I've built literally hundreds of computers, all working fine. Using a grounding strap is quite over-rated. As long as you aren't wearing nylon or wool clothing, simply touching a metal part of the case will be fine. In fact, I've never seen any component fried because of static when being removed/installed.
The 'white bit' that he knocked off was probably why the motherboard fried.
What the hell are all those MIT_MAGIC_COOKIE-1 errors that I'm getting from my Xserver?!?
That is usually caused by a process running as some user trying to create a window on an X Server owned by another user. Either make sure that they both run as the same user, or use xauth to fix it (ie xauth list, then xauth add [blah]).
Unfortunately, this appears like the one of the only sensible solutions to piracy. Current technology allows the user to make perfect, redistributable copies. This is quite a major problem considering that media costs money to create.
This is a serious problem that needs to be resolved, without restricting the user's use of their computer/tivo/etc. Basically, someone needs to come up with a fair solution to the rampant piracy that is so common today.
Richard Stallman also seems to be totally oblivious to the fact that large scale, well-written software takes vast amounts of time to produce, not to mention years of practice. I have written free software before, and I use OSS, but in a capitalist society, closed source software is the only truly viable option for a programmer to make money.
Imagine a world with nothing but free software. It just wouldn't work. Most OSS programmers write closed-source software in their spare time.
Put your tinfoil hat away. It won't work. None of this crap will ever sell. Ask yourself the following question?
"Who the fuck will buy a computer that stops them pirating music/films/software?"
Also, read the presentation on how the X-Box was cracked. If you see the skill and dedication of these people, you'll see that it'll be broken wide open within a few days before public release. It only takes one single flaw, and the whole thing falls down like a house of cards.
That may be true in some isolated cases with some high end RAID controllers, but you are making the assumption that a hard disk can read/write any random block at the same speed.
Think about it. If the first drive reads the first 64k block, and the second reads the second 64k block from a contiguous stream, when they have finished, the first drive is pointed at the second 64k block, which has already been read. Hence the purpose of striping.
This is slightly different though. Taping off the radio gives pretty poor sound quality. Ripping a high quality digital stream (with metadata so you can tag it on-the-fly) would yield a copy nearly as good as buying the original.
Unfortunately, the main RIAA customer base is dumb kids who buy manufactured crap like Westlife etc. They will continue to buy that shit and continue to fund these retards.
Read the title of your own post. This is about Linux still being not ready for the desktop. Grandma cannot code C, nor can she hire someone to do it for her.
A piece of hardware not working for Windows is almost unheard of as well, due to its 95% (approx) market share.
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It could possibly make the inside of a water-cooling block more efficent as well. IANAP (I am not a physicist), but wouldn't the increased overall surface area between the coolant and the cooling block lead to a better transfer of heat?
Linux is fine to use, until something goes wrong.. wireless is unfortunately a good example of this. I know two people who were trying to install wireless drivers on their laptops. Both drivers needed kernel headers. One required some very strange methods in order to make it work, and I had to MODIFY THE BLOODY SOURCE CODE to get the other to compile. Unfortunately, most end-users do not know, or care about GNU Make and GCC.
No shit, Sherlock? How about this: "if you happen to fork a large number of processes in C you will get quite a major speed decrease."
The point I was making was that the speed decrease with excessive threads in Java is enormous, hence the need to watch how you code in Java, particularly with stuff like threading. I've also seen an awful lot of over-use of threads in Java, due to how easy it is to create them - which is why I used that as an example.
I code in managed environments (.NET and Java), so I just let some mysterious thing manage performance for me.
.NET/Java help with organising performance issues to a certain extent, however if you happen to create a large number of threads in Java, you will get quite a major speed decrease. Running in a VM isn't an excuse for inefficient code (in fact it can make it even worse in some cases).
Performance can be quite a major thing if you're doing a lot of forking/threading (ie like a daemon). If you create 100 threads, any memory leaks or bottlenecks are multiplied 100 times.
However, 0.1s delay after clicking an 'OK' button is perfectly acceptable. It all depends on what you're coding.
Unfortunately, Matrox's cards aren't anywhere near as good as ATI's/nVidia's. Most people who have Linux installed also have Windows installed, and will simply run games etc from Windows.
Basically, for now, Linux needs ATI/nVidia more than they need Linux.
Hardware development is almost always an insanely expensive process, and drivers - being the link between hardware and software contain many explicit details about the hardware they support - for this reason in many cases it is totally unviable to make them open-source, especially given the relatively small market share Linux has in the desktop.
Although it's an unpopular idea, I think it would be best if an interface for closed-source binary drivers was created, which supported all patches of a given kernel (eg 2.6.0-2.6.5 etc). This would also solve the problems with trying to install 3rd party drivers from source.
/dev/md0 is the entire RAID device. Try an fdisk/dev/md0 to see the partition table.
The mdpart patch allows you to see the actual partitions of your RAID array, not just the whole thing. The original format was/dev/md0p - however I think they've changed it as of this latest release.
Has anyone actually watched the video? The guy is being as much of an obstructive smart ass as possible, and his daughter is in a hysterical and psychotic state.
The police are left with two choices, either to leave them to possibly kill each other, or to take them in for questioning, as they totally refuse to cooperate in public.
This should really be very little to worry about. You all seem to have forgotten that for this to work there needs to be a WLAN client built into each car.. and you can imagine how well that would work.
If it gets too far, then it'll be systematically vandalized like the speed cameras as well.
You seriously cannot expect NVidia to release their IP simply so a handful of people can hack around with the Linux drivers. 99.99% of us really don't give a damn that we can't modify the drivers - only that they work.
Your 'car bonnet' argument is ridiculous. Releasing fully-featured open source drivers would be nearly as bad as releasing the design for the GPU - it's showing everyone a significant part of what makes them money.
The NVidia Linux drivers are simply excellent, and provide among the best 3D support you can get for Linux. Some people are never happy.
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I've built literally hundreds of computers, all working fine. Using a grounding strap is quite over-rated. As long as you aren't wearing nylon or wool clothing, simply touching a metal part of the case will be fine. In fact, I've never seen any component fried because of static when being removed/installed.
The 'white bit' that he knocked off was probably why the motherboard fried.
What the hell are all those MIT_MAGIC_COOKIE-1 errors that I'm getting from my Xserver?!?
That is usually caused by a process running as some user trying to create a window on an X Server owned by another user. Either make sure that they both run as the same user, or use xauth to fix it (ie xauth list, then xauth add [blah]).
Unfortunately, this appears like the one of the only sensible solutions to piracy. Current technology allows the user to make perfect, redistributable copies. This is quite a major problem considering that media costs money to create.
This is a serious problem that needs to be resolved, without restricting the user's use of their computer/tivo/etc. Basically, someone needs to come up with a fair solution to the rampant piracy that is so common today.
Yes, I totally agree.
Richard Stallman also seems to be totally oblivious to the fact that large scale, well-written software takes vast amounts of time to produce, not to mention years of practice. I have written free software before, and I use OSS, but in a capitalist society, closed source software is the only truly viable option for a programmer to make money.
Imagine a world with nothing but free software. It just wouldn't work. Most OSS programmers write closed-source software in their spare time.
Put your tinfoil hat away. It won't work. None of this crap will ever sell. Ask yourself the following question?
"Who the fuck will buy a computer that stops them pirating music/films/software?"
Also, read the presentation on how the X-Box was cracked. If you see the skill and dedication of these people, you'll see that it'll be broken wide open within a few days before public release. It only takes one single flaw, and the whole thing falls down like a house of cards.
That may be true in some isolated cases with some high end RAID controllers, but you are making the assumption that a hard disk can read/write any random block at the same speed.
Think about it. If the first drive reads the first 64k block, and the second reads the second 64k block from a contiguous stream, when they have finished, the first drive is pointed at the second 64k block, which has already been read. Hence the purpose of striping.
This is slightly different though. Taping off the radio gives pretty poor sound quality. Ripping a high quality digital stream (with metadata so you can tag it on-the-fly) would yield a copy nearly as good as buying the original.
Unfortunately, the main RIAA customer base is dumb kids who buy manufactured crap like Westlife etc. They will continue to buy that shit and continue to fund these retards.
Limit the features of the client. That would work great. Just like DVD copy protection. If it's being broadcast, people will be able to record it.
Jesus, who are these asshats?
It just so happened that the XPs beat out the P4 at that same clockrating as well.
Have you been at Mr McBride's crack stash?
The P4 kicks the ass of the XP
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Read the title of your own post. This is about Linux still being not ready for the desktop. Grandma cannot code C, nor can she hire someone to do it for her.
A piece of hardware not working for Windows is almost unheard of as well, due to its 95% (approx) market share.
It could possibly make the inside of a water-cooling block more efficent as well. IANAP (I am not a physicist), but wouldn't the increased overall surface area between the coolant and the cooling block lead to a better transfer of heat?
Linux is fine to use, until something goes wrong.. wireless is unfortunately a good example of this. I know two people who were trying to install wireless drivers on their laptops. Both drivers needed kernel headers. One required some very strange methods in order to make it work, and I had to MODIFY THE BLOODY SOURCE CODE to get the other to compile. Unfortunately, most end-users do not know, or care about GNU Make and GCC.
No shit, Sherlock? How about this: "if you happen to fork a large number of processes in C you will get quite a major speed decrease."
The point I was making was that the speed decrease with excessive threads in Java is enormous, hence the need to watch how you code in Java, particularly with stuff like threading. I've also seen an awful lot of over-use of threads in Java, due to how easy it is to create them - which is why I used that as an example.
I code in managed environments (.NET and Java), so I just let some mysterious thing manage performance for me.
.NET/Java help with organising performance issues to a certain extent, however if you happen to create a large number of threads in Java, you will get quite a major speed decrease. Running in a VM isn't an excuse for inefficient code (in fact it can make it even worse in some cases).
Performance can be quite a major thing if you're doing a lot of forking/threading (ie like a daemon). If you create 100 threads, any memory leaks or bottlenecks are multiplied 100 times.
However, 0.1s delay after clicking an 'OK' button is perfectly acceptable. It all depends on what you're coding.
Because if it's in bits per second, it can be compared to the overall speed of the host's internet connection.
Unfortunately, Matrox's cards aren't anywhere near as good as ATI's/nVidia's. Most people who have Linux installed also have Windows installed, and will simply run games etc from Windows.
Basically, for now, Linux needs ATI/nVidia more than they need Linux.
Hardware development is almost always an insanely expensive process, and drivers - being the link between hardware and software contain many explicit details about the hardware they support - for this reason in many cases it is totally unviable to make them open-source, especially given the relatively small market share Linux has in the desktop.
Although it's an unpopular idea, I think it would be best if an interface for closed-source binary drivers was created, which supported all patches of a given kernel (eg 2.6.0-2.6.5 etc). This would also solve the problems with trying to install 3rd party drivers from source.
/dev/md0 is the entire RAID device. Try an fdisk /dev/md0 to see the partition table.
/dev/md0p - however I think they've changed it as of this latest release.
The mdpart patch allows you to see the actual partitions of your RAID array, not just the whole thing. The original format was
Yes, almost certainly it would. The advantage with mdpart is that you can use it with your windows partition - I'm in a very similar situation to you.
Finally they've included mdpart. This means anyone with a SATA RAID motherboard can use its full potential. Excellent :-)
Has anyone actually watched the video? The guy is being as much of an obstructive smart ass as possible, and his daughter is in a hysterical and psychotic state.
The police are left with two choices, either to leave them to possibly kill each other, or to take them in for questioning, as they totally refuse to cooperate in public.
They both got what they deserved.
This should really be very little to worry about. You all seem to have forgotten that for this to work there needs to be a WLAN client built into each car.. and you can imagine how well that would work.
If it gets too far, then it'll be systematically vandalized like the speed cameras as well.
Do we like or hate IBM then?
You seriously cannot expect NVidia to release their IP simply so a handful of people can hack around with the Linux drivers. 99.99% of us really don't give a damn that we can't modify the drivers - only that they work.
Your 'car bonnet' argument is ridiculous. Releasing fully-featured open source drivers would be nearly as bad as releasing the design for the GPU - it's showing everyone a significant part of what makes them money.
The NVidia Linux drivers are simply excellent, and provide among the best 3D support you can get for Linux. Some people are never happy.