One of the cheapest approaches is to use a pair of six channel capable sound cards and hack yourself some code to merge three ogg files into one "six channel" stream, then just use pairs of ordinary speakers off to different locations. Two sound cards, gets you six stereo speaker sets. With care you get one on the mainboard anyway the other for $30
The european one both allows and disallows it at the same time and even if it explicitly allowed it it isnt clear how much it would help because accessibility companies are small and media companies are large and quite happy to litigate legitimate parties out of existance
Especially the new DDR RAM one coming out soon - 4 channel video capture, VIA CPU, 2.5" disk, CF, wireless and up to 3 network interfaces in a box the size of a book..
Re:Damn, I thought this was mini-itx NOT FROM VIA
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Current XFree86 has 2D drivers. I also finally figured out the remaining problem with audio and gnome today (see 2.4.21-ac3) so the sound is great.
VIA have released 3D driver source and further video stuff. I'm currnetly working with them on getting it integrated. The 3D needs other people as its XFree 4.2 not 4.3 based.
VIA seem to be quite serious about good Linux support for the EPIA/EPIA-M.
Thats doublespeak. There is no muddle on software patents. They are not currently allowed. There is a drift towards US type problems - paying the EPO on the basis of patents approved not reviewed, inability to spot prior art etc
A computer program and a business method are the same thing. Its dishonest to claim otherwise IMHO. A software patent is a defined series of steps with conditions performed by the box on your desk.. A business method is a defined series of steps with conditions performed by a human at the desk.
Reality gets even murkier.
A DSP decodes MP3 audio. Is that a hardware patent on the DSP, a software patent on the code in it or neither
A human sits down with a calculator and decodes the MP3 by hand. Is that a hardware patent, a software patent, or a business method ?
Antivirus software ultimately is irrelevant, as is just about every other piece of "after they get in" type software. Security has to be about "they didnt get in" and more importantly "they got in but couldnt do any harm".
Take slammer, mix with chernobyl and add disk firmware erasure. By the time something like that hits you its too late to update your virus scanner.
"A: Things got rough, they treated us like dirt, I left."
The correct A is of course
"A: it became obvious that I wasnt going to fufill my potential at the former employer so I'm applying somewhere with more management vision"
This all also depends on country. In much of Europe in that situation its more effective to exercise the right to secret ballot to unionize the office.
(Especially if the parent company is american because US unions are a bit different and some US employers have series mental scars from meeting them and the results of the word union in their presence is a kodak moment 8))
The other question raised is whether you would break the company. In which case its a shame the execs havent actually had the decency to call everyone together and explain precisely how far there is between the shit and the fan and what has to be done about it.
One thing I'd say about the 1 year support (which is true of way more than Red Hat if you look around) is that for a lot of the desktop stuff when you want the latest and greatest you might well be thinking "need to upgrade want cool new evolution want funky new KDE 4" within 12 months anyway.
In hacker terms Red Hat Enterprise products are "boring". For some markets this has a huge appeal, for others it doesn't.
It depends on the country and even in the USA the state. Its always best to have this on paper.
My old one with I2IT. Sonix and 3Com basically said
"If you are doing it on your own time and equipment, it doesn't interfere with work and it doesn't involve or relate to company trade secrets or business then fine"
Which meant I had to keep out of Linux ISDN and bridging but that was IMHO fine. I2IT and Sonix were thankfully both companies that understood that they were making a net win out of the whole thing and that having an active tcp stack writer did help debug company code now and then 8)
Its ludicrous for a different reason. A tax on fuel punishes the people who burn it all, a tax on distance is an invitation to people to generate more pollution.
Am I the only one wondering whether the discussion in question was of the "we'll sue you out of existance" variety.
Its odd they would make their benchmark useless, and thats what it has become now IMHO - it doesnt tell you how fast a random game is likely to run, it tells you how good their hackers are at hand tuning a meaningless benchmark.
North Korea also has plenty of IP connectivity. If you look back through the news you'll discover their government did a hosting deal with a large internet casino where the casino did all the work and the government got some of the bandwidth.
Anti plagarism code doesn't actually work. I know a couple of people who actually ended up as expert witnesses in court and ripped the code to shreds.
Sure it finds *similar* code but there are several interesting problems software has trouble solving
1. Code that comes from a common description. I'd bet Linus and Unixware have very similar spinlock code, maybe intstruction identical - because thats how Intel tell you how to write the thing
2. Code from a common source. Linux and Unixware are going to have similar code in bits of drivers/* submitted legitimately to both SCO and Linux (and BSD and Windoows and everywhere else) by the hardware vendor who wrote it. The same will be true of stuff from Standards documents. Gee our struct stat is like their struct stat - because its a standards defined item
3. The birthday paradox. Given two large chunks of code and doing arbitary comparisons statistics shows that very unintuitively to humans matches are actually rather likely. Code can't identify these, it takes human analysis and statistical modelling.
4. Code legitimately added to Linux by SCO/Caldera employees employed to work on SCO / Linux compatibility that was done with Caldera blessing and who unfortunately for SCO have the contract paperwork to prove it...
SCO btw have another problem. Their NDA can't forbid redistribution of the GPL code. If they distribute Linux code under their NDA they are violating the license so committing an offence themselves 8)
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It does seem that way - they don't seem to own any copyrights of mass destruction after all 8)
If they don't include the lyrics maybe the hearing impared should simply sue them back. There are lots of people who can enjoy music but whose hearing isnt good enough to pull the lyrics out of the music.
It stops being about program security at a point as your user base grows. While there is no excuse for the shoddy UIs in things like Windows that made it natural to click Ok to "a fun thing fred sent" the ultimate target nowdays is the user, because users are the weakest part of the system.
Thats why things like SELinux or the Debian RSBAC Linux are so important. There is a real need to make sure any user can work out which end is the barrel without pulling the trigger
EPIA and EPIA-M support network booting so you can run them entirely diskless. For a thin client the base fanless EPIA is fine and you might also want to buy a not so cute case (eg the cubid) and not connect the rear fan.
Another silent setup is the lex lite which uses CF or laptop disks and is a good deal smaller than the Hush (but not fanless for 933Mhz)
AMD put out notes about not using thermal grease on the newer processors to shops and distributors months ago. The document goes on to give what sounded like a reasonable explanation of what happens to thermal grease and how it gets pumped out over time by the heat.
Humour aside the first thing to do is to work out why the environment is so dusty to cause these problems. Is it lack of cleaning. If you are trashing systems for the lack of an hour a week with a decent vacuum its a bit silly.
Similarly look for environmental issues - crumbling concrete floors for example.
Failing that you could just buy fanless PC's in future 8)
The UK draws a lot of its road taxation from fuel charges. The idea is that the more you drive and the bigger, more damaging vehicle you use the more it hurts.
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One of the cheapest approaches is to use a pair of six channel capable sound cards and hack yourself some code to merge three ogg files into one "six channel" stream, then just use pairs of ordinary speakers off to different locations. Two sound cards, gets you six stereo speaker sets. With care you get one on the mainboard anyway the other for $30
The european one both allows and disallows it at the same time and even if it explicitly allowed it it isnt clear how much it would help because accessibility companies are small and media companies are large and quite happy to litigate legitimate parties out of existance
www.lex.com.tw
Especially the new DDR RAM one coming out soon - 4 channel video capture, VIA CPU, 2.5" disk, CF, wireless and up to 3 network interfaces in a box the size of a book..
Current XFree86 has 2D drivers. I also finally figured out the remaining problem with audio and gnome today (see 2.4.21-ac3) so the sound is great.
VIA have released 3D driver source and further video stuff. I'm currnetly working with them on getting it integrated. The 3D needs other people as its XFree 4.2 not 4.3 based.
VIA seem to be quite serious about good Linux support for the EPIA/EPIA-M.
Thats doublespeak. There is no muddle on software patents. They are not currently allowed. There is a drift towards US type problems - paying the EPO on the basis of patents approved not reviewed, inability to spot prior art etc
A computer program and a business method are the same thing. Its dishonest to claim otherwise IMHO. A software patent is a defined series of steps with conditions performed by the box on your desk.. A business method is a defined series of steps with conditions performed by a human at the desk.
Reality gets even murkier.
A DSP decodes MP3 audio. Is that a hardware patent on the DSP, a software patent on the code in it or neither
A human sits down with a calculator and decodes the MP3 by hand. Is that a hardware patent, a software patent, or a business method ?
Your blood or your brain ?
Letters@guardian.co.uk for anyone with something *intelligent* to say to the Guardian letters pages.
If you do then you should also get Jeff Garzik's new sata as scsi stack patch and use that.
You need both. Not because the young minds are better but because someone hasnt spent twenty years telling them a list of things are impossible.
Computer technology in general ? 2000 notes with extra magic shifts and a dvorak bit sounds more like an emacs optimised keyboard
Antivirus software ultimately is irrelevant, as is just about every other piece of "after they get in" type software. Security has to be about "they didnt get in" and more importantly "they got in but couldnt do any harm".
Take slammer, mix with chernobyl and add disk firmware erasure. By the time something like that hits you its too late to update your virus scanner.
"A: Things got rough, they treated us like dirt, I left."
The correct A is of course
"A: it became obvious that I wasnt going to fufill my potential at the former employer so I'm applying somewhere with more management vision"
This all also depends on country. In much of Europe in that situation its more effective to exercise the right to secret ballot to unionize the office.
(Especially if the parent company is american because US unions are a bit different and some US employers have series mental scars from meeting them and the results of the word union in their presence is a kodak moment 8))
The other question raised is whether you would break the company. In which case its a shame the execs havent actually had the decency to call everyone together and explain precisely how far there is between the shit and the fan and what has to be done about it.
One thing I'd say about the 1 year support (which is true of way more than Red Hat if you look around) is that for a lot of the desktop stuff when you want the latest and greatest you might well be thinking "need to upgrade want cool new evolution want funky new KDE 4" within 12 months anyway.
In hacker terms Red Hat Enterprise products are "boring". For some markets this has a huge appeal, for others it doesn't.
It depends on the country and even in the USA the state. Its always best to have this on paper.
My old one with I2IT. Sonix and 3Com basically said
"If you are doing it on your own time and equipment, it doesn't interfere with work and it doesn't involve or relate to company trade secrets or business then fine"
Which meant I had to keep out of Linux ISDN and bridging but that was IMHO fine. I2IT and Sonix were thankfully both companies that understood that they were making a net win out of the whole thing and that having an active tcp stack writer did help debug company code now and then 8)
Its ludicrous for a different reason. A tax on fuel punishes the people who burn it all, a tax on distance is an invitation to people to generate more pollution.
Am I the only one wondering whether the discussion in question was of the "we'll sue you out of existance" variety.
Its odd they would make their benchmark useless, and thats what it has become now IMHO - it doesnt tell you how fast a random game is likely to run, it tells you how good their hackers are at hand tuning a meaningless benchmark.
North Korea also has plenty of IP connectivity. If you look back through the news you'll discover their government did a hosting deal with a large internet casino where the casino did all the work and the government got some of the bandwidth.
Anti plagarism code doesn't actually work. I know a couple of people who actually ended up as expert witnesses in court and ripped the code to shreds.
Sure it finds *similar* code but there are several interesting problems software has trouble solving
1. Code that comes from a common description. I'd bet Linus and Unixware have very similar spinlock code, maybe intstruction identical - because thats how Intel tell you how to write the thing
2. Code from a common source. Linux and Unixware are going to have similar code in bits of drivers/* submitted legitimately to both SCO and Linux (and BSD and Windoows and everywhere else) by the hardware vendor who wrote it. The same will be true of stuff from Standards documents. Gee our struct stat is like their struct stat - because its a standards defined item
3. The birthday paradox. Given two large chunks of code and doing arbitary comparisons statistics shows that very unintuitively to humans matches are actually rather likely. Code can't identify these, it takes human analysis and statistical modelling.
4. Code legitimately added to Linux by SCO/Caldera employees employed to work on SCO / Linux compatibility that was done with Caldera blessing and who unfortunately for SCO have the contract paperwork to prove it...
SCO btw have another problem. Their NDA can't forbid redistribution of the GPL code. If they distribute Linux code under their NDA they are violating the license so committing an offence themselves 8)
It does seem that way - they don't seem to own any copyrights of mass destruction after all 8)
Two bedroom with garden is about 50,000 here, less if you are away from the city centre. 140,000 buys you a small mansion 8)
I never understood why people work in London 8)
If they don't include the lyrics maybe the hearing impared should simply sue them back. There are lots of people who can enjoy music but whose hearing isnt good enough to pull the lyrics out of the music.
It stops being about program security at a point as your user base grows. While there is no excuse for the shoddy UIs in things like Windows that made it natural to click Ok to "a fun thing fred sent" the ultimate target nowdays is the user, because users are the weakest part of the system.
Thats why things like SELinux or the Debian RSBAC Linux are so important. There is a real need to make sure any user can work out which end is the barrel without pulling the trigger
EPIA and EPIA-M support network booting so you can run them entirely diskless. For a thin client the base fanless EPIA is fine and you might also want to buy a not so cute case (eg the cubid) and not connect the rear fan.
Another silent setup is the lex lite which uses CF or laptop disks and is a good deal smaller than the Hush (but not fanless for 933Mhz)
AMD put out notes about not using thermal grease on the newer processors to shops and distributors months ago. The document goes on to give what sounded like a reasonable explanation of what happens to thermal grease and how it gets pumped out over time by the heat.
Suprised me when I saw it, but its old old news
Humour aside the first thing to do is to work out why the environment is so dusty to cause these problems. Is it lack of cleaning. If you are trashing systems for the lack of an hour a week with a decent vacuum its a bit silly.
Similarly look for environmental issues - crumbling concrete floors for example.
Failing that you could just buy fanless PC's in future 8)
The UK draws a lot of its road taxation from fuel charges. The idea is that the more you drive and the bigger, more damaging vehicle you use the more it hurts.
Sucks to be an SUV owner, but who cares 8)