I completely agree that 130 watt is a rather ridiculously high power output, OTOH of course Intel was referring to the system makers properly cooling the McKinley when they referred to 'a properly designed system'.
Heck, if I just bought myself a $3K CPU I would not want it melting down either.
Assuming that you are indeed loading the ALSA drivers and their OSS compatibility layers (snd-card-xxx, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss etc.), make sure that Real and XMMS are both set to use OSS drivers instead of ESD or any other sound server.
It might be true that your sound chipset does not do multiplexing, I'm afraid this feature is not yet well documented; stumbled upon it by chance myself.
That's the only thing I could think of - but there are lots of cheap PCI soundcards out there:)
Sounds like fun, one question: Are you able to multiplex connections using the oss-compatibility mode? Another Question: Will that work with all the drivers?
Answering the first question, yes it works in oss-compatibility mode. In fact I have not really tried its native mode - the hassle of there being almost no application that support it natively being the culprit, as well as having to recompile.
One would expect the soundservers (esd, arts) to be the first programs to support ALSA 0.9.0, but that would be defeating the purpose of doing multiplexing without a sound server, no?
As to the second question, I have tried it with the ymfpci driver. YMMV. But if they implement it like Win2k's sound drivers, which I have tested on the good ol' SB AWE64, it should work on most drivers.
Whether an Athlon chip of a certain clocking is comparable to an Intel P4 of another clocking depends on so many factors - type of instructions, compiler optimizations etc., that using PR/Model rating is rather contentious.
Case in hand: if AMD really means to label the 1.4GHz part 'Model 1600', that implies that it is only equivalent to a P4/1.6Gig - in fact, in many cases it is faster than that. But since this kind of marketing gimmicks make it seems like AMD is trying to hide something, cynical people will just assume that even this is a bloated claim, borne out of desperation.
AMD, please reconsider. From someone running a Duron 600 and proud of it.
I have been much impressed with CodeWeavers' Wine packages in the past, and this time is shaping up to be no different.
Alright, it is designed to run Windows-based Netscape plugins. Necessary evil - with the current low level of desktop penetration by Linux, manufacturers and software designers will not immediately rush to providing support. Case in point: hardware drivers - hopefully rectified when a stable API for drivers ala WDM is defined.
With KDE's reaktivate project offering ActiveX plug-in compatibility, whether or not Netscape plugins will continue to be produced is rather moot; there will always be a way for Linux users (unfortunately only those on the x86 platform) to run Windows browser plug-ins.
Offered the choice, however, between increasing Microsoft's stranglehold on browser technologies using a free software program, and helping to maintain a competing technology (Netscape plugins) using a closed-source program developed by a company that gives back to the community, I would choose the latter.
As someone who has bought shrink-wrapped Linux distributions and application suites, I am pre-ordering the CD version of CrossOver. Quite a nice touch, that gives you access to the download version as well:)
I must apologise if that is what my statement appears to imply; what I was trying to say, of course, is that while propietary software is not normally made available prior to reaching a stable 1.0 state (or betas thereof), Mozilla has had many milestones released.
Granted that only the latter releases are actually usable, but I note that commercial vendors tend to have more pressure on them to get a release out of the door. Witness two Netscape releases already based on the pre-1.0 Mozilla code.
Remember people, this is not propietary software! Mozilla is getting more stable and faster as each day and milestone goes by. It's not like you cannot use it now - get any recent Linux distribution (except Debian until Woody is released) and a recent Mozilla is included.
Releasing a version 1.0 matters more in the commercial world, but since in that aspect Netscape 6.0 and 6.1 has been released, that aspect shouldn't be overrated as well.
After all, the ext2 file system is still at revision 0.17, Enlightenment 0.17 is still in CVS and Sawfish is still at 0.38 - and millions of people use them.
Indeed. Situation will improve when they declare the API completely frozen, of course. Sometime before 1.0 is released, but even now it is much better than OSS.
I believe some of Red Hat's beta testers who own SB Lives have been rather unhappy at the state of the emu10k driver in the latest kernels...
Ran into snags with programs' configure trying to enable ALSA support. Solution? Do not install the alsa libraries, just install the drivers. Works for me.
As has been mentioned, ALSA has OSS compatibility, and even better, automatically multiplex audio streams for you. Yes, you can play multiple sound files at the same time without a sound server.
Kind of like the jump from Win9x to Win2k, soundwise.
Are there benchmarks of the Itanium's performance running Linux? So far the only benchmarks I have seen involve running 32-bit programs under emulation, which does not mean much.
Well, talking about rewritable DVDs in general, whichever one takes off:) Which is the one Panasonic makes that can be read on any Panasonic DVD drive?
Diesel cars have been used a lot in the rest of the world. In Indonesia it is a very economical solution - whereas in some countries diesel is more heavily taxed due to it being more polluting, in Indonesia it costs less than the price of normal gasoline - haven't been there for a few months but last time it was selling for less than $0.10 per litre.
Alas we don't have cars such as the Audi A2 entering the market - people who can afford to buy European cars tend to want higher-performance gasoline versions, so there is not much demand for it.
The funny thing is the Indonesian word for gasoline is 'bensin' - made for a bit of confusion for chemistry students (benzene=C6H12, gasoline is mostly C8H18)
A few years ago it seemed like LS-120, a.k.a. SuperDisk, will be the replacement for 1.44MB floppies. Not only is it backward-compatible with normal floppies, but it is produced by OEMs too. And provided your BIOS support it you can even boot from the media. So I bought one for myself..
Roll on to 2001. All the computers in my university has mass storage media... and they are Iomega Zip drives! There are CD recorders around but they are not the RW type, i.e. I am paying a 'download charge', as a result of which I have accumulated a rather tall stack of coasters...
Yet another one now... sigh... oh well. Don't count me in, my next upgrade will be DVD-RAM.
While most current experimental/hobbyist OSes run on a single platform only (read: x86) if at all, it is refreshing that from the start NewOS is designed for portability.
Wonder about the file system implementation though, how much is it based on BeFS? Hope it won't engendered a legal dispute..
Yes, to put credits where it's due the Fourth Crusade behaved much worse when they occupied Constantinople. Kind of like the Nanking Massacre of the mediaeval times...
And the Crusaders at that time could not stomach facing an enemy such as Saladin that they had to invent the tale that he was raised among Christian knights too (he was Kurdish).
I recently read a history book called 'The Byzantine Commonwealth' which basically encompass the whole idea of linking countries together through culture.
Basically the Byzantines suceeded where the Western Roman Empire failed: by disseminating Greek-Orthodox cultures through the nomadic tribes around them and playing them off one against another, in due time a whole coterie of nations linked to Byzantium by culture and religion buffer them from outside threats.
Granted their empire finally collapsed, but it achieved what Hitler's Third Reich did not: cultural hegemony over Eastern Europe and lasting a thousand years.
Not that I find Hitler's regime agreeable in any way, just as a contrasting example
... remember that Win98 crashes embarrassingly while Bill Gates was demo'ing it. Did not stop it gaining market acceptance, although granted I have not seen a single friend of mine buying it, they just get it slapped on their new PCs.
On one hand, nobody will get XBox bundled with anything - presumably PC manufacturers will be loth to bundle a gaming console that will make you use your PC less?
On the other hand, game developers might love it. A more-or-less common shared platform with the PC running DirectX (sigh...), solid bucks supporting it from the M$30 billion...
Sony looks likely to survive the console shake-up, let's hope Nintendo does too. Let's hope the GameCube gets more titles than the N64...
Considering NASA's woeful recent record of building a lander for Mars, a much easier task engineering-wise, let us hope they manage it right this time. Imagine the repercussions for NASA and the waste of time and money involved if they suffer another lander failure...
At least over a dial-up connection, I must say redcarpet is a much better solution if you are not managing multiple machines.
Wonder how Progeny's Service Network will fare in comparison. Up2Date's bugginess drove me back to Debian within one week... a flaw on otherwise solid underpinnings IMHO.
This would probably apply only to OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, a.k.a. the First World Countries grouping) citizens. Having lived in Indonesia, Singapore and UK I would say the Singapore leaders are really serious about IT, the latter to a lesser extent and the former completely hopeless... that is, apart for this scheme back in 1996 of outsourcing driver license production to a company controlled by the President's daughter that charges exorbitant fees. And, oh, we have our own satellites too. And an aerospace industry employing foreigners to build expensive planes nobody want to buy we have to swap them for rice and palm oil. Which we do produce ourselves too. Sigh.
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Heck, if I just bought myself a $3K CPU I would not want it melting down either.
Michel
It might be true that your sound chipset does not do multiplexing, I'm afraid this feature is not yet well documented; stumbled upon it by chance myself.
That's the only thing I could think of - but there are lots of cheap PCI soundcards out there :)
HTH,
Michel
Answering the first question, yes it works in oss-compatibility mode. In fact I have not really tried its native mode - the hassle of there being almost no application that support it natively being the culprit, as well as having to recompile.
One would expect the soundservers (esd, arts) to be the first programs to support ALSA 0.9.0, but that would be defeating the purpose of doing multiplexing without a sound server, no?
As to the second question, I have tried it with the ymfpci driver. YMMV. But if they implement it like Win2k's sound drivers, which I have tested on the good ol' SB AWE64, it should work on most drivers.
Yours,
Michel
Case in hand: if AMD really means to label the 1.4GHz part 'Model 1600', that implies that it is only equivalent to a P4/1.6Gig - in fact, in many cases it is faster than that. But since this kind of marketing gimmicks make it seems like AMD is trying to hide something, cynical people will just assume that even this is a bloated claim, borne out of desperation.
AMD, please reconsider. From someone running a Duron 600 and proud of it.
Regards,
Michel
Alright, it is designed to run Windows-based Netscape plugins. Necessary evil - with the current low level of desktop penetration by Linux, manufacturers and software designers will not immediately rush to providing support. Case in point: hardware drivers - hopefully rectified when a stable API for drivers ala WDM is defined.
With KDE's reaktivate project offering ActiveX plug-in compatibility, whether or not Netscape plugins will continue to be produced is rather moot; there will always be a way for Linux users (unfortunately only those on the x86 platform) to run Windows browser plug-ins.
Offered the choice, however, between increasing Microsoft's stranglehold on browser technologies using a free software program, and helping to maintain a competing technology (Netscape plugins) using a closed-source program developed by a company that gives back to the community, I would choose the latter.
As someone who has bought shrink-wrapped Linux distributions and application suites, I am pre-ordering the CD version of CrossOver. Quite a nice touch, that gives you access to the download version as well :)
Regards,
Michel
Granted that only the latter releases are actually usable, but I note that commercial vendors tend to have more pressure on them to get a release out of the door. Witness two Netscape releases already based on the pre-1.0 Mozilla code.
Hope that clarify matters,
Michel
Checking their ChangeLog file now...
Michel
Releasing a version 1.0 matters more in the commercial world, but since in that aspect Netscape 6.0 and 6.1 has been released, that aspect shouldn't be overrated as well.
After all, the ext2 file system is still at revision 0.17, Enlightenment 0.17 is still in CVS and Sawfish is still at 0.38 - and millions of people use them.
Regards,
Michel
I believe some of Red Hat's beta testers who own SB Lives have been rather unhappy at the state of the emu10k driver in the latest kernels...
Ran into snags with programs' configure trying to enable ALSA support. Solution? Do not install the alsa libraries, just install the drivers. Works for me.
Regards,
Michel
Michel
Kind of like the jump from Win9x to Win2k, soundwise.
HTH,
Michel
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Michel
Michel
Alas we don't have cars such as the Audi A2 entering the market - people who can afford to buy European cars tend to want higher-performance gasoline versions, so there is not much demand for it.
The funny thing is the Indonesian word for gasoline is 'bensin' - made for a bit of confusion for chemistry students (benzene=C6H12, gasoline is mostly C8H18)
Roll on to 2001. All the computers in my university has mass storage media... and they are Iomega Zip drives! There are CD recorders around but they are not the RW type, i.e. I am paying a 'download charge', as a result of which I have accumulated a rather tall stack of coasters...
Yet another one now... sigh... oh well. Don't count me in, my next upgrade will be DVD-RAM.
-michel-
Wonder about the file system implementation though, how much is it based on BeFS? Hope it won't engendered a legal dispute..
michel
And the Crusaders at that time could not stomach facing an enemy such as Saladin that they had to invent the tale that he was raised among Christian knights too (he was Kurdish).
Basically the Byzantines suceeded where the Western Roman Empire failed: by disseminating Greek-Orthodox cultures through the nomadic tribes around them and playing them off one against another, in due time a whole coterie of nations linked to Byzantium by culture and religion buffer them from outside threats.
Granted their empire finally collapsed, but it achieved what Hitler's Third Reich did not: cultural hegemony over Eastern Europe and lasting a thousand years.
Not that I find Hitler's regime agreeable in any way, just as a contrasting example
On one hand, nobody will get XBox bundled with anything - presumably PC manufacturers will be loth to bundle a gaming console that will make you use your PC less?
On the other hand, game developers might love it. A more-or-less common shared platform with the PC running DirectX (sigh...), solid bucks supporting it from the M$30 billion...
Sony looks likely to survive the console shake-up, let's hope Nintendo does too. Let's hope the GameCube gets more titles than the N64...
-michel-
Still hoping for Pluto Express ...
-michel-
At least over a dial-up connection, I must say redcarpet is a much better solution if you are not managing multiple machines.
Wonder how Progeny's Service Network will fare in comparison. Up2Date's bugginess drove me back to Debian within one week... a flaw on otherwise solid underpinnings IMHO.
Michel
Gee thanks :p There goes another one..
Arrgh! Haven't got round to reading that... now I'll have to wait for another year to make sure I would not read it already knowing the ending :p
Michel
This would probably apply only to OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, a.k.a. the First World Countries grouping) citizens. Having lived in Indonesia, Singapore and UK I would say the Singapore leaders are really serious about IT, the latter to a lesser extent and the former completely hopeless... that is, apart for this scheme back in 1996 of outsourcing driver license production to a company controlled by the President's daughter that charges exorbitant fees. And, oh, we have our own satellites too. And an aerospace industry employing foreigners to build expensive planes nobody want to buy we have to swap them for rice and palm oil. Which we do produce ourselves too. Sigh.