at least on some TV's (from Sony) if you take a look at the circuit board, the HDCP decoder chip has ANALOG outputs (RGB). The analog signal is then taken to your standard A/D-converter matrix (that all the other analog inputs, such as S-Video are connected) and RE-digitized for LCD.
So, you cannot get a bitwise copy of the original stream - and yay, neither can the viewer.
"Great digital picture quality - brought to you by analog path in the middle"
Correct me if I am wrong, but GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit a couple earth radii (radiuses?) out.
Correction: GPS satellites are not on LEO or GEO, but on medium orbits around 20000 km up. Not too many others use those altitudes. MEO:s are quite clean at this point.
Finland and France are constructing new nuclear power plants - first new ones in Western Europe for many years, and China and Russia are also going to nuclear (with 40 pebble-bed reactors coming to China in the coming decades).
So yes, we're finally starting to see some clean energy.
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So they are using Winelib instead of Qt or GTK - what's the big deal?
Do you want goddamn screenshots or something? "Official support" means just that the guys at tech support are authorized to say that they aren't touching Win'98. It does not mean a squat on whether the game actually works.
I am running Civ IV, WoW, GTA:SA, and Galciv 2 on my Windows '98 computer and they work, in fact, I'm logged on to EU-Skullcrusher on WoW RIGHT NOW.
Only problems that I've seen so far are from copy protection. For example, GTA:SA does require a crack so that the Win2k-requiring Securom 7 is removed - the game itself works perfectly. Knights of the old republic II is so far the only game that I have not been able to play. The version on the shelf works, but when you patch it, the copy protection is upgraded to a version requiring win2k (same as with GTA:SA, Securom 7) too.
I already mentioned WoW, Galciv2 and GTA:SA in another post. I can add Civilization IV too. Games require DirectX 9, Win'98 has DirectX 9. So yeah, everything pretty much works.
What do you mean "1 fps"?
My gaming computer has Geforce 4 Ti4200, 1,2 GHz Celeron and 384 MB of memory, 250 GB worth of HDD and a new DVD-RW drive too. Seems to fill the requirements just about ok. How would Win'98 slow it down?
While MS may have stopped supporting win98 in terms of patches etc, the industry stopped supporting it a long time ago. MS also stopped supporting it for much of their office products quite a while back. Even hardware such as printers have been not supporting the old OS in the last few years.
Referring to the use as a gaming OS:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_81.98.html
Granted, 2k/XP has a newer driver, but this one is still more recent than several years..
I've had a single Win'98 installation since about 1999. Never needed to reinstall or anything. I still use it for my gaming - it has DirectX 9, so it runs World of Warcraft, Galciv2, GTA:SA, and so on. I have no need to upgrade to 2000 or XP. (For "real work" I use Linux).
One of the reasons why I have not upgraded is also that Win'98 is the last Windows that has full, native DOS easily accessible, so that older games work. In the recent years this argument has lost significance due to DosBox, though, but many DOS4GW games did not work properly only some time ago.
"You're crazy to run Win'98 in todays internet" is not exactly true. Win'98 has only one service that is being offered and that is the samba file/printer sharing. Turn that off and you have no open ports on a Win'98 machine - compared to Win2000 or XP where you have loads of ports active (think of all the RPC worms of the yesteryear). Yes, my Win'98 is behind a firewall, but even if it weren't I wouldn't be too concerned. I'm not using samba sharing (and yes, I've verified this with nmap).
The only attack that works would be against the TCP/IP stack itself (read: Winnuke), but that has been patched ages ago.
I'm going to keep running my Win'98 until games will require DirectX 10. Then I'll make a decision on whether I'll upgrade to Vista or check out how Cedega works at that point (Also, Dosbox probably runs everything by then). Why should I pay for intermediate versions (2k, XP, 2003 server) when Win'98 does everything that I want? Win'98 is light (compared to multimedia-laden XP) and secure enough for a single-user environment.
Use 6to4, not a tunnelbroker. Google for 6to4 Linux if you need help (Windows XP starting from SP1 supports this automatically). Anyway, with 6to4, the nearest gateway is found by IPv4 anycast address (192.88.99.1) so you don't even NEED to know the tunnel brokers.
Galciv 2 would be a proof to the contrary. As are many strategies published my Matrix Games. There ARE hit indie games (there may not be much in the way of REVENUE, but the profits are good). Galciv II of the starforce fame was (and still is) on the RETAIL Top 10 lists in US, Canada and also in Europe (at least in play.com). Total budget was something on the order $500000 or so, IIRC. Ok, not just two guys in a basement, but still, very small developer and in my books an "indie".
When something is good, the word-of-mouth advertising can do wonders.
I was not referring to 2.6.x.y, but to specifically 2.6.16.x, as per this bit of news: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6386 - in effect a "Stable" branch based on 2.6.16 started as soon as 2.6.17 is released.
Considering how much stuff has recently been moved to userland in Linux (udev, hotplug, hal, FUSE (filesystems), etc) I think we're heading in that direction. SELinux is also something that could be considered "compartmentalized".
At least so I thought, ie. once 2.6.17 is out, there will be a separate branch based on 2.6.16 (2.6.16.y, continuing past the current series) that would constitute as a "stable" branch where no new features would be added, and focus would be on fixing bugs and stability..
So, is the problem already solved?
Not true actually.
o ftware/ios122/122cgcr/fsecur_c/fothersf/scfrpf.htm
Cisco routers still accept and pass spoofed packets happily along.
Umm, just type ip verify unicast reverse-path (in any IOS 12.0 or later).
Just tested it against a VXR, works just fine.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/s
...every self-respecting network operator has RPF (or some other antispoof-ingressfilter) enabled at the edge. Gone are the days of spoofing, just like respecting IP packet's loose/strict source routing options and other similar exploits :)
What's the point in creating a virtual world and the trying to make it into reality? I thought the whole point of a virtual world was escapism. Online game Second Life already has developed a notary for verifying contracts, and that means that it won't be too long before virtual lawyers rear their ugly heads. Why bother escaping to world that has all the bad parts of reality?
An associate is working in a highly ranked financial institution in London - dealing with commodity trading. We were talking the other day and I mentioned WoW. He said that he's not going to touch it - "No way I'll start playing a game where a big part is tracking all the goods going through the auction house and making profit with farming - I can do that in real world and get paid for it".
What next.. "illegal sharing through car radios"? .. "in the news today the RIAA demanded that automakers comply with new requirements to prevent passers by and non-drivers from "illeagally hearing" music from car stereos which "by law" is only entitled to the owner/operator of the vehicle alone."
Already true in Finland for Taxi drivers - when there's a passenger, either the radio is switched off or the driver (or Taxi company) pay's levys to the RIAA equivalent here.
They're selling me a TCP/IP connection to a global network with a service level guaranteed to varying degrees of accuracy depending on how much I pay. Unless it's spelled out in the contract, artificial restrictions should not be allowed.
No, you are most likely not guaranteed anything. At least if you are getting your standard, residential, consumer-oriented connection.
Even if you are willing to pay up for guarantees (ie. get a connection with a Service Level Agreement that has desired parameters (such as 99,99% uptime)), they hardly ever guarantee bandwidth to anywhere on the global network. You CAN get guarantees for bandwidth within the same ISP (for example, for connecting two offices together and making sure that they always have enough bandwith for 30 VoIP calls).
The speed of the access line does not mean a thing. My friend has a 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection - and yes, he gets this speed from the ISPs own ftp server at nighttime hours, but you wouldn't expect him to get 1Gbps from anywhere on the Internet, right?
What's more interesting is a system I saw years ago that was supposed to recognize whether a cat was carrying something in its mouth (like a mouse) by looking at its profile. No more "presents" left for you to step on when you get out of bed in the morning.
You mean Flo control is patented? (See picture on page 2, ie. click next)
Isn't this a general trend? Western companies have a hard time starting up over in Asia. KFC/Nike/etc have just begun to crack the Chinese markets, so it's no surprise (to me) that other companies have had trouble in Japan.
There is an anedcotal story about how Nokia started selling their phones in China. Originally they just copied their western ad campaings, focusing on individuality, how you can customize your phone with differently colored cases, personalizing software etc, in effect "make this phone like no other according to your taste"
Sales didn't pick up, and they studied the problem, noting that the group mentality in Asia is quite different from the West, where everyone is individualist. So the new campaign went with the idea of "Get our phone - just like everybody else". And the results were much better...
just using the word "radiation" presents bias -- people assume this equals the same kind of radiation they've been told to fear from nuc plants and atom bombs.
= 26235&tyyppi=1 - if someone can find english version then post.
Maybe that bias is countered by the fact that this study is partially funded by Nokia. Reference in Finnish is at http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id
That's why you don't use rapeseed oil. There is algae that can be grown in a closed-loop system (i.e. not allowing vast quantities of water to evaporate, needing constant irrigation from ground water) that can be also grown in an industrial process (i.e. using already industrial land) that produces 10,000 gallons of biofuel per acre.
Got a reference for this? I would be interested in finding out some more.
....does it have instructions on how to hack firmware so that the mirror lockup functionality is behind a single button on 20D or 5D? I especially wouldn't mind replacing 5D's "Direct Print" with a mirror lockup button.
No, just taken a look at the circuit diagrams. My point was that there is no digital output at all after the decryption => even legitimate users have "analog" quality full of quantization errors (altough they are probably not all that noticeable).
It should be noted that at least on some TV's (from Sony) if you take a look at the circuit board, the HDCP decoder chip has ANALOG outputs (RGB). The analog signal is then taken to your standard A/D-converter matrix (that all the other analog inputs, such as S-Video are connected) and RE-digitized for LCD.
So, you cannot get a bitwise copy of the original stream - and yay, neither can the viewer.
"Great digital picture quality - brought to you by analog path in the middle"
Correct me if I am wrong, but GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit a couple earth radii (radiuses?) out.
Correction: GPS satellites are not on LEO or GEO, but on medium orbits around 20000 km up. Not too many others use those altitudes. MEO:s are quite clean at this point.
Finland and France are constructing new nuclear power plants - first new ones in Western Europe for many years, and China and Russia are also going to nuclear (with 40 pebble-bed reactors coming to China in the coming decades).
So yes, we're finally starting to see some clean energy.