I honestly don't know what the problem is. I have been running a Gigabyte GA7IX with an Athlon 600. Not a problem to report at all. Aside from having to force it to recognize all 128 megs of ram.
At different times I have had Mandrake 6.1, Mandrake 7, and Corel distros all on here. Every one worked fine. Oh yeah, and Debian as well.
One thing that has probably hurt Palm a little in the past is the perception of a slow processor. I can't even imagine how awesome a Palm with an Arm/Strong Arm processor will be! The awesome PalmOS on a processor that WinCE devices have usually had.
If every unit is going to have internet connectivity (be it two way radio, or bluetooth) I think Palm will be able to make it affordable. Otherwise they will lose the low end of the market that is currently made up of the IIIxe.
What does this mean for existing owners of Athlon's Will my Gigabyte motherboard be able to support a Spitfire or a Thunderbird if I decide to upgrade a year from now? Is this just a BIOS issue on the motherboard?
I wasn't really that impressed with M14, preferences were slow, menus took forever to pop up, etc... The Netscape 6 preview seemed to be more of the same, it didn't bring much new (noticeably) stuff to the table.
But this...
Wow!
Pages load up insanely quickly, almost seems faster than Netscape 4.72 (on an Athlon 600 running Mandrake 6.1). Preferences are noticeably quicker, although there is still a black "screen" when I change from one preference screen to another.
And it hasn't crashed yet, 4.72 just seemed to crash whenever, even on a page without Java or Javascript. And the menus pop up and move really nicely.
I cannot wait for M16, or the beta. This is gonna kick ass when they're "done."
You're forgetting the target audience. You mention that interest in video game characters has dropped a fari bit sonce you were a kid. Except the target audience is kids. You may not be one anymore.
I don't know what the interest in Tomb Raider is, never liked the first one, and never tried 2, 3, or 4, but if they're making a movie out of it, the game still must be selling lots of copies.
So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those banner ads (...?), and installed JunkBuster. Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare... etc.
Currently I have a Voodoo Banshee, which is supported under XFree, and a sound card that works (had to go out and get another one after finding out that Creative has two versions of the PCI 128, the newer ones don't seem to be supported, If any know a way around this, email me, tjfriese@NoSpam.home.com).
Anyway, my question is, how is DVD support under Linux? If I go and buy one of those $300+ (Canadian) Creative DVD bundles off of the shelf, would this be a good purchase? Will this be able to play DVD's under Linux?
I found a Tucows mirror out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (at least I think it's in Edmonton). I was getting 300-350 kbps download. And am currently running it. My network card was setup seemlessly. A click on a configure button, followed by use DHCP, and voila. My little scrolly wheel on the mouse worked right away, and it detected my Creative Voodoo Banshee perfectly (1280x1024x32 bit goodness). Everything seems to work perfectly.
I haven't downloaded the development stuff to check it out yet, but will soon. Everything looks very promising. The browser works flawlessly so far, and the text isn't too small.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always preferred KDE to Gnome. When I picked up Linux-Mandrake the first time, I figured I'd check out the Gnome desktop based on what I had heard from users here on/. To put it mildly, I didn't like it. It felt to much like Windows (and in all the wrong ways). Whereas KDE had a nice useable desktop under Mandrake.
What do you see in KDE that you like, and would consider importing in Gnome. What is it about KDE that you dislike, and have tried to make better under Gnome?
What about Gnome, do you feel, should cause me to use it over KDE?
How would this work? A hacker is going to be looking for the account in your / partition. Wheter it's called root or not, this would be fairly obvious. Now if you made the/root account to be a dummy account, and had you're root account be somewhere else. It would be pretty easy to tell the difference between a normal user account, and a root account, but maybe not between a dummy account and a root account.
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I was there trying to sign up for an account. I tried using two different email addresses. Both times it said that the email address was invalid.
Quick note on this. You'll only be able to fast forward/rewind what has already been broadcast. If you're watching show that hasn't been broadcast before, and you want to skip the commercial, you won't be able to. Why?
Because you (and the TiVo more importantly) won't have seen the commercial (or placed it into memory).
There is a need for this type of restricition. Different countries have different laws. And the only way (that I can see at the moment) to enforce these laws over the internet will be to restrict people from different countries from participating in things that are illegal in their country, but legal in another.
These restrictions will also make possible the application of taxes on internet sales transactions. It will also make it possible to pay for purchases in your own currency. For example, (because of the difference between the Candaian and the US dollar) it would be possible for a Canadian online store to charge Canadian consumers in Canadian funds, and US consumers in US currency.
And as always, there will be those that find ways to circumvent these restrictions. That is the way of the internet.
If Linux is going to succeed on the desktop it needs the support of the major video card manufacturers. NVidia is a major video card manufacturer. They have released Linux drivers for their cards. Joe Public that decides to run Linux because it's cheaper, and can run Quake III Arena about as well as Windows will most likely not care about whether or not the drivers for his GeForce 256 DDR are closed or open.
Who knows what OS will be the one that will be considered elite 5 years from now, but we will most likely be hearing things along the same lines. Except for all I know, it could involve GNU/HURD.
The only way I can see this example working is if this guy had licensed the Quake engine from id before they open-sourced Quake. Why would id open source an engine that still had paying licensees?
Not an entirely related comment, but why does the above mentioned easter bunny page cause Opera 3.6 to crash? Non standard HTML? It works fine (if slow, seeing as Navigator 3.0 is slower) in Navigator 3.0.
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I honestly don't know what the problem is. I have been running a Gigabyte GA7IX with an Athlon 600. Not a problem to report at all. Aside from having to force it to recognize all 128 megs of ram.
At different times I have had Mandrake 6.1, Mandrake 7, and Corel distros all on here. Every one worked fine. Oh yeah, and Debian as well.
One thing that has probably hurt Palm a little in the past is the perception of a slow processor. I can't even imagine how awesome a Palm with an Arm/Strong Arm processor will be! The awesome PalmOS on a processor that WinCE devices have usually had.
If every unit is going to have internet connectivity (be it two way radio, or bluetooth) I think Palm will be able to make it affordable. Otherwise they will lose the low end of the market that is currently made up of the IIIxe.
What does this mean for existing owners of Athlon's Will my Gigabyte motherboard be able to support a Spitfire or a Thunderbird if I decide to upgrade a year from now? Is this just a BIOS issue on the motherboard?
All I can say is wow!
I wasn't really that impressed with M14, preferences were slow, menus took forever to pop up, etc... The Netscape 6 preview seemed to be more of the same, it didn't bring much new (noticeably) stuff to the table.
But this...
Wow!
Pages load up insanely quickly, almost seems faster than Netscape 4.72 (on an Athlon 600 running Mandrake 6.1). Preferences are noticeably quicker, although there is still a black "screen" when I change from one preference screen to another.
And it hasn't crashed yet, 4.72 just seemed to crash whenever, even on a page without Java or Javascript. And the menus pop up and move really nicely.
I cannot wait for M16, or the beta. This is gonna kick ass when they're "done."
You're forgetting the target audience. You mention that interest in video game characters has dropped a fari bit sonce you were a kid. Except the target audience is kids. You may not be one anymore.
I don't know what the interest in Tomb Raider is, never liked the first one, and never tried 2, 3, or 4, but if they're making a movie out of it, the game still must be selling lots of copies.
I still don't understand how there are people that don't see how Microsoft used the tieing of IE to Windows to squash competition.
People are less likely to try out something new, especially if there is something readily available to them that does exactly what they need it to.
Before IE was bundled with Windows, people would actually learn about both browsers, and choose one based on personal prefference.
For those not fluent in Swedish Chef speak:
Yet Another Internet Tracking Explot.
So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those banner ads (...?), and installed JunkBuster. Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare... etc.
Currently I have a Voodoo Banshee, which is supported under XFree, and a sound card that works (had to go out and get another one after finding out that Creative has two versions of the PCI 128, the newer ones don't seem to be supported, If any know a way around this, email me, tjfriese@NoSpam.home.com).
Anyway, my question is, how is DVD support under Linux? If I go and buy one of those $300+ (Canadian) Creative DVD bundles off of the shelf, would this be a good purchase? Will this be able to play DVD's under Linux?
I have an NE2000 compatible PCI (Realtek) and it works fine. Why not just give it a try, it's worth it.
I found a Tucows mirror out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (at least I think it's in Edmonton). I was getting 300-350 kbps download. And am currently running it. My network card was setup seemlessly. A click on a configure button, followed by use DHCP, and voila. My little scrolly wheel on the mouse worked right away, and it detected my Creative Voodoo Banshee perfectly (1280x1024x32 bit goodness). Everything seems to work perfectly.
I haven't downloaded the development stuff to check it out yet, but will soon. Everything looks very promising. The browser works flawlessly so far, and the text isn't too small.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always preferred KDE to Gnome. When I picked up Linux-Mandrake the first time, I figured I'd check out the Gnome desktop based on what I had heard from users here on /. To put it mildly, I didn't like it. It felt to much like Windows (and in all the wrong ways). Whereas KDE had a nice useable desktop under Mandrake.
What do you see in KDE that you like, and would consider importing in Gnome. What is it about KDE that you dislike, and have tried to make better under Gnome?
What about Gnome, do you feel, should cause me to use it over KDE?
How would this work? A hacker is going to be looking for the account in your / partition. Wheter it's called root or not, this would be fairly obvious. Now if you made the /root account to be a dummy account, and had you're root account be somewhere else. It would be pretty easy to tell the difference between a normal user account, and a root account, but maybe not between a dummy account and a root account.
I was there trying to sign up for an account. I tried using two different email addresses. Both times it said that the email address was invalid.
Quick note on this. You'll only be able to fast forward/rewind what has already been broadcast. If you're watching show that hasn't been broadcast before, and you want to skip the commercial, you won't be able to. Why?
Because you (and the TiVo more importantly) won't have seen the commercial (or placed it into memory).
There is a need for this type of restricition. Different countries have different laws. And the only way (that I can see at the moment) to enforce these laws over the internet will be to restrict people from different countries from participating in things that are illegal in their country, but legal in another.
These restrictions will also make possible the application of taxes on internet sales transactions. It will also make it possible to pay for purchases in your own currency. For example, (because of the difference between the Candaian and the US dollar) it would be possible for a Canadian online store to charge Canadian consumers in Canadian funds, and US consumers in US currency.
And as always, there will be those that find ways to circumvent these restrictions. That is the way of the internet.
Just a few things:
If Linux is going to succeed on the desktop it needs the support of the major video card manufacturers. NVidia is a major video card manufacturer. They have released Linux drivers for their cards. Joe Public that decides to run Linux because it's cheaper, and can run Quake III Arena about as well as Windows will most likely not care about whether or not the drivers for his GeForce 256 DDR are closed or open.
Who knows what OS will be the one that will be considered elite 5 years from now, but we will most likely be hearing things along the same lines. Except for all I know, it could involve GNU/HURD.
All I want to know, is how many people clicked on the bare breasts in New Orleans video link in the top right corner of the page?
Oh c'mon... I mean I submitted this story like two weeks ago. Give credit where credit is due, man ;-)
The only way I can see this example working is if this guy had licensed the Quake engine from id before they open-sourced Quake. Why would id open source an engine that still had paying licensees?
Check out the main page: http://www.linuxmandrake.com.
As of today (Jan. 14, 2000), Linux Mandrake 7.0 is available for download, with a boxed version appearing in February for $55 US dollars.
Not an entirely related comment, but why does the above mentioned easter bunny page cause Opera 3.6 to crash? Non standard HTML? It works fine (if slow, seeing as Navigator 3.0 is slower) in Navigator 3.0.