I, for one, have boxen and bandwidth to pull off 3 Mb/s of CPU-intensive network traffic 24/7
Sweet! What sort of connection is that? The cable modem provider in my area offers very limited "business" symmetric connections up to 5 Mbps, but they charge dearly for it. A lot cheaper than a fractional T3, though.
I get about 2.0 Mbps from my "2.2 Mbps" SDSL connection. If two other folks such as me were to pitch in, I think we could handle it. Not sure if this would classify as business use, if so I would have to hand over another $25/month to my ISP.
Hear Hear! Of all the movies over the past year, LOTR had **by far** the most substance (costumes, set design, effects, atmosphere, actors -- not just a few scenes in downtown LA or in some dark studio). But yet it was not created for film, it was an ADAPTATION! If that doesn't count for something towards Best Picture, then I don't know what does. And heck, they didn't even win for the best screenplay adaptation.
If this isn't Hollywood bias and ignorance, I don't know what is.
My entire apartment (not to mention most of the folks I know) is in an uproar over the academy's choices last night. LOTR rightfully deserved Best Picture, as well as best editing and best supporting actor (Gandolf). Perhaps this upset, more than anything else, will further support the "other" award events. I know it has for me, I have lost faith in the academy and their ability to spotlight the best of the best.
Ugh, avoid AppleTalk... chatty, not easily routable, and just plain old. Use LPR (prefered) or samba.
Modern versions of "Classic" Mac OS (7.1 Pro to 9.2.2) have an app (sometimes in the Apple Extras folder, sometimes on the system CD) called "Desktop Printer Utility" that'll let you tell the machine to print to an LPR printer/printserver.
Mac OS X does not support AppleTalk, but does come with both native BSD flavored LPR as well as Samba. This is easily configured from the Preferences/ControlPanel. Power users can do a quick Google search for more info. Samba ships with Mac OS X 10.1.0 and newer. For fun, pull up a terminal on Mac OS X and print from the CLI... "lpr -P printserver.yourcompany.com mydoc.ps"
I love playing with the SGIs at work and I enjoy playing with the wizbang PCs that my roommates and I have, but to be honest, I'm really not that impressed with modern gfx accelerators. The original geForce was pretty neat, and SGI's last big leap (InfiniteReality in '95) was cool... but golly, things really haven't changed much since Clark and his gang from Stanford opened our eyes to 3D in '82.
We've gone from cabinets to cards to chips to a single chip. We've added some gfx extensions and now do multiple rendering passes to make things look prettier... but really, nothing has changed much in the recent years. It's smaller, faster, cheaper. Steady evolution... but so is the scum growing in my bathroom sink. Please excuse me while I yawn.
Amen, brotha... my only real PC at home is a PII/400 with a pair of Creative Labs Voodoo2 cards running SLI. Win98SE is stable (enough) for the few games and utilities I run on it. And 56 FPS in Quake2 and 41 FPS in Unreal is good enough for me.
Heck, I still remember the "which is better, Silicon Graphics Reality Engine or Ferrari Testarossa?" threads in the USENET from the summer of 1992. Even the dual pipe / dual head SGI VGXT "Skywriter" from 1989 was pretty damned impressive. Even many, many years later.
Check your local full Red Hat mirror for Pensacola, the most recent Red Hat beta. Roswell is what became 7.2. Pensacola is what will become either 7.3 or 8.0.
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pensacola Be kind and use a mirror.
What irritates me is the fact that superbowl broadcast quality actually dropped a few notches between 2001 and 2002. Last year the superbowl HD broadcast used 1080i (1920x1080/30i), this year it was done in 480p (720x480/60p). Smoother motion (a true 60 frames per second rather than 60 fields per second interlaced) but MUCH lower quality.
as an aside, I watched aliens SE the other night with some friends on my 32" widescreen tv and I was appalled at the quality of
encoding. it was awful, like watching a dodgy avi
Crap compression isn't too uncommon. And it'll only get worse with HD compression... uncompressed 24-bit 1080i HD is 176 MB/sec or 1408 Mbps. To get that down to the holy grail of 50 Mbps will require some crazy lossy compression. Ugh!
The problem with a burner and HDTV is you'd need hardcore compression to squeeze any amount of HD video onto CD-R. HD 1080i resolution (1900x1080) has about 6x as many pixels as SD 480i (720x480) resolution. Plus, I'd want something a bit better than DiVX for compression if I'm going to make full use of my $2000 television. I paid for HD, I want to preserve the quality. Hell, uncompressed 24-bit 1080i is 176 MegaByte/sec. That's friggin huge considering that the latest IDE drives can't even do 50 MB/sec. Lossless compression hasn't gotten that good yet.
I bought a sweet 36" Sony Wega KV-36FV16 plus a progressive scan DVD player. That plus my DirecTV Plus reciever have kept me pretty happy. Beats the heck out of my old low-res 27" Sanyo, VHS, and DishNetwork box. HD rocks!
He also talks about his ext3 work, porting that
journaling filesystem from the older stable 2.2 kernel to the current stable 2.4 kernel."
I'm confused... I was under the impression that most of the journaling file systems required 2.4. Granted, many started their life on 2.2, but still... most recommend or require 2.4.
On a side note, support for XFS and/or ext3 for 2.2 would be very nice as we currently have many servers running Debian (potato) with kernel 2.2. We would consider upgrading the filesystem, but little else. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". About all that doesn't work well now is ext2... fsck sucks... we have 2 hours of UPS, but no generators... living in Vermont means a 4 hour power outtage about three times a year.
why on Earth did SGI get rid of their "speckled granite" monitor and keyboard finish
No kidding, nothing says "Dell" like a black monitor/keys/mouse setup and "sgi" in lame white paint. Ugh. Thankfully the Octane2 (and maybe the Fuel) work fine with existing granite accessories. Too bad there was never a granite FD Trinitron monitor.
dunno, most of my drives are pretty quiet
on
Harddrive Speakers
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· Score: 2
The 10K drives in my G4 and the 15K drive in my SGI Octane are pretty loud, but it kinda makes sense... faster spinning SCSI drives have never been known for their whisper operation, more like a jet engine.
That said, most of my other drives in my Windows and Linux PCs are fairly modern 7200 RPM drives. My two newest Maxtor and Western Digital drives are so quiet that I sometimes forget they are spun up. Almost cool to the touch, too.
Now if only 7200 RPM drives would come with 7ms seek times. Heck, the drive in my O2, a 7200 RPM SCSI Seagate Barracuda ST318416 from almost 2 years ago has an average seek of 6.0ms with a max full seek of 10.5ms... a good 3ms faster than the fastest 7200 RPM IDE drives of today.
Anyone else notice that Microsoft's best (or perhaps, only decent) products are their hardware offerings? It's amazing what they can offer when they outsource most of the design and manufacturing to someone that knows what they're doing. Microsoft I/O gizmos and the XBox show that Microsoft does know how to assemble a team that is not afriad to hire outsiders to design and build a good product.
Now if only their Windows versions of Office took some cues from the Mac versions and became less of a disk/ram/cpu hog.
Off to download the latest 18 MB security service pack for Outlook... man am I glad I only own one Windows PC...
hehe, yeah, I've noticed that too... it looks like a polished piece of black stone suspended within the mouse... the keyboard is sort of that way as well... funky mostly-clear styling, with the wires and chips somehow hidden. Neat stuff! My desk is pretty wild with my Apple LCD, keyboard, and mouse... plus my "speckled granite" Silicon Graphics 21" CRT, keyboard, and mouse.
Mozilla is painfully slow, as anyone with a computer similar to mine will
tell you.
Mozilla is slow on anything -- it's only "decently usable" on machines in the GHz range. Hopefully some of the speed issues will be worked out by version 1.0, 1.1.1, or 1.5.1.
Thankfully Netscape Navigator Standalone 4.79 is good enough. Opera is nice at times. But really, it seems like MSIE 5.5 atop Win98SE (plus 75 MB of security and bugfix patches) is really the way to go for a zippy browsing experience, ugh.
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I, for one, have boxen and bandwidth to pull off 3 Mb/s of CPU-intensive network traffic 24/7
Sweet! What sort of connection is that? The cable modem provider in my area offers very limited "business" symmetric connections up to 5 Mbps, but they charge dearly for it. A lot cheaper than a fractional T3, though.
I get about 2.0 Mbps from my "2.2 Mbps" SDSL connection. If two other folks such as me were to pitch in, I think we could handle it. Not sure if this would classify as business use, if so I would have to hand over another $25/month to my ISP.
Hear Hear! Of all the movies over the past year, LOTR had **by far** the most substance (costumes, set design, effects, atmosphere, actors -- not just a few scenes in downtown LA or in some dark studio). But yet it was not created for film, it was an ADAPTATION! If that doesn't count for something towards Best Picture, then I don't know what does. And heck, they didn't even win for the best screenplay adaptation.
If this isn't Hollywood bias and ignorance, I don't know what is.
My entire apartment (not to mention most of the folks I know) is in an uproar over the academy's choices last night. LOTR rightfully deserved Best Picture, as well as best editing and best supporting actor (Gandolf). Perhaps this upset, more than anything else, will further support the "other" award events. I know it has for me, I have lost faith in the academy and their ability to spotlight the best of the best.
ARgh! How can the academy be that stupid!?!
Ugh, avoid AppleTalk... chatty, not easily routable, and just plain old. Use LPR (prefered) or samba.
Modern versions of "Classic" Mac OS (7.1 Pro to 9.2.2) have an app (sometimes in the Apple Extras folder, sometimes on the system CD) called "Desktop Printer Utility" that'll let you tell the machine to print to an LPR printer/printserver.
Mac OS X does not support AppleTalk, but does come with both native BSD flavored LPR as well as Samba. This is easily configured from the Preferences/ControlPanel. Power users can do a quick Google search for more info. Samba ships with Mac OS X 10.1.0 and newer. For fun, pull up a terminal on Mac OS X and print from the CLI... "lpr -P printserver.yourcompany.com mydoc.ps"
... it's time for the next wave of 3D.
I love playing with the SGIs at work and I enjoy playing with the wizbang PCs that my roommates and I have, but to be honest, I'm really not that impressed with modern gfx accelerators. The original geForce was pretty neat, and SGI's last big leap (InfiniteReality in '95) was cool... but golly, things really haven't changed much since Clark and his gang from Stanford opened our eyes to 3D in '82.
We've gone from cabinets to cards to chips to a single chip. We've added some gfx extensions and now do multiple rendering passes to make things look prettier... but really, nothing has changed much in the recent years. It's smaller, faster, cheaper. Steady evolution... but so is the scum growing in my bathroom sink.
Please excuse me while I yawn.
My voodoo2 SLI still kicks all kinds of ass.
Amen, brotha... my only real PC at home is a PII/400 with a pair of Creative Labs Voodoo2 cards running SLI. Win98SE is stable (enough) for the few games and utilities I run on it. And 56 FPS in Quake2 and 41 FPS in Unreal is good enough for me.
Heck, I still remember the "which is better, Silicon Graphics Reality Engine or Ferrari Testarossa?" threads in the USENET from the summer of 1992. Even the dual pipe / dual head SGI VGXT "Skywriter" from 1989 was pretty damned impressive. Even many, many years later.
Check your local full Red Hat mirror for Pensacola, the most recent Red Hat beta. Roswell is what became 7.2. Pensacola is what will become either 7.3 or 8.0.
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pensacola
Be kind and use a mirror.
The current Red Hat beta is Pensacola. Most recent update was about a week ago.
a co la
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pens
Be kind and use a local mirror site.
What irritates me is the fact that superbowl broadcast quality actually dropped a few notches between 2001 and 2002. Last year the superbowl HD broadcast used 1080i (1920x1080/30i), this year it was done in 480p (720x480/60p). Smoother motion (a true 60 frames per second rather than 60 fields per second interlaced) but MUCH lower quality.
as an aside, I watched aliens SE the other night with some friends on my 32" widescreen tv and I was appalled at the quality of
encoding. it was awful, like watching a dodgy avi
Crap compression isn't too uncommon. And it'll only get worse with HD compression... uncompressed 24-bit 1080i HD is 176 MB/sec or 1408 Mbps. To get that down to the holy grail of 50 Mbps will require some crazy lossy compression. Ugh!
The problem with a burner and HDTV is you'd need hardcore compression to squeeze any amount of HD video onto CD-R. HD 1080i resolution (1900x1080) has about 6x as many pixels as SD 480i (720x480) resolution. Plus, I'd want something a bit better than DiVX for compression if I'm going to make full use of my $2000 television. I paid for HD, I want to preserve the quality. Hell, uncompressed 24-bit 1080i is 176 MegaByte/sec. That's friggin huge considering that the latest IDE drives can't even do 50 MB/sec. Lossless compression hasn't gotten that good yet.
I noticed a few other folks have tried to say this as well:
Quit complaining. There is a perfect way to make use of your HDTV and it's called DVD. Even Walmart has about 100 to choose from.
I'm confused, aren't widescreen already HD capable? I don't understand what the problem would be.
I bought a sweet 36" Sony Wega KV-36FV16 plus a progressive scan DVD player. That plus my DirecTV Plus reciever have kept me pretty happy. Beats the heck out of my old low-res 27" Sanyo, VHS, and DishNetwork box. HD rocks!
Somewhat open Apple goodies:
Quicktime Streaming Server
Darwin, the base guts of Mac OS X
Apple/Genentech BLAST
OpenPlay (game sprockets)
Not to mention that SourceForge now has Mac OS X boxes on their compile farm...
Ooh, purty [http://www.segway.com/downloads/wallpapers/woman_ on_metro_1280x1024b.jpg].
(Oh god, geek cheesecake photos. This is really embarrasing.)
Maybe Marcia will flatten her nose via a Segway accident (rather than from a football) in the 2003 Brady Bunch remake...
He also talks about his ext3 work, porting that
journaling filesystem from the older stable 2.2 kernel to the current stable 2.4 kernel."
I'm confused... I was under the impression that most of the journaling file systems required 2.4. Granted, many started their life on 2.2, but still... most recommend or require 2.4.
On a side note, support for XFS and/or ext3 for 2.2 would be very nice as we currently have many servers running Debian (potato) with kernel 2.2. We would consider upgrading the filesystem, but little else. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". About all that doesn't work well now is ext2... fsck sucks... we have 2 hours of UPS, but no generators... living in Vermont means a 4 hour power outtage about three times a year.
why on Earth did SGI get rid of their "speckled granite" monitor and keyboard finish
No kidding, nothing says "Dell" like a black monitor/keys/mouse setup and "sgi" in lame white paint. Ugh. Thankfully the Octane2 (and maybe the Fuel) work fine with existing granite accessories. Too bad there was never a granite FD Trinitron monitor.
The 10K drives in my G4 and the 15K drive in my SGI Octane are pretty loud, but it kinda makes sense... faster spinning SCSI drives have never been known for their whisper operation, more like a jet engine.
That said, most of my other drives in my Windows and Linux PCs are fairly modern 7200 RPM drives. My two newest Maxtor and Western Digital drives are so quiet that I sometimes forget they are spun up. Almost cool to the touch, too.
Now if only 7200 RPM drives would come with 7ms seek times. Heck, the drive in my O2, a 7200 RPM SCSI Seagate Barracuda ST318416 from almost 2 years ago has an average seek of 6.0ms with a max full seek of 10.5ms... a good 3ms faster than the fastest 7200 RPM IDE drives of today.
Anyone else notice that Microsoft's best (or perhaps, only decent) products are their hardware offerings? It's amazing what they can offer when they outsource most of the design and manufacturing to someone that knows what they're doing. Microsoft I/O gizmos and the XBox show that Microsoft does know how to assemble a team that is not afriad to hire outsiders to design and build a good product.
Now if only their Windows versions of Office took some cues from the Mac versions and became less of a disk/ram/cpu hog.
Off to download the latest 18 MB security service pack for Outlook... man am I glad I only own one Windows PC...
it's weird.. the inside of it appears to
"float"
hehe, yeah, I've noticed that too... it looks like a polished piece of black stone suspended within the mouse... the keyboard is sort of that way as well... funky mostly-clear styling, with the wires and chips somehow hidden. Neat stuff! My desk is pretty wild with my Apple LCD, keyboard, and mouse... plus my "speckled granite" Silicon Graphics 21" CRT, keyboard, and mouse.
Mozilla is painfully slow, as anyone with a computer similar to mine will tell you.
Mozilla is slow on anything -- it's only "decently usable" on machines in the GHz range. Hopefully some of the speed issues will be worked out by version 1.0, 1.1.1, or 1.5.1.
Thankfully Netscape Navigator Standalone 4.79 is good enough. Opera is nice at times. But really, it seems like MSIE 5.5 atop Win98SE (plus 75 MB of security and bugfix patches) is really the way to go for a zippy browsing experience, ugh.