First off, it means that now we're going to have yokel cops buying time on Arecibo to set up an interstellar speed trap...We clocked you going 18000 in a 25 zone.
Second off, we now have a new thing to fear, the Interstellar Space Dog. Let's just hope the hound that this bone belongs to doesn't think that the little rock we live on isn't a ball to play fetch with.
This issue really is a non-issue. Who cares if a couple lines of text are scrolled across the screen that tell who to thank for a good piece of code (or curse at for horrible code). Now I'm with a few earlier posts who say that the line is drawn at 1024x768 32 bit bitmaps for buying Natalie Portmans on a Stick, but, chances are, I only watch the boot sequence when I add a new piece of hardware, as Linux is rock solid. Now, putting an ad in the BIOS boot sequence, it would probably be an ad for post-windows reeboot stress syndrome counselling, that would be different. Hey, it's 60 or so bytes, and considering the blatent advertising in Windows (ever use AOL? Then IE is permanently branded with an ad for AOL), we got to start worrying about more important issues, like figuring out how to get a beowulf of 1Ghz Athlons in order to play the most killer game of Q III of all time.
I was expecting pictures, biographies, timelines of some of the greatest engeneering feats of the 20th century. Instead, I got 20 vague categories, which would have been great for elucidating a specific invention, but not just a summary of everything that happened in that field. For example, the section on refrigeration, which is important in allowing cheap food everywhere, all the time, could have had something on the first use of ammonia as a coolant. Or on some of the great water projects that were made during the last century, such as the LA aquaduct.
Here are a few suggestions for what would be on my list of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. I know, the descriptions are vague, but they're also better than the ones on the site.
1. The Hoover Dam. Huge, will last a few thousand years with no problems, allowed a good amount of industry and agriculture in the Southern California region.
2. The Microprocessor. Without it just about everything done in the computer industry in the last 25 years wouldn't have been. Intel's 4004 is what all started it.
I know, I know, only two. Hey, this is just the start of a list. Given a few more hours, or preferably a day or two, and I could build a list that looks better, and has more technical information than the one on the site.
People are tired of the bullsh!t of the record industry, and are finally able to fight back. I know people who are connected with this industry, and they're all worried about being screwed by the big labels. However, now we have MP3, digital recording, and studios that can be built on shoestring budgets, the fact that the big labels are about to be cut out of the loop scares them. So what happens is, they take a company that, for the most part, takes small bands and gives them a soapbox, and tries to run them into the ground. What'll happen next is probably the same thing they've done to every threat they've seen so far: kill it, or bastardize it so that they can make money off of it. Hopefully, although at this point it seems unlikely, is that MP3.com will stay alive, that this starts the downward spiral of the big labels, and this is just the last real battle. However, what the action probably is is just a squirmish, and the big fight is yet to come. At this point, it even seems possible that the big labels may even cause a recession just to keep their monopoly on the music industry a few years longer
#1: I don't think so. I'm currently using SuSE 6.4, and it's still using 3.3.5, however, it has 3d acceleration for my V3, so it's an improvement over older versions, however AFAIK, no DRI (answer to 3)
#2: SuSE has ReiserFS support, though you need to make a small/boot partition (a good idea anyways) as E2FS, or it pukes on you.
#3: See above
#4: Most current distros have support for the SBLive series (I've got one myself, kick@ss card), and for the older ISA cards, the distros usually have a tool to do the voodoo to get everything working. I've had probs with a few audio chipsets not working, but those are more cause the vendors have closed specs than anything else.
Take it from a guy who's used probably every major distro at some time during the past year (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Corel, Slackware, etc), hardware support has gone from basically nonexistant, to mediocre, to pretty decent in the past few years. Best of luck!
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I could barely stop from laughing when I read the pap on SoftDSL. First off, the router needs a P550+ just to run, second, the release had a few things that were inaccurate. You can flash update a Hardware-Based DSL router, so if the standards need changed, it's relatively painless. Second, the quality of components in a software-based DSL router is probably considerably less than a hardware solution, so you'll run into more problems with component failures, let alone the performance hit. Which brings me to the final point, this seems like it's a hugely bloated bit of coding if it takes a P550+ to do what a hardware based solution can do with a 486/33, which is what's in the router I use.
Water cooled laptops. I think we're starting to see the death of the x86 architechture in mobiles if we have to resort to the mechanical complexities of a liquid cooling system in order to keep clocks up. Although it's fascinating stuff, I don't want one of those in charge of my data.
From the few comments that I've seen so far, I see an alarming trend. There are people out there, perhaps zealots, perhaps misinformed, perhaps something else, who feel that anything other than their OS/GFX Program is bad. People need to chill out and realize that this is a TOOL and everybody who has ever worked with any mechanical object, a 1/4" wrench, no matter how useful, can't fix every problem, you need other tools. The GIMP is great for a lot of people; heck, I use it myself. Photogenics is probably useful for a different type of problem/person. Politics suck, and too many people are trying to make everything political.
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First off, it means that now we're going to have yokel cops buying time on Arecibo to set up an interstellar speed trap...We clocked you going 18000 in a 25 zone.
Second off, we now have a new thing to fear, the Interstellar Space Dog. Let's just hope the hound that this bone belongs to doesn't think that the little rock we live on isn't a ball to play fetch with.
This issue really is a non-issue. Who cares if a couple lines of text are scrolled across the screen that tell who to thank for a good piece of code (or curse at for horrible code). Now I'm with a few earlier posts who say that the line is drawn at 1024x768 32 bit bitmaps for buying Natalie Portmans on a Stick, but, chances are, I only watch the boot sequence when I add a new piece of hardware, as Linux is rock solid. Now, putting an ad in the BIOS boot sequence, it would probably be an ad for post-windows reeboot stress syndrome counselling, that would be different.
Hey, it's 60 or so bytes, and considering the blatent advertising in Windows (ever use AOL? Then IE is permanently branded with an ad for AOL), we got to start worrying about more important issues, like figuring out how to get a beowulf of 1Ghz Athlons in order to play the most killer game of Q III of all time.
I was expecting pictures, biographies, timelines of some of the greatest engeneering feats of the 20th century. Instead, I got 20 vague categories, which would have been great for elucidating a specific invention, but not just a summary of everything that happened in that field. For example, the section on refrigeration, which is important in allowing cheap food everywhere, all the time, could have had something on the first use of ammonia as a coolant. Or on some of the great water projects that were made during the last century, such as the LA aquaduct.
Here are a few suggestions for what would be on my list of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. I know, the descriptions are vague, but they're also better than the ones on the site.
1. The Hoover Dam. Huge, will last a few thousand years with no problems, allowed a good amount of industry and agriculture in the Southern California region.
2. The Microprocessor. Without it just about everything done in the computer industry in the last 25 years wouldn't have been. Intel's 4004 is what all started it.
I know, I know, only two. Hey, this is just the start of a list. Given a few more hours, or preferably a day or two, and I could build a list that looks better, and has more technical information than the one on the site.
People are tired of the bullsh!t of the record industry, and are finally able to fight back. I know people who are connected with this industry, and they're all worried about being screwed by the big labels. However, now we have MP3, digital recording, and studios that can be built on shoestring budgets, the fact that the big labels are about to be cut out of the loop scares them.
So what happens is, they take a company that, for the most part, takes small bands and gives them a soapbox, and tries to run them into the ground. What'll happen next is probably the same thing they've done to every threat they've seen so far: kill it, or bastardize it so that they can make money off of it. Hopefully, although at this point it seems unlikely, is that MP3.com will stay alive, that this starts the downward spiral of the big labels, and this is just the last real battle. However, what the action probably is is just a squirmish, and the big fight is yet to come. At this point, it even seems possible that the big labels may even cause a recession just to keep their monopoly on the music industry a few years longer
#1: I don't think so. I'm currently using SuSE 6.4, and it's still using 3.3.5, however, it has 3d acceleration for my V3, so it's an improvement over older versions, however AFAIK, no DRI (answer to 3)
/boot partition (a good idea anyways) as E2FS, or it pukes on you.
#2: SuSE has ReiserFS support, though you need to make a small
#3: See above
#4: Most current distros have support for the SBLive series (I've got one myself, kick@ss card), and for the older ISA cards, the distros usually have a tool to do the voodoo to get everything working. I've had probs with a few audio chipsets not working, but those are more cause the vendors have closed specs than anything else.
Take it from a guy who's used probably every major distro at some time during the past year (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Corel, Slackware, etc), hardware support has gone from basically nonexistant, to mediocre, to pretty decent in the past few years.
Best of luck!
I could barely stop from laughing when I read the pap on SoftDSL. First off, the router needs a P550+ just to run, second, the release had a few things that were inaccurate. You can flash update a Hardware-Based DSL router, so if the standards need changed, it's relatively painless. Second, the quality of components in a software-based DSL router is probably considerably less than a hardware solution, so you'll run into more problems with component failures, let alone the performance hit. Which brings me to the final point, this seems like it's a hugely bloated bit of coding if it takes a P550+ to do what a hardware based solution can do with a 486/33, which is what's in the router I use.
Water cooled laptops. I think we're starting to see the death of the x86 architechture in mobiles if we have to resort to the mechanical complexities of a liquid cooling system in order to keep clocks up. Although it's fascinating stuff, I don't want one of those in charge of my data.
From the few comments that I've seen so far, I see an alarming trend. There are people out there, perhaps zealots, perhaps misinformed, perhaps something else, who feel that anything other than their OS/GFX Program is bad. People need to chill out and realize that this is a TOOL and everybody who has ever worked with any mechanical object, a 1/4" wrench, no matter how useful, can't fix every problem, you need other tools. The GIMP is great for a lot of people; heck, I use it myself. Photogenics is probably useful for a different type of problem/person. Politics suck, and too many people are trying to make everything political.