From http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html:
The B5 effects teams, both at Foundation and at NDI, use Lightwave 3D by NewTek and specialized software to design and render the visual effects. For the pilot, the effects were rendered on a network of Amiga computers; later, Foundation used 12 Pentium PCs and 5 DEC Alpha workstations for 3D rendering and design, and 3 Macintoshes for piecing together on-set computer displays.
People get these letters in Sweden to. I know for a fact that users on the ethernet based network in Vasteras got them from atleast one of the isp's selling services there. They had used more than 100GB in 20 days (on a 10Mbit/s connection).
Yeah the x86 version could run OSX libraries unmodified IF they were compiled for x86. But we know that won't happen so the only use of the Darwin compatibility on x86 is to run binaries and libraries compiled for the x86 version of Darwin.
Bitlbee worked fine until about 5min ago when I tried to disconnect and reconnect again. Get the same as GAIM: MSN - Login error: Protocol not supported.
I work at a customer support center for an ISP in sweden (and Europe) and once actually had a customer telling me to wait so he could get his magnifying glass:)
* The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is
* probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible
* exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master
* DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance
* gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.
*
* For transmission, the chip offers a series of four TX descriptor
* registers. Each transmit frame must be in a contiguous buffer, aligned
* on a longword (32-bit) boundary. This means we almost always have to
* do mbuf copies in order to transmit a frame, except in the unlikely
* case where a) the packet fits into a single mbuf, and b) the packet
* is 32-bit aligned within the mbuf's data area. The presence of only
* four descriptor registers means that we can never have more than four
* packets queued for transmission at any one time.
*
* Reception is not much better. The driver has to allocate a single large
* buffer area (up to 64K in size) into which the chip will DMA received
* frames. Because we don't know where within this region received packets
* will begin or end, we have no choice but to copy data from the buffer
* area into mbufs in order to pass the packets up to the higher protocol
* levels.
*
* It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent
* performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or
* some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
*
* On the bright side, the 8139 does have a built-in PHY, although
* rather than using an MDIO serial interface like most other NICs, the
* PHY registers are directly accessible through the 8139's register
* space. The 8139 supports autonegotiation, as well as a 64-bit multicast
* filter.
*
They dont need to rewrite anything. Just release the source with the licensed parts removed. Of course this would not be a complete OS but it would give the OpenBeOS (and other) people a good base to build on. Iirc netscape released mozilla like this (I could be wrong though).
If you run Linux and your cpu can handle it then install the dxr3 driver from dxr3.sourceforge.net and use mplayer. Mplayer converts the DivX(or whatever format it can handle) to mpeg and sends to the card.
You must remember that the internet is bigger than your country so a national law wouldnt help much (unless you pull the plug to the rest of the world). There will allways be some countries that doesnt make spam illegal.
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Its not down. Maybe a bit overloaded at times but its still there.
From http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html:
The B5 effects teams, both at Foundation and at NDI, use Lightwave 3D by NewTek and specialized software to design and render the visual effects. For the pilot, the effects were rendered on a network of Amiga computers; later, Foundation used 12 Pentium PCs and 5 DEC Alpha workstations for 3D rendering and design, and 3 Macintoshes for piecing together on-set computer displays.
So Amiga was used atleast in the beginning.
People get these letters in Sweden to. I know for a fact that users on the ethernet based network in Vasteras got them from atleast one of the isp's selling services there. They had used more than 100GB in 20 days (on a 10Mbit/s connection).
Yeah the x86 version could run OSX libraries unmodified IF they were compiled for x86. But we know that won't happen so the only use of the Darwin compatibility on x86 is to run binaries and libraries compiled for the x86 version of Darwin.
If I remember correctly it was because prior to the adding of W^X there were no need to switch to ELF. I could be wrong though.
Nothing strange about that.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris
Yeah I know I shouldn't have tried it but I couldn't stop myself ;)
Gaim 0.70 works ok for me though so its not that bad.
Bitlbee worked fine until about 5min ago when I tried to disconnect and reconnect again. Get the same as GAIM: MSN - Login error: Protocol not supported.
I work at a customer support center for an ISP in sweden (and Europe) and once actually had a customer telling me to wait so he could get his magnifying glass :)
Quoting from the FreeBSD source for the RTL 8139:
* The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is
* probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the
possible
* exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master
* DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance
* gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.
*
* For transmission, the chip offers a series of four TX descriptor
* registers. Each transmit frame must be in a contiguous buffer,
aligned
* on a longword (32-bit) boundary. This means we almost always have to
* do mbuf copies in order to transmit a frame, except in the unlikely
* case where a) the packet fits into a single mbuf, and b) the packet
* is 32-bit aligned within the mbuf's data area. The presence of only
* four descriptor registers means that we can never have more than four
* packets queued for transmission at any one time.
*
* Reception is not much better. The driver has to allocate a single
large
* buffer area (up to 64K in size) into which the chip will DMA received
* frames. Because we don't know where within this region received
packets
* will begin or end, we have no choice but to copy data from the buffer
* area into mbufs in order to pass the packets up to the higher
protocol
* levels.
*
* It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent
* performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or
* some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
*
* On the bright side, the 8139 does have a built-in PHY, although
* rather than using an MDIO serial interface like most other NICs, the
* PHY registers are directly accessible through the 8139's register
* space. The 8139 supports autonegotiation, as well as a 64-bit
multicast
* filter.
*
Doesn't sound that good.
The openbsd faq say: The OpenBSD team makes a new release every six months, with target release dates of May 1 and November 1.
So 3.4 with ELF should be out on November 1.
No its still a.out. You need to get a recent snapshot of CURRENT to get ELF.
Everone who works at some computer support knows that Windows is far from ready for the masses.
Who cares it might be obsolete?? As long as anyone wants to use it it will be around and updated. Its open source remember?
They dont need to rewrite anything. Just release the source with the licensed parts removed. Of course this would not be a complete OS but it would give the OpenBeOS (and other) people a good base to build on. Iirc netscape released mozilla like this (I could be wrong though).
If you run Linux and your cpu can handle it then install the dxr3 driver from dxr3.sourceforge.net and use mplayer. Mplayer converts the DivX(or whatever format it can handle) to mpeg and sends to the card.
No you dont. Voyager was good and Ds9 was great!
hehe that is a problem.. my box just passed 200 days of uptime (still at OpenBSD 2.9) :)
Having seen these already I can only say don't miss them! I like all seasons of farscape and this is some of the best episodes.
yea probably. But it wont get rid of the problem.
You must remember that the internet is bigger than your country so a national law wouldnt help much (unless you pull the plug to the rest of the world). There will allways be some countries that doesnt make spam illegal.
3 BSD's isnt much if you compare to all the Linux "distributions" out there.
From what I have heard the klingons was going to have forehead ridges in TOS but they couldnt do it (or didnt have the resourses) back then.
Like anyone would pay that kind of money and then emulate a x86 on it :P Thats like emulating a c64 on ... hmm wait.. people do that.. oh never mind :)
Im glad I dont live in the US.