"My intent is that we need to bring Linux and Solaris together more rather than bash or trash one or the other." Very true. Especially now. I am a big fan of Solaris and RedHat. In fact I like RedHat (vs. SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian) because it is build with the same ideas I came to appreciate in Solaris distribution. Until RedHat Linux renamed into RHEL it was marriage in heaven. I was getting solid, feature-full, tested, distribution for $0. Now with Fedora's fast development cycle wide deployment is very questionable. By the time I am done planning and testing FC1 deployment it gets moved into Fedora-Legacy state i.e. unsupported. I don't feel comfortable with that at all and deployment of RHEL promises to be costly... In the mean time Sun went far with Solaris 10 incorporating all the nice features down the road providing supported, stable and tested environment. I think it has its place at least in my strategy. Friendly competition is good for the industry, for both RedHat and Sun. There is always room for two and in the end we, UNIX followers will benefit.
> 1. All the BSDs are not entirely different, and > commonly share code back and forth amongst them.
And some of it is incompatable with latest GNU programs. GNU is a flagman of Unix development, why else?
> 2. There's plenty of extra bullshit, but it's > in ports where it belongs.
Ports exist because of GNU/BSD incomatability. You can't just download a GNU source and build it.
> 3. BSD is obscure when it comes to the desktop, > but then so is Linux.
Linux is GNU compatable. It has well-developed package managers. This makes it much less obscure
> 4. Solaris does not have its roots in BSD > exactly: > 1. Solaris is SunOS plus Openwindows. > 1. Openwindows has traditionally > meant Sun's X11 plus the openlook environment - > which AFAIK still comes with the system.
Solaris is what is called SVR4 which was a big standard back when ATT, Sun, HP, Digital and SGI got together to develop modern enterprise platform.
> 2. Solaris 1.x contains SunOS 4.x, which is based on BSD.
The was SunOS 4.x and there was Solaris 2. Solaris 1 was "invented" later.
> 3. Solaris 2.x contains SunOS 5.x, which >is based on System V. If you choose to install the >proper packages you get a bunch of BSD binaries in >/usr/ucb or something like that.
It is a separate compatability package.
> SunOS4 and SunOS5 are totally different and mostly separate operating systems.
Linux got many ideas from Solaris. Package managers, ELF binaries, etc, etc, etc. In my view Linux is a successor of Solaris and Linux gets all the credit for sparking Unix revolution. All Unixes should be under one banner because they all came from one that progressed by trial and error. May the best ideas win and be shared across all branches.
You are obviously talking about not well-populated area. And you can thank your state officials who desided for you what wireless companies can offer service in your area by selling 850Mhz spectrum licenses to some-aquired-by-Verizon-company/ATT/Nextel. It simply does not make sense for companies like Cingular and T-Mobile to bring the service to you as the only licenses that they can use are in 1900Mhz and you need twice as many towers to cover the same area. Here in Cali we are more them well-covered because even though the "good" part of the spectrum was sold to ATT/Nextel/Verizon the customer base was large enough for Cingular+T-Mobile to get together and build out a 1900Mhz network.
"Coverage everywhere" is a bold statement and not what people are looking for. "Good enough coverage" is what people need and GSM networks offer plenty of that. Besides "good enough coverage" GSM networks offer outstanding global coverage, global messages, much better prices and better phones. If you take into account all of that you see the clear winner. Until CDMA moves here in US to UMTS standard and dropes the price tag it is not going to be an option to any person who knows a little about mobile communication. V710 is pretty advanced phone, so if you are thinking about V710 think if you are with a right provider.
Verizon is expensive, unfriendly and the phones they ancient. 710 looks OK, but personally I'd take Nokia 6230 any day. GSM networks allow you to use state of the art phones of your choice and cost less. For mere 80$ I get 1000 minutes, free nights-weekends, free in-network calling, free WAP, unlimited SMS, unlimited access to Wi-Fi in almost every Starbucks, Borders, Kinko's. Beat that!
Enlightenment has been my desktop of choice for 6 years! When it comes to eye candy + speed + features + stability there is simply no match. Tight yet pretty and extremely functional E running ShinyMetal theme with Pager and Iconbox has been good to me for all these years. In fact the reason why there were not that many updates is that it needs none. Everything you need is already there. Good work guys!
By default Windows has Automatic Updates turned on. And this is the feature you are talking about. They are going to your computer and updating it. It may not work but it is there and if Microsoft improves it to the level where your computer updates itself prior to catching a worm (or removes a worm and updates) they complete what you are requesting here. They definitely have intent to address it.
Check it out It is "Feature-limited version for evaluation, non-commercial and educational use. No license file required." All the features of SecureCRT at no cost.
It has always been. Face it. Digress from all the brainwash.
Halls of justice painted green Money talking Power wolves beset your door Hear them stalking Soon you'll please their appetite They devour Hammer of justice crushes you Overpower
The ultimate in vanity Exploiting their supremacy I can't believe the things you say I can't believe, I can't believe the price you pay Nothing can save you
You see Tarkovsky made a movie not a screen adoption of Lem's book. The movie is about how Tarkovsky's read the novell. This is why Tarkovksy and not Lem gets most of the recognition for the movie. Stalker is very very different from the book too and likewise I am not sure what I like more, the book or the movie.
Your impression from the movie is that it is slow and basic story about horrors and scares of space. Many people including me have a different oppinion and that's fine. The is nothing wrong with different perceptions of the artwork.
You could also blame it on english translation too. I am sure the was a significant loss of content there because monologs, dialogs play a huge role in the movie. It is not Hollywood after all where you often don't see much besides special effects.
Most manufacturers and online places don't give warranty on a motherboard. This means if your board fails in 3 month you will have to fork another 100$+ for a new one. Try to find a deal on motherboard with warranty. I get mine at Fry's, 2 year warranty costs about 15$.
Soldier of Fortune 2 at your favorite store - 49.95$ Your favorite Linux distribution at your loal LUG - 0$ One month subscription to WineX over the phone - 5$ Ability to play game of the year without paying Microsoft tax - Priceless
I was suspicious about VIA too but VIA266A has proven its stability to me.
NForce is an interesting chipset but unfortunately it doesn't perform better then VIA266A and it is miserable under Linux. NVidia has the drivers but all I have seen is unhappy users.
I've played with Tigers and I don't like them. I am waiting for MP motherboard from Epox which was shown at CeBIT.
Epox 8KHA+ is what gives *raw* performance in my opinion. Fastest AMD chipset, 6 PCI / 3 DDR slots, thermal sensor, POST debug, #1 for overclocking and no annoying "addons" (like IDE "RAID" controllers) that add to the price.
The sweet part about P4 is that it runs at 100Mhz FSB, so you can go at least 33Mhz. A few motherboard manufecturers already give you control over AGP and PCI speed out of the box. DDR was always overclocking very well. Athlons don't overclock that well because they already run at 133FSB and they run hot.
It takes very little effort and some money to get yourself a P4 2.2A DDR system nowdays. And if you look at news groups you'll see how many people already done it. I did it myself too.
By "lousy" I mean ECS K7S5A is just a cheap bard. DDR/SDRAM board (2 slots for each) with only 5 PCI slots without thermal sensor. SiS chipset is OK but VIA266A is a better performer. Definitely not an overclocking board. You can fit 400$ GeForce4 Ti4600 on this 60$ board, but most GeForce4 Ti4600 will fit on Epox too. For Visiontek you'll have to remove one capacitor.
I don't mean to offend you. ESC K7S5A is a stable board but I wouldn't buy it:). I think I can spend extra 30$ to get more features;)
Decent K7 board like Epox 8KHA+ is going to cost you about a 100$.
And don't buy motherboards without warranty. If you get a motherboard from the web and it brakes, don't expect manufecturer to replace it. Most of motherboard manufacturers have warranty agreements with recellers not users.
But I digressed.
So you buy 100$ mobo for K7 and 100$ mobo for P4. You buy 120$ XP1700+ and 135$ P4 1.6A.
You clock your XP1700+ to XP2000+ (which doesn't always work), and you clock 1.6A to 2.2A (which almoust always works).
Now the price of the systems is almoust identical but 1.6A clocked to 2.2A runs cooler and faster.
Who do you choose?
It used to be that K7 systems have an edge against P4s but not anymore. The only thing that's left in K7s favour is mature DDR chipset IMHO, but Intel will catch up soon. But then, there's Hammer coming down the road. Very interesting time.
Intel is very competitive, do not forget it. They wouldn't be in this business otherwise
Screen play adaption was the worst.
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To me the most disturbing things were:
In the movie Isuldur takes the ring knowing what the ring does. There is even a scene where Elrond tryes to persuade Isuldur to through the ring in Orodruin, and Isuldur refuses.
I know they can't do without something like this in Hollywood but IMHO this screws up the plot from the book badly.
In the book Isildur doesn't have a slight idea of what ring does, he takes it in memory of his father, Elendil, who with Gil-Galad died slaying Sauron.
In the movie Gil-Galad is replaced with Elrond for simplicity.
Aragorn taking alone on 5 Nazguls including Witch-king of Angmar and winning! They completely fscked book in that scene so I don't even want to go there.
Arwen (woman) doing the job of Glorfindel (great elven warrior) fighting Nazguls too.
They should have given the award to fourth Oscar to Sir Ian McKellen. The Oscar for the best screen play doesn't even sound funny.
Actually D3D in WineX doesn't work with NVidia cards (GLU problems AFAIK).
Besides, if you don't believe me, look at what Blizzard says: What graphics API are you supporting? We are supporting Direct3D and OpenGL. We are not supporting Glide.
Support for Mac version without OpenGL will be difficult to accomplish too.
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All people living in California are required to get a breath measurement implant.
Speaking about killall, Linux adopted pkill from Solaris AFAIR :-)
Not this confusion is gone.
"My intent is that we need to bring Linux and Solaris together more rather than bash or trash one or the other."
Very true. Especially now.
I am a big fan of Solaris and RedHat. In fact I like RedHat (vs. SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian) because it is build with the same ideas I came to appreciate in Solaris distribution. Until RedHat Linux renamed into RHEL it was marriage in heaven. I was getting solid, feature-full, tested, distribution for $0. Now with Fedora's fast development cycle wide deployment is very questionable. By the time I am done planning and testing FC1 deployment it gets moved into Fedora-Legacy state i.e. unsupported. I don't feel comfortable with that at all and deployment of RHEL promises to be costly...
In the mean time Sun went far with Solaris 10 incorporating all the nice features down the road providing supported, stable and tested environment. I think it has its place at least in my strategy.
Friendly competition is good for the industry, for both RedHat and Sun. There is always room for two and in the end we, UNIX followers will benefit.
> 1. All the BSDs are not entirely different, and
> commonly share code back and forth amongst them.
And some of it is incompatable with latest GNU programs. GNU is a flagman of Unix development, why else?
> 2. There's plenty of extra bullshit, but it's
> in ports where it belongs.
Ports exist because of GNU/BSD incomatability. You can't just download a GNU source and build it.
> 3. BSD is obscure when it comes to the desktop,
> but then so is Linux.
Linux is GNU compatable. It has well-developed package managers. This makes it much less obscure
> 4. Solaris does not have its roots in BSD
> exactly:
> 1. Solaris is SunOS plus Openwindows.
> 1. Openwindows has traditionally
> meant Sun's X11 plus the openlook environment -
> which AFAIK still comes with the system.
Solaris is what is called SVR4 which was a big standard back when ATT, Sun, HP, Digital and SGI got together to develop modern enterprise platform.
> 2. Solaris 1.x contains SunOS 4.x, which is based on BSD.
The was SunOS 4.x and there was Solaris 2. Solaris 1 was "invented" later.
> 3. Solaris 2.x contains SunOS 5.x, which
>is based on System V. If you choose to install the
>proper packages you get a bunch of BSD binaries in
>/usr/ucb or something like that.
It is a separate compatability package.
> SunOS4 and SunOS5 are totally different and mostly separate operating systems.
Linux got many ideas from Solaris. Package managers, ELF binaries, etc, etc, etc. In my view Linux is a successor of Solaris and Linux gets all the credit for sparking Unix revolution.
All Unixes should be under one banner because they all came from one that progressed by trial and error. May the best ideas win and be shared across all branches.
You are obviously talking about not well-populated area. And you can thank your state officials who desided for you what wireless companies can offer service in your area by selling 850Mhz spectrum licenses to some-aquired-by-Verizon-company/ATT/Nextel. It simply does not make sense for companies like Cingular and T-Mobile to bring the service to you as the only licenses that they can use are in 1900Mhz and you need twice as many towers to cover the same area.
Here in Cali we are more them well-covered because even though the "good" part of the spectrum was sold to ATT/Nextel/Verizon the customer base was large enough for Cingular+T-Mobile to get together and build out a 1900Mhz network.
"Coverage everywhere" is a bold statement and not what people are looking for.
"Good enough coverage" is what people need and GSM networks offer plenty of that.
Besides "good enough coverage" GSM networks offer outstanding global coverage, global messages, much better prices and better phones. If you take into account all of that you see the clear winner.
Until CDMA moves here in US to UMTS standard and dropes the price tag it is not going to be an option to any person who knows a little about mobile communication.
V710 is pretty advanced phone, so if you are thinking about V710 think if you are with a right provider.
Verizon is expensive, unfriendly and the phones they ancient.
710 looks OK, but personally I'd take Nokia 6230 any day.
GSM networks allow you to use state of the art phones of your choice and cost less.
For mere 80$ I get 1000 minutes, free nights-weekends, free in-network calling, free WAP, unlimited SMS, unlimited access to Wi-Fi in almost every Starbucks, Borders, Kinko's. Beat that!
Enlightenment has been my desktop of choice for 6 years!
When it comes to eye candy + speed + features + stability there is simply no match. Tight yet pretty and extremely functional E running ShinyMetal theme with Pager and Iconbox has been good to me for all these years.
In fact the reason why there were not that many updates is that it needs none. Everything you need is already there.
Good work guys!
By default Windows has Automatic Updates turned on.
And this is the feature you are talking about.
They are going to your computer and updating it.
It may not work but it is there and if Microsoft improves it to the level where your computer updates itself prior to catching a worm (or removes a worm and updates) they complete what you are requesting here.
They definitely have intent to address it.
If fan noise irritates you why not put a quiet fan on the chip yourself or better yet upgrade to watercoolin system.
Check it out
It is "Feature-limited version for evaluation, non-commercial and educational use. No license file required."
All the features of SecureCRT at no cost.
Second DNS flop? Let's see how long business stays with Akamai. There are plenty of others
It has always been. Face it.
Digress from all the brainwash.
Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe, I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
I haven't seen the article you are refering to, but here is a link to english version of c't SPEC evaluation of 1Ghz G4 system against 1Ghz P3.
You are looking at the driver ATI released for Radeon 8500 and it does work, 15% slower then GeForce3 with NVidia drivers however.
Check this out:
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: Radeon 8500 DDR Athlon (3DNow!)
GL_VERSION: 1.3.3037 (1.4.3)
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_pn_triangles GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_blend_square GL_SGI_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 2048
DRI project has a wroking Radeon 8500 driver too in bleeding edge section.
You see Tarkovsky made a movie not a screen adoption of Lem's book. The movie is about how Tarkovsky's read the novell. This is why Tarkovksy and not Lem gets most of the recognition for the movie. Stalker is very very different from the book too and likewise I am not sure what I like more, the book or the movie.
Your impression from the movie is that it is slow and basic story about horrors and scares of space. Many people including me have a different oppinion and that's fine. The is nothing wrong with different perceptions of the artwork.
You could also blame it on english translation too. I am sure the was a significant loss of content there because monologs, dialogs play a huge role in the movie. It is not Hollywood after all where you often don't see much besides special effects.
Most manufacturers and online places don't give warranty on a motherboard. This means if your board fails in 3 month you will have to fork another 100$+ for a new one.
Try to find a deal on motherboard with warranty. I get mine at Fry's, 2 year warranty costs about 15$.
Here is a right formula:
Soldier of Fortune 2 at your favorite store - 49.95$
Your favorite Linux distribution at your loal LUG - 0$
One month subscription to WineX over the phone - 5$
Ability to play game of the year without paying Microsoft tax - Priceless
Now take a look at some real benchmarks that entire industry measures against - SPEC
P3 1Ghz performs alot better then top of the line G4 800.
I was suspicious about VIA too but VIA266A has proven its stability to me.
NForce is an interesting chipset but unfortunately it doesn't perform better then VIA266A and it is miserable under Linux. NVidia has the drivers but all I have seen is unhappy users.
I've played with Tigers and I don't like them. I am waiting for MP motherboard from Epox which was shown at CeBIT.
Epox 8KHA+ is what gives *raw* performance in my opinion. Fastest AMD chipset, 6 PCI / 3 DDR slots, thermal sensor, POST debug, #1 for overclocking and no annoying "addons" (like IDE "RAID" controllers) that add to the price.
The sweet part about P4 is that it runs at 100Mhz FSB, so you can go at least 33Mhz. A few motherboard manufecturers already give you control over AGP and PCI speed out of the box. DDR was always overclocking very well. Athlons don't overclock that well because they already run at 133FSB and they run hot.
:). I think I can spend extra 30$ to get more features ;)
It takes very little effort and some money to get yourself a P4 2.2A DDR system nowdays. And if you look at news groups you'll see how many people already done it. I did it myself too.
By "lousy" I mean ECS K7S5A is just a cheap bard. DDR/SDRAM board (2 slots for each) with only 5 PCI slots without thermal sensor. SiS chipset is OK but VIA266A is a better performer. Definitely not an overclocking board. You can fit 400$ GeForce4 Ti4600 on this 60$ board, but most GeForce4 Ti4600 will fit on Epox too. For Visiontek you'll have to remove one capacitor.
I don't mean to offend you. ESC K7S5A is a stable board but I wouldn't buy it
Actually ESC K7S5A is a pretty lousy board.
Decent K7 board like Epox 8KHA+ is going to cost you about a 100$.
And don't buy motherboards without warranty. If you get a motherboard from the web and it brakes, don't expect manufecturer to replace it. Most of motherboard manufacturers have warranty agreements with recellers not users.
But I digressed.
So you buy 100$ mobo for K7 and 100$ mobo for P4. You buy 120$ XP1700+ and 135$ P4 1.6A.
You clock your XP1700+ to XP2000+ (which doesn't always work), and you clock 1.6A to 2.2A (which almoust always works).
Now the price of the systems is almoust identical but 1.6A clocked to 2.2A runs cooler and faster.
Who do you choose?
It used to be that K7 systems have an edge against P4s but not anymore. The only thing that's left in K7s favour is mature DDR chipset IMHO, but Intel will catch up soon. But then, there's Hammer coming down the road. Very interesting time.
Intel is very competitive, do not forget it. They wouldn't be in this business otherwise
I know they can't do without something like this in Hollywood but IMHO this screws up the plot from the book badly.
In the book Isildur doesn't have a slight idea of what ring does, he takes it in memory of his father, Elendil, who with Gil-Galad died slaying Sauron.
In the movie Gil-Galad is replaced with Elrond for simplicity.
They should have given the award to fourth Oscar to Sir Ian McKellen. The Oscar for the best screen play doesn't even sound funny.
I am not saying D3D doesn't work.
I had much better success in D3D applications on my old Matrox then on NVidia.
In fact WC3 was the only DX8 game I got to work with NVidia card. So my impression was that after checking DX8 support WC3 switched to OpenGL.
I stand corrected.
Besides, if you don't believe me, look at what Blizzard says:
What graphics API are you supporting?
We are supporting Direct3D and OpenGL. We are not supporting Glide.
Support for Mac version without OpenGL will be difficult to accomplish too.