Hi, I'm dtzWill--the developer who ported quake over.
This is not just a tech demo (well opengl, for now, is) but quake is/very/ playable! Much effort has gone into making this more playable over the last two days or so-- the beta seemed to hit news sites, that was back when I was fighting things like the compiler breaking my code on anything other than -O0. See the wiki for almost latest information.
Note that instructions to try out the latest before I release are on the wiki.
Finally, a release is probably going to be made tonight so those that own a pre... beexcited!
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It's the driver problem. I can't get printers, scanners, etc. to work with linux in a consistent manner. I think such issues will shoot this down.
Maybe, maybe not.
The linux portion running as the hypervisor will work just as well as linux normally does, with respect to drivers and whatnot. You're right that this doesn't magically make that situation better, and this may be a problem.
However, the guest OS which is probably the primary OS you are running (depending on which of the many use cases suggested in the posts here, hypervisor being a backup/quick boot type thing) will be able to access devices the host doesn't have drivers for. More clearly said there's no reason you can't pass through pci/usb/etc devices straight to the guest OS and let their drivers make use of them (this exists in current VM technology: VMware, KVM, Xen). The key point here is that while the Linux drivers will be as good/bad/same as ever in the slim hypervisor (and may limit that functionality somewhat)--the overall functionality of the system with regards to the guest OS vs the guest OS running in a VM will be less effected by this than you might think.
It's the difference between your ipod not working and your ipod not working just in the hypervisor.
And throw on Intel-VT or AMD-V (as it looks like they have) and this should be pretty exciting.
Good point, and I agree. However:
The byte is the amount of data you could store on a single coin if you had a code worked out placing it either heads up or heads down. Ones and zero's. A bit is the one or the zero, or the 'heads' or 'tails' in your example. And as you correctly stated, a byte is 8 bits.
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You can find more examples on his site http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm . These are the original, EMI.
/lots/ of MIDI's of her (?) work here: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/music.htm .
Emily Howell seems to be the 'new' one, and you can find
Hi, I'm dtzWill--the developer who ported quake over.
This is not just a tech demo (well opengl, for now, is) but quake is/very/ playable!
Much effort has gone into making this more playable over the last two days or so-- the beta seemed to hit news sites, that was back when I was fighting things like the compiler breaking my code on anything other than -O0.
See the wiki for almost latest information.
Note that instructions to try out the latest before I release are on the wiki.
Finally, a release is probably going to be made tonight so those that own a pre... beexcited!
It's the driver problem. I can't get printers, scanners, etc. to work with linux in a consistent manner. I think such issues will shoot this down.
Maybe, maybe not.
The linux portion running as the hypervisor will work just as well as linux normally does, with respect to drivers and whatnot. You're right that this doesn't magically make that situation better, and this may be a problem.
However, the guest OS which is probably the primary OS you are running (depending on which of the many use cases suggested in the posts here, hypervisor being a backup/quick boot type thing) will be able to access devices the host doesn't have drivers for. More clearly said there's no reason you can't pass through pci/usb/etc devices straight to the guest OS and let their drivers make use of them (this exists in current VM technology: VMware, KVM, Xen). The key point here is that while the Linux drivers will be as good/bad/same as ever in the slim hypervisor (and may limit that functionality somewhat)--the overall functionality of the system with regards to the guest OS vs the guest OS running in a VM will be less effected by this than you might think.
It's the difference between your ipod not working and your ipod not working just in the hypervisor.
And throw on Intel-VT or AMD-V (as it looks like they have) and this should be pretty exciting.
So... what happened to the sharks with lasers? :)
I for one welcome our linux overlord! :-D
From the way things have been going, more like:
All your everything are belong to Google.
Apparently the firefox team didn't get the memo about RC's from microsoft...
But WoW helps. ;-)
S.O.S.??
Doesn't quite have the 'WoW' effect, does it?
I found a copy at http://media.planetvids.com/pvids/fearofgirls.wmv, which worked great. Just letting y'all kno.