I too, have never had any problems with ATI cards. I recently purchased the Rage Fury 128 (with 32 Mb ram). XFree did not support it at that time, so I ended up trying Accelerated X. Worked great, and screamed in X:)
Still, I am glad to see ATI doing this. Makes a good company even better.
I think this shows how scared they are, and makes "a href="http://muq.org/~cynbe/rants/lastdino.htm"> The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom even more relevant than it was when first posted.
I thought that article was extremely insightful - maybe he has a crystal ball:)
Well-written opinion, but a couple of minor points...
Today hackers can bring down giant, multinational banking systems, brokerage houses and even TRW. So you have to ask yourself, do you REALLY want a joy-riding hormone handicapped teen drooling over your financial records?
No, I would rather the institution involved run a secure and stable OS, with a trained admin who know what he/she is doing! Any business whose records/databases can be accessed by a teenaged script kiddy deserves to be out of business in a hurry.
My only suggestion would be: While the DOJ is all hot-to-trot on preventing hacking they might want to toss in some additional anti-drug messages as well:-)
Um, let's not and say we did. This whole "Government as Mummy and Daddy" business has gone WAYYYY too far as it is. How about Personal Responsibility? I know it is out of fashion these days, but it's a Really Neat concept;)
I would rather have these kids testing the limits of the software that is in use, finding the bugs and security holes now, rather than a real threat; like maybe some terrorist wacko bent on destroying the Great Satan, finding the same...
I compiled kernel 2.2.10 on the Alpha RedHat box, and noticed it took 7 minutes, which I thought was a bit long. I was thinking NFS was slowing it down, but what you posted made perfect sense:)
[me@spe82/]$ cat/proc/cpuinfo cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 7 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : system type : Rawhide system variation : Tincup system revision : 0 system serial number : NI82904549 cycle frequency [Hz] : 531914893 timer frequency [Hz] : 1200.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 40 max. addr. space # : 127 BogoMIPS : 671.08 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 75 (pc=120002aa0,va=120106134) platform string : AlphaServer 1200 5/533 4MB CPUs probed 2 active 2 map 0x3 IPIs 3509024
Looks to me like several suits got together at lunch one day and decided to get in on this "linux thing".
It's not like they need any technical know-how. Can you think of any other software companies who started out with nothing to sell, bought and re-sold other people's work, and now own a good deal of the desktops out there?;)
You must not be reading every article closely then... I've noticed that the "linux r00ls" posts almost always get moderated down, while posts that defend Microsoft (for instance) get moderated up - IF they are not flamebait, but are actually saying something.
Thank You Rob! You are doing a great job. I know you can't please all the people all the time, but you sure try hard:)
It's great to see Corel doing this. I agree with the point made in their FAQ - that the other distributions have been server-centric, and no one has taken the time to make a distro that a home user could install with a minumum of fuss.
I will certainly take this one for a spin. The home market is something I would love to see Linux infiltrate.
The last place I worked, we hosted some commercial sites for Real Estate Salespeople and other computer-illiterate types.
Using PHP, we had a simple template where they could upload pictures of their properties they were selling, add prices, descriptions, etc. I no longer work there, and did not part on the best of terms, so I no longer have access to the code - or I would gladly share.
I know it was not too much to write it though. PHP is relatively easy to learn.
I really enjoyed the article, and it seems that every Katz article I read gets better. I agree with the earlier post, that Jon writes really well about people.
I like it Rob. I think -5 to 5 might be a better range, e.g. let the moderators moderate the "first post!" and "meept!" posts down to -5 with no penalty. Gives you a nice range to play with there.
I've noticed that when I see a +2, +3, etc, that it's usually a good post, so a large part of those 400+ moderators seem to be doing a good job.
I don't have the time to scan through all the noise to read the good stuff, so I am very thankful that you are doing this - WITHOUT censoring anyone.:)
As was said before, it's a ranking, not a censoring...
I like the new setup, but I'd prefer to have the default threshold (for 1st time viewers, and people who are not logged in) set to -1000 (or whatever the lowest number is).
Thanks CmdrTaco & Hemos, I appreciate all of your hard work.
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How about a different room for each directory in the filesystem? New users could explore the filesystem that way.
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This is cool
I too, have never had any problems with ATI cards. I recently purchased the Rage Fury 128 (with 32 Mb ram). XFree did not support it at that time, so I ended up trying Accelerated X. Worked great, and screamed in X :)
Still, I am glad to see ATI doing this. Makes a good company even better.
Well said!
I think this shows how scared they are, and makes "a href="http://muq.org/~cynbe/rants/lastdino.htm"> The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom even more relevant than it was when first posted.
I thought that article was extremely insightful - maybe he has a crystal ball
Today hackers can bring down giant, multinational banking systems, brokerage houses and even TRW. So you have to ask yourself, do you REALLY want a joy-riding hormone handicapped teen drooling over your financial records?
No, I would rather the institution involved run a secure and stable OS, with a trained admin who know what he/she is doing! Any business whose records/databases can be accessed by a teenaged script kiddy deserves to be out of business in a hurry.
My only suggestion would be: While the DOJ is all hot-to-trot on preventing hacking they might want to toss in some additional anti-drug messages as well :-)
Um, let's not and say we did. This whole "Government as Mummy and Daddy" business has gone WAYYYY too far as it is. How about Personal Responsibility? I know it is out of fashion these days, but it's a Really Neat concept ;)
I would rather have these kids testing the limits of the software that is in use, finding the bugs and security holes now, rather than a real threat; like maybe some terrorist wacko bent on destroying the Great Satan, finding the same...
I just know you've tried it...
Do Windows & AOL CD's make good skeet targets?
Thank you for the info!
:)
I compiled kernel 2.2.10 on the Alpha RedHat box, and noticed it took 7 minutes, which I thought was a bit long. I was thinking NFS was slowing it down, but what you posted made perfect sense
[me@spe82 /]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : Alpha
cpu model : EV56
cpu variation : 7
cpu revision : 0
cpu serial number :
system type : Rawhide
system variation : Tincup
system revision : 0
system serial number : NI82904549
cycle frequency [Hz] : 531914893
timer frequency [Hz] : 1200.00
page size [bytes] : 8192
phys. address bits : 40
max. addr. space # : 127
BogoMIPS : 671.08
kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc : 75 (pc=120002aa0,va=120106134)
platform string : AlphaServer 1200 5/533 4MB
CPUs probed 2 active 2 map 0x3 IPIs 3509024
Looks to me like several suits got together at lunch one day and decided to get in on this "linux thing".
It's not like they need any technical know-how. Can you think of any other software companies who started out with nothing to sell, bought and re-sold other people's work, and now own a good deal of the desktops out there?
I like that one better Rob!
I have to agree with your 3 points...
I've used Star Office since version 5.0 came out, and I liked it then. 5.1 was much better! I could suddenly read/write MS-Office docs!
A stable Office suite that can read and write MS-Office Apps, and is freely available on the web will do wonders for Linux, in my opinion.
You must not be reading every article closely then... I've noticed that the "linux r00ls" posts almost always get moderated down, while posts that defend Microsoft (for instance) get moderated up - IF they are not flamebait, but are actually saying something.
:)
Thank You Rob! You are doing a great job. I know you can't please all the people all the time, but you sure try hard
Quit whining. If you don't like Slashdot's coverage, go read MSN.
This will stop when people quit using a worthless excuse for an OS like Windows, and probably not before...
It's great to see Corel doing this. I agree with the point made in their FAQ - that the other distributions have been server-centric, and no one has taken the time to make a distro that a home user could install with a minumum of fuss.
I will certainly take this one for a spin. The home market is something I would love to see Linux infiltrate.
The last place I worked, we hosted some commercial sites for Real Estate Salespeople and other computer-illiterate types.
Using PHP, we had a simple template where they could upload pictures of their properties they were selling, add prices, descriptions, etc. I no longer work there, and did not part on the best of terms, so I no longer have access to the code - or I would gladly share.
I know it was not too much to write it though. PHP is relatively easy to learn.
Very well said!
;)
I have to agree with others' posts here though - you don't need a Quad Zeon to do web serving.
Running a PII-350 here with 128Mb RAM, Linux 2.2.5, Apache 1.3.6, MySQL, PHP. Flawless performance. 'Nuff said
So much for that article.
Maybe they are running IIS?
I really enjoyed the article, and it seems that every Katz article I read gets better. I agree with the earlier post, that Jon writes really well about people.
:)
Thanks Rob and Jon
No more booting into Win98 to watch the Simpsons on Sunday nights.
Life is good.
Next Big Thing to wish for: support for my Sony DVD CDROM under Linux. (hey, ATI came around!)
:)
LOLOLOL!
Thanks guys, I'm enjoying this immensely.
p.s. Rob - the "new and improved" Slashdot ROCKS. I actually read through all the comments now!
No need to set up pop accounts, anyway...
me@slashdot.org aliases to me@myisp.com
Just for the prestige, of course!
Now, how much would you pay? And Rob could throw in a free set of Ginsu knives...
I like it Rob. I think -5 to 5 might be a better range, e.g. let the moderators moderate the "first post!" and "meept!" posts down to -5 with no penalty. Gives you a nice range to play with there.
:)
I've noticed that when I see a +2, +3, etc, that it's usually a good post, so a large part of those 400+ moderators seem to be doing a good job.
I don't have the time to scan through all the noise to read the good stuff, so I am very thankful that you are doing this - WITHOUT censoring anyone.
This is just another nail in NT's coffin. The content of the article? No, the fact that CNN carried it on their website.
I think the media is beginning to see that Micro$oft is not necessarily the only game in town.
1999 IS the Year of the Penguin
I agree. I usually enjoy Jon's writing, but those darned ????'s really are annoying.
I've seen this problem on several sites, usually where the text came from a Mac and was being displayed on a *nix box.
Is there a simple fix?
As was said before, it's a ranking, not a censoring...
I like the new setup, but I'd prefer to have the default threshold (for 1st time viewers, and people who are not logged in) set to -1000 (or whatever the lowest number is).
Thanks CmdrTaco & Hemos, I appreciate all of your hard work.