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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0
From: Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>
Date: 29 May 2002 11:14:37 -0500
Reply-to: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx

I like html in webpages, and plain text in my email. Reading html email
in a text browser is painful. And its not much better in evolution
because it doesn't show images unless you tell it to, so that way
spamers can't verify you read their message by using special image
links. 



On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 10:54, Joseph L Weaver wrote:
> 
> Clint
> The newsletter is from Tom's Hardware.  I do not have the link.  Since you 
> hate html email
> you probably won't be interested in this newsletter either.
> ===================
> Clint Brubakken wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >   [Image]
> > >                                                                           
> > >                                                                          
> > > Newsletter Vol II/No. 20
> > >   [Image]
> > >
> > >
> > >    Wednesday, May 29, 2002
> > >
> > >   [Image]
> > >
> > >
> > >    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.]
> > >    Guide
> > >
> > >    Subscribe
> > >                Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0
> > >    Unsubscribe
> > >                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.
> > >    or
> > >    comments    [Image]
> > >    regarding
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >    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!
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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.
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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.
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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".
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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.
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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".
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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.
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                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.
> > >
> > >                [Image]
> > >
> > >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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