"These days I watch MotoGP instead. Now those guys know how to race."
Hear, hear! MotoGP has been pretty solid this year. Rossi's had just enough problems to make it much more of a scramble. Been kind of bummed with WSBK though. Oh well, maybe next year.
Actually, if you want to help Daniel, buy a T-Shirt, CD or something. It appears that the donations just go to the NFP. Not that that's bad mind you, just ineffective for Daniel.
No ataraid in 2.6 yet. I've worked around the lack of proper drivers with dm (device mapper), which is part of the lvm stuff. I've got a 2 disk raid0 stripe connected to a PDC20276 which I use mostly for backup purposes.
It's possible to set it up so that you can access it properly, but to boot from it would be a bit tricky. You'd need to use dm-setup from the lvm tools, together with a config file all wrapped up in an initrd image.
Too much work to bother at this point. Hopefully ataraid makes it in soon.
I'm sure that it'd be easy to prove a trademark infringment. I can't be the only one holding down the delete key to get into setup when the program launched....
I used to use MOL on a G4 400 and it worked great. I was running PPC Linux at the time, and had Mac OS9 on the virtual side. It was nearly as fast as native, ran all apps flawlessly and had all the stability you'd expect if you ran OS9 natively. All in all, highly recommended.
Exactly. If you want real news about the development of mozilla, check out Mozillazine
They keep you up to date on the status of nightly builds, rate them for you, and even have a build-bar talkback area so you can chime in on what works/doesn't work. It's the first place I go before I download a nightly.
Or maybe, we're experiencing the cyclical changes on temperature / weather that we know has occurred on earth since the beginning of time. I'm sure that if we were around during the beginning of an ice age, we would've freaked out then too. Probably would've been told by our global governments to go start fires etc... to try to warm things up since we must've obviously done something to cause this extreme cold to happen. Who knows? We've always had a need to explain *why* things happen, and more recently to try to affect change to keep them from happening. The difference as I see it, is that we now have sensitive equipment to monitor even small climatological changes. Makes it much easier for us to all suffer from "Chicken Little Syndrome". Or, maybe I'm just stoned:)
Not too sure about the 4 dimm slot issue, although, I do remember hearing the same as you about it. Something to do with the trace distance on the board being too great for 266Mhz DDR and having timing difficulties.
As to the raid, I recently purchased the Dragon+ reviewed by Tom and am overall quite pleased with it. It's onboard Raid is of the Promise FastTrak variety using a PDC20265R controller chip. There is a jumper on the board to select raid operation or to simply use it as additional IDE ports. When selected as Raid, upon bootup you get a menu allowing you to setup the array. It only supports raid0,1 but appears to work straight out of the box. I set it up and used my Win98 startup disk to install. When starting up FDISK, it sees the array as 1 drive of an (erroneously) large quantity. I created a partition and installed windows and all appeared fine. I think the win drivers are there to enable the UDMA features of the drives once you're inside windows. None of this mattered of course, since I needed everything to work in linux and the fasttrak module included with Mandrake 8.1 just isn't up to snuff yet. I was able to get so far as to start installing linux using the raid controller and suddenly the system rebooted itself. So, at the present time, I'm running in software raid0 mode still connected to the Promise IDE ports, since you can't boot off a CD-ROM connected to the Promise IDE ports. That's OK though. Still lets me keep all my IDE devices on separate ports and performance has been stellar.
I'm not so sure that I'd say that the VM has been screwed after the AA VM was introduced. Starting with 2.4.10 it was significantly better than prior versions (which were screwed IMHO). I've got a couple boxes at work running 2.4.12 w/ virtually no swap usage on 256MB Ram. I'm running 2.4.13 at home w/ 384 MB Ram and see only minimal swap usage even while running big, buggy things like "Return to Castle Wolfenstein":) It seems to be stabilizing nicely in recent kernels and at least from my perspective of a couple minimally loaded servers at work and my desktop box at home, it works rather nicely. YMMV however.
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Shoot - might as well go for the gusto:
chmod +x/dev/random
/dev/random
Yep. That ought to do it. Hey, why is windows booting?!?
They also used the word "fully." If the left it out of the kernel, they couldnt use it.
Remember, they also touted OSX as "The most advanced operating system in the world." Not that it's not a fine OS, but that's a bit of a stretch. Apple is well noted for it's marketing speak and as such, saying it's fully preemptible does not mean that the the kernel itself is preemptive. It very well may be, I just take what they say/advertise with a grain of salt. I've never been too keen on marketing speak.
I've often wished that there were killer games available for linux that *weren't* available for windows and needed to be ported to that platform. But, alas, that probably won't happen for quite some time. For the time being, the desktop share of Linux doesn't warrant such exclusivity.
When wine was originally started, very few desktop like applications existed for linux. Wine was created as a method of running windows applications in an attempt to ease the transition to linux. Now, there are many desktop apps available, however, there are still some applications for which there are no native linux ports - nor does there appear to be any effort by the developers to create native linux ports. Examples include Half-life, Quicktime w/ Sorensen, Windows Media Player etc...
The development of wine continues, not due to jealosy of attention or to attract additional users, but to allow the linux users the possibility to run that which is available to us natively as well as that which will never be. It's not perfect. However, I'd rather fire up netscape for windows and view Quicktime movies using it under wine than reboot into windows for the *same* experience. It's quite a quandary - I'd much rather *not* have to use wine to do this. But, advocacy only goes so far just yet. I'd say it's the lesser of two evils - wine seems much less evil.
With regards to look and feel emulation. Yeah, I see that too. Most of the world runs windows on the desktop. The idealism behind linux, its licensing, its community, it technical architecture - these are all different enough from Windows. To migrate users over to Linux is difficult enough without users having to completely relearn what's already been ingrained in them from years of use with Windows. Changes with regards to look & feel, and overall operations aren't necessary. Some familiarity can be helpful at this point.
The new Palominos *finally* have an actual thermal diode. Perhaps that will be used properly to shutdown the system in the event of a fan failure etc...
I have to agree with most of what you say. I have always been a proponent for the private sector providing goods & services. However, here in Tacoma, this all happened as a result of the cable companies not being able to deliver. Like most places, we went through several of em'. From Viacom to TCI and now to AT&T. A few years ago, Viacom/TCI completely drug their feet on providing services to areas within the city. The residents were upset that they couldn't get standard basic TV services etc.. The City of Tacoma decided that adding a cable network to its utilities wasn't so bad an idea as it would extend services to areas that couldn't already get it, as well as provide consumers with a choice (where cable was available). All in all, it's worked out pretty good in Tacoma. Oddly enough, AT&T sure worked their butts off to get service in to previously un-served areas once Click was there. Now, most residents in Tacoma have a choice between Click (the City owned cable), AT&T, Qwest DSL and others.
I'm not sure if this sort of thing would work elsewhere, but in Tacoma, it exists due to the existing private sector companies not providing the services to begin with. Sometimes competition, even from public utilities, is a *good* thing.
This is no joke! I live in a nice, small urban area that is populated predominately by the blue hair crowd. I've used qwest dsl and recently switched to covad (after qwest sold me to msn) and have had excellent dsl service. I have very quick access to most web sites as well as excellent game play online - frequently with sub-70 ping times. I sometimes wish ATT would get their stuff together and get cable here so I could have that big, fag 10Mb pipe all to myself:)
"The wide and shallow approach of the PPC certainly means that less clock cycles are needed than the narrow and deep approach of the x86."
Remember, the article is about only one "x86" processor: the P4. Clock speed still matters, just not as much with that particular processor. There is a performance penalty to be paid due to this design philosophy. A similarly clocked P3 will eat a P4's lunch because of it. Let's not even get started with what a similarly clocked Athlon does:) I think that Intel's thinking was: "Who cares if it might be less efficient on a per-clock basis, this thing'll ramp up to such a high clock speed that it's inefficiencies won't matter anymore."
By comparison, the G4 and Athlon are very efficient with their clock cycles.
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Since nobody's said it yet.... Locking.
"These days I watch MotoGP instead. Now those guys know how to race."
Hear, hear! MotoGP has been pretty solid this year. Rossi's had just enough problems to make it much more of a scramble. Been kind of bummed with WSBK though. Oh well, maybe next year.Actually, if you want to help Daniel, buy a T-Shirt, CD or something. It appears that the donations just go to the NFP. Not that that's bad mind you, just ineffective for Daniel.
No ataraid in 2.6 yet. I've worked around the lack of proper drivers with dm (device mapper), which is part of the lvm stuff. I've got a 2 disk raid0 stripe connected to a PDC20276 which I use mostly for backup purposes.
It's possible to set it up so that you can access it properly, but to boot from it would be a bit tricky. You'd need to use dm-setup from the lvm tools, together with a config file all wrapped up in an initrd image.
Too much work to bother at this point. Hopefully ataraid makes it in soon.
That's pretty decent. And I bet it was a gas to setup.
I'm sure that it'd be easy to prove a trademark infringment. I can't be the only one holding down the delete key to get into setup when the program launched....
What responsibility does Gamespy have to the users who downloaded the infected file?"
.net CD's were shipped infected with a worm)
About the same as Microsoft I would guess...
(Remembering the recent slashdot story where
I used to use MOL on a G4 400 and it worked great. I was running PPC Linux at the time, and had Mac OS9 on the virtual side. It was nearly as fast as native, ran all apps flawlessly and had all the stability you'd expect if you ran OS9 natively. All in all, highly recommended.
Exactly. If you want real news about the development of mozilla, check out Mozillazine
They keep you up to date on the status of nightly builds, rate them for you, and even have a build-bar talkback area so you can chime in on what works/doesn't work. It's the first place I go before I download a nightly.
Yeah, but just think how quick it would count up that 256K of ram. Although, you might want to upgrade that RLL 10M drive :)
You know, I wonder if I have a system that this game will play on:
Athlon 1800+
512 MB DDR Ram
GeForce 3 Ti 200
80 GB Raid Array
Oh sure, I think the hardware's fine, it's the OS I'm wondering about:
Linux localhost.net 2.4.17-xfs-preempt #2 Sat Dec 29 19:26:14 PST 2001 i686 unknown
Or maybe, we're experiencing the cyclical changes on temperature / weather that we know has occurred on earth since the beginning of time. I'm sure that if we were around during the beginning of an ice age, we would've freaked out then too. Probably would've been told by our global governments to go start fires etc... to try to warm things up since we must've obviously done something to cause this extreme cold to happen. Who knows? We've always had a need to explain *why* things happen, and more recently to try to affect change to keep them from happening. The difference as I see it, is that we now have sensitive equipment to monitor even small climatological changes. Makes it much easier for us to all suffer from "Chicken Little Syndrome". Or, maybe I'm just stoned :)
Not too sure about the 4 dimm slot issue, although, I do remember hearing the same as you about it. Something to do with the trace distance on the board being too great for 266Mhz DDR and having timing difficulties.
As to the raid, I recently purchased the Dragon+ reviewed by Tom and am overall quite pleased with it. It's onboard Raid is of the Promise FastTrak variety using a PDC20265R controller chip. There is a jumper on the board to select raid operation or to simply use it as additional IDE ports. When selected as Raid, upon bootup you get a menu allowing you to setup the array. It only supports raid0,1 but appears to work straight out of the box. I set it up and used my Win98 startup disk to install. When starting up FDISK, it sees the array as 1 drive of an (erroneously) large quantity. I created a partition and installed windows and all appeared fine. I think the win drivers are there to enable the UDMA features of the drives once you're inside windows. None of this mattered of course, since I needed everything to work in linux and the fasttrak module included with Mandrake 8.1 just isn't up to snuff yet. I was able to get so far as to start installing linux using the raid controller and suddenly the system rebooted itself. So, at the present time, I'm running in software raid0 mode still connected to the Promise IDE ports, since you can't boot off a CD-ROM connected to the Promise IDE ports. That's OK though. Still lets me keep all my IDE devices on separate ports and performance has been stellar.
I'm not so sure that I'd say that the VM has been screwed after the AA VM was introduced. Starting with 2.4.10 it was significantly better than prior versions (which were screwed IMHO). I've got a couple boxes at work running 2.4.12 w/ virtually no swap usage on 256MB Ram. I'm running 2.4.13 at home w/ 384 MB Ram and see only minimal swap usage even while running big, buggy things like "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" :) It seems to be stabilizing nicely in recent kernels and at least from my perspective of a couple minimally loaded servers at work and my desktop box at home, it works rather nicely. YMMV however.
Shoot - might as well go for the gusto:
/dev/random
chmod +x
/dev/random
Yep. That ought to do it. Hey, why is windows booting?!?
They also used the word "fully." If the left it out of the kernel, they couldnt use it.
Remember, they also touted OSX as "The most advanced operating system in the world." Not that it's not a fine OS, but that's a bit of a stretch. Apple is well noted for it's marketing speak and as such, saying it's fully preemptible does not mean that the the kernel itself is preemptive. It very well may be, I just take what they say/advertise with a grain of salt. I've never been too keen on marketing speak.
I've often wished that there were killer games available for linux that *weren't* available for windows and needed to be ported to that platform. But, alas, that probably won't happen for quite some time. For the time being, the desktop share of Linux doesn't warrant such exclusivity.
When wine was originally started, very few desktop like applications existed for linux. Wine was created as a method of running windows applications in an attempt to ease the transition to linux. Now, there are many desktop apps available, however, there are still some applications for which there are no native linux ports - nor does there appear to be any effort by the developers to create native linux ports. Examples include Half-life, Quicktime w/ Sorensen, Windows Media Player etc...
The development of wine continues, not due to jealosy of attention or to attract additional users, but to allow the linux users the possibility to run that which is available to us natively as well as that which will never be. It's not perfect. However, I'd rather fire up netscape for windows and view Quicktime movies using it under wine than reboot into windows for the *same* experience. It's quite a quandary - I'd much rather *not* have to use wine to do this. But, advocacy only goes so far just yet. I'd say it's the lesser of two evils - wine seems much less evil.
With regards to look and feel emulation. Yeah, I see that too. Most of the world runs windows on the desktop. The idealism behind linux, its licensing, its community, it technical architecture - these are all different enough from Windows. To migrate users over to Linux is difficult enough without users having to completely relearn what's already been ingrained in them from years of use with Windows. Changes with regards to look & feel, and overall operations aren't necessary. Some familiarity can be helpful at this point.
I don't think of that as a *bad* thing.
The new Palominos *finally* have an actual thermal diode. Perhaps that will be used properly to shutdown the system in the event of a fan failure etc...
I have to agree with most of what you say. I have always been a proponent for the private sector providing goods & services. However, here in Tacoma, this all happened as a result of the cable companies not being able to deliver. Like most places, we went through several of em'. From Viacom to TCI and now to AT&T. A few years ago, Viacom/TCI completely drug their feet on providing services to areas within the city. The residents were upset that they couldn't get standard basic TV services etc.. The City of Tacoma decided that adding a cable network to its utilities wasn't so bad an idea as it would extend services to areas that couldn't already get it, as well as provide consumers with a choice (where cable was available). All in all, it's worked out pretty good in Tacoma. Oddly enough, AT&T sure worked their butts off to get service in to previously un-served areas once Click was there. Now, most residents in Tacoma have a choice between Click (the City owned cable), AT&T, Qwest DSL and others.
I'm not sure if this sort of thing would work elsewhere, but in Tacoma, it exists due to the existing private sector companies not providing the services to begin with. Sometimes competition, even from public utilities, is a *good* thing.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, Linus named it linux which stood for little unix. He admired many things about unix, except the size of the monster.
:)
I could be wrong though... It's happened once before
You wouldn't burn down Abe Lincoln's cabin would you?
Dunno. Is that made of magnesium too?
"We're going to close the intersection of Pine and Elm because there are too many accidents there."
Exactly. How stupid. That's like grounding all flights of a certain aircraft because it crashed once. Oh wait....
Wow, this *is* refreshing. I'm so used to hearing about BSD's death....
:)
Damn....Just blew my moderation of this discussion.
This is no joke! I live in a nice, small urban area that is populated predominately by the blue hair crowd. I've used qwest dsl and recently switched to covad (after qwest sold me to msn) and have had excellent dsl service. I have very quick access to most web sites as well as excellent game play online - frequently with sub-70 ping times. I sometimes wish ATT would get their stuff together and get cable here so I could have that big, fag 10Mb pipe all to myself :)
"The wide and shallow approach of the PPC certainly means that less clock cycles are needed than the narrow and deep approach of the x86."
:) I think that Intel's thinking was: "Who cares if it might be less efficient on a per-clock basis, this thing'll ramp up to such a high clock speed that it's inefficiencies won't matter anymore."
Remember, the article is about only one "x86" processor: the P4. Clock speed still matters, just not as much with that particular processor. There is a performance penalty to be paid due to this design philosophy. A similarly clocked P3 will eat a P4's lunch because of it. Let's not even get started with what a similarly clocked Athlon does
By comparison, the G4 and Athlon are very efficient with their clock cycles.