Also remember they're now using a version of the Hollywood+, and CSS would have to be done in software. If Sigma won't support the H+ we'll _never_ see a Linux driver for the "DXR3"
Creative's "DXR3" board is just a Hollywood + card with a mutilated SROM to prevent it's use with reference drivers. Too bad Creative isn't, well, being creative anymore. And since they switched from Panasonic to A/Open drives, too, I'd recommend even a HiVal kit (Toshiba+unmutilated Hollywood+) over the DXR3 kit. (Or better yet, Toshiba's brown box kit with the H+ sells for $150 at NECX)
I suspect the discontinuation of the DXR2 has something to do with why they stopped talking to the person working on the drivers... sigh.
Now, I'm lookin' forward to the new Sigma card with Linux drivers:)
The Intel AL440LX has an auto-power on option in the same place as the restore option. So I wouldn't be surpised if the N440BX has the same option.
Of course with the restore option (and the P2B-F's in that matter) it only works if you never use the ATX front-panel power switch... but if you never wire that it's not an issue:)
As to the original question... I'd just advise using Intel/Abit/Asus etc... mobos or something like that which DO have the always power on feature.
Actually ftp.cdrom.com just upgraded to a Xeon 500 (still running FreeBSD) they got from Micron (read: Intel with a Micron sticker on it) with 4GB RAM. The user cap has gone up to 5,000, up from a modest 3,600 or so when it was the PPro.:)
Even if it were a -2 if the compiler dosen't support it, and if it wasn't hand-coded into the Linux port, 3dNOW/MMX/KNI/etc. won't do anything. Oh well...
There, there... it's not so bad, really.:) It's not a bad card at all really, once you have the PCI concurrency issues worked out (for me, 2.2.x>3 or so fixed it, YMMV) it works nicely and installs easily (esp. compared to the Dark Ages of ISA boards, esp PnP.)
Carrie was sort of like that too... only difference was she had telekinesis instead of Big Guns. The metaphor fits like a glove though... kinda like many episodes of Buffy. (Not to mention last weeks ep.)
You might have heard of it already, but there's a book about the history of NT up to 3.1 called 'Showstopper'.
And just think. W2K is turning out to be a much bigger mess than 3.1 was. At least they improved 3.1 with service packs (they actually worked back then, they were actually new NT builds IIRC), and eventually made it work well with 3.5x...
I for one would like to see these (really) Open Sourced. Not embrace-and-mutilate-the-definition Open Source, but something that even RMS would say is Free Software.:)
Windows 3.1/DOS whatever. It scales down really well, i.e. a 286. Might be interesting to see how much faster people could make it.
Windows NT 3.51. The last version of NT made before Cutler was sent out and yes-people (i.e. someone who never say 'no!' to a new feature) were brought in. (The yes-people IMO are responsible for the W2K problem - they added WAY too much new code for one release until it's almost as crufty as Win9x.)
WinWord 1.1. Runs quite well on a Win3.1 system, and dosen't support viruses either.
Win95/98. Although reading it might make one ill, it is what most people actualy use. It also even works unless you twist it the wrong way (which is a bit easy to do)
A nice gesture, but this is _not_ true Linux support IMO. Where's the source?
The fact that they're not trying to support SMP indicates that the driver will quite possibly be buggy on non-SMP machines too. (Under NT at least, drivers that bomb on SMP also are quite buggy in non-SMP mode too. It's just the bugs come to the surface much faster under SMP. Case in point: the SB Live drivers:)
The AWE64 series AFAIK is discontinued... besides what advantage does it have over a basic, cheaper SB16 anyway under Linux.
But then again, why mess with ISA PNP sound boards when their Ensoniq PCI line goes for $30-45 and works great... no more clicks/pops when the PCI bus is busy either with the new 2.2.3+ kernels either.
This is something that can happen all too often. It's _really_ easy to create one's own persona on the 'net. (Just look at the highly schizoid 'Anonymous Coward') or to hide behind pseudonyms and disguises (ibid).
I guess the best thing to recommend to a 14-year old is that if you're gonna chat with people, chat with friends you've met in real life first.
The internet has allowed us to share software, ideas, music, and too many other things to count, at a minimal and often flat cost.
The idea of software licensing came about to enforce regular copyright laws on something that can be easily duplicated and handed out (floppy disks, and nowadays CD-ROMs). It limited the use of software so companies could still make money by traditional shrinkwrapped means.
(The MP3 movement is another example of what happens when technology goes beyond traditional distribution. In this case the RIAA is attempting to destroy the movement, and is facing a backlash. Because if everyone goes to MP3s (unlikely) the record industry as we know it, will be smashed forever.)
RMS et al. have created a means where software is allowed, and encouraged to flow freely. It actually restricts freedom of usage to ensure the most possible freedom for the end user. If it were pursued to it's ultimate end the software industry would also be severly damaged.
What is needed is a compromise which allows code to be free and allows companies to make money. Troll may have gotten it right in that the QPL is free for 'free' applications, while imposing a flat fee on commercial usage. Other viable fields include consulting and support.
The ultimate question is : what is the ideal way of handling intellectual property rights in an age where the actual duplication is of nominal cost, but it's creation is not?
It's a reorganization along five arbitrary boundaries, it's been on slashdot 2-3 times already. Sigh. It really dosen't change things, folks:) - Chad, pondering what Windows 98 would be like if it was built on top of *BSD instead of DOS...:)
Well, Fry would have to get that elusive shaving cream element somewhere...:) Oh, wait... Planet X was blown up by Duck Dodgers and Marvin in the 24th and a half century...:)
Bill (or his ghostwriter) wrote a book about business management aimed at CEO's and non-techies while not touching on any real Microsoft issues (ok, he did contradict his own testimony:) It could have been a less funny Scott Adams book from what I've heard about it.
Linus in his chapter in "Open Sources" - excerpted on slashdot a while ago - wrote about kernel management issues, conveying a sense of where he felt the Linux kernel was going, and how it evolved to where it is now (2.2) while commenting on some of the software world around him.
Humm... very interesting point. This is actually a _very_ deep subject... it would take a full essay to explore it.
From a commercial standpoint Troll has done a lot of work on making a license which protects both their commercial interests and the interests of the free software community. Which is something they really didn't have to do.
Remember that QT2.0 - although officially "Free Software" according to RMS, also has the disadvantage of not being free for commercial software (this wouldn't bug RMS too much though). Harmony, being LGPLed, dosen't suffer from this.
Harmony (once finished) would also end the GNOME/KDE war for good... or would it?:)
You can hardly get a Real(Video/Audio) file out of their format now. Imagine playing it in 30 years after they've gone bankrupt, and everyone's using MPEG1 or 2 (with all patents expired, unless the government does something _else_ stupid like extend 'em) for home-made digital video.:) Seriously since MP3 (and MPEG 1/2) are formats for which there is source code out there to do encoding and decoding, it's less likely to die than formats which don't...
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Also remember they're now using a version of the Hollywood+, and CSS would have to be done in software. If Sigma won't support the H+ we'll _never_ see a Linux driver for the "DXR3"
Creative's "DXR3" board is just a Hollywood + card with a mutilated SROM to prevent it's use with reference drivers. Too bad Creative isn't, well, being creative anymore. And since they switched from Panasonic to A/Open drives, too, I'd recommend even a HiVal kit (Toshiba+unmutilated Hollywood+) over the DXR3 kit. (Or better yet, Toshiba's brown box kit with the H+ sells for $150 at NECX)
I suspect the discontinuation of the DXR2 has something to do with why they stopped talking to the person working on the drivers... sigh.
Now, I'm lookin' forward to the new Sigma card with Linux drivers :)
A lot of it is that it's indirect rendering which will be fixed in XFree86 4.0... woo hoo.
Kudos to nVIDIA, BTW. :)
The G200 is still a great 2D card, and hopefully it'll have a decent XFree86 4.0 3D driver, too.
Then again, the TNT2 is gonna kick total butt.
The Intel AL440LX has an auto-power on option in the same place as the restore option. So I wouldn't be surpised if the N440BX has the same option.
Of course with the restore option (and the P2B-F's in that matter) it only works if you never use the ATX front-panel power switch... but if you never wire that it's not an issue :)
As to the original question... I'd just advise using Intel/Abit/Asus etc... mobos or something like that which DO have the always power on feature.
BSD/OS source comes with the package. It's not 'Open Source' but it's not like SCO either :)
Actually ftp.cdrom.com just upgraded to a Xeon 500 (still running FreeBSD) they got from Micron (read: Intel with a Micron sticker on it) with 4GB RAM. The user cap has gone up to 5,000, up from a modest 3,600 or so when it was the PPro. :)
- Chad
Even if it were a -2 if the compiler dosen't support it, and if it wasn't hand-coded into the Linux port, 3dNOW/MMX/KNI/etc. won't do anything. Oh well...
There, there... it's not so bad, really. :) It's not a bad card at all really, once you have the PCI concurrency issues worked out (for me, 2.2.x>3 or so fixed it, YMMV) it works nicely and installs easily (esp. compared to the Dark Ages of ISA boards, esp PnP.)
Carrie was sort of like that too... only difference was she had telekinesis instead of Big Guns. The metaphor fits like a glove though... kinda like many episodes of Buffy. (Not to mention last weeks ep.)
You might have heard of it already, but there's a book about the history of NT up to 3.1 called 'Showstopper'.
And just think. W2K is turning out to be a much bigger mess than 3.1 was. At least they improved 3.1 with service packs (they actually worked back then, they were actually new NT builds IIRC), and eventually made it work well with 3.5x...
I for one would like to see these (really) Open Sourced. Not embrace-and-mutilate-the-definition Open Source, but something that even RMS would say is Free Software. :)
Windows 3.1/DOS whatever. It scales down really well, i.e. a 286. Might be interesting to see how much faster people could make it.
Windows NT 3.51. The last version of NT made before Cutler was sent out and yes-people (i.e. someone who never say 'no!' to a new feature) were brought in. (The yes-people IMO are responsible for the W2K problem - they added WAY too much new code for one release until it's almost as crufty as Win9x.)
WinWord 1.1. Runs quite well on a Win3.1 system, and dosen't support viruses either.
Win95/98. Although reading it might make one ill, it is what most people actualy use. It also even works unless you twist it the wrong way (which is a bit easy to do)
That's all I can think of at the moment.
A nice gesture, but this is _not_ true Linux support IMO. Where's the source?
The fact that they're not trying to support SMP indicates that the driver will quite possibly be buggy on non-SMP machines too. (Under NT at least, drivers that bomb on SMP also are quite buggy in non-SMP mode too. It's just the bugs come to the surface much faster under SMP. Case in point: the SB Live drivers :)
The AWE64 series AFAIK is discontinued... besides what advantage does it have over a basic, cheaper SB16 anyway under Linux.
But then again, why mess with ISA PNP sound boards when their Ensoniq PCI line goes for $30-45 and works great... no more clicks/pops when the PCI bus is busy either with the new 2.2.3+ kernels either.
I wonder if he has something to announce... humm.
This is something that can happen all too often. It's _really_ easy to create one's own persona on the 'net. (Just look at the highly schizoid 'Anonymous Coward') or to hide behind pseudonyms and disguises (ibid).
I guess the best thing to recommend to a 14-year old is that if you're gonna chat with people, chat with friends you've met in real life first.
"Kids, don't chat with strangers."
The internet has allowed us to share software, ideas, music, and too many other things to count, at a minimal and often flat cost.
The idea of software licensing came about to enforce regular copyright laws on something that can be easily duplicated and handed out (floppy disks, and nowadays CD-ROMs). It limited the use of software so companies could still make money by traditional shrinkwrapped means.
(The MP3 movement is another example of what happens when technology goes beyond traditional distribution. In this case the RIAA is attempting to destroy the movement, and is facing a backlash. Because if everyone goes to MP3s (unlikely) the record industry as we know it, will be smashed forever.)
RMS et al. have created a means where software is allowed, and encouraged to flow freely. It actually restricts freedom of usage to ensure the most possible freedom for the end user. If it were pursued to it's ultimate end the software industry would also be severly damaged.
What is needed is a compromise which allows code to be free and allows companies to make money. Troll may have gotten it right in that the QPL is free for 'free' applications, while imposing a flat fee on commercial usage. Other viable fields include consulting and support.
The ultimate question is : what is the ideal way of handling intellectual property rights in an age where the actual duplication is of nominal cost, but it's creation is not?
It's a reorganization along five arbitrary boundaries, it's been on slashdot 2-3 times already. Sigh. It really dosen't change things, folks :) - Chad, pondering what Windows 98 would be like if it was built on top of *BSD instead of DOS... :)
Well, Fry would have to get that elusive shaving cream element somewhere... :) Oh, wait... Planet X was blown up by Duck Dodgers and Marvin in the 24th and a half century... :)
Bill (or his ghostwriter) wrote a book about business management aimed at CEO's and non-techies while not touching on any real Microsoft issues (ok, he did contradict his own testimony :) It could have been a less funny Scott Adams book from what I've heard about it.
Linus in his chapter in "Open Sources" - excerpted on slashdot a while ago - wrote about kernel management issues, conveying a sense of where he felt the Linux kernel was going, and how it evolved to where it is now (2.2) while commenting on some of the software world around him.
Just food for thought. :)
Humm... very interesting point. This is actually a _very_ deep subject... it would take a full essay to explore it.
From a commercial standpoint Troll has done a lot of work on making a license which protects both their commercial interests and the interests of the free software community. Which is something they really didn't have to do.
Yup, thinking about it the GNOME/KDE war is prolly going to be another one of those never-end distro war type deals.
Quite a shame, too.
- Chad (who hasn't loaded KDE yet, but should)
Remember that QT2.0 - although officially "Free Software" according to RMS, also has the disadvantage of not being free for commercial software (this wouldn't bug RMS too much though). Harmony, being LGPLed, dosen't suffer from this.
Harmony (once finished) would also end the GNOME/KDE war for good... or would it? :)
Thinking about it, a P2B-N type board with their Riva TNT implementation would be uber-cool.
You can hardly get a Real(Video/Audio) file out of their format now. Imagine playing it in 30 years after they've gone bankrupt, and everyone's using MPEG1 or 2 (with all patents expired, unless the government does something _else_ stupid like extend 'em) for home-made digital video. :)
Seriously since MP3 (and MPEG 1/2) are formats for which there is source code out there to do encoding and decoding, it's less likely to die than formats which don't...