The OSS drivers in kernel 2.2.16 are poor - very poor and they're actually YMFPCI drivers - with modification. Translation: bad OSS drivers which supports only up to (almost) 22Khz sound 8 bit stereo..
But - grab ALSA and try their drivers - they are great! everything is supported (latest ALSA version added support for Bass/Treble)..
So ofcourse, if you can afford to buy to your PC at work a sound blaster Live - then go ahead and be my guest..
But these boards are for the main stream and for shops who sell white boxes. Without adding sound card - the seller can sell the maching cheaper..
If you really don't like the VIA sound chip, and SB Live is too much for your office - I strongly suggest to buy the Yamaha DS-XG based cards, specially that now they are fully supported under Linux (with ALSA drivers and OSS emulation)
I'm looking at the photo's of the 2 cards, and to tell the truth - I don't see on 2 VGA out connectors - only 1 normal VGA and the other which I don't know what it is (DVI?)
From those pictures and some info I got around, it seems that:
1. You can forget about installing IBM Microdrive - this PCMCIA slot is half of what you need
2. I'm betting that this is a Winmodem - and fromm experience - probably Lucent Winmodem - so forget kernel 2.4 unless you have a way to load their binary module to it..
Well, in a normal PC world - you can surf to pricewatch, compare prices, buy Pentium III or Athlon K7 and be happy - so if AMD decides tommorow to cut their K7 from 500$ to 300$ - you will pay less (although you won't save $200 - there is the middle-man, you know)..
On the notebook market - it's a total different story. No one will guarantee you that if the new mobile Pentium III or the new Mobile Athlon prices will be reduced - you'll pay less - the chances are that you'll pay the same (or maybe little lower, and I'm talking about a few dozen dollars less)..
So you're the guy who is been sleeping under a rock for a long time:))
Seriously, do you look at slashdot more then once in 6 months? have you seen all the KDE 2.0 beta's? so WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??
Next Week, KDE 2.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) will be out - I suggest for you to grab the binary files or the source code (you can also CVS checkout now also) - and compare both..
Try to READ the page sometimes before you're posting silly question!
From the page: "With our Rsync Cradle and QuickSync software, you can easily exchange information between your Agenda and your Windows or Linux PC. You can also send & receive email and connect to internet."
URL: http://www.agendacomputing.com/products/details.js p
According to Microsoft, this update will let you update drivers, security holes and other updates needed..
I got a windows 2k machine and guess what? from all the fixes that appears on SP1, only 1 appeared here (which wasn't even related to my configuration!)
Questions 1 & 2: Yes, there is a different. If you look at your License agreement - you'll see that the copy of Windows you got (I'm talking about cases where you buy machines from Compaq, Dell, gateway - that big sellers) cannot be used on another machines, EVEN if the other machine is identical (I don't have the EULA so I cannot say which paragraph is it)
The "Select" license and the windows you're getting with it is the usual Windows you can buy on stores. Its just doesn't have the OEM part registration (it got another registration way).
3. Honestly - if you buy those 50 licenses and install 40 now - You can install the other 10 when you'll buy those 10 PC's, so - your question (4) can be applied.. Even if it's your own ISO image with Windows configured by you.
I would further advice you to negotiate with your seller and ask him to sell you those PC's BLANK (that way you'll save some money). I was a system administrator and I installed thousands of Windows machines and I can tell you that the Windows that comes with your machine pre-installed - is the most unstable configuration you'll ever get. They're installing lots of shitty stuff there (they're own ISP stuff, utilities which you'll never needs and other tweaks that only god knows why people need them).
note: In case you buy Compaq PC's (or Notebook) - you'll have a problem to install Windows from scratch on this machine cause they don't give the drivers to download and they got this special way to install them from your Windows emergency recover CD - so be careful.
Before someone will sue me here - everything is according to my experience and my understanding.
320 Pixels X 200 Pixels and 1 byte for every pixel (8 bit colour, remember?) = 64K! Even if you give 16 bit colurs, then the number jump to 128K! - how did you get the 512K figure?
Look at very old EGA cards and way-older VGA cards - there was 64k only.
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The 2GB limit was (if I recall correctly) due to the Glibc..
With Redhat 7.0 - this problem is history - so you can use kernel 2.2 and create huge files (I think up to 2 terabytes)
Actually..
The OSS drivers in kernel 2.2.16 are poor - very poor and they're actually YMFPCI drivers - with modification. Translation: bad OSS drivers which supports only up to (almost) 22Khz sound 8 bit stereo..
But - grab ALSA and try their drivers - they are great! everything is supported (latest ALSA version added support for Bass/Treble)..
So ofcourse, if you can afford to buy to your PC at work a sound blaster Live - then go ahead and be my guest..
But these boards are for the main stream and for shops who sell white boxes. Without adding sound card - the seller can sell the maching cheaper..
If you really don't like the VIA sound chip, and SB Live is too much for your office - I strongly suggest to buy the Yamaha DS-XG based cards, specially that now they are fully supported under Linux (with ALSA drivers and OSS emulation)
Oh really? let me see..
/var/log/messages | grep -i bogo
[root@formatter kde2]# cat
Sep 25 15:32:50 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1464.73 BogoMIPS
And thats on Pentium III 733. Do you think that my Pentium III is 3 times faster then yours? I really don't think so!
Try to compare it with standard tools - then flame!
Sorry pal, but the ATI Radeon will be supported only on XFree 4.0.2 and up...
No XFree 3.3.X or Utah-GLX support for it. But it will have DRI supported under XFree 4.0
They took that work and progressed much further..
Hmmm...
I'm looking at the photo's of the 2 cards, and to tell the truth - I don't see on 2 VGA out connectors - only 1 normal VGA and the other which I don't know what it is (DVI?)
So how can you connect 2 SVGA monitors to it?
This time is should. A professor from Germany has submitted patches so it should compile flawslely (and run)
SuSE also has Linux for:
* IBM's S/390 and soon - AS/400
* IBM's RS/6000
* Soon - Linux for X86-64 (AMD Sledgehammer)
* IA-64
As you can see - if someone is very good as porting Linux to - it's the SuSE guys
From those pictures and some info I got around, it seems that:
1. You can forget about installing IBM Microdrive - this PCMCIA slot is half of what you need
2. I'm betting that this is a Winmodem - and fromm experience - probably Lucent Winmodem - so forget kernel 2.4 unless you have a way to load their binary module to it..
They'll see it with Windows ME (Millenium Edition - and from my experience - MS added Millenium bugs!)
AMD will release soon the AMD 760MP chipset for dual Athlon.
Alpha Processors Inc. are working with AMD to create a chipset for quad and 8 CPU's.
There are some ciruclating rumors that Transmeta thinks about SMP for their Crusoe, but for desktop..
Note: the way that AMD will work with dual processing is called P-T-P and not SMP. Exactly the same as alpha does.
anyone?
Well, in a normal PC world - you can surf to pricewatch, compare prices, buy Pentium III or Athlon K7 and be happy - so if AMD decides tommorow to cut their K7 from 500$ to 300$ - you will pay less (although you won't save $200 - there is the middle-man, you know)..
On the notebook market - it's a total different story. No one will guarantee you that if the new mobile Pentium III or the new Mobile Athlon prices will be reduced - you'll pay less - the chances are that you'll pay the same (or maybe little lower, and I'm talking about a few dozen dollars less)..
Well, if you wait a little bit more, you'll be able to play Sim City 3000 on Your Mac with Linux PPC.
I don't remember which company (I think terra soft) has signed an agreement to port all Loki game ports to LinuxPPC.
So, you will be able to compare Sim City 3000 on Native Mac OS against the LinuxPPC version.
Mozilla is now Dual Licensed - MPL and GPL..
Check before you post..
I beg to differ, sir..
Monterey was a co-operative porject of IBM, SCO, and sequent..
Now - all the monterey project goes to the next version of AIX..
So where do you see the Monterey project alive?
So you're the guy who is been sleeping under a rock for a long time :))
Seriously, do you look at slashdot more then once in 6 months? have you seen all the KDE 2.0 beta's? so WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??
Next Week, KDE 2.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) will be out - I suggest for you to grab the binary files or the source code (you can also CVS checkout now also) - and compare both..
So please, check facts before you post!
Try to READ the page sometimes before you're posting silly question!
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From the page: "With our Rsync Cradle and QuickSync software, you can easily exchange information between your Agenda and your Windows or Linux PC. You can also send & receive email and connect to internet."
URL: http://www.agendacomputing.com/products/details.j
Goto http://www.matrox.com
... G200MAX - up to 4 monitors in one card!
Look at the
Also, there is a PCI version - so you could put up to 16 monitors on 1 PC! (their X driver supports it)
Look again..
.tgz file with the source code.
I posted the link and the there is a
ahh... ooops? :)
Fixed.
/me goes to drink more cola to wake up..
Well, you can play DIVX movies..
http://divx.euro.ru
I think that some hacking could be done to play some ASF/ASX files also...
Also, there might be a chance to play DIVX movies on the newer snapshots of KDE2 (not sure yet, not with the current snapshots)
Windows has update features..
According to Microsoft, this update will let you update drivers, security holes and other updates needed..
I got a windows 2k machine and guess what? from all the fixes that appears on SP1, only 1 appeared here (which wasn't even related to my configuration!)
Give me a break!
I'll try to answer:
Questions 1 & 2: Yes, there is a different. If you look at your License agreement - you'll see that the copy of Windows you got (I'm talking about cases where you buy machines from Compaq, Dell, gateway - that big sellers) cannot be used on another machines, EVEN if the other machine is identical (I don't have the EULA so I cannot say which paragraph is it)
The "Select" license and the windows you're getting with it is the usual Windows you can buy on stores. Its just doesn't have the OEM part registration (it got another registration way).
3. Honestly - if you buy those 50 licenses and install 40 now - You can install the other 10 when you'll buy those 10 PC's, so - your question (4) can be applied.. Even if it's your own ISO image with Windows configured by you.
I would further advice you to negotiate with your seller and ask him to sell you those PC's BLANK (that way you'll save some money). I was a system administrator and I installed thousands of Windows machines and I can tell you that the Windows that comes with your machine pre-installed - is the most unstable configuration you'll ever get. They're installing lots of shitty stuff there (they're own ISP stuff, utilities which you'll never needs and other tweaks that only god knows why people need them).
note: In case you buy Compaq PC's (or Notebook) - you'll have a problem to install Windows from scratch on this machine cause they don't give the drivers to download and they got this special way to install them from your Windows emergency recover CD - so be careful.
Before someone will sue me here - everything is according to my experience and my understanding.
Huh??
320 Pixels X 200 Pixels and 1 byte for every pixel (8 bit colour, remember?) = 64K!
Even if you give 16 bit colurs, then the number jump to 128K! - how did you get the 512K figure?
Look at very old EGA cards and way-older VGA cards - there was 64k only.