Come to think of it I can't even remember how I did it, since my evironment automatically launches into X and there is no single "autoexec" type file to tell me where it's deciding to run startx,
You're right. There is not an autoexec file. However there is a file called/etc/inittab
Change this line:
id:5:initdefault:
To This
id:3:initdefault:
If that seems cryptic, read the comments in the file that tells you exactly what that means (has to do with run levels).
Now I'm not asking for help right now because I don't need it right now. However these things aren't where I'd look for them, so as far as I'm concerned they aren't where they should be.
Riiiiggght. If its not on the C:\ drive it must be wrong.
I'm not saying this couldn't be a little easier. Not sure why X has to come down in the first place. (Restarting X is ok, but bringing it down to install the driver?) But it doesn't have to be the same as what you're used to in order to be the right way of doing things.
Maybe he wants to play the linux versions of Unreal Tournament 2003, or Medal of Honor, or Neverwinter Nights, or Quake3, or Return to Castle Wolfenstein, or Enemy Territory, or Savage , or Rune, or SpaceTripper, or Tribes 2 or Serious Sam, or Postal2, or America's Army or another of the various other games on Linux that requires 3D acceleration. Sure, a far cry from what's available on windows, but more games then I'll ever have time to play.
I really liked the "Let's hunt some Orc" line. Its not a cool taken completely out of context, but it was said after Aragorn said "We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left." Gave me goose bumps.
I do however agree the "What does your heart tell you?" line was absolute garbage. It was almost as bad as when the same exact line was used in star wars episode one Little(oprhan) Annie to his mom : "Will I ever see you again?" Darth Mommie: "What does your heart tell you?"
This is true even on Linux and Solaris because at it's core JInitiator is Java-based.
Care to give the linux version of the hack? Dropping the windows jinitiator dll into/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins isn't gonna do it, and the applications launcher page is using a the object tag instead of the applet one.
A web page that requires some specific browser is hopelessly broken by my definition.
Oracle's web pages do not require a specific browser, their applications do. The article was not very clear on this.
Oracle does have some web applications (server-side code generating dynamic html pages), like their self-serivce stuff and the e-commerce iStores product. However, what most of us that use Oracle applications consider to be the "applictions" are the business applictions. These are things like accounting AR/AP, orders, inventory, HR, GL, etc. This stuff already uses client side Java/swing, presumably to make it a cross-platform product. The problem is that up until now these applications use a custom Java virtual machine called Jinitiator to launch, and it only works on IE.
If they intend to have this stuff run on Linux, then they need to either port Jinitiator, of fix the apps so they can use a standard JVM. The article was rather vague on which route they are taking.
The fact that Jinitiator (Oracle's JVM) has only worked for windows has been the last reason my company hasn't been able to switch to linux. All of our Novell stuff now has Linux ports, and OpenOffice suits most of us just fine. Hopefully this is the last piece of the puzzle. It would also be really cool if the apps could run through LTSP.
The article doesn't specifically name a Linux Jinitiator, but I would be more than happy if they got the apps to run using a more recent Sun JVM for Mozilla.
I can't run Quake on one of these, but then again it's research we're talking about -- if I wanted games I'd buy a PS2.
Quake might not be the best example here.
Look at the MiniBox specs:
- VIA Eden(TM) 800Mhz processor (533 versions also avail)
- 100/133MHz Front Side Bus - Integrated AGP2X with 2D/3D Graphics Acceleration
You could probably even play Quake2 with that, and maybe even Quake3(Q3 requires only a 266Mhz machine according to idsoftware.com). I doubt you'd be happy trying to get something like UnrealTournament 2003 running on it though.
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I would not want to run doom3 on my athlonXP 1700 with a limited geforce4TI. That is for usre.
I seem to remeber the leaked demo running playably on a 1Gig celery and geforce2 MX. You'd think they've had plenty of time to optimize code since then.
How about just setting up some terminals for people to use? Remeber, not everyone has a laptop.
The 500 bucks would be plenty for a server if you want to set up 10 - 20 terminals on old junk hardware.
I recommend using Icewm with the XP theme (for familiarity) and mozilla. Open office would be nice too if you want to let students do some homework on them. This is extremely simple to setup using K12LTSP and for the most part you don't have to worry about people hogging bandwith with p2p apps.
I definitely think Inculus is going for the "lowest common denominator" audience with this one:
Icculus was not going for the lowest common anything. Running with Scissors might be, but Icculus is a programmer that ports games to linux. He's done more for the linux gaming community than just about anyone else out there. Alot of the stuff he's done, ports, maintaining icculus.org etc. he's done because he's just a good guy. Many of the ports he's done are because he gets paid to do them. Who gives a shit what some people think about the morality of certain games that are labeled with an appropriate rating anyways? Some of us do have to earn a living you know.
What is the correct order for reading The Chronicles of Narnia? What do you recommend?
If you must read them in any certain order, there are two logical
ways of numbering the Narnia books. When the American publisher Macmillan decided
to put numbers on their editions they chose to use the order in which the books
were originally published, i.e.:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magicians Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)
When Harper Collins took over the publication of the books in America, they decided to keep numbering the books, but on the recommendation of Lewis's
stepson Douglas Gresham, they adopted the order that follows Narnian Chronology, i.e:
The Magicians Nephew
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
This is also the order followed by the current British editions, published by Fontana Lions. A case can be made for both orders. Lewis himself came
down in favor of the chronological order, which is why Douglas Gresham recommended it. In a letter written in 1957 to an American boy named Laurence,
Lewis wrote the following:
'I think I agree with your order {i.e. chronological} for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she
thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be
any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in
which order anyone read them. I'm not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published.'
As for my recommendation...personally, I prefer reading it in the published
order, beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
It is expected to be the first of five films based on CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia books, and has the potential to top The Lord of The Rings in economic spinoffs for New Zealand.
Strange, there are seven books. Anyone have any insight into what is being combined or left out?
What does the language have to do with whether or not its an actual stored procedure? Do only PL-SQL written stored procedures count as TRUE? - No thanks. Gimme something with actual objects and a clearly defined set of APIs.
Sub queries would be nice though. And how about sequences, and most of all views.
Seriously, what does this buy me when I can't even do a sub-query?
Well, I guess it buys you everything, but not exactly in an elegant manner. Consider this: Select username, someJavaFucntion(user_id) from users;
You could do all the sub-selecting you want in the java, just very likely not as effeciently as if it was a more complex SQL statement parsed by oracle.
I loved the movie regardless of the scenes that were cut, but this part bugged me a little. It was ok for the first couple of mountains still in Gondor and not so remote, but who in the hell would be waiting out in the extreme remote places on top of high snow covered mountain peaks? I just told myself in a kid like voice "maybe it was magic", and continued to enjoy the rest of the movie
People quibble over the portrayal of Denethor, but actually it's quite close to the book. The real change here was the despair turning to madness a much earlier. And then people quibbled over the portrayal of Faramir in the third movie, when in fact it's quite accurate, not withstanding trivial changes to his dialogue.
His madness and despair would have made a lot more sense had Denethor shown that he was in possesion of one of the Palantir like he did in the book.
The scene in Galadriel's mirror is a worst case/might happen vision for Frodo. Galadriel says that some things only come to pass if one steps away from their true path to prevent what they see in the mirror.
Understood. But in the commentary on the dvd it was said to be an "homage" to the scouring. Just pointing out that it would have been nice for the homage to be a little closer to the story. Though I will admit that i did think it was funny to see sean astin get whipped by an orc.
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Come to think of it I can't even remember how I did it, since my evironment automatically launches into X and there is no single "autoexec" type file to tell me where it's deciding to run startx,
/etc/inittab
You're right. There is not an autoexec file. However there is a file called
Change this line:
id:5:initdefault:
To This
id:3:initdefault:
If that seems cryptic, read the comments in the file that tells you exactly what that means (has to do with run levels).
Now I'm not asking for help right now because I don't need it right now. However these things aren't where I'd look for them, so as far as I'm concerned they aren't where they should be.
Riiiiggght. If its not on the C:\ drive it must be wrong.
I'm not saying this couldn't be a little easier. Not sure why X has to come down in the first place. (Restarting X is ok, but bringing it down to install the driver?) But it doesn't have to be the same as what you're used to in order to be the right way of doing things.
Here's 310 other games. Some Free, some commercial.
I know, not even close to what's available on windows, but still way more than I'll ever get a chance to play.
He couldn't take a break, he's been working on the Hobbit
Ok, so its not real. Pretty cool trailer anyway.
Ok I'll bite,
Maybe he wants to play the linux versions of Unreal Tournament 2003, or Medal of Honor, or Neverwinter Nights, or Quake3, or Return to Castle Wolfenstein, or Enemy Territory, or Savage , or Rune, or SpaceTripper, or Tribes 2 or Serious Sam, or Postal2, or America's Army or another of the various other games on Linux that requires 3D acceleration. Sure, a far cry from what's available on windows, but more games then I'll ever have time to play.
I really liked the "Let's hunt some Orc" line. Its not a cool taken completely out of context, but it was said after Aragorn said "We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left." Gave me goose bumps.
I do however agree the "What does your heart tell you?" line was absolute garbage. It was almost as bad as when the same exact line was used in star wars episode one
Little(oprhan) Annie to his mom : "Will I ever see you again?"
Darth Mommie: "What does your heart tell you?"
This is true even on Linux and Solaris because at it's core JInitiator is Java-based.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins isn't gonna do it, and the applications launcher page is using a the object tag instead of the applet one.
Care to give the linux version of the hack?
Dropping the windows jinitiator dll into
where did you get Jinitiator for linux? This an 11.5.9 thing? My office is still on 11.5.8.
A web page that requires some specific browser is hopelessly broken by my definition.
Oracle's web pages do not require a specific browser, their applications do.
The article was not very clear on this.
Oracle does have some web applications (server-side code generating dynamic html pages), like their self-serivce stuff and the e-commerce iStores product.
However, what most of us that use Oracle applications consider to be the "applictions" are the business applictions.
These are things like accounting AR/AP, orders, inventory, HR, GL, etc. This stuff already uses client side Java/swing, presumably to make it a cross-platform product.
The problem is that up until now these applications use a custom Java virtual machine called Jinitiator to launch, and it only works on IE.
If they intend to have this stuff run on Linux, then they need to either port Jinitiator, of fix the apps so they can use a standard JVM.
The article was rather vague on which route they are taking.
Oralce's apps are an entire suite of Business applications.
Order Entry, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Inventory, HR.
While not perfect, for the most part its good stuff.
These apps are currently launched as applets through a custom JVM plugin called Jinitiator launched through IE.
The fact that Jinitiator (Oracle's JVM) has only worked for windows has been the last reason my company hasn't been able to switch to linux.
All of our Novell stuff now has Linux ports, and OpenOffice suits most of us just fine. Hopefully this is the last piece of the puzzle.
It would also be really cool if the apps could run through LTSP.
The article doesn't specifically name a Linux Jinitiator, but I would be more than happy if they got the apps to run using a more recent Sun JVM for Mozilla.
I can't run Quake on one of these, but then again it's research we're talking about -- if I wanted games I'd buy a PS2.
Quake might not be the best example here.
Look at the MiniBox specs:
- VIA Eden(TM) 800Mhz processor (533 versions also avail)
- 100/133MHz Front Side Bus
- Integrated AGP2X with 2D/3D Graphics Acceleration
You could probably even play Quake2 with that, and maybe even Quake3(Q3 requires only a 266Mhz machine according to idsoftware.com).
I doubt you'd be happy trying to get something like UnrealTournament 2003 running on it though.
I would not want to run doom3 on my athlonXP 1700 with a limited geforce4TI. That is for usre.
I seem to remeber the leaked demo running playably on a 1Gig celery and geforce2 MX.
You'd think they've had plenty of time to optimize code since then.
How about just setting up some terminals for people to use? Remeber, not everyone has a laptop.
The 500 bucks would be plenty for a server if you want to set up 10 - 20 terminals on old junk hardware.
I recommend using Icewm with the XP theme (for familiarity) and mozilla. Open office would be nice too if you want to let students do some homework on them.
This is extremely simple to setup using K12LTSP and for the most part you don't have to worry about people hogging bandwith with p2p apps.
I definitely think Inculus is going for the "lowest common denominator" audience with this one:
Icculus was not going for the lowest common anything. Running with Scissors might be, but Icculus is a programmer that ports games to linux. He's done more for the linux gaming community than just about anyone else out there. Alot of the stuff he's done, ports, maintaining icculus.org etc. he's done because he's just a good guy. Many of the ports he's done are because he gets paid to do them. Who gives a shit what some people think about the morality of certain games that are labeled with an appropriate rating anyways?
Some of us do have to earn a living you know.
yeah, a 99.4K file.
Huge...
Why oh why didn't they warn the website so they could have compressed that beast into a 9K mp3 or something?
What is the correct order for reading The Chronicles of Narnia? What do you recommend?
They're leaving out the "scouring of narnia" and "the adventures of Aslan Bombadil".
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week... Enjoy the salad bar, and be sure to tip the waitress.
It is expected to be the first of five films based on CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia books, and has the potential to top The Lord of The Rings in economic spinoffs for New Zealand.
Strange, there are seven books.
Anyone have any insight into what is being combined or left out?
Jack Ruby?
Gross dude.
Or how about adding TRUE stored procedures
What does the language have to do with whether or not its an actual stored procedure? Do only PL-SQL written stored procedures count as TRUE? - No thanks. Gimme something with actual objects and a clearly defined set of APIs.
Sub queries would be nice though. And how about sequences, and most of all views.
Seriously, what does this buy me when I can't even do a sub-query?
Well, I guess it buys you everything, but not exactly in an elegant manner.
Consider this:
Select username, someJavaFucntion(user_id) from users;
You could do all the sub-selecting you want in the java, just very likely not as effeciently as if it was a more complex SQL statement parsed by oracle.
Man, did you hit the nail on the head there.
I loved the movie regardless of the scenes that were cut, but this part bugged me a little.
It was ok for the first couple of mountains still in Gondor and not so remote, but who in the hell would be waiting out in the extreme remote places on top of high snow covered mountain peaks?
I just told myself in a kid like voice "maybe it was magic", and continued to enjoy the rest of the movie
People quibble over the portrayal of Denethor, but actually it's quite close to the book. The real change here was the despair turning to madness a much earlier. And then people quibbled over the portrayal of Faramir in the third movie, when in fact it's quite accurate, not withstanding trivial changes to his dialogue.
His madness and despair would have made a lot more sense had Denethor shown that he was in possesion of one of the Palantir like he did in the book.
Sam did in fact beat the tar out of gollum. Though it was done in Shelob's lair.
You're confusing vaporware with open source :)
The source to half life 2 was leaked remeber?
The scene in Galadriel's mirror is a worst case/might happen vision for Frodo. Galadriel says that some things only come to pass if one steps away from their true path to prevent what they see in the mirror.
Understood. But in the commentary on the dvd it was said to be an "homage" to the scouring.
Just pointing out that it would have been nice for the homage to be a little closer to the story.
Though I will admit that i did think it was funny to see sean astin get whipped by an orc.