It's VIA now. And it is doubtful that VIA would allow MS to put Pd in their processors, particularly considering the mistrust that the Chi-Coms have for the US and the fact that the CIII chip has its biggest market in Mainland China.
Even though EPIA has a pretty bad performance record, (although it's been embraced by many because it's cheap and quiet and very very small) get used to it. Because with Intel and AMD on the same page of the hymnal with MS, this is what those who don't want to be r00ted by MS will have to deal with.
That Stones song you referenced has a refrain that goes "You make a grown man cry." 7 years after Windows 95 retail came out, this still applies to MS operating systems.
You can get 15" SVGA monitors for $20 at Goodwill Computer Centers. They're used, you won't have years of use out of them (they are usually fairly played out by the time they get there) but you can get 'em there.
With floppy drives barely above $5 at the computer shows and prolly $5/drive right on the dot in the OEM channel, the lack of floppy makes no sense unless they are using EPIA or something like it.
BTW EPIA is not a power-user platform by any standard. The VIA CIII is very underpowered and best for low-stress applications. TANSTAAFL applies here.
Linux-Mandrake 8.2 is a completely separate distro from Lindows. Lindows is non-free subscription-ware. Mandrake is not my favorite distro right now but it "plays by the rules" of free-as-in-speech software. So does Lycoris which is my current favorite of the "Linux for Tyros" distros. I do my heavy lifting in Red Hat 7.3, though.
How interesting that this subject comes up just a few days shy of my 15th wedding anniversary.
When Richie and I got engaged, it was back in the day when South Africa was ruled by the Apartheid regime and Nelson Mandela had been doing time for longer than I had been alive. I told him "no diamonds." We went to a local lapidary shop where they had many different options for stones and picked out a sterling silver setting for it. I chose a diamond-cut quartz crystal. It was beautiful, the ring didn't cost much at all, and after someone assembled it Richie proposed to me in front of everyone in the store. Got on one knee and everything. Priceless. Everyone applauded.
However, that ring was short lived. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but the ring's setting got bent and I lost the stone. It lasted only a few months.
Next, sometime around Christmas that year, there were several small jewelry carts that set up in the local mall. One had a ring with a great-looking amethyst point mounted on it. Not too expensive, looked cool. We grabbed it. The ring lasted for about a year before the amethyst point worked its way loose. I Krazy-glued it in and it stayed in for a few weeks more before I lost it for good.
Richie was upset, I was bummed. Two rings given, two down. I decided the next replacement for the engagement ring would not have a stone, tradition be damned.
That next summer I found a sterling silver Claddagh ring. Traditional Irish love token. Symbol from pre-Christian times. Very appropriate. Very cool. I've had it ever since.
Anyway, even with Apartheid over, I wouldn't touch diamonds if they were...well, diamonds. For one thing, I'm not crazy about them aesthetically. I'd rather have a blue topaz or a sapphire or a ruby or emerald or even better, a fire opal. For another thing, unless you can make darn sure where you are getting them from, you could get them from terrorists or Russian mafiosos or any number of other unsavory folks.
And most importantly...I would rather spend my money on geeky stuff. Save that money and get something I really want...like a DVD-RW or a Radeon AIW 8500 video card.
If your intended is a geek grrl, get her something she'll really want. If she isn't...well...maybe that diamond is kinda mandatory. Check up on the provenance of that rock...there are Canadian stones from the Yukon Territory strike that have a polar bear etched next to the laser-inscribed ID. There's nothing morally reprehensible about the Canadians, last time I checked.
What, you mean THIS real browser? It displays in just about any alphabet you want except Elvish, without any stressing about language packs. And there's no "-zilla" in the name, either! Konqui kicks butt.
...to re(anti)christen my Celeron 433 box Dilzilla after upgrading it to a nForce 2 mobo and an Athlon XP. Dilbert+Bob The Dinosaur=Dilzilla. Its current netname is Dilputer.
I suppose after I upgrade Dilputer I'll rename it Alice. She and her Fist Of Death kicks ass. And I don't want ninjas from Toho Pictures swarming on Catseye Labs if I rename it Dilzilla.
Apparently this EEPROM will not flash. When I called ATI to ask about the problem they told me to box up the card and ship it.
Unless there is something else wrong with this card that ATI is not talking about, the chip in question cannot be flashed.
I know there is a chip on the card that can be flashed, but this is not the one that is actually faulty. Weird situation. At least ATI has the integrity to recall the card, although they should actually *publicize* this recall...
Weirdest of all the Xpert 2000 works FINE in XFree86. And neither Anaconda (Red Hat 7.3) or Lizard (Lycoris Build 44) nor even the Windows 98SE installer tickled this bug. It's only the Windows 2000 installer.
I know how to fix the 98SE install...I have all the drivers downloaded and ready on a CD-R. However, I don't want to screw with it until I replace the video card.
As far as the 2K install went...since I don't have a spare EEPROM with the unbroken ATI Xpert 2000 code on it, (I have to send it up to Ottawa, CAN) I'm stuck.
The Windows installs will eventually be fixed. I might even put XP Pro (!) on this thing instead of 2K Pro because it has a better chance of picking up the chipset and onboard Intel NIC. The CPU is a 733MHz P3 I've got 512MB of RAM and the HD I set aside is a 20GB one, it can handle it.
This puppy is either getting an All In Wonder 7500 or a Radeon 8500LE and the TV Wonder card that's sitting in my Pile O' Parts now.
I defy you to do the mom n' pop test after installing Lycoris. It WILL magickally get them onto the Internet. Just feed it the IP info and you're good to go. What's more, you have everything you need right there. No need to install anything further.
OK, here's my experience. Same computer, four hard drives in cartridges.
1.) Red Hat 7.3 "Valhalla". 30-40Min. install. All hardware detected. 2.) Lycoris Build 44. 15-minute install. All hardware detected. 3.) Windows 98SE. A miserable hour of rebooting, futzing with drivers, ultimately disappointment as I was never able to get the OS to recognize that, yes, the IDE lines could do UDMA mode. 4.) Windows 2000. Abortion in the middle of the install as the W2K hardware probing routine tickles a known bug in the Xpert 2000 AGP video card and locks everything up tight as a drum. Pondering the irony of the name of the video card as I also ponder its replacement.
Final score: Linux 2, Windows 0. And I'm a fsckn MCSE, I'm supposed to know how to fix this crap!
The long version of this article will show up in Low End PC (http://www.lowendpc.com/) when it finally gets finished moving to a new server.
Lycoris Build 44 took all of 15 minutes to install on a P3 733MHz. It worked on the first go. Updating to Build 46 was a bit of a pain (installer complained of invalid GPG signature, phantom problem, I chalk it up to teething probs) but it worked like a charm. Lycoris is easily the fastest OS install I've seen since MacOS 7.1.
Absolutely... NPR just did a story about how of a list of professions, the lowest stress one is "musical instrument repairguy"
Where the hell did they ask about stress levels? They certainly didn't ask in Los Angeles.
If you're fixing Joe Superstar's guitar and time is ticking away at the most expensive studio in town and you've got people from Big Ass Corporate Music Company calling you every five minutes asking "Is it fixed yet? Is it fixed yet?" then damn straight, you have stress.
One of my best family friends would be placed in this situation again and again. He eventually left the LA area, first for Tokyo to work for a guitar company, then finally for Portland, OR where as far as I know he's now working for a nondescript music store.
I'm sure music techs in New York City have horror stories like this too. That NPR story is full of crap.
Actually one of the best CGI houses on the planet, Mainframe Entertainment, is in Canada. Considering how many current great animators came out of Sheridan University in Ottawa so far, I wouldn't be surprised if Canada eats our lunch again.
Besides, I live in the San Fernando Valley. We aren't scared here. If pr0n goes completely digital, we'll adapt.
Um..."Gertie The Dinosaur" by Winsor McKay first played in Vaudeville houses in 1914. "Steamboat Willie" which marked the premiere of Mickey and Minnie Mouse was done in 1929. Animation is hardly a 1930s invention.
Adelphia used to charge us something like $5/mo for the cable box and $10/mo for the cable modem when I had cable modem. Those charges are conveniently off the bill now, although they are still charging us the same price. And the price of my current package is due to go up $4 very soon.
Maybe they'd be a good target for yet another law suit. Not that they'd be an especially deep pocket to go after in their current condition...
The scripting(and devel if you include.Net) functionality that comes with Windows XP today is far more powerful than what you get out of the box with a Linux install.
To Hell with all that...Slashdot is notorious for praising Sony to the heavens every time they make another slick, kawaii device/laptop/whatever. Sony has always been pro-DRM, anti-consumer.
I said it before, I'll say it again...screw Sony. I don't buy their stuff, and I also tell my friends not to as well. I am so fucking pissed that they are the people distributing "Dogtown & Z-Boyz"...I'm gonna have to wait for used DT&Z-B DVDs to arrive at Half.Com before I can own a copy.
That's because that is the only unencrypted portion of your DVD. I have exactly *one* DVD that's unencrypted, and that's the Bandai Anime demo disk I got at Comic-Con a week ago. The version of Xine you get with Lycoris Linux Build 46 will play it gleefully.
I find it better to call Xine from a console window rather than double click the icon because you can see what's going on with the player. If you do that you will see that it shows a message "unable to read encrypted content" every time it quits on a encrypted DVD. It also shows you exactly why it burps every so often on MPG files and VCDs.
Some people have said Xine can be made to play encrypted DVDs by adding some library or another. I have tried with libdecss but I haven't been able to feed it to Xine so that it sees it. It's very annoying.
NOTICE TO ALL COMPANIES WHO MAKE LICENSED DVD PLAYER PROGGIES FOR WINDOWS: I will PAY to get an easily installable DVD proggie for Linux. I know that both the makers of WinDVD and PowerDVD have Linux players but they don't sell to the Great Unwashed, just OEMs. I AM WILLING TO PAY to get full DVD functionality on Linux. I don't care about the GPL, this could be a total "black-box" non-free program as far as I am concerned.
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Besides, who wants to lug around a CRT anyway? LCD flat-panels rule.
It's VIA now. And it is doubtful that VIA would allow MS to put Pd in their processors, particularly considering the mistrust that the Chi-Coms have for the US and the fact that the CIII chip has its biggest market in Mainland China.
Even though EPIA has a pretty bad performance record, (although it's been embraced by many because it's cheap and quiet and very very small) get used to it. Because with Intel and AMD on the same page of the hymnal with MS, this is what those who don't want to be r00ted by MS will have to deal with.
That Stones song you referenced has a refrain that goes "You make a grown man cry." 7 years after Windows 95 retail came out, this still applies to MS operating systems.
I'm guessing this is based around VIA's Eden Platform, aka EPIA. Which means that there won't be a floppy because EPIA HAS NO FSCKN FLOPPY CONTROLLER. If you want a floppy, use a USB floppy. Teac makes a fairly good one.
With floppy drives barely above $5 at the computer shows and prolly $5/drive right on the dot in the OEM channel, the lack of floppy makes no sense unless they are using EPIA or something like it.
BTW EPIA is not a power-user platform by any standard. The VIA CIII is very underpowered and best for low-stress applications. TANSTAAFL applies here.
Linux-Mandrake 8.2 is a completely separate distro from Lindows. Lindows is non-free subscription-ware. Mandrake is not my favorite distro right now but it "plays by the rules" of free-as-in-speech software. So does Lycoris which is my current favorite of the "Linux for Tyros" distros. I do my heavy lifting in Red Hat 7.3, though.
I have two different light guns for DC. Both work with House Of The Dead 2. Love splattering those Zombies. Love, love, love.
How interesting that this subject comes up just a few days shy of my 15th wedding anniversary.
When Richie and I got engaged, it was back in the day when South Africa was ruled by the Apartheid regime and Nelson Mandela had been doing time for longer than I had been alive. I told him "no diamonds." We went to a local lapidary shop where they had many different options for stones and picked out a sterling silver setting for it. I chose a diamond-cut quartz crystal. It was beautiful, the ring didn't cost much at all, and after someone assembled it Richie proposed to me in front of everyone in the store. Got on one knee and everything. Priceless. Everyone applauded.
However, that ring was short lived. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but the ring's setting got bent and I lost the stone. It lasted only a few months.
Next, sometime around Christmas that year, there were several small jewelry carts that set up in the local mall. One had a ring with a great-looking amethyst point mounted on it. Not too expensive, looked cool. We grabbed it. The ring lasted for about a year before the amethyst point worked its way loose. I Krazy-glued it in and it stayed in for a few weeks more before I lost it for good.
Richie was upset, I was bummed. Two rings given, two down. I decided the next replacement for the engagement ring would not have a stone, tradition be damned.
That next summer I found a sterling silver Claddagh ring. Traditional Irish love token. Symbol from pre-Christian times. Very appropriate. Very cool. I've had it ever since.
Anyway, even with Apartheid over, I wouldn't touch diamonds if they were...well, diamonds. For one thing, I'm not crazy about them aesthetically. I'd rather have a blue topaz or a sapphire or a ruby or emerald or even better, a fire opal. For another thing, unless you can make darn sure where you are getting them from, you could get them from terrorists or Russian mafiosos or any number of other unsavory folks.
And most importantly...I would rather spend my money on geeky stuff. Save that money and get something I really want...like a DVD-RW or a Radeon AIW 8500 video card.
If your intended is a geek grrl, get her something she'll really want. If she isn't...well...maybe that diamond is kinda mandatory. Check up on the provenance of that rock...there are Canadian stones from the Yukon Territory strike that have a polar bear etched next to the laser-inscribed ID. There's nothing morally reprehensible about the Canadians, last time I checked.
What, you mean THIS real browser? It displays in just about any alphabet you want except Elvish, without any stressing about language packs. And there's no "-zilla" in the name, either! Konqui kicks butt.
...to re(anti)christen my Celeron 433 box Dilzilla after upgrading it to a nForce 2 mobo and an Athlon XP. Dilbert+Bob The Dinosaur=Dilzilla. Its current netname is Dilputer.
I suppose after I upgrade Dilputer I'll rename it Alice. She and her Fist Of Death kicks ass. And I don't want ninjas from Toho Pictures swarming on Catseye Labs if I rename it Dilzilla.
Apparently this EEPROM will not flash. When I called ATI to ask about the problem they told me to box up the card and ship it.
;-)
Unless there is something else wrong with this card that ATI is not talking about, the chip in question cannot be flashed.
I know there is a chip on the card that can be flashed, but this is not the one that is actually faulty. Weird situation. At least ATI has the integrity to recall the card, although they should actually *publicize* this recall...
Weirdest of all the Xpert 2000 works FINE in XFree86. And neither Anaconda (Red Hat 7.3) or Lizard (Lycoris Build 44) nor even the Windows 98SE installer tickled this bug. It's only the Windows 2000 installer.
Some "Xpert 2000" that card is!
I know how to fix the 98SE install...I have all the drivers downloaded and ready on a CD-R. However, I don't want to screw with it until I replace the video card.
As far as the 2K install went...since I don't have a spare EEPROM with the unbroken ATI Xpert 2000 code on it, (I have to send it up to Ottawa, CAN) I'm stuck.
The Windows installs will eventually be fixed. I might even put XP Pro (!) on this thing instead of 2K Pro because it has a better chance of picking up the chipset and onboard Intel NIC. The CPU is a 733MHz P3 I've got 512MB of RAM and the HD I set aside is a 20GB one, it can handle it.
This puppy is either getting an All In Wonder 7500 or a Radeon 8500LE and the TV Wonder card that's sitting in my Pile O' Parts now.
My question: will it be encrypted with CSS? Will it also have region coding or will it be a region-free DVD?
Time to walk the talk. Make Revolution OS a truly OPEN DVD. Do the right thing.
I defy you to do the mom n' pop test after installing Lycoris. It WILL magickally get them onto the Internet. Just feed it the IP info and you're good to go. What's more, you have everything you need right there. No need to install anything further.
OK, here's my experience. Same computer, four hard drives in cartridges.
1.) Red Hat 7.3 "Valhalla". 30-40Min. install. All hardware detected.
2.) Lycoris Build 44. 15-minute install. All hardware detected.
3.) Windows 98SE. A miserable hour of rebooting, futzing with drivers, ultimately disappointment as I was never able to get the OS to recognize that, yes, the IDE lines could do UDMA mode.
4.) Windows 2000. Abortion in the middle of the install as the W2K hardware probing routine tickles a known bug in the Xpert 2000 AGP video card and locks everything up tight as a drum. Pondering the irony of the name of the video card as I also ponder its replacement.
Final score: Linux 2, Windows 0. And I'm a fsckn MCSE, I'm supposed to know how to fix this crap!
The long version of this article will show up in Low End PC (http://www.lowendpc.com/) when it finally gets finished moving to a new server.
Lycoris Build 44 took all of 15 minutes to install on a P3 733MHz. It worked on the first go. Updating to Build 46 was a bit of a pain (installer complained of invalid GPG signature, phantom problem, I chalk it up to teething probs) but it worked like a charm. Lycoris is easily the fastest OS install I've seen since MacOS 7.1.
Where the hell did they ask about stress levels? They certainly didn't ask in Los Angeles.
If you're fixing Joe Superstar's guitar and time is ticking away at the most expensive studio in town and you've got people from Big Ass Corporate Music Company calling you every five minutes asking "Is it fixed yet? Is it fixed yet?" then damn straight, you have stress.
One of my best family friends would be placed in this situation again and again. He eventually left the LA area, first for Tokyo to work for a guitar company, then finally for Portland, OR where as far as I know he's now working for a nondescript music store.
I'm sure music techs in New York City have horror stories like this too. That NPR story is full of crap.
Besides, I live in the San Fernando Valley. We aren't scared here. If pr0n goes completely digital, we'll adapt.
Um..."Gertie The Dinosaur" by Winsor McKay first played in Vaudeville houses in 1914. "Steamboat Willie" which marked the premiere of Mickey and Minnie Mouse was done in 1929. Animation is hardly a 1930s invention.
No, that would be Ananova.
Now if only Martin Hash Animation:Master would port to Linux...that would make me a happy camper...
Adelphia used to charge us something like $5/mo for the cable box and $10/mo for the cable modem when I had cable modem. Those charges are conveniently off the bill now, although they are still charging us the same price. And the price of my current package is due to go up $4 very soon.
Maybe they'd be a good target for yet another law suit. Not that they'd be an especially deep pocket to go after in their current condition...
Three words: I LOVE YOU.
Or, if you prefer: NIMDA CODE RED.
That's powerful, alright.
To Hell with all that...Slashdot is notorious for praising Sony to the heavens every time they make another slick, kawaii device/laptop/whatever. Sony has always been pro-DRM, anti-consumer.
I said it before, I'll say it again...screw Sony. I don't buy their stuff, and I also tell my friends not to as well. I am so fucking pissed that they are the people distributing "Dogtown & Z-Boyz"...I'm gonna have to wait for used DT&Z-B DVDs to arrive at Half.Com before I can own a copy.
That's because that is the only unencrypted portion of your DVD. I have exactly *one* DVD that's unencrypted, and that's the Bandai Anime demo disk I got at Comic-Con a week ago. The version of Xine you get with Lycoris Linux Build 46 will play it gleefully.
I find it better to call Xine from a console window rather than double click the icon because you can see what's going on with the player. If you do that you will see that it shows a message "unable to read encrypted content" every time it quits on a encrypted DVD. It also shows you exactly why it burps every so often on MPG files and VCDs.
Some people have said Xine can be made to play encrypted DVDs by adding some library or another. I have tried with libdecss but I haven't been able to feed it to Xine so that it sees it. It's very annoying.
NOTICE TO ALL COMPANIES WHO MAKE LICENSED DVD PLAYER PROGGIES FOR WINDOWS: I will PAY to get an easily installable DVD proggie for Linux. I know that both the makers of WinDVD and PowerDVD have Linux players but they don't sell to the Great Unwashed, just OEMs. I AM WILLING TO PAY to get full DVD functionality on Linux. I don't care about the GPL, this could be a total "black-box" non-free program as far as I am concerned.
C'mon, guys! Cough it up!!!
I'd settle for "Knocking On Heaven's Door: Cowboy Bebop, The Movie". That would rule.
Also "Evangelion: Death & Rebirth" and "End Of Evangelion" would be cool.