Several companies have announced 802.11a cards that use two channels and get up to 108Mbps. But as The Register article mentions there is considerable overhead with wireless ethernet. 802.11b (11Mbps) typically gets 5Mbps real bandwidth, 802.11a (54Mbps) gets 23Mbps real bandwith, and 2 channel 802.11a (108Mbps) gets 34Mbps real bandwidth.
New IDE drives have tagged command queueing also but Linux does not currently support it. From what I can remember at least IBM and WDC drives support it. Support was added around Linux 2.5.8 but was removed while it is being rewritten. It will probably reappear in a few weeks or maybe a little longer.
This will probably be good for an Amiga system but don't buy it to replace your shiny new AMD Athlon XP 2100+ box. It definitely is a lot cheaper than those old Motorola developer motherboards though.
While it may be true that Linux doesn't run as well on MIPS boxes as on some other arch like x86, it does reasonably well. Both endianess of MIPS will be releasing with Debian Woody since they have over 90 percent of the Debian archive compiled.
To flash the HipZip you need to copy the *.dad rom image to the pocketzip disk. I believe that you can mount the iomega HipZip under linux using the usb mass storage driver. Then you have to hit a certain key sequence (which I have forgotten) to load the rom image into flash.
I do not think the HipZip image is supposed to be distributed yet, but I am not certain. You can always ask for it on irc.;)
The HipZip image which supports ogg is based on an older firmware than the current version on the Iomega page and therefore doesn't have all the bugs fixed that are listed on their page.
Two dozen clients is nothing for dsl providers. We are serving ip addresses for a small amount of users and even that is still around 1600 clients. The dhcpd in debian potato dhcpd does not support use for dsl, it is still 2.0 based. dhcpd 3.0 has the needed features for dsl support but it is so buggy it is nearly unusable even in its current release candidate 10 form. A previous release candidate managed to leak about 1MB of ram per hour. However, the current rc10 version doesn't have the leak anymore, but just happens to crash with our needed configuration every 3-4 seconds, so we had to dumb down our dhcpd.conf file so that it wouldn't crash!
There are several good reasons to use PPPoE over dhcpd (at least ISC's). The ISC dhcpd in current form is still very buggy (3.0rc10) and depending on your configuration needs may crash as often as every few minutes (happened to us). Also with dhcp there is really no reliable way to identify which user had an ip address at a certain time at least in the current ISC dhcpd implementation. With PPPoE if the FBI comes knocking with an ip address in hand and wants to know who cracked a box then you can at least give them the user whose account was used. With dhcp it is fairly trivial to change your mac address, and the lease file gets rotated every 30min-1hr on average so it is much harder to track.
We are considering moving our customers over to PPPoE also due to continuous dhcpd problems for the past year and a half. The ISC dhcpd 3.0 server has always been buggy even in its current 3.0RC10 state. Why did it have 10 release candidates so far? Because it is buggy as HELL. Nothing can be worse than the current mess that is called isc dhcpd it will crash if you happen not to look at it right.
Once the new version of stable is released for Debian all you will have to do is run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade to have your system completely upgraded to the new version. You may have to edit your/etc/apt/sources.lists first if you specifically pointed to potato instead of just stable.
The only reason I ever reboot my machine is to upgrade kernels. No need to do it to simply upgrade your whole distribution. 8)
The affect on latency by the speed of light is roughly 187.5 miles per millisecond. On long distance games that could have a large affect, but it sounds like the problem has more to do with poor physical routing of networks. In an ideal world you wouldn't have a ping time over 80ms to anywhere on earth.
Why are there so many stupid people... read the article before posting bullshit.
I know someone who is dual booting Linux and Windows XP right now using grub with no problems on ia32, which as the article states it has no problems with...
On the topic of ia64 not being able to dual boot, does any person who would want to dual boot even own one yet? IA64 will mainly be used for servers at least for next few years and so in most (all?) instances won't even be in a dual boot scenario.
Maybe you should wake up and look at a real distribution like Debian.
It currently supports:
alpha, arm, i386, m68k, ppc, sparc.
In development: hppa, hurd, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, sh. But you are right about commercial support being mostly x86.
>I have discovered, much to my anger and regret, that having a Time-Base-Correlater in a VCR does not mean that it will ignore Macrovision/Copyguard. I have a JVC HRS-76000U, which is otherwise a very nice VCR. The good folks at JVC has sabotaged the machine to respond to the MacroVision signal. Nowhere in the VCR documents or manuals does it state that the VCR has built-in copy protection!
If you reside in the US it is required by law that all devices respond to macrovision, or at least for consumer devices (I don't recall if pro equipment is exempted.)
>Ever used a Sun? They're nice boxes. Nice doesn't come cheap.
Their low end boxes aren't cheap either and they aren't worth the money. I have a Sun U10 on my desk and it certainly wasn't worth the money it cost. Only buy Sun if you really need Solaris, otherwise there are much better alternatives.
I bought a Duron 600 last week for $62. I am currently running it at 1Ghz (1000Mhz)! It gets up to about 48.7C under heavy load which seems to be about average for a 1Ghz Athlon.
I have read recently that they have locked the multiplier so that it can't be unlocked even with the pencil trick, too bad for those who didn't buy one in time. 8(
I went to the parties (VALinux and Gnome) they both rocked! However both of the required that you be over 21 to enter, many of the developers were not allowed to go in because of this. There was a coffee shop setup for them but it still just wasn't the same, if you know what I mean.
Why does anyone care about nVidia anyway? Back during the Fall 1998 they promised to release full documentation on their TNT. This was before they had the large market share they do now. Of course they never did. They only released obsfucated XFree86 source until they was a loud outcry. They then released better drivers and very poor 3D drivers. Now they have released binary only 3D drivers that are good. To this day they have never released proper documentation and the last time I tried the Linux rivafb it was in very bad shape.
I bought a TNT after being promised that they would release docs. I have learned to never believe a promise, and I will no longer buy nVidia products.
I have an Apex player and it has a NTSC/PAL button. If you hit the button it makes PAL sync on an NTSC television. I am not sure how it works, I just know it works for me.:)
nVidia is one of the last holdouts and will not release any documentation. They have been promising documentation (at first) and now closed drivers for over 2 years, but they have not produced anything worth using. I hear that their 3.3.x Xserver can get about 10-20fps (but I haven't tried it myself).
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I only get 5Mbps with ad-hoc mode also.
Several companies have announced 802.11a cards that use two channels and get up to 108Mbps. But as The Register article mentions there is considerable overhead with wireless ethernet. 802.11b (11Mbps) typically gets 5Mbps real bandwidth, 802.11a (54Mbps) gets 23Mbps real bandwith, and 2 channel 802.11a (108Mbps) gets 34Mbps real bandwidth.
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New IDE drives have tagged command queueing also but Linux does not currently support it. From what I can remember at least IBM and WDC drives support it. Support was added around Linux 2.5.8 but was removed while it is being rewritten. It will probably reappear in a few weeks or maybe a little longer.
I looked around on the web and found these numbers in a IBM pdf:
IBM PowerPC 750CXe 600MHz
specint95 - 25.6
specfp95 - 16.3
AMD Athlon 600MHz
specint95 - 27.2
specfp95 - 21.5
This will probably be good for an Amiga system but don't buy it to replace your shiny new AMD Athlon XP 2100+ box. It definitely is a lot cheaper than those old Motorola developer motherboards though.
See any Dual P4 "Xeon" motherboard, like this one:
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http://www.supermicro.com/product/motherboards/
While it may be true that Linux doesn't run as well on MIPS boxes as on some other arch like x86, it does reasonably well. Both endianess of MIPS will be releasing with Debian Woody since they have over 90 percent of the Debian archive compiled.
http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-big.png
edit /etc/apt/sources.list to reference the dist you wish to use (stable/testing/unstable)
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
and you are done.
Chris Cheney
Debian Ogg Vorbis Maintainer
Two dozen clients is nothing for dsl providers. We are serving ip addresses for a small amount of users and even that is still around 1600 clients. The dhcpd in debian potato dhcpd does not support use for dsl, it is still 2.0 based. dhcpd 3.0 has the needed features for dsl support but it is so buggy it is nearly unusable even in its current release candidate 10 form. A previous release candidate managed to leak about 1MB of ram per hour. However, the current rc10 version doesn't have the leak anymore, but just happens to crash with our needed configuration every 3-4 seconds, so we had to dumb down our dhcpd.conf file so that it wouldn't crash!
There are several good reasons to use PPPoE over dhcpd (at least ISC's). The ISC dhcpd in current form is still very buggy (3.0rc10) and depending on your configuration needs may crash as often as every few minutes (happened to us). Also with dhcp there is really no reliable way to identify which user had an ip address at a certain time at least in the current ISC dhcpd implementation. With PPPoE if the FBI comes knocking with an ip address in hand and wants to know who cracked a box then you can at least give them the user whose account was used. With dhcp it is fairly trivial to change your mac address, and the lease file gets rotated every 30min-1hr on average so it is much harder to track.
We are considering moving our customers over to PPPoE also due to continuous dhcpd problems for the past year and a half. The ISC dhcpd 3.0 server has always been buggy even in its current 3.0RC10 state. Why did it have 10 release candidates so far? Because it is buggy as HELL. Nothing can be worse than the current mess that is called isc dhcpd it will crash if you happen not to look at it right.
Once the new version of stable is released for Debian all you will have to do is run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade to have your system completely upgraded to the new version. You may have to edit your /etc/apt/sources.lists first if you specifically pointed to potato instead of just stable.
The only reason I ever reboot my machine is to upgrade kernels. No need to do it to simply upgrade your whole distribution. 8)
The affect on latency by the speed of light is roughly 187.5 miles per millisecond. On long distance games that could have a large affect, but it sounds like the problem has more to do with poor physical routing of networks. In an ideal world you wouldn't have a ping time over 80ms to anywhere on earth.
Why are there so many stupid people... read the article before posting bullshit.
I know someone who is dual booting Linux and Windows XP right now using grub with no problems on ia32, which as the article states it has no problems with...
On the topic of ia64 not being able to dual boot, does any person who would want to dual boot even own one yet? IA64 will mainly be used for servers at least for next few years and so in most (all?) instances won't even be in a dual boot scenario.
Maybe you should wake up and look at a real distribution like Debian.
It currently supports: alpha, arm, i386, m68k, ppc, sparc.
In development: hppa, hurd, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, sh.
But you are right about commercial support being mostly x86.
>I have discovered, much to my anger and regret, that having a Time-Base-Correlater in a VCR does not mean that it will ignore Macrovision/Copyguard. I have a JVC HRS-76000U, which is otherwise a very nice VCR. The good folks at JVC has sabotaged the machine to respond to the MacroVision signal. Nowhere in the VCR documents or manuals does it state that the VCR has built-in copy protection!
If you reside in the US it is required by law that all devices respond to macrovision, or at least for consumer devices (I don't recall if pro equipment is exempted.)
Hmm, I forgot to include that hppa is now supported under linux and should be ready for general use in the near future (6-12 mos.)
PA-RISC port is called hppa
Debian will run on the following desktop archs to some extent. Afaik only alpha, i386 and mips ever had a Windows port (alpha and mips for winnt).
alpha
arm
hppa
i386
m68k
mips
mipsel
ppc
sh
sparc
>Ever used a Sun? They're nice boxes. Nice doesn't come cheap.
Their low end boxes aren't cheap either and they aren't worth the money. I have a Sun U10 on my desk and it certainly wasn't worth the money it cost. Only buy Sun if you really need Solaris, otherwise there are much better alternatives.
I bought a Duron 600 last week for $62. I am currently running it at 1Ghz (1000Mhz)! It gets up to about 48.7C under heavy load which seems to be about average for a 1Ghz Athlon.
I have read recently that they have locked the multiplier so that it can't be unlocked even with the pencil trick, too bad for those who didn't buy one in time. 8(
I went to the parties (VALinux and Gnome) they both rocked! However both of the required that you be over 21 to enter, many of the developers were not allowed to go in because of this. There was a coffee shop setup for them but it still just wasn't the same, if you know what I mean.
Party On!
Why does anyone care about nVidia anyway? Back during the Fall 1998 they promised to release full documentation on their TNT. This was before they had the large market share they do now. Of course they never did. They only released obsfucated XFree86 source until they was a loud outcry. They then released better drivers and very poor 3D drivers. Now they have released binary only 3D drivers that are good. To this day they have never released proper documentation and the last time I tried the Linux rivafb it was in very bad shape.
I bought a TNT after being promised that they would release docs. I have learned to never believe a promise, and I will no longer buy nVidia products.
I have an Apex player and it has a NTSC/PAL button. If you hit the button it makes PAL sync on an NTSC television. I am not sure how it works, I just know it works for me. :)
nVidia is one of the last holdouts and will not release any documentation. They have been promising documentation (at first) and now closed drivers for over 2 years, but they have not produced anything worth using. I hear that their 3.3.x Xserver can get about 10-20fps (but I haven't tried it myself).