[linux-help] Re: Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0
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Do you have a link to this newsletter, it stripped all the link and
images out, and the line wrapping was annoying. I hate html email.
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 08:27, Joseph L Weaver wrote:
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> Newsletter 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
> Questions you run DirectX games in a Linux environment. We ran some
> benchmarks to compare performance too.
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> newsletter? E3 Expo 2002, Los Angeles - Day One of Three
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> 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!
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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