Not only that, but your posting appears as being submitted on 10th June, I see the article as having being posted on 9th June, and the US News article referenced 'was' posted on 14th June. Ok, so who has the time machine here, anyway?
Along with SP2 of MS VCR 2000 will come some new technology dubbed ALE (Appliance Linking and Embedding), which will let you embed an Audio CD object (among many other ALE-enabled appliances) into your VCR 2000 and control it from the VCR 2000's front panel. And viceversa: you'll be able to control your VCR 2000 from any ALE-enabled appliance in your home. So if you want to go to your fridge to get a pint and suddenly remember you have to start recording the Packers game that is going to start now, you can just embed a VCR 2000 object into your MS Refrigerator and start recording.
Well, I once had an IBM XT case, circa 1985 (according to the label). The chassis was painted black, and the cover was obviously beige. It wasn't rusted. It was tough as hell. It'd have taken a bullet and the board would've been left intact. Why didn't I use it? Because the slots had a different spacing than current AT boards...
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But at least mom knows that if her compact's engine takes a crap, she can have a mechanic fix it for her, or have the engine replaced, or whatever. And she'll rest assured when she knows that the parts for her car are easily available at the nearest Pep Boys or Western Auto. Face it, even mom knows that buying a car that has to be replaced in its entirety when it breaks down is a bad deal.
As many have noted already, these new machines lack the expandability that we've come to get used to from PCs. As we all know, you'd end up having to upgrade the whole thing sooner when the hardware becomes obsolete, instead of incrementally (because the whole thing doesn't really become obsolete all at once). Of course, since Micro$oft is behind this, they all want to do to hardware what M$ has done to software: lock users in an inescapable (?) upgrade cycle, and drain your pockets of dosh in the process.
On an aside, one of the things that always bug me is the thoughtless use of IDE for device attachment. I'd have put SCSI or FireWire in there, instead, and that would instantly provide greater expansion capability, before you add PCI (or your expansion bus of choice).
Yeah, you're right I forgot to mention PCMCIA, but that's because I didn't go that far into the article. I suppose that the author of the article didn't bother to install the pcmcia_cs package (included with just about any Linux distribution on this side of the galaxy). This makes me believe that the writer was only cut&pasting from other texts and documentation to write the article.
Do yourself a favour and go to Radio Shack, Rob. In the case that the thing takes a crap, you can just take it to the store for warranty service. Besides, they provide enough printed information that would help you decide what service you want. Only problem there would be dealing with the salesdroids, of course...
AFAIK, NT4 has a PnP service, although it doesn't seem to be any better than Linux's PnP capabilities. Also, NT's UI is rather user friendly for those tasks for which you would rather use Win9x. However, I agree that the same UI makes NT server administration a big ole PITA.
The non-technical nature of the article seems to be due to the author's unfamiliarity with the subject. There are many lines that are either pseudo-typos or flat-out misunderstandings. A few examples:
SGI 'Virtual' Workstation
"TV tuner cards and video capture cards are enhanced through a new driver (BTTV), which, among other things, lets the card write directly to memory, bypassing the CPU, to produce a higher-quality image."
"...but you can now change the kernel's configuration through Linux's virtual file system instead of rebuilding and recompiling."
It says Linux has two native filesystems, but 2.2.x doesn't have extfs anymore.
Similarly, XFree68 is that for M680x0-based machines (from the '68' in '680x0' [duh] and a word play on 'XFree86'). I suppose XFree21 would be for Alphas (kinda sounds like Century21, eh?).
It would be absurd to call it by different names just because of the varying platforms, so why not give it a year number? XFree2000 anyone? (/me runs for cover).
The way I remember after reading about this, adding anti-aliasing would break compatibility with current X programmes, so that the new feature would have to be coded in as an 'extension' of sorts, and that would require that current X clients be rewritten to use that extension. This would either increase the creeping featurism and bloatiness that is currently present in X. Besides, as you say, it's not really needed.
You don't get to see many Sun or SGI laptops around, do you (and don't tell me about Tadpole's or RDI's, I know they exist).
In any case, only recently have laptops become usable enough for runnning X ever since they started coming out with 1024x768 displays (quite good, although I like higher res than that). 640x480 is just a PITA with X, for reasons other than fonts.
The alternative to font anti-aliasing, in my experience, is a high resolution display, 1152x864 or higher. Font anti-aliasing was developed primarily for those people who don't bother to set their displays to anything other than 640x480.:)
Will this new release support Xvideo? I remember Metrolink supports this in their Xservers, and the current release of XFree doesn't. Perhaps they call it by another name...
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I 'bother' to use 2.2.x myself because it's helluva lot faster than 2.0.x in my experience. If you run a P/100 with 32MB RAM, you know what I mean.
The way I know, Matrox cards since the Impression series support multiple cards in the same system, and they usually come with drivers that support that mode. In the Millenium (I have an old version, with a 170MHz RAMDAC), there's a switch that disables the VGA ROM; cards 2-4 must have this in the OFF position. As for multiple head support in Linux, I don't know how XFree handles it, but the MetroLink X server supports this functionality.
So what if they only got 100 atoms of plutonium? The fact that they knew how to make it by learning it in college is comparable to knowing how to make a pipe bomb by reading about it on the Internet. It doesn't matter if their reactor was a viable working one. Come to think of it, it would take me a while to get all the materials to make a pipe bomb. The fact is, the Government is trying to ban knowledge, and we all should be against it.
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Ununoctium... if you don't know why, get a new chemistry book...
Not only that, but your posting appears as being submitted on 10th June, I see the article as having being posted on 9th June, and the US News article referenced 'was' posted on 14th June. Ok, so who has the time machine here, anyway?
Jeff and Rob 'definately' have a hard time 'speling' correctly after spending so much time poring through articles... :op
Along with SP2 of MS VCR 2000 will come some new technology dubbed ALE (Appliance Linking and Embedding), which will let you embed an Audio CD object (among many other ALE-enabled appliances) into your VCR 2000 and control it from the VCR 2000's front panel. And viceversa: you'll be able to control your VCR 2000 from any ALE-enabled appliance in your home. So if you want to go to your fridge to get a pint and suddenly remember you have to start recording the Packers game that is going to start now, you can just embed a VCR 2000 object into your MS Refrigerator and start recording.
Well, I once had an IBM XT case, circa 1985 (according to the label). The chassis was painted black, and the cover was obviously beige. It wasn't rusted. It was tough as hell. It'd have taken a bullet and the board would've been left intact. Why didn't I use it? Because the slots had a different spacing than current AT boards...
But at least mom knows that if her compact's engine takes a crap, she can have a mechanic fix it for her, or have the engine replaced, or whatever. And she'll rest assured when she knows that the parts for her car are easily available at the nearest Pep Boys or Western Auto. Face it, even mom knows that buying a car that has to be replaced in its entirety when it breaks down is a bad deal.
As many have noted already, these new machines lack the expandability that we've come to get used to from PCs. As we all know, you'd end up having to upgrade the whole thing sooner when the hardware becomes obsolete, instead of incrementally (because the whole thing doesn't really become obsolete all at once). Of course, since Micro$oft is behind this, they all want to do to hardware what M$ has done to software: lock users in an inescapable (?) upgrade cycle, and drain your pockets of dosh in the process.
On an aside, one of the things that always bug me is the thoughtless use of IDE for device attachment. I'd have put SCSI or FireWire in there, instead, and that would instantly provide greater expansion capability, before you add PCI (or your expansion bus of choice).
Yeah, you're right I forgot to mention PCMCIA, but that's because I didn't go that far into the article. I suppose that the author of the article didn't bother to install the pcmcia_cs package (included with just about any Linux distribution on this side of the galaxy). This makes me believe that the writer was only cut&pasting from other texts and documentation to write the article.
Do yourself a favour and go to Radio Shack, Rob. In the case that the thing takes a crap, you can just take it to the store for warranty service. Besides, they provide enough printed information that would help you decide what service you want. Only problem there would be dealing with the salesdroids, of course...
AFAIK, NT4 has a PnP service, although it doesn't seem to be any better than Linux's PnP capabilities. Also, NT's UI is rather user friendly for those tasks for which you would rather use Win9x. However, I agree that the same UI makes NT server administration a big ole PITA.
The non-technical nature of the article seems to be due to the author's unfamiliarity with the subject. There are many lines that are either pseudo-typos or flat-out misunderstandings. A few examples:
I don't think I'll go beyond the third page...
"Crime and punishment"
Similarly, XFree68 is that for M680x0-based machines (from the '68' in '680x0' [duh] and a word play on 'XFree86'). I suppose XFree21 would be for Alphas (kinda sounds like Century21, eh?).
It would be absurd to call it by different names just because of the varying platforms, so why not give it a year number? XFree2000 anyone? (/me runs for cover).
The way I remember after reading about this, adding anti-aliasing would break compatibility with current X programmes, so that the new feature would have to be coded in as an 'extension' of sorts, and that would require that current X clients be rewritten to use that extension. This would either increase the creeping featurism and bloatiness that is currently present in X. Besides, as you say, it's not really needed.
Well, of course, Helvetica is the suckiest font that comes with X, IMO. Have you tried the 100dpi fonts yet?
You don't get to see many Sun or SGI laptops around, do you (and don't tell me about Tadpole's or RDI's, I know they exist).
In any case, only recently have laptops become usable enough for runnning X ever since they started coming out with 1024x768 displays (quite good, although I like higher res than that). 640x480 is just a PITA with X, for reasons other than fonts.
The alternative to font anti-aliasing, in my experience, is a high resolution display, 1152x864 or higher. Font anti-aliasing was developed primarily for those people who don't bother to set their displays to anything other than 640x480. :)
Will this new release support Xvideo? I remember Metrolink supports this in their Xservers, and the current release of XFree doesn't. Perhaps they call it by another name...
I 'bother' to use 2.2.x myself because it's helluva lot faster than 2.0.x in my experience. If you run a P/100 with 32MB RAM, you know what I mean.
Hhmmm... so I guess that the next version of WinAmp will start up with that infamous voice... "Welcome!"
15 MPG? Say, a gallon is about 3.9 litres... 5 mi/l * (3.9 l/1 gal) = 19.5 MPG...
In the minds of lusers, Internet hostnames start with 'www'... And the WWW is the Internet, da? :)
'Twas due to the Slashdot Effect after posting the Slackware 4.0 article here, right? There's too much coincidence...
The way I know, Matrox cards since the Impression series support multiple cards in the same system, and they usually come with drivers that support that mode. In the Millenium (I have an old version, with a 170MHz RAMDAC), there's a switch that disables the VGA ROM; cards 2-4 must have this in the OFF position. As for multiple head support in Linux, I don't know how XFree handles it, but the MetroLink X server supports this functionality.
So what if they only got 100 atoms of plutonium? The fact that they knew how to make it by learning it in college is comparable to knowing how to make a pipe bomb by reading about it on the Internet. It doesn't matter if their reactor was a viable working one. Come to think of it, it would take me a while to get all the materials to make a pipe bomb. The fact is, the Government is trying to ban knowledge, and we all should be against it.