No B.O. n�mero <4055b144$0$2797$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, de Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:36:03 -0500, consta que Chuck Harris escreveu no sci.electronics.cad :> Linux runs just fine for all my wordprocessing, spreadsheets, > presentation programs, math analyzers, PCB layout tools, Spice > simulations, gerber viewers, web browsers, email, CD players and > burners, DVD players, document scanners, printers, networking, midi > composers and players, web authoring, web hosting, the list is > endless... AND ALL OF IT IS FREE!But some things that I use aren't supported: mainly webcam/voice chatting via MSN or YM and P2P programs (I won't consider using Wine as this is cheating). Otherwise it is good. -- Chaos Master� - Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil irc.brasnet.org - #xlinuxnews and #poa marreka.no-ip.com (ainda n�o pronto) LRU #327480
ANN: new Pulsonix version 3 PCB software released
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Reply by ●March 15, 20042004-03-15
Reply by ●March 15, 20042004-03-15
"Meindert Sprang" <mhsprang@NOcustomSPAMware.nl> wrote in message news:<40544519$1@news.nb.nu>...> "Jerry Avins" <jya@ieee.org> wrote in message > news:40541909$0$2791$61fed72c@news.rcn.com... > > > Windows 95 and 98 let you control the serial and parallel ports without > > hassle. Many programs that do physical I/O won't run on NT derivatives. > > The serial ports are completely accessible at register level in NT and 2000. > For the parallel port are numerous drivers available that, once installed, > allow any program to access the parallel port at register level.Actually they're not. For *DOS* applications, a virtual device driver provides the appearance of direct access. In short, what happens is the application issues an I/O instruction, when generates a protection fault. The VDD will have registered itself as a handler for some range of ports (for example 3f8-3ff for COM1), and it gets a message that an application has issued a byte/word/dword in/out to port 0xABCD, along with the contents of the registers. The VDD fakes the operation, updates the registers, returns, and the application is (more-or-less) none the wiser. But, as you mentioned, there are drives (for example giveio.sys), which will allow direct access, although they're certainly not there by default.
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
Hi CM, You need to look a little harder. There have been video phone applications and P2P programs available for linux for several years now. I can't say that they work with with MSN, though. -Chuck Harris Chaos Master wrote:> But some things that I use aren't supported: mainly webcam/voice chatting via > MSN or YM and P2P programs (I won't consider using Wine as this is cheating). > > Otherwise it is good. >
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
Chaos Master <wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c35nhc$24hm45$7@ID-88878.news.uni-berlin.de>...> No B.O. n�mero <4055b144$0$2797$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, de Mon, 15 Mar 2004 > 08:36:03 -0500, consta que Chuck Harris escreveu no sci.electronics.cad : > > > Linux runs just fine for all my wordprocessing, spreadsheets, > > presentation programs, math analyzers, PCB layout tools, Spice > > simulations, gerber viewers, web browsers, email, CD players and > > burners, DVD players, document scanners, printers, networking, midi > > composers and players, web authoring, web hosting, the list is > > endless... AND ALL OF IT IS FREE! > > But some things that I use aren't supported: mainly webcam/voice chatting via > MSN or YM and P2P programs (I won't consider using Wine as this is cheating). > > Otherwise it is good.Regarding P2P, there is a good version of eMule under Linux. It is call aMule, connects to ed2k network, shares with other eMule users and performs quite well. Try it.
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
"Robert Wessel" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bea2590e.0403151922.46dc1b36@posting.google.com...> "Meindert Sprang" <mhsprang@NOcustomSPAMware.nl> wrote in messagenews:<40544519$1@news.nb.nu>...> > The serial ports are completely accessible at register level in NT and2000.> > For the parallel port are numerous drivers available that, onceinstalled,> > allow any program to access the parallel port at register level. > > Actually they're not. For *DOS* applications, a virtual device driver > provides the appearance of direct access.I know. But in the end, for the DOS application it looks as if the ports are there. Meindert
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
Chaos Master <wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com> says...>But some things that I use aren't supported: mainly webcam/voice chatting via >MSN or YM and P2P programs (I won't consider using Wine as this is cheating).Why won't you consider using Wine? Or, better yet, a real copy of Windows running under VMWare? -- Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
No B.O. n�mero <5517e6ce.0403152319.3d5d519c@posting.google.com>, de 15 Mar 2004 23:19:09 -0800, consta que francesco escreveu no sci.electronics.cad :> Regarding P2P, there is a good version of eMule under Linux. It is > call aMule, connects to ed2k network, shares with other eMule users > and performs quite well. Try it.eMule has far too much queues and is better for software (but I don't need WaReZ under Linux!). I like Kazaa better for .mp3 . -- Chaos Master� - Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil irc.brasnet.org - #xlinuxnews and #poa marreka.no-ip.com (ainda n�o pronto) LRU #327480
Reply by ●March 16, 20042004-03-16
"Guy Macon" <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote in message news:6o-dnS0zR6tivMrdRVn-sA@speakeasy.net...> > Chaos Master <wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com> says... > > >But some things that I use aren't supported: mainly webcam/voice chattingvia> >MSN or YM and P2P programs (I won't consider using Wine as this ischeating).> > Why won't you consider using Wine? > > Or, better yet, a real copy of Windows running under VMWare? > > > -- > Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. > Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you > have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like > Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/ >I used Win4Lin for a while, it didn't do Win2K but it did Win98 just fine. Some Win98 tasks actually seem to run better IMHO. It's a lot cheaper than VMWare which also works quite well and supports more Guest OS's. These days I use Virtual PC running Linux on top of XP and that works well. I do remember a post by Lewin some time back regarding some serious hacking he had to do to fix his Virtual PC partition. So far it's been working ok for me.
