Hmmm, DRM CD's are not CD's. .. but it says, thusly...
3. My CD player will not recognize this disc.
This disc contains both an audio session and a data session for computers which makes it a multi-session disc. These discs are fully compliant with the Sony/Philips CD disc specifications. If your player will not recognize the disc please check whether your player recognizes multi-session discs in general.
... ?
-'fester /my money says the disc does not fully support cdda redbook, but still...
hey, i like the sound of this. if i could pay nasa for utilities for my apartment instead of local government.. i'd be all over it. plus, the added bonus of having testing or launches in my backyard...:)
700mhz or 800mhz MIPS processors?! 800mhz dual or quad processor boxes?!
*cringe*
It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz... It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz... It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz...
I used IRIX on an O2, and loved it. Was way ahead of its time.
IRIX on an O2 was ahead of its time? Sorry; the O2 was a nice sucessor to the Indy but at the point the O2 was released the pc vidcard makers were starting to get serious. and having uma and hardware mjpeg inside couldn't make up for the rather pokey cpu.
The Indigos were ahead of their time (and above most people price range:).. But frankly from the time i first used irix ('92? '93 in a univeristy environment) to the last time ('01, as FEA modelling systems) little had really changed OS-wise. XFS was maybe one of only real big additions. performance-wise, our fea systems would have been better on alphas we also had. quite frankly, given the advents of the video graphics card market, linux as a cheap method to generate eye-candy and the death of Cray as a HPC offering I'm suprised sgi is even still in business.
-'fester (don't get me wrong, i loved the SGIs for their time, and even have an indigo2 still kicking.. i just think they have reached the end of their arc..)
I wouldn't install it if I had a signed afidavit from the CEO saying it won't call home or resist uninstallation, distills whiskey and prints $100 notes.
whiskey, no.. single malt, on the other hand. I mean, ya gotta have standards.
this may not be news For Nerds, but after a crap day at the orifice it defintely can be Stuff That Matters... and being lucky enough to get a slim ps2 for christmas, this was one of the first games i bought after playing my brother's burnout2.
Works in any temperature and will even dedict lightweight objects like motorcycles.
you obviously have not ridden a motorcycle to any stoplights in Chapel Hill (or most of NC, for that matter). Today's generation of sportbikes (with emphasis on lighter weight & materials such as Al) have a hell of a time tripping these things.. if ever. Had someone once suggest a magnetic field induced by kicking the starter motor would trip the signal.. but it only works on rare occasion.
How about three words.. cease and desist? If they didn't have one against them already, you had to bet someone would be sending one soon. And frankly I'm suprised such an idea made it past their legal dept (if it even went before legal).
I appreciate and welcome their desire to get in this fight.. but the plan of attack was a rather bad one, imho. When handling swine try not to sink to their level.. then you're sure to get covered in mud as well.
If you're 10.2(.x) or earlier, you run into a bit of a roadblock at the X11 stage: Apple's X11 only works w/Panther. Anything earlier and you want to look for Fink and/or XDarwin. And have some alcohol handy.. it took me a little while to get X in place before the oO install.
caveat - i'm playing with an iBook as a possible work-PC replacement, so though unix is my day job darwin/osX is new to me.. damn if it isn't cool as shizznitz though.
pray tell, what is it? I dig through the rivatuner settings to disable tvout, no dice. i dig through control panel settings to disable tvout, no dice. i dig through my dvd players (realplayer builtin, wmp builtin, powerdvd5 prefs) to disable any use/access of tvout ports, no dice (more like no option). what am i missing?
no-dvd-playback-via-tvout sucks but is better than nothing.. which is what I and most other nVidia users are stuck with. And the DVDRegionFree/tvTool option is not acceptable. Why should I have to pay to recover functionality? why should this be the penalty for keeping drivers current, improving 3d performance, etc?
Why hasn't nVidia taken what seems to be a simple way out and provided an option disabling video-out on these cards? I've a GF3-Ti200 where I've finally run into this, and it seems so simple to deal with from both sides.. granted, you lose the functionality to watch/play dvd video via tvout but retain it on the vga/dvi.
As I hardly plug my box into a tv monitor, this seems an easy/logical step.. but they don't take it. or i'm just flat missing something... ?
1 What is a non-technical user doing with Linux anyway? They need to crawl before they can walk.
well, if you LATFA, you see as the second sentence...
It has proved a textbook lesson in why nontechnical people run screaming from Unix.
IOW, if you want to even think of competing with the windows world at the desktop level, you actually have to reduce to the brain-dead level of explanation, support or general UI practice.
Even technical non-unix people struggle (a manager at work, skilled with Novell (stop laughing) is struggling a bit to learn linux.. and deadrat at that). if semi-competent people have some semi-major with what we, the unix-versed, understand (but may still be tasked by on occasion) how can we ever seriously expect Linux to prove its superiority at the joe-schmoe level?
-'fester (aix/tru64/hpux/linux geek.. that's in paying order, mind you:)
but it's obvious you don't use windows a majority of the time....
you're right.. only ~8 hours/day as my work pc, term-ed into my unix boxen, and 2/3 the time of my home stuff reading mail and playing Battlefield 1942.
I've no earthly idea how i know my explorer drops trou every hour or so..
Repair #3 -- summary: Windows XP security updates -- time spent: 1 hour Repair #4 -- summary: Another Windows XP security update -- time spent: 20 minutes
Consider if you find/do this update while doing 'real' work with the PC. Throw in the time to save/close out, patch, reboot (and my reboot can take 6-10 minutes with the systray deathmarch I have going on:), and to get back to where you were.. I don't see this as padding. Remember, 'time to patch' is not simply the time to apply the patch. Factor in all the other required stuff (like reboots) and this is not out of the realm at all.
Repair #9 -- summary: Random application crashes that we all experience -- time spent in a typical month recovering from them: 30 minutes
Hell, I'd say this is GENEROUS. Between random app crashes, Explorer craahing/restarting (or failing to, forcing a logout/login), etc.. this is kind.
Repair #21 -- summary: Time Warner Internet blackout -- time spent: 30 minutes.. { snip }.. Then what exactly did he do during that half hour?
Probably a combination of network troubleshooting and TW on-hold time. Hey, it counts.:)
-'fester (yeah, i suck dual-booting Win(x).. but Grand Theft Auto don't work on Linux:)
Nobody runs rsync as a publicly accessible service anymore.
oh really?
i rsync my local copy of slacware-current from carroll.cac.psu.edu. probably half the listed servers on the slack mirrors list (many of which host many other projects besides slack) do rsync. gentoo uses rsync for portage. kernel.org supports rsync for kernel/patch transfers.. as does sourceforge.
me thinks thou should pull thine head out of thine ass before making such silly comments. for a number of read-only connections, rsync is still quite popular.
Actually, I'm a little more concerned Senor Taco knows my Ti85 is in my drawer. WTF are you doing breaking into my house and inventorying my old dead hardware?!? Is this the geek form of TIPS?
In the past, when a kernel has not compiled with a new gcc version it has been more often a bug in the kernel than one with gcc..
not really; it's a combination of kernel developers trying things to deal with 'intelligent' inlining, or implementing hacks when they discover an idiosyncrasy with GCC. As the gcc team 'resolves' (fixes?;) such things the hacks may then fail, resulting in compile errors. unfortunately, this can make the code MORE fun as you then have to add compiler version tests to check which code should be used.
The goal, though, is using the latest kernel with the latest compiler will generate the most correct code. Simply pointing a finger at the kernel developers is incorrect; both sides can be the cause of compiler failures.
disclaimer: not a kernel developer, just a more-than-casual observer.
"How are the fingers?" coder Jim Dosé asks artist Kenneth Scott, as they stand in the kitchen of id Software's Mesquite, Texas, headquarters. "Shattered," Scott replies wearily, waving a splint - the result of a rare office football game played to ease tension. But he'll type with the eight digits that work. Lead designer Tim Willits hobbles in with a thigh of busted capillaries from the same game. The art guys just scanned his wound to use as skin for a monster.
Is this dedication or what? Man, this would be the geek office heaven..:)
-'f (scanning the pimple on his lip.. a good wound texture?:)
G took out a full page ad in Variety that said "Dear [studio executive], when are you going to release my film, Brazil?".
Sid Shienberg (sp?). Terry's explanation of what he realized he had done after placing that ad is hillarious as well.
The domestic release was handled by Universal, the foreign release was handled by Fox. Interesting to note Terry (finally?) came back to Universal to do 12 Monkeys as a director-for-hire instead of both writer/director.
The three-disc Criterion set is excellent for the entire story of Brazil, even down to the commentaries of both versions (TG does the uncut version, some film critic who followed the entire Brazil event history talks on the LCA version). Terry still takes pains to distance himself from that butchery of his film.:)
Slashdot Mirror
-'fester
/my money says the disc does not fully support cdda redbook, but still...
hey, i like the sound of this. if i could pay nasa for utilities for my apartment instead of local government.. i'd be all over it. plus, the added bonus of having testing or launches in my backyard... :)
-'fester
This has to win a Darwin-Comment award or something... anyone competent in dealing with software or IT knows app security involves at least 2 things:
Good luck in your quest to find a browser totally free of flaws; be sure to let us know when you find it.
-'fester
*cringe*
It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz... It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz... It's not the megahertz, it's what you do with the megahertz...
-'fester (2 posts in one day?)
I used IRIX on an O2, and loved it. Was way ahead of its time.
:).. But frankly from the time i first used irix ('92? '93 in a univeristy environment) to the last time ('01, as FEA modelling systems) little had really changed OS-wise. XFS was maybe one of only real big additions. performance-wise, our fea systems would have been better on alphas we also had. quite frankly, given the advents of the video graphics card market, linux as a cheap method to generate eye-candy and the death of Cray as a HPC offering I'm suprised sgi is even still in business.
IRIX on an O2 was ahead of its time? Sorry; the O2 was a nice sucessor to the Indy but at the point the O2 was released the pc vidcard makers were starting to get serious. and having uma and hardware mjpeg inside couldn't make up for the rather pokey cpu.
The Indigos were ahead of their time (and above most people price range
-'fester (don't get me wrong, i loved the SGIs for their time, and even have an indigo2 still kicking.. i just think they have reached the end of their arc..)
I wouldn't install it if I had a signed afidavit from the CEO saying it won't call home or resist uninstallation, distills whiskey and prints $100 notes.
whiskey, no.. single malt, on the other hand. I mean, ya gotta have standards.
-fester
interesting timing, no?
-'fester
this may not be news For Nerds, but after a crap day at the orifice it defintely can be Stuff That Matters. .. and being lucky enough to get a slim ps2 for christmas, this was one of the first games i bought after playing my brother's burnout2.
Crash Mode: For Budding Insurance Adjusters!
-'fester
Works in any temperature and will even dedict lightweight objects like motorcycles.
you obviously have not ridden a motorcycle to any stoplights in Chapel Hill (or most of NC, for that matter). Today's generation of sportbikes (with emphasis on lighter weight & materials such as Al) have a hell of a time tripping these things.. if ever. Had someone once suggest a magnetic field induced by kicking the starter motor would trip the signal.. but it only works on rare occasion.
-'fester
I have but one word for this behavior: cowardism
How about three words.. cease and desist? If they didn't have one against them already, you had to bet someone would be sending one soon. And frankly I'm suprised such an idea made it past their legal dept (if it even went before legal). I appreciate and welcome their desire to get in this fight.. but the plan of attack was a rather bad one, imho. When handling swine try not to sink to their level.. then you're sure to get covered in mud as well.
-'fester
If you're 10.2(.x) or earlier, you run into a bit of a roadblock at the X11 stage: Apple's X11 only works w/Panther. Anything earlier and you want to look for Fink and/or XDarwin. And have some alcohol handy.. it took me a little while to get X in place before the oO install.
caveat - i'm playing with an iBook as a possible work-PC replacement, so though unix is my day job darwin/osX is new to me.. damn if it isn't cool as shizznitz though.
-'fester
Whether he wins or loses that case, you have to ask yourself, would you want to HIRE him to work for you?
In a heartbeat.
Sincerely,
L. Hubert Platt, esq.
Platt, Platt, Dewey, Cheetham, Howe & Platt, LLC
The pessimist says, "this glass is half empty."
not only is the glass half-empty.. it's also evaporating.
-r
..........yes, you are missing something.
pray tell, what is it? I dig through the rivatuner settings to disable tvout, no dice. i dig through control panel settings to disable tvout, no dice. i dig through my dvd players (realplayer builtin, wmp builtin, powerdvd5 prefs) to disable any use/access of tvout ports, no dice (more like no option). what am i missing?
no-dvd-playback-via-tvout sucks but is better than nothing.. which is what I and most other nVidia users are stuck with. And the DVDRegionFree/tvTool option is not acceptable. Why should I have to pay to recover functionality? why should this be the penalty for keeping drivers current, improving 3d performance, etc?
-'f
Why hasn't nVidia taken what seems to be a simple way out and provided an option disabling video-out on these cards? I've a GF3-Ti200 where I've finally run into this, and it seems so simple to deal with from both sides.. granted, you lose the functionality to watch/play dvd video via tvout but retain it on the vga/dvi.
As I hardly plug my box into a tv monitor, this seems an easy/logical step.. but they don't take it. or i'm just flat missing something... ?
-'f
-fester
1 What is a non-technical user doing with Linux anyway? They need to crawl before they can walk.
:)
well, if you LATFA, you see as the second sentence...
It has proved a textbook lesson in why nontechnical people run screaming from Unix.
IOW, if you want to even think of competing with the windows world at the desktop level, you actually have to reduce to the brain-dead level of explanation, support or general UI practice.
Even technical non-unix people struggle (a manager at work, skilled with Novell (stop laughing) is struggling a bit to learn linux.. and deadrat at that). if semi-competent people have some semi-major with what we, the unix-versed, understand (but may still be tasked by on occasion) how can we ever seriously expect Linux to prove its superiority at the joe-schmoe level?
-'fester (aix/tru64/hpux/linux geek.. that's in paying order, mind you
but it's obvious you don't use windows a majority of the time....
you're right.. only ~8 hours/day as my work pc, term-ed into my unix boxen, and 2/3 the time of my home stuff reading mail and playing Battlefield 1942.
I've no earthly idea how i know my explorer drops trou every hour or so..
any more ASSumptions, einstein?
-'f
Repair #3 -- summary: Windows XP security updates -- time spent: 1 hour
:), and to get back to where you were.. I don't see this as padding. Remember, 'time to patch' is not simply the time to apply the patch. Factor in all the other required stuff (like reboots) and this is not out of the realm at all.
.. Then what exactly did he do during that half hour?
:)
:)
Repair #4 -- summary: Another Windows XP security update -- time spent: 20 minutes
Consider if you find/do this update while doing 'real' work with the PC. Throw in the time to save/close out, patch, reboot (and my reboot can take 6-10 minutes with the systray deathmarch I have going on
Repair #9 -- summary: Random application crashes that we all experience -- time spent in a typical month recovering from them: 30 minutes
Hell, I'd say this is GENEROUS. Between random app crashes, Explorer craahing/restarting (or failing to, forcing a logout/login), etc.. this is kind.
Repair #21 -- summary: Time Warner Internet blackout -- time spent: 30 minutes.. { snip }
Probably a combination of network troubleshooting and TW on-hold time. Hey, it counts.
-'fester (yeah, i suck dual-booting Win(x).. but Grand Theft Auto don't work on Linux
Nobody runs rsync as a publicly accessible service anymore.
oh really?
i rsync my local copy of slacware-current from carroll.cac.psu.edu. probably half the listed servers on the slack mirrors list (many of which host many other projects besides slack) do rsync. gentoo uses rsync for portage. kernel.org supports rsync for kernel/patch transfers.. as does sourceforge.
me thinks thou should pull thine head out of thine ass before making such silly comments. for a number of read-only connections, rsync is still quite popular.
Actually, I'm a little more concerned Senor Taco knows my Ti85 is in my drawer. WTF are you doing breaking into my house and inventorying my old dead hardware?!? Is this the geek form of TIPS?
Egad,
-'fester
In the past, when a kernel has not compiled with a new gcc version it has been more often a bug in the kernel than one with gcc..
;) such things the hacks may then fail, resulting in compile errors. unfortunately, this can make the code MORE fun as you then have to add compiler version tests to check which code should be used.
not really; it's a combination of kernel developers trying things to deal with 'intelligent' inlining, or implementing hacks when they discover an idiosyncrasy with GCC. As the gcc team 'resolves' (fixes?
The goal, though, is using the latest kernel with the latest compiler will generate the most correct code. Simply pointing a finger at the kernel developers is incorrect; both sides can be the cause of compiler failures.
disclaimer: not a kernel developer, just a more-than-casual observer.
'fester
elvis is DEAD . .. so who gives a shit what some ass supposes he would think?
-fester
"How are the fingers?" coder Jim Dosé asks artist Kenneth Scott, as they stand in the kitchen of id Software's Mesquite, Texas, headquarters. "Shattered," Scott replies wearily, waving a splint - the result of a rare office football game played to ease tension. But he'll type with the eight digits that work. Lead designer Tim Willits hobbles in with a thigh of busted capillaries from the same game. The art guys just scanned his wound to use as skin for a monster.
:)
:)
Is this dedication or what? Man, this would be the geek office heaven..
-'f (scanning the pimple on his lip.. a good wound texture?
G took out a full page ad in Variety that said "Dear [studio executive], when are you going to release my film, Brazil?".
:)
Sid Shienberg (sp?). Terry's explanation of what he realized he had done after placing that ad is hillarious as well.
The domestic release was handled by Universal, the foreign release was handled by Fox. Interesting to note Terry (finally?) came back to Universal to do 12 Monkeys as a director-for-hire instead of both writer/director.
The three-disc Criterion set is excellent for the entire story of Brazil, even down to the commentaries of both versions (TG does the uncut version, some film critic who followed the entire Brazil event history talks on the LCA version). Terry still takes pains to distance himself from that butchery of his film.
-f