As someone who actually has a Roomba ...
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Roomba + Tablet PC = ?
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..... I can say it sucks
We have on in the office, to collect all the random bits of paper and whatnot thats on the carpet. We thought it would be a great idea too, but it really isn't.
The problem with the Roomba is that the "dirt compartment" is soooo small. So when you do get around to sucking things up, in little to no time is it full. Additionally because there is no warning, it can go on for a while, just collection, and disposing dirt elsewhere. After a while the garbage on the carpet is worse than what it started out as. (Mind you we're pretty much you standard office)
There is mkcd, which allows you to create custom Mandrake CDs with the software and options you want.
And mandrake has a customizable auto bootup/install via drakx (mdk's installer system).
Add all of the above, and a little knowledge about SRPMS (if you want true customization), and it works rather well. Also Mandrake's public download edition is 100% FLOSS, so there are no issues about redistributing the software (unless *you* add some non-FLOSS stuff on your own, heh)
Cool, so why don't you just give a link to the specs that explain how to program the video mode on i855? Then this can be added to XF86. It's not like no one cares.
Why are you so thick ?
Let me repeat, this is an issue with XFree86, and NOT the specific Intel driver.
Such a change would have to be done at a much lower level with Xfree86. Such changes are pretty damn hard to do being that XFree86 is a slow (and now useless?) beast. (IE: They attempted to integrate DRI and gatos, and that failed horribly outright.)
Xfree86 does not support resolutions not stated specifically by the video bios. Plain and simple, and applies to *all* video chipsets.
(If you dig down deeper, you'll realize that Xfree86 doesn't support a bunch of nifty features that laptops LCD's take advantage of. Plane overlays come to mind.)
Additionally my only reason for making the statement about Intel paying for the DRI drivers to be written is because it is the 3d part of any chipset is the most coveted, secretive part any chipset. 2d support is pretty much a non-issue these days. This has nothing to do with specification. The original poster should do his/her homework first.
IIRC Intel actually *Hired* some people to write the open source DRI (*3D*) drivers for their i8x0 graphics chipset.
The problem in which you are describing is actually a limitation of XFree86, and not the Intel driver. (My understanding is that Xfree86 doesn't work with resolutions not advertized by the Video bios.)
XiG's binary only X implementation does not have this limitation and can support the odd resolutions you desire. My friend was a similar situation as you, and so he ended up having to purchase XiG's X implementation for his Fujitsu Lifebook.
Sunny Dubey
or were you fishing only for non-commercial ones (or Knoppix derivatives) or something?
MandrakeMove is 100% FLOSS. I don't see how that would differ from a non-commercial distro
Sunny Dubey
Their search has apparently improved as well !
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Google's Bigger Index
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Search for any normal product name with google. What would you used to get ? Billions of useless sites that cross link to each other and have the same bloody reviews from amazon.com
That seems to have changed!
I just tried a search on television antennas and for once the results seem relevent.
On Klaus Knopper's visit to New York City. He made a special edition of the distro just for New York's LUG. You will have to find a link of it on your own (being that it will cost some poor LUGer money for the bandwidth, heh)
What a man! He really is a nice guy! We sure were thrilled and happy
*idiot's linking directly to the root source, moorons* and larger shame on CmdrTaco for not haveing common sense to check the mirrors aren't up to date yet... see?
This is nothing new
Slashdot's editors have been doing this for *years* with little regard for the project/software/etc at hand.
Its stupid shit like this that makes me wonder if slashdot editors ever read their own threads. And if they do, do they choose to remember them ? Or do they take such criticism with a grain of salt?
Additionally, why on earth do news posters do this ? It seems that there are people who are just desperate and want a story posted ASAP.
Sunny Dubey
How did this got modded up ?
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KDE 3.2.0 Released
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If it still takes some 15 secs to startup even on high-end machines, it'll not be faster enough for me.
XFCE for me...
Being that KDE (GNOME, etc) have different aims than that of XFCE, I think its totally resonable that KDE and friends take a bit longer to load.
Tried installing drivers for a dlink nic on 9.2 and got a message that the binary only drivers would "pollute" the operating system or some such. Refused to install them at all - there was no do it anyways option.
First RPM doesn't give such error messages, nor does RPM prevent you from installing the RPM you desire (Remember: Unix assumes that root knows everything, and never limits root from doing anything either)
Secondly, you are possibly confusing the above error with something not done by mandrake, but the kernel. The kernel automatically complains about non GPL/BSD modules being loaded, however this DOES NOT prevent the modules from being loaded. Issue the/sbin/lsmod command as a user to see for yourself.
Lastly, as another poster already pointed. Mandrake sells a commercial version of their distro that automatically uses such binary only drivers. (Their 100% FLOSS distro does not ship with them but like *any* other distro, can use them.)
Yup, a standard analog one (second, minute, hour hands)
All (real) DJ's wear watches, it helps with the art of beat matching.
The point is that it takes skills to pre-emptively think of a song, begin mixing with it, and then let the song play out in a proper fashion (meaning you aren't cutting the last song short, nor speeding it up) and never hitting the time limit of your medium (99.999% of the time CDs)
Personally: 'Cos MD sounds better than MP3, I am not aware of any available MP3 recorders, especially not portable MP3 recorders. I use my MD as recording my (DJ) sets, and that is not just at home, but when I'm playing out.
So when you record your DJ sets, you are limited to 80 minutes ?
I don't know about you, but unless you plan to pull "An Oakenfold", DATs with much longer recording time seem like a better idea.
Sunny Dubey
PS: "An Oakenfold" is my term for one who creates a perfectly timed set that is only a few seconds shorter than the allowed legal time limit of the CD (or any other medium they are going to be mass-producing on). This is something I've noticed Paul Oakenfold do often and pretty damn well.
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We have on in the office, to collect all the random bits of paper and whatnot thats on the carpet. We thought it would be a great idea too, but it really isn't.
The problem with the Roomba is that the "dirt compartment" is soooo small. So when you do get around to sucking things up, in little to no time is it full. Additionally because there is no warning, it can go on for a while, just collection, and disposing dirt elsewhere. After a while the garbage on the carpet is worse than what it started out as. (Mind you we're pretty much you standard office)
Great idea, but bad product design
Sunny Dubey
but if my life was on the line, and I couldn't get the 911 help I needed. I can only hope they give him all they've got ...
Sunny Dubey
There is mkcd, which allows you to create custom Mandrake CDs with the software and options you want.
And mandrake has a customizable auto bootup/install via drakx (mdk's installer system).
Add all of the above, and a little knowledge about SRPMS (if you want true customization), and it works rather well. Also Mandrake's public download edition is 100% FLOSS, so there are no issues about redistributing the software (unless *you* add some non-FLOSS stuff on your own, heh)
Sunny Dubey
Silly ignorant clueless troll. Your ad-hominem attacks will get you no where.
First, take a dump of your video bios: dd if=/dev/mem of=video-bios.bin bs=1 count=65535 skip=786432
Secondly, take a gander through it strings video-bios.bin | less
Thirdly, note how there is no resolution matching what your screen has.
Now, you can go read this http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html
Now die
Cool, so why don't you just give a link to the specs that explain how to program the video mode on i855? Then this can be added to XF86. It's not like no one cares.
Why are you so thick ?
Let me repeat, this is an issue with XFree86, and NOT the specific Intel driver.
Such a change would have to be done at a much lower level with Xfree86. Such changes are pretty damn hard to do being that XFree86 is a slow (and now useless?) beast. (IE: They attempted to integrate DRI and gatos, and that failed horribly outright.)
I've had enough of this thread
Xfree86 does not support resolutions not stated specifically by the video bios. Plain and simple, and applies to *all* video chipsets.
(If you dig down deeper, you'll realize that Xfree86 doesn't support a bunch of nifty features that laptops LCD's take advantage of. Plane overlays come to mind.)
Additionally my only reason for making the statement about Intel paying for the DRI drivers to be written is because it is the 3d part of any chipset is the most coveted, secretive part any chipset. 2d support is pretty much a non-issue these days. This has nothing to do with specification. The original poster should do his/her homework first.
IIRC Intel actually *Hired* some people to write the open source DRI (*3D*) drivers for their i8x0 graphics chipset.
The problem in which you are describing is actually a limitation of XFree86, and not the Intel driver. (My understanding is that Xfree86 doesn't work with resolutions not advertized by the Video bios.)
XiG's binary only X implementation does not have this limitation and can support the odd resolutions you desire. My friend was a similar situation as you, and so he ended up having to purchase XiG's X implementation for his Fujitsu Lifebook. Sunny Dubey
The poster talks about Redhat rejecting XFree86 4.4. But fails to supply a link.
Redhat's rejection
or were you fishing only for non-commercial ones (or Knoppix derivatives) or something?
MandrakeMove is 100% FLOSS. I don't see how that would differ from a non-commercial distro
Sunny Dubey
Search for any normal product name with google. What would you used to get ? Billions of useless sites that cross link to each other and have the same bloody reviews from amazon.com
:^)
That seems to have changed!
I just tried a search on television antennas and for once the results seem relevent.
Hooray!! Google is back!!
Sunny Dubey
Check these guys out:
Element Computer
They sell computers/tablets that natively come with linux only. So you never puchase the windows tax.
Not only that, but currently they're openly adopting Debian has their main distro (this must bode well with the Debian bigots, heh)
Sounds like solid Linux stuff to me
Sunny Dubey
that we've become more obsessed about life on other planets, than life on our own planet ?
Sooner or later we'll just be what we've created in the movies: A group of living things going from planet to planet stripping it of its resources.
Sunny Dubey
Essentially there would be some glue between the package management system, the "configurator", and the actual config file.
Sunny Dubey
Yep
On Klaus Knopper's visit to New York City. He made a special edition of the distro just for New York's LUG. You will have to find a link of it on your own (being that it will cost some poor LUGer money for the bandwidth, heh)
What a man! He really is a nice guy! We sure were thrilled and happy
Sunny Dubey
KDE (unlike GNOME) can be compiled without gcc/g++.
In fact its already been done on IBM's AIX operating system.
Click here for more info
Sunny Dubey
Or is it just me ?
The happenings at Matrox are a good example of great college grads from all the good schools with *ZERO* experience
Sunny Dubey
Nope. Microsft bought the STREAMS implementation of TCP/IP from Spyder, Inc.
I don't mean to contest your statements
But I was searching on google for the above and found nothing
Have any links on this ?
Sunny Dubey
Sid has some of the most recent packages and is definetley more up-to-date than Suse, Redhat and the likes (and is still "Debian").
...
Yeah, I wonder why people choose to run woody and engage in "debian backport hell"
Sunny Dubey
*idiot's linking directly to the root source, moorons* and larger shame on CmdrTaco for not haveing common sense to check the mirrors aren't up to date yet ... see?
This is nothing new
Slashdot's editors have been doing this for *years* with little regard for the project/software/etc at hand.
Its stupid shit like this that makes me wonder if slashdot editors ever read their own threads. And if they do, do they choose to remember them ? Or do they take such criticism with a grain of salt?
Additionally, why on earth do news posters do this ? It seems that there are people who are just desperate and want a story posted ASAP.
Sunny Dubey
If it still takes some 15 secs to startup even on high-end machines, it'll not be faster enough for me.
XFCE for me...
Being that KDE (GNOME, etc) have different aims than that of XFCE, I think its totally resonable that KDE and friends take a bit longer to load.
Sunny Dubey
Tried installing drivers for a dlink nic on 9.2 and got a message that the binary only drivers would "pollute" the operating system or some such. Refused to install them at all - there was no do it anyways option.
/sbin/lsmod command as a user to see for yourself.
First RPM doesn't give such error messages, nor does RPM prevent you from installing the RPM you desire (Remember: Unix assumes that root knows everything, and never limits root from doing anything either)
Secondly, you are possibly confusing the above error with something not done by mandrake, but the kernel. The kernel automatically complains about non GPL/BSD modules being loaded, however this DOES NOT prevent the modules from being loaded. Issue the
Lastly, as another poster already pointed. Mandrake sells a commercial version of their distro that automatically uses such binary only drivers. (Their 100% FLOSS distro does not ship with them but like *any* other distro, can use them.)
Sunny Dubey
Sorry, but I have to admit, this getting nuts.
First, apple has a bunch of stupid topics
Some of them aren't even attributed to the right people! (read: IBM, IBM's research, IBM's development)
Secondly, there is apple.slashdot.org It even uses Apple's disgusting aqua theme.
Thridly, this article reeks of "Apple can do no wrong, we're too blind to see anything else"
Sunny Dubey
PS: I did RTFA, however I see no reason why so many "buy apple products" articles need to make it on slashdot.
How many people have plans of leaving apache 1.3x to newer apache 2x ?
Enough said
Sunny Dubey
Yup, a standard analog one (second, minute, hour hands)
All (real) DJ's wear watches, it helps with the art of beat matching.
The point is that it takes skills to pre-emptively think of a song, begin mixing with it, and then let the song play out in a proper fashion (meaning you aren't cutting the last song short, nor speeding it up) and never hitting the time limit of your medium (99.999% of the time CDs)
Sunny Dubey
Personally: 'Cos MD sounds better than MP3, I am not aware of any available MP3 recorders, especially not portable MP3 recorders. I use my MD as recording my (DJ) sets, and that is not just at home, but when I'm playing out.
So when you record your DJ sets, you are limited to 80 minutes ?
I don't know about you, but unless you plan to pull "An Oakenfold", DATs with much longer recording time seem like a better idea.
Sunny Dubey
PS: "An Oakenfold" is my term for one who creates a perfectly timed set that is only a few seconds shorter than the allowed legal time limit of the CD (or any other medium they are going to be mass-producing on). This is something I've noticed Paul Oakenfold do often and pretty damn well.