I assume the present version of SuSE hasn't gotten the most recent drivers yet. Ubuntu will work fine with a TNT card though if you install nvidia-glx-legacy and linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)-nvidia-legacy, then run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". I have a TNT2 M64 card and this works for me.
Thanks, That worked. I still had to go in and change X to use nvida vs nv before it worked.
This isn't Ubuntu's fault, nVidia decided to no longer support TNT cards in both its Windows and its Linux closed source drivers.
Not exactly. The Windows nvidia drivers work to spec (Win98/nt/xp etc.). The Linux drivers should work the same (2.4, 2.6 kernal drivers). It works under SuSE it should work under Ubuntu.
I'm not dissing Ubuntu, just getting used to it's method. So far so good. My son and are playing network bzflag, myth2, heroes3 etc.
My only problem now is that Ubuntu is loading all the bluetooth modules on a desktop machine with no bluetooth devices (wastes memory). That should be an easy problem to solve vs 3D:)
From a company that claims your stealing from them when you buy a white-box (naked PC) computer. Even though you might be putting linux, OS/2, or a older version of Windows that you own on the box.
From a company you have to ask permission to install the software that you purchased. That the software can disable itself once you change your computer seems to be of no big deal to people other than myself.
From a company who wants to install DRM to limit the DVD quality of your movies.
From a company who won't fix previous versions of thier software just so that you have to purchase something newer.
We (my company) use a disk image from Redhat 6 to compile binaries. Old versions of gcc, X, gtk etc. The programs work fine on everything new. GCC/Gtk/QT all need to do a feature freeze for programs to work in all distros IMHO. I might suggest to also looking at the loki installer. It works on new and old Linux systems.
Been trying to get 3D to work all day on my sons computer. Ubuntu 5.10 fails at it. Prior to Ubuntu I had SuSE 9.1 installed on the box and the card (PCI TNT) worked with no problems.
Since when has any OS level upgrade process been successfull? None in my experience upgrading Windows, Mac, OS/2 SCO, NCR, Linux etc. IT shops buy new hardware, install the OS, and then move the config files over from the old. It easier and less prone to problems.
The machine requirements for the Windows 2000 server are much different than 2003. It's not realistic that a high end machine in 2000 is upgradable to Win 2003. Linux yes, Windows no.
Have you had a user-base test out OO yet? Do you know if there will be any user acceptance? If users don't accept your 'free roll-out' you will run into rampant pirating of MS licenses.
My 60+ year old parents have been using OOO since the.8xx version, they still haven't priated MS Office.
Remember, client apps are to make work smoother for users, not harder and frankly OO is not intuitive at all. My twelve year old with no IT experience used 00 2.0 last night for his english research paper. How dumb do you think users are?
Did this come up outside of a budget scope? Did you not plan out a budget for end-user applications? Or is this a knee-jerk reaction to feel cool when talking with other techies? Read the other posts in this thread, he works for a local government. He has a responsibility to the tax payers to use the most cost effective solution available. It really sounds like your the knee-jerk reactionary.
The poster may have a good reason for switching to C, but he should have explained it, because the difference between C and C++ is extremely relevant to his question! I agree with your post but when storage is minimal the CRT wins everytime over the C++ runtime. Nothing against C++. You do know you can OOP using C?
No one here can answer it without more information. Whats the target platform, Linux, WinCE, QNX? What type of data needs to be accessed? Whats the storage media, DOC, compact flash, hard disk?
You really can't expect to receive a practical answer without giving us more information.
Enjoy,
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This is a clear and cut case of Microsoft defending their trademark. Exactly the same thing that recently happened with the Linux trademark.
No, Microsoft Windows is a trademark. One court I believe already decided that Windows is a generic term, just like coke. Linux isn't a generic word yet. Why didn't Microsoft sue Spinnaker for creating Windows Works? Because the program wasn't called Microsoft Windows Works. What about Window Maker, Window Washer, Windows Cleaner, Windows Optimizer etc. The non-microsoft program list goes on.
I think Microsoft would have been better off just paying the guy for the rights to the name. They settled the Mike Rowe Soft incident pretty well.
Like I said, "It's worth a couple hundred more to get an decent machine, OS installed, with decent support." That goes for Linux, too. For most consumers, if they're confronted with buying:
A) a shoddy machine with no OS for $200
-or-
B) a decent-quality computer from a major vendor, installed with Linux, and with good support, for $500
which do you think they'd choose? It doesn't take a marketing genius.
Around here Mom and Pop stores are offering Linux pre-installed on the naked PCs. Its free and it doesn't really cost anything to install it (If the motherboard devices are supported). Ninety percent of the Windows support costs are due to Virus/Malware, not hardware. You just dont incur those support costs (as of now) with Linux or Macs.
Gartner and IDC report slightly different figures due to the different ways in which the companies record "white-box" shipments, or PCs sold by local distributors or resellers without a well-recognized brand name. These white-box vendors account for a larger share of the market in Gartner's results.
People are buying the naked PCs, there just seems to be some confusion on what they are installing on them. The general purpose PC has been around for ten years now, I think most people wouldn't have a problem installing an O/S if it did most of the work for them. Bonus if the O/S came from the Mom & Pop shop for free:)
OS/2 had a utility like this. It would scan your hardrive for known programs (It used a small signature table to match them) and create a Folder on the desktop with all the programs links in it. As a bonus, it optimized the shell settings for each program (Win 3.1, OS2, Win32, DOS etc).
I was thinking the other day (after manually creating menu options on my sons computer for all the windows/DOS games), that we could (should) do this under Linux. A perl script that runs after install scanning the drive for known to be working programs under WINE/DosBox/dosemu and create menu options for them based on thier $WM value (Gnome/KDE/XFCE whatever).
For instance, for Diablo, the installer should create under Menu -> Games -> Diablo with the command line option being "wine [diablo optimal settings]/windows/Program Files/Blizzard/Diablo/diablo.exe."
If you currently use OSS applications under Windows (Mozilla/IM whatever), you can just copy the data files and they will work. No translation neccessary.
History would prove you wrong. People were choosing Win3x and Win95 over Apple from the late 80's to the mid 90's. Apple still had all the features you mention while Windows just plain sucked. Why did they choose Windows?
When they migrated to that stupid CD/DRM scheme. Kids love Blizzard. I have kids. But they are not allowed to play with the originals. No backups, no purchase. I have all my original game media since 1979.
$400 worth of Blizzard games and I get from Blizzard support, 'You can't make a copy, but your allowed one backup'. Screw them, I'm not a re-occuring fee customer.
Anyone with small children cares about making backup copies of DVDs.
Ditto. I just sent Blizzard a nasty gram after learning I can't image Diablo2 for my 12 year old. They emailed me back stating that I could make one backup copy but no CD software will read the CD properly. I mean WTF? I emailed them back saying that I owned the box, license, and documents and that I would be dowloading a cracked ISO off the internet. I also informed them I would not be purchasing anymore games from them. We don't let the kids play from the orginal media.
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I assume the present version of SuSE hasn't gotten the most recent drivers yet. Ubuntu will work fine with a TNT card though if you install nvidia-glx-legacy and linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)-nvidia-legacy, then run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". I have a TNT2 M64 card and this works for me.
:)
Thanks,
That worked. I still had to go in and change X to use nvida vs nv before it worked.
This isn't Ubuntu's fault, nVidia decided to no longer support TNT cards in both its Windows and its Linux closed source drivers.
Not exactly. The Windows nvidia drivers work to spec (Win98/nt/xp etc.). The Linux drivers should work the same (2.4, 2.6 kernal drivers). It works under SuSE it should work under Ubuntu.
I'm not dissing Ubuntu, just getting used to it's method. So far so good. My son and are playing network bzflag, myth2, heroes3 etc.
My only problem now is that Ubuntu is loading all the bluetooth modules on a desktop machine with no bluetooth devices (wastes memory). That should be an easy problem to solve vs 3D
Thanks again,
Enjoy.
What do you expect....
From a company that claims your stealing from them when you buy a white-box (naked PC) computer. Even though you might be putting linux, OS/2, or a older version of Windows that you own on the box.
From a company you have to ask permission to install the software that you purchased.
That the software can disable itself once you change your computer seems to be of no big deal to people other than myself.
From a company who wants to install DRM to limit the DVD quality of your movies.
From a company who won't fix previous versions of thier software just so that you have to purchase something newer.
Enjoy,
We (my company) use a disk image from Redhat 6 to compile binaries. Old versions of gcc, X, gtk etc. The programs work fine on everything new. GCC/Gtk/QT all need to do a feature freeze for programs to work in all distros IMHO. I might suggest to also looking at the loki installer. It works on new and old Linux systems.
Enjoy,
Been trying to get 3D to work all day on my sons computer. Ubuntu 5.10 fails at it. Prior to Ubuntu I had SuSE 9.1 installed on the box and the card (PCI TNT) worked with no problems.
Food for thought,
Enjoy.
I wonder if the DoS is a windows only or Windows and Linux DoS.
It locks up mozilla under Linux. It doesn't crash, 100% cpu usage. strace shows it stuck in a mremap() loop.
Enjoy.
Good question. Better yet,
You should add....
Since when has any OS level upgrade process been successfull? None in my experience upgrading Windows, Mac, OS/2 SCO, NCR, Linux etc. IT shops buy new hardware, install the OS, and then move the config files over from the old. It easier and less prone to problems.
The machine requirements for the Windows 2000 server are much different than 2003. It's not realistic that a high end machine in 2000 is upgradable to Win 2003. Linux yes, Windows no.
Food for thought, enjoy.
This creates a level playing field. May the best suite win. In the words of the immortal MK3 announcer.
.... Fight.
MS Office, Star Office, Openoffice
Enjoy.
Have you had a user-base test out OO yet? Do you know if there will be any user acceptance? If users don't accept your 'free roll-out' you will run into rampant pirating of MS licenses.
.8xx version, they still haven't priated MS Office.
My 60+ year old parents have been using OOO since the
Remember, client apps are to make work smoother for users, not harder and frankly OO is not intuitive at all.
My twelve year old with no IT experience used 00 2.0 last night for his english research paper. How dumb do you think users are?
Did this come up outside of a budget scope? Did you not plan out a budget for end-user applications? Or is this a knee-jerk reaction to feel cool when talking with other techies?
Read the other posts in this thread, he works for a local government. He has a responsibility to the tax payers to use the most cost effective solution available. It really sounds like your the knee-jerk reactionary.
Are you a Microsoft employee or a MS VAR?
just curious,
Enjoy.
The poster may have a good reason for switching to C, but he should have explained it, because the difference between C and C++ is extremely relevant to his question!
I agree with your post but when storage is minimal the CRT wins everytime over the C++ runtime. Nothing against C++. You do know you can OOP using C?
Enjoy.
Moderators shouldn't moderate if they don't understand the topic. Parent is not offtopic.
Meta-Moderators do your job.
Enjoy.
No one here can answer it without more information. Whats the target platform, Linux, WinCE, QNX? What type of data needs to be accessed? Whats the storage media, DOC, compact flash, hard disk?
You really can't expect to receive a practical answer without giving us more information.
Enjoy,
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Sony contributions come under Soft Money. http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp1.as
2.5 Million isn't enough to get them off the hook though.
Enjoy.
Problem is, your congressman has an email address that ends with @sony.com.
Only in Japan does a congress critter get owned by Sony. Go browse opensecrets.org sometime.
http://www.opensecrets.org/
Enjoy.
Don't ask that question here. Ask your MP. I told my congress critter to either Drill ANWR or Sony, I don't care which :)
Enjoy,
Bar none, if you want to write something portable, Java is the language to use.
Then why does Sun choose C/C++ to write java?
Enjoy,
This is a clear and cut case of Microsoft defending their trademark. Exactly the same thing that recently happened with the Linux trademark.
o ms_1.html , the U.S. District Court thinks so.
No, Microsoft Windows is a trademark. One court I believe already decided that Windows is a generic term, just like coke. Linux isn't a generic word yet. Why didn't Microsoft sue Spinnaker for creating Windows Works? Because the program wasn't called Microsoft Windows Works. What about Window Maker, Window Washer, Windows Cleaner, Windows Optimizer etc. The non-microsoft program list goes on.
I think Microsoft would have been better off just paying the guy for the rights to the name. They settled the Mike Rowe Soft incident pretty well.
Is Windows generic? http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/11/HNblowt
Enjoy.
No, No, and No.
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:)
Like I said, "It's worth a couple hundred more to get an decent machine, OS installed, with decent support." That goes for Linux, too. For most consumers, if they're confronted with buying:
A) a shoddy machine with no OS for $200
-or-
B) a decent-quality computer from a major vendor, installed with Linux, and with good support, for $500
which do you think they'd choose? It doesn't take a marketing genius.
Around here Mom and Pop stores are offering Linux pre-installed on the naked PCs. Its free and it doesn't really cost anything to install it (If the motherboard devices are supported). Ninety percent of the Windows support costs are due to Virus/Malware, not hardware. You just dont incur those support costs (as of now) with Linux or Macs.
See URL here: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121858,
Gartner and IDC report slightly different figures due to the different ways in which the companies record "white-box" shipments, or PCs sold by local distributors or resellers without a well-recognized brand name. These white-box vendors account for a larger share of the market in Gartner's results.
People are buying the naked PCs, there just seems to be some confusion on what they are installing on them. The general purpose PC has been around for ten years now, I think most people wouldn't have a problem installing an O/S if it did most of the work for them. Bonus if the O/S came from the Mom & Pop shop for free
Enjoy,
Apple then vs. Apple now, the difference is night and day.
:)
No, more like...
Apple I (1980 first IPO),
Apple II (under Sculley).
Apple III (Now ).
Maybe now we will finally get to see the Apple IV
Enjoy,
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Sony&word2=Blizzard
Enjoy.
Dude, you got mis-modded. +2 Troll? I think the Microsoft moderators are in charge today.
Enjoy.
A few things they've come up with have been used (ClearType off the top of my head,
ClearType was re-invented by Microsoft. It was done first by Apple. Now what innovation has Microsoft shown?
http://grc.com/ctwho.htm Sub-Pixel Font Rendering
Enjoy,
OS/2 had a utility like this. It would scan your hardrive for known programs (It used a small signature table to match them) and create a Folder on the desktop with all the programs links in it. As a bonus, it optimized the shell settings for each program (Win 3.1, OS2, Win32, DOS etc).
/windows/Program Files/Blizzard/Diablo/diablo.exe."
I was thinking the other day (after manually creating menu options on my sons computer for all the windows/DOS games), that we could (should) do this under Linux. A perl script that runs after install scanning the drive for known to be working programs under WINE/DosBox/dosemu and create menu options for them based on thier $WM value (Gnome/KDE/XFCE whatever).
For instance, for Diablo, the installer should create under Menu -> Games -> Diablo with the command line option being "wine [diablo optimal settings]
If you currently use OSS applications under Windows (Mozilla/IM whatever), you can just copy the data files and they will work. No translation neccessary.
Enjoy,
History would prove you wrong. People were choosing Win3x and Win95 over Apple from the late 80's to the mid 90's. Apple still had all the features you mention while Windows just plain sucked. Why did they choose Windows?
n dows/story/0,10801,60253,00.html for two hundred dollars, slap Linux on it and have a boatload of applications. You can't do that with Apple (or Microsoft).
Because of cost. I can go out and buy a decent Naked PC http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/wi
Note that I own three Apple Macs and still prefer Linux.
Just my opinion, enjoy.
When they migrated to that stupid CD/DRM scheme. Kids love Blizzard. I have kids. But they are not allowed to play with the originals. No backups, no purchase. I have all my original game media since 1979.
$400 worth of Blizzard games and I get from Blizzard support, 'You can't make a copy, but your allowed one backup'. Screw them, I'm not a re-occuring fee customer.
End rant,
Enjoy.
Anyone with small children cares about making backup copies of DVDs.
Ditto. I just sent Blizzard a nasty gram after learning I can't image Diablo2 for my 12 year old. They emailed me back stating that I could make one backup copy but no CD software will read the CD properly. I mean WTF? I emailed them back saying that I owned the box, license, and documents and that I would be dowloading a cracked ISO off the internet. I also informed them I would not be purchasing anymore games from them. We don't let the kids play from the orginal media.
Enjoy,