Don't forget about "Pointer Following Sloppily". With no auto raise.
This is one feature that greatly increases the amount of desktop space you have. It is awesome to be able to have an eterm and an AIM message both floating on top of Mozilla - and still be able to scroll through the webpage you are looking at and type commands in eterm and type an IM. All by just pointing at the different windows. They all stay where they are and none of them take control of your screen
I think that this feature (which comes as the default in Enlightenment - But can be configured in KDE and I think Sawfish) is one of the most innovative ways to use a desktop. I think more people should look into it.
He didn't even try to do any parrallel processing with these things! That was the first thought that came into my head.
Here we have four or five cpus all in one machine, talking to eachother over a native PCI bus. It seems to me this would be a great way to run a Beowulf cluster In a machine.
Anyone care to comment on why he might not have done this?
But will SDL make Baldur's Gate 2 work right now???
NO!
The advantage of Transgaming is that it enables you to play the games you have now. Sure future games could be written to be more cross platform, but why wait when you can play the games you already own right now using Transgaming?
It is free for the first month - and only $5 a month after that. I think you will enjoy what you get.
All of the games that work for me so far (Half-Life, Counter Strike, Baldur's Gate II, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and others) all run just as well (if not better in the case of BG2) as running them in windows.
I understand your point - and I like the idea of Winex on the disk.
The problem right now is that Winex is no where close to being ready to put on a disk. That might come at some time later - but for right now they just need cash to be able to pay the bills.
I will support them until they don't need it anymore.
I really, really enjoy being subscribed and being able to vote on things. I never realized how much voting within a company by its customers could be cool! It really gives you a sense of cummunity when the PAYING customers all come to a consensus about which direction the company should head in. (if you don't believe me about the consensus thing - then subscribe for one month free, and you will see the incredible discussions that go on in the voting forums).
You might think they have a bad model - but you really should take them for a spin and see how it feels first.
Try Transgaming's Winex - they rewrote all of MS's DCOM to do the Inter Process Communication Alexandre was talking about.
Almost all of the installers run just fine - and from posts the development team made today, the current CVS version even supports CD-Swaping during installs.
Life is getting much better on the linux desktop due to Transgaming. Just click the link in my sig to go to the signup page. You can afford $5 a month right?
And if you want to do object oriented stuff with it just use mysql_fetch_object() with php. This will return a nice object for you made out of the results of a mysql query.
If you use GnuPG (GPG) - you can create your own circle of trust.
You sign your own certificates (verifying them over the phone or through some other means) and then you in turn publish your keys to open key servers around the world.
The more places your identity exists the harder it is for someone to steal it - that is why Slashdot allows you to put your public key into your account (you can see the box for it just below the signature box)
The key servers are run mostly by institutions around the world (I think Stanford is a main hub here in the US) - they basically hold a bunch of public keys that have been signed.
So this story isn't a big deal for jo shmoe because if you need to securely transfer something from yourself to someone else you can do that for free using GPG.
So let the companies have their closed ring of trust and you can create your own.
We cant run 3dmark 2001 yet because it needs directx8 - which isn't implemented yet.
2500 isn't a bad score on my 1.2Ghz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and Geforce2MX. It isn't quite what I get in Windows, but it isn't bad either. Everything runs smoothly it just doesn't seem to spike as high (as in the FPS never go above about 50-60 when in windows they would spike all the way up to 150 or so, but at the same time they never drop below like 20 even on the hardcore stuff.).
Besides what I have already said - I would also like to comment on the fact that if you can get a game to run usning Transgaming it usually looks just fine.
The directx7 implementation is great - it is there. Mostly it is some of the other parts of the system that have problems (ie loading the program, or installing the program - but here again Transgaming did an entire implementation of MS's DCOM - that in itself was a huge feat).
So call it what you want - but I don't think it is an emulator because it doesn't create software instances of hardware (like running an NES emulator creates a "virtual" NES in software so the games like it).
The point is just go try it! The first month is free anyway - and after that it is only $5. I don't know about the rest of you, but being able to play all the games I already own in linux is like a wet-dream come true, and if $5 a month will help that out then I am there.
Ya I have seen your posts - I post as friedmud there too.
It is a tough decision between Directx8 and Directx6 - I just dunno. I think I have voted +2 for 8 and +1 for 6 - but that is because I have bought more new games recently and I want to make sure that new games get continued support.
But I can understand why we might want to leave that to Loki and focus on getting the other hundreds of games running on Directx6.
Tough decision though.
(Note to all you people who have not signed up at Transgaming, you will not understand what we're talking about because you can't vote - so if you wanna be in the know, and if you want to have a say, THEN GO SIGN UP!)
This is not the same thing as VMWARE or VirtualPC for the Mac. This is an implementation of the Windows API for linux. What does that mean? It means games run just about the same in linux as in windows because there is no overhead of an emulator.
With the case of Direct3d the WINE implementation actually converts the calls on the fly to OpenGL - it does not emulate a Direct3d card - it just does a conversion, there is a difference because when a Direct3d card is emulated (as in VirtualPC) the software that is run has no real knowledge of what is underneath - this is not so with WINE.
You can even run things such as 3dmark 2000 because of this. I get about 2500 3dmarks on a 1.2GHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and a Geforce2 MX - not quite as good as what I do in Windows, but it is damn smooth.
So don't bash it unless you try it because it really does work.
I agree I have been waiting for this since Transgaming first got started almost a year ago.
I signed up on the very first night and have really enjoyed the games I have played so far.
Fully OpenGL accellerated Baldur's Gate II in an enlightenment window sitting right next to mozilla with LICQ over on the left is a sight to behold my friends.
If you want to play the games you already own in linux then go sign up.
The greatest thing about the Transgaming model is that you get to vote on what you want them to do next. So if there is one particular game you want (right now Black & White is on the top of the charts on Transgaming) and other people want it to - you can actually give real feedback to the development team.
This is a great strategy - and I think everyone should participate.
Me too, it was my first slashdot submission and I thought I had really found a gem.
Why doesn't slashdot post a story about it!?!? It really makes me mad. Here is the one chance for linux users to get their game on and no one knows about it yet - what a shame.
I don't think the point was that these things were going to help people that are in the middle of nowhere.
I personally have a cell phone with me when I go anywhere - if my car were to break down in the middle of the night in Washington DC and I needed to call a Cab - it would be cool if the cab company automagically new where I was - because I sure as hell wouldn't!
You don't have to be in the middle of nowhere to be lost!
I was reading the comments and was thinking this exact same thing.
After using Linux for about 3 or 4 days with 512MB of RAM I load almost nothing off of the hardrive (Including games like Quake3). It does basically create a RAM-disk for swap in memory.
Linux is so efficient at this that all of this talk about external solutions is just crazy. Now what we need is to be able to put 10GB of memory into our machines as opposed to the 2GB (or less!) that we can put in now. Once we can put 10GB in our computers all will be good....
I wrote (actually e-mailed through here) my senators and representatives when this was first posted on/.
I got personal replies from all of them! It took about 2 weeks to get replies back from all of them but they all did. One of them said that he was vaguely aware of the situation and that he was glad to hear from his constituents on the issue.
It does work people! Do it! It will make a difference!
Here is what I wrote:
/////////////////
Senator Bond,
Being one of your constituents (I live in Sometown, MO) - I felt it my duty to inform you that we are not happy about the new Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) that is currently in draft form and is being spearheaded by Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina.
I know that in the wake of last week's tragedy - a more secure computing model sounds like a good idea. But let me assure you that this bill is not the way to go about implementing it. This bill has the potential to ruin computing as we know it. It will squash innovation and many freedoms.
You can check this address for one of the many news stories about this bill:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/2 047211
Please do not endorse this bill - as someone who is in your voting district I will be watching very carefully to see who is supporting this bill, and let me assure you that my next vote will be influenced by what I see.
I sent this to both of my sentors in my district and my one representative, I thought it might give other people an idea about what to write. I tried not to make it too harsh, nor too soft - while also not putting a lot of technilogcial mumbo jumbo in it:
/////////////////
Senator Bond,
Being one of your constituents (I live in Sometown, MO) - I felt it my duty to inform you that we are not happy about the new Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) that is currently in draft form and is being spearheaded by Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina.
I know that in the wake of last week's tragedy - a more secure computing model sounds like a good idea. But let me assure you that this bill is not the way to go about implementing it. This bill has the potential to ruin computing as we know it. It will squash innovation and many freedoms.
You can check this address for one of the many news stories about this bill:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20 /2 047211
Please do not endorse this bill - as someone who is in your voting district I will be watching very carefully to see who is supporting this bill, and let me assure you that my next vote will be influenced by what I see.
Sincerely,
My Name
///////////////
You can e-mail the senators and reps straight off of this site.
I suggest that all of you do - they can't ignore all of us!
These sorts of holding companies are outlawed by US law. A holding company the presides over many smaller companies is a Trust - and if I remember correctly from that civics class - Trusts are still ileagal here in the US of A.
TCPDump is working just fine - seems like a huge number of "arp who-has" commands are streaming in.
I don't think whatever is looking for these addresses is being very successfull - I haven't been able to contact any of the ips it is looking for - seems to be very inefficient.
Thanks for the heads up about ethereal but I don't have a monitor/keyboard/mouse connected to my router at all - just a lonely box in the corner:)
I too am with @Home and have been seeing large amounts of info flow into my cable modem. I am running a Masqueraded Linux box to connect my LAN to the Net - and it has been eating up all the packets - but I can't find a way to log them at all.
I suspect that someone on my cable loop is probably infected with CodeRed and I am seeing all of the outgoing packets but I have no real way to tell.
Does anyone know of a good way to save these packets from the bit-bucket so that we can find out who is sending them??
I really don't like the way my cable modem is flashing - it just bothers me.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget about "Pointer Following Sloppily". With no auto raise.
This is one feature that greatly increases the amount of desktop space you have. It is awesome to be able to have an eterm and an AIM message both floating on top of Mozilla - and still be able to scroll through the webpage you are looking at and type commands in eterm and type an IM. All by just pointing at the different windows. They all stay where they are and none of them take control of your screen
I think that this feature (which comes as the default in Enlightenment - But can be configured in KDE and I think Sawfish) is one of the most innovative ways to use a desktop. I think more people should look into it.
Derek
He didn't even try to do any parrallel processing with these things! That was the first thought that came into my head.
Here we have four or five cpus all in one machine, talking to eachother over a native PCI bus. It seems to me this would be a great way to run a Beowulf cluster In a machine.
Anyone care to comment on why he might not have done this?
But will SDL make Baldur's Gate 2 work right now???
NO!
The advantage of Transgaming is that it enables you to play the games you have now. Sure future games could be written to be more cross platform, but why wait when you can play the games you already own right now using Transgaming?
Derek
Ya - mod this back up - I think it is actually interesting.
;-)
Especially considering that most of us here are guys - and generally believe that a nipple is the ONLY intuitive thing about women
Derek
Just try it!
It is free for the first month - and only $5 a month after that. I think you will enjoy what you get.
All of the games that work for me so far (Half-Life, Counter Strike, Baldur's Gate II, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and others) all run just as well (if not better in the case of BG2) as running them in windows.
I also get 2500 3dmark 2000 3dmarks.
It really does work.
Derek
I understand your point - and I like the idea of Winex on the disk.
The problem right now is that Winex is no where close to being ready to put on a disk. That might come at some time later - but for right now they just need cash to be able to pay the bills.
I will support them until they don't need it anymore.
I really, really enjoy being subscribed and being able to vote on things. I never realized how much voting within a company by its customers could be cool! It really gives you a sense of cummunity when the PAYING customers all come to a consensus about which direction the company should head in. (if you don't believe me about the consensus thing - then subscribe for one month free, and you will see the incredible discussions that go on in the voting forums).
You might think they have a bad model - but you really should take them for a spin and see how it feels first.
Derek
Or you could get a Dreamcast - which DOES come with a monitor adaptor....
;-)
Or you could just subscribe to Transgaming and not worry about any of that
Derek
Try Transgaming's Winex - they rewrote all of MS's DCOM to do the Inter Process Communication Alexandre was talking about.
Almost all of the installers run just fine - and from posts the development team made today, the current CVS version even supports CD-Swaping during installs.
Life is getting much better on the linux desktop due to Transgaming. Just click the link in my sig to go to the signup page. You can afford $5 a month right?
Derek
I agree.
And if you want to do object oriented stuff with it just use mysql_fetch_object() with php. This will return a nice object for you made out of the results of a mysql query.
PHP is sooo sweet.
Derek
If you use GnuPG (GPG) - you can create your own circle of trust.
You sign your own certificates (verifying them over the phone or through some other means) and then you in turn publish your keys to open key servers around the world.
The more places your identity exists the harder it is for someone to steal it - that is why Slashdot allows you to put your public key into your account (you can see the box for it just below the signature box)
The key servers are run mostly by institutions around the world (I think Stanford is a main hub here in the US) - they basically hold a bunch of public keys that have been signed.
So this story isn't a big deal for jo shmoe because if you need to securely transfer something from yourself to someone else you can do that for free using GPG.
So let the companies have their closed ring of trust and you can create your own.
Derek
I get about 2500 3dmarks in 3dmark 2000.
We cant run 3dmark 2001 yet because it needs directx8 - which isn't implemented yet.
2500 isn't a bad score on my 1.2Ghz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and Geforce2MX. It isn't quite what I get in Windows, but it isn't bad either. Everything runs smoothly it just doesn't seem to spike as high (as in the FPS never go above about 50-60 when in windows they would spike all the way up to 150 or so, but at the same time they never drop below like 20 even on the hardcore stuff.).
Derek
Done, if anyone else wants to add it the URL is: http://www.transgaming.com/create_accnt.php
Besides what I have already said - I would also like to comment on the fact that if you can get a game to run usning Transgaming it usually looks just fine.
The directx7 implementation is great - it is there. Mostly it is some of the other parts of the system that have problems (ie loading the program, or installing the program - but here again Transgaming did an entire implementation of MS's DCOM - that in itself was a huge feat).
So call it what you want - but I don't think it is an emulator because it doesn't create software instances of hardware (like running an NES emulator creates a "virtual" NES in software so the games like it).
The point is just go try it! The first month is free anyway - and after that it is only $5. I don't know about the rest of you, but being able to play all the games I already own in linux is like a wet-dream come true, and if $5 a month will help that out then I am there.
Derek
Ya I have seen your posts - I post as friedmud there too.
It is a tough decision between Directx8 and Directx6 - I just dunno. I think I have voted +2 for 8 and +1 for 6 - but that is because I have bought more new games recently and I want to make sure that new games get continued support.
But I can understand why we might want to leave that to Loki and focus on getting the other hundreds of games running on Directx6.
Tough decision though.
(Note to all you people who have not signed up at Transgaming, you will not understand what we're talking about because you can't vote - so if you wanna be in the know, and if you want to have a say, THEN GO SIGN UP!)
Derek
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator
Why can't people get this through their heads??
This is not the same thing as VMWARE or VirtualPC for the Mac. This is an implementation of the Windows API for linux. What does that mean? It means games run just about the same in linux as in windows because there is no overhead of an emulator.
With the case of Direct3d the WINE implementation actually converts the calls on the fly to OpenGL - it does not emulate a Direct3d card - it just does a conversion, there is a difference because when a Direct3d card is emulated (as in VirtualPC) the software that is run has no real knowledge of what is underneath - this is not so with WINE.
You can even run things such as 3dmark 2000 because of this. I get about 2500 3dmarks on a 1.2GHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and a Geforce2 MX - not quite as good as what I do in Windows, but it is damn smooth.
So don't bash it unless you try it because it really does work.
Derek
I agree I have been waiting for this since Transgaming first got started almost a year ago.
I signed up on the very first night and have really enjoyed the games I have played so far.
Fully OpenGL accellerated Baldur's Gate II in an enlightenment window sitting right next to mozilla with LICQ over on the left is a sight to behold my friends.
If you want to play the games you already own in linux then go sign up.
The greatest thing about the Transgaming model is that you get to vote on what you want them to do next. So if there is one particular game you want (right now Black & White is on the top of the charts on Transgaming) and other people want it to - you can actually give real feedback to the development team.
This is a great strategy - and I think everyone should participate.
Happy Gaming!
Derek
Me too, it was my first slashdot submission and I thought I had really found a gem.
Why doesn't slashdot post a story about it!?!? It really makes me mad. Here is the one chance for linux users to get their game on and no one knows about it yet - what a shame.
Derek
I don't think the point was that these things were going to help people that are in the middle of nowhere.
I personally have a cell phone with me when I go anywhere - if my car were to break down in the middle of the night in Washington DC and I needed to call a Cab - it would be cool if the cab company automagically new where I was - because I sure as hell wouldn't!
You don't have to be in the middle of nowhere to be lost!
Fried
Thank you!
I was reading the comments and was thinking this exact same thing.
After using Linux for about 3 or 4 days with 512MB of RAM I load almost nothing off of the hardrive (Including games like Quake3). It does basically create a RAM-disk for swap in memory.
Linux is so efficient at this that all of this talk about external solutions is just crazy. Now what we need is to be able to put 10GB of memory into our machines as opposed to the 2GB (or less!) that we can put in now. Once we can put 10GB in our computers all will be good....
Fried
I wrote (actually e-mailed through here) my senators and representatives when this was first posted on /.
2 047211
I got personal replies from all of them! It took about 2 weeks to get replies back from all of them but they all did. One of them said that he was vaguely aware of the situation and that he was glad to hear from his constituents on the issue.
It does work people! Do it! It will make a difference!
Here is what I wrote:
/////////////////
Senator Bond,
Being one of your constituents (I live in Sometown, MO) - I felt it my duty to inform you that we are not happy about the new Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) that is currently in draft form and is being spearheaded by Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina.
I know that in the wake of last week's tragedy - a more secure computing model sounds like a good idea. But let me assure you that this bill is not the way to go about implementing it. This bill has the potential to ruin computing as we know it. It will squash innovation and many freedoms.
You can check this address for one of the many news stories about this bill:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/
Please do not endorse this bill - as someone who is in your voting district I will be watching very carefully to see who is supporting this bill, and let me assure you that my next vote will be influenced by what I see.
Sincerely,
My Name
//////////////
Fried
I sent this to both of my sentors in my district and my one representative, I thought it might give other people an idea about what to write. I tried not to make it too harsh, nor too soft - while also not putting a lot of technilogcial mumbo jumbo in it:
0 /2 047211
/////////////////
Senator Bond,
Being one of your constituents (I live in Sometown, MO) - I felt it my duty to inform you that we are not happy about the new Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) that is currently in draft form and is being spearheaded by Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina.
I know that in the wake of last week's tragedy - a more secure computing model sounds like a good idea. But let me assure you that this bill is not the way to go about implementing it. This bill has the potential to ruin computing as we know it. It will squash innovation and many freedoms.
You can check this address for one of the many news stories about this bill:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/2
Please do not endorse this bill - as someone who is in your voting district I will be watching very carefully to see who is supporting this bill, and let me assure you that my next vote will be influenced by what I see.
Sincerely,
My Name
///////////////
You can e-mail the senators and reps straight off of this site.
I suggest that all of you do - they can't ignore all of us!
Fried
Problem is....
These sorts of holding companies are outlawed by US law. A holding company the presides over many smaller companies is a Trust - and if I remember correctly from that civics class - Trusts are still ileagal here in the US of A.
Fried
What I don't understand is why this article got a Nintendo Controller for its icon instead of the Gates Borg!
This definitely seems like a bit of news that is more about Microsoft power than about the power of the X-Box IMO.
Fried
TCPDump is working just fine - seems like a huge number of "arp who-has" commands are streaming in.
:)
I don't think whatever is looking for these addresses is being very successfull - I haven't been able to contact any of the ips it is looking for - seems to be very inefficient.
Thanks for the heads up about ethereal but I don't have a monitor/keyboard/mouse connected to my router at all - just a lonely box in the corner
-Fried
I too am with @Home and have been seeing large amounts of info flow into my cable modem. I am running a Masqueraded Linux box to connect my LAN to the Net - and it has been eating up all the packets - but I can't find a way to log them at all. I suspect that someone on my cable loop is probably infected with CodeRed and I am seeing all of the outgoing packets but I have no real way to tell. Does anyone know of a good way to save these packets from the bit-bucket so that we can find out who is sending them?? I really don't like the way my cable modem is flashing - it just bothers me.