Alan Cox mentioned in his diary that a preliminary driver for the scaler on Matrox G200/G400 cards is out there, so we may see some advances in the next few weeks/months.
EULAs aren't exactly watertight - the validity of a contract in which one party has no power to alter the conditions of the contract is fairly iffy. Remember, this sort of thing is supposed to be decided by negotiation between the two parties.
Well, I believe all you would have to do is not include MTRR functionality in your kernel when you recompile it. Without support for MTRR, the kernel should just ignore the registers.
I think Microsoft was rash in releasing software with this little hole in it...
Try "gaping hole big enough to drive a truck through" and you'd be a little closer. MS has been playing fast and loose with security in its blind rush to integrate ActiveX (which was never designed with security in mind) with all its software products - including ones like IE and Outlook that by their very use require the transfer of unverifiable data to the user's computer. MS could have taken the time to try and do it right (i.e. security by default), but they didn't, and so everyone using their products ends up patching ActiveX every time somebody figures out a new way to get it to execute unverified content. If they'd just made sure in the beginning that such execution was not possible except in specific circumstances, there would have been no such problem.
Microsoft doesn't really take the security of Win9x seriously anyway.
And this is a good thing?!? You're trying to tell me that MS knowingly distributes defective software, and that we should just ignore it because they don't care? Ever heard of something called PL law? It requires manufacturers to take steps to ensure that their products are fit for the purpose for which they are sold. In other words, either MS is acknowleding that worms like this are legitimate use of its mail software, or they are deliberately distributing a product that fails to comply with product liability laws. Geez, get your head out of your ass.
It stands for "Memory Type Range Register". Here's the blurb from/usr/src/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt:
On Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II systems the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful when you have a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of image write operations 2.5 times or more.
The CONFIG_MTRR option creates a/proc/mtrr file which may be used to manipulate your MTRRs. Typically the X server should use this. This should have a reasonably generic interface so that similar control registers on other processors can be easily supported.
USB2 doesn't even exist yet as anything other than a piece of paper, and it is most definitely not miles ahead of Firewire. Consider that both USB and USB2 (when it's presumably available sometime in 2001) require hubs to connect multiple devices, and that USB2 has to remain compatible with both low and high speed USB peripherals, it's most likely going to be a real mess. And of course, by that time Firewire will have ramped its speed up to more than that of USB2 anyway, there's not really a lot of point in the whole thing, is there?
Remember those people in the 60's and 70's who collected plaster casts of...um...certain delicate portions of stars' anatomies? Why settle for a plaster cast when you can now have the real thing!
The OSS/Free drivers are included with the stabdard kernel source (which is, in fact, used by Debian), and they can be modularized without any problems whatsoever. In fact, I'm using my AWE64 with a modular driver right now.
Well, since I'm the one that submitted this story, I did in fact read the press release all the way through, and the fact that NVidia would release drivers for a high-end board like this is the point that struck me as being most significant.
What I'm trying to say is, by producing these drivers, NVidia is indicating that it believes that there are customers out there with enough $$$ to buy the boards, who are also interested in using them under Linux. Think about that for a moment - the companies that fork out big bucks for this sort of high-end hardware aren't looking to play Q3.
I saw this article this morning. These guys are nothing but a bunch of golddiggers. I'm surprised a company like McDonnel-Douglas would be associated with something like this - it's not exactly the best way to keep your popularity with your customers.
What really strikes me as bizarre is that they admit that other companies were using the fix before it was patented. I know that the USA uses the patent-by-invention system rather than the patent-by-application system (in other words, the guy who invents it first gets to claim the patent, even if someone else makes the application first), while virtually every other country in the world with a patent office does it the other way, but this is still ridiculous. If they're going to try and extort money from other comnpanies, they'd damn well better be ready to prove that they invented the technique (if you can call it that) before anyone else.
And as for that bit about license fees going up after Y2K - that's nothing but cheap blackmail. Can't a big corporation with pots of money (like IBM) stomp them flat on this one before it spreads?
No, YOU'RE wrong. WinPrinters are a special class of hardware (similar to WinModems) that require a (currently) Windows-only driver developed by the manufacturer in order to work. And don't say something like "Well, why doesn't someone write a driver themselves?", because it's damn near impossible.
The reason I say that is because printers normally contain a bundle of hardware to handle interpreting the commands sent from the computer, buffering data, in some cases handling rasterizing, etc. For example, an old Epson printer would buffer and interpret commands in the Esc/P language, which meant that you could write a driver that output Esc/P (the specifics of which were generally available to the public) and send it to the printer. In the case of PostScript, all the computer has to do is throw the PostScript file (which can be plain ASCII) at the printer - the printer would buffer the PS data (in higher-end printers, the buffer might be 8MB or more), rasterize it (usually with a RISC processor dedicated to the task) and then print the end result.
Of course, all of that costs money, so some bright spark came up with the idea of WinPrinters, which are basically only a buffer. The computer does everything else - command interpretation, rasterizing, whatever - and blasts the result at the printer in pure binary form, ready for printing. This means that unless you have a VERY precise idea of what binary data the printer is expecting, you don't have a hope in hell of writing a driver, not to mention that doing all the work on the computer side can be quite a strain for older machines.
I like Miyazaki, but I have a big fucking bone to pick with Ruroni, in that the author set it in the Meiji period, and then proceeds to stomp ALL OVER historical fact. If all the major characters were fictional, then it wouldn't bother me so much, but when he starts pulling in people like Saito Hajime (I mean, really, after reading/seeing Ruroni Kenshin, what impression would most people have of Saito? How many of them know what sort of person he really was?), then it turns me right off.
I mean, f'chrissakes, the guy's descendants are still around - how do you think they feel about it?
Ummm... and how much are you paying to use Lycos? Zero?
If you don't like it, don't use it. That's the most effective way of getting a corporation's attention. Just ranting about "censorship" by a service provided for free that allows you to go where you wanted to go by clicking the provided link is pointless.
If Lycos didn't include the link, then I can see people complaining about it, but since they do include a direct link to Infoseek/Excite/Yahoo at the bottom of the page, so I don't really see anything wrong with this.
Take a look at the GNU gettext system. It's not automatic, but it provides a very easy way to replace all text messages in a program with those from a particular locale - and you don't have to recompile every time you want to use a different language.
Japan provides six years of English education during junior and senior high school; only a very small percentage of high school graduates can actually speak it at a level of proficiency that would allow communication.
Hong Kong's population is such a small proportion of the total population of China that it's not funny. Even then, English proficiency in Hong Kong seems to be declining.
You say that the idea is not to force everyone to speak English, but then you come up with ideas like "requiring a year or two of English", only publishing information on the Internet in English, making most software English-only, etc. etc. etc. What the hell is that if not forcing people to use English!?
Strangely enough, the people who I know in industrial nations that don't speak English seem to get along just fine. I hope to God that you're not a software developer, because you'd no doubt drag us back to the stone age of 7-bit ASCII on teletypes or something.
And what is it with your obsession with "superior" and "inferior" languages? There is NO SUCH THING! Ask any linguist - every language has its complex areas. In your first comment, you stated that:
- English has no gender-specific terms. There are, however, significant differences in male and female speech.
- English has no formal/informal dialects. Oh, and I suppose you speak to your boss the same way that you speak to your children, your friends, your dog...
- English has no tone-dependent words. Maybe not, but a large portion of conversation depends on differences in emphasis. Consider "EX-tract"-"ex-TRACT", "PER-vert"-"per-VERT" or any of the hundreds of other lexical items that rely on emphasis to distinguish between noun/verb forms. Also remember that without emphasis, it becomes extremely difficult to recognise sarcasm, humor, etc. (Just look at all the misunderstandings that occur on/. because of this.)
- English has no time-dependent words. Look at English's use of tense and compare it with that of Japanese, Chinese, the Polynesian languages, or many others. They are all simpler in structure.
I'm really not sure what else I can say to someone who seems determined to ignore the right of 80% of the world's population to speak the language that they choose to speak. Grow up and try leaving your own country once in a while.
Yes, you are being silly. Since when do Japan, China or many other countries have a "huge proportion" of English-speaking people? Have you actually ever visited any of those countries and tried speaking English with people on the street?
And as for the totally arrogant attitude of "English is a superior language", that is just such complete crap that I'm not even going to start to refute it.
You propose that everybody speak English - well, if somebody came to your home tomorrow and told you that from now on, your children would be educated in Japanese and everyone in your house would be forced to speak it, what would you say to them? Think about it for a while.
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Alan Cox mentioned in his diary that a preliminary driver for the scaler on Matrox G200/G400 cards is out there, so we may see some advances in the next few weeks/months.
EULAs aren't exactly watertight - the validity of a contract in which one party has no power to alter the conditions of the contract is fairly iffy. Remember, this sort of thing is supposed to be decided by negotiation between the two parties.
Well, I believe all you would have to do is not include MTRR functionality in your kernel when you recompile it. Without support for MTRR, the kernel should just ignore the registers.
I think Microsoft was rash in releasing software with this little hole in it...
Try "gaping hole big enough to drive a truck through" and you'd be a little closer. MS has been playing fast and loose with security in its blind rush to integrate ActiveX (which was never designed with security in mind) with all its software products - including ones like IE and Outlook that by their very use require the transfer of unverifiable data to the user's computer. MS could have taken the time to try and do it right (i.e. security by default), but they didn't, and so everyone using their products ends up patching ActiveX every time somebody figures out a new way to get it to execute unverified content. If they'd just made sure in the beginning that such execution was not possible except in specific circumstances, there would have been no such problem.
Microsoft doesn't really take the security of Win9x seriously anyway.
And this is a good thing?!? You're trying to tell me that MS knowingly distributes defective software, and that we should just ignore it because they don't care? Ever heard of something called PL law? It requires manufacturers to take steps to ensure that their products are fit for the purpose for which they are sold. In other words, either MS is acknowleding that worms like this are legitimate use of its mail software, or they are deliberately distributing a product that fails to comply with product liability laws. Geez, get your head out of your ass.
Nah, that's just a fairly standard German keyboard layout, I think. They use QWERTZ rather than QWERTY.
I swear, I saw something sticking out of the water! It was huge! It must have been...the BREAST of LOCH NESS!!
It stands for "Memory Type Range Register". Here's the blurb from
On Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II systems the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful when you have a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of image write operations 2.5 times or more.
The CONFIG_MTRR option creates a
USB2 doesn't even exist yet as anything other than a piece of paper, and it is most definitely not miles ahead of Firewire. Consider that both USB and USB2 (when it's presumably available sometime in 2001) require hubs to connect multiple devices, and that USB2 has to remain compatible with both low and high speed USB peripherals, it's most likely going to be a real mess. And of course, by that time Firewire will have ramped its speed up to more than that of USB2 anyway, there's not really a lot of point in the whole thing, is there?
Remember those people in the 60's and 70's who collected plaster casts of...um...certain delicate portions of stars' anatomies? Why settle for a plaster cast when you can now have the real thing!
Hmmm... hadn't considered that possibility. I was using a non-PnP SB16 at that time, and never really thought about it.
Huh?!? Have you actually compiled a kernel?
The OSS/Free drivers are included with the stabdard kernel source (which is, in fact, used by Debian), and they can be modularized without any problems whatsoever. In fact, I'm using my AWE64 with a modular driver right now.
Well, check out the Customize Homepage link under Preferences - it allows you to set the timezone.
Of course, you have to have a login first...
Well, since I'm the one that submitted this story, I did in fact read the press release all the way through, and the fact that NVidia would release drivers for a high-end board like this is the point that struck me as being most significant.
What I'm trying to say is, by producing these drivers, NVidia is indicating that it believes that there are customers out there with enough $$$ to buy the boards, who are also interested in using them under Linux. Think about that for a moment - the companies that fork out big bucks for this sort of high-end hardware aren't looking to play Q3.
How about versions compiled for glibc 2.0?
I saw this article this morning. These guys are nothing but a bunch of golddiggers. I'm surprised a company like McDonnel-Douglas would be associated with something like this - it's not exactly the best way to keep your popularity with your customers.
What really strikes me as bizarre is that they admit that other companies were using the fix before it was patented. I know that the USA uses the patent-by-invention system rather than the patent-by-application system (in other words, the guy who invents it first gets to claim the patent, even if someone else makes the application first), while virtually every other country in the world with a patent office does it the other way, but this is still ridiculous. If they're going to try and extort money from other comnpanies, they'd damn well better be ready to prove that they invented the technique (if you can call it that) before anyone else.
And as for that bit about license fees going up after Y2K - that's nothing but cheap blackmail. Can't a big corporation with pots of money (like IBM) stomp them flat on this one before it spreads?
No, YOU'RE wrong. WinPrinters are a special class of hardware (similar to WinModems) that require a (currently) Windows-only driver developed by the manufacturer in order to work. And don't say something like "Well, why doesn't someone write a driver themselves?", because it's damn near impossible.
The reason I say that is because printers normally contain a bundle of hardware to handle interpreting the commands sent from the computer, buffering data, in some cases handling rasterizing, etc. For example, an old Epson printer would buffer and interpret commands in the Esc/P language, which meant that you could write a driver that output Esc/P (the specifics of which were generally available to the public) and send it to the printer. In the case of PostScript, all the computer has to do is throw the PostScript file (which can be plain ASCII) at the printer - the printer would buffer the PS data (in higher-end printers, the buffer might be 8MB or more), rasterize it (usually with a RISC processor dedicated to the task) and then print the end result.
Of course, all of that costs money, so some bright spark came up with the idea of WinPrinters, which are basically only a buffer. The computer does everything else - command interpretation, rasterizing, whatever - and blasts the result at the printer in pure binary form, ready for printing. This means that unless you have a VERY precise idea of what binary data the printer is expecting, you don't have a hope in hell of writing a driver, not to mention that doing all the work on the computer side can be quite a strain for older machines.
...but how do you type in FUND?
I like Miyazaki, but I have a big fucking bone to pick with Ruroni, in that the author set it in the Meiji period, and then proceeds to stomp ALL OVER historical fact. If all the major characters were fictional, then it wouldn't bother me so much, but when he starts pulling in people like Saito Hajime (I mean, really, after reading/seeing Ruroni Kenshin, what impression would most people have of Saito? How many of them know what sort of person he really was?), then it turns me right off.
I mean, f'chrissakes, the guy's descendants are still around - how do you think they feel about it?
Ummm... and how much are you paying to use Lycos? Zero?
If you don't like it, don't use it. That's the most effective way of getting a corporation's attention. Just ranting about "censorship" by a service provided for free that allows you to go where you wanted to go by clicking the provided link is pointless.
If Lycos didn't include the link, then I can see people complaining about it, but since they do include a direct link to Infoseek/Excite/Yahoo at the bottom of the page, so I don't really see anything wrong with this.
PMU = Power Management Unit
FCR = FIFO Control Register
>Please try and refrain from making personal attacks when criticizing posts.
Before you ask me to do that, perhaps you should refrain from making comments that most people would view as a troll.
Take a look at the GNU gettext system. It's not automatic, but it provides a very easy way to replace all text messages in a program with those from a particular locale - and you don't have to recompile every time you want to use a different language.
Japan provides six years of English education during junior and senior high school; only a very small percentage of high school graduates can actually speak it at a level of proficiency that would allow communication.
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Hong Kong's population is such a small proportion of the total population of China that it's not funny. Even then, English proficiency in Hong Kong seems to be declining.
You say that the idea is not to force everyone to speak English, but then you come up with ideas like "requiring a year or two of English", only publishing information on the Internet in English, making most software English-only, etc. etc. etc. What the hell is that if not forcing people to use English!?
Strangely enough, the people who I know in industrial nations that don't speak English seem to get along just fine. I hope to God that you're not a software developer, because you'd no doubt drag us back to the stone age of 7-bit ASCII on teletypes or something.
And what is it with your obsession with "superior" and "inferior" languages? There is NO SUCH THING! Ask any linguist - every language has its complex areas. In your first comment, you stated that:
- English has no gender-specific terms.
There are, however, significant differences in male and female speech.
- English has no formal/informal dialects.
Oh, and I suppose you speak to your boss the same way that you speak to your children, your friends, your dog...
- English has no tone-dependent words.
Maybe not, but a large portion of conversation depends on differences in emphasis. Consider "EX-tract"-"ex-TRACT", "PER-vert"-"per-VERT" or any of the hundreds of other lexical items that rely on emphasis to distinguish between noun/verb forms. Also remember that without emphasis, it becomes extremely difficult to recognise sarcasm, humor, etc. (Just look at all the misunderstandings that occur on
- English has no time-dependent words.
Look at English's use of tense and compare it with that of Japanese, Chinese, the Polynesian languages, or many others. They are all simpler in structure.
I'm really not sure what else I can say to someone who seems determined to ignore the right of 80% of the world's population to speak the language that they choose to speak. Grow up and try leaving your own country once in a while.
Yes, you are being silly. Since when do Japan, China or many other countries have a "huge proportion" of English-speaking people? Have you actually ever visited any of those countries and tried speaking English with people on the street?
And as for the totally arrogant attitude of "English is a superior language", that is just such complete crap that I'm not even going to start to refute it.
You propose that everybody speak English - well, if somebody came to your home tomorrow and told you that from now on, your children would be educated in Japanese and everyone in your house would be forced to speak it, what would you say to them? Think about it for a while.