But the market isn't out there right now for this. Plus that would never happen because Transgaiming deals with cedega which takes directx information and converts it to opengl that way you can play it in Linux. They would never be asked to make binaries. But that isn't the point. The point is as long as companies are using technology like directx to make their games. They will not have an easy way to create native Linux binaries. But companies that embrace opengl like ID software does. Will never have the need or want to make native binaries.
Well already I have about 75% of my windows games working with transgaiming cedega. But I do not see many more game developers moving over to a Linux native option. They see it costing them to much money because most of them use the directx platform. Although I here Microsoft doesn't support direct play any more. But I doubt this will discourage them.
I work at a university in the IT department, and I see that the majority of users are not competent enough to be their own local root. You would be amazed at the kinds of things that they do to their system. 75%+ of problems with systems on campus are user created errors from either improper management of the system or lack of update practices by the user.
As a software developer I can see some very negative implications of this. For example some one could patent the idea of creating a an application that is a new way of receiving and sending e-mail messages between applications. Now think of this, this so called application could not even be written but it still is locked down by a patent. Now an developer comes along and thinks of a similar idea that fits under the same patten. He can not write the software at all. Under the current system he would be able to write the system as long as he does not use the same code. With the patten idea he could write this application totally different using his own ideas and still be violating patent infringement.
Well the G4s where not originally intended to be used for cluster computing. They where originally desktops for the past year or so. We got replacement systems for them so it was either we could surplus them or we could use them. We do not have the funding to buy systems just for this project so we just use the left overs.
This kind of funding I wish my school had. We are going to build a cluster system out of about 20 G4's running yellow dog Linux. But this is my chance to actually do cluster programing.
The funny thing is with the class we are actually trying to figure out things to compile, besides bootstrapping our Linux laptops. =P Man we are geeks.
We did this at the university that I work for. We separated the faculty LAN from the student LAN because. Viruses where reeking havoc on the LAN as a whole. This worked and it restored some since of control over the network. But a VLAN still can be broken into from the outside. The only way to prevent this would to make that LAN completely separate from the outside WAN. Like our network testing lab is.
Now my university has dumped the VLAN and using control by port by port. we have student ports which basically have no or extremal limited access to anything but port 80. Then we have the faculty ports which basically have full access. We can control system updates on faculty computers but we can not on student systems so this is necessary.
Lets see here is a brief list of some of the main software that I saw on that page. You can find information on those peaces of software at these sites.
The I talk to the so called average joe every day on the phone when they call tech support. Most don't know what Internet explorer is. I have to explain to them where the start bar is and help them find the blue E...
Your also running a macs version of mozilla & firefox that could have something to do with it. Also your versions could have something to do whith it too. What versions are you running? As I said in my post I was running firefox 0.9.3 on Debian/gnu when I ran the tests. I don't see why your acting like im an idiot. I said nothing about OSX..
It's tempting to suggest that this is a MS Windows-issue, NOT a browser issue.
I tested all of the tests on Firefox 0.9.3 in Linux and the first 2 mozilla tests killed firefox the 3ed one did not do anything but the java console picked up this error when I went back and looked.
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property Window.sf
How is this a problem all of that works in firefox on windows and on linux. In linux you have to have mplayer plugin for windows media. The only factor I see is incorrectly programed sites that are developed for IE and not following wc3 standards. All my sites that I have ever been to all render better in firefox than in IE.
I like this idea its one way of geting firefoxe's name out there. They are probibly going to have it where if you give over a certan donation amount you get on the page or hey they may use the names as a background or pattern on the ad & or logo.
I fell like an idiot, having the possibility of a buffer over flow exploit is not a bad thing. This should be fixed and I think it will be fixed. I thought that it was not going that far to create an over flow. Now that I have done some testing of my own. The mozilla_crash2.html seams to be definitely causing an overflow.
If that is the real code he used to test his crash theory it in no way worked. The first one just showed an input box. The browser was running fine. The second one did nothing. I think this may be a stretching of the Truth post.
Why dident he post the code he ran to do his tests so others can verifi.
I ran the tests on firefox 0.9.3 in Debian/GNU.
Yes this is one thing that I have disliked about IE over the years people write their sites for IE instead of following standards placed bu W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) So because people have been ignoring standards so has IE. That is why IE is years behind when it comes to standards support.
This troubled me when I took web mastery in college and saw every one writing their sites for IE and no one testing for standards. I confronted my teacher about it. Explained my case and he gave us 10% extra credit if we made all of our sites for the semester standards complaint.
My point is a browser that runs bad HTML code implies bad programing methods.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. This just means that IE does not catch some of the malformed code people use to cause havoc on the net. Malformed java script and html can be known to automatically download things like adware via security holes. How is it a bad thing when other browsers refuses to read that code. Isn't that a good thing?
A good example is a compiler most compilers catch overflows and don't allow you to finish compiling. From what I am reading her this is IE allows errors like this to keep on running. To me this is a very very bad thing.
You cant write to NTFS but you can read and backup to the net.
Knoptix is one of the many tools we use at my schools help desk to recover files off of a corrupted install either windows or Linux installs. I have found it myself usefully when bash got corrupted on my Debian system. It has made it a ease to move files over to an external source when having to back up after a system crash. I have saved a good amount of peoples data through this method.
Well the XBOX is basically a PC so this does not seam improvable since they are using an emulator that I have used to load OSX on my Linux box. Their is one problem withe pear PC it is extremal slow and OSX will not run like it should on its native hardware. The only reason I use pearpc is to test my web applications on mac.
[quote]Yes, i'm sure there are some simple sites that can be pulled off with CSS and look pretty much the same but honestly, when you reduce your site to this level, they ALLL look alike:[/quote]
I have been using css for 2 years and you can do a great deal with it. This is my site. www.brianhursey.com As you can see you can pull a great deal of stuff off with css. The only problem is browsers like IE almost refuse to support standards so you are limited in you choices of css usage. But sites like http://www.alistapart.com/ have some interesting ways of getting around some of IE's problems. The most problems I have had are the float div box positioning.
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But the market isn't out there right now for this. Plus that would never happen because Transgaiming deals with cedega which takes directx information and converts it to opengl that way you can play it in Linux. They would never be asked to make binaries. But that isn't the point. The point is as long as companies are using technology like directx to make their games. They will not have an easy way to create native Linux binaries. But companies that embrace opengl like ID software does. Will never have the need or want to make native binaries.
Why pay when you can use cvscedega? http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/arti cle.php?articleid=45
Well already I have about 75% of my windows games working with transgaiming cedega. But I do not see many more game developers moving over to a Linux native option. They see it costing them to much money because most of them use the directx platform. Although I here Microsoft doesn't support direct play any more. But I doubt this will discourage them.
Normal user software will get no improvement of cpu speed like this.. They day to day computer user would seek not benefit of something this fast.
True we have found limits to materials hence we need to think out of the box and find new materials.
I work at a university in the IT department, and I see that the majority of users are not competent enough to be their own local root. You would be amazed at the kinds of things that they do to their system. 75%+ of problems with systems on campus are user created errors from either improper management of the system or lack of update practices by the user.
As a software developer I can see some very negative implications of this. For example some one could patent the idea of creating a an application that is a new way of receiving and sending e-mail messages between applications. Now think of this, this so called application could not even be written but it still is locked down by a patent. Now an developer comes along and thinks of a similar idea that fits under the same patten. He can not write the software at all. Under the current system he would be able to write the system as long as he does not use the same code. With the patten idea he could write this application totally different using his own ideas and still be violating patent infringement.
Well the G4s where not originally intended to be used for cluster computing. They where originally desktops for the past year or so. We got replacement systems for them so it was either we could surplus them or we could use them. We do not have the funding to buy systems just for this project so we just use the left overs.
This kind of funding I wish my school had. We are going to build a cluster system out of about 20 G4's running yellow dog Linux. But this is my chance to actually do cluster programing.
The funny thing is with the class we are actually trying to figure out things to compile, besides bootstrapping our Linux laptops. =P Man we are geeks.
We did this at the university that I work for. We separated the faculty LAN from the student LAN because. Viruses where reeking havoc on the LAN as a whole. This worked and it restored some since of control over the network. But a VLAN still can be broken into from the outside. The only way to prevent this would to make that LAN completely separate from the outside WAN. Like our network testing lab is.
Now my university has dumped the VLAN and using control by port by port. we have student ports which basically have no or extremal limited access to anything but port 80. Then we have the faculty ports which basically have full access. We can control system updates on faculty computers but we can not on student systems so this is necessary.
Hey, come on we are not that dangerous with soldering Irons I have only burned my self 4 times in the last month. =)
Now on topic: This looks like a verry interesting idea and when i get my pcmcia adapter I may do this.
Lets see here is a brief list of some of the main software that I saw on that page. You can find information on those peaces of software at these sites.
e leases/ l inux/prof/yast.html
Enlightenment Project: http://enlightenment.org/pages/main.html
Evolution: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
Gnome 2.8:http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/
KDE 3.3:http://www.kde.org/
Thunderbird 0.8:http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/r
XPDE 5.1:http://www.xpde.com/
YaST:http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_
The I talk to the so called average joe every day on the phone when they call tech support. Most don't know what Internet explorer is. I have to explain to them where the start bar is and help them find the blue E...
So I agree with Colin.
Your also running a macs version of mozilla & firefox that could have something to do with it. Also your versions could have something to do whith it too. What versions are you running? As I said in my post I was running firefox 0.9.3 on Debian/gnu when I ran the tests. I don't see why your acting like im an idiot. I said nothing about OSX..
It's tempting to suggest that this is a MS Windows-issue, NOT a browser issue.
I tested all of the tests on Firefox 0.9.3 in Linux and the first 2 mozilla tests killed firefox the 3ed one did not do anything but the java console picked up this error when I went back and looked.
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property Window.sf
How is this a problem all of that works in firefox on windows and on linux. In linux you have to have mplayer plugin for windows media. The only factor I see is incorrectly programed sites that are developed for IE and not following wc3 standards. All my sites that I have ever been to all render better in firefox than in IE.
I like this idea its one way of geting firefoxe's name out there. They are probibly going to have it where if you give over a certan donation amount you get on the page or hey they may use the names as a background or pattern on the ad & or logo.
Anyway they do it I like the idea.
I fell like an idiot, having the possibility of a buffer over flow exploit is not a bad thing. This should be fixed and I think it will be fixed. I thought that it was not going that far to create an over flow. Now that I have done some testing of my own. The mozilla_crash2.html seams to be definitely causing an overflow.
The part of the malformed code that seamed to be throwing the error in mozilla_die1.html seams to be the in the
On mozilla_die2.html just seams to be a buffer over flow.
All other tests ran fine including mozilla_die3.html in firefox 0.9.3.
If that is the real code he used to test his crash theory it in no way worked. The first one just showed an input box. The browser was running fine. The second one did nothing. I think this may be a stretching of the Truth post. Why dident he post the code he ran to do his tests so others can verifi. I ran the tests on firefox 0.9.3 in Debian/GNU.
Yes this is one thing that I have disliked about IE over the years people write their sites for IE instead of following standards placed bu W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) So because people have been ignoring standards so has IE. That is why IE is years behind when it comes to standards support.
This troubled me when I took web mastery in college and saw every one writing their sites for IE and no one testing for standards. I confronted my teacher about it. Explained my case and he gave us 10% extra credit if we made all of our sites for the semester standards complaint.
My point is a browser that runs bad HTML code implies bad programing methods.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. This just means that IE does not catch some of the malformed code people use to cause havoc on the net. Malformed java script and html can be known to automatically download things like adware via security holes. How is it a bad thing when other browsers refuses to read that code. Isn't that a good thing? A good example is a compiler most compilers catch overflows and don't allow you to finish compiling. From what I am reading her this is IE allows errors like this to keep on running. To me this is a very very bad thing.
You cant write to NTFS but you can read and backup to the net. Knoptix is one of the many tools we use at my schools help desk to recover files off of a corrupted install either windows or Linux installs. I have found it myself usefully when bash got corrupted on my Debian system. It has made it a ease to move files over to an external source when having to back up after a system crash. I have saved a good amount of peoples data through this method.
Well the XBOX is basically a PC so this does not seam improvable since they are using an emulator that I have used to load OSX on my Linux box. Their is one problem withe pear PC it is extremal slow and OSX will not run like it should on its native hardware. The only reason I use pearpc is to test my web applications on mac.
[quote]Yes, i'm sure there are some simple sites that can be pulled off with CSS and look pretty much the same but honestly, when you reduce your site to this level, they ALLL look alike:[/quote]
I have been using css for 2 years and you can do a great deal with it. This is my site. www.brianhursey.com As you can see you can pull a great deal of stuff off with css. The only problem is browsers like IE almost refuse to support standards so you are limited in you choices of css usage. But sites like http://www.alistapart.com/ have some interesting ways of getting around some of IE's problems. The most problems I have had are the float div box positioning.