TLTIC, Linux and BSD do support it. In fact, NetBSD supports my USB Zip 100 out of the box. It takes a later kernel version to make Linux do it, though. But it did work, with a little hacking.
I have been trolled. I know. I don't care. But you sir, are a damn fool. 20th-century ass-kicking? Are you German? It was the Germans who kicked the UK's ass in the 20th century. The US did it in the 18th and 19th.
Yes, I'm American... So don't go calling me a damn limey or any such damn thing. Bugger off.
Moderators: go ahead, mod me down. But this guy was asking for it!
I believe he meant -25 C, think about the amount of heat 500MHz silicon generates when OC'd to 1000 (grab a Celeron that you don't care about sometime and try it. But have plenty of liquid nitrogen around:-)
yes, but installing it alongside another OS is a train wreck. It's very easy to inadvertently (a simple typo. You don't even have to be stupid) munge another OS's partition by defining the partition in the disklabel just one sector too big. Outside of this, it's great. I still use Linux, and FreeBSD, but OpenBSD definitely has my attention.
not really. IIRC, the defensive shields are a combination of a forced plasma grid and a localized gravity well which deflects or absorbs particles or energy. In fact, there was a/. article some time ago describing a possible use of 'cold' plasma for something very like this...
I believe that the device is known as CIWS (Close-in Weapons System), which consists of an M61 20mm Vulcan cannon. It uses small rounds, but fires them at a rate of 100 rounds per second.
I've actually seen a few of them (not in action, though), aboard the USS Wasp (LHD-1), and one of my RDC's in boot camp worked with them before becoming an RDC. Cool devices:-)
Well, I'd buy one, had I the spondulix, if only to have the weirdest box on the block that runs a freenix (NetBSD... TLTIC, VAX Linux and VAX OpenBSD were dead)
OK, cool. Check out AtheOS, at www.atheos.cx, this buzzard could well be it. But don't do away with the CLI completely... Do what BeOS did: Make it accessable, but not integral. A CLI is a faster way to do some things.
Removing all server-type features would be a Bad Thing, too. Remember, don't repeat Microsoft's mistakes, and rein users in too much. Give configurability, but make the default functional, so that those who want to hack can, and those who don't want to don't have to...
Umm, how'd you do that? My box (Athlon 750MHz, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, 7200RPM ATA66 Western Digital harddisk) takes about one minute to fire up Windows 98 (including picking it with LILO), and about 1:45 from cold iron (although there is a SCSI BIOS check in there that adds about 15sec)
Linux boots to console in a little less, to X in about the same.
ok, technodork nitpick here... W/hr? umm, IIRC, Watts=kgm^2/s (E/T, joules=kgm^/s^2, div. by seconds...) hence, joules/hr, or just watts, is probably what they meant.
Sorry to rant. And if I got my facts crossed up, oops.
In a word, VMware. Get either the Linux or WinNT version, and run DOS in that. Run 95/98 in that, and kill two birds with one stone. Better, use Linux, use StarOffice for the Office Compatibility, or use WordPerfect Office 2000, then use VMware or Bochs (bochs is free, LGPL...) for DOS.
Shinseiki Evangelion, AKA Neon Genesis Evangelion, nothing less than the Uber-God of all Anime!?! Yes, there are some controversial parts, some minor nudity, a little violence, but mostly the prob is a sort of dark pathos and very serious topics (the calm consideration of Armageddon, and it looks like the good guys will lose...). They can't very well cut it (miss a second, miss gigabytes of implied information), but it would make a killer addition. Hell, giant mecha (such as the Evangelions themselves) seem to go over quite well...
StarDesktop drives me sick. In the Windoze version, it's not so bad (except that it's not quite intelligent enough to replicate the actual Start Menu, which could drive newbies nuts). On Linux / Solaris, however, it is totally maddening. Without virtual resolution (am I the only one who actually uses that feature?) it seals off access to your desktop (though, to their credit, they do replicate the KDE menu pretty well), preventing you from launching new apps using KPanel, Gnome Panel, XFCE or CDE... It was a good idea back before KDE, GNOME, XFCE and CDE caught on, but now it totally gets in the way.
On Linux, it's nowhere near as fast as WordPerfect 8.0, Applix 4.0 or AbiWord, but on Windows, it's faster than Macro$haft Office 9x / 2k (well, about even with Office 95 on a P166/MMX (64MB), way the heck faster on an Athlon 900 (256MB)) An open-source office suite would be stellar. Especially one with a preexisting Windows version (not because I'm an Windows fan, far from it, because it could help to wean M$ lusers off Office, and since Office is one of the bigger reasons to stick with 9x/NT in the workplace... It's a short hop to Linux all around (Or Solaris, but this wouldn't be as big of a loss as all Win... Let's thoroughly farkle up the M$ hegemony)
If it's GPL'd, or otherwise Open Source, then a port can't be far away (just switch from X to Tracker / Appserver, and voila, instant BeOS office suite.)
This is the reason (coupled with nVidia's staunch refusal to excise the closed-source stick from their collective rectum) that I (and other serious Linux / BSD'ers that I know) use Matrox cards (especially on dual-boot boxen). (however, to ATi's credit, we have a few Cyrix MII systems with ATi Xpert98 cards in them, running NetBSD/Current, XFree 3.3.6, that work great... Although this could be the XFree guys.)
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Thousands, more like as to not. And their loss would almost certainly be nVidia or Matrox's gain. (Maybe 3DFX, but I hear that Voodoo5 sucks rocks. I could be wrong, I've never used one.)
E-freakin'-gaaaad.... Now what we really need is a joint offensive by Apple, (Those who represent) Linux, (Those who represent) *BSD, Be, (What's left of) Amiga and anyone else left out in the cold by Micro$haft (And yes, that includes Sun, no matter how power-grubbing I think they are). Hell, when MS's chokehold has been broken, and there's competition again, then the kiddies can fight. Until then, I say let there be an Alliance! Let a marauding army of Apple-toting, Bouncy-ball-hurling, Be-logo-emblazoned Penguins and Daemons mount a full-scale offensive against Macro$haft...
Ergo, the reason that, at least for a while longer, the Matrox G400 remains the card of choice for Linux/BSD (and a good card for Windows, too, if you care:-)... though Voodoo 3 still has the best 3D support (2D is a bit lackluster, IMHO, unfortunately)
I find the term 'wintel' rather laughable nowadays. I'd say that AMD has blown Intel's monopoly on the x86 architecture wide the heck open, and is holding its own quite well, even with Cyrix and IDT being absorbed by VIA with no forthcoming 6x86 / WinChip derivative... Intel still dominates, yes, but they're hardly a monopoly anymore. Further, Microsoft is on the verge of getting its head handed to it on a silver platter (they may dodge the bullet, but it doesn't look good for them). As if that weren't enough, despite Windows' widespread use, more and more users are reporting their dissatisfaction with it, and don't forget that '99 was a banner year for Linux, and 2000 shows more of the same... Wintel, as a designation for x86 pc's, is an anachronism. (On the same note, Macintoy is a less appropriate designation for Macs than ever, with the power of G3 and G4, and MacOS X, Linux PPC and NetBSD now available)
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TLTIC, Linux and BSD do support it. In fact, NetBSD supports my USB Zip 100 out of the box. It takes a later kernel version to make Linux do it, though. But it did work, with a little hacking.
Skeptical is one thing. Skepticism is good. But slashdot's getting cynical... Not that I blame them.
I have been trolled. I know. I don't care. But you sir, are a damn fool. 20th-century ass-kicking? Are you German? It was the Germans who kicked the UK's ass in the 20th century. The US did it in the 18th and 19th. Yes, I'm American... So don't go calling me a damn limey or any such damn thing. Bugger off. Moderators: go ahead, mod me down. But this guy was asking for it!
I believe he meant -25 C, think about the amount of heat 500MHz silicon generates when OC'd to 1000 (grab a Celeron that you don't care about sometime and try it. But have plenty of liquid nitrogen around :-)
yes, but installing it alongside another OS is a train wreck. It's very easy to inadvertently (a simple typo. You don't even have to be stupid) munge another OS's partition by defining the partition in the disklabel just one sector too big. Outside of this, it's great. I still use Linux, and FreeBSD, but OpenBSD definitely has my attention.
not really. IIRC, the defensive shields are a combination of a forced plasma grid and a localized gravity well which deflects or absorbs particles or energy. In fact, there was a /. article some time ago describing a possible use of 'cold' plasma for something very like this...
I believe that the device is known as CIWS (Close-in Weapons System), which consists of an M61 20mm Vulcan cannon. It uses small rounds, but fires them at a rate of 100 rounds per second. I've actually seen a few of them (not in action, though), aboard the USS Wasp (LHD-1), and one of my RDC's in boot camp worked with them before becoming an RDC. Cool devices :-)
Well, I'd buy one, had I the spondulix, if only to have the weirdest box on the block that runs a freenix (NetBSD... TLTIC, VAX Linux and VAX OpenBSD were dead)
OK, cool. Check out AtheOS, at www.atheos.cx, this buzzard could well be it. But don't do away with the CLI completely... Do what BeOS did: Make it accessable, but not integral. A CLI is a faster way to do some things. Removing all server-type features would be a Bad Thing, too. Remember, don't repeat Microsoft's mistakes, and rein users in too much. Give configurability, but make the default functional, so that those who want to hack can, and those who don't want to don't have to...
Umm, how'd you do that? My box (Athlon 750MHz, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, 7200RPM ATA66 Western Digital harddisk) takes about one minute to fire up Windows 98 (including picking it with LILO), and about 1:45 from cold iron (although there is a SCSI BIOS check in there that adds about 15sec) Linux boots to console in a little less, to X in about the same.
ok, technodork nitpick here... W/hr? umm, IIRC, Watts=kgm^2/s (E/T, joules=kgm^/s^2, div. by seconds...) hence, joules/hr, or just watts, is probably what they meant. Sorry to rant. And if I got my facts crossed up, oops.
In a word, VMware. Get either the Linux or WinNT version, and run DOS in that. Run 95/98 in that, and kill two birds with one stone. Better, use Linux, use StarOffice for the Office Compatibility, or use WordPerfect Office 2000, then use VMware or Bochs (bochs is free, LGPL...) for DOS.
Switch to obsd anyway. It's excellent, IMHO.
Shinseiki Evangelion, AKA Neon Genesis Evangelion, nothing less than the Uber-God of all Anime!?! Yes, there are some controversial parts, some minor nudity, a little violence, but mostly the prob is a sort of dark pathos and very serious topics (the calm consideration of Armageddon, and it looks like the good guys will lose...). They can't very well cut it (miss a second, miss gigabytes of implied information), but it would make a killer addition. Hell, giant mecha (such as the Evangelions themselves) seem to go over quite well...
StarDesktop drives me sick. In the Windoze version, it's not so bad (except that it's not quite intelligent enough to replicate the actual Start Menu, which could drive newbies nuts). On Linux / Solaris, however, it is totally maddening. Without virtual resolution (am I the only one who actually uses that feature?) it seals off access to your desktop (though, to their credit, they do replicate the KDE menu pretty well), preventing you from launching new apps using KPanel, Gnome Panel, XFCE or CDE... It was a good idea back before KDE, GNOME, XFCE and CDE caught on, but now it totally gets in the way.
There is a FreeBSD version of Netscape... And GNOME 1.2 (or KDE 2.0 beta, if you'd rather) will compile.
fart is denser than air, and compressed :-)
On Linux, it's nowhere near as fast as WordPerfect 8.0, Applix 4.0 or AbiWord, but on Windows, it's faster than Macro$haft Office 9x / 2k (well, about even with Office 95 on a P166/MMX (64MB), way the heck faster on an Athlon 900 (256MB)) An open-source office suite would be stellar. Especially one with a preexisting Windows version (not because I'm an Windows fan, far from it, because it could help to wean M$ lusers off Office, and since Office is one of the bigger reasons to stick with 9x/NT in the workplace... It's a short hop to Linux all around (Or Solaris, but this wouldn't be as big of a loss as all Win... Let's thoroughly farkle up the M$ hegemony)
If it's GPL'd, or otherwise Open Source, then a port can't be far away (just switch from X to Tracker / Appserver, and voila, instant BeOS office suite.)
This is the reason (coupled with nVidia's staunch refusal to excise the closed-source stick from their collective rectum) that I (and other serious Linux / BSD'ers that I know) use Matrox cards (especially on dual-boot boxen). (however, to ATi's credit, we have a few Cyrix MII systems with ATi Xpert98 cards in them, running NetBSD/Current, XFree 3.3.6, that work great... Although this could be the XFree guys.)
2010: Graphics cards that should need liquid helium baths, but due to incredible advances, need only a large heatsink...
Thousands, more like as to not. And their loss would almost certainly be nVidia or Matrox's gain. (Maybe 3DFX, but I hear that Voodoo5 sucks rocks. I could be wrong, I've never used one.)
E-freakin'-gaaaad.... Now what we really need is a joint offensive by Apple, (Those who represent) Linux, (Those who represent) *BSD, Be, (What's left of) Amiga and anyone else left out in the cold by Micro$haft (And yes, that includes Sun, no matter how power-grubbing I think they are). Hell, when MS's chokehold has been broken, and there's competition again, then the kiddies can fight. Until then, I say let there be an Alliance! Let a marauding army of Apple-toting, Bouncy-ball-hurling, Be-logo-emblazoned Penguins and Daemons mount a full-scale offensive against Macro$haft...
Ergo, the reason that, at least for a while longer, the Matrox G400 remains the card of choice for Linux/BSD (and a good card for Windows, too, if you care :-)... though Voodoo 3 still has the best 3D support (2D is a bit lackluster, IMHO, unfortunately)
I find the term 'wintel' rather laughable nowadays. I'd say that AMD has blown Intel's monopoly on the x86 architecture wide the heck open, and is holding its own quite well, even with Cyrix and IDT being absorbed by VIA with no forthcoming 6x86 / WinChip derivative... Intel still dominates, yes, but they're hardly a monopoly anymore. Further, Microsoft is on the verge of getting its head handed to it on a silver platter (they may dodge the bullet, but it doesn't look good for them). As if that weren't enough, despite Windows' widespread use, more and more users are reporting their dissatisfaction with it, and don't forget that '99 was a banner year for Linux, and 2000 shows more of the same... Wintel, as a designation for x86 pc's, is an anachronism. (On the same note, Macintoy is a less appropriate designation for Macs than ever, with the power of G3 and G4, and MacOS X, Linux PPC and NetBSD now available)