yea, I remember those issues. I figured that they must have been addressed by now. It seems like the authors of mplayer have gone out of their way to bash RH a little. I've been very happy with 7.1, and I'm looking forward to my 7.2 CD to arrive. I'm especially looking forward to ext3.
Has anyone tried to compile mplayer with RH 7.1 or anything else using gcc 2.96? It gives you this warning:
Note: gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or in RedHat-based distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY unsupported by us, because it simply SKIPS or badly compiles some MMX codes! Important: this is NOT an MPlayer-specific problem, numerous other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too. DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! If you don't want to downgrade, use the disable-gcc-checking option to avoid this check, but DO NOT SEND BUGREPORTS OR COMPLAIN, it's *YOUR* fault! Get ready for misterious crashes, no-picture bugs, strange noises... REALLY!
Any idea why? Is the 2.96 release from Redhat all that bad? I don't seem to have any trouble with mplayer on my system (RH 7.1, all patched up)
Remember the movie War Games? Although the movie was fictional, some of the storyline was real. The "backdoor" was how the high school student broke into the NORAD computer. I'm not sure exactly how true that was, but I'm sure that something like that could happen.
I'm a little scared having mandatory backdoors in any system, let alone ones that will perform financial transactions.
Having a backdoor into any system, just opens up another hole for someone to peep into.
The campaign payoff's continue. This guy is totally undoing what the last administration worked so hard to do. Now we are headed back to the cold war, only this time against a country with a heck of a lot of people. I guess that's how he plans to jumpstart the economy.
And I have always had great experiences with IBM HD's. I have *never* had an IBM drive go on me. I have some old IBM SCSI drives that have been chugging along for 8+ years now. Maybe their IDE drives are not up to par with their SCSI drives, because I will *not* buy any other HD than IBM. I have had all the other brands go on me at one point.
Hmm.. I think I'm going to look into this a little bit more. Something does not smell right, here.
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I told them it was for an alarm circuit, that I was going to use between the two buildings. At first, the salesperson had never heard of this type of circuit. I was put on hold, and then they came back and told me that they didn't do those types of circuits anymore. Maybe they realized that people were ordering these circuits, and it was cannibalizing their PtP T1 business.
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I tried to order one of these circuits about three months ago, and apparantly the telco's are on to this. I wanted to connect two buildings, so I tried ordering a "dry pair" from Verizon, and they said they didn't do those anymore.
I ended up ordering a PtP T1, which is only going to increase the cost of replacing the aging 56k circuit, now connecting the two buildings, by $110. Not bad considering the increase in bandwidth.
Great toon. I have it on the bottom of our Intranet homepage. I also have the one where dogbert is taking phone calls at the helpdesk, and his fist response is to "reboot!"
I actually had just ripped a CD to my computer, and used it in my car for a few days. It turns out that I dropped it, and got lost under my seat, and in the process of adjusting the seat, the CD was split in half!
I'm sure this is redundant, but I found vlc to be the easiest way to play DVD's on Linux. All I did was make a symbolic link from/dev/dvd to my dvd player,./configure, make, make install. That's it. Plays everything I've thrown at it (encrypted as well). Xine didn't work for me, neither did oms. Not to mention the pages of install instructions for those packages, and the software required.
Great job with vlc!
Well, actually, isn't that what Microsoft is all about? Software for the masses. Most slashdot readers are probably not in this category. I wonder how many computer languages that the average slashdot reader knows. Compare this to the masses. They are lucky to be able to type a letter, and email it. This is where Microsoft fills a gap. They say their software is what their customers want. Why do you think that paper clip came about? I'd say they are right on, when it comes to giving their customers what they want. The paper clip is a good example of the masses using computers. They either do not want or have enough time to sit down and really learn the computer, so they would rather have something guide them along.
Most slashdot readers do not fit this profile, and I'm hoping much of the next generation does not either. At some point in time, people will actually be computer literate enough, to not need all these Microsoft "helpers". I prefer to make my own littler "helpers" via a shell script and a cron job, or perl, or php, or, well I think I made my point. It would be great if everyone could do this, but I doubt that day will ever come. Microsoft will continue to feed off the ignorant, and Linux / *nix, will continue to attract the computer literate. I guess Microsoft must base their whole marketing startegy on the basis that the average computer user hasn't a clue about computers.
Maybe the only cancer we have to worry about, is the number of challenged computer users still out there. They will continue to feed Microsoft, and make that cancer grow.
Did the new aic7xxx driver that Adaptec now maintains make it into your 2.4.2 patches? I'm using this new driver with 2.4.3, and I would like to keep using it, since it fixes a complete lockup that I was able to reproduce with the old driver, and is now fixed in the current driver.
Any idea if printtool will ever get a command line equivalent? Forgive me if it already does, but I'm still using 6.2, and I'm not sure if this exists already in the 7.x versions. It would be real nice for adding/modifying printers over ssh, though. Right now I drudge through everything manually.
When are these marketing folks going to learn that there is no product without the customer. The customer is the one who ultimately determines which products will exist. Microsoft is really going to hurt themselves with this strategy, since people will not upgrade to Microsoft's latest and greatest, and use their proprietary technology.
The latest issue of "Linux Journal" has a figure of 500 to be the average number of.mp3 files on a users harddrive. So the user has to convert all their.mps's to MS format now? This is crazy. Even if it is done in batch, you still end up with a proprietary standard, which your other family members or friends will not be able to use until they have succumb to the Microsoft muscle.
Doesn't Microsoft remember the reason why they got into business in the first place? Didn't they want to do away with all the proprietary standards, and open things up? Seems to me like they are going to strangle themselves with the philosophy that they tried so hard to undo.
It states that you need modutils 2.4! As well as some other important updates. I helped a bunch of people out, by simply pointing them to that Changes file, and they were able to load their modules. Also, make sure you have everything configured properly in your.config file for a modules enabled kernel.
My logs are filled with attempts to port 53. All of them appear to originate from spoofed ip addresses. Some script kiddies out there trying to do some damage.
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yea, I remember those issues. I figured that they must have been addressed by now. It seems like the authors of mplayer have gone out of their way to bash RH a little. I've been very happy with 7.1, and I'm looking forward to my 7.2 CD to arrive. I'm especially looking forward to ext3.
Yes, thats what I've done, and like I said, I have not had any problems, but I am wondering why the authors of mplayer make such a claim.
Any idea why? Is the 2.96 release from Redhat all that bad? I don't seem to have any trouble with mplayer on my system (RH 7.1, all patched up)
Wow, I just celebrated my 30th on Monday, too.
Shouldn't that be OS X.I?
Remember the movie War Games? Although the movie was fictional, some of the storyline was real. The "backdoor" was how the high school student broke into the NORAD computer. I'm not sure exactly how true that was, but I'm sure that something like that could happen.
I'm a little scared having mandatory backdoors in any system, let alone ones that will perform financial transactions.
Having a backdoor into any system, just opens up another hole for someone to peep into.
The campaign payoff's continue. This guy is totally undoing what the last administration worked so hard to do. Now we are headed back to the cold war, only this time against a country with a heck of a lot of people. I guess that's how he plans to jumpstart the economy.
And I have always had great experiences with IBM HD's. I have *never* had an IBM drive go on me. I have some old IBM SCSI drives that have been chugging along for 8+ years now. Maybe their IDE drives are not up to par with their SCSI drives, because I will *not* buy any other HD than IBM. I have had all the other brands go on me at one point.
Whats the 150MB QIC driver for?
I have a 486 machine that acts as a firewall/gw/local domain controller, with 420+ days of uptime. It Does the job well, and never complains.
Hmm.. I think I'm going to look into this a little bit more. Something does not smell right, here.
I told them it was for an alarm circuit, that I was going to use between the two buildings. At first, the salesperson had never heard of this type of circuit. I was put on hold, and then they came back and told me that they didn't do those types of circuits anymore. Maybe they realized that people were ordering these circuits, and it was cannibalizing their PtP T1 business.
I tried to order one of these circuits about three months ago, and apparantly the telco's are on to this. I wanted to connect two buildings, so I tried ordering a "dry pair" from Verizon, and they said they didn't do those anymore.
I ended up ordering a PtP T1, which is only going to increase the cost of replacing the aging 56k circuit, now connecting the two buildings, by $110. Not bad considering the increase in bandwidth.
Great toon. I have it on the bottom of our Intranet homepage. I also have the one where dogbert is taking phone calls at the helpdesk, and his fist response is to "reboot!"
cdrdao:
cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile [filename.bin] --device [bus,id,lun] --driver generic-mmc-raw [filename.toc]
Get it here: CDRDAO
I actually had just ripped a CD to my computer, and used it in my car for a few days. It turns out that I dropped it, and got lost under my seat, and in the process of adjusting the seat, the CD was split in half!
I'm sure this is redundant, but I found vlc to be the easiest way to play DVD's on Linux. All I did was make a symbolic link from /dev/dvd to my dvd player, ./configure, make, make install. That's it. Plays everything I've thrown at it (encrypted as well). Xine didn't work for me, neither did oms. Not to mention the pages of install instructions for those packages, and the software required.
Great job with vlc!
Man, what a waste of time. Why bother?
Most slashdot readers do not fit this profile, and I'm hoping much of the next generation does not either. At some point in time, people will actually be computer literate enough, to not need all these Microsoft "helpers". I prefer to make my own littler "helpers" via a shell script and a cron job, or perl, or php, or, well I think I made my point. It would be great if everyone could do this, but I doubt that day will ever come. Microsoft will continue to feed off the ignorant, and Linux / *nix, will continue to attract the computer literate. I guess Microsoft must base their whole marketing startegy on the basis that the average computer user hasn't a clue about computers.
Maybe the only cancer we have to worry about, is the number of challenged computer users still out there. They will continue to feed Microsoft, and make that cancer grow.
Did the new aic7xxx driver that Adaptec now maintains make it into your 2.4.2 patches? I'm using this new driver with 2.4.3, and I would like to keep using it, since it fixes a complete lockup that I was able to reproduce with the old driver, and is now fixed in the current driver.
Any idea if printtool will ever get a command line equivalent? Forgive me if it already does, but I'm still using 6.2, and I'm not sure if this exists already in the 7.x versions. It would be real nice for adding/modifying printers over ssh, though. Right now I drudge through everything manually.
When are these marketing folks going to learn that there is no product without the customer. The customer is the one who ultimately determines which products will exist. Microsoft is really going to hurt themselves with this strategy, since people will not upgrade to Microsoft's latest and greatest, and use their proprietary technology.
.mp3 files on a users harddrive. So the user has to convert all their .mps's to MS format now? This is crazy. Even if it is done in batch, you still end up with a proprietary standard, which your other family members or friends will not be able to use until they have succumb to the Microsoft muscle.
The latest issue of "Linux Journal" has a figure of 500 to be the average number of
Doesn't Microsoft remember the reason why they got into business in the first place? Didn't they want to do away with all the proprietary standards, and open things up? Seems to me like they are going to strangle themselves with the philosophy that they tried so hard to undo.
I know adaptec has taken over this driver, but what kind of improvements are in this kernel?
Here's the deal with modules in kernel 2.4.x:
.config file for a modules enabled kernel.
READ: linux/Documentation/Changes
It states that you need modutils 2.4! As well as some other important updates. I helped a bunch of people out, by simply pointing them to that Changes file, and they were able to load their modules. Also, make sure you have everything configured properly in your
My logs are filled with attempts to port 53. All of them appear to originate from spoofed ip addresses. Some script kiddies out there trying to do some damage.