You might want to check out linux-ide.org or the people/hedrick directory on a kernel.org mirror. ATA100 was supported in Linux before they were supported in any Microsoft OS, as Andre is eager to point out in the README.
README-UltraDMA-100 05-Jun-2000 08:12
Greetings All,
Just announced this morning by Quantum Ultra ATA/100.
Linux has native support for several host adapters and more will be
in the future. To the best that I can tell, we beat MircoSoft to the
hardware.
Care to explain why the fuck you would put a GeForce in a server for? Servers don't even need video cards. I saw an ad for the local DIY shop and they had several tiers of systems for sale. Thier server had a GeForce and a SBLive Platinum in it, I laughed and moved on.
If that's a Windiot's idea of a server, god help us all if Windows 2000 ever gets into the enterprise.
Last time i used a redhat box, rm was aliased to rm -i or some shit like that so it asked you if you really wanted to delete the file(s), just like the default setting for deleting stuff to the recycle bin in Microsoft Windows. So you couldn't blast stuff away without actually knowing you were doing it. Of course, thats what happens when you use root as your user account...
Windiots don't like to use the keyboard. Click. Click. Click.
If Microsoft innovated an onscreen virtual keyboard, I bet Windiots would rather click on the keys with a mouse cursor, over using an archaic keyboard, 'cause those are only for DOS anyways.
You are right, my bad. I made the common fallacy of making Mom = My Mom. Common critical thinking error. Sounds more like Brian's mom shouldn't be administering Unix.
However, unix has this really cool feature, thats been there from the start, where another user can connect to a remote machine over a network (the Internet is a network) and use the machine as if it was local!
No, this isn't a Microsoft innovation, it's good old telnet! Or ssh if you prefer encryption. What this means is that Brian can connect to Mom's machine and fix it or even *share a terminal* with her and show her how to do it!
I think this costs extra on a Microsoft Windows machine, if it exists at all, but then again, Mom doesn't know about that either.
..why is it a big deal to remove VBScripting and Windows Scripting Host?
I did uninstall the Scripting Host after reading about some vulnerability.
Not long after the install on demand pop-up appeared because the web site required it. So much for customizing and uninstalling thier proprietary crap.
Apparently there were some Windows 95 installs that you could dial-in your registration over the phone lines. Some of these installs, if you had a modem, tried to dial the number for no reason at no particular time and without the user having prompted it. Hence the name "phone home" software.
Apparently it was fixed.
Example:
Media Player 7 is configured by default to "phone home" about the type of music and media you play. Supposedly it's anonymous, but I haven't checked. You have to wade your way through drop down menus and checkboxes to find it and un-check it.
Media Player 7 comes with Windows 98 Third Edition (Also known as Millenium, ME).
Enter one Corporation which makes Windows 2000 Operating system.
Enter manufacturer of many printing devices, Lexmark.
Add Service Pack one, and watch your printers that worked fine, take over 20 minutes to print one page of black text.
Simmer to rage, and serve.
Isn't Microsoft supposed to work with OEM's with driver issues and inform them of major changes to subsystems, such as printing.
Oh, and SP1 won't uninstall on my clients' computers now either, even when make a backup was selected, the error it generates when I go to uninstall the SP1 is: "Windows will uninstall the SP1 but will not uninstall the SP1"
And it doesn't uninstall it.
And they said Win2k was going to be so well regression tested that it won't even need a service pack. Fuck you Windows 2000 Team
It's funny how Win2k professional doesn't give you a menu of choices for the install, it installs _everything_ by default. The only way to customize it is to make an install script, or remove shit after you have installed it.
So him prolly not installing it is highly improbable.
"Linux won't support it either, at least not until I get XFree86 4.0 working on it...:-(
"
Doesn't the SVGA xserver for 3.3.6 support those nvidia chipsets?
Most computer geeks that know about Linux are skilled enough to build thier own custom pc and install whatever OS on it that they decide, or know that the local shops will be more than happy to make one for them without Windows, and its still cheaper than the retarded proprietary OEM systems you buy at your local discount store.
You buy that crap, from an OEM that cuts every corner it can with shit hardware and built in peripherals(Acer and Compaq come to mind), and you buy thier Windows, and you get what you deserve. An underperforming unstable non-upgradable peice of shit that runs Windows.
He uses hdparm, as well as enabling some performance features in the kernel configuration. He may have to enable incomplete/experimental features in the kernel config first though, and some motherboard chipsets require you to tell them what the idebus is at the lilo prompt or it will eat your filesystem.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out all the o's in windows 2000 !
Try visiting windowsupdate.microsoft.com with Lynx, its just plain awesome.
You might want to check out linux-ide.org or the people/hedrick directory on a kernel.org mirror. ATA100 was supported in Linux before they were supported in any Microsoft OS, as Andre is eager to point out in the README.
README-UltraDMA-100 05-Jun-2000 08:12
Greetings All,
Just announced this morning by Quantum Ultra ATA/100.
Linux has native support for several host adapters and more will be
in the future. To the best that I can tell, we beat MircoSoft to the
hardware.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
http://www.linux-ide.org/
ide.2.4.0-t1-ac8-100.0605.patch.gz
ide.2.4.0-t1-ac8-100.0605.patch.bz2
"It's basically the same thing with the Athlon clocking PC133 RAM at 200 MHz."
Last I checked, the "200 MHz bus" on the AMD boards are really 2x100 MHz busses.
Can I have some of that crack too ?
I had a pci tnt with 16mb running 3.3.6 at 1024x768 16bpp with the utah glx module running glquake. What seems to be the problem ?
Slackware does not do that. For everything else is just a modified Red Hat.
Care to explain why the fuck you would put a GeForce in a server for? Servers don't even need video cards. I saw an ad for the local DIY shop and they had several tiers of systems for sale. Thier server had a GeForce and a SBLive Platinum in it, I laughed and moved on.
If that's a Windiot's idea of a server, god help us all if Windows 2000 ever gets into the enterprise.
where can I buy a dual athlon or duron system?
What the fuck do folders for dead tree sheets have to do with a computers filesystem ?
Last time i used a redhat box, rm was aliased to rm -i or some shit like that so it asked you if you really wanted to delete the file(s), just like the default setting for deleting stuff to the recycle bin in Microsoft Windows. So you couldn't blast stuff away without actually knowing you were doing it. Of course, thats what happens when you use root as your user account ...
Windiots don't like to use the keyboard. Click. Click. Click.
If Microsoft innovated an onscreen virtual keyboard, I bet Windiots would rather click on the keys with a mouse cursor, over using an archaic keyboard, 'cause those are only for DOS anyways.
You are right, my bad. I made the common fallacy of making Mom = My Mom. Common critical thinking error. Sounds more like Brian's mom shouldn't be administering Unix.
Generally, Moms shouldn't administer Unix.
However, unix has this really cool feature, thats been there from the start, where another user can connect to a remote machine over a network (the Internet is a network) and use the machine as if it was local!
No, this isn't a Microsoft innovation, it's good old telnet! Or ssh if you prefer encryption. What this means is that Brian can connect to Mom's machine and fix it or even *share a terminal* with her and show her how to do it!
I think this costs extra on a Microsoft Windows machine, if it exists at all, but then again, Mom doesn't know about that either.
How can you be sure if its the chip? Most DIY overclockers overclock to make thier Direct3D games run faster, which implies Microsoft Windows.
Maybe you just need a clean reinstall.
..why is it a big deal to remove VBScripting and Windows Scripting Host?
I did uninstall the Scripting Host after reading about some vulnerability.
Not long after the install on demand pop-up appeared because the web site required it. So much for customizing and uninstalling thier proprietary crap.
Apparently there were some Windows 95 installs that you could dial-in your registration over the phone lines. Some of these installs, if you had a modem, tried to dial the number for no reason at no particular time and without the user having prompted it. Hence the name "phone home" software.
Apparently it was fixed.
Example:
Media Player 7 is configured by default to "phone home" about the type of music and media you play. Supposedly it's anonymous, but I haven't checked. You have to wade your way through drop down menus and checkboxes to find it and un-check it.
Media Player 7 comes with Windows 98 Third Edition (Also known as Millenium, ME).
Enter one Corporation which makes Windows 2000 Operating system.
Enter manufacturer of many printing devices, Lexmark.
Add Service Pack one, and watch your printers that worked fine, take over 20 minutes to print one page of black text.
Simmer to rage, and serve.
Isn't Microsoft supposed to work with OEM's with driver issues and inform them of major changes to subsystems, such as printing.
Oh, and SP1 won't uninstall on my clients' computers now either, even when make a backup was selected, the error it generates when I go to uninstall the SP1 is: "Windows will uninstall the SP1 but will not uninstall the SP1"
And it doesn't uninstall it.
And they said Win2k was going to be so well regression tested that it won't even need a service pack. Fuck you Windows 2000 Team
Window Maker doesn't look anything like the klunky Windows 95 interface, what the fuck are you talking about?
It's funny how Win2k professional doesn't give you a menu of choices for the install, it installs _everything_ by default. The only way to customize it is to make an install script, or remove shit after you have installed it.
So him prolly not installing it is highly improbable.
Once lilo has loaded the kernel, doesn't Linux chuck the BIOS out, and use bios32.c ?
Unlike Microsoft's Wintendo
"Linux won't support it either, at least not until I get XFree86 4.0 working on it... :-(
"
Doesn't the SVGA xserver for 3.3.6 support those nvidia chipsets?
Check out Vigor and see just what Clippy's evil cousin is up to.
http://www.red-bean.com/~joelh/vigor/
I'm sure you mean "lose" and not "loose"
Most computer geeks that know about Linux are skilled enough to build thier own custom pc and install whatever OS on it that they decide, or know that the local shops will be more than happy to make one for them without Windows, and its still cheaper than the retarded proprietary OEM systems you buy at your local discount store.
You buy that crap, from an OEM that cuts every corner it can with shit hardware and built in peripherals(Acer and Compaq come to mind), and you buy thier Windows, and you get what you deserve. An underperforming unstable non-upgradable peice of shit that runs Windows.
He uses hdparm, as well as enabling some performance features in the kernel configuration. He may have to enable incomplete/experimental features in the kernel config first though, and some motherboard chipsets require you to tell them what the idebus is at the lilo prompt or it will eat your filesystem.