I hope you are not referring to the articles from ~1.5-3 years ago where they proved an Athlon burns up bad compared to a Pentium 4. Because, actually, those were the articles that made AMD and motherboard manufacturers catch up to Intel's awesome ability (at the time) to make thermistors do their work and actually shut down a motherboard before thermal runaway. If that is your only beef, they are both (Intel and AMD) at harmony in that respect (ability to thermally shut down in timer of danger, danger, will robinson) now.
It may have been that way at one time, but Knoppix is perfectly installable as Debian. If you use a package manager such as dselect or synaptic to perform a package upgrade after install, it will resolve the sysvinit problem and remove the Knoppix-specific version.
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I remember the first time I saw a double-headed config. It was a Sun box, and you can guess what was used for the demo. A nudie of Madonna.
All linux distributions can do this, and just like most open source stuff, there are a few ways.
For two PCs there is always XDMCP or vnc or ssh port forwarding.
For one PC as above, just put two video cards in. Linux has no problem accepting multiple mice/displays/keyboards. You just have to set it all up in XF86Config. Given a fast enough PC, you can probably play hardware-accelerated 3d games between two people on the same computer as the article hinted to.
I always like to compile my sound support statically, but I can only get the CVS stuff to compile as modules. Is there info anywhere on how to do this?
When I saw Craig as the star, I thought it might be worth checking out. Now I can't even watch Red Dwarf without thinking about his terrible career move and how it has ruined my respect for him and TechTV.
I agree with the fact that a dynamically upgraded distro always breaks old, static software. However, this problem may be avoidable with the live CD model. Even though you may be running some old 2.6 kernel game when everyone is running 3.0, it doesn't matter because you only run it when the CD is booted from.
This may actually be a solution to the upgrade problems of gcc. If Loki had made a live CD back in the day, maybe you could still play Tribes2 without having to screw around with 3dfx drivers and 2.2 kernel quirks.:)
Ever go through all the distro-specific workarounds required to run Oracle on anything but Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Imagine if you could just boot into Oracle. Security upgrades could come in the form of a new bootable CD. Worried about rebooting a server? If you have at least two in a cluster, upgrade one at a time and keep your availability.
I like your thinking. A twofold distro may just be the ticket. The first just has enough brains to run the game on the CD, the second has a complete IDE geared towards game development. The former would just be a subset of the latter, so they stay in constant sync.
Make that about three new schedulers, maybe four in the -mm series. Let's see, there is deadline, noop, anticipatory, and cfq. I think we're set in the scheduler department!
you just specify dev=/dev/hda or whatever your cdrom is, just as you would mounting it. I love the speed/latency improvement. My CPU doesn't even blink now while burning a CD. Unfortunately though, cdrdao doesn't work with the new kernel without still using SCSI emulation. I've dropped cdrdao altogether now, and just use cdrecord -dao, which gives the same functionality.
I don't think that's a troll either. The i/o has gotten really smooth and snappy. Other than that, it's certainly not a mandatory upgrade. The rule of thumb is pretty much to run the kernel which was stable around the time your PC was purchased. If the server is still stable, no need to upgrade.:)
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I hope you are not referring to the articles from ~1.5-3 years ago where they proved an Athlon burns up bad compared to a Pentium 4. Because, actually, those were the articles that made AMD and motherboard manufacturers catch up to Intel's awesome ability (at the time) to make thermistors do their work and actually shut down a motherboard before thermal runaway. If that is your only beef, they are both (Intel and AMD) at harmony in that respect (ability to thermally shut down in timer of danger, danger, will robinson) now.
Sign me up, Bitch!
Of course, next year, dual opterons will be available on a single chip. But.. Sign me up, Bitch!
Generally you would store you rollback logs on a separate physichal disk anyways.
I bet this will happen when everything switches to PCI Express.
It may have been that way at one time, but Knoppix is perfectly installable as Debian. If you use a package manager such as dselect or synaptic to perform a package upgrade after install, it will resolve the sysvinit problem and remove the Knoppix-specific version.
I remember the first time I saw a double-headed config. It was a Sun box, and you can guess what was used for the demo. A nudie of Madonna.
I wonder.. doesn't OSX run an X server and your gui is just quartz-wm? Maybe you could just run a second X server? :)
Both users could probably utilize the same sound card using a sound server such as arts or esd.
All linux distributions can do this, and just like most open source stuff, there are a few ways.
For two PCs there is always XDMCP or vnc or ssh port forwarding.
For one PC as above, just put two video cards in. Linux has no problem accepting multiple mice/displays/keyboards. You just have to set it all up in XF86Config. Given a fast enough PC, you can probably play hardware-accelerated 3d games between two people on the same computer as the article hinted to.
I always like to compile my sound support statically, but I can only get the CVS stuff to compile as modules. Is there info anywhere on how to do this?
but the mob beat me. Well, maybe next weekend..
Just don't expect it to protect sensitive data. If you do, well, you're already an idiot anyways.
When I saw Craig as the star, I thought it might be worth checking out. Now I can't even watch Red Dwarf without thinking about his terrible career move and how it has ruined my respect for him and TechTV.
That's why the game comes with it's own hard drive.
I agree with the fact that a dynamically upgraded distro always breaks old, static software. However, this problem may be avoidable with the live CD model. Even though you may be running some old 2.6 kernel game when everyone is running 3.0, it doesn't matter because you only run it when the CD is booted from.
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This may actually be a solution to the upgrade problems of gcc. If Loki had made a live CD back in the day, maybe you could still play Tribes2 without having to screw around with 3dfx drivers and 2.2 kernel quirks.
Ever go through all the distro-specific workarounds required to run Oracle on anything but Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Imagine if you could just boot into Oracle. Security upgrades could come in the form of a new bootable CD. Worried about rebooting a server? If you have at least two in a cluster, upgrade one at a time and keep your availability.
I like your thinking. A twofold distro may just be the ticket. The first just has enough brains to run the game on the CD, the second has a complete IDE geared towards game development. The former would just be a subset of the latter, so they stay in constant sync.
Sure, just tell transcode to use MPlayer for input when you convert the file.
Dave Chapelle gives a review of a noiseless woman. Long story short, he gives her two thumbs in the ass.
Actually, the entire linux community just downloaded a 10kB patch. I think slashdot got hit harder than kernel.org did.
You forgot Windows 2000 SP4. Good point, though.
I actually looked for where I could *buy* the driver loader, but it seems they only have the free trials right now.
Make that about three new schedulers, maybe four in the -mm series. Let's see, there is deadline, noop, anticipatory, and cfq. I think we're set in the scheduler department!
you just specify dev=/dev/hda or whatever your cdrom is, just as you would mounting it. I love the speed/latency improvement. My CPU doesn't even blink now while burning a CD. Unfortunately though, cdrdao doesn't work with the new kernel without still using SCSI emulation. I've dropped cdrdao altogether now, and just use cdrecord -dao, which gives the same functionality.
Really, those pesky filesystems just get in the way. Just cat file >>/dev/hda and be done with it.
I don't think that's a troll either. The i/o has gotten really smooth and snappy. Other than that, it's certainly not a mandatory upgrade. The rule of thumb is pretty much to run the kernel which was stable around the time your PC was purchased. If the server is still stable, no need to upgrade. :)