Yes, and my RAID doesn't have a problem keeping up with the burner at full speed either.
I'm talking about "mere mortals", you know, the 99% of the computer population whose computer runs Win9x, only has a single harddrive which is in DMA-mode only if by some misfortune they'd once run Windows Update. The same 99% that like to complain a lot about their computers.
>I admit I don't know how it works with DVD-Rs
Just for the record, 4x in DVDR-terms is 5540 kilobytes/s
Yes, it's overrated by most people. Most don't need to burn 50 DVDs/day, and if they do, they've got the funds to invest in more burners.
The problem specifically, I have found, is that people burn at top speed, which makes their system mostly unusable during the burn due to IO load -- so they complain that it takes "too long" as they must 'wait' for it to complete.
What I do instead is burn at a slower rate (2x), which doesn't starve my IO, meaning I can actually do other things while "waiting" for the burn to complete.
PS. SCSI-trolls can stay away.
PSS. My first CDR burner topped out at 1x and had a 64Kbyte buffer. Only stable in Win 3.11 due to the small buffer.
>Why doesn't Debian just borrow their installer or something?
Historically the problem has been that these "smooth installers" are i386-only. Debian supports many different architectures, and they're not about to make i386 a "special case".
The Meta Group last week issued a controversial report of its own. In the report, Meta forecasted a move by Microsoft to support Linux in its Web, groupware and database server products by late 2004.
Guess you guys got a few months more to fail that one completely. Hold your breath!
> We should have HP48G-looking units with 64MB of RAM, double-high-res colour transflective screens (think GBA), USB ports, AND full backwards-compatibility with all the wonderful HP48[G/GX/S/SX] software out there
512KB memory + one Secure Digital slot -- so you can get oodles of memory very cheaply (512MB? No problem). USB? Yes. Compatibility? Yes (source level). Higher resolution? Yes (16px higher IIRC)
>Keypresses dont register, screen flicker, the works.
This is a little unfair. As far as I know the screen flicker only happens if you run grayscale programs written for the HP48 (typically games on which the bang-the-hardware-asm isn't "properly" emulated), or possibly in an older firmware. I have had no screen flicker on my HP49G+ at all, unless you count the 'garbage' on power-on that was visible on _old_ firmwares?
The keyboard problem is somewhat overhyped IMHO, but it's at least a real problem. I guess it depends on your disposition how much of a problem it is.
I'm not sure why you're replying to me, but yes, the HP calculator division isn't it's former self.
First of all, the HP49G+ use a 75MHZ ARM920T processor on which the Saturn and OS is emulated. The OS is now much faster than the 48-series -- and there's been progress on hacking around the emulation to run software on the underlying ARM directly. Bypassing the emulation makes for potentially very fast software indeed. This potential however is very cool, and as soon as they figure out how to control the display without going over the emulated OS, I can see there being a complete new OS written for it.
No, the problem with the new HPs are that they're made in China (and all the implications of thatt). There's been problems with the keyboard. Early HP49G+ have a 'hollow sounding' keyboard which sometimes misses keys. That's very bad if you're using the calculator a lot. I've got one of the older models myself and it's quite irritating. Even so, I wouldn't want to replace it with a non-RPN calculator. I love my HP:-)
Newer revisions of the hardware (SN 41x..., IIRC) are said to be a little better, but some hardcore fans remain unconvinced.
There's been some complaints on the HP newsgroup about a near invisible decimal dot in the display, IIRC. Something to look out for.
And people, this isn't a replacement for the graphing calculators, it's meant to be a competent calculator for people who don't need graphing, and it can be used on tests where the HP49G+ and such are often forbidden.
I disagree. If you read the articles where BayStar speak out, you'll see that they're still believers -- unless they're lying about being believers for some reason, but that's just a little too tinfoil-hatty for me this time.
No, I actually think they're mad because McBride spends all his time travelling the world, with his big mouth, a big mouth that's hurting their chances (as it were) in court, and also all this talk about rebuilding the "core UNIX business".. BayStar wants none of that crap (and neither does anyone else, but let's not tell Darl).
>When the slashdot crowd are actually starting to like Darl for sinking the ship, THEN its a good idea to get rid of him.
Not only is McBride our top pick for steering SCO into the ground (taking the investors with him) by using his large mouth to talk about "millions of lines of literal copying" that they have again failed to identify -- thereby again failing to comply to the court order to be specific (the next hearing will be very interesting. Will IBM finally ask for sanctions, or are they just too nice for that?:-) -- but he's also raiding the SCO coffers all by himself, lifting $968,000 out of the company last year! Almost a million dollars in salary+bonus from a business that's a COMPLETE FAILURE! Well, I guess it's not a complete failure if you count the core business as being 'stock scams', but let's just pretend they're a litigation company instead.
McBride, we're on your side! Don't step down now -- You've got to ride this out (...and into that orange jumpsuit...).
"First on BayStar's list is new top-level management, a directive that sources privately confirmed called for the resignation or reassignment of Darl McBride, SCO's outspoken, occasionally vitriolic president and chief executive."
Interpretation: BayStar wants McDarling gone because his big mouth is sinking the ship.
And oh, "they" use JPEG for the graph! Look at it -- it's horrible!
Okay, you DON'T download and run executables from people who can't even pick the right image format for an image like that one (hint: it's PNG). What's the odds of these people knowing anything about researching worms if they can't even get a fscking image right? Close to zero.
I honestly don't understand how come so many have a problem with this. Just look at that "JPEG patents"-story. Scary. I thought this was a place for nerds?
Here's a heuristics for those of you still confused: "If it's lines, blocks, text (that you want readable) and areas of repetitive pattern(s), then use PNG. Else try JPEG (photographs, noisy images)."
How much does it cost to hire FBI for an afternoon of breaking down doors? Will it cost me extra to have them draw their weapons in a "low ready position" while doing it?
When apps _don't_ copy the look'and'feel we get all this whining about how the interface is "weird". See also: GIMP, Blender
So basically linux application GUIs are only allowed to exist in the interval marked "very very familiar -- not too different -- but different enough for my taste."
BayStar Capital II, L.P. today announced a program under which SCOX officers are allowed to learn about the BayStar charges. SCOX officers are only required to sign the dotted line in an NDA about an NDA to a letter about a contract, and they will learn everything they need to know[0].BayStar believes this is a very fair and balanced offer and that only TERRORISTS would decline such a fine offer.
[0] In addition, they will not be allowed to say anything about anything and may be asked to give BayStar money which they will then be legally required to do.
So what will happen? I say we're going to see a SCOX vs BayStar lawsuit.
SCO likes lawsuits. They like to stall for time while talking shit to the
press. It gives them time to dump stock gotten cheaply from options.
We'll get more of that. Only this time, investor-types (people who matter
as far as the stock is concerned) won't like it. Fucking around with your
big investors? Now, that's something else compared to fucking around
with a bunch of hippie nerds and IBM.
I assume the "SCO must have permission from BayStar to start lawsuits"-clause
in the contract won't be a hindrance, since probably BayStar will start it:-)
If BayStar is able to get ~$20M back (20000 at $1000 plus interest and penalties),
then maybe RBC want their part back... which would instantly kill SCOX dead, dead, dead.
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>is yours?
Yes, and my RAID doesn't have a problem keeping up with the burner at full speed either.
I'm talking about "mere mortals", you know, the 99% of the computer population whose computer runs Win9x, only has a single harddrive which is in DMA-mode only if by some misfortune they'd once run Windows Update. The same 99% that like to complain a lot about their computers.
>I admit I don't know how it works with DVD-Rs
Just for the record, 4x in DVDR-terms is 5540 kilobytes/s
Yes, it's overrated by most people. Most don't need to burn 50 DVDs/day, and if they do, they've got the funds to invest in more burners.
The problem specifically, I have found, is that people burn at top speed, which makes their system mostly unusable during the burn due to IO load -- so they complain that it takes "too long" as they must 'wait' for it to complete.
What I do instead is burn at a slower rate (2x), which doesn't starve my IO, meaning I can actually do other things while "waiting" for the burn to complete.
PS. SCSI-trolls can stay away.
PSS. My first CDR burner topped out at 1x and had a 64Kbyte buffer. Only stable in Win 3.11 due to the small buffer.
>s/he will be endlessly praised by the rest of the OSS community...
No, s/he will be eternally flamed for copying the interface! "Can't these F/OSS project do anything but copy commercial solutions?" is how it will go.
And oh, if the copy isn't perfect, a similar set of people will complain about the differences.
>Why doesn't Debian just borrow their installer or something?
Historically the problem has been that these "smooth installers" are i386-only. Debian supports many different architectures, and they're not about to make i386 a "special case".
Hope this answers your question.
>After all, anything bad about Linux is a lie, right?
Non-sequitur. Clearly you don't know The Enderle Troll. Maybe you should study him first, and make ASSumptions later.
Did you see me posting cheerfully in the "Linux Most Breached OS on the Net" article, or what's your point?
You've not fallen for the 'hivemind' fallacy, have you?
They're just another troll for hire.
How this this go? Quote from 2002
Guess you guys got a few months more to fail that one completely. Hold your breath!
They're the ones publishing the never ending stream of F/OSS/Linux lies from The Enderle Troll, no?
Save yourself a click.
> We should have HP48G-looking units with 64MB of RAM, double-high-res colour transflective screens (think GBA), USB ports, AND full backwards-compatibility with all the wonderful HP48[G/GX/S/SX] software out there
Yes, it's called the HP49G+
512KB memory + one Secure Digital slot -- so you can get oodles of memory very cheaply (512MB? No problem). USB? Yes. Compatibility? Yes (source level). Higher resolution? Yes (16px higher IIRC)
>Keypresses dont register, screen flicker, the works.
This is a little unfair. As far as I know the screen flicker only happens if you run grayscale programs written for the HP48 (typically games on which the bang-the-hardware-asm isn't "properly" emulated), or possibly in an older firmware. I have had no screen flicker on my HP49G+ at all, unless you count the 'garbage' on power-on that was visible on _old_ firmwares?
The keyboard problem is somewhat overhyped IMHO, but it's at least a real problem. I guess it depends on your disposition how much of a problem it is.
I'm not sure why you're replying to me, but yes, the HP calculator division isn't it's former self.
First of all, the HP49G+ use a 75MHZ ARM920T processor on which the Saturn and OS is emulated. The OS is now much faster than the 48-series -- and there's been progress on hacking around the emulation to run software on the underlying ARM directly. Bypassing the emulation makes for potentially very fast software indeed. This potential however is very cool, and as soon as they figure out how to control the display without going over the emulated OS, I can see there being a complete new OS written for it.
No, the problem with the new HPs are that they're made in China (and all the implications of thatt). There's been problems with the keyboard. Early HP49G+ have a 'hollow sounding' keyboard which sometimes misses keys. That's very bad if you're using the calculator a lot. I've got one of the older models myself and it's quite irritating. Even so, I wouldn't want to replace it with a non-RPN calculator. I love my HP :-)
Newer revisions of the hardware (SN 41x..., IIRC) are said to be a little better, but some hardcore fans remain unconvinced.
There's been some complaints on the HP newsgroup about a near invisible decimal dot in the display, IIRC. Something to look out for.
And people, this isn't a replacement for the graphing calculators, it's meant to be a competent calculator for people who don't need graphing, and it can be used on tests where the HP49G+ and such are often forbidden.
I disagree. If you read the articles where BayStar speak out, you'll see that they're still believers -- unless they're lying about being believers for some reason, but that's just a little too tinfoil-hatty for me this time.
No, I actually think they're mad because McBride spends all his time travelling the world, with his big mouth, a big mouth that's hurting their chances (as it were) in court, and also all this talk about rebuilding the "core UNIX business".. BayStar wants none of that crap (and neither does anyone else, but let's not tell Darl).
BayStar still believes!
>When the slashdot crowd are actually starting to like Darl for sinking the ship, THEN its a good idea to get rid of him.
Not only is McBride our top pick for steering SCO into the ground (taking the investors with him) by using his large mouth to talk about "millions of lines of literal copying" that they have again failed to identify -- thereby again failing to comply to the court order to be specific (the next hearing will be very interesting. Will IBM finally ask for sanctions, or are they just too nice for that? :-) -- but he's also raiding the SCO coffers all by himself, lifting $968,000 out of the company last year! Almost a million dollars in salary+bonus from a business that's a COMPLETE FAILURE! Well, I guess it's not a complete failure if you count the core business as being 'stock scams', but let's just pretend they're a litigation company instead.
McBride, we're on your side! Don't step down now -- You've got to ride this out (...and into that orange jumpsuit...).
Investor softens stand on SCO
Interpretation: BayStar wants McDarling gone because his big mouth is sinking the ship.
And oh, "they" use JPEG for the graph! Look at it -- it's horrible!
Okay, you DON'T download and run executables from people who can't even pick the right image format for an image like that one (hint: it's PNG). What's the odds of these people knowing anything about researching worms if they can't even get a fscking image right? Close to zero.
I honestly don't understand how come so many have a problem with this. Just look at that "JPEG patents"-story. Scary. I thought this was a place for nerds?
Here's a heuristics for those of you still confused: "If it's lines, blocks, text (that you want readable) and areas of repetitive pattern(s), then use PNG. Else try JPEG (photographs, noisy images)."
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Someone run it through IDA? :-P
So this would be movie -1? It's the odd ones that's supposed to be good, right?
How much does it cost to hire FBI for an afternoon of breaking down doors? Will it cost me extra to have them draw their weapons in a "low ready position" while doing it?
>"what's wrong with 8-bit GIFs?"
Everything? PNG is the format of choice!
Yes, cry me a river.
When apps _don't_ copy the look'and'feel we get all this whining about how the interface is "weird". See also: GIMP, Blender
So basically linux application GUIs are only allowed to exist in the interval marked "very very familiar -- not too different -- but different enough for my taste."
Anything else, queue the whining.
Yes, "analysts". Jebus fucking crabs. Yankee Linux findings rigged too. I'm SHOCKED! shocked I tell you.
Fat guys with beards in Star Wars t-shirts dancing in the streets
I recent that! Star Wars?!
I'm wearing my "Don't ask me, it's a hardware problem"-t-shirt, thank you very much.
This just in:
BayStar Capital II, L.P. today announced a program under which SCOX officers are allowed to learn about the BayStar charges. SCOX officers are only required to sign the dotted line in an NDA about an NDA to a letter about a contract, and they will learn everything they need to know[0].BayStar believes this is a very fair and balanced offer and that only TERRORISTS would decline such a fine offer.
[0] In addition, they will not be allowed to say anything about anything and may be asked to give BayStar money which they will then be legally required to do.
So what will happen? I say we're going to see a SCOX vs BayStar lawsuit. SCO likes lawsuits. They like to stall for time while talking shit to the press. It gives them time to dump stock gotten cheaply from options. We'll get more of that. Only this time, investor-types (people who matter as far as the stock is concerned) won't like it. Fucking around with your big investors? Now, that's something else compared to fucking around with a bunch of hippie nerds and IBM.
I assume the "SCO must have permission from BayStar to start lawsuits"-clause in the contract won't be a hindrance, since probably BayStar will start it :-)
If BayStar is able to get ~$20M back (20000 at $1000 plus interest and penalties), then maybe RBC want their part back... which would instantly kill SCOX dead, dead, dead.
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