Is it legally possibly for RedHat to support that, given MySQL's goofy and confusing licensing restrictions? I'm guessing no... if you paid for your MySQL license (and the restrictions *are* confusing as hell, but it sounds like this would be a use that requires a license), then RedHat might be able to support the MySQL plug-in for PostFix, but RedHat has no way of knowing whether you paid it or not.
In short, I'd use PostGRE SQL or SQLite or some version of SQL that is actually 100% free and legal to use in all circumstances, and I'd blame MySQL themselves for this particular problem.
They're talking about "groupware" which is distinct from email, although email's a big part of it.
Some differences groupware products (Lotus Domino/Notes, MS Exchange/Outlook, whatever the hell Novell has) have:
1) Keep your calendar in the same application as your email, since (in my case at least) a majority of your corporate email is either meeting invitations, confirmations, cancellations, etc. Since the email and calendar is integrated, your calendar will automatically update when a meeting is cancelled, moved to a different room, or has a different chairperson. This is handy.
2) Keep an updated address book of everyone who works in the company, including phone and office location.
3) Provides other features handy in the office. An Out Of Office feature, for instance, that can automatically redirect your email to your assistant while you're on vacation.
I find it somewhat surprising that you've never worked somewhere with groupware.
One of the old Mac browsers (iCab I think?) did this with a little smiley face icon on the toolbar. It basically ran a validation and the smiley would frown if the page had more than a certain number of errors. Stupid feature, IMO... anyone who actually cares can use a validator themselves, and people who don't care will ignore the icon anyway.
The only reason the PS3 uses Linux is that Sony doesn't want to license the Windows kernel for it and... there aren't a lot of other options. The other embedded OSes are generally too wimpy to run enough infrastructure to support internet-capable games with all the fixings.
Also, if they licensed a Windows kernel for it, there's a slim-but-non-zero chance that Microsoft might make the Xbox 360 compatible with Sony videogames, and that would kill of the PS3 in weeks if it happened.
You need a TV/projector that supports HDMI to use with the PS3. I have a perfectly good HDTV that can run 1080i resolution, but since it's a whole 2 years old, that means I can't play HD games or Blu-Ray disks with a PS3 on it. But hey, my Xbox 360 works just fine on it... fancy that!
In short, screw Sony if they won't even make their console compatible with *2-year-old* TVs.
Uh, the Xbox 360 is a media center at least as much as the PS3 and it's cheaper and in stores now.
(Given, the original Xbox media center software stunk, but I hear the software on the 360 is really good. In any case, I've used Sony software before, and it all pretty much sucks.)
That might be Sony's excuse, but it's a bad excuse.
MS has repeatedly promised that they won't stop the backwards compatibility program until every single Xbox game runs on the Xbox 360. Right now, they're maybe a third of the way there...
What I don't get is why does it matter whether the 360 is playing the old games "natively" at all? They look and behave identically to the same game on the Xbox, whether or not it's emulated.
How goddamned boring would it be to live in a spinning tube for a year? That's assuming you had the money to:
1) buy the land to build the thing on 2) build the thing 3) hired enough tustworthy people to maintain it (without stopping it somehow!) so it didn't seize up one night and smash you against the wall breaking all your bones 4) hired enough people to keep you fed, watered and entertained 5) somehow plumbed in a toilet, which I'm sure would be an engineering challenge.
And I'm not even counting the numerous lawsuits, building permits, and other legal and social (and moral? how long are you keeping the kid in there?) challenges to the project.
Microsoft home networking gear was *excellent* for the 2 years they made it. So good, in fact, that I recently went out of my way to find a place still selling the MN-720 wireless broadband router. My old 802.11b router busted, so I tried a Netgear one-- it had crappy range and crashed under load. I tried a Linksys one-- it broke my network connections every half hour or so (fine for web browsing, but no good for playing games.) Finally, I gave up, replaced it with a new Microsoft model, and I've been happy as a clam with it ever since. The thing just works.
Also, I've actually played both Xbox and Xbox 360, and they're both fine machines. Xbox had problems with CD drives that wore out too quickly, but no more so than Sony's first run of PS2s, and MS nipped it in the bud pretty quick. The Xbox 360 is still a little too new to judge the built quality on, but so far mine's been great. I've had one freeze while playing Oblivion, but no other problems.
Also, iTunes DRM works on my Mac. That's, uh, pretty important to us PowerMac owners out there. Since Microsoft has shown no inclination whatsoever to port their DRM to OS X, I'll just stick with my iPod, thanks.
1) This isn't racism; it's discrimination at best.
2) Western Union is one of many competing companies. If you don't like how they do business, don't do business with them. It's that simple, people. If Western Union loses business over time, they'll either change this policy or go bankrupt-- either way, you get what you want. If they continue to be successful, well then I guess what enough people don't care.
But you do get "on Microsoft servers" in the following senses:
1) Microsoft's user rating program, whereby assholes users are kicked off, applies.
2) Microsoft's very thorough (and I believe unbroken) anti-cheat code is running, preventing more asshats from ruining your game.
3) Microsoft VOIP is running all the time, through "Microsoft servers" (since that's so important to you) even during load screens.
Those all apply regardless of which hardware is hosting the specific game in question, and those are the services you pay for. And in my opinion, it's worth the fee... I'm sick of seeing cheats and assholes on public servers on PC games.
There's a community of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans that operate the same way.
It's impractical for Rhino to release 11 seasons worth of MST3K episodes all at the same time, but they're doing their best to release collections as the movie rights become available. In the meantime, there's a community out there (and no I won't link to it) who will provide.avis of the unreleased episodes to all comers, even though it's illegal. When Rhine releases an official DVD of that particular episode, the download site erases it.
That said, the creators of MST3K have said multiple times that copying doesn't really bother them... I believe the message "keep trading the tapes" or something similar appeared in the credits of a ton of episodes... the real problem is that the rights for the movies they make fun of were (generally) bought for only a limited period of time, making DVD releases and re-runs of the show legally troublesome.
If you have the means to buy a HDTV and all the equipment needed to hook your PS3 into the system (HDMI connector? Mine 2-year old HDTV doesn't have one; so Sony would be making me buy a new TV-- screw that!)... why don't you just buy a Xbox 360 right now and enjoy all the benefits and features that Sony's giving you right now this instant? The only thing the 360 doesn't have that the PS3 does is a tilt-sensor controller-- but it *does* have rumble pack controllers, so it all evens out, right?
The 360 has the HDTV support of the PS3, but right now this instant, not a year from now. It has Xbox Live Arcade, which Sony is furiously trying to rip-off. It has the HD, it has the online play, it has the next-gen games. It doesn't require an HDMI connector, so maybe you could save major scratch not upgrading your TV for awhile.
Here's a few Xbox titles you might enjoy (some older):
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Yes, it's cross-platform, but the Xbox version is superior in every way to the other two. A re-invention of the 3rd person adventure game combining the mechanics of the original PoP from the 80s with revolutionary new gameplay features, like controlling the flow of time, and an excellent story-based framing.)
Panzer Dragoon Orta (innovative rail-shooter with an in-depth story.)
The Chronicles of Riddick (No, seriously, even if you generally hate console FPS games, you'll love this one. It's truly great, despite being a movie tie-in.)
Halo 2 (Again, even if you hate console shooters you'll love this game. The story is tremendous, the gameplay excellent with none of the slow parts that drug down the first Halo. The dialog is so great that some of the cut-scenes will bring you to tears.)
Spyro: A Dragon's Tail (If you like Mario 64, there you go.)
Super Bust-A-Move (If you like puzzle fighter games, there you go. There's also an excellent version of multiplayer Tetris on Xbox, but I can't remember the name of it.)
Whiplash (A cute little game where you play a weasel roped to an indestructible rabbit; really fun to play.)
Xbox Live is a matching service. (At least, for 90% of games; there are some games that don't work that way, like Final Fantasy XI for instance.) Of course one of the player's machines is hosting the game; but that doesn't address the grandparent's point in any way... the Xbox Live quality control mechanisms still apply regardless of who's hosting. You can complain about an asshole player as easily in Halo 2 as you can in Crimson Skies, or any other Xbox Live game.
Now, Halo 2 does have a problem with assholes pulling the cord as their team is losing and causing the game to spend 30 seconds finding a new host, but there's not a lot Microsoft can do about that. And you can always report the cord-puller with the feedback system.
If you're going to attempt to refute a point, you might want to actually come up with something that... you know... refutes the point.
Given, I haven't tried Sourceforge, but Trac is a HUGE pain to install. Mega-huge. In that the odds your server already has the dependencies taken care of are pretty much 0%. If I recall, it takes 4 different libraries (which have to be EXACT VERSIONS) or it won't do nothing.
They really need to streamline the installation so the standard (say) Dreamhost domain can run it before they can take over a lot of this market.
Or you could use Photoshop Elements, which only costs $90 and isn't nearly as painful to use as GIMP's brain-dead interface. (Especially on OS X, where GIMP is a X11 app.)
(how does one go about hooking a 360 controller to a Mac Mini?)
USB port (Mac Minis have those) and $5 shareware driver. That's not really that creative.
The point is that the article is about people buying the next generation of game consoles. If he's happy with Mario Brothers, then he's not buying the next generation of game consoles, and therefore his post is off-topic. He's not in the target demographic, so to speak. It's not relevant to the article we're all discussing here.
Of course this is Slashdot, so we all have to bend down and kiss Nintendo's ass: "wow Nintendo makes great systems, gameplay is better than graphics, so innovative, etc"
With that over with, out here in the real world I live in, I've heard exactly one person say anything about the Nintendo Revolution. I've heard a dozen people talking about buying a PS3 or a Xbox 360. It's possible that Nintendo will do better than the article predicts, but personally I don't think it's likely... Nintendo just doesn't have the mindshare required this round.
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Is it legally possibly for RedHat to support that, given MySQL's goofy and confusing licensing restrictions? I'm guessing no... if you paid for your MySQL license (and the restrictions *are* confusing as hell, but it sounds like this would be a use that requires a license), then RedHat might be able to support the MySQL plug-in for PostFix, but RedHat has no way of knowing whether you paid it or not.
In short, I'd use PostGRE SQL or SQLite or some version of SQL that is actually 100% free and legal to use in all circumstances, and I'd blame MySQL themselves for this particular problem.
They're talking about "groupware" which is distinct from email, although email's a big part of it.
Some differences groupware products (Lotus Domino/Notes, MS Exchange/Outlook, whatever the hell Novell has) have:
1) Keep your calendar in the same application as your email, since (in my case at least) a majority of your corporate email is either meeting invitations, confirmations, cancellations, etc. Since the email and calendar is integrated, your calendar will automatically update when a meeting is cancelled, moved to a different room, or has a different chairperson. This is handy.
2) Keep an updated address book of everyone who works in the company, including phone and office location.
3) Provides other features handy in the office. An Out Of Office feature, for instance, that can automatically redirect your email to your assistant while you're on vacation.
I find it somewhat surprising that you've never worked somewhere with groupware.
You could do that in Claris Emailer 2.0 in 1997. Surely there's an email client out there now that has support for it? (Mail.app perhaps?)
I loved Claris Emailer... best email client ever! Shame it was abandoned.
One of the old Mac browsers (iCab I think?) did this with a little smiley face icon on the toolbar. It basically ran a validation and the smiley would frown if the page had more than a certain number of errors. Stupid feature, IMO... anyone who actually cares can use a validator themselves, and people who don't care will ignore the icon anyway.
The only reason the PS3 uses Linux is that Sony doesn't want to license the Windows kernel for it and... there aren't a lot of other options. The other embedded OSes are generally too wimpy to run enough infrastructure to support internet-capable games with all the fixings.
Also, if they licensed a Windows kernel for it, there's a slim-but-non-zero chance that Microsoft might make the Xbox 360 compatible with Sony videogames, and that would kill of the PS3 in weeks if it happened.
You need a TV/projector that supports HDMI to use with the PS3. I have a perfectly good HDTV that can run 1080i resolution, but since it's a whole 2 years old, that means I can't play HD games or Blu-Ray disks with a PS3 on it. But hey, my Xbox 360 works just fine on it... fancy that!
In short, screw Sony if they won't even make their console compatible with *2-year-old* TVs.
Uh, the Xbox 360 is a media center at least as much as the PS3 and it's cheaper and in stores now.
(Given, the original Xbox media center software stunk, but I hear the software on the 360 is really good. In any case, I've used Sony software before, and it all pretty much sucks.)
That might be Sony's excuse, but it's a bad excuse.
There are three decent adult Gamecube games?
MS has repeatedly promised that they won't stop the backwards compatibility program until every single Xbox game runs on the Xbox 360. Right now, they're maybe a third of the way there...
What I don't get is why does it matter whether the 360 is playing the old games "natively" at all? They look and behave identically to the same game on the Xbox, whether or not it's emulated.
How goddamned boring would it be to live in a spinning tube for a year? That's assuming you had the money to:
1) buy the land to build the thing on
2) build the thing
3) hired enough tustworthy people to maintain it (without stopping it somehow!) so it didn't seize up one night and smash you against the wall breaking all your bones
4) hired enough people to keep you fed, watered and entertained
5) somehow plumbed in a toilet, which I'm sure would be an engineering challenge.
And I'm not even counting the numerous lawsuits, building permits, and other legal and social (and moral? how long are you keeping the kid in there?) challenges to the project.
Microsoft home networking gear was *excellent* for the 2 years they made it. So good, in fact, that I recently went out of my way to find a place still selling the MN-720 wireless broadband router. My old 802.11b router busted, so I tried a Netgear one-- it had crappy range and crashed under load. I tried a Linksys one-- it broke my network connections every half hour or so (fine for web browsing, but no good for playing games.) Finally, I gave up, replaced it with a new Microsoft model, and I've been happy as a clam with it ever since. The thing just works.
Also, I've actually played both Xbox and Xbox 360, and they're both fine machines. Xbox had problems with CD drives that wore out too quickly, but no more so than Sony's first run of PS2s, and MS nipped it in the bud pretty quick. The Xbox 360 is still a little too new to judge the built quality on, but so far mine's been great. I've had one freeze while playing Oblivion, but no other problems.
Also, iTunes DRM works on my Mac. That's, uh, pretty important to us PowerMac owners out there. Since Microsoft has shown no inclination whatsoever to port their DRM to OS X, I'll just stick with my iPod, thanks.
1) This isn't racism; it's discrimination at best.
2) Western Union is one of many competing companies. If you don't like how they do business, don't do business with them. It's that simple, people. If Western Union loses business over time, they'll either change this policy or go bankrupt-- either way, you get what you want. If they continue to be successful, well then I guess what enough people don't care.
Or, in short, vote with your wallet.
But you do get "on Microsoft servers" in the following senses:
1) Microsoft's user rating program, whereby assholes users are kicked off, applies.
2) Microsoft's very thorough (and I believe unbroken) anti-cheat code is running, preventing more asshats from ruining your game.
3) Microsoft VOIP is running all the time, through "Microsoft servers" (since that's so important to you) even during load screens.
Those all apply regardless of which hardware is hosting the specific game in question, and those are the services you pay for. And in my opinion, it's worth the fee... I'm sick of seeing cheats and assholes on public servers on PC games.
There's a community of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans that operate the same way.
.avis of the unreleased episodes to all comers, even though it's illegal. When Rhine releases an official DVD of that particular episode, the download site erases it.
It's impractical for Rhino to release 11 seasons worth of MST3K episodes all at the same time, but they're doing their best to release collections as the movie rights become available. In the meantime, there's a community out there (and no I won't link to it) who will provide
That said, the creators of MST3K have said multiple times that copying doesn't really bother them... I believe the message "keep trading the tapes" or something similar appeared in the credits of a ton of episodes... the real problem is that the rights for the movies they make fun of were (generally) bought for only a limited period of time, making DVD releases and re-runs of the show legally troublesome.
But here's what I don't get.
If you have the means to buy a HDTV and all the equipment needed to hook your PS3 into the system (HDMI connector? Mine 2-year old HDTV doesn't have one; so Sony would be making me buy a new TV-- screw that!)... why don't you just buy a Xbox 360 right now and enjoy all the benefits and features that Sony's giving you right now this instant? The only thing the 360 doesn't have that the PS3 does is a tilt-sensor controller-- but it *does* have rumble pack controllers, so it all evens out, right?
The 360 has the HDTV support of the PS3, but right now this instant, not a year from now. It has Xbox Live Arcade, which Sony is furiously trying to rip-off. It has the HD, it has the online play, it has the next-gen games. It doesn't require an HDMI connector, so maybe you could save major scratch not upgrading your TV for awhile.
Just FYI, Half-Life 2 does that on PC also. And yes, it pissed me off.
Here's a few Xbox titles you might enjoy (some older):
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Yes, it's cross-platform, but the Xbox version is superior in every way to the other two. A re-invention of the 3rd person adventure game combining the mechanics of the original PoP from the 80s with revolutionary new gameplay features, like controlling the flow of time, and an excellent story-based framing.)
Panzer Dragoon Orta (innovative rail-shooter with an in-depth story.)
The Chronicles of Riddick (No, seriously, even if you generally hate console FPS games, you'll love this one. It's truly great, despite being a movie tie-in.)
Halo 2 (Again, even if you hate console shooters you'll love this game. The story is tremendous, the gameplay excellent with none of the slow parts that drug down the first Halo. The dialog is so great that some of the cut-scenes will bring you to tears.)
Spyro: A Dragon's Tail (If you like Mario 64, there you go.)
Super Bust-A-Move (If you like puzzle fighter games, there you go. There's also an excellent version of multiplayer Tetris on Xbox, but I can't remember the name of it.)
Whiplash (A cute little game where you play a weasel roped to an indestructible rabbit; really fun to play.)
I don't get what you mean.
Xbox Live is a matching service. (At least, for 90% of games; there are some games that don't work that way, like Final Fantasy XI for instance.) Of course one of the player's machines is hosting the game; but that doesn't address the grandparent's point in any way... the Xbox Live quality control mechanisms still apply regardless of who's hosting. You can complain about an asshole player as easily in Halo 2 as you can in Crimson Skies, or any other Xbox Live game.
Now, Halo 2 does have a problem with assholes pulling the cord as their team is losing and causing the game to spend 30 seconds finding a new host, but there's not a lot Microsoft can do about that. And you can always report the cord-puller with the feedback system.
If you're going to attempt to refute a point, you might want to actually come up with something that... you know... refutes the point.
My favorite Xbox Live Arcade game at the moment is Marble Blast Gold. Try it, it's really fun as hell and cheap to buy. Even has multiplayer.
Given, I haven't tried Sourceforge, but Trac is a HUGE pain to install. Mega-huge. In that the odds your server already has the dependencies taken care of are pretty much 0%. If I recall, it takes 4 different libraries (which have to be EXACT VERSIONS) or it won't do nothing.
They really need to streamline the installation so the standard (say) Dreamhost domain can run it before they can take over a lot of this market.
Some families already do this. My brother named his daughter Luna Schell, "Schell" being a combination of her name and his.
Or you could use Photoshop Elements, which only costs $90 and isn't nearly as painful to use as GIMP's brain-dead interface. (Especially on OS X, where GIMP is a X11 app.)
(how does one go about hooking a 360 controller to a Mac Mini?)
USB port (Mac Minis have those) and $5 shareware driver. That's not really that creative.
The point is that the article is about people buying the next generation of game consoles. If he's happy with Mario Brothers, then he's not buying the next generation of game consoles, and therefore his post is off-topic. He's not in the target demographic, so to speak. It's not relevant to the article we're all discussing here.
Of course this is Slashdot, so we all have to bend down and kiss Nintendo's ass: "wow Nintendo makes great systems, gameplay is better than graphics, so innovative, etc"
With that over with, out here in the real world I live in, I've heard exactly one person say anything about the Nintendo Revolution. I've heard a dozen people talking about buying a PS3 or a Xbox 360. It's possible that Nintendo will do better than the article predicts, but personally I don't think it's likely... Nintendo just doesn't have the mindshare required this round.