Re:About time to dump Transgaming
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Debian And WineX
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Well...
It is fine to pay programmers to do work and then sell that work for a moderate fee. However, their BASE was taken from a free project.
Of course under the old Wine license this was fine and legal. Now they have changed...
What erks me royally is the idea that Debian wants to do something that could fall quite in line with the available license and the WineX guys are throwing a fit.
I have no objections to turning a profit, but these guys seem to forget their roots.
I've relied on Ad-Aware to cleanse my system of evil and I'm no stranger to regedit either. It does an alright job of spotting the little things that I would have missed normally.
Gator actually installed while I was browsing and popped up a window as it normally would after display. The welcome greeting it offers...
This wasn't a pop-up prompt ad, gator actually installed while I was browsing and without my permission.
I've been very happy with the newer mozilla and pinball theme.
I was completely shocked when the gator icon mysteriously appeared and greeted me. I removed the little bastard immediately. However, I let a long sigh as I realized it would come back shortly.
So last night I decided to go with mozilla and live with whatever problems it may bring.
The mozilla team should thank the gator software company and evil commie bastard marketing reps around the world.
I've had no problems with Win2k or Linux with this motherboard either.
Using ACPI under Windows of course as well. Although after many years of lacking enough IRQ's I'm rather uneasy about IRQ sharing;)
This does not mean I haven't had issues with ACPI. My laptop (PIII 500 Tecra) had issues with IRQ sharing. There were audible clicks with the sound while the infra red port was polling for other infra red devices. Simply disabling the infra red port cured this issue.
Anyone who uses an IPX wrapper over tcp service is in violation based on these grounds.
I cannot remember the application I used to use to play starcraft this way. Nope, I didn't have a key at the time, but I was playing star craft against many other players. (I did eventually purchase the game) Kali did the same thing, but was a bit more dated.
In any event, the point is most blizzard games support multi-player over IPX and there is no key check. So any piece of software which wraps the IPX connection for distance playing is in violation right?
Gamespy Arcade had support for star craft as well...
There was a utility that allowed you to remove the current shell from Windows98 (ie) and have the older one copied from the Windows95 disk. The system ran fine afterwards and rarely did any application break. I rather enjoyed this application at the time.
Twin view (two monitors) was broke in this because the older version of explorer did not support that feature.
For the most part the system was as stable as it had been before and ran a great deal lighter.
MS's claims the system went to hell are totally bogus and were later proven to be bogus.
I looked into using a virtual ram disk for a section of data that was being accessed quite frequently. Of course I did some reading and it turned out not to be terribly necessary.
The more memory present in the system, the more memory the linux kernel dedicates to caching. Thus commonly read files are in memory and have incredibly fast reads. This is performed auto-magically without the user even being aware of it.
Of course no two situations are exact and you may have a purpose for dedicating a ram disk to something. There are instances where you may want a fast read/response time, but the file isn't commonly used. Such as the data for a squid proxy cache. A ram disk in such a situation would be entirely helpful.
I'm all for publicity, but this really isn't much to go on. Anyone can say they are going to make a distro and draw up a line of features. The tough part is bringing it into realization.
This just in, I should have a new distro out soon, called CylixWare. It will feature 100% wintel binary compatability, will run extremly smoothe on whatever hardware you have, and features applications before they are developed! Did I mention it makes your internet connection faster and really intesifies pr0n viewing?
I can really go on forever, but I'll spare you my idiocracy. The point is, anyone can make claims, but it takes a some effort to meet those claims.
About a year ago I decided it was high time I get a little more experience with this demon known as Sun. At that point I was a hardcore Linux/X86 kinda guy with a love for Digital Unix as well.
So I pulled a Proliant from the back of the NOC and began installing Solaris 7 X86. Note, these compaq systems are Solaris certified (ie, every piece of hardware we had will work). The install went flawlessly and the box was up on the network upon completion. Granted solaris has a few *extra* features in inetd, but anyone with some sense can chisel that down to what is needed.
I could go into detail on everything I've done with the system, but the there really is only one bottom line. Solaris isn't a bad operating system at all. As long as you have all of the dependencies, most applications compile fine. (well, what I've used on the server end).
Sun support for non-customers has been fairly well. They release patches and updates frequently (not sure if its too frequently, but at least they fix their problems).
I've been happy with this operating system and I'm going to miss not installing and using 9.
The system is not without faults and I'm not an expert. Like any other piece of software, there will be times when it will frustrate the hell out of you. Thus is the nature of technology and if I damn Sun for it, I have to damn everyone else. (oh hell I do that all the time)
Re: Solaris as just an experimental OS on x86
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No Solaris 9 for x86
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I've never had a problem with Solaris x86 supporting the hardware I had. However, my intention was not to use it as a workstation. I might also not that I've used fairly standard higher priced intel boxen. (Proliant stuff's mostly) Granted some people do use Solaris as a workstation OS, but I felt it strengths were in its stability as a server.
I noticed this several weeks ago. An application called something like whagent.exe would crash during my kazaa sessions.
My only guess was that it was not fairing well after I put in place measures to block known spyware apps.
I simply removed the offending program and now I'm probably a little less spyware free. I have grown to expect such things from useful free service providers, but on occassion I've been known to circumvent their efforts.
Re:This is a sign of some sort of cultural deficie
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Goodbye, "Majestic"
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Is this jon katz material or what?
In case you haven't noticed, American's are the largest consumers of entertainment in the world.
This is a game like anyother and while a few psychotic indviduals with real problems may take it seriously, this will never be the norm.
Oddly, this sounds very similar to many speeches given in regards to a game I used to play when I was younger. That game was Dungeons and Dragons...
Many people have cited the ability to test out of classes.
Smaller universities are more inclined to bargain with you as well. If you can demonstrate the experience and ability, you can forgo many classes without testing or other red tape.
I've been considering such action myself as there are a few classes that I simply do not need (already knowing my career).
Earthlink isn't limited to Atlanta for distribution of services. This is simply HQ for some Earthlink offices and servers. They have large operations based in other cities and some smaller offices based in others.
Since they have obtained the technology and the subscribers, it is safe to assume operation will continue in thea areas it was previously available.
This one was very obvious. However, the bottom line is, never open any unknown executables and stay away from clients that have security issues.
An interesting question arose out of all this... I have had more then a few emails from people here at work that I don't know. I have to wonder how my email address ends up in so many address books.
Unfortunately most people won't have the benefit of strangers sending this message.
Oh beautiful corporate america, may your mail servers be forever fruitful.
There were hardly a handful of functioning 3d accellerated graphics cards available. Even then their performance was not that of their windows counterpart.
Its a new day and there are a great deal more drivers available under linux. X has progressed a great deal as well.
Its time to stop using the Quake3 example. I think the sales of Return to Castle Wolfenstein would be better a better mark for comparisons.
But lets zapped forward a few years when we should see the new Doom game. It will use the greatest feature of the nvidia cards. Their programmable processor unit (gpu). Musicles will tighten and skin will stretch based on corresponding equations. All of this will be rendered on the fly as the character moves.
It should give the GeForce 4 something to crunch on.
I can't wait til games are like Toy Story or Monsters Inc.
Slashdot Mirror
Well...
It is fine to pay programmers to do work and then sell that work for a moderate fee. However, their BASE was taken from a free project.
Of course under the old Wine license this was fine and legal. Now they have changed...
What erks me royally is the idea that Debian wants to do something that could fall quite in line with the available license and the WineX guys are throwing a fit.
I have no objections to turning a profit, but these guys seem to forget their roots.
We had better keep this little tid bit under raps, me thinks Pitr from http://www.userfriendly.org may use it to his diabolic desires.
It's bad enough he took over both the Pepsi and Coca Cola corporations.
Pitr Cola, it just feels right.
I've relied on Ad-Aware to cleanse my system of evil and I'm no stranger to regedit either. It does an alright job of spotting the little things that I would have missed normally.
Gator actually installed while I was browsing and popped up a window as it normally would after display. The welcome greeting it offers...
This wasn't a pop-up prompt ad, gator actually installed while I was browsing and without my permission.
I've been very happy with the newer mozilla and pinball theme.
This happened last night I'm afraid...
I was completely shocked when the gator icon mysteriously appeared and greeted me. I removed the little bastard immediately. However, I let a long sigh as I realized it would come back shortly.
So last night I decided to go with mozilla and live with whatever problems it may bring.
The mozilla team should thank the gator software company and evil commie bastard marketing reps around the world.
I think what he means is...
Have you tried to run a game that requires DirectX 8 and your installed version is 7?
Bingo, update/feature enhancement that killed backward compatability.
I'm not complaining, generally the updates are worth it and I doubt this would happen on a console system. Then again, strangers things have happened.
Not entirely correct.
I was able to snag "backup" copies of the fast and the furious from kazaa within 15 minutes. Split into two files each roughly 600mb in size.
With a beefy connection (ds3@65mb/s) I was able to get multiple feeds of various parts of the same file from different users.
For this to work of course there have to be a good chunk of users with fast connections for me to abuse.
I've had no problems with Win2k or Linux with this motherboard either.
;)
Using ACPI under Windows of course as well. Although after many years of lacking enough IRQ's I'm rather uneasy about IRQ sharing
This does not mean I haven't had issues with ACPI. My laptop (PIII 500 Tecra) had issues with IRQ sharing. There were audible clicks with the sound while the infra red port was polling for other infra red devices. Simply disabling the infra red port cured this issue.
Sorry bud, but slashdot has to make money. It has turned into a business after all.
.com bust.
I would hate to see my favorite site go the way of the
Just my 2cents.
Anyone who uses an IPX wrapper over tcp service is in violation based on these grounds.
I cannot remember the application I used to use to play starcraft this way. Nope, I didn't have a key at the time, but I was playing star craft against many other players. (I did eventually purchase the game) Kali did the same thing, but was a bit more dated.
In any event, the point is most blizzard games support multi-player over IPX and there is no key check. So any piece of software which wraps the IPX connection for distance playing is in violation right?
Gamespy Arcade had support for star craft as well...
Yes,
There was a utility that allowed you to remove the current shell from Windows98 (ie) and have the older one copied from the Windows95 disk. The system ran fine afterwards and rarely did any application break. I rather enjoyed this application at the time.
Twin view (two monitors) was broke in this because the older version of explorer did not support that feature.
For the most part the system was as stable as it had been before and ran a great deal lighter.
MS's claims the system went to hell are totally bogus and were later proven to be bogus.
I looked into using a virtual ram disk for a section of data that was being accessed quite frequently. Of course I did some reading and it turned out not to be terribly necessary.
The more memory present in the system, the more memory the linux kernel dedicates to caching. Thus commonly read files are in memory and have incredibly fast reads. This is performed auto-magically without the user even being aware of it.
Of course no two situations are exact and you may have a purpose for dedicating a ram disk to something. There are instances where you may want a fast read/response time, but the file isn't commonly used. Such as the data for a squid proxy cache. A ram disk in such a situation would be entirely helpful.
So why waste our time?
I'm all for publicity, but this really isn't much to go on. Anyone can say they are going to make a distro and draw up a line of features. The tough part is bringing it into realization.
This just in, I should have a new distro out soon, called CylixWare. It will feature 100% wintel binary compatability, will run extremly smoothe on whatever hardware you have, and features applications before they are developed! Did I mention it makes your internet connection faster and really intesifies pr0n viewing?
I can really go on forever, but I'll spare you my idiocracy. The point is, anyone can make claims, but it takes a some effort to meet those claims.
Well,
About a year ago I decided it was high time I get a little more experience with this demon known as Sun. At that point I was a hardcore Linux/X86 kinda guy with a love for Digital Unix as well.
So I pulled a Proliant from the back of the NOC and began installing Solaris 7 X86. Note, these compaq systems are Solaris certified (ie, every piece of hardware we had will work). The install went flawlessly and the box was up on the network upon completion. Granted solaris has a few *extra* features in inetd, but anyone with some sense can chisel that down to what is needed.
I could go into detail on everything I've done with the system, but the there really is only one bottom line. Solaris isn't a bad operating system at all. As long as you have all of the dependencies, most applications compile fine. (well, what I've used on the server end).
Sun support for non-customers has been fairly well. They release patches and updates frequently (not sure if its too frequently, but at least they fix their problems).
I've been happy with this operating system and I'm going to miss not installing and using 9.
The system is not without faults and I'm not an expert. Like any other piece of software, there will be times when it will frustrate the hell out of you. Thus is the nature of technology and if I damn Sun for it, I have to damn everyone else. (oh hell I do that all the time)
I've never had a problem with Solaris x86 supporting the hardware I had. However, my intention was not to use it as a workstation. I might also not that I've used fairly standard higher priced intel boxen. (Proliant stuff's mostly) Granted some people do use Solaris as a workstation OS, but I felt it strengths were in its stability as a server.
I noticed this several weeks ago. An application called something like whagent.exe would crash during my kazaa sessions.
My only guess was that it was not fairing well after I put in place measures to block known spyware apps.
I simply removed the offending program and now I'm probably a little less spyware free. I have grown to expect such things from useful free service providers, but on occassion I've been known to circumvent their efforts.
Is this jon katz material or what?
In case you haven't noticed, American's are the largest consumers of entertainment in the world.
This is a game like anyother and while a few psychotic indviduals with real problems may take it seriously, this will never be the norm.
Oddly, this sounds very similar to many speeches given in regards to a game I used to play when I was younger. That game was Dungeons and Dragons...
But grub runs on linux too!
Many people have cited the ability to test out of classes.
Smaller universities are more inclined to bargain with you as well. If you can demonstrate the experience and ability, you can forgo many classes without testing or other red tape.
I've been considering such action myself as there are a few classes that I simply do not need (already knowing my career).
HA!
;)
Not even Sauron could withstand the power that is Slashdot.
We would sink his ass in a matter of minutes.
The age of machine and steel is upon us
Earthlink isn't limited to Atlanta for distribution of services. This is simply HQ for some Earthlink offices and servers. They have large operations based in other cities and some smaller offices based in others.
Since they have obtained the technology and the subscribers, it is safe to assume operation will continue in thea areas it was previously available.
This one was very obvious. However, the bottom line is, never open any unknown executables and stay away from clients that have security issues.
An interesting question arose out of all this... I have had more then a few emails from people here at work that I don't know. I have to wonder how my email address ends up in so many address books.
Unfortunately most people won't have the benefit of strangers sending this message.
Oh beautiful corporate america, may your mail servers be forever fruitful.
However, you can't buy a copy of RedHat, make a copy and then sell that copy as RedHat.
That would be something copyright law would get you on.
Some companies used to do just that and at very inexpensive prices. RedHat stopped them some years ago.
But you could rename everything in the cd and call it RedNot! RedNot! could be completely 100% compatible with RedHat rpms!
just a thought anyway...
Quake3 is a really bad example.
There were hardly a handful of functioning 3d accellerated graphics cards available. Even then their performance was not that of their windows counterpart.
Its a new day and there are a great deal more drivers available under linux. X has progressed a great deal as well.
Its time to stop using the Quake3 example. I think the sales of Return to Castle Wolfenstein would be better a better mark for comparisons.
We showed them...
;)
Looks like they might to revisit their approach to building a better webserver.
It is hard to say if we have maxed their bandwidth or maybe given the server a real life lesson in load.
I suspect the article might get a rewrite
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get past the first page, but me thinks the next article would introduce additional server's and some load balancing.
[Slashdot Seal Of Death]
Well, maybe right now...
But lets zapped forward a few years when we should see the new Doom game. It will use the greatest feature of the nvidia cards. Their programmable processor unit (gpu). Musicles will tighten and skin will stretch based on corresponding equations. All of this will be rendered on the fly as the character moves.
It should give the GeForce 4 something to crunch on.
I can't wait til games are like Toy Story or Monsters Inc.