Ya but the Rage 128 has been out for SOOO long, so ATI has had plenty of time to update the drivers. New vid cards from ATI tend to suck ass because the drivers are just plain SHIT. The Radeon, as far as i've heard, is at least not bad in windows. I'm not sure how it handles linux, though.
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Why this functionality isn't already built into every single mail reader in existence, I just don't understand. Some people will raise the issue of needing to decentralize the storage of the keys, etc, but isn't that an incredibly minor concern considering the state of things now? People make secure connections all the time on the net. They do this because SSL is built into every browser and encryption happens transparently and automatically. Until we have the same for email, we won't have secure email.
EXACTLY. It has always puzzled me why Licq has SSL and the official ICQ client has never integrated it. With all the security breakings going on around the internet and carnivor being setup it has surprised me that email isn't super-utra-heavy encrypted yet.
why do you think a 33mhz playstation went from the original mortal kombat to gran-tourismo 2 without ANY change in hardware? tighter code. the fuckwits up at redmond could learn a thing or two from these folks.
I think a more interesting comparison would be Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country and Killer Instinct for the SNES. THAT was a big change...
But PC programmers are starting to get thier shit together, look at BeOS! Now if only we can get enough software ported to it...
Keep in mind this article was probably aimed at the same people who buy iMacs. These people need real world comparisons to even begin to comprehend what's being said. Quoting nanometres and nanoseconds isn't going to help...
I've always wondered, how effective is SPAM anymore? People get so much junk email nowadays then they just delete it without even thinking twice. Even regular peple who can't figure out why they get these emails in the first place probably get roll thier eyes and delete it too. Is SPAMing even getting through anymore?
What we need to do is get Yahoo (or some other large portal) to release thier statistics on what OSes are connecting to thier site. That would be invaluable in determining how many users of any OS there are.
Let us not also forget that where linux is capitalizing the MOST right now is the server OS market, which is where Microsoft DOESN'T have a monopoly.
What Microsoft can;t seem to understand is that in the server market tailoring the servers EXACTLY to your needs is very important. You can't do that with windows NT/2000 as much as you can with most UNIXes.
Actually, if you've read all the star wars books and you have a good GameMaster, Star Wars RPG is actually lots of fun. of course a good gamemaster is probably good for any RPG, but I've only played Rifts and SW:RPG
Unreal Tournament was also pretty painless to install under linux. Just download the binary, mount the UT CD and execute the binary. quite frankly i don't care much for shrinkwrapped Linux games. so long as companies allow me to download the binaries to play I'll be happy.
People have been moving linux to so many plaotforms because Microsoft loves to say that linux doesn't have the expanability that windows does. SO to prove them wrong they prot them from everything from watches, to PDAs, to IBM mainframes...
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i guess i didn't word that right. I meant current browsers . People seem to expect all the features of of the latest browsers w/o the bloat of them. You want small browser that can render most page? get netscape 3.x. just don't expect flash and modern JAVA support.
fvwm2 rules, it's great for admining old 486s when you want multiple shells and a graphical congifuration.
In my opinion win2K pro is the best desktop OS Microsoft has ever created. People say Unix is just "so wrong on the desktop" but i say "windows is so wrong as a server". Win 2k is very stable. Of course that could be because shoddy hardware don't even have drivers for it and won't crash the system, but it's faster than ME on my comp, more stable, and more powerfull. The only thing i can't stand is that its god medicore mulitmedia support compated to ME. Whislter SHOULD fix that but i've read that they are removing dual proc support in whister, which is dumb considering it's based on win2k. Apple figured out that there is a vaible market for dual proc desktop systems. and we all know it can be cheaper to but 2 (celerons)slower chips rather than one more powerful one(P3). yet the 2 slower one outperform the faster one.
If whistler doesn't support 2 procs then that's ANOTHER thing microsoft will have missed.
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any full browser whether on windows or Unix will crawl wtih 32 megs of ram. In Linux with x 32 megs is just unacceptable unless you are using an older window manager and in windows it's just painful.
I've been using the IA64 on compaqs site. they give you access to a whole shlew of server to play around with for 30 days. The Itanium server I've been playing with has been using "linux64". I wanted to run some programs on it but nothings ported to the Itanium yet. I could only make a few scripts to play with
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agreed. somethings always told me that XF86 was made by people running voodoos...
Damn it? did you ever use Netscape too?! Stay away from Mozilla, Debian, OpenBSD, NVidia, and while you're at it get of Slashdot too ;-)
Ya but the Rage 128 has been out for SOOO long, so ATI has had plenty of time to update the drivers. New vid cards from ATI tend to suck ass because the drivers are just plain SHIT. The Radeon, as far as i've heard, is at least not bad in windows. I'm not sure how it handles linux, though.
EXACTLY. It has always puzzled me why Licq has SSL and the official ICQ client has never integrated it. With all the security breakings going on around the internet and carnivor being setup it has surprised me that email isn't super-utra-heavy encrypted yet.
who at the university made BSD? was it CS students profs or both??
There already is one of those, it's called the photocopy room ;-)
Ah, i nver thought of that. Thats probably explains why the KI cartrage got so damn hot on my SNES...
I think a more interesting comparison would be Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country and Killer Instinct for the SNES. THAT was a big change...
But PC programmers are starting to get thier shit together, look at BeOS! Now if only we can get enough software ported to it...
Keep in mind this article was probably aimed at the same people who buy iMacs. These people need real world comparisons to even begin to comprehend what's being said. Quoting nanometres and nanoseconds isn't going to help...
I've always wondered, how effective is SPAM anymore? People get so much junk email nowadays then they just delete it without even thinking twice. Even regular peple who can't figure out why they get these emails in the first place probably get roll thier eyes and delete it too. Is SPAMing even getting through anymore?
What we need to do is get Yahoo (or some other large portal) to release thier statistics on what OSes are connecting to thier site. That would be invaluable in determining how many users of any OS there are.
Physics major, are we? ;-)
didn't they just finally lose contact with pioneer 10 a few weeks ago?
i hardely doubt the russian commanders cared or even though about it, though..
Whaddya'll say we find out what signal it's using and /. the damn thing? ;-)
What Microsoft can;t seem to understand is that in the server market tailoring the servers EXACTLY to your needs is very important. You can't do that with windows NT/2000 as much as you can with most UNIXes.
Actually, if you've read all the star wars books and you have a good GameMaster, Star Wars RPG is actually lots of fun. of course a good gamemaster is probably good for any RPG, but I've only played Rifts and SW:RPG
but what if they aren't. say they did write thier own OS. I wonder what it would be like....
not if you live outside the states it doesn't. I'm willing to bet most of thier real hacks are done outside of the US.
Unreal Tournament was also pretty painless to install under linux. Just download the binary, mount the UT CD and execute the binary. quite frankly i don't care much for shrinkwrapped Linux games. so long as companies allow me to download the binaries to play I'll be happy.
People have been moving linux to so many plaotforms because Microsoft loves to say that linux doesn't have the expanability that windows does. SO to prove them wrong they prot them from everything from watches, to PDAs, to IBM mainframes...
fvwm2 rules, it's great for admining old 486s when you want multiple shells and a graphical congifuration.
If whistler doesn't support 2 procs then that's ANOTHER thing microsoft will have missed.
any full browser whether on windows or Unix will crawl wtih 32 megs of ram. In Linux with x 32 megs is just unacceptable unless you are using an older window manager and in windows it's just painful.
I've been using the IA64 on compaqs site. they give you access to a whole shlew of server to play around with for 30 days. The Itanium server I've been playing with has been using "linux64". I wanted to run some programs on it but nothings ported to the Itanium yet. I could only make a few scripts to play with