"Java now works on Linux. Visit a page containing a java applet and you'll be prompted to xpinstall the java plugin which is Sun's Java 2 Runtime Environment v1.3.0."
IS THAT FUCKING IT?
Okay, okay, I'm not trying to be a troll, but I'd like a more complete changelog in the release notes. I really don't wanna have to wade through bugzilla.
Since when is the Win98 CD I got with my computer "promotional"? Besides, a company can't override the law of first sale with disclaimers like that. The court case over the $1 book ("this book is not to be resold for less than $1...") proved that.
Actually, if what I've heard is true, all DVD players are required by law to be region free in New Zealand. I'm not sure if they have to be region-selectable or region 0, but if it's region 0, then this should piss off a bunch of New Zealanders.
(IIRC, it was OpenDVD.org that said the NZ was region-free by law. Now they say that region coding "has been found illegal in several countries".)
all their OpenGL-drivers seems to be some kind of wrapper for Glide.
You're thinking of the old miniGL drivers that only worked for Quake-engine games. 3dfx did that because it was a lot quicker and simpler than writing a full ICD (and also because Win9x only can have one ICD, and a Voodoo1's ICD would have hosed that of any primary display card). Quake was the big game at the time (early-mid 1997), and they saw supporting GLQuake as a great way grab mindshare from the DOS-only Rendition VQuake. And boy, did it ever work. The development of the miniGL persisted because Voodoo owners were speed freaks who shuddered at the thought of using a slower ICD. 3dfx basically kept with the miniGL wrapper because it was what people wanted. It finally died off when non-Quake engine OpenGL games started to appear, since developing a miniGL for each of those games would have been too expensive.
Well, maybe 3dfx being admitted onto the ARB is news, but it's been known for a long time that 3dfx is phasing out Glide. The OGL drivers have improved a heck of a lot since the early days of the Voodoo3, while no development on Glide has been done that I know of. Heck, wasn't Glide open-sourced last year sometime?
Not surprising, since they seem to be doing a little collaborating together. I think Jim Van Horne of TSN was doing Tennis coverage for CBC, and Paul Romaniuk (sp?), TSN's main hockey guy since Jim Hughson left, is doing olympic basketball for CBC.
What are you using to track CPU usage? The only reliable CPU meter I've found for Windows is Wintop from the Win95 Kerneltoys package (it also works on Win98).
Dude, you must be high. Nitrane is one of the worst decoding engines out there. Most people I've heard from have seen a noticeable increase in audio quality when switching from Nitrane to the Fraunhofer-based Winamp plugin from Winamp 2.22 or the plugin based on mpglib from LAME (note that those two plugins have nearly identical output). You can see a comparison of a bunch of different decoders here.
That's what transformers are for. If you use one to step down the voltage, the current gets stepped up so that the power on each side of the transformer is the same (ignoring losses). At 5V, 26A, you'd need about a 24:1 transformer to step down 120V, and 26/24 = only 1.0833A through the house wires. Alternately, 130W/120V=1.0833A.
Here's an interesting quote from that article you mentioned:
Industry attorneys have told the band that they are afraid that the download promotion could jeopardize the industry's legal case against Napster and its 25 million users, who download unauthorized MP3 music files on a daily basis.
How exactly are they afraid? It can't be fear of being hypocritical because Sony is making it clear they don't want this and it's all the band's idea. Could it be that they're afraid that this might show that MP3s don't cut into sales as much as they claim?
That was actually an April fool's joke on a local radio station about 25 years ago. They called it "Norman-caller time" or something like that, and people fell for it in droves. I wish I could recount memories of the people blowing a collective nut over it, but I wasn't born yet.
after I had installed it from a Maximum Linux CD, and I'm quite pleased. I picked up the "Complete" (as opposed to "Deluxe") package off the shelf and it's a pretty good deal for $35 Cdn. The manual covered a bunch of things not covered by Running Linux as well as covering the important Mandrake-specific stuff (explaining the security levels, etc). The manual also makes a point when it lists the software used in making it (LaTeX, Perl, GNU Make, xwd, ImageMagick, dvips) and then says, "All of these pieces of software are available on your Linux-Mandrake distribution, and all are free software". Very cool.
Then there's the five free books in PDF format (Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed, Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 24hr, 2e, STY KDE in 24hr, STY Gimp in 24hr, Special Ed. Using Linux 4e), which, while not as good as dead trees, are still a nice touch for reference purposes.
But the biggest part I'd say is the bundling of a limited version of PartitionMagic to create a spot on a Windows box for Linux to inhabit. Sure, there's free partitioning utilities out there, but I haven't heard any accounts of whether they work or not whereas I've used PM before and it has never failed me. BootMagic is included as well.
Yeah, I've had the updater puke on me, and my user account's.kderc file had root as its group and owner at first. I don't know if these have been ironed out in 7.1 and 7.2b, but there's not too much to not like. I did have to shut off a bunch of unneccessary services, though, and the NHFs at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ were a good resource for finding how to do that.
All in all, it's a really good deal for the money. A much better deal, IMO, than any Windows upgrade.
As far as I'm aware, P4 is Willamette and is their next generation CPU. It's an IA-32 x86 chip with a completely new core. Intel had not shipped a brand new x86 core since the Pentium Pro.
Itanium will be the first processor to use the IA-64 architecture.
As for the heat issue, I don't know. I'm not a thermal engineer, nor do I want to be after that class I had to take.
I don't have Office, but I use their WordViewer to read Word docs in my Win98 partition. I tried the bugged.doc file and sure enough, Zonealarm notified me that Wordview was trying to access the internet. However, Zonealarm didn't report anything when I opened the bugged Excel file in Excelviewer.
I can't program, so the best I can do is contribute ideas.
How about someone takes the DeCSS code and writes a program with the same function, but in a different language? If it's in C right now, make it C++, Java, Pascal, or whatever. The lunatic fringe among us can do it in Assembler or BASIC.
I seem to remember this, too. I think that was an example of their secondary defense after the trade secret bullcrap fell through on them. Then the judge ruled in favor of Connectix and they dropped that in favor of the circumvention issue.
At least, that's the way I think it is. I may be wrong. The level of caffeine in my bloodstream is dangerously low.
The main attack that the MPAA is taking is over the circumvention issue. Not that DeCSS can enable viewing on non-sanctioned platforms, but that under the strict letter of the law (which lawyers are well-known for following instead of the spiritof the law) DeCSS is a circumvention device that is illegal under the DMCA.
First, in the case of textbooks, the students usually have little to no say in what textbooks are used.
True, but with a difference. All of my textbooks are chosen by my professors. And since all publishers deal in dead trees, my professors can choose the best textbook from a huge variety of choices from different publishers. I have ten textbooks on my bookshelf behind me from seven different publishers. What happens if a book that a professor holds in high regard isn't available from the Vitalbook service that his university just signed an exclusive with? My EE materials professor wrote his own textbook which is used for the undergrad classes he teaches. What if Vital doesn't offer that text?
And another small point, will Vital charge twice for the same text if it's used in more than one class? Heck, I used the same $85 Calculus text for four classes in four consecutive semesters.
To be legitimate, players must be licensed to decode CSS. It's much like writing a SNES emulator for PC
And where were you when the courts ruled in favor of Connectix regarding their PSX emulator? Just read the quote from the story: "both copyright and trademark law favor broad consumer choice." DeCSS is just another consumer choice for decrypting DVDs, and thus should be protected.
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They don't really have games like that there, do they?
IS THAT FUCKING IT?
Okay, okay, I'm not trying to be a troll, but I'd like a more complete changelog in the release notes. I really don't wanna have to wade through bugzilla.
Since when is the Win98 CD I got with my computer "promotional"? Besides, a company can't override the law of first sale with disclaimers like that. The court case over the $1 book ("this book is not to be resold for less than $1...") proved that.
Tell all that to Jon Johansen.
Actually, if what I've heard is true, all DVD players are required by law to be region free in New Zealand. I'm not sure if they have to be region-selectable or region 0, but if it's region 0, then this should piss off a bunch of New Zealanders.
(IIRC, it was OpenDVD.org that said the NZ was region-free by law. Now they say that region coding "has been found illegal in several countries".)
You're thinking of the old miniGL drivers that only worked for Quake-engine games. 3dfx did that because it was a lot quicker and simpler than writing a full ICD (and also because Win9x only can have one ICD, and a Voodoo1's ICD would have hosed that of any primary display card). Quake was the big game at the time (early-mid 1997), and they saw supporting GLQuake as a great way grab mindshare from the DOS-only Rendition VQuake. And boy, did it ever work. The development of the miniGL persisted because Voodoo owners were speed freaks who shuddered at the thought of using a slower ICD. 3dfx basically kept with the miniGL wrapper because it was what people wanted. It finally died off when non-Quake engine OpenGL games started to appear, since developing a miniGL for each of those games would have been too expensive.
It was back in November that 3dfx opened Glide. Here's the /. story.
Well, maybe 3dfx being admitted onto the ARB is news, but it's been known for a long time that 3dfx is phasing out Glide. The OGL drivers have improved a heck of a lot since the early days of the Voodoo3, while no development on Glide has been done that I know of. Heck, wasn't Glide open-sourced last year sometime?
Not surprising, since they seem to be doing a little collaborating together. I think Jim Van Horne of TSN was doing Tennis coverage for CBC, and Paul Romaniuk (sp?), TSN's main hockey guy since Jim Hughson left, is doing olympic basketball for CBC.
What are you using to track CPU usage? The only reliable CPU meter I've found for Windows is Wintop from the Win95 Kerneltoys package (it also works on Win98).
Dude, you must be high. Nitrane is one of the worst decoding engines out there. Most people I've heard from have seen a noticeable increase in audio quality when switching from Nitrane to the Fraunhofer-based Winamp plugin from Winamp 2.22 or the plugin based on mpglib from LAME (note that those two plugins have nearly identical output). You can see a comparison of a bunch of different decoders here.
And Sonique isn't? Of all the MP3 decoders I've tried, Sonique has to be the worst for both CPU and memory consumption.
Maybe. Maybe not. Considering those fake Limp Bizkit new album tracks still haven't disappeared from Napster, I'd say maybe not.
That's what transformers are for. If you use one to step down the voltage, the current gets stepped up so that the power on each side of the transformer is the same (ignoring losses). At 5V, 26A, you'd need about a 24:1 transformer to step down 120V, and 26/24 = only 1.0833A through the house wires. Alternately, 130W/120V=1.0833A.
How exactly are they afraid? It can't be fear of being hypocritical because Sony is making it clear they don't want this and it's all the band's idea. Could it be that they're afraid that this might show that MP3s don't cut into sales as much as they claim?
That was actually an April fool's joke on a local radio station about 25 years ago. They called it "Norman-caller time" or something like that, and people fell for it in droves. I wish I could recount memories of the people blowing a collective nut over it, but I wasn't born yet.
Not yet. The part that makes using programs such as DeCSS illegal doesn't come into effect until October 28th.
Then there's the five free books in PDF format (Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed, Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 24hr, 2e, STY KDE in 24hr, STY Gimp in 24hr, Special Ed. Using Linux 4e), which, while not as good as dead trees, are still a nice touch for reference purposes.
But the biggest part I'd say is the bundling of a limited version of PartitionMagic to create a spot on a Windows box for Linux to inhabit. Sure, there's free partitioning utilities out there, but I haven't heard any accounts of whether they work or not whereas I've used PM before and it has never failed me. BootMagic is included as well.
Yeah, I've had the updater puke on me, and my user account's .kderc file had root as its group and owner at first. I don't know if these have been ironed out in 7.1 and 7.2b, but there's not too much to not like. I did have to shut off a bunch of unneccessary services, though, and the NHFs at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ were a good resource for finding how to do that.
All in all, it's a really good deal for the money. A much better deal, IMO, than any Windows upgrade.
As far as I'm aware, P4 is Willamette and is their next generation CPU. It's an IA-32 x86 chip with a completely new core. Intel had not shipped a brand new x86 core since the Pentium Pro.
Itanium will be the first processor to use the IA-64 architecture.
As for the heat issue, I don't know. I'm not a thermal engineer, nor do I want to be after that class I had to take.
I don't have Office, but I use their WordViewer to read Word docs in my Win98 partition. I tried the bugged .doc file and sure enough, Zonealarm notified me that Wordview was trying to access the internet. However, Zonealarm didn't report anything when I opened the bugged Excel file in Excelviewer.
I can't program, so the best I can do is contribute ideas.
How about someone takes the DeCSS code and writes a program with the same function, but in a different language? If it's in C right now, make it C++, Java, Pascal, or whatever. The lunatic fringe among us can do it in Assembler or BASIC.
I seem to remember this, too. I think that was an example of their secondary defense after the trade secret bullcrap fell through on them. Then the judge ruled in favor of Connectix and they dropped that in favor of the circumvention issue.
At least, that's the way I think it is. I may be wrong. The level of caffeine in my bloodstream is dangerously low.
The main attack that the MPAA is taking is over the circumvention issue. Not that DeCSS can enable viewing on non-sanctioned platforms, but that under the strict letter of the law (which lawyers are well-known for following instead of the spiritof the law) DeCSS is a circumvention device that is illegal under the DMCA.
True, but with a difference. All of my textbooks are chosen by my professors. And since all publishers deal in dead trees, my professors can choose the best textbook from a huge variety of choices from different publishers. I have ten textbooks on my bookshelf behind me from seven different publishers. What happens if a book that a professor holds in high regard isn't available from the Vitalbook service that his university just signed an exclusive with? My EE materials professor wrote his own textbook which is used for the undergrad classes he teaches. What if Vital doesn't offer that text?
And another small point, will Vital charge twice for the same text if it's used in more than one class? Heck, I used the same $85 Calculus text for four classes in four consecutive semesters.
And where were you when the courts ruled in favor of Connectix regarding their PSX emulator? Just read the quote from the story: "both copyright and trademark law favor broad consumer choice." DeCSS is just another consumer choice for decrypting DVDs, and thus should be protected.