Re:It's a gamer's review, not an audiophile one
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CL deciding to label their IEEE1394 connector as a "SB1394" makes me suspicious of it as well.
I own an Audigy, which I bought partly because of the SB1394 interface. Linux reports it as a Texas Instruments OHCI 1394 controller. It works just fine with Linux1394's ohci1394 driver and through it I can mount my external firewire hard drive. Sound works reasonably well with the current emu10k1 drivers too, but not perfectly.
-handedly defending the free world while you were sitting on the fence.
Single handedly? Ask any citizen of a former colony nation (ie Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and you'll find out that the first war was their "coming of age", where they proved to the world that they were capable of independance.
WWI began in 1914, and WWII began in 1939.
Yup, they sure did. But you were far from alone. The entire commonwealth joined with you.
You should really check up on history. It isn't as if you have much of it.
As a non-American, I can tell you to check up on history. You may have a lot of it, but yours isn't the only country in the world which has some.
Lord Winston, for example is one of the world's leading geneticists and is a Lord for that very reason. I would hardly describe him as an old codger. Moreover, the fact that he is part of the UKs legislature leaves me feeling a lot more secure in Parliament's ability to pass sensible laws involving genetics. It's a pity that there aren't any leading computer scientists in the HoL.
But you must realise, that in a few years Sir Winston will no longer be a leading geneticist, and instead be an old codger. The problem is that Lords can't be kicked out and (AFIAK, IANB) there is no maximum age for Lords. There should be a manditory retirement age for your Lords, like there is for our Senators (Who are also appointed for life).
What I like about the HoL is that it's also the last court of appeal in your country. It would be nice if one could appeal a court decision before any part of Parliament here.
The HoC can always push through a bill that's bounced back and forth 3 times without further recourse to the HoL, but that makes headlines and people sit up and take notice...
Ah, so your Commons can brute-force a bill too. I thought that was a strictly Canadian thing, oh well. Does the Queen HAVE to sign it after it's been passed, or can she veto it?
Unfortunaltly out Senate (HoL) is made up of a bunch of old Liberals and Conservatives who remain loyal to their parties and don't often use their powers. I personally think that the senators should be appointed by the province they represent, not the federal government, and that there should be an equal number of senators for each province. Renaming the Senate to the House of Lords would be cool too:)
I have an iBook and a firewire drive as well as a Celery 667. The goal is to get linux booting from the firewire drive on the iBook, so I can use Linux at home but still have all my iBook's hard drive for MacOS X while not at home. Currently I have MacOS X and Yellow Dog on the internal disk, and MacOS 9 on the firewire disk.
What I'd like is a method to cross build Gentoo on the PC for the iBook, as I like to actually use my iBook. I think it would be neat to be able to type something like "ebuild --root=/mnt/ppclinux --platform=ppc stage3" and have it build stage3 from scratch on the PC for the PPC.
The alternative is to build a custom kernel from within YellowDog which has built in (non-module) support for firewire, and initialize the installation from there starting at stage1 on the firewire disk. That could work too.
If they are shared libraries, your programs will use the new versions immediately.
For minor upgrades (from 2.4 to 2.5), this is true. However, for major upgrades (ie 2.5 to 3.0) the linker won't work.
I think that's how it works, in OpenBSD, when you upgrade the system, and you had libc.28.4 and you now have libc.29.2, the old binaries will link with 28.4 while the new binaries will link with 29.2.
But also, I agree with you that it shouldn't be a necessity to recompile everything which depends on the library you're updating. It should be a ebuild or emerge switch.
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That's snazzy. I should do something like that to my iBook.
While this Linux in the BIOS thing is good for embedded systems, I still think there should be Open Firmware in an Intel PC. Think of it, the ability to load ELF files directly from the firmware...
That's why I don't feel so bad when I notice stupid niggers out on the street doing the kind of things that will only keep themselves down. They're not niggers because of their race. They're niggers because they act like niggers. Lots of white people are niggers, too.
I agree, "nigger", and "redneck" are both mindsets. But some black people use the term nigger as a source of pride, while some white people use the term redneck as a source of pride.
Sure there are people who will use it as a general discription of all people black, but they're stupid/ignorant/choose an adjective.
Wow. That's a lot of money and time. I buy oil filters in packages of 5 (1 = C$2.79, 5 = C$7.79), and I always have about 5 gallons of oil kicking around at C$8/gallon (4 cars). The oil doesn't get on your hands if you simply use rubber gloves. Total cost: C$9.56 + 10 minutes. No cleanup needed, I just put the gloves on the bench ready for their next use. The next day I drop the oil off to be recycled at the garage on my way to work, which simply has a dumpster for oil, which they then recycle properly at no charge.
The belts are easy to check, just look at them. Didn't your father teach you how to tell when a belt is bad?
Anyhow, I'd take my 1999 Honda Civic over my brother's BMW any day of the week. In the spirit of another post in this thread, though, I'd sell my soul for a BMW Z3.
Considering the faults of the BMW, I can't say I blame you for taking the Civic. Z3s are nice, but they're overkill for what I want, and TOTALLY inappropriate. I could never drive one on gravel.
My favourite vehicle right now is my 1986 Ford Ranger POS. It has broken down on me exactly once since I've owned it (1998-), the only other things to go are: power steering pressure hose ($50 + 15 minutes), idler pully ($10 + 15 minutes), timing belt ($13 + 2 hours, this is when it's broken down), and of course things like headlights and such. I give it an oil change every 8000km at a cost of $20 each. Total cost: ~CAD$3000.
This isn't a vehicle I'd recommend for "Joe Suburbia" (as mechanic bills would have cost a fortune, I'm sure), but it does everything I need it to, and if you've ever been on gravel in Saskatchewan, you would drive it on gravel before you'd drive either the BMW or the Civic. Z3s are too low for gravel, and probably too light. If it can't go on gravel, and if it doesn't have a manual transmission, I don't want it.
Sure... but as you just commented it requires a special module.
As I recall, the "special module" is included in MacOS X v10.1 (Server and Client) and it's in the Darwin source repository. It's not too difficult to come by, it just isn't in the apache master distribution.
And anyway, it's just fine for people who are using it to host a personal site, and still be able to use their computer to run Mozilla and Quake. If I wanted to host a real site I wouldn't hesitate to use UFS.
How much of these arguments would have been stopped in advance if people in the US were able to see the difference on a 1, 5, 10, whatever note by checking the colour of it?
Not many. I'm Canadian, and we've always had coloured notes: $1 - light green (Queen, now a coin) $2 - light brown (Queen, now a coin) $5 - blue (Laurier) $10 - purple (MacDonald) $20 - dark green (Queen) $50 - red (Mackenzie King) $100 - dark brown (Borden)
I've seen arguments which go something like this: "I gave you a 20", "No you gave me a 10", "No the damn bill was green", "No, it was purple".
The argument shifts from what demonination of currency to its colour.
You're not old. I graduated in 2001, and I didn't touch graphing calculators until we learned the theory, and then on tests we had to do it manually. That was math, though. In Physics and Chem, all calculators were fair game.
computers would still ship with 5.25" floppy drives
Am I the only one out there who has a 5.25" floppy drive in a 667MHZ Celeron? They're useful when you still play games like Bubble Bobble and Captain Comic:)
Wrong, TerraSoft's computers use the G4 chip, but they do not run OS X. I believe they ship with Linux installed.
Their GVS 9000 runs OS X. From their site: The GVS 9000 is pre-configured with Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, Mac OS 9, Mac-On-Linux (allows you to run Mac OS 9 on YDL), and Mac OS X.
It's their only box that runs OS X. The rest are G4 and G3, which run Linux. Seems it's Apple guts stuck in a 2U rack.
Three + wheel. They work just fine with MacOS X and MacOS 9 (with drivers). Microsoft's USB keyboards work well with the Mac too, with the "Windows" key remapped to the apple/command key by default. I use a squishy windows keyboard when I'm at my desk on my iBook, works quite well.
I like logitech's trackballs. The ball is used with the thumb and the buttons with the fingers.
Now, start to list the companies that make hardware to run the Mac OS. Pretty easy: just one.
I don't know about that. I have attached to my iBook: A no-name USB hub, two Logitech mice, an external firewire drive, my TV, and an HP printer.
How many alternative OS's can you think of that run on Apple Mac platforms?
Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MkLinux, and Darwin. FreeBSD support is under development. Take a look at Apple's developer documentation. Their hardware is even documented.
I can use many times more media players and browsers on Windows than I can on Mac OS.
Not to argue, but I'm happy with Mozilla on both platforms, and WinAMP(Windows) and iTunes(MacOS). Why use anything else? They both work as advertised and they are both free.
Now, try to use non-M$ OS on a PC. Try the same on a Mac. A lot harder.
PC: OS=RedHat7.3 Process: 1) Insert CD 2) change boot options in bios to allow boot from cd 3) reboot 4) repartition disk 5) choose software 6) Hit "OK"
iBook: OS=YellowDog Process: 1) Insert CD 2) reboot holding down "c" key 3) repartition disk 4) choose software to install 5) hit "OK"
yaya. i fucked up and bought two cases of dew and two cases of coke. then the canadians told me about the caffeine thingy.
Well, you won't waste any more money on that, now will you? You could, of course, go to a drug store and buy caffiene pills to dissolve in said Dew.
but there is a starbucks in the first floor of the hotel
Ick! Starbucks, I don't like starbucks, I lived in Calgary during school last year and didn't like it too much. I like having the small roasteries and coffee shops here (Saskatoon, 630KM NEE of Calgary) with wireless net access and wall outlets:)
Dude, I've seen your sig, and I have to ask, whats up with that? I'm Canadian too, and I actually think TMLF should be our national anthem (at least, Anne Murray's version at MLG), but why do you have that as your sig?
The other iTools services -- file sharing, etc -- are restricted to Macs only, but the mail component should be accessible anywhere, either through the web browser or with an IMAP client.
Actually the iDisk can be accessed from any computer that has support for WebDAV (Linux & Win2K do). So it's not restricted by anything other than to platforms which support it.
You cannot administer your iDisk or @mac.com address on anything but a mac, though.
Unless you're using a music-only CD-R, you're breaking the law.
Which law?
If it's for personal use, I can copy music all I want as long as I don't distribute it. I live in Canada, as such I am not bound by US law. Check out section 80 of the copyright act in Canada, which gives explicit permission to make copies of music for personal use.
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CL deciding to label their IEEE1394 connector as a "SB1394" makes me suspicious of it as well.
I own an Audigy, which I bought partly because of the SB1394 interface. Linux reports it as a Texas Instruments OHCI 1394 controller. It works just fine with Linux1394's ohci1394 driver and through it I can mount my external firewire hard drive. Sound works reasonably well with the current emu10k1 drivers too, but not perfectly.
-handedly defending the free world while you were sitting on the fence.
Single handedly? Ask any citizen of a former colony nation (ie Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and you'll find out that the first war was their "coming of age", where they proved to the world that they were capable of independance.
WWI began in 1914, and WWII began in 1939.
Yup, they sure did. But you were far from alone. The entire commonwealth joined with you.
You should really check up on history. It isn't as if you have much of it.
As a non-American, I can tell you to check up on history. You may have a lot of it, but yours isn't the only country in the world which has some.
Lord Winston, for example is one of the world's leading geneticists and is a Lord for that very reason. I would hardly describe him as an old codger. Moreover, the fact that he is part of the UKs legislature leaves me feeling a lot more secure in Parliament's ability to pass sensible laws involving genetics. It's a pity that there aren't any leading computer scientists in the HoL.
But you must realise, that in a few years Sir Winston will no longer be a leading geneticist, and instead be an old codger. The problem is that Lords can't be kicked out and (AFIAK, IANB) there is no maximum age for Lords. There should be a manditory retirement age for your Lords, like there is for our Senators (Who are also appointed for life).
What I like about the HoL is that it's also the last court of appeal in your country. It would be nice if one could appeal a court decision before any part of Parliament here.
The HoC can always push through a bill that's bounced back and forth 3 times without further recourse to the HoL, but that makes headlines and people sit up and take notice...
:)
Ah, so your Commons can brute-force a bill too. I thought that was a strictly Canadian thing, oh well. Does the Queen HAVE to sign it after it's been passed, or can she veto it?
Unfortunaltly out Senate (HoL) is made up of a bunch of old Liberals and Conservatives who remain loyal to their parties and don't often use their powers. I personally think that the senators should be appointed by the province they represent, not the federal government, and that there should be an equal number of senators for each province. Renaming the Senate to the House of Lords would be cool too
I have an iBook and a firewire drive as well as a Celery 667. The goal is to get linux booting from the firewire drive on the iBook, so I can use Linux at home but still have all my iBook's hard drive for MacOS X while not at home. Currently I have MacOS X and Yellow Dog on the internal disk, and MacOS 9 on the firewire disk.
What I'd like is a method to cross build Gentoo on the PC for the iBook, as I like to actually use my iBook. I think it would be neat to be able to type something like "ebuild --root=/mnt/ppclinux --platform=ppc stage3" and have it build stage3 from scratch on the PC for the PPC.
The alternative is to build a custom kernel from within YellowDog which has built in (non-module) support for firewire, and initialize the installation from there starting at stage1 on the firewire disk. That could work too.
If they are shared libraries, your programs will use the new versions immediately.
For minor upgrades (from 2.4 to 2.5), this is true. However, for major upgrades (ie 2.5 to 3.0) the linker won't work.
I think that's how it works, in OpenBSD, when you upgrade the system, and you had libc.28.4 and you now have libc.29.2, the old binaries will link with 28.4 while the new binaries will link with 29.2.
But also, I agree with you that it shouldn't be a necessity to recompile everything which depends on the library you're updating. It should be a ebuild or emerge switch.
That's snazzy. I should do something like that to my iBook.
While this Linux in the BIOS thing is good for embedded systems, I still think there should be Open Firmware in an Intel PC. Think of it, the ability to load ELF files directly from the firmware...
No, our mole-rat ancestors were thinking "gee, I hope I can have a meal today without becoming one"
That's why I don't feel so bad when I notice stupid niggers out on the street doing the kind of things that will only keep themselves down. They're not niggers because of their race. They're niggers because they act like niggers. Lots of white people are niggers, too.
I agree, "nigger", and "redneck" are both mindsets. But some black people use the term nigger as a source of pride, while some white people use the term redneck as a source of pride.
Sure there are people who will use it as a general discription of all people black, but they're stupid/ignorant/choose an adjective.
Wow. That's a lot of money and time. I buy oil filters in packages of 5 (1 = C$2.79, 5 = C$7.79), and I always have about 5 gallons of oil kicking around at C$8/gallon (4 cars). The oil doesn't get on your hands if you simply use rubber gloves. Total cost: C$9.56 + 10 minutes. No cleanup needed, I just put the gloves on the bench ready for their next use. The next day I drop the oil off to be recycled at the garage on my way to work, which simply has a dumpster for oil, which they then recycle properly at no charge.
The belts are easy to check, just look at them. Didn't your father teach you how to tell when a belt is bad?
Anyhow, I'd take my 1999 Honda Civic over my brother's BMW any day of the week. In the spirit of another post in this thread, though, I'd sell my soul for a BMW Z3.
Considering the faults of the BMW, I can't say I blame you for taking the Civic. Z3s are nice, but they're overkill for what I want, and TOTALLY inappropriate. I could never drive one on gravel.
My favourite vehicle right now is my 1986 Ford Ranger POS. It has broken down on me exactly once since I've owned it (1998-), the only other things to go are: power steering pressure hose ($50 + 15 minutes), idler pully ($10 + 15 minutes), timing belt ($13 + 2 hours, this is when it's broken down), and of course things like headlights and such. I give it an oil change every 8000km at a cost of $20 each. Total cost: ~CAD$3000.
This isn't a vehicle I'd recommend for "Joe Suburbia" (as mechanic bills would have cost a fortune, I'm sure), but it does everything I need it to, and if you've ever been on gravel in Saskatchewan, you would drive it on gravel before you'd drive either the BMW or the Civic. Z3s are too low for gravel, and probably too light. If it can't go on gravel, and if it doesn't have a manual transmission, I don't want it.
Sure... but as you just commented it requires a special module.
As I recall, the "special module" is included in MacOS X v10.1 (Server and Client) and it's in the Darwin source repository. It's not too difficult to come by, it just isn't in the apache master distribution.
And anyway, it's just fine for people who are using it to host a personal site, and still be able to use their computer to run Mozilla and Quake. If I wanted to host a real site I wouldn't hesitate to use UFS.
How much of these arguments would have been stopped in advance if people in the US were able to see the difference on a 1, 5, 10, whatever note by checking the colour of it?
Not many. I'm Canadian, and we've always had coloured notes:
$1 - light green (Queen, now a coin)
$2 - light brown (Queen, now a coin)
$5 - blue (Laurier)
$10 - purple (MacDonald)
$20 - dark green (Queen)
$50 - red (Mackenzie King)
$100 - dark brown (Borden)
I've seen arguments which go something like this: "I gave you a 20", "No you gave me a 10", "No the damn bill was green", "No, it was purple".
The argument shifts from what demonination of currency to its colour.
You're not old. I graduated in 2001, and I didn't touch graphing calculators until we learned the theory, and then on tests we had to do it manually. That was math, though. In Physics and Chem, all calculators were fair game.
computers would still ship with 5.25" floppy drives
:)
Am I the only one out there who has a 5.25" floppy drive in a 667MHZ Celeron? They're useful when you still play games like Bubble Bobble and Captain Comic
Wrong, TerraSoft's computers use the G4 chip, but they do not run OS X. I believe they ship with Linux installed.
Their GVS 9000 runs OS X. From their site:
The GVS 9000 is pre-configured with Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, Mac OS 9, Mac-On-Linux (allows you to run Mac OS 9 on YDL), and Mac OS X.
It's their only box that runs OS X. The rest are G4 and G3, which run Linux. Seems it's Apple guts stuck in a 2U rack.
How many companies do you have that build iBooks or clones?
None but Apple that build iBooks, but TerraSoftSolutions(YDL producers) build rackmount computers that run MacOS X.
Three + wheel. They work just fine with MacOS X and MacOS 9 (with drivers). Microsoft's USB keyboards work well with the Mac too, with the "Windows" key remapped to the apple/command key by default. I use a squishy windows keyboard when I'm at my desk on my iBook, works quite well.
I like logitech's trackballs. The ball is used with the thumb and the buttons with the fingers.
Now, start to list the companies that make hardware to run the Mac OS. Pretty easy: just one.
I don't know about that. I have attached to my iBook: A no-name USB hub, two Logitech mice, an external firewire drive, my TV, and an HP printer.
How many alternative OS's can you think of that run on Apple Mac platforms?
Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MkLinux, and Darwin. FreeBSD support is under development. Take a look at Apple's developer documentation. Their hardware is even documented.
I can use many times more media players and browsers on Windows than I can on Mac OS.
Not to argue, but I'm happy with Mozilla on both platforms, and WinAMP(Windows) and iTunes(MacOS). Why use anything else? They both work as advertised and they are both free.
Now, try to use non-M$ OS on a PC. Try the same on a Mac. A lot harder.
PC: OS=RedHat7.3
Process: 1) Insert CD
2) change boot options in bios to allow boot from cd
3) reboot
4) repartition disk
5) choose software
6) Hit "OK"
iBook: OS=YellowDog
Process: 1) Insert CD
2) reboot holding down "c" key
3) repartition disk
4) choose software to install
5) hit "OK"
Difference? I see no big ones.
yaya. i fucked up and bought two cases of dew and two cases of coke. then the canadians told me about the caffeine thingy.
:)
Well, you won't waste any more money on that, now will you? You could, of course, go to a drug store and buy caffiene pills to dissolve in said Dew.
but there is a starbucks in the first floor of the hotel
Ick! Starbucks, I don't like starbucks, I lived in Calgary during school last year and didn't like it too much. I like having the small roasteries and coffee shops here (Saskatoon, 630KM NEE of Calgary) with wireless net access and wall outlets
Dude, I've seen your sig, and I have to ask, whats up with that? I'm Canadian too, and I actually think TMLF should be our national anthem (at least, Anne Murray's version at MLG), but why do you have that as your sig?
No particular reason, I just like the song.
The other iTools services -- file sharing, etc -- are restricted to Macs only, but the mail component should be accessible anywhere, either through the web browser or with an IMAP client.
Actually the iDisk can be accessed from any computer that has support for WebDAV (Linux & Win2K do). So it's not restricted by anything other than to platforms which support it.
You cannot administer your iDisk or @mac.com address on anything but a mac, though.
Unless you're using a music-only CD-R, you're breaking the law.
Which law?
If it's for personal use, I can copy music all I want as long as I don't distribute it. I live in Canada, as such I am not bound by US law. Check out section 80 of the copyright act in Canada, which gives explicit permission to make copies of music for personal use.