Haha. Maybe you're a little bit behind the times, but the Linux client beta has been out for a while now. You can download it HERE. (you need to be logged in to download it)
"Of the two hundred eighty-nine casualties suffered by the UN troops at this time, the commanding officer insists that they were caused by a rampaging Canadian moose. Daniel Hartmeier, previously of the OpenBSD Project, insists that OpenBSD has no weapons of moose destruction."
"Frankly it seems like just soldering in the modchip would be easy, but big points for being clever!"
This depends on whether or not you are actually good at soldering. I for one have destroyed many PSX's in the past due to my clumsiness. Regardless, CT forgot one important fact: if you mod your XboX, you will _permanently_ (well, without some creative hacking and another Xbox, which, in having one already defeats the purpose) lose the ability to use Xbox Live, as the Xbox's unique,internal serial number will become banned.
...although I'd love to call myself an engineer (considering I'm taking the EE track through CS at my University), I'd honestly have to say that I'm more of a "specialized mathematician". Computer Science has a lot of foundation in [theoretical] mathematics (as everything else, but even more so than a lot of other majors). We're essentially "high-level" mathematicians, or at least, that is what they teach us.
I guess now the question is (from my viewpoint): Are Engineers anything more than "specialized mathematicians," or is there something that makes them different, that isn't based on mathematics? If not, then Engineers we all be.:-)
Wow, that's pretty cool. I always look forward to Apple releases, be it hardware or software. Funny thing is, I don't even own a Mac!:-) (yeah yeah, I'm just waiting for my dually 64-bit IBM 970 Apple:-P)
Anyhoo... hopefully this time they will offer some kind of upgrade offer. For instance, if you bought Jaguar (...which will have come out a year before "Panther"), then you can get it 50% off or something. If they don't offer some kind of upgrade offer, I will hold sway with my original thought: that they are simply trying to make money off of some redundant update, or at least, until the press release comes out:-D
"the article maintains that our jobs are as stable as ever, and that pay increases are actually at reasonable levels."
Ummm... by this I'm assuming he means job security, and I'm going to have to disagree with that. Tell that to my mother's 5 co-workers whom were recently laid off due to downsizing. Companies are still cutting costs to stay afloat, and I don't think job security is quite there yet, IMHO. But I would have to agree that it is getting a little bit better, and by that I mean no more 30+% IT dept. layoffs.
It's finally here! It's finally here! It's finally here!/me runs around screaming like a little girl, then runs straight into a wall and passes out, forgetting that it all happened... only to wake up, obsessively check Slashdot, see the headline, and repeat the cycle...
But seriously, wow, I've been waiting almost a year for this (okay, maybe more like 9 months or so). I'm pretty happy that it's here now, since this expands the number of games I can play in Linux without having to reboot back into Windows. w00t! Although, honestly, is there even a reason I should play it in Linux rather than Windows (other than me being too lazy to reboot)? Since it's a beta it's rather crippled, and at this rate, I'm not sure it'll EVER run "as well" as the Windows version. I'm not too convinced with my Linux Q3A and RtCW (Punkbuster and performance are not up to par in Linux compared to Windows). We shall see.
OMG. One billion dollars? That's ridiculous. Is SCO even _worth_ that much?
It doesn't even matter anymore whether or not they actually have a valid claim... asking for one billion dollars just makes you a money whore and shows just how greedy and desperate for money you are. If nothing else, they've lost my support because of all of this. I honestly think they are overstepping their bounds with this one. One billion dollars....
How is this a new development in music technology? I know I first saw the Pod at _least_ 3 years ago. It's still very cool, nonetheless, and it would be extremely handy, especially since my old amp burned out (lightning storm), and you can just plug it into your computer audio system. I remember that old model Pod even emulates my ol' favorite, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier!
...that UT had an anime class. I need one more elective credit for graduation. Would be nice, although, I wouldn't know what college they would put it under.
This is rather sad news, as I have been patiently awaiting the NWN Linux client, but given the scope and range of the project, I'd have to say it's rather reasonable. I guess I shall just have to patiently wait some more, all the while still rebooting into Windows to play (NWN and my MOHAA).
I've considered building a dedicated Windows gaming box, since so many games don't have Llinux support (*ahem* EA *ahem*). Not a bad idea, methinks
Of course... the games! I can honestly I say I use Linux as my "main" desktop OS, and reboot into Windows pretty much only for games. There are only a few exceptions:
1. When I fsck up my Gentoo, and I don't have time to get it up and running:)
2. I'm currently working on a looong paper in Windows using Office (rather than my preferred Abiword, or even OOo), because it has to be integrated with 7 other people's papers into one large document, and I'm worried about compatibility issues (hell, if different versions of Office don't even play nicely with each other, how can I expect other programs to play nicely with office??)
* I'm trying to get Office2K working properly in Wine right now, and if I can fix a few snags, then this is no longer a concern:)
3. This last one's minor, but I have yet to find a p2p client that I like as much as Gnutella, which is unfortunately, win32 only (AFAIK).
Probably because this has been posted a million times since it happened, and there are probably countless articles concerning it; would it have been too hard for him to hit up google and type in "sklyarov" ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it really matter? He doesn't live in the US (nor is he a citizen, IIRC), and even if he's found guilty, can we even do anything about it? I doubt anyone will make any significant effort to bring him to the US for punishment. Plus, I would hope his country would back him up and give him some sort of protection.
(I'm sick of this DMCA nonsense. Can't we get that sh*t revised? Oh wait, the general public can't afford lobbyists so therefore our opinion doesn't count.)
btw, I'd like to say I use Gentoo, and I think it's a wonderful distribution. Great work drobbins and the whole team! It's an awesome distribution and I hope it lasts the test of time:)
I have something that I'd like to request, however. I don't know how viable it is, but here goes: could we get some kind of progress meter for when we emerge packages? For instance, I emerged Open Office and it took a whopping 6 hours, which I was unprepared for. I know emerging varies wildly from system to system, so maybe not a time-dependent progress meter, but more of like a package-dependent progress meter? I'm not sure how it all works, but having _some_ kind of progress meter would be nice:)
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...but what about OpenBSD & NetBSD? I don't use BSD nor know much about it, but aren't they synonymous to different BSD "distributions"? Don't they share the same kernel (mostly), yet have different packages & configurations?
Yay! NWN Linux *isn't* just vapor-ware/false-promise(s)! Big props to Bioware for actually concentrating on such a niche market,especially since they are probably losing money on devleoping a linux client.
If only more game companies would be willing to do this, I would *never* have to reboot again!:)
Once again big props to the guys at Bioware, keep up the good work!
Honestly though, if they win this, it means they have 100% control over what we can and can't view over the internet (did someone say 'censorship' ???)
I wonder how I can make a stand? Is all I can do just to idly stand by and cross my fingers while hoping the ISPs win? Honestly, I'd like to help fight against this, and I'm wondering in what ways I can help (other than writing to my congressman and the Justices of the SC, which I'm getting ready to do).
Sounds like a cool idea, but imagine the potential problems:
1.) "I lost my unlocking wrist bracelet/watch!"
2.) "My unlocking wrist bracelet/watch isn't sync'ing with the hard drive! It's not being recognized!" (and everything remains encrypted and un-readable, even to the owner... Bluetooth can be dodgy enough on its own sometimes as it is...)
3.) The only way money could be made from this is if it costs a fortune, which most people aren't going to be willing to pay.
4.) "To speed up the encryption process, most of the files is already encrypted and only a cached portion is automatically decrypted when the user is in range" --- I don't truly understand this, but it sounds like they are saying that everything will be encrypted already, and even when "decrypted" it won't really be usable until it is decrypted; such as decrypting an mp3/ogg before you can play it back, and when you're done it'll get encrypted again. Overall, it doesn't sound very "performance-happy".
See the potential problems? Still, maybe after a few "production quality releases" and a few patches/upgrades (that require you to buy new hardware), it will be usable. I guess we'll wait and see if this actually hits the market or not, and how well it does:)
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Haha. Maybe you're a little bit behind the times, but the Linux client beta has been out for a while now. You can download it HERE. (you need to be logged in to download it)
Hilarious! :-)
...too bad in all of Central and Western US, it's still March 31st. Joke's on YOU! :-)
This depends on whether or not you are actually good at soldering. I for one have destroyed many PSX's in the past due to my clumsiness. Regardless, CT forgot one important fact: if you mod your XboX, you will _permanently_ (well, without some creative hacking and another Xbox, which, in having one already defeats the purpose) lose the ability to use Xbox Live, as the Xbox's unique,internal serial number will become banned.
Oh yes, I also seem to have forgotten the whole "Are Computer Scientists just linguists?" side of the argument. :-)
I guess now the question is (from my viewpoint): Are Engineers anything more than "specialized mathematicians," or is there something that makes them different, that isn't based on mathematics? If not, then Engineers we all be. :-)
Anyhoo... hopefully this time they will offer some kind of upgrade offer. For instance, if you bought Jaguar (...which will have come out a year before "Panther"), then you can get it 50% off or something. If they don't offer some kind of upgrade offer, I will hold sway with my original thought: that they are simply trying to make money off of some redundant update, or at least, until the press release comes out :-D
Ummm... by this I'm assuming he means job security, and I'm going to have to disagree with that. Tell that to my mother's 5 co-workers whom were recently laid off due to downsizing. Companies are still cutting costs to stay afloat, and I don't think job security is quite there yet, IMHO. But I would have to agree that it is getting a little bit better, and by that I mean no more 30+% IT dept. layoffs.
But seriously, wow, I've been waiting almost a year for this (okay, maybe more like 9 months or so). I'm pretty happy that it's here now, since this expands the number of games I can play in Linux without having to reboot back into Windows. w00t! Although, honestly, is there even a reason I should play it in Linux rather than Windows (other than me being too lazy to reboot)? Since it's a beta it's rather crippled, and at this rate, I'm not sure it'll EVER run "as well" as the Windows version. I'm not too convinced with my Linux Q3A and RtCW (Punkbuster and performance are not up to par in Linux compared to Windows). We shall see.
It doesn't even matter anymore whether or not they actually have a valid claim... asking for one billion dollars just makes you a money whore and shows just how greedy and desperate for money you are. If nothing else, they've lost my support because of all of this. I honestly think they are overstepping their bounds with this one. One billion dollars....
How is this a new development in music technology? I know I first saw the Pod at _least_ 3 years ago. It's still very cool, nonetheless, and it would be extremely handy, especially since my old amp burned out (lightning storm), and you can just plug it into your computer audio system. I remember that old model Pod even emulates my ol' favorite, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier!
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w00w00!!!
...that UT had an anime class. I need one more elective credit for graduation. Would be nice, although, I wouldn't know what college they would put it under.
I've considered building a dedicated Windows gaming box, since so many games don't have Llinux support (*ahem* EA *ahem*). Not a bad idea, methinks
1. When I fsck up my Gentoo, and I don't have time to get it up and running :)
2. I'm currently working on a looong paper in Windows using Office (rather than my preferred Abiword, or even OOo), because it has to be integrated with 7 other people's papers into one large document, and I'm worried about compatibility issues (hell, if different versions of Office don't even play nicely with each other, how can I expect other programs to play nicely with office??) :)
* I'm trying to get Office2K working properly in Wine right now, and if I can fix a few snags, then this is no longer a concern
3. This last one's minor, but I have yet to find a p2p client that I like as much as Gnutella, which is unfortunately, win32 only (AFAIK).
That's pretty much all I can think of for now...
Coward!
....I don't see how this is a problem for me (I use GNU/Linux =P )
Probably because this has been posted a million times since it happened, and there are probably countless articles concerning it; would it have been too hard for him to hit up google and type in "sklyarov" ?
(I'm sick of this DMCA nonsense. Can't we get that sh*t revised? Oh wait, the general public can't afford lobbyists so therefore our opinion doesn't count.)
I have something that I'd like to request, however. I don't know how viable it is, but here goes: could we get some kind of progress meter for when we emerge packages? For instance, I emerged Open Office and it took a whopping 6 hours, which I was unprepared for. I know emerging varies wildly from system to system, so maybe not a time-dependent progress meter, but more of like a package-dependent progress meter? I'm not sure how it all works, but having _some_ kind of progress meter would be nice :)
...but what about OpenBSD & NetBSD? I don't use BSD nor know much about it, but aren't they synonymous to different BSD "distributions"? Don't they share the same kernel (mostly), yet have different packages & configurations?
If only more game companies would be willing to do this, I would *never* have to reboot again! :)
Once again big props to the guys at Bioware, keep up the good work!
Honestly though, if they win this, it means they have 100% control over what we can and can't view over the internet (did someone say 'censorship' ???)
I wonder how I can make a stand? Is all I can do just to idly stand by and cross my fingers while hoping the ISPs win? Honestly, I'd like to help fight against this, and I'm wondering in what ways I can help (other than writing to my congressman and the Justices of the SC, which I'm getting ready to do).
1.) "I lost my unlocking wrist bracelet/watch!"
2.) "My unlocking wrist bracelet/watch isn't sync'ing with the hard drive! It's not being recognized!" (and everything remains encrypted and un-readable, even to the owner... Bluetooth can be dodgy enough on its own sometimes as it is...)
3.) The only way money could be made from this is if it costs a fortune, which most people aren't going to be willing to pay.
4.) "To speed up the encryption process, most of the files is already encrypted and only a cached portion is automatically decrypted when the user is in range" --- I don't truly understand this, but it sounds like they are saying that everything will be encrypted already, and even when "decrypted" it won't really be usable until it is decrypted; such as decrypting an mp3/ogg before you can play it back, and when you're done it'll get encrypted again. Overall, it doesn't sound very "performance-happy".
See the potential problems? Still, maybe after a few "production quality releases" and a few patches/upgrades (that require you to buy new hardware), it will be usable. I guess we'll wait and see if this actually hits the market or not, and how well it does