Packard Bell's brand name has changed hands a few times, gone under a few times, been brought back a few times. From what I hear, they aren't the absolutely abyssmal garbage they were pushing back in the early 90's...
I've got Opera (with about 30 windows open), Xfire, Gaim, and several Poker clients all loaded right now, on a 1GB system, and I've got 600MB free out of 1024MB.
I can also load 3ds and photoshop, and still not be significantly over a gig unless i load some huge projects in them.
Q1 was the best of the Quake series, followed by Q3/Q4 and Q2.. Q4 i thought was just the same as Q3 but with improved graphics.. really seemed that way.
I've been bitching up a storm on the Unreal engine forums, about how EVERY game made with Unreal feels like crap compared to Quake...
While I don't at all agree with the insane forms of protection that the companies are putting on the media, Slashdot is definitely showing an editorial bias... "fair-use community"? No such thing. It's either hackers who are doing it to do it, or it's pirates.
Actually, it took hardware situations to make that useful.
In days gone by (dialup) the vast majority of people were connecting using a pipe that had a single bi-directional pipeline that went the same speed both ways. This changed with the advent of 56k modems that were 56kbps down, 28kbps up. The earliest file transfer technology just transferred a single file in one direction at a time. Back in the late 80's, possibly early 90's, someone developed a bi-directional file transfer protocol: You could upload a file to a bulletin board, at the same time you were downloading a file from the same bulletin board (or other user). However, just having a differing speed on the up/down pipe was not the only factor. Packetized transmission, allowing multiple uses of the same pipes, which was also invented way before that difference in hardware speeds had to be applied to the equation as well.
The reason why eDonkey, bittorrent, and others works, is because of BOTH of those things: You have one pipe, that can be connected to multiple places simultaneously, AND has wildly differing up/down speeds. I can upload at 384kbps, but I can download at 10.0Mbps. A similar thing could've been done with T1/T3 connections, which were capable of multiple inbound connections at 1Mbps, equalling a total of much higher when you added them together. The only reason that it didn't appear back in the early 80's was because not many people had their own multi-pipe connection that could be hooked up to many sources simultaneously.
Bram didn't do a damn thing but apply the existing software to the new hardware conditions.
...and if you want people that aren't total nerds using your software, then people should spend MORE time designing their UI than anything else that they are doing right now.
"With price being removed as a deciding factor, it becomes all about how good the product is. Those that are good, survive. Those that aren't, don't. "
In that case, there wouldn't BE any open source software. Or at least very little of it. Nothing good has come of open source, except for the Linux kernel, since RMS spent all his time writing the GNU utilities.
It's really all pretty common stuff. VIA motherboard, commodity CD-RW,... The NV server is automatically loaded by every distro that I tried to boot, and that doesn't work with the GF6200, as far as I can tell.
Framebuffer also doesn't work on it about 90% of the time.
Slackware, last I knew, had an installation system that wasn't much improved from it's humble beginnings as the original Linux distro, SLS. The one thing that I was sure I was able to do with Debian was install it via the Internet, and get it installed without actually starting X. I needed to not start X, because every live cd and distribution I'd tried to start, would crash the system instantly upon starting X.
I've been using Linux off and on since 1992-ish, and the last computer that I had it working flawlessly on was an AMD 486dx4/100, after I hacked the kernel net driver to stop crashing several minutes into every session.
Oops, last year, I had it running on a 486sx/33 where it was able to drive all the hardware properly, but since it was being used exclusively as a router, mail, web, ftp server, it really didn't need to.
It's using Debian Etch. For some reason, it is turning on the "Lock Door" every time the door is closed, wether there's a disc in or not, wether it's mounted or not. When I have Linux running, I have to use the manual physical eject switch to open the door.
..as they'll all spend 4-6 hours per piece of hardware getting it to work.
*spent 4 hours last night getting my cd-rom to work right in linux* *spent 4 hours last week getting my video card to work in linux* *spent 2 hours last night getting my video card to work again after the fix to the cd-rom broke it* *spent another 2 hours last night getting my sound hardware to work in linux* *going to spend a couple hours tonight getting my NDAS hardware to work in linux*
*still don't have 3d accel working 100%, or sound*
I get this feeling you're repressing memories, as there isn't much of anything that is that easy to install. And, for that matter, there's very little Linux software, at least in the GUI world, that anyone would consider "good".
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Packard Bell's brand name has changed hands a few times, gone under a few times, been brought back a few times. From what I hear, they aren't the absolutely abyssmal garbage they were pushing back in the early 90's...
Probably not far from it though
What on earth are you running?!
I've got Opera (with about 30 windows open), Xfire, Gaim, and several Poker clients all loaded right now, on a 1GB system, and I've got 600MB free out of 1024MB.
I can also load 3ds and photoshop, and still not be significantly over a gig unless i load some huge projects in them.
Q1 was the best of the Quake series, followed by Q3/Q4 and Q2 .. Q4 i thought was just the same as Q3 but with improved graphics .. really seemed that way.
...
I've been bitching up a storm on the Unreal engine forums, about how EVERY game made with Unreal feels like crap compared to Quake
OK, but are you out there writing the programs that you will eventually use to do this?
..
I'm guessing that's a "no"
While I don't at all agree with the insane forms of protection that the companies are putting on the media, Slashdot is definitely showing an editorial bias... "fair-use community"? No such thing. It's either hackers who are doing it to do it, or it's pirates.
Open Source is not about everyone getting all the software for free, which is what QueenB believes.
I think Populous was the first God-game. Populous is from 1989, Civ 1 is from 1991.
Actually, it took hardware situations to make that useful.
In days gone by (dialup) the vast majority of people were connecting using a pipe that had a single bi-directional pipeline that went the same speed both ways. This changed with the advent of 56k modems that were 56kbps down, 28kbps up. The earliest file transfer technology just transferred a single file in one direction at a time. Back in the late 80's, possibly early 90's, someone developed a bi-directional file transfer protocol: You could upload a file to a bulletin board, at the same time you were downloading a file from the same bulletin board (or other user). However, just having a differing speed on the up/down pipe was not the only factor. Packetized transmission, allowing multiple uses of the same pipes, which was also invented way before that difference in hardware speeds had to be applied to the equation as well.
The reason why eDonkey, bittorrent, and others works, is because of BOTH of those things: You have one pipe, that can be connected to multiple places simultaneously, AND has wildly differing up/down speeds. I can upload at 384kbps, but I can download at 10.0Mbps. A similar thing could've been done with T1/T3 connections, which were capable of multiple inbound connections at 1Mbps, equalling a total of much higher when you added them together. The only reason that it didn't appear back in the early 80's was because not many people had their own multi-pipe connection that could be hooked up to many sources simultaneously.
Bram didn't do a damn thing but apply the existing software to the new hardware conditions.
Both comments appear to be saying the exact same thing, there.
QueenB doesn't understand "Open Source" in any way, shape, or form.
...and if you want people that aren't total nerds using your software, then people should spend MORE time designing their UI than anything else that they are doing right now.
"With price being removed as a deciding factor, it becomes all about how good the product is. Those that are good, survive. Those that aren't, don't. "
In that case, there wouldn't BE any open source software. Or at least very little of it. Nothing good has come of open source, except for the Linux kernel, since RMS spent all his time writing the GNU utilities.
It's really all pretty common stuff. VIA motherboard, commodity CD-RW, ... The NV server is automatically loaded by every distro that I tried to boot, and that doesn't work with the GF6200, as far as I can tell.
Framebuffer also doesn't work on it about 90% of the time.
Slackware, last I knew, had an installation system that wasn't much improved from it's humble beginnings as the original Linux distro, SLS. The one thing that I was sure I was able to do with Debian was install it via the Internet, and get it installed without actually starting X. I needed to not start X, because every live cd and distribution I'd tried to start, would crash the system instantly upon starting X.
(Geforce 6200)
I wasn't asking Slashdot for help, I know that the problem is because the whole Linux kernel/support software situation is exceptionally grim.
The only hardware that works right in Linux is stuff from years ago. And a lot of that doesn't, either.
Using pretty standard parts, most of which are a few years old, and should be well supported.
The days of having to hack the kernel just to get booted aren't over, they've just redefined "hack the kernel".
"It works for me, so you must be a dumbass."
And I'm supposed to be the one growing up?
I've been using Linux off and on since 1992-ish, and the last computer that I had it working flawlessly on was an AMD 486dx4/100, after I hacked the kernel net driver to stop crashing several minutes into every session.
Oops, last year, I had it running on a 486sx/33 where it was able to drive all the hardware properly, but since it was being used exclusively as a router, mail, web, ftp server, it really didn't need to.
It's using Debian Etch. For some reason, it is turning on the "Lock Door" every time the door is closed, wether there's a disc in or not, wether it's mounted or not. When I have Linux running, I have to use the manual physical eject switch to open the door.
..as they'll all spend 4-6 hours per piece of hardware getting it to work.
*spent 4 hours last night getting my cd-rom to work right in linux*
*spent 4 hours last week getting my video card to work in linux*
*spent 2 hours last night getting my video card to work again after the fix to the cd-rom broke it*
*spent another 2 hours last night getting my sound hardware to work in linux*
*going to spend a couple hours tonight getting my NDAS hardware to work in linux*
*still don't have 3d accel working 100%, or sound*
How can you be sure of Kevin Bacon's existence?
Particularly so, if it were to suddenly just HAPPEN .. one moment you EXIST.. then the next moment.. you DON'T.. that'd kinda suck.
Interesting thing about MS purchasing an SCO license, is that MS actually -owned- SCO at one point, didn't they? Microsoft Xenix? SCO Xenix? hmm.
Dedicated server for Land of the Dead will not run in Vista, it just freezes, without actually doing anything.
Anyone know about other Unreal Engine games?
ha ha ha ha :D
Mod parent +5 Funny
Funny, the junk in the article about Dell wanting to shut him up, blah blah blah, isn't mentioned in the article in the link.
As well as the problem already being solved -- his electrical system is fucked. Therefore, the ground adapter fixed it for him.
SO, why is this front page on Slashdot?
I get this feeling you're repressing memories, as there isn't much of anything that is that easy to install. And, for that matter, there's very little Linux software, at least in the GUI world, that anyone would consider "good".
(and I used Linux from 1993ish to 2005)