If I had to bet a dollar I'd bet that MS will fork the "golden build" in early Spring 2005, it'll go gold in Summer, and it'll be generally avaiable in Sept 2005.
I worked there during the whole "Whistler" cycle -- I got a feel for the cycle.
Yeah but I bought a P4 1.7 way back in (I think) Summer '01? or earlier? anyway...
I put a ATI 9700 in it. According to Toms Hardware the BEST P4 3.2 GHz is only like 66% faster. Of course, that means 40FPS when I'm only getting like 28! but not worth the $$$
I'll upgrade to a 5ghz machine tho! (Maybe: usual rule of thumb is upgrade when all benchmarks at least double.)
Nah, you're missing the strategy: (1) Give away IM; (2) Get everyone in the world to live/breath/eat/sleep your IM service, like Crack; (3) monetize it.
By and large the sheep will fork out their credit cards to keep the crack coming. Monetizing MSN is MS's wet dream.
Thanks. I'll see if it helps. For what it's worth, it takes 50 seconds from Lilo to Login for me "the old way". I installed runit-run, read the docs a bit, and rebooted. It only shaved off 5 seconds, but I saw it loading things in parallel. It also didn't start lots of things, but I saw I have to do that manually.
Should I expect a dramatic speedup, or is there some other compelling benefit?
Yeah, that's exactly the smoke-up-the-ass they blew in 2000 when they announced.NET. By the time Longhorn ships, it will be so backwards-compatible with W2k, it'll basically just be another layer of complexity on the same old cruft, just like NTFS still has drive letters.
Debian could seriously use some more ASYNC-ness in the rc scripts. These are the problems I have:
(1) Hotplug experiences a timeout initing USB -- it detects all my devices and then there's a delay while it figures out that's all there is.
(2) Mounting 200 GB Reiserfs partitions takes a couple seconds. These are just data/mpeg partitions, not app/os partitions, and I don't wanna mess with carving 'em up. No reason they can't mount in the background.
(3) Lots of network services like SSH and EXIM start synchronously. There's no reason I can't get to a prompt and then just use those svcs once they finish initing. That's what Microsoft did from 2000 to XP to cut down on perceived boot time considerably.
I am officially excluding "Caldera" from my Topics. I'll only see the occasional zany rubbish the rest of the media prints about this garbage, but that's better than the non-stop 16-ton weight this has become.
Listen, the rational part of me says -- of course we went to the moon, there's 10000 facts to back it up. But the emotional part says: WHY THE HELL don't we ever go back? I was like 2 when we last went.
Especially given all the neg press Nasa has, and even if its a huge waste of money and we won't learn anything, could somebody explain to me why we at least just don't go back *ONCE* every *THIRTY YEARS***, just to give people like me assurance, yep, they didn't bullshit me, we CAN do it.
Just wait till you see the way "Pivots" work in the new Longhorn shell. The canonical example is sorting thousands of mp3s by artist, but it'll be A-FUCKIN-MAZIN.
Face it: databases rock. You never know how many interesting questions you didn't ask because you couldn't think in sets until you do it, and then it's FAST as all get out.
Of course, there are so many poignant comic books, but one of my favorite from the 1985-1990 period was Sandman Annual #1. It came out during the first gulf war.
The story was about a sultan of Baghdad around 1000 AD, when Baghdad was the absolute pinnacle of civilization, knew the most mathemtatics, and was the most advanced culture in the world. But he saw in the deserts the ruins of Sumeria and Egypt and knew that all great civilizations fail. So he summons Sandman by threatening to break open a glass ball imprisoning 9,999 demons, djinn, and efreeti that Abraham captured -- unless Sandman preserves Baghdad unchanged forever. Sandman agrees, but with the provision that it'll only live on forever in the Dreamworld. The Sultan agrees, and wakes up in the dirty, broken, real-world city that Baghdad has become.
On the last page, you find out it was all just a story an old man was telling a little boy to keep his spirits up while the Americans are bombing Baghdad during the war, and you see what a wreck the story is, &c. &c. &c. Super-cool story. (BTW, I supported the war and still do, but I still appreciate a good story).
That and the Animal Man comic where Wile. E. Coyote becomes Jesus Christ and takes on the suffering of the whole cartoon world so that the cartoon animals will stop blowing each other up are two of the many that stand out from that period.
Around 1990 is when I stopped following comics though.
I've been struggling with the same issue as I prepare my resume. Do I write it in OpenOffice, impressing those who get it, and save to Office and PDF and give out all three versions?...or do I just "do the smart thing" and go ahead and write it OfficeXP and make sure that all and sundry think I'm "normal". There's nothing I want less than to start a job interview niggling over compatibility issues!
I've finally decided to just write my resume in XML (no kidding) and write a couple XSDs to turn it into an actual document. But the version I give out to people will use Visual Basic for Applications to turn the XML into honest-to-god, plain old, plain old, ain't-no-commie-bastard Word documents. But I'll also gen OpenOffice flavors and PDF for fun.
I can't see any other way out of this hell than to start doing all my Word Processing in XML in vi:-)
Has anybody ever gotten hardware AC3 passthrough working with Mplayer, Alsa, and an Audigy? I get:
#mplayer -ao alsa9 -ac hwac3 foo.vob ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p failed: No such device
even with DevFS mounted...
It's a bummer not to be able to listen to DVDs with *proper* Dolby Digital AC3, gotta boot to Winders like a chump! This is my biggest Linux-wart at the moment.
You're being too nice to Bill with that Icon -- lots of Bill's press pictures are him still at 35, or 37, or even 41.
Since he stepped down as CEO, he's gained a lot of weight, his hair is gone all wierd, and he's starting to look old, wrinkled, and pudgy.
Funny thing is, since Balmer took over as CEO, he's *lost* a lot of weight (this happened post-Monkey-boy). Guess it goes to show which is the more stressfull job!
Anyway, Gates is like 47 or 48 now and starting to look like an old man. Time to update those icons -- don't show anymore press photos of the "old bill" -- the new one is much easier to ridicule.
I'm still just building Firebird from CVS the same way I've been building it since 0.5. The build process seems to be the same. I tried a CVS build between 0.6.1 and now, but it was horked. Now I'll go back to building about once a week, it seems stable again.
I like the new features. Are there any important changes I should make to.mozconfig?
I still have a bunch of MP3 CDs I burned in '98 and '99 and they all work fine (except for the I spilled Guiness on). And I have a data CD I burned in early '00 that I read the other day.
So, my data points tend to contradict their thesis, so, who knows, but don't pull your hair out.
When I needed to run CVS x, I was able to write a pretty darned simple bash script with some here documents to autogen "fake" 4.2.99 X packages: grep a packages list for 4.2.0, and make dummy packages that don't depend on anything. Install the dummy pkgs, install CVS X, and then the rest of it works happily.
Be sure to get *all* the X packages, or something will "suggest" your system to become totally hosed!
Y'all always like to quote Ghandi about Linux v. Microsoft etc:
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you when" or however it goes.
Well, this is like the part of the movie where the English lined up everybody in the Football stadium and Machine-gunned them from the tank. The analogy being a company collecting $699 from YOUR hard work.
It's time to put your philosophy into action. In the movie, this is where you have to take the high road, the high road here being let 'em collect all their blood $$$ and don't stoop to their level. After that comes the winning part:-)
Swing and all other "modern kewl Java tools that run gobs of native code look sweet and fly!!!" are not exactly bolstering my image of Java as fast code.
The latest ultra-rad GUI from BEA, this, well, the only time performance really sucks is when... they're actually executing Java code! But when they run in C++, well, then, they're totally awesome!
Okay, this is kind of easy, piling on, pouring salt in the wound. People write server-side code in Java, and a network roundtrip to the database dwarfs time spent executing code in the middleware, so if Java promotes maintainable code in the middle, that's "A Good Thing". And the.NET team has admitted the current runtime only really scales to 2 processors (maybe 4), definitely not 8 (look for that to change). But whatever, actually DOING STUFF in Java is SLOW....
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If I had to bet a dollar I'd bet that MS will fork the "golden build" in early Spring 2005, it'll go gold in Summer, and it'll be generally avaiable in Sept 2005.
I worked there during the whole "Whistler" cycle -- I got a feel for the cycle.
Yeah but I bought a P4 1.7 way back in (I think) Summer '01? or earlier? anyway...
I put a ATI 9700 in it. According to Toms Hardware the BEST P4 3.2 GHz is only like 66% faster. Of course, that means 40FPS when I'm only getting like 28! but not worth the $$$
I'll upgrade to a 5ghz machine tho! (Maybe: usual rule of thumb is upgrade when all benchmarks at least double.)
Am I the only one who read this and wondered when Linus got divorced and got into a custody battle for his kids?
[not trying to make light of that -- making light of my misreading]
Nah, you're missing the strategy: (1) Give away IM; (2) Get everyone in the world to live/breath/eat/sleep your IM service, like Crack; (3) monetize it.
By and large the sheep will fork out their credit cards to keep the crack coming. Monetizing MSN is MS's wet dream.
They'll eventually pull it off.
Try NitroLite.
[http://adamware.com/nitrol.html]
It's written by an MS-Dev on his spare time. Learned about it when I worked there.
Goals: 100k executable, xcopy install. Does syntax highlighting for C, C#, web, xml, &c. Bunch o' buffers. Can exec. shell proggies inside it.
It's the best for a good 'ol editor.
Thanks. I'll see if it helps. For what it's worth, it takes 50 seconds from Lilo to Login for me "the old way". I installed runit-run, read the docs a bit, and rebooted. It only shaved off 5 seconds, but I saw it loading things in parallel. It also didn't start lots of things, but I saw I have to do that manually.
Should I expect a dramatic speedup, or is there some other compelling benefit?
Thanks... /etc/fstab then mount it manually later?
HTH...
Couldn't you just set the noauto option for this partition in
That's what I'm doing. Thanks!
Yeah, that's exactly the smoke-up-the-ass they blew in 2000 when they announced .NET. By the time Longhorn ships, it will be so backwards-compatible with W2k, it'll basically just be another layer of complexity on the same old cruft, just like NTFS still has drive letters.
Betcha a $ Longhorn uses drive letters.
I use rcconf. It's pretty nice.
Debian could seriously use some more ASYNC-ness in the rc scripts. These are the problems I have:
(1) Hotplug experiences a timeout initing USB -- it detects all my devices and then there's a delay while it figures out that's all there is.
(2) Mounting 200 GB Reiserfs partitions takes a couple seconds. These are just data/mpeg partitions, not app/os partitions, and I don't wanna mess with carving 'em up. No reason they can't mount in the background.
(3) Lots of network services like SSH and EXIM start synchronously. There's no reason I can't get to a prompt and then just use those svcs once they finish initing. That's what Microsoft did from 2000 to XP to cut down on perceived boot time considerably.
If we're running Linux, why can't we just patch our clients to give the expected behavior?
I.E., any DNS query which comes back as that IP, should return "host not found instead".
It's a lot easier to just fix my PC than to try to fix the whole world.
I am officially excluding "Caldera" from my Topics. I'll only see the occasional zany rubbish the rest of the media prints about this garbage, but that's better than the non-stop 16-ton weight this has become.
See you on the other side.
Listen, the rational part of me says -- of course we went to the moon, there's 10000 facts to back it up. But the emotional part says: WHY THE HELL don't we ever go back? I was like 2 when we last went.
Especially given all the neg press Nasa has, and even if its a huge waste of money and we won't learn anything, could somebody explain to me why we at least just don't go back *ONCE* every *THIRTY YEARS***, just to give people like me assurance, yep, they didn't bullshit me, we CAN do it.
Just wait till you see the way "Pivots" work in the new Longhorn shell. The canonical example is sorting thousands of mp3s by artist, but it'll be A-FUCKIN-MAZIN.
Face it: databases rock. You never know how many interesting questions you didn't ask because you couldn't think in sets until you do it, and then it's FAST as all get out.
Of course, there are so many poignant comic books, but one of my favorite from the 1985-1990 period was Sandman Annual #1. It came out during the first gulf war.
The story was about a sultan of Baghdad around 1000 AD, when Baghdad was the absolute pinnacle of civilization, knew the most mathemtatics, and was the most advanced culture in the world. But he saw in the deserts the ruins of Sumeria and Egypt and knew that all great civilizations fail. So he summons Sandman by threatening to break open a glass ball imprisoning 9,999 demons, djinn, and efreeti that Abraham captured -- unless Sandman preserves Baghdad unchanged forever. Sandman agrees, but with the provision that it'll only live on forever in the Dreamworld. The Sultan agrees, and wakes up in the dirty, broken, real-world city that Baghdad has become.
On the last page, you find out it was all just a story an old man was telling a little boy to keep his spirits up while the Americans are bombing Baghdad during the war, and you see what a wreck the story is, &c. &c. &c. Super-cool story. (BTW, I supported the war and still do, but I still appreciate a good story).
That and the Animal Man comic where Wile. E. Coyote becomes Jesus Christ and takes on the suffering of the whole cartoon world so that the cartoon animals will stop blowing each other up are two of the many that stand out from that period.
Around 1990 is when I stopped following comics though.
I've been struggling with the same issue as I prepare my resume. Do I write it in OpenOffice, impressing those who get it, and save to Office and PDF and give out all three versions? ...or do I just "do the smart thing" and go ahead and write it OfficeXP and make sure that all and sundry think I'm "normal". There's nothing I want less than to start a job interview niggling over compatibility issues!
:-)
I've finally decided to just write my resume in XML (no kidding) and write a couple XSDs to turn it into an actual document. But the version I give out to people will use Visual Basic for Applications to turn the XML into honest-to-god, plain old, plain old, ain't-no-commie-bastard Word documents. But I'll also gen OpenOffice flavors and PDF for fun.
I can't see any other way out of this hell than to start doing all my Word Processing in XML in vi
Has anybody ever gotten hardware AC3 passthrough working with Mplayer, Alsa, and an Audigy? I get:
/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p failed: No such device
#mplayer -ao alsa9 -ac hwac3 foo.vob
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open
even with DevFS mounted...
It's a bummer not to be able to listen to DVDs with *proper* Dolby Digital AC3, gotta boot to Winders like a chump! This is my biggest Linux-wart at the moment.
You're being too nice to Bill with that Icon -- lots of Bill's press pictures are him still at 35, or 37, or even 41.
Since he stepped down as CEO, he's gained a lot of weight, his hair is gone all wierd, and he's starting to look old, wrinkled, and pudgy.
Funny thing is, since Balmer took over as CEO, he's *lost* a lot of weight (this happened post-Monkey-boy). Guess it goes to show which is the more stressfull job!
Anyway, Gates is like 47 or 48 now and starting to look like an old man. Time to update those icons -- don't show anymore press photos of the "old bill" -- the new one is much easier to ridicule.
I'm still just building Firebird from CVS the same way I've been building it since 0.5. The build process seems to be the same. I tried a CVS build between 0.6.1 and now, but it was horked. Now I'll go back to building about once a week, it seems stable again.
.mozconfig?
m an,-content-packs,-helpa s,p3p,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,typeahead find,webservices
I like the new features. Are there any important changes I should make to
export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
mk_add_options MOZ_PHOENIX=1
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
#ac_add_options --enable-extensions=default,-inspector,-irc,-venk
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=cookie,wallet,xml-rpc,xmlextr
ac_add_options --enable-plaintext-editor-only
ac_add_options --enable-xft
#ac_add_options --enable-svg
ac_add_options --disable-installer
#ac_add_options --without-libIDL
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
I still have a bunch of MP3 CDs I burned in '98 and '99 and they all work fine (except for the I spilled Guiness on). And I have a data CD I burned in early '00 that I read the other day.
So, my data points tend to contradict their thesis, so, who knows, but don't pull your hair out.
When I needed to run CVS x, I was able to write a pretty darned simple bash script with some here documents to autogen "fake" 4.2.99 X packages: grep a packages list for 4.2.0, and make dummy packages that don't depend on anything. Install the dummy pkgs, install CVS X, and then the rest of it works happily.
Be sure to get *all* the X packages, or something will "suggest" your system to become totally hosed!
"XO is not Xfree86"
Wouldn't what be XINX as in "XINX is not Xfree86"? Hey, I think you have something there!
Color me obnoxious!
I'm a lee-nuchs, Guh-nome, Gah-Noo man 150%. The whole thing is about freedom man.
If they want to spell it "Raymond Luxury Yaught", but pronounce it "Throat-Warbler Mangrove", that's a-ok with me man.
Now pass me that bong.
Y'all always like to quote Ghandi about Linux v. Microsoft etc:
:-)
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you when" or however it goes.
Well, this is like the part of the movie where the English lined up everybody in the Football stadium and Machine-gunned them from the tank. The analogy being a company collecting $699 from YOUR hard work.
It's time to put your philosophy into action. In the movie, this is where you have to take the high road, the high road here being let 'em collect all their blood $$$ and don't stoop to their level. After that comes the winning part
I've been recording it off TBS at 11:00 am PST M-F. Check your Tivo or ReplayTV!
I think SciFi carries it too don't they?
Swing and all other "modern kewl Java tools that run gobs of native code look sweet and fly!!!" are not exactly bolstering my image of Java as fast code.
.NET team has admitted the current runtime only really scales to 2 processors (maybe 4), definitely not 8 (look for that to change). But whatever, actually DOING STUFF in Java is SLOW....
The latest ultra-rad GUI from BEA, this, well, the only time performance really sucks is when... they're actually executing Java code! But when they run in C++, well, then, they're totally awesome!
Okay, this is kind of easy, piling on, pouring salt in the wound. People write server-side code in Java, and a network roundtrip to the database dwarfs time spent executing code in the middleware, so if Java promotes maintainable code in the middle, that's "A Good Thing". And the