I've seen a screenshot of IE running with Wine, but I never managed to actually install MSIE 4, 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0 with Wine (I don't have Windows on this machine so I cannot use native dll's)..
Any URL or a text how to install it? it might be fun to test few pages with Konqueror, Netscape and IE without VMWare on Win4Lin (hey, this is a P-II 350 machine!)
Their chips are very small (compared to AMD or Intel's P4), and they don't produce much heat....
I wonder if they can produce a quad processors design, specially since they're selling their chips at around $30-$40 a piece if I'm not mistaken. Take out some of the power management stuff and use this space for optimizations and they could sell a new design for a very cheap quad processors workstation....
The upgrade price is $100 from your own 2.x version.
The 3.0 got lots of new features (USB support even for stuff that doesn't have any Linux drivers, 128GB limit for virtual drive on IDE, 256GB on "scsi" subsystem, much better resolution support, DVD-ROM and CD-R/W support, it's much faster then 2.x, support Windows XP, etc)
So no, no DirectX support yet (I'm guessing that this will be a hard part to do) but from testing VMWare 3.0 I can say that its much better then before....
A friend of mine was living next to me and he planned to buy a very strong workstation for his 3D art. I offered to him to buy the parts and I'll assemble it for him but he insisted buying Gateway machine for this job.
2 weeks after he bought it - the troubles began - CDROM stopped working, 2nd processor was having problems, dead hard disk - and all of this in the course of 4 months!
After lots of shouting - Gateway replaced his machine and now he only got problems with "sleeping" hard drive;)
I definately recommend the old IBM keyboards (the ones that came with the old PS/2 (models 25 or so), or the ones used to be bundled with 3270 terminals - yet they are SO comfortible (and I use computers around 12-16 hours a day)
I bought 3 keyboards through eBay (costs me $15 each) and I must say that even that the label beneath the keyboard saying it's manufactured in 1984 it works perfectly well - heck, my cat even spilled coke on it and it survived it...
so you won't get the Windows keys or those "internet shortcuts" keys - but heck, who needs them?
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Do you really belive that it can be possible to operate slashdot, which is pretty big in terms of hardware, programming (all done by slashdot staff), maintaining, checking the stories submitted, managing the whole complex - all by donations??
Dream on - if this site will run by donations, then it wouldn't be able to run for a month! Do you know what the amounts of money it needs? how much does OSDN/slashdot pay to Exodus? the hardware maintenance?
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For DVD playback you can start with Xine - it knows how to play DVD's in remove Xv window - that of course, depends if the X driver for this tablet supports Xv extensions. If it does - then it shouldn't take more then few minutes to hack and play DVD's there (although you need 100Mbit Ethernet card with the huge amount of data transferred with DVD playback remotely)...
The moment you'll put the IBM Microdrive - no matter how much power you save - will go to the IBM Microdrive - it's simply EATS battery power like mad!
I did a test few days - I started X and used gnome on my machine, then I decided to start Konqueror from the konsole. It loads all the services (I know, memory usages is big) but it runs perfectly nice...
Now - I tried to switch. Restarted my X with KDE this time, opened a konsole and tried to run Gnome Meeting.. No luck, only crash...
Now, I'm sure I can load something before Gnome Meeting and it Gnome meeting will be running fine, but it's a problem for the end user who doesn't know anything about it..
Also - when I try to run some Gnome apps that needed services like Esound - why can't gnome either start Esound or run through aRTs if I run under KDE? aRTs IS compatible with esound after all (the app which I'm talking about is gnomeicu)
Kapital (from thekompany.com) can be a good Linux alternative - although it's closed source and costs around $30, but from what I tried so far - it's pretty good. There is a demo on their web site.
GnuCash seems to be good also (although not slick looking as Kapital - I like Kapital look), but if you're going to install the RPMs by yourself, prepare for some nightmares...
Click on Setting, Configure Konqueror - and on the window click on "Konqueror Browser" -> Javascript - now look below.. Yup - JavaScript web popup policy...
GUI - what makes things much easier then you think..
I hope some day that Mozilla will have some "User Agent" menu to bypass some web sites Insisting Explorer or nothing - Don't know why Mozilla people are not adding this. (and no - when a big web side web-admin gets a request to support Mozilla - it's being ignored almost always
)
Further more - SuSE are the experts in the field of porting Linux and application to Linux.
Give them ANY processor and an enviroment (Power3, Power4, X86-64, Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, you name it!) and they'll port the entire Linux OS to it - they have the experience and they are the best on this issue..
I can assure that MS is WIDELY envolved in this and that the playing will be tightly integrated using Intel/MS DRM (Digital Rights Management)..
To play it with Linux - you only need to implement the DRM - something that Intel can do quite easily (and from what I heard - either as a binary kernel module or as a close source X extension - IBM did the same with the LinDVD player but as a binary only module)..
Today - you can for example play almost all MS video type formats INCLUDING Windows Media 8 (check the latest avifile 0.6 branch and MPlayer CVS version)..
So it will be done with MS co-operation. MS really hate to stay out of those kind of business..
As for hacking this format.. I belive it will take between a week and a month..
When Redhat released their GCC snapshot - everyone shouted out that Redhat is crazy, they shouldn't do it, etc. Those flames still come today in some of the applications development mailing list (go file a bug report in Mplayer and tell them you're using gcc 2.96 and see what I mean)...
GCC development speed was twice SLOWER then mozilla! when was the last update from gcc 2.9X (I mean a major update)? Redhat needed a compiler - anyone with an Alpha machine, IA/64, S/390 and other non X86 platforms laughs when comparing GCC performance/optimizations compared to ANY other compiler (try CCC on alpha to see what I mean)...
So what comes out of this release in terms of release? that finally - GCC 3.0 is out the door. True - it causes tons of new problems (don't try to compile KDE on it), but the development/release ratio is much better now - and tommorow we'll see the much improved 3.0.1 version.
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I've seen a screenshot of IE running with Wine, but I never managed to actually install MSIE 4, 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0 with Wine (I don't have Windows on this machine so I cannot use native dll's)..
Any URL or a text how to install it? it might be fun to test few pages with Konqueror, Netscape and IE without VMWare on Win4Lin (hey, this is a P-II 350 machine!)
Hmm...
Their chips are very small (compared to AMD or Intel's P4), and they don't produce much heat....
I wonder if they can produce a quad processors design, specially since they're selling their chips at around $30-$40 a piece if I'm not mistaken. Take out some of the power management stuff and use this space for optimizations and they could sell a new design for a very cheap quad processors workstation....
Have you checked VMWare 3.0?
The upgrade price is $100 from your own 2.x version.
The 3.0 got lots of new features (USB support even for stuff that doesn't have any Linux drivers, 128GB limit for virtual drive on IDE, 256GB on "scsi" subsystem, much better resolution support, DVD-ROM and CD-R/W support, it's much faster then 2.x, support Windows XP, etc)
So no, no DirectX support yet (I'm guessing that this will be a hard part to do) but from testing VMWare 3.0 I can say that its much better then before....
Same here...
;)
A friend of mine was living next to me and he planned to buy a very strong workstation for his 3D art. I offered to him to buy the parts and I'll assemble it for him but he insisted buying Gateway machine for this job.
2 weeks after he bought it - the troubles began - CDROM stopped working, 2nd processor was having problems, dead hard disk - and all of this in the course of 4 months!
After lots of shouting - Gateway replaced his machine and now he only got problems with "sleeping" hard drive
speaking of keyboard..
I definately recommend the old IBM keyboards (the ones that came with the old PS/2 (models 25 or so), or the ones used to be bundled with 3270 terminals - yet they are SO comfortible (and I use computers around 12-16 hours a day)
I bought 3 keyboards through eBay (costs me $15 each) and I must say that even that the label beneath the keyboard saying it's manufactured in 1984 it works perfectly well - heck, my cat even spilled coke on it and it survived it...
so you won't get the Windows keys or those "internet shortcuts" keys - but heck, who needs them?
Do you really belive that it can be possible to operate slashdot, which is pretty big in terms of hardware, programming (all done by slashdot staff), maintaining, checking the stories submitted, managing the whole complex - all by donations??
Dream on - if this site will run by donations, then it wouldn't be able to run for a month! Do you know what the amounts of money it needs? how much does OSDN/slashdot pay to Exodus? the hardware maintenance?
For DVD playback you can start with Xine - it knows how to play DVD's in remove Xv window - that of course, depends if the X driver for this tablet supports Xv extensions. If it does - then it shouldn't take more then few minutes to hack and play DVD's there (although you need 100Mbit Ethernet card with the huge amount of data transferred with DVD playback remotely)...
Ryan - have you actually READ the story???
they'll starting to give samples THIS month, and mass production NEXT month, and Japanese version will be available a month later...
The story dated Sep. 20,2001 - so where do you get the "dropped" thing? Audrey was dropped, not this...
The moment you'll put the IBM Microdrive - no matter how much power you save - will go to the IBM Microdrive - it's simply EATS battery power like mad!
Funny that you mention that...
I did a test few days - I started X and used gnome on my machine, then I decided to start Konqueror from the konsole. It loads all the services (I know, memory usages is big) but it runs perfectly nice...
Now - I tried to switch. Restarted my X with KDE this time, opened a konsole and tried to run Gnome Meeting.. No luck, only crash...
Now, I'm sure I can load something before Gnome Meeting and it Gnome meeting will be running fine, but it's a problem for the end user who doesn't know anything about it..
Also - when I try to run some Gnome apps that needed services like Esound - why can't gnome either start Esound or run through aRTs if I run under KDE? aRTs IS compatible with esound after all (the app which I'm talking about is gnomeicu)
Feel free to reply...
Ahhm,
You might want to do some research...
Microsoft released FrontPage Extensions to the Apache & Linux - search inside MS web site - so you can use Apache, and front page without any problem.
kde21]$ wget http://www.fuckhumanity.org/wolf_mirror/wolfmptest -nomedia-0.7.16-1.x86.run
t -nomedia-0.7.16-1.x86.run
;))
--10:29:03-- http://www.fuckhumanity.org/wolf_mirror/wolfmptes
=> `wolfmptest-nomedia-0.7.16-1.x86.run'
Connecting to www.fuckhumanity.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
10:29:04 ERROR 404: Not found.
nice
Kapital (from thekompany.com) can be a good Linux alternative - although it's closed source and costs around $30, but from what I tried so far - it's pretty good. There is a demo on their web site.
GnuCash seems to be good also (although not slick looking as Kapital - I like Kapital look), but if you're going to install the RPMs by yourself, prepare for some nightmares...
Click on Setting, Configure Konqueror - and on the window click on "Konqueror Browser" -> Javascript - now look below.. Yup - JavaScript web popup policy...
GUI - what makes things much easier then you think..
I hope some day that Mozilla will have some "User Agent" menu to bypass some web sites Insisting Explorer or nothing - Don't know why Mozilla people are not adding this. (and no - when a big web side web-admin gets a request to support Mozilla - it's being ignored almost always
)
Regarding XFS - I'm sure that LinuxCare did the port and SuSE was participating after it started. I don't think it's the other way around....
Hetz
Further more - SuSE are the experts in the field of porting Linux and application to Linux.
Give them ANY processor and an enviroment (Power3, Power4, X86-64, Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, you name it!) and they'll port the entire Linux OS to it - they have the experience and they are the best on this issue..
Hetz
I can assure that MS is WIDELY envolved in this and that the playing will be tightly integrated using Intel/MS DRM (Digital Rights Management)..
To play it with Linux - you only need to implement the DRM - something that Intel can do quite easily (and from what I heard - either as a binary kernel module or as a close source X extension - IBM did the same with the LinDVD player but as a binary only module)..
Today - you can for example play almost all MS video type formats INCLUDING Windows Media 8 (check the latest avifile 0.6 branch and MPlayer CVS version)..
So it will be done with MS co-operation. MS really hate to stay out of those kind of business..
As for hacking this format.. I belive it will take between a week and a month..
Check some facts man...
When Redhat released their GCC snapshot - everyone shouted out that Redhat is crazy, they shouldn't do it, etc. Those flames still come today in some of the applications development mailing list (go file a bug report in Mplayer and tell them you're using gcc 2.96 and see what I mean)...
GCC development speed was twice SLOWER then mozilla! when was the last update from gcc 2.9X (I mean a major update)? Redhat needed a compiler - anyone with an Alpha machine, IA/64, S/390 and other non X86 platforms laughs when comparing GCC performance/optimizations compared to ANY other compiler (try CCC on alpha to see what I mean)...
So what comes out of this release in terms of release? that finally - GCC 3.0 is out the door. True - it causes tons of new problems (don't try to compile KDE on it), but the development/release ratio is much better now - and tommorow we'll see the much improved 3.0.1 version.
Things move very differently in open source...