They're now making this look like a good thing for themselves. "Look how we've simplified this for everyone". The fact that the original licence scheme was braindead in the extreme is conveniently ignored, of course... --
Fact is, it's probably a good idea for a couple of reasons:
We still aren't sure that existing mobiles are safe. They may cause harm; that in itself should be enough for alternatives to be looked into. Hell, the British government banned beef on the bone because of a hypothetical risk; IMHO the risk of cooking my brain is probably higher than the supposed risk from beef on the bone.
Lower radio emissions in general should allow things like radio telescopes to work better as the background noise will be lower. Think also of mobile phones near sensitive electronic equipment, eg, in hospitals. A lower signal wouldn't necessarily cause a problem.
This isn't to say that marketers won't promote the risk more than is actually required, of course:) --
The biggest problem with Quake 3 was the combination of (a) the Windows version being available before the linux version and (b) buyers being able to download the linux binaries and use the Windows CD.
As a result, there are several linux gamers who didn't buy the linux version of Q3a but are still playing it under linux (quite legitimately, as well).
This raises another problem currently experienced under linux; there is usually a delay between the Windows version and the linux version. Thus far, Quake 3 has been the smallest gap (a few weeks) with Soldier of Fortune only being a few months. Games like Heroes of Might and Magic and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri have had delays of over a year. In short, if you want to play the latest games, you have to be playing under Windows. --
...old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied, so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
Another French farmer gets hailed as a hero for being a vandal.
Maybe people in the US don't hear about things which happen in Europe, but the French are notorious for vandalism. They regularly block lorries coming from the UK, often burning or spoiling the contents of the lorries, usually produce from Britain. The French police usually sit by and do nothing about this blatant disregard for the law.
So, what are we supposed to do here? Applaud someone who seems to believe that wanton destruction of a companies' assets is going to make one bit of a difference to the US government's trade practices? --
Not much help to you in this case, but Solaris recommends this in man audio:
As some systems may contain more than one audio device, application writers are encouraged to query the AUDIODEV environment variable. If this variable is present in the environment, its value should identify the path name of the default audio device.
Thus, you would use something like:
char *dev;
dev=getenv("AUDIODEV"); if ( dev == NULL ) dev = "/dev/audio";/* or/dev/dsp in linux */
and now you could use dev in open() calls.
Perhaps we should recommend this for all app writers under linux? --
Guess what? Neither does PostgreSQL (you can use triggers, but that's a pain). A bit of a PITA, but a well written app can keep the integrity OK though.
Just remember. All software sucks; just some sucks more than others. --
I note that the main install method is to use LD_PRELOAD, but this won't protect against all overflow attacks. All a cracker has to do is unset LD_PRELOAD before running the exploit.
Using/etc/ld.so.conf (which the man page admits is dangerous) will prevent this, though.
Secondly, it only works on certain system calls... --
The advantage is that we should soon have 3 different versions and we can pick the best option. Ideally, they should all be stealing the best bits from each others' code in any case:) --
The lack of journaling is one factor preventing me from recommending wholeheartedly the idea of deploying linux in our student labs here. Students will reboot machines willy-nilly and lockups/hard crashes do occur. UFS logging has made such events relatively pain free under Solaris, and I'd like to see similar code existing under linux (if for no other reason than I'd like to feel secure during beta testing of software:). It would also put a nail in the coffin of people claiming linux isn't enterprise ready as it doesn't have a journaled FS.
BTW, it was refreshing to see some differences of opinion being expressed by the ReiserFS people without resorting to flames and name-calling. Pity the rest of the internet can't follow suit... --
Only 24th in Supercomputer rankings, but what do those 64 Netfinities cost? I'm pretty sure it would come in at under the cost of most of the top 500; I'm estimating 10,000 UKP per box, which is under a quarter of a million. Not bad. However, it must be a bitch to manage 64 seperate nodes to make a single 'unit'
Also, it mentions the limitations of networking; can't you link together 3com (now defunct, I know) switches in a stack to make larger switches? If not, I'm pretty sure that we'll have larger switches in the next few years. --
Combination safes can be blown open, sawed through or otherwise broken into. Strong encryption takes a lot of compute power which quite simply isn't available.
In any case, the problem is more that it is a crime to hold encrypted data and not handing over the decryption key even if you never had the key!. That is why the bill is ill thought out. --
I get the distinct impression that the main people behind/. would bail out if they started getting pressure from Andover/VA. Since the slash code is GPL, there's nothing stopping them starting a competing site with 95% of the same content/style as/. However, it would probably require a new name and slightly different image to stop corporate lawyers rampaging over it. --
This is somewhat old news for anyone who's been keeping track on the loki.requests. The line has been "Blizzards want sales figures". However, Loki aren't telling (a) how much Blizzard want or (b) how much they've sold.
For anyone interested in linux games, point your news-reader to news.lokigames.com and keep track there. You can also get some good support on install/running problems on their games. --
I think it's more a case of the xmms libs need to be recompiled, not just the main binary. If you do./configure;make;make install, you should be fine;.configure;make;cp xmms/xmms/usr/local/bin isn't going to be enough. --
For those interested, I'll be updating the Solaris plugin to work with 1.0.x releases either today or by Monday at the latest (disasters at work notwithstanding). --
I think linux is going to have to make sure that all its scalability issues are sorted out before this really kicks off. As the Mindcraft survey showed (yes, I know the tests were flawed, but the underlying problems are still there), linux has some scalability problems. Admittedly, these are being fixed, but until such time as they are fixed, Solaris, IRIX and even *BSD are going to be better options for large scale "supercomputers". --
TSR (makers of AD&D) had a rampage in the early 90's against web sites about AD&D/D&D to protect their trademarks. They eventually loosened their stance provided you acknowledged the trademark and didn't copy copyrighted material. I'd guess Universal Press may have taken a similar stance. --
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They're now making this look like a good thing for themselves. "Look how we've simplified this for everyone". The fact that the original licence scheme was braindead in the extreme is conveniently ignored, of course...
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Information is much more free now; while the tobacco companies actually hid the information about ill-effects for marketing reasons.
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- We still aren't sure that existing mobiles are safe. They may cause harm; that in itself should be enough for alternatives to be looked into. Hell, the British government banned beef on the bone because of a hypothetical risk; IMHO the risk of cooking my brain is probably higher than the supposed risk from beef on the bone.
- Lower radio emissions in general should allow things like radio telescopes to work better as the background noise will be lower. Think also of mobile phones near sensitive electronic equipment, eg, in hospitals. A lower signal wouldn't necessarily cause a problem.
This isn't to say that marketers won't promote the risk more than is actually required, of course--
As a result, there are several linux gamers who didn't buy the linux version of Q3a but are still playing it under linux (quite legitimately, as well).
This raises another problem currently experienced under linux; there is usually a delay between the Windows version and the linux version. Thus far, Quake 3 has been the smallest gap (a few weeks) with Soldier of Fortune only being a few months. Games like Heroes of Might and Magic and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri have had delays of over a year. In short, if you want to play the latest games, you have to be playing under Windows.
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Maybe people in the US don't hear about things which happen in Europe, but the French are notorious for vandalism. They regularly block lorries coming from the UK, often burning or spoiling the contents of the lorries, usually produce from Britain. The French police usually sit by and do nothing about this blatant disregard for the law.
So, what are we supposed to do here? Applaud someone who seems to believe that wanton destruction of a companies' assets is going to make one bit of a difference to the US government's trade practices?
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Perhaps we should recommend this for all app writers under linux?
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Just remember. All software sucks; just some sucks more than others.
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Using /etc/ld.so.conf (which the man page admits is dangerous) will prevent this, though.
Secondly, it only works on certain system calls...
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The advantage is that we should soon have 3 different versions and we can pick the best option. Ideally, they should all be stealing the best bits from each others' code in any case :)
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BTW, it was refreshing to see some differences of opinion being expressed by the ReiserFS people without resorting to flames and name-calling. Pity the rest of the internet can't follow suit...
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Argh!!! I meant to say under three quarters of a million... It's not even early morning, so I don't have that excuse...
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Also, it mentions the limitations of networking; can't you link together 3com (now defunct, I know) switches in a stack to make larger switches? If not, I'm pretty sure that we'll have larger switches in the next few years.
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I was/am looking forward to going there as I'll be nearby that week anyway.
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In any case, the problem is more that it is a crime to hold encrypted data and not handing over the decryption key even if you never had the key!. That is why the bill is ill thought out.
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I get the distinct impression that the main people behind /. would bail out if they started getting pressure from Andover/VA. Since the slash code is GPL, there's nothing stopping them starting a competing site with 95% of the same content/style as /. However, it would probably require a new name and slightly different image to stop corporate lawyers rampaging over it.
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For anyone interested in linux games, point your news-reader to news.lokigames.com and keep track there. You can also get some good support on install/running problems on their games.
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Would this be any relation to the maxim that every spelling flame contains at least on speeling mistake?
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From watching the XMMS-devel mailing list, I've heard about this a lot. It seems to be a symptom SMP systems, possibly in the sound drivers.
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I think it's more a case of the xmms libs need to be recompiled, not just the main binary. If you do ./configure;make;make install, you should be fine; .configure;make;cp xmms/xmms /usr/local/bin isn't going to be enough.
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For those interested, I'll be updating the Solaris plugin to work with 1.0.x releases either today or by Monday at the latest (disasters at work notwithstanding).
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I think linux is going to have to make sure that all its scalability issues are sorted out before this really kicks off. As the Mindcraft survey showed (yes, I know the tests were flawed, but the underlying problems are still there), linux has some scalability problems. Admittedly, these are being fixed, but until such time as they are fixed, Solaris, IRIX and even *BSD are going to be better options for large scale "supercomputers".
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TSR (makers of AD&D) had a rampage in the early 90's against web sites about AD&D/D&D to protect their trademarks. They eventually loosened their stance provided you acknowledged the trademark and didn't copy copyrighted material. I'd guess Universal Press may have taken a similar stance.
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FWIW, MS's DHCP is a steaming pile of krud which ignores basic stuff like the hostname.
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You're wrong; Myth II and Heretic II are both 3D games.
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