I've got 11 machines from Dell (10 Optiplexes, 1 PowerEdge Server) that came preloaded with RedHat 6.2 That I've had for 3 months. This IS a non-story.
I don't know for sure if you need an HDTV(-ready) for this, or if there are 'normal' TV's with Component Video in.
There are many standard resolution TV's with Component input.
Progressive Scan is what they call 'line doubling'
No it's not. Progressive scan is the original format of a DVD, also called 480P (480 lines of resolution).
Svideo output runs at 480i (480 lines of resolution, interlaced) which only paints half of the lines in one pass of the electron gun. This makes a noticable flicker. Regular DVD players have to include the circuitry to step the output down to this format.
The Dulux website does not mention DTS audio, which is (correct me if I'm wrong) DVD disks with audio on it. The audio is much higher quality and I think it's also possible to have true surround effects
Nope. DTS is just an audio format competing with Dolby Digital. Personally, I think it is a better format, but it does require a more expensive decoder. The DVD-AUDIO format is a audio-onlu standard which is supposed to give much more lif-like reproduction of sound. It has even been rumored to satisfy people who are die-hard vinyl fanatics. However, I haven't actually heard it in person, so that's all second hand.
Actually, one of Bleem!'s selling points is that you can play "back-ups" of any playstation game, because Sony's copy protection scheme was not implemented.
That is why Sony is trying to get rid of it...remember, they lose money on every console they sell, they only make money through licensing. If everyone used Bleem! to play copied discs, they would be hurt.
I don't see why anyone would want to use Linux for Solaris.
Scale and fault-tolerance. Solaris can scale from a 4 year old, single-CPU Ultra-1 to a 64-CPU E-10k. Also, with the E3000+ machines, Dynamic Reconfiguration allows for hot-swapable drives, CPU boards and memory. I don't really see Linux making those kind of strides in the next few years.
This is because I in general find Linux much more pleasing to work with. The gnu utilities are in general, far superior. KDE/Gnome
beats the crap of CDE any day of the week. The ability of Linux to work in a heterogenous environment (i.e., so easily work with
smb shares, nfs, etc.) is great.
I'm writing this on a Solaris 8 machine running Helix Gnome on one monitor and KDE on the other. I have all of the GNU tools I need to use installed, and I'm running Samba....so your argument on lack of applications is groundless. Yes, CDE and Suns compilers suck....so don't use them.
I find Solaris, while not unpleasant to use, definitely not as pleasing on a day to day basis. I am also amazed at how poorly it
performs sometimes. I know Solaris is supposed to perform well, and I just don't understand it. I do operations on fairly fast
hardware, such as removing many files, etc., that I _know_ my little linux box could do faster. I don't administer the Solaris boxen
though, so it could be our sysadmin just doesn't know how to set them up efficiently? I don't know.
Some Sun hardware, (the E3000-E6000 especially) is not designed to run at blazingly fast speeds, but to keep running at repectable sppeds under extreme load. I have a E3500 with 40,000 users which seems to run everything at the same speed if there is 1 user or several hundred logged on at the same time. Linux machines (although, it could be the intel arch.) tend to run very fast with a few users, but lose processing power as load is applied.
I really don't see Sun or Solaris going anywhere for a long time. Current Intel-based machines do not scale and are at nowhere near the level of fault tolerance that is required for most large applications, and Beowulf-type clustering is not satisfactory for many applications.
Hollywood has not spent a dime, for example, to research the intriguing question, do film and digital create different brain states? Some theoreticians believe that film creates reverie, video creates hypnosis;
If Ebert had taken the time to read some of these studies, he would have found that the difference in brain-wave patterns is caused by the effect of light on the retininas: Monitors (and TV) are back-lit while film is projected. This creates two very different mental pictures, TV seem brighter and more active, which causes the brain to switch to a more passive mode; while film is softer and more subtle, making the brain become more active.
On the technical side, yeah this is cool, but why does anyone want an iMac? Because of the interesting case. This guy has just put a computer into the same old beige case...Been there, done that
A figure-8 shaped collection of pavilions, one set, which were to promote "universal brotherhood" by showcasing different countries and their cultures, was centered around a man-made lake. The other set was meant to showcase the newest technology and were each sponsered by a different company -- these were centered around a huge Geodesic ball.
Sound Familiar? Well it's not EPCOT. That is a decription of the 1938 World's Fair.
It actually is a file-browser for IRIX. I remember seeing a link for it on/. a couple of months ago in comment connected to a story about mapping the Internet.
always thought movie format had an aspect ration of something like 1.8:1, not the 1.56:1
1.8:1 is "anamorphic" widescreen. It's used by all of the newer, big budget movies (Titanic, Episode 1, etc.)
1.56:1 is "letterbox" widescreen. That is the aspect ratio that has been in use by hollywood since the mid 50's, when they needed some kind of "hook" to differentiate themselves from TV.
If it looks no different, it'll create the impression that it acts no different. And those new users will wonder what all the fuss is about, since much Linux functionality will be "hidden" behind the Windows-like UI.
But if it gives them a familiar look during the install and then a choice of WM's at the X-login screen, they get the best of both worlds -- familiarity and the ability to use the different UI's like Enlightenment. Just because you install the system with a KDE-like interface doesn't mean that KDE will be the only UI on the machine.
The problem most of the people I know have had with the install is hassles with partitions, if Caldera could integrate this UI with a data-saving partition program (partition magic, etc) I think it would greatly increase the number of Linux users out there.
Unlike other Unix players such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Sun, in Palo Alto, Calif., has unveiled no plans to support Linux on its hardware.
Untrue. Sun has decided not to ship linux with it's hardware, but is supporting linux on Sparc and UltraSparc. Check out: http://www.sun.com/software/linux
Many people on/. have commented about Desert Storm being about oil. However, I think they're misunderstanding what oil we were protecting. At the time of the Iraq invasion, the US recieved little or no oil from Kuwait. Japan bought most Kuwaiti oil (~90%). The reason we became involved was because Hussein also threatened the oilfields of E. Saudi Arabia, which we do buy millions of barrels of oil from.
So, we moved into a defensive position in Saudi Arabia, but we did not have enough equipment/people to defend against Hussein. So, it was obvious the only way we would be able to increase the amount of defense forces in the region would be to convince the public that Iraq must be stopped and that Kuwait must be liberated.
That being said, the situation in Kosovo is completely different. The only people who stand to gain anything from this are the other Balkan nations (Bulgaria, etc). If these attacks were not happening, the flood of Albanian refugees would begin to destablize the entire region, setting off civil wars in the adjoining countries. Has anyone seen anything that we will be getting out of this?
Usually, what you do when there's a military conflict and
Actually, re-calling your ambassador is a prelude to war. Once the ambassador has returned home, a declaration or war and/or mobilization willl occur.
The Russians are opposing the attack on the Serbs for the same reason they back them in WWI, Pan-Slavism, "the brotherhood of Slavic nations." The Russians feel united with the Serbs, much the same way we feel connected with England and other English-speaking countries.
War with Russia is still very far off, however. The need for the money that the NATO nations represent FAR outweighs the Pan-slavic feelings in Russia.
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This has been posted before. This company is just rebranding an Espresso PC. They didn't even change the case or anything...just made up a new name.
Bottom line is that just becasue you can go to Best Buy and buy a 80GB drive doesn't mean that you can/should use that drive in server.
I've got 11 machines from Dell (10 Optiplexes, 1 PowerEdge Server) that came preloaded with RedHat 6.2 That I've had for 3 months. This IS a non-story.
There are many standard resolution TV's with Component input.
Progressive Scan is what they call 'line doubling'
No it's not. Progressive scan is the original format of a DVD, also called 480P (480 lines of resolution).
Svideo output runs at 480i (480 lines of resolution, interlaced) which only paints half of the lines in one pass of the electron gun. This makes a noticable flicker. Regular DVD players have to include the circuitry to step the output down to this format.
The Dulux website does not mention DTS audio, which is (correct me if I'm wrong) DVD disks with audio on it. The audio is much higher quality and I think it's also possible to have true surround effects
Nope. DTS is just an audio format competing with Dolby Digital. Personally, I think it is a better format, but it does require a more expensive decoder. The DVD-AUDIO format is a audio-onlu standard which is supposed to give much more lif-like reproduction of sound. It has even been rumored to satisfy people who are die-hard vinyl fanatics. However, I haven't actually heard it in person, so that's all second hand.
Science is not as "scientific" or as rational as the population would like to think. It's alot of intuition and straight guess work.
Actually, one of Bleem!'s selling points is that you can play "back-ups" of any playstation game, because Sony's copy protection scheme was not implemented.
That is why Sony is trying to get rid of it...remember, they lose money on every console they sell, they only make money through licensing. If everyone used Bleem! to play copied discs, they would be hurt.
Scale and fault-tolerance. Solaris can scale from a 4 year old, single-CPU Ultra-1 to a 64-CPU E-10k. Also, with the E3000+ machines, Dynamic Reconfiguration allows for hot-swapable drives, CPU boards and memory. I don't really see Linux making those kind of strides in the next few years.
This is because I in general find Linux much more pleasing to work with. The gnu utilities are in general, far superior. KDE/Gnome beats the crap of CDE any day of the week. The ability of Linux to work in a heterogenous environment (i.e., so easily work with smb shares, nfs, etc.) is great.
I'm writing this on a Solaris 8 machine running Helix Gnome on one monitor and KDE on the other. I have all of the GNU tools I need to use installed, and I'm running Samba....so your argument on lack of applications is groundless. Yes, CDE and Suns compilers suck....so don't use them.
I find Solaris, while not unpleasant to use, definitely not as pleasing on a day to day basis. I am also amazed at how poorly it performs sometimes. I know Solaris is supposed to perform well, and I just don't understand it. I do operations on fairly fast hardware, such as removing many files, etc., that I _know_ my little linux box could do faster. I don't administer the Solaris boxen though, so it could be our sysadmin just doesn't know how to set them up efficiently? I don't know.
Some Sun hardware, (the E3000-E6000 especially) is not designed to run at blazingly fast speeds, but to keep running at repectable sppeds under extreme load. I have a E3500 with 40,000 users which seems to run everything at the same speed if there is 1 user or several hundred logged on at the same time. Linux machines (although, it could be the intel arch.) tend to run very fast with a few users, but lose processing power as load is applied.
I really don't see Sun or Solaris going anywhere for a long time. Current Intel-based machines do not scale and are at nowhere near the level of fault tolerance that is required for most large applications, and Beowulf-type clustering is not satisfactory for many applications.
Hollywood has not spent a dime, for example, to research the intriguing question, do film and digital create different brain states? Some theoreticians believe that film creates reverie, video creates hypnosis;
If Ebert had taken the time to read some of these studies, he would have found that the difference in brain-wave patterns is caused by the effect of light on the retininas: Monitors (and TV) are back-lit while film is projected. This creates two very different mental pictures, TV seem brighter and more active, which causes the brain to switch to a more passive mode; while film is softer and more subtle, making the brain become more active.
On the technical side, yeah this is cool, but why does anyone want an iMac? Because of the interesting case.
This guy has just put a computer into the same old beige case...Been there, done that
Sound Familiar? Well it's not EPCOT. That is a decription of the 1938 World's Fair.
It actually is a file-browser for IRIX. I remember seeing a link for it on /. a couple of months ago in comment connected to a story about mapping the Internet.
always thought movie format had an aspect ration
of something like 1.8:1, not the 1.56:1
1.8:1 is "anamorphic" widescreen. It's used by all of the newer, big budget movies (Titanic, Episode 1, etc.)
1.56:1 is "letterbox" widescreen. That is the aspect ratio that has been in use by hollywood since the mid 50's, when they needed some kind of "hook" to differentiate themselves from TV.
If it looks no different, it'll create the impression that it acts no different. And those new users will wonder what all the fuss is about, since much Linux functionality will be "hidden" behind the Windows-like UI.
But if it gives them a familiar look during the install and then a choice of WM's at the X-login screen, they get the best of both worlds -- familiarity and the ability to use the different UI's like Enlightenment. Just because you install the system with a KDE-like interface doesn't mean that KDE will be the only UI on the machine.
The problem most of the people I know have had with the install is hassles with partitions, if Caldera could integrate this UI with a data-saving partition program (partition magic, etc) I think it would greatly increase the number of Linux users out there.
The arch angel Gabriel is the patron saint of Telecommunication
(really, look it up!) . Wouldn't the Internet fall under his domain?
The arch angel Gabriel is the patron saint of Telecommunication,
wouldn't the Internet fall under that?
Unlike other Unix players such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Sun, in Palo Alto, Calif., has unveiled no plans to support Linux on its hardware.
Untrue. Sun has decided not to ship linux with it's hardware,
but is supporting linux on Sparc and UltraSparc. Check out:
http://www.sun.com/software/linux
Many people on /. have commented about Desert Storm being about oil. However, I think they're misunderstanding what oil we were protecting. At the time of the Iraq invasion, the US recieved little or no oil from Kuwait. Japan bought most Kuwaiti oil (~90%). The reason we became involved was because Hussein also threatened the oilfields of E. Saudi Arabia, which we do buy millions of barrels of oil from.
So, we moved into a defensive position in Saudi Arabia, but we did not have enough equipment/people to defend against Hussein. So, it was obvious the only way we would be able to increase the amount of defense forces in the region would be to convince the public that Iraq must be stopped and that Kuwait must be liberated.
That being said, the situation in Kosovo is completely different. The only people who stand to gain anything from this are the other Balkan nations (Bulgaria, etc). If these attacks were not happening, the flood of Albanian refugees would begin to destablize the entire region, setting off civil wars in the adjoining countries. Has anyone seen anything that we will be getting out of this?
Usually, what you do when there's a military conflict and
Actually, re-calling your ambassador is a prelude to war. Once the ambassador has returned home, a declaration or war and/or mobilization willl occur.
The Russians are opposing the attack on the Serbs for the same reason they back them in WWI, Pan-Slavism, "the brotherhood of Slavic nations." The Russians feel united with the Serbs, much the same way we feel connected with England and other English-speaking countries.
War with Russia is still very far off, however. The need for the money that the NATO nations represent FAR outweighs the Pan-slavic feelings in Russia.