I was a freshman in college in 1987, and like you, I was the only one with an Amiga. I had the first Test Drive game, and everyone was just blown away by the graphics at the time. Most of them had 286 PCs with Hercules or EGA graphics at the time...
I have had more fun with Guitar Hero the last week than I have had with all the games I bought over the last 2 years combined! This games rocks (no pun intended), and the guitar peripheral is a blast!
Unlike Linux machines that need regular patching to prevent them being rooted? There's no difference between any OS when it comes to a security hole, you patch it or you run the risk of being hacked.
There is a big difference. Most Linux vulnerabilities require someone to get local access to the machine first. The various Windows worms seem to be able to find an easy way onto any unpatched system remotely.
I found it to be one of the most interesting articles that I have seen here in a LONG time...
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"My filesystem is journalled, and has been for about a decade longer than Linux. My hardware emails me when it's having problems, and usually detects problems before things break! I don't want quick ship-->deploy time, I want long boot/upgrade cycles and protection from problems."
Journalling for ufs was introduced in Solaris 7, and really wasn't stable until Solaris 8, so that is hardly a decade. Sure, vxfs has been around but you could never use it on the root filesystem.
But you chose the wrong example to make a point. If a critical security flaw is found in the kernel, a new kernel is released as soon as the flaw is fixed and not when it is convienent. Most of the changes in 2.6.8 to 2.6.9, for example, are related to drivers, not security.
What if Number 6 is really just in Baltar's brain the whole time? Do we ever see her interact with anyone else? (this is an honest question; I don't recall)....
We do see her interact with others, when she killed the woman's baby in the stroller at the waterfront.
To get the options you want. Since there are no precompiled RPMS for Suse 8.2 with xft and gtk2 enabled, I pull down the source and recompile it with these enabled. I then add the Firebird stuff on top and compile that with xft and gtk2 enabled.
The first versions of OS/2 2.1 essentially had their own copy of Windows 3.1, but this meant that for every copy of OS/2 sold, a portion went to Microsoft. A later version was availble that required you to already have Windows 3.1 disks to do the install, so they didn't have to pay a fee to MS for that one.
Of course, Microsoft's answer to this was Windows 3.11 (not WFW, but the new version had the same release number). Nothing seemed to change in 3.11, but for some reason, the Windows subsystem in OS/2 stopped working... Imagine that...
> I think its the fault of all these dopes that buy > a console thats outdated a few minutes after you > get home.
And PCs aren't outdated when you get them home? At least I know when I buy a new PS2 game that it is going to run on my PS2 as the developer intended, and I don't need to download updated drivers or a brand new video card to experience it as the developer intended...
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Mandrake 9 Beta is based on 3.2 (as of Beta 2 - Beta 1 was based on 3.1.1). I also believe that Red Hat will be using 3.2 in their 8.0 release.
> The PS2's is a lot different from a PC, you're right. But it's generally accepted that > Sony/Toshiba made a huge mistake with the Emotion Engine. The Vector units are WAY too > hard to program for, not to mention all of the obvious bottlenecks in the system (4MB VRAM?)
The vector units must be WAY too hard to program for. There are so few games for the PS2, and only 1 or 2 companies doing the development...
The research here is more concerned with what it can do, and not how it looks. There is a market for these in Japan that does not exist in the US, so they have to be concerned with presentation.
Gordon can't post a message without trying to belittle Gnome is some way. He has been doing this since his name has been 'known' which is why I don't pay any attention to him. If you are so unhappy, Mr. Gordon, please go and write some closed-source, Motif apps and sell them for Solaris, AIX, etc., and not have any license issues to worry about. And thank the Gnome folks on at lease one occasion for giving people an alternative that they can choose.
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I was a freshman in college in 1987, and like you, I was the only one with an Amiga. I had the first Test Drive game, and everyone was just blown away by the graphics at the time. Most of them had 286 PCs with Hercules or EGA graphics at the time...
I have had more fun with Guitar Hero the last week than I have had with all the games I bought over the last 2 years combined! This games rocks (no pun intended), and the guitar peripheral is a blast!
Are you kidding? There are probably thousands of lawyers that want a piece of RIAA and will take the case for no cost (unless they win)...
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is our main event. Introducing in the red corner, the champion of the world, Mr. Sandman!
(Original arcade PunchOut, for our younger viewers)...
Unless you live in Maryland, where a rabid beaver just attacked and bit 3 people before being put down...
There is a big difference. Most Linux vulnerabilities require someone to get local access to the machine first. The various Windows worms seem to be able to find an easy way onto any unpatched system remotely.
> That being said, I'd kill for a kick ass apple-styled bluetooth multibutton mouse.
http://www.dvforge.com/themousebt.shtml
I found it to be one of the most interesting articles that I have seen here in a LONG time...
"My filesystem is journalled, and has been for about a decade longer than Linux. My hardware emails me when it's having problems, and usually detects problems before things break! I don't want quick ship-->deploy time, I want long boot/upgrade cycles and protection from problems."
Journalling for ufs was introduced in Solaris 7, and really wasn't stable until Solaris 8, so that is hardly a decade. Sure, vxfs has been around but you could never use it on the root filesystem.
I think it will be measures in gallons/mile instead...
But you chose the wrong example to make a point. If a critical security flaw is found in the kernel, a new kernel is released as soon as the flaw is fixed and not when it is convienent. Most of the changes in 2.6.8 to 2.6.9, for example, are related to drivers, not security.
Because there have been more than 50 million PS2s sold worldwide?
We do see her interact with others, when she killed the woman's baby in the stroller at the waterfront.
> we've just deployed 100+ brand new Compaq Evo's
I hate to break it to you, but they can't be "brand new", since Compaq no longer exists...
To get the options you want. Since there are no precompiled RPMS for Suse 8.2 with xft and gtk2 enabled, I pull down the source and recompile it with these enabled. I then add the Firebird stuff on top and compile that with xft and gtk2 enabled.
The first versions of OS/2 2.1 essentially had their own copy of Windows 3.1, but this meant that for every copy of OS/2 sold, a portion went to Microsoft. A later version was availble that required you to already have Windows 3.1 disks to do the install, so they didn't have to pay a fee to MS for that one.
Of course, Microsoft's answer to this was Windows 3.11 (not WFW, but the new version had the same release number). Nothing seemed to change in 3.11, but for some reason, the Windows subsystem in OS/2 stopped working... Imagine that...
Homer to Marge: Remeber when we used to make out to this hymn.
In Bart's Comet, when the Bill to evacuate Sprintfield was shot down after Congress tried to tack on a pay raise:
Kent Brockman: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.
Now that I think about it...
> I think its the fault of all these dopes that buy
> a console thats outdated a few minutes after you
> get home.
And PCs aren't outdated when you get them home? At least I know when I buy a new PS2 game that it is going to run on my PS2 as the developer intended, and I don't need to download updated drivers or a brand new video card to experience it as the developer intended...
Mandrake 9 Beta is based on 3.2 (as of Beta 2 - Beta 1 was based on 3.1.1). I also believe that Red Hat will be using 3.2 in their 8.0 release.
> The PS2's is a lot different from a PC, you're right. But it's generally accepted that
> Sony/Toshiba made a huge mistake with the Emotion Engine. The Vector units are WAY too
> hard to program for, not to mention all of the obvious bottlenecks in the system (4MB VRAM?)
The vector units must be WAY too hard to program for. There are so few games for the PS2, and only 1 or 2 companies doing the development...
The research here is more concerned with what it can do, and not how it looks. There is a market for these in Japan that does not exist in the US, so they have to be concerned with presentation.
Gordon can't post a message without trying to belittle Gnome is some way. He has been doing this since his name has been 'known' which is why I don't pay any attention to him. If you are so unhappy, Mr. Gordon, please go and write some closed-source, Motif apps and sell them for Solaris, AIX, etc., and not have any license issues to worry about. And thank the Gnome folks on at lease one occasion for giving people an alternative that they can choose.
> Could this mean a AOL client for LINUX?
No. As they have stated many times, there are far too many possible configurations of Linux for them to try and support.
But that's part of the problem with Windows. They blur the line between what is an application and what is the OS...