well, wince runs on x86, therefore crusoe. kind of a moot point.
of course, it's not clear if crusoe can run apps for several different cpus at once. if not, then porting the ce compatibility layer might have some value. it may also have some usefulness if the source is released, as that would be a very attractive path for companies looking to move away from wince, or who do not want to pay m$ huge licensing fees.
i downloaded the binaries on friday, though i have not touched them since.
on the website, it said to mail embedix-support@lineo.com to get the source. i mailed that address with a request for source a few minutes after i downloaded the binaries on friday, and have yet to recieve a reply. ymmv.
McAfee (bought by Network Associates) does make ViruScan for Linux. It recognises the (few) Linux virii found in the wild (adw0rm et al) and lots of DOS/Win virii. It's primary purpose it for scanning email etc on a Linux box serving Windows clients.
It's also good for scanning suspect DOS/Win drives, as you can be assured that if the drive is infected, the virus will not spread as you are trying to squash it.
The Isle of Sark. It's a little 7-square-mile island just on the French side of the English Channel. It was colonized in the 1400s, and has been a tax haven for quite a bit of the last decade. Though colonized by the UK, they have their own constitution and a very unique relationship with the UK. Their laws have not changed since the Island was colonized; the guy who runs it is a servant of the Queen, and makes around $2.90 (USD) per year. He also has the right to sleep with any bride on her wedding night.
> Well, the glasses can only be used for television, and not for your computer--unless you use a tv-out card, but then the resolution would be very low, and text would probably be unreadable.
Though it's resolution isn't great, it would be fine for a text console. X would just look weird, but that resolution should be fine for things other than tv.
What I'm not sure about is what sort of inputs it accepts. From what I saw, it looks like it only has RCA a/v inputs, and not the analog VGA type that would be more useful.
Caution: Do not use while subject to external motion
Well, this seems a bit unfair. This means that, say, a female could wear them during sex (internal motion) while a male could not (external motion). I say that we all go sue sony for sexual discrimination.
Hell, he was most likely just frustrated with those crappy DN controls; I sure feel more aggravated having to deal with that wretched excuse of a game. Another fine example of your tax money at work.
Correct me if I'm all washed up, but from the white papers it looks more like a math-like OpenGL renderer, maybe with some modeling capabilities? Where did you get the idea that it was a visual database?
Same problem here. System is a K6-2 266, 192MB ram, Voodoo3 2000 AGP.
I can get an unaccellerated window if i run it as: `./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver/usr/lib/games/quake2/libMesaGL.so.2.6' - which uses the MesaGL driver from quake2, but does not display fullscreen, therefore does not use hardware accelleration. I get a window, and a repeating menu-type sound. After a few minutes, I was able to move down one option in the menu with the keyboard, but this is definately less than optimal.
Recompiling Mesa with 3dfx support now...
For the record, the last q3test would start, but I got the whole non-fullscreen non-3d-accellerated crap.
No, Desqview/X allowed you to both run X clients from *NIX boxen, and display dos apps on an X display. Not sure if it worked with Windows stuff or not.
Actually, as I was looking at Debian weekly news, and saw that there was a GPL'd (not sure - but Open Source) Turbo Pascal compatible compiler. There's also a free port of the old Borland Turbo Vision library. This sort of thing makes me quite happy, as my first programming experience was with Borland Turbo Pascal.
Actually, the ES1370/1 line of PCI sound cards (Ensoniq AudioPCI / AudioPCI 97 & Creative SB 16 PCI) are extremely nice with Linux. You get dual DSPs (one full-duplex record/play, one play only), they are very well supported, and you don't have to deal with jumpers / soft-settable / ISA PnP to get it working. Just drop in the board and compile drivers - or insmod them if your distro is built that way. Dunno about PCI modems. Heard that the Diamond PCI modems are nice, but I haven't had a chance to try one in Linux. Matters not to me anyways, DSL is cheap and readily available in my area.
Whoa! Rain in your doubt for a bit. I have DSL through USWest. I did not have to sign any contract or agree to use their service for any period of time. In my experience, there is plenty of bandwidth. I have not run into any sort of bottlenecks with USWest's equipment or service. Indeed, I usually get 50 to 60 kb/sec, which is over twice my rated 256kbit connection. For the record: Standard phone line == $30 / month Deluxe DSL == $30 / month DSL net service == $20 / month Grand total: $80 / month The deluxe DSL it a 24/7 connection which allows you to use your voice telephone at the same time. YMMV depending on area and line quality, but I am more than satisfied.
Er, PalmOS has supported TCP/IP networking since version 2, on the PalmPilot Pro model. I have run PPP on a PalmPro connected to my Linux box. It was kinda neat, but the screen size makes it not very good for most network applications I can think of.
Anyone know if DSL would be affected by this? I wouldn't think so.
This is an interesting angle. Since I get my DSL line and service from the same company (USWest with USWest.net service), how would they pay for this? They own the local telephone network. If the telcos don't have to pay, wouldn't this be seen as encouraging monopolies - eg, a small ISP must pay per minute, while the telcos don't.
"I think it would be very hard for anyone with a brain to take MTV seriously now and I hope noone does."
Anyone who takes anything on TV seriously needs counceling or a couple dozen IQ points. It's also interesting to not that he says this after pointing out that MTV caters to the lowest common denominator - which, IMO, is not someone with "brains".
Doesn't h2g2 already do this? (http://www.h2g2.com) - It seems to me that the next generation handheld (visor? palm viii?) with web access would be just as good. Of course, we don't know what sort of content is going to be on the real-life hhgttg. It would be interesting if they just snarfed h2g2's content - Douglas Adams has approved of h2g2 in the past...
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well, wince runs on x86, therefore crusoe. kind of a moot point.
of course, it's not clear if crusoe can run apps for several different cpus at once. if not, then porting the ce compatibility layer might have some value. it may also have some usefulness if the source is released, as that would be a very attractive path for companies looking to move away from wince, or who do not want to pay m$ huge licensing fees.
i downloaded the binaries on friday, though i have not touched them since.
on the website, it said to mail embedix-support@lineo.com to get the source. i mailed that address with a request for source a few minutes after i downloaded the binaries on friday, and have yet to recieve a reply. ymmv.
McAfee (bought by Network Associates) does make ViruScan for Linux. It recognises the (few) Linux virii found in the wild (adw0rm et al) and lots of DOS/Win virii. It's primary purpose it for scanning email etc on a Linux box serving Windows clients.
It's also good for scanning suspect DOS/Win drives, as you can be assured that if the drive is infected, the virus will not spread as you are trying to squash it.
See Netscape Directory's entry for more info.
Don't know how the whole UK dependency thing would work out, but it sure seems attractive.
I just want to launch a satellite with a fat linux box and some heavy bandwidth.
The choir can't tell the masses if they don't know.
Alas, comedy does not win this time. I already have a female companion, and have had her for over a year.
As for the sun, I live in Washington. On the rare occasions when it does make an appearance, the clouds invariably sneak up on it and cloak it again.
> Well, the glasses can only be used for television, and not for your computer--unless you use a tv-out card, but then the resolution would be very low, and text would probably be unreadable.
Though it's resolution isn't great, it would be fine for a text console. X would just look weird, but that resolution should be fine for things other than tv.
What I'm not sure about is what sort of inputs it accepts. From what I saw, it looks like it only has RCA a/v inputs, and not the analog VGA type that would be more useful.
Hm, from the page:
Caution:
Do not use while subject to external motion
Well, this seems a bit unfair. This means that, say, a female could wear them during sex (internal motion) while a male could not (external motion). I say that we all go sue sony for sexual discrimination.
Hell, he was most likely just frustrated with those crappy DN controls; I sure feel more aggravated having to deal with that wretched excuse of a game. Another fine example of your tax money at work.
Correct me if I'm all washed up, but from the white papers it looks more like a math-like OpenGL renderer, maybe with some modeling capabilities? Where did you get the idea that it was a visual database?
I get a blank page when I hit the download link. It does not seem slashdotted, just that link won't work.
There aren't even screenshots, though I did find a gallery of images made with it here.
There are some tutorials with some partial shots, (like this one) they are here.
Same problem here. System is a K6-2 266, 192MB ram, Voodoo3 2000 AGP.
/usr/lib/games/quake2/libMesaGL.so.2.6' - which uses the MesaGL driver from quake2, but does not display fullscreen, therefore does not use hardware accelleration. I get a window, and a repeating menu-type sound. After a few minutes, I was able to move down one option in the menu with the keyboard, but this is definately less than optimal.
I can get an unaccellerated window if i run it as: `./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver
Recompiling Mesa with 3dfx support now...
For the record, the last q3test would start, but I got the whole non-fullscreen non-3d-accellerated crap.
Quake 2 works just peachy-keen.
Any pointers?
No, Desqview/X allowed you to both run X clients from *NIX boxen, and display dos apps on an X display. Not sure if it worked with Windows stuff or not.
Actually, as I was looking at Debian weekly news, and saw that there was a GPL'd (not sure - but Open Source) Turbo Pascal compatible compiler. There's also a free port of the old Borland Turbo Vision library. This sort of thing makes me quite happy, as my first programming experience was with Borland Turbo Pascal.
Actually, the ES1370/1 line of PCI sound cards (Ensoniq AudioPCI / AudioPCI 97 & Creative SB 16 PCI) are extremely nice with Linux. You get dual DSPs (one full-duplex record/play, one play only), they are very well supported, and you don't have to deal with jumpers / soft-settable / ISA PnP to get it working. Just drop in the board and compile drivers - or insmod them if your distro is built that way. Dunno about PCI modems. Heard that the Diamond PCI modems are nice, but I haven't had a chance to try one in Linux. Matters not to me anyways, DSL is cheap and readily available in my area.
Well, you could always add:
`deb-src http://debian.mirror.here/debian stable main contrib non-free'
and `apt-get source package' to get the source, including headers and all. Then compile to your needs and install.
Whoa! Rain in your doubt for a bit. I have DSL through USWest. I did not have to sign any contract or agree to use their service for any period of time. In my experience, there is plenty of bandwidth. I have not run into any sort of bottlenecks with USWest's equipment or service. Indeed, I usually get 50 to 60 kb/sec, which is over twice my rated 256kbit connection. For the record: Standard phone line == $30 / month Deluxe DSL == $30 / month DSL net service == $20 / month Grand total: $80 / month The deluxe DSL it a 24/7 connection which allows you to use your voice telephone at the same time. YMMV depending on area and line quality, but I am more than satisfied.
Er, PalmOS has supported TCP/IP networking since version 2, on the PalmPilot Pro model. I have run PPP on a PalmPro connected to my Linux box. It was kinda neat, but the screen size makes it not very good for most network applications I can think of.
Anyone know if DSL would be affected by this? I wouldn't think so.
This is an interesting angle. Since I get my DSL line and service from the same company (USWest with USWest.net service), how would they pay for this? They own the local telephone network. If the telcos don't have to pay, wouldn't this be seen as encouraging monopolies - eg, a small ISP must pay per minute, while the telcos don't.
"I think it would be very hard for anyone with a brain to take MTV seriously now and I hope noone does."
Anyone who takes anything on TV seriously needs counceling or a couple dozen IQ points. It's also interesting to not that he says this after pointing out that MTV caters to the lowest common denominator - which, IMO, is not someone with "brains".
Doesn't h2g2 already do this? (http://www.h2g2.com) - It seems to me that the next generation handheld (visor? palm viii?) with web access would be just as good. Of course, we don't know what sort of content is going to be on the real-life hhgttg. It would be interesting if they just snarfed h2g2's content - Douglas Adams has approved of h2g2 in the past...
When can I run the ARM port of Linux on it?
Looks like most of the mirrors haven't picked it up yet. Found it at ftp9.us.kernel.org [patch in bzip2 or gzip]
Looks like 2.2.12 has not propagated to all the mirrors yet; ftp9.us.kernel.org has it though.
Hmmm.... Are you running potato or slink? I've been running potato and netscape 4.xx + wmaker for some time, and haven't seen such a problem.
Might try unchecking `UseSaveUnders' in wmakerconf, that fixed the x11amp skin crashes I was having.
Maybe try the latest potato netscape 4.6 packages?