Yeah, they work REALLY great on my Alpha Linux machine. Thanks for reminding me.
So tell me, just to make it very clear, why did you buy an nVidia card for your Alpha machine knowing it didn't work? It's not like nVidia has drivers for any OS for Alpha (not just Linux), so why'd you bother? Or is this just rhetorical FUD? Go away troll.
Why should we blame nVidia for this situation? nVidia is not an Open Source(tm) company, they make hardware and drivers to make it all work. They probably don't give a flying shit about what license they use as long as they can license 3rd party code and get their stuff on a Windows install CD. And contrary to GPL and Open Source(tm) they actually think their driver code is an intellectual property asset (which arguably it is, how thick are the OpenGL and DirectX spec books?), and releasing it in source form is unacceptable, not to mention a breech of contract with above mentioned 3rd party code licenses. Just be glad you _have_ Linux drivers, and high quality ones at that.
Any non-zealot moderator, please pay attention! This is an extremely good point, and is the very reason nVidia doesn't release source to their drivers. Video drivers these days are very complex, they're a technology on their own. If you've ever seen the function specs on DirectX and OpenGL you'll realize how complex implementing all of that correctly, completely and efficiently is. That video drivers are under constant development should be hint enough for you. Each release gives a 2-5% speed boost; driver development is almost analogous to 3D game engine development, each generation offers immense improvements in features and speed, and there is a lot of incremental development between generations (though games don't usually come with engine updates, except maybe for Quake).
Everything sounds good. Aside from any upcoming technical problems, this just may be the very first integrated chipset I'll buy. Everyone who knows what they're doing does the wink-wink-nudge-nudge thing when talking about integrated motherboards (you know, the ones with crappy on-board sound/ether/video).
Sound is pretty much commodidy stuff these days, just go down to your local hardware store, pick up an SB Live, and you're done. There are some more powerful cards out there for people who need them, but otherwise SB Live is perfectly sufficient. nVidia is just doing the logical, integrating a more powerful sound solution, thereby eliminating most of Sound Blaster's market.
Ether is pretty much commodity stuff as well. Aside from all the no-name clones out there, it's best to just spend the extra couple of bucks and get yourself a real card, 3com, Intel, whatever. This nVidia chip should really also have a good 10/100 component.
And video? Well, I suppose nVidia is already in that market heavily, with all the cards based on their chip, and it's best to leave this part alone, as video cards are the most often performed (and most expensive) upgrades (how many times did you upgrade your sound card or network card, or even cpu?), so it's a cash cow as a stand-alone card.
The only threat to Intel in this chipset is of course the integration and elimination of the North/South Bridges, but most importantly, nVidia's alignment with AMD. It's all AMD this, AMD that, and DDR also features prominently. Good stuff.
Of course any self-respecting geek would forego the settlement money in exchange for fiber to the house, and a lifetime T3 instead of a chunk of future profits.
TMA-1 is actually TLA; the number 1 after it means the second letter is off by one. So now we know TMA-1 is a TLA, and with a little more research we can determine the TLA is There's My A**hole (the number one is not included, we can plainly see it is separate from the TLA by the '-'). From this, it is painfully obvious to Very Smart People(tm) it's all a set up for the excrement in a 30's bathroom joke.
No, you got it all wrong. TMA is actually TLA, the number 1 after it symbolizes that the second letter is off by one. How do I know this? It's what very smart people call a '90% substitution'. I won't get into details, but if you're smart like me you'll see it eventually.
And get rid of all the extensions on your line, and make sure there aren't 200 feet of phone line spooled under your desk.
The actual limit is something like 53k due to phone line max voltage regulations. The equipment is perfectly capable of doing 56k, but the telcos wouldn't like it.
Also, the 56k protocol will renegotiate the speed as line conditions improve/worsen, but your 'official' connect speed will not be updated to reflect this, I don't believe there is any feedback mechanism for this.
If you're constantly getting low connect speeds on 56k, rest assured it's not the ISPs fault, it's the phone line, there's nothing they can do for you.
Playing Q1 with 250ms ping (and very little pl) was almost smooth. In fact, I was always a top ranked player on TF servers, wherever I played. 250 is about the lowest you can get on a 56k modem. You'd certainly notice the difference at lower ping levels, the game is almost crisp and solid at 100 and below.
Never played Q2, I thought it sucked for multiplayer, and I liked TF better anyways (until Q1 got opensourced).
Now with Q3 anything over 90 really is useless. It's playable, but just not fun, it's not what I paid $75 CDN for. Less than 15, almost like a local network game, under 50 is ideal, you're getting into grey territory after that. Also, server ping and actual player ping seem to differ a lot in Q3. In GameSpy I'll find a 50-80ms server, and it's 150 once I'm playing (just press Tab to see the scores list). I don't know where the optimized network code went into (maybe optimized from Q2, I heard some pretty bad stories about network performance there).
Really, with Q3 the gameplay is just not enjoyable at 100+, there are very good players in that category, but if you just play the occasional game you'll find even 100ms pretty frustrating if you're up against 50ms players.
There are plenty of legal avenues that could be used.
It hardly seems worth pursuing, even to make an example. A criminal case requires proof (unlike, say, a lawsuit, where the most expensive lawyer wins), which means malice must be proven. If a hacked client is not found (or even if it is, maybe it was downloaded unknowingly from a rogue site) the user will of course plead ignorance, and well, whatcha gonna do then? Such a defense would be valid (and expected), only when it comes to stolen goods is ignorance irrelevant.
So you have a point, there are always ways to get someone for something if you believe they're doing something bad, but it's not always feasible.
Well, any good mod job these days has no problems with RCE (the name of the 'feature' you describe). Plus, I believe natively region-free players (new ones) use the same method as mods to fool the DVD, that is they read what region the disc is for and set themselves for that zone (the RCE discs say they're region 0, and if the player goes along with it they refuse to play). It's all pretty sleazy, done mostly because it can be done.
It is also a problem because Canadian retailers stock Region 1 (North Americian) DVD players [...]
As a sort of a side question, can one legally purchase a multi-region DVD player in Canada? A good one? If so, where or how? It seems no manufacturer is willing to sell one here, and I don't want to order one from Britain or someplace only to have it confiscated at the border.
Uh, journaling _is_ a critical feature in any modern file system. The reason NTFS (for example) doesn't perform as fast as you'd expect is because it does journaling, which slows it down very much. Even so, you can tune it to perform almost as well as ext2 for some purposes.
And yes, you do need a new filesystem for journaling, I'd like to see someone retrofit this into ext2 or fat32. This is something that requires a new foundation, a complete redesign.
I thought all the evils were total pussies, even in Hell. The hardest one is the first one (I would say), just because you don't really have a very good chance to equip yourself that early on. As for the others, I'd even say some of the smaller bosses were tougher, and Diablo was really pathetic (just make sure your fire resistance is up to snuff), and the items he dropped were a total writeoff, I mean, I was wearing way better stuff already (and not even buying it).
You are so right about the whole addiction factor. I really liked the game to begin with, but it quickly got boring. Just more of the same. Click as fast as you can. It's worse than a shooter. At least in Q3 there's skill and reflexes involved. I think I advanced my CTS onset another few years just from the constant repetitive clicking in D2. I don't know why I played D2 so much (I actually finished all three levels with 1 class, 3 other classes all finished 2). I knew the game sucked, I knew it was just a waste of time, yet I kept coming back to play more. I think I'm in the achiever category.
In any case, D2 has almost 0 replay value, it really sucks when you have to restart your character because of shitty skill choices early on, but at least you could fly through previously played maps in no time, getting just as many points as the first time (if not more cause you're less likely to die).
It's overflow, you dumbass, no matter how you slice it, positive or negative. Underflow is when a (float) number is too small to store and gets reduced to 0, usually signalling this event somehow, depending on architecture.
Those sites exist essentially because Microsoft lets them. As soon as they start saying bad things about Windows (maybe XP will suck donkey balls) I can see MS stopping them. Now you tell me, if you were running xp-enthusiast.org and MS served you cease and desist papers or threatened to sue, would you fight it? I doubt it.
Yeah, cartoon violence, isn't that the worst one? That's the violence where there are no consequences, if you whack someone on the head, for no reason whatsoever, with a sledgehammer, they'll just go 'yadayadayada', their head will pop back to normal and everything's fine. This type of violence is of course acceptable, because children are very smart and they can tell it's not real, so it doesn't affect them. [sneer]
Not just that, but a direct democracy would quickly become like a big poll (pretty close to what passes for US politics today). There would be a bunch of people who don't care to participate, many who will live just to click 'Submit', and everyone would be easily swayed by any deceptive phrasing of questions or anwers and the immediate political conditions. Think about it, if you had to answer a dozen issues every day, you'd either pick whatever suited you best that morning, or you'd be responsible and not do anything at all because you just can't research every one of them satisfactorily.
Yeah, except, like the guy said, the double density cds won't be readable by other drives, and the fact is, if 700MB wasn't enough, 1.4GB won't be enough either.
It's a nice idea, and if it takes off and writable DVD doesn't, it may be good enough. Then again, as commodity hard drives are exceeeding 80GB, it gets increasigly difficult and discouraging trying to back them up. Writable DVD is in flux right now, and as soon as everyone agrees on a standard and the price of media and hardware comes down, double density cd will be gone, because the new standard will be dvd. It's the same situation when cdr drives came out.
Last time I checked LinuxToday with IE (a couple of months ago) IE crashed. Every single time, always reproducible. I don't know whose fault it is, but I've never had IE crash every time it loads a particular page.
you say server yes everything is running. it assumes that you wanted a server and know what the hell you are doing.
Funny you should say that. I thought defaults were for people who have no idea what they're doing, the Custom option is for the other ones. Then again what do I know, I'm posting against/. think.
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So tell me, just to make it very clear, why did you buy an nVidia card for your Alpha machine knowing it didn't work? It's not like nVidia has drivers for any OS for Alpha (not just Linux), so why'd you bother? Or is this just rhetorical FUD? Go away troll.
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You certainly are not confusing anything with water, the brand you're looking for is Naya.
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Sound is pretty much commodidy stuff these days, just go down to your local hardware store, pick up an SB Live, and you're done. There are some more powerful cards out there for people who need them, but otherwise SB Live is perfectly sufficient. nVidia is just doing the logical, integrating a more powerful sound solution, thereby eliminating most of Sound Blaster's market.
Ether is pretty much commodity stuff as well. Aside from all the no-name clones out there, it's best to just spend the extra couple of bucks and get yourself a real card, 3com, Intel, whatever. This nVidia chip should really also have a good 10/100 component.
And video? Well, I suppose nVidia is already in that market heavily, with all the cards based on their chip, and it's best to leave this part alone, as video cards are the most often performed (and most expensive) upgrades (how many times did you upgrade your sound card or network card, or even cpu?), so it's a cash cow as a stand-alone card.
The only threat to Intel in this chipset is of course the integration and elimination of the North/South Bridges, but most importantly, nVidia's alignment with AMD. It's all AMD this, AMD that, and DDR also features prominently. Good stuff.
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Of course any self-respecting geek would forego the settlement money in exchange for fiber to the house, and a lifetime T3 instead of a chunk of future profits.
TMA-1 is actually TLA; the number 1 after it means the second letter is off by one. So now we know TMA-1 is a TLA, and with a little more research we can determine the TLA is There's My A**hole (the number one is not included, we can plainly see it is separate from the TLA by the '-'). From this, it is painfully obvious to Very Smart People(tm) it's all a set up for the excrement in a 30's bathroom joke.
No, you got it all wrong. TMA is actually TLA, the number 1 after it symbolizes that the second letter is off by one. How do I know this? It's what very smart people call a '90% substitution'. I won't get into details, but if you're smart like me you'll see it eventually.
The actual limit is something like 53k due to phone line max voltage regulations. The equipment is perfectly capable of doing 56k, but the telcos wouldn't like it.
Also, the 56k protocol will renegotiate the speed as line conditions improve/worsen, but your 'official' connect speed will not be updated to reflect this, I don't believe there is any feedback mechanism for this.
If you're constantly getting low connect speeds on 56k, rest assured it's not the ISPs fault, it's the phone line, there's nothing they can do for you.
Playing Q1 with 250ms ping (and very little pl) was almost smooth. In fact, I was always a top ranked player on TF servers, wherever I played. 250 is about the lowest you can get on a 56k modem. You'd certainly notice the difference at lower ping levels, the game is almost crisp and solid at 100 and below.
Never played Q2, I thought it sucked for multiplayer, and I liked TF better anyways (until Q1 got opensourced).
Now with Q3 anything over 90 really is useless. It's playable, but just not fun, it's not what I paid $75 CDN for. Less than 15, almost like a local network game, under 50 is ideal, you're getting into grey territory after that. Also, server ping and actual player ping seem to differ a lot in Q3. In GameSpy I'll find a 50-80ms server, and it's 150 once I'm playing (just press Tab to see the scores list). I don't know where the optimized network code went into (maybe optimized from Q2, I heard some pretty bad stories about network performance there).
Really, with Q3 the gameplay is just not enjoyable at 100+, there are very good players in that category, but if you just play the occasional game you'll find even 100ms pretty frustrating if you're up against 50ms players.
It hardly seems worth pursuing, even to make an example. A criminal case requires proof (unlike, say, a lawsuit, where the most expensive lawyer wins), which means malice must be proven. If a hacked client is not found (or even if it is, maybe it was downloaded unknowingly from a rogue site) the user will of course plead ignorance, and well, whatcha gonna do then? Such a defense would be valid (and expected), only when it comes to stolen goods is ignorance irrelevant.
So you have a point, there are always ways to get someone for something if you believe they're doing something bad, but it's not always feasible.
Well, any good mod job these days has no problems with RCE (the name of the 'feature' you describe). Plus, I believe natively region-free players (new ones) use the same method as mods to fool the DVD, that is they read what region the disc is for and set themselves for that zone (the RCE discs say they're region 0, and if the player goes along with it they refuse to play). It's all pretty sleazy, done mostly because it can be done.
As a sort of a side question, can one legally purchase a multi-region DVD player in Canada? A good one? If so, where or how? It seems no manufacturer is willing to sell one here, and I don't want to order one from Britain or someplace only to have it confiscated at the border.
There's nothing illegal about cheating SETI with fake results. It's not like they're processing IRS forms. What are they gonna charge you with?
And yes, you do need a new filesystem for journaling, I'd like to see someone retrofit this into ext2 or fat32. This is something that requires a new foundation, a complete redesign.
I thought all the evils were total pussies, even in Hell. The hardest one is the first one (I would say), just because you don't really have a very good chance to equip yourself that early on. As for the others, I'd even say some of the smaller bosses were tougher, and Diablo was really pathetic (just make sure your fire resistance is up to snuff), and the items he dropped were a total writeoff, I mean, I was wearing way better stuff already (and not even buying it).
In any case, D2 has almost 0 replay value, it really sucks when you have to restart your character because of shitty skill choices early on, but at least you could fly through previously played maps in no time, getting just as many points as the first time (if not more cause you're less likely to die).
It's overflow, you dumbass, no matter how you slice it, positive or negative. Underflow is when a (float) number is too small to store and gets reduced to 0, usually signalling this event somehow, depending on architecture.
Those sites exist essentially because Microsoft lets them. As soon as they start saying bad things about Windows (maybe XP will suck donkey balls) I can see MS stopping them. Now you tell me, if you were running xp-enthusiast.org and MS served you cease and desist papers or threatened to sue, would you fight it? I doubt it.
Yeah, cartoon violence, isn't that the worst one? That's the violence where there are no consequences, if you whack someone on the head, for no reason whatsoever, with a sledgehammer, they'll just go 'yadayadayada', their head will pop back to normal and everything's fine. This type of violence is of course acceptable, because children are very smart and they can tell it's not real, so it doesn't affect them. [sneer]
Not just that, but a direct democracy would quickly become like a big poll (pretty close to what passes for US politics today). There would be a bunch of people who don't care to participate, many who will live just to click 'Submit', and everyone would be easily swayed by any deceptive phrasing of questions or anwers and the immediate political conditions. Think about it, if you had to answer a dozen issues every day, you'd either pick whatever suited you best that morning, or you'd be responsible and not do anything at all because you just can't research every one of them satisfactorily.
It's a nice idea, and if it takes off and writable DVD doesn't, it may be good enough. Then again, as commodity hard drives are exceeeding 80GB, it gets increasigly difficult and discouraging trying to back them up. Writable DVD is in flux right now, and as soon as everyone agrees on a standard and the price of media and hardware comes down, double density cd will be gone, because the new standard will be dvd. It's the same situation when cdr drives came out.
Last time I checked LinuxToday with IE (a couple of months ago) IE crashed. Every single time, always reproducible. I don't know whose fault it is, but I've never had IE crash every time it loads a particular page.
passwd will complain, but just retype the password and it will be accepted, regardless of how stupid it is.
Funny you should say that. I thought defaults were for people who have no idea what they're doing, the Custom option is for the other ones. Then again what do I know, I'm posting against /. think.