I received a troll mod for that? *blink* Wow, I hope I meta mod that.
The reply to my post by Bruce Fields is spot on accurate - as long as good people get involved and try to solve the problem it will be solved, but until the Linux community continues to act completely independently of one another they will never have the unification that Windows does.
If telling the truth is trolling, then I guess I am. You should check my home page if you don't believe the stories about KMenuEdit and pptpclient - I have issues with both posted there in my blog, in my forums, and at LinuxQuestions.org -- with no answers, I might mention.
I have SuSE 9.1 Professional. I tried configuring a VPN connection using PPTP to my workplace which uses a Firebox 4500 (which uses an embedded version of Linux). I used the instructions with the client for my specific distribution (pptpclient.sourceforge.net) and got nowhere. The connections were made but data would not traverse the tunnel, despite multiple routing entries, etc. Under Windows XP I create a new entry under VPN networking and bam, I'm connected.
I like to modify my menus. I'm particular about how programs are labeled and categorized. Under Windows this is a no brainer - you can edit the menus in place, or right click and choose explore and modify from there. Under KDE (and Gnome) the menu editor stinks. It loses track of single items (not categories) not even showing them. I ended up hand editing my menu items (thankfully freedesktop.org has a description of what the text files should contain!) in order to get them to show up properly.
Is this the idea of a desktop operating system? No. As bas as it is, people want a graphical operating system and they want it tied closely to the underlying file systems and hardware. Linux may detect new hardware but does that detection extend into the graphical operating system?
Don't even get me started on playing video files under X and the intellectual property issues involved. I know and understand that the Linux community can't do anything to fix this -- it is the codecs and codec owners involved -- but it is a stumbling block to adoption.
Finally - there is the issue of no program ever getting to final status. This one has been picked up and banged on by a lot of people in the past few months but it is the truth. It is part of open source and open standards, and most programmers want to itch their own itch. If I were going to set out to create a volume control program I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to find someone else's past code - complete with their bugs and bad architecture - to start with. Yet I find myself with over 5 volume control utilities on my newly installed SuSE 9.1 system. That's kind of silly!
A unification of an operating system is *not* bad. Having someone direct the operating system and its integration with other software is and can be a good thing. Most distributions try to mold this software into one look and feel, but if they go to far (BlueCurve) a good percentage of the community goes up in arms.
Linux has the hardware support. Linux has the software support. Linux does not have the integration of the software with the software, nor the software with the hardware, to compete against Windows as a desktop operating system at this time IMHO.
Cell phone, broadband, whatever I need. In return I am willing to respond whenever necessary for them.
Working for a company as state in the article would make me ill. I'm not so worried about broadband - reasonably speaking, you'd have it no matter what, so who cares. But pagers, cell phones, and other means of communication?
Maybe it is time to institute term limits for Congressmen, ala the President. Maybe it is time we force Congressmen to open their personal checkbooks and submit themselves to a security background check whose results would be made public.
This guy is such a shill it isn't even funny. He doesn't represent the common person - how in the hell does he continue to remain in office?
Most of the free games released on FilePlanet I mirror on my website, http://www.schkerke.com. My bandwidth is good and they usually end up there fairly quickly. Fileplanet has me limited @ 215Kbp/s at the moment so Ground Control is taking some time.
The biggest problem actually comes in with the CD keys. I own Ground Control and I'm fairly damned positive that it used a CD key for installation purposes. Tribes 2 required a key and FilePlanet was the only place authorized to give them out; *that* killed that freebie.
I bet their insurance company cancels them after they pay for all the repairs, too.:) It was preventable, if New Zealand had invested more heavily in SWMDT (Star Wars Meterorite Defense Technology). Of course with the license fees the Reagan administration was charging...
That would truly suck. To be sitting there watching "When Meteorites Attack, True Stories of Meteorites and Their Victims" and WHAM, there's a smoking hole in your television set, sparks flying everywhere, and the father figure of the family is screaming for his teenage son, wondering if he had been busy building nuclear reactors again.
Has anyone else considered how some games take a life of their own, with the fans supporting them long after the game company has come and gone? Look at Thief and Thief 2, or any game from Looking Glass -- there is a rabid fan following patching, extending, and otherwise supporting the games better than the publisher.
The Myth series definitely deserves this support, I might add. I was never much of a fan of limited unit strategy games -- I felt that the designer deciding what units I had was too limiting -- until I played Myth. I fell in love then.:)
Myth III represents the absolute worst of game development. The team was forced to release the game early, then the entire team was fired. *shakes head* It is stuff like that which makes you wish marketing and executives never got involved with game development.
Despite this -- it is ironic how many games are fan supported yet the number of open source, high quality games remains dismally low. (I said low, not non existent.)
Yes, but that solution is a hindrance to the blind and visually impaired. I've helped several people set up screen readers on their computers here in St. Louis -- I know for a fact that they do use the Internet, quite a lot.
(Consider reading the news online through a screenreader vs. trying to read the daily newspaper.)
Yea, we're trying to implement server side filtering here so our end users don't have to worry about spam per se but we ran into a huge problem for us.
We're *in* the mortgage business -- title insurance, specifically. Although we added mortgage and our customers to our whitelist we were still repeatedly trashing items that shouldn't have been -- and with server side filtering it's a heck of a lot more difficult to fix.
So we're doing nothing on the server and letting the end user handle it.
Wouldn't save your bandwidth either as the mail still has to hit your SMTP server, fully transmitted, for the filter to work.
At least with sender authentication systems you can save bandwidth by cutting them off after they fail authentication.
I will admit that Bayesian filtering has improved my ability to use email. I can't think of a false positive in recent memory. However, I've had the same email address for nearly seven years... I average 2k pieces of mail a day now. I had a *lot* of spam to train with.
Just be careful. What you believe is meaningless may have another meaning for someone else.
My brother in laws name is Jeff Costello. He bought a new GMC truck which is his pride and joy. His license plate is GMC 4JC.
I asked him who the religious nut was parked in his driveway the first week he had the truck. He about went through the roof. What the hell else are people going to think though?
Car has a warranty which you can extend through the manufacturer or a third party. Those warranties can be extended for perpetuity - I just received one for my Mitsubishi Galant which has 100,000 miles on it that stated they didn't care about the mileage. They'd cover it for another 36,000 miles for so much money.
As for the VHS argument: free DVDs? No. However, I should be able to transfer the DVD to VHS so I can play the content on my player downstairs (space shifting); or, alternatively, I should be able to copy my VHS to DVD and play the video on my brand new DVD player upstairs. (Macromedia prevents this.)
The DMCA's restrictions against reverse engineering and avoiding protection mechanisms is the same as having the right to bear arms, but not loaded arms. We have certain fair use privileges that we've become accustomed to and have been affirmed in various courts of laws, but we're now being prevented from exercising those privileges.
(I understand that there's a difference between said privilege and a Constitutionally guaranteed right. The comparison still stands as an example of what the DMCA does, IMHO.)
My two year old woke up early, snuck out the dog doors (one from the kitchen, one from the garage), scaled a chain link fence, and went chasing after his cat in nothing but his underwear.
You don't LET them do anything. Try to stop them. And over time you gradually become accustomed to the fact that if you own something precious, THEY WILL FUCK IT UP.
That's why I have six external Fireware hard drives hooked up to a server with a terabyte of ISOed CDs. After buying Warcraft III for the fourth time because my six year old *loves* the game I said fuck this.
Movies? I've lost both Lord of the Rings movies, Finding Nemo, Scooby Doo, Transformers Season 1... Christ.
Fuck them. I'm going broke. I'm not going to finance their insecurity anymore.
Wow. I've never read anything by him before but I doubt I will now. The column justifies his opinion of SCO because "..Linux users are attacking him in various ways."
Sorry. There's bad apples in every case, Linux or Microsoft. Go on a pro Microsoft site and spout a few bad things off about it.
So who's religious fervor is blinding them now? His, because he refuses to see what everyone else seems to be able to see? That SCO has no case? Or the Linux community -- working worldwide, across boundaries of racism, nationalism, across different religions and languages -- who work together to perpetuate the lies that Linux has stolen nothing?
My. He's quite the idiot isn't he? Oops. I guess I just "attacked" him.
Still, I'm just doing what he does. Call a spade a spade. If it walks like an idiot, talks like an idiot, and acts like an idiot.. I call it an idiot.
The GAC is the closest thing to a standard DLL and it supports side by side installation of varying versions based on digital signatures. Other than the GAC the only shared libraries in a.NET application are the ones sitting in the bin directory.
Sure, this is returning to 1980s DOS where every application had a separate copy of the DLL but with today's drive space and inability of installed software to track itself this is a *welcome* waste of space.
Mono was around long before Novell purchased Ximian. Mono will remain around long after Novell, if Novell does go somewhere, simply because the.NET platform is popular and there are quite a few talented programmers who'd like to work with it.
Combined with Sun's perceived reluctance to open Java (perceived because IBM has their VM; GNU has theirs; they don't have the popular press that a project like Mono does) and Mono has a *lot* of support behind it.
Burn them to a ROM. Check out the Advance Linker or any other linker at Bayside. (No, I'm not an owner or even a customer, but they're one of the few places that seem to reliably offer information. Most other sites get shut down for one reason or another; generally, they're offering ROMs when they shouldn't, or products which skirt the line of the law as well as those which don't.) There's also a huge number of public domain cartridges available including a remake of my favorite, Barbarian. (Heh, cut the guy's head off and a little laughing demon comes out and drags it away.)
Combine that with a ROM dumped from the S/NES and multiboot / emulator autorun and you're set. Basically at boot the ROM prompts you what game you want to play. You choose by cycling through a menu, hit A, whammo.
Playing S/NES games on the go.
Pretty fun too. That's what scares me. These games from the S/NES, PCE, Genesis era are a whole lot more fun to me than most PS2 games.
(S/NES represents Super Nintendo and Nintendo Entertainment System. Most everything above applies to both.)
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Yep, I picked up BZFlag some time ago and actually ended up with everyone at work playing it online. :)
The game is fun!
Yea, I'm running Apache 1 (but I'm not, I'm running IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003). Nailed my position though. I'm Secure and E-Commerce. Huh?
Oh well.
I received a troll mod for that? *blink* Wow, I hope I meta mod that.
The reply to my post by Bruce Fields is spot on accurate - as long as good people get involved and try to solve the problem it will be solved, but until the Linux community continues to act completely independently of one another they will never have the unification that Windows does.
If telling the truth is trolling, then I guess I am. You should check my home page if you don't believe the stories about KMenuEdit and pptpclient - I have issues with both posted there in my blog, in my forums, and at LinuxQuestions.org -- with no answers, I might mention.
I have SuSE 9.1 Professional. I tried configuring a VPN connection using PPTP to my workplace which uses a Firebox 4500 (which uses an embedded version of Linux). I used the instructions with the client for my specific distribution (pptpclient.sourceforge.net) and got nowhere. The connections were made but data would not traverse the tunnel, despite multiple routing entries, etc. Under Windows XP I create a new entry under VPN networking and bam, I'm connected.
I like to modify my menus. I'm particular about how programs are labeled and categorized. Under Windows this is a no brainer - you can edit the menus in place, or right click and choose explore and modify from there. Under KDE (and Gnome) the menu editor stinks. It loses track of single items (not categories) not even showing them. I ended up hand editing my menu items (thankfully freedesktop.org has a description of what the text files should contain!) in order to get them to show up properly.
Is this the idea of a desktop operating system? No. As bas as it is, people want a graphical operating system and they want it tied closely to the underlying file systems and hardware. Linux may detect new hardware but does that detection extend into the graphical operating system?
Don't even get me started on playing video files under X and the intellectual property issues involved. I know and understand that the Linux community can't do anything to fix this -- it is the codecs and codec owners involved -- but it is a stumbling block to adoption.
Finally - there is the issue of no program ever getting to final status. This one has been picked up and banged on by a lot of people in the past few months but it is the truth. It is part of open source and open standards, and most programmers want to itch their own itch. If I were going to set out to create a volume control program I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to find someone else's past code - complete with their bugs and bad architecture - to start with. Yet I find myself with over 5 volume control utilities on my newly installed SuSE 9.1 system. That's kind of silly!
A unification of an operating system is *not* bad. Having someone direct the operating system and its integration with other software is and can be a good thing. Most distributions try to mold this software into one look and feel, but if they go to far (BlueCurve) a good percentage of the community goes up in arms.
Linux has the hardware support. Linux has the software support. Linux does not have the integration of the software with the software, nor the software with the hardware, to compete against Windows as a desktop operating system at this time IMHO.
Cell phone, broadband, whatever I need. In return I am willing to respond whenever necessary for them.
Working for a company as state in the article would make me ill. I'm not so worried about broadband - reasonably speaking, you'd have it no matter what, so who cares. But pagers, cell phones, and other means of communication?
You want ME to pay?
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Maybe it is time to institute term limits for Congressmen, ala the President. Maybe it is time we force Congressmen to open their personal checkbooks and submit themselves to a security background check whose results would be made public.
This guy is such a shill it isn't even funny. He doesn't represent the common person - how in the hell does he continue to remain in office?
Different zones.
Internet zone, Internet security settings.
Intranet zone, Intranet security settings.
Most of the free games released on FilePlanet I mirror on my website, http://www.schkerke.com. My bandwidth is good and they usually end up there fairly quickly. Fileplanet has me limited @ 215Kbp/s at the moment so Ground Control is taking some time.
6 . Tribes II is on the same page. Ground Control will be listed as soon as it is finished downloading; if you're into game soundtracks the Vivendi Universal soundtracks are available at http://www.schkerke.com/olate/index.php?category=1 8; Vivendir's site required Flash to even use the site. (Blech.)
The biggest problem actually comes in with the CD keys. I own Ground Control and I'm fairly damned positive that it used a CD key for installation purposes. Tribes 2 required a key and FilePlanet was the only place authorized to give them out; *that* killed that freebie.
Tribes can be found at http://www.schkerke.com/olate/index.php?category=
I bet their insurance company cancels them after they pay for all the repairs, too. :) It was preventable, if New Zealand had invested more heavily in SWMDT (Star Wars Meterorite Defense Technology). Of course with the license fees the Reagan administration was charging...
That would truly suck. To be sitting there watching "When Meteorites Attack, True Stories of Meteorites and Their Victims" and WHAM, there's a smoking hole in your television set, sparks flying everywhere, and the father figure of the family is screaming for his teenage son, wondering if he had been busy building nuclear reactors again.
Has anyone else considered how some games take a life of their own, with the fans supporting them long after the game company has come and gone? Look at Thief and Thief 2, or any game from Looking Glass -- there is a rabid fan following patching, extending, and otherwise supporting the games better than the publisher.
:)
The Myth series definitely deserves this support, I might add. I was never much of a fan of limited unit strategy games -- I felt that the designer deciding what units I had was too limiting -- until I played Myth. I fell in love then.
Myth III represents the absolute worst of game development. The team was forced to release the game early, then the entire team was fired. *shakes head* It is stuff like that which makes you wish marketing and executives never got involved with game development.
Despite this -- it is ironic how many games are fan supported yet the number of open source, high quality games remains dismally low. (I said low, not non existent.)
Yes, but that solution is a hindrance to the blind and visually impaired. I've helped several people set up screen readers on their computers here in St. Louis -- I know for a fact that they do use the Internet, quite a lot.
(Consider reading the news online through a screenreader vs. trying to read the daily newspaper.)
The New Adventures of Zak McKracken
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
There's also a FreeCache mirror somewhere in the article, if you want to use that instead.
Yea, we're trying to implement server side filtering here so our end users don't have to worry about spam per se but we ran into a huge problem for us.
We're *in* the mortgage business -- title insurance, specifically. Although we added mortgage and our customers to our whitelist we were still repeatedly trashing items that shouldn't have been -- and with server side filtering it's a heck of a lot more difficult to fix.
So we're doing nothing on the server and letting the end user handle it.
Wouldn't save your bandwidth either as the mail still has to hit your SMTP server, fully transmitted, for the filter to work.
At least with sender authentication systems you can save bandwidth by cutting them off after they fail authentication.
I will admit that Bayesian filtering has improved my ability to use email. I can't think of a false positive in recent memory. However, I've had the same email address for nearly seven years... I average 2k pieces of mail a day now. I had a *lot* of spam to train with.
Just be careful. What you believe is meaningless may have another meaning for someone else.
My brother in laws name is Jeff Costello. He bought a new GMC truck which is his pride and joy. His license plate is GMC 4JC.
I asked him who the religious nut was parked in his driveway the first week he had the truck. He about went through the roof. What the hell else are people going to think though?
Car has a warranty which you can extend through the manufacturer or a third party. Those warranties can be extended for perpetuity - I just received one for my Mitsubishi Galant which has 100,000 miles on it that stated they didn't care about the mileage. They'd cover it for another 36,000 miles for so much money.
As for the VHS argument: free DVDs? No. However, I should be able to transfer the DVD to VHS so I can play the content on my player downstairs (space shifting); or, alternatively, I should be able to copy my VHS to DVD and play the video on my brand new DVD player upstairs. (Macromedia prevents this.)
The DMCA's restrictions against reverse engineering and avoiding protection mechanisms is the same as having the right to bear arms, but not loaded arms. We have certain fair use privileges that we've become accustomed to and have been affirmed in various courts of laws, but we're now being prevented from exercising those privileges.
(I understand that there's a difference between said privilege and a Constitutionally guaranteed right. The comparison still stands as an example of what the DMCA does, IMHO.)
LET them near your equipment?
Who said we LET them near our equipment?
My two year old woke up early, snuck out the dog doors (one from the kitchen, one from the garage), scaled a chain link fence, and went chasing after his cat in nothing but his underwear.
You don't LET them do anything. Try to stop them. And over time you gradually become accustomed to the fact that if you own something precious, THEY WILL FUCK IT UP.
That's why I have six external Fireware hard drives hooked up to a server with a terabyte of ISOed CDs. After buying Warcraft III for the fourth time because my six year old *loves* the game I said fuck this.
Movies? I've lost both Lord of the Rings movies, Finding Nemo, Scooby Doo, Transformers Season 1... Christ.
Fuck them. I'm going broke. I'm not going to finance their insecurity anymore.
Canada is our hat. Mexico is our pants. What the hell does that make Florida?
;p)
More impotently, think about how limp and dysfunctional that makes the United States.
(Impotently is a joke. I know how to spell importantly.
Wow. I've never read anything by him before but I doubt I will now. The column justifies his opinion of SCO because "..Linux users are attacking him in various ways."
Sorry. There's bad apples in every case, Linux or Microsoft. Go on a pro Microsoft site and spout a few bad things off about it.
So who's religious fervor is blinding them now? His, because he refuses to see what everyone else seems to be able to see? That SCO has no case? Or the Linux community -- working worldwide, across boundaries of racism, nationalism, across different religions and languages -- who work together to perpetuate the lies that Linux has stolen nothing?
My. He's quite the idiot isn't he? Oops. I guess I just "attacked" him.
Still, I'm just doing what he does. Call a spade a spade. If it walks like an idiot, talks like an idiot, and acts like an idiot.. I call it an idiot.
Porting a client from .NET to a Linux solution without having to dual boot or have a second system sitting at your desk!
HA!
I don't see how this applies.
.NET application are the ones sitting in the bin directory.
The GAC is the closest thing to a standard DLL and it supports side by side installation of varying versions based on digital signatures. Other than the GAC the only shared libraries in a
Sure, this is returning to 1980s DOS where every application had a separate copy of the DLL but with today's drive space and inability of installed software to track itself this is a *welcome* waste of space.
MonoDevelop is a GTK port of #Develop.
It's my understanding that #Develop is trying to create a cross platform compilable version of their IDE as well.
Mono was around long before Novell purchased Ximian. Mono will remain around long after Novell, if Novell does go somewhere, simply because the .NET platform is popular and there are quite a few talented programmers who'd like to work with it.
Combined with Sun's perceived reluctance to open Java (perceived because IBM has their VM; GNU has theirs; they don't have the popular press that a project like Mono does) and Mono has a *lot* of support behind it.
256Mb now, although it depends on the linker you use.
And they're reflashable so there's no need to cart every game. Pick and choose based on your mood.
And the cartridges can be found fairly cheaply, relatively speaking. I usually look to pay what I pay for a retail game for one.
Burn them to a ROM. Check out the Advance Linker or any other linker at Bayside. (No, I'm not an owner or even a customer, but they're one of the few places that seem to reliably offer information. Most other sites get shut down for one reason or another; generally, they're offering ROMs when they shouldn't, or products which skirt the line of the law as well as those which don't.) There's also a huge number of public domain cartridges available including a remake of my favorite, Barbarian. (Heh, cut the guy's head off and a little laughing demon comes out and drags it away.)
Combine that with a ROM dumped from the S/NES and multiboot / emulator autorun and you're set. Basically at boot the ROM prompts you what game you want to play. You choose by cycling through a menu, hit A, whammo.
Playing S/NES games on the go.
Pretty fun too. That's what scares me. These games from the S/NES, PCE, Genesis era are a whole lot more fun to me than most PS2 games.
(S/NES represents Super Nintendo and Nintendo Entertainment System. Most everything above applies to both.)