Does one exist? Are there plans to create a player? I know that Icecast and xmms are a way to do streaming mp3, but what are the legal requirements for these? Can they be used commercially?
I've found that its a matter of how much memory you have, and how much you allocate to VMware rather than cpu power. I've got 96Mb for VMware (256Mb total on this dual celeron 366@550) and NT runs just fine. I had 64mb given to VMware, and that just wasn't enough for NT (that memory hungry OS). I've got another machine at work running it (PII-333 with 128Mb - 64MB for VMware) and it slows down a lot. I added some memory to it and gave VMware 96mb and it ran a lot better. Lots less slowdowns.
This can definitely help a lot. A directory with lots and lots of files in it (I mean in the tens of thousands) can be quite a bottleneck. I experienced this at a previous job where we had a development group that had over 150000 files in a single directory. With lots of processes trying to access that directory at the same time, preformance would just flat out suck. When there are multiple processes all trying to do a stat() on a directory with 150000 files in it, be prepared to wait! A good test would be to try two things. With the machine live, go to the directory where all the mail folders live and do an ls. If you're waiting more than a few seconds for the ls to start listing the directory, you've got a problem. If the ls lists files for more than a few seconds, you've got way too many files in that one directory. Try splitting it up. You might also want to try using lsof on that directory so that you can get a feel of how many processes (people) are trying to access their mail spools at the same time. You might also want to try it at different times of the day. Don't let this stop you from going out and buying a RAID solution. I bought a JBOD wint 6 36Gb drives and a Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100 card for our company fileserver and I've never had a problem since. That card is definitely a winner in my book.
Its always best to check the XFree project's website for updates. They have no set date for release yet, but they do have snapshots available for download. Its worth checking it out!
An operating system is defined as the set of instructions that interface between the user and the hardware. At least that's what I remember from my old operating systems course back in college.
Of course the 3 biggest questions are: 1) Will the driver be open sourced as the TNT/TNT2 driver is? 2) How soon will it be available to the public? 3) What kind of framerate will I get when fragging LPBs in quake 3?
EXACTLY MY FRIEND. Can't big, dumb companies get it through their tiny little minds that the idea of Link! is what made the net take off in the first place? On the internet that's like the wheel. It's been invented, get used to it!
Agreed. One of the reasons that MP3 has gone so far is because it is cross-platform. The same holds true with the realplayer. RealNetworks has gained support because they have a player for linux, mac & windows. If Apple wants to get ahead with quicktime, then they need to be sure that their format runs on any platform. Apple can gain an edge by porting to all platforms possible. Microsoft is going to stay behind because they won't write software for other platforms. This is keyt to gaining industry-wide support. Is having your streaming software run only on one platform better because you push and push your OS on everyone you can? Or is it simply better to support it on multiple platforms because you know that its less likely that you'll have 100% OS market domination?
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Great to see that some people still have faith in the little guy!
The tool you're speaking of is the SE Toolkit, written by Adrian Cockroft for Sun. It's implemented in tcl/tk. It uses stuff like vmstat, iostat, mpstat to track system performance. It also uses some stuff in the Solaris kernel, so I don't see it being ported to Linux any time soon. It is very useful and does have its own language so you can write your own monitors, but its not very easy for someone who has a limited knowledge of the Solaris kernel (especially since the code isn't available!). I wish it were available for Linux!
I strongly agree that we must educate our users. Having worked in a shop where most of the users of our systems had absolutely no idea of how those little black boxes on their desks worked, I've gotta say that #1 has to be teaching the computer user what they are doing when s/he opens up a mail message in outlook/messenger/pine/etc. It really should go beyond just teaching how email works, but that's another topic entirely....
I have been led to believe that BSD was far superior to Linux when it came to networking performance. Why base it on Linux when BSD is still much faster?
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Does one exist? Are there plans to create a player?
I know that Icecast and xmms are a way to do streaming mp3, but what are the legal requirements for these? Can they be used commercially?
Ok. So we can't watch Quicktime movies. Can anyone out there be so kind as to convert it to MPEG so that we *can*?
I don't know of any Quicktime player for Linux. Does anyone out there know of one and have a link?
I've found that its a matter of how much memory you have, and how much you allocate to VMware rather than cpu power. I've got 96Mb for VMware (256Mb total on this dual celeron 366@550) and NT runs just fine. I had 64mb given to VMware, and that just wasn't enough for NT (that memory hungry OS). I've got another machine at work running it (PII-333 with 128Mb - 64MB for VMware) and it slows down a lot. I added some memory to it and gave VMware 96mb and it ran a lot better. Lots less slowdowns.
This can definitely help a lot. A directory with lots and lots of files in it (I mean in the tens of thousands) can be quite a bottleneck. I experienced this at a previous job where we had a development group that had over 150000 files in a single directory. With lots of processes trying to access that directory at the same time, preformance would just flat out suck. When there are multiple processes all trying to do a stat() on a directory with 150000 files in it, be prepared to wait!
A good test would be to try two things. With the machine live, go to the directory where all the mail folders live and do an ls. If you're waiting more than a few seconds for the ls to start listing the directory, you've got a problem. If the ls lists files for more than a few seconds, you've got way too many files in that one directory. Try splitting it up.
You might also want to try using lsof on that directory so that you can get a feel of how many processes (people) are trying to access their mail spools at the same time. You might also want to try it at different times of the day.
Don't let this stop you from going out and buying a RAID solution. I bought a JBOD wint 6 36Gb drives and a Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100 card for our company fileserver and I've never had a problem since. That card is definitely a winner in my book.
Good Luck!
Looks like the /. effect has kicked in. Or could it just be the q3arena effect?
Its always best to check the XFree project's website for updates. They have no set date for release yet, but they do have snapshots available for download. Its worth checking it out!
http://www.xfree86.org
An operating system is defined as the set of instructions that interface between the user and the hardware. At least that's what I remember from my old operating systems course back in college.
Of course the 3 biggest questions are:
1) Will the driver be open sourced as the TNT/TNT2 driver is?
2) How soon will it be available to the public?
3) What kind of framerate will I get when fragging LPBs in quake 3?
Fun fun fun!
To bring evil back to the internet. What about xevil? Shouldn't that bring up a ton of matches?
EXACTLY MY FRIEND. Can't big, dumb companies get it through their tiny little minds that the idea of Link! is what made the net take off in the first place? On the internet that's like the wheel. It's been invented, get used to it!
Agreed. One of the reasons that MP3 has gone so far is because it is cross-platform. The same holds true with the realplayer. RealNetworks has gained support because they have a player for linux, mac & windows. If Apple wants to get ahead with quicktime, then they need to be sure that their format runs on any platform. Apple can gain an edge by porting to all platforms possible. Microsoft is going to stay behind because they won't write software for other platforms. This is keyt to gaining industry-wide support. Is having your streaming software run only on one platform better because you push and push your OS on everyone you can? Or is it simply better to support it on multiple platforms because you know that its less likely that you'll have 100% OS market domination?
Great to see that some people still have faith in the little guy!
GO GO GADGET K7 chip!
The tool you're speaking of is the SE Toolkit, written by Adrian Cockroft for Sun. It's implemented in tcl/tk. It uses stuff like vmstat, iostat, mpstat to track system performance. It also uses some stuff in the Solaris kernel, so I don't see it being ported to Linux any time soon. It is very useful and does have its own language so you can write your own monitors, but its not very easy for someone who has a limited knowledge of the Solaris kernel (especially since the code isn't available!). I wish it were available for Linux!
I strongly agree that we must educate our users. Having worked in a shop where most of the users of our systems had absolutely no idea of how those little black boxes on their desks worked, I've gotta say that #1 has to be teaching the computer user what they are doing when s/he opens up a mail message in outlook/messenger/pine/etc. It really should go beyond just teaching how email works, but that's another topic entirely....
Until I found out it was just the little
voices in my head. What a relief that was. Whew!
I have been led to believe that BSD was far superior to Linux when it came to networking performance. Why base it on Linux when BSD is still much faster?