Technically, if they patented it, then the method should be fully documented in the patent, which means it is not a secret. This was the whole point of patents, to encourage people to share information while still having it be protected.
I don't have old Pentiums to give away. I don't even have decent 486s to give away. By the time I'm done with something, it is seriously outdated. I had a real hard time getting rid of some 486sx25 machines and 386s w/ virtually no RAM last fall.
As other people mention, you can get PCI-PCI bridges (either a motherboard with more slots, or an external expansion cage), but they have problems as other people mention.
Also, you will run out of IRQs. Sure IRQ sharing is nice, but high performance cards like firewire and really good videos cards don't like to share.
If you really are serious about the toys (meaning, you want them to work well), then you should look into two machines, and getting peripherals onboard. For instance, buy Ultra2 scsi and intel ethernet motherboards, and dedicate one machine to general useage, and the other to video and sound. Since video editing can be done on anymachine (not just machines with capture), if you can't afford a great editing machine, then just make the video machine a k6-2, and only capture on it, then edit on the athlon.
After someone mentioned that Blender was guestural (I knew it was but didn't make this connection till recently), I dragged out my wacom tablet and gave blender another spin (I do some work in it, but always found it a pain before), and using the tablet, suddenly blender is a lot more intuitive.
So, how do you add interesting texture to you compositions? I admit that I use difference clouds a fair amount (and just plain noises sometimes to), but I don't really know of a better way at this time. Perhaps if there was a way to apply a function to the image, and one of the presets was just plain noise, and another was render difference clouds, I could learn to do my own thing. But, till then...
Because, if you tell headquarters where you are going, they will tell you not to go there. Just like the way you don't tell your mom your going out to get drugs.
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I have debian, but it say's it couldn't find that package. Are you running the stable, unstable, or testing branch?
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Yeah, but the price of Jar Jar is coming down. Slowly. If ILM would free their proprietary software, then the price would really fall.
Character animation is one of my interests. Specifically how to proceduralize parts and add more human control to other parts. I'm thinking of getting a Masters in a related area.
Just get a few people to work in different areas to leave there speakers on a little too loud, then subscribe to the linux kernel mailing list. Then, YOU'VE GOT MAIL 300 times a day or so.
Darn it, there are all these things which should be stable enough for me to use, but they don't seem to want to work together. I want almost all the patches that you mention at the same time (don't care about IPsec since machine is behind a NAT wall). I running a multiproc workstation and I'm stressing it hard at times. Every bit of performance helps.
Because of BeOS being closed source, I've kept a keen eye on AtheOS for over a year. However, until recently you couldn't boot without DOS. I don't have DOS. I don't even have the sorta DOS thing that comes with Windows 9x. So, I couldn't try AtheOS. I noticed that they recently were adding grub support. I also don't have grub. But at least I can fairly easily get it. Installing grub is on the long list of things to do. Once that's done I plan to install AtheOS on a spare partition.
Once I do, I still will have the major problem I have with BeOS. Lack of 3D support. I might have the capabilities to port plain Mesa, but I'm nowhere near good enough to try and get hardware support going in something as complex as mesa. Considering that 3D hardware support under linux is rather flaky, I think it will be a long time till there is good enough support under any other free OS. The only way out of that is for some people to get together and design a "free" video card. I'm not sure that I feel capable of doing that either, but someday I might try. I don't need the speed of a Geforce for most things. I only need the speed of a riva128, except with more features (I want a card that thinks like an SGI video subsystem. Might not be super fast, but they are mostly feature complete, except the Indys.). But even that card runs a over 100mhz, and designing your own cards becomes really difficult as you move past 30 some mhz. Still, something to look into. The SGI Indigo machines were pretty good, and I don't know that anything except the frame buffer memory and ramdac ran faster than 33mhz until they came out with the r4k processors and then system speed was still only 50mhz (the CPU was clock doubled like a 486/66).
First, keep in mind that JFS and ext3 are not yet up to production quality. Currently the only choices are reiserfs, ext2, ramfs, or XFS. I think that those four file systems can coexist together better than GNOME and KDE have been coexisting these past few years.
I intend to be using all 4 in production systems before then end of the year. On both my primary workstation and my primary file server I will be using ext2 for boot. The file server will run reiserfs on a lvm system on a hardware raid5. reiserfs is chosen (currently I'm testing it on a seperate machine) because of it's excellence at handling thousands and thousands of small files. This important for a source code and data repository. The file server is expected to have about 200gigs.
The workstation will have an XFS striped set of IDE harddrives on a promisetech IDE controller. This will probably be a 60-80gig stripe. It will used to hold video and other other media data while it is being worked on.
The firewall will have an ATA compact flash drive formated with ext2 and a ramfs file system for/var which will be periodicall backed up to the file server.
I don't know where ext3 or JFS will fit into the picture, but the current major file systems all have their place, and people don't need to fight over what to use where.
Actually, the graphic style has little to do with whether it is worthy of your computer. Cartoon shader rendering is extremely CPU (and GPU) intensive, so sticking with the existing graphic style could be extremely cutting edge. Conversely, they could do it with sprites and produce something that could've run flawlessly on a Sega Saturn. So, you see, the graphic style doesn't dictate the what wastes the PS2.
You are correct about needing a trusted terminal. A lot of media companies are starting to get a clue and realize that trusted clients are the only way to secure their media.
Unfortunatly, they don't realize (well, maybe they do, but are hoping the average person won't notice) that I and presumeably most/.ers don't want our clients to be trusted by anyone. If the media company needs to trust something, I want them to trust me rather than my computer, and if they don't trust me, I'd rather not do business with them (although I break down and buy lots of DVDs any way, and just go and violate their trust in my machine).
I'm looking at a PC using a strongarm board. What version of windows am I to run on this? What about the Ultrasparc boxs and alpha boxes? Their all PCs too.
Some free MS and MS partner software can be run through Wine. Also, it can be handy to have a proxy that lies about what browser you are using. Like when you visit a site that says it requires IE 5.5 and won't except any other browsers. I've been known to surf the MS web from my home linux only machines (I have two linux only machines, and a linux machine with a windows partition to make Wine run better).
Before this aquisition, the main players were Oracle and IBM (think DB2). I'm not sure why this aquisition was thought nescesary.
To those who say what about MS SQL, well... MS SQL is easy to use. It main threat is that it is easy to use and cheap to get so people keep trying to use it in places that Oracle should be used. MS in turn tries to accomodate these people, so while MS SQL isn' too much of a threat yet, it each new version moves it further up the scale of what it can do. I'd say at least two more versions are needed before it will really be ready for a direct assult on Oracle or DB2.
As a fairly poor undergrad, I can see that this would help undergrads (who frequently have to pay for a lot of their research out of their own pockets) wanting to do research projects. I doubt that it will happen in time to help me (there are a lot of articles from many fields that relate to computer science at least a little that I've wanted to read).
Do you know of any tutorials for making USB devices? In the back of one of my architecture books are instructions for making simple ISA cards, but I've never seen an equiv. for USB.
Every since I first say Earth Final Conflict (EFC), the only near future world of Gene Rodenberry's, I've be obsessed with two technolodgies on the show. The first is the Holo-Lilly (no longer featured, was from when Auger was around and Lily wasn't dead). The other (and more relevant here) is the handheld computers that they have. Those things are soo cool. An expandable screen. Lots of CPU power. And built in wireless networking and a video camera.
This new Compaq gadget looks like a step in the right direction. We just need to work on a cloth with embedded display that can go ridgid when current is applied.
Some how I just don't see that working at my school. I have on occasion brought in a notebook with a largeish hd (1 gig, but it is a 486) and highjacked an unused machines IP.
But all the machines around here see to be known, and IPs fairly closely accounted for. I might be able to slip a machine into a closet, but I don't know what I would do for an IP. On the upside, some departments are switching to dhcp. When they do my prospects might be better.
A well designed version of dselect would be an ideal project. All the major hard work is done thanks to dpackage modules for python. You could use glade to easily build the gui, or ncurses to make a text interface.
While dselect works fairly nicely, I frequently screw things up in a big way because dselect expects too much of the user. For instance, instead of allowing the users to review changes to be made, it just makes them all at once. Sometimes something significant slips by when looking over long dependency lists.
A specific gripe I have is that sometimes it doesn't let me override the depenecie checkings system. At times I want to do this because I plan to install that particular component via a source build.
So, to summarize, redesigning dselect has everything needed for an ideal project. It has a horrid user interface to a complex process. It has the tools available so that anyone can attempt to replace it (ie dpkg-pythion), and it has a really large user base.
So that what we should do in protest. Every one run out and buy this CD, and then try it in every machine you can find until it doesn't work in one then return it. If it won't work in computers or anti-skip cd-players, then that rules me out. I only have a computer, an anti skip discman, and an anti-skip indash in my car.
Hmm, it seems to me that the way that Windows Media Player (WMP) plays CDs is pretty much the same as the way that cdparanoia rips them. Meaning, that WMP reads the digital data straight off the disk rather than using the CD-ROMs analog playback facilities. I don't imagine people will be happy with CDs that won't play in their PC.
Even if it does break WMP, a lot of people have a straight digital (S/PDIF, but wrong voltage) connection between their sound card and CD-ROM. This means that CD playing programs that don't know about digital audio extraction can still have all the great sound of digital playback (in my experience, the DAC in a good sound card is better than the DAC in a CDROM, but getting an external DAC is even better, which is why digital out on sound cards is nice).
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Technically, if they patented it, then the method should be fully documented in the patent, which means it is not a secret. This was the whole point of patents, to encourage people to share information while still having it be protected.
I don't have old Pentiums to give away. I don't even have decent 486s to give away. By the time I'm done with something, it is seriously outdated. I had a real hard time getting rid of some 486sx25 machines and 386s w/ virtually no RAM last fall.
As other people mention, you can get PCI-PCI bridges (either a motherboard with more slots, or an external expansion cage), but they have problems as other people mention.
Also, you will run out of IRQs. Sure IRQ sharing is nice, but high performance cards like firewire and really good videos cards don't like to share.
If you really are serious about the toys (meaning, you want them to work well), then you should look into two machines, and getting peripherals onboard. For instance, buy Ultra2 scsi and intel ethernet motherboards, and dedicate one machine to general useage, and the other to video and sound. Since video editing can be done on anymachine (not just machines with capture), if you can't afford a great editing machine, then just make the video machine a k6-2, and only capture on it, then edit on the athlon.
After someone mentioned that Blender was guestural (I knew it was but didn't make this connection till recently), I dragged out my wacom tablet and gave blender another spin (I do some work in it, but always found it a pain before), and using the tablet, suddenly blender is a lot more intuitive.
So, how do you add interesting texture to you compositions? I admit that I use difference clouds a fair amount (and just plain noises sometimes to), but I don't really know of a better way at this time. Perhaps if there was a way to apply a function to the image, and one of the presets was just plain noise, and another was render difference clouds, I could learn to do my own thing. But, till then...
Because, if you tell headquarters where you are going, they will tell you not to go there. Just like the way you don't tell your mom your going out to get drugs.
I have debian, but it say's it couldn't find that package. Are you running the stable, unstable, or testing branch?
Yeah, but the price of Jar Jar is coming down. Slowly. If ILM would free their proprietary software, then the price would really fall.
Character animation is one of my interests. Specifically how to proceduralize parts and add more human control to other parts. I'm thinking of getting a Masters in a related area.
Just get a few people to work in different areas to leave there speakers on a little too loud, then subscribe to the linux kernel mailing list. Then, YOU'VE GOT MAIL 300 times a day or so.
Darn it, there are all these things which should be stable enough for me to use, but they don't seem to want to work together. I want almost all the patches that you mention at the same time (don't care about IPsec since machine is behind a NAT wall). I running a multiproc workstation and I'm stressing it hard at times. Every bit of performance helps.
Because of BeOS being closed source, I've kept a keen eye on AtheOS for over a year. However, until recently you couldn't boot without DOS. I don't have DOS. I don't even have the sorta DOS thing that comes with Windows 9x. So, I couldn't try AtheOS. I noticed that they recently were adding grub support. I also don't have grub. But at least I can fairly easily get it. Installing grub is on the long list of things to do. Once that's done I plan to install AtheOS on a spare partition.
Once I do, I still will have the major problem I have with BeOS. Lack of 3D support. I might have the capabilities to port plain Mesa, but I'm nowhere near good enough to try and get hardware support going in something as complex as mesa. Considering that 3D hardware support under linux is rather flaky, I think it will be a long time till there is good enough support under any other free OS. The only way out of that is for some people to get together and design a "free" video card. I'm not sure that I feel capable of doing that either, but someday I might try. I don't need the speed of a Geforce for most things. I only need the speed of a riva128, except with more features (I want a card that thinks like an SGI video subsystem. Might not be super fast, but they are mostly feature complete, except the Indys.). But even that card runs a over 100mhz, and designing your own cards becomes really difficult as you move past 30 some mhz. Still, something to look into. The SGI Indigo machines were pretty good, and I don't know that anything except the frame buffer memory and ramdac ran faster than 33mhz until they came out with the r4k processors and then system speed was still only 50mhz (the CPU was clock doubled like a 486/66).
First, keep in mind that JFS and ext3 are not yet up to production quality. Currently the only choices are reiserfs, ext2, ramfs, or XFS. I think that those four file systems can coexist together better than GNOME and KDE have been coexisting these past few years.
/var which will be periodicall backed up to the file server.
I intend to be using all 4 in production systems before then end of the year. On both my primary workstation and my primary file server I will be using ext2 for boot. The file server will run reiserfs on a lvm system on a hardware raid5. reiserfs is chosen (currently I'm testing it on a seperate machine) because of it's excellence at handling thousands and thousands of small files. This important for a source code and data repository. The file server is expected to have about 200gigs.
The workstation will have an XFS striped set of IDE harddrives on a promisetech IDE controller. This will probably be a 60-80gig stripe. It will used to hold video and other other media data while it is being worked on.
The firewall will have an ATA compact flash drive formated with ext2 and a ramfs file system for
I don't know where ext3 or JFS will fit into the picture, but the current major file systems all have their place, and people don't need to fight over what to use where.
Actually, the graphic style has little to do with whether it is worthy of your computer. Cartoon shader rendering is extremely CPU (and GPU) intensive, so sticking with the existing graphic style could be extremely cutting edge. Conversely, they could do it with sprites and produce something that could've run flawlessly on a Sega Saturn. So, you see, the graphic style doesn't dictate the what wastes the PS2.
You are correct about needing a trusted terminal. A lot of media companies are starting to get a clue and realize that trusted clients are the only way to secure their media.
/.ers don't want our clients to be trusted by anyone. If the media company needs to trust something, I want them to trust me rather than my computer, and if they don't trust me, I'd rather not do business with them (although I break down and buy lots of DVDs any way, and just go and violate their trust in my machine).
Unfortunatly, they don't realize (well, maybe they do, but are hoping the average person won't notice) that I and presumeably most
I'm looking at a PC using a strongarm board. What version of windows am I to run on this? What about the Ultrasparc boxs and alpha boxes? Their all PCs too.
Some free MS and MS partner software can be run through Wine. Also, it can be handy to have a proxy that lies about what browser you are using. Like when you visit a site that says it requires IE 5.5 and won't except any other browsers. I've been known to surf the MS web from my home linux only machines (I have two linux only machines, and a linux machine with a windows partition to make Wine run better).
Before this aquisition, the main players were Oracle and IBM (think DB2). I'm not sure why this aquisition was thought nescesary.
To those who say what about MS SQL, well... MS SQL is easy to use. It main threat is that it is easy to use and cheap to get so people keep trying to use it in places that Oracle should be used. MS in turn tries to accomodate these people, so while MS SQL isn' too much of a threat yet, it each new version moves it further up the scale of what it can do. I'd say at least two more versions are needed before it will really be ready for a direct assult on Oracle or DB2.
As a fairly poor undergrad, I can see that this would help undergrads (who frequently have to pay for a lot of their research out of their own pockets) wanting to do research projects. I doubt that it will happen in time to help me (there are a lot of articles from many fields that relate to computer science at least a little that I've wanted to read).
Do you know of any tutorials for making USB devices? In the back of one of my architecture books are instructions for making simple ISA cards, but I've never seen an equiv. for USB.
Generally, I've liked Gene Rodenberry's worlds (Star Trek, Earth Final Conflict, Andromeda).
Every since I first say Earth Final Conflict (EFC), the only near future world of Gene Rodenberry's, I've be obsessed with two technolodgies on the show. The first is the Holo-Lilly (no longer featured, was from when Auger was around and Lily wasn't dead). The other (and more relevant here) is the handheld computers that they have. Those things are soo cool. An expandable screen. Lots of CPU power. And built in wireless networking and a video camera.
This new Compaq gadget looks like a step in the right direction. We just need to work on a cloth with embedded display that can go ridgid when current is applied.
Some how I just don't see that working at my school. I have on occasion brought in a notebook with a largeish hd (1 gig, but it is a 486) and highjacked an unused machines IP.
But all the machines around here see to be known, and IPs fairly closely accounted for. I might be able to slip a machine into a closet, but I don't know what I would do for an IP. On the upside, some departments are switching to dhcp. When they do my prospects might be better.
A well designed version of dselect would be an ideal project. All the major hard work is done thanks to dpackage modules for python. You could use glade to easily build the gui, or ncurses to make a text interface.
While dselect works fairly nicely, I frequently screw things up in a big way because dselect expects too much of the user. For instance, instead of allowing the users to review changes to be made, it just makes them all at once. Sometimes something significant slips by when looking over long dependency lists.
A specific gripe I have is that sometimes it doesn't let me override the depenecie checkings system. At times I want to do this because I plan to install that particular component via a source build.
So, to summarize, redesigning dselect has everything needed for an ideal project. It has a horrid user interface to a complex process. It has the tools available so that anyone can attempt to replace it (ie dpkg-pythion), and it has a really large user base.
So that what we should do in protest. Every one run out and buy this CD, and then try it in every machine you can find until it doesn't work in one then return it. If it won't work in computers or anti-skip cd-players, then that rules me out. I only have a computer, an anti skip discman, and an anti-skip indash in my car.
Hmm, it seems to me that the way that Windows Media Player (WMP) plays CDs is pretty much the same as the way that cdparanoia rips them. Meaning, that WMP reads the digital data straight off the disk rather than using the CD-ROMs analog playback facilities. I don't imagine people will be happy with CDs that won't play in their PC.
Even if it does break WMP, a lot of people have a straight digital (S/PDIF, but wrong voltage) connection between their sound card and CD-ROM. This means that CD playing programs that don't know about digital audio extraction can still have all the great sound of digital playback (in my experience, the DAC in a good sound card is better than the DAC in a CDROM, but getting an external DAC is even better, which is why digital out on sound cards is nice).
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/. header said. It is just an update and a name change.
The new version of the operating system, formerly called OS/390
See guys, it isn't a new OS like the