Mercedes has had their automatic cruise control now for over 5 years. It only applies about 10-15% of braking power and is available in all their upper end cars. With the new S-Class coming in December, the new version can fully stop the car and bring it back up to speed on its own. So where is the innovation? Mercedes has been a tech leader in cars for as far back as I can think. ABS, Stability control, Airbags, etc are all Mercedes innovations which they allow other car companies to use.
Okay I deserved that for my initial comment. The reason I use the native clients is because I have contacts which use funky features on each that are not available on Trillian. Another reason for the massive memory usage is that AIM still has it's memory leaks so after running the latest version for a few days without terminating the program leaves you with a lot of used up memory. The same story exists for Yahoo messenger. Hence the 146megs I mentioned. Now I've restarted all the clients and we are hovering around 55megs usage but it WILL go up. I think the original parent was right on when he said that we need more RAM just to keep up with this mess. Think about it, most average to above average users have 512 megs of RAM. If 10%+ is going to IM clients, then that's a tad excessive. On the other hand I have 1.5gigs of RAM so I can spare some here and there. =)
Right now, I have a Pentium M 1.6GHz based notebook with GTalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Ineen and Skype running. If I close all these programs my RAM usage drops by 146 megs. Now that's nothing to sneeze at and the original parent makes a great point. These days my windows systems drink RAM for breakfast.
AMD just raised its prices recently on its top processors. Go search MSNBC or google news for the article. AMD doesn't care about giving you a price break and weakening Intel won't help you out there. For there to be innovation, two companies must compete. AMD has a nice product but they can't simply employ the courts to earn a solid reputation. If anything, AMD and what is happening to Intel is starting to sound tired much like the SCO case. I have no doubt this case will linger in the courts for years and maybe you can come back to this post and see how wrong you were. AMD is a corporation interested in profits and NOT you saving a dollar here or there. When will you slashbots understand this?
As for different code being generated. It's time to do a simple test. Is the code being generated for AMD processors the same as Cyrix processors or Transmeta processors with the same capabilities? I've ran the test here and the binaries generated are exactly the same for comprable processors that don't happen to be Intel Pentium 4's. Please, conduct your own tests before rattling off another slashdot poster's comments.
Ya go ahead, mod me into oblivion for saying what had to be said.
One of the greatest things about Skype is its API. Someone brilliantly wrote a plug-in for Skype that ties together my bluetooth headset with Skypes calling functions. This way, my headset works like a normal headset. Get it here: http://www.skypeheadset.co.uk/ Case in point:
1. The headset is automatically detected and Skype's sound devices dialog is changed automatically to use the bluetooth headset.
2. The headset sits in standby mode. Before this plug-in, the headset would have to be tied to the machine in its active mode which drained the battery within 4 hours even though there weren't any calls. This plug-in only activates the headset if there is an incoming call or you hit the quickdial button.
3. The quickdial button can be configured to any # you have in your phonebook.
Now show me any SIP client out there integrates bluetooth (even via third party plug-in) as well as Skype. If you can find one, then I'll ditch Skype in a heartbeat.
I have been a Tor users for a very long time and, to a certain extent, the fact that it is not very well publicized has kept the system relatively free of the possibilty abuse. When I say possibility of abuse, I am talking about the media saying that Tor is a way to do anonymous torrents of copyrighted material, transferring child porn, etc. As Tor becomes more publicized, will I have to deal with articles from self-proclaimed experts accusing Tor of being a vehicle for such activity? Will I then see some politician try to pass legislation against anonymizer type software? Maybe I'm being alarmist, but these days anything is possible.
Some have suggest that Apple may use Intel's EFI or that the current Apple devkits are just hacked together and will not resemble the final product. I now firmly believe they may toss an extra chip on the motherboard that would act like serialport dongle (to get a program to run) of yesteryear. Other than that, they'll have their lawyers out in full force so the only way to get OS X on a system officially would be through Apple. Yet, some warez group could crack OS X's lockout and allow it to run on a whitebox PC. My only concern at that point would be if the devices in your system had OS X drivers. Something tells me that the next two or three years will allow Mac users to throw in sound cards, video cards, etc. into their systems because manufacturers will write the device drivers necessary. However, I could be wrong.
The machines do not have Open Firmware. They use a Phoenix BIOS. That;s right, a Mac with a BIOS. (I asked if the Bios had any tweaks like Memory Timing which is common for many PC motherboards, although Intel OEM motherboards don't usually have any end user tweaks like that.-Mike)
They won't tell us how to get in the BIOS. I'm sure we can figure it out when out dev kits arrive.
They run Windows fine. All the chipset is standard Intel stuff, so you can download drivers and run XP on the box.
Now this is regarding the DEV machines Apple is handing. I know everyone on slashdot has ASSUMED that Apple will control the hardware based on the CNET article that said Apple would not allow users to install OSX on non-Apple hardware. However, what if this threat is just Apple saying that they'll use the lawyers instead of a technological solution? Think about it, Apple will have limited driver choices out there since it wil be a limited Apple-controlled machine. So either someone writes the drivers or your machines is close enough to run OSX. I think those of us with Pentium M notebooks will have the easiest time with OS X. Now, what I want to know is... if these machines have EVERYTHING any other PC does, why is it not possible to run a copy of MacOSX on a normal white box PC.
I guess after reading my fellow slashdotters comments on my post which related the concern of data in a true natural disaster, its refreshing to see that there are some real humans left here. It seems people are far more concerned with putting my experience down rather than take the main point away from it: life or property (pick one). Anyway, I appreciate the support, but please try to send anything you can down to the locals that survived. They have nothing.
I just went through Hurricane Ivan in Grenada. If you have been watching the coverage you should know that our island was completely destroyed. There is no water, no electricity, and no security. The university I attend (St. George's) lied to the students' parents about our situation. There were looters with guns and machetes threatening students. The first two nights we fended for ourselves with a large bonfire and homemade weapons, knives, pipes, etc. The third night we had 10 minutes to pack up and leave since we could see the looters lighting fires to apartment buildings on the road we were on. I quickly took the hard drives out of my two laptops (and the external drive I have), picked up a GSM roaming phone, any cash I had, a passport and two pairs of clothes. We ran to campus. Campus had about 200 male students lighting bonfires and running security teams to monitor the area. We chartered our own jet out of Grenada yesterday to Barbados which is where I am writing this from. My point is this: no one cares about data in this situation. No one wants to know about RAID or tape backups. If it came down to it, I would have ran with only a passport, a phone, and cash. We were worried for our lives and whether we had water or not, data was not our concern. People need a reality check. How many of you can claim that you went through a Category III or IV hurricane on an isolated island fending for their lives? Not many, so quite franly Cringely can go to hell.
In typical Slashdot function, we see people sitting here typing away responses about how useless bluetooth is for wireless-whatever due to its short range. Unfortunately for those people, they never realized that bluetooth is a wire-replacement technology. When I have my cell phone on at my desk, I don't want to feel like I am sitting in a hospital ICU bed with a bunch of wires hanging off my body. Instead, my bluetooth headset takes care of that part. Also, at my current location, internet access via Edge is far more useful and cheaper than buying DSL. So it serves two purposes right there that 802.11 is too killer for. Also, sync'ing my PDA is much easier than having to drag a craddle with me everywhere. My point is that SE is only moving their bluetooth operations under another division so bluetooth is not going anywhere and I am glad. 802.11 is too power hunger for the things I need to get done. Lastly, big manufacturers such as Dell are doing away with ALL legacy ports such are IrDA, Parallel, Serial, so we are left with firewire, USB, and bluetooth. Out of those, bluetooth makes the most sense.
Do I qualify as a youngin'? Actually I didn't register until much later. Maybe I should dig up those initial emails from 'Taco which should put me around the range of about 60-80 for my UID? =)
I own an M60 and can verify this statement. I would however opt for a Dell D800 at the moment because the new 8600's don't have serial/parallel/IR/trackpoint and some other items. Also, the D800 casing is much prettier. Find a cheap D800, and search http://www.sagerforums.com for the part number for the quadro FX 1000. Also, if you can find a used D800 or used M60, just buy it. The older Banias Pentium M's w/ 1 meg cache that run up to 1.7Ghz can be upgraded to any of the Dothan CPUs up to a 2.0Ghz processor (and 2.1Ghz by October) with a simple BIOS update to the M60 BIOS (w/ the --force parameter). It's on sagerforums.com. If you have any more questions, just post in the "Dell General" forum.
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The biggest problem right now with the HDTV stand-alone recorder boxes and computer HDTV tuners is that they cannot record from digital cable. Digital Cable uses QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) which means that it generates 4 bits out of one baud for encoding HDTV channels. Cracking that is the holy grail of HDTV recording and there are many users out there willing to put up lots of cash as an incentive for this happen. The point is over-the-air (OTA) HDTV is unencrypted and can be recorded for the time being using both stand-alone and computer equipment. Both satellite-based and digital cable-based HDTV use either QAM64 or QAM256 which cannot be tuned well by any equipment out today. There was a Dish 5000 reciever that could be hacked to output HDTV digital streams over firewire but the modulation on the network has changed so the box cannot decrypt the streams anymore for output. I would suggest waiting for the time being.
To qualify the above statement, DViCO makes the Fusion HDTV QAM PCI card for desktops which unofficially claims to tune QAM256 but it still has problems with QAM64. Link A simple seach at the AVS Forums should provide more information on current issues with the card. Lastly, for you laptop PC owners out there, Sasem makes a USB HDTV tuner which claims to tune QAM but is really only useful for OTA HDTV at the moment. Link ATI will be releasing an HDTV card soon but I am not aware if it has any QAM tuning abilities.
I was wondering if this guy has considered selling/giving his idea to the manufacturer of the bluetooth headset. This could always lead to a nice job offer later.
On another note, does anyone know where to get that faceplate for the T68i in the following picture?
The SBC was implemented using Intel's 855GME chipset, and supports the next generation of Pentium M -- the Dothan CPU in 90 nm technology.
So am I to assume that current notebooks like the Dell D800 and M60 using the Pentium-M 1.6Ghz are upgradable to the Dothan CPU too? If so, looks like I have an upgrade path!!!
I have been looking for an easy way to install the DirectFB project onto my system. Does anyone have a HOWTO or even Source RPMS (or maybe even RPMS) for RedHat 8?
I'd love to get it working! The only other problem is that I am running an older ATI Rage Mobility M/P laptop so I don't even know if they have accelerated drivers for it.
...of science articles. It is very unlikely that humans have a genetically determined smell. In 1992, Blaustein & Waldman did an experiment on tadpoles to see if they could recognize their kin based on scent. The reasoning behind it was to see if they could in fact be breeding collectively to increase indirect fitness. Out of the 12 species tested, they found that 8 showed a kin bias while 4 didn't. Three species favored full siblings over half siblings, three favored half sibliings over non-siblings, and one favored maternal over paternal siblings. Was it Kin recognition? No. Why? Well there was variable expression of this favoring within species and satistically it wasn't favored at all. In other words, it was an experimetanl artifact.
In 1990, Pfennig et al. repeated the experiment but fed different groups different diets. So non-kin got the same diet and kin recieved different diets. The result? Tadpoles stayed around those that ate the same material because they smelled the same. So it depended on diet rather than a genetic signature. However, further experiments showed that outside of nature, if the environment was completely identical then they could do some rough recognition but this condition never exists in the real world.
I have huge doubts the government will find a connection here. Before someone says that babies recognize the smell of their mothers, I want to say that is a common myth. Babies recognize the heart beat of their mothers and nothing more. What a waste of time and money.
i am running an aging dual p3-500 (slot 1) system. while it may not have the sheer processing power as the newest high end chips, the disk system employs 10k rpm ultra2 drives. The system is LOUD in its full tower case. there are two problems with it...
1) power supply fan is very loud
2) the hard drives sit in fan-lined carts for easy removal. so not only do i hear the high pitched noise of the disks spinning but the fans cooling them.
I have tried pulling the fans off those 10k drives and i started hearing weird noises from the drives. My conclusion? i need fans on them period.
maybe there is a better way to cool them, any ideas would be nice. (and no pulling them out of the system is not an option)
Well I have been running RedHat (null) for quite some time and then grabbed a copy from the campus servers (about 10 min a cd =). Anyway, everything works great. One thing I would suggest everyone do is get Mozilla-xft!!! It is unbelieveably beautiful. URL: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experime ntal/xft/
VMWare is having some problems under RedHat 8. With a WinXP guest, on reboots and power downs, disk shrinkings the VMWare windows returns: (VMX) AIO:NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):654. Some have suggested that is could be a problem with the fact there is a new glibc, but I don't know. Any ideas?
I installed my TV Tuner card and it works great, Crossover Office and Plugin work brilliantly. I have Quicktime, AIM, Office2k, Quicken all installed with Crossover. My PHP-Nuke website is up and running as fast as ever. I built the NTFS modules and can seamlessly read my NTFS disks. SAMBA is sharing hard drives and a printer for the entire network. I installed all the fonts from windows into ~/.fonts. OOPadmin loaded them perfectly for use in OO.o. SHockwave, flash and java work great. I also installed the XMMS-MP3 plugin, Adobe Acrobat Reader, APT-GET RPM, SynAPTic, OGLE and XINE.
My complaints are the VMWARE problem and also the problem of trying to import my entire Outlook.PST folder file. All the methods shown on the web don't really work since my folder file is roughly 370 megs (yes it all text e-mail) so I can't use Evolution as my primary e-mail/calender app. Other problem is that my Microsoft Natural Keyboard pro "internet" and "media" keys don't work regardless of how much I play with Lineak however xev can see the keys being pressed. I can't get my Matrox G400 max to use my second monitor for some odd reason. I'll look into it though. Last issue is my Logitech Clicksmart 310 USB digital cam / webcam doesn't have any drivers written for it. Any help in that area would be appreciated. My APC UPS doesn't seem to like the RPMS for Powerchute so I don't have that running yet.
RedHat needs to work on their menu system since I can never find the right config app on the first try. It takes a bit getting used to it. I also wish there was a quick tool I could use to duplicate desktop setups from one default profile over to every other use on the system.
System specs: Dual Pentium3 500 w/ 512 megs ram, Ultra2 Wide SCSI 10k RPM cheetah drives (total disk space 200+ GB).
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Mercedes has had their automatic cruise control now for over 5 years. It only applies about 10-15% of braking power and is available in all their upper end cars. With the new S-Class coming in December, the new version can fully stop the car and bring it back up to speed on its own. So where is the innovation? Mercedes has been a tech leader in cars for as far back as I can think. ABS, Stability control, Airbags, etc are all Mercedes innovations which they allow other car companies to use.
Okay I deserved that for my initial comment. The reason I use the native clients is because I have contacts which use funky features on each that are not available on Trillian. Another reason for the massive memory usage is that AIM still has it's memory leaks so after running the latest version for a few days without terminating the program leaves you with a lot of used up memory. The same story exists for Yahoo messenger. Hence the 146megs I mentioned. Now I've restarted all the clients and we are hovering around 55megs usage but it WILL go up. I think the original parent was right on when he said that we need more RAM just to keep up with this mess. Think about it, most average to above average users have 512 megs of RAM. If 10%+ is going to IM clients, then that's a tad excessive. On the other hand I have 1.5gigs of RAM so I can spare some here and there. =)
Right now, I have a Pentium M 1.6GHz based notebook with GTalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Ineen and Skype running. If I close all these programs my RAM usage drops by 146 megs. Now that's nothing to sneeze at and the original parent makes a great point. These days my windows systems drink RAM for breakfast.
What are they going to break Intel up into? A Pentium vs. Xeon company? Give me a break.
AMD just raised its prices recently on its top processors. Go search MSNBC or google news for the article. AMD doesn't care about giving you a price break and weakening Intel won't help you out there. For there to be innovation, two companies must compete. AMD has a nice product but they can't simply employ the courts to earn a solid reputation. If anything, AMD and what is happening to Intel is starting to sound tired much like the SCO case. I have no doubt this case will linger in the courts for years and maybe you can come back to this post and see how wrong you were. AMD is a corporation interested in profits and NOT you saving a dollar here or there. When will you slashbots understand this?
As for different code being generated. It's time to do a simple test. Is the code being generated for AMD processors the same as Cyrix processors or Transmeta processors with the same capabilities? I've ran the test here and the binaries generated are exactly the same for comprable processors that don't happen to be Intel Pentium 4's. Please, conduct your own tests before rattling off another slashdot poster's comments.
Ya go ahead, mod me into oblivion for saying what had to be said.
One of the greatest things about Skype is its API. Someone brilliantly wrote a plug-in for Skype that ties together my bluetooth headset with Skypes calling functions. This way, my headset works like a normal headset. Get it here: http://www.skypeheadset.co.uk/ Case in point:
1. The headset is automatically detected and Skype's sound devices dialog is changed automatically to use the bluetooth headset.
2. The headset sits in standby mode. Before this plug-in, the headset would have to be tied to the machine in its active mode which drained the battery within 4 hours even though there weren't any calls. This plug-in only activates the headset if there is an incoming call or you hit the quickdial button.
3. The quickdial button can be configured to any # you have in your phonebook.
Now show me any SIP client out there integrates bluetooth (even via third party plug-in) as well as Skype. If you can find one, then I'll ditch Skype in a heartbeat.
I have been a Tor users for a very long time and, to a certain extent, the fact that it is not very well publicized has kept the system relatively free of the possibilty abuse. When I say possibility of abuse, I am talking about the media saying that Tor is a way to do anonymous torrents of copyrighted material, transferring child porn, etc. As Tor becomes more publicized, will I have to deal with articles from self-proclaimed experts accusing Tor of being a vehicle for such activity? Will I then see some politician try to pass legislation against anonymizer type software? Maybe I'm being alarmist, but these days anything is possible.
Some have suggest that Apple may use Intel's EFI or that the current Apple devkits are just hacked together and will not resemble the final product. I now firmly believe they may toss an extra chip on the motherboard that would act like serialport dongle (to get a program to run) of yesteryear. Other than that, they'll have their lawyers out in full force so the only way to get OS X on a system officially would be through Apple. Yet, some warez group could crack OS X's lockout and allow it to run on a whitebox PC. My only concern at that point would be if the devices in your system had OS X drivers. Something tells me that the next two or three years will allow Mac users to throw in sound cards, video cards, etc. into their systems because manufacturers will write the device drivers necessary. However, I could be wrong.
my mistake
The machines do not have Open Firmware. They use a Phoenix BIOS. That;s right, a Mac with a BIOS. (I asked if the Bios had any tweaks like Memory Timing which is common for many PC motherboards, although Intel OEM motherboards don't usually have any end user tweaks like that.-Mike) They won't tell us how to get in the BIOS. I'm sure we can figure it out when out dev kits arrive.
They run Windows fine. All the chipset is standard Intel stuff, so you can download drivers and run XP on the box.
Now this is regarding the DEV machines Apple is handing. I know everyone on slashdot has ASSUMED that Apple will control the hardware based on the CNET article that said Apple would not allow users to install OSX on non-Apple hardware. However, what if this threat is just Apple saying that they'll use the lawyers instead of a technological solution? Think about it, Apple will have limited driver choices out there since it wil be a limited Apple-controlled machine. So either someone writes the drivers or your machines is close enough to run OSX. I think those of us with Pentium M notebooks will have the easiest time with OS X. Now, what I want to know is... if these machines have EVERYTHING any other PC does, why is it not possible to run a copy of MacOSX on a normal white box PC.
I guess after reading my fellow slashdotters comments on my post which related the concern of data in a true natural disaster, its refreshing to see that there are some real humans left here. It seems people are far more concerned with putting my experience down rather than take the main point away from it: life or property (pick one). Anyway, I appreciate the support, but please try to send anything you can down to the locals that survived. They have nothing.
I just went through Hurricane Ivan in Grenada. If you have been watching the coverage you should know that our island was completely destroyed. There is no water, no electricity, and no security. The university I attend (St. George's) lied to the students' parents about our situation. There were looters with guns and machetes threatening students. The first two nights we fended for ourselves with a large bonfire and homemade weapons, knives, pipes, etc. The third night we had 10 minutes to pack up and leave since we could see the looters lighting fires to apartment buildings on the road we were on. I quickly took the hard drives out of my two laptops (and the external drive I have), picked up a GSM roaming phone, any cash I had, a passport and two pairs of clothes. We ran to campus. Campus had about 200 male students lighting bonfires and running security teams to monitor the area. We chartered our own jet out of Grenada yesterday to Barbados which is where I am writing this from. My point is this: no one cares about data in this situation. No one wants to know about RAID or tape backups. If it came down to it, I would have ran with only a passport, a phone, and cash. We were worried for our lives and whether we had water or not, data was not our concern. People need a reality check. How many of you can claim that you went through a Category III or IV hurricane on an isolated island fending for their lives? Not many, so quite franly Cringely can go to hell.
In typical Slashdot function, we see people sitting here typing away responses about how useless bluetooth is for wireless-whatever due to its short range. Unfortunately for those people, they never realized that bluetooth is a wire-replacement technology. When I have my cell phone on at my desk, I don't want to feel like I am sitting in a hospital ICU bed with a bunch of wires hanging off my body. Instead, my bluetooth headset takes care of that part. Also, at my current location, internet access via Edge is far more useful and cheaper than buying DSL. So it serves two purposes right there that 802.11 is too killer for. Also, sync'ing my PDA is much easier than having to drag a craddle with me everywhere. My point is that SE is only moving their bluetooth operations under another division so bluetooth is not going anywhere and I am glad. 802.11 is too power hunger for the things I need to get done. Lastly, big manufacturers such as Dell are doing away with ALL legacy ports such are IrDA, Parallel, Serial, so we are left with firewire, USB, and bluetooth. Out of those, bluetooth makes the most sense.
The original post is 100% correct. S/he mistyped the address since its actually avsforum.com
Actually the site is http://www.avsforum.com and its not BS.
Yup, that is the official download's MD5SUM too. Be careful though, there are many trojaned copies floating around.
Do I qualify as a youngin'? Actually I didn't register until much later. Maybe I should dig up those initial emails from 'Taco which should put me around the range of about 60-80 for my UID? =)
I own an M60 and can verify this statement. I would however opt for a Dell D800 at the moment because the new 8600's don't have serial/parallel/IR/trackpoint and some other items. Also, the D800 casing is much prettier. Find a cheap D800, and search http://www.sagerforums.com for the part number for the quadro FX 1000. Also, if you can find a used D800 or used M60, just buy it. The older Banias Pentium M's w/ 1 meg cache that run up to 1.7Ghz can be upgraded to any of the Dothan CPUs up to a 2.0Ghz processor (and 2.1Ghz by October) with a simple BIOS update to the M60 BIOS (w/ the --force parameter). It's on sagerforums.com. If you have any more questions, just post in the "Dell General" forum.
The biggest problem right now with the HDTV stand-alone recorder boxes and computer HDTV tuners is that they cannot record from digital cable. Digital Cable uses QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) which means that it generates 4 bits out of one baud for encoding HDTV channels. Cracking that is the holy grail of HDTV recording and there are many users out there willing to put up lots of cash as an incentive for this happen. The point is over-the-air (OTA) HDTV is unencrypted and can be recorded for the time being using both stand-alone and computer equipment. Both satellite-based and digital cable-based HDTV use either QAM64 or QAM256 which cannot be tuned well by any equipment out today. There was a Dish 5000 reciever that could be hacked to output HDTV digital streams over firewire but the modulation on the network has changed so the box cannot decrypt the streams anymore for output. I would suggest waiting for the time being.
To qualify the above statement, DViCO makes the Fusion HDTV QAM PCI card for desktops which unofficially claims to tune QAM256 but it still has problems with QAM64. Link A simple seach at the AVS Forums should provide more information on current issues with the card. Lastly, for you laptop PC owners out there, Sasem makes a USB HDTV tuner which claims to tune QAM but is really only useful for OTA HDTV at the moment. Link ATI will be releasing an HDTV card soon but I am not aware if it has any QAM tuning abilities.
I was wondering if this guy has considered selling/giving his idea to the manufacturer of the bluetooth headset. This could always lead to a nice job offer later.
On another note, does anyone know where to get that faceplate for the T68i in the following picture?
http://www.gfern.com/btha/btha-complete.jpg
So am I to assume that current notebooks like the Dell D800 and M60 using the Pentium-M 1.6Ghz are upgradable to the Dothan CPU too? If so, looks like I have an upgrade path!!!
I have been looking for an easy way to install the DirectFB project onto my system. Does anyone have a HOWTO or even Source RPMS (or maybe even RPMS) for RedHat 8?
I'd love to get it working! The only other problem is that I am running an older ATI Rage Mobility M/P laptop so I don't even know if they have accelerated drivers for it.
...of science articles. It is very unlikely that humans have a genetically determined smell. In 1992, Blaustein & Waldman did an experiment on tadpoles to see if they could recognize their kin based on scent. The reasoning behind it was to see if they could in fact be breeding collectively to increase indirect fitness. Out of the 12 species tested, they found that 8 showed a kin bias while 4 didn't. Three species favored full siblings over half siblings, three favored half sibliings over non-siblings, and one favored maternal over paternal siblings. Was it Kin recognition? No. Why? Well there was variable expression of this favoring within species and satistically it wasn't favored at all. In other words, it was an experimetanl artifact.
In 1990, Pfennig et al. repeated the experiment but fed different groups different diets. So non-kin got the same diet and kin recieved different diets. The result? Tadpoles stayed around those that ate the same material because they smelled the same. So it depended on diet rather than a genetic signature. However, further experiments showed that outside of nature, if the environment was completely identical then they could do some rough recognition but this condition never exists in the real world.
I have huge doubts the government will find a connection here. Before someone says that babies recognize the smell of their mothers, I want to say that is a common myth. Babies recognize the heart beat of their mothers and nothing more. What a waste of time and money.
i am running an aging dual p3-500 (slot 1) system. while it may not have the sheer processing power as the newest high end chips, the disk system employs 10k rpm ultra2 drives. The system is LOUD in its full tower case. there are two problems with it...
1) power supply fan is very loud
2) the hard drives sit in fan-lined carts for easy removal. so not only do i hear the high pitched noise of the disks spinning but the fans cooling them.
I have tried pulling the fans off those 10k drives and i started hearing weird noises from the drives. My conclusion? i need fans on them period.
maybe there is a better way to cool them, any ideas would be nice. (and no pulling them out of the system is not an option)
Well I have been running RedHat (null) for quite some time and then grabbed a copy from the campus servers (about 10 min a cd =). Anyway, everything works great. One thing I would suggest everyone do is get Mozilla-xft!!! It is unbelieveably beautiful. URL: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experime ntal/xft/
.PST folder file. All the methods shown on the web don't really work since my folder file is roughly 370 megs (yes it all text e-mail) so I can't use Evolution as my primary e-mail/calender app. Other problem is that my Microsoft Natural Keyboard pro "internet" and "media" keys don't work regardless of how much I play with Lineak however xev can see the keys being pressed. I can't get my Matrox G400 max to use my second monitor for some odd reason. I'll look into it though. Last issue is my Logitech Clicksmart 310 USB digital cam / webcam doesn't have any drivers written for it. Any help in that area would be appreciated. My APC UPS doesn't seem to like the RPMS for Powerchute so I don't have that running yet.
VMWare is having some problems under RedHat 8. With a WinXP guest, on reboots and power downs, disk shrinkings the VMWare windows returns: (VMX) AIO:NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):654. Some have suggested that is could be a problem with the fact there is a new glibc, but I don't know. Any ideas?
I installed my TV Tuner card and it works great, Crossover Office and Plugin work brilliantly. I have Quicktime, AIM, Office2k, Quicken all installed with Crossover. My PHP-Nuke website is up and running as fast as ever. I built the NTFS modules and can seamlessly read my NTFS disks. SAMBA is sharing hard drives and a printer for the entire network. I installed all the fonts from windows into ~/.fonts. OOPadmin loaded them perfectly for use in OO.o. SHockwave, flash and java work great. I also installed the XMMS-MP3 plugin, Adobe Acrobat Reader, APT-GET RPM, SynAPTic, OGLE and XINE.
My complaints are the VMWARE problem and also the problem of trying to import my entire Outlook
RedHat needs to work on their menu system since I can never find the right config app on the first try. It takes a bit getting used to it. I also wish there was a quick tool I could use to duplicate desktop setups from one default profile over to every other use on the system.
System specs: Dual Pentium3 500 w/ 512 megs ram, Ultra2 Wide SCSI 10k RPM cheetah drives (total disk space 200+ GB).