Anyone know anything about software decoders for those broadcasts? or ANY Satellite transmissions for that matter? Always wanted to see what I could find out there using Linux and homing in on different satellites.. eh? Like I said.. I doan know tiddly about it... just thought maybe someone would? Piques my curiosity just a wee bit.
I'm sitting on a 256K adsl connection and I'll say this much... It's Nice for downloads. I have no problems with webpages loading, as even the largest pages load within 10 seconds or so (a rarity to take that long) PNG support works just fine under Netscape 4.8 for Linux, though I must admit I don't run into many pages that use it.
Jpeg is great.. it works for the web... No.. I don't like using a 56K connection anymore.. but hey.. like you said... connections are getting bigger all the time.
If you need HIGH quality compressed images... chances are you will be using a proprietary format anyway. *shrug*
And as far as Wave files go... With the technology coming soon to a desktop near you... wouldn't you rather see realtime recording of MP3? Why waste space when you don't have to?
One question... do you REALLY want to lose 100Gigs of data in ONE hd failure? hehehehe.
1) I don't game. So, paying for a good FPU is a waste for me. 2) AMD doesn't limit overclocking in any shape or form. 3) AMD chips are cheaper than intel and now perform just as well, if not better mhz for mhz.
I'm an AMD-Linux fan... K6-2 333 @ 375mhz with nothing but a cheapo MB/Heatsink/Fan. (what's not to like?)
I'm quite interested to see if anyone can overclock the K6-3's past that 500mhz barrier people keep talking about for AMD chips.
$300 for 450mhz?? and it beats the P-III 500mhz? Sounds great to me.:P
It's progressing faster than you give it credit. Who cares wether drag and drop is universally available if the dumb OS keeps crashing. Mac OS is just as big of a bloated POS as 95/98/NT are. When we want to cater to Mac simpleton's.. we will. Until then... we're taking our own sweet time... why would we want you using a stable OS anyway? It would only allow you to post more often. *grin*
(the most often heard sound in the computer lab is Mac OS 8.5 rebooting)
I mean... Really guys... OS X better be a Biiiig improvement over OS 8.5. Nice G3 300mhz processor. 128M's of ram. 128bit Graphics card. And you STILL can't work on something while a really big program is starting up? And as for this ease of use you all keep talking about? I for one just don't see it. *shrug* Ok.. so I've used M$ crap for years and just switched to Linux a few years ago. I'm not a Guru of OS's....Yet I've a piece of junk windoze box that I can use 15-25 programs at once on without freezing up... and it's only a 166mx cyrix with 64M's of ram... (course.. it's taken me a good year to get it stable) I can't DO that on a new G3??? what's the deal here?
Anyway... (to get back on topic) Apple is not going to use Linux as the base for it's servers... No.. I don't see OS X servers gaining any significant amount of market share. Mac's are graphics machines.. and mostly for non-technical computer users. Can they possibly make their UI more obscure? C'mon a FOUR button combination to re-build the desktop? *sheesh* (oooh.. we'll just use ctrl-openapple-esc-F1+F25 for THIS command That'll be easy to remember)
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Anyone know anything about software decoders for those broadcasts? or ANY Satellite transmissions for that matter?
Always wanted to see what I could find out there using Linux and homing in on different satellites.. eh?
Like I said.. I doan know tiddly about it... just thought maybe someone would?
Piques my curiosity just a wee bit.
Juss ramblin
Sad to see shows like that get pulled... *sigh*
Anyone up for starting a web-based version?
I'm sitting on a 256K adsl connection and I'll say this much... It's Nice for downloads.
I have no problems with webpages loading, as even the largest pages load within 10 seconds or so (a rarity to take that long)
PNG support works just fine under Netscape 4.8 for Linux, though I must admit I don't run into many pages that use it.
Jpeg is great.. it works for the web... No.. I don't like using a 56K connection anymore.. but hey.. like you said... connections are getting bigger all the time.
If you need HIGH quality compressed images... chances are you will be using a proprietary format anyway. *shrug*
And as far as Wave files go... With the technology coming soon to a desktop near you... wouldn't you rather see realtime recording of MP3?
Why waste space when you don't have to?
One question... do you REALLY want to lose 100Gigs of data in ONE hd failure? hehehehe.
just ramblin
1) I don't game. So, paying for a good FPU is a waste for me.
:P
2) AMD doesn't limit overclocking in any shape or form.
3) AMD chips are cheaper than intel and now perform just as well, if not better mhz for mhz.
I'm an AMD-Linux fan... K6-2 333 @ 375mhz with nothing but a cheapo MB/Heatsink/Fan. (what's not to like?)
I'm quite interested to see if anyone can overclock the K6-3's past that 500mhz barrier people keep talking about for AMD chips.
$300 for 450mhz?? and it beats the P-III 500mhz? Sounds great to me.
just ramblin
It's progressing faster than you give it credit.
Who cares wether drag and drop is universally available
if the dumb OS keeps crashing. Mac OS is just as big of a bloated POS as 95/98/NT are.
When we want to cater to Mac simpleton's.. we will.
Until then... we're taking our own sweet time... why would we want you using a stable OS anyway? It would only allow you to post more often. *grin*
(the most often heard sound in the computer lab is Mac OS 8.5 rebooting)
I mean... Really guys... OS X better be a Biiiig improvement over OS 8.5.
Nice G3 300mhz processor.
128M's of ram.
128bit Graphics card.
And you STILL can't work on something while a
really big program is starting up?
And as for this ease of use you all keep talking
about?
I for one just don't see it. *shrug*
Ok.. so I've used M$ crap for years and just switched to Linux a few years ago.
I'm not a Guru of OS's....Yet I've a piece of junk
windoze box that I can use 15-25 programs at once on without freezing up... and it's only a 166mx cyrix with 64M's of ram... (course.. it's taken me a good year to get it stable)
I can't DO that on a new G3??? what's the deal here?
Anyway... (to get back on topic)
Apple is not going to use Linux as the base for it's servers... No.. I don't see OS X servers gaining any significant amount of market share. Mac's are graphics machines.. and mostly for non-technical computer users.
Can they possibly make their UI more obscure? C'mon a FOUR button combination to re-build the desktop? *sheesh*
(oooh.. we'll just use ctrl-openapple-esc-F1+F25 for THIS command That'll be easy to remember)
Just ramblin
Dell ""Dell can and does accommodate such requests [for PCs without Windows preinstalled] when doing so is worthwhile to the customer."
What kinda crap is this?