Yup, with MacOS the monitor can only do 60Hz at 1152x864 (ouch), but in Linux it can do 1280x960 at 82Hz!! Thank you, modelines. Fuck you, autodetection.
This is a real example of how Linux works. You can take the easy out (autodetection) and get average results, or do something hard (write your own modeline) and get good results. Linux is usually "harder" but you get better results in the long run.
If both OS's die on you, I'll bet your hardware is bad. Run memtest86 or a similar tool and see if your memory is dying. If so, that's not the fault of the OS (although Linux can cope with it by using the BadRAM patch, you're shit out of luck with XP).
It's something like "try to support broken BIOSes". Yes, the grandparent's hardware is broken. My nforce2 was too (which doesn't make it all right, it just means that "broken" is pretty common these days... hey if it saves one tenth of a cent then it's ok right).
Fair enough. I didn't intend to generalize, but I guess I did. Anyway, I just wanted to share that mail with everyone, since I was just shocked that someone that wanted something from me was so impolite. I'll go now:)
YES. YOUR ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Sorry for the caps, but I cannot agree with you more.
I was never good at math competitions, but don't need to be because my calculator can do math better than any human (quick what's the 9th root of 65536?). I am good at proving theorems, though, which is why I'm majoring in math (and EE, 'cause I'm better at that kind of stuff, but I do like math a lot...).
Thank you for your comment. Your name has now been entered into the database of potential terrorists. We all know that there are no athletes worth caring about that are non-americans. They are terrorists, and will be assimilated.
Well the non-English speakers are irritating. One private messages me in broken "english" for a gmail account (why me? what an ass... anyway).
I reply to him and tell him I don't know what he said. The reply?
"That's not my problem if you don't understand, I don't know how to speak english very well, I think so...=x bye ihihihihihihh see ya"
Not your problem if I don't understand? You're asking for me to give you a present and then you flame me for not understanding your poor attempt to speak my native language? That IS your problem!
Spam is annoying. Spam is trashy and "unethical". But it's not worth killing someone over.
Just get a new email address. I got a new one and don't get spam anymore (the gmail one above does get spam, though...)
Every time I post this, I get modded down (slashbots hate spam, I guess... I'm pretty indifferent myself), but I'll say it again. I actually think spam is a good way to motivate ISPs to upgrade themselves. If their mail servers die every few days because of the load spam inflicts, they upgrade their servers. That means new features (or more uptime) for you! Bandwidth is the same way... spam uses a lot of bandwidth so the Big ISPs have to upgrade their links. And they aren't doing the bare minimum (when you've dug up the cable, you're going to put more than you need down... digging is expensive, fibre is cheap), they're adding more bandwidth than they need. Which means that slashdot loads faster (or your movie downloads faster). That's a good thing.
Just don't give your email to anyone who asks, and you'll avoid spam. I hear putting numbers in your username helps against dictionary attacks (jrockway in in a dictionary, but jrockw2 isn't).
In closing, please have a drink of your choice and relax a bit. No need to get worked up over spam. And if a gmail invite would calm you down, I'll give you one:)
> That, and if your school really does have Network Nazis (TM) running the show, do you really think you're going to be able to move gigabytes of encrypted data without having your activities scrutinized, and even your machine looked over?
Yes. Their little protocol analyzers have trouble peering into SSH connections. So they don't get a little email saying that you're doing something illegal. And if they do get to your machine (which they can't; they're not the police), they're not going to have the encryption key that you used to encrypt your movies. Right?
Trust me, encryption takes the power away from the authorities and gives it back to the users. Whether that's a bad thing (which you obviously think), is irrelevant. Encryption is real, and it's powerful.
Forgot to turn my brain on before hitting submit... douitsu means "similar"... douji is "at the same time". More japanese than you wanted to learn today, I'll bet.
I don't see the characters anywhere, but the word I think of first (meaning "at the same time") is douitsu. A subtle difference, but maybe useful to know:) BTW if you want to write "Germany" in kanji, the word is dokkoku IIRC.
I disagree. I play UT2004 when I get pissed, and unloading a round of flak into a corpse and watching it bounce around makes me laugh. Watching Mario fall into a hole doesn't. So I think the violence does let me release a little bit of anger. It's fun, anyway.
Hey mods, this ain't flamebait. This is actually pretty true. Since it's at zero now, I'll mirror it in this comment. Thanks for the insight SpaceLifeForm, and I hope you get modded back up.
Comment:
"It's really amazing how well the administration is playing right into Al Qaeda plans. Really amazing. They want to destroy America, and now, via the administrations reactions (creation of DHS, etc, etc), their goal is being accomplished by the systematic distortion and destruction of the U.S. Constitution. There does not need to be any terrorist attack again, only the threat of such and the continuance of the current administration, which will continue on it's misguided way."
I just bought a DVD+-RW drive (some no-name brand), and some DVD+RWs. Those were 10 for $16.
What's interesting about the price is that it is 38 cents per gigabyte for DVD+RW. A 300G hard drive costs $270, which makes it $1.11 per gigabyte. Which means that the _removeable_ media is cheaper than hard drives. When was the last time that happened?
It really is better. It scores higher in benchmarks, it has more features. Windows loses yet again. Then again, there's obviously no DirectX 9 shit in the Linux drivers, but that's a feature, not a bug:)
Yes and all the other Linux users run Linux through their serial consoles. Oh, you mean you need a video card to run X?
I'm happy with my GF4MX440 because it runs both my monitors at high resolution (and the TwinView driver works great!). 3D support is ultra-fast too, by my standards anyway, but I only play UT2004 a little bit every week. Damn job eats up all my time...
Not "heh". It's not funny. He has a good point; you talk WAY too fucking much. Why don't you just shut up for a while and take your idiocy somewhere else.
Seriously, you're the only person on slashdot I know. I see "oh NanoGator" and know that I'm about to be pissed off by your posts. Why don't you do more thinking and less talking? Please, save us all.
i.e. "I didn't have PCI Express and the game worked fine." Thanks for that insight.
> 8...The sound engine is entirely CPU dependant. Therefore a crappy soundcard works flawlessly. Not to worry, the enfine only uses a small percentage of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard.
Yes. Processing something in the CPU is much faster than offloading it to something else for processing. "The graphics is entirely CPU dependant... it uses software rendering. Not to worry, the enfine only uses 150% of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard:-!"
Nice try. But I'll bet that using EAX would have been faster. Fine with me, though, considering that stuff doesn't work under Linux.
Nice review, but I think things that you're (not you the poster, you the actual person who wrote this that you copied from) passing off your thoughts as fact, which is bad journalism in my opinion.
It seems that most of my friends "know" Japanese from watching anime. They all talk like small girls, but oh well. It's funny to those who actually studied it (and Japanese people).
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Yup, with MacOS the monitor can only do 60Hz at 1152x864 (ouch), but in Linux it can do 1280x960 at 82Hz!! Thank you, modelines. Fuck you, autodetection.
This is a real example of how Linux works. You can take the easy out (autodetection) and get average results, or do something hard (write your own modeline) and get good results. Linux is usually "harder" but you get better results in the long run.
Speaking of modelines: http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
If both OS's die on you, I'll bet your hardware is bad. Run memtest86 or a similar tool and see if your memory is dying. If so, that's not the fault of the OS (although Linux can cope with it by using the BadRAM patch, you're shit out of luck with XP).
It's something like "try to support broken BIOSes". Yes, the grandparent's hardware is broken. My nforce2 was too (which doesn't make it all right, it just means that "broken" is pretty common these days... hey if it saves one tenth of a cent then it's ok right).
Fair enough. I didn't intend to generalize, but I guess I did. Anyway, I just wanted to share that mail with everyone, since I was just shocked that someone that wanted something from me was so impolite. I'll go now :)
Were they rewritable? No? Ohh.
YES. YOUR ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Sorry for the caps, but I cannot agree with you more.
I was never good at math competitions, but don't need to be because my calculator can do math better than any human (quick what's the 9th root of 65536?). I am good at proving theorems, though, which is why I'm majoring in math (and EE, 'cause I'm better at that kind of stuff, but I do like math a lot...).
Thank you for your comment. Your name has now been entered into the database of potential terrorists. We all know that there are no athletes worth caring about that are non-americans. They are terrorists, and will be assimilated.
Love,
Department of Homeland FUD^W Security
Well the non-English speakers are irritating. One private messages me in broken "english" for a gmail account (why me? what an ass... anyway).
I reply to him and tell him I don't know what he said. The reply?
"That's not my problem if you don't understand, I don't know how to speak english very well, I think so...=x bye ihihihihihihh see ya"
Not your problem if I don't understand? You're asking for me to give you a present and then you flame me for not understanding your poor attempt to speak my native language? That IS your problem!
Are you a two-year-old?
:)
Spam is annoying. Spam is trashy and "unethical". But it's not worth killing someone over.
Just get a new email address. I got a new one and don't get spam anymore (the gmail one above does get spam, though...)
Every time I post this, I get modded down (slashbots hate spam, I guess... I'm pretty indifferent myself), but I'll say it again. I actually think spam is a good way to motivate ISPs to upgrade themselves. If their mail servers die every few days because of the load spam inflicts, they upgrade their servers. That means new features (or more uptime) for you! Bandwidth is the same way... spam uses a lot of bandwidth so the Big ISPs have to upgrade their links. And they aren't doing the bare minimum (when you've dug up the cable, you're going to put more than you need down... digging is expensive, fibre is cheap), they're adding more bandwidth than they need. Which means that slashdot loads faster (or your movie downloads faster). That's a good thing.
Just don't give your email to anyone who asks, and you'll avoid spam. I hear putting numbers in your username helps against dictionary attacks (jrockway in in a dictionary, but jrockw2 isn't).
In closing, please have a drink of your choice and relax a bit. No need to get worked up over spam. And if a gmail invite would calm you down, I'll give you one
> That, and if your school really does have Network Nazis (TM) running the show, do you really think you're going to be able to move gigabytes of encrypted data without having your activities scrutinized, and even your machine looked over?
Yes. Their little protocol analyzers have trouble peering into SSH connections. So they don't get a little email saying that you're doing something illegal. And if they do get to your machine (which they can't; they're not the police), they're not going to have the encryption key that you used to encrypt your movies. Right?
Trust me, encryption takes the power away from the authorities and gives it back to the users. Whether that's a bad thing (which you obviously think), is irrelevant. Encryption is real, and it's powerful.
Forgot to turn my brain on before hitting submit... douitsu means "similar"... douji is "at the same time". More japanese than you wanted to learn today, I'll bet.
I don't see the characters anywhere, but the word I think of first (meaning "at the same time") is douitsu. A subtle difference, but maybe useful to know :) BTW if you want to write "Germany" in kanji, the word is dokkoku IIRC.
Bye.
I disagree. I play UT2004 when I get pissed, and unloading a round of flak into a corpse and watching it bounce around makes me laugh. Watching Mario fall into a hole doesn't. So I think the violence does let me release a little bit of anger. It's fun, anyway.
Pull the heatsink off your CPU and, after you get a new one, come back and tell me that chips don't go wrong :)
Hey mods, this ain't flamebait. This is actually pretty true. Since it's at zero now, I'll mirror it in this comment. Thanks for the insight SpaceLifeForm, and I hope you get modded back up.
Comment:
"It's really amazing how well the administration is playing right into Al Qaeda plans. Really amazing. They want to destroy America, and now, via the administrations reactions (creation of DHS, etc, etc), their goal is being accomplished by the systematic distortion and destruction of the U.S. Constitution. There does not need to be any terrorist attack again, only the threat of such and the continuance of the current administration, which will continue on it's misguided way."
Honestly, very well said. Thank you.
Except his exact words were "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski."
Oops.
I just bought a DVD+-RW drive (some no-name brand), and some DVD+RWs. Those were 10 for $16.
What's interesting about the price is that it is 38 cents per gigabyte for DVD+RW. A 300G hard drive costs $270, which makes it $1.11 per gigabyte. Which means that the _removeable_ media is cheaper than hard drives. When was the last time that happened?
You got modded down, but I have to say that that was very funny. Almost fux0r3d my keyboard with coffee...
It really is better. It scores higher in benchmarks, it has more features. Windows loses yet again. Then again, there's obviously no DirectX 9 shit in the Linux drivers, but that's a feature, not a bug :)
Yes and all the other Linux users run Linux through their serial consoles. Oh, you mean you need a video card to run X?
I'm happy with my GF4MX440 because it runs both my monitors at high resolution (and the TwinView driver works great!). 3D support is ultra-fast too, by my standards anyway, but I only play UT2004 a little bit every week. Damn job eats up all my time...
Ya know there are 52 weeks in a year, right?
Some months are more than 28 days...
Not "heh". It's not funny. He has a good point; you talk WAY too fucking much. Why don't you just shut up for a while and take your idiocy somewhere else.
Seriously, you're the only person on slashdot I know. I see "oh NanoGator" and know that I'm about to be pissed off by your posts. Why don't you do more thinking and less talking? Please, save us all.
These people always write dumb-sounding articles:
:-!"
> 3. PCI Express enhances NOTHING.
i.e. "I didn't have PCI Express and the game worked fine." Thanks for that insight.
> 8...The sound engine is entirely CPU dependant. Therefore a crappy soundcard works flawlessly. Not to worry, the enfine only uses a small percentage of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard.
Yes. Processing something in the CPU is much faster than offloading it to something else for processing. "The graphics is entirely CPU dependant... it uses software rendering. Not to worry, the enfine only uses 150% of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard
Nice try. But I'll bet that using EAX would have been faster. Fine with me, though, considering that stuff doesn't work under Linux.
Nice review, but I think things that you're (not you the poster, you the actual person who wrote this that you copied from) passing off your thoughts as fact, which is bad journalism in my opinion.
They're probably not illegal in those countries. They'd be like "unlicesnsed" anime -- if there's nobody in the country to sue you, it's not illegal.
It seems that most of my friends "know" Japanese from watching anime. They all talk like small girls, but oh well. It's funny to those who actually studied it (and Japanese people).