According to their features section for 10.0 most SATA controllers are supported providing you're not going to try to RAID them.
OK, no, not bothering with RAIDing anything here.:-)
Of course if your luck is anything like mine, your chipset will be the only one not supported. It's a free download so it won't cost you to find out, and who knows, you just might really like it. I gave up on SUSE after they let their implementation of Gnome go to hell (version 7) and been with Mandrake ever since. Hella nice distribution. Just the thing for getting back into it. Cheers!
Yes, I'm fearing I'll have that kind of luck. But you're right in that it's free to try! I think I'll give it (and Partition Magic, heh) a shot and see how it's like. I liked what I saw in Knoppix before it crashed on me.:-P Things have really moved forward since Red Hat 5.x or so.:-D
How well does Linux 2.6.3, which distro builds on, support Serial ATA drives?
I'm using a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus @ 160 GB. The mainboard is a Abit IS7 and I *think* the SATA controller is from SiliconImage.
When I recently tried out Knoppix, the entire OS (or at least the GUI) froze whenever I tried to access the auto-detected hard drive. However, it's based on 2.4.x and I have a feeling it was due to my SATA drive and lack of controller support.
I'm relatively new to Linux after a longish break, but was thinking about picking up on it again. But I don't really want to start by messing around with SATA drivers, as it seems to be both a rather complex task for a newbie and a risky task too, as I'm dealing with low-level stuff that I fear could corrupt data if done wrong.
"Each year private individuals record a great amount of music, films and TV programmes on blank videocassettes, audiocassettes and CDs. Such widespread copying is a way of benefiting from the work of others without directly paying for it. This results in considerable losses for those who earn their living by creating music, films, and TV/radio programmes.
This is the reason for the regulations governing a blank tape levy in 26 k of the Swedish Copyright Act. The levy is designed to compensate, to some extent, the authors, performers or producers for the increasing amount of private copying of copyright protected material such as music, films and TV/radio programmes.
Importers and manufacturers are obliged to pay a blank tape levy of SEK 0.02 per recordable minute up to a maximum of SEK 6 per unit of blank audio or video media. The size of the levy is determined by law. According to 26 k the collection of the blank tape levy shall be done collectively by the representative organisations"
I personally find these levies very unfair as they're added to all recordable media and you're paying for the music and movie industry even when purchasing CD-R's to archive school work.
I also wonder how they decided what the fees should be. Wouldn't surprise me if they're much much higher (adds about 30% to the CD-R costs right now) than they should be, as people would probably not purchase two identical CD's very often if they were impossible to copy. Hence, in all these cases, they aren't losing money if these customers are copying today for convenience of playing a CD in the car stereo, etc. Usually, media companies and organizations like these totally ignore this important fact.
Microsoft is not a monopoly. Users are free to chose between any operating systems, for instance Mac OS X or Linux. It might be harder to get, but it's there for the users that want to make a conscious choice.
No they aren't free because of Microsoft's market dominance decides which programs are mainstream (usually those that run on Windows) or not. This has in turn a huge impact in the business. Maybe not in your room, but in the world in general.
First -- you've gotta love those that put an equal sign between EU and Europe... Makes it sound like you think all europeans think the suggestions in their entirety are good suggestions. That's about as stupid as saying the same with americans and their elected president.
The European Commission also could order Microsoft to include rival media players with Windows to make those products as easy for users to access as Microsoft's own music and video player.
<rant>
Why?? So they should compete for getting their software on the Windows CD now?? How do you get included? Marketing share? Bribes? Sex with Bill Gates?
Why not just do it like this:
Strip Windows of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash (what the heck is it doing in an OS anyway),... even WordPad!
Windows installer informs, at end of install, that "There are additional tools on the Windows Extras CD", but doesn't force the user to insert it. Just a stupid dialog box with an OK button.
Now put that stripped junk on that Windows Extras CD with a user friendly GUI with bells & whistles so even the most retarded Windows user still know how to install their favorite POS browser to surf teh intarweb.
They should also force them to make their software *uninstallable* like... well, their competing applications.
I'm fine with that. MS should be happy since they can include all their shit. They'll even get a separate CD and space to include More Junk Than Ever Before. Mozilla users will be happy because they can avoid IE, etc. Only problem here might be the feeling that you're paying for more than you'll use, but that's not a new problem at least. At least the situation would improve.
When I've done King Kong I'd like to do a proper box set and we've got a whole bunch of material - not of the movie but we've got a whole lot of bloopers out there! When King Kong's out the way I'd like to do a really high definition version with the best possible picture quality.
OK, so it's...
Lord of the Rings: Ultra Quality Blooper Edition
Hmm, I think I'll just get the ROTK EE and avoid that one.
Well, that doesn't make sense to me at least, considering prerelease software usually contain lots of debug code. How else would they be able to debug it?
Also, you're using your experiences with a beta to talk about an alpha. Alpha's are even more "add new features without caring for performance and even bugs" than betas.
Not really. Windows XP was over 2000 though. There are some huge underlying changes -- not a 100% rewrite -- but some major rewrites anyway. For example is the Windows programming API switched from Win32 to WinFX, and a whole lot retrofitted for the.NET framework for managed code.
In total, I'd expect Longhorn to bring about as many rewrites as there was from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.
Well, what can I say... You have a non Windows-related issue or my computer has some kind of blessing cast over it.
I'm likely running the same build of XP as you (Windows XP SP1) since years back and it has as speedy bootups as ever before (a major improvement there since Windows tried to slow down over time before), even if I've installed (and uninstalled) lots of software. My Windows install last crashed maybe half a year ago, and it's not like I'm not using it daily.
If you have crashes more than every other week, something is seriously wrong in there.
Windows 95 = 4.00.950 Windows 95 OSR2 = 4.00.1111 Windows 98 = 4.10.1998 (MS is loosing it...) Windows 98 SE = 4.10.2222 Windows ME = 4.90.3000 (why the huge 4.90 jump?)
Even the build numbers for that 16/32-bit hybrid OS look freaked out since Win 95.:-P
- the character acting/development: maybe not bad, but the actors weren't given much to work with at times - the script to the last movie: too scattered, trying to cram everything in without ever really coming together neatly in a form palatable for a movie - the pacing: considering what was cut, there were some ridiculously ponderous bits and other parts where whole swathes of the book were glossed over in a couple of seconds - the feeling that, by the end, Jackson is just telling someone elses story rather than presenting us with a piece of work in its own right. This combined with decisions to reduce Saruman's role and symbolism hurt the broader themes of the trilogy for me.
I'll wait for the Extended Edition and its 40 extra minutes before saying anything about ROTK. The EE's for the former parts were excellent IMHO and often added "calmer" scenes when there was much action in the movies, to balance things.
I think the Theatre Editions are mostly just unfortunate side effects of giving the audience (and the movie company) something easier to swallow and not how PJ truly intended the movies to be watched... The TE's are there to satisfy as many as possible, the EE's are there to satisfy fans like you and me who enter discussions at Slashdot with movie analyses.:-)
I think PJ will be able to present "fairy tale" style stories very. That's the thing I find cool about the LOTR movies. When I got the first view showing how the hobbits lived, it was like stepping right into a fairy tale to me.:-) Most scenes in LOTR stand out as very carefully made to me, regardless if they are an army at the fields of Pelennor or an idyllic view of Smeagol fishing at the start of ROTK.
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Hehe, I'm so proud of myself that I got this joke :)
;)
Uh, or maybe not
As if it's some immutable law that cant be changed and applies to the real world.
Eh, where do you see suggestions of that?
I can only see a person being pissed about it being changed from how it is in the book. Not the real world, silly.
I would be too if I was a fan of Asmiov's "I, Robot" book.
Well, one of the improvements IPv6 does is better support for ad-hoc networking. Are they saying we need something even better than what that?
Or are they just talking about IPv6? IPv6 is just that -- Internet Protocol version 6.
> dvdauthor
:-)
> by Anonymous Coward
> I wrote it.
Hmmmmm....
According to their features section for 10.0 most SATA controllers are supported providing you're not going to try to RAID them.
:-)
:-P Things have really moved forward since Red Hat 5.x or so. :-D
OK, no, not bothering with RAIDing anything here.
Of course if your luck is anything like mine, your chipset will be the only one not supported. It's a free download so it won't cost you to find out, and who knows, you just might really like it. I gave up on SUSE after they let their implementation of Gnome go to hell (version 7) and been with Mandrake ever since. Hella nice distribution. Just the thing for getting back into it. Cheers!
Yes, I'm fearing I'll have that kind of luck. But you're right in that it's free to try! I think I'll give it (and Partition Magic, heh) a shot and see how it's like. I liked what I saw in Knoppix before it crashed on me.
How well does Linux 2.6.3, which distro builds on, support Serial ATA drives?
I'm using a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus @ 160 GB. The mainboard is a Abit IS7 and I *think* the SATA controller is from SiliconImage.
When I recently tried out Knoppix, the entire OS (or at least the GUI) froze whenever I tried to access the auto-detected hard drive. However, it's based on 2.4.x and I have a feeling it was due to my SATA drive and lack of controller support.
I'm relatively new to Linux after a longish break, but was thinking about picking up on it again. But I don't really want to start by messing around with SATA drivers, as it seems to be both a rather complex task for a newbie and a risky task too, as I'm dealing with low-level stuff that I fear could corrupt data if done wrong.
- Activities of COPYSWEDE
(scroll down the page for information about the blank tape levies)
- Blank Tape Levy (PDF document with more detail)
Here's a quote summarizing it:
I personally find these levies very unfair as they're added to all recordable media and you're paying for the music and movie industry even when purchasing CD-R's to archive school work.
I also wonder how they decided what the fees should be. Wouldn't surprise me if they're much much higher (adds about 30% to the CD-R costs right now) than they should be, as people would probably not purchase two identical CD's very often if they were impossible to copy. Hence, in all these cases, they aren't losing money if these customers are copying today for convenience of playing a CD in the car stereo, etc. Usually, media companies and organizations like these totally ignore this important fact.
Yes, Amiga drives were king in the world of floppy disks back then :-D
:-)
One of the amazing/weird/cool Amiga things, along with semi boot persistant and dynamic RAM disks
One must be very careful when you kill -9!
:-)
By the way, is this proof that a *nix OS can kill a cat?
Since it should have 9 - 9 = 0 lives left...
Wow, that one was bad
Who gets included on this CD and who don't? Could it be possible to make this fair?
Microsoft is not a monopoly. Users are free to chose between any operating systems, for instance Mac OS X or Linux. It might be harder to get, but it's there for the users that want to make a conscious choice.
No they aren't free because of Microsoft's market dominance decides which programs are mainstream (usually those that run on Windows) or not. This has in turn a huge impact in the business. Maybe not in your room, but in the world in general.
You've gotta love the hyprocrisy of Europe
First -- you've gotta love those that put an equal sign between EU and Europe... Makes it sound like you think all europeans think the suggestions in their entirety are good suggestions. That's about as stupid as saying the same with americans and their elected president.
Second -- your post is off topic.
<rant>
Why?? So they should compete for getting their software on the Windows CD now?? How do you get included? Marketing share? Bribes? Sex with Bill Gates?
Why not just do it like this:
They should also force them to make their software *uninstallable* like... well, their competing applications.
I'm fine with that. MS should be happy since they can include all their shit. They'll even get a separate CD and space to include More Junk Than Ever Before. Mozilla users will be happy because they can avoid IE, etc. Only problem here might be the feeling that you're paying for more than you'll use, but that's not a new problem at least. At least the situation would improve.
</rant>
dont anyone mention BitTorrent and suprnova.org. for fellow slashdotters sure, but keep your mouth shut. Don't want this to go the way of napster.
:-D
;-) )
This release is now available on the eDonkey network! See also www.sharereactor.com!
( happy?
When I've done King Kong I'd like to do a proper box set and we've got a whole bunch of material - not of the movie but we've got a whole lot of bloopers out there! When King Kong's out the way I'd like to do a really high definition version with the best possible picture quality.
OK, so it's...
Lord of the Rings: Ultra Quality Blooper Edition
Hmm, I think I'll just get the ROTK EE and avoid that one.
IIRC, even the window management functionality is in the kernel now.
:-)
Only if you include user32.dll, gdi32.dll and maybe also shell32.dll in the size of kernel32.dll.
Oh well, I guess you should expect nothing less from morons who thought CR/LF, backslash dir seperator and drive letters are good ideas.
Actually, you can mount devices in Windows.
Well, that doesn't make sense to me at least, considering prerelease software usually contain lots of debug code. How else would they be able to debug it?
Also, you're using your experiences with a beta to talk about an alpha. Alpha's are even more "add new features without caring for performance and even bugs" than betas.
Longhorn is a patch over XP.
.NET framework for managed code.
Not really. Windows XP was over 2000 though. There are some huge underlying changes -- not a 100% rewrite -- but some major rewrites anyway. For example is the Windows programming API switched from Win32 to WinFX, and a whole lot retrofitted for the
In total, I'd expect Longhorn to bring about as many rewrites as there was from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.
I'd also like to add that the blue screen I got was due to a beta graphics card driver. Go figure... ;-) Reverted and that problem never came back.
Well, what can I say... You have a non Windows-related issue or my computer has some kind of blessing cast over it.
I'm likely running the same build of XP as you (Windows XP SP1) since years back and it has as speedy bootups as ever before (a major improvement there since Windows tried to slow down over time before), even if I've installed (and uninstalled) lots of software. My Windows install last crashed maybe half a year ago, and it's not like I'm not using it daily.
If you have crashes more than every other week, something is seriously wrong in there.
Windows 95 = 4.00.950
:-P
Windows 95 OSR2 = 4.00.1111
Windows 98 = 4.10.1998 (MS is loosing it...)
Windows 98 SE = 4.10.2222
Windows ME = 4.90.3000 (why the huge 4.90 jump?)
Even the build numbers for that 16/32-bit hybrid OS look freaked out since Win 95.
Now that the link is slashdotted, I'll post another review / info page about this alpha build from PDC:
. asp
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_4051
There are no apparent differences between that reviewed build (4051) and the one in this article.
Save your IQ from dropping a few points by not clicking the link in that article. :-O
- the character acting/development: maybe not bad, but the actors weren't given much to work with at times
:-)
- the script to the last movie: too scattered, trying to cram everything in without ever really coming together neatly in a form palatable for a movie
- the pacing: considering what was cut, there were some ridiculously ponderous bits and other parts where whole swathes of the book were glossed over in a couple of seconds
- the feeling that, by the end, Jackson is just telling someone elses story rather than presenting us with a piece of work in its own right. This combined with decisions to reduce Saruman's role and symbolism hurt the broader themes of the trilogy for me.
I'll wait for the Extended Edition and its 40 extra minutes before saying anything about ROTK. The EE's for the former parts were excellent IMHO and often added "calmer" scenes when there was much action in the movies, to balance things.
I think the Theatre Editions are mostly just unfortunate side effects of giving the audience (and the movie company) something easier to swallow and not how PJ truly intended the movies to be watched... The TE's are there to satisfy as many as possible, the EE's are there to satisfy fans like you and me who enter discussions at Slashdot with movie analyses.
I think PJ will be able to present "fairy tale" style stories very. That's the thing I find cool about the LOTR movies. When I got the first view showing how the hobbits lived, it was like stepping right into a fairy tale to me. :-) Most scenes in LOTR stand out as very carefully made to me, regardless if they are an army at the fields of Pelennor or an idyllic view of Smeagol fishing at the start of ROTK.