I have a CDE-9850Ri (Just looked at front) and a 60gb ipod color and it works great, but the scroll speed are (still? my first Alpine so I cant complate) slow. I mostly start with artist search and then album, and it takes forever. (I just have 300 CDs with about 100 artists) The scroll speed really needs to follow the speed at which you turn the dial.
I don't want to play another WW2 FPS. No matter what side I can play. For most popular games, they seem to go nuts with sequels that add little to the game play. Specialy with racing games which I play when I can find one with proper physics, which are rare. There were one game that I didn't buy because it was protected with Starforce.
I did like the latest Halflife 2 release although it was a bit short. It didn't bring any new ground braking gameplay, but for me it is more about the story line, and I would like to see more of them. I see it more as a interactive book so if only they can come up with a good script, I will be more of them.
Some games seems hard to re-invent. I have played Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 a lot, but as every other game, they had to go 3D with number 3 because you can't make bitmap games today. But that kinda killed the gameplay for me, I bought it but ended up just playing RT2 again.
Now that I think about it, it was mostly the 2 Citrix application I have to run that was slow under Linux. Under Windos they were fine. So it might be a combination of the Citrix client with the Linux graphics driver. They run a lot better on Linux with the Nvidia card.
I am not sure that the acceleration saves me time as such.
My workflow was affected since I can complete my tasks faster when I run Linux.
It takes a lot before I would prefer to run Windows on the desktop so when I decided to boot Windows I had to be very annoyed by the half updated windows and mousetrails. So I guess the answer is that you can't take a stop watch and compare the speed my my work and compare the accelerated versus the non-accelerated. But you can if you compare Windows vs. Linux.
But if it can put you at ease, I can tell you that I paid for the card myself even though it is my computer at work.
I got this one http://www.club-3d.com/distri/productinfo/spec_vga .php?ordercode=CGN-628ATVD which works fine. 50-55$(price quickly converted to $ in my head) in my local shop. I also got a similar model from ASUS which had horrible shadows when using the analog signal(and it didn't have analog out on the DVI port) So I switched the two cards between the machines(since one of them used digital and the other analog signal) and the Club3D had no shadows. The heatsink of both gets very hot, so it needs a bit of space around it. Although the Nvidia program says that the alarm level for the chip temperature is something around 140c(seems like a lot).
Maybe not 3D, but the Linux distributions I have tried, does not perform well on standard onboard graphics chips. If you have a 20" monitor and run 1600x1200, it becomes very annoying when you come a Windows desktop. But just a 50$ can solve that problem. I have been switching between Windows and Linux until I got that card. Booting Windows when I got tired of the poor graphics performance, and booting Linux again when I got tired of missing all the advantages of having a Linux desktop when all the server I work with, runs Linux.
I got a Nvidia card with passive cooling for my Linux desktop instead on the onboard graphics. All the desktop computers I have had at work, have always been slow compared to Windows with any Linux distribution when it comes to graphics speed. It does not make it better that you need to run a higher resolution to get the same screen "real estate". (of course, tuning font sizes help a bit).
Anyway I installed the 50$ Nvidia card which solved that problem. And with SUSE 10, I hope I don't have to worry about compiling the drivers every time there's a kernel update since the Nvidia drivers can be found in YAST.
I have always wondered why no-one are doing this. I see many ISPs offering routers with wireless as a option. The pricing model seems a bit optimistic if people live in a area that isn't likely to have many guests around. I would rather do it the other way around saying that you pay full price for the line and then what you earn is subtracted from the line price first.
How can it be legal to sell this information? I am not American so I don't understand the laws. I am used to laws where there are strict rules for all companies that holds personal information, what they can do with it and how they shall protect it.
Can you also sell personal information from websites? Like what people have visited etc. Perhaps if you own a site where peole have used their credit card. Can you sell the information about what they have done?
I agree, the only thing I am missing are the IBM Updatexpress cd that updates firmware in all the devices in the server, when you boot from the cdrom.
When I needed to update the HP blade enclosures, I had to install windows on a server in the rack to run the update program, which sucks because it was only running SAP on 64bit SUSE.
Yes, I have tried that and it did help a bit but not enough. I think I have spent about 2 days to get it to work trying all sorts of things. I then decided not to spend any more time on it since it is "just" a server for testing. We have been thinking about using vmware for many of our servers, but then some more urgent projects came in the way. But I will be bringing it back at the end of the year. So I have time to play with V.3 until then. Besides from the disk issue I had, the virtual machines have been running stable, but they have also only been used by a handful of users. Thanks for the input.
Scott M. Herold: If you're using Linux and there is a dire need to use a 2.6 kernel in a VM [virtual machine], wait for ESX 3.0. VMware ESX Server has been plagued with time-keeping and performance issues that are reportedly resolved in the 3.0 version. I have personally configured and run 2.4 kernels inside of virtual machines that performed as expected for some large organizations only to see the same applications run degraded on a 2.6 kernel.
About time. I have only one ESX server, it has only been down twice when I upgraded the host. but the system time in the guest OS is a bitch when the guest OS is Linux. Never did get it to work. not even with xntpd installed. Now it has only been test systems so I can live with having to run a ntpdate from a cron because it is 7 minutes slow every hour. I had another strange issue, I have 2 w2k3 servers, 3 SuSE SLES 9, and some other stuff running.
But I once had a virtual disk failure on a SuSE server that looked just like a real disk failure(timeouts etc). strange when it is just a file on a raid disk. their site had no information that could help me with the errorcode, nor did their forums. It wasn't a big deal(test system) but for the "fun" of it I spent a day trying to figure out how to salvage a virtual server having a virtual disk crash. Didn't find any satisfying solutions, so I ended up installing a new server(copy virtual disk image) and being able to mount a copy of the "crashed" disk and I could then copy all the data over without errors.
Gave me a bit of hesitation for using it for real, I do not need virtual disk crashes to make my job interesting.
I worked a bit with proxies and live streaming, and one of the problems that could keep the traffic down were proxies doing splitting of the live streams. I don't know where that market is today but at one time there was an idea that the ISP / phone company would have proxies at their PoP's and do splitting there of live streams so that all people connected to that PoP would share the same stream out. There were a couple of problems with that. First of all that it was hard to find a business models that would return the investment on the hardware. Second that most streams at the time would not allow splitting, perhaps because licencing issues and not knowing the actual number of viewers. The ironic part about that was that the hardware that would obey the no-splitting flag, was also those that would report back the right number of viewers to the streaming server and the software that would not send the number of viewers back would ignore the flag anyway. Finally there might have been an issue with splitting streams for servers that required authentication for subscription / Pay Per View streams, but I think that also could have been resolved.
It all of course comes down to money and getting al involved to work together. The broadcasters and the ISPs could all benefit from it, but who should pay for what and how much seemed to be too big a task. So all just seems to be adding fatter pipes instead of sitting down and doing something intelligent.
I remember when the first version of Big Brother aired(a couple of years before it came to America), most company internet lines were small. And so, since I worked as a consultant on firewalls at the time, I spent a lot of time driving around to many companies to insert block rules. Today it is not much of a problem, although I can imagine that the world cup could cause problems. Tour de France does generate a lot of streaming traffic because that also is going on during work hours.
True, half of the requests are impossible to figure out what and why they want access. I once took the time to see who ovned the IP ranges they wanted to contact and they were all owned by Microsoft. Checking that does not guarantee anything. My father had bought some internet security package(can't remember the name) and it checked the program against a online database. That seemed like a good way to do it.
If we could not run Oracle on Redhat(=no support), we would rather choose another OS. The decision to drop Oracle would not be based on OS. All Red Hat are doing are making it more difficult to get Linux inside. Now luckily it does not matter much to me because we use SUSE for webservers, databases, SAP etc.
Old time lightbulbs might be expensive to use but they have a bunch of advantages compared to todays energy efficient bulbs. First of all the energy efficient bulbs and fluorescent lights, emits fever colors of light and it gets harder to see colors under their light. Second, they have a fast flicker that you do not see directly but that the brain can detect. Studies have shown that this light raises your stress level(both because of the color and flickering) and are really bad in an enviroment where you have to concentrate. Since it is LEDs, it should be possible to make them flickerless. But I don't know about frequency of the light waves from LCDs. If they could use LEDs in different colors, it might be possible to limit the problem with not seeing the right colors.
Music industry, you know the solution, why not use it. Find need new chicks to show more skin! None of those "don't call me a chick", chicks, it does not work.
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I have a CDE-9850Ri (Just looked at front) and a 60gb ipod color and it works great, but the scroll speed are (still? my first Alpine so I cant complate) slow. I mostly start with artist search and then album, and it takes forever. (I just have 300 CDs with about 100 artists)
The scroll speed really needs to follow the speed at which you turn the dial.
I don't want to play another WW2 FPS. No matter what side I can play. For most popular games, they seem to go nuts with sequels that add little to the game play. Specialy with racing games which I play when I can find one with proper physics, which are rare. There were one game that I didn't buy because it was protected with Starforce.
I did like the latest Halflife 2 release although it was a bit short. It didn't bring any new ground braking gameplay, but for me it is more about the story line, and I would like to see more of them. I see it more as a interactive book so if only they can come up with a good script, I will be more of them.
Some games seems hard to re-invent. I have played Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 a lot, but as every other game, they had to go 3D with number 3 because you can't make bitmap games today. But that kinda killed the gameplay for me, I bought it but ended up just playing RT2 again.
Now that I think about it, it was mostly the 2 Citrix application I have to run that was slow under Linux. Under Windos they were fine. So it might be a combination of the Citrix client with the Linux graphics driver. They run a lot better on Linux with the Nvidia card.
I am not sure that the acceleration saves me time as such.
My workflow was affected since I can complete my tasks faster when I run Linux.
It takes a lot before I would prefer to run Windows on the desktop so when I decided to boot Windows I had to be very annoyed by the half updated windows and mousetrails.
So I guess the answer is that you can't take a stop watch and compare the speed my my work and compare the accelerated versus the non-accelerated. But you can if you compare Windows vs. Linux.
But if it can put you at ease, I can tell you that I paid for the card myself even though it is my computer at work.
I got this one http://www.club-3d.com/distri/productinfo/spec_vga .php?ordercode=CGN-628ATVD which works fine. 50-55$(price quickly converted to $ in my head) in my local shop.
I also got a similar model from ASUS which had horrible shadows when using the analog signal(and it didn't have analog out on the DVI port)
So I switched the two cards between the machines(since one of them used digital and the other analog signal) and the Club3D had no shadows.
The heatsink of both gets very hot, so it needs a bit of space around it. Although the Nvidia program says that the alarm level for the chip temperature is something around 140c(seems like a lot).
Maybe not 3D, but the Linux distributions I have tried, does not perform well on standard onboard graphics chips. If you have a 20" monitor and run 1600x1200, it becomes very annoying when you come a Windows desktop. But just a 50$ can solve that problem.
I have been switching between Windows and Linux until I got that card. Booting Windows when I got tired of the poor graphics performance, and booting Linux again when I got tired of missing all the advantages of having a Linux desktop when all the server I work with, runs Linux.
I got a Nvidia card with passive cooling for my Linux desktop instead on the onboard graphics. All the desktop computers I have had at work, have always been slow compared to Windows with any Linux distribution when it comes to graphics speed. It does not make it better that you need to run a higher resolution to get the same screen "real estate". (of course, tuning font sizes help a bit).
Anyway I installed the 50$ Nvidia card which solved that problem. And with SUSE 10, I hope I don't have to worry about compiling the drivers every time there's a kernel update since the Nvidia drivers can be found in YAST.
I have always wondered why no-one are doing this. I see many ISPs offering routers with wireless as a option.
The pricing model seems a bit optimistic if people live in a area that isn't likely to have many guests around.
I would rather do it the other way around saying that you pay full price for the line and then what you earn is subtracted from the line price first.
How can it be legal to sell this information? I am not American so I don't understand the laws. I am used to laws where there are strict rules for all companies that holds personal information, what they can do with it and how they shall protect it.
Can you also sell personal information from websites? Like what people have visited etc.
Perhaps if you own a site where peole have used their credit card. Can you sell the information about what they have done?
if they would just stick to "don't copy that floppy".
Eeeveryone would be happy and no-one would get hurt.
I agree, the only thing I am missing are the IBM Updatexpress cd that updates firmware in all the devices in the server, when you boot from the cdrom.
When I needed to update the HP blade enclosures, I had to install windows on a server in the rack to run the update program, which sucks because it was only running SAP on 64bit SUSE.
Yes, I have tried that and it did help a bit but not enough. I think I have spent about 2 days to get it to work trying all sorts of things. I then decided not to spend any more time on it since it is "just" a server for testing.
We have been thinking about using vmware for many of our servers, but then some more urgent projects came in the way. But I will be bringing it back at the end of the year. So I have time to play with V.3 until then.
Besides from the disk issue I had, the virtual machines have been running stable, but they have also only been used by a handful of users.
Thanks for the input.
Scott M. Herold: If you're using Linux and there is a dire need to use a 2.6 kernel in a VM [virtual machine], wait for ESX 3.0. VMware ESX Server has been plagued with time-keeping and performance issues that are reportedly resolved in the 3.0 version. I have personally configured and run 2.4 kernels inside of virtual machines that performed as expected for some large organizations only to see the same applications run degraded on a 2.6 kernel.
About time.
I have only one ESX server, it has only been down twice when I upgraded the host. but the system time in the guest OS is a bitch when the guest OS is Linux. Never did get it to work. not even with xntpd installed. Now it has only been test systems so I can live with having to run a ntpdate from a cron because it is 7 minutes slow every hour.
I had another strange issue, I have 2 w2k3 servers, 3 SuSE SLES 9, and some other stuff running.
But I once had a virtual disk failure on a SuSE server that looked just like a real disk failure(timeouts etc). strange when it is just a file on a raid disk. their site had no information that could help me with the errorcode, nor did their forums. It wasn't a big deal(test system) but for the "fun" of it I spent a day trying to figure out how to salvage a virtual server having a virtual disk crash. Didn't find any satisfying solutions, so I ended up installing a new server(copy virtual disk image) and being able to mount a copy of the "crashed" disk and I could then copy all the data over without errors.
Gave me a bit of hesitation for using it for real, I do not need virtual disk crashes to make my job interesting.
I worked a bit with proxies and live streaming, and one of the problems that could keep the traffic down were proxies doing splitting of the live streams. I don't know where that market is today but at one time there was an idea that the ISP / phone company would have proxies at their PoP's and do splitting there of live streams so that all people connected to that PoP would share the same stream out.
There were a couple of problems with that. First of all that it was hard to find a business models that would return the investment on the hardware.
Second that most streams at the time would not allow splitting, perhaps because licencing issues and not knowing the actual number of viewers. The ironic part about that was that the hardware that would obey the no-splitting flag, was also those that would report back the right number of viewers to the streaming server and the software that would not send the number of viewers back would ignore the flag anyway.
Finally there might have been an issue with splitting streams for servers that required authentication for subscription / Pay Per View streams, but I think that also could have been resolved.
It all of course comes down to money and getting al involved to work together. The broadcasters and the ISPs could all benefit from it, but who should pay for what and how much seemed to be too big a task. So all just seems to be adding fatter pipes instead of sitting down and doing something intelligent.
I remember when the first version of Big Brother aired(a couple of years before it came to America), most company internet lines were small. And so, since I worked as a consultant on firewalls at the time, I spent a lot of time driving around to many companies to insert block rules.
Today it is not much of a problem, although I can imagine that the world cup could cause problems. Tour de France does generate a lot of streaming traffic because that also is going on during work hours.
The quality was excellent. Can't wait for Cry, Cry again
But someone has hijacked www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oogle.com
That will teach them or what? :)
What's next? Slashdot dupes by linking to Digg that links to an older Slashdot story?
True, half of the requests are impossible to figure out what and why they want access.
I once took the time to see who ovned the IP ranges they wanted to contact and they were all owned by Microsoft. Checking that does not guarantee anything.
My father had bought some internet security package(can't remember the name) and it checked the program against a online database. That seemed like a good way to do it.
If we could not run Oracle on Redhat(=no support), we would rather choose another OS. The decision to drop Oracle would not be based on OS. All Red Hat are doing are making it more difficult to get Linux inside.
Now luckily it does not matter much to me because we use SUSE for webservers, databases, SAP etc.
Old time lightbulbs might be expensive to use but they have a bunch of advantages compared to todays energy efficient bulbs. First of all the energy efficient bulbs and fluorescent lights, emits fever colors of light and it gets harder to see colors under their light. Second, they have a fast flicker that you do not see directly but that the brain can detect. Studies have shown that this light raises your stress level(both because of the color and flickering) and are really bad in an enviroment where you have to concentrate.
Since it is LEDs, it should be possible to make them flickerless. But I don't know about frequency of the light waves from LCDs. If they could use LEDs in different colors, it might be possible to limit the problem with not seeing the right colors.
How about Happy Fun Ball?
That ep was on one of the european bbc channels recently.
Yes, maybe their probem is that they only are doing softcore videos. :D
Music industry, you know the solution, why not use it. Find need new chicks to show more skin! None of those "don't call me a chick", chicks, it does not work.