I take it you didn't read the big bold text in the centre of the page which says:
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, and FreeBSD.
or pay any attention to the files in "download" with the extensions.zip or even.sea.bin
Linuxprinting lists it as a paperweight. This is the danger of buying hardware from vendors who do not have a policy of open driver development. In this case, printers, stay away from anything which isn't an Epson, or perhaps HP. And good luck getting your Nvidia card working with Windows XS in a few years time.
Fine. Thats what happens if after time your posts don't tow the party line, and bit by bit your karma goes down until it hits -5 and you get the coveted default post of -1.
What Klerck is talking about is bitchslapping. This is where your posting history is trawled and many (more than 5) old comments are marked "overrated" in a period of minutes. What do I mean by old? Comments that are about 2 weeks old or more, which have passed out of circulation and you wouldn't normally expect to be moderated. Why overrated? Because that doesn't show up in metamoderation. How could it be more than 5? Because it isn't an ordinary moderator (who only has 5 points at his disposal). The only people who have unlimited mod points are the Editors, and therefore the only bitchslappers are... you guessed it, the Editors. Next time you hear them saying how censorship is wrong, my advice is to take it with a pinch of salt.
This is a helpful page, as is this one. There probably isn't a tool to convert from one to the other, but Firestarter is handy to create firewalls. Any more questions?
(PS. posting first is irrelevant in these quiet sections.)
When was Slashdot ever useful and/or cool? Anyway, don't posting delays, moderation, and the lameness filter work well enough to eliminate the trolls, or do those hacks just get in the way of normal posters?
It sounds from your comments I guess buying the bundle will be a little less painful if you get good games with the system that you were going to buy an xbox anyway and you just hope you get good games with it, although ultimately not caring.
Now if you had an Oddworld fetish and had to buy whatever system needed to play it then I might understand (but not neccessarily approve).
But as it is you're just going to blindly hand over your cash to Microsoft. What next? Reviewing DVDs made by the MPAA? Selling proprietry closed source versions of slashcode or sf? Storing and selling profiles of users of this website?
You're obviously not the freedom fighter I once thought you were.
You are absolutely right. Originally, the Fasttrack protocol (used by Music city) enabled any client to connect to anything else (usually the supernodes though) and only used the central server when the client couldn't find anything.
But, either in response to giFT or as a money grabbing thing, the protocol was changed so that the client had to get a cryptographic key before being able to connect to the network (I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but its all there on the giFT website).
So, Musiccity are being a little ingenious when they say no central servers. That is how it started, but if their servers were taken away there would be no Morpheus.
He also owns Fox I believe, the Star network in Asia, and is trying to buy a satellite TV company in the US - using the rather ironic argument that if its competitor buys it there is the danger of all the satellite TV market in the US owned by one company.
But Michael Caires, PR manager for Orlando Sandford International Airport, said that in the US, luggage placed in the hold of a plane was not routinely x-rayed, although spot-checks on bags were carried out.
If you were going to smuggle a bomb on board, where do you think you would hide it?
Anyway, what about the chap in Chicago, who first had two knives confiscated, but allowed to continue, then only because of random spot checks the stun gun etc was found. Then arrested. Then bailed. Then rearrested by the FBI. Now, I'm sure the chap is as innocent as he says, but no wonder why so many people are afraid to fly.
What's more ironic is that the country which has just suffered the most outrageous terrorist attack ever (apart from nuclear strikes to civilian cities and the fire bombing of Dresden) and has upped its airport security let these people and their weapons aboard a plane who were then arrested in the UK after their flight.
Given the enourmous scaling problems that gnutella has (plus the fact that 9 times out of ten if you download you get something from goatse.cx instead), shouldn't these people concentrate on improving the protocol rather than bogging it down even more?
This is slashdot, every other post mentioning Cowboy Bebop, which is also Fucking stupid pop culture (but I don't know about teenie bopping spick loving fat ass wobbling mother fucking cunts), gets modded up, so why shouldn't this?
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or pay any attention to the files in "download" with the extensions
Something like SDL you mean?
It might work, except there isn't one.
Linuxprinting lists it as a paperweight. This is the danger of buying hardware from vendors who do not have a policy of open driver development. In this case, printers, stay away from anything which isn't an Epson, or perhaps HP. And good luck getting your Nvidia card working with Windows XS in a few years time.
Fine. Thats what happens if after time your posts don't tow the party line, and bit by bit your karma goes down until it hits -5 and you get the coveted default post of -1.
What Klerck is talking about is bitchslapping. This is where your posting history is trawled and many (more than 5) old comments are marked "overrated" in a period of minutes. What do I mean by old? Comments that are about 2 weeks old or more, which have passed out of circulation and you wouldn't normally expect to be moderated. Why overrated? Because that doesn't show up in metamoderation. How could it be more than 5? Because it isn't an ordinary moderator (who only has 5 points at his disposal). The only people who have unlimited mod points are the Editors, and therefore the only bitchslappers are... you guessed it, the Editors. Next time you hear them saying how censorship is wrong, my advice is to take it with a pinch of salt.
this [nonsense] is supposed to stop things like this happening.
This is a helpful page, as is this one. There probably isn't a tool to convert from one to the other, but Firestarter is handy to create firewalls. Any more questions?
(PS. posting first is irrelevant in these quiet sections.)
No matter how much north americans slag off France, you have to admit that they are fascinated by it. A classic case of penis envy if you ask me.
When was Slashdot ever useful and/or cool? Anyway, don't posting delays, moderation, and the lameness filter work well enough to eliminate the trolls, or do those hacks just get in the way of normal posters?
But the point of this is that Linux is now THE competitor, and that is news. At least for nerds it is.
Does anybody need that much porn?
Here, I hope this helps.
(For the Goatse.cx weary: http://www.zgeek.com/images/news/america.gif
Shit. How could I miss that? Anyway, had I know I wouldn't have even bothered posting. Everybody knows how hypocritical he is.
It sounds from your comments I guess buying the bundle will be a little less painful if you get good games with the system that you were going to buy an xbox anyway and you just hope you get good games with it, although ultimately not caring.
Now if you had an Oddworld fetish and had to buy whatever system needed to play it then I might understand (but not neccessarily approve).
But as it is you're just going to blindly hand over your cash to Microsoft. What next? Reviewing DVDs made by the MPAA? Selling proprietry closed source versions of slashcode or sf? Storing and selling profiles of users of this website?
You're obviously not the freedom fighter I once thought you were.
That's just one of the problems of being an 11 year old.
You are absolutely right. Originally, the Fasttrack protocol (used by Music city) enabled any client to connect to anything else (usually the supernodes though) and only used the central server when the client couldn't find anything.
But, either in response to giFT or as a money grabbing thing, the protocol was changed so that the client had to get a cryptographic key before being able to connect to the network (I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but its all there on the giFT website).
So, Musiccity are being a little ingenious when they say no central servers. That is how it started, but if their servers were taken away there would be no Morpheus.
Rupert Murdoch.
He also owns Fox I believe, the Star network in Asia, and is trying to buy a satellite TV company in the US - using the rather ironic argument that if its competitor buys it there is the danger of all the satellite TV market in the US owned by one company.
CCTV doesn't eliminate crime, it just moves it to other areas without cameras.
If you were going to smuggle a bomb on board, where do you think you would hide it?
Anyway, what about the chap in Chicago, who first had two knives confiscated, but allowed to continue, then only because of random spot checks the stun gun etc was found. Then arrested. Then bailed. Then rearrested by the FBI. Now, I'm sure the chap is as innocent as he says, but no wonder why so many people are afraid to fly.
What's more ironic is that the country which has just suffered the most outrageous terrorist attack ever (apart from nuclear strikes to civilian cities and the fire bombing of Dresden) and has upped its airport security let these people and their weapons aboard a plane who were then arrested in the UK after their flight.
When you are tired of CS, it's time to play Urban Terror Instead
Nope, it is the City of London. And although £250 a month will get you a shoebox, per week you can have a very nice pad.
Its lucky that nothing like that would ever happen in the land of the free.
ps. I hate responding to so called trolls, but this one has been modded up twice
Given the enourmous scaling problems that gnutella has (plus the fact that 9 times out of ten if you download you get something from goatse.cx instead), shouldn't these people concentrate on improving the protocol rather than bogging it down even more?
This is an exact copy of a post to usenet. Casey has built up his karma by accusing other people of doing this, but has now decided to do it for himself. Moderators, please mod him down
This is slashdot, every other post mentioning Cowboy Bebop, which is also Fucking stupid pop culture (but I don't know about teenie bopping spick loving fat ass wobbling mother fucking cunts), gets modded up, so why shouldn't this?