That's funny.... The GATOS drivers for the Radeon 7500 in my secondary box has caused me more troubles than ATI's binary drivers have, or Nvidia's binary drivers for the Ti4200 in my primary box.
3 days and X is still refusing to run when I use the GATOS drivers
You need to measure the amount of time it takes to get Nvidia drivers to work under Windows in hours?!?
In 4 hours, you should have installed XP, all the necessary drivers, done the Windows Update thing and setup many of your security policies with the group policy editor..... And those are quite interesting to learn about.... Way too few Linux people do that...
There was one nation that truly broke the backbone of Nazist Germany: The Soviet Union.
A few eyeopeners:
From 1942, 65-80% of the german armed forces fought on the western front. The rest were spread around Italy, western europe and germany itself.
Units from the eastern front were sent to the western front for rest, refit and recuperation(That's why the 2 SS Panzer divisions were present at Arnhem, for example). Kinda tells you which front was considered the most demanding.....
Unfortunately, I've met quite a bunch, and seen enough posters here on Slashdot go on about it. I know that Linux will be getting official support for it in ext3 etc, and I've been trying out the posix-acl's on my box here. I've been using ACL's with XFS on Irix a lot, and some with XFS for Linux.
No, but in 2k/XP/2k3 there are ACL's instead, and included there is the permission to execute. Quite functional, and do everything permissions do, plus some more.
If you bother to learn it. Which most normal users and all too many Unix and Linux users don't(And then whine about how Windows doesn't have permissions)
That's something that I've been missing from the Amiga era, decent virtual directories/drives.
Ah, the good old days of Assign on AmigaOS..
assign mods: dh0:/mods assign mods: dh1:/mods ADD
By writing list mods: you could now see the contents of both those directories as if it was one single directory. And it's been available even since the first version of AmigaOS. There's nothing quite as simple and neat on any other OS, even today =(
Yes, Unix was so designed with security in focus that it had to be bolted on..... And don't forget that we have the Unix world to thank for worms in the first place.
I've been wearing all kinds of clothes to work... At a small place, when we were getting close to a deadline, I was often working 16 hour days.... I kinda surprised my coworkers and bosses when I came to work and changed into satin pyjama trousers.
Or when I was a network admin at a school... Tight-fitting leather trousers, PVC+fishnet shirt, goretex police boots....
Wrong. Just plain wrong. Try early 19th century, during the Napoleonic wars, when the Swiss Guards(The highly elite mercenary unit guarding the Vatican) were forced to sign an agreement that forbade them to do anything other than act as guards for the Vatican, since they were so feared. The Swiss were among the first to arm the peasants with pikes and crossbows and use them against charging knights to great effect.
And I know that many people only think the Swiss Guards are ceremonial and armed with polearms and such, when they are in fact one of the worlds best trained units. Patrolling guards have pistols in concealed holsters under their jacket, in the small of their back, while guards assigned to specific locations have submachine guns and assault rifles within arms reach, in concealed compartments. The various buildings in the Vatican are riddled with concealed metal detectors, and the troops are trained to notice concealed weapons(You'd have to wear very baggy clothes to hide even a small Makarov, not to mention practice for a long time to get rid of the subconscious change in movement and balance that carrying a concealed weapon induces)
If you had read the thread, you'd have noticed that the Intel Compiler gave faulty output no matter if optimizations were enabled or not, and he's been working on it to and from for over a year...
It's a filesharing system.
Basic client for Windows can be found here: www.neo-modus.com
The best clients are DC++ and oDC, available on SourceForge and www.gempond.com/odc respectively, but then you need to find a hublist.
There are Unix clients available, but they suck
Hop on to Direct Connect and join one of the Swedish hubs. If you find people with BBB or Tele2 tags, you have found some. Heck, there are even a couple of hubs that have limited logins so you can only connect if you have a 10Mb/s or better connection, by limiting to the IP-ranges used for those connections
Not true. The various local governments are getting subsidies from the state to build up an infrastructure, and the goal is that local governments should also provide at least 5Mb/s symmetrical and full duplex to all the citizens . Companies such as Bredbandsbolaget, Bostream, Tele2, Utfors etc are not getting any subsidies. Instead Bostream, Bredbandsbolaget etc often rent capactity from the local infrastructure, to avoid having to lay down as much fiber as they might have had to.
Well, yes, GCC 3.3 gives me somewhat faster code for FP-intensive code, compared to earlier version, in some cases up to 5-10% faster. And it's mixed, both vector instructions and normal FP stuff is used. I just wish I had access to better vector units, such as MDMX, but unfortunately, it's never been fully implemented in any of the MIPS CPU's that SGI uses.
And no, I don't know if Apple has any such enhancements right now, and I would really love to get them. The 970 looks like it would be a nice CPU to work on, with Altivec being better than SSE2, and having a decent bus architecture to pump data through.
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Compile Povray with Intel's ICC 8 and drop GCC, and you'll see some quite noticeable performance increases.
Didn't find any of the pics, but here's a link to an article about it: The article
Some of Pixars' work areas have more imaginative cube mods, decorations etc than this
Because I'm busy programming other stuff. I simply don't have the time to spend on it.
I'm just annoyed at dubious claims as to how Open Source is always better.....
That's funny.... The GATOS drivers for the Radeon 7500 in my secondary box has caused me more troubles than ATI's binary drivers have, or Nvidia's binary drivers for the Ti4200 in my primary box.
3 days and X is still refusing to run when I use the GATOS drivers
You need to measure the amount of time it takes to get Nvidia drivers to work under Windows in hours?!?
In 4 hours, you should have installed XP, all the necessary drivers, done the Windows Update thing and setup many of your security policies with the group policy editor..... And those are quite interesting to learn about.... Way too few Linux people do that...
Age of consent is 15 in Sweden.
There was one nation that truly broke the backbone of Nazist Germany: The Soviet Union.
A few eyeopeners:
From 1942, 65-80% of the german armed forces fought on the western front. The rest were spread around Italy, western europe and germany itself.
Units from the eastern front were sent to the western front for rest, refit and recuperation(That's why the 2 SS Panzer divisions were present at Arnhem, for example). Kinda tells you which front was considered the most demanding.....
Actually, both raycasting and raytracing draw the path from the object to the "camera"
Also, radiosity with good reflection/refraction/diffraction routines and shaders is the most realistic method so far.
Unfortunately, I've met quite a bunch, and seen enough posters here on Slashdot go on about it.
I know that Linux will be getting official support for it in ext3 etc, and I've been trying out the posix-acl's on my box here. I've been using ACL's with XFS on Irix a lot, and some with XFS for Linux.
No, but in 2k/XP/2k3 there are ACL's instead, and included there is the permission to execute.
Quite functional, and do everything permissions do, plus some more.
If you bother to learn it. Which most normal users and all too many Unix and Linux users don't(And then whine about how Windows doesn't have permissions)
Clear case of not reading the fucking manual....
genkernel --config....
That's something that I've been missing from the Amiga era, decent virtual directories/drives.
Ah, the good old days of Assign on AmigaOS..
assign mods: dh0:/mods
assign mods: dh1:/mods ADD
By writing list mods: you could now see the contents of both those directories as if it was one single directory. And it's been available even since the first version of AmigaOS.
There's nothing quite as simple and neat on any other OS, even today =(
Yes, Unix was so designed with security in focus that it had to be bolted on..... And don't forget that we have the Unix world to thank for worms in the first place.
I've been wearing all kinds of clothes to work... At a small place, when we were getting close to a deadline, I was often working 16 hour days.... I kinda surprised my coworkers and bosses when I came to work and changed into satin pyjama trousers.
Or when I was a network admin at a school... Tight-fitting leather trousers, PVC+fishnet shirt, goretex police boots....
What about Wolfenstein 3D?
Or, even better, the old FPS/Adventure game Corporation on the Amiga, came out in 1989 IIRC.
David Braben, when coding Frontier: Elite 2, at least as early as 1990.
Wrong. Just plain wrong. Try early 19th century, during the Napoleonic wars, when the Swiss Guards(The highly elite mercenary unit guarding the Vatican) were forced to sign an agreement that forbade them to do anything other than act as guards for the Vatican, since they were so feared. The Swiss were among the first to arm the peasants with pikes and crossbows and use them against charging knights to great effect.
And I know that many people only think the Swiss Guards are ceremonial and armed with polearms and such, when they are in fact one of the worlds best trained units. Patrolling guards have pistols in concealed holsters under their jacket, in the small of their back, while guards assigned to specific locations have submachine guns and assault rifles within arms reach, in concealed compartments. The various buildings in the Vatican are riddled with concealed metal detectors, and the troops are trained to notice concealed weapons(You'd have to wear very baggy clothes to hide even a small Makarov, not to mention practice for a long time to get rid of the subconscious change in movement and balance that carrying a concealed weapon induces)
If you had read the thread, you'd have noticed that the Intel Compiler gave faulty output no matter if optimizations were enabled or not, and he's been working on it to and from for over a year...
It's a filesharing system. Basic client for Windows can be found here: www.neo-modus.com The best clients are DC++ and oDC, available on SourceForge and www.gempond.com/odc respectively, but then you need to find a hublist. There are Unix clients available, but they suck
Hop on to Direct Connect and join one of the Swedish hubs. If you find people with BBB or Tele2 tags, you have found some. Heck, there are even a couple of hubs that have limited logins so you can only connect if you have a 10Mb/s or better connection, by limiting to the IP-ranges used for those connections
Not true. The various local governments are getting subsidies from the state to build up an infrastructure, and the goal is that local governments should also provide at least 5Mb/s symmetrical and full duplex to all the citizens . Companies such as Bredbandsbolaget, Bostream, Tele2, Utfors etc are not getting any subsidies. Instead Bostream, Bredbandsbolaget etc often rent capactity from the local infrastructure, to avoid having to lay down as much fiber as they might have had to.
"PERL sucks, PHP does most of the same stuff Perl does but you can still read your own code a week later"
How about "PHP doesn't require you to be drunk to be able to read and debug the code you wrote earlier the same day"?
Been there, done that....
Hmmm. Could be that the problem is with an old version of a library or something, that is part of Red Hat 7.3.
What kind of image analysis?
Well, yes, GCC 3.3 gives me somewhat faster code for FP-intensive code, compared to earlier version, in some cases up to 5-10% faster. And it's mixed, both vector instructions and normal FP stuff is used. I just wish I had access to better vector units, such as MDMX, but unfortunately, it's never been fully implemented in any of the MIPS CPU's that SGI uses.
And no, I don't know if Apple has any such enhancements right now, and I would really love to get them. The 970 looks like it would be a nice CPU to work on, with Altivec being better than SSE2, and having a decent bus architecture to pump data through.