Well, I only installed 64-bit version of the librairies, so I don't know what must have been wrong with your friend. If he's been messing a lot with the machine, maybe he should just undo everything he did and simply install the 64-bit libraries and then install Oracle. I think the fault actually lies with Oracle. They are a pain in the butt to configure under Linux. It actually makes the Windows installation simple next to it. Running extra scripts during installation in a separate shell as root are praying it doesn't screw up (considering it's Oracle) is NOT my cup of tea. But once it's running, I'd rather not be using anything else.
Oracle32 is tricky to get working under RedHat64, but my work machine is a 64-bit RedHat 4 Update 2 on a dual single-core Opteron and it works. You actually have to install a few extra packages to get it running, as the Oracle installer does a poor job at indicating which packages are missing during the linking of Oracle libraries (by poor I mean nothing). Tell him to go through the Installer Reference Guide available on the Oracle website and look for the packages section in it. Once I installed the missing packages, the Oracle install went smoothly. I even installed Oracle Express 10g under RH64.
Actually, the latest release of Oracle runs on pretty much everything. I've had success deploying in under RedHat, Fedora Core, *buntu and other debian based Linux. I think Oracle actually supports Suse as well.
The why people are complaining about games like Halo 3, Call Of Duty 12 or Final Fantasy 3000? If people are willing to pay (and sales show people are willing to pay), then why all the fuss over sequels?
Seriously, I'd rather have Nintendo create a totally new Mario Baseball (or Tennis) with Wii quality graphics and updates to the gameplay (aside from the remote), then a souped up version that it's only different with the original is Wiimote.
People complain that games have sequels and are becoming derivative more and more, and I don't see anyone bitching about the fact that Nintendo wants to release remakes (albeit at lower prices) of Gamecube games with different controls. There goes your innovation. Why isn't anyone picking up on this? Oh right... this is Nintendo, they can't do anything wrong now because of the Wiimote. Besides, why would I want to buy the same game with different control mechanics when I've already played it through before multiple times?
I should have posted a link to this news. Basically, the deal states that (from the article) the two leading football titles from Electronic Arts and Konami will not be available for Sony's PlayStation 3 until at least twelve months after release on Microsoft's console
Microsoft apparently has grabbed exclusive license for the next iterations of FIFA from EA and Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami for Next-Gen consoles for at least a year. This deal doesn't prevent EA and Konami to release the games on current-generation consoles tough.
I thought that was a pretty big blow to Sony, but then I realized, with the market share Sony will have this year, with the probable shortages and everything, there won't be that much people to buy the two games anyway, so it's probably simpler for these companies not to bother porting to the PS3 for this year. Unless this drives soccer (sorry "Rest of the world", I meant Football:p) fans to buy a 360 instead.
All I had to do is rip Dynasty Warrios off in order to give the 360 some form of credibility. Play the game first. It has it's faults, but it is definitely better imho than a Dynasty Warrior game. Koei should look at 99Nights combat next time they release a Dynasty Warrior game, NOT the other way around.
Merging two plain text file is one thing, merging two documents with changes in font, alignment, pictures, footers and headers etc is a whole other beast.
It's a management problem, not a technical one. I believe a collaborative software should prevent users from being in conflict. Either by locking the user out of the area you are editing or by some other means. Otherwise it's not collaborative, just free-for-all, and that is bound to cause errors.
Seriously tough, how about someone from the Street Fighter series, but the baby version of the character, not the grown up one, which were showcased in some jewel Street Fighter based game.
Please, NOT a Final Fantasy character, especially Sephiroth, Cloud or Vincent. Those characters have been showcased in other games enough.
Seriously tough, how about Mega Man? He is similar to Samus tough gameplay wise, unless you have combos that allow him to change his style? That would make him pretty unique.
Or, even tough he is not a video game character, maybe Samuel "The Man" Jackson? He's badass enough for this yet doesn't take himself seriously.
For example, if they offered encrypted storage whereby they had only the public and not the private keys to the stored documents, I'd be fine with storing just about anything on their servers.
That would be great actually. The private key could actually be nothing more than an hashed version of my google account password (not the same one as the hashed version they store in the database for identification purpose, obviously:p)
I don't know about multiple users editing the same document at the same time. Maybe multiple reviewing might be ok tough. It seems to me that collaboration is better achieved when multiple smaller units are linked together than having multiple people edit at the same time the same structure. For example, Autodesk Toxik is a compositing software that offers an interesting approach to collaboration : multiple artists can work on different aspects of the shot (compositing, keying, roto/painting, etc) and an artist can link to another artist's work and choose which version of the work of progress he wants to link from. He can toggle between the different versions of the other artist's work on the fly when a new one is published or switch back to a previous one if he decides the new version is not usable yet.
I don't see how editing text can be correctly implemented in a word processor, two people modifying the same document at the same moment can lead to one people overwriting some else's work. Unless, as I said, people work on two completely different aspect/part of the document. It seems clunky to me. I'm not too familiar with word processing applications that allow multiple people editing the same document at the same time tough, so maybe there's just something I am not seeing.
Reviewing on the other hand normally involves multiple people making comments and then a single person integrating the changes. Simply add your review tags in the document (you might even see other people's comments pop-up in realtime like you said) and then one person merges the comments. That would actually work.
I've been able to do reviews and comments and integrate them inside revisions in Word for years at my workplace. Open Office seems to have notes, but I have no idea how elaborate it's review system is.
What do you mean by "real, realtime collaboration"?"
Well, I believe that Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what Google might be about to unleash. The only difference would be that Microsoft's costs more. This might be an interesting thing to implement in Open Office or any other open source office application. As far as availability, my preference is to have my USB key in my pocket to bring stuff around. I wouldn't put anything important on Google's servers, because of privacy issues. For example, I'd never put my budget spreadsheet in Google's Spreadsheet even it was the best application ever. There's just some data that is more convenient to be private than to be accessible.
Why have free and not private when you can have free and private. I've been using Open Office for a year under Windows and haven't felt the need to switch back to anything else. Google has actually created something that is less useful than other free alternatives.
See, for every story of privacy invasion from the police which prompts people to want better encryption and being anonymous on the web, once in a while there's an article like this one that doesn't make me want more protection from privacy invasion. Think about it, if people could make death threats like this totally anonymously, without any chance of being caught... I want those people to leave trace somewhere so they can be caught.
All the 360 games are online-enabled, yet not all of them can play online. Achievements, leaderboards, downloadable content. All free of charge, ie no monthly fee. Why didn't he just plainly say "We will offer online-multiplayer games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for."?
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Well, I only installed 64-bit version of the librairies, so I don't know what must have been wrong with your friend. If he's been messing a lot with the machine, maybe he should just undo everything he did and simply install the 64-bit libraries and then install Oracle. I think the fault actually lies with Oracle. They are a pain in the butt to configure under Linux. It actually makes the Windows installation simple next to it. Running extra scripts during installation in a separate shell as root are praying it doesn't screw up (considering it's Oracle) is NOT my cup of tea. But once it's running, I'd rather not be using anything else.
Oracle32 is tricky to get working under RedHat64, but my work machine is a 64-bit RedHat 4 Update 2 on a dual single-core Opteron and it works. You actually have to install a few extra packages to get it running, as the Oracle installer does a poor job at indicating which packages are missing during the linking of Oracle libraries (by poor I mean nothing). Tell him to go through the Installer Reference Guide available on the Oracle website and look for the packages section in it. Once I installed the missing packages, the Oracle install went smoothly. I even installed Oracle Express 10g under RH64.
Actually, the latest release of Oracle runs on pretty much everything. I've had success deploying in under RedHat, Fedora Core, *buntu and other debian based Linux. I think Oracle actually supports Suse as well.
Man, what do you listen to? Barry Manilow?
I don't think he does. I think 'eldavojohn' is Stephen Colbert's slashdot nick.
Yeah, but the Mickey Mouse president won't allow it.
Hey, that was a joke ***dammit!!!
Didn't they already clone sheeps?
The why people are complaining about games like Halo 3, Call Of Duty 12 or Final Fantasy 3000? If people are willing to pay (and sales show people are willing to pay), then why all the fuss over sequels?
Seriously, I'd rather have Nintendo create a totally new Mario Baseball (or Tennis) with Wii quality graphics and updates to the gameplay (aside from the remote), then a souped up version that it's only different with the original is Wiimote.
People complain that games have sequels and are becoming derivative more and more, and I don't see anyone bitching about the fact that Nintendo wants to release remakes (albeit at lower prices) of Gamecube games with different controls. There goes your innovation. Why isn't anyone picking up on this? Oh right... this is Nintendo, they can't do anything wrong now because of the Wiimote. Besides, why would I want to buy the same game with different control mechanics when I've already played it through before multiple times?
Here's a link to the reply I made to my original post.
I should have posted a link to this news. Basically, the deal states that (from the article) the two leading football titles from Electronic Arts and Konami will not be available for Sony's PlayStation 3 until at least twelve months after release on Microsoft's console
No word on the Wii at this moment.
Microsoft apparently has grabbed exclusive license for the next iterations of FIFA from EA and Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami for Next-Gen consoles for at least a year. This deal doesn't prevent EA and Konami to release the games on current-generation consoles tough.
:p) fans to buy a 360 instead.
I thought that was a pretty big blow to Sony, but then I realized, with the market share Sony will have this year, with the probable shortages and everything, there won't be that much people to buy the two games anyway, so it's probably simpler for these companies not to bother porting to the PS3 for this year. Unless this drives soccer (sorry "Rest of the world", I meant Football
All I had to do is rip Dynasty Warrios off in order to give the 360 some form of credibility.
Play the game first. It has it's faults, but it is definitely better imho than a Dynasty Warrior game. Koei should look at 99Nights combat next time they release a Dynasty Warrior game, NOT the other way around.
Merging two plain text file is one thing, merging two documents with changes in font, alignment, pictures, footers and headers etc is a whole other beast.
It's a management problem, not a technical one.
I believe a collaborative software should prevent users from being in conflict. Either by locking the user out of the area you are editing or by some other means. Otherwise it's not collaborative, just free-for-all, and that is bound to cause errors.
How about lame one liners? ;)
Master Chief! Yeah, like that would happen.
Seriously tough, how about someone from the Street Fighter series, but the baby version of the character, not the grown up one, which were showcased in some jewel Street Fighter based game.
Please, NOT a Final Fantasy character, especially Sephiroth, Cloud or Vincent. Those characters have been showcased in other games enough.
Seriously tough, how about Mega Man? He is similar to Samus tough gameplay wise, unless you have combos that allow him to change his style? That would make him pretty unique.
Or, even tough he is not a video game character, maybe Samuel "The Man" Jackson? He's badass enough for this yet doesn't take himself seriously.
For example, if they offered encrypted storage whereby they had only the public and not the private keys to the stored documents, I'd be fine with storing just about anything on their servers.
:p)
:)
That would be great actually. The private key could actually be nothing more than an hashed version of my google account password (not the same one as the hashed version they store in the database for identification purpose, obviously
Anyone from Google reading this?
I don't know about multiple users editing the same document at the same time. Maybe multiple reviewing might be ok tough. It seems to me that collaboration is better achieved when multiple smaller units are linked together than having multiple people edit at the same time the same structure. For example, Autodesk Toxik is a compositing software that offers an interesting approach to collaboration : multiple artists can work on different aspects of the shot (compositing, keying, roto/painting, etc) and an artist can link to another artist's work and choose which version of the work of progress he wants to link from. He can toggle between the different versions of the other artist's work on the fly when a new one is published or switch back to a previous one if he decides the new version is not usable yet.
I don't see how editing text can be correctly implemented in a word processor, two people modifying the same document at the same moment can lead to one people overwriting some else's work. Unless, as I said, people work on two completely different aspect/part of the document. It seems clunky to me. I'm not too familiar with word processing applications that allow multiple people editing the same document at the same time tough, so maybe there's just something I am not seeing.
Reviewing on the other hand normally involves multiple people making comments and then a single person integrating the changes. Simply add your review tags in the document (you might even see other people's comments pop-up in realtime like you said) and then one person merges the comments. That would actually work.
I've been able to do reviews and comments and integrate them inside revisions in Word for years at my workplace. Open Office seems to have notes, but I have no idea how elaborate it's review system is.
What do you mean by "real, realtime collaboration"?"
Well, I believe that Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what Google might be about to unleash. The only difference would be that Microsoft's costs more. This might be an interesting thing to implement in Open Office or any other open source office application. As far as availability, my preference is to have my USB key in my pocket to bring stuff around. I wouldn't put anything important on Google's servers, because of privacy issues. For example, I'd never put my budget spreadsheet in Google's Spreadsheet even it was the best application ever. There's just some data that is more convenient to be private than to be accessible.
Why have free and not private when you can have free and private. I've been using Open Office for a year under Windows and haven't felt the need to switch back to anything else. Google has actually created something that is less useful than other free alternatives.
Huh? Procedural assets are exactly the kind of things the 360 designers had in mind. No worry there.
See, for every story of privacy invasion from the police which prompts people to want better encryption and being anonymous on the web, once in a while there's an article like this one that doesn't make me want more protection from privacy invasion. Think about it, if people could make death threats like this totally anonymously, without any chance of being caught... I want those people to leave trace somewhere so they can be caught.
... is being vapor only.
Online enabled != Online multiplayer
All the 360 games are online-enabled, yet not all of them can play online. Achievements, leaderboards, downloadable content. All free of charge, ie no monthly fee. Why didn't he just plainly say "We will offer online-multiplayer games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for."?