...as far as FSB goes. No, the Duron doesn't have a 200MHz FSB, it has two 100MHz pipelines. So does the Athlon. I don't care what kind of AMD FUD you were reading, you were WRONG!!!
All I care about is how MacOS anti-aliases everything, even fonts that were meant to be rasterized and rendered grainy. Perhaps I should sue Apple for threatening to ruin my 20/40 vision.
With OS X being based on BSD, why even bother continuing development on LinuxPPC? BSD will be many times more stable, and will do nearly everything that LinuxPPC can, only better, more efficiently, and more reliably.
...they just fade into obsolescence. Seriously, if someone wants two video cards, they either go AGP and PCI or the Matrox DualHead / NVidia TwinView. Therefore, this bug will be meaningless as long as all P4 systems ship with an AGP slot.
Looking for a newer PictureBook? Look no further than the PCG-C1VN; that's the VAIO with the Crusoe chip in it. However, when a customer was considering it and mentioned that he coded (VB and C, etc.), I recommended that he keep his development to his other laptop for obvious reasons. He agreed, mentioning that he might try it on the Crusoe anyway to see how it turns out.
Since they use the Intel 440BX chipset, there's no problem with compatibility. The F and XG series laptops are the best (except for the F-630 which runs on a K6-2 and obviously doesn't have a BX chipset). Of course, why buy from Sony, the near-monopoly of the movie industry? So you can screw them over by not registering or using their provided software.
As far as the other brands, stay away from Toshiba; they're the manufacturer of the cheapest (and shoddiest) laptops around. HP isn't much better. Only the Compaq Armada series is worth retrofitting with Linux. All Dell systems should work out fine. As for Gateway, those laptops are worth their weight in cow pies.
Now who has a Sparc machine just "sitting around"? Chances are, if you have a Sparc machine, it drained at least $10,000 from your wallet and it's running Solaris 7/8. So who wants to erase a professionally designed operating system that costs hundreds of dollars to replace it with Slackware?
I'd understand this being done on the original Sparc, but I'll castigate the first person who puts Slackware on an UltraSparc II. They're just throwing their money out the window.
When I logged on to Slashdot, the sight was pretty grim.
Their god is Linus Torvalds and they'd live and die for him.
They believe in source code, and not in the corporate way.
So I'll go to "slashdot dot org" and post a comment and saaaaayyy....
HEY THERE MISTER SLASHDOTTER! Merry fscking Christmas!
Put down that disk of core dumps, and hear my holiday wishes...
In case you haven't noticed, it's Jesus's birthday
So get off your penguin-loving butt and fscking celebrate!
I had this question last night from a customer, and that was my choice. Sure, I could've picked ATI because of its 2d performance, but between the bad drivers and the worse hardware problems (capacitors breaking off of the Radeons), I ditched that idea. Sure, the NVidia Linux drivers are not open source, but that's one of my reasons for picking it; the only driver source is from NVidia itself, a company that has chosen to make its own Linux drivers. Furthermore, if NVidia open-sourced the Linux drivers, they'd be giving away trade secrets. Unlike other moronic hardware companies (Digital:Convergence, anyone?), they wish to hold on to profitability.
I'd really like to see the entire XF86 video code revamped, though. Why can't there be automatic probing of valid refresh rates, like there is in every other OS with a decent SVGA system? The technology for doing so has only been there for six years (like that isn't enough time for the X crew to pick up on it).
When I logged on to Slashdot, the sight was pretty grim.
Their god is Linus Torvalds and they'd live and die for him.
They believe in source code, and not in the corporate way.
So I'll go to "slashdot dot org" and post a comment and saaaaayyy....
HEY THERE MISTER SLASHDOTTER! Merry fscking Christmas!
Put down that disk of core dumps, and hear my holiday wishes...
In case you haven't noticed, it's Jesus's birthday
So get off your penguin-loving butt and fscking celebrate!
All of these consist of the original installation set, with appropriate serial numbers/cracks. Even more surprising, all of these fit on one CD, only taking up 380 megabytes.
Thousands of dollars of professional development programs fit into 380 megabytes. And each of these programs (except most of those in the misc. category) come on one disk inside a standard-sized box. It's time to stop the bloatware.
Serial ATA is just another serial connection like USB and FireWire. They're trying to make us use serial ATA hard drives which will slow down when we connect another one to the chain. Support will be decent, fortunately (which isn't the case with USB and FireWire; Intel shuns 1394 in favor of USB2, and USB still has yet to see some non-WinHardware). I don't care if I have to convert all my stuff to Ultra SCSI, I'm just not going to accept this proletarianizing of hardware.
I'll field all those questions. People don't like Rambus because it is insanely expensive ($500 to $800 for a stick of 128MB). Furthermore, it comes in paired banks, much like 72-pin SIMMs did; that means that you either have to buy two RIMMs or one RIMM and a "blank" RIMM (which is just as expensive; probably over $100). Also, a new RAM standard means new motherboards, and the boards are about twice as expensive as an Athlon chipset, or even the 440BX.
Both the Rambus technology and Intel's implementation are flawed; recently, it was discovered that Rambus introduces MORE latency into the system (probably due to its packet structure), and not less (as was implied/marketed by Rambus, who touted the high clock speed of the RAM).
Intel's smear campaign to introduce Rambus to the world ultimately failed due to the astronomical costs of the RIMMs; people didn't want to spend $2300 on a Pentium III 733 with Rambus when they could have bought an Athlon 900 for $1600.
If the Rambus technology had been free, then maybe Rambus Technologies, Inc. LLP LLC, CRAP, etc. wouldn't have been the lawfirm that it seems to be right now. Maybe Rambus would've had its stint in the computer industry - only to be ousted by DDR when it was found that DDR was inherently better.
Ah, Infocom. Many a day was whiled away trying to figure the syntax for the next command *grin*.
Much like bash in Linux. And C/C++/C#. And Java/JavaScript. And Perl. And...
Let's face it. If you don't think in the syntax, you're bound to get a syntax error. I think about Quake cvars and commands all the time (hopefully, that'll apply to code later). I think that one of the reasons for bugs in software/JavaScript syntax errors/syntax mistakes in general is that people are too busy thinking about something else. Sure, you can't let yourself go insane by just eating/drinking/breathing/thinking/coughing/stinki ng code all day; you have to escape sometime. However, you need to put yourself in the mindframe for coding. I think that this applies for almost every human activity as well.
One thing I hate about programmers today is that most of the new ones are novices just looking to add a few lines (of code, hehe) to their resumé. They don't really need to get into coding; they just go out and buy JBuilder/VisualCafé/VisualStudio because it'll be seen on their resumé and (supposedly) they'll get a big fat bonus for it. That kind of sleazy carpetbagging has to stop; if you can't contribute to the swarm, then get the hell out of the hive.
Sure, you may say, "What coding experience do you have?" As far as actually coding, none yet; my intro to C class begins soon. However, I did get to coordinate a little project: adding FMOD to a Q2.cin player for Windows. Thanks to Randy Heit at zdoom.notgod.com, I can actually double-click a.cin file and watch it - WITH SOUND! Sure, XMPlayer already has libidcin.so, but in Windows, the only way to watch a.cin file was to start Q2 in software, 320x240 (which, frankly, stinks when it comes to actual gameplay). So, I helped change that, and now there's a sense of redemption after that was finished. Maybe I'll tweak it later on with a config file so I don't have to select the sound method every time, hmmm....
They're going to use this technology in cars? Somebody stop them! Cell phones are a bad enough distraction; now we'll have to deal with a stupid contraption from Big Blue that prevents drivers from keeping their eyes on the road? Somebody stop them before a Mercedes-Benz with MAGIC at the helm runs me over.
My computer. It's DeCSS compliant, has the original Fraunhoffer codecs (downloaded, not purchased), can rip audio tracks at over 50X, and has 50GB of storage space as well as 320MB of RAM. It's also optimized to filter out the banner ad sites. Now if only those chuckleheads at Verizon could let the Covad guys into the CO...
All of the sudden, I'm seeing dead companies rising out of the grave and "refocusing" their strategies. B2B is the usual goal for being repurposed, but a network of communications satellites repurposed for scientific research? That's certainly a new one. Maybe some of those companies on FC can take Iridium as an example.
Should Slashdot set aside a special topic called "French Censorship"? With all the stories about the French gov forcing Yahoo to deny hyperlinks to Nazi memorabilia and the entire DVD issue, we should put a beret on that censorship guy.
...the 82443BX is still the best one that Intel has released so far. The 820, 815, and 840 are all so plagued with problems due to the Rambus incident (the entire existence of Rambus can be classified as an incident; when Rambus dies, progress continues). Not until Intel releases their DDR chipset will another viable Intel offering be seen.
Seriously, the proprietarity of SECAM held back the advent of VCRs and DVD players in France until people bought converters. For a time, French televisions actually let you lock the controls (so your children wouldn't watch that "excessively violent" cartoon show on La Cinq).
On the entire DVD security issue, I only have this to say: "This function is void, it has two args..."
This should be put on Jack Valenti's desk.
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"...p2p software is in its infancy and isn't likely to credibly challenge traditional distribution streams of copyrighted material any time soon."
Did you hear that, Jack Valenti? That means less lawsuits for you to undertake, so shut your yapper and be smug with your current revenues!
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...as far as FSB goes. No, the Duron doesn't have a 200MHz FSB, it has two 100MHz pipelines. So does the Athlon. I don't care what kind of AMD FUD you were reading, you were WRONG!!!
All I care about is how MacOS anti-aliases everything, even fonts that were meant to be rasterized and rendered grainy. Perhaps I should sue Apple for threatening to ruin my 20/40 vision.
That evil temptress will try anything to get people to use Sprint services. Boycott Sprint and Sela Ward. Do not be seduced by the devil's concubine.
With OS X being based on BSD, why even bother continuing development on LinuxPPC? BSD will be many times more stable, and will do nearly everything that LinuxPPC can, only better, more efficiently, and more reliably.
The "ordinary Slashdot user" refers to the 127 clones of Signal_11 that were made when he hit the karma cap.
...they just fade into obsolescence. Seriously, if someone wants two video cards, they either go AGP and PCI or the Matrox DualHead / NVidia TwinView. Therefore, this bug will be meaningless as long as all P4 systems ship with an AGP slot.
Looking for a newer PictureBook? Look no further than the PCG-C1VN; that's the VAIO with the Crusoe chip in it. However, when a customer was considering it and mentioned that he coded (VB and C, etc.), I recommended that he keep his development to his other laptop for obvious reasons. He agreed, mentioning that he might try it on the Crusoe anyway to see how it turns out.
As far as the other brands, stay away from Toshiba; they're the manufacturer of the cheapest (and shoddiest) laptops around. HP isn't much better. Only the Compaq Armada series is worth retrofitting with Linux. All Dell systems should work out fine. As for Gateway, those laptops are worth their weight in cow pies.
Now who has a Sparc machine just "sitting around"? Chances are, if you have a Sparc machine, it drained at least $10,000 from your wallet and it's running Solaris 7/8. So who wants to erase a professionally designed operating system that costs hundreds of dollars to replace it with Slackware?
I'd understand this being done on the original Sparc, but I'll castigate the first person who puts Slackware on an UltraSparc II. They're just throwing their money out the window.
Their god is Linus Torvalds and they'd live and die for him.
They believe in source code, and not in the corporate way.
So I'll go to "slashdot dot org" and post a comment and saaaaayyy....
HEY THERE MISTER SLASHDOTTER! Merry fscking Christmas!
Put down that disk of core dumps, and hear my holiday wishes...
In case you haven't noticed, it's Jesus's birthday
So get off your penguin-loving butt and fscking celebrate!
I'd really like to see the entire XF86 video code revamped, though. Why can't there be automatic probing of valid refresh rates, like there is in every other OS with a decent SVGA system? The technology for doing so has only been there for six years (like that isn't enough time for the X crew to pick up on it).
Their god is Linus Torvalds and they'd live and die for him.
They believe in source code, and not in the corporate way.
So I'll go to "slashdot dot org" and post a comment and saaaaayyy....
HEY THERE MISTER SLASHDOTTER! Merry fscking Christmas!
Put down that disk of core dumps, and hear my holiday wishes...
In case you haven't noticed, it's Jesus's birthday
So get off your penguin-loving butt and fscking celebrate!
He sounds more like an adapted press release from 3dfx.
Macromedia: Director 8, Dreamweaver 3, Fireworks 3, Flash 5, Freehand 9, Fontographer 4.
Adobe: Illustrator 9, Photoshop 6, Premiere 5.1, Dimensions 3, Streamline 4.
Miscellaneous: CuteFTP 4, DiscJuggler 3, Swift3D 1.1, WinRAR 2.71, and WinZip 8.
All of these consist of the original installation set, with appropriate serial numbers/cracks. Even more surprising, all of these fit on one CD, only taking up 380 megabytes.
Thousands of dollars of professional development programs fit into 380 megabytes. And each of these programs (except most of those in the misc. category) come on one disk inside a standard-sized box. It's time to stop the bloatware.
Serial ATA is just another serial connection like USB and FireWire. They're trying to make us use serial ATA hard drives which will slow down when we connect another one to the chain. Support will be decent, fortunately (which isn't the case with USB and FireWire; Intel shuns 1394 in favor of USB2, and USB still has yet to see some non-WinHardware). I don't care if I have to convert all my stuff to Ultra SCSI, I'm just not going to accept this proletarianizing of hardware.
Both the Rambus technology and Intel's implementation are flawed; recently, it was discovered that Rambus introduces MORE latency into the system (probably due to its packet structure), and not less (as was implied/marketed by Rambus, who touted the high clock speed of the RAM).
Intel's smear campaign to introduce Rambus to the world ultimately failed due to the astronomical costs of the RIMMs; people didn't want to spend $2300 on a Pentium III 733 with Rambus when they could have bought an Athlon 900 for $1600.
If the Rambus technology had been free, then maybe Rambus Technologies, Inc. LLP LLC, CRAP, etc. wouldn't have been the lawfirm that it seems to be right now. Maybe Rambus would've had its stint in the computer industry - only to be ousted by DDR when it was found that DDR was inherently better.
Much like bash in Linux. And C/C++/C#. And Java/JavaScript. And Perl. And...
Let's face it. If you don't think in the syntax, you're bound to get a syntax error. I think about Quake cvars and commands all the time (hopefully, that'll apply to code later). I think that one of the reasons for bugs in software/JavaScript syntax errors/syntax mistakes in general is that people are too busy thinking about something else. Sure, you can't let yourself go insane by just eating/drinking/breathing/thinking/coughing/stinki ng code all day; you have to escape sometime. However, you need to put yourself in the mindframe for coding. I think that this applies for almost every human activity as well.
One thing I hate about programmers today is that most of the new ones are novices just looking to add a few lines (of code, hehe) to their resumé. They don't really need to get into coding; they just go out and buy JBuilder/VisualCafé/VisualStudio because it'll be seen on their resumé and (supposedly) they'll get a big fat bonus for it. That kind of sleazy carpetbagging has to stop; if you can't contribute to the swarm, then get the hell out of the hive.
Sure, you may say, "What coding experience do you have?" As far as actually coding, none yet; my intro to C class begins soon. However, I did get to coordinate a little project: adding FMOD to a Q2 .cin player for Windows. Thanks to Randy Heit at zdoom.notgod.com, I can actually double-click a .cin file and watch it - WITH SOUND! Sure, XMPlayer already has libidcin.so, but in Windows, the only way to watch a .cin file was to start Q2 in software, 320x240 (which, frankly, stinks when it comes to actual gameplay). So, I helped change that, and now there's a sense of redemption after that was finished. Maybe I'll tweak it later on with a config file so I don't have to select the sound method every time, hmmm....
They're going to use this technology in cars? Somebody stop them! Cell phones are a bad enough distraction; now we'll have to deal with a stupid contraption from Big Blue that prevents drivers from keeping their eyes on the road? Somebody stop them before a Mercedes-Benz with MAGIC at the helm runs me over.
My computer. It's DeCSS compliant, has the original Fraunhoffer codecs (downloaded, not purchased), can rip audio tracks at over 50X, and has 50GB of storage space as well as 320MB of RAM. It's also optimized to filter out the banner ad sites. Now if only those chuckleheads at Verizon could let the Covad guys into the CO...
All of the sudden, I'm seeing dead companies rising out of the grave and "refocusing" their strategies. B2B is the usual goal for being repurposed, but a network of communications satellites repurposed for scientific research? That's certainly a new one. Maybe some of those companies on FC can take Iridium as an example.
Should Slashdot set aside a special topic called "French Censorship"? With all the stories about the French gov forcing Yahoo to deny hyperlinks to Nazi memorabilia and the entire DVD issue, we should put a beret on that censorship guy.
...the 82443BX is still the best one that Intel has released so far. The 820, 815, and 840 are all so plagued with problems due to the Rambus incident (the entire existence of Rambus can be classified as an incident; when Rambus dies, progress continues). Not until Intel releases their DDR chipset will another viable Intel offering be seen.
On the entire DVD security issue, I only have this to say: "This function is void, it has two args..."
Did you hear that, Jack Valenti? That means less lawsuits for you to undertake, so shut your yapper and be smug with your current revenues!