I really like mandrake. I've tried most other distros, but used redhat for so long, it just kind of turned into mandrake, which seems to come with more apps useful to me, out of the box. I just dont have enough time to get the newest of everything I need off freshmeat everytime I upgrade. The only problem I ever seem to have is with the sound card and/or xmms. For instance, in 9.2, does anyone else have problems when playing an mp3, onyl to have it speed up very quickly for about 3 seconds about once or twice a minute? Its a new motherboard with onboard sound, and Im not sure what it is. I have a nice soundcard as well, but by default its using the onboard card and the motherboard manuel doesnt tell how to disable it. I tried 9.2 on another machine only to have the same results. Verbose hasn't given me anything, and none of the logs look out of the ordinary. 9.1 didnt seem to do this, but had other problems. Anyone else have this problem, or know how to disable the default soundcard? Any info would be appreciated.
So, Daryls brother is involved in the case too? I knew he made an appearance at the last court setting when SCO was told to produce the code in 30 days, but didnt realize he was officially on the legel team. It makes sense. Use company money for a legel defense team that includes your family. Your family makes instant money, which can be funneled back to you in various ways over time, directly or indirectly. Who says SCO needs to win the final cases against IBM, Redhat, etc. Just spend all the shareholder money on legel fees for lawyers going to your family, extending trials and motions for as long as your can, and keep paying the lawyers (family). Even if SCO looses, liquidates, does a chapter 7,9,11 etc, the mcbrides still make out like a bandit. Ingenious I tell you. It doesnt matter if they hit the big jackpot, by then al the money is milked into personal family anyways. And if they do win, then it wont matter that all that money was milked for personal gain, as they will have a new source of income. Either way, Mcbride family is the one who wins.
Nice article, credits/. readers for signing up the king of spam on every possible mailing list, and publishing pics of his new wonderful 800k house, with his special basement where he controls 80 email servers over 14 countries, blah blah. http://blog.beebware.co.uk/archives/000133. html
crap, i just bought a blackberry 7230, now im jelious. Hopefully the blackberry will work out, its unfortunate that you need the enterprise server though in order to use the SSH clients for the blackberry.
"I havent finished downloading the last release yet on my 56k modem, and a new one is already out? I'm hopeless... "
thats funny, for me its "I havent finished downloading the last one yet on my @home broadband connection, and a new one is already out? I'm hopeless...
Didnt know their were any linux friendly games. Castle Wolfenstein is decent on linux, dell 8000I w/ 512 RAM and GeForce II Go, but until ATI or NVidia come out with their newest chip, which will almost double the power, as well as provide almost full support for direct X 8, linux games are still way behind the windows version. I like to play games at full screen, and if they use openGL, its just way too slow at fullscreen
CAVE technology in general is making rapid advances, and *home versions are in the making, particularly for gaming. Up until now the Beckman Institute had a 4 screen version, which is great. Although a 6 screen version is better, that too will be outdated within years.
Anyone attending SigGraph 2000/01 probably couldn't miss the elumens "little" home caves that you sit in [it looks like a big soup bowl sitting on its side and it ROCKS!!. check it out here Although it only provides a 180 degrees, the immersive effects are great, and there are no corners. This was also created by a former NCSA employee of the Immersive Environments Group. For 20k you can own the technology today.
People like Rajlich who created the multiusr quake are also exploring bringing CAVE/immersive tech. to the home gamer.
Clustering Linux boxes may be a cheaper alternative to SGI (takes 1 realityMonster? per screen), but obvioulsy is difficult using any computer to get them working in sync to be able to render 4-6 screens 10x10 ft. 3000 some times/sec. Linux and applications are making great advances, and the market will shift away from SGI.
VRCO.com has already ported the CAVEGL to linux, allowing you run VR apps using the cave graphics library on top of OpenGL.
6 screens is great, but in several years this wont be a big deal.
The AIM LAB@UIUC , headed by the ultimate VR guru John Schmits, and the Morrill I Digital Library are working on bringing this type of technology to libraries (immersive workstations you sit in, quickly and efficiently allowing you to find your resources ) Studies have shown that we learn better and are more used to a 3d environment [debatable]. Surgeons use it to allow remote multi-user teachings of the temporal bone using CAVE environments .
With all the uses of Immersive technology popping up, you wont see 6 sided caves, but rather spheres you walk into, providing the best VR.
As the Legendary Donna Cox puts it, the future is in multi-user VR immersive environments in which avatars congregate for business and pleasure. Multi-user gaming is also driving the technology very quickly, so dont be surprised to see more posts on VR and its uses...
Eventually many people see the price of air space travel lowering to a point where it will be feasable for not just the filthy rich. If they can fly 3 people to the station up to 20 times a day, what impact will this have on pollution?
We have riots with the WTO over countries that cause all the pollution but reap in the profits. I cant see the *other countries of the world standing for this, unless their part of the action as well...
Considering all the attention the concord jet has attracted, I really dont see this happening anytime soon.. The concord is known as a gas guzzling pollution machine, not too mention the sonic booms...
Personally I think it is an outrage... I would think the bad PR would be enough to make adobe pull back, but apparently not... Well you really wanna get your point across, bug the chairman Join Warnock and Charles Geschke...
man i hear you....
Porn sites are famous for automatically downloading.exe files without your permission.
I dont have any trouble under linux, but windows sometimes will install a porn dialer, which to teh unsuspecting dad , when accidentally clicked will dail a 900 number... This shit has got too stop, but i dont see it happening anytime soon..
Its bad enough that netscape pops up an ad upon opening a new browser, that alone is enough to make me switch to mozilla..
ya i use to use them hooked up to an sgi o-2 for 3d modelling... the vizlab @ beckman institute [non-affiliated with NCSA @ UIUC but same building] has all kinds of cool toys..
when you use a CAVE, your sgi/monitor windows output your screen on the CAVE walls if the projectors are on, so when you surf the web, it shows up on the cave walls too. Talk about porn in your face...um , ya..
so ive heard of course...
it can be dangerous, but so can any video game. The 4 10 sq. foot screens flash very rapidy [2k/sec?], while in perfect sync running off SGIs. It is very rare, but can cause seizures..
I must say CAVE quake is very cool, I worked with the cave @ ncsa and we tried to slip away when we could. Even more cool was playing someone across the hall in a deathmatch using the idesk and CAVE.
Paul is truely a top notch programmer @ he also worked on a vrml generator thats pretty cool,
check out more news about cave quake here
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I really like mandrake. I've tried most other distros, but used redhat for so long, it just kind of turned into mandrake, which seems to come with more apps useful to me, out of the box. I just dont have enough time to get the newest of everything I need off freshmeat everytime I upgrade. The only problem I ever seem to have is with the sound card and/or xmms. For instance, in 9.2, does anyone else have problems when playing an mp3, onyl to have it speed up very quickly for about 3 seconds about once or twice a minute? Its a new motherboard with onboard sound, and Im not sure what it is. I have a nice soundcard as well, but by default its using the onboard card and the motherboard manuel doesnt tell how to disable it. I tried 9.2 on another machine only to have the same results. Verbose hasn't given me anything, and none of the logs look out of the ordinary. 9.1 didnt seem to do this, but had other problems. Anyone else have this problem, or know how to disable the default soundcard? Any info would be appreciated.
Saddam all along has been Mr. Mcbride
So, Daryls brother is involved in the case too? I knew he made an appearance at the last court setting when SCO was told to produce the code in 30 days, but didnt realize he was officially on the legel team. It makes sense. Use company money for a legel defense team that includes your family. Your family makes instant money, which can be funneled back to you in various ways over time, directly or indirectly. Who says SCO needs to win the final cases against IBM, Redhat, etc. Just spend all the shareholder money on legel fees for lawyers going to your family, extending trials and motions for as long as your can, and keep paying the lawyers (family). Even if SCO looses, liquidates, does a chapter 7,9,11 etc, the mcbrides still make out like a bandit. Ingenious I tell you. It doesnt matter if they hit the big jackpot, by then al the money is milked into personal family anyways. And if they do win, then it wont matter that all that money was milked for personal gain, as they will have a new source of income. Either way, Mcbride family is the one who wins.
Nice article, credits /. readers for signing up the king of spam on every possible mailing list, and publishing pics of his new wonderful 800k house, with his special basement where he controls 80 email servers over 14 countries, blah blah.. html
http://blog.beebware.co.uk/archives/000133
crap, i just bought a blackberry 7230, now im jelious. Hopefully the blackberry will work out, its unfortunate that you need the enterprise server though in order to use the SSH clients for the blackberry.
linux compile, no wine
I only have the 4.5 and 4.0 version taht runs off linux. Very well I might add. Any word of Maya 5 for linux floating around?
i thought they had about 1800
"I havent finished downloading the last release yet on my 56k modem, and a new one is already out? I'm hopeless... "
thats funny, for me its "I havent finished downloading the last one yet on my @home broadband connection, and a new one is already out? I'm hopeless...
I should have not taken for granted that Im on a laptop, forgot too mention theres a huge gap there..Doh :(
Didnt know their were any linux friendly games. Castle Wolfenstein is decent on linux, dell 8000I w/ 512 RAM and GeForce II Go, but until ATI or NVidia come out with their newest chip, which will almost double the power, as well as provide almost full support for direct X 8, linux games are still way behind the windows version. I like to play games at full screen, and if they use openGL, its just way too slow at fullscreen
CAVE technology in general is making rapid advances, and *home versions are in the making, particularly for gaming. Up until now the Beckman Institute had a 4 screen version, which is great. Although a 6 screen version is better, that too will be outdated within years.
Anyone attending SigGraph 2000/01 probably couldn't miss the elumens "little" home caves that you sit in [it looks like a big soup bowl sitting on its side and it ROCKS!!. check it out here Although it only provides a 180 degrees, the immersive effects are great, and there are no corners. This was also created by a former NCSA employee of the Immersive Environments Group. For 20k you can own the technology today.
People like Rajlich who created the multiusr quake are also exploring bringing CAVE/immersive tech. to the home gamer.
Clustering Linux boxes may be a cheaper alternative to SGI (takes 1 realityMonster? per screen), but obvioulsy is difficult using any computer to get them working in sync to be able to render 4-6 screens 10x10 ft. 3000 some times/sec. Linux and applications are making great advances, and the market will shift away from SGI.VRCO.com has already ported the CAVEGL to linux, allowing you run VR apps using the cave graphics library on top of OpenGL. 6 screens is great, but in several years this wont be a big deal.
The AIM LAB@UIUC , headed by the ultimate VR guru John Schmits, and the Morrill I Digital Library are working on bringing this type of technology to libraries (immersive workstations you sit in, quickly and efficiently allowing you to find your resources ) Studies have shown that we learn better and are more used to a 3d environment [debatable]. Surgeons use it to allow remote multi-user teachings of the temporal bone using CAVE environments . With all the uses of Immersive technology popping up, you wont see 6 sided caves, but rather spheres you walk into, providing the best VR.As the Legendary Donna Cox puts it, the future is in multi-user VR immersive environments in which avatars congregate for business and pleasure. Multi-user gaming is also driving the technology very quickly, so dont be surprised to see more posts on VR and its uses...
VRdot.org???
***GREATfirewalls are so hard to find***
Eventually many people see the price of air space travel lowering to a point where it will be feasable for not just the filthy rich. If they can fly 3 people to the station up to 20 times a day, what impact will this have on pollution?
We have riots with the WTO over countries that cause all the pollution but reap in the profits. I cant see the *other countries of the world standing for this, unless their part of the action as well...
Considering all the attention the concord jet has attracted, I really dont see this happening anytime soon.. The concord is known as a gas guzzling pollution machine, not too mention the sonic booms...
".....saying nothing has changed in terms of the company's relationship with open source projects."
Except the fact that they will not be supported anymore...
The first time I went to the site, i was bombarded by a huge flash advertisement for absolute vodka, the second time nothing..
Why wont someone release a worm that affects web advertisements in the middle of an article?
I say give everyone Ritalin, crush it, and rail it up the nose..... then you'll see some multi-tasking....
Personally I think it is an outrage... I would think the bad PR would be enough to make adobe pull back, but apparently not... Well you really wanna get your point across, bug the chairman Join Warnock and Charles Geschke...
man i hear you.... Porn sites are famous for automatically downloading .exe files without your permission.
I dont have any trouble under linux, but windows sometimes will install a porn dialer, which to teh unsuspecting dad , when accidentally clicked will dail a 900 number... This shit has got too stop, but i dont see it happening anytime soon..
Its bad enough that netscape pops up an ad upon opening a new browser, that alone is enough to make me switch to mozilla..
NICE.....
ya i use to use them hooked up to an sgi o-2 for 3d modelling... the vizlab @ beckman institute [non-affiliated with NCSA @ UIUC but same building] has all kinds of cool toys..
when you use a CAVE, your sgi/monitor windows output your screen on the CAVE walls if the projectors are on, so when you surf the web, it shows up on the cave walls too. Talk about porn in your face...um , ya.. so ive heard of course...
I remember playing people in amsterdam from the CAVE in beckman @ UIUC...nice
no becuase i have since graduated, adn my account access has been revoked
it can be dangerous, but so can any video game. The 4 10 sq. foot screens flash very rapidy [2k/sec?], while in perfect sync running off SGIs. It is very rare, but can cause seizures..
I must say CAVE quake is very cool, I worked with the cave @ ncsa and we tried to slip away when we could. Even more cool was playing someone across the hall in a deathmatch using the idesk and CAVE. Paul is truely a top notch programmer @ he also worked on a vrml generator thats pretty cool, check out more news about cave quake here