It was hammered well before Slashdot got the story; I downloaded it a few hours ago and tried to get to mozilla.org, and watched as it loaded in an extremely slow manner.
Steam and current games except CS: Source work fine in Cedega, and sometimes works/sometimes doesn't in WineHQ wine (depending on state of b0rkage), with decent FPS.
I still won't be buying HL2 unless they announce that there will be a Linux port, but steam is runnable on Linux.
SSH tunneling is really easy with modern versions of SSH and PuTTY, which can allow you to set up a local SOCKS proxy which goes through the SSH connection. In CLI SSH, use -D[port], and in PuTTY it's under Connection->SSH->Tunnels, set it to dynamic and enter a port (destination's not needed).
Older versions of SSH and PuTTY can do "static" port forwarding, where you bind a local port to a remote destination/port.
From what I understand it's basically a release with a screw-up somewhere. A symbol of embarassment (don't know how to put that better...) is to wear a brown paper bag on your head. The dodgy release was embarassing, hence the brown paper bag release.
I see one major flaw with your "sell it or lose it" plan: that would end up putting a lot of Free software which isn't commercially exploited into the public domain, removing the need to agree to a distribution licence agreement (whether it's the GPL, BSD, or whatever licence). Perhaps a "use it or lose it" method would work better.
And just a couple of seconds after hitting submit, I realised how I could find out. The CD just says "Unreal Tournament", but the Windows installer (run in WINE) says "Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. Edition". I just used the normal UT installer to install it.
Here is a single golden rule for tv. DO NOT AIR 2 OF THE SAME TYPE OF PROGRAMS AFTER EACH OTHER OR ON TWO CHANNELS. Just look at the bbc schedule. Multiple cooking, home improvement, reality crap, soaps, gardening. Nothing to get me watching. Not that I mind cooking shows. BUT NOT 2 behind each other. Jeez.
You don't want to see BBC Amerca then - Ground Force Ground Force Ground Force Changing Rooms Changing Rooms Changing Rooms
I nicked my brother's UT GOTY CD which came with his new system, and used the Linux installer - it all installed fine after I un-uzd the files; what's on CD 2 that you need? (This version of UT GOTY didn't have a CD 2:P).
Why, exactly, shouldn't all images have an alt tag? You need to do this to write valid HTML 4/XHTML anyway, and it's really annoying when I'm using links or something to see "[IMG]" with no clue what it is.
I fail to see why the groups would advocate anything to do with stylesheets, as they can be disabled in all modern browsers... Same with black/white background/text, and 14 pt fonts.
I think we have kinda different aims - bloat has some features which unp doesn't have (actually checking for apps, printing where to get them, and there is an undocumented method of fetching the apps), checking whether the file has a subdirectory in it which contains all the other files (and if not, create a directory), etc.
Though the code is complete and utter crap at the moment, I need to do a rewrite some time.
unp seems to be aimed towards a basic, simple script to extract files, without loads of checking.
FWIW, when I used Photoshop for the first time after ages of GIMP recently, I found it extremely difficult to get to grips with the UI; I expect quite a lot of people who find it inefficient have come from a PSP/Photoshop/whatever background and become used to it.
To respond to your particular qualm, though, try GIMP 2; it has a toolbar at the top of every image window.
I'm not quite sure how a world with nothing but Free software wouldn't work; can you elaborate on that point? I'm not saying that it's something which I feel is a vital event (though it would be nice), but I don't see how it wouldn't work.
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It was hammered well before Slashdot got the story; I downloaded it a few hours ago and tried to get to mozilla.org, and watched as it loaded in an extremely slow manner.
See the AC's comment above, and UT2004 came with Linux binaries right on the DVD/CDs.
id have been porting their games to Linux since the original Doom, and I'm sure that Linux gamers weren't that much of a market back then...
Steam and current games except CS: Source work fine in Cedega, and sometimes works/sometimes doesn't in WineHQ wine (depending on state of b0rkage), with decent FPS.
I still won't be buying HL2 unless they announce that there will be a Linux port, but steam is runnable on Linux.
SSH tunneling is really easy with modern versions of SSH and PuTTY, which can allow you to set up a local SOCKS proxy which goes through the SSH connection. In CLI SSH, use -D[port], and in PuTTY it's under Connection->SSH->Tunnels, set it to dynamic and enter a port (destination's not needed).
Older versions of SSH and PuTTY can do "static" port forwarding, where you bind a local port to a remote destination/port.
I dunno, I've occasionally seen articles marked "Dupe" in search.pl, which - when clicked - can't be viewed.
(Yes, holy crap, they sometimes spot dupes.)
Like this? (Warning: May well crash your browser. It's a huge PNG.)
It's also playable on a GeForce 2MX, and running through WINE. For certain definitions of playable, though.
SuSE packages for Xorg are kept here, in the supplementary section.
There are a few (e.g. creative commons videos) on theora.org. I agree that it's not widely-used yet, though.
From what I understand it's basically a release with a screw-up somewhere. A symbol of embarassment (don't know how to put that better...) is to wear a brown paper bag on your head. The dodgy release was embarassing, hence the brown paper bag release.
I see one major flaw with your "sell it or lose it" plan: that would end up putting a lot of Free software which isn't commercially exploited into the public domain, removing the need to agree to a distribution licence agreement (whether it's the GPL, BSD, or whatever licence). Perhaps a "use it or lose it" method would work better.
And just a couple of seconds after hitting submit, I realised how I could find out. The CD just says "Unreal Tournament", but the Windows installer (run in WINE) says "Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. Edition". I just used the normal UT installer to install it.
Haven't a clue, not installed it on Windows, though IIRC my brother's did say GOTY on the splash screen. I could be wrong though.
(Can't play UT anyway, it makes me feel motion sick. Ah well, back to Instagib Jailbreak in UT2004.)
You don't want to see BBC Amerca then - Ground Force Ground Force Ground Force Changing Rooms Changing Rooms Changing Rooms
Have you tried dosemu and/or dosbox?
I nicked my brother's UT GOTY CD which came with his new system, and used the Linux installer - it all installed fine after I un-uzd the files; what's on CD 2 that you need? (This version of UT GOTY didn't have a CD 2 :P).
Why, exactly, shouldn't all images have an alt tag? You need to do this to write valid HTML 4/XHTML anyway, and it's really annoying when I'm using links or something to see "[IMG]" with no clue what it is.
I fail to see why the groups would advocate anything to do with stylesheets, as they can be disabled in all modern browsers... Same with black/white background/text, and 14 pt fonts.
I think we have kinda different aims - bloat has some features which unp doesn't have (actually checking for apps, printing where to get them, and there is an undocumented method of fetching the apps), checking whether the file has a subdirectory in it which contains all the other files (and if not, create a directory), etc.
Though the code is complete and utter crap at the moment, I need to do a rewrite some time.
unp seems to be aimed towards a basic, simple script to extract files, without loads of checking.
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Feb 29 22:51:12 <TTimo> heh .. nah I just said it was unlikely the linux binaries would be on the windows CD
As he specifically specified win32 when he mentioned the "gone gold" message (in the same chan), I'd assume it's Windows-only for the moment...
From what I've heard it uses (used? pretended to use?) the Unreal engine.
Just wondering; have you tried Ogle or Xine? IIRC they both support DVD menus...
FWIW, when I used Photoshop for the first time after ages of GIMP recently, I found it extremely difficult to get to grips with the UI; I expect quite a lot of people who find it inefficient have come from a PSP/Photoshop/whatever background and become used to it.
To respond to your particular qualm, though, try GIMP 2; it has a toolbar at the top of every image window.
I'm not quite sure how a world with nothing but Free software wouldn't work; can you elaborate on that point? I'm not saying that it's something which I feel is a vital event (though it would be nice), but I don't see how it wouldn't work.
Have an actual photo of it...