As a person who doesn't buy iPhone because of that fascist store idea, I must use the opportunity to tell RIM, Nokia, MS, Telecoms, whatever to stop photocopying app store.
It doesn't work that way. Simple as that. I am telling as a guy who went to Nokia's millions of dollars wasted Ovi store and got ashamed on behalf of them.
BTW, you know why Apple stores have started up at first place. I don't know if it is a fact or a very good theory but Apple stores have started because Apple computers were actually "becoming invisible" in all that PC laptop circus. As simply every non Apple computer runs Windows, what part of MS is getting lost in process? BTW that is a real effect, I saw some excellently designed, excellent feature set laptop completely becoming invisible when put near tens of other "put some blue led and make screen shine" laptop crap.
It would be understandable if the file in question was equivalent Windows version of USBMux which is basically iPod driver as far as I understand.
It has everything to be suspected by a heuristics scan. First of all, it got recently updated (that Palm thing), must be encyripted, added into startup, must have interesting system calls dealing with the DRM enabled device etc.
The file you mention sounds like ordinary DLL. For a second, I was actually happy that AVG finally has some real heuristics to have false suspicions:)
If you listen to current top 40, New Kids On The Block may sound somehow good to you. Trust me, tune into some top 40 radio/site, have patience for 1 hour and put that NKOB CD.
As I mention that, never run goodly coded MS-DOS antiviruses like F-Prot, TBAV under FreeDOS for nostalgic purposes. I don't remember any false positive of F-Prot for example. Remember the frequency of the users database updates. Like... Never? The stuff they were looking for weren't some lame Visual Studio gigantic code to. They were amazingly written ASM code which does amazing tricks to hide themselves thanks to the direct access of hardware. Now, a daily updated AV with millions of dollars in hand can easily detect part of World's number 1 music player as a trojan and we all say "Oh well, they fixed it..."
As long as it is closed source, non standards based, not published, governments, large companies will always treat it as potential risk.
It doesn't matter the Russian intentions. I already say if they bitch about it, they should setup a documented alternative, with open market and teach people and companies how to use it.
I believe anyone using anything other than completely documented, openly encrypted, archived XMPP protocol which is the standard for Internet2 presence for company, government communications should be fired and in fact, sued for possible data leakage.
Our passwords, account numbers wonders around in some third party server who has no obligation to keep them secret. I don't buy any of their 128bit claims, who the hell knows what happens inside their servers? Nobody. The "open source" you see are either using their official SDK or didn't bother and backward engineered their protocol claimed to be secure because of obscurity.
Basically, Skype is not PGP Fone or Jabber (XMPP). We should stop treating them as some standard and should stop creating monopolies ourselves. I am not a open source fanatic but when we speak about undocumented communication protocols which fools users as "secure", we should really draw a line. GSM, UMTS, SIPS and even POTS are the standards. Not some eBay subsidiary which eBay themselves doesn't know why they really bought it.
While I am not Russian, I am not American too so it makes easy to guess their specific issues. No, people aren't obliged to trust some third party company of a foreign country. If the protocol was open, there were completely open source clients and servers just like XMPP, we would have all the right to call them paranoid. Just imagine something. China has huge stocks of money in hand and basically they can buy anything they wish. What if China purchased Skype tomorrow? It is not even possible to think right? Would Slashdot submitters submit "Paranoid USA banned Skype from Govt. offices!" toned articles with free speech icon?
While speaking about paranoia, I don't believe any "true encryption" exists, at least payable by ordinary people. While I do use TLS/SSL in all my communications, if I was really communicating some "real" secrets, I would just have this mad idea that it would be breakable, somehow, somewhere if needed. I just picture my stupid ISP admin running Wireshark and set my mail program that way. Nothing more.
When Debian which (was) a very unique Linux politically includes some questionable framework even while completely clean alternative (some says better) exists just because of some "note" application, it makes me nuts. Just because of that reason, Debian completely lost my trust and their prestige in my eyes. Ubuntu is on same path too.
All those weirdo undisclosed agreements with dying companies, the companies interestingly hiring their trojans right after agreements, claiming their Linux is the only Linux which wouldn't have any issues with MS, the fact that once the benchmark of open, free, portable, clean code slowly getting infected by that trojan framework etc...
We know who these puppets are and they are actually clever, they enjoy a guaranteed future with jobs they were previously rejected. From what I read from their leaders blog, guy never leaves Redmond to begin with. He is also the only open source developer I know who had to moderate&lock down comments.
Why would I hate MS as OS X user? I just ignore them. I would even perhaps buy MS Office in future when there is a job it would fit better than Apple iWork I currently use. E.g. 10-15 guys working on same document etc. I just feel bad for the future of Linux and this massive conspiracy going on for years. They are going into core of the system itself and I noticed some state of art, popular GNU licensed software also getting infected by that framework.
Oh about that Kernel module, GPL licensed etc. How else you will get into Linux kernel? I am sure it is written professionally too but in my eyes, it is not different than MS keyboard&mouse drivers on OS X which are goodly written too. BTW, I keep hearing MS input devices are great. If some revolution happened while I wasn't around, where are the Linux support software of them, with source of course? They do provide OS X driver and obviously, they know how to write *nix software.
Being paranoid doesn't mean... Hell man, MS-DOS was based on Quick and Dirty OS which itself is a horrible thievery of CP/M. Some guy basically sits down, reads all the specs of CP/M and implements them in his own way, one by one.
It started World's largest software company which also happens to be a monopoly. Perhaps, that single thievery has set back IT industry 10-15 years based on their first, real OS namely OS/2 and Windows NT.
Windows GUI is also some kind of Mac OS clone but anyway, it is a matter of past now. They actually have agreement not to bring up that issue anymore you know.
People always think they "buy" software, movies, music. They don't actually buy the product, they buy the right to use them, watch the movie (in movie company terms) and listen to that particular piece. The physical thing is actually no more than a medium to carry it.
If source released in 5 years, we (and the win die hards) would have access to Windows XP source code now and thousands of "XP" versions would exist. In fact, they could easily fix quirks which MS would never fix and make Windows 7 something nobody would care about.
5 years is way too early. I mean I wish it was but the reality is really different.
Well, GNU wouldn't exist if a nutcase anarchist also happens to be a software genius decided to DO something and try to change future.
Why not speak about the issue he talks about instead? If (c) doesn't exist in 5 years, what will protect GNU licensed software and the freedom of people relying on it? What will stop Microsoft to copy and paste GNU software, "embrace and extend"? BTW; you aren't in Mono camp do you AC?
You found the magic formula. Whenever Stallman talks about something making sense, post some little story "proving" he is nuts. Really, go back to the days when GNU founded with that manifesto and try to do same thing. They will call you nuts. People who would call you nuts are riding their Mercedes cars to go to their high position jobs at Microsoft now, not being material of AC karma whores who seems to have an agenda of their own.
Funny thing is, even if Apple is ruled as monopolist, evil, servant of satan in future, nothing happens to Webkit.
Apple lawyer will simply instruct judge(s) to type http://www.webkit.org/ and remind them it is open source, even used by their most die-hard competitors in their products. We speak about 100M+ Nokia phones coming with Webkit based browser here.
So, morons are really morons comparing Safari to IE. Oh BTW, dying to have Safari under Linux/BSD? Install "Arora", it is the closest thing to Safari, Qt 4 based (as it comes with Webkit).
As you mention Gnome, they have recently chosen Webkit to be included as help browser since it fits perfectly to that environment too. Apple didn't choose KHTML and transformed it to Webkit for "fashion" reasons, it is also a guarantee for future.
Windows XP SP3 full install does install Flash 6, yes you read right, SIX and it was released in 2008 (or 2007?) while Flash 10 exists with possibly 2-3x better performance and impossible to compare compatibility. For example, you install XP SP2 CD and run SP3 full install as you should get rid of update circus. You got everything new except Flash. IE 6 is another matter, IE is not a backwards compatible thing since V7.
When asked for the reason, they claimed they did it for compatibility. That is a complete joke since you can say anything about flash but you can't claim anything regarding backwards compatibility. I actually tried viewing "Futuresplash" (version 1, even before Flash name) using Flash 10 and it worked.
The reason was? They couldn't update their competitors product (like Apple does) as they have their lame ass flash wannabe Silverlight. Basic as that. Apple on the other hand, maintains version 9 (recently 10) of Flash while they have no obligation to do it.
BTW, I was one of the mods modded you as funny but I thought I should really remind EU officials and Moz/Opera/Apple about the monster they are dealing with. Be very careful about version numbers.
Since when relying on a third party, closed, encrypted platform owned by an American company for communications is free speech?
As Skype etc. are common "household" names on the internet, we forget the security implications of using such solutions for business. As long as Skype is a closed, proprietary platform, I can agree with any governments (including USA) concerns about Skype.
Of course, if they claim a problem, they should provide a solution. For example, a trust of SIP providers, sponsoring open source SIP solutions, help open source applications to have Russian support. When they sound like "lets go back to copper", the entire point is gone.
Don't forget the telecom industry since the beginning is documented, open, standards based. For example, even in the cold war, Russian telecoms used SSN-7 standards documented by AT&T etc.
On other smart phone platforms, if your data is really precious and if you need more than average security, you install security solutions.
As my data is not that precious, I have just trialed commercial, easy to install security solutions like Kaspersky Mobile, F-Secure. Both has firewalls on socket and application level, heuristics, anti spam, remote locking and in Kaspersky'es case, even a "white hat rootkit" to track your phone after it has been stolen. I can easily say that they will be never possible on iPhone since Apple won't allow anything running in such deep level 24/7 and commercial security companies won't tell people how to crack their device to install or put any work in such EULA breaking application.
There are far more basic but real solutions like an application turning off Bluetooth after certain amount of time, tens of password vaults which all uses different systems (so hard to target) and especially J2ME apps which enjoys sandbox provided by Java naturally. They aren't possible too.
On the other hand, the solution making sense is also impossible with current policies. I mean "iPhone enterprise edition" which would allow such solutions from trusted Apple partners. If you have single more model of iPhone doing better things, entire iphone scheme is broken.
" Western culture isn't immune to these effects either (cf. high-profile financial advisors committing suicide in 2008-2009), but I understand that it's significantly more of an issue in Asia"
There is a huge difference between a very rich financial advisor losing all his money and clients, their trust and possibly going to jail committing suicide and a poor engineer committing suicide for sole reason of honor.
For some cultures, losing honor means losing the entire reason of living. For example, at a free time, look for the reason why burglary rate at Japan is so low. Not mafioso style, the ordinary house burglary. You will be really surprised.
While I don't agree that you should commit suicide for losing a protype of a paranoid American company, I try to understand.
It is not because of poor engineers suicide, Foxconn drove their partners mad by diminishing quality and their "me too" laptops based on the following The Inquirer article.
2 billion devices run J2ME, Java instantly became military standard when it got open sourced. Real is enjoying its kingdom on devices and Linux based appliances.
Being open didn't cost them anything, they earned.
I browsed scene.org a lot for Amiga demos but when I saw the x86/Windows demos requirements, I just said "DirectX is the true power of Microsoft on Desktop." The developers you see at scene.org aren`t your usual "Wizard" type people, if they use DirectX, they must have a real good reason. If Apple wants to become serious on gaming, they should speak with these people about the reasons about choosing directx and what could possibly replace it. I don`t say they should give up excellent OpenGL support. They should find a way to merge all those open technologies in some way. For example, they can ask them "Why don`t/wouldn`t you use SDL?"
Of course, one of the developers posting as AC (and scored 0, should be modded up) says they can code an OpenGL version for Linux if there is enough demand for it. See the last line of his comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1308661&cid=28763745
Promise not to laugh at people who uses commercial antivirus for actual security, OK? Also look up for the term "false positive".
A good antivirus would -of course- suspect a 4KB packed executable but it would first unpack it in memory, run heuristics and scan for common symbols, if not really sure, actually execute it in a locked down virtual machine watching its actions and finally, execute it perhaps flagging it as "suspicious". These happens just when you click an application in matter of miliseconds.
AVG since the beginning is a false positive monster.
As they will be lossy compressed, best way to watch a demo (especially Amiga ones) is running them actually, inside an emulator if possible.
Not just for a single demo of course, just in case anyone interested in classic demos on scene.org. Also virtually no bandwidth needed compared to 8mbit:)
Installing "directx end user runtime" from Microsoft downloads could do the trick, no guarantees though. I noticed it install some older directx apis. I definitely recommend it except the pirated windows since it is "genuine advantage" thing.
I keep mentioning 5800 and Blackberry (Storm?) since they are touch based, the game or app could have same concept on them. Blackberry also opens the truly gigantic J2ME market option to some extent.
For example, World`s number 1 Mobile browser is Opera Mini right now which is a truly goodly coded J2ME application using "client-server" method and nothing else. It also de-validates the common FUD that there should be 100 different J2ME apps. No, it has a single version and one with less features for basic phones.
Web based game is another chance which keeps getting missed since all Nokia devices run a Webkit based browser. I am sure it is just matter of time for a Webkit based Windows Mobile browser too.
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As a person who doesn't buy iPhone because of that fascist store idea, I must use the opportunity to tell RIM, Nokia, MS, Telecoms, whatever to stop photocopying app store.
It doesn't work that way. Simple as that. I am telling as a guy who went to Nokia's millions of dollars wasted Ovi store and got ashamed on behalf of them.
BTW, you know why Apple stores have started up at first place. I don't know if it is a fact or a very good theory but Apple stores have started because Apple computers were actually "becoming invisible" in all that PC laptop circus. As simply every non Apple computer runs Windows, what part of MS is getting lost in process? BTW that is a real effect, I saw some excellently designed, excellent feature set laptop completely becoming invisible when put near tens of other "put some blue led and make screen shine" laptop crap.
It would be understandable if the file in question was equivalent Windows version of USBMux which is basically iPod driver as far as I understand.
It has everything to be suspected by a heuristics scan. First of all, it got recently updated (that Palm thing), must be encyripted, added into startup, must have interesting system calls dealing with the DRM enabled device etc.
The file you mention sounds like ordinary DLL. For a second, I was actually happy that AVG finally has some real heuristics to have false suspicions :)
If you listen to current top 40, New Kids On The Block may sound somehow good to you. Trust me, tune into some top 40 radio/site, have patience for 1 hour and put that NKOB CD.
As I mention that, never run goodly coded MS-DOS antiviruses like F-Prot, TBAV under FreeDOS for nostalgic purposes. I don't remember any false positive of F-Prot for example. Remember the frequency of the users database updates. Like... Never? The stuff they were looking for weren't some lame Visual Studio gigantic code to. They were amazingly written ASM code which does amazing tricks to hide themselves thanks to the direct access of hardware. Now, a daily updated AV with millions of dollars in hand can easily detect part of World's number 1 music player as a trojan and we all say "Oh well, they fixed it..."
Not well, really...
As long as it is closed source, non standards based, not published, governments, large companies will always treat it as potential risk.
It doesn't matter the Russian intentions. I already say if they bitch about it, they should setup a documented alternative, with open market and teach people and companies how to use it.
I believe anyone using anything other than completely documented, openly encrypted, archived XMPP protocol which is the standard for Internet2 presence for company, government communications should be fired and in fact, sued for possible data leakage.
Our passwords, account numbers wonders around in some third party server who has no obligation to keep them secret. I don't buy any of their 128bit claims, who the hell knows what happens inside their servers? Nobody. The "open source" you see are either using their official SDK or didn't bother and backward engineered their protocol claimed to be secure because of obscurity.
Basically, Skype is not PGP Fone or Jabber (XMPP). We should stop treating them as some standard and should stop creating monopolies ourselves. I am not a open source fanatic but when we speak about undocumented communication protocols which fools users as "secure", we should really draw a line. GSM, UMTS, SIPS and even POTS are the standards. Not some eBay subsidiary which eBay themselves doesn't know why they really bought it.
While I am not Russian, I am not American too so it makes easy to guess their specific issues. No, people aren't obliged to trust some third party company of a foreign country. If the protocol was open, there were completely open source clients and servers just like XMPP, we would have all the right to call them paranoid. Just imagine something. China has huge stocks of money in hand and basically they can buy anything they wish. What if China purchased Skype tomorrow? It is not even possible to think right? Would Slashdot submitters submit "Paranoid USA banned Skype from Govt. offices!" toned articles with free speech icon?
While speaking about paranoia, I don't believe any "true encryption" exists, at least payable by ordinary people. While I do use TLS/SSL in all my communications, if I was really communicating some "real" secrets, I would just have this mad idea that it would be breakable, somehow, somewhere if needed. I just picture my stupid ISP admin running Wireshark and set my mail program that way. Nothing more.
When Debian which (was) a very unique Linux politically includes some questionable framework even while completely clean alternative (some says better) exists just because of some "note" application, it makes me nuts. Just because of that reason, Debian completely lost my trust and their prestige in my eyes. Ubuntu is on same path too.
All those weirdo undisclosed agreements with dying companies, the companies interestingly hiring their trojans right after agreements, claiming their Linux is the only Linux which wouldn't have any issues with MS, the fact that once the benchmark of open, free, portable, clean code slowly getting infected by that trojan framework etc...
We know who these puppets are and they are actually clever, they enjoy a guaranteed future with jobs they were previously rejected. From what I read from their leaders blog, guy never leaves Redmond to begin with. He is also the only open source developer I know who had to moderate&lock down comments.
Why would I hate MS as OS X user? I just ignore them. I would even perhaps buy MS Office in future when there is a job it would fit better than Apple iWork I currently use. E.g. 10-15 guys working on same document etc. I just feel bad for the future of Linux and this massive conspiracy going on for years. They are going into core of the system itself and I noticed some state of art, popular GNU licensed software also getting infected by that framework.
Oh about that Kernel module, GPL licensed etc. How else you will get into Linux kernel? I am sure it is written professionally too but in my eyes, it is not different than MS keyboard&mouse drivers on OS X which are goodly written too. BTW, I keep hearing MS input devices are great. If some revolution happened while I wasn't around, where are the Linux support software of them, with source of course? They do provide OS X driver and obviously, they know how to write *nix software.
Being paranoid doesn't mean... Hell man, MS-DOS was based on Quick and Dirty OS which itself is a horrible thievery of CP/M. Some guy basically sits down, reads all the specs of CP/M and implements them in his own way, one by one.
It started World's largest software company which also happens to be a monopoly. Perhaps, that single thievery has set back IT industry 10-15 years based on their first, real OS namely OS/2 and Windows NT.
Windows GUI is also some kind of Mac OS clone but anyway, it is a matter of past now. They actually have agreement not to bring up that issue anymore you know.
People always think they "buy" software, movies, music. They don't actually buy the product, they buy the right to use them, watch the movie (in movie company terms) and listen to that particular piece. The physical thing is actually no more than a medium to carry it.
It is more like rent for lifetime.
If source released in 5 years, we (and the win die hards) would have access to Windows XP source code now and thousands of "XP" versions would exist. In fact, they could easily fix quirks which MS would never fix and make Windows 7 something nobody would care about.
5 years is way too early. I mean I wish it was but the reality is really different.
Well, GNU wouldn't exist if a nutcase anarchist also happens to be a software genius decided to DO something and try to change future.
Why not speak about the issue he talks about instead? If (c) doesn't exist in 5 years, what will protect GNU licensed software and the freedom of people relying on it? What will stop Microsoft to copy and paste GNU software, "embrace and extend"? BTW; you aren't in Mono camp do you AC?
You found the magic formula. Whenever Stallman talks about something making sense, post some little story "proving" he is nuts. Really, go back to the days when GNU founded with that manifesto and try to do same thing. They will call you nuts. People who would call you nuts are riding their Mercedes cars to go to their high position jobs at Microsoft now, not being material of AC karma whores who seems to have an agenda of their own.
Funny thing is, even if Apple is ruled as monopolist, evil, servant of satan in future, nothing happens to Webkit.
Apple lawyer will simply instruct judge(s) to type http://www.webkit.org/ and remind them it is open source, even used by their most die-hard competitors in their products. We speak about 100M+ Nokia phones coming with Webkit based browser here.
So, morons are really morons comparing Safari to IE. Oh BTW, dying to have Safari under Linux/BSD? Install "Arora", it is the closest thing to Safari, Qt 4 based (as it comes with Webkit).
As you mention Gnome, they have recently chosen Webkit to be included as help browser since it fits perfectly to that environment too. Apple didn't choose KHTML and transformed it to Webkit for "fashion" reasons, it is also a guarantee for future.
Windows XP SP3 full install does install Flash 6, yes you read right, SIX and it was released in 2008 (or 2007?) while Flash 10 exists with possibly 2-3x better performance and impossible to compare compatibility. For example, you install XP SP2 CD and run SP3 full install as you should get rid of update circus. You got everything new except Flash. IE 6 is another matter, IE is not a backwards compatible thing since V7.
When asked for the reason, they claimed they did it for compatibility. That is a complete joke since you can say anything about flash but you can't claim anything regarding backwards compatibility. I actually tried viewing "Futuresplash" (version 1, even before Flash name) using Flash 10 and it worked.
The reason was? They couldn't update their competitors product (like Apple does) as they have their lame ass flash wannabe Silverlight. Basic as that. Apple on the other hand, maintains version 9 (recently 10) of Flash while they have no obligation to do it.
BTW, I was one of the mods modded you as funny but I thought I should really remind EU officials and Moz/Opera/Apple about the monster they are dealing with. Be very careful about version numbers.
I think your confusion happens because you actually bought "cold war is over", "the end of history" claims by various people.
Cold war has never ended.
Since when relying on a third party, closed, encrypted platform owned by an American company for communications is free speech?
As Skype etc. are common "household" names on the internet, we forget the security implications of using such solutions for business. As long as Skype is a closed, proprietary platform, I can agree with any governments (including USA) concerns about Skype.
Of course, if they claim a problem, they should provide a solution. For example, a trust of SIP providers, sponsoring open source SIP solutions, help open source applications to have Russian support. When they sound like "lets go back to copper", the entire point is gone.
Don't forget the telecom industry since the beginning is documented, open, standards based. For example, even in the cold war, Russian telecoms used SSN-7 standards documented by AT&T etc.
On other smart phone platforms, if your data is really precious and if you need more than average security, you install security solutions.
As my data is not that precious, I have just trialed commercial, easy to install security solutions like Kaspersky Mobile, F-Secure. Both has firewalls on socket and application level, heuristics, anti spam, remote locking and in Kaspersky'es case, even a "white hat rootkit" to track your phone after it has been stolen. I can easily say that they will be never possible on iPhone since Apple won't allow anything running in such deep level 24/7 and commercial security companies won't tell people how to crack their device to install or put any work in such EULA breaking application.
There are far more basic but real solutions like an application turning off Bluetooth after certain amount of time, tens of password vaults which all uses different systems (so hard to target) and especially J2ME apps which enjoys sandbox provided by Java naturally. They aren't possible too.
On the other hand, the solution making sense is also impossible with current policies. I mean "iPhone enterprise edition" which would allow such solutions from trusted Apple partners. If you have single more model of iPhone doing better things, entire iphone scheme is broken.
" Western culture isn't immune to these effects either (cf. high-profile financial advisors committing suicide in 2008-2009), but I understand that it's significantly more of an issue in Asia"
There is a huge difference between a very rich financial advisor losing all his money and clients, their trust and possibly going to jail committing suicide and a poor engineer committing suicide for sole reason of honor.
For some cultures, losing honor means losing the entire reason of living. For example, at a free time, look for the reason why burglary rate at Japan is so low. Not mafioso style, the ordinary house burglary. You will be really surprised.
While I don't agree that you should commit suicide for losing a protype of a paranoid American company, I try to understand.
It is not because of poor engineers suicide, Foxconn drove their partners mad by diminishing quality and their "me too" laptops based on the following The Inquirer article.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1433657/apple-sony-dump-foxconn-quanta
2 billion devices run J2ME, Java instantly became military standard when it got open sourced. Real is enjoying its kingdom on devices and Linux based appliances.
Being open didn't cost them anything, they earned.
Almost all PE formats are documented, generally open source. In fact, PE is also used to provide additional security since they are harder to infect.
At last resort, you can "act like" launching it allowing it to expand itself but not allow to run before scanning.
These aren't new things, they exist since MS-DOS antiviruses.
I browsed scene.org a lot for Amiga demos but when I saw the x86/Windows demos requirements, I just said "DirectX is the true power of Microsoft on Desktop." The developers you see at scene.org aren`t your usual "Wizard" type people, if they use DirectX, they must have a real good reason. If Apple wants to become serious on gaming, they should speak with these people about the reasons about choosing directx and what could possibly replace it. I don`t say they should give up excellent OpenGL support. They should find a way to merge all those open technologies in some way. For example, they can ask them "Why don`t/wouldn`t you use SDL?"
Of course, one of the developers posting as AC (and scored 0, should be modded up) says they can code an OpenGL version for Linux if there is enough demand for it. See the last line of his comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1308661&cid=28763745
Promise not to laugh at people who uses commercial antivirus for actual security, OK? Also look up for the term "false positive".
A good antivirus would -of course- suspect a 4KB packed executable but it would first unpack it in memory, run heuristics and scan for common symbols, if not really sure, actually execute it in a locked down virtual machine watching its actions and finally, execute it perhaps flagging it as "suspicious". These happens just when you click an application in matter of miliseconds.
AVG since the beginning is a false positive monster.
That is actually one of the application`s developers who explains what actually goes on and talks about a Linux version.
While I hate doing it, MOD PARENT UP!
(it has been 3-4 hours since that comment posted)
He sounds like a computer teacher of ours kept saying "This can`t be possible" when we showed Amiga demos to poor guy.
Guy was on MS-DOS that time of course.
As they will be lossy compressed, best way to watch a demo (especially Amiga ones) is running them actually, inside an emulator if possible.
Not just for a single demo of course, just in case anyone interested in classic demos on scene.org. Also virtually no bandwidth needed compared to 8mbit :)
Installing "directx end user runtime" from Microsoft downloads could do the trick, no guarantees though. I noticed it install some older directx apis. I definitely recommend it except the pirated windows since it is "genuine advantage" thing.
I keep mentioning 5800 and Blackberry (Storm?) since they are touch based, the game or app could have same concept on them. Blackberry also opens the truly gigantic J2ME market option to some extent.
For example, World`s number 1 Mobile browser is Opera Mini right now which is a truly goodly coded J2ME application using "client-server" method and nothing else. It also de-validates the common FUD that there should be 100 different J2ME apps. No, it has a single version and one with less features for basic phones.
Web based game is another chance which keeps getting missed since all Nokia devices run a Webkit based browser. I am sure it is just matter of time for a Webkit based Windows Mobile browser too.