It's "Voilà", with an grave accent. Accute accents on any other letter than 'e' don't exist in French (unlike, say, Spanish, where it is used to indicate tonal changes).
Why all this hype about Xen? Is there really a significant market for running multiple open source operating systems simultaneously on the same machine? Last time I checked, the greater majority of uses of a virtual machine is either running Windows on another OS, or running another OS under Windows... But maybe I'm missing something cool (and profitable) about this?
VMWare is NOT an emulator, it is a virtual machine. x86 instructions are run natively with some magic to fool the kernel into thinking it is having control of the CPU. Think Xen without the necessary kernel hacking.
The Windows version of Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtual machine, too, while the Mac version is, quite naturally, not a virtual machine but an actual hardware emulator since it runs a different target machine than the host. (Yes, they did give two completely different products the same name.)
Another virtual machine, but running on PPC instead, is Mac-On-Linux.
You missed the point. With this little hardware hack, the guy can actually load spc files directly on a REAL SNES SPU, instead of running them through an SNES SPU emulator. Now how cool is that?
What's with all this "Cell" bullshit? It's just a FREAKING VIDEOGAME CONSOLE. If this new space-age technology they're developping were as revolutionary has they are trying to make us believe it will be, they wouldn't waste on in a console system, at least not right away.
It's not a matter of lack of standards at all. Linux has had support for 5.1 surround sound for years now, as well as a pretty good high-level API for gaming-oriented positional audio, too (OpenAL, used in many games including all Unreal2 engine games under Linux).
It's really just id Software who's been slacking off, writing an half-assed sound backend (or, rather, using their shitty broken in-house backend for the fourth fucking time now) and saying "OK, it's good enough for release".
Sadly, one can say id has only further sank the cause of gaming under Linux with their shoddy DOOM III port. Mis-informed people like you saw the original release and said "WTF? No 5.1 sound? Linux still doesn't support THAT? Linux isn't worth shit for for games!". Not that I'm blaming you, as it really does make it seem that way.
I wish game producers like id would think more about that the next time they release a Linux port. In the end, an incomplete port (even if they fix it later) only hurts the state of Linux gaming.
I hope they'll get around to reconsider some parts of the LGPL too, especially the fact that its "lesser" aspect is worthless in embedded environments, or more specifically, systems where there are no dynamic linking facilities available. With the ever growing popularity of embedded systems, the LGPL is starting to show its age, as well as its inefficiency in resolving the problem it was designed to fix in the first place.
Right now, portable LGPL projects that target embedded environments are hurt by this. A good example is SDL. SDL can be used in a variety of systems, and its LGPL nature allows it to be used in commercial applications (ie. games), as long as the library is not statically linked. However, in embedded environments you simply cannot use SDL in commercial projects, since you can't dynamically link, hence you lose the "lesser" aspect of LGPL, meaning it becomes no more useful than the GPL. It's a recurring topic on the SDL mailing list, and unless the LGPL is revised there is not much solution to this issue.
That's just dumb. Open sourcing Solaris won't automagically make it more popular than Linux.
Besides, this is Sun we're talking about. I bet it won't be an OSI-approved license and therefore will only be considered open source "because Sun tells you it is" (familiar?).
Linux is strong because it's a worldwide community effort where both individuals and companies are welcome to participate.
Meanwhile, the open source Solaris will remain tightly controlled by Sun, and therefore will only go in the direction Sun wants it to (forks may happen, but their chances of survival are very low). Sun never really cared about the "community" and you can bet open sourcing Solaris won't change that.
> I agree that nForce is supported well on linux, but its mostly because the sound and ethernet are handled by opensoure projects now. The stupid AGP gart is another issue./me curses nVidia.
WTF are you talking about? There's a fully GPL driver for nvidia AGP in the kernel, and it's even made by nvidia themselves!!
Did it ever occur to you that DOOM III was (gasp!) NOT made to be a multiplayer game? Saying a SINGLE PLAYER FOCUSED GAME bombed because it ranks lower in the online ratings is just stupid.
For those of you saying "Linux certified with ATi hardware? yuck!", keep in mind this is a Radeon 9000, which is supported by the open source DRI drivers.
Personally I'd take nVidia over ATi any day, but I can understand their decision: they probably think it's for the best that their customers don't get a tainted kernel out of the box (hence potentially better tech support).
A friend of mine recently bought one of those middle-class Dell laptops with an GeForce FX Go 5200 64MB. Linux runs absolutely great on it. No ACPI problems, everything works, and, of course, video drivers that don't suck.
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a very interestingI'm pretty sure you need some extra commas in that last sentence, ie: "[...] you demonstrate that, as an asshole, you rival Mr. Goatse."
Shit, I think I created a grammatical loophole.
It's "Voilà", with an grave accent. Accute accents on any other letter than 'e' don't exist in French (unlike, say, Spanish, where it is used to indicate tonal changes).
Wait... you need BOTH hands free? Wow...
only old people play Indiana Jones.
Why all this hype about Xen? Is there really a significant market for running multiple open source operating systems simultaneously on the same machine? Last time I checked, the greater majority of uses of a virtual machine is either running Windows on another OS, or running another OS under Windows... But maybe I'm missing something cool (and profitable) about this?
VMWare is NOT an emulator, it is a virtual machine. x86 instructions are run natively with some magic to fool the kernel into thinking it is having control of the CPU. Think Xen without the necessary kernel hacking.
The Windows version of Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtual machine, too, while the Mac version is, quite naturally, not a virtual machine but an actual hardware emulator since it runs a different target machine than the host. (Yes, they did give two completely different products the same name.)
Another virtual machine, but running on PPC instead, is Mac-On-Linux.
You missed the point. With this little hardware hack, the guy can actually load spc files directly on a REAL SNES SPU, instead of running them through an SNES SPU emulator. Now how cool is that?
What's with all this "Cell" bullshit? It's just a FREAKING VIDEOGAME CONSOLE. If this new space-age technology they're developping were as revolutionary has they are trying to make us believe it will be, they wouldn't waste on in a console system, at least not right away.
It's not a matter of lack of standards at all. Linux has had support for 5.1 surround sound for years now, as well as a pretty good high-level API for gaming-oriented positional audio, too (OpenAL, used in many games including all Unreal2 engine games under Linux).
It's really just id Software who's been slacking off, writing an half-assed sound backend (or, rather, using their shitty broken in-house backend for the fourth fucking time now) and saying "OK, it's good enough for release".
Sadly, one can say id has only further sank the cause of gaming under Linux with their shoddy DOOM III port. Mis-informed people like you saw the original release and said "WTF? No 5.1 sound? Linux still doesn't support THAT? Linux isn't worth shit for for games!". Not that I'm blaming you, as it really does make it seem that way.
I wish game producers like id would think more about that the next time they release a Linux port. In the end, an incomplete port (even if they fix it later) only hurts the state of Linux gaming.
I hope they'll get around to reconsider some parts of the LGPL too, especially the fact that its "lesser" aspect is worthless in embedded environments, or more specifically, systems where there are no dynamic linking facilities available. With the ever growing popularity of embedded systems, the LGPL is starting to show its age, as well as its inefficiency in resolving the problem it was designed to fix in the first place.
Right now, portable LGPL projects that target embedded environments are hurt by this. A good example is SDL. SDL can be used in a variety of systems, and its LGPL nature allows it to be used in commercial applications (ie. games), as long as the library is not statically linked. However, in embedded environments you simply cannot use SDL in commercial projects, since you can't dynamically link, hence you lose the "lesser" aspect of LGPL, meaning it becomes no more useful than the GPL. It's a recurring topic on the SDL mailing list, and unless the LGPL is revised there is not much solution to this issue.
That's just dumb. Open sourcing Solaris won't automagically make it more popular than Linux.
Besides, this is Sun we're talking about. I bet it won't be an OSI-approved license and therefore will only be considered open source "because Sun tells you it is" (familiar?).
Linux is strong because it's a worldwide community effort where both individuals and companies are welcome to participate.
Meanwhile, the open source Solaris will remain tightly controlled by Sun, and therefore will only go in the direction Sun wants it to (forks may happen, but their chances of survival are very low). Sun never really cared about the "community" and you can bet open sourcing Solaris won't change that.
Who's "we" anyway? The entire Free Software community? Please don't include me in, you fucking stallmanist zealot.
> I agree that nForce is supported well on linux, but its mostly because the sound and ethernet are handled by opensoure projects now. The stupid AGP gart is another issue. /me curses nVidia.
WTF are you talking about? There's a fully GPL driver for nvidia AGP in the kernel, and it's even made by nvidia themselves!!
I want to learn how to build my very own Cybertron!
Shouldn't they call it Solaris X ?
Did it ever occur to you that DOOM III was (gasp!) NOT made to be a multiplayer game? Saying a SINGLE PLAYER FOCUSED GAME bombed because it ranks lower in the online ratings is just stupid.
For those of you saying "Linux certified with ATi hardware? yuck!", keep in mind this is a Radeon 9000, which is supported by the open source DRI drivers.
Personally I'd take nVidia over ATi any day, but I can understand their decision: they probably think it's for the best that their customers don't get a tainted kernel out of the box (hence potentially better tech support).
A friend of mine recently bought one of those middle-class Dell laptops with an GeForce FX Go 5200 64MB. Linux runs absolutely great on it. No ACPI problems, everything works, and, of course, video drivers that don't suck.
Now will you fucking update Acrobat Reader already ?!! And please, no more fucking Motif. We're not in the 80s anymore.
(And to all of you people saying "use xpdf or ghostview", shut up. Both are worthless for any serious PDF viewing.)
Nice essay. Where did you copy/pasted it from?
You missed the point: in KDE _every_ application has access to those protocols, not just the file manager.
...yet.
I never run artsd in the first place.