Yeah, he should be happy enough with using the PC speaker for email alerts anyway. BTW, if you're wondering how to get the PC speaker to work, the option is buried in "Input devices" in the Linux kernel because it actually works as a microphone!
Either that, or the person who developed that part of the kernel configuration menu is a fucktard.
Yeah, there is definitely a disparity of device support between the two. I'm personally waiting to set up the digital camera we have in Linux to find that it works, which would make it about the 4th device connected to my fairly standard machine that works in Linux but not in Windows.
I'm not saying Windows is screwed or anything, but my PS2 mouse didn't even work in Windows but works in Linux. Go figure.
If he was a true newbie, he should be running a distribution which includes every single sound card's module in the distribution, because yes, intel8x0 is definitely sitting right there, in the sound/pci directory of the kernel sources.
I believe the earlier comment which said that he didn't check to see if the actual volume was turned on. ALSA always starts muted and at 0 volume.
Apparently that wasn't just present in Windows 98. I had exactly the same problem with a digital camera under Windows XP just last week.
Plugged in the camera, waited a few seconds, and.... blue screen.
So if anyone reads this, don't plug a shitty DC530 digital camera into Windows XP! However I'm led to believe it works on Linux but the post I was reading said support was experimental.
The reason he didn't list the exact card or the name of the distribution, is that doing this might have been construed as a support request, and people might have helped him get it running.
But of course there are this class of users who when they have a problem, just give up and rant about it on major news sites, instead of asking for help. And unlike with Microsoft stuff, you will actually get some degree of help if you prod your distribution's support channels.
Well I know on my sound card, OSS can't mix multiple sounds at once but ALSA can. That alone was enough for me to switch over, now I don't need esd, artsd, or any other workaround to get sounds mixing properly.
It would actually be really nice if there were some way a card could have its own driver. Then you would need one standard query interface on every card to fetch the driver, which every piece of hardware and every OS would need to support, and whatever code came back from it would have to be somehow runnable on every device conceivable with support for the way the card is plugged in.
You know something, I often wonder why things like Java weren't designed for this sort of purpose, rather than wasting time developing games on mobile phones they could have developed some kind of Java driver interface which worked on all operating systems the same way.
And the only way it's going to work is if the manufacturers make the drivers. The community can't possibly anticipate some random sound card [substitute any other piece of hardware here] which a user might want to connect to a machine.
Actually that might not be too hard. An image viewer is pretty trivial, and then you just need to see how much data you can compress into the size they allow for the code.
OMG, imagine printing fake eReader cards which look just like the original, but when run display TubGirl on the GameBoy!!!!
Wouldn't it be even easier still to buy a 256Mbit Flash2 Advance cartridge and writer, and hook it up to your computer, using the Windows or Linux software to copy your code straight to a cartridge which works directly in a GBA?
Troll away, maybe people will start paying attention when the dozens of useful Java libraries are available from C#. *shrug*
What I really need right now though is a nice, clean looking language with access to well-thought-out libraries for image loading/saving and virtual filesystem access. I can't find any of this stuff in a portable form other than on Java, unfortunately.:-(
Actually making a C compatible language helps a language get usage without some poor soul having to port or wrap every library to a new language. In D, if you want to use GTK, you just use it, like you do in C. You link to it, like you do in C. If Java were that easy to work with, it would have taken off far faster than it did. In fact Sun wouldn't have had to waste their time devising whole new toolkits for it.
That being said, D is supposed to manage your memory to some extent, and is generally made in such a way that you don't need to do pointer arithmetic, and unless you do pointer arithmetic, there isn't much you can do to segfault the application. I presume it has exception handling like C++, but hopefully better.
The question is, what is so different between this virtual church, and organising some ad hoc gathering of Christian scum on IRC? All you need is somebody to do all the chatting while everyone else is expected to STFU, et voila, you have an IRC church.
Its functionality for C and C++ is certainly no less than VS.NET seems to have, and if you can ignore the fact that it grew out of an IDE for Java it's actually quite good. If you put some effort in you can actually rip all the Java stuff out of the IDE and just use the CDT.:-)
And of course on Windows it's actually somewhat fast, as opposed to on Linux.
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Yeah, he should be happy enough with using the PC speaker for email alerts anyway. BTW, if you're wondering how to get the PC speaker to work, the option is buried in "Input devices" in the Linux kernel because it actually works as a microphone!
Either that, or the person who developed that part of the kernel configuration menu is a fucktard.
Yeah, there is definitely a disparity of device support between the two. I'm personally waiting to set up the digital camera we have in Linux to find that it works, which would make it about the 4th device connected to my fairly standard machine that works in Linux but not in Windows.
I'm not saying Windows is screwed or anything, but my PS2 mouse didn't even work in Windows but works in Linux. Go figure.
If he was a true newbie, he should be running a distribution which includes every single sound card's module in the distribution, because yes, intel8x0 is definitely sitting right there, in the sound/pci directory of the kernel sources.
I believe the earlier comment which said that he didn't check to see if the actual volume was turned on. ALSA always starts muted and at 0 volume.
Apparently that wasn't just present in Windows 98. I had exactly the same problem with a digital camera under Windows XP just last week.
Plugged in the camera, waited a few seconds, and.... blue screen.
So if anyone reads this, don't plug a shitty DC530 digital camera into Windows XP! However I'm led to believe it works on Linux but the post I was reading said support was experimental.
The reason he didn't list the exact card or the name of the distribution, is that doing this might have been construed as a support request, and people might have helped him get it running.
But of course there are this class of users who when they have a problem, just give up and rant about it on major news sites, instead of asking for help. And unlike with Microsoft stuff, you will actually get some degree of help if you prod your distribution's support channels.
Well I know on my sound card, OSS can't mix multiple sounds at once but ALSA can. That alone was enough for me to switch over, now I don't need esd, artsd, or any other workaround to get sounds mixing properly.
It would actually be really nice if there were some way a card could have its own driver. Then you would need one standard query interface on every card to fetch the driver, which every piece of hardware and every OS would need to support, and whatever code came back from it would have to be somehow runnable on every device conceivable with support for the way the card is plugged in.
You know something, I often wonder why things like Java weren't designed for this sort of purpose, rather than wasting time developing games on mobile phones they could have developed some kind of Java driver interface which worked on all operating systems the same way.
You got your sound card from BitTorrent? Oh wait, maybe he was talking about Linux.
Here's a simple scenario illustrating the solution to the problem where the nice man at the store says something works and it doesn't:
Hope this helps.
And the only way it's going to work is if the manufacturers make the drivers. The community can't possibly anticipate some random sound card [substitute any other piece of hardware here] which a user might want to connect to a machine.
A better analogy is not getting cable TV at all and using the aerial on your roof.
Indeed. The only console that rivals the GBA in terms of the size of it's homebrew community is the Dreamcast.
Umm... call me crazy, but I see far more homebrew for the Xbox than I do for the GBA.
The GBA may be ridiculously easy to develop for, but the Xbox is a PC.
Actually that might not be too hard. An image viewer is pretty trivial, and then you just need to see how much data you can compress into the size they allow for the code.
OMG, imagine printing fake eReader cards which look just like the original, but when run display TubGirl on the GameBoy!!!!
Wouldn't it be even easier still to buy a 256Mbit Flash2 Advance cartridge and writer, and hook it up to your computer, using the Windows or Linux software to copy your code straight to a cartridge which works directly in a GBA?
Just wait. Lik Sang got made to stop selling cartridge writers because they were capable of copying games.
But photocopiers can copy these barcode games. So how long until Nintendo shuts down Xerox? ;-)
I gather you're not fond of Tetris Worlds.
Troll away, maybe people will start paying attention when the dozens of useful Java libraries are available from C#. *shrug*
What I really need right now though is a nice, clean looking language with access to well-thought-out libraries for image loading/saving and virtual filesystem access. I can't find any of this stuff in a portable form other than on Java, unfortunately. :-(
Actually making a C compatible language helps a language get usage without some poor soul having to port or wrap every library to a new language. In D, if you want to use GTK, you just use it, like you do in C. You link to it, like you do in C. If Java were that easy to work with, it would have taken off far faster than it did. In fact Sun wouldn't have had to waste their time devising whole new toolkits for it.
That being said, D is supposed to manage your memory to some extent, and is generally made in such a way that you don't need to do pointer arithmetic, and unless you do pointer arithmetic, there isn't much you can do to segfault the application. I presume it has exception handling like C++, but hopefully better.
The question is, what is so different between this virtual church, and organising some ad hoc gathering of Christian scum on IRC? All you need is somebody to do all the chatting while everyone else is expected to STFU, et voila, you have an IRC church.
I find Eclipse to be not entirely a bad IDE.
Its functionality for C and C++ is certainly no less than VS.NET seems to have, and if you can ignore the fact that it grew out of an IDE for Java it's actually quite good. If you put some effort in you can actually rip all the Java stuff out of the IDE and just use the CDT. :-)
And of course on Windows it's actually somewhat fast, as opposed to on Linux.
ECC2-109 is the same encryption scheme I have on my luggage!
Why do they call it Ovaltine? It comes in a round can... you drink it from a round cup... ah, forget it.
Yeah, but obviously it wasn't hardcore enough. If that encrypted message happened to be my email, I wouldn't be a very happy chap.
Ether? Holy fucking shit, where do I sign up?
Couldn't we do this already, by simply making the bottom half of a DVD out of paper?