The only problem here is that they, bare minimum, cost $79, and the software key you buy is good for EXACTLY ONE driver, on EXACTLY ONE computer. I.e. if you change cards, or even your hardware appreciably, you're screwed.
Yes, this is a bit annoying, but the license does not get lost if you change anything on your computer EXCEPT for the graphics card. So the license is bound to one particular graphics card model. Ok, this is annoying enough, but you get a helluva lot free updates and really superb and prompt support! And if you are into SERIOUS OpenGL usage that doesn't include only playing Quake 3, then you gotta stick with Xig. You've also gotta go with them if you want FULL OpenGL compliance, which they offer for all their drivers.
The idea with "real" celebrities is that everyone thinks "Hey, if I could only be like them" or "I want to be him/her!" and there is actually a slight chance that one will get as famous as their idols one day. With digital celbrities it's different. You will never be "them" or live like "them". And they will never show up on parties, they will never give you autographs. They will never have affairs, scandals or other publicity. So you will never identify yourself as much with them as you do with "real" or human celebrities.
Ever thought about the problem where the Hydrogen for the fuel cell comes from? Fuell cells only store power. And you could use solar energy to produce the hydrogen through electrolysis.
So the combination of the two together would be some real great renewable energy. Just think of it: Thousands of square miles of solar arrays in the Sahara, or some sunny place anyway, powering huge industrial style Hydrogen plants. Then the hydrogen for the fuel cells gets shipped into the whole world. That'd be cool, huh?
Following these rules does not mean using mutt on the console - you can enjoy a GUI experience without creating bloatware. KMail is a great example of this - it reads and sends mail with a simple interface that does not attempt to solve an integrated problem.
Well, KMail is definitely more complex (in space and time complexity) than for example Pine, but the whole KDE2 architecture still is quite UNIXish. KMail uses the kio_smtp, kio_pop3 and kio_imap4 IO-Slaves. So if one wants to improve the IMAP performance of KMail he only has to improve the according KIO-Slave. After all it's Open-Source -- isn't it?
Konqueror 2.2.1 works great (more or less, for a MS site), if you change the user agent setting to something with "Internet Explorer" in it. It's all in the "Extras"-menu.
Second humans are really not meant to be put in space. We need to adapt, and we need to adapt in a serious way.
Then it's clear what we need! An über-race of galactic space pilots. They will be living in green gas-tanks and will be able to foresee the future. So they will be able to guide the space-ships safely through the universe. This genetically mutated monsters will establish a monopoly on space travel and draw their power from strange drugs they call 'spice'.
> and it doesn't quite have the themability that
> E/GNOME did.
That's not true anymore. Try High Performance Liquid for example. Ok, KDE needs more of these themes, but I for once like the plain themes/styles, because eye candy things are really bad for daily work.
> that useful XMMS panel control has no KDE
> equivalent.
Well, it doesn't have to! Just take wmxmms from WindoMaker and load the Dock Application Bar Extension for Kicker (the Panel). Then you can use ALL of you favourite WM dock apps.
> Neither does mini-commander, the box next to
> the clock for entering commands.
I like the Alt-F2 command box from KDE better. No need to take your hands from the keyboard. Plus you can execute su-commands with it.
> And that system monitor? Thats Gkrellm, it
> uses GTK.
Well, granted. There's no spiffy Gkrellm for KDE, but hey! KDE does run GTK apps, too, doesn't it?
The DTLA series was pretty screwed up. Last week I sent another two drives that died after about half a year of ordinary desktop usage. As far as I can see it's the technology used in the 70GXP series. See this article on anandtech for more details. I've already seen 5 drives from this series going down the drain. A low level format usually helps to solve the problem, but only temporarily! The error most likely occurs after some weeks again, in one case it reappeared even after some hours! Some friend of mine called IBM Germany and taled to them. They say it's MS Windows' fault, because it doesn't write correctly to the disk. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! And two of the disks I sent in were running Linux nevertheless...
> I've always wondered what the point of the
> interpretted code was. Why not just make a new
> object format, or extend an existing one, but
> make it pure intel object code?
I guess because Intel object code is far from being perfect. Too many opcodes to consider, too many specialities that would have to be emulated. Ok, there are some 386/486/pentium emulators out there, but I can think of better VM designs to make byte-code portable.
On the other hand: Why not use Z-Code? I remember one company that even made a database program for this architecture...
This mission is somewhat similar to that of the Giotto probe in 1986. Here is the link to the ESA site with more information about Giotto. But where Giotto was a dedicated mission, designed to take pictures and collect data of a comet core, the DS1 comet mission is "just" a great bonus mission.
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If you didn't already know, but Compaq has already dumped Alpha and now Intel has taken over control. And what that means you can surely imagine. With the IA64 coming up they surely don't need another 64bit platform! And probably not a better one...;-)
...and thus the best combination is to use the freely on the web available Microsoft fonts (on their ftp site e.g.) and disable font antialiasing for font sizes in the range from 8 to 14 pt. Very small fonts look better with AA and very large ones.
And here is what your/usr/lib/X11/XftConfig should contain:
match
any size > 8
any size < 14
edit
antialias = false;
Try it! Your desktop will look much better, and it won't hurt your eyes anymore. Of course you can tweak the point sizes a little.
This is good news indeed, since Solaris is still used on x86 by some, because people say it scales better.
BTW: Xi Graphics has been shipping graphics drivers for Solaris (and Linux) for a long time. Although not for free. But when you are using Solaris, I guess you have got the proper money. (Yes, Solaris is for free now, but I think of business applications and maybe enterprise solutions)
The software Loki chose to port was mainly determined by the license fees that Loki had to pay. Yes, they had to actually pay for porting a game! That is what many people don't realize. So there are naturally not so many top games affordable for a small company like Loki.
And concerning Blizzard... They have not been very positive towards Linux until now. But that might actually change, since Sam Lantiga -- former Lead Programmer of Loki and the inventor of SDL -- has switched sides and is now working for Blizzard. Maybe the guys at Blizzard will now develop their products also for Linux? Who knows? Time will tell.
Meanwhile go out and order your share of Loki games at tuxgames.com, suse.de or whatever reseller you like.
It's one of the major distros (esp. here in Europe) and the 7.2 release is very easy to install, yet very powerful if you like do tweak and configure a lot.
...that SuSE is already that weak. It's more or less the #1 distro here in Germany, and also in some of the eastern countries (Czech etc.). They teamed up with IBM to produce a SuSE distro for the 390 series, they've got SuSE for PowerPC, Sparc and Alpha. They are the european publisher for Loki Games. They provide excellent support for corporations. I don't know much about Mandrakesoft, but I guess they won't be able to buy out SuSE!
But the 2.x series has already got some very important features. Like the unified renderer, which improves image quality by a big amount! So I recommend using blender 2.12 or the upcoming 2.14 anyway.
It was fanless, had an entirely different shape and form and was running with a top notch processor.
Well, the shape is not that new. My computer, for instance, also has got 6 sides and 12 edges. (Ok, it's not a perfect cube...) I think this shape was invented -- let me guess... some few thousands years ago? Oh, wait. That's not correct. The Egyptians only had pyramids. But The Romans definitely had cubes.
I wann have one of those Atari shirts! It's just like in Road Trip! That's sooo cool! And of course: I still own an Atari MegaST 4 with 30 MB harddisk! Yay!
So far, I'm using "njamd" as a memory debugger and it doesn't detect any problems ou memory leaks.
What use is the debugger if it does not detect memory leaks!?;-)
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If you do a traceroute on the links given on aintitcool you can trace the servers back at least as far as 63.240.128.134. And that's where all the given links end. The whole story would have been really cool if they had set up servers at different places.
Slashdot Mirror
...if one could actually reply to those old postings. Esp. the one asking about MS-DOS, and if someone has more information about it. :-)
Yes, this is a bit annoying, but the license does not get lost if you change anything on your computer EXCEPT for the graphics card. So the license is bound to one particular graphics card model. Ok, this is annoying enough, but you get a helluva lot free updates and really superb and prompt support! And if you are into SERIOUS OpenGL usage that doesn't include only playing Quake 3, then you gotta stick with Xig. You've also gotta go with them if you want FULL OpenGL compliance, which they offer for all their drivers.
The idea with "real" celebrities is that everyone thinks "Hey, if I could only be like them" or "I want to be him/her!" and there is actually a slight chance that one will get as famous as their idols one day. With digital celbrities it's different. You will never be "them" or live like "them". And they will never show up on parties, they will never give you autographs. They will never have affairs, scandals or other publicity. So you will never identify yourself as much with them as you do with "real" or human celebrities.
Ever thought about the problem where the Hydrogen for the fuel cell comes from? Fuell cells only store power. And you could use solar energy to produce the hydrogen through electrolysis.
So the combination of the two together would be some real great renewable energy. Just think of it: Thousands of square miles of solar arrays in the Sahara, or some sunny place anyway, powering huge industrial style Hydrogen plants. Then the hydrogen for the fuel cells gets shipped into the whole world. That'd be cool, huh?
Well, KMail is definitely more complex (in space and time complexity) than for example Pine, but the whole KDE2 architecture still is quite UNIXish. KMail uses the kio_smtp, kio_pop3 and kio_imap4 IO-Slaves. So if one wants to improve the IMAP performance of KMail he only has to improve the according KIO-Slave. After all it's Open-Source -- isn't it?
Konqueror 2.2.1 works great (more or less, for a MS site), if you change the user agent setting to something with "Internet Explorer" in it. It's all in the "Extras"-menu.
Then it's clear what we need! An über-race of galactic space pilots. They will be living in green gas-tanks and will be able to foresee the future. So they will be able to guide the space-ships safely through the universe. This genetically mutated monsters will establish a monopoly on space travel and draw their power from strange drugs they call 'spice'.
Finally! It's all so obvious!
Does NOONE do any research on slashdot anymore? Look here! *sigh* :-)
And I wonder why my articles keep getting rejected.
> and it doesn't quite have the themability that
> E/GNOME did.
That's not true anymore. Try High Performance Liquid for example. Ok, KDE needs more of these themes, but I for once like the plain themes/styles, because eye candy things are really bad for daily work.
> that useful XMMS panel control has no KDE
> equivalent.
Well, it doesn't have to! Just take wmxmms from WindoMaker and load the Dock Application Bar Extension for Kicker (the Panel). Then you can use ALL of you favourite WM dock apps.
> Neither does mini-commander, the box next to
> the clock for entering commands.
I like the Alt-F2 command box from KDE better. No need to take your hands from the keyboard. Plus you can execute su-commands with it.
> And that system monitor? Thats Gkrellm, it
> uses GTK.
Well, granted. There's no spiffy Gkrellm for KDE, but hey! KDE does run GTK apps, too, doesn't it?
The DTLA series was pretty screwed up. Last week I sent another two drives that died after about half a year of ordinary desktop usage. As far as I can see it's the technology used in the 70GXP series. See this article on anandtech for more details. I've already seen 5 drives from this series going down the drain. A low level format usually helps to solve the problem, but only temporarily! The error most likely occurs after some weeks again, in one case it reappeared even after some hours! Some friend of mine called IBM Germany and taled to them. They say it's MS Windows' fault, because it doesn't write correctly to the disk. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! And two of the disks I sent in were running Linux nevertheless...
> I've always wondered what the point of the
> interpretted code was. Why not just make a new
> object format, or extend an existing one, but
> make it pure intel object code?
I guess because Intel object code is far from being perfect. Too many opcodes to consider, too many specialities that would have to be emulated. Ok, there are some 386/486/pentium emulators out there, but I can think of better VM designs to make byte-code portable.
On the other hand: Why not use Z-Code? I remember one company that even made a database program for this architecture...
> Gee, now no point in compressing those CDs :)
> into MP3, might as well keep them in clean
> WAVE files
or maybe even UUencoded...
This mission is somewhat similar to that of the Giotto probe in 1986. Here is the link to the ESA site with more information about Giotto. But where Giotto was a dedicated mission, designed to take pictures and collect data of a comet core, the DS1 comet mission is "just" a great bonus mission.
If you didn't already know, but Compaq has already dumped Alpha and now Intel has taken over control. And what that means you can surely imagine. With the IA64 coming up they surely don't need another 64bit platform! And probably not a better one... ;-)
And here is what your
Try it! Your desktop will look much better, and it won't hurt your eyes anymore. Of course you can tweak the point sizes a little.
This is good news indeed, since Solaris is still used on x86 by some, because people say it scales better.
BTW: Xi Graphics has been shipping graphics drivers for Solaris (and Linux) for a long time. Although not for free. But when you are using Solaris, I guess you have got the proper money. (Yes, Solaris is for free now, but I think of business applications and maybe enterprise solutions)
The software Loki chose to port was mainly determined by the license fees that Loki had to pay. Yes, they had to actually pay for porting a game! That is what many people don't realize. So there are naturally not so many top games affordable for a small company like Loki.
And concerning Blizzard... They have not been very positive towards Linux until now. But that might actually change, since Sam Lantiga -- former Lead Programmer of Loki and the inventor of SDL -- has switched sides and is now working for Blizzard. Maybe the guys at Blizzard will now develop their products also for Linux? Who knows? Time will tell.
Meanwhile go out and order your share of Loki games at tuxgames.com, suse.de or whatever reseller you like.
It's one of the major distros (esp. here in Europe) and the 7.2 release is very easy to install, yet very powerful if you like do tweak and configure a lot.
...that Sam Lantiga left Lokigames and is now working for Blizzard? But he is still developing SDL, as it seems. Look here for more details.
...that SuSE is already that weak. It's more or less the #1 distro here in Germany, and also in some of the eastern countries (Czech etc.). They teamed up with IBM to produce a SuSE distro for the 390 series, they've got SuSE for PowerPC, Sparc and Alpha. They are the european publisher for Loki Games. They provide excellent support for corporations. I don't know much about Mandrakesoft, but I guess they won't be able to buy out SuSE!
But the 2.x series has already got some very important features. Like the unified renderer, which improves image quality by a big amount! So I recommend using blender 2.12 or the upcoming 2.14 anyway.
Well, the shape is not that new. My computer, for instance, also has got 6 sides and 12 edges. (Ok, it's not a perfect cube...) I think this shape was invented -- let me guess... some few thousands years ago? Oh, wait. That's not correct. The Egyptians only had pyramids. But The Romans definitely had cubes.
I wann have one of those Atari shirts! It's just like in Road Trip! That's sooo cool! And of course: I still own an Atari MegaST 4 with 30 MB harddisk! Yay!
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What use is the debugger if it does not detect memory leaks!?
If you do a traceroute on the links given on aintitcool you can trace the servers back at least as far as 63.240.128.134. And that's where all the given links end. The whole story would have been really cool if they had set up servers at different places.