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If "the hardware" was AT PC, then the only way to turn it off was to push the button (or cut the power source).

QFT. True. I hope MS will ditch it soon and start with something fresh and new, not limited by their past mistakes (maybe something based on Singularity?) That's not entirely true. For example, you can't run 16b stuff on 64b Windows (which is kind of stupid, as NTVDM emulates 80486 on non-x86 HW, so why not emulate it on x86-64 too?). On the other hand, you can run DOS/win16 stuff on Linux using DOSEMU. It can run the code directly on CPU on x86, or it can use emulation and run anywhere. It also emulates some devices like the Sound Blaster, so you can e.g. run your games with sound, which is something you can't do on NTVDM AFAIK. For win32 and win64 applications, there's Wine, which also runs code directly on (x86) CPU, as it's merely an implementation of Windows API for non-Windows OSs. You might say that these solutions don't bring 100% compatibility, but neither does Windows. I can run (more or less, just like on Windows) everything you mentioned on my non-Windows OS, so your statement simply isn't valid (though you are obviously better off using Windows to run Windows software). I miss those :-(

Not only free, but also with no DRM or stupid unskippable anti-piracy ads. I've never fully understood how is pissing off paying customers supposed to stop piracy.

id Software has just released the source code of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory under the GPL. Download it from the id software FTP server:Return to Castle Wolfenstein (single player) Return to Castle Wolfenstein (multiplayer) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

id Software has just released the source code of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory under the GPL. Download it from the id software FTP server:Return to Castle Wolfenstein (single player) Return to Castle Wolfenstein (multiplayer) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

So, is it common in your country? Here in Czech Republic it's pretty usual. I just got back from the forest, here's what I've got: The heap on the left is of boletus chrysenteron, the heap in the middle is a mixture of boletus edulis, boletus reticulatus and boletus pinophilus, the dark-reddish ones on the top right are boletus erythropus, on the bottom there are suillus luteus, suillus grevillei, a mixture of various leccinum and a small macrolepiota procera. (I probably got some wrong, also the latin isn't properly used, sorry about that.) Do you like mushrooms? In what food?

Yup, these (and the other equally good boletus ones) are the reason I went to the woods in the first place :-) Well, I'm not that picky, for 2 reasons: a) the inferior ones are still good in non-mushroom-centric dishes, b) it's lame to come back home empty-handed, when there isn't much of the good stuff. But don't get me wrong, I would not pick everything, there are standards ;-)

QFT. GUIs generally only give the impression that they're easier to use, because you don't have to read manuals to use them (which often leads to developing bad habits that ultimately cost you more time than what you'd spend reading the manual). Of course there are many places where GUIs are necessary (like graphics editing), but for most simple, day-to-day tasks (like file management), command line is just better.

I use SMPlayer for video and Audacious for audio. On Linux. On Windows I don't play media files anymore.

There were 5 of them. And a datadisk.

It worked for me. It's a long time ago, though. ...what? Just because it doesn't follow the usual "we don't include it because it's not free / it's not free in USA" it specializes in stuff? Try the GUI interface that's included with ndiswrapper (exp(x) mentioned it). It will allow you to select an inf file and install the driver automatically IIRC.

You call that hard? This is hard: (but does terrorcore count as hardcore?) Back on the topic:

Actually there is the canvas element. But they couldn't use it, because (you guess right!) every-web-developers-favorite-browser doesn't support it.

Great thread!

I concur. So I'll just post some I like:

Anaal Nathrakh and The Axis of Perdition are my long-time favorites. Also the last Rammstein album is awesome.

Actually they're "bundles", which are directories that look like a single file in the file manager. The user settings go probably somewhere in the Library directory inside your home directory. AFAIK you can "install" them wherever you want, just by moving the bundle. (But I'm not a Mac user, so I'm not completely sure.) AFAIK that's not a problem in OS X. Yes, it's certified UNIX, but that doesn't mean it's like any other *nix OS. There's only one "distro", so maintaining binary compatibility isn't so difficult, as opposed to e.g. Linux, where there are hundreds of distros, each with different combinations of library versions and no desire to be binary compatible with each other. That's not a Windows-specific feature. Single-file installers with statically linked binaries can be done in any OS.

This kind of looks like a laser shotgun :-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY Just watched it. Pay attention to her jacket at 2:50. Did I see a Doom logo there?

Last time I've heard about it, they were borrowing some code from WebKit to speed things up.

Agreed. I have both her albums on my music player too. Right in the middle of my usual pile of industrial black metal and such shit. It's kind of catchy. And I like the videos. (Also, I've misread anarcho-punk as arachnopunk, which sounds kind of cool to me)

Excels in non-geekyness I should've said. But possibly in other respects too, from what I've seen, WM has crappy user interface, nearly uncontrollable on touch screens without a styllus, that phone manufacturers try to remedy with their own frontends. It also "rottens" on some phones, just like desktop Windows used to do, so with time it becomes slower and slower... Other problem I often hear about is its slowness in handling phone calls. Maybe you can shed some light on this, being a professional? Regarding what I'd buy, it would probably be Nokia N900, but that's because of all the geeky stuff I could do with it :-) Windows is designed to be friendly to anyone, Linux is designed in UNIX fashion, to be secure. Why do you think there are no viruses yet for that platform? It is a tempting target, given that half of the Internet infrastructure runs 24/7 on top of it (servers, routers, etc.) BTW jokes like Chuck Norris doesn't count, it doesn't exploit any security flaw in Linux :-P QFT

Graf Zahl: Business as usual indeed. When someone mentions Linux, you pop out, telling everyone how geeky it is (and thus it sucks), knowing nothing actual about it and completely ignoring the fact that it's not your average desktop OS, but an universal one that powers broad range of devices. Yes, even those not targeted at geeks, such as smartphones (ever heard of Android or Maemo?), where it actually excells in comparison with Windows (Windows Mobile that is, we'll see how Windows Phone turns out, but I have a feeling Microsoft missed a train here). And before you go on "arrr Linux troll FU" rampage, I must admit I was pretty mental about Linux in the past, but I've grown up since then. I suggest you do the same. Thank you.

That's true and I don't see it as a bad thing - the less computer "experts" who can change settings in the control panel, or, ocassionally, even change settings in the registry (!!!), the better. I know I'm not the only one tired by arguing with them about stuff they don't understand, yet they insist on that they're right, ranging from "when you unplug the cord, everything will be erased, so don't do that (happened to me once)" to "NTFS is the bestest filesystem out there because it stores all its metadata in files inside the filesystem and not in some binary blob somewhere". These people are always scared by any other OS, because their hypothetical rank is gone there, because, in reality, they know jack shit about computers. Then they go ranting on their blogs about how non-Windows suck, because they can't install their Windows software in it and there's no registry editor or updates scheduled to the first Tuesday in the month, etc.