The link definitely works, but whether or not it's me, I couldn't get looking glass running. It always froze at the default X screen. I have an AMD Athlon64 3500, Geforce 6800, and a gig of ram, so I assumed it would be fine. I also tried running it in virtual pc (hey, maybe it coulda worked!), but that had the same problem. If anyone has suggestions on what could be wrong, that'd be awesome. Or even specs on what machines it may have worked on.
But I would call it a step forward. I would like to see integration of sites listing working drivers and a site like this, where we see what doesn't work. If you're out to purchase something new, you don't know if someone's tried it yet because sometimes you just can't find it listed. It'd be nice to see just one page, yes this works, or no this doesn't. Even better, you could then look at the whole list and pick one that works. Or in the nature of the new site, see one that works for one platform and hope for the best that it will work for yours soon. Oh, and after the/. effect dies out, the site should probably maintain well.
But programs are only as secure as the platform they run on, and of course the same as the people who use them. If people don't run their system properly, I'd say that's worse. Not to mention that people would use trusted vendors anyway, so I don't see what this adds.
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I think he meant 30 days a month.
The link definitely works, but whether or not it's me, I couldn't get looking glass running. It always froze at the default X screen. I have an AMD Athlon64 3500, Geforce 6800, and a gig of ram, so I assumed it would be fine. I also tried running it in virtual pc (hey, maybe it coulda worked!), but that had the same problem. If anyone has suggestions on what could be wrong, that'd be awesome. Or even specs on what machines it may have worked on.
But I would call it a step forward. I would like to see integration of sites listing working drivers and a site like this, where we see what doesn't work. If you're out to purchase something new, you don't know if someone's tried it yet because sometimes you just can't find it listed. It'd be nice to see just one page, yes this works, or no this doesn't. Even better, you could then look at the whole list and pick one that works. Or in the nature of the new site, see one that works for one platform and hope for the best that it will work for yours soon. Oh, and after the /. effect dies out, the site should probably maintain well.
And with that, they can't even run Ad-aware or a virus scan! Go figure.
It's called porthole. emerge porthole. Porthole
But programs are only as secure as the platform they run on, and of course the same as the people who use them. If people don't run their system properly, I'd say that's worse. Not to mention that people would use trusted vendors anyway, so I don't see what this adds.
try reading my above comment...it's there, you'll see it...
No, you can do that straight from the /. article, don't even need to view that article (as I'm sure many don't...)
Nice of them to have anti-leech protection on the images...unless they only scan for slashdot as the referrer! Hah!
Or more importantly, did you RTFA?
How about WinMX w/ WINE? They say it works... http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=288