As the subject says... ALSA 0.55 does very nice sounding MIDI playback with PlayMidi and SoundFonts. Or if you're willing to trade freedom for functionality Creative has binary-only drivers coming out that support all Windows features, including EAX-style effects via accelerate OpenAL.
Yes, and based on the 3.9.x pre-releases 2D on the NVIDIA is infintely faster than 3.3.6. KDE *flies* on it (and I'm sure GNOME does too with Sawmill - gotta try that Helix release;-)
Linux currently lacks a way to make quick one-off GUI apps, which is the sort of thing Visual Basic excels at. By the time you toss something together in any existing GUI language for Linux (including PyGtk and other script bindings) it's become a Real Project.
Given that most open source programmers are "vi+gcc" gurus that would consider a VB-alike beneath them, I think it's terrific that companies like Borland/Inprise are filling in the gap. To use an ESR-ism, Delphi and other RAD tools will lower the barriers for scratching your own itch. That'll result in more Linux software and more World Domination. Bring it on!
It's almost good enough to erase the memories of how incredibly bad Umjammer Lammy was (I *loved* PaRappa, and was greatly let down by that sequel).
Jet Set Radio definitely has the style and the concept (wait'll Congress finds out - a game where you paint graffiti and run from the cops!), can't wait to find out if it actually plays as well:)
Previous news reports have stated that the DVD playback software for PS2 resides *on the memory card* (it can also be reloaded onto the card from a utility disc that comes with the system). Therefore under the DVD Forum/DVD-CCA license ("protect the CSS code at all costs") they MUST encrypt the memory cards.
OTOH, it's apparently a proprietary encryption scheme, and we know how well those usually fare...
They do work on IP. We have some sort of filter on our access here at work, and it does stop pure IP numbers. As an interesting digression originally it didn't stop anything I'd normally look at, but after one of our high-profile websites got hacked twice in a week (the uber-smart admins didn't change the root password after the first time) suddenly the filter blocked 2600.com, attrition.org, securityfocus.com, etc:)
Creative has one at opensource.creative.com. Pros: cool digital matrix mixer, bass and treble controls, up to 24 programs can open/dev/dsp and play noise at once. Cons: no Soundfonts, external MIDI only.
ALSA has the other one (which will probably at 2.5/2.6 become the kernel's built-in driver) at www.alsa-project.org. This one has a more traditional mixer setup with some minor bugs, but it has great-sounding Soundfont and MIDI playback that more than makes up for it's other problems IMO:)
They've been selling $2.50 DVD bit-for-bit copies for over a year now (well predating DeCSS you'll note). Anyone with pro DVD mastering equipment can trivially make bit-for-bit copies, and that's exactly how the HK guys do it.
No, it's funny BECAUSE it's believable. I actually believed it the first time I read it. I was even thinking "wow, those bastards made the referrer point to Slashdot!".
Funny, funny stuff. If Slashdot went to 6 that post surely would deserve it:)
do you see a trend here? every redhat release, including betas HAVE been anonunced on slashdot before... one can only draw conclusions why its not being anonunced anymore...
The conclusion I draw is "VA/Andover owns a software/beta announcement site. It's called freshmeat.net and scoop does a fantastic job on it.". I don't WANT to see new distro announcements on Slashdot - they're usually premature (before mirrors have a chance to get them), causing the annoying effect that those of us that do actually care can't get to the software in question *because* of the announcement.
IOW, Slashdot's done bad things in the past (don't get me started on development kernel announcements). They certainly don't need to continue.
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Yeah, but PROPAGANDA by the "new guy" is like $1000 worth of "powered by Honda" stickers. Proving once again that anyone can draw seamless tiles, but only Bowie can draw PROPAGANDA.
Pleeease return to drawing kick-ass seamless tiles Bowie! All is forgiven!
The UDF argument isn't quite right because a) UDF pre-patches were already available (CD-RWs are UDF format, so there was no shortage of test discs) and b) All DVD-Videos I've seen are in "bridged" UDF/ISO-9660 format where they'll mount fine as either format. There was a problem where ISO-9660 in Linux couldn't go past 4 gigs (it'd crap out in the middle of Titanic, right before the good part;-), but that's since been resolved.
In any case, there's also css-auth, css-cat, and a few other Linux programs which appeared literally days after DeCSS, but it's unlikely a journalist will mention them since "DeCSS" is more 'photogenic'. "css-cat" makes sense only to Unix wizards, let's admit it:)
You are misinterpreting. All non-UI support and fixes Corel's come up with up through Dec. 12, 1999 is in WineHQ's tree already. The remaining items were submitted earlier today as patches to WineHQ, and will likely be in WineHQ's CVS by Friday. WineHQ was NOT stalling Corel - Corel simply wanted a stable base for their commercial apps.
WineHQ is currently fixing the last major architectural problem that prevents full Win32 compatibility ("address space separation"), and there will be earthquakes in the tree for the next 2-3 months:) Since Corel's apps aren't running on the emulator portion of Wine and don't need that feature they're fine with a more or less out of date tree.
As for "important stuff", I assume you're bitter because you have some favorite app that doesn't work. Read documentation/bugreports that comes with Wine, subscribe to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, and start throwing out some useful bug reports. We can't fix what you don't report.
Thanks, -Ian Schmidt wine-devel, in the Wine AUTHORS file, and proud of it
Wine maintains it's own registry files, and it can read (not write) Win95/98/NT 4 registry files directly. So in a dual-boot situation Windows stuff sees all the registry info it expects, but any changes go only to Wine's copy of the registry so it can never hurt your Windows files.
Strictly yes. Since the features that differ are quite minor (for the KDE look n' feel, basically WineHQ wants to do correct clean theme support and Corel just kinda hacked it in) it's not different enough to really get alarmed though.
- Their tree is a whopping 6 weeks out of sync with WineHQ's. There was last a sync on December 12, 1999 (coinciding with the Wine 991212 release). All their work prior to that date that the Wine developers would accept is in WineHQ's tree already.
- The reason they maintain a separate tree for the moment is that they are beta testing and finalling their apps and need a stable tree (WineHQ's is being updated near-daily, in sometimes architecturally major ways, and certainly doesn't fit that definition).
- There are already patches pending at WineHQ that bring in the 2 interesting items in their tree that are not in WineHQ's (system tray bugfixes and partial WinInet/URLMon DLL implementations). Conversely, there are some features in WineHQ's tree since 991212 that aren't in Corel's, particularly for multimedia.
- Please note that their list of what they've done for Wine on that page represents ALL their work, and is not the differences between their tree and WineHQ. 99.6% of their work is in the WineHQ tree right now.
- There are a few items in their tree that won't ever be merged into WineHQ because Alexandre Julliard (Wine's "Linus") doesn't like them. This primarily includes the KDE look and feel patches.
Please, if you don't understand what's going on, don't make things up. If you must flame someone, head over to ZDNet and check out "Coop"'s hatchet job on Linus, LiViD, and the DVD fiasco...
-Ian Schmidt wine-devel, in the AUTHORS file, and damn proud of it.
Corel has been contributing to WINE for over a year now - this tree consists only of changes they've made since December 12, 1999 and/or patches Alexandre Julliard and the WINE team rejected.
If you think no progress has been made because your favorite app doesn't run, please read documentation/bug_reporting and let us wine-developers know about it. We can't fix your stuff if you sit and stew about it!
Having recently had the experience of having to teach my mom Windows, I can fully tell you it's only easy if you already understand computers. All operating systems are equally hard when you're starting out (except maybe MacOS), so why not get 'em on the good stuff right away?
Also, because source is available to 99% of Linux apps, they're easily internationalized by Indian hackers and distros. Try that with Winamp or mIRC. KDE has a very nice internationalization framework in place, and console apps can use GNU gettext. Because Linux apps are often developed by non-US people, they tend to better address i18n issues than the Windows equivalents.
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As the subject says... ALSA 0.55 does very nice sounding MIDI playback with PlayMidi and SoundFonts. Or if you're willing to trade freedom for functionality Creative has binary-only drivers coming out that support all Windows features, including EAX-style effects via accelerate OpenAL.
Yes, and based on the 3.9.x pre-releases 2D on the NVIDIA is infintely faster than 3.3.6. KDE *flies* on it (and I'm sure GNOME does too with Sawmill - gotta try that Helix release ;-)
Linux currently lacks a way to make quick one-off GUI apps, which is the sort of thing Visual Basic excels at. By the time you toss something together in any existing GUI language for Linux (including PyGtk and other script bindings) it's become a Real Project.
Given that most open source programmers are "vi+gcc" gurus that would consider a VB-alike beneath them, I think it's terrific that companies like Borland/Inprise are filling in the gap. To use an ESR-ism, Delphi and other RAD tools will lower the barriers for scratching your own itch. That'll result in more Linux software and more World Domination. Bring it on!
It's almost good enough to erase the memories of how incredibly bad Umjammer Lammy was (I *loved* PaRappa, and was greatly let down by that sequel).
:)
Jet Set Radio definitely has the style and the concept (wait'll Congress finds out - a game where you paint graffiti and run from the cops!), can't wait to find out if it actually plays as well
Previous news reports have stated that the DVD playback software for PS2 resides *on the memory card* (it can also be reloaded onto the card from a utility disc that comes with the system). Therefore under the DVD Forum/DVD-CCA license ("protect the CSS code at all costs") they MUST encrypt the memory cards.
OTOH, it's apparently a proprietary encryption scheme, and we know how well those usually fare...
They do work on IP. We have some sort of filter on our access here at work, and it does stop pure IP numbers. As an interesting digression originally it didn't stop anything I'd normally look at, but after one of our high-profile websites got hacked twice in a week (the uber-smart admins didn't change the root password after the first time) suddenly the filter blocked 2600.com, attrition.org, securityfocus.com, etc :)
Creative has one at opensource.creative.com. Pros: cool digital matrix mixer, bass and treble controls, up to 24 programs can open /dev/dsp and play noise at once. Cons: no Soundfonts, external MIDI only.
:)
ALSA has the other one (which will probably at 2.5/2.6 become the kernel's built-in driver) at www.alsa-project.org. This one has a more traditional mixer setup with some minor bugs, but it has great-sounding Soundfont and MIDI playback that more than makes up for it's other problems IMO
They've been selling $2.50 DVD bit-for-bit copies for over a year now (well predating DeCSS you'll note). Anyone with pro DVD mastering equipment can trivially make bit-for-bit copies, and that's exactly how the HK guys do it.
No, it's funny BECAUSE it's believable. I actually believed it the first time I read it. I was even thinking "wow, those bastards made the referrer point to Slashdot!".
:)
Funny, funny stuff. If Slashdot went to 6 that post surely would deserve it
do you see a trend here? every redhat release, including betas HAVE been anonunced on slashdot before... one can only draw conclusions why its not being anonunced anymore...
The conclusion I draw is "VA/Andover owns a software/beta announcement site. It's called freshmeat.net and scoop does a fantastic job on it.". I don't WANT to see new distro announcements on Slashdot - they're usually premature (before mirrors have a chance to get them), causing the annoying effect that those of us that do actually care can't get to the software in question *because* of the announcement.
IOW, Slashdot's done bad things in the past (don't get me started on development kernel announcements). They certainly don't need to continue.
Yeah, but PROPAGANDA by the "new guy" is like $1000 worth of "powered by Honda" stickers. Proving once again that anyone can draw seamless tiles, but only Bowie can draw PROPAGANDA.
Pleeease return to drawing kick-ass seamless tiles Bowie! All is forgiven!
The UDF argument isn't quite right because a) UDF pre-patches were already available (CD-RWs are UDF format, so there was no shortage of test discs) and b) All DVD-Videos I've seen are in "bridged" UDF/ISO-9660 format where they'll mount fine as either format. There was a problem where ISO-9660 in Linux couldn't go past 4 gigs (it'd crap out in the middle of Titanic, right before the good part ;-), but that's since been resolved.
:)
In any case, there's also css-auth, css-cat, and a few other Linux programs which appeared literally days after DeCSS, but it's unlikely a journalist will mention them since "DeCSS" is more 'photogenic'. "css-cat" makes sense only to Unix wizards, let's admit it
Actually, she's at least an honorary geek, so she probably understands :-)
You are misinterpreting. All non-UI support and fixes Corel's come up with up through Dec. 12, 1999 is in WineHQ's tree already. The remaining items were submitted earlier today as patches to WineHQ, and will likely be in WineHQ's CVS by Friday. WineHQ was NOT stalling Corel - Corel simply wanted a stable base for their commercial apps.
:) Since Corel's apps aren't running on the emulator portion of Wine and don't need that feature they're fine with a more or less out of date tree.
WineHQ is currently fixing the last major architectural problem that prevents full Win32 compatibility ("address space separation"), and there will be earthquakes in the tree for the next 2-3 months
As for "important stuff", I assume you're bitter because you have some favorite app that doesn't work. Read documentation/bugreports that comes with Wine, subscribe to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, and start throwing out some useful bug reports. We can't fix what you don't report.
Thanks,
-Ian Schmidt
wine-devel, in the Wine AUTHORS file, and proud of it
Wine maintains it's own registry files, and it can read (not write) Win95/98/NT 4 registry files directly. So in a dual-boot situation Windows stuff sees all the registry info it expects, but any changes go only to Wine's copy of the registry so it can never hurt your Windows files.
Does that make Corel's version a fork?
Strictly yes. Since the features that differ are quite minor (for the KDE look n' feel, basically WineHQ wants to do correct clean theme support and Corel just kinda hacked it in) it's not different enough to really get alarmed though.
-managed (which IMO should be Wine's default) allows your window manager to fully control Wine's windows and should fix your problems.
Corel is NOT forking Wine!
- Their tree is a whopping 6 weeks out of sync with WineHQ's. There was last a sync on December 12, 1999 (coinciding with the Wine 991212 release). All their work prior to that date that the Wine developers would accept is in WineHQ's tree already.
- The reason they maintain a separate tree for the moment is that they are beta testing and finalling their apps and need a stable tree (WineHQ's is being updated near-daily, in sometimes architecturally major ways, and certainly doesn't fit that definition).
- There are already patches pending at WineHQ that bring in the 2 interesting items in their tree that are not in WineHQ's (system tray bugfixes and partial WinInet/URLMon DLL implementations). Conversely, there are some features in WineHQ's tree since 991212 that aren't in Corel's, particularly for multimedia.
- Please note that their list of what they've done for Wine on that page represents ALL their work, and is not the differences between their tree and WineHQ. 99.6% of their work is in the WineHQ tree right now.
- There are a few items in their tree that won't ever be merged into WineHQ because Alexandre Julliard (Wine's "Linus") doesn't like them. This primarily includes the KDE look and feel patches.
Please, if you don't understand what's going on, don't make things up. If you must flame someone, head over to ZDNet and check out "Coop"'s hatchet job on Linus, LiViD, and the DVD fiasco...
-Ian Schmidt
wine-devel, in the AUTHORS file, and damn proud of it.
Corel has been contributing to WINE for over a year now - this tree consists only of changes they've made since December 12, 1999 and/or patches Alexandre Julliard and the WINE team rejected.
If you think no progress has been made because your favorite app doesn't run, please read documentation/bug_reporting and let us wine-developers know about it. We can't fix your stuff if you sit and stew about it!
No kidding. Copyleft, are you listening? I'd buy one immediately if they existed :-)
More specifically, ask him what he thinks of the $2.50 Hong Kong pirate DVDs which were in production long before DeCSS ever existed.
Or what he thinks of the bill of goods the MPAA and it's members were sold by the DVD Forum/DVD-CCA.
What if World Domination(tm)'s happened by the time that situation comes around and Linux *is* the popular pressure?
Having recently had the experience of having to teach my mom Windows, I can fully tell you it's only easy if you already understand computers. All operating systems are equally hard when you're starting out (except maybe MacOS), so why not get 'em on the good stuff right away?
Also, because source is available to 99% of Linux apps, they're easily internationalized by Indian hackers and distros. Try that with Winamp or mIRC. KDE has a very nice internationalization framework in place, and console apps can use GNU gettext. Because Linux apps are often developed by non-US people, they tend to better address i18n issues than the Windows equivalents.
On national TV no less.
Of course, anyone who's had to deal with NT knows how hard to laugh at such a proclamation.
Quake 3 uses the same OGL code on all 3 platforms - Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mesa is that good :-)