"Yet another reason why people should not be pushing Linux on the desktop until it really is ready."
You can go 2 ways with this -- how could linux ever dream of being on the "desktop" if it's not widely supported? And your view -- if it's not "ready" for the desktop, most people won't use it and therefore, the support won't be there.
I really think there needs to be a "middle of the road" solution here. Support staff should understand the needs of the clients, regardless of user base. Now, as said before, I don't think that this would entail knowing everything about every operating system, but perhaps having a few people on hand that know their way around the "different" os's.... or even just knowing the technical answers that most linux users would ask if they ran into problems (such as DNS servers, etc)....
It is a shame that the company offers a good deal and doesn't make any real solid attempt to resolve the call on the first try -- customer service has gone downhill lately -- but that's no excuse to not (as someone else said) get level 2 support or higher on the horn with ya....
Bank: What did you do to break in? Blackmailer: Well, I... (yadda yadda yadda)
Where is the trust in this situation? As mentioned before in the comments, the blackmailer could have multiple ways in, or multiple backdoors, etc. It would only take one easy way in to do more damage -- or have the potential to do more damage.
Blackmail is not about trusting someone. It's about knowing that you definitely don't trust them, but attempt to make the situation better for yourself. Getting answers from blackmailers would be just as easy as eating an asphalt pie.
I've got some old Japanese games (Gradius Gaiden comes to mind) and I'm sure that it won't play on the new unit, seeing as I needed a mod chip to get the game to play here.
So, I'll keep my PS1 until it dies. and then get an emulator to keep my Gradius addiction fueled.
Well, I understand the point about the tray loading to some extent, but on the other hand, the only time I've ever had trouble with "newer" cdrom drive (that thing in your computer case) trays is when someone kicked the tray in. Even at that point, just pull the shell off and re-align.
Of course, sony will probably use some funky screw to hold the case together this time (like nintendo used to do with carts and system)....
speaking offtopic, does anyone remember the good old days of "more colors, more sprites per line, bigger sprites" etc? It seems like we're repeating ourselves... I personally love the old life force and gradius style games (thunder force and gaiares were good on the genesis)...
now we're looking at fillrates and triangles/sec texels/sec etc. I'm just really curious what we'll be looking forward to in 10 years.....
okay. You moderators SUCK! I was looking for a comment like this, and you gave it an OFFTOPIC? damn, people, get a grip... it was even mentioned in the topic....
not sure if this will be the same as on your machine, but under redhat 5.2 --
log in as root (of course), goto/etc/rc.d, and joe (or whatever) the rc.local file.
add this line at the end:
/PATH/rc5des -quiet
where/PATH/ is where you've placed RC5...
this script (rc.local) is run after the system boots up, but before logging in, that way any programs here will run regardless of whether you logged in to the machine or not..
hope this helps.
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I think you meant "when they are so transparent that people....."
flames from an anonymous coward. Please. I've found nothing but decent, objective reviews from Tom's hardware. Of course, I haven't had the money to go out and buy everything that he's tested to see if he's right, but he seems credible.... not just blabbering mindless stats off of the box.
okay... we want to look at each of these dissimilar chips in the same light (comparing apples to apples) rather than comparing their enhanced SIMD prowress (oranges to apples). I think in all honesty that I'd like to see what the chip can do without SIMD and with SIMD instructions from both vendors - but the raw data in/out is what would excite me most, as most current EVERYDAY applications do not use the extra instructions.
intel holds a de-facto standard for INTELS. from what I've read, I believe the EV-6 bus is supposed to scale better, and offer better performance for multi-processored machines.
I used to have an 8 track component piece that had RCA outs.... now, what would really work nice is if you could get multiple receivers for each transmitter -- this way, if you live in a house full of stereo equipment (roomates etc) you could all crank the same thing at once. Or you could run wires (can't say we haven't done that before.)
what? I would have to believe if they programmed a game to not use the hard drive, they just wouldn't use it. Kind of like the analog controllers -- hmmmm, analog doesn't work on all games....
Now, you could use the hard disk as a big memory card for all games -- just have the programmers call a "memory save" and redirect to the hard disk.... same for loads...
Exactly my thoughts.. anyone remember sega vs nintendo when the genesis and supernes were going at it? I was an avid sega fan, blinded by the numbers. Sega's was faster, when you spoke of MHZ (wasn't it 2-3 times as fast?) But then I played a SuperNES... let me tell ya, it played better than the genesis.. better sound, gfx, etc. I think Sony knows what they're doing, and although I think Nintendo still has a good fight left, I hope Sony comes out the winner yet again...
My main reason is for encoding cd's at 256kbit, which take admittedly a short amount of time to encode, but not exactly a 1 minute for 1 minute of encode time.. It will use blade encoder as the encoder, and be accessible through win32 clients, although I believe I'm only going to write the "server" portion to run on Linux... Being new to PERL, I'm going to try to use it to be cross platform...
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Dear god, count me in on all 3...
I see that as kind of a "chicken-egg" comment.
"Yet another reason why people should not be pushing Linux on the desktop until it really is ready."
You can go 2 ways with this -- how could linux ever dream of being on the "desktop" if it's not widely supported? And your view -- if it's not "ready" for the desktop, most people won't use it and therefore, the support won't be there.
I really think there needs to be a "middle of the road" solution here. Support staff should understand the needs of the clients, regardless of user base. Now, as said before, I don't think that this would entail knowing everything about every operating system, but perhaps having a few people on hand that know their way around the "different" os's.... or even just knowing the technical answers that most linux users would ask if they ran into problems (such as DNS servers, etc)....
It is a shame that the company offers a good deal and doesn't make any real solid attempt to resolve the call on the first try -- customer service has gone downhill lately -- but that's no excuse to not (as someone else said) get level 2 support or higher on the horn with ya....
yup -- this is offtopic.
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Or, how about this....
Build a no-frills browser that works with your help files, but not much else. This way it probably won't be your browser of choice on the internet.
consider lynx. Very useful, but not exactly appropriate for graphical pages etc.
Sure.
Bank: What did you do to break in?
Blackmailer: Well, I... (yadda yadda yadda)
Where is the trust in this situation? As mentioned before in the comments, the blackmailer could have multiple ways in, or multiple backdoors, etc. It would only take one easy way in to do more damage -- or have the potential to do more damage.
Blackmail is not about trusting someone. It's about knowing that you definitely don't trust them, but attempt to make the situation better for yourself. Getting answers from blackmailers would be just as easy as eating an asphalt pie.
I've got some old Japanese games (Gradius Gaiden comes to mind) and I'm sure that it won't play on the new unit, seeing as I needed a mod chip to get the game to play here.
So, I'll keep my PS1 until it dies. and then get an emulator to keep my Gradius addiction fueled.
Well, I understand the point about the tray loading to some extent, but on the other hand, the only time I've ever had trouble with "newer" cdrom drive (that thing in your computer case) trays is when someone kicked the tray in. Even at that point, just pull the shell off and re-align.
Of course, sony will probably use some funky screw to hold the case together this time (like nintendo used to do with carts and system)....
speaking offtopic, does anyone remember the good old days of "more colors, more sprites per line, bigger sprites" etc? It seems like we're repeating ourselves... I personally love the old life force and gradius style games (thunder force and gaiares were good on the genesis)...
now we're looking at fillrates and triangles/sec texels/sec etc. I'm just really curious what we'll be looking forward to in 10 years.....
okay. You moderators SUCK! I was looking for a comment like this, and you gave it an OFFTOPIC? damn, people, get a grip... it was even mentioned in the topic....
not sure if this will be the same as on your machine, but under redhat 5.2 --
/etc/rc.d, and joe (or whatever) the rc.local file.
/PATH/ is where you've placed RC5...
log in as root (of course), goto
add this line at the end:
/PATH/rc5des -quiet
where
this script (rc.local) is run after the system boots up, but before logging in, that way any programs here will run regardless of whether you logged in to the machine or not..
hope this helps.
I think you meant "when they are so transparent that people....."
Ummmm... Tools. Internet Options. Advanced. Uncheck "Play Sounds". Not too hard at all.
I guess those pentium-133 Compaqs at work suck at serving too.
flames from an anonymous coward. Please. I've found nothing but decent, objective reviews from Tom's hardware. Of course, I haven't had the money to go out and buy everything that he's tested to see if he's right, but he seems credible.... not just blabbering mindless stats off of the box.
okay... we want to look at each of these dissimilar chips in the same light (comparing apples to apples) rather than comparing their enhanced SIMD prowress (oranges to apples). I think in all honesty that I'd like to see what the chip can do without SIMD and with SIMD instructions from both vendors - but the raw data in/out is what would excite me most, as most current EVERYDAY applications do not use the extra instructions.
intel holds a de-facto standard for INTELS. from what I've read, I believe the EV-6 bus is supposed to scale better, and offer better performance for multi-processored machines.
I used to have an 8 track component piece that had RCA outs.... now, what would really work nice is if you could get multiple receivers for each transmitter -- this way, if you live in a house full of stereo equipment (roomates etc) you could all crank the same thing at once. Or you could run wires (can't say we haven't done that before.)
or. A box in the stereo rack with 100 meg ethernet connected to another box with a big ass hard disk in it. :)
real strong rope?
Bzap. Lightning. Fire fire fire.
I'm sure that's not exactly what you meant.. but it would also give you one hell of a ride if the "rope" got caught in a twister.
what? I would have to believe if they programmed a game to not use the hard drive, they just wouldn't use it. Kind of like the analog controllers -- hmmmm, analog doesn't work on all games....
Now, you could use the hard disk as a big memory card for all games -- just have the programmers call a "memory save" and redirect to the hard disk.... same for loads...
Exactly my thoughts.. anyone remember sega vs nintendo when the genesis and supernes were going at it? I was an avid sega fan, blinded by the numbers. Sega's was faster, when you spoke of MHZ (wasn't it 2-3 times as fast?) But then I played a SuperNES... let me tell ya, it played better than the genesis.. better sound, gfx, etc. I think Sony knows what they're doing, and although I think Nintendo still has a good fight left, I hope Sony comes out the winner yet again...
BZZZT. Wrong. up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-start. or, if you're playing Gradius Gaiden, u-u-(left top)-(right top)(left top)(right top)-x-o I believe.
Then don't read it and don't reply to it. Maybe people like myself haven't seen it.
that's my contribution.
My main reason is for encoding cd's at 256kbit, which take admittedly a short amount of time to encode, but not exactly a 1 minute for 1 minute of encode time.. It will use blade encoder as the encoder, and be accessible through win32 clients, although I believe I'm only going to write the "server" portion to run on Linux... Being new to PERL, I'm going to try to use it to be cross platform...
Well, sort of on/off topic, but I'm working on a cross platform distributed mp3 encoder.... Maybe this would help...