In the early days I ran managed to get E (.97?)working on a sun solaris box. How does cross unix platform support working these days?
I've always had trouble scrounging up all the requred toolkits in order to compile E - primarily things like all the ImageMagick graphic formats. In the future will there be a way to get all the pieces needed to compile together on one website - or something like kde-shared does? ("the search for imlib" comes to mind.)
Your premises are technically sound (FPGA research has been getting very interesting rescently) but implementing it would be very difficult given the current state of things.
Windows did not come out of thin air - It was based on many previous ideas - one of the reasons it cannot seem to shake it's DOS roots. Linux is based on UNIX roots.
Computer technology is an evolutionary field. You can't just say, "okay today we are going to drop everything we have learned and start anew." I agree that KDE and the others are just baby steps, but they are steps that need to be taken.
What _I_ would like to see is Microsoft's current technologies released into the public domain. The DOJ could force that. Then we could ensure that we can stay caught up (if not pass) with whatever they could throw out there in the future.
I think the rental approach goes against peoples very nature of possesion. Sharing is one thing, but charging is another.
Agreed. This is a huge question, and honestly I think I might be difficult to get an balanced answer from this type of forum. Most/. readers are highly technical, and tend to focus on the "gears" of a problem instead of the whole "system".
In general, the answer I like to use in bracked in these types of situations is "whatever works for you." How you and your team approach a problem will decide how you solve it. Forcing youself to an artifical system that no one understands WHY you are doing it will get you nowhere fast.
I know programmers that like to just hack stuff out just to get it out, even if they have to redo it all later. Some like everything pre-modeled and conceptualized to the nth degree. Most do something in between.
My personal preferences includes something I call the "metaphor" system. Whatever I do, whatever I try to come up with an accurate metaphorial equivalent. During the lifetime of the project I create whatever documents are required to demostrate the functioning of the software. The advantages to this are:
= Both technical and non-technical people can read your documentation and get a clear understanding what is going on based on their respective levels of understanding.
= The documentation and code should if correct make clear rashional sense.
= The metaphoral system can be used to give you a clear understanding of what tools you use in order to accomplish your goals most effectively, for example if you metaphors include references to finite physical objects, then a OO design might make sense.
= In my experience, the metaphoral system can lead to more effective and innovative designs, and eases troubleshooting.
With a large group of people with different skill levels, a metaphoral system is always the way I go.
I have not seen much action from them, mostly words and noise. I know about NETDAY and stuff like that, but they are half-hearted efforts. I signed up with them when they first formed, and have heard almost nothing since.
Private industry is good too, but what you need the most is people's TIME. I can't stress that enough.
Sorry, I guess I answer some of your questions the best I can.
My project group was run on the schoo department level, in particually the "Office of Technology," which oversaw all the vocational programs. Computers really did not have a department yet, and the vocational department was chosen more or less by default. Since we were working for the school department directly, there was no really liability issues for us, but our BBS ("pre-ISP") service was privately owned, and he had some hoops he had to jump to get a contractual agreement from the school board.
The money for the programs came from private parties mostly, and from the NSF, but the governor's office previously had pissed off the NSF, so mostly they just breathed down our necks, hoping that we would fail.
Problems usually fell into my lap, and my boss, the director of O.T. I went out of my way to interface directly with teachers so that they would not give us trouble by going through official channels, raising the ire of administrators along the way.
Logistically, you really need about two FT people per school in order to make sure things run smoothly. As I was a student, I spent more time out of class than in. I was not expected to go to college, so that was not considered any great big deal. Media Services (remember filmstrip projectors?) handled the load in conjunction with me.
Today I would assume that most school departments have a "Office of Computing Technology " or something like that. If not, usually ask for Library Information Systems. If a school department does not have an LIS office, then home. Strangly enough, LIS usually can pick up the slack because of the HELIN project and they fact that usually have free "time". Of all the departments I have worked with, statically speaking LIS is the most computer-literate, and the one with the highest computer productivity.
Higher Ed only gets involved if you are proposing currcula changes or the like. If you are doing something completely revolutionary like 3D-chemical modeling (tryed it) then usually then high ed defers to the governor's office to do an offical inquery. For the "Internet project" we were lucky because we enticed PBS into it as well, so the governor got PR points out of it. At that time "the internet" was of limited value, and it was possible that we would have been shut down. Fortunately HELIN was just starting to ramp up, and the state univerity had recently updated their gopher server, And I had just figured out how to get weather reports from madlab.(umich?)
One little antidote - I used to carry around a little pocket knife, about 4 cm long - and the day of the "big meeting," the demo lab only had 4 PC wired up. Our ISP guy came in at about 2pm with 30 ethernet NICs and 10-base-2 cable to wire the rest of the lab for the meeting at 3pm. He forgot to bring a knife to splice with, so he borrows mine. We just made it, but my knife was never the same.
He got the contract, and now owns POPs in multiple states. He must be worth millions. Without that knife, he would probably still be a broke man, and "learning link" would not exist. I think I still have it somewhere, and sometimes I wonder if I should frame it with the inscription, "The knife that saved k12.edu" (Well, at least it would have been delayed until NCSA mosaic came around)
Well, I guess I should pipe up here, as I was involved in one of the original pilot projects that later became basis for the original learning link program. I helped implement one the first permament high school internet connections - one of the first fifteen in the world. (Remember gopher and WAIS?) Before that I created some the first computer labs in general curricula: Desktop publishing, CAD, PSL (Personal Science Labortory), and word processing (my first XEINX lab). We won't even go into what I did before that, but it seems that only yesterday I was working with the oregon trail, print shop, mockingbird speech synthsis program, and of course appleworks and BASIC.
I could go on for hours on what we learned, how it worked, who we had to brown-nose with, etc. but there only two things I learned that I hold above the rest:
These projects take TIME more than anything else. From installation, to training, to maitenance, to support. You cannot just throw a computer in a room and expect it to be used. Even today, the learning and usage curve is steep. And of course technology changes, so your job is never-ending. I was brought in to do what the administrators could not: teach people about computers.
The second thing I only learned in retrospect. I was so blinded by the work that I missed it beforehand, has most others continue to miss it today. Computers are only TOOLS: they are only as good as what you use them for. Computers cannot teach you everything, and today I see that they are being overused. They are there to AUGMENT education, not REPLACE it.
I could tell hair raising stories about my experiences about those early days, dealing with the state higher ed school board, the governor's office, even the NSF and PBS. Not only did we have to make things work, we had to PROVE that everything we did indeed work. I need not point out the repercussions that these pilot programs had.
By the way I should tell you that I am only 23 now, just out of college - so you can imagine my age back then. I was very lucky, and just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I normally don't like to get into religious wars, but I've done alot of writing on all these subjects, hopefully from a fairly neutral POV. The articles are all on my horrid website above(revamp in progress, I promise)
The one sentence summary is that Windows is amazing environment with low trustability, while Linux is a average environment with high trustability. How you interperate this difference explains all.
What erks me is that both Windows and Linux could be _really_good_ given the right priorities. If it were just possible to take the best from each...
If they were really smart, they could get a gig doing the commentary tracks on DVD movies.
I'd love to see them rip on some of the classics.
Garbage, secure ID, and biometrics
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When I played sysadmin, we ended up assigning passwords like 7fesy3q and let the user change them at their own risk. Of course we would run crack daily, so this would discourage this unless they follows the strict "acceptability" rules.
When I have to play the letters/numbers game, sometimes I pick a radio station as a password like 8950kbaq.
I was a baby and my family stuck around because my father had a booming biz running the local pizza hut. All the clean up workers for some reason did not bring their wife and kids with them and ended up always eating out.:>
I'm supposed to be counting my xrays for radiation overdose - I had 8 today. Oops.
I recognize the Amadeus quote above. Good movie, but not sure it belongs on the AFI's top 100 movies list.
Actually, I've wanted to do this for along time, but everytime I talk to a recruiter, they tell me that it's a hopeless dream and that actually there is a low unemployment rate there right now.
I still study my kanji cards, but I guess I would have had a better chance via a college exchange program.
Well I remember my password, so I AM logged in, but:
1) I am not a Chinese, but I play one on TV. 2) I think that China would be better with a new hairdresser. 3) I support bans on gongs in general because they are too loud.
Seriously though, I'm sure this whole issue is too complex for us westerners to understand. Remember we are talking about China here, the ultimate of the chinese fortune cookies (which really are not "chinese" to begin with.)
I would say the chinese solution to the problem would be to just change the name of the sect. That would solve everything, right?
Why hasn't the leader of the group thought of that yet? Sounds like he's been in New Jersey too long. If I lived in NJ, after sniffing all those chemicals in the air, I'd think I could walk on water too.
I've run it, and generally it was usable, as along as you did not push it too hard. Took me forever to figure out how to forward email to another server outside my domain. It had a fragile feeling, judging by the number of times it required me to stop and restart the services it runs under.
It also make the PII/450 I ran it on crunch pretty hard. For my own safety, I had a backup box ready to take over at all times.
Licensing is expensive too. But if you want to take full advantage of lookout...er, outlook it's the way to go.
IMAP by default leaves your mail on the server, which is good if you move around alot. POP by default "pulls" your mail to the local machine. I prefer IMAP, but it can overload your machine if you do not have good users that clean out their mailboxes often. I recommend quotas and a cron job to emails users when their mailbox get too full.
I usually setup more than one SMTP server for redundancy, (usually the Web server and the firewall) and put multiple MX entries in my zone files. Each department owns a file server that also runs POP/IMAPd and accesses the central mailboxes (/var/mail) by NFS. I don't use NFS for any other purpose because I find it too flaky. Once the mail is accessed, it gets pulled to the departmental file server, and ploped in their home directory.
From that point, they can use any program they want to read/post mail. The advantages to this strategy are that email can always get in and out, and nothing gets lost, even if a machine goes down. (Of course, if the departmental machine goes down, they cannot read their old email, and if the mailbox server goes down, they cannot read their new email.)
Did the same and been unemployed for the last two months. Now the question is whether to do it again.
I liked the fast pace of the job, the long nights, the 2am sessions when everything just finally "works." I did not like the meager pay.
I liked the huge experience I got, but not the grief. I liked making things _happen_.
As soon as I left, the MCSE that replaced me took down my linux firewall and replaced it with MS Proxy server. I had never even considered it because of the money. Perhaps they should get legal on their licenses of SQL server first. (A few million bucks should do it)
I'm wiser and smarter now. Perhaps I'll do it again. Perhaps I'll get a better deal this time.
Well at least I can _use_ the site on my 640x480 LCD Thinkpad Laptop. I hate sites that _assume_ 800x600 or higher. (My printer does not like them ether)
I make all my stuff resizeable layers. Not that hard to do. (What's HTML anyway?;P)
I used NAT and the only problem I had was that if a user was telnetted to a site outside the firewall and left it inactive for awhile, it the firewall would think that the connection was dead and close the tunnel. I tried playing with the timeouts, but it seems to work on a global level and it just bogged down the poor machine.
Is there away to make NAT not drop just telnet tunnels or something? Email me if you like, I'd like to know.
Suse has a big plus over redhat here. By just selecting the packages you want you can create anything specific like a dedicated firewall or a mail server. Sure, Redhat lets you select by package, but it's a tedidious process. Suse's dependency tracking really rocks here. YaST may not be pretty, but is works like a champ. BTW, Suse is the only distribution that I have not had to manually hack config files, because SuSEConfig is so good at what it does. The fact that it does NOT run in X is a real plus for my dedicated machines.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Sax. (The X configurator.) Suse is the only distrib so far that I have seen that has the intel 540 X server included in it AND will autoconfigure it (with sax.)
I like to think as Redhat as a newbie installation, and SuSE as a swiss army knife.
Offtopic: Whatever happened to the UMSDOS installation option? Is it dead? How about a UMSFAT32?
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In the early days I ran managed to get E (.97?)working on a sun solaris box. How does cross unix platform support working these days?
I've always had trouble scrounging up all the requred toolkits in order to compile E - primarily things like all the ImageMagick graphic formats. In the future will there be a way to get all the pieces needed to compile together on one website - or something like kde-shared does? ("the search for imlib" comes to mind.)
Oh yeah, that is if you can afford to be online all the time.
Oh BTW, see how long it takes you to download all the SDKs, if you can find them.
$2000 != $0, BTW.
Your premises are technically sound (FPGA research has been getting very interesting rescently) but implementing it would be very difficult given the current state of things.
Windows did not come out of thin air - It was based on many previous ideas - one of the reasons it cannot seem to shake it's DOS roots. Linux is based on UNIX roots.
Computer technology is an evolutionary field. You can't just say, "okay today we are going to drop everything we have learned and start anew." I agree that KDE and the others are just baby steps, but they are steps that need to be taken.
What _I_ would like to see is Microsoft's current technologies released into the public domain. The DOJ could force that. Then we could ensure that we can stay caught up (if not pass) with whatever they could throw out there in the future.
I think the rental approach goes against peoples very nature of possesion. Sharing is one thing, but charging is another.
SCO is a poor excuse for an operating system. I'd go Solaris anyday - At least it's got the BSD compatibility libs.
Yes, gcc is included on the extra CD's but good luck making then work.
Hell, I rather run SCO ELFs on linux via ibcs than linux ELFs on sco.
There was a windows emulator called merge that worked ok, but vmware blows it away.
Agreed - Remember all those Mac users out there too. Let me know when desktop publishing (no. not TEX, ack!) really exists on linux.
Linux needs more depth if it's going to become more than a "hacker's" OS.
Agreed. This is a huge question, and honestly I think I might be difficult to get an balanced answer from this type of forum. Most /. readers are highly technical, and tend to focus on the "gears" of a problem instead of the whole "system".
In general, the answer I like to use in bracked in these types of situations is "whatever works for you." How you and your team approach a problem will decide how you solve it. Forcing youself to an artifical system that no one understands WHY you are doing it will get you nowhere fast.
I know programmers that like to just hack stuff out just to get it out, even if they have to redo it all later. Some like everything pre-modeled and conceptualized to the nth degree. Most do something in between.
My personal preferences includes something I call the "metaphor" system. Whatever I do, whatever I try to come up with an accurate metaphorial equivalent. During the lifetime of the project I create whatever documents are required to demostrate the functioning of the software. The advantages to this are:
= Both technical and non-technical people can read your documentation and get a clear understanding what is going on based on their respective levels of understanding.
= The documentation and code should if correct make clear rashional sense.
= The metaphoral system can be used to give you a clear understanding of what tools you use in order to accomplish your goals most effectively, for example if you metaphors include references to finite physical objects, then a OO design might make sense.
= In my experience, the metaphoral system can lead to more effective and innovative designs, and eases troubleshooting.
With a large group of people with different skill levels, a metaphoral system is always the way I go.
I have not seen much action from them, mostly words and noise. I know about NETDAY and stuff like that, but they are half-hearted efforts. I signed up with them when they first formed, and have heard almost nothing since.
Private industry is good too, but what you need the most is people's TIME. I can't stress that enough.
Sorry, I guess I answer some of your questions the best I can.
My project group was run on the schoo department level, in particually the "Office of Technology," which oversaw all the vocational programs. Computers really did not have a department yet, and the vocational department was chosen more or less by default. Since we were working for the school department directly, there was no really liability issues for us, but our BBS ("pre-ISP") service was privately owned, and he had some hoops he had to jump to get a contractual agreement from the school board.
The money for the programs came from private parties mostly, and from the NSF, but the governor's office previously had pissed off the NSF, so mostly they just breathed down our necks, hoping that we would fail.
Problems usually fell into my lap, and my boss, the director of O.T. I went out of my way to interface directly with teachers so that they would not give us trouble by going through official channels, raising the ire of administrators along the way.
Logistically, you really need about two FT people per school in order to make sure things run smoothly. As I was a student, I spent more time out of class than in. I was not expected to go to college, so that was not considered any great big deal. Media Services (remember filmstrip projectors?) handled the load in conjunction with me.
Today I would assume that most school departments have a "Office of Computing Technology " or something like that. If not, usually ask for Library Information Systems. If a school department does not have an LIS office, then home. Strangly enough, LIS usually can pick up the slack because of the HELIN project and they fact that usually have free "time". Of all the departments I have worked with, statically speaking LIS is the most computer-literate, and the one with the highest computer productivity.
Higher Ed only gets involved if you are proposing currcula changes or the like. If you are doing something completely revolutionary like 3D-chemical modeling (tryed it) then usually then high ed defers to the governor's office to do an offical inquery. For the "Internet project" we were lucky because we enticed PBS into it as well, so the governor got PR points out of it. At that time "the internet" was of limited value, and it was possible that we would have been shut down. Fortunately HELIN was just starting to ramp up, and the state univerity had recently updated their gopher server, And I had just figured out how to get weather reports from madlab.(umich?)
One little antidote - I used to carry around a little pocket knife, about 4 cm long - and the day of the "big meeting," the demo lab only had 4 PC wired up. Our ISP guy came in at about 2pm with 30 ethernet NICs and 10-base-2 cable to wire the rest of the lab for the meeting at 3pm. He forgot to bring a knife to splice with, so he borrows mine. We just made it, but my knife was never the same.
He got the contract, and now owns POPs in multiple states. He must be worth millions. Without that knife, he would probably still be a broke man, and "learning link" would not exist. I think I still have it somewhere, and sometimes I wonder if I should frame it with the inscription, "The knife that saved k12.edu" (Well, at least it would have been delayed until NCSA mosaic came around)
Well, I guess I should pipe up here, as I was involved in one of the original pilot projects that later became basis for the original learning link program. I helped implement one the first permament high school internet connections - one of the first fifteen in the world. (Remember gopher and WAIS?) Before that I created some the first computer labs in general curricula: Desktop publishing, CAD, PSL (Personal Science Labortory), and word processing (my first XEINX lab). We won't even go into what I did before that, but it seems that only yesterday I was working with the oregon trail, print shop, mockingbird speech synthsis program, and of course appleworks and BASIC.
I could go on for hours on what we learned, how it worked, who we had to brown-nose with, etc. but there only two things I learned that I hold above the rest:
These projects take TIME more than anything else. From installation, to training, to maitenance, to support. You cannot just throw a computer in a room and expect it to be used. Even today, the learning and usage curve is steep. And of course technology changes, so your job is never-ending. I was brought in to do what the administrators could not: teach people about computers.
The second thing I only learned in retrospect. I was so blinded by the work that I missed it beforehand, has most others continue to miss it today. Computers are only TOOLS: they are only as good as what you use them for. Computers cannot teach you everything, and today I see that they are being overused. They are there to AUGMENT education, not REPLACE it.
I could tell hair raising stories about my experiences about those early days, dealing with the state higher ed school board, the governor's office, even the NSF and PBS. Not only did we have to make things work, we had to PROVE that everything we did indeed work. I need not point out the repercussions that these pilot programs had.
By the way I should tell you that I am only 23 now, just out of college - so you can imagine my age back then. I was very lucky, and just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I normally don't like to get into religious wars, but I've done alot of writing on all these subjects, hopefully from a fairly neutral POV. The articles are all on my horrid website above(revamp in progress, I promise)
The one sentence summary is that Windows is amazing environment with low trustability, while Linux is a average environment with high trustability. How you interperate this difference explains all.
What erks me is that both Windows and Linux could be _really_good_ given the right priorities. If it were just possible to take the best from each...
If they were really smart, they could get a gig doing the commentary tracks on DVD movies.
I'd love to see them rip on some of the classics.
When I played sysadmin, we ended up assigning passwords like 7fesy3q and let the user change them at their own risk. Of course we would run crack daily, so this would discourage this unless they follows the strict "acceptability" rules.
When I have to play the letters/numbers game, sometimes I pick a radio station as a password like 8950kbaq.
I've also seen secure ID badges too.
What we really need is biometrics everywhere.
I was a baby and my family stuck around because my father had a booming biz running the local pizza hut. All the clean up workers for some reason did not bring their wife and kids with them and ended up always eating out. :>
I'm supposed to be counting my xrays for radiation overdose - I had 8 today. Oops.
I recognize the Amadeus quote above.
Good movie, but not sure it belongs on the AFI's top 100 movies list.
Actually, I've wanted to do this for along time, but everytime I talk to a recruiter, they tell me that it's a hopeless dream and that actually there is a low unemployment rate there right now.
I still study my kanji cards, but I guess I would have had a better chance via a college exchange program.
Given half a chance, I would jump at it.
Only two real hyperlinks on this one.
The world must be getting pretty boring.
BTW, when someone gets their oscar, I'd like to have your observations on how well it works.
Right now, I'm a little low on DMs, and a little fearful of do-it-yourself kits.
Well I remember my password, so I AM logged in, but:
1) I am not a Chinese, but I play one on TV.
2) I think that China would be better with a new hairdresser.
3) I support bans on gongs in general because they are too loud.
Seriously though, I'm sure this whole issue is too complex for us westerners to understand. Remember we are talking about China here, the ultimate of the chinese fortune cookies (which really are not "chinese" to begin with.)
I would say the chinese solution to the problem would be to just change the name of the sect. That would solve everything, right?
Why hasn't the leader of the group thought of that yet? Sounds like he's been in New Jersey too long. If I lived in NJ, after sniffing all those chemicals in the air, I'd think I could walk on water too.
System halted
I've run it, and generally it was usable, as along as you did not push it too hard. Took me forever to figure out how to forward email to another server outside my domain. It had a fragile feeling, judging by the number of times it required me to stop and restart the services it runs under.
It also make the PII/450 I ran it on crunch pretty hard. For my own safety, I had a backup box ready to take over at all times.
Licensing is expensive too. But if you want to take full advantage of lookout...er, outlook it's the way to go.
IMAP by default leaves your mail on the server, which is good if you move around alot. POP by default "pulls" your mail to the local machine. I prefer IMAP, but it can overload your machine if you do not have good users that clean out their mailboxes often. I recommend quotas and a cron job to emails users when their mailbox get too full.
I usually setup more than one SMTP server for redundancy, (usually the Web server and the firewall) and put multiple MX entries in my zone files. Each department owns a file server that also runs POP/IMAPd and accesses the central mailboxes (/var/mail) by NFS. I don't use NFS for any other purpose because I find it too flaky. Once the mail is accessed, it gets pulled to the departmental file server, and ploped in their home directory.
From that point, they can use any program they want to read/post mail. The advantages to this strategy are that email can always get in and out, and nothing gets lost, even if a machine goes down. (Of course, if the departmental machine goes down, they cannot read their old email, and if the mailbox server goes down, they cannot read their new email.)
Overall, It's better than no email at all.
...We used it on 286s with EGA monitors. What program? CorelDraw. It was version 2.0 I think.
;)
Of course we had to drop into dos to use PC PaintBrush. (MS's Paint sucked.)
The early PS/2s ran windows 2.0 - in VGA Color!
I don't think we had any programs for 2.0 other than reversi.
Did the same and been unemployed for the last two months. Now the question is whether to do it again.
I liked the fast pace of the job, the long nights, the 2am sessions when everything just finally "works." I did not like the meager pay.
I liked the huge experience I got, but not the grief. I liked making things _happen_.
As soon as I left, the MCSE that replaced me took down my linux firewall and replaced it with MS Proxy server. I had never even considered it because of the money. Perhaps they should get legal on their licenses of SQL server first. (A few million bucks should do it)
I'm wiser and smarter now. Perhaps I'll do it again. Perhaps I'll get a better deal this time.
Whoa. Just for the hell of it I typed it in. I was not expecting much, after all, I'm currently using IE 5.0.
I got a (blank?) blue screen that in the title bar says:
res://mshtml.dll/about.moz
Easter egg? Subliminal message?
For some reason it's freaking me out.
Maybe if I set security to low... aiiiieee!
GPF
Well at least I can _use_ the site on my 640x480 LCD Thinkpad Laptop. I hate sites that _assume_ 800x600 or higher. (My printer does not like them ether)
;P)
I make all my stuff resizeable layers. Not that hard to do. (What's HTML anyway?
I used NAT and the only problem I had was that if a user was telnetted to a site outside the firewall and left it inactive for awhile, it the firewall would think that the connection was dead and close the tunnel. I tried playing with the timeouts, but it seems to work on a global level and it just bogged down the poor machine.
Is there away to make NAT not drop just telnet tunnels or something? Email me if you like, I'd like to know.
Suse has a big plus over redhat here. By just selecting the packages you want you can create anything specific like a dedicated firewall or a mail server. Sure, Redhat lets you select by package, but it's a tedidious process. Suse's dependency tracking really rocks here. YaST may not be pretty, but is works like a champ. BTW, Suse is the only distribution that I have not had to manually hack config files, because SuSEConfig is so good at what it does. The fact that it does NOT run in X is a real plus for my dedicated machines.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Sax. (The X configurator.) Suse is the only distrib so far that I have seen that has the intel 540 X server included in it AND will autoconfigure it (with sax.)
I like to think as Redhat as a newbie installation, and SuSE as a swiss army knife.
Offtopic: Whatever happened to the UMSDOS installation option? Is it dead? How about a UMSFAT32?
System is halted
Agreed. I'm tired of violins playing underwater.
It may be the encoders fault, but bumping up the rate seems to not be so bad.
What about AC-2 Dolby 5.1 encoding? Can we find a way to keep that too?