Unless you're on a university campus with outbound firewall; then, even if you have the physical CD, you can't even play single player:-/ It also apparently does some funky network stuff which breaks VPNs and SOCKS-tunneling apps. The only way I found to make it run was to set up a VPN on a second box and use that as the gateway...
If I'd have known that it'd be that much hassle, I would have just torrented it -_-
Valve tech support is great so
Since when? During the above I tried to find out WTF they'd done to break VPNs and tunneling, and the only response I could get was "VPN software will prevent the Steam client application from accessing the Steam network.", over and over again:-|
Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. An example of of items that were added are Pine, and OpenAFS.
Not only are these people some of the world's most hardcore physics geeks, they have enough geekyness left over to be picky over unix mail clients?
I'm impressed:-O
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Have people become so excited over something actually interesting that they've forgotten to spam the discussion with old memes? I ask because "does it run linux" could actually be relevant -- That screenshot looks like KDE; now I wonder what the rest of their software stack is like...
Until you made that comment, I wasn't even aware my browser had a home button, that's how much I used it -- now that you've pointed it out, I'm going to disable it to have more space for useful things; thanks:-)
So the guy who has all the internet porn is going to have quite a collection of goatse and things that will make you WANT to go back to looking at goatse.
Speaking as someone who ran a script to monitor several random IRC channels and download any images linked in them, I can confirm that this is very very true:-(
I think we have a chance to do something about education... (August 29, 2001)
Given that bush's government has been too busy warmongering to do anything about education (other than continuing the "no child left behind" thing, aka "no child allowed ahead"), does he still hold this view?
An example of what? The only objects I mentioned in my post are "compilers which don't exist yet (but could in theory)", and "two identical binaries". Given that the first contains a statement of it's non-existance, I can only assume the latter, so here is an example of two identical binaries: 010010011101010101, 010010011101010101
C#, once JIT'ed, is just a bunch of binary. C, when compiled, is also a bunch of binary. Given a theoretically perfect JIT compiler vs the theoretically perfect static compiler, they'll both output exactly the same code.
You are obviously just regurgitating anti-MS propoganda without thinking critically:P
(Note: I'm not saying that C# implementations are *currently* as fast as C ones, just that there's nothing to stop them becoming so in the future)
hours finding memory leaks? How bad are you at debugging?
If you think that taking hours to find a leak is excessive, the people at mozilla could do with some help -- they've been hunting them down for *years*:-P
There already exists creative commons porn; though the original site was taken down and the film made part of a proprietary compilation, you can probably still find some downloads around the net~
I would not even begin to think how Linux could handle this
Evidently I am somewhat more adventurous, as I will dare to think. My thought is that linux could handle this by having some sort of kernel setting, called, say, "overcommit_memory", classed in the "sys/vm" part of the proc heirachy. I would think that one could alter the behaviour by echoing a setting into it, eg "echo 2 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory". Incidentally, I think it could work this way because it actually does work this way:P
A question though -- with overcommit disabled, things like java or wine (which allocate several hundred megs of ram to play with whether they actually use it or not) tend to start failing; how does solaris deal with this? I wonder if it's even noticed, as the last solaris box I saw had 8GB RAM and 32GB swap, whereas this problem is more apparent on my 64MB linux VMs...
It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system.
I've been hearing that argument for years. I remember back in 1999 hearing how Linux would be ready for the desktop in 2001. Years have passed since then and it still isn't.
Because flash still sucks!:-P
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For a frame of reference, consider the classic comeback to the apologist's "but Java runs on so many platforms" argument: "And how did you compile the JVM?".
By writing a ton of platform-specific code, spending hundreds of hours debugging compiler specific problems because none of them support the standards in exactly the same way, and in general spending far too long worrying about the details when there's a bigger picture to be dealt with:-|
... this is a comeback to be used *against* java? o_O
Our servers were only upgraded to etch 6 months ago. While the upgrade process itself is quick and painless, checking every last detail to make sure the system is ready for customer use is a PITA, and I'd really rather stick with what we have + security updates:(
The number of exploits demonstrating that is artificially low because the target base is lower.
Personally, I care more about "exploits in the wild" than "exploits some guy on slashdot assures me must exist, but has no evidence for"... (Not saying you're wrong, I just don't find your logic very convincing)
Having 15 mod points forces me to choose between modding or posting on virtually every discussion I read as long as I have the points.
If having the choice is such a burden, you can always pretend you don't have them; as a bonus, when you get into an "I wish I had mod points" moment, you might actually have some:-)
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Well, it didn't work with openvpn, which does it the new virtual interface way :-/
and most importantly it always works, period.
Unless you're on a university campus with outbound firewall; then, even if you have the physical CD, you can't even play single player :-/ It also apparently does some funky network stuff which breaks VPNs and SOCKS-tunneling apps. The only way I found to make it run was to set up a VPN on a second box and use that as the gateway...
If I'd have known that it'd be that much hassle, I would have just torrented it -_-
Valve tech support is great so
Since when? During the above I tried to find out WTF they'd done to break VPNs and tunneling, and the only response I could get was "VPN software will prevent the Steam client application from accessing the Steam network.", over and over again :-|
Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. An example of of items that were added are Pine, and OpenAFS.
Not only are these people some of the world's most hardcore physics geeks, they have enough geekyness left over to be picky over unix mail clients?
I'm impressed :-O
Have people become so excited over something actually interesting that they've forgotten to spam the discussion with old memes? I ask because "does it run linux" could actually be relevant -- That screenshot looks like KDE; now I wonder what the rest of their software stack is like...
Do you really think 40GB is fair in this day and age of streaming on-demand video?
Here in the UK, my ISP is boasting about their massive 15GB/mo allowance ;_;
the user experience is really starting to suck lately
You must be new here :-/
This is utterly useless. Any good ISP...
How can something be utterly useless if only a small fraction of ISPs can do without? :-P
And maybe you mean mainland europe -- here in the uk, all ISPs suck :-(
I definitely plan to stick to Firefox. First of all, if it ain't broke, why break it?
A single plugin in a single tab can take down the entire browser; I think that qualifies as broken :-/
Until you made that comment, I wasn't even aware my browser had a home button, that's how much I used it -- now that you've pointed it out, I'm going to disable it to have more space for useful things; thanks :-)
So the guy who has all the internet porn is going to have quite a collection of goatse and things that will make you WANT to go back to looking at goatse.
Speaking as someone who ran a script to monitor several random IRC channels and download any images linked in them, I can confirm that this is very very true :-(
This is Not a PC.
Is it not personal? Or is it not a computer? o_O
There is not x86 compatible CPU in there.
So?
Since it's MIPS, don't expect to just use RPM and install anything
why not?
I think we have a chance to do something about education... (August 29, 2001)
Given that bush's government has been too busy warmongering to do anything about education (other than continuing the "no child left behind" thing, aka "no child allowed ahead"), does he still hold this view?
Put-Up-Or-Shutup - Provide an example if you can.
An example of what? The only objects I mentioned in my post are "compilers which don't exist yet (but could in theory)", and "two identical binaries". Given that the first contains a statement of it's non-existance, I can only assume the latter, so here is an example of two identical binaries: 010010011101010101, 010010011101010101
:-P
sticking "define:world" into google, the first result is "universe: everything that exists anywhere"
C# by its very nature can not be as fast as C
C#, once JIT'ed, is just a bunch of binary. C, when compiled, is also a bunch of binary. Given a theoretically perfect JIT compiler vs the theoretically perfect static compiler, they'll both output exactly the same code.
You are obviously just regurgitating anti-MS propoganda without thinking critically :P
(Note: I'm not saying that C# implementations are *currently* as fast as C ones, just that there's nothing to stop them becoming so in the future)
hours finding memory leaks? How bad are you at debugging?
If you think that taking hours to find a leak is excessive, the people at mozilla could do with some help -- they've been hunting them down for *years* :-P
There already exists creative commons porn; though the original site was taken down and the film made part of a proprietary compilation, you can probably still find some downloads around the net~
I would not even begin to think how Linux could handle this
Evidently I am somewhat more adventurous, as I will dare to think. My thought is that linux could handle this by having some sort of kernel setting, called, say, "overcommit_memory", classed in the "sys/vm" part of the proc heirachy. I would think that one could alter the behaviour by echoing a setting into it, eg "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory". Incidentally, I think it could work this way because it actually does work this way :P
A question though -- with overcommit disabled, things like java or wine (which allocate several hundred megs of ram to play with whether they actually use it or not) tend to start failing; how does solaris deal with this? I wonder if it's even noticed, as the last solaris box I saw had 8GB RAM and 32GB swap, whereas this problem is more apparent on my 64MB linux VMs...
It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system.
I've been hearing that argument for years. I remember back in 1999 hearing how Linux would be ready for the desktop in 2001. Years have passed since then and it still isn't.
Because flash still sucks! :-P
For a frame of reference, consider the classic comeback to the apologist's "but Java runs on so many platforms" argument: "And how did you compile the JVM?".
By writing a ton of platform-specific code, spending hundreds of hours debugging compiler specific problems because none of them support the standards in exactly the same way, and in general spending far too long worrying about the details when there's a bigger picture to be dealt with :-|
... this is a comeback to be used *against* java? o_O
Our servers were only upgraded to etch 6 months ago. While the upgrade process itself is quick and painless, checking every last detail to make sure the system is ready for customer use is a PITA, and I'd really rather stick with what we have + security updates :(
The number of exploits demonstrating that is artificially low because the target base is lower.
Personally, I care more about "exploits in the wild" than "exploits some guy on slashdot assures me must exist, but has no evidence for"... (Not saying you're wrong, I just don't find your logic very convincing)
Having 15 mod points forces me to choose between modding or posting on virtually every discussion I read as long as I have the points.
If having the choice is such a burden, you can always pretend you don't have them; as a bonus, when you get into an "I wish I had mod points" moment, you might actually have some :-)
Leave it alone and only apply the security updates. I have a server happily running sarge that I have no plans to change.
Ummm.. you know that sarge no longer gets security updates, right? :S (announcement)
You know that you should read ./ before you do any actual work. Don't you?
Indeed; and I recommend getting into the habit of *double* checking the current working directory before running something like "rm -rf *" ;)