Or maybe it was my comment - I emailed them a while back and politely told them that I would absolutely love to buy an all-in-wonder 128 and had money in hand for it, but said I'd pass on it unless it had Linux support.
Seriously, I think there have been a lot of us writing polite (and some writing not-too-polite) emails to ATI telling them we don't want their cards without Linux support.
No, Gravis just didn't have a clue about marketing. The Ultrasound was way ahead of any other consumer cards at the time it was released. Gravis knew how to market joysticks, but soundcards are a bit of a different beast.
Also, there was so much DOS soundblaster software out there (that the GUS tried to emulate a SB for, but wasn't terribly successful) that the lack of hardware compatibility was a huge downside.
PixStream has really cool equipment for MPEG2 video over IP. If you're lucky enough to live in New Brunswick or any of a handful of places with telcos using PixStream gear you can watch full quality video over your xDSL or similar link.
Just FYI, Slashdot had a story about LinModems so it seems at least one of the mass-market cheapo-peripheral manufacturers is taking Linux seriously. There's an interesting quote about the ease of Linux development vs. MS: PC-TEL Director of Program Management Terry Huang said that the code for the software modem was "adapted from the implementation for Microsoft, but [we] rewrote about one-third of the code." William Hsu, the company's software manager, characterized the Linux development as "cleaner and easier than for Microsoft."
Yes. I've been working for a company which makes equipment that telcos are considering for use in their network (but not directly involved in call / data routing). 99.9% availability would be a huge joke to them.
"It's interesting to note that there is not a single TPC result on any database running on Linux, and therefore Linux has yet to demonstrate their capabilities as a database server."
Ok, that's just dumb. A TPC result would not be a bad thing, but the lack of same does not mean that Linux hasn't been demonstrated as a database server. And it's interesting that Microsoft is learning that Linux is a community and not a company but still missed it here: "their" in reference to Linux (not the Linux community.)
Regarding 99.9% uptime guarantees - of course people will sell you a 99.9% guarantee on NT. You pay lots of money, and when it doesn't meet the guarantee, you get some money back. I wonder what the terms of those guarantees are? Sure an NT box by itself is pretty stable, but what about when you want it to do actual, useful stuff?
About commercial support being fee-based. What the hell does Microsoft think? Commercial support will of course be fee based. The difference is that fee-based commercial support is not the *only* method of support, as it is with MS. Who wants to put a $195 charge on their credit card just to *talk* to MS support personnel?
Sure there are some good points in the "article," and a lot more bad points. Most of the bad ones are so obviously stupid that it's not worthwile even commenting on them.
Absolutely! This is one of my biggest pet peeves about Win95. I moved my PCI ethernet card to a different slot one time, and sure enough Windows reported that a new device was found, and couldn't find drivers. I didn't have the old floppy around that came with it, so I had no ethernet driver.
Later on I installed a SCSI card for my new CD burner. Windows bluescreened every time I tried to start, and also bluescreened every time I tried to *reinstall* from scratch. I guess it kept the old, somehow corrupted driver around and kept using it. I had to wipe out my windows dir and start over. Linux on the other hand basically said 'oh look a new SCSI card is here, I'll use that.'
If you're looking for a really easy way to get PPP up and running, have a look at WvDial. It'll auto-detect your modem, and figure out how to talk to your ISP. All you should have to give it is your username, password and phone number.
Well, datacom companies should team up with gas companies and put the fiber right beside the gas lines. That way everyone would be scared to dig near em and thus no busted fiber lines:)
Not true. Sure, some older motherboards would boot an IDE drive and then load SCSI drivers and then load the (rest of the) OS from there. Newer BIOSes will let you boot from a SCSI drive directly.
No, not necessarily. I think the poster is talking about analog noise being picked up by the (usually) crappy soundcard output stage, or even worse, by the microphone input. I have a Xitel storm platinum (Aureal, get your act together with Vortex2 Linux drivers!) which has a pretty decent analog section, but if I crank my amp I can hear noise when I scroll in Netscape or do other things.
Granted, video cards *can* saturate the PCI bus and starve your soundcard of the bandwidth it needs, but this kind of interference will come through even if no sound is playing.
No, there is no requirement to put a "patent pending" notice. Supposedly it means "hey, we've filed a patent but we want to start selling this thing now, so don't bother trying to patent it yourself first." Maybe manufacturers get some satisfaction from putting it on, but it's just about completely meaningless.
The fix is in the machine's firmware -- the built-in set of instructions that boots the machine. Apple introduced the disabling feature in Version 1.1 of the G3 firmware. Earlier models of the blue and white G3 computers with Version 1.0 of the firmware aren't affected, according to manufacturers of upgrade cards.
So,
Version 1.0 lets you use a G4 upgrade.
Version 1.1 was released to improve PCI performance or somesuch with no mention of G4 upgrading being disabled.
Version 1.1 doesn't let you use a G4 upgrade.
You can't go from Version 1.1 to Version 1.0.
Maybe you meant to say "a simple firmware update could solve the problem." That is, when and if Apple decides to release firmware to remove this seemingly arbitrary upgrade prevention mechanism.
That's not the point. People are not pissed because it's apparently not possible to upgrade the G3 to a G4. People are pissed because there are allegedly no technological (hardware) reasons why you shouldn't be able to just swap out an old processor and put in a new one. Apple has seemingly used deception to get people to upgrade their firmware which then arbitrarily refuses to let a G3-G4 upgrade take place.
Top 20 US companies for computer hardware, in millions of dollars:
1. International Business Machines $25,907.6 2. Compaq Computer $24,584.0 3. Hewlett-Packard $16,310.4 4. Dell $8,628.9 5. Sun $6,905.0 6. Gateway 2000 $6,042 7. Apple Computer $4,897.5
Ok, ok, so most of that 26 billion is not from IBM's PCs. But the "IBM PC" is nonetheless the dominant personal computing platform and IBM still manages to keep a fair portion of that market.
Source: 1999 Edition, Electronics Industry Yearbook, Cahners Electronics Group.
First, this network is using wave division multiplexing with 8 wavelengths to reach the 80 Gbits/sec. The article mentions that the network will go to 2000 wavelengths, or 20 Tbits/sec, in the future. However, the whole point is not that this is about a "technology being developed" but rather that this technology is being deployed, now, as in a physical network actually exists.
Don't get too excited yet. Packet radio has nothing to do with radio broadcasting. It's a method radio amateurs (hams) use to transfer data (hence packet) between each other. If I'm not mistaken it's slow and high-latency, by "modern" standards.
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(Sorry if I posted just the subject before.)
IDG has a Contact IDG page that you can use to tell them what you think.
On the www.dummies.com page, they also have an email address custserdum@idgbooks.com that you can send to.
Hey, they're getting close. Have you seen any of the Complete Idiot's series?
Geez, it's about time! It always seemed kind of hokey that ATI was hidden away behind some .ca domain, and it wasn't even ati.ca
I'd bet they just forked over a bunch of cash for it.
Or maybe it was my comment - I emailed them a while back and politely told them that I would absolutely love to buy an all-in-wonder 128 and had money in hand for it, but said I'd pass on it unless it had Linux support.
Seriously, I think there have been a lot of us writing polite (and some writing not-too-polite) emails to ATI telling them we don't want their cards without Linux support.
No, Gravis just didn't have a clue about marketing. The Ultrasound was way ahead of any other consumer cards at the time it was released. Gravis knew how to market joysticks, but soundcards are a bit of a different beast.
Also, there was so much DOS soundblaster software out there (that the GUS tried to emulate a SB for, but wasn't terribly successful) that the lack of hardware compatibility was a huge downside.
PixStream has really cool equipment for MPEG2 video over IP. If you're lucky enough to live in New Brunswick or any of a handful of places with telcos using PixStream gear you can watch full quality video over your xDSL or similar link.
http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz/boe ing.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990811 -000001.html
Dell:
http://www.idg.net/crd_ibm_dell_9-126 405.html
http://www.dell.com/linux/press.htm
SGI:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1999/3 1/ns-9268.html
IBM:
http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,41
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990930 -000020.html
Compaq:
http://www.digital.com/inFORM/issues/issue27/ln
Intel:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1999/3 2/ns-9301.html
http://www.linuxia64.com/
Fujitsu:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990929 -000017.html
Microsoft:
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departm ents/nt/bugs.shtml
http://support.micro soft.com/support/kb/articles/Q150/7/34.ASP
http://support.micro soft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/8/34.ASP
http://support.micro soft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/7/93.ASP
Other side: HP:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990920- 000020.html
Just FYI, Slashdot had a story about LinModems so it seems at least one of the mass-market cheapo-peripheral manufacturers is taking Linux seriously. There's an interesting quote about the ease of Linux development vs. MS:
PC-TEL Director of Program Management Terry Huang said that the code for the software modem was "adapted from the implementation for Microsoft, but [we] rewrote about one-third of the code." William Hsu, the company's software manager, characterized the Linux development as "cleaner and easier than for Microsoft."
Yes. I've been working for a company which makes equipment that telcos are considering for use in their network (but not directly involved in call / data routing). 99.9% availability would be a huge joke to them.
"It's interesting to note that there is not a single TPC result on any database running on Linux, and therefore Linux has yet to demonstrate their capabilities as a database server."
Ok, that's just dumb. A TPC result would not be a bad thing, but the lack of same does not mean that Linux hasn't been demonstrated as a database server. And it's interesting that Microsoft is learning that Linux is a community and not a company but still missed it here: "their" in reference to Linux (not the Linux community.)
Regarding 99.9% uptime guarantees - of course people will sell you a 99.9% guarantee on NT. You pay lots of money, and when it doesn't meet the guarantee, you get some money back. I wonder what the terms of those guarantees are? Sure an NT box by itself is pretty stable, but what about when you want it to do actual, useful stuff?
About commercial support being fee-based. What the hell does Microsoft think? Commercial support will of course be fee based. The difference is that fee-based commercial support is not the *only* method of support, as it is with MS. Who wants to put a $195 charge on their credit card just to *talk* to MS support personnel?
Sure there are some good points in the "article," and a lot more bad points. Most of the bad ones are so obviously stupid that it's not worthwile even commenting on them.
Absolutely! This is one of my biggest pet peeves about Win95. I moved my PCI ethernet card to a different slot one time, and sure enough Windows reported that a new device was found, and couldn't find drivers. I didn't have the old floppy around that came with it, so I had no ethernet driver.
Later on I installed a SCSI card for my new CD burner. Windows bluescreened every time I tried to start, and also bluescreened every time I tried to *reinstall* from scratch. I guess it kept the old, somehow corrupted driver around and kept using it. I had to wipe out my windows dir and start over. Linux on the other hand basically said 'oh look a new SCSI card is here, I'll use that.'
If you're looking for a really easy way to get PPP up and running, have a look at WvDial. It'll auto-detect your modem, and figure out how to talk to your ISP. All you should have to give it is your username, password and phone number.
Well, datacom companies should team up with gas companies and put the fiber right beside the gas lines. That way everyone would be scared to dig near em and thus no busted fiber lines :)
Not true. Sure, some older motherboards would boot an IDE drive and then load SCSI drivers and then load the (rest of the) OS from there. Newer BIOSes will let you boot from a SCSI drive directly.
No, not necessarily. I think the poster is talking about analog noise being picked up by the (usually) crappy soundcard output stage, or even worse, by the microphone input. I have a Xitel storm platinum (Aureal, get your act together with Vortex2 Linux drivers!) which has a pretty decent analog section, but if I crank my amp I can hear noise when I scroll in Netscape or do other things.
Granted, video cards *can* saturate the PCI bus and starve your soundcard of the bandwidth it needs, but this kind of interference will come through even if no sound is playing.
No, there is no requirement to put a "patent pending" notice. Supposedly it means "hey, we've filed a patent but we want to start selling this thing now, so don't bother trying to patent it yourself first." Maybe manufacturers get some satisfaction from putting it on, but it's just about completely meaningless.
Uhh...
RTOS stands for Real Time Operating System.
RTOS isn't a brand but rather a type of OS.
I'll make it really simple and quote it for you:
So,
Version 1.0 lets you use a G4 upgrade.
Version 1.1 was released to improve PCI performance or somesuch with no mention of G4 upgrading being disabled.
Version 1.1 doesn't let you use a G4 upgrade.
You can't go from Version 1.1 to Version 1.0.
Maybe you meant to say "a simple firmware update could solve the problem." That is, when and if Apple decides to release firmware to remove this seemingly arbitrary upgrade prevention mechanism.
That's not the point. People are not pissed because it's apparently not possible to upgrade the G3 to a G4. People are pissed because there are allegedly no technological (hardware) reasons why you shouldn't be able to just swap out an old processor and put in a new one. Apple has seemingly used deception to get people to upgrade their firmware which then arbitrarily refuses to let a G3-G4 upgrade take place.
Top 20 US companies for computer hardware, in millions of dollars:
1. International Business Machines $25,907.6
2. Compaq Computer $24,584.0
3. Hewlett-Packard $16,310.4
4. Dell $8,628.9
5. Sun $6,905.0
6. Gateway 2000 $6,042
7. Apple Computer $4,897.5
Ok, ok, so most of that 26 billion is not from IBM's PCs. But the "IBM PC" is nonetheless the dominant personal computing platform and IBM still manages to keep a fair portion of that market.
Source: 1999 Edition, Electronics Industry Yearbook, Cahners Electronics Group.
I don't believe Home Depot is using Linux yet... read the article here. The article says "pilot-testing is being done this summer."
First, this network is using wave division multiplexing with 8 wavelengths to reach the 80 Gbits/sec. The article mentions that the network will go to 2000 wavelengths, or 20 Tbits/sec, in the future. However, the whole point is not that this is about a "technology being developed" but rather that this technology is being deployed, now, as in a physical network actually exists.
Check out this page for some DIY mixer projects, if you want to go that route.
Don't get too excited yet. Packet radio has nothing to do with radio broadcasting. It's a method radio amateurs (hams) use to transfer data (hence packet) between each other. If I'm not mistaken it's slow and high-latency, by "modern" standards.
Just a note on my earlier comment, to explain where trafficcash.com came from:
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In that page's HTML, his click-through banners are of the following form:
Link:
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