Well, lets take a good look at what is happening with the official clients. Nearly all of the folks that I have contact with online use AIM. So, I am forced to use at least something that can talk to their client. Whilst at my place of employment, I use the 'official' version of AIM. Funny thing though. I get booted off at random times (seemingly, that is). Here I am getting some info on a particular C++ class, and boom! I have to log back on... and then it takes a good half hour for the bloody thing to even connect. It disconnects as it is logging in, over and over, I am cast into the void. I have tried several different clients on this damnable service. I am ready to move on... but I can't get anyone to make the move with me.
Something that Windows has long had (well, since 95, anyway) is an integrated feel; stuff can be hooked into explorer
Well, since you pointed that out, let me point out the fact that it is nearly impossible to lock down a desktop workstation running windows. This is due primarily to the integration that is found in all of these wonderful M$ apps. You can launch any application from within Word? WHAT? Why on earth would I want to launch an application from the open dialogue of a word processor? All this mamsy-pamsy-feel-good integration is a big pain and a thorn in the side of any computer lab admins/security. Who was it that decided that integration and lack of control was a Good Thing(TM)? I'd like to know.
Hmm... Does this seem suspicious to anyone else, having just heard the total pile of poo that spewed forth from the mouth of one Jim Allchin? Just an observation.
Well, I wouldn't call it "willingness to dual-boot
w/Windows for games" But more of a necessity... If I want to play Diablo II, then I boot into Windows, if I want to play Quake1/2/3, then I stick to Linux... I honestly think that Diablo II and the Sims are the only two reasons that I boot into windows at home... Too bad I have to deal with it at work!
It sure would be nice if some of us poor yokels down in the land of gnats and mosquitoes got a chance to go to a great Linux show... esp. seeing as the Atlanta Linux Showcase has now become the Anual Linux Showcase link. I think that Gatlenberg would be a great place to have it... It is a somewhat central point to the SE US. Great place too!
OK, I may be out of line here, but I think that any fool that would spend more than they spent on an entire system should be institutionalized... or perhaps that is the problem? Maybe, just maybe there are folks out there that are so caught up in this techno-blizzard of equipment out there that they will pay any price just so they can say: "My X is bigger than yours!" I say fooey. This a prevelant ideology here just as it is anywhere in the "real world". Concider most sects of the religious world they all hate each other as they worship a bigger, better imaginary friend. The OS jehad, the inter-linux factions, the Intel/AMD war... the list goes on and on. Will it ever end? Sure, most likely once man has eradicated his existence.
The way things are right now, most people are being charged 19 clams(US) for terrible service, while their pals on the same service are getting better performance. Perhaps it is time for a change in the way ISPs deal with charging folks, but I'll tell you what, I'll start my own before I pay anymore for the POS throughput that I have to deal with.
Frontier Communications
Don't believe a word these people tell you. They may say that you are ready for DSL, but that doesn't mean that it is true... Well, if you want to know why I gripe about this, take a look at the site yourself: Frontier Lightning Link
I'm just waiting for the sky to be littered with Skyhooks... private residences and hotels that constently orbit the planet, powered by the same technology as this "solar sailboat". From the StarWars Universe, of course. I am glad to hear that the private sector is finaly getting into action, NASA has had little success although I am very excited about ISS.
Well, I for one can't stand them as my eyes have to work triple-time just to read the information that surrounds these monstrosities. For a person that has poor vision in the first place, having a huge red and yellow animated block in the middle of a white page, with the reader making a shabby attempt at reading the black text is a pretty bad move. I may not be a marketing exec, and I may not have a degree in advertising, but I think they will acctually lose revenue. Perhaps these e'zines should consider moving to a subscription service? Heck, I agree with Dennis W. Forbes on this one. Micropayments may be the answer to getting rid, or at least lessen the amount of, banner ads.
I'm not real sure about Q3, but I do know that Q2 was made to only run in 16bbp. If you are running 32bpp, make a mode for 16bpp and that should take care of the splitscreen stuff and the purple-nurple junk.
cheers!
I have been a closet Matrox fan for some time. As a matter of fact, I still use an old Mystique in my server... which I every now and then startup X and run some shite. I have found that the OpenGL performance in X/GNU/Linux is far better than that which I was able to produce on the same box with any version of Windows with any version of OpenGL/Drivers. I'm no fan of Nvidia's bussiness practices, just like I wasn't with 3dfx's, but let's look at it this way... they have great cards, ATI has great cards, Matrox has great cards. They all have their own arenas... Matrox -> 2d, ATI -> 2d/3d, Nvidia -> 3d. Yes, I do think that there needs to be more competition in the overall graphics dept. but let's remember that comparing these three companies against each other is a mistake as they have somewhat of a niche market aim. It just so happens that more folks(vocaly) here on/. are more interested in 3d performance than with the antialiasing of their fonts.:)
Most EULAs require you to have multiple licenses even if you are not running the software as simultanious instances. If you install the same software more than once, you are generally violating whatever click-I-agree-license came with said software. It all comes down to the EULA itself. There are all sorts. However, I do know that you have to have a license for each installed instance of any Microsoft product, or one all-incompasing site license. I belive that my advice to you would be to learn all the catch phrases that are hidden within most EULAs and from that point on, you can just scan the EULAs of future software.
My appologies, friend. I just hate getting nailed to a cross for stating something in terminology that doesn't jive with the 'standard'. I will admit, I am not the most knowlegeable person in the world when it comes to teminology, but I do what I can.
Note to world: don't ever try to learn more than five things at once. You will never decide which one it is you like, and you will become disenfranchised with the whole schpeal!
I grew up in SE Georgia, and belive me, there is _nothing_ to do here. I haven't gone fishing in years, but I agree, it is an excellent alternative to being bombarded constantly with images and information. A sense of serenity and peace is something that I miss emmensely having gone to college. I dig channel cats myself:)
Oh, I'm sorry, did I offend you? You with such great knowlege? Should I have just kept my mouth shut? How about this:
Me: "Well, I have terrible download speed thingy"
You: "Shut up, you don't know what your are talking about 100$3R!"
Well, excuse me for using a term that means that my "download rate" moves from a whopping 9 bytes/sec to all of 1.2kb/sec on a good day. Perhaps you would like to know my ping? Here you go... 1400! If you know so much, why don't you tell us idiots where to obtain such information, don't hoard it. Don't bitch until you give someone a chance. Have a nice day:|
I don't know about most of you folks out there, but I have terrible bandwidth at home. I have to lug my machine in to the office after hours just to download updates. Just last night, I tried to download modutils-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm... a threehundred-something kilobyte file. I was reduced to tears when I found that I couldn't get past 145k downloaded before the connection would become so instable that the download would time out.
This phenomenon is augmented when you try to run an update util such as MandrakeUpdate or apt-get or up2date. I would just be happy if I had a utility that when I download an.rpm, or a good 'ol.tgz or even a.deb that it would just list the deps and then point me in the direction to get them. I would at least like that functionality built into apt-get, or whatever package management utility that I decide to use at that time.
I just want all the package management utilities developers to remember that a whole lot of folks out here have crap for bandwidth, and to use that knolege to try to come up with a viable solution
Perhaps we should all drag out our C64's from the closet, dust them off, and let the youngn's learn to wait for a 1540 floppy load Bard's Tale for a while. Let them understand that speed and reactionary time isn't all there is to gaming.
"What? No mouse!"
What really happened...
"The Man" : Aaah, how do I get dis ting ta werk?
"Vodafone" : Give us your taxpayers money, and we shall give you what seems like a technological breakthrough, yet has been as easy as using parts you can buy in a local electronics store... Oops, scratch that last part.
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Hince the hilarity of it all!
Much insight this one has, a powerful ally it is. Full of emotion is this post, grammatical errors they make.
Awe, poor baby. Didn't realize it was April 1st eh? :P~~
I would say ping...
Well, lets take a good look at what is happening with the official clients. Nearly all of the folks that I have contact with online use AIM. So, I am forced to use at least something that can talk to their client. Whilst at my place of employment, I use the 'official' version of AIM. Funny thing though. I get booted off at random times (seemingly, that is). Here I am getting some info on a particular C++ class, and boom! I have to log back on... and then it takes a good half hour for the bloody thing to even connect. It disconnects as it is logging in, over and over, I am cast into the void. I have tried several different clients on this damnable service. I am ready to move on... but I can't get anyone to make the move with me.
Something that Windows has long had (well, since 95, anyway) is an integrated feel; stuff can be hooked into explorer
Well, since you pointed that out, let me point out the fact that it is nearly impossible to lock down a desktop workstation running windows. This is due primarily to the integration that is found in all of these wonderful M$ apps. You can launch any application from within Word? WHAT? Why on earth would I want to launch an application from the open dialogue of a word processor? All this mamsy-pamsy-feel-good integration is a big pain and a thorn in the side of any computer lab admins/security. Who was it that decided that integration and lack of control was a Good Thing(TM)? I'd like to know.
Hmm... Does this seem suspicious to anyone else, having just heard the total pile of poo that spewed forth from the mouth of one Jim Allchin? Just an observation.
Why on earth would I want one application to crash my whole machine? I thought that was why I used linux?
Well, I wouldn't call it "willingness to dual-boot w/Windows for games" But more of a necessity... If I want to play Diablo II, then I boot into Windows, if I want to play Quake1/2/3, then I stick to Linux... I honestly think that Diablo II and the Sims are the only two reasons that I boot into windows at home... Too bad I have to deal with it at work!
It sure would be nice if some of us poor yokels down in the land of gnats and mosquitoes got a chance to go to a great Linux show... esp. seeing as the Atlanta Linux Showcase has now become the Anual Linux Showcase link. I think that Gatlenberg would be a great place to have it... It is a somewhat central point to the SE US. Great place too!
I hate to post a short reply, but... Hear hear!
OK, I may be out of line here, but I think that any fool that would spend more than they spent on an entire system should be institutionalized... or perhaps that is the problem? Maybe, just maybe there are folks out there that are so caught up in this techno-blizzard of equipment out there that they will pay any price just so they can say: "My X is bigger than yours!" I say fooey. This a prevelant ideology here just as it is anywhere in the "real world". Concider most sects of the religious world they all hate each other as they worship a bigger, better imaginary friend. The OS jehad, the inter-linux factions, the Intel/AMD war... the list goes on and on. Will it ever end? Sure, most likely once man has eradicated his existence.
The way things are right now, most people are being charged 19 clams(US) for terrible service, while their pals on the same service are getting better performance. Perhaps it is time for a change in the way ISPs deal with charging folks, but I'll tell you what, I'll start my own before I pay anymore for the POS throughput that I have to deal with.
Frontier Communications
Don't believe a word these people tell you. They may say that you are ready for DSL, but that doesn't mean that it is true... Well, if you want to know why I gripe about this, take a look at the site yourself: Frontier Lightning Link
I'm just waiting for the sky to be littered with Skyhooks... private residences and hotels that constently orbit the planet, powered by the same technology as this "solar sailboat". From the StarWars Universe, of course. I am glad to hear that the private sector is finaly getting into action, NASA has had little success although I am very excited about ISS.
Well, I for one can't stand them as my eyes have to work triple-time just to read the information that surrounds these monstrosities. For a person that has poor vision in the first place, having a huge red and yellow animated block in the middle of a white page, with the reader making a shabby attempt at reading the black text is a pretty bad move. I may not be a marketing exec, and I may not have a degree in advertising, but I think they will acctually lose revenue. Perhaps these e'zines should consider moving to a subscription service? Heck, I agree with Dennis W. Forbes on this one. Micropayments may be the answer to getting rid, or at least lessen the amount of, banner ads.
Ok, that makes sense... :)
I need to pay more attention to my Oriley's Ethernet book
Thanks for the info!
I'm not real sure about Q3, but I do know that Q2 was made to only run in 16bbp. If you are running 32bpp, make a mode for 16bpp and that should take care of the splitscreen stuff and the purple-nurple junk.
cheers!
I have been a closet Matrox fan for some time. As a matter of fact, I still use an old Mystique in my server... which I every now and then startup X and run some shite. I have found that the OpenGL performance in X/GNU/Linux is far better than that which I was able to produce on the same box with any version of Windows with any version of OpenGL/Drivers. I'm no fan of Nvidia's bussiness practices, just like I wasn't with 3dfx's, but let's look at it this way... they have great cards, ATI has great cards, Matrox has great cards. They all have their own arenas... Matrox -> 2d, ATI -> 2d/3d, Nvidia -> 3d. Yes, I do think that there needs to be more competition in the overall graphics dept. but let's remember that comparing these three companies against each other is a mistake as they have somewhat of a niche market aim. It just so happens that more folks(vocaly) here on /. are more interested in 3d performance than with the antialiasing of their fonts. :)
Most EULAs require you to have multiple licenses even if you are not running the software as simultanious instances. If you install the same software more than once, you are generally violating whatever click-I-agree-license came with said software. It all comes down to the EULA itself. There are all sorts. However, I do know that you have to have a license for each installed instance of any Microsoft product, or one all-incompasing site license. I belive that my advice to you would be to learn all the catch phrases that are hidden within most EULAs and from that point on, you can just scan the EULAs of future software.
My appologies, friend. I just hate getting nailed to a cross for stating something in terminology that doesn't jive with the 'standard'. I will admit, I am not the most knowlegeable person in the world when it comes to teminology, but I do what I can.
Note to world: don't ever try to learn more than five things at once. You will never decide which one it is you like, and you will become disenfranchised with the whole schpeal!
I grew up in SE Georgia, and belive me, there is _nothing_ to do here. I haven't gone fishing in years, but I agree, it is an excellent alternative to being bombarded constantly with images and information. A sense of serenity and peace is something that I miss emmensely having gone to college. I dig channel cats myself :)
Oh, I'm sorry, did I offend you? You with such great knowlege? Should I have just kept my mouth shut? How about this:
:|
Me: "Well, I have terrible download speed thingy"
You: "Shut up, you don't know what your are talking about 100$3R!"
Well, excuse me for using a term that means that my "download rate" moves from a whopping 9 bytes/sec to all of 1.2kb/sec on a good day. Perhaps you would like to know my ping? Here you go... 1400! If you know so much, why don't you tell us idiots where to obtain such information, don't hoard it. Don't bitch until you give someone a chance. Have a nice day
I don't know about most of you folks out there, but I have terrible bandwidth at home. I have to lug my machine in to the office after hours just to download updates. Just last night, I tried to download modutils-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm... a threehundred-something kilobyte file. I was reduced to tears when I found that I couldn't get past 145k downloaded before the connection would become so instable that the download would time out. .rpm, or a good 'ol .tgz or even a .deb that it would just list the deps and then point me in the direction to get them. I would at least like that functionality built into apt-get, or whatever package management utility that I decide to use at that time.
This phenomenon is augmented when you try to run an update util such as MandrakeUpdate or apt-get or up2date. I would just be happy if I had a utility that when I download an
I just want all the package management utilities developers to remember that a whole lot of folks out here have crap for bandwidth, and to use that knolege to try to come up with a viable solution
Perhaps we should all drag out our C64's from the closet, dust them off, and let the youngn's learn to wait for a 1540 floppy load Bard's Tale for a while. Let them understand that speed and reactionary time isn't all there is to gaming.
"What? No mouse!"
What really happened...
"The Man" : Aaah, how do I get dis ting ta werk?
"Vodafone" : Give us your taxpayers money, and we shall give you what seems like a technological breakthrough, yet has been as easy as using parts you can buy in a local electronics store... Oops, scratch that last part.