Gnome 2.12 does this for many, but not all apps. I suspect it has something to do with the GTK function they use to open a new window? I'm sure someone who knows better will correct me.
Oh, and I didn't need to change any config settings to get this behaviour.
Cedega (WineX) has official support for GTA: Vice City (which in my experience means it will play near perfectly - occasionally some graphics options might not be available), and GTA: San Andreas won't be far behind.
Battlefield 1942 is also officially supported, and Desert Combat has a playability rating of 5/5 on the transgaming database.
Counter Strike: Source only has a playability of 3/5. Your mileage may vary. Fortunately, it is one of the most popular games on the transgaming list, so you might find it gets official support soon.
UT2003 also has a linux version, and Cedega support for UT is rated at 4/5, which is pretty good - certainly playable.
I have played Red Alert under Cedega - the skirmishes (the only bit I really play) worked fine.
Unfortunately, I think you'd be out of luck with the Total War games.
Anyway, my point is that most modern mainstream games will run on a Linux desktop. But unfortunately you're still two games short of switching tomorrow:)
Okay, so "Mr Malcolm" might be an arsehole, but TFA states
The user group acted to become an agent for the Linux Mark Institute, a US-based organisation created in 2002 to police use of Linux creator Linus Torvalds' trademark after he became concerned about a website operator selling pornography through linuxchix.com.
So the user group Linux Australia Inc. are simply extending the trademark protection that already exists in the US to Australia.
"It all started with ABC, a wonderful teaching language that I had helped create in the early eighties".
So Python did indeed emerge from a language designed for teaching.
Spot on about Python being an extremely solid choice, though.
Couldn't agree more.
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PHP is good because it's easy. It might often not be the most sophisticated, structured, or easily maintained language, but it is often the quickest and simplest solution to a problem. In that respect it fills an important niche.
Well, my Audigy is probably doing all kinds of crap to SPDIF audio signal, but to tell you the truth I can't find fault with it by listening. (My hearing isn't below average, before you ask:) ).
I would just like to confirm what you say about TOSLINK. My PC is currently too far from my receiver for my optical cables to stretch, so I have to use the SPDIF connection. Every time there is an electrical event in my house (heating, fridge, freezer, kettle switching) the audio cuts out for a second or so.
Although I have no complaints with my actual connection to NTL, I have never dealt with a company that is more useless at looking after customers.
It took 4 attempts to get them to connect me (for the first 3, nobody turned up to do the job), and after that they charged me the wrong amount for the line.
(On the plus side, they also managed to get the connection date wrong on my bill by three weeks in my favour!)
BT might be bad, but if you value your time, never, EVER, deal with NTL.
Actually, RealPlayer 10 is really quite nice under Linux. It's simple, functional and has a clean GTK2 gui.
What's more, you can watch major UK sporting events (such as the Grand National) through the BBC, using RealPlayer, in pretty good quality (not TV quality, but still definitely watchable).
You'd be better off with a wifi hotspot and one of these.
Sure, it's expensive, but you could store a load of photos on it whilst in the field, then upload them over rsync to a machine back home when you reach the nearest wifi hotspot.
You are right about killing windows on an SMP machine by using a single CPU intensive thread (I've verified this several times under Win2k), but it's much harder to do that under a (recent, i.e. >= 2.4.2x) version of Linux, KDE or no. Again, I'm only talking about SMP machines mind.
I had similar troubles with my Promise Fasttrack 100 TX2, which afaik is just a standard ATA disk controller with the capability to label drives as being part of certain arrays. The raid stuff is then done in software.
Anyway, Linux support for this has been patchy. There was a native driver in 2.4 for some time, which worked on-and-off. There was also a source-wrapped binary driver, available from the Promise site, which worked occasionally under 2.4, but is incompatible with 2.6. I assume Promise have no intention of supporting this card under 2.6, since I haven't seen a new driver for quite some time now.
However, all is not lost! This morning I discovered dmraid, which uses Linux's software raid implementation to make cards like this work. If you run Gentoo, there is an option for genkernel that will build dmraid into the initrd, which auto-discovers the raid arrays on boot. Magic!
So, despite Promise's dismal lack of support, their cards can be quite functional. I'm not sure I'd get another one though - I'd at least try and find a manufacturer that provides decent linux drivers first.
I would if I could. I even sent an email to Opera begging them to release a Pocket PC 2003 version. Sadly nothing has yet been released, but I live in hope.
...and annoying as hell code which throws requestors up while your typing (to steal keystrokes and disappear to do The Bob knows what with your inadvertent instruction.)
More than a little off topic, but windows popping up and stealing the current focus whilst you're typing is the most annoying thing ever. This is not limited to Windows - if you are a Gnome developer, and think you have an idea of how to solve this, please let the community know!
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Gnome 2.12 does this for many, but not all apps. I suspect it has something to do with the GTK function they use to open a new window? I'm sure someone who knows better will correct me.
Oh, and I didn't need to change any config settings to get this behaviour.
Cedega (WineX) has official support for GTA: Vice City (which in my experience means it will play near perfectly - occasionally some graphics options might not be available), and GTA: San Andreas won't be far behind.
:)
Battlefield 1942 is also officially supported, and Desert Combat has a playability rating of 5/5 on the transgaming database.
Counter Strike: Source only has a playability of 3/5. Your mileage may vary. Fortunately, it is one of the most popular games on the transgaming list, so you might find it gets official support soon.
UT2003 also has a linux version, and Cedega support for UT is rated at 4/5, which is pretty good - certainly playable.
I have played Red Alert under Cedega - the skirmishes (the only bit I really play) worked fine.
Unfortunately, I think you'd be out of luck with the Total War games.
Anyway, my point is that most modern mainstream games will run on a Linux desktop. But unfortunately you're still two games short of switching tomorrow
Okay, so "Mr Malcolm" might be an arsehole, but TFA states
The user group acted to become an agent for the Linux Mark Institute, a US-based organisation created in 2002 to police use of Linux creator Linus Torvalds' trademark after he became concerned about a website operator selling pornography through linuxchix.com.
So the user group Linux Australia Inc. are simply extending the trademark protection that already exists in the US to Australia.
From http://www.python.org/doc/essays/foreword.html:
"It all started with ABC, a wonderful teaching language that I had helped create in the early eighties".
So Python did indeed emerge from a language designed for teaching.
Spot on about Python being an extremely solid choice, though.
Couldn't agree more.
PHP is good because it's easy. It might often not be the most sophisticated, structured, or easily maintained language, but it is often the quickest and simplest solution to a problem. In that respect it fills an important niche.
Well, my Audigy is probably doing all kinds of crap to SPDIF audio signal, but to tell you the truth I can't find fault with it by listening. (My hearing isn't below average, before you ask :) ).
I would just like to confirm what you say about TOSLINK. My PC is currently too far from my receiver for my optical cables to stretch, so I have to use the SPDIF connection. Every time there is an electrical event in my house (heating, fridge, freezer, kettle switching) the audio cuts out for a second or so.
My karma is listed as "good", but I'm not special enough to not have to decode an image.
Posting this prolly won't help either...
Actually, DOS is not completely out of the question.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos .shtml
Still, Knoppix is a better way.
If you're more worried about heat than speed, something using a VIA Epia board would do the trick.
A little bit like this?
Try this link instead. It'll still skip forward, but it waits a while longer.
YES!
Although I have no complaints with my actual connection to NTL, I have never dealt with a company that is more useless at looking after customers.
It took 4 attempts to get them to connect me (for the first 3, nobody turned up to do the job), and after that they charged me the wrong amount for the line.
(On the plus side, they also managed to get the connection date wrong on my bill by three weeks in my favour!)
BT might be bad, but if you value your time, never, EVER, deal with NTL.
Cunning, rel="nofollow" doesn't appear when I read the page source, but it's all over the google cache.
Useful to know.
They make good coffee tables though.
Actually, RealPlayer 10 is really quite nice under Linux. It's simple, functional and has a clean GTK2 gui.
What's more, you can watch major UK sporting events (such as the Grand National) through the BBC, using RealPlayer, in pretty good quality (not TV quality, but still definitely watchable).
But yes, RealOne was crap.
You'd be better off with a wifi hotspot and one of these.
Sure, it's expensive, but you could store a load of photos on it whilst in the field, then upload them over rsync to a machine back home when you reach the nearest wifi hotspot.
Yes, I'm posting this from a pentium 266 mmx with 96mb ram and 4gb hdd (running gentoo obviously!). It runs xfce4 no problem at all.
Yes, although it's probably not marked stable yet.
Inkjet printing. Understanding how droplets splash is important to controlling the printing process.
You are right about killing windows on an SMP machine by using a single CPU intensive thread (I've verified this several times under Win2k), but it's much harder to do that under a (recent, i.e. >= 2.4.2x) version of Linux, KDE or no. Again, I'm only talking about SMP machines mind.
I had similar troubles with my Promise Fasttrack 100 TX2, which afaik is just a standard ATA disk controller with the capability to label drives as being part of certain arrays. The raid stuff is then done in software.
Anyway, Linux support for this has been patchy. There was a native driver in 2.4 for some time, which worked on-and-off. There was also a source-wrapped binary driver, available from the Promise site, which worked occasionally under 2.4, but is incompatible with 2.6. I assume Promise have no intention of supporting this card under 2.6, since I haven't seen a new driver for quite some time now.
However, all is not lost! This morning I discovered dmraid, which uses Linux's software raid implementation to make cards like this work. If you run Gentoo, there is an option for genkernel that will build dmraid into the initrd, which auto-discovers the raid arrays on boot. Magic!
So, despite Promise's dismal lack of support, their cards can be quite functional. I'm not sure I'd get another one though - I'd at least try and find a manufacturer that provides decent linux drivers first.
Not according the The Register.
I would if I could. I even sent an email to Opera begging them to release a Pocket PC 2003 version. Sadly nothing has yet been released, but I live in hope.
...and annoying as hell code which throws requestors up while your typing (to steal keystrokes and disappear to do The Bob knows what with your inadvertent instruction.)
More than a little off topic, but windows popping up and stealing the current focus whilst you're typing is the most annoying thing ever. This is not limited to Windows - if you are a Gnome developer, and think you have an idea of how to solve this, please let the community know!
He missed out the most useful thing to do with old hard drives - use the platters as coasters. Much prettier and more hard-wearing than AOL cds.