{"id":73,"date":"2004-02-15T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-15T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T17:33:15","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Been a long week &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to have been a long week.  Geeky point of note was the supposed leak of some of the Windows 2000 source code.  Quite a coherent discussion of this is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforge.com\/software\/04\/02\/13\/1616235.shtml?tid=78&#038;tid=82&#038;tid=94\">NewsForge<\/a>.  We all said Windows should go open-source &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also found myself playing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kniggit.net\/wwol26.html\">2.6-series Linux kernel<\/a> after messing up my installed copy of the nVidia drivers through trying to modify support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealtournament.com\/\">Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo<\/a>, so decided to give the bleeding edge a go &#8230;  Not totally unsuccessfully, it must be said &#8211; although a number of revisions of the kernel build were needed to, in order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add audio support for onboard VIA chipset;<\/li>\n<li>Add SCSI disk support for emulated storage, via USB mass storage (for USB flash drives etc.), and<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Am now running an apparently stable build of 2.6.0 with much better graphical support, thanks to discovering that my nVidia display drivers were ludicrously out-of-date.  Have downloaded 2.6.2 which I now realise I probably should have tried in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the sound seems to lag about half a second behind the action with Unreal Tournament anyway &#8230; so it was probably all completely pointless.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the proclaimed &#8220;pre-emptive kernel&#8221; stuff helps the system run better generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to have been a long week. Geeky point of note was the supposed leak of some of the Windows 2000 source code. Quite a coherent discussion of this is at NewsForge. We all said Windows should go open-source &#8230; Also found myself playing with the 2.6-series Linux kernel after messing up my installed copy&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=73\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}