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I made a mistake on my cut+paste. I hope some moderators mod this message up so everyone isn't mislead. I cut+pasted the DirectFB's text "Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200/G400/G450/G550 ". On the Alpha platform, only the devices "Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200" are supported. This is because the G400/G450/G550 are using the 32biy VGA BIOS. This is just my error, a slight slip of the hand. I SHOULD PROOF-READ, but I'm short on time so flame away!
No 3D drivers are available for Win2k on the Alpha platform, neither for Windows NT 4.0 and previous versions. I don't mean to be rude, but why aren't you using freeBSD or Linux with Framebuffer-DRI? I'll happily explain below. The reason why the latest and greatest graphics accelerators do not work on Alpha is because most of the BIOS on Alpha computers were initially built for the older 16bit extension VGA BIOS. Sad to say, shortly afterwards all the graphics designers started implementing "32bit VGA BIOS extensions" and so the X86 VGA BIOS emulation in all the Alpha computers' BIOS simply can't use one of those graphics accelerators.
To get started on using some fast 3D on your Alpha, the DRI project (http://dri.sourceforge.net) has recently separated itself from XFree86! Yes, now hardware-accelerated openGL (provided by DRI) is working independent of an X Server! So far, framebuffer can now be used with DRI. Now to enlighten you on the drivers... Most graphics accelerators will operate on the Alpha platform using the DRI. The intial problem to begin with is that all these "modern" graphics accelerators are using the *cough* "32bit X86 VGA BIOS" and the problem is there is no way to disable that later VGA BIOS in favor of an older one. As provided by the DRI, graphics is computing on the DRI-enabled graphics accelerator and is simply copied to a X Server's 2D canvas, a framebuffer device, or *gasp* displayed full-screen. To use a DRI-enable graphics accelerator on the Alpha platform as well as others, the graphics accelerator's VGA BIOS must be out-right disabled and a true VGA graphics adaptor must beforehand accompany your 3D crunching workhorse right beside it. The purpose is to have DRI using a 3D accelerator and the openGL is tunneled and output on the nice and compliant framebuffer/2D canvas provided by the VGA adaptor.
The best choices for VGA are often your only choices on Alpha; the whole point is we are bipassing an obvious compatibility problem in an Alpha computer's BIOS. Reading from the DirectFB homepage, we should note that only our nice and friendly Matrox G200 and below is supported in framebuffer. The 3Dfx Voodoo3 is using the later 32bit VGA BIOS, as well as the TNT/2/GeForce.XXX, Rage 128, and the others are unknown to me. The purpose I intend in using a graphics accelerator that has a well-implemented framebuffer driver is because WE NEED TO WEAN XFREE86 AND ALL X SERVERS TO USING FRAMEBUFFER DRIVERS AND NOT BE THE SOLE PROVIDERS OF GRAPHICS. As of note, the chipsets based on ATI's Rage Pro 3DLabs' (Texas Instruments Chip) Permedia/Permedia2, and S3's Virge/*X are a good provider of VGA, but to my knowledge they are not supported on the DirectFB. Sure, the Rage Pro and S3 Virge may be receiving hardware-accelerated GLX from the Utah-GLX project, but that service is dependant on XFREE86 OR SOME X SERVER PROVIDER! WEAN X SERVERS AWAY FROM DIRECTLY SCREWING WITH YOUR HARDWARE! MAK THEM USE FRAMEBUFFER! IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
To date, the best choice for an excellent standards-compliant VGA is of Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200/G400/G450/G550 and nothing else! Buy a PCI Matrox 4MB VGA adaptor for $10 on Yahoo Auctions or eBay. Most Alpha systems do not have AGP, but those that do should make good use of the AGP as their secondary/DRI-enable graphics crunching device. Users that have AGP to their disposal will have the choice of anything, but notice that their are no DRI drivers for the GeForce.XXX; only utah-glx driver comes close to supporting some of nVidia's features but nVidia doesn't give anyone information. ATI is your best bet and I'm happy to say they are doing an excellent job today, pick what you want from them and use the DRI drivers. For systems that don't have AGP, buy a Radeon 7000/7500/9000 and disable its integrated VGA BIOS by force! To do that, you need to contact ATI. I will not help you do it because I can't fit my disclaimer of liability, should you break somthing on my advice and blame me, on this page and I am short of time now...bye and good luck.
Remember, you can do this with not just the Alpha platform, the Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, and others that can interface to PCI devices that can use the DRI.
Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll
Note for ATI and nVidia developers
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Please implement a VGA BIOS disable switch on your videocards. Some of us are working on computer platforms that can't work with your VGA BIOS, yet their exists graphics drivers that CAN use your proprietary graphics-acceleration architecture chipset on your related products.
For example, disabling the VGA BIOS would allow users of Alpha/Sparc/MIPS/PPC/Power(3/4) platforms to use a wee-little standard VGA graphics card that we know works (like a S3, Permedia2, G200, or RagePro), then throw a hefty ATI Radeon 9800+ Pro XPERTONIA ++plutonia++ 256MB or nVidia GeForce FX 6000++BrownOut/cooker 256MB L24a adaptor into the AGP port or hopefully see a 64bit PCI model from ATI/nVidia and we could use your hardware!
I like your style.:D I know this one guy who eats at a restaraunt and leaves no tip for the waitress. I asked him why, and he says that the waitress goes back into the kitchen and calls him a son of a bitch. So, he thinks leaving a regular tip will make no improvement on what they say in the kitchen and at-least they'll call him a cheap son of a bitch. Then he goes on saying that a Good Thing(TM) never hurt anyone and they can shove it up their ass.
Imagine that, you too can be a cheap son of a bitch to the R&D of all these graphics chip manufacturers! I can't stop laughing...
Firstly, I am not paranoid: I am constitutional and above all I reserve my right to have excessive consideration of others and how they may attempt to subjugate my unalienable rights. Hence, I am paranoid.:p
To my understanding, a "license" is a contractual agreement that expresses and implies conditional premise of activity in a granted matter, establish a proponent or authority for regulation. Before I pass you the crackpipe, let's see how my comprehension withstands the scrutiny of Dictionary.com: License -n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: permit] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: licence] 3: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint: "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke 4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: permission, permit] v : authorize officially [syn: licence, certify] [ant: decertify]
contract -A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation
Certify -To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine.
quo warranto -[So called from the Law L. words quo warranto (by what authority), in the original Latin form of the writ
I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.
To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.
If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.
It is unconstitutional to force another into a contractual agreement that violates their Constitution. I hold in my hands the Constitution of the United States of America. Look into the founding of the United States...WE ARE RECOGNIZED OF HAVING CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. Here comes the 10th Ammendment, stating that all rights not enumerated by the Constitution are reserved by the States (not State Government) or to the people ("the people" is an institution/organization: corpus corpus et al). Then here comes the unlawful ratification of the 14th Ammendment, stating that your rights are granted and are revokable as being a "citizen of the United States".
California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license."
The "state of California" appears to think that it owns earthquake waves and considers itself the granted entity to contract the study of earthquake waves. If that is true, then I'll be the first to issue a license to anyone that desires to harvest cheese on the moon.
After the unlawful ratification of the 14th Ammednment, the Constitution conclusivly comemorates that we:
"have certain unalienable rights reserved to the States or to "the people"...[that are not any more unalienable, they are granted by us after our long Revolutionary War to secure such, and we will revoke any rights as we see fit: including and not limited to your previously reserved right to forecast our earthquake waves without our permission]."
They already took your right of unresricted travel, as secured by the 10th Ammendment. They already regulate your freedom of speech over the internet; say somthing the FCC church or the ICANN church didn't allow you to say and they will terminate such. The "state of California" doesn't allow freedom of the press of earthquake waves and has claimed ownership of its territorial earthquake waves.
There I was, looking at one of those trick-pictures you posted; you know, the ones where you stare at it for about 10 minutes and make your eyes lose focus and the secret picture appears...AND THERE IT WAS! Hillary Ros#$@# I mean GOATSE!
I need a break... *twiddles thums and gets kit-kat bar*:)
He who secures nothing, has nothing to be insecure. -C0nfutr0llus
I think that sums-up the awesome security reviews of the barebones PC. This logic can be applied to everying, such as and not limited to, refrigerated food, slashdot, Frito-Lay potato chips, internet service, computer software, patents, Hillary Rosen's face, and Bruce Peren's laptop...
whoa!
No shirt, no shoes: NO SERVICE. HINT: pantless!
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... no CPU, no RAM, no HD....
NO SERVICE! Obviously, their laptop reserves its right to not serve.
Slashdotted even before a 'does it run linux' troll....
PCI-X is being received incorrectly. Many people look at it as another hardware interface, yet are lacking the guidlines of this technology. PCI-X is a raw IO medium that will allow technology to scale efficiently on various platforms. Not to mention, PCI-X's initial design is to allow hot-swaping of PCI-X compliant hardware. With the skill of various engineers, legacy ISA/PCI/AGP implementations of products will be re-implemented upon systems using temporarily-necessary hardware abstraction and "bridge" technology to allow the most ethical cost of acceptance of PCI-X enabled system BUS.
The lack of extensible technology is the main reason of the acceptance of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and addresses the need of maximum system up-time and stability for most efficient administration of hardware and software.
Yes, I am speaking out of my a$$, but the Karma feels so gooooood!
This doesn't amaze me. The California "Police Officers" are corrupt, as well. I was in the southern area of California, walking to the beach at about 7:55pm, and was pulled over for "suspicion". There is no law that requires identification with the Department of Motor Vehicles, and so I did not immediatly identify myself because:
NO LAW WAS CITED WICH I WAS IN VIOLATION.
Just because I look "suspicious" walking to the beach is not grounds for interrogation. The Police Officer said he will take me to the Police Station, should I not show him identification. I don't subscribe to "Driver's License" or "Picture Identification" from the DMV, and there is no law that requires such. I pulled out my Notarized Constitution of the United States of 1867, as recorded by the Colorado Recorder/Archives. Why the Constitution, you ask? Because I have been accused of a crime, have had not been shown the charges thus warranting me to indentify myself, and I was about to be ussurped into an Institution of the "state of California" organization and with extreme pre-judice and durressly compelled into a contractual agreement regardless of me honoring the Constitution.
The "Police Officer" neither honored my request to provide the law I violated; the United States corporation knows this act as citing the "Bill of Particulars". 30 minutes of kindness later, citing various laws and beliefs, and exposing my nature as being a CORPORATE SOLE, the three "Police Officers" were commanded by their "Chief" to "LET THIS MAN WALK!"
How about "I just legally acquired X and it won't play in my system because of a region lockout, thereby denying me the use of a legally owned item. "
Too bad, you go to jail now
Maybe X will do that to you. Those people at X.org possibly enforce their license much more agressivly than say Gnu or MIT. I suggest using XFree86, available from www.xfree86.org. Wait a month and get their greatest yet, XFree86 2.3; It's da bomb!
OF COURSE THIS IS A JOKE, OR MY NAME IS MR. MAGOO!
I'd prefer an apology from the IRS. Rico writes "Intuit have spoken out about the CD-protection methods of their TurboTax software. According to them, the protection is harmless to computers and does not erase data. Despite the huge negative customer feedback, Intuit are still profiting from the product."
LIARS! Computer data has been replaced! Binary data on the harddrive's MBR, whether implied as used or not, has been replaced! Just because the MBR isn't part of the filesystem does NOT constitute the MBR as not being data. There is not any specification for marking space on a harddrive as used or not used; it is either binary 0 or binary 1 and TurboTax has unethically and immorally modified the harddrive's MBR with extreme prejudice and without consideration! Intuit, this means WAR! IRS, I've always recognized you as maintaining WAR and this is just another bullet aimed at normal hard-working people!
Re-visiting the Office-scene...
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Bob clocks-in, meets with employer for today's business... Employer commands Bob to tend to marketing research that Bob already happens to know, yet the employer re-enforces [it:him/her]self over Bob's objections and uses RFID to be certain Bob is in proximity of expected area of where is supposed to be "researching". Rather, Bob walks to area, displaces RFID tag, walks to the movies and has a nice day while getting payed.:)
Bob returns to clock-out, is congratulated for his steadfast work; "You're great Bob! By the record of your RFID's movment, you didn't take your eyes off your research, not even for a single moment to waslk over to the PlayBoy girls's booth to receive a free product they were dispensing".
Bob continues clocking-out, walks to his hugo, and shrugs for missing the PlayBoy girls; "why, Lord, why did I go to the movies instead?"
Sounds bad for shoplifters of Adult Merchandise...
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_begin Disclaimer_ I AM NOT A SUBSCRIBER OF ADULT-TOYS AND ADULT MERCHANDISE AND DISLIKE THEIR AUDIENCE AND SUBSCRIBERS. _end Disclaimer_
This doesn't bode well for those people using their adult-oriented-merchandise upon eachother, neither the law-enforcment officers that are assigned to reclaim shoplifted adult-oriented merchandise. I can only imagine the conversation going-on in the placidly-marked white van outside a building of a stake-out...
eavsdropper1: The log is February-25-2003, in the parking lot of "Bill and Ted's Adult Store"...we are awaiting the infamous WalMart Condomn shoplifter to exit the building and placed in custody. It appears the shoplifted product's RFID is reporting its position is reciprocating within a close radius of approximatly 9 inches. The suspected shoplifter appears to be in a remote area of the building, in a booth that hints, by the building's blueprints as being the proximity of a closed-video-viewing area for the store customers.
eavsdropper2:Damn corporate officers; I wish we didn't get these kind of assignments. Walmart should be dispensing their damn condomn merchandise from vending machines. Now we gotta reclaim the stolen property and return it to WalMart's product-return center...(*nashing-teeth*shivering-uncontrollably- in-grotesque-and-anger*)
Crossdressers: Shoplifters with Purses
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You made my imagination start running...
I imagine a shoplifter wants to carry a bag all-through the store, yet doesn't want to look *obvious*, so tada: here comes a Crossdresser (transvestite?) with a hefty stylish-woman's canvas bag (or backpack even?) and lookout because Walmart's lipstick is soon to disappear!
False, Incomplete, Incorrect, Misleading...
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To my knowledge, no electrical circuit oscillates the same as others. It is known fact that every Oscillation ciruitry propogates radiation that is unique. This is due to imperfections in the manufacturing process that perhaps may never be re-calibrated or constructed with absolute physical precision.
I remember a story about World War II...a United States Navy Destroyer (vessel, big iron boat with big metal-hurling pipes, etc) was heading on a course for the Indonesia area for patrol and a Japanese Submersible boat (submarine, big underwater boat with underwater missiles/torpedos) mysteriously was able to track and sink the United States Navy's Destroyer. The culprit: it was discovered, that after the crew shortly was collected by neighboring United States Navy vessels, that the Destroyer was maintaning a state of silence and it turns out one of the crew members had a homebrew radio-reception device's antenna wire dangled out the porthole/window and the Japanese vessel's skilled crew was able to "seek" the source of the radiation propogation and in-deed sink the United States Navy's Destroyer.
In essence, not to be "funny", the same principle may be applied to RFID tags by them being a source of radio wave propogation that may be analyzed and discriminated with equipment capable of maximizing the analytical data of each unique RFID's oscillation of radio waves. In short, it is simple for the marketers of RFIDs to release mis-leading statments that all RFIDs are equal, the same, and indiscriminately unable to eavsdrop on the daily activities of people. Yet to the scientific community's understanding and reasoning, it is FALSE that a RFID is incapable of providing information that can allow directional tracking of whatever vessel or being it is implanted upon. With the increasing precision of Electrical Equipment every moment of the retail-year, it is in-deed a matter of time before the United States government stops the mis-leading display of its desire to track every human being or animal because it nows the means to do so is already part of the design of complex organisms' nervous systems. We, as organic life-forms with complex nervous systems, already have provided a means to be "tracked"; the United States [Das Korporation] simply throws FUD in the air about electronics to be used to "track" and "identify" objects and living things that it realy has distracted everyone to such as simple human-constructed principle only to fore-shadow the advanced research it secretly commits to...
IN EVEN SHORTER WORDS, "RFID" POSESSES YOU TECHNOLOGICALLY!
IN CRYPTIC WORDS THAT AVERAGE BEINGS HAVE YET TO COMPREHEND, "GOVERNMENT" METAPHYSICALLY TRACKS YOU!
Yes, it is honest to say
"in Soviet Russia, Television watches you"
as it is equally honest to say
"in and after purchasing property and effects in commercial store, Fascist United States LLC traces you with RFID until it is complete with research to metaphysicaly/naturaly track you"
I can do 100,000 different things, as I sit here and do nothing...isn't that called BOGOMIPS?
KIDNEY:...busy signal... LIVER:...busy signal... LYMPHNOD3S:...cr4x1n in progr3ss... STOMACH:...processing beans and jag...(dangerous combo) calculate velocity of unladen western swallow carrying coconut...OVERFLOW
I think Microsoft has somthing to do with this article and the *timing* of their adware they placed an inch below the story...
I need to point my finger at someone. Is it slashdot that holds its own ads or is it the Open Source Developers Network (OSDN) that serves the ads? If I remember corectly, isn't the OSDN a subsidiary (owned) by VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX)? This is sad, if VA calls this their business model: throwing banners at anyone, for small money. VA should have stayed in the desktop and server market, or at least enter into the notebook market with portable thin terminals, just as DEC first entered into the market with thin terminals and mainframes. Realistically, who would want a laptop-like computer, boots linuxBIOS into a Linux, with a lean XFree86 4.3, with your RADEON 9000, no harddrive; just the basics in portability; somewhat like a PDA with a large pretty screen and infinite expansion capabilities that don't limit you to embedded dirtware? Or is that what Microsoft plans to do with their "Tablet PC"? Damn I despise shitty software companies throwing their monopoly money around in markets where their product is the dead worst yet is found everywhere.
Lemme guess...the movie won a mere battle, but the war rages on! I despise hollywood's logic; anything to continue slugging kids' cereal boxes with wookies, jarjar, and pokemon...
Now Slashdot Wars...that'll be one hell of a cereal box! It would be rockin' if I get buy a box of "Quaker Oaties" and I would receive..."Quake4:william_pen's_alien_outhouse!" or open a box of "William Wonker's Nerdz" and receive a free 30-day add-less subscription to "Slashdot: News for Nerdz, stuff that matters a bit!"
weighs as much as a tank, eats gas like a tank, built like a tank, maneuverable like a tank...
The El Dorado is a tank and I stand behind its excellent Demolition Derby record as always being within the top 10% of finishing cars.
I won 5th place in the Demolition Derby: 5th place of 33 entrants; three El Dorados, four Lincolns, and one Lincoln Continental.
Reaching 5th place didn't pay for the Cadillac Lincoln we were using; bought the Lincoln for $100.00. Yes, my team payed $100.00 USD for a Lincoln whos' 4th cylinder wasn't firing. No prize was one...I will soarly miss...
On a side note, we cut off the muffler just behind the transmission and that Ford 400 sounded as American as Buttered Toast; sweeeeeet! It just eats the gas...
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I made a mistake on my cut+paste. I hope some moderators mod this message up so everyone isn't mislead. I cut+pasted the DirectFB's text "Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200/G400/G450/G550 ". On the Alpha platform, only the devices "Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200" are supported. This is because the G400/G450/G550 are using the 32biy VGA BIOS. This is just my error, a slight slip of the hand. I SHOULD PROOF-READ, but I'm short on time so flame away!
Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll
No 3D drivers are available for Win2k on the Alpha platform, neither for Windows NT 4.0 and previous versions. I don't mean to be rude, but why aren't you using freeBSD or Linux with Framebuffer-DRI? I'll happily explain below. The reason why the latest and greatest graphics accelerators do not work on Alpha is because most of the BIOS on Alpha computers were initially built for the older 16bit extension VGA BIOS. Sad to say, shortly afterwards all the graphics designers started implementing "32bit VGA BIOS extensions" and so the X86 VGA BIOS emulation in all the Alpha computers' BIOS simply can't use one of those graphics accelerators.
To get started on using some fast 3D on your Alpha, the DRI project (http://dri.sourceforge.net) has recently separated itself from XFree86! Yes, now hardware-accelerated openGL (provided by DRI) is working independent of an X Server! So far, framebuffer can now be used with DRI. Now to enlighten you on the drivers... Most graphics accelerators will operate on the Alpha platform using the DRI. The intial problem to begin with is that all these "modern" graphics accelerators are using the *cough* "32bit X86 VGA BIOS" and the problem is there is no way to disable that later VGA BIOS in favor of an older one. As provided by the DRI, graphics is computing on the DRI-enabled graphics accelerator and is simply copied to a X Server's 2D canvas, a framebuffer device, or *gasp* displayed full-screen. To use a DRI-enable graphics accelerator on the Alpha platform as well as others, the graphics accelerator's VGA BIOS must be out-right disabled and a true VGA graphics adaptor must beforehand accompany your 3D crunching workhorse right beside it. The purpose is to have DRI using a 3D accelerator and the openGL is tunneled and output on the nice and compliant framebuffer/2D canvas provided by the VGA adaptor.
The best choices for VGA are often your only choices on Alpha; the whole point is we are bipassing an obvious compatibility problem in an Alpha computer's BIOS. Reading from the DirectFB homepage, we should note that only our nice and friendly Matrox G200 and below is supported in framebuffer. The 3Dfx Voodoo3 is using the later 32bit VGA BIOS, as well as the TNT/2/GeForce.XXX, Rage 128, and the others are unknown to me. The purpose I intend in using a graphics accelerator that has a well-implemented framebuffer driver is because WE NEED TO WEAN XFREE86 AND ALL X SERVERS TO USING FRAMEBUFFER DRIVERS AND NOT BE THE SOLE PROVIDERS OF GRAPHICS. As of note, the chipsets based on ATI's Rage Pro 3DLabs' (Texas Instruments Chip) Permedia/Permedia2, and S3's Virge/*X are a good provider of VGA, but to my knowledge they are not supported on the DirectFB. Sure, the Rage Pro and S3 Virge may be receiving hardware-accelerated GLX from the Utah-GLX project, but that service is dependant on XFREE86 OR SOME X SERVER PROVIDER! WEAN X SERVERS AWAY FROM DIRECTLY SCREWING WITH YOUR HARDWARE! MAK THEM USE FRAMEBUFFER! IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
To date, the best choice for an excellent standards-compliant VGA is of Matrox Mystique/Millenium/G100/G200/G400/G450/G550 and nothing else! Buy a PCI Matrox 4MB VGA adaptor for $10 on Yahoo Auctions or eBay. Most Alpha systems do not have AGP, but those that do should make good use of the AGP as their secondary/DRI-enable graphics crunching device. Users that have AGP to their disposal will have the choice of anything, but notice that their are no DRI drivers for the GeForce.XXX; only utah-glx driver comes close to supporting some of nVidia's features but nVidia doesn't give anyone information. ATI is your best bet and I'm happy to say they are doing an excellent job today, pick what you want from them and use the DRI drivers. For systems that don't have AGP, buy a Radeon 7000/7500/9000 and disable its integrated VGA BIOS by force! To do that, you need to contact ATI. I will not help you do it because I can't fit my disclaimer of liability, should you break somthing on my advice and blame me, on this page and I am short of time now...bye and good luck.
Remember, you can do this with not just the Alpha platform, the Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, and others that can interface to PCI devices that can use the DRI.
Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll
Please implement a VGA BIOS disable switch on your videocards. Some of us are working on computer platforms that can't work with your VGA BIOS, yet their exists graphics drivers that CAN use your proprietary graphics-acceleration architecture chipset on your related products.
For example, disabling the VGA BIOS would allow users of Alpha/Sparc/MIPS/PPC/Power(3/4) platforms to use a wee-little standard VGA graphics card that we know works (like a S3, Permedia2, G200, or RagePro), then throw a hefty ATI Radeon 9800+ Pro XPERTONIA ++plutonia++ 256MB or nVidia GeForce FX 6000++BrownOut/cooker 256MB L24a adaptor into the AGP port or hopefully see a 64bit PCI model from ATI/nVidia and we could use your hardware!
Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll
(I need karma)
:D
I like your style.
I know this one guy who eats at a restaraunt and leaves no tip for the waitress. I asked him why, and he says that the waitress goes back into the kitchen and calls him a son of a bitch. So, he thinks leaving a regular tip will make no improvement on what they say in the kitchen and at-least they'll call him a cheap son of a bitch. Then he goes on saying that a Good Thing(TM) never hurt anyone and they can shove it up their ass.
Imagine that, you too can be a cheap son of a bitch to the R&D of all these graphics chip manufacturers! I can't stop laughing...
Firstly, I am not paranoid: I am constitutional and above all I reserve my right to have excessive consideration of others and how they may attempt to subjugate my unalienable rights. Hence, I am paranoid.
To my understanding, a "license" is a contractual agreement that expresses and implies conditional premise of activity in a granted matter, establish a proponent or authority for regulation. Before I pass you the crackpipe, let's see how my comprehension withstands the scrutiny of Dictionary.com:
License -n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: permit] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: licence] 3: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint: "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke 4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: permission, permit] v : authorize officially [syn: licence, certify] [ant: decertify]
contract -A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation
Certify -To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine.
quo warranto -[So called from the Law L. words quo warranto (by what authority), in the original Latin form of the writ
I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.
To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.
If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.
I must call it a night. Good luck and thanks.
It is unconstitutional to force another into a contractual agreement that violates their Constitution. I hold in my hands the Constitution of the United States of America. Look into the founding of the United States...WE ARE RECOGNIZED OF HAVING CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. Here comes the 10th Ammendment, stating that all rights not enumerated by the Constitution are reserved by the States (not State Government) or to the people ("the people" is an institution/organization: corpus corpus et al). Then here comes the unlawful ratification of the 14th Ammendment, stating that your rights are granted and are revokable as being a "citizen of the United States".
California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license."
The "state of California" appears to think that it owns earthquake waves and considers itself the granted entity to contract the study of earthquake waves. If that is true, then I'll be the first to issue a license to anyone that desires to harvest cheese on the moon.
After the unlawful ratification of the 14th Ammednment, the Constitution conclusivly comemorates that we:
"have certain unalienable rights reserved to the States or to "the people"...[that are not any more unalienable, they are granted by us after our long Revolutionary War to secure such, and we will revoke any rights as we see fit: including and not limited to your previously reserved right to forecast our earthquake waves without our permission]."
They already took your right of unresricted travel, as secured by the 10th Ammendment. They already regulate your freedom of speech over the internet; say somthing the FCC church or the ICANN church didn't allow you to say and they will terminate such. The "state of California" doesn't allow freedom of the press of earthquake waves and has claimed ownership of its territorial earthquake waves.
Is anyone still enjoying taking it up their a$$?
GOod GOd, man!
:)
There I was, looking at one of those trick-pictures you posted; you know, the ones where you stare at it for about 10 minutes and make your eyes lose focus and the secret picture appears...AND THERE IT WAS! Hillary Ros#$@# I mean GOATSE!
I need a break... *twiddles thums and gets kit-kat bar*
He who secures nothing, has nothing to be insecure.
-C0nfutr0llus
I think that sums-up the awesome security reviews of the barebones PC. This logic can be applied to everying, such as and not limited to, refrigerated food, slashdot, Frito-Lay potato chips, internet service, computer software, patents, Hillary Rosen's face, and Bruce Peren's laptop...
whoa!
... no CPU, no RAM, no HD....
:)
NO SERVICE! Obviously, their laptop reserves its right to not serve.
Slashdotted even before a 'does it run linux' troll....
Silence implies convinction...it runs linux.
PCI-X is being received incorrectly. Many people look at it as another hardware interface, yet are lacking the guidlines of this technology. PCI-X is a raw IO medium that will allow technology to scale efficiently on various platforms. Not to mention, PCI-X's initial design is to allow hot-swaping of PCI-X compliant hardware. With the skill of various engineers, legacy ISA/PCI/AGP implementations of products will be re-implemented upon systems using temporarily-necessary hardware abstraction and "bridge" technology to allow the most ethical cost of acceptance of PCI-X enabled system BUS.
The lack of extensible technology is the main reason of the acceptance of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and addresses the need of maximum system up-time and stability for most efficient administration of hardware and software.
Yes, I am speaking out of my a$$, but the Karma feels so gooooood!
This doesn't amaze me. The California "Police Officers" are corrupt, as well. I was in the southern area of California, walking to the beach at about 7:55pm, and was pulled over for "suspicion". There is no law that requires identification with the Department of Motor Vehicles, and so I did not immediatly identify myself because:
NO LAW WAS CITED WICH I WAS IN VIOLATION.
Just because I look "suspicious" walking to the beach is not grounds for interrogation. The Police Officer said he will take me to the Police Station, should I not show him identification. I don't subscribe to "Driver's License" or "Picture Identification" from the DMV, and there is no law that requires such. I pulled out my Notarized Constitution of the United States of 1867, as recorded by the Colorado Recorder/Archives. Why the Constitution, you ask? Because I have been accused of a crime, have had not been shown the charges thus warranting me to indentify myself, and I was about to be ussurped into an Institution of the "state of California" organization and with extreme pre-judice and durressly compelled into a contractual agreement regardless of me honoring the Constitution.
The "Police Officer" neither honored my request to provide the law I violated; the United States corporation knows this act as citing the "Bill of Particulars". 30 minutes of kindness later, citing various laws and beliefs, and exposing my nature as being a CORPORATE SOLE, the three "Police Officers" were commanded by their "Chief" to "LET THIS MAN WALK!"
America, WAKE UP!
How about "I just legally acquired X and it won't play in my system because of a region lockout, thereby denying me the use of a legally owned item. "
Too bad, you go to jail now
Maybe X will do that to you. Those people at X.org possibly enforce their license much more agressivly than say Gnu or MIT. I suggest using XFree86, available from www.xfree86.org. Wait a month and get their greatest yet, XFree86 2.3; It's da bomb!
OF COURSE THIS IS A JOKE, OR MY NAME IS MR. MAGOO!
NOT OFFTOPIC:
I just submitted a story to slashdot about Frito-Lay...apparently they let another anomaly slip through the crack of their quality-assurance eyes...
A MONSTER CHEETO! CHHHEEEEEEETO!
My story is more important than this trusted computing interview because: TRUSTED COMPUTING IS STILL AND ALWAYS WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE.
Hint: as long as there are keys, the keys can be used by entities you don't approve of.
PS: where do I go to check the slashdot story submittal que?
I'd prefer an apology from the IRS. Rico writes "Intuit have spoken out about the CD-protection methods of their TurboTax software. According to them, the protection is harmless to computers and does not erase data. Despite the huge negative customer feedback, Intuit are still profiting from the product."
LIARS! Computer data has been replaced! Binary data on the harddrive's MBR, whether implied as used or not, has been replaced! Just because the MBR isn't part of the filesystem does NOT constitute the MBR as not being data. There is not any specification for marking space on a harddrive as used or not used; it is either binary 0 or binary 1 and TurboTax has unethically and immorally modified the harddrive's MBR with extreme prejudice and without consideration! Intuit, this means WAR! IRS, I've always recognized you as maintaining WAR and this is just another bullet aimed at normal hard-working people!
Bob clocks-in, meets with employer for today's business... Employer commands Bob to tend to marketing research that Bob already happens to know, yet the employer re-enforces [it:him/her]self over Bob's objections and uses RFID to be certain Bob is in proximity of expected area of where is supposed to be "researching". Rather, Bob walks to area, displaces RFID tag, walks to the movies and has a nice day while getting payed. :)
Bob returns to clock-out, is congratulated for his steadfast work; "You're great Bob! By the record of your RFID's movment, you didn't take your eyes off your research, not even for a single moment to waslk over to the PlayBoy girls's booth to receive a free product they were dispensing".
Bob continues clocking-out, walks to his hugo, and shrugs for missing the PlayBoy girls; "why, Lord, why did I go to the movies instead?"
_begin Disclaimer_
- in-grotesque-and-anger*)
I AM NOT A SUBSCRIBER OF ADULT-TOYS AND ADULT MERCHANDISE AND DISLIKE THEIR AUDIENCE AND SUBSCRIBERS.
_end Disclaimer_
This doesn't bode well for those people using their adult-oriented-merchandise upon eachother, neither the law-enforcment officers that are assigned to reclaim shoplifted adult-oriented merchandise. I can only imagine the conversation going-on in the placidly-marked white van outside a building of a stake-out...
eavsdropper1: The log is February-25-2003, in the parking lot of "Bill and Ted's Adult Store"...we are awaiting the infamous WalMart Condomn shoplifter to exit the building and placed in custody. It appears the shoplifted product's RFID is reporting its position is reciprocating within a close radius of approximatly 9 inches. The suspected shoplifter appears to be in a remote area of the building, in a booth that hints, by the building's blueprints as being the proximity of a closed-video-viewing area for the store customers.
eavsdropper2:Damn corporate officers; I wish we didn't get these kind of assignments. Walmart should be dispensing their damn condomn merchandise from vending machines. Now we gotta reclaim the stolen property and return it to WalMart's product-return center...(*nashing-teeth*shivering-uncontrollably
You made my imagination start running...
I imagine a shoplifter wants to carry a bag all-through the store, yet doesn't want to look *obvious*, so tada: here comes a Crossdresser (transvestite?) with a hefty stylish-woman's canvas bag (or backpack even?) and lookout because Walmart's lipstick is soon to disappear!
To my knowledge, no electrical circuit oscillates the same as others. It is known fact that every Oscillation ciruitry propogates radiation that is unique. This is due to imperfections in the manufacturing process that perhaps may never be re-calibrated or constructed with absolute physical precision.
I remember a story about World War II...a United States Navy Destroyer (vessel, big iron boat with big metal-hurling pipes, etc) was heading on a course for the Indonesia area for patrol and a Japanese Submersible boat (submarine, big underwater boat with underwater missiles/torpedos) mysteriously was able to track and sink the United States Navy's Destroyer. The culprit: it was discovered, that after the crew shortly was collected by neighboring United States Navy vessels, that the Destroyer was maintaning a state of silence and it turns out one of the crew members had a homebrew radio-reception device's antenna wire dangled out the porthole/window and the Japanese vessel's skilled crew was able to "seek" the source of the radiation propogation and in-deed sink the United States Navy's Destroyer.
In essence, not to be "funny", the same principle may be applied to RFID tags by them being a source of radio wave propogation that may be analyzed and discriminated with equipment capable of maximizing the analytical data of each unique RFID's oscillation of radio waves. In short, it is simple for the marketers of RFIDs to release mis-leading statments that all RFIDs are equal, the same, and indiscriminately unable to eavsdrop on the daily activities of people. Yet to the scientific community's understanding and reasoning, it is FALSE that a RFID is incapable of providing information that can allow directional tracking of whatever vessel or being it is implanted upon. With the increasing precision of Electrical Equipment every moment of the retail-year, it is in-deed a matter of time before the United States government stops the mis-leading display of its desire to track every human being or animal because it nows the means to do so is already part of the design of complex organisms' nervous systems. We, as organic life-forms with complex nervous systems, already have provided a means to be "tracked"; the United States [Das Korporation] simply throws FUD in the air about electronics to be used to "track" and "identify" objects and living things that it realy has distracted everyone to such as simple human-constructed principle only to fore-shadow the advanced research it secretly commits to...
IN EVEN SHORTER WORDS, "RFID" POSESSES YOU TECHNOLOGICALLY!
IN CRYPTIC WORDS THAT AVERAGE BEINGS HAVE YET TO COMPREHEND, "GOVERNMENT" METAPHYSICALLY TRACKS YOU!
Yes, it is honest to say
"in Soviet Russia, Television watches you"
as it is equally honest to say
"in and after purchasing property and effects in commercial store, Fascist United States LLC traces you with RFID until it is complete with research to metaphysicaly/naturaly track you"
!!!
If nobody is around to *smell* this vaporware, does it even exist?
:-(
I'm fealing a little sad right now...I *think* I just heard a toilette flush; maybe somebody lost a turtle...
I think they are using a BOGUS rating...
...busy signal... ...busy signal... ...cr4x1n in progr3ss... ...processing beans and jag...(dangerous combo)
I can do 100,000 different things, as I sit here and do nothing...isn't that called BOGOMIPS?
KIDNEY:
LIVER:
LYMPHNOD3S:
STOMACH:
calculate velocity of unladen western swallow carrying coconut...OVERFLOW
Kernel Panic!
I had to say it :)
I think Microsoft has somthing to do with this article and the *timing* of their adware they placed an inch below the story...
I need to point my finger at someone. Is it slashdot that holds its own ads or is it the Open Source Developers Network (OSDN) that serves the ads? If I remember corectly, isn't the OSDN a subsidiary (owned) by VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX)? This is sad, if VA calls this their business model: throwing banners at anyone, for small money. VA should have stayed in the desktop and server market, or at least enter into the notebook market with portable thin terminals, just as DEC first entered into the market with thin terminals and mainframes. Realistically, who would want a laptop-like computer, boots linuxBIOS into a Linux, with a lean XFree86 4.3, with your RADEON 9000, no harddrive; just the basics in portability; somewhat like a PDA with a large pretty screen and infinite expansion capabilities that don't limit you to embedded dirtware? Or is that what Microsoft plans to do with their "Tablet PC"? Damn I despise shitty software companies throwing their monopoly money around in markets where their product is the dead worst yet is found everywhere.
Lemme guess...the movie won a mere battle, but the war rages on! I despise hollywood's logic; anything to continue slugging kids' cereal boxes with wookies, jarjar, and pokemon...
Now Slashdot Wars...that'll be one hell of a cereal box! It would be rockin' if I get buy a box of "Quaker Oaties" and I would receive..."Quake4:william_pen's_alien_outhouse!" or open a box of "William Wonker's Nerdz" and receive a free 30-day add-less subscription to "Slashdot: News for Nerdz, stuff that matters a bit!"
That'll be the day...*cries*
The 1981 El Dorado:
weighs as much as a tank,
eats gas like a tank,
built like a tank,
maneuverable like a tank...
The El Dorado is a tank and I stand behind its excellent Demolition Derby record as always being within the top 10% of finishing cars.
I won 5th place in the Demolition Derby: 5th place of 33 entrants; three El Dorados, four Lincolns, and one Lincoln Continental.
Reaching 5th place didn't pay for the Cadillac Lincoln we were using; bought the Lincoln for $100.00. Yes, my team payed $100.00 USD for a Lincoln whos' 4th cylinder wasn't firing. No prize was one...I will soarly miss...
On a side note, we cut off the muffler just behind the transmission and that Ford 400 sounded as American as Buttered Toast; sweeeeeet! It just eats the gas...
Avoid links that inlcude the word 'goat' in them.
And disable Javascript at all times. (Nobody likes a picture of ass that dances on your screen and avoids your mouse)