Comment Use Wuala (Score 1) 680
Use an old 100GB machine to donate 100GB to Wuala, then you get most of that back in guaranteed, online storage (encrypted and distributed as a bonus). Sweet.
http://www.wuala.com/
Comment Play it in your browser (Score 1) 152
For those who need reminding and don't have a copy of it, play it in your browser using JPC:
http://jpc.sourceforge.net/keen.html
There are other versions here:
http://classicdosgames.com/online.html
http://jpc.sourceforge.net/keen.html
There are other versions here:
http://classicdosgames.com/online.html
Comment Use an emulator (Score 1) 261
You should use an emulator like Qemu, or maybe Bochs. Then you're completely isolated from any hardware compatibility problems (virtualizers run directly on the physical cpu and thus can introduce incompatibilities when an image installed using one cpu is booted on another).
Or if you only have short term projects (they don't need to save their data), then use the ttylinux or dsl linux demos in JPC at:
http://javapc.sourceforge.net/demos_linuxdemos.html
Comment My top 4 (Score 5, Informative) 293
There are several very important books:
1. Effective Java - Joshua Bloch. This is by far the most important one.
2. Java, Concurrency in practice - Goetz
3. The art of multiprocessor programming - Herlihy and Shavit. This is much more theory oriented, but essential to become an excellent multithreaded programmer.
4. Java Puzzlers - Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter. This is quite a fun book - lots of Java Conundrums
Enjoy!
Comment what about Wuala? (Score 3, Interesting) 500
Doesn't Wuala solve this? It stores your files in encrypted pieces spread over multiple remote machines (so you can't see the size used without your password). It already has a large number of users as well. The password is not stored anywhere.
Comment Use an emulator! (Score 1) 147
Presuming people already have a copy of these games, why don't they just use an emulator to run them? As demonstrated at http://www.classicdosgames.com/
Submission + - Emulated PC enables Linux desktop in your browser! (ox.ac.uk) 1
Ianopolous writes: "Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% java x86 PC emulator, is now available online at http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk with online demos and downloads. JPC is open source and is the most secure way of running x86 software ever — 2 layers (applet sandbox, JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it the world's most secure means of isolating x86 software. Visit the website to try out some classic games and play around with Linux all within your web browser — refresh = reboot!"
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Comment Re:you could do this 2 years ago... (Score 1) 78
There's another site, which also uses JPC, but has a different bunch of games...
http://dosdose.com/toplist/more/
enjoy! :-)
Comment Re:you could do this 2 years ago... (Score 1) 78
This is true. However there are over 1.5 billion Java enabled devices worldwide, a good number of which have web browsers.
Comment you could do this 2 years ago... (Score 5, Informative) 78
You can play over 140 dos games in your browser here:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/online.php
Once they incorporate JPC's new applet snapshot facility it will have instant load time as well.
Comment Donate safely with Nereus (Score 1) 302
Donate the cpu's to academic research and grid computing research by running Nereus on them.
http://www-nereus.physics.ox.ac.uk/
Comment Re:google x86 (Score 1) 367
you already can with JPC...
http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/
Comment Use JPC instead! (Score 1) 367
Why not use JPC to run x86 code in Java. They already do that in an applet! That's bulletproof security for you!
http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/
