Unless your host OS happens to be Mac OS.
Mac OS as host OS? Oh, please. Why not Amiga OS?
For OSX as a host and guest there is a solution:
> http://www.kberg.ch/qemu/
Re:Slashdot - Where Rails gets the hype.
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How about the EFF(USA) donating 50 Mio. USD in OSS to MA - calculated based on Microsofts packet prizes for equivalent software. Ideally they should donate the Software on a physical medium (aka CDs) - the production cost of 1USD per CD cost could probably easily collected via PayPal donations. The CD could be some http://theopencd.org/ for clients and a server software CD with Apache/PHP/MySQL and PostgreSQL, Python, Zope and for example some good webapps like eGroupware etc.
Its pretty save that they got hacked - The page has been pretty dead since 2001 according to archive.org - There is no official pres release by SCO - The page has awful spelling and grammar errors. - fsi-server.informatik.uni-erlangen.de sounds like "Fachschaft Informatik" - a server students have access to.
The beauty of PHP *head explodes*
beauty? PHP? Have you every looked at it? closely? Do you know any other solution?
Just look at the naming of is_null, empty and isset...
It's not an issue of bad design, but of neccessity.
nonsense. Is it necessary to have two or more implementations of a VFS? No. Is it necessary to have two or more message bus systems? No.
If your computer is very limited, then you don't want to run either KDE or GNOME.
Of cause you will want that - portability is some damn fine thing. The PDA and the moblie phone are merging and are beginning to become really useful. Even Microsoft realized that and is pushing.Net for that cause like there's no tomorrow.
There is no code duplication involved, however, there is some overlap of functionality
Both are involved, which is even worse.
Care to elaborate on that?
Less code, less vulnerabilities without loss of features.
Just because some random Linux distro is offering both KDE and GNOME does not imply that KDE or GNOME stops maintaining their own code.
When was the last major release of Gnome-Vfs? Even though the Gnome-Wiki says it really needs a basic rework?
Multiple projects are a Good Thing in the beginning, when you still need to find out which ideas are the Good Ones. After that, its better to settle on a standard, and to build implementations that are compatible and exchangeable.
Yeah, yeah, sure. Except when the "standards" sucks.
There is not much space for creativity in the basic infrastructure needed for a desktop enviroment. This is the reason for projects as dbus, HAL, poppler and Desktop-VFS.
I don't see why it is hard to have QT and GTK libraries on each system.
Because:
- its ugly design
- it involves lots of code duplication
- it sucks on lean platforms (for example Maemo)
- it doubles your chances of being hit by a security flaw
- it produces a lot of unmaintained basic infrastucture code (like VFS) where the implementation is the spec.
- standards are a Good Thing
Forget about CVS, because you will not want it, if you can use subversion - use subversion with trac. It gives you a wiki to store ideas and concepts, a bugtracking system and a webfrontend for subversion and some more. http://www.edgewall.com/trac/
The board game was developed under license from Microprose (as they were at the time).
Kids today. Quoteth Wikipedia:
Meier admits to "borrowing" many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization (published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill). The early versions of the game even included a flier of information and ordering materials for the board game. In an ironic twist, there is now a board game based on the computer game version of Civilization.
(although looking at the pictures you've linked to, that's a different board game from the one I played, it looks like it plays by the same principles... probably just an earlier version of it)
Well, yeah - you may have a point there.
Most gamers I've discussed this with think that using hexagonal layouts for TBS games is actually inferior to square-with-diagonals like Civ, as it restricts movement to 6 directions, rather than the 8 available in Civ.
Completely ignoring the fact that you can move sqrt(2) as wide in certain directions than in others. Hexes are the best representation of terrain, and were therefore used in almost all classic combat simulations and wargames like Squad Leader or even BattleTech.
While FreeCiv has network play, which was apparently added as an afterthought to the Civilization franchise, playing against computer players just doesn't work as well. Playing against FreeCiv AI on its hardest level I can easily beat it; against CivII I don't stand a chance unless I have a very lucky start. It also seems to lack a level that is as easy as Civ's easiest.
So they have very different key features and thus are very different games? Thats what I said...
Think of all those years of "F/OSS" effort put into re-implementing someone else's game and putting new features on it, when that energy could have just been put toward creating an original franchise to showcase the power of OSS development.
I'd be saying something like, "Are you seriously asking me what I think of people who take my ideas and produce half-assed clones of them that they distribute for free while I'm trying to run a company that feeds six dozen developer's families?"
There are few things that the half-assed clones and Sid Meier's Civilization have in common that is not already in this: Civilization
And that one was designed by Francis Tresham, so yes, I it makes me sore, if Sid bitches about "his" IP.
Also the half-assed clones have features that are missing in the Civ games, or have been implemented there much later (useable networked gaming, hex tilesets, etc.)
Actually this dodge was pretty clumsy. And it is only needed if he is not happy about FreeCiv. I find it rather sad, that he cant find anything good about these games - FreeCiv for example was very innovative in multiplayer, networked Civing.
Re:Hey ID Software!
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I use a wiki because it's an easy format for me to edit and update wherever I am. I have no intention to make it writable - god we're getting enough feedback as it is:)
Would you know how to force a single language maybe?
You either have to deleted the Templates for alternative FrontPages: (StartSeite, PageD%27Accueil, P%C3%A1ginaPrincipal...) or change "page_front_page" in the configuration to something moinmoin cant autotranslate (almost everything but FrontPage) and move you Frontpage there.
See "System pages, including FrontPage" on http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnLanguages?hig hlight=(language)
I would propably just go and kill any template I dont need on the wiki - problem solved.
Thanks for the great game BTW and keep up the good work!
Sweetshark, who will buy Quake 4 for his linux-only machine as a reward for finishing his diploma next week....
Re:This suggests a great Linux-boosting strategy
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Or release something "big" you wanted to give away for free anyway first for Linux and a bit later (like two weeks) for Windows. Could have been done with Enemy Territory...
Nice, that you are using a Opensource-Wiki (MoinMoin). However, it is completly locked and Moinmoin has localized Frontpages - so with intl.accept_languages="de-de, en-us" I get this page
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/StartS eite when I click on this link:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/
Also it would be nice to have some possibility of feedback other than posting on/.....
I realize that's much more difficult to implement, but it might prevent stuff-ups where the user follows this recommendation for CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, later on uses a forum how-to that recommends modifying one of the init scripts and then emerges world and fails to get a needed security tweak for the package.
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will make portage automatically overwrite the files. So he wont miss a security tweak, but his manual change.
As for "still to manual" set
replace-unmodified=yes
in/etc/dispatch-conf.conf and once a file is known, you dont need any manual confirms for files not modified by the user.
As long as it's telling you to run etc-update, my comment isn't outdated.
Are you also still using nano, because it is the editor used in the documentation?
The unfortunate truth is that there are a lot of configuration files to handle, including init scripts, which change significantly at a rapid pace. Even using dispatch-conf, I still find myself wondering why I'm being asked to review files which I would never modify unless I had intimate working knowledge of the service being run.
Propably because you still use the very conservative default empty CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. see "emerge --help config" and the make.conf manpage. Putting/etc/init.d into you CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK would have prevented many manual config updates.
My biggest problem with Gentoo isn't a tech support one. It's a big giant bug called "etc-update" that bombards me with over 100 "changes" to config files I've never heard of every time I upgrade a bunch of things.
Yes, it's flamebait.
Sure. And an outdated one.
use dispatch-conf, not etc-update.
There's a single reason we wouldn't migrate to StarOffice. Because when we save the document in "OpenDocument" format, there's no guarantee that the person that needs to recieve that document (outside the company) will be able to read it.
How is this different with.doc Documents?
Fortunately, OpenOffice is free and we can always send a link with our document. "If you cannot open this file, please download OpenOffice, from OpenOffice.org -- a mere 2623523523 megabyte download."
How about sending files as.pdf? Dont tell me you need your customers modify your documents on a regular basis....
Slashdot Mirror
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.htm l
qemu does both. Not OSS (yet) - but free as in beer.
Unless your host OS happens to be Mac OS.
Mac OS as host OS? Oh, please. Why not Amiga OS?
For OSX as a host and guest there is a solution: > http://www.kberg.ch/qemu/
http://www.turbogears.org/ http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
All these projects have been registered before or in 2000 (when the patent has been filed according to TFA):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgrinder
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leap
http://sourceforge.net/projects/neo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nexusproject
As this is a patent it shouldnt matter too much, if they actually had a working implementation at that time. (IANAL and all that jazz).
How about the EFF(USA) donating 50 Mio. USD in OSS to MA - calculated based on Microsofts packet prizes for equivalent software. Ideally they should donate the Software on a physical medium (aka CDs) - the production cost of 1USD per CD cost could probably easily collected via PayPal donations. The CD could be some http://theopencd.org/ for clients and a server software CD with Apache/PHP/MySQL and PostgreSQL, Python, Zope and for example some good webapps like eGroupware etc.
Its pretty save that they got hacked
- The page has been pretty dead since 2001 according to archive.org
- There is no official pres release by SCO
- The page has awful spelling and grammar errors.
- fsi-server.informatik.uni-erlangen.de sounds like "Fachschaft Informatik" - a server students have access to.
The beauty of PHP *head explodes* ...
beauty? PHP? Have you every looked at it? closely? Do you know any other solution?
Just look at the naming of is_null, empty and isset
Please, please republish Close Combat 3! Its still the best from the series!
It's not an issue of bad design, but of neccessity.
.Net for that cause like there's no tomorrow.
nonsense. Is it necessary to have two or more implementations of a VFS? No. Is it necessary to have two or more message bus systems? No.
If your computer is very limited, then you don't want to run either KDE or GNOME.
Of cause you will want that - portability is some damn fine thing. The PDA and the moblie phone are merging and are beginning to become really useful. Even Microsoft realized that and is pushing
There is no code duplication involved, however, there is some overlap of functionality
Both are involved, which is even worse.
Care to elaborate on that?
Less code, less vulnerabilities without loss of features.
Just because some random Linux distro is offering both KDE and GNOME does not imply that KDE or GNOME stops maintaining their own code.
When was the last major release of Gnome-Vfs? Even though the Gnome-Wiki says it really needs a basic rework? Multiple projects are a Good Thing in the beginning, when you still need to find out which ideas are the Good Ones. After that, its better to settle on a standard, and to build implementations that are compatible and exchangeable.
Yeah, yeah, sure. Except when the "standards" sucks.
There is not much space for creativity in the basic infrastructure needed for a desktop enviroment. This is the reason for projects as dbus, HAL, poppler and Desktop-VFS.
I don't see why it is hard to have QT and GTK libraries on each system.
Because:
- its ugly design
- it involves lots of code duplication
- it sucks on lean platforms (for example Maemo)
- it doubles your chances of being hit by a security flaw
- it produces a lot of unmaintained basic infrastucture code (like VFS) where the implementation is the spec.
- standards are a Good Thing
Forget about CVS, because you will not want it, if you can use subversion - use subversion with trac. It gives you a wiki to store ideas and concepts, a bugtracking system and a webfrontend for subversion and some more.
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/
Kids today. Quoteth Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(board_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(comput
The boardgame is from 1981, when the common Home-PCs didnt even have means to present a computergame like Civilization.
(although looking at the pictures you've linked to, that's a different board game from the one I played, it looks like it plays by the same principles... probably just an earlier version of it)
Well, yeah - you may have a point there.
Most gamers I've discussed this with think that using hexagonal layouts for TBS games is actually inferior to square-with-diagonals like Civ, as it restricts movement to 6 directions, rather than the 8 available in Civ.
Completely ignoring the fact that you can move sqrt(2) as wide in certain directions than in others. Hexes are the best representation of terrain, and were therefore used in almost all classic combat simulations and wargames like Squad Leader or even BattleTech.
While FreeCiv has network play, which was apparently added as an afterthought to the Civilization franchise, playing against computer players just doesn't work as well. Playing against FreeCiv AI on its hardest level I can easily beat it; against CivII I don't stand a chance unless I have a very lucky start. It also seems to lack a level that is as easy as Civ's easiest.
So they have very different key features and thus are very different games? Thats what I said
Think of all those years of "F/OSS" effort put into re-implementing someone else's game and putting new features on it, when that energy could have just been put toward creating an original franchise to showcase the power of OSS development.
You mean like http://www.wesnoth.org/?
I'd be saying something like, "Are you seriously asking me what I think of people who take my ideas and produce half-assed clones of them that they distribute for free while I'm trying to run a company that feeds six dozen developer's families?"
There are few things that the half-assed clones and Sid Meier's Civilization have in common that is not already in this:
Civilization
And that one was designed by Francis Tresham, so yes, I it makes me sore, if Sid bitches about "his" IP.
Also the half-assed clones have features that are missing in the Civ games, or have been implemented there much later (useable networked gaming, hex tilesets, etc.)
Actually this dodge was pretty clumsy. And it is only needed if he is not happy about FreeCiv. I find it rather sad, that he cant find anything good about these games - FreeCiv for example was very innovative in multiplayer, networked Civing.
Anyway, Im off to buy Quake4 for my linux box.
It's the non-standard nature of the directory tree that gets on my nerves. /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/share/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share/bin... Aargh!
Whats non-standard about that?
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
I use a wiki because it's an easy format for me to edit and update wherever I am. I have no intention to make it writable - god we're getting enough feedback as it is :)
...) or change "page_front_page" in the configuration to something moinmoin cant autotranslate (almost everything but FrontPage) and move you Frontpage there.g hlight=(language)
....
Would you know how to force a single language maybe?
You either have to deleted the Templates for alternative FrontPages: (StartSeite, PageD%27Accueil, P%C3%A1ginaPrincipal
See "System pages, including FrontPage" on http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnLanguages?hi
I would propably just go and kill any template I dont need on the wiki - problem solved.
Thanks for the great game BTW and keep up the good work!
Sweetshark, who will buy Quake 4 for his linux-only machine as a reward for finishing his diploma next week
Or release something "big" you wanted to give away for free anyway first for Linux and a bit later (like two weeks) for Windows. Could have been done with Enemy Territory ...
Nice, that you are using a Opensource-Wiki (MoinMoin). However, it is completly locked and Moinmoin has localized Frontpages - so with intl.accept_languages="de-de, en-us" I get this page http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/StartS eite when I click on this link:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/ /. ....
Also it would be nice to have some possibility of feedback other than posting on
The software is free, the support is free...Is there any element here which people are supposed to pay for?
http://www.gen-ux.com/catalog
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will make portage automatically overwrite the files. So he wont miss a security tweak, but his manual change.
As for "still to manual" setin
dispatch-conf is not something mentioned in standard documentation.b ook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part3_chap4
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/hand
It is documented - in the handbook right next to etc-update - thats pretty much as standard as it can get.
As long as it's telling you to run etc-update, my comment isn't outdated.
Are you also still using nano, because it is the editor used in the documentation?
The unfortunate truth is that there are a lot of configuration files to handle, including init scripts, which change significantly at a rapid pace. Even using dispatch-conf, I still find myself wondering why I'm being asked to review files which I would never modify unless I had intimate working knowledge of the service being run.
/etc/init.d into you CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK would have prevented many manual config updates.
Propably because you still use the very conservative default empty CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. see "emerge --help config" and the make.conf manpage. Putting
My biggest problem with Gentoo isn't a tech support one. It's a big giant bug called "etc-update" that bombards me with over 100 "changes" to config files I've never heard of every time I upgrade a bunch of things.
Yes, it's flamebait.
Sure. And an outdated one.
use dispatch-conf, not etc-update.
There's a single reason we wouldn't migrate to StarOffice. Because when we save the document in "OpenDocument" format, there's no guarantee that the person that needs to recieve that document (outside the company) will be able to read it. .doc Documents?
.pdf? Dont tell me you need your customers modify your documents on a regular basis ....
How is this different with
Fortunately, OpenOffice is free and we can always send a link with our document. "If you cannot open this file, please download OpenOffice, from OpenOffice.org -- a mere 2623523523 megabyte download."
How about sending files as