I've been through all that myself. In the end, the easiest thing to do is give up on having an opensource driver. Just get any of the cards supported by ndiswrapper and use that. Works perfectly.
Then grab wpa_supplicant. It supports ndiswrapper so you're good to go there too. wpa_supplicant can actually manage WEP as well, with fall-back so its kind of an all-in-one wifi authentication agent.
You/can/ seek out special, kernel supported drivers but IME its just not worth the hassle.
Oh and the Dlink USB bluetooth dongle works perfectly with linux.
I'm not familiar with the benchmark software, but do they stress the CPU to any degree?
In the Real World, CPUs with RAID storage usually don't just sit there spinning the platters. They're running high volume SQL database servers and application servers. These things have a habbit of hammering the CPU.
When the CPU is otherwise occupied, you'd think "software RAID" would take a big hit. Was this situation tested in these benchmarks?
Plug a usb-storage compliant USB thumbdrive into this Thinkpad R50e w/ XP Home SP2 (all windowsupdate updates applied). Instant blue screen followed a split second later by system shutdown.:/
Blaming shoddy hardware and/or drivers is a cop out IMO.
The PS2 version is crippled due to the underpowered hardware. Levels are changed to avoid large areas. Destructible elements (esp lights) aren't destructible, and so on. Pandora Tomorrow was really bad in this respect, and by all accounts CT is as bad or worse.
They say if you only have a PS2 you wont miss the differences, but I sure did with PT. Going to pass on CT - maybe give it a once over on rental, because it really is a massively fun series, but only if you have an Xbox or PC.
Sony is going to be bleeding come Christmas if they really are holding back the PS3 until Q1 2006.
Best of luck dude - hope you find something more suitable. I don't have much to add that hasn't already been covered in the replies. Just that virtually every distro screws up the Apache and PHP installs, in one way or another, to suit their particular practices.
I tend to install apache and php from source with --prefix/usr/local/{apache2,php} which installs/upgrades cleanly every time and is guaranteed to work exactly as documented on httpd.apache.org and php.net. That's important.
why are you even bothering to screw around with a kludge when you could just dual boot.
As a windows user, would you find it acceptable for your games to close all your open windows when started and take 5 minutes to load? No? Then I'm sure you can see why dual booting is a pretty poor solution, even compared to emulators like WINE.
PS: Botched textures? Huh? Oh, you must be an Radeon owner..
Yep. I went Shuttle with my latest upgrade and ended up with an SN85G4/Sempron3100/6800GT. The size is nice for LAN use, but it's terribly noisy. There is no way I'd use it for anything but gaming. Even then I only use it with headphones that muffle the constant fan noise *ffffffffsssssssshhhhhhhhh*.
If I ever buy another desktop PC, it'll be a normal size case with a couple of 120mm (if not larger) fans. I finally see what those quiet PC guys were on about. Quiet > Small. Unless you're deaf.
I didn't know whether to mod you interesting or funny:-)
Parallelism is great. Look the way things are going. Dual CPU motherboards, Dual core CPUs, Cell..
And gnome.. sheesh.. back when I ran a P100 and Gnome was slow, I thought "well one day I'll have a 500Mhz monster and Gnome will be fast". Here I am with a P4-2.6Ghz/1Gb and Gnome is STILL a dog. *sigh*
Just curious - what datawarehouse features is it missing? I wrote a small DW app for work to pull transation data from a dozen remote databases and consolidate into one nice clean schema in pgsql. Currently it has around 6Gb of data. I didn't miss any features, but then I'm not a DW expert.
What special features would help pgsql compete here?
People should think of it not as a defense fund that is going to keep the site running, but as a "thanks for all the hard work" fund that allows Loki to get a decent lawyer and hopefully exit the scene without doing jail time. The endgame was inevitable. The angry kiddies were hopelessly naive.
Don't even get me started on the matter of the IP log LOL.
Having nukes means doing whatever the hell you want without interference from the rest of the world. Terrorism, civil war, genocide, whatever - no one is going to fuck with you. And if ever there were a country in desperate need of reform, it's NK:
As much as the idea of massive parallelism appeals to me (closer to reality), the more I read about Cell, the more I wonder if this is the right direction to be heading in. Sony is pushing the low level housekeeping back up the stack into software, while Microsoft is making things as easy as possible for coders by letting them write solely to high level APIs like DirectX.
Cell will no doubt be super fast when driven correctly, but that could prove to be a significant additional cost to the development budget.
Hey "never say never", but I don't see Microsoft (xbox2) porting/releasing ANY Windows technology on Sony (ps3) hardware any time soon. The Xbox2/PS3 showdown is going to be the biggest thing since, well, Xbox/PS2.
Thanks - yeah 80Gb IS plenty in my opinion. And I am a heavy user. I pull a lot of content from archive.org. I'm hoping someone puts together an 80Gb plan here in.nz when 2mbps becomes available in March.
However, the Anandtech article you reference is out of date (it refers to version 3.x of the ATI drivers, and the article is dated last year). ATI released version 8.8.25 of their drivers in mid-January of this year, and the difference between them and the old drivers is night and day.
Bad. I have a Toshiba Tecra notebook here with a P-M 1.5Ghz / 512Mb RAM and Radeon Mobility 9000 chipset. Dual booting Windows 2000 Pro and Gentoo (up to date).
Quake 3 demo (1024x768, vertex lighting [otherwise the textures are screwy in linux]):
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I've been through all that myself. In the end, the easiest thing to do is give up on having an opensource driver. Just get any of the cards supported by ndiswrapper and use that. Works perfectly.
/can/ seek out special, kernel supported drivers but IME its just not worth the hassle.
Then grab wpa_supplicant. It supports ndiswrapper so you're good to go there too. wpa_supplicant can actually manage WEP as well, with fall-back so its kind of an all-in-one wifi authentication agent.
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Oh and the Dlink USB bluetooth dongle works perfectly with linux.
good luck.
Really? With the standard battery? Which Make/Model?
My 1.73Ghz P-M IBM T42 doesn't get half of that, even with the CPU stepped down to ~500Mhz and brightness on minimum.
http://lwn.net/Articles/139914/
Completely awesome essay.
Where's the RSS feed?
I'm not familiar with the benchmark software, but do they stress the CPU to any degree?
In the Real World, CPUs with RAID storage usually don't just sit there spinning the platters. They're running high volume SQL database servers and application servers. These things have a habbit of hammering the CPU.
When the CPU is otherwise occupied, you'd think "software RAID" would take a big hit. Was this situation tested in these benchmarks?
Plug a usb-storage compliant USB thumbdrive into this Thinkpad R50e w/ XP Home SP2 (all windowsupdate updates applied). Instant blue screen followed a split second later by system shutdown. :/
Blaming shoddy hardware and/or drivers is a cop out IMO.
The PS2 version is crippled due to the underpowered hardware. Levels are changed to avoid large areas. Destructible elements (esp lights) aren't destructible, and so on. Pandora Tomorrow was really bad in this respect, and by all accounts CT is as bad or worse.
They say if you only have a PS2 you wont miss the differences, but I sure did with PT. Going to pass on CT - maybe give it a once over on rental, because it really is a massively fun series, but only if you have an Xbox or PC.
Sony is going to be bleeding come Christmas if they really are holding back the PS3 until Q1 2006.
Oh yeah.. that f**ked me something nasty last year. It runs Pg now ;)
Best of luck dude - hope you find something more suitable. I don't have much to add that hasn't already been covered in the replies. Just that virtually every distro screws up the Apache and PHP installs, in one way or another, to suit their particular practices.
I tend to install apache and php from source with --prefix /usr/local/{apache2,php} which installs/upgrades cleanly every time and is guaranteed to work exactly as documented on httpd.apache.org and php.net. That's important.
Would I work on strong DRM for a seven figure salary? Yus! :)
As a windows user, would you find it acceptable for your games to close all your open windows when started and take 5 minutes to load? No? Then I'm sure you can see why dual booting is a pretty poor solution, even compared to emulators like WINE.
PS: Botched textures? Huh? Oh, you must be an Radeon owner..
Check with knoppix, then follow up with a visit to http://www.linux-laptop.net/
Just to be clear, when I say "He", I mean the parent poster.
He's not saying the trademark is without merit. He's saying Mr Dell is deep in Intel's pocket, and wont be cooperating with AMD any time soon.
Yep. I went Shuttle with my latest upgrade and ended up with an SN85G4/Sempron3100/6800GT. The size is nice for LAN use, but it's terribly noisy. There is no way I'd use it for anything but gaming. Even then I only use it with headphones that muffle the constant fan noise *ffffffffsssssssshhhhhhhhh*.
If I ever buy another desktop PC, it'll be a normal size case with a couple of 120mm (if not larger) fans. I finally see what those quiet PC guys were on about. Quiet > Small. Unless you're deaf.
I didn't know whether to mod you interesting or funny :-)
Parallelism is great. Look the way things are going. Dual CPU motherboards, Dual core CPUs, Cell..
And gnome.. sheesh.. back when I ran a P100 and Gnome was slow, I thought "well one day I'll have a 500Mhz monster and Gnome will be fast". Here I am with a P4-2.6Ghz/1Gb and Gnome is STILL a dog. *sigh*
Just curious - what datawarehouse features is it missing? I wrote a small DW app for work to pull transation data from a dozen remote databases and consolidate into one nice clean schema in pgsql. Currently it has around 6Gb of data. I didn't miss any features, but then I'm not a DW expert.
What special features would help pgsql compete here?
I agree. Except I'm not disappointed in Loki.
People should think of it not as a defense fund that is going to keep the site running, but as a "thanks for all the hard work" fund that allows Loki to get a decent lawyer and hopefully exit the scene without doing jail time. The endgame was inevitable. The angry kiddies were hopelessly naive.
Don't even get me started on the matter of the IP log LOL.
Having nukes means doing whatever the hell you want without interference from the rest of the world. Terrorism, civil war, genocide, whatever - no one is going to fuck with you. And if ever there were a country in desperate need of reform, it's NK:
As much as the idea of massive parallelism appeals to me (closer to reality), the more I read about Cell, the more I wonder if this is the right direction to be heading in. Sony is pushing the low level housekeeping back up the stack into software, while Microsoft is making things as easy as possible for coders by letting them write solely to high level APIs like DirectX.
Cell will no doubt be super fast when driven correctly, but that could prove to be a significant additional cost to the development budget.
But what would I know..
Hey "never say never", but I don't see Microsoft (xbox2) porting/releasing ANY Windows technology on Sony (ps3) hardware any time soon. The Xbox2/PS3 showdown is going to be the biggest thing since, well, Xbox/PS2.
Thanks - yeah 80Gb IS plenty in my opinion. And I am a heavy user. I pull a lot of content from archive.org. I'm hoping someone puts together an 80Gb plan here in .nz when 2mbps becomes available in March.
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.au ISP supporting unlimited 8mbps let alone 20.
I don't see any
Night and day?
Bad. I have a Toshiba Tecra notebook here with a P-M 1.5Ghz / 512Mb RAM and Radeon Mobility 9000 chipset. Dual booting Windows 2000 Pro and Gentoo (up to date).
Quake 3 demo (1024x768, vertex lighting [otherwise the textures are screwy in linux]):
Linux (8.8.25 driver, DRI enabled)
demo001: 66 FPS
demo002: 68 FPS
Win 2000 (2003 driver from Toshiba hah!)
demo001: 115 FPS
demo002: 123 FPS
And this is a five year old game.
Note: the linux performance is unchanged from 3.14.6.