Re:Open source drivers
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Nvidia's NV20
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Not all the features:
1. Graphics overlay (for playing DVD's etc..) - driver still not supporting this feature
2. Page flipping - what gives the NVidia card a real boost under Windows - is not in the driver yet.
As a person who is working extensivley with lots o f graphics cards I can testify that their drivers are damn fast compared to any driver in XFree 4.0.x - but it's not as stable as the Open Source Matrox G200/G400 driver which is found on XFree 4.0.x
There are lots of places where you cannot access SSL based web sites (PDA's, old versions of browser, weak [40] protection, etc).
Just keep in mind, as other people have posted here - that accessing this web interface for scheduling is important - even with PDA's, or lynx web browser.. - after all - you'll never know what browser you'll have on the other side when you'll need it
I Agree that intel supports the Open Source (Well, they support Linux, not the *BSD - but thats another issue)...
However, just because they support Linux, doesn't mean I cannot criticize them. It is my full right to scream and shout to everyone that this (P4) chip sucks real bad currently and I wouldn't buy it (specially with their price tag right now)
People are saying that with optimizations to this specific processors - then this processor will kick AMD's butt. We'll see - just a small reminder - intel did that trick with the first Pentium 166 with MMX. Since then, not many software packages have used it (besides all the DVD playing/Video capturing programs)..
1. You can open it in the middle of a phone call - and it will automatically switches to hands-free mode - and the quality in hands-free mode is excellent
2. Depends on your fingers size:) - It took me some times, but I can type an email or a SMS message without any problems.
3. It really depends where do you put it:)
I know it's pretty big, but the sound quality of talking with it (as a normal cellular phone) is superb when compared to other phone (no wonder, the Nokia 91xx got a real speaker and not a damn twiter or stuff like that)
And ofcourse, I life the fact that the Nokia 91xx (and I think the 92xx also) is actually a 486 processor with RAM and everything - wonder when someone will install Linux/*BSD on it:)
Would it not have been more advantagous to clock the P3 one step higher until they could have released the 'real' P4?
Well, they tried. Remember PIII at 1.13Ghz which was recalled due to a failure to compile Linux kernel?
There are limits to what can be done on a P-III
The avrage joe - when he see's a commercial of a major brand selling PC, or an add of Dell - he see's quite clear the animated logo - "Intel Inside".
This little animated logo makes the differences for the avrage joe. He'll see in the commercial a flashy PC and he will goto the store and buy it - with this little tiny logo that he see's on TV.
Thats how you sell Intel PC's. Maybe AMD would do this some-day...
Oh, about getting payed - I don't see a single dollar from posting articles to slashdot. No money, no shares, no options. ZERO. So bye bye to those dreams of being rich
Regarding the time of Halloween - my mistake. We have some time differences (I live in Israel), but now it's too late to fix.
I cannot read the article (as usual - slashdot effect), but from what I read from the IBM web pages, the JFS will be released under "an OSI approved license" - which means in plain english - not GPL, which means - Linus will not include it. period.
I also read that this JFS is a sort of a "cut" version from the full JFS that AIX have.. Anyone from IBM can shed some light on this issue?
Current Netscape runs lots more pages than the new NS 6PR3.
But the NS6 PR3 renders much faster then the current shipping one, but lots of pages are not rendered well, or rendered at all. Also - you cannot use SSL (I've just tried few seconds ago - it's just freezes)
Sorry, I'm not on drugs, and definately not lying to anyone here...
As I said - I downloaded it and tested it here - I got at work 2 machines (K7 650 and K7 700 with 128MB RAM on each)
I have tried both browsers. Mozilla is slower on rendering long pages (try slashdot page with 300 comments, or huge tables with 30,000 entries) and see what I mean...
It also doesn't understands well Javascripts on some pages I tried.
I'm not trying to say Fuck Netscape! what I'm trying to say that *this* version of netscape sucks in terms of speed and compatibility. A co-worker here tried the latest night built mozilla (from yesterday) and all the bugs and speed issues I mentioned are gone!
Maybe I didn't make myself clear - but I've been tired of trying Netscape PR1, PR2, PR3 and get lousy results! Once I've tried Konqueror, I really liked it (although it got its small number of bugs), and I'm planning to use it as my sole browser.
I'm not trying to start Desktop Enviroment war here - lots of people at my work like Gnome and Window maker - but they also like Konqueror and they run it without any problems on their machines with their favorite window manager!
Don't try this version of Netscape on Linux. I just tried it few hours ago..
Lots of rendering bugs, slow (very slow!), a very slow java implementation, problems with Javascripts...
I just compared Konqueror from CVS against it - Heck, it seems to me that Konqueror is twice faster, more compatible, IBM's java runs on it perfectly well, rendering is fast and Javascript is almost always working... (2 scripts didn't work from the 30 web sites I checked), and I really like the damn fast resizing rendering which they added yesterday.
Also the SSL works perfectly now - I logged in to sourceforge with SSL, checked other web sites with SSL (Amazon, fat brain)..
Sorry Netscape, it was nice.. but I'm switching to Konqueror...
According to IDC, Linux got more workstation installations than the Mac (and I'm talking about SOLD Linux distribution copies - NOT the one you downloaded few days ago) - so in reality - Linux workstation installation is at least (being conservative here) twice then Mac..
Yet, MS doesn't port their Office to Linux. We all know that Linux can run Linux port of office quite nicely, and that more and more people install Linux - yet MS claims there is no demand, which is a lie ofcourse...
So, if MS was business only, then we could have a port of MS Office a year ago..
Remind me when was the last time you've seen ANY version of Windows running on Solaris? (and no, I'm not talking about Soft Windows - although I'm not sure if it was for Solaris, and I'm not talking about WABI either)..
Why the hell a person would like to run Windows software on Sun SPARC based machine? for Office 2000? Outlook?
The SPARC III processor is FAR faster (don't look the the Mhz!), have more cache, faster bus - so it's WAY above what Intel or AMD has to offer..
Ofcourse - on quantities of shipping - thats a totally different stories. I guess it's something like for every single processor that Sun sells - Intel sells at least 100 if not more.
But then again - Sun is targetting to the high end segment (ofcourse, they'll happy to sell you an Ultra machine as a workstation - which will costs you twice what you pay for an X86 machine)
Re:Offers nothing over ReiserFS
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XFS Beta
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· Score: 2
Looks like someone doesn't read the news...
UPDATE: Starting kernel 2.2.18pre9 - there is the NFS V3 - so people should start thinking about migrate from NFS V2 to V3...
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Not all the features:
1. Graphics overlay (for playing DVD's etc..) - driver still not supporting this feature
2. Page flipping - what gives the NVidia card a real boost under Windows - is not in the driver yet.
As a person who is working extensivley with lots o f graphics cards I can testify that their drivers are damn fast compared to any driver in XFree 4.0.x - but it's not as stable as the Open Source Matrox G200/G400 driver which is found on XFree 4.0.x
Regarding the SSL - I would put it as an option.
There are lots of places where you cannot access SSL based web sites (PDA's, old versions of browser, weak [40] protection, etc).
Just keep in mind, as other people have posted here - that accessing this web interface for scheduling is important - even with PDA's, or lynx web browser.. - after all - you'll never know what browser you'll have on the other side when you'll need it
I Agree that intel supports the Open Source (Well, they support Linux, not the *BSD - but thats another issue)...
However, just because they support Linux, doesn't mean I cannot criticize them. It is my full right to scream and shout to everyone that this (P4) chip sucks real bad currently and I wouldn't buy it (specially with their price tag right now)
People are saying that with optimizations to this specific processors - then this processor will kick AMD's butt. We'll see - just a small reminder - intel did that trick with the first Pentium 166 with MMX. Since then, not many software packages have used it (besides all the DVD playing/Video capturing programs)..
Well, I have the Nokia 9110, so:
:) - It took me some times, but I can type an email or a SMS message without any problems.
:)
:)
1. You can open it in the middle of a phone call - and it will automatically switches to hands-free mode - and the quality in hands-free mode is excellent
2. Depends on your fingers size
3. It really depends where do you put it
I know it's pretty big, but the sound quality of talking with it (as a normal cellular phone) is superb when compared to other phone (no wonder, the Nokia 91xx got a real speaker and not a damn twiter or stuff like that)
And ofcourse, I life the fact that the Nokia 91xx (and I think the 92xx also) is actually a 486 processor with RAM and everything - wonder when someone will install Linux/*BSD on it
Well, they tried. Remember PIII at 1.13Ghz which was recalled due to a failure to compile Linux kernel? There are limits to what can be done on a P-III
You're just forgetting 1 small thing..
The avrage joe - when he see's a commercial of a major brand selling PC, or an add of Dell - he see's quite clear the animated logo - "Intel Inside".
This little animated logo makes the differences for the avrage joe. He'll see in the commercial a flashy PC and he will goto the store and buy it - with this little tiny logo that he see's on TV.
Thats how you sell Intel PC's. Maybe AMD would do this some-day...
Read the article...
It says that Toshiba will sell A machine with this chip (the Satellite models)
Available on Q1 2001
Playstation 3 will be based on Linux (the console as well as the development enviroment).
:)
Linus was there when they announced it few months ago back in Japan. I saw this info on the register and some other places..
So don't forget to try some Linux programming
Sorry about the errors..
Oh, about getting payed - I don't see a single dollar from posting articles to slashdot. No money, no shares, no options. ZERO. So bye bye to those dreams of being rich
Regarding the time of Halloween - my mistake. We have some time differences (I live in Israel), but now it's too late to fix.
You can use Xinerama (well, thats what I heard from users who used it) but this will take 30% of your CPU..
:(
A better solution will be dual head support for Matrox, but no one done have it yet
Here is a small quiz:
:)
Can this sequence of commands can be run like that?
poke 53280,1:sys 64738:poke 53280,0
also, what do the commands do? (machine: Commodore 64)..
just for the good old times
Almost right..
Indeed, Hotrail to cancel their 8 way AMD chipset, but the company who took it on themselves to work on is Alpha Processors Inc (API)
Fixed :)
Most of the people cannot even try it! it requires 384MB RAM (minimum!), 4GB Disk space and a good 700+Mhz Processor
So think, before you download this beast..
I cannot read the article (as usual - slashdot effect), but from what I read from the IBM web pages, the JFS will be released under "an OSI approved license" - which means in plain english - not GPL, which means - Linus will not include it. period.
I also read that this JFS is a sort of a "cut" version from the full JFS that AIX have.. Anyone from IBM can shed some light on this issue?
Oh, thats simple..
Current Netscape runs lots more pages than the new NS 6PR3.
But the NS6 PR3 renders much faster then the current shipping one, but lots of pages are not rendered well, or rendered at all. Also - you cannot use SSL (I've just tried few seconds ago - it's just freezes)
Sorry, I'm not on drugs, and definately not lying to anyone here...
As I said - I downloaded it and tested it here - I got at work 2 machines (K7 650 and K7 700 with 128MB RAM on each)
I have tried both browsers. Mozilla is slower on rendering long pages (try slashdot page with 300 comments, or huge tables with 30,000 entries) and see what I mean...
It also doesn't understands well Javascripts on some pages I tried.
I'm not trying to say Fuck Netscape! what I'm trying to say that *this* version of netscape sucks in terms of speed and compatibility. A co-worker here tried the latest night built mozilla (from yesterday) and all the bugs and speed issues I mentioned are gone!
Maybe I didn't make myself clear - but I've been tired of trying Netscape PR1, PR2, PR3 and get lousy results! Once I've tried Konqueror, I really liked it (although it got its small number of bugs), and I'm planning to use it as my sole browser.
I'm not trying to start Desktop Enviroment war here - lots of people at my work like Gnome and Window maker - but they also like Konqueror and they run it without any problems on their machines with their favorite window manager!
If you want to try Mozilla - go ahead..
Don't try this version of Netscape on Linux. I just tried it few hours ago..
Lots of rendering bugs, slow (very slow!), a very slow java implementation, problems with Javascripts...
I just compared Konqueror from CVS against it - Heck, it seems to me that Konqueror is twice faster, more compatible, IBM's java runs on it perfectly well, rendering is fast and Javascript is almost always working... (2 scripts didn't work from the 30 web sites I checked), and I really like the damn fast resizing rendering which they added yesterday.
Also the SSL works perfectly now - I logged in to sourceforge with SSL, checked other web sites with SSL (Amazon, fat brain)..
Sorry Netscape, it was nice.. but I'm switching to Konqueror...
My dear NAIVE friend...
Yes, MS is business, but it's politics also...
Want Example? sure..
According to IDC, Linux got more workstation installations than the Mac (and I'm talking about SOLD Linux distribution copies - NOT the one you downloaded few days ago) - so in reality - Linux workstation installation is at least (being conservative here) twice then Mac..
Yet, MS doesn't port their Office to Linux. We all know that Linux can run Linux port of office quite nicely, and that more and more people install Linux - yet MS claims there is no demand, which is a lie ofcourse...
So, if MS was business only, then we could have a port of MS Office a year ago..
Hmmm,
Maybe killing all present and future Corel's Linux port of applications? Remember corel draw 10? Bryce?
say bye bye...
ofcourse, with the official claim: "not much demand"...
Mark my words
Hey coward!
Read some news! IBM, Compaq, Dell and the other guys are WORKING on making 16 processors and 32 processors based server - it's still vaporware!
Also, do you mind showing me a X86 machine which supports 256GB RAM? huh?
Thought so!
I have talked previously with them about their stories posted on slashdot.
They said that their machines could handle it easily...
Remind me when was the last time you've seen ANY version of Windows running on Solaris? (and no, I'm not talking about Soft Windows - although I'm not sure if it was for Solaris, and I'm not talking about WABI either)..
Why the hell a person would like to run Windows software on Sun SPARC based machine? for Office 2000? Outlook?
Simple answer: it doesn't
The SPARC III processor is FAR faster (don't look the the Mhz!), have more cache, faster bus - so it's WAY above what Intel or AMD has to offer..
Ofcourse - on quantities of shipping - thats a totally different stories. I guess it's something like for every single processor that Sun sells - Intel sells at least 100 if not more.
But then again - Sun is targetting to the high end segment (ofcourse, they'll happy to sell you an Ultra machine as a workstation - which will costs you twice what you pay for an X86 machine)
Looks like someone doesn't read the news...
UPDATE: Starting kernel 2.2.18pre9 - there is the NFS V3 - so people should start thinking about migrate from NFS V2 to V3...