It's excellent to see large companies such as IBM supporting projects like FreeBSD in this way. Does anybody have anymore information on the specifics of the problem? Was FreeBSD the only operating system affected? If my memory serves correctly, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD 1.3.3 used the same partition ID.
WinAmp plays them back in Windows, but anything higher than 22050Hz mono is choppy. The overhead of using a PCMCIA sound card (PCMCIA by the way doesn't support DMA, so it's all done PIO) is extra overhead that doesn't help the situation either.
I have an AST Ascentia 910N. Everything works like a charm (running NetBSD 1.5R) except for my PCMCIA sound card. Since the machine isn't powerful enough to play mp3's anyway, it's not a major loss.
Although I won't argue about them being idiots:), it was IT services who {performed,attempted} the installation. They're _muuch_ bigger idiots than the instructors.
I would have to disagree with this point -- both Linux and NetBSD have run beautifully on any laptop I've used. On the other hand, I've heard nothing but bad stories from instructors at my college about the failed attempt to upgrade the school laptops to Windows 2000. They swear by Windows 98 SE (and there's nothing more funny than seeing a giant BSOD projected onto a screen in the middle of a presentation).
The only thing I wonder about this is latency.. assuming they're interconnected with ethernet, wouldn't latency be _terrible_ compared to a typical multi-processor machine?
Not only does "things become uncool when nerds like it" apply to television, it applies to pretty much everything in popular culture. Clothing, music, hobbies... It's part of having so-called "social classes", and there's not a whole lot anybody can do about it.
I really don't see a problem with this -- I go to school with somebody who plans on paying next year's tuition with his Everquest character. It's a pretty decent investment for somebody who enjoys playing -- pay the monthly fee, invest your time and in the end you end up being rewarded. Sony isn't being hurt by this, it's helping others.. so what's the problem?
I was watching a demonstration of VibeVision at the NBTel Cellular store in McAllister Place (Saint John) and I wasn't impressed with the quality.. MPEG artifacts were very obvious on the screen, nowhere near the quality I had expected. Any plans on VibeVision over HFC? Or are the older Vibe customers SOL (which seems the case for most things -- I do _not_ want DSL).
Transparent proxying with HTTP can be quite useful as well. Think of this: you are an ISP, your only uplink is a satellite connection with high latency. Using a transparent proxy to cache web pages will help a LOT in a situation like this.
KDE 2.0 does not even build on NetBSD without modifications, and even if it did certain things like the audio libraries wouldn't work. KDE assumes that the audio device is/dev/dsp, but NetBSD uses either/dev/sound or/dev/audio (see the audio(4) manual page for the small difference between the two).
I really don't think that for example Intel hardware is designed for mission-critical situations. People are accustomed to their machines crashing, they blame it on the software and restart the computer. Nobody likes to admit that they have bad hardware, but nobody wants to pay a premium for reliable hardware either.
The KDE2 packages are still being worked on by Nick Hudson. For now, you'll have to live with binary packages of KDE 1.1.2, or for the daring, you can try the beta packages of KDE2 at the following URL: http://www.nthcliff.demon.co.uk/NetBSD/KDE2/index. html
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NetBSD has had this in its package collection for a long time now, it's available at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/ga mes/quake6/README.html.
Anybody know if this bad boy will run NetBSD? If so, I'm there.
It's excellent to see large companies such as IBM supporting projects like FreeBSD in this way. Does anybody have anymore information on the specifics of the problem? Was FreeBSD the only operating system affected? If my memory serves correctly, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD 1.3.3 used the same partition ID.
WinAmp plays them back in Windows, but anything higher than 22050Hz mono is choppy. The overhead of using a PCMCIA sound card (PCMCIA by the way doesn't support DMA, so it's all done PIO) is extra overhead that doesn't help the situation either.
I have an AST Ascentia 910N. Everything works like a charm (running NetBSD 1.5R) except for my PCMCIA sound card. Since the machine isn't powerful enough to play mp3's anyway, it's not a major loss.
Although I won't argue about them being idiots :), it was IT services who {performed,attempted} the installation. They're _muuch_ bigger idiots than the instructors.
I would have to disagree with this point -- both Linux and NetBSD have run beautifully on any laptop I've used. On the other hand, I've heard nothing but bad stories from instructors at my college about the failed attempt to upgrade the school laptops to Windows 2000. They swear by Windows 98 SE (and there's nothing more funny than seeing a giant BSOD projected onto a screen in the middle of a presentation).
Wups, that's my sig not part of the comment.
Since when has Yahoo! relied on Linux?
The only thing I wonder about this is latency.. assuming they're interconnected with ethernet, wouldn't latency be _terrible_ compared to a typical multi-processor machine?
Not only does "things become uncool when nerds like it" apply to television, it applies to pretty much everything in popular culture. Clothing, music, hobbies... It's part of having so-called "social classes", and there's not a whole lot anybody can do about it.
I really don't see a problem with this -- I go to school with somebody who plans on paying next year's tuition with his Everquest character. It's a pretty decent investment for somebody who enjoys playing -- pay the monthly fee, invest your time and in the end you end up being rewarded. Sony isn't being hurt by this, it's helping others.. so what's the problem?
Then Red Hat really _would_ be Linux!
I don't know where you get this bullshit, but 2.7ms to NBTel's NAT (and 8.3ms from there to their next router) is NOT bad.
I was watching a demonstration of VibeVision at the NBTel Cellular store in McAllister Place (Saint John) and I wasn't impressed with the quality.. MPEG artifacts were very obvious on the screen, nowhere near the quality I had expected. Any plans on VibeVision over HFC? Or are the older Vibe customers SOL (which seems the case for most things -- I do _not_ want DSL).
Transparent proxying with HTTP can be quite useful as well. Think of this: you are an ISP, your only uplink is a satellite connection with high latency. Using a transparent proxy to cache web pages will help a LOT in a situation like this.
Hardest to play? I'm sure this is a joke to play compared to text-mode Quake.
KDE 2.0 does not even build on NetBSD without modifications, and even if it did certain things like the audio libraries wouldn't work. KDE assumes that the audio device is /dev/dsp, but NetBSD uses either /dev/sound or /dev/audio (see the audio(4) manual page for the small difference between the two).
I think it would be even more funny if Hemos had a butler...
I really don't think that for example Intel hardware is designed for mission-critical situations. People are accustomed to their machines crashing, they blame it on the software and restart the computer. Nobody likes to admit that they have bad hardware, but nobody wants to pay a premium for reliable hardware either.
68bit wouldn't really make sense, since there should be one parity bit for every byte. 64 / 8 = 8 bytes, so 72bit would make more sense than 68.
The KDE2 packages are still being worked on by Nick Hudson. For now, you'll have to live with binary packages of KDE 1.1.2, or for the daring, you can try the beta packages of KDE2 at the following URL: http://www.nthcliff.demon.co.uk/NetBSD/KDE2/index. html
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It's definately made me appreciate PBS.
PBS? But, Betty White!!! How can you appreciate Betty White?
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Slackware 7.2 has modutils 2.4.0 I'd imagine -- slackware-current from a few days ago had it.