I don't know you guys, but my all-time favorite benchmark tool is Seti@Home. =) The distro which spits out more work units, that's what I'll take. And my linux box does 5 times as fast as my w32, mind you. But you already knew that, did you? =)
You don't happen to run commandline client on Linux and the 'gui' client on Windows, do you?;) The difference between gui and commandline client is huge on both Windows and Linux.
Whichever is correct, you are not. IE blows Mozilla away and will for quite some time. You don't have to like this fact, but you do have to live with it for the foreseeable future.
I can honestly say that Mozilla performs infinitely better on this Linux box than IE.;) (Well, I think that some people actually have had success with running IE under Wine, but...)
As a production platform for film, music, etc, the Amiga is quite obsolete. You do not want to run Deluxe Paint when you have access to Photo Shop, don't you?
Actually, Photoshop is not exactly very hot for pixel-level editing, which is the thing DP focuses most on. If I'd have both DP on Amiga and Photoshop on Windows/Mac running in front of me and I'd have to draw for example a small icon from scratch, I'd use DP. (Although then again, IMO Brilliance was a better program than DP for that;) For most heavy-duty graphics work Photoshop is superior, but it's not the best tool for everything.
Red Hat Network completely toasted my Red Hat 7.0 system.. Has it improved recently?
At least for my RH 7.1 system it has worked quite nicely, with no trouble that I can trace back to it. However, I admit that one person is a rather meaningless statistical sample, so don't make your future decisions about usage of RHN update service with only my positive comment as data.;)
Not to mention that it is also easy to keep updated with the Software manager - it will keep you updated on various security rpm updates. RH has something like this, but you have to be a paid user to use it.
No. For single computer, the RedHat software update service is free. However, for several your point is valid.
So far every "commercial" game I've tried on Linux has required some obscure or non default
library and/or X windows extension module to be loaded before it'll even give you the time of
day.
Hmm? I've installed Jagged Alliance 2, Heroes of Might and Magic III and Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire to my machine and I didn't notice anything 'nonstandard' as needed.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Morrowind [morrowind.com] yet...:)
If you want a non-linear rpg with "seemingly endless miniquests", you would want to check it out.:)
Or the Daggerfall (actually Morrowind is its offspring), which was released around 1995/1996. When I saw it a few weeks ago, I was pretty much stunned how game with relatively low requirements (486, 8 megabytes of memory etc.) could have about every feature that most modern games only dream of. The only thing that truly shows its age is less-than-spectacular visuals, although even those aren't too bad. It's also a bit buggy (no doubt to its unbelieveable size; it must've been a nightmare to hunt bugs in something of that size...), but even that doesn't make it bad.
Re:Use operating systems for what they're good for
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If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
By following this logic, there wouldn't have ever been many games for Windows; initially it sucked quite much as a gaming platform compared to even DOS, which sucked initially compared to something like Amiga, which sucked initially compared to... All in all, I'd say that you're looking at it in quite black/white way. I don't play games much, so I'm quite contend with a few games per year that don't even have to be brand-new. In similar, many people with Windows can probably quite happily try Apache - there's no point of installing Linux just for that. What you're saying applies only to the hardcore gamers, not to someone who plays something a few times per month or so.
The only way we will get games working in Linux right now, is to support transgaming.
I must be imagining things, but I think that there's no mention of either transgaming or Loki software on the Linux version of Jagged Alliance 2:P But there's a weird word "Tribsoft"...
Its too bad that Loki goes under; I bought both Heroes of Might & Magic III and Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire and have liked both, although I have less time for gaming than I'd want to. Now would be a nice time for some overwealthy experimental instance to take a gamble and keep Loki floating a year or two to see how things progress, but I guess it won't happen.
Mostly 2.4 has worked nicely for me, but a few things have been a bit annoying - the VM was at some point quite painful. Lately it's been quite OK and now (2.4.17) it actually feels like it's working the way it should be.
Also, I encountered twice an annoying bug that caused some process to end in state that made it unkillable. That was not particulary bad, but when I noticed that trying to read process information with eg. ps or top caused the reading process also to enter similar state, I was quite stunned. I haven't seen the bug around since 2.4.15pre7 (which didn't supposedly have the filesystem corruption bug yet); both 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 have been working nicely. (Yes, I reported the bug.;)
But all in all, the good features (like stateful firewalling etc.) have been nice and balanced those trobles I have had. For someone else, the same may not apply.
Installing AMD CPUs on a server is like using IDE hard drives instead of SCSI...
It's quite courageous to give such statement, as I don't think you know the exact features of the to-be AMD CPUs (that have not even yet been released, or won't for some time. Want to borrow your crystal ball, I'd like to win in lottery?;)
The curious thing is that despite GAs being widely researched for over 20 years, they seem to have found few practical applications that I am aware of.
Actually, there are quite a few applications of evolutionary computing. A good reference of research results can be found at Bbase. A researcher at the Lappeenranta University of Technology maintains a comprehensible link list about evolutionary algorithms, which also features link to Evoweb, which has quite nice list of applications in several different areas ranging from music generation to financial forecasting.
Oops. I somehow managed to think that this was about Mozilla. I don't know how I got the misleading idea.;) Dunno how tabs are implemented in Galeon, so can't really comment about it.
I find it rather amusing that everybody used to bash the hell out of Opera for using MDI, always bitching about how stupid/evil it is. And now then Galeon does it (tabbed windows are just a limited form of MDI), everybody now thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
What do you mean by limited form? With a true MDI I couldn't have several windows that may or may not contain tabs. With tabs it's really possible to choose practically anything between pure MDI and pure SDI - I can keep everything tabbed inside one window (MDI), not use tabs at all and keep everything at separate windows(SDI) or have several windows with a few tabs in each, for example having 'fun' material (slashdot, comics, miscellaneous sites) at one window tabbed and at another workspace all serious stuff tabbed inside one window. How's that limited or done with pure MDI or SDI?:-o This really gives a nice freedom of choice compared to either extreme.
More accurate data about Google visitors can be found at the august Google Zeitgeist. It's a few months out of date, but anyway, the number given there is 1.18% percent. Seems that Google has 150 million queries per day, which is nearly twice the amount of hitbox visitors. (of course I don't know if those two terms mean the same in this case...) I'd say that all in all, Google is at least as reliable source of statistics for this matter than Statmarket. (whether either number is very reliable is up to someone with real knowledge of math to discuss;)
Just for fun, let's mention that TheCounter.com seems to give a value of about 0.27% for the current month, although again, I'd not trust the number very absolutely any more than Google or Statmarket.
Thanks for those links, that was all pretty new to me, but now I know what for I'll use a few days (hopefully not too many nights;) of my Christmas vacation.;)
It really stirred some memories to read about the first rumours about Amiga, written in 1984. So weird that I can now read postings that speculate about computer that I didn't even see myself until two years later, and I definitely didn't even know about Usenet back then. Now, if only some company would put all the Games Machines, Computer & Video Games, ZZAP 64 etc. magazines online as eg. PDFs, I could start living totally in the past.;) (I have quite a few of all those, but scattered around here, around my parents house etc...) Geez, I'd really like to see all those Mercy Dash comic strips that I have possibly missed.
My first experience with PoV (and dkbtrace) was on a 25MHz 386.
Ahh, sweet memories. I tried dkbtrace first time on an Amiga 500, which certainly is closer to 286 in CPU power than an 386. I remember how I saw an 50MHz 68030 board - accelerated machine rendering with it and drooled like hell for the unbelieveable speed... Of course all that is quite slow compared to first P133, K6-2 and now to TB 1200, but the memory still persists - it definitely did a lot better things than stuff like Sculpt 3D;)
That's crazy. I run 2.4, and I've yet to have a single problem. What's that? I don't run real servers? How about a dual processor Pentium III and a DEC Alpha?
You haven't noticed any problems with VM? 2.4.11 and 2.4.15 were not quite unsafe?
...a new, more efficient porn acquiring method for geeks - because most clothes are not entirely opaque and some light gets to the skin, can this be used to acquire 3D nude holograms of fascinating females that pass by?
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It is funny, Xp Pro runs the exact same on my PII 400 with 384 meg of ram as it does on my PIII dual 1 gig with a gig of ram machine. The 400 actually boots faster!. So what does processor speed to for you in every day apps?
Yeah, Mozilla surely works as nicely on PII 400 as on TB 1200:P While it's a quite heavy and non-typical example of a normal application, it's definitely not the only program that feels hell lot of faster. Besides, who said that I want to use 'everyday' applications? I like my compilations to go fast, thank you...
(Some is also legal... if you run into a snafu with kernel 2.6.1, who can you sue??).
If this happens at the moment, either the person who sold you a time machine or your local crack dealer whose stuff gave you a set of bad hallusinations:P
This has puzzled me... Why are people raving about tabbed interfaces, while at the same time ridiculing MDI? Aren't they, for all practical purposes, the same thing?
With MDI applications everything tends to be inside the one master window. For me, the difference between tabs in Mozilla and typical MDI applications is that you can freely mix and match the approaches between one window with everything (MDI) and N windows with one specific thing (SDI). For example, when at work, you can keep your work search engine queries ("what the hell this isolated parameter meant in tc command syntax") in one window tabbed and have another window with more leisure-spirited (eg. slashdot and friends) material tabbed inside, possibly even keeping the windows in different virtual desktops. Or whatever is your ideal preference between pure MDI and SDI (or either extreme, if you wish so).
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I don't know you guys, but my all-time favorite benchmark tool is Seti@Home. =) The distro which spits out more work units, that's what I'll take. And my linux box does 5 times as fast as my w32, mind you. But you already knew that, did you? =)
You don't happen to run commandline client on Linux and the 'gui' client on Windows, do you? ;) The difference between gui and commandline client is huge on both Windows and Linux.
Whichever is correct, you are not. IE blows Mozilla away and will for quite some time. You don't have to like this fact, but you do have to live with it for the foreseeable future.
I can honestly say that Mozilla performs infinitely better on this Linux box than IE. ;) (Well, I think that some people actually have had success with running IE under Wine, but...)
As a production platform for film, music, etc, the Amiga is quite obsolete. You do not want to run Deluxe Paint when you have access to Photo Shop, don't you?
Actually, Photoshop is not exactly very hot for pixel-level editing, which is the thing DP focuses most on. If I'd have both DP on Amiga and Photoshop on Windows/Mac running in front of me and I'd have to draw for example a small icon from scratch, I'd use DP. (Although then again, IMO Brilliance was a better program than DP for that ;) For most heavy-duty graphics work Photoshop is superior, but it's not the best tool for everything.
Red Hat Network completely toasted my Red Hat 7.0 system .. Has it improved recently?
At least for my RH 7.1 system it has worked quite nicely, with no trouble that I can trace back to it. However, I admit that one person is a rather meaningless statistical sample, so don't make your future decisions about usage of RHN update service with only my positive comment as data. ;)
Not to mention that it is also easy to keep updated with the Software manager - it will keep you updated on various security rpm updates. RH has something like this, but you have to be a paid user to use it.
No. For single computer, the RedHat software update service is free. However, for several your point is valid.
Sounds more like light pollution ensuring that no-one will ever see any stars within cities...
So far every "commercial" game I've tried on Linux has required some obscure or non default
library and/or X windows extension module to be loaded before it'll even give you the time of
day.
Hmm? I've installed Jagged Alliance 2, Heroes of Might and Magic III and Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire to my machine and I didn't notice anything 'nonstandard' as needed.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Morrowind [morrowind.com] yet... :)
:)
If you want a non-linear rpg with "seemingly endless miniquests", you would want to check it out.
Or the Daggerfall (actually Morrowind is its offspring), which was released around 1995/1996. When I saw it a few weeks ago, I was pretty much stunned how game with relatively low requirements (486, 8 megabytes of memory etc.) could have about every feature that most modern games only dream of. The only thing that truly shows its age is less-than-spectacular visuals, although even those aren't too bad. It's also a bit buggy (no doubt to its unbelieveable size; it must've been a nightmare to hunt bugs in something of that size...), but even that doesn't make it bad.
If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
By following this logic, there wouldn't have ever been many games for Windows; initially it sucked quite much as a gaming platform compared to even DOS, which sucked initially compared to something like Amiga, which sucked initially compared to... All in all, I'd say that you're looking at it in quite black/white way. I don't play games much, so I'm quite contend with a few games per year that don't even have to be brand-new. In similar, many people with Windows can probably quite happily try Apache - there's no point of installing Linux just for that. What you're saying applies only to the hardcore gamers, not to someone who plays something a few times per month or so.
The only way we will get games working in Linux right now, is to support transgaming.
I must be imagining things, but I think that there's no mention of either transgaming or Loki software on the Linux version of Jagged Alliance 2 :P But there's a weird word "Tribsoft"...
Its too bad that Loki goes under; I bought both Heroes of Might & Magic III and Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire and have liked both, although I have less time for gaming than I'd want to. Now would be a nice time for some overwealthy experimental instance to take a gamble and keep Loki floating a year or two to see how things progress, but I guess it won't happen.
Mostly 2.4 has worked nicely for me, but a few things have been a bit annoying - the VM was at some point quite painful. Lately it's been quite OK and now (2.4.17) it actually feels like it's working the way it should be.
Also, I encountered twice an annoying bug that caused some process to end in state that made it unkillable. That was not particulary bad, but when I noticed that trying to read process information with eg. ps or top caused the reading process also to enter similar state, I was quite stunned. I haven't seen the bug around since 2.4.15pre7 (which didn't supposedly have the filesystem corruption bug yet); both 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 have been working nicely. (Yes, I reported the bug. ;)
But all in all, the good features (like stateful firewalling etc.) have been nice and balanced those trobles I have had. For someone else, the same may not apply.
Installing AMD CPUs on a server is like using IDE hard drives instead of SCSI...
It's quite courageous to give such statement, as I don't think you know the exact features of the to-be AMD CPUs (that have not even yet been released, or won't for some time. Want to borrow your crystal ball, I'd like to win in lottery? ;)
The curious thing is that despite GAs being widely researched for over 20 years, they seem to have found few practical applications that I am aware of.
Actually, there are quite a few applications of evolutionary computing. A good reference of research results can be found at Bbase. A researcher at the Lappeenranta University of Technology maintains a comprehensible link list about evolutionary algorithms, which also features link to Evoweb, which has quite nice list of applications in several different areas ranging from music generation to financial forecasting.
Oops. I somehow managed to think that this was about Mozilla. I don't know how I got the misleading idea. ;) Dunno how tabs are implemented in Galeon, so can't really comment about it.
I find it rather amusing that everybody used to bash the hell out of Opera for using MDI, always bitching about how stupid/evil it is. And now then Galeon does it (tabbed windows are just a limited form of MDI), everybody now thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
What do you mean by limited form? With a true MDI I couldn't have several windows that may or may not contain tabs. With tabs it's really possible to choose practically anything between pure MDI and pure SDI - I can keep everything tabbed inside one window (MDI), not use tabs at all and keep everything at separate windows(SDI) or have several windows with a few tabs in each, for example having 'fun' material (slashdot, comics, miscellaneous sites) at one window tabbed and at another workspace all serious stuff tabbed inside one window. How's that limited or done with pure MDI or SDI? :-o This really gives a nice freedom of choice compared to either extreme.
More accurate data about Google visitors can be found at the august Google Zeitgeist. It's a few months out of date, but anyway, the number given there is 1.18% percent. Seems that Google has 150 million queries per day, which is nearly twice the amount of hitbox visitors. (of course I don't know if those two terms mean the same in this case...) I'd say that all in all, Google is at least as reliable source of statistics for this matter than Statmarket. (whether either number is very reliable is up to someone with real knowledge of math to discuss ;)
Just for fun, let's mention that TheCounter.com seems to give a value of about 0.27% for the current month, although again, I'd not trust the number very absolutely any more than Google or Statmarket.
Thanks for those links, that was all pretty new to me, but now I know what for I'll use a few days (hopefully not too many nights ;) of my Christmas vacation. ;)
It really stirred some memories to read about the first rumours about Amiga, written in 1984. So weird that I can now read postings that speculate about computer that I didn't even see myself until two years later, and I definitely didn't even know about Usenet back then. Now, if only some company would put all the Games Machines, Computer & Video Games, ZZAP 64 etc. magazines online as eg. PDFs, I could start living totally in the past. ;) (I have quite a few of all those, but scattered around here, around my parents house etc...) Geez, I'd really like to see all those Mercy Dash comic strips that I have possibly missed.
My first experience with PoV (and dkbtrace) was on a 25MHz 386.
Ahh, sweet memories. I tried dkbtrace first time on an Amiga 500, which certainly is closer to 286 in CPU power than an 386. I remember how I saw an 50MHz 68030 board - accelerated machine rendering with it and drooled like hell for the unbelieveable speed... Of course all that is quite slow compared to first P133, K6-2 and now to TB 1200, but the memory still persists - it definitely did a lot better things than stuff like Sculpt 3D ;)
That's crazy. I run 2.4, and I've yet to have a single problem. What's that? I don't run real servers? How about a dual processor Pentium III and a DEC Alpha?
You haven't noticed any problems with VM? 2.4.11 and 2.4.15 were not quite unsafe?
...a new, more efficient porn acquiring method for geeks - because most clothes are not entirely opaque and some light gets to the skin, can this be used to acquire 3D nude holograms of fascinating females that pass by?
It is funny, Xp Pro runs the exact same on my PII 400 with 384 meg of ram as it does on my PIII dual 1 gig with a gig of ram machine. The 400 actually boots faster!. So what does processor speed to for you in every day apps?
Yeah, Mozilla surely works as nicely on PII 400 as on TB 1200 :P While it's a quite heavy and non-typical example of a normal application, it's definitely not the only program that feels hell lot of faster. Besides, who said that I want to use 'everyday' applications? I like my compilations to go fast, thank you...
(Some is also legal... if you run into a snafu with kernel 2.6.1, who can you sue??).
If this happens at the moment, either the person who sold you a time machine or your local crack dealer whose stuff gave you a set of bad hallusinations :P
This has puzzled me... Why are people raving about tabbed interfaces, while at the same time ridiculing MDI? Aren't they, for all practical purposes, the same thing?
With MDI applications everything tends to be inside the one master window. For me, the difference between tabs in Mozilla and typical MDI applications is that you can freely mix and match the approaches between one window with everything (MDI) and N windows with one specific thing (SDI). For example, when at work, you can keep your work search engine queries ("what the hell this isolated parameter meant in tc command syntax") in one window tabbed and have another window with more leisure-spirited (eg. slashdot and friends) material tabbed inside, possibly even keeping the windows in different virtual desktops. Or whatever is your ideal preference between pure MDI and SDI (or either extreme, if you wish so).
that not all users use RPM or have access to CVS ? It's not the first time they release src.rpm and not tar.[bz2|gz]. Is it so hard to 'make dist' ?
Hm? I downloaded a tar.gz:ed 0.9.6for Linux just a few hours ago from the Mozilla site. The source seems also be available in tar.gz:ed form.