The PS2 costs the same really, and I have the offical version of Linux provided by Sony for it... so what is the point in putting linux on an XBox?
Either way, it sucks on both systems due to limited main RAM.
The coolest part is the cable that comes with the ps2 that lets you hook it up to a computer monitor and see things in a much higher resolution. Of course, you can't make existing games go high res, but you can write your own games to play high res.
The only thing I didn't like was how difficult it was to actually figure out how to write simple games. It comes with nothing to really help you out and point you in the right direction, but in the end I can say that if you can't figure it out with the material provided (just search the DVDs) you will never be able to program for it anyway...
Even so, we know little about the universe outside of ourselves.
This may sound stupid, but it isn't more unlikely then the big bang being likely so:P
Our "souls" or whatever might possibly know things from previous lives or whatnot that extreamly creative people might manifest in some form of art, yet not be able to understand it.
It is a little more complex than that if you consider that linux binaries and freebsd (and every other freaking unix in the world) use a different method to access system calls.:)
Unix machines (like FreeBSD) push parameters to the system call to the stack then call int 80h. That is sometimes called the C convention. Linux on the other hands follows the Microsoft (or called Pascal sometimes) convention of putting parameters into registers then call int 80h.
It isn't a huge deal, since you should in theory always preserve registers before a system call anyway... but freebsd perserves all registers besides EAX anyway... so whatever. In theory the Unix convention is supposed to be faster but I haven't personally benchmarked it ever...
The kernel table isn't such a big deal, it is porting the actual systems calls from the libc where most of the work gets done. (Few applications actually call the kernel, they do it through the libs)
It is less brutal than two guys beating each other up for sport, or killing the animals just so you can eat them.
It doesn't matter what you think it right or wrong, what matters is that the government is for the people by the people. People are precious and should not be victims. When people get hurt they should be protected, that is important.
There are children in my state that have to wear their jackets to school because the schools can not afford to turn on their heats due to budget problems. This kind of thing is important, if a bunch of hicks want to do stupid things to animals in their back yard I don't really care.
I swear, nothing good ever goes before a vote to the people. If something is a good idea the state would of passed it already. If something is a bad idea, they put it for a vote and make it in complicated wording praying that people are stupid enough to pass it. Then when people complain the people in charge just say, "Hey, you passed it yourself!" muhahaha. Damnit.
In Oklahoma we had tons of state questions before us. One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not. I am from the school of thought where I believe the government should not make laws regarding morality, your rights end where my nose begins. Stupid chickens, kill them all for all I care. So I start reading the bill and I psychologically I am thinking, "Ok.. I want cockfighting, so I will select yes." But then I read it closer and went whoops, "Yes means we will ban it, ok pick No." Gah. And that was the easiest one, some of the other state questions they had for a vote I didn't even understand and I scored a 33 on my ACT... Bah.
Anyway, cock fighting is cool. I am going to miss it, apparently it is going to be banned by a margin of just 10,000 votes. How freaking sad.
I second you on that. I am running KDE 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6. I just have a p233-mmx processor, yet 512 megs of ram and kde runs just as fast on my computer as my mom's brand new computer with winxp on it.. shrug. I'm not tooo cheap to buy a nice processor, it just happens that this CPU runs without a fan and my machine makes no noise:)
I'm also running orion (j2ee server), idea (ide) and postgresql in the background as I work on stuff. Ohh well.
People forget that different distros will compile things differently. Different amount of ram and speed used.
It is because of one of the negative side-effects of capitalism that is being used in the USA. Too much capital is in the hands of too few people. Those with the most capital can pay for the TV ads, flyers, etc etc to get political people in power.
This will just get worse and worse. When someone has 30 billion dollars, that is 30 billion dollars that someone else doesn't have. (Imagine how many people would live quite well if they split that 30 billion into 250k/person.)
The solution is simple... let people be rich, but tax the fuck out of them for being so. This tax money will then be used by the government which will spread the money back through the economy which will be more likely to end in the hands of you and me and we can use that money to get the political people to do what we want. Unfortuantly monkies will fly from my butt before this happens.
The most likely sitution is that too many people will acquire too much capital and the riots of L.A. will look like chickenshit compared to what will happen.
It is funny because unemployment is supposidly at a historic low.. but I qestion those figures because I know many people that have skills and degrees that should get them nice jobs, but have to take more menial dayjobs to support themselves. If you are a computer science major yet you are selling tuxedos for a living than you should be considered unemployed as far as statistics go. This isn't a world where just anyone can go work a hard day's work at any old job and buy a house and support a wife and two kids anymore.
Doesn't the device require machine code to run? I mean, seriously. How is the downloadable device driver (lets say the device is USB) going to work on different processors and different operating systems? This just won't work. The thing that _has_ to be done is for standards to be used. You know... standards.. things you could find in the pre-monopoly era.
It would be easy for devices to have in its ROM the windows device driver. But what good is that really? Just pick a standard for a certain device to communicate and leave it at that... If you do something different, publish it on the web somewhere so different OS vendors can read your document and build a device driver around it. Hell, freaking distribute sample C code or something of an implementation of the device driver so people can port it easier.
Some graphics card vendors obfusicate their driver to hide the implementation of their device, which I do not compleatly understand I guess. If they really wanted they could pick a type of bytecode and publish that. It isn't difficult to get some java byte code and translate it to whatever the native processor is. I'm not talking about a full fledged java implementation to do this, just translating the op codes since as far as byte codes go. Java has the best published ones for a virtual machine out there. They could reinvent the wheel if they pleased, I don't care.
But either way, ya... some of this stuff sucks. Just refuse to buy things that don't have decent standards, as a previous poster was speaking of. I would of never bought my Sony Clie had I realized the USB/memory stick storage was not a published standard. As far as the Clie is concerened neither linux or freebsd have working drivers to mount the memory sticks on them. (Sony laptops that have the memory stick reader in them can usually be mounted in freebsd/linux as SCSI devices). I love or hate Sony depending on what side of the bed I wake up on. (The side with my TV and PS2 is the good side):)
Bash is a "interactive" session.. if this is installed you won't be able to login? I am not saying this is a bad thing, I just want to remind people that security is an onion. As long as your system has many layers the hacker has to go through, it will make him cry eventually and find another computer to hack. Nothing is unbreakable by itself, but there is a point to where your computer is more difficult to hack than it is worth it.
Good thing my 3-year old daughter screens all my calls for me on my cell phone and home phone. She does a good job, if it is someone I know she is happy to hear from them. If she doesn't know them she babbles on the phone for awhile and eventually hangs up.:) I am cautious because I already happen to have a mechanism in place that records all calls at my house, for my own protection in case my daughter actually agreed to buy something (or her mother called and threatened my life again, heh).
Kids are great, they also know how to grab the mouse and click on "agree" on those click through licenses. I haven't had to agree to a EULA in the longest time.
More importantly, lots of channels ban all users who don't have a working identd. I remember a fresh new system I installed and I went to get on IRC and was aggravated that the channel I was going to join had banned me for some reason.. hehe, nope, just didn't turn on identd yet.:)
It is highly likely the person who posted this story didn't have identd up.
The comments on OSNews refer to the RH8.0 and KDE combo to be extreamly slow. I wonder why that is? Maybe Redhat screwed up some things with changing KDE around?
Maybe the guy turned up the specicial effects knob all the way? I dunno, either way the guy did use a slow machine in the review (500mhz celeron). But I am typing on a p233 mmx right now running FreeBSD/KDE3.0 and it is incredibly fast. (Except Mozilla basically refuses to run on this machine, waaaayy slow. Mozilla runs slower than the Java apps I run on this machine (IDEA, TCC, etc)).
It is the only option because 95% of commercial applications/games in the store are for Windows. If Wine was actually up to par, or 95% of applications were written in Java (and someone implemented a fast JVM) then there would be choice.
I always complain to vendors when they send me quotes in excell format (and if I can help it I avoid using them all together) but... gee. Most people in the business world don't have a choice either with properiety file formats being exchanged between business types.
Big deal, Apple provides ODBC administrator. What good does it do you without any docs or anything? You will be 10000000000000000 times better off using a database and its own administrator that is well documentated.
But even if you really want to be stuck with OS X Server and ODBC... ODBC is open, install PostgreSQL and read how to connect to it via ODBC. That is the docs that matter.
Have you seen the movie Joe Dirt? The guy finds a meteorite and puts it in a wagon and carries it around. He puts ketchup on it and eats french fries off of it, he loves it. He needs money one day so he tries to sell it, but upon inspection he learns it is a frozen piece of shit that fell from an airplane.:)
I hope this guy had his meteorite inspected before he ends up like Joe Dirt.
Mplayer works fine for me, and it also supports more of the win32 codecs. This really helps when viewing mpegs and avis off the net. In fact under unix with the win32 codecs mplayer is your best bet.
I suspect the reason he had a hard time making it work was because he did not use the -fs (full screen) options.
Playing video in a maximized x-window isn't usually the most efficient thing to do. I only have a pentium 3 and mplayer plays DVDs perfetly when I use the -fs option.
Wow, this post is more informative then the entire freaking article above:P
All the guy did was build a few ports and report his experiences with them. He spoke about doing complex tweaking with mplayer but he couldn't figure out how to do it right so he didn't even post exactly what he did.
He got lucky and found a program which worked without him having to tweak anything, he was happy, and then the end of the article.
Microsoft does this, giving free software to college kids since they go in the industry. Now the **AAs are going to teach kids in college that copyright is good. Whee.
Maybe not, I tried to deltree a win98 box once to get rid of one HUGE directory (think thousands of files) and after 10 minutes I got pissed. I shut the machine off, put the drive in a linux box... mounted the drive. Apparently over 2/3rd of the directory was there. So I did a rm -rf on the same directory and Linux was able to delete it all in seconds.
So.... it isn't like you can deltree and not have time to shut off your machine before any huge damage is done. It is one damn slow program. I don't know if it is the 16 bit file access in dos or what..
I am posting this near the top because this is a truely brillant idea that will help the entire net as a whole.
Someone who has epilepsy should sue this guy. They have real legal ground to stand on. They need to say that they have their browser specifically configured so that images will not load to avoid seeing blinking patterns that cause them seizures. Unfortuantly when they visited petswarehouse to go buy something the blinking lights gave them a seizure.
If you don't think this has legal grounds, think again. I remember Super Mario Brothers 3 to be the first video game I purchased that had the huge warning on the back page about the dangers of video games to people with seizures. In fact, with that specific game they even had a huge yellow piece of paper with it that further emphazied this point.
The guy should of put a warning before his page loaded about the blinking links. Blinking things are dangerious. Get rid of them.
The GPL does not bind you by using a GPL program. All the GPL does is tell you what you can do with the source of a program or how you can distribute the program. Furthermore, if there was an expensive program out there under the GPL that you were going to purchase in the store you could go on the web and see exactly what the GPL was...
Find me a URL that shows the license agreements for all possible Microsoft programs that I could ever buy.:)
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I don't seriously believe my own point I am about to make.. but let me play devil's advocate for a bit...
Humans have no free will. The outcome of human life and decisions is based totally upon its location, social status, peer interaction, genetics, and other various functions.
Its always plausable that nothing is random, and random is a word that should be removed from the language... if we knew enough information we could simulate anything, even what your responce to what I am saying is going to be...
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The PS2 costs the same really, and I have the offical version of Linux provided by Sony for it... so what is the point in putting linux on an XBox?
Either way, it sucks on both systems due to limited main RAM.
The coolest part is the cable that comes with the ps2 that lets you hook it up to a computer monitor and see things in a much higher resolution. Of course, you can't make existing games go high res, but you can write your own games to play high res.
The only thing I didn't like was how difficult it was to actually figure out how to write simple games. It comes with nothing to really help you out and point you in the right direction, but in the end I can say that if you can't figure it out with the material provided (just search the DVDs) you will never be able to program for it anyway...
Even so, we know little about the universe outside of ourselves.
:P
This may sound stupid, but it isn't more unlikely then the big bang being likely so
Our "souls" or whatever might possibly know things from previous lives or whatnot that extreamly creative people might manifest in some form of art, yet not be able to understand it.
It is a little more complex than that if you consider that linux binaries and freebsd (and every other freaking unix in the world) use a different method to access system calls. :)
Unix machines (like FreeBSD) push parameters to the system call to the stack then call int 80h. That is sometimes called the C convention. Linux on the other hands follows the Microsoft (or called Pascal sometimes) convention of putting parameters into registers then call int 80h.
It isn't a huge deal, since you should in theory always preserve registers before a system call anyway... but freebsd perserves all registers besides EAX anyway... so whatever. In theory the Unix convention is supposed to be faster but I haven't personally benchmarked it ever...
The kernel table isn't such a big deal, it is porting the actual systems calls from the libc where most of the work gets done. (Few applications actually call the kernel, they do it through the libs)
It is less brutal than two guys beating each other up for sport, or killing the animals just so you can eat them.
It doesn't matter what you think it right or wrong, what matters is that the government is for the people by the people. People are precious and should not be victims. When people get hurt they should be protected, that is important.
There are children in my state that have to wear their jackets to school because the schools can not afford to turn on their heats due to budget problems. This kind of thing is important, if a bunch of hicks want to do stupid things to animals in their back yard I don't really care.
I swear, nothing good ever goes before a vote to the people. If something is a good idea the state would of passed it already. If something is a bad idea, they put it for a vote and make it in complicated wording praying that people are stupid enough to pass it. Then when people complain the people in charge just say, "Hey, you passed it yourself!" muhahaha. Damnit.
In Oklahoma we had tons of state questions before us. One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not. I am from the school of thought where I believe the government should not make laws regarding morality, your rights end where my nose begins. Stupid chickens, kill them all for all I care. So I start reading the bill and I psychologically I am thinking, "Ok.. I want cockfighting, so I will select yes." But then I read it closer and went whoops, "Yes means we will ban it, ok pick No." Gah. And that was the easiest one, some of the other state questions they had for a vote I didn't even understand and I scored a 33 on my ACT... Bah.
Anyway, cock fighting is cool. I am going to miss it, apparently it is going to be banned by a margin of just 10,000 votes. How freaking sad.
IBM already has a cross-platform virtual machine implementation. I don't think they will learn much from Microsoft's implementation.
I second you on that. I am running KDE 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6. I just have a p233-mmx processor, yet 512 megs of ram and kde runs just as fast on my computer as my mom's brand new computer with winxp on it.. shrug. I'm not tooo cheap to buy a nice processor, it just happens that this CPU runs without a fan and my machine makes no noise :)
I'm also running orion (j2ee server), idea (ide) and postgresql in the background as I work on stuff. Ohh well.
People forget that different distros will compile things differently. Different amount of ram and speed used.
It is because of one of the negative side-effects of capitalism that is being used in the USA. Too much capital is in the hands of too few people. Those with the most capital can pay for the TV ads, flyers, etc etc to get political people in power.
This will just get worse and worse. When someone has 30 billion dollars, that is 30 billion dollars that someone else doesn't have. (Imagine how many people would live quite well if they split that 30 billion into 250k/person.)
The solution is simple... let people be rich, but tax the fuck out of them for being so. This tax money will then be used by the government which will spread the money back through the economy which will be more likely to end in the hands of you and me and we can use that money to get the political people to do what we want. Unfortuantly monkies will fly from my butt before this happens.
The most likely sitution is that too many people will acquire too much capital and the riots of L.A. will look like chickenshit compared to what will happen.
It is funny because unemployment is supposidly at a historic low.. but I qestion those figures because I know many people that have skills and degrees that should get them nice jobs, but have to take more menial dayjobs to support themselves. If you are a computer science major yet you are selling tuxedos for a living than you should be considered unemployed as far as statistics go. This isn't a world where just anyone can go work a hard day's work at any old job and buy a house and support a wife and two kids anymore.
Ohh well, what do I know...
Doesn't the device require machine code to run? I mean, seriously. How is the downloadable device driver (lets say the device is USB) going to work on different processors and different operating systems? This just won't work. The thing that _has_ to be done is for standards to be used. You know... standards.. things you could find in the pre-monopoly era.
It would be easy for devices to have in its ROM the windows device driver. But what good is that really? Just pick a standard for a certain device to communicate and leave it at that... If you do something different, publish it on the web somewhere so different OS vendors can read your document and build a device driver around it. Hell, freaking distribute sample C code or something of an implementation of the device driver so people can port it easier.
Some graphics card vendors obfusicate their driver to hide the implementation of their device, which I do not compleatly understand I guess. If they really wanted they could pick a type of bytecode and publish that. It isn't difficult to get some java byte code and translate it to whatever the native processor is. I'm not talking about a full fledged java implementation to do this, just translating the op codes since as far as byte codes go. Java has the best published ones for a virtual machine out there. They could reinvent the wheel if they pleased, I don't care.
But either way, ya... some of this stuff sucks. Just refuse to buy things that don't have decent standards, as a previous poster was speaking of. I would of never bought my Sony Clie had I realized the USB/memory stick storage was not a published standard. As far as the Clie is concerened neither linux or freebsd have working drivers to mount the memory sticks on them. (Sony laptops that have the memory stick reader in them can usually be mounted in freebsd/linux as SCSI devices). I love or hate Sony depending on what side of the bed I wake up on. (The side with my TV and PS2 is the good side):)
Bash is a "interactive" session.. if this is installed you won't be able to login? I am not saying this is a bad thing, I just want to remind people that security is an onion. As long as your system has many layers the hacker has to go through, it will make him cry eventually and find another computer to hack. Nothing is unbreakable by itself, but there is a point to where your computer is more difficult to hack than it is worth it.
Good thing my 3-year old daughter screens all my calls for me on my cell phone and home phone. She does a good job, if it is someone I know she is happy to hear from them. If she doesn't know them she babbles on the phone for awhile and eventually hangs up. :) I am cautious because I already happen to have a mechanism in place that records all calls at my house, for my own protection in case my daughter actually agreed to buy something (or her mother called and threatened my life again, heh).
Kids are great, they also know how to grab the mouse and click on "agree" on those click through licenses. I haven't had to agree to a EULA in the longest time.
More importantly, lots of channels ban all users who don't have a working identd. I remember a fresh new system I installed and I went to get on IRC and was aggravated that the channel I was going to join had banned me for some reason.. hehe, nope, just didn't turn on identd yet. :)
It is highly likely the person who posted this story didn't have identd up.
The comments on OSNews refer to the RH8.0 and KDE combo to be extreamly slow. I wonder why that is? Maybe Redhat screwed up some things with changing KDE around?
Maybe the guy turned up the specicial effects knob all the way? I dunno, either way the guy did use a slow machine in the review (500mhz celeron). But I am typing on a p233 mmx right now running FreeBSD/KDE3.0 and it is incredibly fast. (Except Mozilla basically refuses to run on this machine, waaaayy slow. Mozilla runs slower than the Java apps I run on this machine (IDEA, TCC, etc)).
Its people like you who keep the gene pool healthy. Thanks for being a geek and not breeding. :)
It is the only option because 95% of commercial applications/games in the store are for Windows. If Wine was actually up to par, or 95% of applications were written in Java (and someone implemented a fast JVM) then there would be choice.
I always complain to vendors when they send me quotes in excell format (and if I can help it I avoid using them all together) but... gee. Most people in the business world don't have a choice either with properiety file formats being exchanged between business types.
Big deal, Apple provides ODBC administrator. What good does it do you without any docs or anything? You will be 10000000000000000 times better off using a database and its own administrator that is well documentated.
But even if you really want to be stuck with OS X Server and ODBC... ODBC is open, install PostgreSQL and read how to connect to it via ODBC. That is the docs that matter.
Have you seen the movie Joe Dirt? The guy finds a meteorite and puts it in a wagon and carries it around. He puts ketchup on it and eats french fries off of it, he loves it. He needs money one day so he tries to sell it, but upon inspection he learns it is a frozen piece of shit that fell from an airplane. :)
I hope this guy had his meteorite inspected before he ends up like Joe Dirt.
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Clicked submit just a tad bit early. :)
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Mplayer works fine for me, and it also supports more of the win32 codecs. This really helps when viewing mpegs and avis off the net. In fact under unix with the win32 codecs mplayer is your best bet.
I suspect the reason he had a hard time making it work was because he did not use the -fs (full screen) options.
Playing video in a maximized x-window isn't usually the most efficient thing to do. I only have a pentium 3 and mplayer plays DVDs perfetly when I use the -fs option.
Wow, this post is more informative then the entire freaking article above
All the guy did was build a few ports and report his experiences with them. He spoke about doing complex tweaking with mplayer but he couldn't figure out how to do it right so he didn't even post exactly what he did.
He got lucky and found a program which worked without him having to tweak anything, he was happy, and then the end of the article.
Microsoft does this, giving free software to college kids since they go in the industry. Now the **AAs are going to teach kids in college that copyright is good. Whee.
Maybe not, I tried to deltree a win98 box once to get rid of one HUGE directory (think thousands of files) and after 10 minutes I got pissed. I shut the machine off, put the drive in a linux box... mounted the drive. Apparently over 2/3rd of the directory was there. So I did a rm -rf on the same directory and Linux was able to delete it all in seconds.
So.... it isn't like you can deltree and not have time to shut off your machine before any huge damage is done. It is one damn slow program. I don't know if it is the 16 bit file access in dos or what..
Hehe... i perfer the talk shows... exploitation of children... shesh, how can i exploit something that I own?!?!
I am posting this near the top because this is a truely brillant idea that will help the entire net as a whole.
Someone who has epilepsy should sue this guy. They have real legal ground to stand on. They need to say that they have their browser specifically configured so that images will not load to avoid seeing blinking patterns that cause them seizures. Unfortuantly when they visited petswarehouse to go buy something the blinking lights gave them a seizure.
If you don't think this has legal grounds, think again. I remember Super Mario Brothers 3 to be the first video game I purchased that had the huge warning on the back page about the dangers of video games to people with seizures. In fact, with that specific game they even had a huge yellow piece of paper with it that further emphazied this point.
The guy should of put a warning before his page loaded about the blinking links. Blinking things are dangerious. Get rid of them.
The GPL does not bind you by using a GPL program. All the GPL does is tell you what you can do with the source of a program or how you can distribute the program. Furthermore, if there was an expensive program out there under the GPL that you were going to purchase in the store you could go on the web and see exactly what the GPL was...
:)
Find me a URL that shows the license agreements for all possible Microsoft programs that I could ever buy.
I don't seriously believe my own point I am about to make.. but let me play devil's advocate for a bit...
Humans have no free will. The outcome of human life and decisions is based totally upon its location, social status, peer interaction, genetics, and other various functions.
Its always plausable that nothing is random, and random is a word that should be removed from the language... if we knew enough information we could simulate anything, even what your responce to what I am saying is going to be...