Good... the more we can get people to stop settling for sub par crap the higher quality baseline will become. Bravo to your friends. Quality to me is just a better way of providing suspenstion of disbelief. The more it feels like you are really there the more enjoyable it becomes.
FVWM, TWM, Blackbox, ICEWm etc. are on a different playing field than KDE and Gnome. In KDE and Gnome's playing fiel they are all that's there. Consolidate (sp?) them into one and suddenly there's no options for what they do.
I want to use a desktop environment, not a window manager. Gnome and KDE approach things from different angles as well. Trying to mix them together would be a disaster. KDE prefers a more traditional modular "bunch of small tools that can be put together in any number of ways" approach and gnome seems to prefer an unorganized mix of a bunch of large all-encompasing applications with more of an emphasis on pretty gfx than on good code. Personally I don't want Gnome's development style mixed in with KDE at all.
Why don't every single X window manager take all their best features and create the ultimate X window manager? I just don't get it.. I mean I use linux 'cause I like the crapload of choice.. I got my choice of what.. 3 or 4 X servers, at least 3 compilers, at least 3 desktop environments, an ungodly amount of window managers, a gazillion different tools for the command line... I can just keep going and going. Do I want to store my user info in/etc/passwd,/etc/shadow, a mysql or postgresql database? I can do any of those.. I don't like sysvinit... I think I'll use another.. hell lets redo the boot scripts too and create a whole new boot system.. choice choice choice... and off in the background, like I said, all I can hear from people like you is "conform... conform... conform.." It's like a big ass thorn in my side.
Also I'm not sure how the developers for KDE or Gnome feel but if it was my project the users can bitch and complain about my ego until they turn blue in the face.. it's my project that I'd most likely be making for my enjoyment. If they wanna use it that's fine but I won't be taking orders. It's probably not like that tho... somnehow these authors of large non-profit free time consuming projects somehow get the mindset that they must please the cheap users who feel they should get everything and give nothing.
You simply don't seem to get it... the problem is related to timing of the sequential reads.. not the reads themselves. I also know that it's a problem of no significant speed gains in RAID 0 with SOME controllers. Anyways I don't have the time or inclination to explain to you that this is not an all encompasing problem with that drive. All I got to say is 4 40GB Barracuda IV's + Adaptec 2400A + RAID 0 == 90-110MB/sec read and only slightly slower writes. Take some time to think about how RAID 0 works and how IDE works and how disk drives in general work.. just think about it for a bit maybe you'll get it.
Umm.. Composite IS RCA. RCA is the type of cable.. the type used with most analog stereo equipment and on composite video. So that's got me wondering... you were talking about two different things. Which one was REALLY composite and which type of connection are you completely getting wrong? Perhaps S-Video? Maybe coaxial... anyways I'd like to know.
Evidently, when the drive is used in some RAID 0 environments, it can supply data to the interface faster than the host system can request it. Under some circumstances, such as reading sequential data, this can cause the drive to incur a latency. (Emphasis mine)
Please be more thorough when posting FUD. You are correct in that chances are if you use these drives with your $35 Promise (which never have been known for their stellar raid performance) fastrack software based controller slowness will happen. However this is not a set in stone problem for all possible RAID configurations under the sun. In fact iirc Adaptec use to offer a deal with their 2400A IDE RAID5 controller a few months ago. Buy the controller get some discounted Barracuda IV drives. In fact those drives work great with that controller... I should know, I use that combination. Few things in life annoy me as much as FUD with no thought behind it...
Do your research. Almost all problems with nvidias drivers involving crashes and freezes have been experienced before, and many have been solved. If you're having so many problems you're simply not trying hard enough.
Oh ya.. I almost forgot. Check out the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 880, 250, and 350 models. Also sigma designs have a REALMagic DVR which is semi consumer level (price tag is a wee bit on the steep side.) All of these do full hardware mpeg2 encode. However the hauppauge cards have crap for software/IR remote.
Reread anandtech's review... it has hardware ASSISTED encode and decode. The assisted encode shaves off at best 25% of the typical CPU power required to encode. ATI has been rather good at convincing people their AIW's do hardware mpeg. I've seen people claim the 8500 and 7500 do hardware mpeg encode/decode as well. This simply is not the case.
This appears to have a wider range of protection than a simple alias. Any method used to delete a file is caught and converted to use a trash can. This way if a program or script deletes the file it is still retrievable.
The MX series are new. The feature higher resolution and include the base station. A Wireless Optical MX series mouse can now compete with a wired mouse in terms of resolution whereas they couldn't before. And iirc, this is the first wireless optical mouse logitech has made with a base station.
So what about the age old trick of lifting the mouse off the desk, moving it over, and putting it back down again when you run out of room? I dunno how I'd work without that "feature."
The article has a link to the story, and in that link it is shown that this is a premium made logitech mouse... it amazes me how posts like yours get modded up so easily...
Are you going to carry your mouse around in your wallet too? Your argument makes very little sense. I don't see why you'd move the mouse away from the PC and the mouse has a base station that will be sitting right next to the PC. When you're not using the PC you plug the mouse into the base station. Even the cream of the crop of idiots could get by without ever running down the batteries.
Now the real efforts begin on finding ways to consolidate the two into one.
No no no no no no NOO!! For the love of god where do you anti-choice people come from? I can almost hear you chanting here... "conform.... conform... conform..." You're the kind of annoying prick that loves the idea of school uniforms 'cause god forbid ppl have a choice. Please just pick one environment, use it, and pretend there is no choice and stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us who like having OPTIONS.
With digital cable all channels are sent simultaneously. Such is the wonder of storing digital data in an analog carrier wave... damn near unlimited bandwidth if you do it right. Even if only the channel you were viewing was the only one being sent to you... what about everyone else on your node? Chances are they are watching something else, and the way cable works all those channels get broadcast over the same pipe. Or hell... just two or three different recievers in the same house. A good cable line could easily hit 300MB.
A full movie often fits on 2 CDs, and damned if I can tell the difference from DVD.
I'm willing to bet you're the kind of guy who likes to distribute mp3's in 112kbps 'cause you can't hear the difference on your $2 headphones. If you can't tell the difference between a SVCD and a DVD you should either need to have your eyes examined or get rid of the old ass b&w TV. The difference in resolution is significant enough as it is to give a vast improovement... not to mention higher bitrate and more colors... That's like claiming to not be able to see the difference between a 1080i HDTV image and a standard NTSC signal.
Do games suddenly suck because they're a year old?
Where did you get this from? Do new games suck simply because they are new? Serioualy that was just an extremely stupid thing to say... no one said the old games suck... they just like the new ones as well.
I didn't buy and thoroughly enjoy Morrowind because it's new and requires a hefty system to play it nicely. I bought Morrowind 'cause it's a damn fine game that is a lot of fun to play. And when/if a sequal comes out that needs an even better system to play and is just as much if not more fun comes out it will not mean morrowind suddenly sucks. It means I've already beaten morrowind and might come back from time to time to play it for old times sake. I'll have something new to play as well.
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I use --force all the time... RPM doesn't seem to like portage... strange that.
And then we have djbdns... not a single vulnerability yet.
Good... the more we can get people to stop settling for sub par crap the higher quality baseline will become. Bravo to your friends. Quality to me is just a better way of providing suspenstion of disbelief. The more it feels like you are really there the more enjoyable it becomes.
FVWM, TWM, Blackbox, ICEWm etc. are on a different playing field than KDE and Gnome. In KDE and Gnome's playing fiel they are all that's there. Consolidate (sp?) them into one and suddenly there's no options for what they do.
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, a mysql or postgresql database? I can do any of those.. I don't like sysvinit... I think I'll use another .. hell lets redo the boot scripts too and create a whole new boot system.. choice choice choice... and off in the background, like I said, all I can hear from people like you is "conform... conform... conform.." It's like a big ass thorn in my side.
I want to use a desktop environment, not a window manager. Gnome and KDE approach things from different angles as well. Trying to mix them together would be a disaster. KDE prefers a more traditional modular "bunch of small tools that can be put together in any number of ways" approach and gnome seems to prefer an unorganized mix of a bunch of large all-encompasing applications with more of an emphasis on pretty gfx than on good code. Personally I don't want Gnome's development style mixed in with KDE at all.
Why don't every single X window manager take all their best features and create the ultimate X window manager? I just don't get it.. I mean I use linux 'cause I like the crapload of choice.. I got my choice of what.. 3 or 4 X servers, at least 3 compilers, at least 3 desktop environments, an ungodly amount of window managers, a gazillion different tools for the command line... I can just keep going and going. Do I want to store my user info in
Also I'm not sure how the developers for KDE or Gnome feel but if it was my project the users can bitch and complain about my ego until they turn blue in the face.. it's my project that I'd most likely be making for my enjoyment. If they wanna use it that's fine but I won't be taking orders. It's probably not like that tho... somnehow these authors of large non-profit free time consuming projects somehow get the mindset that they must please the cheap users who feel they should get everything and give nothing.
You simply don't seem to get it... the problem is related to timing of the sequential reads.. not the reads themselves. I also know that it's a problem of no significant speed gains in RAID 0 with SOME controllers. Anyways I don't have the time or inclination to explain to you that this is not an all encompasing problem with that drive. All I got to say is 4 40GB Barracuda IV's + Adaptec 2400A + RAID 0 == 90-110MB/sec read and only slightly slower writes. Take some time to think about how RAID 0 works and how IDE works and how disk drives in general work.. just think about it for a bit maybe you'll get it.
Umm.. Composite IS RCA. RCA is the type of cable.. the type used with most analog stereo equipment and on composite video. So that's got me wondering... you were talking about two different things. Which one was REALLY composite and which type of connection are you completely getting wrong? Perhaps S-Video? Maybe coaxial... anyways I'd like to know.
Evidently, when the drive is used in some RAID 0 environments, it can supply data to the interface faster than the host system can request it. Under some circumstances, such as reading sequential data, this can cause the drive to incur a latency. (Emphasis mine)
Please be more thorough when posting FUD. You are correct in that chances are if you use these drives with your $35 Promise (which never have been known for their stellar raid performance) fastrack software based controller slowness will happen. However this is not a set in stone problem for all possible RAID configurations under the sun. In fact iirc Adaptec use to offer a deal with their 2400A IDE RAID5 controller a few months ago. Buy the controller get some discounted Barracuda IV drives. In fact those drives work great with that controller... I should know, I use that combination. Few things in life annoy me as much as FUD with no thought behind it...
Good for you... any particular reason you feel the same needs to be applied to everyone and their individual use of their disk?
I honestly don't know what to do.
Do your research. Almost all problems with nvidias drivers involving crashes and freezes have been experienced before, and many have been solved. If you're having so many problems you're simply not trying hard enough.
Oh ya.. I almost forgot. Check out the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 880, 250, and 350 models. Also sigma designs have a REALMagic DVR which is semi consumer level (price tag is a wee bit on the steep side.) All of these do full hardware mpeg2 encode. However the hauppauge cards have crap for software/IR remote.
Reread anandtech's review... it has hardware ASSISTED encode and decode. The assisted encode shaves off at best 25% of the typical CPU power required to encode. ATI has been rather good at convincing people their AIW's do hardware mpeg. I've seen people claim the 8500 and 7500 do hardware mpeg encode/decode as well. This simply is not the case.
This appears to have a wider range of protection than a simple alias. Any method used to delete a file is caught and converted to use a trash can. This way if a program or script deletes the file it is still retrievable.
What's wrong with doing both?
The MX series are new. The feature higher resolution and include the base station. A Wireless Optical MX series mouse can now compete with a wired mouse in terms of resolution whereas they couldn't before. And iirc, this is the first wireless optical mouse logitech has made with a base station.
So what about the age old trick of lifting the mouse off the desk, moving it over, and putting it back down again when you run out of room? I dunno how I'd work without that "feature."
The article has a link to the story, and in that link it is shown that this is a premium made logitech mouse... it amazes me how posts like yours get modded up so easily...
Are you going to carry your mouse around in your wallet too? Your argument makes very little sense. I don't see why you'd move the mouse away from the PC and the mouse has a base station that will be sitting right next to the PC. When you're not using the PC you plug the mouse into the base station. Even the cream of the crop of idiots could get by without ever running down the batteries.
Hmm.. I decided to reply instead of mod you down, but the media side IS the data side in this context.
Now the real efforts begin on finding ways to consolidate the two into one.
No no no no no no NOO!! For the love of god where do you anti-choice people come from? I can almost hear you chanting here... "conform.... conform... conform..." You're the kind of annoying prick that loves the idea of school uniforms 'cause god forbid ppl have a choice. Please just pick one environment, use it, and pretend there is no choice and stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us who like having OPTIONS.
With digital cable all channels are sent simultaneously. Such is the wonder of storing digital data in an analog carrier wave... damn near unlimited bandwidth if you do it right. Even if only the channel you were viewing was the only one being sent to you... what about everyone else on your node? Chances are they are watching something else, and the way cable works all those channels get broadcast over the same pipe. Or hell... just two or three different recievers in the same house. A good cable line could easily hit 300MB.
A full movie often fits on 2 CDs, and damned if I can tell the difference from DVD.
I'm willing to bet you're the kind of guy who likes to distribute mp3's in 112kbps 'cause you can't hear the difference on your $2 headphones. If you can't tell the difference between a SVCD and a DVD you should either need to have your eyes examined or get rid of the old ass b&w TV. The difference in resolution is significant enough as it is to give a vast improovement... not to mention higher bitrate and more colors... That's like claiming to not be able to see the difference between a 1080i HDTV image and a standard NTSC signal.
Honestly people, what sort of harm are you actually going to come to by having to wait to watch a movie until you receive it?
Who said anything about harm? What's wrong with just wanting it quicker?
And some of us invite friends over to watch TV and go to the movies...
I can see better sound and picture being good while you watch movies but most people just watch shows and where are the benefit there?
So umm... why would I not want better looking shows as well? I'm still upset BtVS was created before it made sense to film it in HDTV format...
Do games suddenly suck because they're a year old?
Where did you get this from? Do new games suck simply because they are new? Serioualy that was just an extremely stupid thing to say... no one said the old games suck... they just like the new ones as well.
I didn't buy and thoroughly enjoy Morrowind because it's new and requires a hefty system to play it nicely. I bought Morrowind 'cause it's a damn fine game that is a lot of fun to play. And when/if a sequal comes out that needs an even better system to play and is just as much if not more fun comes out it will not mean morrowind suddenly sucks. It means I've already beaten morrowind and might come back from time to time to play it for old times sake. I'll have something new to play as well.