md5 or other checksums do not guarantee bit-for-bit integrity. They are just a way to gain confidence about the integrity of files without resorting to a much slower bit-for-bit comparison.
I agree! The vendor should also host a community site (forums, faqs, howtos, wiki, knowledge base, etc) for customers that use Linux on their laptops. Also, they should help underwrite the costs of existing community sites like http://tuxmobil.org/
They should also make every effort to help the community make sleep, powersaving and other laptop specific features work well on their hardware.
EmperorLinux sells the previous generation laptop, the Sharp Actius MM10,which they call the
Meteor,
with Linux preinstalled and optimized.
I imagine they'll support the newer one soon. Note: they will install Linux on existing laptops if you purchased yours elsewhere.
The lack of retention in USB connectors has always been an annoyance. I've found the shape memory in cable jackets tend to have enough force to disconnect USB cables from hub ports.
I think a true RS-232 serial port with an RJ-45 connector would be a better compromise.
popup menus, pie menus, tear-off feature
on
Film Gimp
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* Fix the damn popup right-click menu to something faster to navigate-- top of screen is good;
I tend to agree mostly because the Gimp menus are very deep. Having the menus across the top of the window eliminates one level of click-n-drag.
maybe pie menus would be better.
I agree, this would be the best solution
because the menus could be accessed from
any point like the current popups but navigating through them would be much more like a gesture.
Until some other choice is available you can always leverage the tear-off feature of the popups
so that important subsections of the menus can
persist like palette dialogs.
Showscan, a format used for ride films and other LBE, used a frame-rate of 60fps.
I've heard anecdotal evidence that it was `too real' for the cinema experience.
I haven't seen Showscan myself but I have seen those annoying artifacts of the low frame rate of regular cinema which occur on pans across certain types of detail and action.
I believe Pixar reframed and rerendered A Bug's Life
for the video release (full 4:3 frame). Of course
more people will buy the DVD/VHS than would go to
the IMAX theatre.
I think the ability to store metadata associated
with a file is useful, but I'd prefer not to
enforce the available attributes and instead
would like a system similar to that provided by
SGI's XFS filesystem. In addition to the
normal Un*x attributes you can supply
arbitrary name=value attributes. Unfortunately,
NFS 2 and 3 don't make those extended
attributes available although I believe the designers of NFS4
will be considering this issue.
see also:
Using strong ciphers in strong
configurations, you can raise
the difficulty of a cryptanalytic
attack so high that it's by far
more efficient to cryptanalyze
the person instead.
I've heard that termed
rubber hose cryptoanalysis...
The question I have is: what video card (besides the #9) supports the SGI's funky (yet wonderful) 1600x1024 resolution?
The first crop of SGI Intel-based workstations, the 320 and 540 series, supported the 1600SW out of the box with their Cobalt chipset. The SGI O2 could also drive it with a special adapter.
It's really kind of sad that the industry went with the other digitial signalling technology, which is encumbered by patents and limited in resolution. Check out SGI's whitepapers on the subject. I think the new MultiLink Adapter is way overpriced. They should include it with the monitor IMHO.
SGI used interleaved memory to achieve high bandwidth. For example, the Indigo2 and Indy had banks of 4 72pin SIMMS and two-way interleaving. Even the O2 reqires two 288bit DIMMs to be added at a time. The Challenge/Onyx class machines could be configured with anywhere from 1-1 to 8-1 interleaving depending on how many memory boards they had.
In contrast even `high end' Intel server motherboards like the L440GX+ Lancewood are expanded one DIMM at a time and have only 4 DIMM slots. Compare that to the Indy, Indigo2 and O2 which had 8, 12 and 8 memory slots respectively. The Challenge class machines could have dozens of memory slots.
Would PC server consumers choose higher bandwidth or lower cost?
umm..windows already boots from a PROM system - SGIs new line of PCs have no BIOS.
I believe the SGI's Visual Workstation 320/540 was designed with W2K ( the horror, the horror)in mind hence the USB and FireWire. They needed to create a custom HAL to get Windoze NT4 to boot and custom drivers so that USB mice and keyboards could be used. I don't believe you could run Windoze 9[5|8] on those boxes.
BTW, Linux boots from that ok too.
Yes, but Linux is a Real Operating System (tm)
I'd be very happy to see an Intel-based server that had a real PROM monitor. One like SGI's that makes it trivial to do network booting and use a text terminal as a console. It would also eliminate the need for VGA, mouse and keyboard ports. Real servers are headless! Unfortunately, COTS hardware is designed for Windoze, so if you want the advantages of cheap/fast hardware, you usually get stuck with crap like the BIOS.
The availability of Open Inventor on Linux would make it much easier to build compelling 3D applications on that platform. Releasing it under an Open Source license would be killer! Please make it happen SGI. While you're at it, please do the same with the ImageVision Library.
The big problem right now for AMD is the fact that Intel has their L2 cache integrated on the die, and will allow their processors to ramp up in speed without the degredation of L2 speed (which will occur with the athlon).
AMD needs to get on die L2 soon, the 1/2, 1/3 divider for processor memory is really bad news.
The Athlon may have off die L2 cache but it has a huge, 128KB on die L1 cache. Coppermine only has 256KB on die L2 cache.
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md5 or other checksums do not guarantee bit-for-bit integrity. They are just a way to gain confidence about the integrity of files without resorting to a much slower bit-for-bit comparison.
Thanks for the chuckle! I almost did a spit take on my monitor!
I agree! The vendor should also host a community site (forums, faqs, howtos, wiki, knowledge base, etc) for customers that use Linux on their laptops.
Also, they should help underwrite the costs of existing community sites like http://tuxmobil.org/
They should also make every effort to help the community make sleep, powersaving and other laptop
specific features work well on their hardware.
EmperorLinux sells the previous generation laptop, the Sharp Actius MM10,which they call the Meteor, with Linux preinstalled and optimized. I imagine they'll support the newer one soon. Note: they will install Linux on existing laptops if you purchased yours elsewhere.
Ahh, A voice of reason!
The lack of retention in USB connectors
has always been an annoyance. I've found
the shape memory in cable jackets tend to
have enough force to disconnect USB cables
from hub ports.
I think a true RS-232 serial port with an
RJ-45 connector would be a better compromise.
I agree, this would be the best solution because the menus could be accessed from any point like the current popups but navigating through them would be much more like a gesture.
Until some other choice is available you can always leverage the tear-off feature of the popups so that important subsections of the menus can persist like palette dialogs.
Showscan, a format used for ride films and
other LBE, used a frame-rate of 60fps.
I've heard anecdotal evidence that it was
`too real' for the cinema experience.
I haven't seen Showscan myself but I have
seen those annoying artifacts of the low
frame rate of regular cinema which occur
on pans across certain types of detail
and action.
I believe Pixar reframed and rerendered A Bug's Life for the video release (full 4:3 frame). Of course more people will buy the DVD/VHS than would go to the IMAX theatre.
the memory system is two-way interleaved so it shouldn't be that bad a bottleneck.
--
I've heard that termed rubber hose cryptoanalysis ...
Only the runtime for Open Inventor was supplied with IRIX. The developer kit was always available for an extra charge (until now I guess).
Anyway this is very exciting news!
The first crop of SGI Intel-based workstations, the 320 and 540 series, supported the 1600SW out of the box with their Cobalt chipset. The SGI O2 could also drive it with a special adapter.
It's really kind of sad that the industry went with the other digitial signalling technology, which is encumbered by patents and limited in resolution. Check out SGI's whitepapers on the subject. I think the new MultiLink Adapter is way overpriced. They should include it with the monitor IMHO.
SGI used interleaved memory to achieve high bandwidth. For example, the Indigo2 and Indy had banks of 4 72pin SIMMS and two-way interleaving. Even the O2 reqires two 288bit DIMMs to be added at a time. The Challenge/Onyx class machines could be configured with anywhere from 1-1 to 8-1 interleaving depending on how many memory boards they had.
In contrast even `high end' Intel server motherboards like the L440GX+ Lancewood are expanded one DIMM at a time and have only 4 DIMM slots. Compare that to the Indy, Indigo2 and O2 which had 8, 12 and 8 memory slots respectively. The Challenge class machines could have dozens of memory slots.
Would PC server consumers choose higher bandwidth or lower cost?
Miranda Technologies, Inc already makes an SDI to/from Firewire converter called the DV-Bridge .
gruntvald meant 20 minutes per server, not per workstation you dimwit.
Samba runs on the server, not the client.
I believe the SGI's Visual Workstation 320/540 was designed with W2K ( the horror, the horror )in mind hence the USB and FireWire. They needed to create a custom HAL to get Windoze NT4 to boot and custom drivers so that USB mice and keyboards could be used. I don't believe you could run Windoze 9[5|8] on those boxes.
Yes, but Linux is a Real Operating System (tm)
I'd be very happy to see an Intel-based server that had a real PROM monitor. One like SGI's that makes it trivial to do network booting and use a text terminal as a console. It would also eliminate the need for VGA, mouse and keyboard ports. Real servers are headless! Unfortunately, COTS hardware is designed for Windoze, so if you want the advantages of cheap/fast hardware, you usually get stuck with crap like the BIOS.
The availability of Open Inventor on Linux would make it much easier to build compelling 3D applications on that platform. Releasing it under an Open Source license would be killer! Please make it happen SGI. While you're at it, please do the same with the ImageVision Library .
(July 20, 1999) SGI and NVIDIA Form Strategic Alliance, Settle Patent Litigation
which is surprising considering that Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is already standardized and available.
SGI's current Linux offerings are targeted at the server market, not the desktop. I'm not sure what the future holds though.
Check your facts!
Wed Dec 8 - After U.S. Markets Closed
I think Yahoo! is a great example of a site that makes its content accessible to all browsers. Especially, when chrome is the norm.
Secure that shit Hudson! ;-)
This time it's war
The Athlon may have off die L2 cache but it has a huge, 128KB on die L1 cache. Coppermine only has 256KB on die L2 cache.