The problem with Linux is that it's an open source system, so if you are having issues or difficulties with its stability, it's like pushing on a rope; there's no single vendor to deal with.
Funny, I thought the open source thing was the best part! Go figure.
Do you have _any_ idea how they make these "certified" cables in the factory? A good hand crimp is easily more reliable than a robot arm crimping 1000 times a minute.
Are you one of those people who believe processors must be installed by Certified Technicians?
VHF/UHF has been used heavily by mariners/fishermen for years. I'm sure there are alternatives in the RF spectrum that are just as suitable as UHF 52-69.
Not everyone spends thier weekends behind a CRT. Boaters need these channels. I'm always an advocate for progress, but please keep your pr0n dls the F out of my boat... thx.
When I think of the main issues I had running linux on my IBM T20, I think of: Xfree86 Savage 3 Driver Crystal Audio Sound Driver eepro 100 NIC Driver
Did IBM have anything to do with the development of these drivers? I doubt it. IBM did squat for me, getting linux running on my laptop. Look to sites like http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html for some actual help.
I love what IBM is doing for Linux as a whole, but saying they're dropping support, is like Bin Laden saying hes dropping all peace efforts.
That's not a modem... Whats not a modem? PCI modems aren't modems? Do they MODulate and DEModulate? Yes. Of course they're modems. Please explain if I'm missing something here.
...drivers for real modems.. Real modems? I'm not sure where you're going here, it sounds like you're talking about WinModems, which of course are not modems. My PCI modem is _not_ a winmodem, its a "hardware" modem.
The drivers for real modems are sets of AT commands You mean it tells windows that dialing ###-#### is done by sending
AT S0 999 9999
to the modem? (yes, I don't know my AT cmds anymore)
Wouldn't that mean I could just use hyperterminal to access the modem, without installing drivers? Well I can't, until I install the drivers.
Maybe you're speaking about modems under Linux, which I haven't tried, due to the fact that cable Internet has been around for years... and before, as you can tell, I dialed my ISP using Bill's OS.
Modem drivers are much more than a AT command set for a modem. Every PCI modem I've used required a driver before you could even pass AT commands on to the modem.
Its not like Incubus is going to start driving trucks with their cds and selling out of their van. And neither will the Rolling Stones start boxing up their cds to send to fed ex. Making all those cds, packaging them, and paying the music store employees all cost...you guess it, money!
Ya how would Incubus ever figuire out how to burn CDs, print labels, slide them in in jewel cases and sell them from the band's site. Pure madness.
On another note, my granda seems to have figuired out the whole cd recording, color printing thing. She must have secretly received a PhD in optical duplication and printing.
And I thought she was baking cookies the whole time.
Is this MIT funded box, or are you so hardcore you spent all this $$$ just for the debian cause? Either way you rule.
Internet2: Is this really just a protocol I can compile into my kernel, configure a few things and just punch in a ipv6 link? Or is it much more complicated than that, requiring special network hardware and access. I'd love to play around with it, I'm sure we'll all make the switch one day, I'd like to be ready.
My company implemented thin clients (120+ users, NT Terminal Server) and it failed miserably. The main problem is bandwidth.
Sure a local dumb terminal setup with spry servers and Uberl33t LTSP or Solaris might offer usable performance over a highly tuned 100baseT switched network, but diconnect that cat5 and replace it with cable/DSL internet access and say goodbye to productivity.
Can you imagine logging into work using DSL, using your brand new shiny Sun terminal box, then clicking a 10meg production report?
In a LAN scenario this takes a completely tolerable 5 seconds, but over DSL? You're looking at 5 -10 minutes.
Network terminals using anything below 100baseT is just plain wrong. I really can't see anything useful coming out this technology until we all have fiber in our homes.
"The initial flood of data packets overwhelmed one of Yahoo!'s main routers at speeds higher than 1 gigabit per second, the equivalent of more than 3.5 million average e-mail messages every minute."
What's an average e-mail message? 1 gigabit = ~125 MB When I archive (yes... outlook) my older emails I can barely fit a month on a CD... and I'm nowhere near 3.5 million emails. I guess this would make sense if a person never received any images or Pr0n.... err ya right.
"By the time it was over, the Yahoo! attack alone would involve enough data to fill 630 pickup trucks with paper."
Pickup trucks? What happened to dump trucks? I don't know about you but my step side pickup box is not a best way of expressing filesize.
Customer: So, how much can this new Zip disk hold? Computer Store Guy: About 6 or 7 Miata trunks, but more like 5 if you have a boombox.
Why use demented, obscure layman terms that only serve to confuse the public and endorse automotive storage space as an acceptable means of descriping data storage capacity? I'd continue, but I hear you can only post 3 gloveboxes at a time.
One guy worked all day without a good strap and everything he touched zapped. He fried about 20,000 cpus that day.
Was this guy licking the sockets or using the chips to fluff up shag carpet?
This is pure BS. Don't touch the pins! Hold chips and PCBs by the edges in a non-conductive area. If you follow this rule, you can run around on shag carpet and never fry a single part.
"Then why can't I get the latest driver to compile with a 2.4.18 kernel ?"
Because you're doing something wrong. I'm running 2.4.18 on 5 boxes using TNT,TNT2,Geforce,Geforce3. The Nvidia drivers work fine.
Some tips: - Recompile your kernel, don't include framebuffer support, REBOOT! - Be sure to use SYSINCLUDE=/usr/srcpath (its in the README) when making the GLX and kernel NVIDIA drivers.
I don't understand why anyone would complain about Nvidia's Linux drivers. Sure they crash occasionally, ya they're not 100% open source. But they run OpenGL games very well, they're updated extremely frequently.
And on the subject of stability, what are people comparing these Nvidia Linux drivers to? The rock solid stability of the Windows Detonator drivers? LOL... ooops
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Or they weren't anal enough to care about syntax. If the point is understood, does it really matter how it is delivered?
The problem with Linux is that it's an open source system, so if you are having issues or difficulties with its stability, it's like pushing on a rope; there's no single vendor to deal with.
Funny, I thought the open source thing was the best part! Go figure.
Where's your video card? Or were you planning on playing Xbox games on an integrated Intel "3D" chip.
You forgot the most expensive part of the entire Xbox, the ~GF3!
Do you have _any_ idea how they make these "certified" cables in the factory? A good hand crimp is easily more reliable than a robot arm crimping 1000 times a minute.
Are you one of those people who believe processors must be installed by Certified Technicians?
VHF/UHF has been used heavily by mariners/fishermen for years. I'm sure there are alternatives in the RF spectrum that are just as suitable as UHF 52-69.
Not everyone spends thier weekends behind a CRT. Boaters need these channels. I'm always an advocate for progress, but please keep your pr0n dls the F out of my boat... thx.
A couple solid choices for Canadians are
Premier Computers Canada
or
Canada Computers
They sell parts on the cheap and have great return policies.
When I think of the main issues I had running linux on my IBM T20, I think of:
Xfree86 Savage 3 Driver
Crystal Audio Sound Driver
eepro 100 NIC Driver
Did IBM have anything to do with the development of these drivers? I doubt it.
IBM did squat for me, getting linux running on my laptop. Look to sites like http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html for some actual help.
I love what IBM is doing for Linux as a whole, but saying they're dropping support, is like Bin Laden saying hes dropping all peace efforts.
That's not a modem...
...drivers for real modems..
Whats not a modem? PCI modems aren't modems? Do they MODulate and DEModulate? Yes. Of course they're modems. Please explain if I'm missing something here.
Real modems? I'm not sure where you're going here, it sounds like you're talking about WinModems, which of course are not modems. My PCI modem is _not_ a winmodem, its a "hardware" modem.
The drivers for real modems are sets of AT commands
You mean it tells windows that dialing ###-#### is done by sending
AT S0 999 9999
to the modem? (yes, I don't know my AT cmds anymore)
Wouldn't that mean I could just use hyperterminal to access the modem, without installing drivers? Well I can't, until I install the drivers.
Maybe you're speaking about modems under Linux, which I haven't tried, due to the fact that cable Internet has been around for years... and before, as you can tell, I dialed my ISP using Bill's OS.
Cheers
Doesn't this sound a bit like Russia saying the US could never challenge Afganistan during the early stages of the war on terrorism.
Why do people who get their ass kicked always talk trash when another person steps to the plate?
Pride?
Modem drivers are much more than a AT command set for a modem. Every PCI modem I've used required a driver before you could even pass AT commands on to the modem.
Its not like Incubus is going to start driving trucks with their cds and selling out of their van. And neither will the Rolling Stones start boxing up their cds to send to fed ex. Making all those cds, packaging them, and paying the music store employees all cost...you guess it, money!
Ya how would Incubus ever figuire out how to burn CDs, print labels, slide them in in jewel cases and sell them from the band's site. Pure madness.
On another note, my granda seems to have figuired out the whole cd recording, color printing thing. She must have secretly received a PhD in optical duplication and printing.
And I thought she was baking cookies the whole time.
\me drools
Is this MIT funded box, or are you so hardcore you spent all this $$$ just for the debian cause? Either way you rule.
Internet2:
Is this really just a protocol I can compile into my kernel, configure a few things and just punch in a ipv6 link? Or is it much more complicated than that, requiring special network hardware and access. I'd love to play around with it, I'm sure we'll all make the switch one day, I'd like to be ready.
Thx man
Sweet deb mirror!
This thing hauls ass! You should consider adding the kde debs from kde.tdyc.com. Deb heads would love a spry kde apt source.
Thx MIT
There will never be a 100% secure OS; as security gets tighter and tighter, h4x0rz just get 13333tr.
That's pathetic (the policy, not you). I guarantee that any SYSADMIN _that_ anal is sure to be stockpiling kiddie or dog pR0n.
Wouldn't it be funny if you broke the acceptable use policy to get these dorky sysadmins fired?
I've seen 20 out of 30 of my GXP drives die in the last year. 12 of the drives sent to me after RMA were Refurbished.
It's funny, I don't remember buying a refurbished drive in the first place.
If you can't stand by your good *and* bad products, you don't deserve any of my hard earned $$$.
F IBM
My company implemented thin clients (120+ users, NT Terminal Server) and it failed miserably. The main problem is bandwidth.
.
Sure a local dumb terminal setup with spry servers and Uberl33t LTSP or Solaris might offer usable performance over a highly tuned 100baseT switched network, but diconnect that cat5 and replace it with cable/DSL internet access and say goodbye to productivity.
Can you imagine logging into work using DSL, using your brand new shiny Sun terminal box, then clicking a 10meg production report?
In a LAN scenario this takes a completely tolerable 5 seconds, but over DSL? You're looking at 5 -10 minutes.
Network terminals using anything below 100baseT is just plain wrong. I really can't see anything useful coming out this technology until we all have fiber in our homes
my 2c
This may be true, but one who uses visible tags is even worse.
Where the hell are these statistics coming from?
"The initial flood of data packets overwhelmed one of Yahoo!'s main routers at speeds higher than 1 gigabit per second, the equivalent of more than 3.5 million average e-mail messages every minute."
What's an average e-mail message?
1 gigabit = ~125 MB
When I archive (yes... outlook) my older emails I can barely fit a month on a CD... and I'm nowhere near 3.5 million emails. I guess this would make sense if a person never received any images or Pr0n.... err ya right.
"By the time it was over, the Yahoo! attack alone would involve enough data to fill 630 pickup trucks with paper."
Pickup trucks? What happened to dump trucks? I don't know about you but my step side pickup box is not a best way of expressing filesize.
Customer: So, how much can this new Zip disk hold?
Computer Store Guy: About 6 or 7 Miata trunks, but more like 5 if you have a boombox.
Why use demented, obscure layman terms that only serve to confuse the public and endorse automotive storage space as an acceptable means of descriping data storage capacity?
I'd continue, but I hear you can only post 3 gloveboxes at a time.
Can you play quake on it?
Hey! If you're wasting time, commenting on such an insignificant task, shouldn't _you_ bail?
If you're with such a hearty shop, don't you have more productive, consequential tasks at hand?
One guy worked all day without a good strap and everything he touched zapped. He fried about 20,000 cpus that day.
Was this guy licking the sockets or using the chips to fluff up shag carpet?
This is pure BS. Don't touch the pins! Hold chips and PCBs by the edges in a non-conductive area. If you follow this rule, you can run around on shag carpet and never fry a single part.
Digital Theatres
And there are a few in Canada, most notably:
Famous Players Paramount
259 Richmond St. West
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V3M6
Tel: 416-368-5600
Go raps!
"Then why can't I get the latest driver to compile with a 2.4.18 kernel ?"
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Because you're doing something wrong. I'm running 2.4.18 on 5 boxes using TNT,TNT2,Geforce,Geforce3. The Nvidia drivers work fine.
Some tips:
- Recompile your kernel, don't include framebuffer support, REBOOT!
- Be sure to use SYSINCLUDE=/usr/srcpath (its in the README) when making the GLX and kernel NVIDIA drivers.
I don't understand why anyone would complain about Nvidia's Linux drivers. Sure they crash occasionally, ya they're not 100% open source. But they run OpenGL games very well, they're updated extremely frequently.
And on the subject of stability, what are people comparing these Nvidia Linux drivers to? The rock solid stability of the Windows Detonator drivers? LOL... ooops
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