Cedega is an API emulation layer. It's software you run that wraps around Windows software(games in particular) and emulates the Windows API and translates it into Linux. This allows you to run Windows software under Linux. There's another project that does this as well, called Wine.
Cedega though is a commercial product(Wine is open source), it costs a $5 a month subscription(you can cancel and still use the product, you just don't get updates to it). The problem with Cedega and Wine is that they're reverse engineering how Windows works. So a lot of things don't work or work poorly.
With Cedega the subscribers of the product vote on what they want supported and the company's employees work to provide support under Cedega for that game.
I have a Windows partition for games(Battlefield 2 right now), but prefer to use Cedega for the games it supports(Counterstrike: Source, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars) because I don't have to reboot to play them and Linux does multi-tasking much better than Windows can(alt-tabbing in Linux causes no system lag and is instant).
PS: Just looked on that listing for Guild Wars, and I don't call a 3/5 playability rating worthy of their "officially supported" label.
Guild Wars plays perfectly fine under Linux using Cedega. The only problem you might have with the game, is that you have to use the net installer instead of the cds and you might see minor graphic artifacts in a very few areas of the game.
Because it works. It also has better hardware and software support than Linux does.
The price of Windows gets rolled into PC purchases, so people don't really feel the hit of buying Windows. And Linux doesn't have the alt-hip-cool factor that makes people go out and buy Apple.
Because the hardware vendors support Windows, not Linux.
I just upgraded my system to an AMD64 and Windows took 2 hours to install(hung during the install) while Ubuntu took 20 mins. And when Ubuntu booted everything worked, video, sound, networking. Under Windows I had to install drivers to get that working.
Windows actually has less built in hardware support than Linux does. The difference though is that all hardware ships with Windows drivers. This will not change until the hardware vendors start to ship Linux drivers with their hardware.
I think the proper term for these weapons are "less lethal". It's just that it doesn't sound as nice as non-lethal so the press doesn't pick up on the phrase.
It's like how they call semi-automatic rifles "assault weapons" just because they look like a M16 or something.
How exactly do you buy a larger house on a smaller salary? Chances are, if they move you to a more remote and cheaper part of the country, they're going to reduce your salary to an adjusted range for that region.
I live in Fort Lauderdale Florida, I used to live in Fort Wayne Indiana. The same house in Fort Wayne would cost me 3-5x as much in Fort Lauderdale. Salaries here are higher, but not 3-5x higher.
On the flip side though, things like groceries, cars, cable tv, computers and so on all cost the same in this country no matter where you live.
No, it hasn't. It's been at the forefront for the last 70 years or so, but that's mostly due to the nazi's rise to power, which caused a big wave of immigration of European scientists.
I think that might be a part of it, but you also can't discount the social environment. The US is a nation that very much rewards invention and innovation(or at least it has in the past) and our higher education system is pretty good.
is not scientific? Rather, it's just subjective and made up? Really, what's the difference between this impression of his and reading tea leaves?
The scientific part, which wasn't covered in the article, was a book written about the scarcity of resources. The theory was that the larger the population the less scarce resources become. People refused to listen to the author, instead going down the doom and gloom path so he placed a wager on it.
I've been skydiving 250 times and usually find it to be more of a relaxing experience than an adrenaline experience.
Once you jump 10 or 20 times and your mind accepts that you're not going to die, it becomes a little more of a low key rush. When you try new stuff you'll get moments of thrill, but I can get the same level of rush/buzz off of playing Battlefield 2.
Yeah, Planetside was awesome until they introduced BFR(big fucking robots) which basically killed the game for a lot of players. In fact prior to then, you didn't even have to spend more than 2 hours learning the game to be competitive against someone who had played for a year or more. A level 3 grunt was just as powerful as a level 20 one was.
Sea combat, city combat, air combat, space combat could've kept that game fresh and innovative for years. They could've even added more skills to the game and raised the level cap so power gamers could expand on their skills without hurting the new guy.
I get pangs to play that game from time to time, but as soon as I think about BFRs being in the game I forget all about going back.
The problem with spending time learning A, is that you miss out on learning B. So while you're cross skilling and learning Windows, you won't be studying perl, python, kernel hacking, C or one of any other of the thousands of things that would make you a better Unix admin.
Inexperienced butlers just out of school earn annual salaries of around $50,000 to $60,000, says McPherson. But experienced help can easily pull in $125,000 to $150,000 a year, and a gentleman's gentleman like Alfred might earn $200,000 or more.
50-60k out of school and 125k-150k as experienced help???
This pretty much sums it up for Linux and why Windows has the top market share today.
I don't care if BSD has a better design, if it doesn't work with my hardware it's useless. A lot of people leave Linux to go back to Windows for that reason, I'm sure a lot of people left the BSD's for Linux because of that too.
I don't think so. The people who go for Ubuntu seem to be in large part the same people who went for Gentoo a year ago (and were making these sorts of comments then as well) - and they'll go for the next du jour in 2006. They're a very vocal group - especially in places like/. - but the actual installed base is pretty inconsequential.
I'd disagree. The flavor of the month type of distro's are usually popular due to some sort of gimmick(compiled for xxx, flashy yyy, source based zzz, etc). Ubuntu basically took a decades old popular distribution and polished it up to the level of Fedora Core's usability.
There are no gimmicks to it, we've seen maybe 30 Debian based distributions prior to Ubuntu so it's hardly a new concept. It's just popular because it offers a high degree of usability.
You should try a nice modern Linux dist like the latest Ubuntu. On my computer at work:
1> I plopped the cd in, answered maybe 4 or 5 quick questions and it set everything up automatically. Including getting me onto the network, sound, video, etc.
2> When I plug my MP3 player into my Linux box it automatically mounted the drive and put a folder for it on my desktop.
3> All the software I need and use is on Linux. Gnucash, firefox, ssh, emacs, rdesktop, evolution, secure password filers, iSQL Viewer, etc.
4> Ubuntu automatically notifies me of updates with a warning on my taskbar and update-manager is very easy to use.
5> Everything I need is very standardized: just run synaptic and easy download/install the software I want and It Just Works(tm).
2 months ago I was in a tech presentation meeting where there was company promoting their email retention software(sat between the world and the email host, saving all the emails that went through in a read only state). It was specifically aimed at recovery for just this sort of investigation.
The problem wasn't the sys admins, they all saw the need for it, the road block is convincing these companies to buy the needed systems.
Censorship is when someone forces you to not speak or not publish something. In this case, people are taking down the articles voluntarily as a form of punishment for the party involved.
It's actually only since the first world war that military application of science has been pushed by those in power.
Huh? The entire face of history has ebbed back and forth due to military advancements. Bronze being superior to copper, iron better than bronze, Roman military structure, calvary, long bows, sea power, castles, gun powder...
It would cost us $50,000 to have a contractor develop this whereas we could buy a commercial solution that does what we want for $10,000.
Except what about next year when you have to pay 10,000 to upgrade that commercial product again or renew the support contract? Also, what if the feature you want has a bug and the commercial guys won't fix it? Or what if you put it in a new environment and need the feature to also do Y or Z, but the commercial guys aren't interested.
It's not just the up front price you have to worry about, but the long term viability of the product you want to use. Now for sure, sometimes the commercial product is the right solution. But being able to hire a guy to create exactly what you need is more of a viable alternative than a lot of people think.
I think the future of OSS is going to be exactly that. Companies not buying product, but buying expertise to make that product do exactly what they need it to. Whether that's just running it, or coding in new features.
Novell has both a Certifified Linux Professional and Certified Linux Engineer certification. The CLE is a 2 hour exam and is a practicum exam. There are no questions on the exam, they give you a mutlti-server environment and you have to configure and install it based on specific guidelines given.
I had to take it twice and I have about 10 years of Linux experience with 7 of those being a Sr Linux admin for two companies.
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Cedega is an API emulation layer. It's software you run that wraps around Windows software(games in particular) and emulates the Windows API and translates it into Linux. This allows you to run Windows software under Linux. There's another project that does this as well, called Wine.
Cedega though is a commercial product(Wine is open source), it costs a $5 a month subscription(you can cancel and still use the product, you just don't get updates to it). The problem with Cedega and Wine is that they're reverse engineering how Windows works. So a lot of things don't work or work poorly.
With Cedega the subscribers of the product vote on what they want supported and the company's employees work to provide support under Cedega for that game.
I have a Windows partition for games(Battlefield 2 right now), but prefer to use Cedega for the games it supports(Counterstrike: Source, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars) because I don't have to reboot to play them and Linux does multi-tasking much better than Windows can(alt-tabbing in Linux causes no system lag and is instant).
PS: Just looked on that listing for Guild Wars, and I don't call a 3/5 playability rating worthy of their "officially supported" label.
Guild Wars plays perfectly fine under Linux using Cedega. The only problem you might have with the game, is that you have to use the net installer instead of the cds and you might see minor graphic artifacts in a very few areas of the game.
Because it works. It also has better hardware and software support than Linux does.
The price of Windows gets rolled into PC purchases, so people don't really feel the hit of buying Windows. And Linux doesn't have the alt-hip-cool factor that makes people go out and buy Apple.
Because the hardware vendors support Windows, not Linux.
I just upgraded my system to an AMD64 and Windows took 2 hours to install(hung during the install) while Ubuntu took 20 mins. And when Ubuntu booted everything worked, video, sound, networking. Under Windows I had to install drivers to get that working.
Windows actually has less built in hardware support than Linux does. The difference though is that all hardware ships with Windows drivers. This will not change until the hardware vendors start to ship Linux drivers with their hardware.
I think the proper term for these weapons are "less lethal". It's just that it doesn't sound as nice as non-lethal so the press doesn't pick up on the phrase.
It's like how they call semi-automatic rifles "assault weapons" just because they look like a M16 or something.
How exactly do you buy a larger house on a smaller salary? Chances are, if they move you to a more remote and cheaper part of the country, they're going to reduce your salary to an adjusted range for that region.
I live in Fort Lauderdale Florida, I used to live in Fort Wayne Indiana. The same house in Fort Wayne would cost me 3-5x as much in Fort Lauderdale. Salaries here are higher, but not 3-5x higher.
On the flip side though, things like groceries, cars, cable tv, computers and so on all cost the same in this country no matter where you live.
No, it hasn't. It's been at the forefront for the last 70 years or so, but that's mostly due to the nazi's rise to power, which caused a big wave of immigration of European scientists.
I think that might be a part of it, but you also can't discount the social environment. The US is a nation that very much rewards invention and innovation(or at least it has in the past) and our higher education system is pretty good.
is not scientific? Rather, it's just subjective and made up? Really, what's the difference between this impression of his and reading tea leaves?
The scientific part, which wasn't covered in the article, was a book written about the scarcity of resources. The theory was that the larger the population the less scarce resources become. People refused to listen to the author, instead going down the doom and gloom path so he placed a wager on it.
He won.
I've been skydiving 250 times and usually find it to be more of a relaxing experience than an adrenaline experience.
Once you jump 10 or 20 times and your mind accepts that you're not going to die, it becomes a little more of a low key rush. When you try new stuff you'll get moments of thrill, but I can get the same level of rush/buzz off of playing Battlefield 2.
The purpose of Daylight Savings was to give farmers more time and sunlight to harvest their crops during the summer months.
No, it was put in place during WW1 and WW2 so people could work later in the day without artificial light.
Farmers work early in the morning, why would they want to shift those morning hours into the evening which is what DST does?
Is to not have one. This is why I play EVE Online. Grinds suck, horribly. Leveling blows.
LOL. Never tried mining in that game, have you?
Eve has a grind, it's just that you grind ISK and not exp.
Yeah, Planetside was awesome until they introduced BFR(big fucking robots) which basically killed the game for a lot of players. In fact prior to then, you didn't even have to spend more than 2 hours learning the game to be competitive against someone who had played for a year or more. A level 3 grunt was just as powerful as a level 20 one was.
Sea combat, city combat, air combat, space combat could've kept that game fresh and innovative for years. They could've even added more skills to the game and raised the level cap so power gamers could expand on their skills without hurting the new guy.
I get pangs to play that game from time to time, but as soon as I think about BFRs being in the game I forget all about going back.
The problem with spending time learning A, is that you miss out on learning B. So while you're cross skilling and learning Windows, you won't be studying perl, python, kernel hacking, C or one of any other of the thousands of things that would make you a better Unix admin.
Inexperienced butlers just out of school earn annual salaries of around $50,000 to $60,000, says McPherson. But experienced help can easily pull in $125,000 to $150,000 a year, and a gentleman's gentleman like Alfred might earn $200,000 or more.
50-60k out of school and 125k-150k as experienced help???
It just worked.
This pretty much sums it up for Linux and why Windows has the top market share today.
I don't care if BSD has a better design, if it doesn't work with my hardware it's useless. A lot of people leave Linux to go back to Windows for that reason, I'm sure a lot of people left the BSD's for Linux because of that too.
Debian never left the game. Debian stable has always had about a 2 year release cycle, while Fedora(and Ubuntu) release every 6 months.
If you want stable and secure and don't need the latest/greatest software, use Debian.
If you want the latest and greatest software, but stability isn't as important then another distro like FC is your choice.
I don't think so. The people who go for Ubuntu seem to be in large part the same people who went for Gentoo a year ago (and were making these sorts of comments then as well) - and they'll go for the next du jour in 2006. They're a very vocal group - especially in places like /. - but the actual installed base is pretty inconsequential.
I'd disagree. The flavor of the month type of distro's are usually popular due to some sort of gimmick(compiled for xxx, flashy yyy, source based zzz, etc). Ubuntu basically took a decades old popular distribution and polished it up to the level of Fedora Core's usability.
There are no gimmicks to it, we've seen maybe 30 Debian based distributions prior to Ubuntu so it's hardly a new concept. It's just popular because it offers a high degree of usability.
You should try a nice modern Linux dist like the latest Ubuntu. On my computer at work:
1> I plopped the cd in, answered maybe 4 or 5 quick questions and it set everything up automatically. Including getting me onto the network, sound, video, etc.
2> When I plug my MP3 player into my Linux box it automatically mounted the drive and put a folder for it on my desktop.
3> All the software I need and use is on Linux. Gnucash, firefox, ssh, emacs, rdesktop, evolution, secure password filers, iSQL Viewer, etc.
4> Ubuntu automatically notifies me of updates with a warning on my taskbar and update-manager is very easy to use.
5> Everything I need is very standardized: just run synaptic and easy download/install the software I want and It Just Works(tm).
2 months ago I was in a tech presentation meeting where there was company promoting their email retention software(sat between the world and the email host, saving all the emails that went through in a read only state). It was specifically aimed at recovery for just this sort of investigation.
The problem wasn't the sys admins, they all saw the need for it, the road block is convincing these companies to buy the needed systems.
If there were no law forbidding it, nothing could *force* liquor stores to stay open 7 days a week.
Their competitors can and do force businesses to do things they otherwise wouldn't want to do.
Censorship is when someone forces you to not speak or not publish something. In this case, people are taking down the articles voluntarily as a form of punishment for the party involved.
It's actually only since the first world war that military application of science has been pushed by those in power.
Huh? The entire face of history has ebbed back and forth due to military advancements. Bronze being superior to copper, iron better than bronze, Roman military structure, calvary, long bows, sea power, castles, gun powder...
It would cost us $50,000 to have a contractor develop this whereas we could buy a commercial solution that does what we want for $10,000.
Except what about next year when you have to pay 10,000 to upgrade that commercial product again or renew the support contract? Also, what if the feature you want has a bug and the commercial guys won't fix it? Or what if you put it in a new environment and need the feature to also do Y or Z, but the commercial guys aren't interested.
It's not just the up front price you have to worry about, but the long term viability of the product you want to use. Now for sure, sometimes the commercial product is the right solution. But being able to hire a guy to create exactly what you need is more of a viable alternative than a lot of people think.
I think the future of OSS is going to be exactly that. Companies not buying product, but buying expertise to make that product do exactly what they need it to. Whether that's just running it, or coding in new features.
Novell has both a Certifified Linux Professional and Certified Linux Engineer certification. The CLE is a 2 hour exam and is a practicum exam. There are no questions on the exam, they give you a mutlti-server environment and you have to configure and install it based on specific guidelines given.
I had to take it twice and I have about 10 years of Linux experience with 7 of those being a Sr Linux admin for two companies.
Emacs has been around for the last 30 years, I'm sure it'll be around in the next 30 as well :)