That's the resolution on my Envision 15" LCD monitor. As the kids say, that is t3h sux0r.
Right now, the best LCD screen I have ever experienced is the one on my PowerBook G3 Series 2 laptop. Beautiful. No dead pixels, gorgeous color. The Envision is nice but not as good as this.
Lousy service, crappy connectivity...they were my host's facilities (they wisely moved) and they were constantly having problems. If they are one of the leaders, I really haven't got much hope for the sector.
My first PC build had a Bigfoot. I later added another Bigfoot I bought from Driveguys. Both Bigfoot drives (Bigfeet?) are running well after something like 6 years. It used to be that Quantum was the gold standard for quality. Then they started to suck. Switched to IBM, then Maxtor. Now I don't know wtf to get anymore. Bleah.
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Well-modded, people. This is the Linux story in a nutshell. Linus Torvalds did this almost to the letter.
There already is a Debian for PPC. Knoppix is really just Debian if you aren't using it as a live CD.
Knoppix HD install is way easier than the typical Debian install. That's the other reason why I'd want a Knoppix for PPC...to get Debian PPC on my PowerBook the easy way.
Then again, I'll prolly just get Mandrake 9.1 PPC and be happy.
There's also the Marathon trilogy and the version of UT that came out in 1999. Both of which can't really be found new anymore, but scope out eBay and you'll find it. All those run happily on Mac. I prefer UT infinitely more to C/S.
However, the Wallstreet PB that I just bought off a friend hasn't a prayer of running UT for Mac. Which actually is a Good Thing. I will associate that machine with College work and "think different" when I'm using it.
However, since I'm going to be living at my apartment while attending, I will have all my tempting toys surrounding me. And let us not forget, games are not the only timesink afforded by computers. There's IRC, and there's Slashdot. And WallyNavi is capable of both, easily.
Read the specs...the ThinkCentre is basically a headless Thinkpad in a desktop case. This actually could be a nice little machine, provided they don't rely on "Intel Extreme Graphics" which are neither extreme nor very graphic. (Slow and leaden is a better description.)
hypothesise all you want, it doesn't change the fact that A is A and you have to go to work on monday. the last thing the current american society needs is a new kantian theory to overtake it.
No matter what the "true" structure of the world is, whether there is an objective reality behind it or not, the fact remains that in order to survive and function in the world one needs to pretty much live ones life as if A truly equals A.
Any amount of philosophizing notwithstanding, if you are walking towards a brick wall, you will avoid getting hurt if you treat it as a solid object and not as an illusion or a simulation.
You needn't be a Randroid to operate this way. It's just common sense. You deal with local reality as it is until and unless you have to deal with phenomena that indicates otherwise.
Existence may or may not exist. We could be living in a simulation, hooked up to each other like one big Beowulf Cluster. We could be just a dream in the mind of Brahman. But in everyday life, operating as if reality is what it is is very necessary.
There is nothing wrong with speculating about the nature of the real. Just remember to maintain your airspeed lest the ground come up and smite thee.
I would gladly pay for a DVD-CCA blessed binary program I could run under Linux so that I can watch 90% of of the DVDs in my collection. As it is, thanks to the version of MPlayer included in Mandrake Linux 9.1, I can watch 10% of my DVDs...the ones without encryption.
The major players in the Windows DVD playing software market all have DVD players ready to go. Yet they will not sell them, for any price, to any member of the general public. Why is this so? Why can't I pay my $50 or so (NVidia NVDVD is $40, actually) to the makers of LinDVD and/or PowerDVD for Linux and get a copy I can install on my computer?
Maybe NVidia might be the ones to make a commercial DVD player for Linux. They've made wonderful binary drivers for their video cards and for the nForce motherboard chipset, maybe they might be the ones to grow a spine and do this.
Until then, it's circumvent, circumvent, circumvent. I don't like it. I don't like breaking the law to enjoy my movies anywhere I want to play them. Using Linux (or FreeBSD or whatever F/OSS operating system you want) should not be a crime.
80GB Maxtor in my flagship machine. Headline got my heart pumping fast. Took the drive out of the drive caddy, slid the cartridge open. Made in Singapore. Sigh of relief. 3 year warranty. Quantum used to be good. Then they went downhill. Started buying IBM. IBM went to hell. Then I started buying Maxtor. Now Maxtor is laying an egg.
Before Quantum was crappy, Seagate and Western Digital were the drives you loved to hate. First Seagate got their act together. Western Digital seems to also be getting their act together. Now I hear from more than one poster on this article that SAMSUNG is OK now. Samsung used to make the bottom-of-the-barrel sucky drives (Well, JTS was worse, but they aren't around anymore) and I helped a friend out of a treadmill of constantly replacing Samsung drives and into a Quantum.
Funny how things change so fast in the storage sector.
BlueCurve is ugly as sin and makes XP's Luna look like the pinnacle of GUI elegance. BTW so does the default theme that KDE ships with. Galaxy, on the other hand....mmmmmmmsuhWEET!!! It isn't "lickable", it doesn't look like Romper Room or Fisher-Price, it is elegant and understated like no other GUI since Windows 2000 or MacOS Classic.
Say what you will about French politics and French military tactics but the French know about aesthetics. Go to a cafe and they serve you art on a plate. Get a French Linux distro and you get art on your screen.
Again...I will speak my peace about the total package of MDK 9.1 in another post here.
Supermount has been rocking on my PIII 733MHz. No muss, no fuss, no bother. It just works.
The only trouble it gives you is when you have to deal with the Loki Installer. Then you have to turn it off.
MDK 9.1 is the distro that Just Works (tm) for me. It is the MacOS of Linux distributions. It's not a distro for the leet, but for The Rest Of Us (tm) it is just fine.
Those aren't just garden-variety PCs. The comparison chart Faust7 is referencing is a high-end server chart.
However: is this a MS cheerleader site? Because I don't see anything running any sort of Free/Open operating system. Just Windows 2K Datacenter and proprietary Unices.
One wonders what would happen if a few of those high-end IBM Linux on Power4 hardware boxen were allowed to play. Vrooom...
First thing I'd do in a case like that is wipe Lindows and put a real Linux distro in...maybe Knoppix, maybe Mandrake 9.1.
A bit more info on this Thai HP laptop: base model doesn't come with an optical drive. (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, etc) For a bit more, you get a CD-ROM. Unfortunately a computer without an optical drive is kinda crippled.
Fine. Be that way. Meanwhile, I will continue to enjoy the sweet chocolaty goodness of the NVidia binary driver on Mandrake Linux 9.x. (It's currently 9.0 with some extensive upgrading to make the NForce 1 chipset happy)
UT(1999) runs faster and better under the NVidia Binary Driver and Linux than it does on the same hardware with Windows. I kid you not, it's true. Since I really don't play any other games on a serious level, I'm a very happy gamer. (I would say "happy camper" but j00 kn0w th4t t3h c4mp3rz r l4m3rz ^_^)
Anyway, compare this to ATI on Linux. UT (again, the original 1999 edition, GOTY version) will not run with hardware acceleration and the DRI drivers with a Rage128 32MB. However, boot the machine with Windows and it is perfectly fine. It won't do the kind of resolution and the kind of framerates I get on my Athlon with a Ti4200 128MB, but it's evolution, baby, as the song goes. The DRI drivers for Rage128 are very, very sad. They also lock up on occasion for no good reason.
This isn't FUD, it's reality. I have no vested interest in NVidia. I don't own any stock, much less NVidia stock. I'm not a zealot. I'm on the pragmatist side. Whatever works.
The NVidia binary drivers work so well under my chosen distro of Linux that I am going to yank this Rage128 card very soon and replace it with a GeForce 4MX 64MB. (lower power consumption and better bang/buck ratio than the rest of the NVidia line) Once I do that, I will be able to run UT as it should run...under full hardware acceleration.
The DRI driver guys have had enough time to make a solid driver for Rage128. I mean, my G3 Blue-and-white came stock with a Rage128 16MB PCI vid card, with ATI Cinema hardware accelerator daughter card. That was bought in 1999. It's 2003. Four years to come up with a decent open-source driver for Rage128, guys! Four years! You would think that they'd get it right by now. And ATI is not supporting such an old card with their binary drivers.
I used to really, really like ATI kit. It's still mega-solid under Windows 2000, and it's pretty much the only game in town for Macs. But in the x86/Linux world, NVidia still just works.
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"I am your god" -- Linus Torvalds
(Yes, he was joking...but he was taken way too seriously at the time if my memory serves me right.)
Because of EEOC laws and to provide a legal leg to stand on if someone is falsifying information on their resume, most companies DO require application forms, at every level, including the top spots. The reason is this: a properly drafted application form is a legally binding document, signed under penalty of perjury. A resume is not.
Talib Kweli, "Quality." One good song. "Get By." The rest of the album is crap. Everlast, "Whitey Ford Sings The Blues." Two good songs: "What It's Like" and "Ends." The rest of the album is crap. I actually LIKE imaginative Hip-Hop. The Roots put out a great album this year. "The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill" is a great album. Even Eminem has done some great stuff. But sorry...those albums stink up my record collection. Phew! iTunes is the wave of the future. It'll never come to Linux, but oh well, I do have a G3 Blue-And-White...:)
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I dunno...I like my digital camera. It's a Kodak DC3200 and it's been going strong for two years. It uses CF cards which are dirt cheap and have no DRM features. Sure, it's a megapixel camera in a time when multi-megapixel is the norm. And it eats batteries like the Cookie Monster eats cookies. But it works for me.
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Right now, the best LCD screen I have ever experienced is the one on my PowerBook G3 Series 2 laptop. Beautiful. No dead pixels, gorgeous color. The Envision is nice but not as good as this.
Lousy service, crappy connectivity...they were my host's facilities (they wisely moved) and they were constantly having problems. If they are one of the leaders, I really haven't got much hope for the sector.
My first PC build had a Bigfoot. I later added another Bigfoot I bought from Driveguys. Both Bigfoot drives (Bigfeet?) are running well after something like 6 years. It used to be that Quantum was the gold standard for quality. Then they started to suck. Switched to IBM, then Maxtor. Now I don't know wtf to get anymore. Bleah.
Well-modded, people. This is the Linux story in a nutshell. Linus Torvalds did this almost to the letter.
Knoppix HD install is way easier than the typical Debian install. That's the other reason why I'd want a Knoppix for PPC...to get Debian PPC on my PowerBook the easy way.
Then again, I'll prolly just get Mandrake 9.1 PPC and be happy.
This would be such a boon...way more important than Gentoo PPC Live.
There's also the Marathon trilogy and the version of UT that came out in 1999. Both of which can't really be found new anymore, but scope out eBay and you'll find it. All those run happily on Mac. I prefer UT infinitely more to C/S.
However, the Wallstreet PB that I just bought off a friend hasn't a prayer of running UT for Mac. Which actually is a Good Thing. I will associate that machine with College work and "think different" when I'm using it.
However, since I'm going to be living at my apartment while attending, I will have all my tempting toys surrounding me. And let us not forget, games are not the only timesink afforded by computers. There's IRC, and there's Slashdot. And WallyNavi is capable of both, easily.
Read the specs...the ThinkCentre is basically a headless Thinkpad in a desktop case. This actually could be a nice little machine, provided they don't rely on "Intel Extreme Graphics" which are neither extreme nor very graphic. (Slow and leaden is a better description.)
Maybe a Hindi-localized Debian should have a Brahma Bull as a logo. It does look very Gnu-like.
No matter what the "true" structure of the world is, whether there is an objective reality behind it or not, the fact remains that in order to survive and function in the world one needs to pretty much live ones life as if A truly equals A.
Any amount of philosophizing notwithstanding, if you are walking towards a brick wall, you will avoid getting hurt if you treat it as a solid object and not as an illusion or a simulation.
You needn't be a Randroid to operate this way. It's just common sense. You deal with local reality as it is until and unless you have to deal with phenomena that indicates otherwise.
Existence may or may not exist. We could be living in a simulation, hooked up to each other like one big Beowulf Cluster. We could be just a dream in the mind of Brahman. But in everyday life, operating as if reality is what it is is very necessary.
There is nothing wrong with speculating about the nature of the real. Just remember to maintain your airspeed lest the ground come up and smite thee.
I would gladly pay for a DVD-CCA blessed binary program I could run under Linux so that I can watch 90% of of the DVDs in my collection. As it is, thanks to the version of MPlayer included in Mandrake Linux 9.1, I can watch 10% of my DVDs...the ones without encryption.
The major players in the Windows DVD playing software market all have DVD players ready to go. Yet they will not sell them, for any price, to any member of the general public. Why is this so? Why can't I pay my $50 or so (NVidia NVDVD is $40, actually) to the makers of LinDVD and/or PowerDVD for Linux and get a copy I can install on my computer?
Maybe NVidia might be the ones to make a commercial DVD player for Linux. They've made wonderful binary drivers for their video cards and for the nForce motherboard chipset, maybe they might be the ones to grow a spine and do this.
Until then, it's circumvent, circumvent, circumvent. I don't like it. I don't like breaking the law to enjoy my movies anywhere I want to play them. Using Linux (or FreeBSD or whatever F/OSS operating system you want) should not be a crime.
80GB Maxtor in my flagship machine. Headline got my heart pumping fast. Took the drive out of the drive caddy, slid the cartridge open. Made in Singapore. Sigh of relief. 3 year warranty. Quantum used to be good. Then they went downhill. Started buying IBM. IBM went to hell. Then I started buying Maxtor. Now Maxtor is laying an egg.
Before Quantum was crappy, Seagate and Western Digital were the drives you loved to hate. First Seagate got their act together. Western Digital seems to also be getting their act together. Now I hear from more than one poster on this article that SAMSUNG is OK now. Samsung used to make the bottom-of-the-barrel sucky drives (Well, JTS was worse, but they aren't around anymore) and I helped a friend out of a treadmill of constantly replacing Samsung drives and into a Quantum.
Funny how things change so fast in the storage sector.
As far as I know, Linus lives in Northern California. Uh, Sorehands...does CA have an anti-SLAPP law here? Paging Sorehands...
BlueCurve is ugly as sin and makes XP's Luna look like the pinnacle of GUI elegance. BTW so does the default theme that KDE ships with. Galaxy, on the other hand....mmmmmmmsuhWEET!!! It isn't "lickable", it doesn't look like Romper Room or Fisher-Price, it is elegant and understated like no other GUI since Windows 2000 or MacOS Classic.
Say what you will about French politics and French military tactics but the French know about aesthetics. Go to a cafe and they serve you art on a plate. Get a French Linux distro and you get art on your screen.
Again...I will speak my peace about the total package of MDK 9.1 in another post here.
Supermount has been rocking on my PIII 733MHz. No muss, no fuss, no bother. It just works.
The only trouble it gives you is when you have to deal with the Loki Installer. Then you have to turn it off.
MDK 9.1 is the distro that Just Works (tm) for me. It is the MacOS of Linux distributions. It's not a distro for the leet, but for The Rest Of Us (tm) it is just fine.
I will go more into detail in another post.
The "party on, dude" capital of all Deutscheland from September until November! "In Muenschen ist ein Hofbrauhaus...ein, zwei, zuffe!"
Mahoromatic. A combat andro-robot becomes sentient, leaves military service, and becomes a maid.
Those aren't just garden-variety PCs. The comparison chart Faust7 is referencing is a high-end server chart.
However: is this a MS cheerleader site? Because I don't see anything running any sort of Free/Open operating system. Just Windows 2K Datacenter and proprietary Unices.
One wonders what would happen if a few of those high-end IBM Linux on Power4 hardware boxen were allowed to play. Vrooom...
First thing I'd do in a case like that is wipe Lindows and put a real Linux distro in...maybe Knoppix, maybe Mandrake 9.1.
A bit more info on this Thai HP laptop: base model doesn't come with an optical drive. (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, etc) For a bit more, you get a CD-ROM. Unfortunately a computer without an optical drive is kinda crippled.
UT(1999) runs faster and better under the NVidia Binary Driver and Linux than it does on the same hardware with Windows. I kid you not, it's true. Since I really don't play any other games on a serious level, I'm a very happy gamer. (I would say "happy camper" but j00 kn0w th4t t3h c4mp3rz r l4m3rz ^_^)
Anyway, compare this to ATI on Linux. UT (again, the original 1999 edition, GOTY version) will not run with hardware acceleration and the DRI drivers with a Rage128 32MB. However, boot the machine with Windows and it is perfectly fine. It won't do the kind of resolution and the kind of framerates I get on my Athlon with a Ti4200 128MB, but it's evolution, baby, as the song goes. The DRI drivers for Rage128 are very, very sad. They also lock up on occasion for no good reason.
This isn't FUD, it's reality. I have no vested interest in NVidia. I don't own any stock, much less NVidia stock. I'm not a zealot. I'm on the pragmatist side. Whatever works.
The NVidia binary drivers work so well under my chosen distro of Linux that I am going to yank this Rage128 card very soon and replace it with a GeForce 4MX 64MB. (lower power consumption and better bang/buck ratio than the rest of the NVidia line) Once I do that, I will be able to run UT as it should run...under full hardware acceleration.
The DRI driver guys have had enough time to make a solid driver for Rage128. I mean, my G3 Blue-and-white came stock with a Rage128 16MB PCI vid card, with ATI Cinema hardware accelerator daughter card. That was bought in 1999. It's 2003. Four years to come up with a decent open-source driver for Rage128, guys! Four years! You would think that they'd get it right by now. And ATI is not supporting such an old card with their binary drivers.
I used to really, really like ATI kit. It's still mega-solid under Windows 2000, and it's pretty much the only game in town for Macs. But in the x86/Linux world, NVidia still just works.
"I am your god" -- Linus Torvalds
(Yes, he was joking...but he was taken way too seriously at the time if my memory serves me right.)
Because of EEOC laws and to provide a legal leg to stand on if someone is falsifying information on their resume, most companies DO require application forms, at every level, including the top spots. The reason is this: a properly drafted application form is a legally binding document, signed under penalty of perjury. A resume is not.
Actually, "Beat" Takeshi would work in the role of Gendo. He even sort of looks the part.
Talib Kweli, "Quality." One good song. "Get By." The rest of the album is crap. Everlast, "Whitey Ford Sings The Blues." Two good songs: "What It's Like" and "Ends." The rest of the album is crap. I actually LIKE imaginative Hip-Hop. The Roots put out a great album this year. "The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill" is a great album. Even Eminem has done some great stuff. But sorry...those albums stink up my record collection. Phew! iTunes is the wave of the future. It'll never come to Linux, but oh well, I do have a G3 Blue-And-White...:)
I dunno...I like my digital camera. It's a Kodak DC3200 and it's been going strong for two years. It uses CF cards which are dirt cheap and have no DRM features. Sure, it's a megapixel camera in a time when multi-megapixel is the norm. And it eats batteries like the Cookie Monster eats cookies. But it works for me.