NT's repartition and reformat interface design is good and convenient. But it isn't as flexible as I'd like. Since MS operating systems (don't know about w2k though) don't like more than one primary partition, if you were trying to install NT alongside Linux, you'd better install NT first. I've had NT screw up my Linux partitions too many times in the past (which got me sooo upset).
As an aside, I really like the Linux fdisk utility. RedHat doesn't seem to include it in the new release (6.1) but I dug out my old RHL4.1 CD and used it when the MS fdisk could not be used to save my housemate's horribly trashed filesystems when he was playing with Win2k. We just needed to systematically set partitions as bootable to find the right one (his BIOS prompt kept coming up asking for a command interpreter after he had screwed things up). MS fdisk would not let him do such a thing in such a seemingly screwed up state.
I believe that when John Carmack mentions that many companies will be noting the Linux sales figures, that it doesn't just mean other game companies. Hardware companies like video card makers will also be watching closely.
Hopefully this will push them to support Linux or put more effort in improving and optimizing their Linux drivers. So in the end, even non-gamers should benefit.
It is very amazing that id Software is willing to take initiative to attempt to prove the viability of non-MS platforms.
I don't run any real servers personally either. So my direct everyday experience is at the power-home-user workstation level.
In my house network (with 5 other housemates' computers + a small 486 NAT FreeBSD server for cable internet) with various printers, scanners, etc., I'm the lone Linux user. The reliability of my Linux system is causing me to develop a lower tolerance threshold to crashes. I get pretty irritated nowadays whenever one of my housemates insists I go over so he can show me something and then I have to wait for reboots or sudden lockups in applications.
They tweak and fixup their systems as best as documented, so that argument isn't going to hold.
It's just that at the workstation level, the added variability causes drastic decreases in reliability of the NT machines. Performance differences aren't going to be really noticed between all our systems (P2's or P3's) since we don't usually use our computing power to maximum potential but if you want to factor in all the rebooting or waiting for tasks to be killed to resume operation, then that would be significant.
This is based on observation of what happens in my house for the past three years.
You must not be tracking E that closely. Snapshots are made VERY frequently ie. 0.16-devel-x and 0.16-pre-x (after feature-freeze). CVS access is also always available for those wanting the bleeding-edge.
On the mailing list, I've seen people submit patches, suggest grammatical changes, ask for features, question design aspects, and so on. Raster and Mandrake have basically responded to everything.
Enlightenment is a very graphical hack, but polish has not been set aside. Mandrake just wrote a help system (loads the first time you run E to help first-timers), bugs are always dealt with whenever discovered, many usability improving features like the iconbox and pager, work on Imlib2 which should improve speed significantly (according to Rasterman), and work on a new filemanager. There's more but my point should have been made.
To sum it up, I see Enlightenment improving in just about every way including its polish.
Wouldn't putting a message about how Mandrake Linux is based off RedHat Linux and lists it's improvements (like the ones you mentioned) on the box make it even more enticing?
I would feel a lot more comfortable purchasing Mandrake Linux this way since I know how well- established RedHat Linux already is. And wouldn't perceive Mandrake Linux as another startup distro that probably still needs to get a lot of things ironed-out.
I used to follow the ICQ newsgroups and I had tried helping someone do this exact thing. They said their computer was stolen but a friend had seen the account logged in after it was stolen and even had a copy of her contact file that contained that last IP.
I didn't know if that IP was accurate. But I explained about locating the ISP and contacting them. I detailed what had to be done, whether it was to traceroute by themselves, or ask Mirabilis to help them trace the logins of that account. Actually, I think I had asked Mirabilis for login information but the answer was that they did not have any logging in place so they couldn't help.
I didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks and by then I had stopped following those newsgroups. I had forgotten all about this till now.
At least this is how I remember it...it was around first quarter 1998 I think.
Funny how I am totally opposite in preference towards using spelled keywords as opposed to symbols.
I find it much speedier to read code, especially someone else's, in C as opposed to say more wordy languages like Pascal and Visual Basic. Syntax highlighting in the IDE helps a lot, but when there are words all over the place, I find myself delayed by having to read them, like reading a story where you don't want to accidentally skip over important words.
It's mostly a minor issue, but I find myself able to get an idea of a block of C code faster in situations where a lot of conditions are being evaluated. Probably because I don't have to go back and make sure that I correctly read the Not's and And's and didn't mistaken them for variables or something. There's no confusing an && symbol from an || symbol (at least for me).
Even having said all this, too much symbols is also confusing and also slows me down:) I guess I have too many problems:)
On another note, I think the "Then" keyword after an "If" condition is very annoying and waste of time to have to type out. Grrr.
I used to be in a Christian school when I was much younger. Now I'm in my third year of university studying Life Sciences.
For a long time now, I've decided that Creation and Evolution do not conflict. In fact, the Pope understands this as well, since I found out a few years ago that he has accepted the theory of evolution.
Think of how the Bible was written. Obviously it could not have been written in such a detailed scientific way that the people of the time could't understand (if it is even possible to precisely explain the work of something that is not bound by the laws of our universe). It had to be written in a way that would make sense back then, and still make sense throughout time. The best way that I believe this could be done, is by using simple analogies that we can all understand. The purpose was to explain that God is behind all of this. And the scripture at the beginning of Genesis accomplishes this.
Also remember, just as chapters of a book have varying lengths, the usage of a "day" in The Book of Genesis may have simply represented many millions of years. In fact, was the word "day" used before the earth was mentioned to be created? Maybe the reference point was around something else revolving very slowly...Anyways, my point is that it was used as a division of time and not a fixed amount of time.
That is my opinion. I don't mind in being enlightening by someone if my logic is flawed.
The objections were because it seems a waste of CPU and memory when serving up static content to use technologies that are for generating dynamic content.
I can't listen to the RA interview, but I think they are extracting the leech neurons before using them and not directly connecting a bunch of leeches together. They are just extracting the neurons from leeches to use, probably because leeches are abundant and their neurons are simple and easy to extract (and thick enough to insert electrodes).
I didn't do that well in my Neuroscience course:), but I'm pretty sure that the leeches would not appreciate having their neural pathways change on them (they wouldn't be able to maintain proper bodily functions...) and having the neurons still inside the leeches would make it difficult for scientists to control the environment and introduce the proper signal molecules to direct neural growth and development (since the leech would be doing that too and therefore the two would interfere with each other).
When you say you rebooted once in the last month, does that mean the computer was running without being shutdown the rest of the time?
A major part of my summer job is to do intranet development on NT servers. Properly configured or not, it's hard for me to imagine that if you did serious work that you didn't have to reboot more often (or turn on/off the computer daily), especially if you run hefty games (ie StarCraft) on the same machine. This is from my personal experience.
I've been hacking on (and inside) Microsoft operating systems for the longest time and have only been using Linux for a few years. You can only stand to learn a lot from using Linux. I know I have. Don't let the super-deluxe pro-Linux comments dissuade you.
I went over to the RedHat website to look over the details of the 6.0 package. Reading through the packages, I saw that they now (as of May 27) ship versions that don't include support and the extra CD. Just the 2 CD's with a manual for $40.
From the RH Announce List: Ryan Weaver has made an RPM and a SRPM of xscreensaver 3.11
Should be available on: ftp://contrib.redhat.com ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/xscreensaver/ ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.falsehope.com/xs creensaver/ ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/xscreensaver/
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic to imply that the news item was poorly written, but just in case...
q3test is a technology test released by id Software for their upcoming game Quake 3: Arena. They release the test so that the public can report bugs to them so that the final product will be much more solid than if they did in-house bug-hunting. I don't think they've released a Windows version yet because they are waiting for the 3d card manufacturers to finish up their OpenGL drivers.
...but I had to copy the libMesaGL.so.3.1 to the q3test directory and rename it to libGL.so. And obviously, the framerate was WAY too slow:) I ran it on my P2-350 w/ 128MB RAM.
I had lots of fun playing Wolf3d but I would always eventually get nauseated (sp?). I think it was because my _intentions_ to turn did not correspond to how fast I could turn my character in the game. This was fixed when I started using the mouse as the controller.
Anyways, I felt Doom I/II captivated me even more. Especially the sound of triggering the Cyberdemon. And the level designs amazed me.
I was wondering, since it's still March 31st were I am, but a quick trip to the site shows the date as April 1st:)
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I think the post got criticized not only because it lacked constructive criticism, but because it was an unnecessary personal insult to the developer(s), whether or not what was said was true.
There are much better ways to handle your disappointment, in my opinion, than to simply knock people down for what they worked on very hard.
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NT's repartition and reformat interface design is good and convenient. But it isn't as flexible as I'd like. Since MS operating systems (don't know about w2k though) don't like more than one primary partition, if you were trying to install NT alongside Linux, you'd better install NT first. I've had NT screw up my Linux partitions too many times in the past (which got me sooo upset).
As an aside, I really like the Linux fdisk utility. RedHat doesn't seem to include it in the new release (6.1) but I dug out my old RHL4.1 CD and used it when the MS fdisk could not be used to save my housemate's horribly trashed filesystems when he was playing with Win2k. We just needed to systematically set partitions as bootable to find the right one (his BIOS prompt kept coming up asking for a command interpreter after he had screwed things up). MS fdisk would not let him do such a thing in such a seemingly screwed up state.
JC had a info about this a long time ago in his finger.
Trinity was just a name that represented the various things on which he was doing research. It got stuck as his next-generation engine.
It was not practical to complete all aspects of his research (Trinity) to release their next game.
I believe that when John Carmack mentions that many companies will be noting the Linux sales figures, that it doesn't just mean other game companies. Hardware companies like video card makers will also be watching closely.
Hopefully this will push them to support Linux or put more effort in improving and optimizing their Linux drivers. So in the end, even non-gamers should benefit.
It is very amazing that id Software is willing to take initiative to attempt to prove the viability of non-MS platforms.
I don't run any real servers personally either. So my direct everyday experience is at the power-home-user workstation level.
In my house network (with 5 other housemates' computers + a small 486 NAT FreeBSD server for cable internet) with various printers, scanners, etc., I'm the lone Linux user. The reliability of my Linux system is causing me to develop a lower tolerance threshold to crashes. I get pretty irritated nowadays whenever one of my housemates insists I go over so he can show me something and then I have to wait for reboots or sudden lockups in applications.
They tweak and fixup their systems as best as documented, so that argument isn't going to hold.
It's just that at the workstation level, the added variability causes drastic decreases in reliability of the NT machines. Performance differences aren't going to be really noticed between all our systems (P2's or P3's) since we don't usually use our computing power to maximum potential but if you want to factor in all the rebooting or waiting for tasks to be killed to resume operation, then that would be significant.
This is based on observation of what happens in my house for the past three years.
He was quoting at0m.
You must not be tracking E that closely. Snapshots are made VERY frequently ie. 0.16-devel-x and 0.16-pre-x (after feature-freeze). CVS access is also always available for those wanting the bleeding-edge.
On the mailing list, I've seen people submit patches, suggest grammatical changes, ask for features, question design aspects, and so on. Raster and Mandrake have basically responded to everything.
Enlightenment is a very graphical hack, but polish has not been set aside. Mandrake just wrote a help system (loads the first time you run E to help first-timers), bugs are always dealt with whenever discovered, many usability improving features like the iconbox and pager, work on Imlib2 which should improve speed significantly (according to Rasterman), and work on a new filemanager. There's more but my point should have been made.
To sum it up, I see Enlightenment improving in just about every way including its polish.
Regards,
Andy
Wouldn't putting a message about how Mandrake Linux
is based off RedHat Linux and lists it's
improvements (like the ones you mentioned) on
the box make it even more enticing?
I would feel a lot more comfortable purchasing
Mandrake Linux this way since I know how well-
established RedHat Linux already is. And wouldn't
perceive Mandrake Linux as another startup distro
that probably still needs to get a lot of things
ironed-out.
Just what I think.
I used to follow the ICQ newsgroups and I had
tried helping someone do this exact thing. They
said their computer was stolen but a friend
had seen the account logged in after it was stolen and even had a copy of her contact file
that contained that last IP.
I didn't know if that IP was accurate. But I
explained about locating the ISP and contacting
them. I detailed what had to be done, whether it
was to traceroute by themselves, or ask Mirabilis to help them trace the logins of that account. Actually, I think I had asked Mirabilis for login
information but the answer was that they did not
have any logging in place so they couldn't help.
I didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks and
by then I had stopped following those newsgroups.
I had forgotten all about this till now.
At least this is how I remember it...it was around first quarter 1998 I think.
Andy
Funny how I am totally opposite in preference
:) I guess :)
towards using spelled keywords as opposed to
symbols.
I find it much speedier to read code, especially
someone else's, in C as opposed to say more wordy
languages like Pascal and Visual Basic. Syntax
highlighting in the IDE helps a lot, but when
there are words all over the place, I find myself
delayed by having to read them, like reading a
story where you don't want to accidentally skip
over important words.
It's mostly a minor issue, but I find myself able
to get an idea of a block of C code faster in
situations where a lot of conditions are being
evaluated. Probably because I don't have to go
back and make sure that I correctly read the
Not's and And's and didn't mistaken them for
variables or something. There's no confusing an
&& symbol from an || symbol (at least for me).
Even having said all this, too much symbols is
also confusing and also slows me down
I have too many problems
On another note, I think the "Then" keyword after
an "If" condition is very annoying and waste of
time to have to type out. Grrr.
Ok, that's enough from me.
I used to be in a Christian school when I was much younger. Now I'm in my third year of university studying Life Sciences.
For a long time now, I've decided that Creation and Evolution do not conflict. In fact, the Pope understands this as well, since I found out a few years ago that he has accepted the theory of evolution.
Think of how the Bible was written. Obviously it could not have been written in such a detailed scientific way that the people of the time could't understand (if it is even possible to precisely explain the work of something that is not bound by the laws of our universe). It had to be written in a way that would make sense back then, and still make sense throughout time. The best way that I believe this could be done, is by using simple analogies that we can all understand. The purpose was to explain that God is behind all of this. And the scripture at the beginning of Genesis accomplishes this.
Also remember, just as chapters of a book have varying lengths, the usage of a "day" in The Book of Genesis may have simply represented many millions of years. In fact, was the word "day" used before the earth was mentioned to be created? Maybe the reference point was around something else revolving very slowly...Anyways, my point is that it was used as a division of time and not a fixed amount of time.
That is my opinion. I don't mind in being enlightening by someone if my logic is flawed.
The objections were because it seems a waste of CPU and memory when serving up static content to use technologies that are for generating dynamic content.
--Andy
I can't listen to the RA interview, but I think they are extracting the leech neurons before using them and not directly connecting a bunch of leeches together. They are just extracting the neurons from leeches to use, probably because leeches are abundant and their neurons are simple and easy to extract (and thick enough to insert electrodes).
:), but I'm pretty sure that the leeches would not appreciate having their neural pathways change on them (they wouldn't be able to maintain proper bodily functions...) and having the neurons still inside the leeches would make it difficult for scientists to control the environment and introduce the proper signal molecules to direct neural growth and development (since the leech would be doing that too and therefore the two would interfere with each other).
I didn't do that well in my Neuroscience course
--Andy.
When you say you rebooted once in the last month, does that mean the computer was running without being shutdown the rest of the time?
A major part of my summer job is to do intranet development on NT servers. Properly configured or not, it's hard for me to imagine that if you did serious work that you didn't have to reboot more often (or turn on/off the computer daily), especially if you run hefty games (ie StarCraft) on the same machine. This is from my personal experience.
I've been hacking on (and inside) Microsoft operating systems for the longest time and have only been using Linux for a few years. You can only stand to learn a lot from using Linux. I know I have. Don't let the super-deluxe pro-Linux comments dissuade you.
--Andy.
I went over to the RedHat website to look over the details of the 6.0 package. Reading through the packages, I saw that they now (as of May 27) ship versions that don't include support and the extra CD. Just the 2 CD's with a manual for $40.
I didn't notice that 3.12 was out since 3.11 was just released a couple of days ago. But I expect the new RPM's will be in the same locations.
From the RH Announce List:
s creensaver/
Ryan Weaver has made an RPM and a SRPM of xscreensaver 3.11
Should be available on:
ftp://contrib.redhat.com
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/xscreensaver/
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.falsehope.com/x
ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/xscreensaver/
Enjoy!
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic to imply that the news item was poorly written, but just in case...
q3test is a technology test released by id Software for their upcoming game Quake 3: Arena. They release the test so that the public can report bugs to them so that the final product will be much more solid than if they did in-house bug-hunting. I don't think they've released a Windows version yet because they are waiting for the 3d card manufacturers to finish up their OpenGL drivers.
...but I had to copy the libMesaGL.so.3.1 to the q3test directory and rename it to libGL.so. And obviously, the framerate was WAY too slow :)
I ran it on my P2-350 w/ 128MB RAM.
I had lots of fun playing Wolf3d but I would always eventually get nauseated (sp?). I think
it was because my _intentions_ to turn did not
correspond to how fast I could turn my character in the game. This was fixed when I started using
the mouse as the controller.
Anyways, I felt Doom I/II captivated me even more. Especially the sound of triggering the Cyberdemon. And the level designs amazed me.
Just my different personal opinion.
I was wondering, since it's still March 31st were I am, but a quick trip to the site shows the date as April 1st :)
I think the post got criticized not only because it lacked constructive criticism, but because it was an unnecessary personal insult to the developer(s), whether or not what was said was true.
There are much better ways to handle your disappointment, in my opinion, than to simply knock people down for what they worked on very hard.
Linux Alpha
Linux i386
Solaris SPARC
If you finger zoid@idsoftware.com, you should see links to those versions I think.