[linux-help] Re: Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0

[Joseph L Weaver <jlweaver@xxxxxxx>]

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Vol II/No. 20
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   Wednesday, May 29, 2002

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   Tom's
   Hardware    [Win the Ultimate Digital Experience, including NVIDIA nForce 
420D motherboards, AMD Athlon XP Processors and a trip to the 2002 PC Expo in 
New York City.]
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               Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0
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               We've talked about running Windows applications inside Linux, 
and now we'll look at the same for Windows gaming. WineX, from TransGaming 
Technologies, lets
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   newsletter? E3 Expo 2002, Los Angeles - Day One of Three

   Advertise   This week we'll bring you our findings from three days at E3. 
Without a doubt, game consoles were the big winners at the latest E3 show in 
Los Angeles, the
   in          largest convention for computer games. The PC pales by 
comparison. At last year's show, Xbox and the GameCube were the highlights, and 
now, content takes
   Tom's Hard  center stage. Nowadays, software is definitely becoming 
game-oriented, not to mention warrior-like, considering the large number of 
shooter games. There's
   News        no question about it - the new video games have begun a new era. 
The gamers are no longer just kids - adults have become the majority, which 
explains our
               selection of products. Gamers between the ages of 7 and 77 will 
be pleased!

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               Driving Is Much Easier With A Steering Wheel!

               IThere are lots of PC racing games, but they are really hard to 
handle with the keyboard. A wheel gives you a great advantage and is well worth 
the
               investment, especially if you are a racing fan. We have taken 
the best of them apart, literally dissected them. So here is a little lesson in 
anatomy.

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               Making Themselves Heard:
               11 GeForce4 Ti4400 and Ti4600 Cards

               The GeForce4 4600 range of graphics cards offer excellent 
performance, but is one of them right for you? This depends on quite a few 
factors - in addition
               to the price and 3D performance, there's the video quality and 
the noise of the cooling fan to consider as well.

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               Samsung preps DDR- II DRAM

               Samsung today claims an industry first, a high-density 512Mb 
DDR-II memory chip. Or rather a prototype, the company says it's developing the 
part which is
               it says the first to fully satisfy the new JEDEC DDR-II 
standard, introduced in March 2002. It will go in to volume production in Q3 
2003. The Korean giant
               today also announced that IBM has developed a DDR-II memory 
subs-sytem, which Samsung has validated using early 128Mb DDR-II device 
prototypes. According
               to Samsung this validation shows the technology is not flaky. 
Also it claims this first try-out will "greatly reduce the lead time for 
introducing this new
               design".

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               Intel steps back from InfiniBand

               Intel Corp doesn't want to develop Infiniband interconnect chips 
- due for launch in 2003 - anymore. In stead the company is keen to develop the 
PCI
               Express internal PC bus replacement technology also known as 
3GIO.

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               Security researchers warn of worm blitzkriegs

               Security researchers are warning of the availability of more 
powerful virus writing techniques, which call for a more co-ordinated approach 
to combat next
               generation worms. In a paper, How to 0wn the Internet in Your 
Spare Time, Stuart Staniford of Silicon Defense, Vern Paxson of the ICSI centre 
for internet
               research and Nicholas Weaver of University of California 
Berkeley, argue the ability of attackers to rapidly gain control of vast 
numbers of Internet hosts
               poses grave security risks. They suggest surreptitious worms, 
which spread more slowly but are much harder to detect, "could arguably subvert 
upwards of
               10,000,000 Internet hosts".

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               Intel plays gentle giant in euro-broadband push

               Intel loves broadband. No it really, really loves broadband. In 
the US, Craig Barrett, Intel CEO is lobbying the Bush administration to promote 
a national
               policy to accelerate broadband rollouts across the country. In 
Europe, the chip giant is taking it rather more gently. It wants a quick 
broadband rollout
               on this continent too: it strongly backs local loop unbundling 
and it's helping out with service providers and content providers behind the 
scenes, with
               work on standards, and promotion of best practices.

               Intel is encouraging system builders to embed broadband modems 
into PCs, it's working with the set-top box makers, and finally it's spreading 
its co-op
               marketing largesse among broadband players.

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               BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

               Users of the TiVo digital video recorder have reacted angrily to 
a new sponsorship feature that automatically records certain programmes, 
adverts and other
               promotional material, Andrew Smith writes.

               One of TiVo's more innovative features is its ability to 
recommend programmes based on viewing habits, such as watching every episode of 
a soap opera or
               every film starring a certain actor.

               But viewers in the UK were surprised this week to find that the 
second episode of the little-known BBC sitcom "Dossa and Joe" had been recorded 
without
               their knowledge and added to the system's main menu screen.

               They were even more surprised to find that they won't be allowed 
to delete the programme for one week, and that more sponsored recordings are on 
the way.

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