Motif, *in a Linux context*, is dead, buried, and irrelevant, due to their going open 3 years too late. The only Motif application in common use on Linux is Netscape 4.x, and Netscape 6/Mozilla have already switched to GTK+. Meanwhile most of the commercial Unix vendors are busy switching to a GNOME/Nautilus desktop very soon so it's not got long to live there either.
If you're too dumn to realise that sucking the smoke from fire into your body is bad, well, thats what natural selection is for.
Hear, hear. That's the real Truth.
As for best commercials, my personal Top 5:
1) Kasparov vs. everything
2) "Whazzup" with the aliens
3) "Whazzup" with the tragically white guys
4) The dead dot-coms ad (nice smack around of the pets.com sock puppet - I can't believe those morons were suing Triumph The Insult Comic Dog!)
5) The old guy doing the Matrix fight scenes (it was infinitely better than the lame low-res Matrix-style replays during the game)
As a DirecTV subscriber (who pays for the stuff) I agree 100%. Obviously the Hughes engineers are some damn smart guys, and the TV pirates (let's use the right terminology here -/. gets caught up about "hackers" not being evil enough that it's ridiculous to call the pirates that) are not as smart.
I have zero respect for these pirates. They could be applying their skills to the next piece of free software, while instead they're just trying to get free TV. What a waste.
Because companies for better or worse have spent *billions* training people on Outlook and other MS applications. It's in the community's best interest to have replacements for common MS apps that will require minimal retraining to help grease the skids for Linux on the desktop.
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I drive a '99 Grand Cherokee and would love to see this, although not until my warranty expires;-)
Go on IRC at irc.openprojects.net channel #nvidia and the bot named "ice-dcc" can hook you up with the appropriate patches. I'm running 2.4.0 final with full acceleration on my GeForce 2MX right now.
WINE has some KDE and GNOME integration features already - it knows to put system tray icons in your KDE or GNOME tray, where they are fully functional. When you install applications under WINE, it adds them to your "K" or "foot" menu. It would indeed be cool if you could actually embed COM stuff in KDE/GNOME apps, although I suspect that'll take a lot of work yet (OLE Automation was just submitted this morning for Wine, OTOH, so the possibility's a little bit closer).
Most OSS audio applications on Linux use an ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE to control audio timing (it tells how much data is free in the sound driver's output buffer). This isn't implemented in PPCLinux's "dmasound" driver, so applications must detect the breakage and work around it (XMMS does, and a small sound player I wrote myself does as well after someone loaned me an iMac to play with).
There's a laundry list of emulators based on "dynamic recompilation" technology. The first ever was ARDI's Executor. The first non-commercial one was Henk-Jan Ober's R3000 recompiler for PSEmuPro (runs PSX games on Windows). That's been followed by UltraHLE, Bleem!, and a hoard of other emulators.
Excellent point, Bruce. Unfortunately it seems to be common now to "supercriminalize" Bad Things That Society Cares Deeply About which continue to happen in spite of already being illegal.
Everything from drugs to murder is getting extra layers of law added to make it "more illegal" as though it would actually help. In reality, I think all this helps is lawyers (since nobody else can understand the laws pertaining to a specific situation now) and Congressmen (who can claim to have taken a "tough stance" on cocaine or hate crimes or whatever).
Umm, no. YOU CANNOT TURN OFF PRELOADING OF THE IE COMPONENTS IN WINDOWS 98 AND LATER. Turning off active desktop does NOT stop the preload. Trust me, I've traced through explorer.exe more than I care to admit debugging stuff in Wine.
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There's another dynamic at work here: 3rd party Windows applications. If MS gets too wacky with their system/API updates, it will break 3rd party apps, often in non-obvious ways. This has happened several times in the past with things like the MFC shared library - customer and 3rd party outcry has always forced MS to release an "update" that restores the original behavior.
Add in the fact that many large companies using Windows have at least one piece of custom in-house software. If that software's broken by any tomfoolery, MS again looks bad, and this time in front of a potentially huge corporate customer.
Wine can emulate several versions of Windows, and indeed it's sometimes necessary. Internet Explorer works best if it thinks it's on Win95 rather than Win98 for instance, and it's easy to make Wine do the necessary pretending.
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Huh? My DSS system never went anywhere.
Oh wait, I *pay* for mine. When exactly did Slashdot become "Elite Script Kiddie Central"?
Or (I'll save the Brits the trouble and make this joke for them) God's not American.
Motif, *in a Linux context*, is dead, buried, and irrelevant, due to their going open 3 years too late. The only Motif application in common use on Linux is Netscape 4.x, and Netscape 6/Mozilla have already switched to GTK+. Meanwhile most of the commercial Unix vendors are busy switching to a GNOME/Nautilus desktop very soon so it's not got long to live there either.
If you're too dumn to realise that sucking the smoke from fire into your body is bad, well, thats what natural selection is for.
Hear, hear. That's the real Truth.
As for best commercials, my personal Top 5:
1) Kasparov vs. everything
2) "Whazzup" with the aliens
3) "Whazzup" with the tragically white guys
4) The dead dot-coms ad (nice smack around of the pets.com sock puppet - I can't believe those morons were suing Triumph The Insult Comic Dog!)
5) The old guy doing the Matrix fight scenes (it was infinitely better than the lame low-res Matrix-style replays during the game)
As a DirecTV subscriber (who pays for the stuff) I agree 100%. Obviously the Hughes engineers are some damn smart guys, and the TV pirates (let's use the right terminology here - /. gets caught up about "hackers" not being evil enough that it's ridiculous to call the pirates that) are not as smart.
I have zero respect for these pirates. They could be applying their skills to the next piece of free software, while instead they're just trying to get free TV. What a waste.
Feds hunt down Katz? We can only dream...
Because companies for better or worse have spent *billions* training people on Outlook and other MS applications. It's in the community's best interest to have replacements for common MS apps that will require minimal retraining to help grease the skids for Linux on the desktop.
I drive a '99 Grand Cherokee and would love to see this, although not until my warranty expires ;-)
Hey! I live in Florida and I run and advocate Linux :-)
I suppose you can call him that, but Andre Hedrick wrote and maintains the IDE code in the kernel and has for at least 2 years now.
Go on IRC at irc.openprojects.net channel #nvidia and the bot named "ice-dcc" can hook you up with the appropriate patches. I'm running 2.4.0 final with full acceleration on my GeForce 2MX right now.
Wouldn't Linus' wife and kids be a bit alarmed to discover he has no sex life and needs "hot chicks"?
WINE has some KDE and GNOME integration features already - it knows to put system tray icons in your KDE or GNOME tray, where they are fully functional. When you install applications under WINE, it adds them to your "K" or "foot" menu. It would indeed be cool if you could actually embed COM stuff in KDE/GNOME apps, although I suspect that'll take a lot of work yet (OLE Automation was just submitted this morning for Wine, OTOH, so the possibility's a little bit closer).
Most OSS audio applications on Linux use an ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE to control audio timing (it tells how much data is free in the sound driver's output buffer). This isn't implemented in PPCLinux's "dmasound" driver, so applications must detect the breakage and work around it (XMMS does, and a small sound player I wrote myself does as well after someone loaned me an iMac to play with).
There's a laundry list of emulators based on "dynamic recompilation" technology. The first ever was ARDI's Executor. The first non-commercial one was Henk-Jan Ober's R3000 recompiler for PSEmuPro (runs PSX games on Windows). That's been followed by UltraHLE, Bleem!, and a hoard of other emulators.
...and it has for over a year.
Agreed. Current Moz nightlies are far better quality than either PR3 or NS 4.7x.
Excellent point, Bruce. Unfortunately it seems to be common now to "supercriminalize" Bad Things That Society Cares Deeply About which continue to happen in spite of already being illegal.
Everything from drugs to murder is getting extra layers of law added to make it "more illegal" as though it would actually help. In reality, I think all this helps is lawyers (since nobody else can understand the laws pertaining to a specific situation now) and Congressmen (who can claim to have taken a "tough stance" on cocaine or hate crimes or whatever).
Wait, you bill by the hour and that makes you want to get done FASTER? That's un-American ;-)
Umm, no. YOU CANNOT TURN OFF PRELOADING OF THE IE COMPONENTS IN WINDOWS 98 AND LATER. Turning off active desktop does NOT stop the preload. Trust me, I've traced through explorer.exe more than I care to admit debugging stuff in Wine.
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WMP plays local files nicely on recent Wine versions, and there are reports that streaming works also (haven't tried it myself).
There's another dynamic at work here: 3rd party Windows applications. If MS gets too wacky with their system/API updates, it will break 3rd party apps, often in non-obvious ways. This has happened several times in the past with things like the MFC shared library - customer and 3rd party outcry has always forced MS to release an "update" that restores the original behavior.
Add in the fact that many large companies using Windows have at least one piece of custom in-house software. If that software's broken by any tomfoolery, MS again looks bad, and this time in front of a potentially huge corporate customer.
Wine can emulate several versions of Windows, and indeed it's sometimes necessary. Internet Explorer works best if it thinks it's on Win95 rather than Win98 for instance, and it's easy to make Wine do the necessary pretending.
VxDs are not supported on NT or Windows 2000. They are an anachronism from Win9x's DOS core.