Not true. In a best case scenario all you have to do is point, click and reboot.
However there are a number of problems you may have to deal with that will make your experience drastically worse than users of open-source drivers:
1) The company that made your product decides not to support your setup. What do you point at?
2) The company that made your product disappears ( hello 3dfx ). What do you point at?
3) The drivers suck and crash your system. Where do you send bug reports? The manufacturer? They don't care. At least nVidia and ATI don't care anyway. I speak from experience.
4) Your all-wonderful closed-source system comes under the control of some snotty-nosed haxor, forcing you to re-install your pirated version of Windows XP and your pirated gamez and your pirated appz. Not so smart now, are we?
Extra speed under Perl? Are you sure? PHP has always been 50% faster for me, and I assumed because this was because it was lighter and had a less complicated object model.
What are other people's thoughts on the speed of Perl 5.8.x verses PHP 4.x? I'm sure PHP is faster...
ATI's Linux drivers suck arse. I get better performance under UT2004 from my R100 ( Radeon 7200 ) with the open-source DRI drivers than I get from my R350 ( Radeon 9600 ) with ATI's drivers.
Radical GUI changes? For Christ's sake, they put a stupid red & blue coloured skin on the thing, and we're all supposed to stare in jaw-dropping wonder? GUI changes argument denied.
Fast-user switching? That's not a really big feature, and MS are playing catch-up with everyone else in this area anyway. You still have to basically log out - it's not like you can open up an app as a different identity or anything useful like that.
Multi-monitor support? We're really reaching the bottom of the barrel now. Other OSs have also had that for yonks.
'Various multimedia additions'. Cool. Got to love that 'various additions'.
A picture viewer? Fuck me if that's not a feature to be raving about.
Oh yeah. The log-on screen.
WOW! What a list of improvements. Pitty they didn't make it more stable. Or more secure. Or add some new features.
Off thy high horse, please. OS-X isn't perfect. Far from it.
I remember a recent gaming session, trying to play Warcraft III. I was running Gentoo Linux & WineX-3. One friend was running Windows XP. Another was running OS-X. We had to doing some serious swapping of files to get things working, as Warcraft III insists on having the same patch level installed on each PC. Networking between my PC and the Windows PC was a piece of cake. The OS-X laptop, however, was less than impressive. It worked intermittently, and occasionally crashed the file manager ( finder? ). Network browsing wasn't working so well either.
I also seem to remember other aspects of the OS-X experience removing the silver lining from my perception of Apple's systems. I've seen a fair few hard lockups on this laptop, and I don't see it that much.
MPlayer is another example I remember. I backed up some of my DVDs to XVid / Ogg format, and took them around to play on the Mac. So we clicked on the file....... nothing happens. Solution? Open up a console and run mplayer ( which isn't in the path for some reason, so you have to locate it and type the full path to mplayer ), along with a number of switches that I don't remember now, all in order to play an XVid file that I can play just as easily by double-clicking from nautilus. Ways to fix OS-X's invocation of mplayer? We couldn't find any.
Sure it looks nice. But let's not fool ourselves here - single clicking goodness is only good when it works flawlessly. Once you hit a problem, you're up shit creek. And sure, most Mac users are happy to play in the sandboxed world that is OS-X, but I don't see serious users flocking towards it. They're flocking towards Linux.
I am not the first to note that using psychedelics affects probability in alarming ways. Synchronistic events occur in rapid succession. Multiple events, each of which would appear to be only just barely possible themselves, occur one after the other. Psychedelics allow the mind to bend probablility distribution curves.
And then there's telepathy. It's always funny to watch a newcomer to the psychedelic world change their opinion on telepathy 90 minutes after taking their chosen substance.
Taking psycedelics definitely does place you in a different reality - one that co-incides with our everyday reality in many ways, but certainly one that differs from ours in some very important areas.
Those who don't believe me are warmly invited to spend a night at a rave with us to see for themselves.
The people you have come across most likely had damaged minds to start with, and their use of psychedelics simply accelerated their decline. They can do that. But they can also be the best chance of repairing mental damage, if used in a responsible way and under supervision of someone who knows what they're doing.
There are certainly chemical compounds out there that can be used safely that improve your mind. People have been smoking weed for hundreds of thousands of years. There are theories that Human's ascent into a conscious realm of our own above the animal world was largely due to our use of Psyclobin mushrooms. The South American tribes swear by Ayahuasca. Go to any rave an ask people if the drugs they take are improving their lives and minds, and you will get some very interesting, articulate responses. Only those who have never tried psychedelics are so fast to write them off as being dangerous or damaging.
I came here to see how many Postgres users would take the opportunity to preach to us about how much better Postgres is than MySQL. Unfortunately the story only has 100 or so posts, and I could only see MySQL mentioned 4 times.
Come on guys... this is your time in the spotlight. Like the story says, you won't get the next one for what, another 4 years?
Yeah, this is flamebait. I can't help it. And you 50 Postgres users love it anyway, don't you?
It's hardly more than 3ddesktop. I run it all the time as a desktop switcher for Gnome. The difference with 3ddesktop is that it doesn't use all your CPU just sitting there, and it doesn't look like a sad attempt at making the whole desktop 'experience' 3-dimensional. Some things are better in 2D. Desktops are one of them. There's nothing to be gained from having a window slant into the background. It certainly doesn't aid in getting work done. Yeah maybe it looks cool. So does 3ddesktop, and it's actually functional.
Personally, I'm waiting for Enlightenment to fulfill my need for eye candy. And yes I realise I'll be waiting a while. At least it have the word 'Java' smacked at the front of it in some sad, desperate attempt at building mindshare for their slow-arse POS flagship product. Jesus - imagine if this thing were actually written in Java ( put up your hands everyone who likes playing those First Person Shooters that are written in Java, you know the ones, the.... um.... the.... well.... the.... Oh, I've forgotten the names ).
Plus Sun sux. Their attitude towards Microsoft is displayed in a new light next to their attitude towards Linux ( specifically RedHat ).
I used to love sitting in front my my K6-2 333, smoking cones and watching demos. Favourites were Tribes and B-Hyper. If anyone has some links to demos that run under Linux or wine, feel free to post them.
God I miss the demo scene, even if I did kind of 'miss' it to begin with - I noticed them just after the scene died...
I also call bullshit. Me thinks you are perhaps upset because you see others happy to use a product that you can't understand, so telling everyone that their choice is inferior makes up for your lack of ability. I bet you're one of the users who use Word to store all your pictures, right?
Tripple J ( youth national radio network in Australia ) reviewed the CD recently and said that many of their songs had political statements against the bullshit greed and right-wing idiology running rampant through the current US government.
Strange that they are critical of their government yet side with the record companies on this issue. Maybe they don't mean what they say? Or purphaps the record company pulled this one of them without telling them?
I certainly won't be buying it anyway. I'll add it to the not-worth-buying-but-good-download-potential list.
Pawn? Ha! There are certainly pawns in the game, but I'm not one of them. And lets not get carried away calling Israel a democratic nation. Even the Israelis are strongly critical of the Zionist leaders. And of course the Palestinians don't get much say in the matter, do they?
Medieval warlords? Sounds far more like the US & Israeli army than the Palestinians. The Palestinians seem to me to be more like peasants revolting against an evil ruling class.
When you consider what the Jewish people do to others ( heard of Palestine? ), you have to admit there is a lot to hate. Screaming `antisemitism` into the wind isn't going to protect your hide forever, even if it did buy you some time after the Holocaust.
But remember: there is another Holocaust going on now... the Palestinians... and you are on the wrong side of it.
The US / Israeli military alliance doesn't help your cause either. A lot of people who normally couldn't give a frig either way are becoming more anti-US and anti-Israeli.
The world is not out to get you. But the world has a strong ( if slightly slow ) sense of justice and karma.
3Ware seem to have the best Linux drivers around. It's hard to go past that. When I was looking into other chipsets, I remember seeing comments about how their drivers were 'a complete mess' and 'no-one is interested in porting them to the 2.6 kernel'. Scary stuff...
As for the type of RAID, RAID 1 ( mirroring ) is what you want for simplicity.
I've got a couple of pages on setup instructions and code examples, and finally a cost comparison with a full Microsoft stack. The full Microsoft stack doesn't exactly come out on top... If anyone has any comments on the figures, feel free to respond - I want it to be at least as free of bullshit as Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign:)
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Not true. In a best case scenario all you have to do is point, click and reboot.
However there are a number of problems you may have to deal with that will make your experience drastically worse than users of open-source drivers:
1) The company that made your product decides not to support your setup. What do you point at?
2) The company that made your product disappears ( hello 3dfx ). What do you point at?
3) The drivers suck and crash your system. Where do you send bug reports? The manufacturer? They don't care. At least nVidia and ATI don't care anyway. I speak from experience.
4) Your all-wonderful closed-source system comes under the control of some snotty-nosed haxor, forcing you to re-install your pirated version of Windows XP and your pirated gamez and your pirated appz. Not so smart now, are we?
Extra speed under Perl?
Are you sure?
PHP has always been 50% faster for me, and I assumed because this was because it was lighter and had a less complicated object model.
What are other people's thoughts on the speed of Perl 5.8.x verses PHP 4.x? I'm sure PHP is faster...
ATI's Linux drivers suck arse.
I get better performance under UT2004 from my R100 ( Radeon 7200 ) with the open-source DRI drivers than I get from my R350 ( Radeon 9600 ) with ATI's drivers.
Honestly, you are better off with a Radeon 7200.
Radical GUI changes? For Christ's sake, they put a stupid red & blue coloured skin on the thing, and we're all supposed to stare in jaw-dropping wonder? GUI changes argument denied.
Fast-user switching? That's not a really big feature, and MS are playing catch-up with everyone else in this area anyway. You still have to basically log out - it's not like you can open up an app as a different identity or anything useful like that.
Multi-monitor support? We're really reaching the bottom of the barrel now. Other OSs have also had that for yonks.
'Various multimedia additions'. Cool. Got to love that 'various additions'.
A picture viewer? Fuck me if that's not a feature to be raving about.
Oh yeah. The log-on screen.
WOW! What a list of improvements. Pitty they didn't make it more stable. Or more secure. Or add some new features.
Off thy high horse, please.
....... nothing happens. Solution? Open up a console and run mplayer ( which isn't in the path for some reason, so you have to locate it and type the full path to mplayer ), along with a number of switches that I don't remember now, all in order to play an XVid file that I can play just as easily by double-clicking from nautilus. Ways to fix OS-X's invocation of mplayer? We couldn't find any.
OS-X isn't perfect. Far from it.
I remember a recent gaming session, trying to play Warcraft III.
I was running Gentoo Linux & WineX-3. One friend was running Windows XP. Another was running OS-X. We had to doing some serious swapping of files to get things working, as Warcraft III insists on having the same patch level installed on each PC. Networking between my PC and the Windows PC was a piece of cake. The OS-X laptop, however, was less than impressive. It worked intermittently, and occasionally crashed the file manager ( finder? ). Network browsing wasn't working so well either.
I also seem to remember other aspects of the OS-X experience removing the silver lining from my perception of Apple's systems. I've seen a fair few hard lockups on this laptop, and I don't see it that much.
MPlayer is another example I remember. I backed up some of my DVDs to XVid / Ogg format, and took them around to play on the Mac. So we clicked on the file
Sure it looks nice. But let's not fool ourselves here - single clicking goodness is only good when it works flawlessly. Once you hit a problem, you're up shit creek. And sure, most Mac users are happy to play in the sandboxed world that is OS-X, but I don't see serious users flocking towards it. They're flocking towards Linux.
Oh my, what an argument.
Go on, stick your head back in the sand, AC.
I disagree.
I am not the first to note that using psychedelics affects probability in alarming ways. Synchronistic events occur in rapid succession. Multiple events, each of which would appear to be only just barely possible themselves, occur one after the other. Psychedelics allow the mind to bend probablility distribution curves.
And then there's telepathy. It's always funny to watch a newcomer to the psychedelic world change their opinion on telepathy 90 minutes after taking their chosen substance.
Taking psycedelics definitely does place you in a different reality - one that co-incides with our everyday reality in many ways, but certainly one that differs from ours in some very important areas.
Those who don't believe me are warmly invited to spend a night at a rave with us to see for themselves.
Too scared to try it, eh?
Pitty, it would do you a world of good.
The people you have come across most likely had damaged minds to start with, and their use of psychedelics simply accelerated their decline. They can do that. But they can also be the best chance of repairing mental damage, if used in a responsible way and under supervision of someone who knows what they're doing.
There are certainly chemical compounds out there that can be used safely that improve your mind. People have been smoking weed for hundreds of thousands of years. There are theories that Human's ascent into a conscious realm of our own above the animal world was largely due to our use of Psyclobin mushrooms. The South American tribes swear by Ayahuasca. Go to any rave an ask people if the drugs they take are improving their lives and minds, and you will get some very interesting, articulate responses. Only those who have never tried psychedelics are so fast to write them off as being dangerous or damaging.
I came here to see how many Postgres users would take the opportunity to preach to us about how much better Postgres is than MySQL. Unfortunately the story only has 100 or so posts, and I could only see MySQL mentioned 4 times.
... this is your time in the spotlight. Like the story says, you won't get the next one for what, another 4 years?
Come on guys
Yeah, this is flamebait. I can't help it. And you 50 Postgres users love it anyway, don't you?
It's hardly more than 3ddesktop.
.... um .... the .... well .... the .... Oh, I've forgotten the names ).
I run it all the time as a desktop switcher for Gnome.
The difference with 3ddesktop is that it doesn't use all your CPU just sitting there, and it doesn't look like a sad attempt at making the whole desktop 'experience' 3-dimensional. Some things are better in 2D. Desktops are one of them. There's nothing to be gained from having a window slant into the background. It certainly doesn't aid in getting work done. Yeah maybe it looks cool. So does 3ddesktop, and it's actually functional.
Personally, I'm waiting for Enlightenment to fulfill my need for eye candy. And yes I realise I'll be waiting a while. At least it have the word 'Java' smacked at the front of it in some sad, desperate attempt at building mindshare for their slow-arse POS flagship product. Jesus - imagine if this thing were actually written in Java ( put up your hands everyone who likes playing those First Person Shooters that are written in Java, you know the ones, the
Plus Sun sux. Their attitude towards Microsoft is displayed in a new light next to their attitude towards Linux ( specifically RedHat ).
Ah. Toronta is in Canada, eh? :)
Yes, it's only a matter of time then
http://www.everythinglinux.com.au is a Linux-only retailer in Sydney that's been open for years.
Perhaps they are the first Linux-only retailer in the US?
I used to love sitting in front my my K6-2 333, smoking cones and watching demos. Favourites were Tribes and B-Hyper. If anyone has some links to demos that run under Linux or wine, feel free to post them.
God I miss the demo scene, even if I did kind of 'miss' it to begin with - I noticed them just after the scene died...
Sounds like you need a GTK theme.
I also call bullshit.
Me thinks you are perhaps upset because you see others happy to use a product that you can't understand, so telling everyone that their choice is inferior makes up for your lack of ability.
I bet you're one of the users who use Word to store all your pictures, right?
Tripple J ( youth national radio network in Australia ) reviewed the CD recently and said that many of their songs had political statements against the bullshit greed and right-wing idiology running rampant through the current US government.
Strange that they are critical of their government yet side with the record companies on this issue. Maybe they don't mean what they say? Or purphaps the record company pulled this one of them without telling them?
I certainly won't be buying it anyway. I'll add it to the not-worth-buying-but-good-download-potential list.
Good stuff man. ... when the DOS attack is over, that is :)
You should post it to the forums on the band's website
Pawn? Ha!
There are certainly pawns in the game, but I'm not one of them.
And lets not get carried away calling Israel a democratic nation. Even the Israelis are strongly critical of the Zionist leaders. And of course the Palestinians don't get much say in the matter, do they?
Medieval warlords? Sounds far more like the US & Israeli army than the Palestinians. The Palestinians seem to me to be more like peasants revolting against an evil ruling class.
When you consider what the Jewish people do to others ( heard of Palestine? ), you have to admit there is a lot to hate. Screaming `antisemitism` into the wind isn't going to protect your hide forever, even if it did buy you some time after the Holocaust.
... the Palestinians ... and you are on the wrong side of it.
But remember: there is another Holocaust going on now
The US / Israeli military alliance doesn't help your cause either. A lot of people who normally couldn't give a frig either way are becoming more anti-US and anti-Israeli.
The world is not out to get you . But the world has a strong ( if slightly slow ) sense of justice and karma.
Not to mention the Palestinian Holocaust that's happening right now, eh?
3Ware seem to have the best Linux drivers around. It's hard to go past that. When I was looking into other chipsets, I remember seeing comments about how their drivers were 'a complete mess' and 'no-one is interested in porting them to the 2.6 kernel'. Scary stuff...
As for the type of RAID, RAID 1 ( mirroring ) is what you want for simplicity.
I've put up my own site on MySQL and Access, at: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/MySQL/
:)
I've got a couple of pages on setup instructions and code examples, and finally a cost comparison with a full Microsoft stack. The full Microsoft stack doesn't exactly come out on top... If anyone has any comments on the figures, feel free to respond - I want it to be at least as free of bullshit as Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign
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Then tell them they can look, but if they touch, they'll go blind.
OOOOooooooo sarcasm.
Out of grass, are we?
You need to plan ahead more.