There is a Sims for Linux, but it's a specialized version. I believe it came in some sort of Gaming release of Mandrake a few years back. I never played it myself, but aparently it worked great, however, you had to but the specific version. You couldn't use your Windows copy of Sims to play in linux.
At a tech shop i work at, Webroot's Spy Sweeper is pretty much the ONLY spysweeper we sell. From my experiences with comparing it to other software like Ad-Aware, Spybot, Defender and Panda Software's on-line scanner, Spy Sweeper picks up the most. Second would probably be Ad-Aware.
Btw, Norton 2006 with their bundled Anti-spyware is pure junk for anti-spyware.
I'm not sure if anything like this exists already, but, this could be quite useful in some circumstances.
A central source of information on downloadable programs that tells you wether or not a downloadable program is bundled with known spyware. Now, create a firefox extension that checks when you go to download a file, if that filename (and perhaps source domain) and looks it up on the central source and then warns the user that th efile is known to contain spyware. This way, you can be more pro-active in spyware prevention than the usual re-active.
Like i said, this probably exists in some form out there now.
aMSN is a great client, weather you run it from Windows or Linux (or whatever other platforms it supports). I'm not quite sure the reason why it's around, but, my girlfriend uses msn, and msn only. While trying to get her into Linux, i suggested GAIM, Kopete and other messengers, but she just wanted to go back to MSN Messenger. However, once i installed aMSN, that was it, it was exactly what she was looking for. Something that looks and feels like the official client, but works in linux.
So, you may ask yourself, what's the point of running this in windows when the official client exists? Well, some of us don't like the added bloat that the official client brings, some of us just want a slimmed down app that will allow us to chat with our msn friends that looks and feels like the official, but runs much quicker.
And of course, there is that "geek" factor of running free software that makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside:)
I just wanted to chime in here quickly and say that I downloaded the new version last night, and so far, i've nothing but good things to say about it. Not only are newer games supported better (HL2), but older games that never worked before are now working.
Site was slow when i tried to load it, here's the copy:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Free-flowing beer, live music, karaoke and arcade games kept the party raging at the Googleplex the other night, but the real action was unfolding inside a sterile conference room at Google's headquarters.
That's where the cunning internet entrepreneurs who constantly try to manipulate Google's search engine results for a competitive edge were trying to make the most of a rare opportunity to match wits face-to-face with the company's top engineers. Google's code-talking experts, despite putting on a show of being helpful, weren't about to reveal their "secret sauce" -- Google's tightly guarded formula for ranking websites. But that didn't zap the energy from the "Google Dance" -- an annual summer party that's become a metaphor for the behind-the-scenes twists and turns that can cause websites to rise and fall in Google's search results. For the millions of websites without a well-known domain name, those rankings can mean the difference between success or failure because Google's search engine drives so much of the internet's traffic. "Being on the first page of Google's results is like gold," said website consultant Gordon Liametz, one of the roughly 2,000 guests at this year's party, held earlier this month at Google's colorful corporate campus. The webmasters and their consultants paid particularly close attention to Google engineer Matt Cutts, the company's main liaison with the webmaster community and this party's star attraction. "That's the Mick Jagger of search!" exclaimed e-marketing strategist Seth Wilde as he strolled by Cutts and his audience of webmasters. Cutts, who has worked at Google for five years, sees it differently. "I feel more like the Rick Moranis of search because I end up dealing with so many quirky and weird cases," he said. With so much at stake, low-ranked websites spend much time and money trying to elevate their standing, even if they must resort to deception. The tactics include "keyword stuffing" -- peppering a web page with phrases associated with a specific topic such as "laptop computers" in hopes of duping the software "spiders" that troll the internet to feed Google's growing search index. It's a risky strategy because Google and other search engines penalize websites that get caught gratuitously repeating the same word. In the worst cases, the offending websites are deleted from the index so they don't show up in search results at all. Sometimes webmasters collude to populate their sites with a large number of incoming links from other sites. This approach makes a site appear more authoritative and popular than it really is and thus rise in rankings. Such dirty tricks pollute the search results with websites that have little to do with a user's request, frustrating consumers, diminishing Google's credibility and threatening to undermine the company's profits by driving users to its rivals. Not surprisingly, Google works hard to thwart the mischief makers, sometimes branded as "Black Hats" because of their subterfuge. Engineers frequently tweak the algorithms that determine the rankings, sometimes causing websites perched at the top to fall a few notches or, worse, even plunge to the back pages of the results. Google's reshuffling raised so many anxieties that webmasters in 2002 began to name the changes after hurricanes and infamous events. One particularly unpopular change Google rolled out in 2003 was dubbed "Florida" after the muddled ballot count in the 2000 presidential election. Hoping to ease the tensions with webmasters, Google hatched the idea of its "dance" party during an annual search engine convention held in Silicon Valley, just a few miles from Google's headquarters. The company invited some of the Black Hats, effectively welcoming the foxes into the hen house. "Google realized it was never going to get rid of these (Black Hats), so it decided it may as well work with them," Chris Winfield, a Google Dance party veteran who runs 1
For myself, i don't think it's the fact of having to spend "5 seconds" logging into different sites. I think it's more so the fact of the number of different passwords/usernames i have in use on different forums. For the most part, i try to use the same username/password on most forums, but sometimes my username is taken, or something like that, then i have to try and remember what the username is, etc. I like the idea of this, and hope to use it in the future.
I hope one of the 'assets' they're buying out was the game of solitare that you could play during the install of Lycoris. I'm sure there are other distributions out there that i haven't tried that have something like this, but i thought it was so great that I didn't have to sit there staring at packages installing, that I could have a few games of solitare while the installation whipped through. Nice idea, all distros should have it:)
While it may seem like the parent poster is joking, i would have to agree with him 100%. I know personally when I started with Linux, i was basically breaking stuff daily (without trying mind you) and having to search out information on how to fix it. It is truely the best way to learn how anything works. Nowadays I see all these distributions coming out, and while they do still break from time to time, they have become so advanced and so easy to use that many people can use them now without having to once worry about what's being done under the hood.
This is why there is a need for projects like LFS, Gentoo, and other distros that are more 'under-the-hood'. While the benefits of source-based distributions are great on their own merits, the 'getting your hands dirty' approach is always the best way to learn, not reading books and getting someone to hold your hand through it.
I find myself to a point after a linux install where everything works, and then say to myself "ok, now what?". Then i feel like breaking something so i can learn something new. It's a weird addiction.
I don't know about anyone else, but every time i hear news like this, i get goosebumps. I admit, i wasn't a big fan of Novell a few years ago, and was really worried when they bought out SUSE, but they have pretty much stuck to their guns and have contributed a lot to the world of Linux. They're really helping to give Linux a good name, and getting the MS-only sys admins to take notice. A lot of system admins and 'decision' makers that I know have "heard" of Linux but doesn't think it's secure/stable/mature enough to be used in their business, but, with a big name like Novell attached to it, they're really starting to consider it. Thanks Novell, and keep up the good work.
I admit, i didn't RTFA, but the MPAA and RIAA are so quick to jump on the P2P 'community' about the illegalties of using those networks, and the press is so quick to report it, but, when it comes to these networks being used for legit purposes like linux distros, movie trailers, etc. there's hardly a peep.
The bottom line is that people will find a way to get these 'illegal' movies wether it's P2P, or some other form.
I don't know much about the build process for Slackware, but i know with my Gentoo install, installing KDE 3.4 is painless with the split ebuilds. However, when i try to install GDM for my login manager (face it, GDM is way better for themeing then KDM), the dependancies were just too much. I don't know if this has any bearing on how the rest of gnome builds for Slackware or not, but it keeps me away from most Gnome packages.
This is actually a really great idea. And the fact that it's by choice of a user means that no one can really complain about it. So far with my experiences in Google adsense, they aren't that bad, especially when you compare it with the majority of other ads on the internet.
The firefox team could include this in the install (default to off of course), but have a small explanation that proceeds goes towards the development of the software and other related software within the Mozilla foundation. I would definitly be all for this, as I'm sure a lot of other users would be who feel bad that they get so many great free software applications and feel they have no way to give back, which I have felt plenty of times.
I should have said 'more difficult', i know it's not hard to pop in a song at a time, or even a playlist of a few hundred songs. However, I like how iTunes organizes everything when it comes to being able to browse by Album/Artist/Genre, and give you the options to create playlists and smart playlists. I have used Juk a lot, and while it is a good program, and does some of these things well, it always felt like there was something missing.
As for Zif, I did give it a try, but I kept having problems with it scanning my hard drive to find my music files, I haven't filed a bug report until i figure out if it's something with my system causing that problem.
I have been in love with iTunes since I first used it in Windows late last year, I have all my music in it, and allow it to keep everything organized. While in Windows, everything is nice and neat and tidy, however, as soon as i switched to Linux and loaded up my tunes in XMMS, or Juk, or Kaffeine or any other multimedia player, all the titles and ID3 tags would look messed up.
While some of the open source projects out there have been doing a great job emulating iTunes, none have yet to duplicate the easy of use and great interface that Apple gives us. I wouldn't say this is the only reason why I use Windows, but I would say that while in Linux, I rarely listen to any of my music because I find it too difficult.
Thank you code weavers, and I will be looking forward to the release.
"The article states that more and more companies are considering (and) switching to Linux for their desktop due to expensive Windows licensing fees and high-profile security vulnerabilities."...and in other news, the sky is blue and the earth revolves around the sun
With regards to the PVR software under Windows, I have never experienced this with closed captioning enabled. Like yourself, i'm running Windows 2000 with a ti4200 card. Must be a freak thing.
I haven't experienced many audio problems while recording, however, I'm running Gentoo with a patched kernel for preemptive kernel. What software are you using to capture? Most, if not all, of my capturing is done using Mythtv, and it is pretty flawless IMO.
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There is a Sims for Linux, but it's a specialized version. I believe it came in some sort of Gaming release of Mandrake a few years back. I never played it myself, but aparently it worked great, however, you had to but the specific version. You couldn't use your Windows copy of Sims to play in linux.
At a tech shop i work at, Webroot's Spy Sweeper is pretty much the ONLY spysweeper we sell. From my experiences with comparing it to other software like Ad-Aware, Spybot, Defender and Panda Software's on-line scanner, Spy Sweeper picks up the most. Second would probably be Ad-Aware.
Btw, Norton 2006 with their bundled Anti-spyware is pure junk for anti-spyware.
I'm not sure if anything like this exists already, but, this could be quite useful in some circumstances.
A central source of information on downloadable programs that tells you wether or not a downloadable program is bundled with known spyware. Now, create a firefox extension that checks when you go to download a file, if that filename (and perhaps source domain) and looks it up on the central source and then warns the user that th efile is known to contain spyware. This way, you can be more pro-active in spyware prevention than the usual re-active.
Like i said, this probably exists in some form out there now.
aMSN is a great client, weather you run it from Windows or Linux (or whatever other platforms it supports). I'm not quite sure the reason why it's around, but, my girlfriend uses msn, and msn only. While trying to get her into Linux, i suggested GAIM, Kopete and other messengers, but she just wanted to go back to MSN Messenger. However, once i installed aMSN, that was it, it was exactly what she was looking for. Something that looks and feels like the official client, but works in linux.
:)
So, you may ask yourself, what's the point of running this in windows when the official client exists? Well, some of us don't like the added bloat that the official client brings, some of us just want a slimmed down app that will allow us to chat with our msn friends that looks and feels like the official, but runs much quicker.
And of course, there is that "geek" factor of running free software that makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside
I just wanted to chime in here quickly and say that I downloaded the new version last night, and so far, i've nothing but good things to say about it. Not only are newer games supported better (HL2), but older games that never worked before are now working.
I would say it's money well spent.
Site was slow when i tried to load it, here's the copy:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Free-flowing beer, live music, karaoke and arcade games kept the party raging at the Googleplex the other night, but the real action was unfolding inside a sterile conference room at Google's headquarters.
That's where the cunning internet entrepreneurs who constantly try to manipulate Google's search engine results for a competitive edge were trying to make the most of a rare opportunity to match wits face-to-face with the company's top engineers.
Google's code-talking experts, despite putting on a show of being helpful, weren't about to reveal their "secret sauce" -- Google's tightly guarded formula for ranking websites.
But that didn't zap the energy from the "Google Dance" -- an annual summer party that's become a metaphor for the behind-the-scenes twists and turns that can cause websites to rise and fall in Google's search results. For the millions of websites without a well-known domain name, those rankings can mean the difference between success or failure because Google's search engine drives so much of the internet's traffic.
"Being on the first page of Google's results is like gold," said website consultant Gordon Liametz, one of the roughly 2,000 guests at this year's party, held earlier this month at Google's colorful corporate campus.
The webmasters and their consultants paid particularly close attention to Google engineer Matt Cutts, the company's main liaison with the webmaster community and this party's star attraction.
"That's the Mick Jagger of search!" exclaimed e-marketing strategist Seth Wilde as he strolled by Cutts and his audience of webmasters.
Cutts, who has worked at Google for five years, sees it differently. "I feel more like the Rick Moranis of search because I end up dealing with so many quirky and weird cases," he said.
With so much at stake, low-ranked websites spend much time and money trying to elevate their standing, even if they must resort to deception. The tactics include "keyword stuffing" -- peppering a web page with phrases associated with a specific topic such as "laptop computers" in hopes of duping the software "spiders" that troll the internet to feed Google's growing search index.
It's a risky strategy because Google and other search engines penalize websites that get caught gratuitously repeating the same word. In the worst cases, the offending websites are deleted from the index so they don't show up in search results at all.
Sometimes webmasters collude to populate their sites with a large number of incoming links from other sites. This approach makes a site appear more authoritative and popular than it really is and thus rise in rankings.
Such dirty tricks pollute the search results with websites that have little to do with a user's request, frustrating consumers, diminishing Google's credibility and threatening to undermine the company's profits by driving users to its rivals.
Not surprisingly, Google works hard to thwart the mischief makers, sometimes branded as "Black Hats" because of their subterfuge. Engineers frequently tweak the algorithms that determine the rankings, sometimes causing websites perched at the top to fall a few notches or, worse, even plunge to the back pages of the results.
Google's reshuffling raised so many anxieties that webmasters in 2002 began to name the changes after hurricanes and infamous events. One particularly unpopular change Google rolled out in 2003 was dubbed "Florida" after the muddled ballot count in the 2000 presidential election.
Hoping to ease the tensions with webmasters, Google hatched the idea of its "dance" party during an annual search engine convention held in Silicon Valley, just a few miles from Google's headquarters. The company invited some of the Black Hats, effectively welcoming the foxes into the hen house.
"Google realized it was never going to get rid of these (Black Hats), so it decided it may as well work with them," Chris Winfield, a Google Dance party veteran who runs 1
For myself, i don't think it's the fact of having to spend "5 seconds" logging into different sites. I think it's more so the fact of the number of different passwords/usernames i have in use on different forums. For the most part, i try to use the same username/password on most forums, but sometimes my username is taken, or something like that, then i have to try and remember what the username is, etc. I like the idea of this, and hope to use it in the future.
I hope one of the 'assets' they're buying out was the game of solitare that you could play during the install of Lycoris. I'm sure there are other distributions out there that i haven't tried that have something like this, but i thought it was so great that I didn't have to sit there staring at packages installing, that I could have a few games of solitare while the installation whipped through. Nice idea, all distros should have it :)
I, for one, welcome our new cinematic overlords!
While it may seem like the parent poster is joking, i would have to agree with him 100%. I know personally when I started with Linux, i was basically breaking stuff daily (without trying mind you) and having to search out information on how to fix it. It is truely the best way to learn how anything works. Nowadays I see all these distributions coming out, and while they do still break from time to time, they have become so advanced and so easy to use that many people can use them now without having to once worry about what's being done under the hood.
This is why there is a need for projects like LFS, Gentoo, and other distros that are more 'under-the-hood'. While the benefits of source-based distributions are great on their own merits, the 'getting your hands dirty' approach is always the best way to learn, not reading books and getting someone to hold your hand through it.
I find myself to a point after a linux install where everything works, and then say to myself "ok, now what?". Then i feel like breaking something so i can learn something new. It's a weird addiction.
I don't know about anyone else, but every time i hear news like this, i get goosebumps. I admit, i wasn't a big fan of Novell a few years ago, and was really worried when they bought out SUSE, but they have pretty much stuck to their guns and have contributed a lot to the world of Linux. They're really helping to give Linux a good name, and getting the MS-only sys admins to take notice. A lot of system admins and 'decision' makers that I know have "heard" of Linux but doesn't think it's secure/stable/mature enough to be used in their business, but, with a big name like Novell attached to it, they're really starting to consider it. Thanks Novell, and keep up the good work.
I think his point is that it should include hardware. I don't know if i'd agree with that myself, but i think that's what he was saying.
I admit, i didn't RTFA, but the MPAA and RIAA are so quick to jump on the P2P 'community' about the illegalties of using those networks, and the press is so quick to report it, but, when it comes to these networks being used for legit purposes like linux distros, movie trailers, etc. there's hardly a peep.
The bottom line is that people will find a way to get these 'illegal' movies wether it's P2P, or some other form.
I don't know much about the build process for Slackware, but i know with my Gentoo install, installing KDE 3.4 is painless with the split ebuilds. However, when i try to install GDM for my login manager (face it, GDM is way better for themeing then KDM), the dependancies were just too much. I don't know if this has any bearing on how the rest of gnome builds for Slackware or not, but it keeps me away from most Gnome packages.
i was hoping i wasn't the only one that saw that at first. i was like "man, i really gotta see how they did this".
That should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET_Passpo rt
Won't somebody think of the poor kittins!
Windows.
nuff said.
This is actually a really great idea. And the fact that it's by choice of a user means that no one can really complain about it. So far with my experiences in Google adsense, they aren't that bad, especially when you compare it with the majority of other ads on the internet.
The firefox team could include this in the install (default to off of course), but have a small explanation that proceeds goes towards the development of the software and other related software within the Mozilla foundation. I would definitly be all for this, as I'm sure a lot of other users would be who feel bad that they get so many great free software applications and feel they have no way to give back, which I have felt plenty of times.
I should have said 'more difficult', i know it's not hard to pop in a song at a time, or even a playlist of a few hundred songs. However, I like how iTunes organizes everything when it comes to being able to browse by Album/Artist/Genre, and give you the options to create playlists and smart playlists. I have used Juk a lot, and while it is a good program, and does some of these things well, it always felt like there was something missing.
As for Zif, I did give it a try, but I kept having problems with it scanning my hard drive to find my music files, I haven't filed a bug report until i figure out if it's something with my system causing that problem.
I have been in love with iTunes since I first used it in Windows late last year, I have all my music in it, and allow it to keep everything organized. While in Windows, everything is nice and neat and tidy, however, as soon as i switched to Linux and loaded up my tunes in XMMS, or Juk, or Kaffeine or any other multimedia player, all the titles and ID3 tags would look messed up.
While some of the open source projects out there have been doing a great job emulating iTunes, none have yet to duplicate the easy of use and great interface that Apple gives us. I wouldn't say this is the only reason why I use Windows, but I would say that while in Linux, I rarely listen to any of my music because I find it too difficult.
Thank you code weavers, and I will be looking forward to the release.
"The article states that more and more companies are considering (and) switching to Linux for their desktop due to expensive Windows licensing fees and high-profile security vulnerabilities." ...and in other news, the sky is blue and the earth revolves around the sun
Kind of like Parking meters, cities don't want you to pay the parking meters, that's why they put them there.
Well, this point should not really matter because this card comes with it's own PVR software that works quite well in my opinion.
With regards to the PVR software under Windows, I have never experienced this with closed captioning enabled. Like yourself, i'm running Windows 2000 with a ti4200 card. Must be a freak thing.
I haven't experienced many audio problems while recording, however, I'm running Gentoo with a patched kernel for preemptive kernel. What software are you using to capture? Most, if not all, of my capturing is done using Mythtv, and it is pretty flawless IMO.