Opteron has 3 numbers the first indicating how many processors it can support in SMP/NUMA (8xx will do 8-way, 2xx will do 2-way, 1xx will do single)
The second two refer to clock speed with x40 being 1.4GHz, and adding +.2GHz per 2 (x48=2.2, x46=2.0 x44=1.8 x42=1.6)
The Operton's model numbers make sense. The P4 model numbers and the Athlon 64s on the other hand....
I mean, switching between rendering engines just to access a particular site sounds annoying. Almost as annoying as having to open an IE window for sites that don't work well w/ Mozilla or a Moz. window for sites that don't work in Konqueror...
Actually, there is a basis for having this done automatically. Konqueror tends to have domain specific settings, easily changed. (Looking through quickly: plugins, browser identification, java, javascript, and cookies) I don't see why this would be that much of an issue to do.
Honestly, given how much better Konqueror's rendering looks at 1024x768 or above, I'd set gmail to be gecko, and the default to khtml.
1) This is pressure sensitive. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have all that great a precision.
2) Requires Windows XP & Office to be used. That PDA is usable by itself, it doesn't need to be hooked into things to be useful.
Having said that, if they managed to get it to be used say like for photoshop/gimp/illistrator etc. I suspect this would be a hit with artists. Tablets are nice, however, they don't have the same type of feedback that pen & paper do. Because a lot of artsts I know will draw it on paper, then scan it in, and clean it up, and color if needed. Having something like this might allow them to import it easier.
Pen input is good. I jury rigged a Zaurus to provide input for messing with graphics prior to getting a tablet. I liked it.
I got a tablet. After using it for a while, I realized what a great thing pressure sensitivity is. It's not just the touch screen that makes a tablet pc thing, all of those have wacom styluses for their input.
I've also noticed an area in which Linux lacks support badly: Handwriting recognition.
I believe that Abiword will be standardizing on OO.org file formats. If not, IMO they should because KDE's Koffice and OpenOffice will be standardizing on OpenOffice's 1.1 XML format.
Honestly my guess is that, of the 3 once it gets more finished/polished (if it does) kword will probably end up being the word killer.
There are a couple of reasons it might have happend to you:
1: Especially, using the cvs ebuilds (not in portage)... the libraries get replaced, new features added etc a bunch.
2: You are upgrading something in the same slot eg 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 which both install to the same slot and/usr/kde/3.2
Why this one won't break it (unless you do something like source/etc/profile & then start programs from a command line, or are using a 3.3 beta or rc):
3.3 is a completely new slot. It installs to a different slot and new directory,/usr/kde/3.3, so it doesn't affect a KDE 3.2 install.
Also, quite obviously, emerging things which have minor changes, when all of kde is very closely tied to kdelibs, is going to have an effect.
I can confirm this happens on a friend's machine (bought first day it was available (which was actually the 4th... thanks gamestop, best buy, etc for ignoring the midwest).) and directly after the install of clonecd.
Activision (May not work, if not, search doom3 and clone cd in support:
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When I launch the game I get the error "CD/DVD Emulation Software has been detected."
Answer
If you have the CD burning software Alcohol 120% installed you need to turn off all of the emulation options. 1) Go to File > Options. 2) Click on Emulation in the menu to the left. 3) Uncheck all options in the window to the right.
If you have CloneCD you need to turn off the Hide CDR media setting. This setting is accessable from the task tray icon for clone CD. Right-click on the icon and uncheck Hide CDR media. If it is not accessable or greyed out you need to do the following:
1. If the CloneCD Tray icon is running, right-click on it in the system tray and select Exit to close it down. 2. Go into Windows Control Panel, then open Regional and Language Options. 3. Change your Language setting from "English (United States)" to some other English country like "English (United Kingdom)" or "English (Canada)". Click, OK to save the language setting change. Note: you must change the Language, NOT the "Location" setting. The "Location" setting has no effect on this issue. 4. Now start the CloneCD Tray icon back up from the CloneCD start menu program group. 5. Right-click on the CloneCD icon in the system tray and you'll notice the "Hide CDR Media" option is no longer grayed out and has a checkmark next to it. 6. Select the "Hide CDR Media" option to remove the checkmark and disable the option. 7. Close the CloneCD Tray icon again (right-click and select Exit). 8. Go back into Regional and Language Options in Control Panel and set the language option back to "English (United States)", then click OK to save the language settings.
Hold down the left shift key when inserting the game disc.
Make sure you have 32 bit drivers for your CD-ROM drive.
Set the CD-ROM cache size to zero.
Change the DMA setting on the CD-ROM drive.
Make sure the drive letters for the CD-ROM is set correctly.
Make sure that the location for CD music to play is set correctly.
Make sure your system can successfully play Audio CD's.
Turn off Auto Insert Notification.
If you have disabled the options within your cd emulation software, and it is still causing a conflict. You may want to contact the software manufacturer. They may know which settings need to be disabled. If you do not wish to contact the manufacturer and you can't figure out which settings to turn off you should uninstall the software and attempt to reinstall without the cd emulation portion of the program.
What it does is essentially duplicates Caldera's DR-DOS's TSR program that got windows 95 to run under it durring the Caldera/Microsoft suit. (Of course a bit more complex.) It's also the reason why only the DOS-based ones (9x, ME, & prior) will work with it. It also uses some custom drivers etc.
It's actually faster than Windows and/or VMware in a large number of cases.
It's kind of a cross between Wine & VMware. You actually run Windows, but don't emulate the whole system (VMware) because win4lin catches the really low level DOS calls (what wine does, but with calls to the OS.)
Not so fast. Your prices are not for Xserves, so your comment is a bit misleading. The tower version is indeed $3000, but the Xserves at that price are not as fast. (see below)
Sun doesn't really have a high-end anymore.
Dual Opterons are just as fast or faster than Dual G5s, but they are selling them as low end. UltraSparcs are dreadfully slow. Any of the latest 'desktop' processors can beat them.
Heck, compared to a 8-way Opteron, an UltraSPARC would have to be MANY more processors to compete. Of course, they can have that many... it's just expensive as heck.
Power4, Opteron, G5, IA64, and SPARCV64 (Fujitsu's design, NOT sun's, though sun is going to start selling them) Are the high end processors, which have decent scaling ability & are Fast. (Certain ones IA64, are going to suck scalability wise, unless in a very custom thing like an SGI, because they have shared memory busses...still)
Here's sun's closest to an Xserve... http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/
Apple doesn't win really there. Generally, Apple is a bit better price wise, but there are some differences. Suns use 10K rpm SCSI hds, vs Apple using 7200rpm Serial ATA (generally larger than the suns & 3 on the $6700 one). Also, the apples only go to 8GB RAM, vs the Sun's 16GB. Both have dual gigabit ethernet & dual pci-x slots.
They do have something in that price/performance ratio. It certainly is higher end than Apple, and the additional ram will probably mean that they will easily beat the similarly priced Apples if doing anything memory intensive.
Only things I can think of are: Too large a bookmark menu, with multiple columns, due to leaving everything in the bookmark root menu, or perhaps the bookmark bar, got assigned to the root of the bookmark folder. (view can be disabled by unchecking Settings->Toolbars->Bookmark Toolbar) The folder it uses for the bookmark bar can be selected from the bookmark editor & right clicking on a folder & selecting "Set as Toolbar folder".
I've been running KDE since version 1 & Konqueror (appearing in version 2) hasn't had many changes to the bookmark system that I can recall.
You think there aren't professors checking over wikipedia?
I'd venture to say that there are probably more professors checking over wikipedia. Most professors I have mentioned it to have thought it's a great idea & have looked at things.
I just showed it to another professor, who was probably going to look over things in his area of expertise.
I call BS on this point... I have not encountered a browser yet, where you have to use a mouse for drop downs, and none that I can recall in recent years. where typing say U while that drop down is selected will not go to the "U". Most will automatically go down one if UU is pressed, so you don't even have to move your hand from the key to go down.
If you have so many that you have more than 5 or so per letter, then you should start investigating alternative methods. But up until that point, he is wrong... because of the very comment you have below.
I have looked at this... the problem is the way Linux handles the keyboard... To Linux, all keyboards are the same. If there was some way to either tell X to ignore all KBs except some, or have the kernel map them (say/dev/input/kb0/dev/input/kb1) similar to how mice are done, this would not be a problem at all.
Also, you don't need 4 cards, You could do it with two. NVidia's twinview allows you to run two seperate X-servers off of one card (provided of course that it has two outputs).
Look at naim (Does AIM, IRC, ICQ & CMC). It supports client queueing... at least on AIM & IRC. (I haven't used the other two it supports). Pretty nice, but text based, so that will turn a lot of people off.
Nitpick: That is certainly not the case. A P4 is designed to scale up to high clock speeds, and is less efficient per MHz. It does end up being faster by virtue of MHz (very few P3 cores are as fast as even the slower P4s)
In this respect AMD's processors are a bit more efficient than the p3, but pretty similar: they are pretty darn efficient per clock compared to a P4: at 2/3 the clock rate, they generally beat a P4.
I bet the P4 has more RAM and a faster hard disk, what about the video card?
And we have the reason a P4 seems better.
'Windows' ipods aren't NTFS, they are FAT32. So the Macs can read the FAT32. (NTFS seems to be only used on Windows OS partitions, because as someone put it: NTFS is a journaled file system with all the drawbacks that implies, as well as all the drawbacks of a non-journaled file system... in other words it sucks compared to pretty much any other file system.)
iPods can be partitioned, they act like any other usb/firewire HD to the computer. What makes you need to use different software itunes, gtkpod, etc. (vs dropping an mp3 to the root directory) is that it can't create playlists on it's own. (Compared to my first MP3 cd player, and every other mp3 cd player...)
Windows XP: Compaq Presario 1700 laptop: driver for ATI Mach 128? And it doesn't work right all the time.
I can name numerous pieces of hardware that work just fine under Linux (as out of the box as you get: Knoppix) & don't work under Windows (using all those nice 'supported' drivers). Examples: HP CD-RWs, 3com NICs (3c905 as I recall), and other common name brand things.
Most recent thing in Linux that hasn't worked (setup by a newbie where everything else works) is a MIDI keyboard.
Umm, no on being an AD DC. I would love it if that were true. However, Samba cannot at this time act as an Active Directory Domain Controller. It can act as a server in a Domain, or as a client (honestly not that different), but not the PDC.
Note, that this doesn't mean it can't be a PDC for Windows 2000/XP, but that it is not acting as an AD PDC.
It's the reason I'm still on Samba 2 for servers set up already using Samba 2, I'll change them when something breaks, or it AD PDC becomes available.
Spatial navigation is the wave of the future, face it. It's much more intutive than our current system. We just need to get used to it. It's spelled intuitive, btw.
If you have to get used to it: It's not intuitive. Please understand this. If it has a learning curve that means people need to get used to it, it's not bloody intuitive! Apple Zealots seem to fall for this sooo much.
Now, not being intuitive doesn't mean it's a bad interface. Some programs have non-intuitive interfaces that require (sometimes steep) learning curves: Grapics editors (photoshop, gimp...) 3d Editors (Blender comes to mind for the praise people who have mastered that learning curve heap on it, and the scorn those who haven't: suggesting it's a good design, but not intuitive.), CAD programs, and other complicated ones.
GNOME is going for the philosopy that good= intuitive= simple= striped-down-to- lowest-common-denominator. It's a choice they made. User options are regarded as bad things. The user shouldn't have to think. Which is fine for some users who only do very basic things or just happen to work/think the way the GNOME devs do, but it tends to highly annoy most other people. Honestly, why does almost every servey of Linux users come out with KDE being lots more popular, even in the US? I think it comes down to: KDE offers the user choice. Can anyone name a GUI interface that everyone likes with default settings? I don't like OS X, nor BeOS, nor Windows, nor GNOME, nor (shudder) CDE, nor even KDE's Keramic. I can use all of them, but they annoy me. If you like one of those, use it, but don't claim that it is the one true best one.
Oh, and apparently intuitive's spelling isn't intuitive, nor is it's definition.
So, Windows & everything else doesn't do spatial. Why do people insist upon acting like anything Windows does is bad? Windows in this instance (along with most other OSes and/or DEs) got it right.
I use Konqueror. I use the command line. I don't like IE for various reasons, for one it freezes often when opening a directory, especially when it's networked. I don't like Spacial file managers. I didn't like classic MacOS's spatial mode, why should I like it now?
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Opteron has 3 numbers the first indicating how many processors it can support in SMP/NUMA (8xx will do 8-way, 2xx will do 2-way, 1xx will do single) The second two refer to clock speed with x40 being 1.4GHz, and adding +.2GHz per 2 (x48=2.2, x46=2.0 x44=1.8 x42=1.6) The Operton's model numbers make sense. The P4 model numbers and the Athlon 64s on the other hand....
It's called the ipod's battery.
Yes there is. I'm not sure what it is though.
Actually, there is a basis for having this done automatically. Konqueror tends to have domain specific settings, easily changed. (Looking through quickly: plugins, browser identification, java, javascript, and cookies) I don't see why this would be that much of an issue to do.
Honestly, given how much better Konqueror's rendering looks at 1024x768 or above, I'd set gmail to be gecko, and the default to khtml.
2) Requires Windows XP & Office to be used. That PDA is usable by itself, it doesn't need to be hooked into things to be useful.
Having said that, if they managed to get it to be used say like for photoshop/gimp/illistrator etc. I suspect this would be a hit with artists. Tablets are nice, however, they don't have the same type of feedback that pen & paper do. Because a lot of artsts I know will draw it on paper, then scan it in, and clean it up, and color if needed. Having something like this might allow them to import it easier.
I got a tablet. After using it for a while, I realized what a great thing pressure sensitivity is. It's not just the touch screen that makes a tablet pc thing, all of those have wacom styluses for their input.
I've also noticed an area in which Linux lacks support badly: Handwriting recognition.
I believe that Abiword will be standardizing on OO.org file formats. If not, IMO they should because KDE's Koffice and OpenOffice will be standardizing on OpenOffice's 1.1 XML format. Honestly my guess is that, of the 3 once it gets more finished/polished (if it does) kword will probably end up being the word killer.
1: Especially, using the cvs ebuilds (not in portage) ... the libraries get replaced, new features added etc a bunch.
2: You are upgrading something in the same slot eg 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 which both install to the same slot and /usr/kde/3.2
Why this one won't break it (unless you do something like source /etc/profile & then start programs from a command line, or are using a 3.3 beta or rc):
3.3 is a completely new slot. It installs to a different slot and new directory, /usr/kde/3.3, so it doesn't affect a KDE 3.2 install.
Also, quite obviously, emerging things which have minor changes, when all of kde is very closely tied to kdelibs, is going to have an effect.
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What it does is essentially duplicates Caldera's DR-DOS's TSR program that got windows 95 to run under it durring the Caldera/Microsoft suit. (Of course a bit more complex.) It's also the reason why only the DOS-based ones (9x, ME, & prior) will work with it. It also uses some custom drivers etc. It's actually faster than Windows and/or VMware in a large number of cases. It's kind of a cross between Wine & VMware. You actually run Windows, but don't emulate the whole system (VMware) because win4lin catches the really low level DOS calls (what wine does, but with calls to the OS.)
Sun doesn't really have a high-end anymore.
Dual Opterons are just as fast or faster than Dual G5s, but they are selling them as low end. UltraSparcs are dreadfully slow. Any of the latest 'desktop' processors can beat them.
Heck, compared to a 8-way Opteron, an UltraSPARC would have to be MANY more processors to compete. Of course, they can have that many... it's just expensive as heck.
Power4, Opteron, G5, IA64, and SPARCV64 (Fujitsu's design, NOT sun's, though sun is going to start selling them) Are the high end processors, which have decent scaling ability & are Fast. (Certain ones IA64, are going to suck scalability wise, unless in a very custom thing like an SGI, because they have shared memory busses...still)
Here's sun's closest to an Xserve... http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/
For comparison:
Sun:1.6GHz Opteron (242) 1GB RAM: $2800
Apple:2GHz G5 512MB RAM: $3000
Apple:2x2GHz G5 'Node' 512MB RAM $3000
Sun:2x1.6GHz Opteron (242) 2GB RAM: $4000
Apple:2x2GHz G5 1GB RAM $4000
Sun:2x2.2GHz Opteron (248) 2GB RAM: $5000
Apple:2x2GHz G5 2GB RAM $6700
Sun:2x2.4GHz Opteron (250) 4GB RAM: $7000
Apple doesn't win really there. Generally, Apple is a bit better price wise, but there are some differences. Suns use 10K rpm SCSI hds, vs Apple using 7200rpm Serial ATA (generally larger than the suns & 3 on the $6700 one). Also, the apples only go to 8GB RAM, vs the Sun's 16GB. Both have dual gigabit ethernet & dual pci-x slots.
They do have something in that price/performance ratio. It certainly is higher end than Apple, and the additional ram will probably mean that they will easily beat the similarly priced Apples if doing anything memory intensive.
3rd page, they claim to be using mencoder 3.3.1... either they have a time machine, or the mplayer people have an unannounced release...
Only things I can think of are: Too large a bookmark menu, with multiple columns, due to leaving everything in the bookmark root menu, or perhaps the bookmark bar, got assigned to the root of the bookmark folder. (view can be disabled by unchecking Settings->Toolbars->Bookmark Toolbar) The folder it uses for the bookmark bar can be selected from the bookmark editor & right clicking on a folder & selecting "Set as Toolbar folder".
I've been running KDE since version 1 & Konqueror (appearing in version 2) hasn't had many changes to the bookmark system that I can recall.
I'd venture to say that there are probably more professors checking over wikipedia. Most professors I have mentioned it to have thought it's a great idea & have looked at things.
I just showed it to another professor, who was probably going to look over things in his area of expertise.
If you have so many that you have more than 5 or so per letter, then you should start investigating alternative methods. But up until that point, he is wrong... because of the very comment you have below.
Also, you don't need 4 cards, You could do it with two. NVidia's twinview allows you to run two seperate X-servers off of one card (provided of course that it has two outputs).
Look at naim (Does AIM, IRC, ICQ & CMC). It supports client queueing... at least on AIM & IRC. (I haven't used the other two it supports). Pretty nice, but text based, so that will turn a lot of people off.
Yeah, like any 2.0 or above version or so.
Nitpick: That is certainly not the case. A P4 is designed to scale up to high clock speeds, and is less efficient per MHz. It does end up being faster by virtue of MHz (very few P3 cores are as fast as even the slower P4s)
In this respect AMD's processors are a bit more efficient than the p3, but pretty similar: they are pretty darn efficient per clock compared to a P4: at 2/3 the clock rate, they generally beat a P4.
I bet the P4 has more RAM and a faster hard disk, what about the video card?
And we have the reason a P4 seems better.
iPods can be partitioned, they act like any other usb/firewire HD to the computer. What makes you need to use different software itunes, gtkpod, etc. (vs dropping an mp3 to the root directory) is that it can't create playlists on it's own. (Compared to my first MP3 cd player, and every other mp3 cd player...)
I can name numerous pieces of hardware that work just fine under Linux (as out of the box as you get: Knoppix) & don't work under Windows (using all those nice 'supported' drivers). Examples: HP CD-RWs, 3com NICs (3c905 as I recall), and other common name brand things.
Most recent thing in Linux that hasn't worked (setup by a newbie where everything else works) is a MIDI keyboard.
Note, that this doesn't mean it can't be a PDC for Windows 2000/XP, but that it is not acting as an AD PDC.
It's the reason I'm still on Samba 2 for servers set up already using Samba 2, I'll change them when something breaks, or it AD PDC becomes available.
And we have it: The ultimate justification for why not to use spacial mode: Users are lazy.
If you have to get used to it: It's not intuitive. Please understand this. If it has a learning curve that means people need to get used to it, it's not bloody intuitive! Apple Zealots seem to fall for this sooo much.
Now, not being intuitive doesn't mean it's a bad interface. Some programs have non-intuitive interfaces that require (sometimes steep) learning curves: Grapics editors (photoshop, gimp...) 3d Editors (Blender comes to mind for the praise people who have mastered that learning curve heap on it, and the scorn those who haven't: suggesting it's a good design, but not intuitive.), CAD programs, and other complicated ones.
GNOME is going for the philosopy that good= intuitive= simple= striped-down-to- lowest-common-denominator. It's a choice they made. User options are regarded as bad things. The user shouldn't have to think. Which is fine for some users who only do very basic things or just happen to work/think the way the GNOME devs do, but it tends to highly annoy most other people. Honestly, why does almost every servey of Linux users come out with KDE being lots more popular, even in the US? I think it comes down to: KDE offers the user choice. Can anyone name a GUI interface that everyone likes with default settings? I don't like OS X, nor BeOS, nor Windows, nor GNOME, nor (shudder) CDE, nor even KDE's Keramic. I can use all of them, but they annoy me. If you like one of those, use it, but don't claim that it is the one true best one.
Oh, and apparently intuitive's spelling isn't intuitive, nor is it's definition.
I use Konqueror. I use the command line. I don't like IE for various reasons, for one it freezes often when opening a directory, especially when it's networked. I don't like Spacial file managers. I didn't like classic MacOS's spatial mode, why should I like it now?