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...the performance payoff. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "We can build a better product than Linux" -- Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin. One has to wonder why, with their huge resources, they haven't. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "So if you were to say 'Microsoft,' I'd say 'Where? L...

Ive tried very hard to get Half-Life to run on my Linux box...and I have finally managed to get it to work...the problem (the BIG problem) was that I was trying to use an installed version of windows as the basis of wine. It worked fine with most programs...but not Half-Life and some other games... My recommendation is that you dont use a preinstalled version of windows as the basis of a wine

...-----------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business." -- Jim Allchin, Microsoft

List, A recent discussion over on XiphWiki is trying to decide if OggPCM should support only little-endianness or the usual combo of big and little. It started with the following statement by an user (Qqq): "Portable players are usually ARM, which is usually little-endian. The Macintosh is now little-endian. Obviously the PC is little-endian. Clearly there is a winner. It's long past