Microsoft provides neither an MPEG2 codec nor a CSS decrypter as part of any Windows version.
In order to watch DVD's under Windows, a third party solution (such as WinDVD or PowerDVD) is still required.
Granted, when such a third party-player is installed, Windows Media Player also becomes DVD-enabled automatically, because it will immediately take advantage of the newly installed DVD-related shared libs.
So even if people solely use WMP to watch DVD's, they'll still need third-party software.
Therefore, the same anti-trust argument, as in the case of Netscape, Real and now possibly the antivirus solution providers, doesn't apply here.
I remember watching a few episodes of a cartoon series called "Defenders of the Earth" on TV back in the late eighties or early nineties... Apparently it was a spinoff of the Flash Gordon cartoon series and it featured several heroes in the main cast, one of them being Mandrake the Magician.
The lockup can be easily triggered by running "hdparm -t/dev/hdX" (hdX being your harddrive) from the root prompt a couple of times.
I know, I know, it's easy (as well as unfair) for me to bitch and moan, since I'm not a kernel developer. But knowing that there are patches out there that could solve this problem, but still haven't made it into the kernel, it's frustrating.
For what it's worth: I haven't noticed any speed advantages between an APIC-enabled and non-APIC-enabled kernel, so I guess it's not too much of a loss.
Does anybody here have any better experiences with this?
[ACPI] nforce2 timer lockup from Maciej W. Rozycki
Oooh, does that mean I can finally enable both APIC and ACPI support in the kernel without experiencing lockups on my Nforce2-based system? I've been waiting for quite a while for this patch to go in.:)
But weren't there supposed to be two (complementary) patches for this problem out there?
len.brown@intel.com
Thanks Intel guy, for allowing this AMD fix to go in.:D
I experienced the same problem and solved it by excluding APIC support in the kernel configuration alltogether.
I recall reading somewhere that disabling ACPI while keeping APIC enabled should also solve the issue. In other words: the problem apparantly only occurs when BOTH ACPI AND APIC are enabled on systems with Nforce2 chipsets.
Wasn't there supposed to be a patch out there fixing this issue already? And if so, why hasn't it been merged in the tree by now? I know, I know, the 2.6 tree is still quite young, but then again: the patch has been around since before the official 2.6.0 kernel was released.
By the way: does anyone know if we're missing out on much by disabling APIC support? Is there any downside to having shared interrupts (performance- or otherwise)?
This space flight combat sim set in the B5-universe was cancelled by Sierra. The company (once again) chickened out, fearing that both the genre and the franchise would be catering to too limited an audience.
Reportedly, the game was in very advanced stages of development when it was axed.
Fortunately, fans of both Babylon 5 and the space flight combat sim genre have received quite a treat last Christmas, when an indepedent group released the prequel campaign of the B5 space flight combat sim "I've Found Her" as freeware (as in Beer) for everyone to download.
A bittorrent link can be found somewhere on the official site:
http://ifh.firstones.org
I don't know about the others here, but everything about the game (gameplay, atmosphere, graphics, sound, music, detailed trueness to the B5-universe) blows me away. What particularly amazes me is the fact that the game seems so polished that it is hard to believe that this game was the fruit of an (initially) grass-roots effort. Even if Sierra had released ITF, it would be highly doubtful if the quality would be even equal to IFH.
Therefore, it might even be somewhat comforting that Sierra's game was never released: after all, its cancellation was apparently the driving force behind this IFH project initiative.
However, I can't stand the fact that the filming of the cutscenes for Sierra's ITF (involving quite a few actors from the original B5 cast) was all wrapped up when Sierra axed the official game, meaning that unused B5 footage must still be gathering dust somewhere within Sierra's archives unused, and that it will probably never be seen by anyone outside Sierra.
Here in the Netherlands (not sure about the rest of the EU) it is mandatory by law for a company to extend the warranty with 3 months after a product has been repaired and returned to the customer. This extension is not cumulative, if the standard warranty doesn't yet expire for at least three months after the repair, there is no further extension, as far as I know (unless the repair time takes too long, in which case the customer should also be compensated).
If a similar law were to apply in the US as well, then I'm sure Apple would think twice about shoving this problem under the carpet, since not taking action would possibly cost them more money in fines and legal expenses than if they just fixed the ibooks even though they're just out of warranty. Not to mention the reputation and goodwill that would be at stake.
Is there a similar law in the US? Knowing how little the US government protects consumers from malevolent companies, there probably isn't.
Call us communists, but the simple fact remains that corporate interests are often not the same as consumer's interests. The customer's rights should be defended, and there is definately a role for the government to play here.
It's so damn frustrating: on the one hand the 2.6.0 kernels run really great, I finally have a decent Gentoo installation and now...
On the other hand, my system freezes occasionaly during disc activity and/or when using the mouse or keyboard. Actually, I'm not really sure why or in what situations the system freezes. It seems to occur randomly, whenever there is some form of activity.
I have tried recompiling the kernels, leaving out certain features such as ACPI, APM, etc, but to no avail.
The 2.4 kernel provided on the Gentoo boot CD doesn't have this problem and neither did 2.6.0-test7 on RH9/RawHide/"quasi-"Fedora.
But on Gentoo, both 2.6.0-test8-mm1 (Andrew) and 2.6.0-test9 (Linus) really freeze (lock up) my system every once and a while (perhaps a few times a day). I can't put a finger on it, because it can happen both in X11 as in text mode CLI, bot with and without the (patched) NVIDIA driver loaded, and either when working interactively or when there is a lot of disc activity.
Finding the culprit to this stability problem is a needle in a haystack. How on earth can you debug lock-ups? If the kernel panicked or oopsed instead, then I would at least have some leads, even though I'm not a kernel hacker.
Am I the only one with this problem? I have an nforce2-based chipset, but why should that be the cause of the problem if the same chipset ran flawlessly on the later 2.4 kernels and 2.6.0-test7 on RH9?
Apart from the occasional lock-ups, the kernel runs beautifully, that's what makes it so frustrating! Stability was one of the reasons why I switched to Linux!:'(
I can't seem to find the distance between here and Gem 37 in any of the mentioned links.
Is it tens of light years, hundreds of light years, thousands, even?
Even if there were indeed some intelligent life in the Gem 37 system, only in the first case (tens of light years) could we hope to ever communicate with them. Unless if Einstein's theory somehow turns out to be wrong (or not entirely correct) and both mankind and the folks at Gem 37 eventually develop some sort of FTL communication and/or propulsion technology.
But then again, IANARS ('RS' standing for "rocket scientist").;)
Agreed. The availability of the source code to Homeworld is really cool, since it's one of the most awesome games ever released.:)
But can anybody here tell us under what kind of license the source code has been released? What are the major differences with the GPL and is it close to any of the generally accepted "Open Source" licenses?
It seems likely to me that it would be a highly restrictive "non-commercial use only" license, similar to the one under which Volition released the source to Freespace a while back.
At any rate, beggers can't be choosers. With this code, we'll be able to port it to various non-Win32 platforms, regardless. Especially since the game's engine supports not only Direct3D, but OpenGL as well. Good job, Valve!:)
It's a joint initiative of several companies, and as such, these companies associate themselves with one another through this alliance. Given SCO's practices over the last few months, they should sever all ties with this company, period.
[i]"To the amazement of readers of an IBM newsgroup, neither Microsoft nor the USPTO examiners seem to be aware of the existence of the Mainframe-based prior art, which is not cited in the patent."[/i]
Duh, of course you don't include references to prior art in your patent application. What kind of idiot would do that?:D
Sorry to remind the Slashdot crowd of this issue yet again, but weren't some of the features mentioned in your list patented and heavily protected by companies such as Apple and Adobe? I'm talking about the CMYK and ICC color management stuff. Perhaps they have finally found a way to work around any of such existing patents. If so: good job!
Something else about the feature list: SVG support, that's pretty cool! That standard is expected to become more interesting in the not too distant future. Glad to see support for this official W3C-approved vector graphics standard increasing.:)
I'm sure this post will be lost in the vast sea of replies and even if it will be noticed, it will probably be moderated down as flamebait.
I just don't understand how the American people have so much respect for one of the worst presidents in their country's relatively short history.
This guy was an airhead, pushed around by his wife, he didn't even have any principles of his own. Before he became president, he snitched on many of his friends during the McCarty commission, while he himself had once applied for membership at the American Communist party! During his presidency, he devestated the US economy, and pissed off most the rest of the world by ordering military strikes and incurstions in affairs that were none of his business. He ordered civilian targets in libya to be bombed after a terrorist strike within the US without any proof that they were involved in that attack. When a later investigation revealed that Libya was in no way involved, he didn't even apologize for the unwarranted attack and loss of innocent life. Then there's the Iran Contra scandal. And what about Aids? He totally ignored that, because was one of those people who believed Aids was God's punishment of gay people.
Why do you love that asshole? Outside the US, he used to be the most hated US president in history. Now he shares the top spot with the baffoon that is running your country right now.
Why don't you appreciate the past presidents that were at least halfway decent, like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton? Yes, I said Bill Clinton, that's right. He cheated on his wife, but at least he had economic insight and diplomatic skills. Not just the US, but the entire planet was better off with him as president than it is now.
Damnit, I know I may be generalising, but it's the American population's general ignorance and naivete that will keep the existance of truly enlightend and righteous presidents like David Palmer on 24 limited to ficticious TV series.
Reagan was a war criminal and idiot and now you're naming one of your most sophisticated technological achievements after that asshole. I can't believe this fucking country of yours.
Yeah, go ahead. Moderate me down, this piece of "eurotrash" over here doesn't give a fuck. But you know what? There are many people worldwide that share my view!
That's funny. In "Codename: Iceman", one of Sierra's lesser known SCI adventure games, one of the first things you need to do is apply CPR on a girl that almost drowned. If I'm not mistaken, this was actually some sort of copy protection, since the procedure involved a sequence of commands that no one would have figured out without consulting the walkthrough in the manual included with the game.
(Appropriate alternative lyrics to "Buddy Holly" by Weezer) What's with these losers threatening us Why won't they get a clue Why are they wasting those legal fees Instead of inventing something new
Ooh ooh, IBM they dissed Ooh ooh, now they're really pissed
Ooh ooh... They picked the wrong foe!
SCO: what a bunch of fucking morons Oh oh fuck their bogus IP claims
I don't care what they say about suing i don't care 'bout that
The problem is that 33MHz 32-bit PCI slots (which are still the only available PCI variant on practically every mainstream motherbord currently available) have a limited bandwidth (133 Megabytes per second in total, if I'm not mistaken). Every PCI card takes up some of this bandwidth. Since bandwidth demand in most interfaces and other devices just keeps on increasing, this is becoming more and more of a problem, and it will remain a problem as long as PCI Express is not yet a common standard.
PCI bandwidth scarcity already led to the introduction of the separate AGP port, which already relieves the PCI bus from the most bandwidth hungry category of interface cards, namely graphics cards. A motherboard can have only one AGP port however (that's why AGP is a port, while PCI is a bus). Also, the use of AGP is limited to graphics cards only.
Another way to save PCI bandwidth is to integrate certain functinality otherwise implented through separate PCI cards directly in a chipset's southbridge (either that or by connecting interface chips to the southbridge through another faster internal interface, such as Hypertransport or VIA V-Link). We're talking about IDE controllers (plain old ATA as well as Serial ATA), USB 2.0, Firewire, etc.
Integrating a sound subsystem of high (or at least acceptable) quality directly in the chipset frees up precious PCI bandwidth even further.
This saves bandwidth for additional IDE controllers, SCSI controllers, video editing cards, additional graphics cards (for multi-monitor setups) and high quality sound solutions.
In other words, this will buy us more time while PCI Express is being introduced gradually into the mainstream market.
One important thing: if you purchase one of those "Deluxe" motherboards with all kinds of extra functionality integrated on-board, keep in mind that only the functionality integrated in the southbridge or connected to it through a high-speed internal interface will actually bypass the PCI bus. Many separate chips (such as on-board Promise or Highpoint softraid controllers) tend to be connected to the PCI bus internally, therefore still consuming PCI bandwidth. I'm not sure about many separate LAN-chips on many motherboards, though, because they might be connected to the southbridge through a separate bus, I'm not sure. Could somebody else here provide some more accurate information on this, please?
Not entirely off-topic, I admit, but Wind River has offered a desktop-version of their GUI toolkit called "Zinc" for free use (with certain ristrictions). So I'm curious: has anybody here had any experience with Zinc? Is it any good?
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft provides neither an MPEG2 codec nor a CSS decrypter as part of any Windows version.
In order to watch DVD's under Windows, a third party solution (such as WinDVD or PowerDVD) is still required.
Granted, when such a third party-player is installed, Windows Media Player also becomes DVD-enabled automatically, because it will immediately take advantage of the newly installed DVD-related shared libs.
So even if people solely use WMP to watch DVD's, they'll still need third-party software.
Therefore, the same anti-trust argument, as in the case of Netscape, Real and now possibly the antivirus solution providers, doesn't apply here.
I remember watching a few episodes of a cartoon series called "Defenders of the Earth" on TV back in the late eighties or early nineties... Apparently it was a spinoff of the Flash Gordon cartoon series and it featured several heroes in the main cast, one of them being Mandrake the Magician.
The bug's still there. :(
/dev/hdX" (hdX being your harddrive) from the root prompt a couple of times.
The lockup can be easily triggered by running "hdparm -t
I know, I know, it's easy (as well as unfair) for me to bitch and moan, since I'm not a kernel developer. But knowing that there are patches out there that could solve this problem, but still haven't made it into the kernel, it's frustrating.
For what it's worth: I haven't noticed any speed advantages between an APIC-enabled and non-APIC-enabled kernel, so I guess it's not too much of a loss.
Does anybody here have any better experiences with this?
[ACPI] nforce2 timer lockup from Maciej W. Rozycki
:)
:D
Oooh, does that mean I can finally enable both APIC and ACPI support in the kernel without experiencing lockups on my Nforce2-based system? I've been waiting for quite a while for this patch to go in.
But weren't there supposed to be two (complementary) patches for this problem out there?
len.brown@intel.com
Thanks Intel guy, for allowing this AMD fix to go in.
I experienced the same problem and solved it by excluding APIC support in the kernel configuration alltogether.
I recall reading somewhere that disabling ACPI while keeping APIC enabled should also solve the issue. In other words: the problem apparantly only occurs when BOTH ACPI AND APIC are enabled on systems with Nforce2 chipsets.
Wasn't there supposed to be a patch out there fixing this issue already? And if so, why hasn't it been merged in the tree by now? I know, I know, the 2.6 tree is still quite young, but then again: the patch has been around since before the official 2.6.0 kernel was released.
By the way: does anyone know if we're missing out on much by disabling APIC support? Is there any downside to having shared interrupts (performance- or otherwise)?
It should be:
;)
http://ifh.firstones.com
Sorry.
This space flight combat sim set in the B5-universe was cancelled by Sierra. The company (once again) chickened out, fearing that both the genre and the franchise would be catering to too limited an audience.
Reportedly, the game was in very advanced stages of development when it was axed.
Fortunately, fans of both Babylon 5 and the space flight combat sim genre have received quite a treat last Christmas, when an indepedent group released the prequel campaign of the B5 space flight combat sim "I've Found Her" as freeware (as in Beer) for everyone to download.
A bittorrent link can be found somewhere on the official site:
http://ifh.firstones.org
I don't know about the others here, but everything about the game (gameplay, atmosphere, graphics, sound, music, detailed trueness to the B5-universe) blows me away. What particularly amazes me is the fact that the game seems so polished that it is hard to believe that this game was the fruit of an (initially) grass-roots effort. Even if Sierra had released ITF, it would be highly doubtful if the quality would be even equal to IFH.
Therefore, it might even be somewhat comforting that Sierra's game was never released: after all, its cancellation was apparently the driving force behind this IFH project initiative.
However, I can't stand the fact that the filming of the cutscenes for Sierra's ITF (involving quite a few actors from the original B5 cast) was all wrapped up when Sierra axed the official game, meaning that unused B5 footage must still be gathering dust somewhere within Sierra's archives unused, and that it will probably never be seen by anyone outside Sierra.
Here in the Netherlands (not sure about the rest of the EU) it is mandatory by law for a company to extend the warranty with 3 months after a product has been repaired and returned to the customer. This extension is not cumulative, if the standard warranty doesn't yet expire for at least three months after the repair, there is no further extension, as far as I know (unless the repair time takes too long, in which case the customer should also be compensated).
If a similar law were to apply in the US as well, then I'm sure Apple would think twice about shoving this problem under the carpet, since not taking action would possibly cost them more money in fines and legal expenses than if they just fixed the ibooks even though they're just out of warranty. Not to mention the reputation and goodwill that would be at stake.
Is there a similar law in the US? Knowing how little the US government protects consumers from malevolent companies, there probably isn't.
Call us communists, but the simple fact remains that corporate interests are often not the same as consumer's interests. The customer's rights should be defended, and there is definately a role for the government to play here.
It's so damn frustrating: on the one hand the 2.6.0 kernels run really great, I finally have a decent Gentoo installation and now...
:'(
On the other hand, my system freezes occasionaly during disc activity and/or when using the mouse or keyboard. Actually, I'm not really sure why or in what situations the system freezes. It seems to occur randomly, whenever there is some form of activity.
I have tried recompiling the kernels, leaving out certain features such as ACPI, APM, etc, but to no avail.
The 2.4 kernel provided on the Gentoo boot CD doesn't have this problem and neither did 2.6.0-test7 on RH9/RawHide/"quasi-"Fedora.
But on Gentoo, both 2.6.0-test8-mm1 (Andrew) and 2.6.0-test9 (Linus) really freeze (lock up) my system every once and a while (perhaps a few times a day). I can't put a finger on it, because it can happen both in X11 as in text mode CLI, bot with and without the (patched) NVIDIA driver loaded, and either when working interactively or when there is a lot of disc activity.
Finding the culprit to this stability problem is a needle in a haystack. How on earth can you debug lock-ups? If the kernel panicked or oopsed instead, then I would at least have some leads, even though I'm not a kernel hacker.
Am I the only one with this problem? I have an nforce2-based chipset, but why should that be the cause of the problem if the same chipset ran flawlessly on the later 2.4 kernels and 2.6.0-test7 on RH9?
Apart from the occasional lock-ups, the kernel runs beautifully, that's what makes it so frustrating! Stability was one of the reasons why I switched to Linux!
I can't seem to find the distance between here and Gem 37 in any of the mentioned links.
;)
Is it tens of light years, hundreds of light years, thousands, even?
Even if there were indeed some intelligent life in the Gem 37 system, only in the first case (tens of light years) could we hope to ever communicate with them. Unless if Einstein's theory somehow turns out to be wrong (or not entirely correct) and both mankind and the folks at Gem 37 eventually develop some sort of FTL communication and/or propulsion technology.
But then again, IANARS ('RS' standing for "rocket scientist").
Not GPL'ed, but pretty nifty all the same.
:)
:)
Agreed. The availability of the source code to Homeworld is really cool, since it's one of the most awesome games ever released.
But can anybody here tell us under what kind of license the source code has been released? What are the major differences with the GPL and is it close to any of the generally accepted "Open Source" licenses?
It seems likely to me that it would be a highly restrictive "non-commercial use only" license, similar to the one under which Volition released the source to Freespace a while back.
At any rate, beggers can't be choosers. With this code, we'll be able to port it to various non-Win32 platforms, regardless. Especially since the game's engine supports not only Direct3D, but OpenGL as well. Good job, Valve!
The popularity of UnitedLinux is not an issue.
It's a joint initiative of several companies, and as such, these companies associate themselves with one another through this alliance. Given SCO's practices over the last few months, they should sever all ties with this company, period.
I forgot Conectiva, of course. But surely they too must be fed up with SCO's actions and behaviour by now?
Kick SCO out, already!
What I don't understand is why SuSe and TurboLinux haven't kicked SCO out of the UnitedLinux consortium right now.
SCO has been continuously intimidating, threatening and insulting them, as well as Linux in general.
What's the point in keeping SCO a member of something Linux-related? Why do SuSe and TurboLinux continue associating themselves with those scumbags?
...With apologies to Weezer this time. :)
[i]"To the amazement of readers of an IBM newsgroup, neither Microsoft nor the USPTO examiners seem to be aware of the existence of the Mainframe-based prior art, which is not cited in the patent."[/i]
:D
Duh, of course you don't include references to prior art in your patent application. What kind of idiot would do that?
Sorry to remind the Slashdot crowd of this issue yet again, but weren't some of the features mentioned in your list patented and heavily protected by companies such as Apple and Adobe? I'm talking about the CMYK and ICC color management stuff. Perhaps they have finally found a way to work around any of such existing patents. If so: good job!
:)
Something else about the feature list: SVG support, that's pretty cool! That standard is expected to become more interesting in the not too distant future. Glad to see support for this official W3C-approved vector graphics standard increasing.
I'm sure this post will be lost in the vast sea of replies and even if it will be noticed, it will probably be moderated down as flamebait.
I just don't understand how the American people have so much respect for one of the worst presidents in their country's relatively short history.
This guy was an airhead, pushed around by his wife, he didn't even have any principles of his own. Before he became president, he snitched on many of his friends during the McCarty commission, while he himself had once applied for membership at the American Communist party! During his presidency, he devestated the US economy, and pissed off most the rest of the world by ordering military strikes and incurstions in affairs that were none of his business. He ordered civilian targets in libya to be bombed after a terrorist strike within the US without any proof that they were involved in that attack. When a later investigation revealed that Libya was in no way involved, he didn't even apologize for the unwarranted attack and loss of innocent life. Then there's the Iran Contra scandal. And what about Aids? He totally ignored that, because was one of those people who believed Aids was God's punishment of gay people.
Why do you love that asshole? Outside the US, he used to be the most hated US president in history. Now he shares the top spot with the baffoon that is running your country right now.
Why don't you appreciate the past presidents that were at least halfway decent, like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton? Yes, I said Bill Clinton, that's right. He cheated on his wife, but at least he had economic insight and diplomatic skills. Not just the US, but the entire planet was better off with him as president than it is now.
Damnit, I know I may be generalising, but it's the American population's general ignorance and naivete that will keep the existance of truly enlightend and righteous presidents like David Palmer on 24 limited to ficticious TV series.
Reagan was a war criminal and idiot and now you're naming one of your most sophisticated technological achievements after that asshole. I can't believe this fucking country of yours.
Yeah, go ahead. Moderate me down, this piece of "eurotrash" over here doesn't give a fuck. But you know what? There are many people worldwide that share my view!
That's funny. In "Codename: Iceman", one of Sierra's lesser known SCI adventure games, one of the first things you need to do is apply CPR on a girl that almost drowned. If I'm not mistaken, this was actually some sort of copy protection, since the procedure involved a sequence of commands that no one would have figured out without consulting the walkthrough in the manual included with the game.
(Appropriate alternative lyrics to "Buddy Holly" by Weezer)
What's with these losers threatening us
Why won't they get a clue
Why are they wasting those legal fees
Instead of inventing something new
Ooh ooh, IBM they dissed
Ooh ooh, now they're really pissed
Ooh ooh... They picked the wrong foe!
SCO: what a bunch of fucking morons
Oh oh fuck their bogus IP claims
I don't care what they say about suing
i don't care 'bout that
The problem is that 33MHz 32-bit PCI slots (which are still the only available PCI variant on practically every mainstream motherbord currently available) have a limited bandwidth (133 Megabytes per second in total, if I'm not mistaken). Every PCI card takes up some of this bandwidth. Since bandwidth demand in most interfaces and other devices just keeps on increasing, this is becoming more and more of a problem, and it will remain a problem as long as PCI Express is not yet a common standard.
PCI bandwidth scarcity already led to the introduction of the separate AGP port, which already relieves the PCI bus from the most bandwidth hungry category of interface cards, namely graphics cards. A motherboard can have only one AGP port however (that's why AGP is a port, while PCI is a bus). Also, the use of AGP is limited to graphics cards only.
Another way to save PCI bandwidth is to integrate certain functinality otherwise implented through separate PCI cards directly in a chipset's southbridge (either that or by connecting interface chips to the southbridge through another faster internal interface, such as Hypertransport or VIA V-Link). We're talking about IDE controllers (plain old ATA as well as Serial ATA), USB 2.0, Firewire, etc.
Integrating a sound subsystem of high (or at least acceptable) quality directly in the chipset frees up precious PCI bandwidth even further.
This saves bandwidth for additional IDE controllers, SCSI controllers, video editing cards, additional graphics cards (for multi-monitor setups) and high quality sound solutions.
In other words, this will buy us more time while PCI Express is being introduced gradually into the mainstream market.
One important thing: if you purchase one of those "Deluxe" motherboards with all kinds of extra functionality integrated on-board, keep in mind that only the functionality integrated in the southbridge or connected to it through a high-speed internal interface will actually bypass the PCI bus. Many separate chips (such as on-board Promise or Highpoint softraid controllers) tend to be connected to the PCI bus internally, therefore still consuming PCI bandwidth. I'm not sure about many separate LAN-chips on many motherboards, though, because they might be connected to the southbridge through a separate bus, I'm not sure. Could somebody else here provide some more accurate information on this, please?
OK. As long as we say no to islamic terrorists/fundementalists too.
All intolerance is criminal.
I agree with you 100%. I reject fundamentalism as well as zionism and especially the terrorism originating from both.
Oops, I meant "not entirely on-topic", of course. ;) And "restrictions" with an 'e', while I'm at it. :P
Not entirely off-topic, I admit, but Wind River has offered a desktop-version of their GUI toolkit called "Zinc" for free use (with certain ristrictions). So I'm curious: has anybody here had any experience with Zinc? Is it any good?
t op /index.html
http://www.windriver.com/products/zinc_for_desk
Neither is having the balls to post under your own username. :P