Actually, mandrake 7.1 has a cool utility that does this for you. It's in drakeconf, and it'll mount your windows partition and rape the fonts. Redhat should definately add this to linuxconf.
I completly agree with you. I have lived in the bay area all my life and currently live in Newark. I constantly hear people complaining about housing prices. But these people drive Porsche's and BMW's. So many people around here just spend their money instead of saving it so someday they can buy a house. It's come to the point where many people's spending habits here could easily pay a monthly mortage on a decent house around here.
Housing prices are outrageous here. Relator's come to my door all the time making offers on your house, which is not for sale. I just got offered $720,000 for my house and I personally think my house sucks. You just don't get much for your money around here. Plus, over the past year housing prices have skyrocketed. My buddy purchased a new house last June for $850,000 and last month his neighbor, who has a home of similar size, sold his house for 2.5 million!!!! The market insanity around here scares me.
I too have a speedstream 5250. My first one didn't even work, and then my second one had faulty connections on the inside. Instead of dealing with Covad anymore I just fixed it myslef. I don't see how this peice of crap can be worth $300 when they cannot connect simple LED's correctly.
I currently have a DSL line through Covad, with Sirius as my ISP. DSL is wonderful once you get it. I can't imagine ever going back to a dial up modem. So, here was my dreadful expirence with pacbell, covad, and my isp.
Let me first say that I too live in the Silicon Valley, in fact my town borders Fremont(one of the first cities ever to get cable modem). I became sick of TCI, and now AT&T, constantly telling me,"cable modem will be here in six months." So once pacbell came out with their 49.99 pricing plan I decided DSL was my only way to go.
Pacific Bell checked my line, and said it was unsuitable for DSL service, but it could be made servicable if I coughed up $1000 for line servicing. Yea right I thought. A few months later I signed up for DSL service through sirius, a covad partner, and they told me DSL will work perfectly on my line. I was told my line would be up in about 3 weeks or so.
Up until recently, Covad was required to have a seperate DSL only line for it's customers. Covad contracts all of the line instillation to Pacbell, so the line of communication between myself and what was really going on when Sirius->covad->pacbell. Pacbell was scheduled twice to come by and do some line work, and they didn't show up. Meanwhile, Covad already scheduled an instillation time so a Covad employee can come by and install my modem(not that hard, don't see why I couldn't do it myself). When the scheduled Covad instillation day came, no one showed up. Covad didn't even call me to say there was a problem I needed to reschedule.
This nightmare continued for about 2 months until I finally got my line installed and modem delivered. Through all of this, I have to place most of the blame on pacbell for being understaffed and having generally not very knowledgable employees(at least the ones I dealt with). I also place much blame on Covad and my ISP for not properly communicating with me the status of the instillation, and for providing vague and generic answers to my status questions.
I have had my line for about 9 months now, and I must say it's very reliable compared to cable. I have expirenced outages, but not very often. In fact, I haven't expirenced one for about 3 or 4 months. Plus, when I have talked to service personell at my ISP, which offers DSL lines through pacbell and Covad, constantly tell me pacbell service and reliability is a nightmare.
So, from my expirence and from those who live in my neighborhood. Covad == install nightmare, but solid and reliable service once everything is going.
Pacbell == good speed, nightmare service people, and outages that can last for prolonged period of time without a proper explination to customers. Also, good luck getting through to their customer service line during an outage.
Exactly. I am getting pretty angry about nvidia not owning up to their PR. With 2.4, and DRI I should be getting all $250 worth of my GeForce, but no. Now, back on topic, I am glad to see 2.4 progressing. I compiled 2.3.44 a while back, and it ran great. USB support is really needed, especially with some computer manufactures selling computers that have the keyboard and mouse connected through USB. Can't wait until the next 2.4 based distro's come out!!
This show was aired in the SF Bay area last month,and I have to say that it was interesting (it was broadcast during one a pledge drives, and the producers were on the air afterward stating they wanted to hear viewer's reactions from the Valley first). The show basically cronicals the netscape development team fighting the announced deadline for the posting of the Netscape 5 source, and the early beginning of the mozilla project. Towards the end, they had a final section where they go back to netscape and see who is still there, as well as interview those who left.
I must say that it was a great show. I really got a grasp of the total amount of bugs that existed in the early mozilla (netscape 5) code release when one of the programmers scrools down a huge table, with various blocks representing different code segments of the browser. A green box represents good code, and red represents bugs that exist in that section. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of these blocks and the sea of red blocks was amazing.
It was a great chronicle of Netscape's drive to fend off microsoft's recent onslaught. I would have to say this is one of the best show's I have seen on television chronicling the high tech industry.
While I dread install wizards from windows, I remember hearing some hype about Zenguin Computing creating a universal installer back at LinuxWorld in August. I Haven't heard anything about this project since. Anyone have some info?
I personally have found debs to be a great package management system, but having some wizards would definately help sell linux to newbies. They simply cannot handle the command line.
About 2 weeks ago a patch for the SVGA server has been availabe to add support for the GeForce. You can get the precompiled binary, or patch of the SVGA server at http://www.s2.org/~jpaana/nv/
I haven't had any problems with it, plus support for the GeForce is going to be availabe in 3.3.6 - which should be availabe soon.
I am having some problems installing the latest mesa CVS that's needed for glx. I have Mesa 3.0 installed, but when I install glx it reports "Mesa 3.1 or above needed." Then I read some info on the FAQ over at glx.on.openprojects.net, and it stated the glx driver will only work on Mesa 3.2. Well, 3.2 isn't out, and I can't get the cvs version to compile correctly. The cvs version seems not to have the maklib files. Anyone have some suggestions? I really want to get q3 going. Kevin Higgins
I saw a 3d hardware accelerated 2d setup at LinuxWorld in August. It looked pretty cool, and the rep from 3dfx told me they were planning to get the source code out soon, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
Kinda off subject, but shame shame Tom for not using the new Matrox G400 drivers that were released on Oct 8th that includes the new Turbo GL (mini GL) drivers. Would have liked to see how the G400 Max performed with the newest drivers compared to the GeForce at the higher resolutions. From some of the benchmarking I have seen, it is giving the TNT2 Ultra a run for it's money on OpenGL games at higher resolutions.
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Actually, mandrake 7.1 has a cool utility that does this for you. It's in drakeconf, and it'll mount your windows partition and rape the fonts. Redhat should definately add this to linuxconf.
There is going to be another one in August in San Jose. I missed the one in Feb, but I attended the first two in San Jose. They completly rocked.
I completly agree with you. I have lived in the bay area all my life and currently live in Newark. I constantly hear people complaining about housing prices. But these people drive Porsche's and BMW's. So many people around here just spend their money instead of saving it so someday they can buy a house. It's come to the point where many people's spending habits here could easily pay a monthly mortage on a decent house around here.
Housing prices are outrageous here. Relator's come to my door all the time making offers on your house, which is not for sale. I just got offered $720,000 for my house and I personally think my house sucks. You just don't get much for your money around here. Plus, over the past year housing prices have skyrocketed. My buddy purchased a new house last June for $850,000 and last month his neighbor, who has a home of similar size, sold his house for 2.5 million!!!! The market insanity around here scares me.
I too have a speedstream 5250. My first one didn't even work, and then my second one had faulty connections on the inside. Instead of dealing with Covad anymore I just fixed it myslef. I don't see how this peice of crap can be worth $300 when they cannot connect simple LED's correctly.
I currently have a DSL line through Covad, with Sirius as my ISP. DSL is wonderful once you get it. I can't imagine ever going back to a dial up modem. So, here was my dreadful expirence with pacbell, covad, and my isp.
Let me first say that I too live in the Silicon Valley, in fact my town borders Fremont(one of the first cities ever to get cable modem). I became sick of TCI, and now AT&T, constantly telling me,"cable modem will be here in six months." So once pacbell came out with their 49.99 pricing plan I decided DSL was my only way to go.
Pacific Bell checked my line, and said it was unsuitable for DSL service, but it could be made servicable if I coughed up $1000 for line servicing. Yea right I thought. A few months later I signed up for DSL service through sirius, a covad partner, and they told me DSL will work perfectly on my line. I was told my line would be up in about 3 weeks or so.
Up until recently, Covad was required to have a seperate DSL only line for it's customers. Covad contracts all of the line instillation to Pacbell, so the line of communication between myself and what was really going on when Sirius->covad->pacbell. Pacbell was scheduled twice to come by and do some line work, and they didn't show up. Meanwhile, Covad already scheduled an instillation time so a Covad employee can come by and install my modem(not that hard, don't see why I couldn't do it myself). When the scheduled Covad instillation day came, no one showed up. Covad didn't even call me to say there was a problem I needed to reschedule.
This nightmare continued for about 2 months until I finally got my line installed and modem delivered. Through all of this, I have to place most of the blame on pacbell for being understaffed and having generally not very knowledgable employees(at least the ones I dealt with). I also place much blame on Covad and my ISP for not properly communicating with me the status of the instillation, and for providing vague and generic answers to my status questions.
I have had my line for about 9 months now, and I must say it's very reliable compared to cable. I have expirenced outages, but not very often. In fact, I haven't expirenced one for about 3 or 4 months. Plus, when I have talked to service personell at my ISP, which offers DSL lines through pacbell and Covad, constantly tell me pacbell service and reliability is a nightmare.
So, from my expirence and from those who live in my neighborhood.
Covad == install nightmare, but solid and reliable service once everything is going.
Pacbell == good speed, nightmare service people, and outages that can last for prolonged period of time without a proper explination to customers. Also, good luck getting through to their customer service line during an outage.
AMD is not guilty of multiplier locking. You can adjust the multiplier on current Athlon's with the use of a Gold Fingers device.
Exactly. I am getting pretty angry about nvidia not owning up to their PR. With 2.4, and DRI I should be getting all $250 worth of my GeForce, but no. Now, back on topic, I am glad to see 2.4 progressing. I compiled 2.3.44 a while back, and it ran great. USB support is really needed, especially with some computer manufactures selling computers that have the keyboard and mouse connected through USB. Can't wait until the next 2.4 based distro's come out!!
This show was aired in the SF Bay area last month,and I have to say that it was interesting (it was broadcast during one a pledge drives, and the producers were on the air afterward stating they wanted to hear viewer's reactions from the Valley first). The show basically cronicals the netscape development team fighting the announced deadline for the posting of the Netscape 5 source, and the early beginning of the mozilla project. Towards the end, they had a final section where they go back to netscape and see who is still there, as well as interview those who left.
I must say that it was a great show. I really got a grasp of the total amount of bugs that existed in the early mozilla (netscape 5) code release when one of the programmers scrools down a huge table, with various blocks representing different code segments of the browser. A green box represents good code, and red represents bugs that exist in that section. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of these blocks and the sea of red blocks was amazing.
It was a great chronicle of Netscape's drive to fend off microsoft's recent onslaught. I would have to say this is one of the best show's I have seen on television chronicling the high tech industry.
While I dread install wizards from windows, I remember hearing some hype about Zenguin Computing creating a universal installer back at LinuxWorld in August. I Haven't heard anything about this project since. Anyone have some info?
I personally have found debs to be a great package management system, but having some wizards would definately help sell linux to newbies. They simply cannot handle the command line.
And now for some PR goodness. http://www.in foworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990617.pizengu in.htm
About 2 weeks ago a patch for the SVGA server has been availabe to add support for the GeForce. You can get the precompiled binary, or patch of the SVGA server at http://www.s2.org/~jpaana/nv/
I haven't had any problems with it, plus support for the GeForce is going to be availabe in 3.3.6 - which should be availabe soon.
I am having some problems installing the latest mesa CVS that's needed for glx. I have Mesa 3.0 installed, but when I install glx it reports "Mesa 3.1 or above needed." Then I read some info on the FAQ over at glx.on.openprojects.net, and it stated the glx driver will only work on Mesa 3.2. Well, 3.2 isn't out, and I can't get the cvs version to compile correctly. The cvs version seems not to have the maklib files. Anyone have some suggestions? I really want to get q3 going. Kevin Higgins
I saw a 3d hardware accelerated 2d setup at LinuxWorld in August. It looked pretty cool, and the rep from 3dfx told me they were planning to get the source code out soon, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
Bill Gates from the Best Buy commercial - I second that nomination.
I go to SCU, undergrad comp eng., and I have heard about this project. I think it's pretty cool. -There is no spoon-
Kinda off subject, but shame shame Tom for not using the new Matrox G400 drivers that were released on Oct 8th that includes the new Turbo GL (mini GL) drivers. Would have liked to see how the G400 Max performed with the newest drivers compared to the GeForce at the higher resolutions. From some of the benchmarking I have seen, it is giving the TNT2 Ultra a run for it's money on OpenGL games at higher resolutions.