I'm sure that the biggest issue isn't with memory, but is due to the fact that with Gentoo, you compile *all* of your software from scratch. It is very time consuming, but is worth it to some people.
Normal Linux distributions can make due on just about any old Pentium class CPU, as long as they have sufficient RAM... But Gentoo, needs a fast CPU, if you want it to compile before you grow old and die.:)
Tell me about it. X86 clock speeds are now officially *twice* as fast as the CPU in my home machine, which was brand new last year. I installed my CPU when it was the best of the bunch. In a years time, they are twice as fast.
This fight to have the highest clock speed is driving me nuts. It doesn't even really matter any more, does it? Do we need to to shave a few extra seconds off of compile times?
Anyways. It looks like the Athlon holds its own pretty well, considering the near 700 MHz speed difference. But it doesn't matter to me. Opteron will be my next upgrade. When that sucker comes out, it will be a battle for blood between AMD and Intel.
I've sent them a polite email to the company about the possibility of an English order form. I am having trouble getting this one to work. Regardless, import companies will jump all over this one. I have no doubts that we will see plenty of these things again.:)
The web translation services aren't being too effective. Has anyone found the order form, so that we may pre-order these things? I'm not having any luck, and I really want two of these things.
I didn't say that this was caused by first world consumers (as the title of the article might suggest). My suggestions were mostly about eliminating the toxic waste from your own landfills, regardless of where you live.
This waste that is getting dumped into China is normally done by independent companies. I don't really think that it is my fault, your fault, or the next person's fault. But we *all* need to do something about this. We all contribute to the trash. It doesn't help that some nasty companies are making it worse, by turning villages into cesspools. These are villages where the people have absolutely no say in the matter. Someone is getting paid to dump it there... Normally, it is being done illegally.
A co-worker of mine has a friend in China, and it is something that he really takes seriously. He actually wrote an article in our IT newsletter a few months ago, talking about the waste that we dump into Asia. All sorts of countries are doing this. Companies are paying to dump this junk off to the cheapest landfill. It is sick. It is something that we need to take seriously. Large ships take this stuff to Asia every day.
I also read that there are start-up companies that are trying to take this stuff and dismantle it properly. Recycling this stuff, and appropriately preventing serious toxic hazards.
The first way to start is simple... Don't throw this stuff into the trash. Landfills are becoming full of this stuff. Donate working computer stuff, or try to find a suitable recycling facility. It is important to realize that this can be done with all electronics.
It isn't so much the platform, but rather the way they code it to avoid working with alternative platforms. Windows itself is fine, but locking other platforms out of specific Windows file formats is just wrong. That is reason enough to avoid supporting Windows.
All of these folks on this article talk about going out and buying a Mac, then installing MS Office. It just feeds Microsoft even more. How about Open Office with an open, XML based file format. Not some cryptic-reverse-engineer-and-we'll-have-your-ass-D MCA bullshit. That is what pisses me off.
Closed software is OK (I love Opera), but it needs to be able to work with other alternatives. Standards are the issue here. Microsoft just doesn't support that idea.
I used to use K-Meleon on my Windows box at work. It was quite promising, and made very good use of Gecko. Unfortunately, it hasn't seen much work since last year. Now, I use Linux and Opera, but on a Windows box, K-Meleon is a great *lean* browser. It is very functional and fast. It is basically like having a Galeon on Windows. Faster interface, but uses Gecko for a rendering engine.
My experiences with Konq are quite to opposite. I really dislike the redirect pop-ups. With Opera, if you have it running in MDI view, right clicking on a link can let you open it in another browser Window, and it is instantaneous. Otherwise, you can set it in a mode that spawns a new copy of Opera for each page you visit. That is obviously going to be slower than tabbed browsing.
Perhaps you've never used Opera, but maybe you aren't aware of just how much longer Mozilla takes to render simple things.
This isn't a diss against Mozilla, which has drastically improved recently, but benchmarks have proven that Opera renders things as much as (and more than) 4x the speed of Mozilla.
Normally, this is most significant with large files, but *everything* is effected. It isn't about how fast the connection is. Opera's renderer is just plain faster- and that is what many of us pay for. It has lots of configurability too, especially with fonts and advanced rendering options.
"The fastest browser on earth" is not a misnomer. Even if they grabbed files over a network at the same speed, Opera's renderer is still faster, and more efficient. People keep missing the point. Try it out, and you will understand.
Opera upgrades are always free to the next full version number. This means that if you paid for 5.x, then you can upgrade to 6.x for free. Paying for 6.x gives you 7.x for free, and so on. Upgrades are also reasonably inexpensive. I see it as renewing your license for a few bucks every two years. It is worth it to me, for such a great peice of software.
I paid for a dual OS license. It is only around $30 for students or educational staff. I think it is quite reasonable, really, for the speed makes it more enjoyable. I do a lot of browsing, and Opera sure doesn't waste time at rendering. It's worth the cost to me.
I use Linux, and Opera is simply my favorite choice, so I pay them for it. I also use it on my Windows machine at work. Nowhere else can you find the configurability, and speed in a browser.
I've found that identifying Opera as Mozilla 4.78 generally provides the best defense against those "alternative browser unfriendly" sites. I have to use IE identification for a bank site though.
99.99% of standard IDE CD burners work fine in Linux. You just need to enable an SCSI emulation module. Only weird, proprietary CD drives have problems. This goes with any OS, actually.
By the way. I want to share with you folks that there is an awesome KDE front-end for the standard CDRTools for Linux. It is called Arson. http://arson.sourceforge.net/. When I switched to Linux, I was looking for a front-end that worked like Nero for Windows. Arson was the best thhing available. It is currently missing a few minor data CD features, but if you know how to make an ISO from the command line, arson can burn it with just a click from within Konq. It is a beta program now, but it will be pretty awesome when it is done (it is already nice). It works great for burning those MP3s and OGGs to a music CD. It can make VCDs too.
There is something wrong with your heat sink and fan unit if you have to do that. There is no reason that it should be "unbearable". 60^-70^ is completely normal for an Athlon.
Check your heat sink. Make sure that it has a proper level of silicone compound on the core (not too much). Don't use exotic heat sinks that look pretty, but suck at cooling.
I don't understand why people have a problem with heat. Fast electronics get hot. It is normal. An cheap-o AMD approved cooler should suit it just fine.
I don't doubt it. The problem with NAI having PGP was that it was pretty much in limbo. Nothing could be done with it. It was pretty much just going to waste.
This was a really good article on the subject of Phil Zimmerman on buying back PGP .
Just who is PGP Corp.? Their site is down, and I can't get more info.
I wouldn't use one of these cards to capture video though. I can't see why most people would, actually. The Matrox cards might be an exception. Quadro is a CAD/CAM card. These are just consumer grade cards. They buffer and write video directly to the hard disk. Real video editing hardware works differently, but even they often have several gigs of onboard RAM.
So really, I guess that I meant to say that I fail to see the relevance of the article. It is kinda of silly, actually, to even want to record real-time game footage with this hardware. Just pipe the video output to a real capture card on another machine. Problem solved.
Correct me if I am wrong, but does it really make a difference if a card has 128 MB of onboard RAM? AGP's main benefit is texture streaming from the system RAM to the video card, but actually, with 128MB of RAM on a card, I don't believe it is even an issue.
People choose licenses for a reason. A single type of license is *not* the law.
I love Linux, and use it at home on my only desktop machine, but I would never want to force someone to use it. Weather or not it is the best tool for the job, people should have a choice. GNU/Linux is about choice. I want to be able to buy some proprietary software (like Opera), but we need STANDARDS. That is what it is about. Relying on one provider is not the answer. That goes for closed and open source alike.
Face it. There are just some things that you can't do with open source software, but closed options often limit the ability to be competitive, and to innovate. We've seen this for years.
In the end, closed advocates (e.g. Microsoft) are going to try to force out OSS by the means of the DMCA. I know that it is ridiculously unfair, but we have to work around it. If we try to force *everyone* to use OSS, then we will be no better. Yes, open source software will improve drastically, but we will lose the drive to be competitive. The same goes for closed software. Microsoft's attempt to lock down control over all forms of media and software will cause the same effect. We must be level with all of this.
I don't want my favorite OS to be pushed out of existence because some silly politician was too ignorant to support it for its benefits (I know that is the fear of many), but forcing people to use it isn't going to fight the opposition in favor of Palladium, and the likes.
Correct me if I am wrong, but... Why wouldn't this work with the standard kernel drivers? Vojtech Pavlik and Andree Borrmann have already written drivers for this, and it works with DB-9 or a DB-25. It works with NES controllers, PSX pads, SNES, and more. It works great. I have it working with my PSX pads at home. It even works with my homebrew arcade stick. Diagrams and Info are available here. This is a kernel module that comes with Linux by default.
Good, but crude instructions about using a gamepad in Linux can be found here.
It is important that you load a few seperate modules.
parport gamepad joyconsole
I think that there is another one. If anyone has any questions, just ask, and I will post what I have in my rc.modules file when I get home and have access to my machine.
That's not totally far out. AOL and its child companies are starting to embrace Linux as an alternative. There was a bit of speculation for some time about them being interested in Red Hat, but I am not sure how far that went. Nullsoft, the company that makes Winamp, really likes the whole open source thing. They have developed a cros-platform coding library called Wasabi, in which Winamp 3 is built upon. They aim to have Winamp available for Windows, Linux, and Mac- thanks to Wasabi. I am not sure if this is just because they are geeks, or if there was some corporate influence behind it, to muscle AOL's software (Winamp) onto multiple platforms. Of course, Gecko (and Mozilla) is available on almost all major platforms, and is constantly improving.
Is this a sign of AOL's interest in this sort of community, or a way of cirumventing MS's power? Who knows?
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I'm sure that the biggest issue isn't with memory, but is due to the fact that with Gentoo, you compile *all* of your software from scratch. It is very time consuming, but is worth it to some people.
:)
Normal Linux distributions can make due on just about any old Pentium class CPU, as long as they have sufficient RAM... But Gentoo, needs a fast CPU, if you want it to compile before you grow old and die.
Tell me about it. X86 clock speeds are now officially *twice* as fast as the CPU in my home machine, which was brand new last year. I installed my CPU when it was the best of the bunch. In a years time, they are twice as fast.
This fight to have the highest clock speed is driving me nuts. It doesn't even really matter any more, does it? Do we need to to shave a few extra seconds off of compile times?
Anyways. It looks like the Athlon holds its own pretty well, considering the near 700 MHz speed difference. But it doesn't matter to me. Opteron will be my next upgrade. When that sucker comes out, it will be a battle for blood between AMD and Intel.
I've sent them a polite email to the company about the possibility of an English order form. I am having trouble getting this one to work. Regardless, import companies will jump all over this one. I have no doubts that we will see plenty of these things again. :)
That is what I figured. I saw it earlier. But I am not having any luck with the translation services.
The web translation services aren't being too effective. Has anyone found the order form, so that we may pre-order these things? I'm not having any luck, and I really want two of these things.
I didn't say that this was caused by first world consumers (as the title of the article might suggest). My suggestions were mostly about eliminating the toxic waste from your own landfills, regardless of where you live.
This waste that is getting dumped into China is normally done by independent companies. I don't really think that it is my fault, your fault, or the next person's fault. But we *all* need to do something about this. We all contribute to the trash. It doesn't help that some nasty companies are making it worse, by turning villages into cesspools. These are villages where the people have absolutely no say in the matter. Someone is getting paid to dump it there... Normally, it is being done illegally.
Tech TV ran a great program on this some time ago.
Check it out here.
A co-worker of mine has a friend in China, and it is something that he really takes seriously. He actually wrote an article in our IT newsletter a few months ago, talking about the waste that we dump into Asia. All sorts of countries are doing this. Companies are paying to dump this junk off to the cheapest landfill. It is sick. It is something that we need to take seriously. Large ships take this stuff to Asia every day.
I also read that there are start-up companies that are trying to take this stuff and dismantle it properly. Recycling this stuff, and appropriately preventing serious toxic hazards.
The first way to start is simple... Don't throw this stuff into the trash. Landfills are becoming full of this stuff. Donate working computer stuff, or try to find a suitable recycling facility. It is important to realize that this can be done with all electronics.
ComputerRecycle.com.
It isn't so much the platform, but rather the way they code it to avoid working with alternative platforms. Windows itself is fine, but locking other platforms out of specific Windows file formats is just wrong. That is reason enough to avoid supporting Windows.
D MCA bullshit. That is what pisses me off.
All of these folks on this article talk about going out and buying a Mac, then installing MS Office. It just feeds Microsoft even more. How about Open Office with an open, XML based file format. Not some cryptic-reverse-engineer-and-we'll-have-your-ass-
Closed software is OK (I love Opera), but it needs to be able to work with other alternatives. Standards are the issue here. Microsoft just doesn't support that idea.
Let me build my own box.
I used to use K-Meleon on my Windows box at work. It was quite promising, and made very good use of Gecko. Unfortunately, it hasn't seen much work since last year. Now, I use Linux and Opera, but on a Windows box, K-Meleon is a great *lean* browser. It is very functional and fast. It is basically like having a Galeon on Windows. Faster interface, but uses Gecko for a rendering engine.
Here are some hints...
Securing your box.
Now, secure your box... And please stop trolling.
My experiences with Konq are quite to opposite. I really dislike the redirect pop-ups. With Opera, if you have it running in MDI view, right clicking on a link can let you open it in another browser Window, and it is instantaneous. Otherwise, you can set it in a mode that spawns a new copy of Opera for each page you visit. That is obviously going to be slower than tabbed browsing.
Perhaps you've never used Opera, but maybe you aren't aware of just how much longer Mozilla takes to render simple things.
This isn't a diss against Mozilla, which has drastically improved recently, but benchmarks have proven that Opera renders things as much as (and more than) 4x the speed of Mozilla.
Proof
Normally, this is most significant with large files, but *everything* is effected. It isn't about how fast the connection is. Opera's renderer is just plain faster- and that is what many of us pay for. It has lots of configurability too, especially with fonts and advanced rendering options.
"The fastest browser on earth" is not a misnomer. Even if they grabbed files over a network at the same speed, Opera's renderer is still faster, and more efficient. People keep missing the point. Try it out, and you will understand.
Opera upgrades are always free to the next full version number. This means that if you paid for 5.x, then you can upgrade to 6.x for free. Paying for 6.x gives you 7.x for free, and so on. Upgrades are also reasonably inexpensive. I see it as renewing your license for a few bucks every two years. It is worth it to me, for such a great peice of software.
I paid for a dual OS license. It is only around $30 for students or educational staff. I think it is quite reasonable, really, for the speed makes it more enjoyable. I do a lot of browsing, and Opera sure doesn't waste time at rendering. It's worth the cost to me.
I use Linux, and Opera is simply my favorite choice, so I pay them for it. I also use it on my Windows machine at work. Nowhere else can you find the configurability, and speed in a browser.
I've found that identifying Opera as Mozilla 4.78 generally provides the best defense against those "alternative browser unfriendly" sites. I have to use IE identification for a bank site though.
It is also lited in the "quick preferences" option in the file menu. It is very handy.
99.99% of standard IDE CD burners work fine in Linux. You just need to enable an SCSI emulation module. Only weird, proprietary CD drives have problems. This goes with any OS, actually.
By the way. I want to share with you folks that there is an awesome KDE front-end for the standard CDRTools for Linux. It is called Arson. http://arson.sourceforge.net/. When I switched to Linux, I was looking for a front-end that worked like Nero for Windows. Arson was the best thhing available. It is currently missing a few minor data CD features, but if you know how to make an ISO from the command line, arson can burn it with just a click from within Konq. It is a beta program now, but it will be pretty awesome when it is done (it is already nice). It works great for burning those MP3s and OGGs to a music CD. It can make VCDs too.
There is something wrong with your heat sink and fan unit if you have to do that. There is no reason that it should be "unbearable". 60^-70^ is completely normal for an Athlon.
Check your heat sink. Make sure that it has a proper level of silicone compound on the core (not too much). Don't use exotic heat sinks that look pretty, but suck at cooling.
I don't understand why people have a problem with heat. Fast electronics get hot. It is normal. An cheap-o AMD approved cooler should suit it just fine.
I don't doubt it. The problem with NAI having PGP was that it was pretty much in limbo. Nothing could be done with it. It was pretty much just going to waste.
This was a really good article on the subject of Phil Zimmerman on buying back PGP
.
Just who is PGP Corp.? Their site is down, and I can't get more info.
I wouldn't use one of these cards to capture video though. I can't see why most people would, actually. The Matrox cards might be an exception. Quadro is a CAD/CAM card. These are just consumer grade cards. They buffer and write video directly to the hard disk. Real video editing hardware works differently, but even they often have several gigs of onboard RAM.
So really, I guess that I meant to say that I fail to see the relevance of the article. It is kinda of silly, actually, to even want to record real-time game footage with this hardware. Just pipe the video output to a real capture card on another machine. Problem solved.
Correct me if I am wrong, but does it really make a difference if a card has 128 MB of onboard RAM? AGP's main benefit is texture streaming from the system RAM to the video card, but actually, with 128MB of RAM on a card, I don't believe it is even an issue.
People choose licenses for a reason. A single type of license is *not* the law.
I love Linux, and use it at home on my only desktop machine, but I would never want to force someone to use it. Weather or not it is the best tool for the job, people should have a choice. GNU/Linux is about choice. I want to be able to buy some proprietary software (like Opera), but we need STANDARDS. That is what it is about. Relying on one provider is not the answer. That goes for closed and open source alike.
Face it. There are just some things that you can't do with open source software, but closed options often limit the ability to be competitive, and to innovate. We've seen this for years.
In the end, closed advocates (e.g. Microsoft) are going to try to force out OSS by the means of the DMCA. I know that it is ridiculously unfair, but we have to work around it. If we try to force *everyone* to use OSS, then we will be no better. Yes, open source software will improve drastically, but we will lose the drive to be competitive. The same goes for closed software. Microsoft's attempt to lock down control over all forms of media and software will cause the same effect. We must be level with all of this.
I don't want my favorite OS to be pushed out of existence because some silly politician was too ignorant to support it for its benefits (I know that is the fear of many), but forcing people to use it isn't going to fight the opposition in favor of Palladium, and the likes.
Correct me if I am wrong, but... Why wouldn't this work with the standard kernel drivers? Vojtech Pavlik and Andree Borrmann have already written drivers for this, and it works with DB-9 or a DB-25. It works with NES controllers, PSX pads, SNES, and more. It works great. I have it working with my PSX pads at home. It even works with my homebrew arcade stick. Diagrams and Info are available here. This is a kernel module that comes with Linux by default.
Good, but crude instructions about using a gamepad in Linux can be found here.
It is important that you load a few seperate modules.
parport
gamepad
joyconsole
I think that there is another one. If anyone has any questions, just ask, and I will post what I have in my rc.modules file when I get home and have access to my machine.
That's not totally far out. AOL and its child companies are starting to embrace Linux as an alternative. There was a bit of speculation for some time about them being interested in Red Hat, but I am not sure how far that went. Nullsoft, the company that makes Winamp, really likes the whole open source thing. They have developed a cros-platform coding library called Wasabi, in which Winamp 3 is built upon. They aim to have Winamp available for Windows, Linux, and Mac- thanks to Wasabi. I am not sure if this is just because they are geeks, or if there was some corporate influence behind it, to muscle AOL's software (Winamp) onto multiple platforms. Of course, Gecko (and Mozilla) is available on almost all major platforms, and is constantly improving.
Is this a sign of AOL's interest in this sort of community, or a way of cirumventing MS's power? Who knows?