Since I just got a IDE burner, I finally realized that by default Linux does not take full advantage of the hardware. Here's what I did to fix that, and can now actually use my computer while dumping large amounts of data from the hard drive:
first, boot the linux kernel with the IDE-Bus set to 66 (set the idebus=66 option), if your motherboard and drive controller supports it.
ATA/66, Non-CD, has DMA support: /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X66 -c1 -u1/dev/hda
Older drives, not ATA/66, but with DMA support: /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 -c1 -u1/dev/hda
The burner doesn't support DMA: /sbin/hdparm -d0 -c1 -u1/dev/hdc
And how many non-technical people do you know who did their own windoze install? Who are the ones who totally hose their systems due to lack of understanding then call you to come fix it for them?
Right.
Give easy to use apps in an already set-up environment, and people will be productive. I've been using Pronto mail, but the development on it has been slow lately and there are some very annoying bugs, so I may give evolution a try.
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If namespace limits are a concern, then fix the registration policies in the US. In Au, a clever fellow called Robery Elz banned the registration of generic words, and limited the amount of domains a single company could use. This would go some way towards solving the problem.
Limited them? The limit should be ONE!. Why does ANY company need more than one domain (other than parent and holding companies)????
That is why DNS is tiered, dammit. If I am foo.com, then I might have east.foo.com, west.foo.com, and then things like mail.east.foo.com, mail.west.foo.com (geography) or perhaps firstfloor.printers.foo.com, secondfloor.printers.foo.com (by device type in a small company) etc. And internally they can use a fake domain if they really want to. That's what I do here at home.
Remember, The Artist (prince), did exactly that. He created his own recording company, paisley park. But for awhile, he could not release anything because of the contract he was under with WB. Thus the 'slave' tattoo on his face.
It can be done. Most musicians simply don't have the skill or desire to do it.
That said, why do they need to make millions from record sales anyway. The RIAA gets most of that, and the artist gets pretty much nothing. I would think that for a popular band, the real money is in live performances (look at Madonna's tours). Then again...how do they get popular without a body like the RIAA? Simple....get rid of the RIAA and let musicians function as every other business does, if what they really want is money. Best musicians win. And P2P is how these guys can promote their stuff. Just like I can try software on freshmeat and decide if it's good for me, the same can be done with music. And then the good ones will definitely make a living from live performances. Playing bars, clubs, whatever it takes. That's life. If music is your living, then run it that way. I guess dreams of being millionaires gets in the way of that though, huh? And then they get screwed...
Be warned that this is VERY SIMPLE. You CAN hurt yourself if there is, something bad in the stuff you are spell checking (although unless there is a " before it, you are probably safe).
I've actually implemented that in a system I wrote at work. I'd be happy to release the code...
What it does is if you hit 'spellcheck', each misspelled word becomes a drop down list of the suggestions. You then pick the proper spelling at each of these (or leave them alone if they are already right) and when you submit, all replacements are made. It's really very slick.
The drawback with the way I wrote it at the moment is the fork to ispell though. I think there is a perl module for ispell which would work better, I just didn't have the time to research it.
If anybody can make cool games on a handheld, it is future crew. I still remember my amazement at 'Unreal' on a 486-33 with an 8 bit soundblaster pro. Around the same time 'Ultima Underworld' came out, and also Wolf-3D. Those were the days. Fast, tight code. *sigh*
On another note, I think I remember seeing josh jenson's name on some linux stuff somewhere. Remember him? Did all that awesome sound mixing code for the Renaissance Demo Team, also wrote his own game, Zone-66. All while in high school! Much of that sound code was used in many games of the era IIRC.
Ok, so I don't keep up with hardware. At all. I just buy a new machine every few years if there's a game I just have to play:) This time around it was quake 3, and I ended up with a lovely abit KT7 and an Athlon 900 T-bird.
So...
Does the XP chip require a new m/b or will it work in what I have?
Flame away, I don't care, I have better things to do than monitor every change in the PC world.
Ever take a look at that mess that is the windoze registry?/etc is great. You know where every program's config is, it's text, it's commented, you can reconfigure things through something as simple as a telnet session or as complex as a web interface. You actually prefer the windoze crap to that? Some people really are masochists, I guess.
But only with multiple screens, or a good projector (which doesn't yet exist).
It would be great if instead of having to flip between virtual desktops in windowmaker if I could have, say, 3...one on the monitor in front of me, and one on each side. The side monitors would be touchscreens, and upon touching one of the open things, it would move over to my 'front' desktop. That would be very cool and useful, as I could monitor EVERYTHING without having to have it all on my front screen.
I just took a look at the ION desktop quoted in the article. That does look really cool. But having the desktop space hardwired seems kind of dumb.
Why not combine multi-function windows with the current free-floating "paradigm?" Best of both worlds. I could make this window contain this program, that program, and the other one, and this other window be this thing, and this other window be thing 3 and thing 4.
Is this not obvious to anybody else who looked at the ion screen shots?
If you'd use a scripting language that allows system-independent calls, shit like this would be avoided. Instead of shelling out to another command (rm in this case) You would call "unlink" with the PROPER parameters in the first place!
Just so long as they stay the fuck out of the woods with it. It's bad enough we are losing incredible trail systems in the state gamelands here in pennsylvania. Paint splaterrings on trees, rocks, vegetation = bad. Torn up trails due to this thing = much worse. Neither is welcome. Now if only we could ban horses. *sigh*.
In addition to what my palm pilot already does, would simply have:
80x40 high resolution display in the same area as my current palm (I use mine frequently to telnet to another box to do things like read usenet while lounging around on the couch)
Wireless ethernet (goes hand-in-hand with bullet #1).
Voice navigation so I can browse the memo I wrote directions into while driving.
Programming manuals and compilers for popular platforms included with the pilot.
All that other crap this guy mentions pretty much defeats the purpose of what a handheld is.
For what he wants, he'd be better off with a toshiba libretto.
Preview mode is broken. Ugh. Why can't these guys stop breaking the production system?
This hassle is invisible to the Linux developers cuz they know how to fix or work around glitches when they arise. So it seems "easy to use" for them.
Try it on grandma. then report back.
Grandma doesn't fix or work around glitches anyway. She calls you. So wouldn't it be best to give her a system that you can quickly and easily fix...even remotely via SSH (assuming the link between her and her ISP isn't what is broken) In addition, grandma can't accidentally fuck up system stuff on her linux box like she can windoze9X.
I often think that this excuse really is more like "we can't get naive users to use it without being crippled". Linux distros need to test their software on non-Unix people more. Humans. Typical office people who, if you ask them if they have a Mac or a Windows box, say, "Yeah, I think so".
Funny how these people used to be quite proficient with things like word perfect for dos and quattro pro for dos. If they were forced to go back to that, they would use it. It is their job, after all. They are capable, but everyone gives them the pointy-clicky thing that they can use, but never really understand. It used to be that people actually understood the tools they used to get their work done, since they actually *HAD* to read manuals on using that tool. Nowadays they are just amusing toys that actually get in the way more than help.
The hassles you speak of are imaginary. If people knew their tools, no matter what those tools may be, there is no hassle. The problem these days is you have people using tools that they certainly do not understand, and there is no incentive for them to do so.
GNOME's switch to Nautilus is even more retarded. While GMC wasn't the greatest file manager in the world, it certainly kicked Nautilus's ass in terms of speed and stability. Starting GNOME with Nautilus adds at LEAST 10+ seconds to the splash screen. Is it really that difficult to write a file manager that shows desktop icons without it being slow? Microsoft seems to have done a good job with Windows 9x.
Yeah, really. OS/2's WPS is STILL far more advanced in the way all GUI (OOI) objects interact...and they did this in 1994, on 486's with *ONLY 4 MEGABYTES* of memory!!!
Now...back to the subject of nice environments in X11. Here's what you do:
Pick a nice windowmanager (Windowmaker, XFCE, Blackbox, Sawfish, ICEWM, whatever)
Use ROX-Filer as a file manager and also to display desktop icons (pinboard) and taskbars (if you like those dumb things)
Is see the flaws in the current 'underground' sharing systems, and offer a better solution, charging appropriately.
For example, if RIAA would provide high-bandwidth, high-availability servers with fully indexed music with fast searching and guaranteed bitrate quality (192-256 perhaps?), I'm sure people would pay a reasonable price per download.
Of course, they would have to actually invest some money and effort to to this, and not be raping the artists to fill their pockets anymore. Oh the horror.
So how does the EU figure that a site can maintain session data without the use of cookies? Most people come from behind proxies or firewalls, making it necessary to store data on their own computers in order to maintain state. There's really no other way to do it.
I guess they don't want people actually doing useful things like online banking and such with the web, huh? You really can't do any type of semi-complex form-driven web database without using cookies.
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So use IPSec. That's what it's for. And IPV6 has IPSec built in, whenever it starts becoming mainstream.
first, boot the linux kernel with the IDE-Bus set to 66 (set the idebus=66 option), if your motherboard and drive controller supports it.
ATA/66, Non-CD, has DMA support:
/sbin/hdparm -d1 -X66 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda
Older drives, not ATA/66, but with DMA support:
/sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda
The burner doesn't support DMA:
/sbin/hdparm -d0 -c1 -u1 /dev/hdc
man hdparm for more info.
http://www.muhri.net/pronto
I recommend using MySQL as a backend for speed. The CSV stuff is slow when you have a lot of messages.
Right.
Give easy to use apps in an already set-up environment, and people will be productive. I've been using Pronto mail, but the development on it has been slow lately and there are some very annoying bugs, so I may give evolution a try.
Limited them? The limit should be ONE!. Why does ANY company need more than one domain (other than parent and holding companies)????
That is why DNS is tiered, dammit. If I am foo.com, then I might have east.foo.com, west.foo.com, and then things like mail.east.foo.com, mail.west.foo.com (geography) or perhaps firstfloor.printers.foo.com, secondfloor.printers.foo.com (by device type in a small company) etc. And internally they can use a fake domain if they really want to. That's what I do here at home.
Damned clueless bastards.
It is if you pay them enough
It can be done. Most musicians simply don't have the skill or desire to do it.
That said, why do they need to make millions from record sales anyway. The RIAA gets most of that, and the artist gets pretty much nothing. I would think that for a popular band, the real money is in live performances (look at Madonna's tours). Then again...how do they get popular without a body like the RIAA? Simple....get rid of the RIAA and let musicians function as every other business does, if what they really want is money. Best musicians win. And P2P is how these guys can promote their stuff. Just like I can try software on freshmeat and decide if it's good for me, the same can be done with music. And then the good ones will definitely make a living from live performances. Playing bars, clubs, whatever it takes. That's life. If music is your living, then run it that way. I guess dreams of being millionaires gets in the way of that though, huh? And then they get screwed...
http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/
Be warned that this is VERY SIMPLE. You CAN hurt yourself if there is, something bad in the stuff you are spell checking (although unless there is a " before it, you are probably safe).
What it does is if you hit 'spellcheck', each misspelled word becomes a drop down list of the suggestions. You then pick the proper spelling at each of these (or leave them alone if they are already right) and when you submit, all replacements are made. It's really very slick.
The drawback with the way I wrote it at the moment is the fork to ispell though. I think there is a perl module for ispell which would work better, I just didn't have the time to research it.
If anybody can make cool games on a handheld, it is future crew. I still remember my amazement at 'Unreal' on a 486-33 with an 8 bit soundblaster pro. Around the same time 'Ultima Underworld' came out, and also Wolf-3D. Those were the days. Fast, tight code. *sigh*
On another note, I think I remember seeing josh jenson's name on some linux stuff somewhere. Remember him? Did all that awesome sound mixing code for the Renaissance Demo Team, also wrote his own game, Zone-66. All while in high school! Much of that sound code was used in many games of the era IIRC.
Mine are from teh exact same address. Is this an AOL proxy used by AOL users, or can I safely firewall that address to deny access?
I get those all the time too. It is originating from AOL. WTF is this?
So...
Does the XP chip require a new m/b or will it work in what I have?
Flame away, I don't care, I have better things to do than monitor every change in the PC world.
Ever take a look at that mess that is the windoze registry? /etc is great. You know where every program's config is, it's text, it's commented, you can reconfigure things through something as simple as a telnet session or as complex as a web interface. You actually prefer the windoze crap to that? Some people really are masochists, I guess.
But only with multiple screens, or a good projector (which doesn't yet exist).
It would be great if instead of having to flip between virtual desktops in windowmaker if I could have, say, 3...one on the monitor in front of me, and one on each side. The side monitors would be touchscreens, and upon touching one of the open things, it would move over to my 'front' desktop. That would be very cool and useful, as I could monitor EVERYTHING without having to have it all on my front screen.
For a desktop that merges commands with gui for file operations very nicely, take a look at Rox Filer
Why not combine multi-function windows with the current free-floating "paradigm?" Best of both worlds. I could make this window contain this program, that program, and the other one, and this other window be this thing, and this other window be thing 3 and thing 4.
Is this not obvious to anybody else who looked at the ion screen shots?
Oh well.
Just so long as they stay the fuck out of the woods with it. It's bad enough we are losing incredible trail systems in the state gamelands here in pennsylvania. Paint splaterrings on trees, rocks, vegetation = bad. Torn up trails due to this thing = much worse. Neither is welcome. Now if only we could ban horses. *sigh*.
All that other crap this guy mentions pretty much defeats the purpose of what a handheld is.
For what he wants, he'd be better off with a toshiba libretto.
Preview mode is broken. Ugh. Why can't these guys stop breaking the production system?
Grandma doesn't fix or work around glitches anyway. She calls you. So wouldn't it be best to give her a system that you can quickly and easily fix...even remotely via SSH (assuming the link between her and her ISP isn't what is broken) In addition, grandma can't accidentally fuck up system stuff on her linux box like she can windoze9X.
Funny how these people used to be quite proficient with things like word perfect for dos and quattro pro for dos. If they were forced to go back to that, they would use it. It is their job, after all. They are capable, but everyone gives them the pointy-clicky thing that they can use, but never really understand. It used to be that people actually understood the tools they used to get their work done, since they actually *HAD* to read manuals on using that tool. Nowadays they are just amusing toys that actually get in the way more than help.
The hassles you speak of are imaginary. If people knew their tools, no matter what those tools may be, there is no hassle. The problem these days is you have people using tools that they certainly do not understand, and there is no incentive for them to do so.
Now...back to the subject of nice environments in X11. Here's what you do:
Is see the flaws in the current 'underground' sharing systems, and offer a better solution, charging appropriately.
For example, if RIAA would provide high-bandwidth, high-availability servers with fully indexed music with fast searching and guaranteed bitrate quality (192-256 perhaps?), I'm sure people would pay a reasonable price per download.
Of course, they would have to actually invest some money and effort to to this, and not be raping the artists to fill their pockets anymore. Oh the horror.
So how does the EU figure that a site can maintain session data without the use of cookies? Most people come from behind proxies or firewalls, making it necessary to store data on their own computers in order to maintain state. There's really no other way to do it.
I guess they don't want people actually doing useful things like online banking and such with the web, huh? You really can't do any type of semi-complex form-driven web database without using cookies.