I'm confused. . . I thought TransGaming only made stuff for emulating Windows games on other systems. But it looks from the preview like this is a Windows program. . . why would someone who already can run Windows games want better software acceleration? Any card made in the past 4-5 years costing more than $70 or so supports hardware acceleration, and anyone with a computer older than 4-5 years old probably can't play games that require vertex and pixel shading, anyways.
I know you can have both hooked up and it'll recognize them both, but I don't think you can use both at the same time - if you want to switch from one to the other, I'm pretty sure that there's a delay before it starts using the other one.
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Oh, right - those pesky "features".
Yeah, I guess you're right - they went with the paperclip instead of the bug:)
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I've written and read some long posts in the past, but I've NEVER seen one long enough for part of the original message to get truncated. Just a tip for everyone: I know we all have certain subjects that we LOVE to elaborate on, but when you see that scrollbar to the right of where you're typing get really small, that's a sign that maybe you wrote too much - if it takes more than 3/4ths of the page to say it, then you should try looking through what you just wrote and see if you can condense it a bit. I mean, seriously - a whole page and a half is just too much.
But anyways. .. as far as the "freedom to blog" thing goes, I really think that anyone should be allowed to put what they want in their blog. NO ONE should have the right to govern what you put in a journal (or diary for you girlies out there;) ), and they shouldn't have the right to govern what you put in your blog (unless it's something that's a personal attack on them).
. . . 23-year-old girl sues Yahoo! for only allowing chatroom participants of age 18 or older. She joined a sex chatroom, and she talked to a 16-year-old boy who said he was 18. . .
It already happens on the news today, people. Kids won't stop going into chatrooms just because they're supposed to be 18 - they'll just click the "I'm 18" button - leaving a whole world of trouble for people using chatrooms for sexual pleasure (though not seeking to have sex with minors like in the above example).
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a) What were you doing trying to set up GRUB? Your Linux install CD should have set up either GRUB or LILO automatically (personally I think LILO's better).
b) NFS and Samba are a little hard, I'll give you that. But most people don't use them for day-to-day use. And there are frontends that make it a lot easier, such as Webmin. Plus, you only have to set them up once.
c) There's absolutely no setup required for ALSA or OSS - either you've got it built into your kernel, you've got it as a module, or you don't have it. There's no configuring it.
d) Installing codecs is a simple matter of drag-and-drop into the right folder. The website with the codecs or the README for the program that uses the codecs should tell you where this is.
e) Yes, the autodetection came as default. I did have to set it up to name my devices "maxtor", "ipod", etc., but that wasn't hard to do - all the programs came with my distro.
f) No, I'm pretty sure Windows can't use multiple mice. Not at the same time. They can both be hooked up, but only one can be used at a time. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Try hooking one up to the PS/2 and one to the USB port. I bet only one mouse will work. . . And can Windows use a joystick as a mouse?
What distro was your housemate using? All the distros I've ever used (Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware, and Knoppix) have had USB autodetection. Except the ones from the Windows 98 days, when even Windows autodetection sucked.
Might want to check your facts, there, buddy - Linux has hardware detection (even better than Windows IMO - it even knows when there's multiple mouses plugged in! Even if they're hotplugged! [I had this for a while because I couldn't get used to the trackball for games, if you're wondering why you'd want this.] Last I checked, Windows can't do this! And if you've got the modules, you can even configure support for hardware you don't even HAVE - and all you have to do is plug in the device [if you ever get it, or if a friend brings it over] and Linux can use it.)
Linux also has good USB support (it can even differentiate between different devices - XP just calls my iPod, Cruzer Mini flash drive, and external Maxtor hard drive "external storage device" last I checked [which is flat-out confusing], Linux calls them "iPod" "cruzer" and "maxtor").
And most Linux software IS easy to configure. KDE and GNOME are easy to configure, as are Kontact, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Only the real advanced stuff is hard to do. Name specifically one piece of software that's hard to configure that you'd use in ordinary day-to-day use.
No, what I'm saying is that I don't want companies to bitch and moan about other companies' products not working with theirs, and then later deciding not to work toward interoperability.
Can you imagine if different phone companies didn't connect to the others? If Vonage customers couldn't talk to SBC customers or cell phone users? Or if Cingular customers couldn't talk to Sprint customers? That'd essentially be the same thing - "sure, you can call me, but you have to be a Sprint customer." "Sure, you can IM me, but you have to use AIM."
You can forget about the fact that they're free. Companies pay to have their own IM specifically for their intranet, and cell phone companies charge customers to use their text messaging and instant messaging features. They'll charge you for it if they can find a way to - the only reason they were free in the first place is that the first IM client (ICQ, which is still in fairly wide use today) was available for free. AOL got greedy and used ICQ's protocol for AIM but wouldn't let the two intercommunicate (even though they used the same protocol and could've perfectly understood one another - literally all they had to do was connect the two servers, which they did 2-3 years ago).
"Slashdotters want to see the big, bad, evil corporations put out of business, unless they pump absurd amounts of money into F/OSS projects."
No. What we want is for companies to not abandon their users. It even says in the article: "When it was convenient for their business goals, Microsoft and Yahoo! waved the interoperability flag, but now that both companies have built substantial IM communities with their own closed networks, they have lost their passion for open networks."
The point of having an IM client is to talk to your friends. I don't choose AIM, Yahoo! or MSN because of the company who owns it or how cool it looks, I choose it because my friends are on it. We have clients like Trillian, GAIM, and Kopete for a reason - we don't want to use five or six different clients just to talk to our friends simply because they're not all on AIM or Yahoo! Messenger. We just want to talk. Sure, you can download AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, etc. for free, but why have all of them hogging up memory? And why have five different accounts, each with a different screen name and password to remember?
And, yes, we CAN create our own IM service. And we did. Just that most people still use the other ones because, as I said before, they just want to talk to their friends - they don't care what protocol they use.
If my memory serves me right (I've been a Linux-only user for a while now) you can disable MSN Messenger from opening at startup but you have to close it first, and there are certain programs that stop you from closing MSN Messenger - for example Internet Explorer.
Okay. Say I've got a site here in the US, called netraven5000.com. Someone in Europe registers the same site name. When people go to netraven5000.com, whose site will they see, mine or his? The people in the US will see mine, the people in Europe will see his.
But what if the people in Europe want to see mine, or if the people in the US want to see his? That'd be a problem.
"And kernel.org wouldn't be missed either, because they have their own vanilla kernel mirrors."
How would these kernel mirrors be updated if Linus can't connect to them and they can't connect to kernel.org? What, is Linus going to call the webmasters up and fax it to them, page by page?
"Last time I tried, google.ch, yahoo.be, Lycos.fr, ebay.it worked very well. And they probably can live without slashdot. And kernel.org wouldn't be missed either, because they have their own vanilla kernel mirrors."
But these are all run by their American counterparts. The actual server is in the US, isn't it?
"I don't see your point, a cable being naught but a cable. They could certainly well connect to asia and africa without being connected to US (filtering if that's what's taken)."
Then you don't understand what I'm saying.
Here's an example: Internet 2. It's a "new Internet", right? Then why can't I surf Internet 2 through my cable connection? Because it's a whole different network. If the EU built their own Internet, they couldn't connect to the sites on the current, existing Internet. Sure, they could rebuild it from the ground up. Sure, they could connect to other countries/continents. But they'd have to do it all over again, if they wanted to build their own Internet that's not connected to ours, since right now the satellite systems, ISPs, and so forth are all connected to OUR Internet.
"RTFA.
Thanks for trying. Please come again."
Oh, so you think having two sites of the same name wouldn't cause a problem? Okay, try this: take two computers. Set them both up with a static IP address of 192.168.1.150 (or whatever IP address you want, as long as they both have the same IP address). Set them both up with some sort of web admin tool, a web server. . . whatever, so long as it uses the web. Now, on another computer on the network, try to access that computer's services using the IP address (ie, try to go to "http://192.168.1.150:[whatever port number]" in your web browser). I think there'll be a bit of a conflict - how does it know which one you want? You supply the same identifier for each.
Same for two sites of the same name. If Google and I both purchased the domain name www.google.com, when you type that in, how will the Internet know if you wanted my site or Google's?
"Unix design and architecture mean jack squat when you have a far weaker link to attack: the untrained users."
Here's a good question for you: how do "the untrained users" learn about your spyware-laden toolbar? It certainly wouldn't be part of a Linux distro since they're made by the more knowledgeable users, and all the talk about it in the Linux community would be negative publicity since it's got spyware.
People didn't install Kazaa not knowing it had spyware. Plenty of people talked it down because it had Gator. In fact, some people hacked it and took the spyware out.
See, Linux is the way it is because it's made by the people who use it. We don't want to run spyware apps. But we're the ones programming the apps so all we have to do is not put spyware in our programs. And we're not going to recommend to others the spyware-laden alternatives.
See what I'm getting at? You install spyware on Windows to get the program you want. In Linux, we say "goodbye, spyware" and make our own spyware-free alternative. There used to be a Kazaa client for Linux, but we said "no, thank you, spyware" and made giFT. The "untrained users" don't know that Kazaa has spyware, but we do, and we'll point them in the right direction.
The reason most people use Windows is because they're afraid to switch. They don't want to risk losing all their Word/Excel/Quicken files. There is absolutely NOTHING better about Windows except the warm, fuzzy feeling it gives users that all their old files and programs will work (of course, this often isn't the case). People feel that if they switch to Mac or Linux, they'll lose all their important documents (perhaps not knowing that Quicken is also available for Mac, or that OO.o 2.0 can read their old Word and PowerPoint files - maybe not as well as MS Office, but damn close).
Face it - Windows sucks. I've got a 2.8GHz machine, 512MB RAM, 256MB vidcard. XP crashed RUNNING COUNTERSTRIKE. A six-year-old game that requires a computer maybe 1/8th the speed of mine crashed XP. And it ran just fine with both 98SE and Cedega under Linux on the same PC. Now that's poor programming on someone's part, and I don't think it's Valve's. And on this same PC DOOM III kept on telling me that I didn't have the CD in the drive. Know why? Stupid dumb Windows for some stupid reason decided to change its drive letter. Even though I didn't add any new drives or anything.
Linux, on the other hand, runs GREAT. It never crashes (and by never I don't mean maybe once a week or maybe every once in a while - I mean NEVER). DOOM III does crash sometimes but it doesn't bring the whole system down with it - I just press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and I'm back in business. And I think I saw something on id's DOOM III Linux site about how to fix that.
Those "RFID things" take the money from their credit card account. But I'm sure the French really DO have credit cards for their dogs - I know they have special diners for their dogs and stuff. Crazy French.
Seriously, though - can you imagine how screwed the rest of the world would be without their Internet able to access US sites? Bye-bye, Google, Yahoo! and Lycos. Bye-bye, Ebay. Bye-bye Slashdot. And (perhaps more importantly, now that more and more of Europe is switching to Linux) bye-bye http://www.kernel.org/ (for those of you who don't know it's the Linux kernel website where you download Linus and his team's code). There's probably quite a few other sites I'm forgetting here.
Plus, let's not forget that if the EU built their own Internet, that would mean that they wouldn't be able to access the rest of the world's Internet - unless they connected to our Internet. But that would still require them to register domain names with us, if they wanted the two to be able to communicate with each other. Otherwise I could register netraven5000.com on the US Internet, and someone in Europe could register it on the EU Internet. Which one will people get when they try to go there - if they want my site, they might get his instead, and vice versa.
"Once disposable DVDs are the only thing you can buy anymore that works in a DVD player, then what?"
Then the movie industry will truly realize that people don't want to pay for self-destructing DVDs when their plan to make cheaper, disposable DVDs backfires on them when people start just ripping the DVDs before watching them and/or downloading them off the Internet.
Many people do this already with services like Netflix - just get all the movies you want for so many bucks a month, rip the DVD before you watch it, and send it back for the next one.
We get new movies from the movie industry. So? I don't mind getting my films from the big names, but I don't want to buy a DVD that's guaranteed NOT to last.
And what's independent filmmakers' budgets have to do with read-once DVDs? Are you suggesting that somehow this will help their problem?
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I'm confused. . . I thought TransGaming only made stuff for emulating Windows games on other systems. But it looks from the preview like this is a Windows program. . . why would someone who already can run Windows games want better software acceleration? Any card made in the past 4-5 years costing more than $70 or so supports hardware acceleration, and anyone with a computer older than 4-5 years old probably can't play games that require vertex and pixel shading, anyways.
Imagine a whole Beowulf cluster of voting machines! :)
I know you can have both hooked up and it'll recognize them both, but I don't think you can use both at the same time - if you want to switch from one to the other, I'm pretty sure that there's a delay before it starts using the other one.
Yeah, I guess you're right - they went with the paperclip instead of the bug :)
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I've written and read some long posts in the past, but I've NEVER seen one long enough for part of the original message to get truncated. Just a tip for everyone: I know we all have certain subjects that we LOVE to elaborate on, but when you see that scrollbar to the right of where you're typing get really small, that's a sign that maybe you wrote too much - if it takes more than 3/4ths of the page to say it, then you should try looking through what you just wrote and see if you can condense it a bit. I mean, seriously - a whole page and a half is just too much.
But anyways. . . as far as the "freedom to blog" thing goes, I really think that anyone should be allowed to put what they want in their blog. NO ONE should have the right to govern what you put in a journal (or diary for you girlies out there ;) ), and they shouldn't have the right to govern what you put in your blog (unless it's something that's a personal attack on them).
It already happens on the news today, people. Kids won't stop going into chatrooms just because they're supposed to be 18 - they'll just click the "I'm 18" button - leaving a whole world of trouble for people using chatrooms for sexual pleasure (though not seeking to have sex with minors like in the above example).
Microsoft only fixes security holes, not bugs.
b) NFS and Samba are a little hard, I'll give you that. But most people don't use them for day-to-day use. And there are frontends that make it a lot easier, such as Webmin. Plus, you only have to set them up once.
c) There's absolutely no setup required for ALSA or OSS - either you've got it built into your kernel, you've got it as a module, or you don't have it. There's no configuring it.
d) Installing codecs is a simple matter of drag-and-drop into the right folder. The website with the codecs or the README for the program that uses the codecs should tell you where this is.
e) Yes, the autodetection came as default. I did have to set it up to name my devices "maxtor", "ipod", etc., but that wasn't hard to do - all the programs came with my distro.
f) No, I'm pretty sure Windows can't use multiple mice. Not at the same time. They can both be hooked up, but only one can be used at a time. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Try hooking one up to the PS/2 and one to the USB port. I bet only one mouse will work. . . And can Windows use a joystick as a mouse?
What distro was your housemate using? All the distros I've ever used (Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware, and Knoppix) have had USB autodetection. Except the ones from the Windows 98 days, when even Windows autodetection sucked.
Linux also has good USB support (it can even differentiate between different devices - XP just calls my iPod, Cruzer Mini flash drive, and external Maxtor hard drive "external storage device" last I checked [which is flat-out confusing], Linux calls them "iPod" "cruzer" and "maxtor").
And most Linux software IS easy to configure. KDE and GNOME are easy to configure, as are Kontact, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Only the real advanced stuff is hard to do. Name specifically one piece of software that's hard to configure that you'd use in ordinary day-to-day use.
Can you imagine if different phone companies didn't connect to the others? If Vonage customers couldn't talk to SBC customers or cell phone users? Or if Cingular customers couldn't talk to Sprint customers? That'd essentially be the same thing - "sure, you can call me, but you have to be a Sprint customer." "Sure, you can IM me, but you have to use AIM."
You can forget about the fact that they're free. Companies pay to have their own IM specifically for their intranet, and cell phone companies charge customers to use their text messaging and instant messaging features. They'll charge you for it if they can find a way to - the only reason they were free in the first place is that the first IM client (ICQ, which is still in fairly wide use today) was available for free. AOL got greedy and used ICQ's protocol for AIM but wouldn't let the two intercommunicate (even though they used the same protocol and could've perfectly understood one another - literally all they had to do was connect the two servers, which they did 2-3 years ago).
So in other words get rid of Windows? That's what I did - Linux runs SO much better.
No. What we want is for companies to not abandon their users. It even says in the article: "When it was convenient for their business goals, Microsoft and Yahoo! waved the interoperability flag, but now that both companies have built substantial IM communities with their own closed networks, they have lost their passion for open networks."
The point of having an IM client is to talk to your friends. I don't choose AIM, Yahoo! or MSN because of the company who owns it or how cool it looks, I choose it because my friends are on it. We have clients like Trillian, GAIM, and Kopete for a reason - we don't want to use five or six different clients just to talk to our friends simply because they're not all on AIM or Yahoo! Messenger. We just want to talk. Sure, you can download AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, etc. for free, but why have all of them hogging up memory? And why have five different accounts, each with a different screen name and password to remember?
And, yes, we CAN create our own IM service. And we did. Just that most people still use the other ones because, as I said before, they just want to talk to their friends - they don't care what protocol they use.
If my memory serves me right (I've been a Linux-only user for a while now) you can disable MSN Messenger from opening at startup but you have to close it first, and there are certain programs that stop you from closing MSN Messenger - for example Internet Explorer.
I don't understand the first part of this sentence - what the hell do George Bush and Iraq have to do with instant messaging?
Okay. Say I've got a site here in the US, called netraven5000.com. Someone in Europe registers the same site name. When people go to netraven5000.com, whose site will they see, mine or his? The people in the US will see mine, the people in Europe will see his.
But what if the people in Europe want to see mine, or if the people in the US want to see his? That'd be a problem.
How would these kernel mirrors be updated if Linus can't connect to them and they can't connect to kernel.org? What, is Linus going to call the webmasters up and fax it to them, page by page?
But these are all run by their American counterparts. The actual server is in the US, isn't it?
"I don't see your point, a cable being naught but a cable. They could certainly well connect to asia and africa without being connected to US (filtering if that's what's taken)."
Then you don't understand what I'm saying.
Here's an example: Internet 2. It's a "new Internet", right? Then why can't I surf Internet 2 through my cable connection? Because it's a whole different network. If the EU built their own Internet, they couldn't connect to the sites on the current, existing Internet. Sure, they could rebuild it from the ground up. Sure, they could connect to other countries/continents. But they'd have to do it all over again, if they wanted to build their own Internet that's not connected to ours, since right now the satellite systems, ISPs, and so forth are all connected to OUR Internet.
"RTFA. Thanks for trying. Please come again."
Oh, so you think having two sites of the same name wouldn't cause a problem? Okay, try this: take two computers. Set them both up with a static IP address of 192.168.1.150 (or whatever IP address you want, as long as they both have the same IP address). Set them both up with some sort of web admin tool, a web server. . . whatever, so long as it uses the web. Now, on another computer on the network, try to access that computer's services using the IP address (ie, try to go to "http://192.168.1.150:[whatever port number]" in your web browser). I think there'll be a bit of a conflict - how does it know which one you want? You supply the same identifier for each.
Same for two sites of the same name. If Google and I both purchased the domain name www.google.com, when you type that in, how will the Internet know if you wanted my site or Google's?
Here's a good question for you: how do "the untrained users" learn about your spyware-laden toolbar? It certainly wouldn't be part of a Linux distro since they're made by the more knowledgeable users, and all the talk about it in the Linux community would be negative publicity since it's got spyware.
People didn't install Kazaa not knowing it had spyware. Plenty of people talked it down because it had Gator. In fact, some people hacked it and took the spyware out.
See, Linux is the way it is because it's made by the people who use it. We don't want to run spyware apps. But we're the ones programming the apps so all we have to do is not put spyware in our programs. And we're not going to recommend to others the spyware-laden alternatives.
See what I'm getting at? You install spyware on Windows to get the program you want. In Linux, we say "goodbye, spyware" and make our own spyware-free alternative. There used to be a Kazaa client for Linux, but we said "no, thank you, spyware" and made giFT. The "untrained users" don't know that Kazaa has spyware, but we do, and we'll point them in the right direction.
Face it - Windows sucks. I've got a 2.8GHz machine, 512MB RAM, 256MB vidcard. XP crashed RUNNING COUNTERSTRIKE. A six-year-old game that requires a computer maybe 1/8th the speed of mine crashed XP. And it ran just fine with both 98SE and Cedega under Linux on the same PC. Now that's poor programming on someone's part, and I don't think it's Valve's. And on this same PC DOOM III kept on telling me that I didn't have the CD in the drive. Know why? Stupid dumb Windows for some stupid reason decided to change its drive letter. Even though I didn't add any new drives or anything.
Linux, on the other hand, runs GREAT. It never crashes (and by never I don't mean maybe once a week or maybe every once in a while - I mean NEVER). DOOM III does crash sometimes but it doesn't bring the whole system down with it - I just press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and I'm back in business. And I think I saw something on id's DOOM III Linux site about how to fix that.
And I couldn't help but notice you have the RVB website as your homepage. . . do you actually run the RVB site? My friends and I LOVE RVB.
Seriously, though - can you imagine how screwed the rest of the world would be without their Internet able to access US sites? Bye-bye, Google, Yahoo! and Lycos. Bye-bye, Ebay. Bye-bye Slashdot. And (perhaps more importantly, now that more and more of Europe is switching to Linux) bye-bye http://www.kernel.org/ (for those of you who don't know it's the Linux kernel website where you download Linus and his team's code). There's probably quite a few other sites I'm forgetting here.
Plus, let's not forget that if the EU built their own Internet, that would mean that they wouldn't be able to access the rest of the world's Internet - unless they connected to our Internet. But that would still require them to register domain names with us, if they wanted the two to be able to communicate with each other. Otherwise I could register netraven5000.com on the US Internet, and someone in Europe could register it on the EU Internet. Which one will people get when they try to go there - if they want my site, they might get his instead, and vice versa.
Then the movie industry will truly realize that people don't want to pay for self-destructing DVDs when their plan to make cheaper, disposable DVDs backfires on them when people start just ripping the DVDs before watching them and/or downloading them off the Internet.
Many people do this already with services like Netflix - just get all the movies you want for so many bucks a month, rip the DVD before you watch it, and send it back for the next one.
We get new movies from the movie industry. So? I don't mind getting my films from the big names, but I don't want to buy a DVD that's guaranteed NOT to last.
And what's independent filmmakers' budgets have to do with read-once DVDs? Are you suggesting that somehow this will help their problem?
"Which one did we get again?" ."
"'MS Entertainment Kit for Wankers 3.6."
"Well, pop it in, Johnny!"
"I sure hope my parents aren't awake. .
Johnny pops in the disk
*Skeet!*Skeet!*Skeet!*
"Dude, rewind that - that chick was SO HOT!"
Johnny presses "rewind" only to find that the three-way scene has already been overwritten
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!"
Drop it in my mailbox? Someone?
Please?