Yeah, very trolly indeed... not. Linux = x86 Linux for so many that people really forget that if we're bound to x86 Linux we just have a free-as-in-beer Windows, not something truly free where we can choose our hardware. Like eg., GOSH, a x86-64 computer, but more to the point PowerPC-based computers, SPARC etc. were even chroot stuff cannot be done. But, suit yourself, the fact is that even a native x86 binary is nothing "new". It's nice for some, and might get more people to use Linux, but that's it.
A good question is: Which does more good to our freedoms, a person using OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument formats in Windows, or a person using eg. Skype and Google Earth on x86 Linux? The first one can switch to eg. PPC Mac and use either Mac OS X or Linux or BSD there. The latter person has to stay with x86, and if eg. the vendor support for x86 Linux stops, he has to move to (probably) Windows.
Intel does not allow its cards' firmware to be freely (as in beer) distributed, so it should not be supported even though the drivers itself are nice. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818
You mean, "with Linux (x86)"? Hacks are not the solution in the long term. We need open drivers, and at least freely distributable firmware files (if not open ones because of regulation).
Of the 802.11g hardware (pci/usb/pcmcia), Symbol, Zydas and Atmel allow firmware distribution with okay terms, people should support them. Also, Ralink, Atheros and Realtek have cards that do not require the firmware to be distributed. Intel, TI, Conexant and Broadcom should be boycotted for their stupid policies of not allowing eg. Linux distributions or BSDs to distribute the firmware files without specific agreement (which they can choose not to make). Yes, even Intel though it has nice drivers otherwise.
Driver situation varies, but as pointed out eg. RT2500-based cards (see http://ralink.rapla.net/) are a good choice, as are probably Atheros-based cards (madwifi) and Atmel-based cards. Zydas drivers, even though GPL, have been unstable for long, even though there are both a manufacturer-provided GPL driver and a community-supported one - the co-operation just hasn't been fluent until perhaps now.
And it has to be remembered, that even the freely distributable firmware file is not currently the optimal solution, because it's a binary blob with no source and there are no rights to modify it. But perhaps we just have to live with a few "restricted" blobs (like the terminology in Ubuntu) when it comes to the hardware firmwares - our graphics cards also have closed firmwares etc. At least a device firmware is a lesser threat to freedom than closed drivers like the binary graphics drivers.
Luckily there's also one free software "skype-like" VoIP in development - http://www.openwengo.com/ (GPL). For video features, there's always GnomeMeeting, though it's more for businesses than for the average Joe because there's no centralized "address book" except for Seconix. And Gaim 2.0 should support Google Talk protocol, together with some webcam support for various protocols.
Hmm, dual-booting is seemingly quite popular but is it really that popular? I don't have any version of Windows anymore, I'm buying Linux games and would never buy a Windows game for even emulated usage. It's just a similar choice of gaming platform as between Windows, X-Box, PS2, Gamecube or ever N-Gage. My choice is Linux, and I'm happy with the (commercial) games I have. Doom 3 will be the next one I'm interested in.
I understand that people migrating from Windows are often dual-booting, and I did it myself earlier. However, I always had the intention to dump Windows and move all the content and files to Linux "when I have time". I guess the number of "pure" Linux (or other non-Windows systems) users is growing all the time.
It takes unfortunately some effort to find out a comparable solution in Linux for every proprietary/closed thing Windows had, but in the end the solutions in Linux were almost constantly better and the end result is great.
I used GEOS with a 10MHz 286 + EGA display (640x350 w/ 16 colors), and it was amazing. It was even more amazing since it took probably at least 5 years before there was any Windows version that would work as well and snappy (in all situations) as GEOS did on a 10-100x slower computer. Of course it was just the "feeling", but shows that how much more usable alternatives there could have been.
And when I occassionally have to use WinXP nowadays, I just wonder why I have to wait ages for Windows to do _something_ (as GUI hangs) when trying to open an FTP site, browsing Samba shares or as a special case here trying to open the Start-menu which loads some icons or something over the network...
I'm not very good in Japanese, but can understand enough words to see that that's not the point of the article. Maybe your language skills are a bit lacking?
According to this article (in Finnish) Sony Ericsson is going to give a statement on Tuesday. Possible vulnerable SE models include R520m, T68i, T610 and Z1010.
The English Wikipedia has reached 200k articles, which means an hour of rejoicing for our English-speaking fellows.
Most of wikipedia.org content is written in some other language, as there are now over 460k articles in wikipedia.org - 500k is not so far anymore.
NWN is the most interesting (native) Linux game I have currently. Most of the Linux ports of commercial games are first-person-shooters, like Unreal Tournament 2003, Quakes, the upcoming Doom 3 etc. Those that are not FPS, are often some of the other popular game types which I don't like that much, like real-time "strategy" games. Of course, it makes sense as with the small market of Linux games you have to aim for even some sales.
Anyway, I've had lots of fun with my friends playing the crpg Neverwinter Nights, and its expansion packs.. it's hilarious and satisfying to play with adequately different characters, and the fun-factor improves by using e.g. TeamSpeak (a voice communication software, Linux and Windows clients available) to chat with the friends while playing. But, I'm not sure if your graphic card is enough.. a more accurate model of that NVIDIA card would be good to know. Anything >=Geforce2 should be passable for NWN.
Please do not mistake, most of those are not Windows games, but Windows/Linux games (native Linux binary available). The installers are mainly because of the difficult default installation procedure of some of those.
Some installers are probably using Wine, but at least Unreal, Unreal Tournament 2003, Neverwinter Night (and SoU), Soul Ride and I think MoH:AA are native Linux games, maybe some more.
For example, NWN has no own installer at all on the CDs and the data files are in some Windows packaging format, so that either Ravage's installer has to be used (and then get the newest Linux binaries from Bioware's site) or a 1.2GB (!) resources files has to be downloaded... I do hope that Linux ports get more attention in the future. I'm thoroughly satisfied with any (working) native port of a game, but they might not get the audience they deserve if they're not easy to install for Linux newbies (a growing bunch).
Actually, you are using an old version of mplayer. Newer mplayer versions (eg. 1.0pre1) use ffmpeg's own svq3-codec instead of relying on the windows dll. The problem is with this new codec which apparently crashes with this particular.mov (though the problem isn't there with the official trailer at Apple's site).
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Yeah, very trolly indeed... not. Linux = x86 Linux for so many that people really forget that if we're bound to x86 Linux we just have a free-as-in-beer Windows, not something truly free where we can choose our hardware. Like eg., GOSH, a x86-64 computer, but more to the point PowerPC-based computers, SPARC etc. were even chroot stuff cannot be done. But, suit yourself, the fact is that even a native x86 binary is nothing "new". It's nice for some, and might get more people to use Linux, but that's it. A good question is: Which does more good to our freedoms, a person using OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument formats in Windows, or a person using eg. Skype and Google Earth on x86 Linux? The first one can switch to eg. PPC Mac and use either Mac OS X or Linux or BSD there. The latter person has to stay with x86, and if eg. the vendor support for x86 Linux stops, he has to move to (probably) Windows.
Intel does not allow its cards' firmware to be freely (as in beer) distributed, so it should not be supported even though the drivers itself are nice. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818
You mean, "with Linux (x86)"? Hacks are not the solution in the long term. We need open drivers, and at least freely distributable firmware files (if not open ones because of regulation).
Of the 802.11g hardware (pci/usb/pcmcia), Symbol, Zydas and Atmel allow firmware distribution with okay terms, people should support them. Also, Ralink, Atheros and Realtek have cards that do not require the firmware to be distributed. Intel, TI, Conexant and Broadcom should be boycotted for their stupid policies of not allowing eg. Linux distributions or BSDs to distribute the firmware files without specific agreement (which they can choose not to make). Yes, even Intel though it has nice drivers otherwise.
Driver situation varies, but as pointed out eg. RT2500-based cards (see http://ralink.rapla.net/) are a good choice, as are probably Atheros-based cards (madwifi) and Atmel-based cards. Zydas drivers, even though GPL, have been unstable for long, even though there are both a manufacturer-provided GPL driver and a community-supported one - the co-operation just hasn't been fluent until perhaps now.
And it has to be remembered, that even the freely distributable firmware file is not currently the optimal solution, because it's a binary blob with no source and there are no rights to modify it. But perhaps we just have to live with a few "restricted" blobs (like the terminology in Ubuntu) when it comes to the hardware firmwares - our graphics cards also have closed firmwares etc. At least a device firmware is a lesser threat to freedom than closed drivers like the binary graphics drivers.
Luckily there's also one free software "skype-like" VoIP in development - http://www.openwengo.com/ (GPL). For video features, there's always GnomeMeeting, though it's more for businesses than for the average Joe because there's no centralized "address book" except for Seconix. And Gaim 2.0 should support Google Talk protocol, together with some webcam support for various protocols.
Hmm, dual-booting is seemingly quite popular but is it really that popular? I don't have any version of Windows anymore, I'm buying Linux games and would never buy a Windows game for even emulated usage. It's just a similar choice of gaming platform as between Windows, X-Box, PS2, Gamecube or ever N-Gage. My choice is Linux, and I'm happy with the (commercial) games I have. Doom 3 will be the next one I'm interested in. I understand that people migrating from Windows are often dual-booting, and I did it myself earlier. However, I always had the intention to dump Windows and move all the content and files to Linux "when I have time". I guess the number of "pure" Linux (or other non-Windows systems) users is growing all the time. It takes unfortunately some effort to find out a comparable solution in Linux for every proprietary/closed thing Windows had, but in the end the solutions in Linux were almost constantly better and the end result is great.
I used GEOS with a 10MHz 286 + EGA display (640x350 w/ 16 colors), and it was amazing. It was even more amazing since it took probably at least 5 years before there was any Windows version that would work as well and snappy (in all situations) as GEOS did on a 10-100x slower computer. Of course it was just the "feeling", but shows that how much more usable alternatives there could have been. And when I occassionally have to use WinXP nowadays, I just wonder why I have to wait ages for Windows to do _something_ (as GUI hangs) when trying to open an FTP site, browsing Samba shares or as a special case here trying to open the Start-menu which loads some icons or something over the network...
I'm not very good in Japanese, but can understand enough words to see that that's not the point of the article. Maybe your language skills are a bit lacking?
According to this article (in Finnish) Sony Ericsson is going to give a statement on Tuesday. Possible vulnerable SE models include R520m, T68i, T610 and Z1010.
The English Wikipedia has reached 200k articles, which means an hour of rejoicing for our English-speaking fellows. Most of wikipedia.org content is written in some other language, as there are now over 460k articles in wikipedia.org - 500k is not so far anymore.
NWN is the most interesting (native) Linux game I have currently. Most of the Linux ports of commercial games are first-person-shooters, like Unreal Tournament 2003, Quakes, the upcoming Doom 3 etc. Those that are not FPS, are often some of the other popular game types which I don't like that much, like real-time "strategy" games. Of course, it makes sense as with the small market of Linux games you have to aim for even some sales.
Anyway, I've had lots of fun with my friends playing the crpg Neverwinter Nights, and its expansion packs.. it's hilarious and satisfying to play with adequately different characters, and the fun-factor improves by using e.g. TeamSpeak (a voice communication software, Linux and Windows clients available) to chat with the friends while playing. But, I'm not sure if your graphic card is enough.. a more accurate model of that NVIDIA card would be good to know. Anything >=Geforce2 should be passable for NWN.
Please do not mistake, most of those are not Windows games, but Windows/Linux games (native Linux binary available). The installers are mainly because of the difficult default installation procedure of some of those. Some installers are probably using Wine, but at least Unreal, Unreal Tournament 2003, Neverwinter Night (and SoU), Soul Ride and I think MoH:AA are native Linux games, maybe some more. For example, NWN has no own installer at all on the CDs and the data files are in some Windows packaging format, so that either Ravage's installer has to be used (and then get the newest Linux binaries from Bioware's site) or a 1.2GB (!) resources files has to be downloaded... I do hope that Linux ports get more attention in the future. I'm thoroughly satisfied with any (working) native port of a game, but they might not get the audience they deserve if they're not easy to install for Linux newbies (a growing bunch).
(after learning to read, it's lgpl)
So Havok has breached GPL! Is their defense that "the code shouldn't have gone public"?
Actually, you are using an old version of mplayer. Newer mplayer versions (eg. 1.0pre1) use ffmpeg's own svq3-codec instead of relying on the windows dll. The problem is with this new codec which apparently crashes with this particular .mov (though the problem isn't there with the official trailer at Apple's site).
As I'm quite positive I'll not get the 19MB version from the Danish site before the official site kicks in later today, I want to make sure no-one else gets it, either :)
http://www.sf-film.dk/sf/trailers/rotk/trailer/ROT K_trailer_large.mov
266.17B/s, whee.