I find myself playing what are now older games these days. I tend to play stuff like X-Plane, GRID, F1. I replayed Halflife2 recently.
I don't like what the industry are doing, it's very dishonest to sell part of a game and then require DLC's or in-game purchases.
There's plenty of good, existing content out there, I'll plan to stick with that for the time being.
Back in the day, I found Illustrating Pascal, ISBN 0/521/33695/3 by D.Alcock to be very useful.
ref: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0521336953/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
It helped me make the jump from programming as a hobby, in various forms of BASIC, to proper programming languages.
I'm trying to be helpful here.. honest.. Fink has packages for xorg, so I'm thinking that the article really ought to be directing people to install those.
Xfree have kind of shot themselves in the foot with their licencing & development practices.
it's about the reasons why would Apple push people to buy PPC-based Macs instead of holding off
I think apple could very well have significant difficulty shifting their PPC product line now that they have effectively announced a shift to x86.
Let's use the proper name ppl, Intel is a company.. Apple probably did a deal with Intel to use that as a name instead of the common, and more correct terms 'x86 and amd64/em64t/x86-64'.
Apple moving to x86 is going to guarantee them access to a regularly updated, speedy range of processors. They will have access to as good as the rest of the PC world. They were let down big style by Motorola, and now IBM can't/won't invest sufficiently to keep competitive with x86.
I do believe that powerpc is a better processor. It's just too slow in terms of clock speed these days to cope with the highest clocked intels. I'm sure apple hasn't spoken about the whole story.. who knows what has been said between closed doors between Apple & IBM, heck we can only guess at the likely terms of the intel deal.
The intel move is good in that it should improve mac-windows code compatibility. WINE, running on MacOSX/Intel should be able to run windows applications and games somewhat similarly to Linux/WINE. It should be interesting to see WINE gets the macos treatment, as I would expect usability to be much better than anything before.
Back to the original point, so far as purchases of the Apple PPC range go, what apple should do is announce that Rosetta isn't simply a PPC translator running on intel, but that it's a common component, allowing OSX/Intel only code to run on the older PPC range. I'd expect Powerpc to do a much more efficient job of emulating x86, than the x86 would do emulating a powerpc.
It's an absolute disgrace, that the UK media aren't covering this very important issue. The European council have disregarded the decision of the elected Parliament, and have tried to force this through.
Software patents are wrong, and incredibly dangerous territory for SME business. Larger companies may well be able to devend and enforce patents, but smaller players are likely to be unable to do so, and could be forced to lay off staff, raise prices, or even close down.
Software is simply a list of instructions. It is not a physical product. It should not therefore be patentable. Copyright protection is available to those who need it.
Very little, i'd say. The thing is, a lot of the spam doesn't actually come from hotmail.
The bulk of it seems to come from virus infected spam zombie networks, carrying a fake from & return address specifying hotmail, or worse, some poor schmuck who has nothing whatsoever to do with the spam.
What's the solution? well, aside from lining up the spammers against a brick wall and shooting'em all, the SPF system seems to look promising, as do the well-run blocklists.
On the subject of blocklists, spamcop, spamhaus, and dsbl all seem quite good. I can't recommend sorbs at all, because they attempt to extort money from ISPs. If a server is blacklisted, say, because some end-user had a virus or security incident, they insist that the isp pay them money in order to get un-listed. For this reason their list is outdated and unreliable.
Apple needs to be given some credit here. With MacOSX, they have created something that linux has been striving for for years. An easy-to-use desktop system, suitable for your granny etc.
Not only is the OS beautiful & functional, but the hardware is damn nice too. Linux is still somewhat difficult for end-users.
Driver installation is difficult, and picky. In the case of proprietary binary drivers, these mostly need to be matched to a particular kernel version, and sometimes even distribution before they will work correctly. A unified driver architecture that does not change between kernel & distributions is needed.
X11 can be difficult to configure, and troubleshoot. What the heck is a modeline anyway, plus various video drivers have different configuration options. freaky
Both Gnome & Kde, between them the most likely desktop environment that an end user could have, are each something of a memory hog.
Ten years ago, 1995, kids were pursuing a sedentary lifestyle of watching TV and playing videogames with their friends.
Err, not quite,
Ten years ago, 1995, kids were pursuing a sedentary lifestyle of watching TV and playing videogames with their friends.
Todays kids, are out on the street at all hours, drinking booze, smoking fags, doing drugs, and generally terrorising the local community, especially little old ladies.
Now, a cynical person could see the closed-source companies pointing to this sort of error message, as a reason why large corporates ought not to use OSS, specifically MySQL (lack of scalability).
Not saying I agree with that btw, OSS is under-used, and microsoft has grown too big for their boots.
I think that Enterprise was actually killed by P2P technology, such as Bittorrent.
Enterprise may have lost the ratings battle, however I feel that it had many more viewers that were not tracked, as many people downloaded it from torrents, so that they could watch the program in their own time.
... or to put it another way, those who don't want to get spam, have already taken steps to prevent it... they didn't get the memo so couldn't respond to the survey
The questionnaire, or email announcing the questionnaire was probably trapped by lots of people's spam filters!
More and more people are using some kind of spam filtering. If it's not through their email client (eg. Thunderbird), then their ISP is almost certaintly doing some kind of filtering.
ISP's are implementing DNS blocklists, installing & improving their Spam filters (DSpam and/or SpamAssassin), dealing with open relays, and implementing greylisting technologies.
ppl,
April fools was a few days ago. Are we sure this press release wasn't accidentally delayed?
Now I realise there may be a heck of a lot of r&d going into storage technology, but xyz storage? on the market 2005/2006? I'll believe it when I see it.
XW
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I find myself playing what are now older games these days. I tend to play stuff like X-Plane, GRID, F1. I replayed Halflife2 recently. I don't like what the industry are doing, it's very dishonest to sell part of a game and then require DLC's or in-game purchases. There's plenty of good, existing content out there, I'll plan to stick with that for the time being.
Back in the day, I found Illustrating Pascal, ISBN 0/521/33695/3 by D.Alcock to be very useful. ref: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0521336953/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link It helped me make the jump from programming as a hobby, in various forms of BASIC, to proper programming languages.
Hrm,
I'm trying to be helpful here.. honest.. Fink has packages for xorg, so I'm thinking that the article really ought to be directing people to install those.
Xfree have kind of shot themselves in the foot with their licencing & development practices.
XW
it's about the reasons why would Apple push people to buy PPC-based Macs instead of holding off
I think apple could very well have significant difficulty shifting their PPC product line now that they have effectively announced a shift to x86.
Let's use the proper name ppl, Intel is a company.. Apple probably did a deal with Intel to use that as a name instead of the common, and more correct terms 'x86 and amd64/em64t/x86-64'.
Apple moving to x86 is going to guarantee them access to a regularly updated, speedy range of processors. They will have access to as good as the rest of the PC world. They were let down big style by Motorola, and now IBM can't/won't invest sufficiently to keep competitive with x86.
I do believe that powerpc is a better processor. It's just too slow in terms of clock speed these days to cope with the highest clocked intels. I'm sure apple hasn't spoken about the whole story.. who knows what has been said between closed doors between Apple & IBM, heck we can only guess at the likely terms of the intel deal.
The intel move is good in that it should improve mac-windows code compatibility. WINE, running on MacOSX/Intel should be able to run windows applications and games somewhat similarly to Linux/WINE. It should be interesting to see WINE gets the macos treatment, as I would expect usability to be much better than anything before.
Back to the original point, so far as purchases of the Apple PPC range go, what apple should do is announce that Rosetta isn't simply a PPC translator running on intel, but that it's a common component, allowing OSX/Intel only code to run on the older PPC range. I'd expect Powerpc to do a much more efficient job of emulating x86, than the x86 would do emulating a powerpc.
XW
It's an absolute disgrace, that the UK media aren't covering this very important issue. The European council have disregarded the decision of the elected Parliament, and have tried to force this through.
Software patents are wrong, and incredibly dangerous territory for SME business. Larger companies may well be able to devend and enforce patents, but smaller players are likely to be unable to do so, and could be forced to lay off staff, raise prices, or even close down.
Software is simply a list of instructions. It is not a physical product. It should not therefore be patentable. Copyright protection is available to those who need it.
relevant links
XW
Very little, i'd say. The thing is, a lot of the spam doesn't actually come from hotmail.
The bulk of it seems to come from virus infected spam zombie networks, carrying a fake from & return address specifying hotmail, or worse, some poor schmuck who has nothing whatsoever to do with the spam.
What's the solution? well, aside from lining up the spammers against a brick wall and shooting'em all, the SPF system seems to look promising, as do the well-run blocklists.
On the subject of blocklists, spamcop, spamhaus, and dsbl all seem quite good. I can't recommend sorbs at all, because they attempt to extort money from ISPs. If a server is blacklisted, say, because some end-user had a virus or security incident, they insist that the isp pay them money in order to get un-listed. For this reason their list is outdated and unreliable.
XW
These routers look very impressive. I'm almost tempted to get one for myself.
The only thing that's stopping me is that my current router, an 802.11b Draytek can run as a VPN server, wheras the Linksys seems to not.
- Has any of the firmware updates for the WRT54G added this functionality, or is it just VPN passthru?
- Are there any projects to provide alternative firmware for the draytek 2600 series (none that I know of).
- is there a recommended way to try out IPV6 if your ISP doesn't yet support it yet? I'm thinking an IPV6 provider using VPN tunnels or somesuch.
XWApple needs to be given some credit here. With MacOSX, they have created something that linux has been striving for for years. An easy-to-use desktop system, suitable for your granny etc.
Not only is the OS beautiful & functional, but the hardware is damn nice too. Linux is still somewhat difficult for end-users.
- Driver installation is difficult, and picky. In the case of proprietary binary drivers, these mostly need to be matched to a particular kernel version, and sometimes even distribution before they will work correctly. A unified driver architecture that does not change between kernel & distributions is needed.
- X11 can be difficult to configure, and troubleshoot. What the heck is a modeline anyway, plus various video drivers have different configuration options. freaky
- Both Gnome & Kde, between them the most likely desktop environment that an end user could have, are each something of a memory hog.
XWErr, not quite,
Ten years ago, 1995, kids were pursuing a sedentary lifestyle of watching TV and playing videogames with their friends.
Todays kids, are out on the street at all hours, drinking booze, smoking fags, doing drugs, and generally terrorising the local community, especially little old ladies.
XW
Now, a cynical person could see the closed-source companies pointing to this sort of error message, as a reason why large corporates ought not to use OSS, specifically MySQL (lack of scalability).
Not saying I agree with that btw, OSS is under-used, and microsoft has grown too big for their boots.
XW
I think that Enterprise was actually killed by P2P technology, such as Bittorrent.
Enterprise may have lost the ratings battle, however I feel that it had many more viewers that were not tracked, as many people downloaded it from torrents, so that they could watch the program in their own time.
XW... or to put it another way, those who don't want to get spam, have already taken steps to prevent it... they didn't get the memo so couldn't respond to the survey
XWThe questionnaire, or email announcing the questionnaire was probably trapped by lots of people's spam filters!
More and more people are using some kind of spam filtering. If it's not through their email client (eg. Thunderbird), then their ISP is almost certaintly doing some kind of filtering.
ISP's are implementing DNS blocklists, installing & improving their Spam filters (DSpam and/or SpamAssassin), dealing with open relays, and implementing greylisting technologies.
XW
Nah,
Linux is too much work, especially for non-technical people. Heck, even techies get frustrated with the myriad of config files.
What you *really* want to do is go install MacOSX, using say, a mac mini, or maybe even an older mac sourced from ebay.
XW
ppl, April fools was a few days ago. Are we sure this press release wasn't accidentally delayed? Now I realise there may be a heck of a lot of r&d going into storage technology, but xyz storage? on the market 2005/2006? I'll believe it when I see it. XW