There isn't firewire support compiled into the kernel. If you want to connect an iPod or use any other firewire devices you have to recompile the kernel. That is a really stupid omission especially when it was reported in bugzilla during test 2!
From what I remember, not only was Firewire unstable in time for release, but was causing instability even for people without Firewire. I'd rather they held off on including it until it is stable rather than risk data loss by including it prematurely.
Also, how long ago was this? It wasn't that long ago that Linux on a laptop required a lot of kludging, especially to get X running.
To be slightly pedantic, getting a laptop LCD to work with Red Hat is almost always trivial. More often, laptops use video chipsets that aren't always well-supported. But once the video chipset is dealt with, the screen typically Just Works. I know mine did since the Red Hat 6 days.
I tried to install Core 2 on my 5 year old Thinkpad 390e (don't laugh - I got it used and it was cheap and all that really matters is the 14" screen), and I had nothing but problems setting up pcmcia devices.
So that's where my old laptop went... But seriously, I owned that exact same model of ThinkPad and had little trouble with PCMCIA devices from RedHat 5.2 to 9 - when I sold it. What card are you having trouble with?
The winmodem isn't ever likely to work and I never bothered with the S-video port. But the only trouble my 390E ever gave me was some flakiness with a model of 3Com Ethernet card I've long since forgotten. It turns out that the default Windows 98 installation was even worse, as I found out when I reinstalled it prior to sale.
Every modern OS requires a lot of patience and tolerance for imperfections. I don't feel that the imperfections in Windows are any better or worse than the ones in Linux (or MacOS X, for that matter) - it's all a matter of preference.
But since my home machine has no Windows partitions on it, the FC2 bootloader issue doesn't concern me and I wouldn't have noticed it had it not been brought up on/. I can understand it's a big issue for dual-booters, but it's not for me. Thus, I can muster no outrage in the matter.
Try updating your BIOS. My Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard needed a BIOS update to work properly with Fedora Core 2 (x86-64) without the need for a workaround at install-time. After that, it installed and worked fine.
Bittorrent will fixed broken bits of files automatically. It won't upload junk to people, either. So feel free to restart it and it'll take care of the rest.
Seems to me that SD Times putting SCO on the list of top 100 influential companies is a little analogous to Time Magazine naming Hitler as "Man of the Year" in 1938. Like Darl, I'm sure Hitler though it was an honor as well.
A lot of historians considered Hitler the most influential man of the 20th century. They caught a lot of flack for it. But "influential" merely means having a lot of influence on events - not necessarily a beneficial influence.
The MD5SUM file posted here in this forum has a valid Fedora Project GnuPG signature, if you remove the excess spaces. And I've now downloaded the first CD via bittorrent, and the MD5 sum doesn't match... I can only conclude, that this is not the final Fedora Core 2, but a hoax.
You can't check the md5sums of the ISOs until the entire bittorrent download is complete. Bittorrent makes no guarantee that all of ISO 1 is finished downloading before you start getting ISO 2. It's common for bittorrent to go back and patch "holes" in files near the end of the download - and any gap in the file will mess up your md5sum check.
The release schedule says FC2 should've been on its way to the mirrors two days ago. It's reasonable to assume this is an early leak prior to the official announcement two days from now. But one should always verify the GPG key and MD5SUMs just in case prior to any installation - even after the official announcement.
Of the three adult anime features I listed in my reply to the parent post, only one ("Metropolis") is really intended for a teen audience. The other two would probably be perceived as rather dull by most pre-college teens.
"Grave of the Fireflies" was meant for young teens and preteens as an educational sort of film. That's why it was originally shown as a double feature with "Totoro". Ultimately, there's a lot of anime that adults can enjoy, but hardly any that's specifically made for adults.
Anime fans seem to suffer from the mistaken belief that just because its directed at an adult audience automatically makes it mature. The adult anime that I've seen has almost all been puerile and appeals to a juvenile sensibility of violence and sex.
Most of the supposed "adult" anime really is aimed at teens. Especially the hyperviolent stuff. But the really popular, non-fringe anime doesn't have those elements and is meant to appeal to kids and adults alike - just like Pixar. This includes Ghibli films and long-running shows that air during "family hour" like Inu-Yasha.
The GBA's arm7 processor does not convert to a CISC z80 compatible, they are separate chips.
The stripped down Z80 is embedded in the ARM processor and functions as a seperate mode of the ARM chip. They are essentially two different CPUs on the same chip, near as I can tell. None of the specs show a genuine seperate Z80 chip in the GBA.
IE is still too stupid to properly do an alpha channeled PNG. But it does do 1-bit, GIF-style transparency and displays generic, non-transparent PNGs just fine. And so the only place left to use GIF for is crummy animations.
There is no hardware comparison so there is no way to discern if the DS even has a 3D processor in it.
There is no dedicated 3D hardware in the DS. But the ARM 9 is powerful enough to push polygons at roughly N64 levels - which can be found in the leaked specs document floating around online.
Given that it's more powerful than an N64, I'm sure it could emulate a GB/GBC/SGB pretty well.
In this case, the ARM 7 is the GBA's processor (with some slight modifications to serve as a stripped-down Z80 for GB/GBC compatibility, IIRC). When running GB/GBC/GBA titles, it'll be doing all the work. And when running DS titles, it'll serve as a co-processor for a little extra oomph.
The dreamcast died because of shitty programming interfaces and a weird dual-co-processor design.
The Saturn/ST-V had the quirky dual SH-2 co-processor design and was tough to develop for. The Dreamcast/Naomi had a straightforward single SH-4/PowerVR design that was very easy to develop for.
The Naomi was a smashing arcade success, and the Dreamcast got a lot of near arcade-perfect ports of Naomi games. But Sega ran out of cash to subsidize the hardware.
Right now, many see the giant market in handhelds. They will, without a doubt, begin chipping away at the big-N. Nintendo can't hold the lead forever
Chipping away, perhaps, but Sony has an uphill climb with its PSP. The DS's backwards-compatibility with the GB, GBC and GBA gives it a big library right from the start (the same reason the PS2 garnered such fast adoption) and it's all but assured to cost less and have longer battery life than the PSP.
I think the PSP will enjoy modest sales and a decent string of titles, but I feel it will prove to be the next Game Gear and never quite take charge of the portable gaming market in spite of superior hardware.
However, IIRC Fraunhoffer has stated that they believe Vorbis infringes on their patents, therefore it is unlikely that they would license the MP3 algorithm to anybody who plans to put it on the same device as Vorbis.
Fraunhofer already licensed mp3 decoders for Neuros, Rio and iRiver products that have (or may have) vorbis decoders. I surmise either Fraunhofer's patents don't cover vorbis, or Fraunhofer doesn't care about vorbis. Without more specific knowledge of the patents, it's difficult to guess which.
To the best of my knowledge, no they don't. Raid1 may have been an addition. It wasn't until the customer brought it back that anyone even knew that it had two drives.
The Snap 2000, the very first two drive Snap Quantum came out with, allowed for RAID-0, RAID-1 or seperate drives. One can change the setting from the "System Configuration" page, though certain changes were destructive (RAID-0 to RAID-1).
I can understand that a customer might prefer the striped configuration to get the most out of an expen$ive Snap unit, but the setup screens and the manual make the number of drives and the ramifications of their different configurations quite plain.
All two drive Snaps allow for RAID-1, RAID-0 or individual drives configurations. If you choose to configure it as RAID-0, total data loss happens if a single drive fails and the manual states as much.
Even assuming you can that price for the 80, that's $320 bucks for that. Why would you do that? 80 gigs isn't much, when most dells are coming with at least 40 gigs by default now. So to any people who've used this, or will use this, can you tell me why?
You're paying for a preconfigured, RAID-capable, networked storage device that requires one switch to turn on and is fully administered from a webpage. That means convenience, low power consuption and a small footprint. For some people, those factors are more important than pure size.
I'm using one for my home box. Everything about it is built for quiet and one can really hear the difference - especially compared to my old jet engine box. The only trouble is, I've gotten accustomed to the new level of quiet and I find myself wishing for something quieter yet. I have a feeling I won't be satisfied until I switch to a diskless, fanless box - like my old Apple ][ was.
It's a vicious circle:)
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For example, what does the person who has a PC in his room, next to his bed do?
Turn it off?
I've gone to great lengths to build a quiet PC, but the hum of it is loud enough that I sleep better with it off.
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From what I remember, not only was Firewire unstable in time for release, but was causing instability even for people without Firewire. I'd rather they held off on including it until it is stable rather than risk data loss by including it prematurely.
To be slightly pedantic, getting a laptop LCD to work with Red Hat is almost always trivial. More often, laptops use video chipsets that aren't always well-supported. But once the video chipset is dealt with, the screen typically Just Works. I know mine did since the Red Hat 6 days.
So that's where my old laptop went... But seriously, I owned that exact same model of ThinkPad and had little trouble with PCMCIA devices from RedHat 5.2 to 9 - when I sold it. What card are you having trouble with?
The winmodem isn't ever likely to work and I never bothered with the S-video port. But the only trouble my 390E ever gave me was some flakiness with a model of 3Com Ethernet card I've long since forgotten. It turns out that the default Windows 98 installation was even worse, as I found out when I reinstalled it prior to sale.
But since my home machine has no Windows partitions on it, the FC2 bootloader issue doesn't concern me and I wouldn't have noticed it had it not been brought up on /. I can understand it's a big issue for dual-booters, but it's not for me. Thus, I can muster no outrage in the matter.
Try updating your BIOS. My Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard needed a BIOS update to work properly with Fedora Core 2 (x86-64) without the need for a workaround at install-time. After that, it installed and worked fine.
Bittorrent will fixed broken bits of files automatically. It won't upload junk to people, either. So feel free to restart it and it'll take care of the rest.
A lot of historians considered Hitler the most influential man of the 20th century. They caught a lot of flack for it. But "influential" merely means having a lot of influence on events - not necessarily a beneficial influence.
You can't check the md5sums of the ISOs until the entire bittorrent download is complete. Bittorrent makes no guarantee that all of ISO 1 is finished downloading before you start getting ISO 2. It's common for bittorrent to go back and patch "holes" in files near the end of the download - and any gap in the file will mess up your md5sum check.
The release schedule says FC2 should've been on its way to the mirrors two days ago. It's reasonable to assume this is an early leak prior to the official announcement two days from now. But one should always verify the GPG key and MD5SUMs just in case prior to any installation - even after the official announcement.
"Grave of the Fireflies" was meant for young teens and preteens as an educational sort of film. That's why it was originally shown as a double feature with "Totoro". Ultimately, there's a lot of anime that adults can enjoy, but hardly any that's specifically made for adults.
Most of the supposed "adult" anime really is aimed at teens. Especially the hyperviolent stuff. But the really popular, non-fringe anime doesn't have those elements and is meant to appeal to kids and adults alike - just like Pixar. This includes Ghibli films and long-running shows that air during "family hour" like Inu-Yasha.
The stripped down Z80 is embedded in the ARM processor and functions as a seperate mode of the ARM chip. They are essentially two different CPUs on the same chip, near as I can tell. None of the specs show a genuine seperate Z80 chip in the GBA.
IE is still too stupid to properly do an alpha channeled PNG. But it does do 1-bit, GIF-style transparency and displays generic, non-transparent PNGs just fine. And so the only place left to use GIF for is crummy animations.
There is no dedicated 3D hardware in the DS. But the ARM 9 is powerful enough to push polygons at roughly N64 levels - which can be found in the leaked specs document floating around online.
In this case, the ARM 7 is the GBA's processor (with some slight modifications to serve as a stripped-down Z80 for GB/GBC compatibility, IIRC). When running GB/GBC/GBA titles, it'll be doing all the work. And when running DS titles, it'll serve as a co-processor for a little extra oomph.
They're behind the folded up screen, like on the SP.
The Saturn/ST-V had the quirky dual SH-2 co-processor design and was tough to develop for. The Dreamcast/Naomi had a straightforward single SH-4/PowerVR design that was very easy to develop for.
The Naomi was a smashing arcade success, and the Dreamcast got a lot of near arcade-perfect ports of Naomi games. But Sega ran out of cash to subsidize the hardware.
Chipping away, perhaps, but Sony has an uphill climb with its PSP. The DS's backwards-compatibility with the GB, GBC and GBA gives it a big library right from the start (the same reason the PS2 garnered such fast adoption) and it's all but assured to cost less and have longer battery life than the PSP.
I think the PSP will enjoy modest sales and a decent string of titles, but I feel it will prove to be the next Game Gear and never quite take charge of the portable gaming market in spite of superior hardware.
Fraunhofer already licensed mp3 decoders for Neuros, Rio and iRiver products that have (or may have) vorbis decoders. I surmise either Fraunhofer's patents don't cover vorbis, or Fraunhofer doesn't care about vorbis. Without more specific knowledge of the patents, it's difficult to guess which.
The Snap 2000, the very first two drive Snap Quantum came out with, allowed for RAID-0, RAID-1 or seperate drives. One can change the setting from the "System Configuration" page, though certain changes were destructive (RAID-0 to RAID-1).
I can understand that a customer might prefer the striped configuration to get the most out of an expen$ive Snap unit, but the setup screens and the manual make the number of drives and the ramifications of their different configurations quite plain.
All two drive Snaps allow for RAID-1, RAID-0 or individual drives configurations. If you choose to configure it as RAID-0, total data loss happens if a single drive fails and the manual states as much.
You're paying for a preconfigured, RAID-capable, networked storage device that requires one switch to turn on and is fully administered from a webpage. That means convenience, low power consuption and a small footprint. For some people, those factors are more important than pure size.
Because someone might like to pay you for that receipt.
It's a vicious circle :)
Turn it off?
I've gone to great lengths to build a quiet PC, but the hum of it is loud enough that I sleep better with it off.