That's peculiar. I run KDE 3.2.3 with full eyecandy (transparency, antialiasing, etc) on my xeon 2,6 512 mb laptop and its much faster and responsive than windows xp (I dual boot so I compare the two desktop environments very often).
I don't know if you're on a 2.6 kernel but if you are I suggest messing around with 1) prelink 2)/proc/sys/vm/swappiness (mine is set to "30" and 3) with your/etc/hosts file (usually the real culprit).
KDE on my box is a real dream, really faster than Windows XP.
you don't need to patch things yourself to be a true member of the opensource community. what you can do to "give back" is post the complete solution, stating your exact problem and configuration, to SuSE's discussion board.
In that way, other users can benefit from your solution without banging their heads around.
Linus is very coherent. He often says that the kernel isn't being developed as a competitor to Microsoft's own thing. That's why his typically relaxed, hackerish timetable is very extended, while most agree that _now_ is the time for the Linux desktop to emerge.
That's why Redhat, IBM, SuSEa re investing in companies like Ximian who focus on the desktop dark-side of Linux.
Longhorn won't be out till 2005 if I'm correct and many users are very insatisfied with Windows XP, from Sobig/Blaster outbreaks dragging down productivity levels to random annoyances like messenger popups and a full suite of internet blockers/virus stoppers/software firewalls needed to surf the web.
Users are keeping an eye open for alternatives, that's why Linux desktop development needs to become desirable, marketable, usable and thus a replacement for the Windows desktop.
Or you can get it here. Download is quite fast for Europeans.
Just remember to patch the game with the 2.56 update, else you won't be able to join the majority of servers.
What's cool about Enemy Territory is that the win32 and linux clients were released simultaneously. It's certainly something I'd like to see happen more often in the gaming industry and it's a boon to linux gaming in general. I've got fingers crossed for DooM3 as well, since iD software has always been very concerned about the linux game market (which might be minimal considering the other platforms, but _exists_ and _is_ growing).
What still needs to be worked out is a legally acceptable means of distribution for distros like gentoo. A while ago Enemy Territory was nerfed from the Portage tree because of EULA breaching (actually, it would actually be EULA 'masking', since users who "emerged" ET on their system basically couldn't read and thus accept it).
Distribution on demand like Gentoo features is especially interesting for Software houses and producers, since it eliminates the need of local distributors. That's the real reason for vALVE Software's Steam.
On a side note, it's moving to browse through the weblog of someone who has died recently. I never knew Ettore, although I regularly use and love Evolution, but from his entries I see he was a very nice person while also being a talented hacker.
It's been 4 or 5 months since I've started to receive empty html emails with the topic reading only "hello" or "hi". No text, links or anything in the main body.
My guess is that these email are sent by spammers targetting users who use bayesian spam filters, since marking such emails as Junk, thus training the filter, might actually mess things up.
I haven't actually looked at the bayesian algorithms, so I'm not sure about this.
Researcher Simon Conway Morris had probably been working overnight a little too often, since he mistook the fossil for an eerie monster-like creature with a blob like head and spikes for legs, thus dubbing it "Hallucigenia". See the picture. Looks a little bit like Alien, doesn't it?
It was only in 1991 that this strange little animal's anatomy was correctly interpreted as a worm, the Onychophore, with spikes on it's back and tentacles or, better, pseudopods for walking (and probably eating).
I wonder if the pictures of this car are upside down...
possibily forever, since it does not infringe on the DMCA.
It makes no attempt in circumventing secuity protection mechanisms nor does it hack in anyway the machine itself.
What it does is route the packets to and from the internet, acting as a gateway (or better, router) from one machine to the other.
Basically, the gamecube thinks it's routing packets to a machine in it's own LAN, while actually it's routing packets to an ip thank to the the Warp Pipe software. Warp Pipe works like a simplified Gamespy Arcade allowing players to accept connections or connect to a specified ip, chat in a dedicated chatroom and forwards packets from and to all machines connected. You should check out Kaillera, a frontend for MAME and other emulators that allows people to play online with games that were developed way before the term "multiplayer" went mainstream, to get an idea of what this cool lil' piece o' software does.
I have some reserves on the quality of the online gameplay since these games weren't designed to played online. Differences in packet size and packet rate greatly affect gameplay in terms of ping and lag, and the values differ if you are playing on a lan or on the internet. Warp Pipe devs can't change these values, finetuned for LAN play, because they don't have access to the game source code. I guess they'd have to pry it from Mario's cold, dead hands. What they *can* do is work out a proxy that snips and trims packets on the fly, but that would require a massive work sniffing the game packets and a specifical implementation for each game.
Still, it's better than nothing. A big thumbs up to the dev team.
... made me seriously consider buying a gamecube instead of an xbox this xmas.
For 99, I'd get the latest in home entertainment technologyl, complete with online play (even if still buggy, as I presume it is since it's a beta).
Before unleashing the wrath of the DMCA upon these hackers, Nintendo should think about the advantages brought to it's console at absolutely no cost whatsoever.
that spam will extend itself to irc? Thousands if not millions of bogus irc channels with specific keywords inserted in the topic only to attract hits on the main google search page?
seems like they forgot to add the extension to some of the screenshots. for example, the very nice bliss wallpaper is actually a jpg, but mozilla doesn't understand that. save it to your harddisk instead.
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...and the mPet and fPet are obviously references to the Commodore Pet Computer, the predecessor to the Vic-20.
Anyway, as Commodore user these players can sell to me only if I see the message "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" just before selecting the mp3.
Sony does.
Battery life is obviously a little low, but there's always cpu frequency scaling that really works wonders.
That's peculiar. I run KDE 3.2.3 with full eyecandy (transparency, antialiasing, etc) on my xeon 2,6 512 mb laptop and its much faster and responsive than windows xp (I dual boot so I compare the two desktop environments very often).
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness (mine is set to "30" and 3) with your /etc/hosts file (usually the real culprit).
I don't know if you're on a 2.6 kernel but if you are I suggest messing around with 1) prelink 2)
KDE on my box is a real dream, really faster than Windows XP.
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you don't need to patch things yourself to be a true member of the opensource community. what you can do to "give back" is post the complete solution, stating your exact problem and configuration, to SuSE's discussion board.
In that way, other users can benefit from your solution without banging their heads around.
I'd say this is distro related, not program related.
What are you using?
- File -> New project ->New audio CD project
- Drag and drop your mp3 files in the window below
- Press the "burn" button
I don't think it can get any easier than this.
is over here: http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/
Actually Half-Life is based on the Quake (1) engine, heavily modified and enchanced (3D acceleration for example) of course.
Linus is very coherent. He often says that the kernel isn't being developed as a competitor to Microsoft's own thing. That's why his typically relaxed, hackerish timetable is very extended, while most agree that _now_ is the time for the Linux desktop to emerge.
That's why Redhat, IBM, SuSEa re investing in companies like Ximian who focus on the desktop dark-side of Linux.
Longhorn won't be out till 2005 if I'm correct and many users are very insatisfied with Windows XP, from Sobig/Blaster outbreaks dragging down productivity levels to random annoyances like messenger popups and a full suite of internet blockers/virus stoppers/software firewalls needed to surf the web.
Users are keeping an eye open for alternatives, that's why Linux desktop development needs to become desirable, marketable, usable and thus a replacement for the Windows desktop.
I think I'll pre-order it straight away, so they'll send me the game together with SNES CD-ROm Device I preordered from them way back in ... uhm?
on Gamestop the release date is listed as 5/3/2004 Is there an official release date anyway?
>It will save you a lot of headaches. You, Sir, are the devil...
Screw Windows98, what about us MS DOS users?
Or you can get it here. Download is quite fast for Europeans.
Just remember to patch the game with the 2.56 update, else you won't be able to join the majority of servers.
What's cool about Enemy Territory is that the win32 and linux clients were released simultaneously. It's certainly something I'd like to see happen more often in the gaming industry and it's a boon to linux gaming in general. I've got fingers crossed for DooM3 as well, since iD software has always been very concerned about the linux game market (which might be minimal considering the other platforms, but _exists_ and _is_ growing).
What still needs to be worked out is a legally acceptable means of distribution for distros like gentoo. A while ago Enemy Territory was nerfed from the Portage tree because of EULA breaching (actually, it would actually be EULA 'masking', since users who "emerged" ET on their system basically couldn't read and thus accept it).
Distribution on demand like Gentoo features is especially interesting for Software houses and producers, since it eliminates the need of local distributors. That's the real reason for vALVE Software's Steam.
Here is Ettore's blog, updated to 29 November.
On a side note, it's moving to browse through the weblog of someone who has died recently. I never knew Ettore, although I regularly use and love Evolution, but from his entries I see he was a very nice person while also being a talented hacker.
"No, SCO hasn't been DDoS'ed. WE'VE been DDoSed, you insensitive clod!"
It's been 4 or 5 months since I've started to receive empty html emails with the topic reading only "hello" or "hi". No text, links or anything in the main body.
My guess is that these email are sent by spammers targetting users who use bayesian spam filters, since marking such emails as Junk, thus training the filter, might actually mess things up.
I haven't actually looked at the bayesian algorithms, so I'm not sure about this.
Hallucigenia means "Dream Children" and is a name of a small worm belonging to the Burgess-Shale collection of fossils
Researcher Simon Conway Morris had probably been working overnight a little too often, since he mistook the fossil for an eerie monster-like creature with a blob like head and spikes for legs, thus dubbing it "Hallucigenia". See the picture. Looks a little bit like Alien, doesn't it?
It was only in 1991 that this strange little animal's anatomy was correctly interpreted as a worm, the Onychophore, with spikes on it's back and tentacles or, better, pseudopods for walking (and probably eating).
I wonder if the pictures of this car are upside down...
possibily forever, since it does not infringe on the DMCA.
It makes no attempt in circumventing secuity protection mechanisms nor does it hack in anyway the machine itself.
What it does is route the packets to and from the internet, acting as a gateway (or better, router) from one machine to the other.
Basically, the gamecube thinks it's routing packets to a machine in it's own LAN, while actually it's routing packets to an ip thank to the the Warp Pipe software. Warp Pipe works like a simplified Gamespy Arcade allowing players to accept connections or connect to a specified ip, chat in a dedicated chatroom and forwards packets from and to all machines connected. You should check out Kaillera, a frontend for MAME and other emulators that allows people to play online with games that were developed way before the term "multiplayer" went mainstream, to get an idea of what this cool lil' piece o' software does.
I have some reserves on the quality of the online gameplay since these games weren't designed to played online. Differences in packet size and packet rate greatly affect gameplay in terms of ping and lag, and the values differ if you are playing on a lan or on the internet. Warp Pipe devs can't change these values, finetuned for LAN play, because they don't have access to the game source code. I guess they'd have to pry it from Mario's cold, dead hands. What they *can* do is work out a proxy that snips and trims packets on the fly, but that would require a massive work sniffing the game packets and a specifical implementation for each game.
Still, it's better than nothing. A big thumbs up to the dev team.
... made me seriously consider buying a gamecube instead of an xbox this xmas.
For 99, I'd get the latest in home entertainment technologyl, complete with online play (even if still buggy, as I presume it is since it's a beta).
Before unleashing the wrath of the DMCA upon these hackers, Nintendo should think about the advantages brought to it's console at absolutely no cost whatsoever.
...will it commit harakiri?
that spam will extend itself to irc?
Thousands if not millions of bogus irc channels with specific keywords inserted in the topic only to attract hits on the main google search page?
are you referring to the "ohm" mantra?
seems like they forgot to add the extension to some of the screenshots. for example, the very nice bliss wallpaper is actually a jpg, but mozilla doesn't understand that. save it to your harddisk instead.