The advantage SCSI has over IDE is the multiple read, writes on the channel. So a single IDE drive compared to a Single SCSI drive may provide an advantage but you can put several SCSI devices on the same SCSI channel and make use of multiple read/writes. To obtain similar performance with IDE you would have to have a separate channel for every IDE drive. The biggest advantage to SCSI comes with raid. No sure you can get IDE Raid but compared to a good SCSI raid card, IDE raid sucks.
As dangerous as Lyposuction is at least it isn't as immoral as aborting fetuses for stem cells. Epecially since any progress that has been made medically with stem cells has used adult stem cells not fetus ones.
With CodeWeaver's CrossOver Plugin, you can run Quicktime 5 and Windows Media Player 6.4 under Linux. Now it isn't free but you can purchase it for $24.95.
Remember this is like a rental agreement. The agreement will claim all kinds of stuff that it can enforce. This is to encourage people who actually read them to forego certain rights.
I remember I worked for an Apartment building that would put in it's contract that cats are not allowed. Yet legally in that community, they can't enforce that. No Dogs yes but you can't prevent them from getting a cat even if they signed the rental agreement because that clause in the agreement isn't legally enforceable.
Microsoft does the same thing with their software. The put in stuff they can't enforce just to scare people into compliance.
I think you are confusing Refresh Rate with Scan Lines. The Refresh Rate is how often the picture is updated.
The flicker on CRTs comes from the Scan Lines not the refresh rate. The refresh rate on CRTs determines how fast the image is rescaned. On LCDs it determines how often it is redisplayed. LCDs display the whole picture at once.
I would before I would buy a 15" LCD that ran 1024x768. The only reason I don't run 16x12 on my current 17" CRT is that it doesn't support it. (17" CRT ~ same viewable area as a 15" LCD.) You know you can always make the fonts bigger and Icons bigger at high resolutions.
I know that the refresh rate is not as important but remember that it has more to do with the fact that LCDs don't really use scan lines like CRTs not the fleeting power of the the phosphors.
Man if I wanted a 21.3" monitor I would hope that it could do 16x12 at higher than 60Hz. At that size I would definely want to run 16x12 but 60Hz is just too low. I really don't want my monitor matching the flicker rate of the florescent lights.
The review is good and it shows that Linux supports most of the hardware that comes in the Wal-mart offerings but you think he could use current versions of the OS. Man Redhat 7.1 is over a year old and Suse 7.2 is probably almost as old.
If I were buying a new machine I am not going to put a version of Linux on it that is a year old. I would put MDK 8.2 or RedHat 7.2.93.
His review would have been useless if the motherboard was based on the SIS735 chipset which is now fully supported by the Redhat beta.
He's got an assload of 400 MHz P2s, probably Slot-1-based, and each box has either 64 or 128M of PC100 SDRAM.
Why not buy a bunch of Celeron or P3-800ish chips and FCPGA (new-sk00l slotket), and another 128M of RAM for each of them?
I think you could get a decent CPU and RAM upgrade for less than $100 per box.
You pricing is out to lunch. Not only are 100 Mhz Bus processors no longer made, you can't even get them for $100 USD. How do you expect him to find 60?
It would be cheaper and provide more performance to upgrade to a Morgan Core Duron. If you pick the right motherboard you can even use your current SDRAM, though DDR will provide much better performance.
His biggest problem will be re-using the cases if the machines they currently have are Microns and Gateways. I would hazard a guess that he will find the cases too small if at all viable.
Go ahead and buy an 800MHz processor if you'd like but I can assure you it is very old stock. AMD doesn't make 1GHz Duron's anymore and what's the slowests Celeron now?
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Of Course not it hasn't been out for 3 months yet... Wake up and realize that debian is volunteer run.
Potato is definitely very old and out of date but Debian is nowhere near the only Linux distribution.
Mandrake 8.2 has just been released.
The next version of RedHat (7.2.9.2 codenamed SlapJack) is in public beta.
Both of these Distros are upto data and have cutting edge software.
What about Kde3?
It is on the verge of release. Add Mosfet's High Performance Liquid Style to it and you have one nice desktop.
NA! Saying that Linux is not cutting edge is just shows how little you know about it. Sure Microsoft does all it can to make sure that it's Operating Systems have drivers for new hardware first but not all hardware manufacturer's play Microsoft's Game.
Most Slashdot replies are so dump these days it almost makes you sick.
The Fiber itself is very cheap. What costs alot is terminating the ends. If I were you I would have the telephone installer run the cat5 and fiber for you as well because it is really not much more work for him to run multiple lines.
Running fiber now would allow you to just terminate the ends when you are ready to use it. The question is do you really need fiber. The distance you are going to be working with in the host are well within Gb Copper's range. I can see you needing to go much past 1000 Mb within the next 10 years.
The New Athlon XPs support SSE and will run Photoshop fine as will the new Durons. For a sub $1000 dollar system the new Durons are an excellent choice.
remember you can get 3D hardware acceleration on the Radeon with the Open Source drivers
Not true for the 8500. So far there is only 2D support for the Card and to get proper support you need to install the CVS version of X. They are working on the 3D support and hopefully it will come soon.
On another note when is ATI going to release the binary drivers for the DVD compensation. They said they were going to do it last year.
2) You are stuck with what linux kernel that nVidia deems ok. This may be fine for now, but when nVidia releases new products, and cease support of older ones, when you upgrade your distro to something with, say kernel 3.0, your screwed because they only support the GeForce 4 and newer (hypothetical future)
Not true. You can download a version of the kernel driver which can be compiled for your current kernel and it support previous cards as well. Get your facts straight.
You have to pay big bucks to respond to RFPs, what a joke. There is know way that most open source developers can afford that or would bother
spending money on it. I know I couldn't.
Wilan in Calgary, Alberta offers a Point-to-Point solution that could work. It should be cheaper that running fibre. Companies such as Nortel use this between buildings in Calgary. The only problem is that you have to have line of site which means that you would need high enough towers to have line of site. I suspect that the tower costs will determine whether or not this is valid solution.
You could also use satillite. I know that you can get pretty good downloads but I am not sure if the bidirectional solutions are avaliable yet.
Why buy a $300 dollar game console to run linux? The PS2 is great game console and you buy it for that reason.
Can you say NHL 2002, NBA Live 2002?
If you want something you can put Linux on
go by an old Pentium or Pentium II for less money.
If you want it to play out to a TV, add a ATI Xpert 98 @ play.
Radeons have a better quality picture and the GeForce Ultras and up are faster with lower quality. I find that most cards are fast enough so I would buy the one with better graphics and save myself a couple of hundred. And 3DFX is dead now.
Limit each dynamic IP host to not more than 1 email message every 2 minutes.
Many non spammers including myself send more than 1 email message within a 2 minute period. I play a play by mail game and it is nothing for me to send 3 or 4 short responses within 2 minutes of each other. Also many people run small mail-lists of friends where they end up sending multiple email at once. I seen lists like this at 40 or 50 people and it's not spam.
Require dedicated network owners to agree to the same anti-spam agreement in writing to be allowed access to port 25 outbound or to access unthrottled mail servers.
Fine but if you use RBMS, domains that allow spamming will get black balled already.
Require legitimate bulk mailers to agree to certain terms such as using only opt-in lists even though the law otherwise permits them to use an opt-out list.
This is a good idea but impossible to enforce. The internet deals with too many legal entities and they would all have to enforce this for it to work.
Must provide a contact address and/or telephone number for reporting abuse. Abuse reports from the general public must have a human response within 24 hours. Abuse reports from a member administrator/manager/engineer must have a human response within 2 hours.
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How is saying that Lyposuction is not as immoral as abortion anti-religious? If any comment is flamebait, it's yours. Buddy.
The advantage SCSI has over IDE is the multiple read, writes on the channel. So a single IDE drive compared to a Single SCSI drive may provide an advantage but you can put several SCSI devices on the same SCSI channel and make use of multiple read/writes. To obtain similar performance with IDE you would have to have a separate channel for every IDE drive. The biggest advantage to SCSI comes with raid. No sure you can get IDE Raid but compared to a good SCSI raid card, IDE raid sucks.
As dangerous as Lyposuction is at least it isn't as immoral as aborting fetuses for stem cells. Epecially since any progress that has been made medically with stem cells has used adult stem cells not fetus ones.
With CodeWeaver's CrossOver Plugin, you can run Quicktime 5 and Windows Media Player 6.4 under Linux. Now it isn't free but you can purchase it for $24.95.
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Remember this is like a rental agreement. The agreement will claim all kinds of stuff that it can enforce. This is to encourage people who actually read them to forego certain rights.
I remember I worked for an Apartment building that would put in it's contract that cats are not allowed. Yet legally in that community, they can't enforce that. No Dogs yes but you can't prevent them from getting a cat even if they signed the rental agreement because that clause in the agreement isn't legally enforceable.
Microsoft does the same thing with their software. The put in stuff they can't enforce just to scare people into compliance.
I think you are confusing Refresh Rate with Scan Lines. The Refresh Rate is how often the picture is updated.
The flicker on CRTs comes from the Scan Lines not the refresh rate. The refresh rate on CRTs determines how fast the image is rescaned. On LCDs it determines how often it is redisplayed. LCDs display the whole picture at once.
I would before I would buy a 15" LCD that ran 1024x768. The only reason I don't run 16x12 on my current 17" CRT is that it doesn't support it. (17" CRT ~ same viewable area as a 15" LCD.) You know you can always make the fonts bigger and Icons bigger at high resolutions.
I know that the refresh rate is not as important but remember that it has more to do with the fact that LCDs don't really use scan lines like CRTs not the fleeting power of the the phosphors.
Man if I wanted a 21.3" monitor I would hope that it could do 16x12 at higher than 60Hz. At that size I would definely want to run 16x12 but 60Hz is just too low. I really don't want my monitor matching the flicker rate of the florescent lights.
The review is good and it shows that Linux supports most of the hardware that comes in the Wal-mart offerings but you think he could use current versions of the OS. Man Redhat 7.1 is over a year old and Suse 7.2 is probably almost as old.
If I were buying a new machine I am not going to put a version of Linux on it that is a year old. I would put MDK 8.2 or RedHat 7.2.93.
His review would have been useless if the motherboard was based on the SIS735 chipset which is now fully supported by the Redhat beta.
Maya, Blender. Check out the linux journals over the past year they have discussed all the software that is available.
Nope.
I have a BX440 which takes any 100Mhz bus processor upto 800 Mhz.
He's got an assload of 400 MHz P2s, probably Slot-1-based, and each box has either 64 or 128M of PC100 SDRAM.
Why not buy a bunch of Celeron or P3-800ish chips and FCPGA (new-sk00l slotket), and another 128M of RAM for each of them?
I think you could get a decent CPU and RAM upgrade for less than $100 per box.
You pricing is out to lunch. Not only are 100 Mhz Bus processors no longer made, you can't even get them for $100 USD. How do you expect him to find 60?
It would be cheaper and provide more performance to upgrade to a Morgan Core Duron. If you pick the right motherboard you can even use your current SDRAM, though DDR will provide much better performance.
His biggest problem will be re-using the cases if the machines they currently have are Microns and Gateways. I would hazard a guess that he will find the cases too small if at all viable.
Go ahead and buy an 800MHz processor if you'd like but I can assure you it is very old stock. AMD doesn't make 1GHz Duron's anymore and what's the slowests Celeron now?
Of Course not it hasn't been out for 3 months yet... Wake up and realize that debian is volunteer run.
Whatever?
Debian != Linux
Potato is definitely very old and out of date but Debian is nowhere near the only Linux distribution.
Mandrake 8.2 has just been released.
The next version of RedHat (7.2.9.2 codenamed SlapJack) is in public beta.
Both of these Distros are upto data and have cutting edge software.
What about Kde3?
It is on the verge of release. Add Mosfet's High Performance Liquid Style to it and you have one nice desktop.
NA! Saying that Linux is not cutting edge is just shows how little you know about it. Sure Microsoft does all it can to make sure that it's Operating Systems have drivers for new hardware first but not all hardware manufacturer's play Microsoft's Game.
Most Slashdot replies are so dump these days it almost makes you sick.
Running fiber now would allow you to just terminate the ends when you are ready to use it. The question is do you really need fiber. The distance you are going to be working with in the host are well within Gb Copper's range. I can see you needing to go much past 1000 Mb within the next 10 years.
The New Athlon XPs support SSE and will run Photoshop fine as will the new Durons. For a sub $1000 dollar system the new Durons are an excellent choice.
Not true for the 8500. So far there is only 2D support for the Card and to get proper support you need to install the CVS version of X. They are working on the 3D support and hopefully it will come soon.
On another note when is ATI going to release the binary drivers for the DVD compensation. They said they were going to do it last year.
Not true. You can download a version of the kernel driver which can be compiled for your current kernel and it support previous cards as well. Get your facts straight.
You have to pay big bucks to respond to RFPs, what a joke. There is know way that most open source developers can afford that or would bother
spending money on it. I know I couldn't.
Wilan in Calgary, Alberta offers a Point-to-Point solution that could work. It should be cheaper that running fibre. Companies such as Nortel use this between buildings in Calgary. The only problem is that you have to have line of site which means that you would need high enough towers to have line of site. I suspect that the tower costs will determine whether or not this is valid solution.
You could also use satillite. I know that you can get pretty good downloads but I am not sure if the bidirectional solutions are avaliable yet.
www.wilan.com
Why buy a $300 dollar game console to run linux? The PS2 is great game console and you buy it for that reason.
Can you say NHL 2002, NBA Live 2002?
If you want something you can put Linux on go by an old Pentium or Pentium II for less money. If you want it to play out to a TV, add a ATI Xpert 98 @ play.
Radeons have a better quality picture and the GeForce Ultras and up are faster with lower quality. I find that most cards are fast enough so I would buy the one with better graphics and save myself a couple of hundred. And 3DFX is dead now.