Geez, finally! someone mentioned this. I have been waiting _forever_ for a video card that actually outputs hdtv resolution (ATSC and better) component video. ATI has been promising this for years! now. (with every new AIW). Ian Bell's article reads more like an ad. He blithely states it's got ATSC out without ever mentioning anymore. Down in the trenches (those of us trying to do this for years now) there are a lot more serious issues, like 1) an inadequate OS for the job 2) noise 3) 2nd-rate TV tuners 4) closed-source digital copyright crap, and 5) incompatible component video signals. On that last one for example, I bought the best VGA to component converter (Audio Authority's) and the picture looked worse on my HDTV out of my video card, wintv-d, and hollywood+, but better out of a Voodoo2. One more thing, the 8500DV requires a minimum Windows2000. I for one, am never giving Bill another dime.
ummm,...wake up, dude. We do not have racism because people are recognizably different. It is an expedient excuse to take advantage of people when you can get away with it.
We already have a bunch of "enhanced humans" around and you and everyone else pay a bunch of money to see them. They're called "actors" and "actresses".
Nothing imports/exports visio files. I have tried both Kivio and Dia and found Dia more feature complete replacement for visio. By the way, Visio 5.0 runs perfectly under wine.
This is a classic case for libertarian & minimal government arguments. It's an example of yet another economic activity that has been monopolized by the government. The original excuse for public roads was just this - how to get people to pay for them unless everyone owned them. Now that technology provides an easy answer, we could get rid of this "government tax" entirely. Thorough economic analyses in the past show that a most conservative ratio of 5x higher cost for any economic activity the government monopolizes. This is a big deal - road maintenance costs have skyrocketed in the past 20 years, and everyone pays a significant fraction of their taxes for it.
Heh, I have tried "clicking around", but it's clearly changing rapidly. Finally found Directory Server under Preferences - just about the last place I looked and hardly very useful. I'm guessing it lets you address mail with it - but just guessing because composer fails to open any more (Mozilla src.rpm 0.9.7 on Redhat 6.2.) I'd like to see it in the addressbook with all my other ldap info. Netscape 4.7 also allowed url locations like ldap://url/basename??sub? to dump everything in your ldap server. Very convenient for info besides simple address. I personally think the browser concept should extend to generic LDAP browsing AND editing.
What's Related - yeah, I guess I did see that before , but I don't usually leave that pane open.
Refresh Bookmarks in netscape 4.7 is in the bookmark editor under View -> Update Bookmarks. A very cool feature which IE never had.
I really do like the rendering speed and extra html support in mozilla. Every release - especially the last one - 0.9.8 - has been obviously faster than the one before. But alas, it is still missing major pieces of functionality from Netscape 4.7x, for example:
roaming user
ldap addressing
composer usability (like publishing)
similar pages button
refresh bookmarks
Re:WHY SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON M$ ORIFICE?
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Wired Talks Wine
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You know not what you speak of. There is no windows feature you can think of which is not available on linux + about 100 times more you can't.
What you should have said is "I like this straitjacket of uniformity and paternalism".
document processing and formatting in Word is second-rate to TEX. Change history is a poor substitute for a real version control system. cvs, webdav, ghostscript are just some of innumerable tools available. I'll admit they require some thought to set up though.
I guess you have never used gimp and don't know about it's superior extensibility and interaction with other software.
I use wine daily in a corporate setting. It is rapidly coming to a useful 1.0 release in the next few months. Lotus Notes, Visio, SoundForge and earlier versions of M$ junk are all major applications which already work on it.
The fact that an "entire publishing chain...is tied to word" should be an alarm and wake-up call to fix the problem thru open standards and protocols.
"Why bother?" snicker. some people deserve what they get.
Guess you haven't been reading to the end of your eula's lately, but every M$ eula now includes that. The eula for VC++ says programs compiled with it must run on windows, and even the proposed DOJ anti-trust settlement has added restrictions to only run on M$ OS's.
Tired and wrong. Even the most inhospitable spot on Earth would be easier and more economical to colonize than mars. At least it occurs to some people that "humans" and "Mars" don't go well together, and in typical knee-jerk fashion, the solution is "so change Mars". Again, it would be far easier to "mars-form" people than to terraform Mars.
I saw this system a while ago (I'm on their mailing list) and never thought to post here (you have only to read the comments to see why). Linn makes outstanding products, and while they seem expensive, they are priced right for their market. Reviews of their products are consistently along the lines of "the best this reviewer has heard - in any price range". Granted the technical crowd could throw together something comparable - it would not have the broader appeal, simplicity of use and the elegence that this does. I had no idea it ran linux - and wish they would sell their Kivor PCI Musik Machine with open-sourced drivers for those of us with DIY convergence machines. (Are you listening Linn? This would only increase sales!)
After extensive listening tests of a dozen competitors, I went with their AV51 system. Their $10,000 speakers will definitely make the hair on your neck stand up. On this kind of system, the difference between the best 320kbps mp3 and the wav it was made from is quite noticeable. As to 24/96, I can also definitely hear the difference. Check out some of Silverline's recordings.
I bought it the day it came out, and don't have any problem with the idea. I do notice a certain sluggish instability using it which...reminds me of windows! I got 2 more windows plugins working with it, however, DANGER!, twice now the shockwave plugin has locked up the kernel process table! Hard to believe but quite obvious when it happened. The kernel crashed soon after. I wrote support but go no help. Guess I'll try the update.
OK, I see that now - the HiPix claims to also. Any idea which one is better? We have 7 DTV channels here in Dallas, and it is always a pain getting a clear signal. My impression was that a next generation of tuners was supposed to include better signal lock and multipath distortion elimination.
I am very surprised to hear there are linux drivers for the wintv-d - where did you see that?
yes, hauppauge has had the wintv-d and wintv-hd for a while now. I use the wintv-d to watch dtv on my hdtv.
In fact there are several on the market now - see www.digitalconnection.com. I have yet to see a card tho that will actually output full ATSC video thru component outputs to an hdtv. When they say "full resolution" they mean vga to a computer monitor.
hauppauge claimed to provide hard drive recording of the mpeg2 streams with their latest drivers - but I have never been able to get it to work - nor have they answered repeated requests for technical support.
All good points. TiVo has a very enthusiastic capable hacker audience. I myself have upgraded the storage, added a TiVoNet card, and modified the software. Running a web server and other network services, TiVo is a true internet appliance. We are close to having a reliable network video server. The high quality MPEG2 encoding has broad utility (any video stream can be encoded). Once on my lan, and with a permanent connection to the internet, the phone line is no longer used.
As might be expected, the reviews I have read confirm that TiVo is fast and responsive and stable compared to the UTV. This even tho TiVo runs on a 54MHz PowerPC chip! The UTV's apparent advantage of 2 simultaneous recordings will soon not be when the DirectTiVo software is updated to 2.5 I am not such a TV fanatic that I have to record to shows at the same time. I can watch one on TV while TiVo records another. Big deal.
All the technical people I know with computers at home, use them primarily for games, and hence, run windows. Without exception, they all say that if a popular game came out that also ran on linux, they would rather run the linux version. They have all suffered thru the "windoze experience" and would gladly convert to linux if the games were available there. Loki mostly ports games which have already been out for a while on windows - which is just too late.
The final straw that would break these people of the window's habit is if the games ran faster on linux. This is entirely possible if these commercial games had an optimized compiler behind them. Numerous low-level benchmarks show linux is upto 30% faster than windows2000 - it's just that much more efficient with the given hardware resources. In this circumstance, the "free software" inclination is completely irrelevent. People buy games, and would much rather invest in a linux future than a bleak M$ one.
What you need to do is prove to these commercial game developers just how well your compiler would perform on linux.
One more comment: I think I am not alone in that, being technically sophisticated, I use linux almost exclusively, and I also use it on the latest high-end machines. I would love to see a game that could take advantage of a dual 1.4 GHz athlon with a GeForce3. So, smp?
I am a unix sys admin at a large nationwide computer retail chain. Sad to say, their unix experience has not been entirely satisfactory (aix, hp-ux, etc), which is not the fault of the OS at all. Such a retailer is especially beholden to M$, and so the company has been descending into the windoze nightmare for 2 years now. Working mostly on NT/2000 machines this past year I have experienced first hand just how incredibly inferior is the OS.
So the count here is a pathetic 10 linux/freebsd, 30 AS/400, 300 AIX, 3000 windows.
Admittedly linux has been my primary desktop these last 7 years, but I have had to use - and learn - windows all along too. So I must conclude, this bickering about "linux not up to windows desktop standard yet" is just laughably wrong. _Everything_ for me is incomparably easier to do on linux than windows, and despite the closed systems around me, I can do almost all my windoze work from my linux desktop. In fact I have repeatedly demonstrated my rule of thumb there - any job takes about 30 times longer to accomplish on windows than it takes on linux. And after that - windoze requires constant maintenance from things breaking, whereas linux "just plain works".
The windoze losers here simply resist change, and have become accustomed, or more apt, inured, to the windoze way of doing things. I challenge them to at least spend as much time on linux as they spend on windows before mouthing off any more.
...has served me well. It's the RX-V1's remote. It understood several set-top remote control protocols and I could program it (with another remote) to understand anything on my convergence PC. Numerous buttons, backlit, multi-function, and macros. I'm controlling the RX-V1, TV, TiVo, and DVD, HDTV, CD, netscape, realplayer, winamp, mediaplayer, etc on the PC with it.
Drawback: if you hold another remote key down too long while programming, it will use up all its memory trying to record those events.
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IBM Wants Linux
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1) After 7 years of AIX systems administration, I can say, finally!, please bring on linux!
2) Vast majority of companies needing something better than Windoze servers will find the current linux adequate.
3) IBM's goal in AIX was stability, not speed. And with all the bugs I've seen, they haven't done a very good job at that either.
Fact is, linux would outperform AIX on powerpc upto 8 cpus. Check this out for example. Indeed, open your eyes!, this is but one of dozens of demonstrations of the superiority of open-source software (linux/freebsd to commercial unix) I have come across. Linux outperforms solaris on sparc boxes, outperforms OSX on mac's, outperforms dgux on alphas, on and on.
Specifically, about clock frequency, I believe IBM's POWER4 chip is the current leader in ops per clock cycle. The benefits derived from the risc architecture depend largely upon the programming and compiler optimization.
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like a single peak meter? I'm looking at 2 spectrum analyzers right now - VSA and xmms. In fact, the free SoundStudio has a built in peak meter.
Geez, finally! someone mentioned this. I have been waiting _forever_ for a video card that actually outputs hdtv resolution (ATSC and better) component video. ATI has been promising this for years! now. (with every new AIW). Ian Bell's article reads more like an ad. He blithely states it's got ATSC out without ever mentioning anymore. Down in the trenches (those of us trying to do this for years now) there are a lot more serious issues, like 1) an inadequate OS for the job 2) noise 3) 2nd-rate TV tuners 4) closed-source digital copyright crap, and 5) incompatible component video signals. On that last one for example, I bought the best VGA to component converter (Audio Authority's) and the picture looked worse on my HDTV out of my video card, wintv-d, and hollywood+, but better out of a Voodoo2. One more thing, the 8500DV requires a minimum Windows2000. I for one, am never giving Bill another dime.
ummm,...wake up, dude. We do not have racism because people are recognizably different. It is an expedient excuse to take advantage of people when you can get away with it.
We already have a bunch of "enhanced humans" around and you and everyone else pay a bunch of money to see them. They're called "actors" and "actresses".
snort. And we're supposed to be grateful for them shutting down?!
VNC was a community effort. It ran on so many different platforms because of outside support.
Here's the brochure, which is not blocked.
Lucky B_ Ordered mine the day they came out - March 26th. Still waiting.
I can't find any reviews on the digital camera attachment. Have you heard anything?
Also bot USB cradle and 802.11b attachment - hoping I could use a data-enabled cellular phone for other access...
Nothing imports/exports visio files. I have tried both Kivio and Dia and found Dia more feature complete replacement for visio. By the way, Visio 5.0 runs perfectly under wine.
This is a classic case for libertarian & minimal government arguments. It's an example of yet another economic activity that has been monopolized by the government. The original excuse for public roads was just this - how to get people to pay for them unless everyone owned them. Now that technology provides an easy answer, we could get rid of this "government tax" entirely. Thorough economic analyses in the past show that a most conservative ratio of 5x higher cost for any economic activity the government monopolizes. This is a big deal - road maintenance costs have skyrocketed in the past 20 years, and everyone pays a significant fraction of their taxes for it.
Heh, I have tried "clicking around", but it's clearly changing rapidly. Finally found Directory Server under Preferences - just about the last place I looked and hardly very useful. I'm guessing it lets you address mail with it - but just guessing because composer fails to open any more (Mozilla src.rpm 0.9.7 on Redhat 6.2.) I'd like to see it in the addressbook with all my other ldap info. Netscape 4.7 also allowed url locations like ldap://url/basename??sub? to dump everything in your ldap server. Very convenient for info besides simple address. I personally think the browser concept should extend to generic LDAP browsing AND editing.
What's Related - yeah, I guess I did see that before , but I don't usually leave that pane open.
Refresh Bookmarks in netscape 4.7 is in the bookmark editor under View -> Update Bookmarks. A very cool feature which IE never had.
You know not what you speak of. There is no windows feature you can think of which is not available on linux + about 100 times more you can't.
What you should have said is "I like this straitjacket of uniformity and paternalism".
document processing and formatting in Word is second-rate to TEX. Change history is a poor substitute for a real version control system. cvs, webdav, ghostscript are just some of innumerable tools available. I'll admit they require some thought to set up though.
I guess you have never used gimp and don't know about it's superior extensibility and interaction with other software.
I use wine daily in a corporate setting. It is rapidly coming to a useful 1.0 release in the next few months. Lotus Notes, Visio, SoundForge and earlier versions of M$ junk are all major applications which already work on it.
The fact that an "entire publishing chain...is tied to word" should be an alarm and wake-up call to fix the problem thru open standards and protocols.
"Why bother?" snicker. some people deserve what they get.
Guess you haven't been reading to the end of your eula's lately, but every M$ eula now includes that. The eula for VC++ says programs compiled with it must run on windows, and even the proposed DOJ anti-trust settlement has added restrictions to only run on M$ OS's.
Tired and wrong. Even the most inhospitable spot on Earth would be easier and more economical to colonize than mars. At least it occurs to some people that "humans" and "Mars" don't go well together, and in typical knee-jerk fashion, the solution is "so change Mars". Again, it would be far easier to "mars-form" people than to terraform Mars.
I saw this system a while ago (I'm on their mailing list) and never thought to post here (you have only to read the comments to see why). Linn makes outstanding products, and while they seem expensive, they are priced right for their market. Reviews of their products are consistently along the lines of "the best this reviewer has heard - in any price range". Granted the technical crowd could throw together something comparable - it would not have the broader appeal, simplicity of use and the elegence that this does. I had no idea it ran linux - and wish they would sell their Kivor PCI Musik Machine with open-sourced drivers for those of us with DIY convergence machines. (Are you listening Linn? This would only increase sales!)
After extensive listening tests of a dozen competitors, I went with their AV51 system. Their $10,000 speakers will definitely make the hair on your neck stand up. On this kind of system, the difference between the best 320kbps mp3 and the wav it was made from is quite noticeable. As to 24/96, I can also definitely hear the difference. Check out some of Silverline's recordings.
heh, I had that error too - on ksh on AIX4.2x ! Very irritating random failure; I had to replace all my tests with ls's.
I bought it the day it came out, and don't have any problem with the idea. I do notice a certain sluggish instability using it which...reminds me of windows! I got 2 more windows plugins working with it, however, DANGER!, twice now the shockwave plugin has locked up the kernel process table! Hard to believe but quite obvious when it happened. The kernel crashed soon after. I wrote support but go no help. Guess I'll try the update.
It's supposed to be a pure mpeg2 stream, which they mentioned includes tcp/ip streaming...not sure how that works since I've never got it to!
OK, I see that now - the HiPix claims to also. Any idea which one is better? We have 7 DTV channels here in Dallas, and it is always a pain getting a clear signal. My impression was that a next generation of tuners was supposed to include better signal lock and multipath distortion elimination.
I am very surprised to hear there are linux drivers for the wintv-d - where did you see that?
yes, hauppauge has had the wintv-d and wintv-hd for a while now. I use the wintv-d to watch dtv on my hdtv.
In fact there are several on the market now - see www.digitalconnection.com. I have yet to see a card tho that will actually output full ATSC video thru component outputs to an hdtv. When they say "full resolution" they mean vga to a computer monitor.
hauppauge claimed to provide hard drive recording of the mpeg2 streams with their latest drivers - but I have never been able to get it to work - nor have they answered repeated requests for technical support.
All good points. TiVo has a very enthusiastic capable hacker audience. I myself have upgraded the storage, added a TiVoNet card, and modified the software. Running a web server and other network services, TiVo is a true internet appliance. We are close to having a reliable network video server. The high quality MPEG2 encoding has broad utility (any video stream can be encoded). Once on my lan, and with a permanent connection to the internet, the phone line is no longer used.
As might be expected, the reviews I have read confirm that TiVo is fast and responsive and stable compared to the UTV. This even tho TiVo runs on a 54MHz PowerPC chip! The UTV's apparent advantage of 2 simultaneous recordings will soon not be when the DirectTiVo software is updated to 2.5 I am not such a TV fanatic that I have to record to shows at the same time. I can watch one on TV while TiVo records another. Big deal.
All the technical people I know with computers at home, use them primarily for games, and hence, run windows. Without exception, they all say that if a popular game came out that also ran on linux, they would rather run the linux version. They have all suffered thru the "windoze experience" and would gladly convert to linux if the games were available there. Loki mostly ports games which have already been out for a while on windows - which is just too late.
The final straw that would break these people of the window's habit is if the games ran faster on linux. This is entirely possible if these commercial games had an optimized compiler behind them. Numerous low-level benchmarks show linux is upto 30% faster than windows2000 - it's just that much more efficient with the given hardware resources. In this circumstance, the "free software" inclination is completely irrelevent. People buy games, and would much rather invest in a linux future than a bleak M$ one.
What you need to do is prove to these commercial game developers just how well your compiler would perform on linux.
One more comment: I think I am not alone in that, being technically sophisticated, I use linux almost exclusively, and I also use it on the latest high-end machines. I would love to see a game that could take advantage of a dual 1.4 GHz athlon with a GeForce3. So, smp?
I am a unix sys admin at a large nationwide computer retail chain. Sad to say, their unix experience has not been entirely satisfactory (aix, hp-ux, etc), which is not the fault of the OS at all. Such a retailer is especially beholden to M$, and so the company has been descending into the windoze nightmare for 2 years now. Working mostly on NT/2000 machines this past year I have experienced first hand just how incredibly inferior is the OS.
So the count here is a pathetic 10 linux/freebsd, 30 AS/400, 300 AIX, 3000 windows.
Admittedly linux has been my primary desktop these last 7 years, but I have had to use - and learn - windows all along too. So I must conclude, this bickering about "linux not up to windows desktop standard yet" is just laughably wrong. _Everything_ for me is incomparably easier to do on linux than windows, and despite the closed systems around me, I can do almost all my windoze work from my linux desktop. In fact I have repeatedly demonstrated my rule of thumb there - any job takes about 30 times longer to accomplish on windows than it takes on linux. And after that - windoze requires constant maintenance from things breaking, whereas linux "just plain works".
The windoze losers here simply resist change, and have become accustomed, or more apt, inured, to the windoze way of doing things. I challenge them to at least spend as much time on linux as they spend on windows before mouthing off any more.
...has served me well. It's the RX-V1's remote. It understood several set-top remote control protocols and I could program it (with another remote) to understand anything on my convergence PC. Numerous buttons, backlit, multi-function, and macros. I'm controlling the RX-V1, TV, TiVo, and DVD, HDTV, CD, netscape, realplayer, winamp, mediaplayer, etc on the PC with it.
Drawback: if you hold another remote key down too long while programming, it will use up all its memory trying to record those events.
2) Vast majority of companies needing something better than Windoze servers will find the current linux adequate.
3) IBM's goal in AIX was stability, not speed. And with all the bugs I've seen, they haven't done a very good job at that either.
Fact is, linux would outperform AIX on powerpc upto 8 cpus. Check this out for example. Indeed, open your eyes!, this is but one of dozens of demonstrations of the superiority of open-source software (linux/freebsd to commercial unix) I have come across. Linux outperforms solaris on sparc boxes, outperforms OSX on mac's, outperforms dgux on alphas, on and on.
Specifically, about clock frequency, I believe IBM's POWER4 chip is the current leader in ops per clock cycle. The benefits derived from the risc architecture depend largely upon the programming and compiler optimization.