If they wanted to charge him they still would and while he may still win because the program is running on a computer in a different country it still would cost him alot of time, money, and energy that he probably doesn't want to spend.
I think the reason they don't use that is there are legitimate reasons to let another person use your ethernet port. There were times that I was working in groups with people in my dorm room and because the wireless is so bad in the dorms(very slow speed and goes in and out) I would let other people use my port so we could work on our project. The other worry is that currently the campus wireless uses MAC filtering on top of WEP. People have an impossible time getting that to work and end up having to get tech support from the school. For the people that bring desktops this would be a nightmare.
We're all on ethernet. He was unplugging his cable and plugging it into his computer. The campus has wireless but its very slow if you can even get it in the dorms.
Thats exactly what people did. To be honest I think he would be a big offender he literary had bittorrent going 24/7 he told me he had about 350GB of music movies and games.
Last year when I was at college I had a room mate that downloaded 24/7. He got kicked off the Ethernet connection and just continued to use the wireless to download(he had a laptop). I know many people who would steal there room mates connection when something like that happened while there not home. Its impossible to guard against this and the university's policy said that it is your responsibility on what happened to that port. Many people would do it behind there room mates back or just ignore them when they told them to stop. My neighbor even requested a room mate change because of this but the university said it wasn't a significant reason and denied him. But still what happens if the RIAA/MPAA sues some poor kid who has never downloaded and who's room mate was just using the port? They have two options, get flooded with legal fees and maybe if there lucky successfully sue the RIAA/MPAA for legal fees or pay the fine for something they didn't do. If there going to crack down on this there going to have 2 have locks with Ethernet ports. They have no way of knowing whois computer was on that port. And if your going to ask just look up the MAC you can spoof a MAC if you are downloading to someone elses and poof it wasn't you stealing the port, who was it?
I know no system is future proof but if you buy right a system can last you years. I still use my IBM Thinkpad T40(1.5ghz pentium-m) as my laptop because it works so well for what I need. My currently desktop is an AMD X2 4400+ and I am very happy with it and usually don't use 100% CPU. Since we can wait till late September to get the system I'd rather be 100% sure on what we want then to buy now and wish we went with something else.
Well the system will be used for many different things(from gaming to vmware to multi threaded programming things I want to try out) and we're hoping to future proof it so we won't feel the need to upgrade for awhile. The big thing concerning me is out the Intel Core 2 chips have so many bugs in them.
Well I'll look for it tomorrow at work. I'm not to worried about the chip being a server editor or desktop edition. What ever is the cheapest/best performance is what we want to go for. Hell one of my "desktop" machines uses an IBM Cell Processor.
My gf is going to school in late September and will need a new machine. Shes currently looking at the Intel Core 2 Quad since it just had a great price drop (its $300 at newegg) and may be doing some vmware stuff. I'd love to tell her to wait for AMD bench marks but none are out, there is no release date and even if we had all of that she doesn't want to spend that much on her system so knowing the price would be nice(it would suck to wait till September only for Barcelona to be $800).
Windows, No they'd have to do a require which they already tried doing and failed at
OS X, Possibly but FreeBSD would have to do it first
Linux, yes but probably won't happen until the 2.8 kernel since it would rework how the kernel works while making sure it still runs on older hardware. glibc would also have to include support but its much more likely on GNU/Linux being that its all open source and thus anyone can work on it.
Name one game that needs Carbon and Cocoa. Quake III, Quake IV, Unreal 2K4, and many others don't. Why do they need to start?
id software was once asked why they ported to GNU/Linux. There reason was that porting to GNU/Linux helped them weed out any bugs in their games while supporting a platform they all enjoyed using. It helps with quality control and if your going to sell your engine for use in other games (like id does) it adds value to be able to say that your engine works on GNU/Linux, Win, Mac, PS3, and Xbox 360. If anything telling users to dual boot or use wine degrades the product. Most people that use wine are able to detect bugs in games much easier(when HL2 came out I saw many bugs in the game that win users saw but mine came up more often) It pisses off the GNU/Linux community and thus they do not buy the games.
A game doesn't need Carbon and Cocoa, a 3D game needs is OpenGL and SDL and if your game does need simple 2D stuff use QT or Java. Those are platform independent.
If companies developed all there games for GNU/Linux but did not give the community support it would help bring more and more people to the community which would eventually give companies motivation to give support on GNU/Linux. You cannot have full support all at once, you have to do it in steps.
What I was saying that the API would be the same between all platforms this way. I realize that there still will be minor differences especially when using different compilers. But it shouldn't be that hard to port if you program things correctly.
As for support you could do what id software does. They offer official support for Win and OSX but your on your own for GNU/Linux support. The GNU/Linux community would be very happy with that.
The OpenGL to DX10 API translator is only if you don't install any drivers on Vista. As long as you install drivers from NVIDIA, ATI, Intel, or anyone else you should be fine. As for the extra stuff you can use SDL which has networking and sound APIs as well as handle all of OGL stuff, all of which is the same cross platform. My point is OpenGL can be programmed the same and runs with similar performance on every platform.
As for the XBox I'm not sure I know Doom3 is on the XBox which is an OpenGL game I don't know if they recoded the engine with DirectX or if it does support OpenGL. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it did support OpenGL since it is used in so many games.
I really hope that game developers start seeing how easy it is to code games that work across every major platform (GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, BSD, Solaris, etc). All they need to do is code with the correct libraries(OpenGL and SDL mainly) instead of DirectX. Hopefully once they start porting more and more to OS X they will realize that if they code this way all it is is a simple recompile for a GNU/Linux port. While I know id software does this they seem to be the only ones that do, hopefully EA and other game producers will take up soon.
Its probably a combination between how buggy Windows MCE(like all MS products but MCE is at ME level) and that ATI couldn't write stable drivers if there life depended on it(o wait it does and thats why the enthusiast market is all NVIDIA). Once pcHDTV releases a card with CableCard support I bet it will work flawlessly and be very simple to setup.
Last year I bought a Dell 2405 FPW(24" wide screen LCD monitor). I build my own machines and run only GNU/Linux so the monitor was just a part. About a week after I got it I saw a small dent in the LCD so I called up Dell to get a replacement. As soon as I got a tech support person and I told them my problem they asked me what OS I ran. I said it didn't matter but they insisted I told them so I said Linux. At that point they said they could do not diagnosis the problem(even through I already did) and if I wanted my problem to be fixed I could call a 1-900 who may or may not be able to fix it. I went back and worth with the person for about an hour before I hung up. I was able to e-mail Dell support and they were able to get me a replacement.
Dell's problem is if you have a hardware problem all there scripts are for Windows and they don't want to trust customers about what is wrong with their computer so they thought it would be easier to just not support Linux at all.
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First off you should have reviewed the license before you started working with it. Secondly while yes had to release any kernel modifications this can be easily gotten around similarly to the way NVIDIA and ATI does it by writting an open source wrapper which communicates with there binary blobs. Third you could have bought Intel's compiler which would have let you kept your source closed, also I'm not 100% sure that if you compile under gcc you have to keep it open Quake 4 and numerous other apps are compiled under gcc and are kept closed. Finally if you really wanted an open source OS that you could steal code from look at BSD.
Now was it that your company couldn't release the code under the GPL. If you was an in house thing then you weren't making money on it. You paid nothing to use GNU/Linux in the first place so why couldn't you give something back in the form of the modifications you made? The price you pay to use GNU/Linux is if you modify it you have to give your modified code to everyone.
My university(in America) has the same rule for any computer connected to there network. I have always had etherape, ethereal, nmap, tcpdump, etc on my computers since I do computer repair. I decided to leave them on and just never tell anyone. Once I got a job in the CS department I noticed everyone had the same tools and really no one cared. Germany will probably do the same thing, no one will care about you having "hacking tools" until they really want you to go away, then you'll be charged for every program that can do anything that would manipulate data.
Anyway shouldn't they have made cracking tools illegal?
I have to agree that upgrading Fedora is a pain in the ass and they really need to fix it, but is Ubuntu any different? I know on Ubuntu you can switch the repos from an older version to a newer version but can't you do that in Fedora as well? Personally this is why I switched from Redhat 9 to Gentoo on my personal machines a long time ago, but then you run into all the problems Gentoo has. I guess each distro has it's own problems but it seems everyone loves to bash Fedora more since it seems everyone starts with it and then moves on to something else.
I use Gentoo 2007.0, Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty, and Fedora Core 6 on a daily basis and Fedora Core 6 is rock solid. If you following the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ you can have MP3/DVD and what ever play back you want in no time. Fedora is just as easy to use as Ubuntu and personally I think the default skins look a hell of a lot sexier then Ubuntu's.
You really don't hear about many Satanists today just about people who do evil things for their own gain. In the Church of GNU Microsoft is Satan and many people use there evil products for their own gain.
Wasn't this said about Sun and Apple in the 90's? I remember people saying that if they merged Solaris could be used for the server os while Mac OS would be used for the desktop and both would use Sparc. That didn't happen and I doubt this would either.
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If they wanted to charge him they still would and while he may still win because the program is running on a computer in a different country it still would cost him alot of time, money, and energy that he probably doesn't want to spend.
I think the reason they don't use that is there are legitimate reasons to let another person use your ethernet port. There were times that I was working in groups with people in my dorm room and because the wireless is so bad in the dorms(very slow speed and goes in and out) I would let other people use my port so we could work on our project. The other worry is that currently the campus wireless uses MAC filtering on top of WEP. People have an impossible time getting that to work and end up having to get tech support from the school. For the people that bring desktops this would be a nightmare.
We're all on ethernet. He was unplugging his cable and plugging it into his computer. The campus has wireless but its very slow if you can even get it in the dorms.
Thats exactly what people did. To be honest I think he would be a big offender he literary had bittorrent going 24/7 he told me he had about 350GB of music movies and games.
Last year when I was at college I had a room mate that downloaded 24/7. He got kicked off the Ethernet connection and just continued to use the wireless to download(he had a laptop). I know many people who would steal there room mates connection when something like that happened while there not home. Its impossible to guard against this and the university's policy said that it is your responsibility on what happened to that port. Many people would do it behind there room mates back or just ignore them when they told them to stop. My neighbor even requested a room mate change because of this but the university said it wasn't a significant reason and denied him. But still what happens if the RIAA/MPAA sues some poor kid who has never downloaded and who's room mate was just using the port? They have two options, get flooded with legal fees and maybe if there lucky successfully sue the RIAA/MPAA for legal fees or pay the fine for something they didn't do. If there going to crack down on this there going to have 2 have locks with Ethernet ports. They have no way of knowing whois computer was on that port. And if your going to ask just look up the MAC you can spoof a MAC if you are downloading to someone elses and poof it wasn't you stealing the port, who was it?
I know no system is future proof but if you buy right a system can last you years. I still use my IBM Thinkpad T40(1.5ghz pentium-m) as my laptop because it works so well for what I need. My currently desktop is an AMD X2 4400+ and I am very happy with it and usually don't use 100% CPU. Since we can wait till late September to get the system I'd rather be 100% sure on what we want then to buy now and wish we went with something else.
I'm currently doing research with MRI imaging on multi-core systems and she may be joining in. Plus we're Gentoo users ;)
Well the system will be used for many different things(from gaming to vmware to multi threaded programming things I want to try out) and we're hoping to future proof it so we won't feel the need to upgrade for awhile. The big thing concerning me is out the Intel Core 2 chips have so many bugs in them.
Well I'll look for it tomorrow at work. I'm not to worried about the chip being a server editor or desktop edition. What ever is the cheapest/best performance is what we want to go for. Hell one of my "desktop" machines uses an IBM Cell Processor.
My gf is going to school in late September and will need a new machine. Shes currently looking at the Intel Core 2 Quad since it just had a great price drop (its $300 at newegg) and may be doing some vmware stuff. I'd love to tell her to wait for AMD bench marks but none are out, there is no release date and even if we had all of that she doesn't want to spend that much on her system so knowing the price would be nice(it would suck to wait till September only for Barcelona to be $800).
Windows, No they'd have to do a require which they already tried doing and failed at OS X, Possibly but FreeBSD would have to do it first Linux, yes but probably won't happen until the 2.8 kernel since it would rework how the kernel works while making sure it still runs on older hardware. glibc would also have to include support but its much more likely on GNU/Linux being that its all open source and thus anyone can work on it.
Name one game that needs Carbon and Cocoa. Quake III, Quake IV, Unreal 2K4, and many others don't. Why do they need to start? id software was once asked why they ported to GNU/Linux. There reason was that porting to GNU/Linux helped them weed out any bugs in their games while supporting a platform they all enjoyed using. It helps with quality control and if your going to sell your engine for use in other games (like id does) it adds value to be able to say that your engine works on GNU/Linux, Win, Mac, PS3, and Xbox 360. If anything telling users to dual boot or use wine degrades the product. Most people that use wine are able to detect bugs in games much easier(when HL2 came out I saw many bugs in the game that win users saw but mine came up more often) It pisses off the GNU/Linux community and thus they do not buy the games.
A game doesn't need Carbon and Cocoa, a 3D game needs is OpenGL and SDL and if your game does need simple 2D stuff use QT or Java. Those are platform independent. If companies developed all there games for GNU/Linux but did not give the community support it would help bring more and more people to the community which would eventually give companies motivation to give support on GNU/Linux. You cannot have full support all at once, you have to do it in steps.
What I was saying that the API would be the same between all platforms this way. I realize that there still will be minor differences especially when using different compilers. But it shouldn't be that hard to port if you program things correctly. As for support you could do what id software does. They offer official support for Win and OSX but your on your own for GNU/Linux support. The GNU/Linux community would be very happy with that.
The OpenGL to DX10 API translator is only if you don't install any drivers on Vista. As long as you install drivers from NVIDIA, ATI, Intel, or anyone else you should be fine. As for the extra stuff you can use SDL which has networking and sound APIs as well as handle all of OGL stuff, all of which is the same cross platform. My point is OpenGL can be programmed the same and runs with similar performance on every platform. As for the XBox I'm not sure I know Doom3 is on the XBox which is an OpenGL game I don't know if they recoded the engine with DirectX or if it does support OpenGL. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it did support OpenGL since it is used in so many games.
I really hope that game developers start seeing how easy it is to code games that work across every major platform (GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, BSD, Solaris, etc). All they need to do is code with the correct libraries(OpenGL and SDL mainly) instead of DirectX. Hopefully once they start porting more and more to OS X they will realize that if they code this way all it is is a simple recompile for a GNU/Linux port. While I know id software does this they seem to be the only ones that do, hopefully EA and other game producers will take up soon.
I don't want any DRM crap. I paid for the service I should be able to record it in an open format.
Its probably a combination between how buggy Windows MCE(like all MS products but MCE is at ME level) and that ATI couldn't write stable drivers if there life depended on it(o wait it does and thats why the enthusiast market is all NVIDIA). Once pcHDTV releases a card with CableCard support I bet it will work flawlessly and be very simple to setup.
Last year I bought a Dell 2405 FPW(24" wide screen LCD monitor). I build my own machines and run only GNU/Linux so the monitor was just a part. About a week after I got it I saw a small dent in the LCD so I called up Dell to get a replacement. As soon as I got a tech support person and I told them my problem they asked me what OS I ran. I said it didn't matter but they insisted I told them so I said Linux. At that point they said they could do not diagnosis the problem(even through I already did) and if I wanted my problem to be fixed I could call a 1-900 who may or may not be able to fix it. I went back and worth with the person for about an hour before I hung up. I was able to e-mail Dell support and they were able to get me a replacement. Dell's problem is if you have a hardware problem all there scripts are for Windows and they don't want to trust customers about what is wrong with their computer so they thought it would be easier to just not support Linux at all.
First off you should have reviewed the license before you started working with it. Secondly while yes had to release any kernel modifications this can be easily gotten around similarly to the way NVIDIA and ATI does it by writting an open source wrapper which communicates with there binary blobs. Third you could have bought Intel's compiler which would have let you kept your source closed, also I'm not 100% sure that if you compile under gcc you have to keep it open Quake 4 and numerous other apps are compiled under gcc and are kept closed. Finally if you really wanted an open source OS that you could steal code from look at BSD. Now was it that your company couldn't release the code under the GPL. If you was an in house thing then you weren't making money on it. You paid nothing to use GNU/Linux in the first place so why couldn't you give something back in the form of the modifications you made? The price you pay to use GNU/Linux is if you modify it you have to give your modified code to everyone.
My university(in America) has the same rule for any computer connected to there network. I have always had etherape, ethereal, nmap, tcpdump, etc on my computers since I do computer repair. I decided to leave them on and just never tell anyone. Once I got a job in the CS department I noticed everyone had the same tools and really no one cared. Germany will probably do the same thing, no one will care about you having "hacking tools" until they really want you to go away, then you'll be charged for every program that can do anything that would manipulate data. Anyway shouldn't they have made cracking tools illegal?
I have to agree that upgrading Fedora is a pain in the ass and they really need to fix it, but is Ubuntu any different? I know on Ubuntu you can switch the repos from an older version to a newer version but can't you do that in Fedora as well? Personally this is why I switched from Redhat 9 to Gentoo on my personal machines a long time ago, but then you run into all the problems Gentoo has. I guess each distro has it's own problems but it seems everyone loves to bash Fedora more since it seems everyone starts with it and then moves on to something else.
I use Gentoo 2007.0, Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty, and Fedora Core 6 on a daily basis and Fedora Core 6 is rock solid. If you following the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ you can have MP3/DVD and what ever play back you want in no time. Fedora is just as easy to use as Ubuntu and personally I think the default skins look a hell of a lot sexier then Ubuntu's.
You really don't hear about many Satanists today just about people who do evil things for their own gain. In the Church of GNU Microsoft is Satan and many people use there evil products for their own gain.
Wasn't this said about Sun and Apple in the 90's? I remember people saying that if they merged Solaris could be used for the server os while Mac OS would be used for the desktop and both would use Sparc. That didn't happen and I doubt this would either.