Just ran that last night and have more than enough. Add Neverwinter Nights and UT04 with their amazing amount of mods, and there are literally thousands of high quality games for linux.
Who needs Everquest? Play NWN on a Persistant world like NeverSummer. Not only is it cheaper, supports Linux, and most mods are open source. Wan't to play Golf game on Linux? Duffer's Golf is an excellent UT04 Mod which plays fine on Linux.
As someone who spent a couple years working in the video games industry, I've had more fun with Mods, and open source games than with "professional" games. Mods and OS games are the last spark of creativity left in games.
Quit worrying about what you can't play, and enjoy what you can
First of all I'd love to see a monitor with that resolution, but then it only makes sense for a monitor to come first. Look at the development of monitors vs. hdtv. Computer monitors were the first to have the resolutions that HDTV now has simply because it was easier to generate those images locally and send them over a short monitor cable than it is to have the bandwidth to send them over the air, cable or sattelite.
The power of modern GPU's could be put to use with this resolution, and we could once again have a resolution war between the various chip makers.
Let's learn to "walk" with images of this resolution, before we try and run.
Yesterday my boss got his first batch of spyware. When I explained to him what it was and why it needed to be removed he started getting paranoid thinking everyone was tracking him.
He asked me "Why don't you ever have to deal with this crap on your system?"
I dropped a knoppix cd on his desk and simply said "Linux."
Is it just me or is the pace of kernel releases accelerating dramatically. Just a quick look at the number, 2.6.6 seems to indicate that we are now 3/5 through the lifespan of the 2.6 kernel.
Granted, I know that is not the case, but 2.6.x is not even 6 months old ( 2.6.0 released December 18th, 2003) at this rate of release are we looking at 2.8 in September? This just seems crazy to me. I thought that's what the "odd" numbered kernels were for, testing. At this current rate of release it sure feels like the supposed "stable" kernels are the ones being tested on.
This isn't meant to be a troll or a flame just an observation. Many of the distros have finally gotten around 2.6, but it sure seems like the kernel devs have given the distro devs a very rapid moving target to hit. I still see all to often recomendations here and other places telling people to use 2.4x for "mission critical" use. Why?
Why is 2.6 not as reliable as 2.4 was?
Why are people in this thread commenting about all the things 2.6.6 breaks?
Why does an even kernel need to break *ANYTHING* isn't that what dev kernels are for?
I love to see progress as much as anyone, heck, I run Gentoo. I just wonder if the Kernel needs to be treated with a bit more care. Would you buy a car from an auto maker, who every month changed the engine in their car?
I've got one too. With a nice 7.1 surround sound. The only problem is fighting off all the friends who want to bring their DVD's over and watch em on my system
Yes, technology will always advance, things will only get better. But since the announcements of HDTV I have been waiting for a HDDVD. I still find it amazing that people look at a regular DVD on a HDTV and rave about the picture, when they 70% of the capabilities of the HDTV are being wasted.
It is not like the DVD industry didn't know this was coming. The HDTV formats have been available for over a decade. DVD developers knew how much data they needed to cram onto a HDDVD. If fitting that much data on something that small was a problem, they could have released a laser disk sized DVD, yet we are just seeing the first prototypes of HDDVD.
I'll be honest, when there is a new movie released, if it is something I want to see, I'll usually grab a divx copy out of the newsgroups, simply because if I can't by a HDDVD version of the movie, I don't want to buy it. Rather than push hard to get their movies on a higher quality format, the movie industry has pushed hard to get us to buy the current generations of DVD, so that they can sell us the exact same movie 2 years from now in HDDVD format. I know people who have purchased the same album on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, and off of i-tunes.
Now we are going to have people with the same movie on VHS, Laserdisk, DVD, and HDDVD.
Experts at the Slashdot labratory have worked out for the first time the true extent of the possible damage to the University of Wales in Aberystwyth's web server due to the posting of a story about Guy Fawkes
As a professional web deveolper, and self confessed Linux junkie, I just have to ask myself, is this a good thing?
I use my Gentoo Linux partition for just about everythnig, but have to reboot to windows when I need to get some work done and work with Macromedia Studio 2004. I know I'm not the only one who has repeatedly e-mailed and faxed and called Macromedia about Linux versions of their programs. I'd buy them in a heartbeat, and I know I'm not the only one.
Now that the MX versions of Flash and Dreamweaver can be run on Linux what incentive does Macromedia have for porting Stuio 2004 to Linux? While I compliment the Wine and Codeweavers teams in their effort, I wonder even how possible it will be to continue the progress they have started. MX 2004 comes everyone's favorite "feature," activation which will be a big hurdle for the Wine/Codeweavers team. They will either have to re-enginer the activation code (Hello DMCA) or work around it which will may further incite Macromedia reducing the chances it will get ported.
P.S. if we are going to have to go the compatability route, wouldn't it be easier/better to create a compatibility layer with OS X? This would open not only the Macromedia apps, but also the Adobe apps.
I'll add my thoughts into the matter. As someone who has used computers for the past 22 years I finally gave Linux a second shot about a month or two ago.
I had tried RedHat version 5something a looong time ago, and while I tried to get it working, every time I tried to search around Usenet or even BBS's, all I ever seemed to get was RTFM. To which my only response was IWIIHAFM (I Would If I Had... since I had purchased a CDRom.com cd with RedHat on it, and nothing else.)
Needless to say it lasted about a week because so little of my hardware was supported. I then went back to repairing mine, and seemingly every other Windows system I came near.
But like I said, this past January I decided to give Linux a second shot. I installed Mandrake and had it up and running easily within an hour or so, but just felt like too much had been done for me. I didn't understand the guts. I didn't know how to use the shell. I didn't know how to install any new applications. I felt like I was running on one of those webTV boxes. But instead of physically being unable to install any new apps or make any changes to the system, I lacked the knowledge to do it. Fearing more RTFM's when I once again didn't have a FM I didn't bother with checking the boards, and just dumped Mandrake alltogether because of the claustraphobic feeling of not being in control of my system.
The system sat empty for a couple of days while I tried to decide between installing another distro or just going back to Windows, and then after more searching on the web and comparing distros I came across Gentoo.
To their credit the Gentoo devs have no reservations about telling newbies to use another distro, because of the complexities involved in setting it up. And with good reason too. Man did I feel overwhelmed starting out with it, but there was just something about it. I literally spent 2 months trying to install Gentoo on my system. Each time I'd get a little further in the install, and learn a bit more. I learned the command line. I learned how to compile the kernel. I learned shell scripting. I learned the importance of Root, how to compile from sources, and install my own software. I learned just how many amazing programs there are out there for linux, and the level of customization one can do to their system with it. I've tinkered with so many programs and the support on the Gentoo boards has been outstanding helping me learn what I didn't figure out for myself by trial and error.
This is in no way intended to start a distro conversation, just to point out my experiences learning linux. I've since installed Gentoo on 2 other machines in my house, and have set up several other Linux systems for other people using different distros per thier request.
Yes I had a very hard time installing and learning to use Linux. But I'm greatful for the way I did it. Not only do I have a working system, I have the power to use it effectively.
The Australia-/Vanuatu-based company had filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing it was not bound by U.S. laws since it did not have substantial contacts with California.
So if it doesn't have contracts with California, and the EULA IS a contract, does that mean by their own reasoning that their EULA is invalid?
Open source users everywhere were stunned by the VA Linux announcement that it was filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This reporter dug through the Enron'esque' books to find the cause of such a rapid decline, but it seems several Slashdot editors had indeed purchased the Brooklyn Bridge. Large sums of money were transfered to a mysterious Vinny Flumputchinato who's only address is "Yellow Cab on Broadway"
Stashed away in the Slashdot offices under the mound of free AOL cd's was found a brown paper bag with "Joe's Market" on one side, and in crayon "This 's the deeed to the Brookline Bridge." When questioned, Slashdot Editor Chrisd replied, "When I was last in New York this guy driving my cab asks me if I want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. I thought to myself, Holy Shit, the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, I've got to make that the headline Slashdot. But then I said to myself, wait Chrisd If you don't post it right away, but instead buy it now and then sell it later don't you think you can profit????"
At present, this reporter has been unable to locate Mr. Flumputchinato for comment.
Because I don't have time to read the story twice:
Is this story about the Good Sony (The Linux on PS2 Sony)
or the Bad Sony (one of the cornerstones of the RIAA)
I know yesterday we hated the MPAA. Today TTT gets released, so movies and the movie industry is great. That means tomorrow we can resume our regularly scheduled MPAA bashing.
Those of us lucky to live in Northern Ohio were the first to have cable modems, back in 96 with Road Runner and we were also the first to have wireless internet access (too bad I was living in Silicon Valley at the time) http://www.windcastbroadband.com/ has been here for over 2 years providing wireless internet for the town I grew up in, and moved back to; Norwalk, Ohio and surriunding cities. Supposedly it isn't affected by rain or heavy snow, which is something I'd like to see in action. But as they insanely charge $750 for the install (they give you a wireless router and some other things) I haven't even considered switching to it. No idea how they stay in business, but they do.
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Who needs Everquest? Play NWN on a Persistant world like NeverSummer. Not only is it cheaper, supports Linux, and most mods are open source. Wan't to play Golf game on Linux? Duffer's Golf is an excellent UT04 Mod which plays fine on Linux.
As someone who spent a couple years working in the video games industry, I've had more fun with Mods, and open source games than with "professional" games. Mods and OS games are the last spark of creativity left in games.
Quit worrying about what you can't play, and enjoy what you can
The power of modern GPU's could be put to use with this resolution, and we could once again have a resolution war between the various chip makers.
Let's learn to "walk" with images of this resolution, before we try and run.
300 baud with an accoustic coupler on a static riddled cell phone. THAT's a punishment
He asked me "Why don't you ever have to deal with this crap on your system?"
I dropped a knoppix cd on his desk and simply said "Linux."
Granted, I know that is not the case, but 2.6.x is not even 6 months old ( 2.6.0 released December 18th, 2003) at this rate of release are we looking at 2.8 in September? This just seems crazy to me. I thought that's what the "odd" numbered kernels were for, testing. At this current rate of release it sure feels like the supposed "stable" kernels are the ones being tested on.
This isn't meant to be a troll or a flame just an observation. Many of the distros have finally gotten around 2.6, but it sure seems like the kernel devs have given the distro devs a very rapid moving target to hit. I still see all to often recomendations here and other places telling people to use 2.4x for "mission critical" use. Why?
Why is 2.6 not as reliable as 2.4 was?
Why are people in this thread commenting about all the things 2.6.6 breaks?
Why does an even kernel need to break *ANYTHING* isn't that what dev kernels are for?
I love to see progress as much as anyone, heck, I run Gentoo. I just wonder if the Kernel needs to be treated with a bit more care. Would you buy a car from an auto maker, who every month changed the engine in their car?
Besides Lay-Z-Boys beat theater seats any day.
I'll be honest, when there is a new movie released, if it is something I want to see, I'll usually grab a divx copy out of the newsgroups, simply because if I can't by a HDDVD version of the movie, I don't want to buy it. Rather than push hard to get their movies on a higher quality format, the movie industry has pushed hard to get us to buy the current generations of DVD, so that they can sell us the exact same movie 2 years from now in HDDVD format. I know people who have purchased the same album on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, and off of i-tunes.
Now we are going to have people with the same movie on VHS, Laserdisk, DVD, and HDDVD.
Icecast is awesome for audio streaming, and a joy to use. Any video relay servers out there work as well and easy as Icecast?
Experts at the Slashdot labratory have worked out for the first time the true extent of the possible damage to the University of Wales in Aberystwyth's web server due to the posting of a story about Guy Fawkes
I use my Gentoo Linux partition for just about everythnig, but have to reboot to windows when I need to get some work done and work with Macromedia Studio 2004. I know I'm not the only one who has repeatedly e-mailed and faxed and called Macromedia about Linux versions of their programs. I'd buy them in a heartbeat, and I know I'm not the only one.
Now that the MX versions of Flash and Dreamweaver can be run on Linux what incentive does Macromedia have for porting Stuio 2004 to Linux? While I compliment the Wine and Codeweavers teams in their effort, I wonder even how possible it will be to continue the progress they have started. MX 2004 comes everyone's favorite "feature," activation which will be a big hurdle for the Wine/Codeweavers team. They will either have to re-enginer the activation code (Hello DMCA) or work around it which will may further incite Macromedia reducing the chances it will get ported.
P.S. if we are going to have to go the compatability route, wouldn't it be easier/better to create a compatibility layer with OS X? This would open not only the Macromedia apps, but also the Adobe apps.
(now if I could only learn to use Slashdot's messageboards effectively and actually remember to use the html for the paragraphs...)
I'll add my thoughts into the matter. As someone who has used computers for the past 22 years I finally gave Linux a second shot about a month or two ago. I had tried RedHat version 5something a looong time ago, and while I tried to get it working, every time I tried to search around Usenet or even BBS's, all I ever seemed to get was RTFM. To which my only response was IWIIHAFM (I Would If I Had... since I had purchased a CDRom.com cd with RedHat on it, and nothing else.) Needless to say it lasted about a week because so little of my hardware was supported. I then went back to repairing mine, and seemingly every other Windows system I came near. But like I said, this past January I decided to give Linux a second shot. I installed Mandrake and had it up and running easily within an hour or so, but just felt like too much had been done for me. I didn't understand the guts. I didn't know how to use the shell. I didn't know how to install any new applications. I felt like I was running on one of those webTV boxes. But instead of physically being unable to install any new apps or make any changes to the system, I lacked the knowledge to do it. Fearing more RTFM's when I once again didn't have a FM I didn't bother with checking the boards, and just dumped Mandrake alltogether because of the claustraphobic feeling of not being in control of my system. The system sat empty for a couple of days while I tried to decide between installing another distro or just going back to Windows, and then after more searching on the web and comparing distros I came across Gentoo. To their credit the Gentoo devs have no reservations about telling newbies to use another distro, because of the complexities involved in setting it up. And with good reason too. Man did I feel overwhelmed starting out with it, but there was just something about it. I literally spent 2 months trying to install Gentoo on my system. Each time I'd get a little further in the install, and learn a bit more. I learned the command line. I learned how to compile the kernel. I learned shell scripting. I learned the importance of Root, how to compile from sources, and install my own software. I learned just how many amazing programs there are out there for linux, and the level of customization one can do to their system with it. I've tinkered with so many programs and the support on the Gentoo boards has been outstanding helping me learn what I didn't figure out for myself by trial and error. This is in no way intended to start a distro conversation, just to point out my experiences learning linux. I've since installed Gentoo on 2 other machines in my house, and have set up several other Linux systems for other people using different distros per thier request. Yes I had a very hard time installing and learning to use Linux. But I'm greatful for the way I did it. Not only do I have a working system, I have the power to use it effectively.
I always wondered. Would a Dual Athlon machine be called a BiAthlon?
At least this Dupe isn't Duping us
Open source users everywhere were stunned by the VA Linux announcement that it was filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This reporter dug through the Enron'esque' books to find the cause of such a rapid decline, but it seems several Slashdot editors had indeed purchased the Brooklyn Bridge. Large sums of money were transfered to a mysterious Vinny Flumputchinato who's only address is "Yellow Cab on Broadway"
Stashed away in the Slashdot offices under the mound of free AOL cd's was found a brown paper bag with "Joe's Market" on one side, and in crayon "This 's the deeed to the Brookline Bridge." When questioned, Slashdot Editor Chrisd replied, "When I was last in New York this guy driving my cab asks me if I want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. I thought to myself, Holy Shit, the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, I've got to make that the headline Slashdot. But then I said to myself, wait Chrisd If you don't post it right away, but instead buy it now and then sell it later don't you think you can profit????"
At present, this reporter has been unable to locate Mr. Flumputchinato for comment.
First we get stories that are duped.
Now we are getting duped by stories.
Because I don't have time to read the story twice: Is this story about the Good Sony (The Linux on PS2 Sony) or the Bad Sony (one of the cornerstones of the RIAA)
I know yesterday we hated the MPAA. Today TTT gets released, so movies and the movie industry is great. That means tomorrow we can resume our regularly scheduled MPAA bashing.
Those of us lucky to live in Northern Ohio were the first to have cable modems, back in 96 with Road Runner and we were also the first to have wireless internet access (too bad I was living in Silicon Valley at the time) http://www.windcastbroadband.com/ has been here for over 2 years providing wireless internet for the town I grew up in, and moved back to; Norwalk, Ohio and surriunding cities. Supposedly it isn't affected by rain or heavy snow, which is something I'd like to see in action. But as they insanely charge $750 for the install (they give you a wireless router and some other things) I haven't even considered switching to it. No idea how they stay in business, but they do.