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The minidisk uses another kind of compression that is actually better than mp3. Somewhere I found a program to encode things in the same format as the MD's compress them on the disk, was slow but really compressed the life outta the files. Either way I'd want an mp3 portable player, not an MD
I have been a fan of the alpha for a while, I have spent maybe the past 40 minutes looking for a place that would actually list a price for a motherboard with a chip so I could get an idea of what it would cost to build a new system. It is things like this that, in my humble opinion, prevent some people from going to an alpha. I always build my own systems, it may just be a stange fetish of mine, but I like my systems only the way I can build them, and not being able to find a place that will let me get a quick idea of how much the chip and m/b are going to run is very annoying. When talking about the spread of linux to the alpha and all that this is probably more relevant than it first looks. It would be interesting to see how many people build thier own systems, and how many people are turned off by not having that same ease and flexibility on the alpha platform
on linux an alpha is like a cheetah on speed. Now that more and more distros are coming out with ports for the alpha hopefully we can move away from redhat too (please, that wasn't meant to start a flame war, I just prefer other distributions)
I agree that alphas rock everything else on the planet, well maybe not, but i love them. Tho I do have a problem with the rc5 claim, my alpha didn't do anything all that impressive with the rc5-64 cracking, I read that it was due to some instructions present in the x86 processors but that need 2 or 3 instructions to do the same thing on the alpha. I could be very wrong....but thats how i remember it.
I'm sorry, but for how long is corprate american gonna push around the peple, and the government itself. We buy (or hopefully don't buy) thier products, yet they come after people and are doing anything to increase profits / get rid of competition. I won't say capitalism is bad, but damn, companies with armies of lawyers trying to almost put in a totalitarean type practices. And of course the biggest bully of them all, the US gov, is just being played with. Its obvious M$ hasn't learned sh*t from the anti-trust case, and that any company just can't go around doing that kinda crap. How is any one person or smaller company supossed to fight back, when large corporations are using the law as a weapon. I have always seen the law (in the USA) as a shield to protect the innocent and punish the guilty, right now in the hands of these companies the law is being used to hurt the innocent and protect the greed.
Sorry about all misspellings and the such, this was all written in fury.
hmm, thats interesting, since I'm running kde1.1 and its running better than ever. I suspect your problem has something to do with the libc version or something.
its got alot to do with what u can eat...and u get drunk more quickly mostly due to not eating as much and that kinda stuff...whatever. Oh yeah, and what fun is it getting drunk really fast.
ok, like where are all the midwest people? we gotta have some pride here. We are in the middle of all of this, we might as well take advantage of it. I dunno, i'm just rambling, how about some cool events in chicago this year or something.
There is always a good way to solve that kinda problem. If a cyberwar as you said breaks out, and we need to take down a country's net links its not that hard, we wanna cut off autralia or something we just go and blow the fiber lines or satilite uplinks. Thats why we have real commandoes and not just geeks protecting our country:)
There is a revolutionary new bug that has just been discovered, and it affects all M$ windows systems, its called time. And come Jan 1, 2000 this bug is going to cause rampant errors in almost all windows systems. M$ is not currently working on a fix, becuse they plan to have a public beta of Windows 2000 out in December of that year, at the earliest. Comparing bugs is not even fair to microsoft. You have to actually pay for thier product and you expect it to be bug free, Linux you can get for free, and it *IS* bug free (well close enough when you compare the two). OK I'm done now.
congrats to VA research, but I really dont like the whole buying into of a company to try and increase market share. I'll admit it, i'm very prejudice towards alpha, but have u ever seen 64 bit linux run like that? ooohh.... anyway, its just isn't cool to see another vendor stop making the alpha boxes.
And I supposed you have the intel processor that is going to compete with the k7. I also doubt that intel could put a 1ghz chip out right now, because if they could i'm sure they would have all sorts of crappy adds saying how the internet is going to be so much faster with thier new pentium 3.14159. As for cranking out a 1ghz chip right now i think either motorola/ibm with the powerpc or compaq with the alpha are the only ones capable of doing it if they were really pressed to.
No one said intel was going to sit idle, but what they have planned isn't going to hold a candle to the K7 (if AMD ever gets the K7 outta the factory and into my new motherboard) The K7 will really mix shit up, and I can't wait, maybe intel does have some kind of super processor waiting in the wings, but i doubt it. They have delayed merced enough, and now it seems it won't even perform all that great compared to what else is going to be around.
well, not me atleast, tho I won't claim to be the be all end off of knowledge. But I do know this brings us back to the 3d issue that was brought up pretty recently...to use most visualization software you want atleast some form of 3d hardware acceleration. Anyone have any idea when this is making its way into XFree86?
Personally nt is going down, sure its a bit off topic, but i'm looking more general/. topic:) The more we get big companies doing the right thing, the more force there will be behind everyone else, eventually it'll be really cool. Too bad eventually isn't like tomarrow or something.
This should have done nothing but make up the minds of anyone who is the market for a new laptop, IBM Thinkpads are the only way to go. I mean they are doing the best you can really expect a big company to do in terms of making sure its products are supported under linux. Anyways, yeah, screw Toshiba and there crappy notebooks, just get a thinkpad.
I ate two sticks of celery at the same time once, and I did get all those wirey (s) things in my teeth. Thats about all the good it did me tho, probably about the same that a dual celeron system would do anyone.
You mean you already blew a few thousand dollars without stopping to see if there was a better solution first. I have one thing to say, alpha. Everyone knows the drill, 64 bit and all the rest.
I assure you I am very biased but that is only because I know I am right
I think in a way they do know the answer before the question is asked, with branch prediction and all that nice kinda stuff i don't really understand well enough to talk about.
Well the spinoff's were/are the biggest things to come from that little mission to the moon. I can only imagine what kind of cool toys we will have as a result of the mission to mars. besides, I like velcro, and kevlar is hugely important (good chunk of my family are cops)
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The minidisk uses another kind of compression that is actually better than mp3. Somewhere I found a program to encode things in the same format as the MD's compress them on the disk, was slow but really compressed the life outta the files. Either way I'd want an mp3 portable player, not an MD
I have been a fan of the alpha for a while, I have spent maybe the past 40 minutes looking for a place that would actually list a price for a motherboard with a chip so I could get an idea of what it would cost to build a new system. It is things like this that, in my humble opinion, prevent some people from going to an alpha. I always build my own systems, it may just be a stange fetish of mine, but I like my systems only the way I can build them, and not being able to find a place that will let me get a quick idea of how much the chip and m/b are going to run is very annoying. When talking about the spread of linux to the alpha and all that this is probably more relevant than it first looks. It would be interesting to see how many people build thier own systems, and how many people are turned off by not having that same ease and flexibility on the alpha platform
on linux an alpha is like a cheetah on speed. Now that more and more distros are coming out with ports for the alpha hopefully we can move away from redhat too (please, that wasn't meant to start a flame war, I just prefer other distributions)
I agree that alphas rock everything else on the planet, well maybe not, but i love them. Tho I do have a problem with the rc5 claim, my alpha didn't do anything all that impressive with the rc5-64 cracking, I read that it was due to some instructions present in the x86 processors but that need 2 or 3 instructions to do the same thing on the alpha. I could be very wrong....but thats how i remember it.
I'm sorry, but for how long is corprate american gonna push around the peple, and the government itself. We buy (or hopefully don't buy) thier products, yet they come after people and are doing anything to increase profits / get rid of competition. I won't say capitalism is bad, but damn, companies with armies of lawyers trying to almost put in a totalitarean type practices. And of course the biggest bully of them all, the US gov, is just being played with. Its obvious M$ hasn't learned sh*t from the anti-trust case, and that any company just can't go around doing that kinda crap. How is any one person or smaller company supossed to fight back, when large corporations are using the law as a weapon. I have always seen the law (in the USA) as a shield to protect the innocent and punish the guilty, right now in the hands of these companies the law is being used to hurt the innocent and protect the greed.
Sorry about all misspellings and the such, this was all written in fury.
hmm, thats interesting, since I'm running kde1.1 and its running better than ever. I suspect your problem has something to do with the libc version or something.
its got alot to do with what u can eat...and u get drunk more quickly mostly due to not eating as much and that kinda stuff...whatever. Oh yeah, and what fun is it getting drunk really fast.
ok, like where are all the midwest people? we gotta have some pride here. We are in the middle of all of this, we might as well take advantage of it. I dunno, i'm just rambling, how about some cool events in chicago this year or something.
I think he ment first to get it...hence the referance to the ftp site. personally i couldn't care less...
There is always a good way to solve that kinda problem. If a cyberwar as you said breaks out, and we need to take down a country's net links its not that hard, we wanna cut off autralia or something we just go and blow the fiber lines or satilite uplinks. Thats why we have real commandoes and not just geeks protecting our country :)
There is a revolutionary new bug that has just been discovered, and it affects all M$ windows systems, its called time. And come Jan 1, 2000 this bug is going to cause rampant errors in almost all windows systems. M$ is not currently working on a fix, becuse they plan to have a public beta of Windows 2000 out in December of that year, at the earliest. Comparing bugs is not even fair to microsoft. You have to actually pay for thier product and you expect it to be bug free, Linux you can get for free, and it *IS* bug free (well close enough when you compare the two). OK I'm done now.
congrats to VA research, but I really dont like the whole buying into of a company to try and increase market share. I'll admit it, i'm very prejudice towards alpha, but have u ever seen 64 bit linux run like that? ooohh.... anyway, its just isn't cool to see another vendor stop making the alpha boxes.
And I supposed you have the intel processor that is going to compete with the k7. I also doubt that intel could put a 1ghz chip out right now, because if they could i'm sure they would have all sorts of crappy adds saying how the internet is going to be so much faster with thier new pentium 3.14159. As for cranking out a 1ghz chip right now i think either motorola/ibm with the powerpc or compaq with the alpha are the only ones capable of doing it if they were really pressed to.
No one said intel was going to sit idle, but what they have planned isn't going to hold a candle to the K7 (if AMD ever gets the K7 outta the factory and into my new motherboard) The K7 will really mix shit up, and I can't wait, maybe intel does have some kind of super processor waiting in the wings, but i doubt it. They have delayed merced enough, and now it seems it won't even perform all that great compared to what else is going to be around.
well, not me atleast, tho I won't claim to be the be all end off of knowledge. But I do know this brings us back to the 3d issue that was brought up pretty recently...to use most visualization software you want atleast some form of 3d hardware acceleration. Anyone have any idea when this is making its way into XFree86?
Personally nt is going down, sure its a bit off topic, but i'm looking more general /. topic :)
The more we get big companies doing the right thing, the more force there will be behind everyone else, eventually it'll be really cool. Too bad eventually isn't like tomarrow or something.
Whats so wrong with being stuck at 21? I mean come on, there are worse ages to be.
This should have done nothing but make up the minds of anyone who is the market for a new laptop, IBM Thinkpads are the only way to go. I mean they are doing the best you can really expect a big company to do in terms of making sure its products are supported under linux. Anyways, yeah, screw Toshiba and there crappy notebooks, just get a thinkpad.
I ate two sticks of celery at the same time once, and I did get all those wirey (s) things in my teeth. Thats about all the good it did me tho, probably about the same that a dual celeron system would do anyone.
You mean you already blew a few thousand dollars without stopping to see if there was a better solution first. I have one thing to say, alpha. Everyone knows the drill, 64 bit and all the rest.
I assure you I am very biased but that is only because I know I am right
hmm, you know you have had too much caffine when you come up with something like this:
The names K...2K.
sorry.
I think in a way they do know the answer before the question is asked, with branch prediction and all that nice kinda stuff i don't really understand well enough to talk about.
Well the spinoff's were/are the biggest things to come from that little mission to the moon. I can only imagine what kind of cool toys we will have as a result of the mission to mars. besides, I like velcro, and kevlar is hugely important (good chunk of my family are cops)