Caldera announced the Linux Technology Preview last week with similar things thrown in. I've tried it and it's pretty solid. Get the ISO, or it's "free" if you buy it from the store (with a mail-in coupon).
I've never gotten motion sickness in my life. Never in a car, roller coaster, whatever. Never. I've also been playing Quake for years. Never had motion sickness playing it. A few months ago if someone had mentioned this to me, I would have laughed about such a suggestion.
A few months ago I got UnrealTournament running in Linux. By about the second level, I start feeling sick to my stomach while playing. I sometimes have to look away from my monitor for a little while. At least in between boards, but sometimes I sit out a round. It's the craziest thing. I guess it's based on Direct X, but I play it in Linux (with Glide, of course). I really don't see much of a difference between playing it on the two different platforms, but it gets me almost every time. I don't have any sort of an explination for it, but there is a definate difference of some sort.
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Yes, I'm replying to my own post. But just so everyone knows exactly how this works, here's an example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $i=5; DoSomething($i);
sub DoSomething () { print ++$_[0]; }
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I think the compiler has a point.
I'd bet ++$_[0]; is the correct way to write that example statement. But then again the author was probably trying to make an entirely different point.
A better boot-manager. LILO is the most flexible, by far, but it doesn't cut it any more, interface-wise. As I've said before, even Shoestring offered a more usable front-end.
GRUB offers the best boot loader in the business. Caldera offers it in eDesktop. As well, I believe a BSD or two use it.
But I had to say something. $50 for a 675?!? I just paid $300 for mine! And that was with a 'special' 95 dollar discount. Stupid US West. They are more evil than you know who. Please pardon my rant, I just couldn't stand to not say anything.
This was posted to the PCSE Linux User's Group, so I don't know how true it is: This is pretty much the deal. Almost all PCI modems are winmodems. Save yourself a lot of time by looking at the paperwork for the card. If the modem does not feature error detection, then it is not a modem and will not work in Linux. A modem that will work in Linux will cost close to $100 and be on an ISA card.
Grow up. RMS was simply warning people about the potential for problems for bundling GNU/Linux with hords of proprietary software, and still calling it 'Linux'. Has Caldera done that? No. He (RMS) gave two examples of companies that favor that approach to business already (Oracle and Corel). What about them? Do they suck too?
I'm no boot loader guru by any means, but GRUB doesn't have that limitation. I suppose that was it's main advatage over LILO. Now if Caldera would only switch back...
Right, it *works* but just barely. 10 fps if you're lucky under Quake. Yeah right, that's a doorstop quality card in my opinion. NVidia has penguins and crap on their page, singing the Linux song. Sheez.
3dfx seems to have a slightly slower card, but I'd buy it in a second over the NVidia card. My system (in Linux AND Windows, that is) came to life when I put a new 3dfx card in. It was great. If you do anything in Linux forget about buying an NVidia card. It's a joke. If you live in Windows-land all the time, you may think differently.
New SuSE evaluation ISOs get announced, but not Caldera's new full-blown eDesktop? Let's not forget that anything Red Hat does gets posted. Hmmm, sounds like business as usual at Slashdot.
I wonder if SuSE will drop off the Slashdot map just like Caldera has once they go public. Thanks, Slashdot. I can't wait to see the community die.
As everyone is twisting their brains into knots to solve this problem, how about a much easier question. I have an external DSL modem/router with ONE real live static IP for it. How would I host a web server on my machine? Two static addresses would be really easy, but they refuse to do this for me without a "business" account (at more than double the monthly charge). I'm assuming I need some sort of forwarding rule setup on my router (a Cisco 675). This has to be a common thing to do, I just haven't been able to find any resources on it yet. Is it even possible?
I believe a lot of it comes down to having a good resume. Put everything down that you can think of, but keep it under two pages (or one if you can manage). Embellish things as much as you can. Certainly don't lie, but if you hacked on a little open source project, really play it up.
There are annoying recruiters everywhere these days. I guarantee they'll be beating down your door after this post. They basically look at keywords, and I imagine they run lots of resumes through an indexer to see how well you fit with positions they're trying to fill. Make sure your resume looks impressive to an actual human, and has all the words to make the computer happy too. Most of these recruiters have very little technical experience, but they notice the buzzwords.
It's all a game, you just have to play it right. There's also a bit of luck involved as well.
I've had a voodoo 3500 for a couple of weeks. It has been an incredible card for me since I bought it. I came from TNT2 land where Linux support is dismal, and the V3500 was a breath of fresh air. Great Linux support, great performance.
In windows-land it seems to do well also. I had to fdisk my drive and do a clean 98SE install to get the tv stuff to work, but now that it's on, it seems to work fine (I'd been meaning to do that for a while anyway). As far as tuner performance, I've got little to judge it against besides a tv. All I expected from the card was a *working* tuner that does pretty well, and I've got it. Resizes are very fast, and full-screen performance looks about as good as a regular old 17" teevee.
The final frontier (since I only use Windows nowadays to watch Jazz games) for me is to get the tuner working in Linux. I haven't even started to try to get this working, but I imagine others have gotten further than I have. I have no idea whether or not people have had any luck with this, and I'd like to know if anyone has even tried.
To answer your question, I reccommend the V3500 since most of the multimedia stuff you'll be doing is probably going to be in Windows anyway. The performance there (not that I have particularly high multimedia standards) seems to be more than adequate for me. The kicker is that the Linux support is excellent.
Seriously consider paying a big company to monitor your alarm (which they will insist on installing). It costs money, but if your really going to deal with the hasstle you may as well have them call the police. (Far as I know it is illegal for an alarm system to call the police, but the alarm system can call the monitoring station, and then they call the police) And the big advantage is by connecting the fire alarms to the alarm system you can accually get the fire dept out when that neighbor kid figgured he can't break in so he burns the house down.
Only one nitpick. Most thievs know to cut the phone line before they hurl a rock through your back window. That way your $20000 alarm system can just dial all day long.
So, to summarize, buy a $20000 alarm, buy a pitbull, and rewire your phone lines to make sure they're 100% below ground.
You got that right. I have a TNT2 card at home that I'm going to use as a doorstop as soon as the voodoo 3500 I just bought arrives. Those Nvidia punks. I'm sure the same nvidia bashing is going on at the xfree86 4 thread as well. Lipservice, lipservice, lipservice...10 fps in Quake 3 is NOT a working linux driver.
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Well, close...Substitute Rob Malda for ./.
Caldera announced the Linux Technology Preview last week with similar things thrown in. I've tried it and it's pretty solid. Get the ISO, or it's "free" if you buy it from the store (with a mail-in coupon).
That would be because Malda has a personal hatred of Caldera. Anything related to Caldera on this site must be be scorned.
Standards? There are two standards LSB & 'The Red Hat way'. If the community should be supporting anyone it should be Caldera.
If you don't have anything to say...
A few months ago I got UnrealTournament running in Linux. By about the second level, I start feeling sick to my stomach while playing. I sometimes have to look away from my monitor for a little while. At least in between boards, but sometimes I sit out a round. It's the craziest thing. I guess it's based on Direct X, but I play it in Linux (with Glide, of course). I really don't see much of a difference between playing it on the two different platforms, but it gets me almost every time. I don't have any sort of an explination for it, but there is a definate difference of some sort.
That wouldn't last long.
Yes, I'm replying to my own post. But just so everyone knows exactly how this works, here's an example:
./inc
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $i=5;
DoSomething($i);
sub DoSomething () {
print ++$_[0];
}
~>
6
I'd bet ++$_[0]; is the correct way to write that example statement. But then again the author was probably trying to make an entirely different point.
How about a link to a link. Is slashdot responsible for that too?
I think Rob just got bitchslapped by Microsoft.
Do you work for Dell or something? This reads like an ad.
GRUB offers the best boot loader in the business. Caldera offers it in eDesktop. As well, I believe a BSD or two use it.
btw, I'm a bit biased as I work for Caldera.
This was posted to the PCSE Linux User's Group, so I don't know how true it is:
This is pretty much the deal. Almost all PCI modems are winmodems. Save yourself a lot of time by looking at the paperwork for the card. If the modem does not feature error detection, then it is not a modem and will not work in Linux. A modem that will work in Linux will cost close to $100 and be on an ISA card.
Grow up. RMS was simply warning people about the potential for problems for bundling GNU/Linux with hords of proprietary software, and still calling it 'Linux'. Has Caldera done that? No. He (RMS) gave two examples of companies that favor that approach to business already (Oracle and Corel). What about them? Do they suck too?
Brilliant insight, sd.
I'm no boot loader guru by any means, but GRUB doesn't have that limitation. I suppose that was it's main advatage over LILO. Now if Caldera would only switch back...
3dfx seems to have a slightly slower card, but I'd buy it in a second over the NVidia card. My system (in Linux AND Windows, that is) came to life when I put a new 3dfx card in. It was great. If you do anything in Linux forget about buying an NVidia card. It's a joke. If you live in Windows-land all the time, you may think differently.
Monty
I wonder if SuSE will drop off the Slashdot map just like Caldera has once they go public. Thanks, Slashdot. I can't wait to see the community die.
As everyone is twisting their brains into knots to solve this problem, how about a much easier question. I have an external DSL modem/router with ONE real live static IP for it. How would I host a web server on my machine? Two static addresses would be really easy, but they refuse to do this for me without a "business" account (at more than double the monthly charge). I'm assuming I need some sort of forwarding rule setup on my router (a Cisco 675). This has to be a common thing to do, I just haven't been able to find any resources on it yet. Is it even possible?
There are annoying recruiters everywhere these days. I guarantee they'll be beating down your door after this post. They basically look at keywords, and I imagine they run lots of resumes through an indexer to see how well you fit with positions they're trying to fill. Make sure your resume looks impressive to an actual human, and has all the words to make the computer happy too. Most of these recruiters have very little technical experience, but they notice the buzzwords.
It's all a game, you just have to play it right. There's also a bit of luck involved as well.
Monty
In windows-land it seems to do well also. I had to fdisk my drive and do a clean 98SE install to get the tv stuff to work, but now that it's on, it seems to work fine (I'd been meaning to do that for a while anyway). As far as tuner performance, I've got little to judge it against besides a tv. All I expected from the card was a *working* tuner that does pretty well, and I've got it. Resizes are very fast, and full-screen performance looks about as good as a regular old 17" teevee.
The final frontier (since I only use Windows nowadays to watch Jazz games) for me is to get the tuner working in Linux. I haven't even started to try to get this working, but I imagine others have gotten further than I have. I have no idea whether or not people have had any luck with this, and I'd like to know if anyone has even tried.
To answer your question, I reccommend the V3500 since most of the multimedia stuff you'll be doing is probably going to be in Windows anyway. The performance there (not that I have particularly high multimedia standards) seems to be more than adequate for me. The kicker is that the Linux support is excellent.
Monty
Only one nitpick. Most thievs know to cut the phone line before they hurl a rock through your back window. That way your $20000 alarm system can just dial all day long.
So, to summarize, buy a $20000 alarm, buy a pitbull, and rewire your phone lines to make sure they're 100% below ground.
Monty
Monty
Monty
But I guess that means that now all Utah programmers are going to hell. Oh well... Time for another penguin mint.