I'd say the program is just prepending "19" to a date that starts from year 00 == 1900, but isn't limited to 2 date digits, so 2000 == year 100, and with "19" prepended, you get 19100. Someone really made a mess of the seconds-since-epoch date system here.
1 - Windows doesn't auto-config anything. It just reads.inf files provided either on the windows CD, or by the monitor manufacturer. These contain modelines for that monitor. they're a little different from the X versions, but clearly the same thing. As has been stated previously, they are a small subset of the possible modelines, limiting the usefulness of your hardware. 2 - Auto-configuring isn't really possible. If all monitors could be probed for refresh rates, etc, then it would be. But this isn't always possible. Yes, there are utilites for calculating modelines. Yes, they are very simple to use, and require only that you have access to your monitor specs. No, they don't quite cover every situtation... sometimes you do need to know a bit about configuration. It's rare though. You'll be thankful for the text-editable config file alternative if you ever have to install some weird and whacky monitor/card combination that doesn't quite agree with Xconfigurator.
Come to Australia! It's a great place to raise a family...all the cells are nicely padded. No sharp corners, nowhere to bump baby's little head. Thank heavens for invasive government. Who ever suckered me into a deal where I pay morons to give me things I didn't ask for, take away everything I did, and tell me what I can't do? Glad I voted in the last election, really made me feel like my vote makes a difference.
sorry 'bout the nasty previous post...I was running a bit hot earlier today. in any case, yeah, the game does tax systems a bit too much for the graphics it provides. They still rock IMO, but you can't beat the Q3 engine. (yet) I can't get it past 960 by whatever it is on my old dodgy monitor, but I seldom notice frame rate problems on my celeron 300a (oc'd to 375) with a banshee of all things. Only happens on huge outdoor levels. You don't need a t3 to play online though...D3 taxes any connection quite a lot, apparently, but lots of players play on modems, some (such as myself) with pings in excess of 400. One of the highest ranked players is on a 200 ping. I think yr missing out on some great fun, but maybe you did make the right decision.
oh oh oh! Mummy this game is too hard! Suck it up, matey! If it weren't difficult you'd be complaining that the AI sucks. If all you've been playing is quake, guess what: this ain't your average fps...the tactics are totally different, the movement is something you ain't used to. Crawl before you walk...play a few levels on the lower skill setting before slagging the game off.
I installed Linux on a friend's Dell Dimension. They use Yamaha DS-XG sound chips, which as far as I could figure out (I may have been very wrong), are only supported in Open Sound's drivers. Not to mention the WinModem is standard on Dimensions...I hope Dell is planning to change the hardware a bit for Linux installs...
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Yep...backwards compatibility... Just yesterday, I was remarking to myself, "Now if only I could run some of those old GNU/Linux programs of yesteryear, not too mention a few DOS apps and a Win3.11 proggy or two as well." But hell, goddamn it, the Linux system ain't fat enough to fit them all. We need to add another 5 meg to the kernel at least. Not to mention huge quantities of drivers and assorted garbage. Where's my code shovel?
That "theory" about EMR from monitors and high tension power cable towers was largely scare talk. Some fool got his hands on some statistics, misread them (as fools will) and then wrote a book and scared lots of people with his findings. Cellphones are a different story though. They produce micrwave radiation, which can be harmful, but it isn't in the lethal range.
I was hoping someone would point out Mindcrafts lack of ethics in posting this. It is a petty response to a problem best ignored. It made me feel that mindcraft actively want to show linux users in the worst possible light. I'd like to see a (no doubt much larger) listing of all the more reasonable or civil emails from curious or helpful linux users. I'm sure there were more of those than these examples.
Well, it isn't a particularly bad essay for the first half. He lost his point about halfway through, but forgot to stop typing. Slightly better than a university newspaper, but not by much.
Clock speed is not the same issue with these systems as it is with traditional chips architectures, as is my understanding. They avoid wasting clock cycles processing complex operations by performing those operations in hardware as much as possible. This is a method similar to how crays get their speed. The difference is cray put's as much into hardware as they think reasonablew when they design the chip (far more than anyone else hinks is reasonable). These systems (presumaby only for software written in their native language) translate software to hardware on the fly. So everything runs mostly as hardware. But you are correct...I wouldn't write off intel quite yet. The issue isn't clock speeds though, it's (in my opinion) the infrastructure, such as software, and various peripherals that will prevent this from taking 60% out of intels market share next year.
I remember reading about these guys here 6 months ago. I was stunned and amazed, and I thought, "Well, I might be able to buy one of these in ten years time." Guess I was very wrong. I'm getting one as soon as they come out.
BTW...the point of they earlier article was an announcement of the companies new HAL systems. This one is reporting the news that they are building PCs with this technology too. And they run windows NT under emulation mode. Wonder if that means they run Linux. Probably does, since it would have to be intel emulation, rather than windows emulation. So they would probably be quite useful, and easily integrated into current applications. Can't see how switches and routers could possibly have a problem integrating. They seldom resemble closely the systems that they are communicating with anyway.
So y'all are saying the poll hasn't been thrown out a little?
Think about this. How many sites are there athat console, mac, windows, etc devotees check almost daily? And how many of those sites do you think announced sierra's poll? Now how many people do you think just happened to check the Sierra site since the poll went up?
On the other hand, If Sierra is dopey enough to take this as a statistically sound survey, well that's gotta be more games for linux, which is good. Might prompt more developement in the video driver spectrum, too.
If you care, think of the bit in brackets at the end of my earlier comment as being after the part where I mention my school, and ignore the bit that says I'm sure if, and then launches off a new sentence.
Not that everyone wouldn't figure most of that out anyway, but I'm embarressed here
High School sucks pretty much everywhere, especially if you don't fit the mould. It's just that, well, Australians don't have guns. And it's a lot harder to knife a guy when you've got all the muscle tension of an elastic band. I'm sure if There's a couple of stories every now and then here about some high school kid lashing out at someone who has been making life hell for them. They don't often end in a killing though. Happened at my school, with a baseball bat. A girl at Wollongong high knifed a fellow student. This thig isn't new. It's just usually been a lttle more low-key. ( a selective high school, which is like a school for gifted kids, but not so exclusive because there are heaps of them in Sydney)
On another note: What was that article trying to say? Nobody should complain because Auschwitz was worse? Better tell the rest of the writers at the Village Voice, they probably plan to write three strident articles this week about the death of modern art or somesuch gibberish.
Actually The Age is a reasonably reputable Australian print news paper. (by Reputable, I mean a real newspaper, not a tabloid, or some gutter rag) They aren't likely to have made this one up. As to the reputability of their source in the government, I can't really say....
I'd find a use for them, if I were you. You'll be wroking for them soon enough. The same rules apply to working in software as anywhere else, and the premier rule is:
It's not what you know it's who you know.
You can ignore the office politics fools as much as you like, but if you don't make connections, you're going to get passed over for promotions over and over again. Managers can't tell a good coder from a bad coder. (That's what certificates are for, hehe). I'm not saying turn out dodgy code so you can spend more time with the guys down in marketing. I'm saying your attitude could buy you a lifetime at the lowest level of the firms you work for.
I'm not sure we should sing and dance about the endorsement of the Venture Capitalists behind Amazon. If I were a Venture Capitalist, I'd be pretty iffy about that company. Currently the best way to support amazon is to not shop there, since they still lose money on every sale.
Still, it's nice to see rich people supporting Linux
I'd have to guess that they are using the xxedgexx banshee server. Which means, sorry, no q3test. You can run it, you can get a framerate of about 1 frame per 5 seconds, if the wind is behind you, you can quit (slowly).
The Banshee X-server (which also supports V3) has some 2D acceleration now, but no 3D yet. Still, now that the 2D work is more or less done according to the page, maybe 3D is on it's way.
Nope....can't say that I would be. If they'd used SGI/IRIX, I would have thought nothing of it. It seems to me to be a reasonably intelligent move. I don't think Linux can compete with a higher end Cray (not that 5.5 million dollar Cray that it equalled). If I was doing 3D rendering for a $100 million dollar movie, the first thing I'd think of doing, hardware-wise, is see if I could rent a Cray.
You know what would be really impressive? If every Linux user in the world just ignored things like this. It's not relevant to anything. It contains zero useful information, so why bother?
Who cares if a opinionated little man gets up on his soapbox about a subject he is ill-equipped to comprehend, let alone report on? It's his right. It's our right not to pay any attention to his pithy yammering.
You might make the case that people might read his article and dismiss Linux as an operating system for themselves. So what? Anyone with much sense will do a little more research then he did and base their choices upon that. It's not up to us to argue with fools, so that a few more fools will choose Linux. Linux doesn't need fools.
I don't mean to imply that responding to him is encouraging him. I mean to imply that acknowledging his existance is a waste of time, so why should we? He writes with the mentality of a seventh grader, but we don't have to read him with the same. Or at all.
I'd like to see slashdot completely ignoring tripe like that. It doesn't enrich us one bit. It doesn't provide an insight into anything that matters. It shouldn't have been posted.
The bizarre claim that freeBSD was the best possible OS choice. Somehow I think they might just have done a little better with IRIX/SGI. I mean, that's what it's for. Buy a couple of nice cray systems, go nuts. Why FreeBSD should outdo everything is beyond me. Am I missing something? Or many things?
Linux users (and I am one) getting irritable because someone elses OS gets praised. Stop me if I'm completely crazy, but if this looks to you like a blatant plug for FreeBSD, what must you think when people say nice things about Linux...damn advertising. Can't get away from it...
I did in fact mean "Liberal", but I feel that liberal/conservative do not have such clear cut definitions.
Don't kid yourself that a liberal politician (as opposed to a Liberal one) wouldn't try to damage your freedom on the internet. Of the two US parties the democrats are the more liberal yet the republicans are frequently more libertarian. (Quick question: Which US party has tried to introduce encryption key escrow as a law?)
And the Liberals are not much more conservative than the Labor party. There is far more overlap than you might think.
It is debatable that liberal have every right to put the policy through. They, like Bob Hawkes fist term government in the eighties, were elected on a fairly shaky mandate.
More Australians voted Labor. (it's spelt without the 'u', just so you know. It has a lot to do with their original anti-mother England stance from when they formed) Liberal won more seats, hence liberal is in government, when the majority wanted labor.
For those who cant figure this one out for themselves, here's my explanation:
Imagine there are 100 seats in parliament. liberal wins 60 with each of their sixty receiving a vote of 51% liberal, 49% labor.
Labor wins 40 with a vote of 99% labor, 1% liberal.
All seats are approxmately the same size. (They are in reality too.) Labor has a vast majority of the vote. But liberal has more seats.
This is something like what happened in our last election, albeit far more extreme.
That said, I am not entirely opposed to the GST. It would make good economic sense in the long run, with a short term drop in standard of living (which we have coming, like it or not).
It won't work well with the current system. The idea is that it increases propensity to save, because when you spend money, you lose money. Liberal has driven down our propensity to save immensely by deregulating the banks and leaving the path free for banks to charge exorbitant fees. (I'm getting ATM use charges as high as $2 per withdrawal). For the GST to do what it is supposed to, the government would have to reintroduce bank regulation and cut bank fees by 80-90%.
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I'd say the program is just prepending "19" to a date that starts from year 00 == 1900, but isn't limited to 2 date digits, so 2000 == year 100, and with "19" prepended, you get 19100. Someone really made a mess of the seconds-since-epoch date system here.
1 - Windows doesn't auto-config anything. It just reads .inf files provided either on the windows CD, or by the monitor manufacturer. These contain modelines for that monitor. they're a little different from the X versions, but clearly the same thing. As has been stated previously, they are a small subset of the possible modelines, limiting the usefulness of your hardware. 2 - Auto-configuring isn't really possible. If all monitors could be probed for refresh rates, etc, then it would be. But this isn't always possible. Yes, there are utilites for calculating modelines. Yes, they are very simple to use, and require only that you have access to your monitor specs. No, they don't quite cover every situtation... sometimes you do need to know a bit about configuration. It's rare though. You'll be thankful for the text-editable config file alternative if you ever have to install some weird and whacky monitor/card combination that doesn't quite agree with Xconfigurator.
Come to Australia! It's a great place to raise a family...all the cells are nicely padded. No sharp corners, nowhere to bump baby's little head. Thank heavens for invasive government. Who ever suckered me into a deal where I pay morons to give me things I didn't ask for, take away everything I did, and tell me what I can't do? Glad I voted in the last election, really made me feel like my vote makes a difference.
sorry 'bout the nasty previous post...I was running a bit hot earlier today. in any case, yeah, the game does tax systems a bit too much for the graphics it provides. They still rock IMO, but you can't beat the Q3 engine. (yet) I can't get it past 960 by whatever it is on my old dodgy monitor, but I seldom notice frame rate problems on my celeron 300a (oc'd to 375) with a banshee of all things. Only happens on huge outdoor levels. You don't need a t3 to play online though...D3 taxes any connection quite a lot, apparently, but lots of players play on modems, some (such as myself) with pings in excess of 400. One of the highest ranked players is on a 200 ping. I think yr missing out on some great fun, but maybe you did make the right decision.
oh oh oh! Mummy this game is too hard! Suck it up, matey! If it weren't difficult you'd be complaining that the AI sucks. If all you've been playing is quake, guess what: this ain't your average fps...the tactics are totally different, the movement is something you ain't used to. Crawl before you walk...play a few levels on the lower skill setting before slagging the game off.
I installed Linux on a friend's Dell Dimension. They use Yamaha DS-XG sound chips, which as far as I could figure out (I may have been very wrong), are only supported in Open Sound's drivers. Not to mention the WinModem is standard on Dimensions...I hope Dell is planning to change the hardware a bit for Linux installs...
Yep...backwards compatibility...
Just yesterday, I was remarking to myself, "Now if only I could run some of those old GNU/Linux programs of yesteryear, not too mention a few DOS apps and a Win3.11 proggy or two as well." But hell, goddamn it, the Linux system ain't fat enough to fit them all. We need to add another 5 meg to the kernel at least. Not to mention huge quantities of drivers and assorted garbage. Where's my code shovel?
That "theory" about EMR from monitors and high tension power cable towers was largely scare talk. Some fool got his hands on some statistics, misread them (as fools will) and then wrote a book and scared lots of people with his findings. Cellphones are a different story though. They produce micrwave radiation, which can be harmful, but it isn't in the lethal range.
I was hoping someone would point out Mindcrafts lack of ethics in posting this. It is a petty response to a problem best ignored. It made me feel that mindcraft actively want to show linux users in the worst possible light. I'd like to see a (no doubt much larger) listing of all the more reasonable or civil emails from curious or helpful linux users. I'm sure there were more of those than these examples.
Well, it isn't a particularly bad essay for the first half. He lost his point about halfway through, but forgot to stop typing. Slightly better than a university newspaper, but not by much.
Clock speed is not the same issue with these systems as it is with traditional chips architectures, as is my understanding. They avoid wasting clock cycles processing complex operations by performing those operations in hardware as much as possible. This is a method similar to how crays get their speed. The difference is cray put's as much into hardware as they think reasonablew when they design the chip (far more than anyone else hinks is reasonable). These systems (presumaby only for software written in their native language) translate software to hardware on the fly. So everything runs mostly as hardware. But you are correct...I wouldn't write off intel quite yet. The issue isn't clock speeds though, it's (in my opinion) the infrastructure, such as software, and various peripherals that will prevent this from taking 60% out of intels market share next year.
I remember reading about these guys here 6 months ago. I was stunned and amazed, and I thought, "Well, I might be able to buy one of these in ten years time." Guess I was very wrong. I'm getting one as soon as they come out.
BTW...the point of they earlier article was an announcement of the companies new HAL systems. This one is reporting the news that they are building PCs with this technology too. And they run windows NT under emulation mode. Wonder if that means they run Linux. Probably does, since it would have to be intel emulation, rather than windows emulation. So they would probably be quite useful, and easily integrated into current applications. Can't see how switches and routers could possibly have a problem integrating. They seldom resemble closely the systems that they are communicating with anyway.
Whoah, So much anger...
So y'all are saying the poll hasn't been thrown out a little?
Think about this. How many sites are there athat console, mac, windows, etc devotees check almost daily? And how many of those sites do you think announced sierra's poll? Now how many people do you think just happened to check the Sierra site since the poll went up?
On the other hand, If Sierra is dopey enough to take this as a statistically sound survey, well that's gotta be more games for linux, which is good. Might prompt more developement in the video driver spectrum, too.
Do you think they might be getting suspicious yet?
Dammit, I need an edit comment button.
If you care, think of the bit in brackets at the end of my earlier comment as being after the part where I mention my school, and ignore the bit that says I'm sure if, and then launches off a new sentence.
Not that everyone wouldn't figure most of that out anyway, but I'm embarressed here
High School sucks pretty much everywhere, especially if you don't fit the mould. It's just that, well, Australians don't have guns. And it's a lot harder to knife a guy when you've got all the muscle tension of an elastic band. I'm sure if There's a couple of stories every now and then here about some high school kid lashing out at someone who has been making life hell for them. They don't often end in a killing though. Happened at my school, with a baseball bat. A girl at Wollongong high knifed a fellow student. This thig isn't new. It's just usually been a lttle more low-key. ( a selective high school, which is like a school for gifted kids, but not so exclusive because there are heaps of them in Sydney)
On another note: What was that article trying to say? Nobody should complain because Auschwitz was worse? Better tell the rest of the writers at the Village Voice, they probably plan to write three strident articles this week about the death of modern art or somesuch gibberish.
Actually The Age is a reasonably reputable Australian print news paper. (by Reputable, I mean a real newspaper, not a tabloid, or some gutter rag) They aren't likely to have made this one up. As to the reputability of their source in the government, I can't really say....
I'd find a use for them, if I were you. You'll be wroking for them soon enough. The same rules apply to working in software as anywhere else, and the premier rule is:
It's not what you know it's who you know.
You can ignore the office politics fools as much as you like, but if you don't make connections, you're going to get passed over for promotions over and over again. Managers can't tell a good coder from a bad coder. (That's what certificates are for, hehe). I'm not saying turn out dodgy code so you can spend more time with the guys down in marketing. I'm saying your attitude could buy you a lifetime at the lowest level of the firms you work for.
I'm not sure we should sing and dance about the endorsement of the Venture Capitalists behind Amazon. If I were a Venture Capitalist, I'd be pretty iffy about that company. Currently the best way to support amazon is to not shop there, since they still lose money on every sale.
Still, it's nice to see rich people supporting Linux
I'd have to guess that they are using the xxedgexx banshee server. Which means, sorry, no q3test. You can run it, you can get a framerate of about 1 frame per 5 seconds, if the wind is behind you, you can quit (slowly).
The Banshee X-server (which also supports V3) has some 2D acceleration now, but no 3D yet. Still, now that the 2D work is more or less done according to the page, maybe 3D is on it's way.
Nope....can't say that I would be. If they'd used SGI/IRIX, I would have thought nothing of it. It seems to me to be a reasonably intelligent move. I don't think Linux can compete with a higher end Cray (not that 5.5 million dollar Cray that it equalled). If I was doing 3D rendering for a $100 million dollar movie, the first thing I'd think of doing, hardware-wise, is see if I could rent a Cray.
You know what would be really impressive? If every Linux user in the world just ignored things like this. It's not relevant to anything. It contains zero useful information, so why bother?
Who cares if a opinionated little man gets up on his soapbox about a subject he is ill-equipped to comprehend, let alone report on? It's his right. It's our right not to pay any attention to his pithy yammering.
You might make the case that people might read his article and dismiss Linux as an operating system for themselves. So what? Anyone with much sense will do a little more research then he did and base their choices upon that. It's not up to us to argue with fools, so that a few more fools will choose Linux. Linux doesn't need fools.
I don't mean to imply that responding to him is encouraging him. I mean to imply that acknowledging his existance is a waste of time, so why should we? He writes with the mentality of a seventh grader, but we don't have to read him with the same. Or at all.
I'd like to see slashdot completely ignoring tripe like that. It doesn't enrich us one bit. It doesn't provide an insight into anything that matters. It shouldn't have been posted.
So many things to laugh about in this one...
The bizarre claim that freeBSD was the best possible OS choice. Somehow I think they might just have done a little better with IRIX/SGI. I mean, that's what it's for. Buy a couple of nice cray systems, go nuts. Why FreeBSD should outdo everything is beyond me. Am I missing something? Or many things?
Linux users (and I am one) getting irritable because someone elses OS gets praised. Stop me if I'm completely crazy, but if this looks to you like a blatant plug for FreeBSD, what must you think when people say nice things about Linux...damn advertising. Can't get away from it...
I did in fact mean "Liberal", but I feel that liberal/conservative do not have such clear cut definitions.
Don't kid yourself that a liberal politician (as opposed to a Liberal one) wouldn't try to damage your freedom on the internet. Of the two US parties the democrats are the more liberal yet the republicans are frequently more libertarian. (Quick question: Which US party has tried to introduce encryption key escrow as a law?)
And the Liberals are not much more conservative than the Labor party. There is far more overlap than you might think.
It is debatable that liberal have every right to put the policy through. They, like Bob Hawkes fist term government in the eighties, were elected on a fairly shaky mandate.
More Australians voted Labor. (it's spelt without the 'u', just so you know. It has a lot to do with their original anti-mother England stance from when they formed) Liberal won more seats, hence liberal is in government, when the majority wanted labor.
For those who cant figure this one out for themselves, here's my explanation:
Imagine there are 100 seats in parliament. liberal wins 60 with each of their sixty receiving a vote of 51% liberal, 49% labor.
Labor wins 40 with a vote of 99% labor, 1% liberal.
All seats are approxmately the same size. (They are in reality too.) Labor has a vast majority of the vote. But liberal has more seats.
This is something like what happened in our last election, albeit far more extreme.
That said, I am not entirely opposed to the GST. It would make good economic sense in the long run, with a short term drop in standard of living (which we have coming, like it or not).
It won't work well with the current system. The idea is that it increases propensity to save, because when you spend money, you lose money. Liberal has driven down our propensity to save immensely by deregulating the banks and leaving the path free for banks to charge exorbitant fees. (I'm getting ATM use charges as high as $2 per withdrawal). For the GST to do what it is supposed to, the government would have to reintroduce bank regulation and cut bank fees by 80-90%.