For the past couple of months I been checking
www.objective-c.org it seems to have been taken over by some co. I have no idea about what happened to it. I was planning to learn Objective-C, but I have no idea where their web site has been displaced to. Anyone know what happend to the objective-c site?
Here is the google cache of the objective-c site before 'Arrow Ritcher' got it (who ever they are). I hope google dont ever update their cache, til I find where their site has gone to.
The BBC TV show Tomorrows World had this some time ago. The idea demonstrated then was for use in night clubs, ie go on the dance floor get blasted as expected, but walk off, eg to the bar, and NO sound at all. ofcource this puts a big hole in that tv add for...er i forget its name (but any UK peep who watches enough tv should know =)
I have a ATI AIW 32MB DDR, and my tribes2 can get a lil laggy esp when their are some vehicles on my screen. reading my X log I notices that DRI was using 1X mode for AGP. after some RTFM, I found the option to kick it into 4x. Anyway the point being it didn't help speed up the game gfx (well i didn't notice much difference)
In case ur wondering for ATI cards the XF86Config option is: Option "AGPMode" "4"
Also i noticed: Option "AGPSize" "32" But i cant tell if setting this bigger then the ram on the card helps or not (maybe that the buffer size opt?), was hoping to let the card borrow more of my sys ram (which is pc100, slow compared to gfx cards DDR, but better then hdd =) anyone know any other good opts to help eek more speed?
I hope they haven't learnt too much, if IBM retakes the monopoly from MS, it'll find it self bound by the GPL and other Open source licences, to play fair So unlike with MS now, other will be able to compete and interoperate with IBM. These monopolies (imo) have been able to last because no one can provide a good alternative, since they are unable to operate with the current market leader. even sucessive version of MS products become less and less able to work with their predecessor. while POSIX systems are always compatable with the past and each other. Within reason eg./sbin/iptables aint going to work with linux 2.0, or is it? as well as being POSIX compliant (i'll leave the purist to argue how much) its open source, so if some needed it to, it can easily be ported.
Of course, Debian itself has some work to do before it becomes LSB-compliant. For one thing, the LSB has decided that RPM 3 will be the standard Linux package manager
You can apt-get install rpm if you want. But I hope debian doesn't replace.deb with.rpm IMHO I think LSB is wrong to specify this, for what should it matter to a running app what package files are used, unless that app is involved with the package system.
IHMO one of the main reasons for Windows being most common is not just OEM (ie pre installed). But Schools, a _lot_ of PCs that are bought for the home are for the kids to do shcool work on, and so the OS the family choose is almost always the same a schools.
also the OS you grow up on tends to be the one you'll take with you into life. I know some point you'll use what ever OS they use at your work place, but remeber that it was some one at your work place who choose what OS to use, and they unduobtedly choose the OS best known to them.
Hacker (white hats) codes for the good of (wo)man kind;-) whether thats coding (hacking) a program (or a kernel) or breaking into a remote machine AND then sending the admin of said machine info about the hack (eg how was done, maybe how to fix). hackers can get paid to do this!
Crackers (black hats) just likes to go round and break stuff, and is almost always what the media mean when they say hacker.
It'll be open source, and that would be way too annoying, in like 30mins there'll be a patch so you dont need to recompile, just edit some config file in/etc (or ~/) and then '/etc/init.d/tv reload'
Ofcourse that'll be too hard for some again and mdk will give make a nice gui, which the lots may like. but some will be cursing it cause it ruined the nice 'n' tidy formating in said config, and beg their CLI forgivness for ever try a GUI config app
I see a lot of post here, and hear a lot of apache admins go on about their logs filling with attacks from CodeRed, Nimda, etc (which obviously get no where)
So my thought is could the increase of attacks on linux box be beacuse most(all?) the MS boxes are infected drones, all attacking every IP they see? and thus more linux boxes get attacked.
I know it an extreme view, but a Nimda drone attacking an apache box, although pointless, is still adds to the statistic of more linux boxes being attacked
What i'd like to know does/will Linux on Xbox be able to run/play existing xbox games? Or will you still have to boot the WinCE on it? maybe an adaptation of wine? winCE cant have as big interface as main windows.
Now other post have talk about sticking it to M$, but it would realy hurt them if Xbox linux can play xbox games. Even more if some (main stream) game developers made games that use linux on xbox
its an iso, so is a.bin the extentions (to unix anyway) means nothing, there only there to help humans* but anyway think about, they called it.raw cause its a raw image of a CD, but CDs are iso9660 so, the image is an 'iso'. (rename it.iso if u want)
If you a linux,BSD,etc user (or plan on moving to) remember this technique to help confuse the windows users and their programs =)
*except for some realy anoying programs like bzip2, which seems to complain about expanding files that dont end in bz2, realy annoying
Much my suprise
netcraft
showed that
www.linuxworldexpo.com
is running on MS machines! Now I know that the web server s/w id can be faked (eg walmart)
but the OS is shown as MS too! also they have had linux+apache listed in the past,
so i can only guess that they may have a mix (mirrors)
or have switch to MS totaly =/
I agree, with an opensource codec, even if it disapears in 25 years, you'll always have the source code (assuming u kept a copy =) even if ur not a coder, it shouldn't be too hard to find some one who can use it to make a codec for what ever you'll use then. plus open source and unix in general always has had a better track record of backwards compatability. and with a close sourced codec if it goes out of fashion you may have a hard time using it in future.
you could run introductory computer (and advanced) classes and maybe home tutorials (for money).
the first will help improve the ur customers computer literacy, and the later is very helpful/assuring to them.
you'll maybe need more ppl for it, and maybe some will need to go on a simple teaching course (cause it not as easy as u think to communicate alien ideas to ppl;-)
and maybe use the popular buzz words, like this pc is 'internet ready' =)
why not enable wake on lan, then if they did goto to sleep (or even switched off) they'll still service any networking request, which is why i think u want them on? If that wasn't the reason u wanted them on, then just enable wake on lan any way, and ping them every 5 min =)
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Heres the/. story of the bug (was on front page, 17 june), and
heres the story of the release a day later of a update FIXING the bug.
Obvious this worm only affects ppl who have not updated their apache, and to laugh at ur 'IIS swiss cheese' which seems to take a couple of months before a fix is released (not to mention the foolish concept that you can hide any bug via secuirty through obscurity)
I'm interested to see what countries like china, who are pushing hard for the use of Non-MS s/w (from MS point of view), will do when MS throw money at them?
What were their original intentions? -Open source is better we should use it -Lets scare MS into giving us a better offer
I hope/feel China is of the first, but I wonder about others. I live in the UK where our authorities (NHS IIRC) were looking at Linux til MS gave a discount
I hope it can still be turned off. I prefere to have seperate/independant WM in each screen. One main reason for this is with xinerama on screen 1 wont have full HW acceleration from my radeon.
I have to agree, set their 'My Documents' to a netshare thats backed (I use U: for 'You' or 'User;-) drive home if it not on there (if only a copy) then any loss is their responcibility.
A lot of things like word can be set to save a backup similtaneously, when u save your working copy
If you dont know, I suggest you look for a prog on ur windows CD called 'poledit' or policy editor and some starter.ADM template files, the basic 'common.adm' should be a good starter.
Now crate a 'config.pol' file you can make easy changes to systems setting like Shell Folders (ie where my documents is) and not need to learn about/how the windows registry works or laid out. (the template files provide the abstraction)
Now to get the work station to load it. If they already have to login to a NT Domain, create a share called 'NETLOGON' and place 'config.pol' in their next time the logon their work station will load the policy. If not put it on a share and go around each machine with poledit open their registry with it, and change the Update Path for the machine to look at the location of ur config.pol
This is a very power full tool to change/enforce settings on work station, you can overide/set defaults for every thing. Their other.adm files for other stuff (be carefull some overlap) and you can make ur own.
*disclaimer I have not done any of this windows configuration for a long time (switched to linux) and so some names and info maybe out of date or plain wrong, but it should point u in the right direction. oh and be careful being MS once you set a policy it is sometimes hard to undo, you can still change it, but its hard to go back to the true (original/cryptic?) defaults.
To do anything these viruses need to run as root. But the article make no mention of this, or how a virus could get root.
If the user is using root as their user account, then its their fault if they get infected. Maybe trick the user, I know I worry about installing closed source stuff as root, hance my UT and Tribes2 is installed under another user.
Yes a virus could have fun in/tmp doing stuff, and maybe write to a users.bashrc (or equiv) so the virus get to run when ever the user logs in. But I dont see how a virus could do much more then mess with that user's files, it cant play with other users on the system (unless they get infected) and it cant attack the system itself
I play Tribes2 w/ the gfx settings turned right up (bar gamma for u pedantic ppl;-) Thats under linux w/ AMD Athlon 1GHz 640MB PC100 and a ATI AIW Radeon 32MB.* My bros PII 400MHz 256MB and ATI Rage 16MB (since u compared to a 486 MSDOS being better) cant get near that in Widnows or Linux, although he too plays tribes2 in linux =P
I think that either: 1) you not configured your DRI correct?
a) not compiled/loaded correct kernel modules for ur X
b) not setup X config (eg do you have DRI mode 666?) 2) you have an unsupported gfx card, from a open source unfriendly company?
And I disagree with Unix or Linux being bad for 3D. I did a Java3D honours project for my uni course, all in linux (and Solaris). Java! you cant get more universal then that? (Linux J3D @ blackdown.org).
While I admit to still having a windows partition for my games addiction, I have barely ever used in a year. One of the best advantage linux has over windows IMHO is the gamecon kernel module (excelent when used with console emulators) it let you plug upto 5 console pads to ur PC (NES SNES N64 PSX....etc)
*you must know if u post ur pc stats on/. you'll start a mine is bigger then urs contest;-) (resubmitted since I got an error page, soz if a repeat)
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For the past couple of months I been checking www.objective-c.org it seems to have been taken over by some co. I have no idea about what happened to it.
I was planning to learn Objective-C, but I have no idea where their web site has been displaced to.
Anyone know what happend to the objective-c site?
Here is the google cache of the objective-c site before 'Arrow Ritcher' got it (who ever they are). I hope google dont ever update their cache, til I find where their site has gone to.
The BBC TV show Tomorrows World had this some time ago. The idea demonstrated then was for use in night clubs, ie go on the dance floor get blasted as expected, but walk off, eg to the bar, and NO sound at all. ...er i forget its name (but any UK peep who watches enough tv should know =)
ofcource this puts a big hole in that tv add for
I have a ATI AIW 32MB DDR, and my tribes2 can get a lil laggy esp when their are some vehicles on my screen.
reading my X log I notices that DRI was using 1X mode for AGP. after some RTFM, I found the option to kick it into 4x.
Anyway the point being it didn't help speed up the game gfx (well i didn't notice much difference)
In case ur wondering for ATI cards the XF86Config option is:
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Also i noticed:
Option "AGPSize" "32"
But i cant tell if setting this bigger then the ram on the card helps or not (maybe that the buffer size opt?), was hoping to let the card borrow more of my sys ram (which is pc100, slow compared to gfx cards DDR, but better then hdd =)
anyone know any other good opts to help eek more speed?
I hope they haven't learnt too much, if IBM retakes the monopoly from MS, it'll find it self bound by the GPL and other Open source licences, to play fair /sbin/iptables aint going to work with linux 2.0, or is it? as well as being POSIX compliant (i'll leave the purist to argue how much) its open source, so if some needed it to, it can easily be ported.
So unlike with MS now, other will be able to compete and interoperate with IBM.
These monopolies (imo) have been able to last because no one can provide a good alternative, since they are unable to operate with the current market leader.
even sucessive version of MS products become less and less able to work with their predecessor. while POSIX systems are always compatable with the past and each other. Within reason eg.
wasn't the suposed millenium bug because back in 1970 ppl figured we wouldn't be use that h/w any more, and updated
Of course, Debian itself has some work to do before it becomes LSB-compliant. For one thing, the LSB has decided that RPM 3 will be the standard Linux package manager
.deb with .rpm
You can apt-get install rpm if you want. But I hope debian doesn't replace
IMHO I think LSB is wrong to specify this, for what should it matter to a running app what package files are used, unless that app is involved with the package system.
IHMO one of the main reasons for Windows being most common is not just OEM (ie pre installed). But Schools, a _lot_ of PCs that are bought for the home are for the kids to do shcool work on, and so the OS the family choose is almost always the same a schools.
also the OS you grow up on tends to be the one you'll take with you into life.
I know some point you'll use what ever OS they use at your work place, but remeber that it was some one at your work place who choose what OS to use, and they unduobtedly choose the OS best known to them.
Hacker (white hats) codes for the good of (wo)man kind ;-)
whether thats coding (hacking) a program (or a kernel) or breaking into a remote machine AND then sending the admin of said machine info about the hack (eg how was done, maybe how to fix). hackers can get paid to do this!
Crackers (black hats) just likes to go round and break stuff, and is almost always what the media mean when they say hacker.
this is just my view, others may differ
It'll be open source, and that would be way too annoying, in like 30mins there'll be a patch so you dont need to recompile, just edit some config file in /etc (or ~/) and then '/etc/init.d/tv reload'
Ofcourse that'll be too hard for some again and mdk will give make a nice gui, which the lots may like.
but some will be cursing it cause it ruined the nice 'n' tidy formating in said config, and beg their CLI forgivness for ever try a GUI config app
=)
I see a lot of post here, and hear a lot of apache admins go on about their logs filling with attacks from CodeRed, Nimda, etc (which obviously get no where)
So my thought is could the increase of attacks on linux box be beacuse most(all?) the MS boxes are infected drones, all attacking every IP they see?
and thus more linux boxes get attacked.
I know it an extreme view, but a Nimda drone attacking an apache box, although pointless, is still adds to the statistic of more linux boxes being attacked
What i'd like to know does/will Linux on Xbox be able to run/play existing xbox games?
Or will you still have to boot the WinCE on it?
maybe an adaptation of wine? winCE cant have as big interface as main windows.
Now other post have talk about sticking it to M$, but it would realy hurt them if Xbox linux can play xbox games. Even more if some (main stream) game developers made games that use linux on xbox
its an iso, so is a .bin .raw cause its a raw image of a CD, but CDs are iso9660 so, the image is an 'iso'. (rename it .iso if u want)
the extentions (to unix anyway) means nothing, there only there to help humans*
but anyway think about, they called it
If you a linux,BSD,etc user (or plan on moving to) remember this technique to help confuse the windows users and their programs =)
*except for some realy anoying programs like bzip2, which seems to complain about expanding files that dont end in bz2, realy annoying
Much my suprise netcraft showed that www.linuxworldexpo.com is running on MS machines!
Now I know that the web server s/w id can be faked (eg walmart) but the OS is shown as MS too!
also they have had linux+apache listed in the past, so i can only guess that they may have a mix (mirrors) or have switch to MS totaly =/
I agree, with an opensource codec, even if it disapears in 25 years, you'll always have the source code (assuming u kept a copy =)
even if ur not a coder, it shouldn't be too hard to find some one who can use it to make a codec for what ever you'll use then.
plus open source and unix in general always has had a better track record of backwards compatability.
and with a close sourced codec if it goes out of fashion you may have a hard time using it in future.
you could run introductory computer (and advanced) classes and maybe home tutorials (for money).
;-)
the first will help improve the ur customers computer literacy, and the later is very helpful/assuring to them.
you'll maybe need more ppl for it, and maybe some will need to go on a simple teaching course (cause it not as easy as u think to communicate alien ideas to ppl
and maybe use the popular buzz words, like this pc is 'internet ready' =)
why not enable wake on lan, then if they did goto to sleep (or even switched off) they'll still service any networking request, which is why i think u want them on?
If that wasn't the reason u wanted them on, then just enable wake on lan any way, and ping them every 5 min =)
Heres the /. story of the bug (was on front page, 17 june), and
heres the story of the release a day later of a update FIXING the bug.
Obvious this worm only affects ppl who have not updated their apache, and to laugh at ur 'IIS swiss cheese' which seems to take a couple of months before a fix is released (not to mention the foolish concept that you can hide any bug via secuirty through obscurity)
I'm interested to see what countries like china, who are pushing hard for the use of Non-MS s/w (from MS point of view), will do when MS throw money at them?
What were their original intentions?
-Open source is better we should use it
-Lets scare MS into giving us a better offer
I hope/feel China is of the first, but I wonder about others. I live in the UK where our authorities (NHS IIRC) were looking at Linux til MS gave a discount
I hope it can still be turned off.
I prefere to have seperate/independant WM in each screen.
One main reason for this is with xinerama on screen 1 wont have full HW acceleration from my radeon.
I have to agree, set their 'My Documents' to a netshare thats backed (I use U: for 'You' or 'User ;-) drive home if it not on there (if only a copy) then any loss is their responcibility.
.ADM template files, the basic 'common.adm' should be a good starter.
.adm files for other stuff (be carefull some overlap) and you can make ur own.
A lot of things like word can be set to save a backup similtaneously, when u save your working copy
If you dont know, I suggest you look for a prog on ur windows CD called 'poledit' or policy editor and some starter
Now crate a 'config.pol' file you can make easy changes to systems setting like Shell Folders (ie where my documents is) and not need to learn about/how the windows registry works or laid out.
(the template files provide the abstraction)
Now to get the work station to load it. If they already have to login to a NT Domain, create a share called 'NETLOGON' and place 'config.pol' in their next time the logon their work station will load the policy. If not put it on a share and go around each machine with poledit open their registry with it, and change the Update Path for the machine to look at the location of ur config.pol
This is a very power full tool to change/enforce settings on work station, you can overide/set defaults for every thing. Their other
*disclaimer I have not done any of this windows configuration for a long time (switched to linux) and so some names and info maybe out of date or plain wrong, but it should point u in the right direction. oh and be careful being MS once you set a policy it is sometimes hard to undo, you can still change it, but its hard to go back to the true (original/cryptic?) defaults.
To do anything these viruses need to run as root. But the article make no mention of this, or how a virus could get root.
/tmp doing stuff, and maybe write to a users .bashrc (or equiv) so the virus get to run when ever the user logs in.
If the user is using root as their user account, then its their fault if they get infected. Maybe trick the user, I know I worry about installing closed source stuff as root, hance my UT and Tribes2 is installed under another user.
Yes a virus could have fun in
But I dont see how a virus could do much more then mess with that user's files, it cant play with other users on the system (unless they get infected) and it cant attack the system itself
I play Tribes2 w/ the gfx settings turned right up (bar gamma for u pedantic ppl ;-)
/. you'll start a mine is bigger then urs contest ;-)
Thats under linux w/ AMD Athlon 1GHz 640MB PC100 and a ATI AIW Radeon 32MB.*
My bros PII 400MHz 256MB and ATI Rage 16MB (since u compared to a 486 MSDOS being better) cant get near that in Widnows or Linux, although he too plays tribes2 in linux =P
I think that either:
1) you not configured your DRI correct?
a) not compiled/loaded correct kernel modules for ur X
b) not setup X config (eg do you have DRI mode 666?)
2) you have an unsupported gfx card, from a open source unfriendly company?
And I disagree with Unix or Linux being bad for 3D. I did a Java3D honours project for my uni course, all in linux (and Solaris). Java! you cant get more universal then that? (Linux J3D @ blackdown.org).
While I admit to still having a windows partition for my games addiction, I have barely ever used in a year. One of the best advantage linux has over windows IMHO is the gamecon kernel module (excelent when used with console emulators) it let you plug upto 5 console pads to ur PC (NES SNES N64 PSX....etc)
*you must know if u post ur pc stats on
(resubmitted since I got an error page, soz if a repeat)
I would make the game engine code GPL, but all the art work, levels, designs, textures; private.
So people can use your code to make their own game, and also you get the communities support, eg find/fix bugs.
and you also keep what make you game unique to your self to make money.
32bit UNIX systems will run out in 2038.
but by then we'll all be running 64bit right?
If it aint broke, it clearly does not have enough features.