My definition of a stable kernel is one which is tested very well within an entire distribution, across a variety of hardware - an official redhat release.
As a user, I will not accept any software that is untested, whether it's free or not. This is why I choose to purchase a distribution from redhat. If something isn't working properly, I have someone to hold accountable and complain to.
My time is too valuable to spend hours on hours beta testing buggy software and submitting patches.
I love my replay. I have the replay 2000 - an older model now, but I love it to death. There is no monthly subscription fee like there is for tivo.
The replay can be hacked, another hard drive added to double the amount of recording time. I've never had any problems with it. The replay 4000 looks especially cool.
Hallelujah! The emu10k1 driver in 2.4.2 lacked so many basic features of the SBLive - most importantly to me was the headphone jack in the livedrive IR. DSP effects are also very important - I play guitar and can't access all the cool effect in Linux (had to reboot into windows for this, and I'm too cheap to buy 10 different effects boxes).
I tried using ALSA, which supposedly works, but I had a very hard time getting it installed. It wouldn't compile for the longest time. When I did eventually get it compiled, I had to hack around the configuration file, and could never get it working. The people at ALSA were not helpful - it's probably the worst example of an opensource project I've seen (lack of useful documentation, difficult to configure and install).
Why not come up with an open alternative to AC3? I don't know much about it (so there may be technical reasons why this can't happen), but it seems that more and more we have opensource options available. GIFS->PNG, MP3->OGG, why not something for ac3 that doesn't infringe on existing copyrights/patents?
I haven't had any problems installing XFS. You probably went about it a different way than I did - I grabbed the XFS ISO image from SGI, then proceeded to do a new installation. I've been running redhat 7.1 w/ xfs since it came out, and haven't had any problems. The ISO images can be grabbed from:
This isn't an option for those not running redhat, or those who don't want to bother with reinstalling, but using this method of installing XFS is extremely simple.
I would prefer the school districts use webcams in the classroom to show parents how their kids really get treated by teachers and other students.
This might also be a good idea to use in prisons..
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I don't know if it's just me or what. Mozilla ALWAYS crashes on me, within 5 minutes of anything I do. For example, one of the first things I did when I got this version was go to: Help->About. Crash. Tried it again and it crashed again.
Hopefully mozilla will improve.. until then I will use konq. for everything I do. I love having the ability to allow/disallow java per web page!
I went to the movies with a friend opening night and caught this movie. There have been a few posts here mentioning they thought the graphics were great for this movie. I have to disagree, I didn't think the computer graphics were good at all. The scorpion king at the end looked like a character straight out of 'A Bugs Life'.
To be fair though, there haven't been many movies where I have liked the computer graphics. Does anyone know which company made them?
I suspect that most graphic artists could open up a version of blender or 3d studio max, and within a few hours have a more realistic looking version of the scorpion king.
When running the 'Configure' script, make the questions a little more difficult. This will effectively weed out serious sysadmins and programmers from the newbies.
The perl6 configure script should keep track of the answers to their questions, and grade them on how many questions they've got correct.
Don't know which version of malloc to use??
Do you want to use vfork()? You sure?
NO PERL6 FOR YOU!!
Come on people, if you don't even know the size of the byte boundy on a double, how are you supposed to understand something like:
if (/DECLSPEC.*\s\**([^\s\(]+)\(/ ) {
Post the users name and email address on a public web site and let others view it. Email the results to their family, friends, and employers! Have a special list for those who ctrl-c before it's finished, call it the "chicken" list.
My hours per week will change greatly depending on what projects I'm working on. I would say my avg hours per week would be 55. I'm a unix administrator living in central PA.
Depending on the week, it can range from 35-80, not including the time I spend working at home.
I have not used Reiser, so I can't speak to it's performance.
However, I can tell you that XFS is a really great filesystem. We have over 100 Irix/XFS systems deployed at television stations around the world. These systems are very I/O intensive, and I have never had a corrupt filesystem. Performance is also very good.
I would really like to see SGI copy more features from Irix into Linux, such as fine control over process priorities, something standard linux distributions are severely lacking, imo.
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My definition of a stable kernel is one which is tested very well within an entire distribution, across a variety of hardware - an official redhat release.
As a user, I will not accept any software that is untested, whether it's free or not. This is why I choose to purchase a distribution from redhat. If something isn't working properly, I have someone to hold accountable and complain to.
My time is too valuable to spend hours on hours beta testing buggy software and submitting patches.
I love my replay. I have the replay 2000 - an older model now, but I love it to death. There is no monthly subscription fee like there is for tivo.
The replay can be hacked, another hard drive added to double the amount of recording time. I've never had any problems with it. The replay 4000 looks especially cool.
Changing or faking the news could cause serious, serious problems. It could start a war.
This is why CNN headquarters in Atlanta has such big time security, armed guards, etc.
This sounds like it would be cool, but I don't think your average dial-up user is going to wait to download 500mb.
Besides, 250 of the 500mb are previews..
Hallelujah! The emu10k1 driver in 2.4.2 lacked so many basic features of the SBLive - most importantly to me was the headphone jack in the livedrive IR. DSP effects are also very important - I play guitar and can't access all the cool effect in Linux (had to reboot into windows for this, and I'm too cheap to buy 10 different effects boxes).
I tried using ALSA, which supposedly works, but I had a very hard time getting it installed. It wouldn't compile for the longest time. When I did eventually get it compiled, I had to hack around the configuration file, and could never get it working. The people at ALSA were not helpful - it's probably the worst example of an opensource project I've seen (lack of useful documentation, difficult to configure and install).
Can't wait to give the new kernel a try..
Why not come up with an open alternative to AC3? I don't know much about it (so there may be technical reasons why this can't happen), but it seems that more and more we have opensource options available. GIFS->PNG, MP3->OGG, why not something for ac3 that doesn't infringe on existing copyrights/patents?
KDE's mail program, kmail, integrates very well with PGP/GPG. Again, the problem is with PGPs widespread/crossplatform acceptance.
You could always encrypt your mail in perl..
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I think there are better things we could be doing this century, other than ridding America of McDonalds and dethroning the Burger King.
I haven't had any problems installing XFS. You probably went about it a different way than I did - I grabbed the XFS ISO image from SGI, then proceeded to do a new installation. I've been running redhat 7.1 w/ xfs since it came out, and haven't had any problems. The ISO images can be grabbed from:
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ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1
This isn't an option for those not running redhat, or those who don't want to bother with reinstalling, but using this method of installing XFS is extremely simple.
I would prefer the school districts use webcams in the classroom to show parents how their kids really get treated by teachers and other students.
This might also be a good idea to use in prisons..
I don't know if it's just me or what. Mozilla ALWAYS crashes on me, within 5 minutes of anything I do. For example, one of the first things I did when I got this version was go to: Help->About. Crash. Tried it again and it crashed again.
Hopefully mozilla will improve.. until then I will use konq. for everything I do. I love having the ability to allow/disallow java per web page!
I went to the movies with a friend opening night and caught this movie. There have been a few posts here mentioning they thought the graphics were great for this movie. I have to disagree, I didn't think the computer graphics were good at all. The scorpion king at the end looked like a character straight out of 'A Bugs Life'.
To be fair though, there haven't been many movies where I have liked the computer graphics. Does anyone know which company made them?
I suspect that most graphic artists could open up a version of blender or 3d studio max, and within a few hours have a more realistic looking version of the scorpion king.
Send me an Email and we can talk more about it.. (I don't have yours since you posted anonymously)
Here is my one and only request for perl6:
/DECLSPEC.*\s\**([^\s\(]+)\(/ ) {
When running the 'Configure' script, make the questions a little more difficult. This will effectively weed out serious sysadmins and programmers from the newbies.
The perl6 configure script should keep track of the answers to their questions, and grade them on how many questions they've got correct.
Don't know which version of malloc to use??
Do you want to use vfork()? You sure?
NO PERL6 FOR YOU!!
Come on people, if you don't even know the size of the byte boundy on a double, how are you supposed to understand something like:
if (
Post the users name and email address on a public web site and let others view it. Email the results to their family, friends, and employers! Have a special list for those who ctrl-c before it's finished, call it the "chicken" list.
My hours per week will change greatly depending on what projects I'm working on. I would say my avg hours per week would be 55. I'm a unix administrator living in central PA.
Depending on the week, it can range from 35-80, not including the time I spend working at home.
I have not used Reiser, so I can't speak to it's performance.
However, I can tell you that XFS is a really great filesystem. We have over 100 Irix/XFS systems deployed at television stations around the world. These systems are very I/O intensive, and I have never had a corrupt filesystem. Performance is also very good.
I would really like to see SGI copy more features from Irix into Linux, such as fine control over process priorities, something standard linux distributions are severely lacking, imo.