I don't like RedHat either. To be hones, I am quite happy with my mini-Caldera (found on the cover CD of a German magazine, or by the Debian I installed on a Sparcstation, here at work).
At least with these ones I can see what I am doing and I don't have any buggy yast effect to workaround.
My Maestro is not faulty at all.
It rocks under BeOS, Linux 2.2.18 and win*.*...
I guess the 2.4 driver is not ok. And this is the reason I advice laptop'ed users not to use it (we got the same situation on several different-branded laptops, here.)
SuSe7 came with KDE2 and it was catastrophic. Why does SuSe still want to play Avant-garde ?
In 1999 they were the first to deliver the ATI128 X server but they should not deliver stuff they have neither coded nor tested by themselves.
2.4 is nice, but not quite ready for the non-geek. --
I have not switched to 2.4 at the moment
because of some energy saving issue that
makes my Maestro2E soundcard whistle, I
guess this is dangerous for my hardware
as after a hard reboot the hell continues
as soon as the hd spins up and even if I
boot "another os".
Frightening.
My problem is that I am not sure I may want to boot a SuSe install CD that may burn my sound chip during the startup. Especially because of this disclaimer written in small chars.
And finally, I don't like SuSe : not standard, too long to fix the startup sequence, each time I launch yast, i have to manually re-unset the "hardware clock set to GMT" because of a bug they would not correct since v4...
--
While folowing the link to the Tahoe Arch. I found this.
don't worry, no goat here, but just some holiday pictures that I don't understand.
Is it a hack or what ? Update:while checking my link I found what I expected at first. --
> now I fully expect to see a story "Newborn infant cracks SDMI, burps up on RIAA".
Beware of this ambiguously sounding sentence.
I am French but I feel smarter than an US baby.
And BTW Americans did invent SDMI so, please, either explain your idea a clear way or don't write it.
We just discussed about power shortages and you keep your hungry hardware ?
Come on !
i just think we should take a deeper look to the low-consumption alternatives around, like this, or this.
What ?
Vapourware.
Nope. I own many machines running these processors and my brother just bought a transmeta laptop which he's in love with.
Don't believe the hype and aim your purchases towards a brighter future.
Intel's selling radiators, so is Nvidia. --
...but what will we lose ?
Don't play with Mother Nature to counterpart the effects of some (mostly) human problem.
If this CD45 can just help regulate immunity, won't there be another molecul that would prefer that we don't play with it?
I bet I'd prefer to keep my sane life instead of taking one more drug. --
There's actually more then just Pow Wow left
Did you forget to pay the typo tax, Hemos?;-)
Well, at least this means Everybuddy won't need some new "driver" for newer services. Except if AOL/MSN, etc. just decide to update their protocols to force the public to upgrade towards their tools...
> "Poorly scalable ?"
Any NeXT would come with a free app : Zila, allowing its applications to be multithreaded across a local network.
So, no.
I tried and this.... Damn! *R*O*C*K*S*:-)
I could do a billing system in a week with a bunch of old NeXTstation. --
Imagine some glasses that would also act as a screen. Like in Terminator, where we could see through *its* eyes some Z80 asm listings while he was maiming Sarah Connor.
My point is that this will boost the wearable market in peculiar. --
This is just a pity to see they preferred to put an IDE disc in this box.
OK, for monothreading apps, IDE is okay and can even be fast enough but it relies in some way on the processor's power.
Why not putting some SCSI disc(s) inside, hmmmm ?
BTW, I love the idea of a service processor in this low-cost device: this will save much space in my machine rooms. --
Did you pay your handy ?
I just think that such cheap devices are like cable/dsl modems or satellite decoders:
They are cheap enough to be rented a way that will allow the tv company to make 10 times as much money as they paid to have it delivered to your doors.
And of course, the $400 they announced is not a public price and I guess it'll rather cost you 800$ to get one.
Better hack an old P133, no ? --
I really think sorry for Keanu but these should be the perfect time for the WachBro to look like for either a stunt or for some special effects instead of some fights.
BTW, if Keanu had become the One in Matrix1, I believe they had to invent something incredible if they still want him to fight in its sequel.
Has he or not become a God which could just destroy his opponents in less than 2 seconds ?
Hmmm... sounds interesting, let's see what it'll look like after all. --
I already discussed it several times:
It is an heresy to let people vote remotely.
You can't vote like you'd order a pizza.
You have to carefully read the candidates programs, their bios and then to stand up (yu know, this mean just leaving your machine and pointing your face outside).
This has to be an effort.
Because your live depends on it.
And BTW, we all know about the "friendship" between "GB" and "BG"...
Wouldn't you actually prefer to use a non GPL'd voting system to express your opinion ?
--
GNUArt is an organization which approach consists of GPL'ing Art under virtual forms.
The difference with what's happening here is that if these books were GPL'ed, they'd not only be free of charge but they could also be reworked by anybody prior to being distributed once again for free. Well, you know the GPL, don't you ?
Anyway, even if they only made these books free as in free beer, it is a good thing that these authors accepted to take whatever some might call a "risk". --
True analog, which is used by most vintage synthetizers such as the Minimoog
Virtual analog, which is consists of emulating the above synthesis
Wavetable, which consists of storing fixed waveforms in either ROM or RAM during execution. This is the most popular. As at the beginning General MIDI only accessed the pitch, velocity and sound bank, it evoluted according to 2 standards :
GS (Roland)
XG (Yamaha)
which allow a more living sound to be extracted from a wavetable as tons of others parameters like cutoff, resonance, etc. can now be manipulated through the MIDI.
Frequency Modulation (FM) was used by the famous DX-7 synthetizer
Formant Shaping: was the real successor of the above even though it was (IIRC) only used in Yamaha's FS1R synthetizer which production was stopped some time ago despite the numerous excellent reviews (I owe one and love it:-). It has now become a collector as it has very good sound abilities (hear the Free Software Song Remix in my.sig for a demo).
Specific synthesis. This is used by any synthetizer hacked around some specific unfrequent hardware component. It opens new opportunities in terms of control and sounding. The SidStation was one of these.
You might dislike Gatt people's economic/social positions but others groups would have prosecuted the jokers for much less.
At least they were fair enough to take it as what it was : a joke. --
Well, with less and less consumming electronic components (ARM, Transmeta,etc.) it could be a cool idea to have sugar powered-laptops or embedded devices.
It would be quite useful in areas where powering (either electrical or solar) and access to the devices would be difficult.
--
I understand what this implies for a tv-addict such as most users around.
I personally don't own a TV set and I don't intend to ever acquire one as this is so mind-occupying that it would definitely prevent me from being productive.
My personal problem is that they intend to merge the Internet with their TV-network so that you'd actually have to pay for each of these even if you don't want one.
There's also this copy protection thing which could have disastrous effects if it can't be enabled on demand by the TV broadcasting company:
According to the GNUArt philosophy, you can broadcast free Art which anybody could copy and modify for his own needs.
What I'd dislike would be the impossibility for this Free Art License to be honoured because of such practices.
So, my point is : OK. If it's your stuff and you don't want people to copy it, then you can copy-protect it. But if it is intended to remain Free, then you don't have the right to block its diffusion as it is not yours. --
Well, to satisfy everybody, I'd say that some kind of animation during the boot could be cool provided Linux startup is still informative and quick enough.
I'll take RiscOS as an example:
In this case we have:
a resources check during which the screen background color change.
It is really quick and hence, not disturbing.
In case there is an hardware error here, just remember the last color you saw and check with the manual if it was due to the mainboard, the ram, the sound/video chip (VIDC) or the cpu.
some information are then displayed (proc, RAM, extensions.). This step is also quite short (2-3sec)
then the Wimp (aka RiscOS' GUI) appears.
A complete startup on a clean machine can be as short as 5 secondes.
So my question is : Do we need machines that are nice to contemplate while one's waiting for them to finish booting or do we need machines with a quick, informative and efficient boot sequence ?
I'm afraid most windows2000 users are unable to set up this as it requires specific abilities that most of them don't have, as windows targets end-users. --
I am sorry not to agree with you.
I have designed dozen of websites and targetted my hand-made code to my test browser.
I actually saw many differences according to the visitor's web browser except in one case :
Fresco is a web browser aimed at RiscOS platforms.
Whenever optimizing my code too look properly on it, it usually looked the same on all the popular browsers. Bottom lines : neither java nor javascript, nor SSL but in this case you can still choose another popular RiscOS browser such as Webster
Maybe there is a need for web developpers to learn to code in standard HTML, especially when I see the crap generated by most HTML-generators (yuk:-( ), which is only aimed at *one* browser (e.g. MSIE for Frontpage, NS for NS-editor, etc.).
Finally, Fresco was developped for Oracle's Network Computer, which first prototypes were developped by Acorn. --
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At least with these ones I can see what I am doing and I don't have any buggy yast effect to workaround.
It rocks under BeOS, Linux 2.2.18 and win*.*...
I guess the 2.4 driver is not ok. And this is the reason I advice laptop'ed users not to use it (we got the same situation on several different-branded laptops, here.)
--
SuSe7 came with KDE2 and it was catastrophic. Why does SuSe still want to play Avant-garde ?
In 1999 they were the first to deliver the ATI128 X server but they should not deliver stuff they have neither coded nor tested by themselves.
2.4 is nice, but not quite ready for the non-geek.
--
I have not switched to 2.4 at the moment because of some energy saving issue that makes my Maestro2E soundcard whistle, I guess this is dangerous for my hardware as after a hard reboot the hell continues as soon as the hd spins up and even if I boot "another os".
Frightening.
My problem is that I am not sure I may want to boot a SuSe install CD that may burn my sound chip during the startup. Especially because of this disclaimer written in small chars.
And finally, I don't like SuSe : not standard, too long to fix the startup sequence, each time I launch yast, i have to manually re-unset the "hardware clock set to GMT" because of a bug they would not correct since v4...
--
While folowing the link to the Tahoe Arch. I found this.
don't worry, no goat here, but just some holiday pictures that I don't understand.
Is it a hack or what ?
Update:while checking my link I found what I expected at first.
--
What about dns1, dns2, dns3, and possibly dns(x>8) ?
I suppose they might existor why would their names start from 4 ?
--
> now I fully expect to see a story "Newborn infant cracks SDMI, burps up on RIAA".
Beware of this ambiguously sounding sentence.
I am French but I feel smarter than an US baby.
And BTW Americans did invent SDMI so, please, either explain your idea a clear way or don't write it.
--
We just discussed about power shortages and you keep your hungry hardware ?
Come on !
i just think we should take a deeper look to the low-consumption alternatives around, like this, or this.
What ? Vapourware. Nope. I own many machines running these processors and my brother just bought a transmeta laptop which he's in love with.
Don't believe the hype and aim your purchases towards a brighter future.
Intel's selling radiators, so is Nvidia.
--
...but what will we lose ?
Don't play with Mother Nature to counterpart the effects of some (mostly) human problem.
If this CD45 can just help regulate immunity, won't there be another molecul that would prefer that we don't play with it?
I bet I'd prefer to keep my sane life instead of taking one more drug.
--
Did you forget to pay the typo tax, Hemos?
Except if AOL/MSN, etc. just decide to update their protocols to force the public to upgrade towards their tools...
--
> "Poorly scalable ?" :-)
Any NeXT would come with a free app : Zila, allowing its applications to be multithreaded across a local network.
So, no.
I tried and this.... Damn! *R*O*C*K*S*
I could do a billing system in a week with a bunch of old NeXTstation.
--
Imagine some glasses that would also act as a screen. Like in Terminator, where we could see through *its* eyes some Z80 asm listings while he was maiming Sarah Connor.
My point is that this will boost the wearable market in peculiar.
--
This is just a pity to see they preferred to put an IDE disc in this box.
OK, for monothreading apps, IDE is okay and can even be fast enough but it relies in some way on the processor's power.
Why not putting some SCSI disc(s) inside, hmmmm ?
BTW, I love the idea of a service processor in this low-cost device: this will save much space in my machine rooms.
--
Did you pay your handy ? :
I just think that such cheap devices are like cable/dsl modems or satellite decoders
They are cheap enough to be rented a way that will allow the tv company to make 10 times as much money as they paid to have it delivered to your doors.
And of course, the $400 they announced is not a public price and I guess it'll rather cost you 800$ to get one.
Better hack an old P133, no ?
--
I really think sorry for Keanu but these should be the perfect time for the WachBro to look like for either a stunt or for some special effects instead of some fights.
BTW, if Keanu had become the One in Matrix1, I believe they had to invent something incredible if they still want him to fight in its sequel.
Has he or not become a God which could just destroy his opponents in less than 2 seconds ?
Hmmm... sounds interesting, let's see what it'll look like after all.
--
I already discussed it several times:
It is an heresy to let people vote remotely.
You can't vote like you'd order a pizza.
You have to carefully read the candidates programs, their bios and then to stand up (yu know, this mean just leaving your machine and pointing your face outside).
This has to be an effort.
Because your live depends on it.
And BTW, we all know about the "friendship" between "GB" and "BG"...
Wouldn't you actually prefer to use a non GPL'd voting system to express your opinion ?
--
GNUArt is an organization which approach consists of GPL'ing Art under virtual forms.
The difference with what's happening here is that if these books were GPL'ed, they'd not only be free of charge but they could also be reworked by anybody prior to being distributed once again for free. Well, you know the GPL, don't you ?
Anyway, even if they only made these books free as in free beer, it is a good thing that these authors accepted to take whatever some might call a "risk".
--
- True analog, which is used by most vintage synthetizers such as the Minimoog
- Virtual analog, which is consists of emulating the above synthesis
- Wavetable, which consists of storing fixed waveforms in either ROM or RAM during execution. This is the most popular. As at the beginning General MIDI only accessed the pitch, velocity and sound bank, it evoluted according to 2 standards :
- Frequency Modulation (FM) was used by the famous DX-7 synthetizer
- Formant Shaping: was the real successor of the above even though it was (IIRC) only used in Yamaha's FS1R synthetizer which production was stopped some time ago despite the numerous excellent reviews (I owe one and love it
:-). It has now become a collector as it has very good sound abilities (hear the Free Software Song Remix in my .sig for a demo).
- Specific synthesis. This is used by any synthetizer hacked around some specific unfrequent hardware component. It opens new opportunities in terms of control and sounding. The SidStation was one of these.
As a musician, I have to urge buying one- GS (Roland)
- XG (Yamaha)
which allow a more living sound to be extracted from a wavetable as tons of others parameters like cutoff, resonance, etc. can now be manipulated through the MIDI.--
You might dislike Gatt people's economic/social positions but others groups would have prosecuted the jokers for much less.
At least they were fair enough to take it as what it was : a joke.
--
Well, with less and less consumming electronic components (ARM, Transmeta,etc.) it could be a cool idea to have sugar powered-laptops or embedded devices.
It would be quite useful in areas where powering (either electrical or solar) and access to the devices would be difficult.
--
I understand what this implies for a tv-addict such as most users around.
I personally don't own a TV set and I don't intend to ever acquire one as this is so mind-occupying that it would definitely prevent me from being productive.
My personal problem is that they intend to merge the Internet with their TV-network so that you'd actually have to pay for each of these even if you don't want one.
There's also this copy protection thing which could have disastrous effects if it can't be enabled on demand by the TV broadcasting company:
According to the GNUArt philosophy, you can broadcast free Art which anybody could copy and modify for his own needs.
What I'd dislike would be the impossibility for this Free Art License to be honoured because of such practices.
So, my point is : OK. If it's your stuff and you don't want people to copy it, then you can copy-protect it. But if it is intended to remain Free, then you don't have the right to block its diffusion as it is not yours.
--
Another pretty boot manager is Icepack Linux Boot Manager, which is free and graphical.
--
I'll take RiscOS as an example
In this case we have:
It is really quick and hence, not disturbing.
In case there is an hardware error here, just remember the last color you saw and check with the manual if it was due to the mainboard, the ram, the sound/video chip (VIDC) or the cpu.
So my question is : Do we need machines that are nice to contemplate while one's waiting for them to finish booting or do we need machines with a quick, informative and efficient boot sequence ?
--
I'm afraid most windows2000 users are unable to set up this as it requires specific abilities that most of them don't have, as windows targets end-users.
--
I am sorry not to agree with you. :-( ), which is only aimed at *one* browser (e.g. MSIE for Frontpage, NS for NS-editor, etc.).
I have designed dozen of websites and targetted my hand-made code to my test browser.
I actually saw many differences according to the visitor's web browser except in one case : Fresco is a web browser aimed at RiscOS platforms.
Whenever optimizing my code too look properly on it, it usually looked the same on all the popular browsers.
Bottom lines : neither java nor javascript, nor SSL but in this case you can still choose another popular RiscOS browser such as Webster
Maybe there is a need for web developpers to learn to code in standard HTML, especially when I see the crap generated by most HTML-generators (yuk
Finally, Fresco was developped for Oracle's Network Computer, which first prototypes were developped by Acorn.
--
You are right, I think windows2000 users who are automatically logged in as "Administrator" should really de-install this player.
--