Konqueror is pretty damn good competition... sure it doesn't have a built in JVM, but then Microsoft's isn't exactly compliant - download a JDK from IBM or Sun, install flash, and Konqueror 2.1 is very usable:)
Its much more viable than the behemoth that is mozilla anyway.. imho
16. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks?
Yes.
So yes, you can happily boot your 32 bit version of whistler with Linux.
As to why the 64 bit version is different, I have no idea. However, I am thinking 64 bit whistler is going to flop anyway, due to lack of decent hardware (for at least 12 months in any case)....
You can add about 300ms to your latency, due to the simple fact that you have to do a hop from ground to sat and back again.
Useful for cheap high-bandwidth usage, but definately not for low-latency purposes like gaming.
For low latency you either want a local wireless lan, or some sort of connection in the ground (dsl/cable - even ISDN... though your latency with ISDN is a bit crap under load)
Now, to take a different view, hardisks aren't licsensed in the way that DVDs are. That means that hardisk makers aren't bound to follow the coding standard. That means that you'll likely end up with 2 standards: encoded (E) and (N) not encoded. However, the E manufacturers will probably want software to recognize that their drive is an E drive. Uh-oh. That means game/software makers can keep their software from being installed on your computer! So now we're back to the "it's-a-problem-again-dept."
So, what is to stop somebody writing a driver for your OS of choice which will intercept calls to check if a disk is encrypted and simply respond "yes it is", whilst in reality it is not?
Just curious to know how many other tech geek type people are into this sort of game - Quake seems to be pretty big on/. but to be honest I expected the sim genre to be a lot more popular.
Back in the days before Falcon 3.0 was released, it was originally supposed to be supported with a host of other simulations which you could link together to create the "electronic battlefield", but by the time the games were developed (Falcon 3.0, and Mig 29), technology had moved on.
Anwyay.. just a bit of rambling from a Falcon 4 pilot;)
...also, turn on interrupt unmasking on your IDE drives.
I did some testing on my old p2-350, and was able to get the system load up to ~13.5 (rc5, about 14 recursive finds in various xterms, a kernel compiling, X and netscrape running, etc..) before XMMS started to skip, as opposed to a load of 3-4 without doing it.
its off by default in case you run on broken hardware... if you have a reasonably recent (and reasonable quality) motherboard/ide controller play with unmaskirq and the other hdparm settings..
smash
interesting how back when it counted, Commodore couldn't market the Amiga to save their life, yet now they don't have a product to sell, they can survive
next thing you know, IBM will find people to buy OS/2:P
smash (ex miggy owner.. very nice computer in its day, sadly it got left behind...)
I can think of one other argument. Slashdot could maintain that all posters on Slashdot have an inherent copyright on their posts, and therefore M$ needs to go after the posters of the material(s) in question. The only thing that breaks this, is again, the moderation system. Slashdot could contend that Slashdot (as an organization) does not actually moderate posts (at least the type of posts in question), and that the actually users of the site are the real moderators (some what true, IMO), BUT, again, there large holes in this argument. Several years ago AOL was sued over slanderous statements made in an AOL chat room. AOL contended that the AOL Guides(tm) were individuals, and AOL (as a company) was then NOT liable for the guides negelance in moderation. AOL lost, and the basis for the finding was simple. AOL gave the individuals themselves the tools to moderate other users, and therefore they were acting on behalf of the Company. I beleave the same holds true for Slashdot.
So this would mean, that as an ISP, we give our users the "tools" to actually send posts to usenet and e-mails to other users with similar infringing content and are therefor responsible for what they do with them?
This sounds a bit like the theory that people selling guns are soley responsible for the people who get shot...
just imagine the beowolf cluster of these you could make:P
seriously though, the smaller complete systems get the easier it would be to build redundancy into comparitively cheap boxes... round-robin failover in the one machine...
The package you are after is called "gom", and once you manage to configure it properly, it will load/save mixer settings on reboot.
I had it working with my old SB16, but since i upgraded to an sb-live i havent been bothered getting the module "installed" correctly. (ie i insmod -f/usr/local/src/emu10k/emu10k.o every reboot by hand..)
On that subject... anyone know the status of an SB-Live driver ever being included in the kernel? Its no longer a binary only module, and I know Alan (cox) has been working on the driver a bit... Its just a pain to recompile/re-download it every time you upgrade kernels...
smash(posted from w2k.... my linux drive died last nite:( )
i have a release copy of Windows 2000 pro (ie win2000 workstation) installed at the moment (on my other drive)
all I can say is, dont believe the hype.
Its basically Windows 98 meets Windows NT. Install was smooth, even though it DID take an eternity.
BUT, and this is a big but, it doesn't run Unreal Tournament correctly:P (only in a window, and at a huge 8fps in 640x480, on my P2-350, TNT2, which usually runs *smooth* in 1280x1025x16). I havent managed to get it to run full screen at all, despite Win2k apparently including directx 7.
i didnt notice any glaringly obvious bugs yet (anyone used NT4.0 workstation unpatched? hehehe.. close an opening window too fast.. error:P) and it happily ran for a day or two without incident.
I was hoping to finally be able to be rid of the evil that is win98.. oh well
for the record, the ONLY reason i have 98 is for games. i have debian 2.2 on the other drive, which is my primary OS.
smash (anyone know if there are newer Win2k drivers for RIVA TNT2 yet?)
hmm... by that definition, I doubt you would get white noise in many pc files.
the reason for this would be quantization (i guess):
for example, say you have an image file greater than 4000x5000 pixels in 24 bit color. that is 20 million pixels. 24 bit color only allows a total of 16.7 million colors, so at least a *couple* of the pixels must be redundant:) looking at it on a byte by byte level (1 each for RGB), each byte can only have 256 different values, so if you have more than 256 pixels, at least 2 of them must have the same value.
in the "real world" you could definately get white noise... but due to computers being digital, there is only a maximum resolution you can work with...
maybe this is why the paranoia about people copying DVDs is so great;)
lets say we have an 8 gig dvd. assuming it gets average mpeg compression.. maybe what.. 10 to 1?
8 gig = 8,000 mb / 20(20 times better than 10:1) = 400mb.
still not quite 0 day warez, but the modem download time would be mere days as opposed to weeks;) copying to CD would be basic.
besides, i am pretty sure you could get way better than 200:1 on motion video... if you compare the quality of mpeg stills to jpeg stills, mpeg is much more lossy... because it moves you notice less.
we need a hardware decompressor for this... so we can put it on a video card and do 200:1 texture compression:)
if the decompressor was fast enough, just think, it would be a way around the bandwidth current bandwidth limitations... if you can transfer blah gigs of data to your videocard 200 times quicker, that leaves quite a bit of time to do decompression of it and keep up (or be faster with later implementations..)
hrm.. 200x32meg = 6 gig of textures:) yes, cowboyneal *could* store all his porn in his vram:P
smash(err.. i assume he has less than 6 gig... or he needs help;)
what id like to see....
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...is an open source flight sim engine.
unfortunately the sort of maths involved for the 3d and aircraft modelling is a bit beyond me..
i just think that linux, being the geek OS it is, would have a lot of flight sim players out there:)
Conclusion: The BSD license is *more* free than the GPL.
Reasoning:
For the purposes of this post, 'free' is defined as 'without restrictions'.
BSD license = you let your code out, anyone can do what they like with it, and do not have to give anything back to you. In other words, there are *no restrictions* on what you can do with the code.
GPL = You may not make modification to the code, and distribute compiled binaries without the modifications being available. *ie there is a restriction*.
Therefore, the GPL is "less free" than the BSD license.
If someone with a BSD license has their code modified and sold, then how does that restrict *their* freedom. They are *free* to do exactly the same thing.
/rant
ok.. so we have established that. The GPL however is *more open* than the BSD license as all modifications that are made public must be accompanied by source code.
For the record, personally I think the GPL license is more reasonable for use with large projects, whereas the BSD license would be more suited to quick hacks that anyone could do, but downloading someone else's code would be more convenient.
This is my opinion though, and whatever license someone chooses for THEIR software is THEIR luxury, and not mine. I have *no right* to cry about it.
I'm just sick to death of people immediately clamouring to "defend" the GPL as "more free than blah" without thinking.
The GPL is LESS free than BSD, and IMHO this is an advantage. It is also a disadvantage. Each to their own.
I work in an ISP, and we have had good experience with the NetJet ISDN cards.
Linux box + ISDN card + serial card + modems = small ISP pop in a box.
At about 280 bucks (australian - www.everythinglinux.com.au), they are a lot cheaper than a router.
I am unsure as to whether the netjet cards are available or work well outside of australia, but in australia, they work well:)
Another advantage is that all of your linux firewalling experience can be put to use with it, rather than having to learn how to configure a router as well.
Admittedly for heavy load, expandability, etc, nothing beats a dedicated router, but for home use, or even a small business I would definately recommend the netjet.
smash (also.. for anything else linux related in australia.. check www.everythinglinux.com.au its a nice local site:)
the point about pre-release adopters being over enthusiastic is quite valid i think.
I recall in early 1995 extremely positive comments about the "increased stability" and improved performance Win95 had over Windows 3.1, however the noted improvements never really did materialize (Witness Windows 3.1 on a pentium).
Part of this problem I believe is Microsoft's incredibly stupid idea of asking people to PAY for a pre-release version of the OS to test and debug.
In effect this limits the beta testers to the hardcore microsoft users who have already mentally accepted the product in question as "the next big thing", and are actually ordering the beta to have it first, rather than to actually debug or develop it. The other category is warez kiddies who do not know any better.
There may be exceptions to this rule, but most of the Microsoft beta testers I have come across fit into the above profile.
smash
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obviously you aren't working for intel's marketing division...
don't you know that the new 600Mhz Intel p3 will make your net access go faster?:P
seriously though.. i think the increasing laptop speeds are not by any means driven by consumers.. its simply a Mhz war to be "on top" just like with the desktop market. For years the 166mmx was fine in laptops, then along comes AMD with the mobile K6 and we are up to 600Mhz in the space of about 9 months..
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry it has to be said -
:)
Konqueror is pretty damn good competition... sure it doesn't have a built in JVM, but then Microsoft's isn't exactly compliant - download a JDK from IBM or Sun, install flash, and Konqueror 2.1 is very usable
Its much more viable than the behemoth that is mozilla anyway.. imho
smash
is it?
being a european car, I thought they would be using imperial gallons.
either way... it gets better fuel economy than your previous estimate.... by at least 20%
smash
But, 100KM is about, what, 65 maybe 70 miles? And 3 litres is slightly more than a gallon. That gives your VW about 60MPG, maybe 65MPG at most.
;)
sorry.. but your maths is a bit out there....
1 gallon is nearer to 4.5l, which would work this out to significantly MORE than 65mpg...
smash (cbf doing the maths, but the 3l=1gallon is definately wrong
16. Can the 32-bit version of Windows Whistler read, write, and boot from MBR disks?
Yes.
So yes, you can happily boot your 32 bit version of whistler with Linux.
As to why the 64 bit version is different, I have no idea. However, I am thinking 64 bit whistler is going to flop anyway, due to lack of decent hardware (for at least 12 months in any case)....
smash
Unfortunately, sat is no good for gaming.
You can add about 300ms to your latency, due to the simple fact that you have to do a hop from ground to sat and back again.
Useful for cheap high-bandwidth usage, but definately not for low-latency purposes like gaming.
For low latency you either want a local wireless lan, or some sort of connection in the ground (dsl/cable - even ISDN... though your latency with ISDN is a bit crap under load)
smash.
So, what is to stop somebody writing a driver for your OS of choice which will intercept calls to check if a disk is encrypted and simply respond "yes it is", whilst in reality it is not?
Just remember, reiserfs still won't save you from total hardware failure due to power spikes.
smash
Just curious to know how many other tech geek type people are into this sort of game - Quake seems to be pretty big on /. but to be honest I expected the sim genre to be a lot more popular.
Back in the days before Falcon 3.0 was released, it was originally supposed to be supported with a host of other simulations which you could link together to create the "electronic battlefield", but by the time the games were developed (Falcon 3.0, and Mig 29), technology had moved on.
Anwyay.. just a bit of rambling from a Falcon 4 pilot ;)
smash
I did some testing on my old p2-350, and was able to get the system load up to ~13.5 (rc5, about 14 recursive finds in various xterms, a kernel compiling, X and netscrape running, etc..) before XMMS started to skip, as opposed to a load of 3-4 without doing it.
its off by default in case you run on broken hardware... if you have a reasonably recent (and reasonable quality) motherboard/ide controller play with unmaskirq and the other hdparm settings.. smash
next thing you know, IBM will find people to buy OS/2 :P
smash (ex miggy owner.. very nice computer in its day, sadly it got left behind...)
c:\> deltree -y \windows
:)
heh
followed shortly afterwards by the obligatory "Fuck, shoulda loaded a smartdrv!"
:)
smash (deleted windows many many times
I can think of one other argument. Slashdot could maintain that all posters on Slashdot have an inherent copyright on their posts, and therefore M$ needs to go after the posters of the material(s) in question. The only thing that breaks this, is again, the moderation system. Slashdot could contend that Slashdot (as an organization) does not actually moderate posts (at least the type of posts in question), and that the actually users of the site are the real moderators (some what true, IMO), BUT, again, there large holes in this argument. Several years ago AOL was sued over slanderous statements made in an AOL chat room. AOL contended that the AOL Guides(tm) were individuals, and AOL (as a company) was then NOT liable for the guides negelance in moderation. AOL lost, and the basis for the finding was simple. AOL gave the individuals themselves the tools to moderate other users, and therefore they were acting on behalf of the Company. I beleave the same holds true for Slashdot.
So this would mean, that as an ISP, we give our users the "tools" to actually send posts to usenet and e-mails to other users with similar infringing content and are therefor responsible for what they do with them?
This sounds a bit like the theory that people selling guns are soley responsible for the people who get shot...
smashjust imagine the beowolf cluster of these you could make :P
seriously though, the smaller complete systems get the easier it would be to build redundancy into comparitively cheap boxes... round-robin failover in the one machine...
smash
Actually, it does :)
/usr/local/src/emu10k/emu10k.o every reboot by hand..)
:( )
The package you are after is called "gom", and once you manage to configure it properly, it will load/save mixer settings on reboot.
I had it working with my old SB16, but since i upgraded to an sb-live i havent been bothered getting the module "installed" correctly. (ie i insmod -f
On that subject... anyone know the status of an SB-Live driver ever being included in the kernel? Its no longer a binary only module, and I know Alan (cox) has been working on the driver a bit... Its just a pain to recompile/re-download it every time you upgrade kernels...
smash(posted from w2k.... my linux drive died last nite
true, true..
:P (only in a window, and at a huge 8fps in 640x480, on my P2-350, TNT2, which usually runs *smooth* in 1280x1025x16). I havent managed to get it to run full screen at all, despite Win2k apparently including directx 7.
:P) and it happily ran for a day or two without incident.
i have a release copy of Windows 2000 pro (ie win2000 workstation) installed at the moment (on my other drive)
all I can say is, dont believe the hype.
Its basically Windows 98 meets Windows NT. Install was smooth, even though it DID take an eternity.
BUT, and this is a big but, it doesn't run Unreal Tournament correctly
i didnt notice any glaringly obvious bugs yet (anyone used NT4.0 workstation unpatched? hehehe.. close an opening window too fast.. error
I was hoping to finally be able to be rid of the evil that is win98.. oh well
for the record, the ONLY reason i have 98 is for games. i have debian 2.2 on the other drive, which is my primary OS.
smash (anyone know if there are newer Win2k drivers for RIVA TNT2 yet?)
yes, but this isnt a Linux development kernel, or even a beta of Win2000.
Its the shipping product, and this hole is not going to be fixed in retail copies available on release.
smash
White noise, by definition, has no redundancy.
:) looking at it on a byte by byte level (1 each for RGB), each byte can only have 256 different values, so if you have more than 256 pixels, at least 2 of them must have the same value.
:)
hmm... by that definition, I doubt you would get white noise in many pc files.
the reason for this would be quantization (i guess):
for example, say you have an image file greater than 4000x5000 pixels in 24 bit color. that is 20 million pixels. 24 bit color only allows a total of 16.7 million colors, so at least a *couple* of the pixels must be redundant
in the "real world" you could definately get white noise... but due to computers being digital, there is only a maximum resolution you can work with...
smash (over-tired... hope that made some sense
maybe this is why the paranoia about people copying DVDs is so great ;)
.. maybe what.. 10 to 1?
;) copying to CD would be basic.
lets say we have an 8 gig dvd. assuming it gets average mpeg compression
8 gig = 8,000 mb / 20(20 times better than 10:1) = 400mb.
still not quite 0 day warez, but the modem download time would be mere days as opposed to weeks
besides, i am pretty sure you could get way better than 200:1 on motion video... if you compare the quality of mpeg stills to jpeg stills, mpeg is much more lossy... because it moves you notice less.
interesting...
smash
hehe...
:)
:) yes, cowboyneal *could* store all his porn in his vram :P
;)
we need a hardware decompressor for this... so we can put it on a video card and do 200:1 texture compression
if the decompressor was fast enough, just think, it would be a way around the bandwidth current bandwidth limitations... if you can transfer blah gigs of data to your videocard 200 times quicker, that leaves quite a bit of time to do decompression of it and keep up (or be faster with later implementations..)
hrm.. 200x32meg = 6 gig of textures
smash(err.. i assume he has less than 6 gig... or he needs help
...is an open source flight sim engine.
:)
unfortunately the sort of maths involved for the 3d and aircraft modelling is a bit beyond me..
i just think that linux, being the geek OS it is, would have a lot of flight sim players out there
smash
heh.
/dev/fd0
:P)
# cat >
foo
ctrl+d
smash (filesystems are for weenies
Conclusion:
The BSD license is *more* free than the GPL.
Reasoning:
For the purposes of this post, 'free' is defined as 'without restrictions'.
BSD license = you let your code out, anyone can do what they like with it, and do not have to give anything back to you. In other words, there are *no restrictions* on what you can do with the code.
GPL = You may not make modification to the code, and distribute compiled binaries without the modifications being available. *ie there is a restriction*.
Therefore, the GPL is "less free" than the BSD license.
If someone with a BSD license has their code modified and sold, then how does that restrict *their* freedom. They are *free* to do exactly the same thing.
/rant
ok.. so we have established that. The GPL however is *more open* than the BSD license as all modifications that are made public must be accompanied by source code.
For the record, personally I think the GPL license is more reasonable for use with large projects, whereas the BSD license would be more suited to quick hacks that anyone could do, but downloading someone else's code would be more convenient.
This is my opinion though, and whatever license someone chooses for THEIR software is THEIR luxury, and not mine. I have *no right* to cry about it.
I'm just sick to death of people immediately clamouring to "defend" the GPL as "more free than blah" without thinking.
The GPL is LESS free than BSD, and IMHO this is an advantage. It is also a disadvantage. Each to their own.
smash
I work in an ISP, and we have had good experience with the NetJet ISDN cards.
:)
:)
Linux box + ISDN card + serial card + modems = small ISP pop in a box.
At about 280 bucks (australian - www.everythinglinux.com.au), they are a lot cheaper than a router.
I am unsure as to whether the netjet cards are available or work well outside of australia, but in australia, they work well
Another advantage is that all of your linux firewalling experience can be put to use with it, rather than having to learn how to configure a router as well.
Admittedly for heavy load, expandability, etc, nothing beats a dedicated router, but for home use, or even a small business I would definately recommend the netjet.
smash (also.. for anything else linux related in australia.. check www.everythinglinux.com.au its a nice local site
the point about pre-release adopters being over enthusiastic is quite valid i think.
I recall in early 1995 extremely positive comments about the "increased stability" and improved performance Win95 had over Windows 3.1, however the noted improvements never really did materialize (Witness Windows 3.1 on a pentium).
Part of this problem I believe is Microsoft's incredibly stupid idea of asking people to PAY for a pre-release version of the OS to test and debug.
In effect this limits the beta testers to the hardcore microsoft users who have already mentally accepted the product in question as "the next big thing", and are actually ordering the beta to have it first, rather than to actually debug or develop it. The other category is warez kiddies who do not know any better.
There may be exceptions to this rule, but most of the Microsoft beta testers I have come across fit into the above profile.
smash
obviously you aren't working for intel's marketing division...
:P
don't you know that the new 600Mhz Intel p3 will make your net access go faster?
seriously though.. i think the increasing laptop speeds are not by any means driven by consumers.. its simply a Mhz war to be "on top" just like with the desktop market. For years the 166mmx was fine in laptops, then along comes AMD with the mobile K6 and we are up to 600Mhz in the space of about 9 months..
smash