Is currently kind of the Ferreri of the computer world. I'm sure other readers can point to some other venders. Whenever I'm specing out a pc to build I like to take a look at their hardware list. Only top end stuff (whish I could afford that 64!).
Your KDE example would illustrate what I would consider a system-type upgrade that should in most cases (ie cases where the user doesn't want to handle it) be done using a more advance package management system and packages put together by your vender. The stand alone Loki installer scenario your describing is exactly what OS X users are trumpeting about. That drag-and-drop and it works. It does sound like a good enough idea. Remember the programming adage: KISS (Keep It Simple St*pid).
If any of you have bought games in the past few years you've probably used Loki Setup. Why wouldn't we use a program like this for simple software installation and an advanced 'package manager' for system updates. I think the problem is that we use overly complicated package managers for EVERYTHING when individual downloads don't need it.
Team killing is always really popular. If possible (depending on game) throw gernades, light team mates on fire or generally stand around in peoples way.
If someone shoots you a lot and you cant seem to touch them, that means their cheating. Its always best to call them a cheater out loud. This will show the other players that you just want to play a fair game.
Monopolize. If your playing on a level with any 'scarce' items its probably best if you get to them first then run directly over to the enemy side and open up! Just to show them how leet you are (they'll apprecaite you donating the weapon too).
Talk shit. Players really respect a player who knows how to talk shit. If your losing, insult the enemy team! This goes great along with accusing enemy players of cheating.
Finally, if *your* using a cheat its probably best to start accusing enemy players of cheating *as soon as you log in*. Your team mates will apprecaite this and admire you for your honesty.
Suck. We all did it at one time or another. Gaming is *fun* not Holy. My advise would be to start playing Capture the Flag. You'll learn a lot about playing an probably become a more rounded player. I always start with the basics: defense. Once I have that I work on aim and general mayham, specifically creating it in close proximity *without* hurting my own team members. After that its all about the flag baby! If you start with defense you'll learn a lot quickly and other players will see you more as an asset and be more likely to give you tips and hints. Play for the team and they'll remember you for it, even if you only play from time to time.
I've been playing online games under Linux for a few years now. First 'serious' game was Tribes 2 which is a hell of a lot of fun, but teaming with clanners (not much trouble with cheats though). Now I play Postal 2 exclusively. It might fit the bill if you don't mind toilet humor mixed in with the game. The online extention is still fairly new I don't know about clans in the retail (because Linux retail version hasn't been released yet). Anyhow, its fun and fast paces so you could easily log in for a half hour and get a good game in. I only know of one cheat, but it only effects the demo servers (retail servers have been patched for it) its a 'health cloning' bug, so its only nominally annoying (pick-up health, spawn extra health, easily fixed with a well placed shotgun blast to offending users face). Anyhow, thats my suggestion. Its good fun and you get to play Gary Colmen!
IBM would not give away any assets if it was rewarded any (unless they had zero value as an asset). Assets fatten your portfolio, increase your net worth. What would 'freeing' them get them in return (pats on the back don't count, this is business).
Adding value to something thats already adding value to you is on thing, but giving away something thats increasing the value of you investors investment in you is certainly another.
I've always been surprised that I have *never* found a virus or a backdoor in a crack or a keygen I downloaded off one of those sites. If there someone their trying to punish isn't it more likely freeware users? Anyone remember Whack-a-Mole?
Konsole blows..
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Review: KDE 3.2
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Knowing what we all do about the importance of driver software and kernel io/performance. How many of you have made 'educated' decisions about video card purchases based on performance reviews conducted on Windows based PC's? I mean drivers have a HUGE impact on how hardware performs and Linux drivers and Windows drivers aren't exactly the same (sometimes for better and sometime worse). We speculate a lot about better/more stable performance but haven't really got a good resource for basic reviews.
Maybe I'm just idly wishing here, but as Linux gets closer and closer to the desktop these are the types of things we'll need to look at. My system feels a lot faster (games, mp3 encoding) then my work computer (Win98), but who really knows.
1) Time-shifting rented DVD's is nice (I don't always watch them right away).
2) Time-shifting TV is the ONLY way to go.
3) Music ripper/jukebox with fancy visuals is nice.
4) Mplayer compatible video player works out great for viewing new episodes of Red vs. Blue.
5) Web browsing.
6) DVD burning.
7) Expandable.
8) Upgradeable.
9) Skinnable.
There are certainly a couple of trade-offs, like those times you realize xmltv needs to be upgraded AFTER you've missed recording your favorite program. But if your a Slashdot geek these problems should be right up your alley. Anyone belly aching about the cost or convenience of a HTPC is probably not up for it. But for those of us who are, the additional features and flexibility will trump any store bought PVR any day (and if it doesn't, well just write the extra software!).
Note to potential HTPC do-it-yourself article writers: Use either Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian (if your new to Linux or don't like configuring things yourself: Mandrake). You'll save a lot of time because you can install all the neccisary packages to run MythTV from a single command (ie 'urpmi MythTV' if you've set up PLF or Thacs rpm archive). Its REALLY not that difficult, but if you don't enjoy this sort of project (challenge?) why waste your time. Btw, Hauppauge's WinTV-250 is the way to go (at least for the MythTV project).
I mean if you talking about a whitelisted network of trusted/know valid smtp servers there is going to be some cost involved (validation of both individual users and networked servers). If that cost where low enough I'd happily pay a few dollars (on time fee? annual?) to get an account (sounds like getting a digital certificate but without all the geek factor) that I could send from as a know/validated user.
We'll end up with a Mandrake stable, which we've never had (and probably keeps them off some corporate desktops) and I'd imagine the testing Mandrake will be pretty much the same as regular Mandrake has always been (bleeding edge, sometimes buggy and still the best of both worlds).
For those posters complaining about the new 'Official' release being out of date, bleeding edge will *still* be in the community version, nothings changed. I'd guess the 'official' version will focus more on thier new Corporate desktop push and configuration/usability technologies. Makes perfect sense to me and maybe we can see some more serious usability enhancements (DrakConf is great, but not much has changed lately) now that some of their costs will be more focused (if the community comes together, which seems pretty active already in the club).
Aren't there a few companies trying to make a console PC/Gaming platform? What if they did it on Linux? Games would have to be ported, but the licensing costs would be lower (for the OS) and there would be alot more room for customization.
When Linux companies start making strategic partnerships with game developers things will start to change quickly. I'm not sure why they haven't started already, but with usabilty being only so-so (c'mon, its gotten ALOT better, but its still not there yet) its probably a good thing.
That said I've played Tribes 2 on Linux for over a year. Now I'm playing Postal 2 (demo still) and Savage. ID software is doing a great job offering support. UT 2003, MOHAA, America's Army. Alot of people are talking like gaming is still where it was in 1999. Things are shaping up.
Seems like a possible FTC issue. Heres the FAQ with some info for businesses: truth-in-advertising rules.
Snip!
According to the FTC's Deception Policy Statement, an ad is deceptive if it contains a statement -
or omits information - that:
* is likely to mislead consumers acting reasonably under the circumstances; and
* is "material" - that is, important to a consumer's decision to buy or use the product.
Emphasis mine. Sounds like Comcasts legal team broke into the nitrous oxide again.;-)
Lets keep things straight. As I've mentioned in other places: this wasn't a poll to find the most frequently used desktop distros. Thats another topic (one that would favor the desktop distros a little). Debian IS seeing remarkable growth in the server sector. NO BIG SURPRISE THERE. Red Had left an opening for a stable (and for mindshare: trustworthy), reliable platform for the oodles of apache web servers out there.
Read: your favorite desktop distro isn't being counted BECAUSE NETCRAFT ISN'T POLLING YOU HOME COMPUTER.
Netcraft rates servers. Debian is being lauded as a replacement for Red Hat servers aggressively (like Server Beach did while I was with them). Debain stable is a good replacement on the server, so expect these numbers to continue to climb a bit (the whole Red Hat thing probably shook up a lot of people and left a big opening for a wholly OSS, stable solution).
I've seen a few posts mentioning their favorite distro scoring suspiciously low, but remember: Mandrake [yours here] is a distro mainly targeted at the desktop, not the server.
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Alienware. Forgot the link...
Is currently kind of the Ferreri of the computer world. I'm sure other readers can point to some other venders. Whenever I'm specing out a pc to build I like to take a look at their hardware list. Only top end stuff (whish I could afford that 64!).
Everyone knows that anyones whos worried about digital evidence eampering is guilty. Terrorists, geesh!
Your KDE example would illustrate what I would consider a system-type upgrade that should in most cases (ie cases where the user doesn't want to handle it) be done using a more advance package management system and packages put together by your vender. The stand alone Loki installer scenario your describing is exactly what OS X users are trumpeting about. That drag-and-drop and it works. It does sound like a good enough idea. Remember the programming adage: KISS (Keep It Simple St*pid).
If any of you have bought games in the past few years you've probably used Loki Setup. Why wouldn't we use a program like this for simple software installation and an advanced 'package manager' for system updates. I think the problem is that we use overly complicated package managers for EVERYTHING when individual downloads don't need it.
Team killing is always really popular. If possible (depending on game) throw gernades, light team mates on fire or generally stand around in peoples way.
If someone shoots you a lot and you cant seem to touch them, that means their cheating. Its always best to call them a cheater out loud. This will show the other players that you just want to play a fair game.
Monopolize. If your playing on a level with any 'scarce' items its probably best if you get to them first then run directly over to the enemy side and open up! Just to show them how leet you are (they'll apprecaite you donating the weapon too).
Talk shit. Players really respect a player who knows how to talk shit. If your losing, insult the enemy team! This goes great along with accusing enemy players of cheating.
Finally, if *your* using a cheat its probably best to start accusing enemy players of cheating *as soon as you log in*. Your team mates will apprecaite this and admire you for your honesty.
Don't forget to bunny hop! Good gaming!
Suck. We all did it at one time or another. Gaming is *fun* not Holy. My advise would be to start playing Capture the Flag. You'll learn a lot about playing an probably become a more rounded player. I always start with the basics: defense. Once I have that I work on aim and general mayham, specifically creating it in close proximity *without* hurting my own team members. After that its all about the flag baby! If you start with defense you'll learn a lot quickly and other players will see you more as an asset and be more likely to give you tips and hints. Play for the team and they'll remember you for it, even if you only play from time to time.
I've been playing online games under Linux for a few years now. First 'serious' game was Tribes 2 which is a hell of a lot of fun, but teaming with clanners (not much trouble with cheats though). Now I play Postal 2 exclusively. It might fit the bill if you don't mind toilet humor mixed in with the game. The online extention is still fairly new I don't know about clans in the retail (because Linux retail version hasn't been released yet). Anyhow, its fun and fast paces so you could easily log in for a half hour and get a good game in. I only know of one cheat, but it only effects the demo servers (retail servers have been patched for it) its a 'health cloning' bug, so its only nominally annoying (pick-up health, spawn extra health, easily fixed with a well placed shotgun blast to offending users face). Anyhow, thats my suggestion. Its good fun and you get to play Gary Colmen!
IBM would not give away any assets if it was rewarded any (unless they had zero value as an asset). Assets fatten your portfolio, increase your net worth. What would 'freeing' them get them in return (pats on the back don't count, this is business).
Adding value to something thats already adding value to you is on thing, but giving away something thats increasing the value of you investors investment in you is certainly another.
How about a class action lawsuit? You pick the charges! Libel? Maybe SCO is just waiting for someone to put it to bed?
Litigate baby!
I've always been surprised that I have *never* found a virus or a backdoor in a crack or a keygen I downloaded off one of those sites. If there someone their trying to punish isn't it more likely freeware users? Anyone remember Whack-a-Mole?
Try aterm. It does pseudo transparency as well.
Bragging rights.
Cough.
I mean database.
Knowing what we all do about the importance of driver software and kernel io/performance. How many of you have made 'educated' decisions about video card purchases based on performance reviews conducted on Windows based PC's? I mean drivers have a HUGE impact on how hardware performs and Linux drivers and Windows drivers aren't exactly the same (sometimes for better and sometime worse). We speculate a lot about better/more stable performance but haven't really got a good resource for basic reviews.
Maybe I'm just idly wishing here, but as Linux gets closer and closer to the desktop these are the types of things we'll need to look at. My system feels a lot faster (games, mp3 encoding) then my work computer (Win98), but who really knows.
in the games section?
1) Time-shifting rented DVD's is nice (I don't always watch them right away).
2) Time-shifting TV is the ONLY way to go.
3) Music ripper/jukebox with fancy visuals is nice.
4) Mplayer compatible video player works out great for viewing new episodes of Red vs. Blue.
5) Web browsing.
6) DVD burning.
7) Expandable.
8) Upgradeable.
9) Skinnable.
There are certainly a couple of trade-offs, like those times you realize xmltv needs to be upgraded AFTER you've missed recording your favorite program. But if your a Slashdot geek these problems should be right up your alley. Anyone belly aching about the cost or convenience of a HTPC is probably not up for it. But for those of us who are, the additional features and flexibility will trump any store bought PVR any day (and if it doesn't, well just write the extra software!).
Note to potential HTPC do-it-yourself article writers: Use either Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian (if your new to Linux or don't like configuring things yourself: Mandrake). You'll save a lot of time because you can install all the neccisary packages to run MythTV from a single command (ie 'urpmi MythTV' if you've set up PLF or Thacs rpm archive). Its REALLY not that difficult, but if you don't enjoy this sort of project (challenge?) why waste your time. Btw, Hauppauge's WinTV-250 is the way to go (at least for the MythTV project).
I mean if you talking about a whitelisted network of trusted/know valid smtp servers there is going to be some cost involved (validation of both individual users and networked servers). If that cost where low enough I'd happily pay a few dollars (on time fee? annual?) to get an account (sounds like getting a digital certificate but without all the geek factor) that I could send from as a know/validated user.
We'll end up with a Mandrake stable, which we've never had (and probably keeps them off some corporate desktops) and I'd imagine the testing Mandrake will be pretty much the same as regular Mandrake has always been (bleeding edge, sometimes buggy and still the best of both worlds).
For those posters complaining about the new 'Official' release being out of date, bleeding edge will *still* be in the community version, nothings changed. I'd guess the 'official' version will focus more on thier new Corporate desktop push and configuration/usability technologies. Makes perfect sense to me and maybe we can see some more serious usability enhancements (DrakConf is great, but not much has changed lately) now that some of their costs will be more focused (if the community comes together, which seems pretty active already in the club).
Direct TV.
Tivo.
Cable bites. (accept my cable modem!)
Aren't there a few companies trying to make a console PC/Gaming platform? What if they did it on Linux? Games would have to be ported, but the licensing costs would be lower (for the OS) and there would be alot more room for customization.
When Linux companies start making strategic partnerships with game developers things will start to change quickly. I'm not sure why they haven't started already, but with usabilty being only so-so (c'mon, its gotten ALOT better, but its still not there yet) its probably a good thing.
That said I've played Tribes 2 on Linux for over a year. Now I'm playing Postal 2 (demo still) and Savage. ID software is doing a great job offering support. UT 2003, MOHAA, America's Army. Alot of people are talking like gaming is still where it was in 1999. Things are shaping up.
Snip! Emphasis mine. Sounds like Comcasts legal team broke into the nitrous oxide again.
Sorry, bad wording. I meant OS developed and supported. Either way, not trying to knock Red Hat.
Lets keep things straight. As I've mentioned in other places: this wasn't a poll to find the most frequently used desktop distros. Thats another topic (one that would favor the desktop distros a little). Debian IS seeing remarkable growth in the server sector. NO BIG SURPRISE THERE. Red Had left an opening for a stable (and for mindshare: trustworthy), reliable platform for the oodles of apache web servers out there.
Read: your favorite desktop distro isn't being counted BECAUSE NETCRAFT ISN'T POLLING YOU HOME COMPUTER.
Thanks for listening!
Netcraft rates servers. Debian is being lauded as a replacement for Red Hat servers aggressively (like Server Beach did while I was with them). Debain stable is a good replacement on the server, so expect these numbers to continue to climb a bit (the whole Red Hat thing probably shook up a lot of people and left a big opening for a wholly OSS, stable solution).
I've seen a few posts mentioning their favorite distro scoring suspiciously low, but remember: Mandrake [yours here] is a distro mainly targeted at the desktop, not the server.