I use Gnome and it works perfectly. There isn't any noticable lag. However, if you disable any gdm, kdm, whatever, just do an "echo xterm >.xinitrc && startx", just run steam from an xterm on blank x. How's that for a window manager? Really though, that's a bit of overkill IMO. Plus, the Steam system tray icon shows up in the Gnome systray - pretty cool.
I intended to release the Q3 source under the GPL by the end of 2004, but we had another large technology licensing deal go through, and it would be poor form to make the source public a few months after a company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for full rights to it. True, being public under the GPL isnt the same as having a royalty free license without the need to disclose the source, but Im pretty sure there would be some hard feelings.
Previous source code releases were held up until the last commercial license of the technology shipped, but with the evolving nature of game engines today, it is a lot less clear. There are still bits of early Quake code in Half Life 2, and the remaining licensees of Q3 technology intend to continue their internal developments along similar lines, so there probably wont be nearly as sharp a cutoff as before. I am still committed to making as much source public as I can, and I wont wait until the titles from the latest deal have actually shipped, but it is still going to be a little while before I feel comfortable doing the release.
If I had points, I would mod you up. I completely agree. Although some work has been done with Quake I (Nexuiz for one), there really hasn't been anything ground-breaking done with any already existing games in terms of creating a new game. Imagine taking an engine (like QII or QIII) and making a completely new game that is commercial quality released under the GPL (or similiar license). I'm not holding my breath.
Microsoft has just released a press release highlighting the new additions being implemented into Windows Longhorn (c). Most notable of these additions is an innovative "package management system" called l-merge. More information soon.
I live / work / go to school in Pullman, WA (WSU). I got my job with 1" lobes and two 8ga lip rings. They didn't have a problem with the ears, but the lip rings had to go when I got my job. They have no problem at all with a full sleeve tattoo, so go figure. I've since gotten rid of the lobes, and allowing them to shrink. I tend to wear more long sleeve button-up shirts, so it all worked out.
I made my own "Open CD" just for giving out to friends / family / whatever that has an assortment of my preferred OSS. It's not terribly difficult to start from scratch, and with the OpenCD, you can just go through and pick it apart to make something customized for each shop (give it branding).
Pop in the "Store X" cd with software (and free updated cds, of course). Have a problem with one of the programs? You know who to contact.
We now see those commercials before movies that explain that by pirating movies, we're taking food off the plates of blue collar workers. This may be true, but I don't see Lucas, with his estimates $3 billion ( Forbes )doing much to comfort them. Lucas and many others are capitalizing from the masses by taking in insane amounts of money (not necessarily a bad thing). The funny part is it is those that are making all the money that are making the biggest fuss.
Sure, this is just capitalism working in an unfair way, but so is pirating movies, right?
Is BitComet open source? No. I recommend those who is serious about C++ bittorrent source code have a look at libtorrent - a careful written bittorrent library, although I didn't use it.
From the BitComet site.:/ Not to take away from the program, just an observation (as we're on the topic of OSS).
As a side-note, that huge barage of programs was ripped from my lame "open cd" type thing I made for friends/family/whatever. It's nice to have the licenses, links, and a summary all attached.
For those that are interested, here are my prized OSS Windows applications and their links. Sorry for such a long post, but hopefully this'll be interesting to someone. Entertainment: Audacity Version: 1.2.3 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
A fast multitrack audio editor and recorder for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo. Battle for Wesnoth Version: 0.9.1 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://www.wesnoth.org/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Supports online multi-player. Blender Version: 2.36 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://www.blender3d.org/
Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X. CDex Version: 1.51 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
CDex is a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. Celestia Version: 1.3.2 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://celestia.sourceforge.net/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation which lets you travel through our solar system and to over 100,000 stars in our neighborhood. Glest Version: 1.0.9 License: GNU General Public License Link: http://www.glest.org/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glest/
Glest is a project for making a free 3d real-time customizable strategy game. Current version is fully playable, includes single player game against CPU controlled players, two factions with their corresponding tech trees, units, buildings and some maps. Scorched 3d Version: 38.1b License: GNU General Public License Link: http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scorched3d/
Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely across the internet or LAN. VLC Media Player Version: 0.8.1 License:
Remember that amaroK and K3B are not for Windows (or am I wrong here?).
Outlook is also the only email client FULLY compatible with Hotmail (big surprise there, egh?). If Thunderbird could check my Exchange email, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Even Evolution (for Linux) isn't FULLY supportive of Exchange. In many cases, Outlook is simply a necessity.
It's compliant with the GPL, and is free of charge, so I can't whine too much. Besides, it really is a pretty good program. But yes, I do understand where you're coming from and feel the same way.
Try burnatonce (www.burnatonce.com). It's very simple and to the point. It itself is not open source, but uses open source projects.
My favorite OSS for Windows:
Glest (www.glest.org) - fun RTS game with commercial quality graphics / sounds.
Battle of Wesnoth - fantasy TBS game.
vPod - for loading music on my iPod.
Filezilla - nice FTP client / server
Putty - SSH / Telnet client
XChat - www.silverex.org - yes, it's a GPL windows compilation.
7-zip - Unpack.zip.tar.rar.ace.rpm.deb, etc.
DevCPP - C/C++ compiler IDE.
PDFCreator - self explanitory.
SciTE - I use this instead of Dreamweaver at work.
Audacity - Recording audio (rarely used, but a quality app).
ClamAV - No-bloat antivirus.
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When Apache is owned by Nintendo so they can offer a decent prize.
When I'm writing things (as rarely as it is), I often resort to hacking things in a "less than optimal" way. This is often with a comment that says something along the lines of// Come back to this and do it right.
Now, this hack, albeit ugly, inefficient, a hog, or anything else...it still "just works." The article says: the number one design goal for Longhorn has been: "It just works."
which leads me to think that's what the developers are being told. Quality being job #1? Screw that, just make it work and lets get it out the door by Q4, 2006.
I may be naive, but that's my impression from this.
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I use Gnome and it works perfectly. There isn't any noticable lag. However, if you disable any gdm, kdm, whatever, just do an "echo xterm > .xinitrc && startx", just run steam from an xterm on blank x. How's that for a window manager?
Really though, that's a bit of overkill IMO. Plus, the Steam system tray icon shows up in the Gnome systray - pretty cool.
Where can I get some of these parasites? It'd be nice to brainwash more geeks to dive into water every so often.
You're suggesting that condoms are needed for procreation? You sir, have a lot to learn.
I submitted this story about 7 months ago: Quake III Source Release Delayed Sunday January 02, @01:42AM Rejected
It's all available in his blog
From January:
Quake 3 Source
I intended to release the Q3 source under the GPL by the end of 2004, but we had another large technology licensing deal go through, and it would be poor form to make the source public a few months after a company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for full rights to it. True, being public under the GPL isnt the same as having a royalty free license without the need to disclose the source, but Im pretty sure there would be some hard feelings.
Previous source code releases were held up until the last commercial license of the technology shipped, but with the evolving nature of game engines today, it is a lot less clear. There are still bits of early Quake code in Half Life 2, and the remaining licensees of Q3 technology intend to continue their internal developments along similar lines, so there probably wont be nearly as sharp a cutoff as before. I am still committed to making as much source public as I can, and I wont wait until the titles from the latest deal have actually shipped, but it is still going to be a little while before I feel comfortable doing the release.
If I had points, I would mod you up. I completely agree. Although some work has been done with Quake I (Nexuiz for one), there really hasn't been anything ground-breaking done with any already existing games in terms of creating a new game. Imagine taking an engine (like QII or QIII) and making a completely new game that is commercial quality released under the GPL (or similiar license). I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, but does it run Lennox?
Microsoft has just released a press release highlighting the new additions being implemented into Windows Longhorn (c). Most notable of these additions is an innovative "package management system" called l-merge. More information soon.
I live / work / go to school in Pullman, WA (WSU). I got my job with 1" lobes and two 8ga lip rings. They didn't have a problem with the ears, but the lip rings had to go when I got my job. They have no problem at all with a full sleeve tattoo, so go figure. I've since gotten rid of the lobes, and allowing them to shrink. I tend to wear more long sleeve button-up shirts, so it all worked out.
What's this about live Linux CDs? I've never heard of something like that. That sounds amazing!
- Me, 1999
I made my own "Open CD" just for giving out to friends / family / whatever that has an assortment of my preferred OSS. It's not terribly difficult to start from scratch, and with the OpenCD, you can just go through and pick it apart to make something customized for each shop (give it branding).
Pop in the "Store X" cd with software (and free updated cds, of course). Have a problem with one of the programs? You know who to contact.
Earlier post with all the software from my disk.
Shadowrun for Sega Genesis > Shadowrun for SNES
Living in Ohio probably doesn't help either.
We now see those commercials before movies that explain that by pirating movies, we're taking food off the plates of blue collar workers. This may be true, but I don't see Lucas, with his estimates $3 billion ( Forbes )doing much to comfort them. Lucas and many others are capitalizing from the masses by taking in insane amounts of money (not necessarily a bad thing). The funny part is it is those that are making all the money that are making the biggest fuss.
Sure, this is just capitalism working in an unfair way, but so is pirating movies, right?
I put this video as my background and looped it (using VLC). This makes a great wallpaper :)
Didn't the PS2 have a hefty initial pricing to only be lowered drastically soon after? (I could be wrong, I'm not a big gamer).
Is BitComet open source?
:/
No. I recommend those who is serious about C++ bittorrent source code have a look at libtorrent - a careful written bittorrent library, although I didn't use it.
From the BitComet site.
Not to take away from the program, just an observation (as we're on the topic of OSS).
As a side-note, that huge barage of programs was ripped from my lame "open cd" type thing I made for friends/family/whatever. It's nice to have the licenses, links, and a summary all attached.
For those that are interested, here are my prized OSS Windows applications and their links. Sorry for such a long post, but hopefully this'll be interesting to someone.
Entertainment:
Audacity
Version: 1.2.3
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
A fast multitrack audio editor and recorder for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
Battle for Wesnoth
Version: 0.9.1
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Supports online multi-player.
Blender
Version: 2.36
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.blender3d.org/
Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
CDex
Version: 1.51
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
CDex is a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
Celestia
Version: 1.3.2
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://celestia.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation which lets you travel through our solar system and to over 100,000 stars in our neighborhood.
Glest
Version: 1.0.9
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.glest.org/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glest/
Glest is a project for making a free 3d real-time customizable strategy game. Current version is fully playable, includes single player game against CPU controlled players, two factions with their corresponding tech trees, units, buildings and some maps.
Scorched 3d
Version: 38.1b
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scorched3d/
Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely across the internet or LAN.
VLC Media Player
Version: 0.8.1
License:
Remember that amaroK and K3B are not for Windows (or am I wrong here?). Outlook is also the only email client FULLY compatible with Hotmail (big surprise there, egh?). If Thunderbird could check my Exchange email, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Even Evolution (for Linux) isn't FULLY supportive of Exchange. In many cases, Outlook is simply a necessity.
It's compliant with the GPL, and is free of charge, so I can't whine too much. Besides, it really is a pretty good program. But yes, I do understand where you're coming from and feel the same way.
Try burnatonce (www.burnatonce.com). It's very simple and to the point. It itself is not open source, but uses open source projects.
.zip .tar .rar .ace .rpm .deb, etc.
My favorite OSS for Windows:
Glest (www.glest.org) - fun RTS game with commercial quality graphics / sounds.
Battle of Wesnoth - fantasy TBS game.
vPod - for loading music on my iPod.
Filezilla - nice FTP client / server
Putty - SSH / Telnet client
XChat - www.silverex.org - yes, it's a GPL windows compilation.
7-zip - Unpack
DevCPP - C/C++ compiler IDE.
PDFCreator - self explanitory.
SciTE - I use this instead of Dreamweaver at work.
Audacity - Recording audio (rarely used, but a quality app).
ClamAV - No-bloat antivirus.
When Apache is owned by Nintendo so they can offer a decent prize.
Doesn't crash my copy of IE6.
I guess that's your opinion. I'm personally looking forward to:
1. new icons
2. new splash screen
3. new wallpapers
Why would they need a black box if "it just works"?
When I'm writing things (as rarely as it is), I often resort to hacking things in a "less than optimal" way. This is often with a comment that says something along the lines of // Come back to this and do it right.
Now, this hack, albeit ugly, inefficient, a hog, or anything else...it still "just works." The article says:
the number one design goal for Longhorn has been: "It just works."
which leads me to think that's what the developers are being told. Quality being job #1? Screw that, just make it work and lets get it out the door by Q4, 2006.
I may be naive, but that's my impression from this.