If the developers are still employed making new games, the old games being available for free hurts them because it gives people an alternative to buying the new game. It hurts the game vendors the same way.
It also makes it harder for competitors to sell new games. Under things the way they stand now, 'abandonware' should cease to exist, because if the software exists, there is an interested body who will want to buy it, and either distribute it or bury it so they can sell their game to you instead.
And 'abandonware' assumptions destroy the market for those games we can all buy for $5-10 on the 'bare jewel case' rack at stores. This hurts the game itself, because it means there's no 'official' distribution, just people passing around random old copies.
So this could enable a business to be built on mame cabinets. Before this business opened, there was a liability issue for a commercial vendor selling a system for which the actual game is a *mumble*mumble* thing.
The only people who seem to think they will be hurt are people who want the hobby to remain elite and underground. They can remain underground with their 'illegal' rom images. It won't be as 'leet as it is now, of course, when there are mail order cabinet kits commonly available.
I think that you'd be advised to be worried if your/usr/bin got nuked. But the assumption so many people make that their system is 'secured' because/usr/bin can't be broken into by someone without root access is overhyped as a 'security' measure./usr/bin can usually be spooled back off a CD. $HOME is the important stuff.
Yes, yes. We all backup our home directories twice an hour.
Well, maybe you are right. But I can configure 2.4.x with 'make xconfig' on the same system that won't let me configure 2.6.x with it.
I didn't know that it's always used QT. But am done ranting, I suppose. It just seems pointless to not use the most primative widgets for something as 'universal' as the Linux kernel.
It's not offtopic on a discussion of Linux on a Dead Badger, though. I've not heard where Qt has been ported to such a platform.
They broke useful functionality. Right now I'm mired in an xterm running 'make menuconfig' and I had to use control-right-click to make the text of the curses scripting big enough to read.
Did some KDE dandy infiltrate the kernel development group?
Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.
I should be able to run 'make xconfig' on a machine with the basic X setup from x.org, and plain xfree86 on it and it should run. It always has in the past. QT is a bloated pig. Are they going to fucking prepend 'k' on the front of the kernel source tarball next?
I wonder if he has any suggestions for me on cracking the password file on the Purdue University Sparc box I bought at auction that has Solaris on it? The drive is 'set aside' because I couldn't get into it, but I can plug it back into the machine as a second drive and mount it if I want.
Well, in a world where the linux kernel source is slowly being locked into proprietaryness, maybe alternatives like skinnable Windows need to be examined.
I refer to the fact that today I downloaded the 2.6 kernel source. When I tried 'make xconfig' to configure the kernel before a build, it came back at me with some bullshit about needing QT.
What The Fuck?
Why did they change the way 'make xconfig' worked with the 2.4 and earlier kernels? Why is the kernel config now bound up into a proprietary X Toolkit?
Probably you'd be best off first learning how to net boot from a conventional PC. When you have a boot server working for that, you'll be familiar with the tasks needed to Net Boot the Winterm.
It's always a good thing to know anyway. Slap a good ethernet card into an old Pentium box and have at it. You'll need to configure one of your other machines as a boot server.
There's something fascinating in net booting headless machines. A 'box' out there on your network, tethered to the network with a single cable, through which you communicate into it and through which it gets all storage. With only two connections to the rest of the world, the ethernet cable and the power cord. And with an iPod there would be even less, just the USB or 'FireWire' cord.
I posted my email address openly and unobfuscated on slashdot awhile ago, (in my 'settings', so it appeared on each comment)
The particular email address I posted is on a Unix server I only frequent occasionally. Now I find myself having to check in on the account every day or so. Lately when I load up pine in a shell to that box, there is anywhere from 2-5 MB of mail spooled up and waiting. It's gotten so that I have to check that mailbox every day or so to keep my mailspool there from being overflowed.
Thanks, whoever you are who spammed me. Hope you grow up someday.
I know that Tesla was instrumental in the development of Alternating Current power generation and distribution. And that his life sloped severely downhill after that.
There's even an 'evil antagonist' we can all hiss at: Thomas Edison. He also held a lot of patents! Boo hiss hiss!
I think many people would maintain there is nothing illegal about 'breaking a DRM scheme.'
It seems like somebody decided that enough Mac fans have infiltrated Slashdot and that it's time for them to come out of hiding and start Steve's Holy Fight. Or something. It just seems so astroturfy here these days whenever Apple comes up.
..to his cult-like admiration in the scientifiction fan and angry underachiving technician fields."
Face it. The first place I encountered books about Tesla was on the remainder tables at the bookstore. With the new-age drivel and public-domain editions of Shakespeare and Poe. (actually, not even the remainder tables, they were over on the next table with other junk-books self-published by Barnes and Noble)
Tesla is more likely to be revered by the most loose crackpots at a Science Fiction convention than he is at any mainstream Science gathering.
This comment will serve as a magnet for proof in evidence. There will be a handful of comments tacked to it about 'the conspiracy' and people flaming and ranting because Tesla was a visioniary, not somebody who slipped off the table of reason and degenerated into Science's Alestair Crowley.
PBS is just the place for this kind of program. Or the Discovery Channel, sandwiched in between shows on UFOs.
If there's a click-through licence agreement you could always make the effort to tweak your machine to bypass it.
On more than one occasion I've had a software CD packaged in the jewel case with a 'you agree by breaking this seal' sticker on it. I always slip the hinge on the jewel case instead.
Well, you can probably access the CPU over a serial console thorugh the USB or Firewire somehow. What would anybody want in a Linux system besides the BASH prompt??
My years as a 'tape mounting monkey' in the late 70's and early 80's were some of my happiest and most care-free.
As long as you keep the reels spinning and the daily journal gets out on schedule, etc. you don't have much to worry about. Punctuality is very, very important but there's a lot of downtime between the rushes.
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If the developers are still employed making new games, the old games being available for free hurts them because it gives people an alternative to buying the new game. It hurts the game vendors the same way.
It also makes it harder for competitors to sell new games. Under things the way they stand now, 'abandonware' should cease to exist, because if the software exists, there is an interested body who will want to buy it, and either distribute it or bury it so they can sell their game to you instead.
And 'abandonware' assumptions destroy the market for those games we can all buy for $5-10 on the 'bare jewel case' rack at stores. This hurts the game itself, because it means there's no 'official' distribution, just people passing around random old copies.
So this could enable a business to be built on mame cabinets. Before this business opened, there was a liability issue for a commercial vendor selling a system for which the actual game is a *mumble*mumble* thing.
The only people who seem to think they will be hurt are people who want the hobby to remain elite and underground. They can remain underground with their 'illegal' rom images. It won't be as 'leet as it is now, of course, when there are mail order cabinet kits commonly available.
I think that you'd be advised to be worried if your /usr/bin got nuked. But the assumption so many people make that their system is 'secured' because /usr/bin can't be broken into by someone without root access is overhyped as a 'security' measure. /usr/bin can usually be spooled back off a CD. $HOME is the important stuff.
Yes, yes. We all backup our home directories twice an hour.
Well, maybe you are right. But I can configure 2.4.x with 'make xconfig' on the same system that won't let me configure 2.6.x with it.
I didn't know that it's always used QT. But am done ranting, I suppose. It just seems pointless to not use the most primative widgets for something as 'universal' as the Linux kernel.
It's not offtopic on a discussion of Linux on a Dead Badger, though. I've not heard where Qt has been ported to such a platform.
They broke useful functionality. Right now I'm mired in an xterm running 'make menuconfig' and I had to use control-right-click to make the text of the curses scripting big enough to read.
Did some KDE dandy infiltrate the kernel development group?
Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.
I should be able to run 'make xconfig' on a machine with the basic X setup from x.org, and plain xfree86 on it and it should run. It always has in the past. QT is a bloated pig. Are they going to fucking prepend 'k' on the front of the kernel source tarball next?
Yes, and a worm is an entirely different thing than a virus.
Of course, many ignorant people these days just refer to anything bad that 'gets' on their computer due to malware as a 'virus.'
I wonder if he has any suggestions for me on cracking the password file on the Purdue University Sparc box I bought at auction that has Solaris on it? The drive is 'set aside' because I couldn't get into it, but I can plug it back into the machine as a second drive and mount it if I want.
Well, in a world where the linux kernel source is slowly being locked into proprietaryness, maybe alternatives like skinnable Windows need to be examined.
I refer to the fact that today I downloaded the 2.6 kernel source. When I tried 'make xconfig' to configure the kernel before a build, it came back at me with some bullshit about needing QT.
What The Fuck?
Why did they change the way 'make xconfig' worked with the 2.4 and earlier kernels? Why is the kernel config now bound up into a proprietary X Toolkit?
Is it fricking skinnable?
Probably you'd be best off first learning how to net boot from a conventional PC. When you have a boot server working for that, you'll be familiar with the tasks needed to Net Boot the Winterm.
It's always a good thing to know anyway. Slap a good ethernet card into an old Pentium box and have at it. You'll need to configure one of your other machines as a boot server.
What's wrong with net booting Linux on an iPod?
It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
There's something fascinating in net booting headless machines. A 'box' out there on your network, tethered to the network with a single cable, through which you communicate into it and through which it gets all storage. With only two connections to the rest of the world, the ethernet cable and the power cord. And with an iPod there would be even less, just the USB or 'FireWire' cord.
Dunno about this badger thing, though.
I don't think I'll need a top of the line video card to play this cool free game.
Thanks anyways.
I posted my email address openly and unobfuscated on slashdot awhile ago, (in my 'settings', so it appeared on each comment)
The particular email address I posted is on a Unix server I only frequent occasionally. Now I find myself having to check in on the account every day or so. Lately when I load up pine in a shell to that box, there is anywhere from 2-5 MB of mail spooled up and waiting. It's gotten so that I have to check that mailbox every day or so to keep my mailspool there from being overflowed.
Thanks, whoever you are who spammed me. Hope you grow up someday.
I know that Tesla was instrumental in the development of Alternating Current power generation and distribution. And that his life sloped severely downhill after that.
There's even an 'evil antagonist' we can all hiss at: Thomas Edison. He also held a lot of patents! Boo hiss hiss!
Oh, what a melodrama it all is!
Actually, I expected a loud FUD campaign from Apple to emerge within hours.
Which, it appears, has happened.
The fact that it's bundled with 'Bad News' about an Apple update release sorta 'shields' it's credibility some.
I think many people would maintain there is nothing illegal about 'breaking a DRM scheme.'
It seems like somebody decided that enough Mac fans have infiltrated Slashdot and that it's time for them to come out of hiding and start Steve's Holy Fight. Or something. It just seems so astroturfy here these days whenever Apple comes up.
So they used a modified FreeBSD kernel
Actually, they just put a new coat of makeup on the whore they already owned, NeXTstep.
They 'freshened her up' with a spritz of FreeBSD userland, yes. That's just fragrance, though.
Well, I am typing this on a Dell Optiplex that I paid 80 cents for. (average price. It was with 70 PII and PIII boxes bought in two skid lots for $40)
I can't imagine paying more than $15 for a computer anymore. WalMart is ripping us off.
..to his cult-like admiration in the scientifiction fan and angry underachiving technician fields."
Face it. The first place I encountered books about Tesla was on the remainder tables at the bookstore. With the new-age drivel and public-domain editions of Shakespeare and Poe. (actually, not even the remainder tables, they were over on the next table with other junk-books self-published by Barnes and Noble)
Tesla is more likely to be revered by the most loose crackpots at a Science Fiction convention than he is at any mainstream Science gathering.
This comment will serve as a magnet for proof in evidence. There will be a handful of comments tacked to it about 'the conspiracy' and people flaming and ranting because Tesla was a visioniary, not somebody who slipped off the table of reason and degenerated into Science's Alestair Crowley.
PBS is just the place for this kind of program. Or the Discovery Channel, sandwiched in between shows on UFOs.
If there's a click-through licence agreement you could always make the effort to tweak your machine to bypass it.
On more than one occasion I've had a software CD packaged in the jewel case with a 'you agree by breaking this seal' sticker on it. I always slip the hinge on the jewel case instead.
Steve Jobs will pull an 'X-box' and somehow disable it before iPodLinux can get very far.
He's, ummm, a control freak in case you hadn't noticed.
However, Backspace won't work until you can get vi up and running and figure out how to tweak your termcap.
Better start spinning and clicking now.
So you're saying that sales volume defines the merit of a product?
Weeelll, then. I hope you're enjoying your WalMart Windows box....
Well, you can probably access the CPU over a serial console thorugh the USB or Firewire somehow. What would anybody want in a Linux system besides the BASH prompt??
My years as a 'tape mounting monkey' in the late 70's and early 80's were some of my happiest and most care-free.
As long as you keep the reels spinning and the daily journal gets out on schedule, etc. you don't have much to worry about. Punctuality is very, very important but there's a lot of downtime between the rushes.