Open-sourcing the drivers may have benefitted nVidia by making their drivers more stable. This would in turn have influenced my decision to never buy another nVidia card. I just can't handle it when my system (TNT 1 and later TNT 2) locks hard while surfing the net. So I bought a Radeon, and while I can't say there haven't been problems, at least those problems haven't been hard lock-ups, and not while just doing 2D and at least they are fixed now. For the last year or so my Radeon has ROCKED. Hasn't locked while surfing the net EVER (big achievement by nVidia's standards). I put my brother's Geforce 2 MX card in to play Unreal 2003 and after I finished I surfed the net for 5 minutes. Guess what? Hard lockup! Just not good enough. I don't care if they play Unreal at 3000 fps, it just won't do if they're not stable. And they are not stable. Then there are issues about which systems are supported. What happens when I want to try out the Hurd, or BSD or.... My next card will be another Radeon.
As a tax-payer you should fund the campaign of someone who's positions are antithetical to my own because this is the only way to get a true democracy. A wise man once said "Sir, I disagree with your view completely, but I would fight for your right to express it"
Althought I agree with you, you have to admit it's a little unfair of US citizens to complain when they do the same things themselves. How about that DMCA case with the Russian guy. He broke a US law while in his home country and got in the shit over it. So US jurisdication covers the entire world and everyone elses' jurisdication only covers their own lands' and then only when it doesn't contradict US law?
The major political parties thrive on this sort of dishonest practice. There should be NO donations to political parties at all. All election campaigns should be funded from tax-payers money. The people want democracy and the only way to get it is to pay for it. This will not sit well with the major political parties because they know that winning an election at the moment is simply a matter of marketing. The most money and the best marketing means winning the election. That has to stop. No more 'donations' from Israel, Microsoft or the deforestation companies. Write to (or go and see as I am doing on the 16th) your local member and tell them why you are removing support from them, and who is willing to change the system (here in Australia we have the Socialist Alliance and the Green parties who are on the ball on this issue). And write to the companies that make donations and tell them why you don't buy their products - because doing so corrupts you government. This is the only way short of a violent revolution that we can effect change. Do it now or lose the option and watch your country become a police state protecting the interests of those with the most money.
It's nice that AMD are benefitting from open source developers such as those as http://www.x86-64.org But keep in mind that AMD have stepped forward (with Intel) and said they will be planting DRM features in their products to satisfy M$'s trusted computing push. And while initially you will be able to turn them off, soon the US and their states such as England and Australia will pass laws to make such consumer disobedience illegal.
I have a 64MB DDR VIVO Radeon. I bought it because nVidia's drivers would lock my system after a few hours of surfing the net (I checked with my brother's Geforce 2 the other day and found that they still haven't fixed this yet). ATI's support of Linux users is half-arsed at best. Their own binary-only drivers only work on newer boards (8x00 and 9x00) so I can't use them. They're not interested in covering the DRI drivers to use S3 Texture Compression (which is patented) so I can't play UT-2003 (hence my brother's Geforce). The have requested that people not work on the TV-out features of the Radeons because it is patented, so I am stuck with VESA framebuffer tv-out or a very buggy hack of a thing for X that hasn't been developed for a year. They aren't giving out information to the DRI team on how to use the more advanced features of the Radeons so the DRI drivers will fall further behind soon their closed source drivers (in feature set anyway). I don't think I'll be buying another ATI card. I'll go back to nVidia and hope they stabalise their drivers. But at least the features are there and they 'just work'. ATI are starting to remind be of 3dfx... to full of themselves to realise they have customers...
Due to the extreme influence of the Jewish movement on the American military state, (just look at the way they turn a blind eye to what's happening in Palestine) I'm surprised the FBI didn't 'create' the evidence they were looking for to put him away. They've certainly done it before. Maybe he was already too much in the public spotlight...
Well said man. My friends, family and myself all boycott American products for this reason - that US corporations are taking advantage of people's naivity regarding what free markets are and what they can achieve. Unfortunately we aren't going to make a dent on their bottom line on our own. And I don't think there are too many other ways to fight them. Any serious opposition to them is met with legal 'obstacles' (and who has the money to fight them in court - the US Justice department, for example?) or worse - military retaliation (in the name of peace-keeping no less). You can't sit down with the leaders of the world (US corporations) and say "Please do the right thing because... well... it's the right thing to do". So they will continue to be a problem until the rest of the world decides "We've had enough of thisd shit" and also choose to boycott products from the world's multi-national corporations (I have been pointing at the US but this also includes British companies and others). So I urge everyone to take a stand. Don't buy from McDonalds, buy from the local guy with his own fast food business. Don't buy from Dell, buy from the guy on the corner that can undercut Dell by 100% and still give better service. Don't buy anything you see advertised on TV, as you will only be throwing money on the ever-increasing pile which will be used to further rape your rights and OUR environment until the last consumer has spend their last cent and there are no more trees to cut down and there are no more markets to invade and there are no more minerals to mine.
Fair call. We use the IP list here at work, and if an IP range causes us problems, I find about about it pretty fast and remove it from the list. As for whether you can trust that I'm telling the truth - I'll leave that up to each person. At least people can build their own list and use the above script anyway...
Download my list of spammers, which is updated every day or so: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt Then dump it in/etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets and run a bash script:
for I in `cat/etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets` do
echo Blacklisting Spammer: $I/23
iptables -A INPUT -s $I/23 -j REJECT done
It puts a drag on the spammer's system as they try to send mail to you for 5 days or so before their mail server finally gives up and decides your domain is not reachable.
Of course you need to have your own domain to do this, but with Linux and free Dyn-DNS services, this is not a problem. And it WORKS!
As a WineX user, I must disagree. The rpm installed (--nodeps) on my Gentoo system without a hitch. Then you type 'winex/path/to/install.exe' and you're away. Warcraft III under WineX is quite impressive, as is Black And White - even though it has some 'issues' on my system. Of course native Linux games are preferable. But in the meantime, WineX Rocks!
If people can't write complete sentences. Then I don't know. Which is more important. Whether hard drives don't work. Or whether our language skills don't allow. Us to. Talk about it. In some previously agreed. Formal manner.
The moon mission was a political one, not a scientific one. When the americans realised they'd never beat the Russians, they faked it to save face. I saw a documentary on it a while ago. Very interesting. It included facts like:
- The americans didn't realise that there was so much radiation in space that if they had actually attempted to get to the moon they would have been fried a million times over. They still haven't been able to deal fully with the radiation problem.
- The guy in charge of analysing the moon rocks went on a holiday to the south pole to collect meteors just prior to the moon mission's completion.
- The Russians were FAR ahead of the americans and many Russian scientists have stated that they never understood where the incredible jump in technology came from that allowed them to overtake Russian space technology so much.
There were a lot of other attacks on the US moon mission hoax. I can't remember all of them now, but it was an impressive list - in its size and accuracy.
Are you sure this wasn't in Australia? The plan smacks of the intelligence and wisdom of our local minister for The Arts and Technology (he knows nothing of either). Why do governemnts protect dying, inefficient industries and hold back the growing, efficient ones? Is it always because of monetary 'incentives' from the old boys' club? I hope not, but I assume so. Panama, I congratulate you! You are idiots.
Bullshit. You don't know about the antitrust suit do you? Microsoft has been in court for the past few years over antitrust violations. This means they abused their monopoly position to force an inferior product down people's throats. The government is only interested in this because it HURTS CONSUMERS because the very 'let the best software win' method fails to work under monopoly conditions. Get a clue.
Why do I get so much spam from kornet.net and other Korean networks? The reason they all have broadband is that a handful of stupid Westerners (I'd say they would be Americans) are replying to their spam and buying penis enlargements and such, and funding the broadband explosion. I am maintaining a list of IP address of spammers, which can be found at: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt and I assure you, they are 90% Korean arse-lickers. The other 10% are from UUNet.
One of the best indicators of life is a system existing far from equilibrium. Without the presence of life, all systems tend towards the point of minimum order (towards chemical and energetic equilibrium). But life uses an energy source to direct the system around it away from chemical equilibrium, producing ordered structures. These structures contain the energy in a way such that life can later return to extract the energy source to perform work. See Stuart Kauffman's "Investigations" for a very interesting read on it. These guys come to exactly the same conclusion as I would have given the evidence, and I think the theory is quite sound.
... what with oppressing Tibet, keeping democracy out and enforcing a 1-child policy via compulsory abortions, I would have thought they'd have their hands tied. I suppose there are a few billion of them. Seriously though, why don't they overthrow their government? Don't they know?
Yes I'm trolling. But this is also good advice. DON'T buy an ATI. The DRI team aren't allowed to implement S3 Texture Compression, so you won't be able to run UT2003 or any other games which use Texture compression. The DRI team aren't allowed to implement ATI's HyperZ technology. The Gatos team aren't allowed to implement TV-out. Everywhere I turn ATI are advising that I am not allowed to use feature 'X' under Linux. ATI are now releasing closed-source FireGL drivers for their newer Radeons. But I paid $AUS500 for my 64MB DDR VIVO Radeon only a year ago and I don't need to upgrade yet thankyou. And the FireGL drivers are slower and less stable than the DRI drivers. ATI should provide closed-source binary-only modules for the DRI drivers to add features which are patented. But instead they force their customers to upgrade early and suffer inferior quality drivers. Not I! I am going back to bloody nVidia. And I swore I'd never do that..
I know it sounds like a bitch to code, but honestly it only takes a few more minutes to rewrite views as 'create temporary table' statements, and then run queries against them. You obviously can't update data this way, but I haven't found many M$ $QL $erver views which have been updatable either. I am using temporary tables until MySQL-4.1 is released which will have views anyway.
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Open-sourcing the drivers may have benefitted nVidia by making their drivers more stable. This would in turn have influenced my decision to never buy another nVidia card. I just can't handle it when my system (TNT 1 and later TNT 2) locks hard while surfing the net. So I bought a Radeon, and while I can't say there haven't been problems, at least those problems haven't been hard lock-ups, and not while just doing 2D and at least they are fixed now. For the last year or so my Radeon has ROCKED. Hasn't locked while surfing the net EVER (big achievement by nVidia's standards). ....
I put my brother's Geforce 2 MX card in to play Unreal 2003 and after I finished I surfed the net for 5 minutes. Guess what? Hard lockup! Just not good enough. I don't care if they play Unreal at 3000 fps, it just won't do if they're not stable. And they are not stable.
Then there are issues about which systems are supported. What happens when I want to try out the Hurd, or BSD or
My next card will be another Radeon.
As a tax-payer you should fund the campaign of someone who's positions are antithetical to my own because this is the only way to get a true democracy. A wise man once said "Sir, I disagree with your view completely, but I would fight for your right to express it"
Althought I agree with you, you have to admit it's a little unfair of US citizens to complain when they do the same things themselves.
How about that DMCA case with the Russian guy. He broke a US law while in his home country and got in the shit over it. So US jurisdication covers the entire world and everyone elses' jurisdication only covers their own lands' and then only when it doesn't contradict US law?
The major political parties thrive on this sort of dishonest practice. There should be NO donations to political parties at all. All election campaigns should be funded from tax-payers money. The people want democracy and the only way to get it is to pay for it. This will not sit well with the major political parties because they know that winning an election at the moment is simply a matter of marketing. The most money and the best marketing means winning the election. That has to stop. No more 'donations' from Israel, Microsoft or the deforestation companies. Write to (or go and see as I am doing on the 16th) your local member and tell them why you are removing support from them, and who is willing to change the system (here in Australia we have the Socialist Alliance and the Green parties who are on the ball on this issue). And write to the companies that make donations and tell them why you don't buy their products - because doing so corrupts you government. This is the only way short of a violent revolution that we can effect change. Do it now or lose the option and watch your country become a police state protecting the interests of those with the most money.
It's nice that AMD are benefitting from open source developers such as those as http://www.x86-64.org
But keep in mind that AMD have stepped forward (with Intel) and said they will be planting DRM features in their products to satisfy M$'s trusted computing push. And while initially you will be able to turn them off, soon the US and their states such as England and Australia will pass laws to make such consumer disobedience illegal.
I have a 64MB DDR VIVO Radeon. I bought it because nVidia's drivers would lock my system after a few hours of surfing the net (I checked with my brother's Geforce 2 the other day and found that they still haven't fixed this yet). ... to full of themselves to realise they have customers...
ATI's support of Linux users is half-arsed at best.
Their own binary-only drivers only work on newer boards (8x00 and 9x00) so I can't use them. They're not interested in covering the DRI drivers to use S3 Texture Compression (which is patented) so I can't play UT-2003 (hence my brother's Geforce). The have requested that people not work on the TV-out features of the Radeons because it is patented, so I am stuck with VESA framebuffer tv-out or a very buggy hack of a thing for X that hasn't been developed for a year.
They aren't giving out information to the DRI team on how to use the more advanced features of the Radeons so the DRI drivers will fall further behind soon their closed source drivers (in feature set anyway).
I don't think I'll be buying another ATI card. I'll go back to nVidia and hope they stabalise their drivers. But at least the features are there and they 'just work'. ATI are starting to remind be of 3dfx
Due to the extreme influence of the Jewish movement on the American military state, (just look at the way they turn a blind eye to what's happening in Palestine) I'm surprised the FBI didn't 'create' the evidence they were looking for to put him away. They've certainly done it before. Maybe he was already too much in the public spotlight...
Well said man. ... well ... it's the right thing to do". So they will continue to be a problem until the rest of the world decides "We've had enough of thisd shit" and also choose to boycott products from the world's multi-national corporations (I have been pointing at the US but this also includes British companies and others).
My friends, family and myself all boycott American products for this reason - that US corporations are taking advantage of people's naivity regarding what free markets are and what they can achieve. Unfortunately we aren't going to make a dent on their bottom line on our own. And I don't think there are too many other ways to fight them. Any serious opposition to them is met with legal 'obstacles' (and who has the money to fight them in court - the US Justice department, for example?) or worse - military retaliation (in the name of peace-keeping no less). You can't sit down with the leaders of the world (US corporations) and say "Please do the right thing because
So I urge everyone to take a stand. Don't buy from McDonalds, buy from the local guy with his own fast food business. Don't buy from Dell, buy from the guy on the corner that can undercut Dell by 100% and still give better service. Don't buy anything you see advertised on TV, as you will only be throwing money on the ever-increasing pile which will be used to further rape your rights and OUR environment until the last consumer has spend their last cent and there are no more trees to cut down and there are no more markets to invade and there are no more minerals to mine.
Remain calm dude.
The link is simply a list of IP addresses.
The only code I suggested people run I put in plain text in my original post.
Geeeeeez...
Fair call.
We use the IP list here at work, and if an IP range causes us problems, I find about about it pretty fast and remove it from the list.
As for whether you can trust that I'm telling the truth - I'll leave that up to each person.
At least people can build their own list and use the above script anyway...
Download my list of spammers, which is updated every day or so: /etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets and run a bash script:
/etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets`
http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt
Then dump it in
for I in `cat
do
echo Blacklisting Spammer: $I/23
iptables -A INPUT -s $I/23 -j REJECT
done
It puts a drag on the spammer's system as they try to send mail to you for 5 days or so before their mail server finally gives up and decides your domain is not reachable.
Of course you need to have your own domain to do this, but with Linux and free Dyn-DNS services, this is not a problem. And it WORKS!
I do the exact same thing - blacklist $IP_ADDRESS/23.
My list is available at:
http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt
As a WineX user, I must disagree. /path/to/install.exe' and you're away.
The rpm installed (--nodeps) on my Gentoo system without a hitch. Then you type 'winex
Warcraft III under WineX is quite impressive, as is Black And White - even though it has some 'issues' on my system.
Of course native Linux games are preferable. But in the meantime, WineX Rocks!
If people can't write complete sentences.
Then I don't know.
Which is more important.
Whether hard drives don't work.
Or whether our language skills don't allow.
Us to.
Talk about it.
In some previously agreed.
Formal manner.
Why do America and Israel need an anti-missile laser? No-one would want to send a missile at them; they're such fair, fun-loving people.
The moon mission was a political one, not a scientific one. When the americans realised they'd never beat the Russians, they faked it to save face. I saw a documentary on it a while ago. Very interesting. It included facts like:
- The americans didn't realise that there was so much radiation in space that if they had actually attempted to get to the moon they would have been fried a million times over. They still haven't been able to deal fully with the radiation problem.
- The guy in charge of analysing the moon rocks went on a holiday to the south pole to collect meteors just prior to the moon mission's completion.
- The Russians were FAR ahead of the americans and many Russian scientists have stated that they never understood where the incredible jump in technology came from that allowed them to overtake Russian space technology so much.
There were a lot of other attacks on the US moon mission hoax. I can't remember all of them now, but it was an impressive list - in its size and accuracy.
Are you sure this wasn't in Australia? The plan smacks of the intelligence and wisdom of our local minister for The Arts and Technology (he knows nothing of either).
Why do governemnts protect dying, inefficient industries and hold back the growing, efficient ones? Is it always because of monetary 'incentives' from the old boys' club? I hope not, but I assume so.
Panama, I congratulate you! You are idiots.
Bullshit.
You don't know about the antitrust suit do you?
Microsoft has been in court for the past few years over antitrust violations. This means they abused their monopoly position to force an inferior product down people's throats. The government is only interested in this because it HURTS CONSUMERS because the very 'let the best software win' method fails to work under monopoly conditions.
Get a clue.
Score 5?
You didn't even read the article. That is what they're trying to achieve. God stone the crows...
Why do I get so much spam from kornet.net and other Korean networks?
The reason they all have broadband is that a handful of stupid Westerners (I'd say they would be Americans) are replying to their spam and buying penis enlargements and such, and funding the broadband explosion.
I am maintaining a list of IP address of spammers, which can be found at: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt and I assure you, they are 90% Korean arse-lickers.
The other 10% are from UUNet.
One of the best indicators of life is a system existing far from equilibrium. Without the presence of life, all systems tend towards the point of minimum order (towards chemical and energetic equilibrium). But life uses an energy source to direct the system around it away from chemical equilibrium, producing ordered structures. These structures contain the energy in a way such that life can later return to extract the energy source to perform work. See Stuart Kauffman's "Investigations" for a very interesting read on it.
These guys come to exactly the same conclusion as I would have given the evidence, and I think the theory is quite sound.
... Linux .NET .NET.
And release it before Windows
... what with oppressing Tibet, keeping democracy out and enforcing a 1-child policy via compulsory abortions, I would have thought they'd have their hands tied. I suppose there are a few billion of them.
Seriously though, why don't they overthrow their government? Don't they know?
Yes I'm trolling. But this is also good advice.
DON'T buy an ATI.
The DRI team aren't allowed to implement S3 Texture Compression, so you won't be able to run UT2003 or any other games which use Texture compression.
The DRI team aren't allowed to implement ATI's HyperZ technology.
The Gatos team aren't allowed to implement TV-out.
Everywhere I turn ATI are advising that I am not allowed to use feature 'X' under Linux.
ATI are now releasing closed-source FireGL drivers for their newer Radeons. But I paid $AUS500 for my 64MB DDR VIVO Radeon only a year ago and I don't need to upgrade yet thankyou. And the FireGL drivers are slower and less stable than the DRI drivers.
ATI should provide closed-source binary-only modules for the DRI drivers to add features which are patented. But instead they force their customers to upgrade early and suffer inferior quality drivers. Not I! I am going back to bloody nVidia. And I swore I'd never do that..
I know it sounds like a bitch to code, but honestly it only takes a few more minutes to rewrite views as 'create temporary table' statements, and then run queries against them. You obviously can't update data this way, but I haven't found many M$ $QL $erver views which have been updatable either. I am using temporary tables until MySQL-4.1 is released which will have views anyway.