Does this open up a vacuum in the 64bit chip market? Or have the present players already staked their claim? Is 64bit Windows desktops any closer or further away?
ROFL. Thats like putting a Supercharged V8 in an AMC Pacer. Dude, you are hilarious!
I use an external VCR for a tuner, run the signal into my TV card's video-in port, and the sound into the aux port on my sound card. Maybe you could find a TV tuner package that will function enough to let you view the video-in. Thats what I do.
Personally, I think they bailed out on the PC market because their cell processor probably kicks so much ass its going to make PC's obsolete. No doubt it runs Linux also. I see better days ahead, my friends... Of course this is just wild speculation on my part.
Mine takes about 24 hours for a complete rebuild of every package in the system from scratch, which is pretty amazing. Hell, it takes me almost that long to compile just the Kernel on my Netwinder.
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Wouldn't that be something like Gentoo? You set up your USE=gtk2 and compile the entire system against it, rather than a bunch of binaries which are linked against who knows what version of pick a widget set. I know my system seems pretty consistent.
You are right non Office products don't always write proper Office compatible documents.
Thats why I just use MS Office.
Atleast I am assured that everybody can read my documents.
If you send somebody a Word document you must have a hole in your head. Firstly, they are amateurish. Secondly, every version of Word will change the margins and screw up the appearance of your document. And finally, anybody can easily modify your document and make it look like you wrote something which you really didn't.
If I want to make something easy to read and portable, I use HTML, or if it is an official type document, then I use PDF. I only use internal word processor files for my archives, and I refuse to send anybody a Word doc file ever.
It had a primitive multitasker somewhat like DesqView, but not as good. If you loaded it on a 386 or better it could multitask better. I seem to remember some kind of "386 Enhanced" thingy in the control panel.
I used to run a fire breathing Pentium II monster. It had a Tyan Thunder 100 SMP motherboard with 2 Pentium-II 450's on it. That was a pretty nice system, while it wasn't all that fast (compared to my new Athlon-XP) it never slowed down much either. It had tons of cycles and it chugged away at a steady pace no matter what you threw at it. Unfortunately the motherboard kicked the bucket a couple years ago so I upgraded. It was a great system though.
Re:So why is Gentoo the right choice for this?
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No doubt, I liked how Debian was laid out, but some tasks were just horrendous. Anytime you wanted to tweak something it was like a wild goose chase.
Gentoo is pretty minimal and I definately like it better than Debian. It still has the big iron feel though, unlike a lot of other Linux distros which seem more like toy OS's.
Making a cross-compiler setup is pretty easy with the GNU tools, you just pass options to./configure like --target=arm-linux-pc. Its kind of fun actually and definately one of the neater features of the gcc system. Way back I made a cross debugger so I could debug running kernels interactively using my Netwinder server. Pretty cool stuff.
I made my system from a stage1, mainly just because it was kind of interesting. I compiled it from inside Debian and when it was done I could boot to Gentoo. It took me about 2 days for the full Gentoo xorg-x11 gnome-desktop with 90% of my favorite apps. I was satisfied enough that I wiped Debian and have been using Gentoo for about 3 months now. Additionally, I have been using the IBM JFS file system and am quite satisfied with its performance and stability.
I built everthing against kernel-2.6 headers, used NPTL instead of pthreads, and used '-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer'. These are hardly crazy exotic options, but the system runs rock solid stable and I definately don't have any performance issues.
The resultant system is very nice to use, pretty speedy, and easy to work with. I do some development work and often play around with source tarballs, so Gentoo's compiler toolchain is what drew me in. The speed boost is nice, but the compiler setup is the best feature IMO.
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From what I could gather, the regeneration process involves electrolyzing the molten salts. This is not an easy or convenient process and has tons of problems, but it is doable on an industrial basis.
This chemical, Sodium Borohyrdate, is right up there with Sodium Hydride and Lithium Aluminum Hydride insamuch as it is a tremendously powerfull base. This stuff makes industrial strength liquid Drano look like water, and the only nice thing about the Boron compound is that it "supposedly" requires the presence of a catalyst before it explodes, ostensibly making it much more friendly to use. NaH and LiAlH are extremely dangerous and are used in organic synthesis, for example to turn something like vegetable oil directly into something like octane. Reactions are carried out in an ice water bath and in very small amounts.
In all practicality, this chemical is probably a bit too dangerous for public energy storage and transmission. Consider if your car ran on concentrated Nitric Acid instead of gasoline... its a similar scenario. Calcuim Carbide (produces Acetylene) is probably a lot safer than this stuff IMO.
Just like Hydrazine and Dinitrogen Pentoxide, theoretically they make an awesome medium for energy storage; however, untrained people really shouldn't be allowed in the same building as that stuff.
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You're just above my post and I noticed you.
You can play these games offline. Once they are at 100% you can select to play offline from the steam menu. That issue kind of concerened me as well but it looks like they have addressed it.
One semi-cool thing about Valve's controversial Steam system is that it probably helps against cheaters in online games. A big problem with TFC was people were using all manner of cheating hacks such that it pretty much ruined the game for me years ago and I stopped playing it. Maybe with Steam:TFC this is now fixed, and I sure hope so. These multiplayer type games require an internet connection (unless its a LAN party) so having Steam running isn't a big deal, overall it more or less just acts like a server browser and automatic updater, both of which are better than the old versions. Remember that stupid Sierra Utilities? Well delete that piece of junk because you don't need it anymore.
Just got it (probably because of reading this)
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It was pretty painless. I was meaning to get HL2 anyways and reading all this discussion prompted me to buy it. I hate having to stick a CD in to play a game and when I read that the Steam versions don't require that I promptly wiped HL1 and all from my drive and installed Steam.
After installing Steam, I was prompted to register my products, so I whipped out my ancient Half-Life GOTY Edition CD and punched in the number. It registered as the "Platinum Edition" and gave me included HL: Opposing Forces, TFC, Day of Defeat, and Counter Strike. Thats cool, I went to enter my OpFor key also but it said it was already registered.
Then, being somewhat of a cheapskate, I just got the online "Bronze" edition. Steam has been chugging away for a while and its nearly complete. Looks like I'll be playing in an hour or so.
Honestly, patching HL used to be a massive hassle, and I haven't played it since Steam became required to update TFC. I bought Doom3, now HL2, yep I did my part. Keep cranking out the games guys and people like me will probably keep buying them.
You don't have to climb anything, you just clip the payload onto the rope, cut the anchors, and away she goes. Then once its up there you reel in your line, fly back into orbit, and drop anchor back down to the Earth for another go. Apparently nobody goes fishing around here. Sheesh.
I used to run Debian, for years and years. One day this summer I decided to start fooling around with Gentoo just for kicks. Turns out I like it! I erased Debian about a month ago and have been using Gentoo since with no issues. And it is a lot faster, more than you would think. Once you've learned how to bootstrap Gentoo its pretty easy really. You can basically compile the entire distro from within a chrooted xterm so there really isn't any downtime while you are compiling.
I thought Mission Earth was a pretty fun read in a pulpy sci-fi way. And every day at work I wistfully think of how Soltan Gris merely stamped all those papers without looking at them. I need a stamper.
I'm just raising the question of how long does it take until people will put it in production servers and their main desktops?
Personally, I currently use Debian as my main desktop system for most things, but I have a semi-experimental Gentoo partition which I am tinkering around with as a sideline. I'll probably wipe Gentoo and start with a clean Stage1 install on Reiser4 next time I work on it. I can do this because I install Gentoo from a chrooted environment from inside Debian with a kernel that has Reiser4 support already built in.
Whats the word on Debian's port to the BSD kernel? Mainly I just like the feature-rich Debian platform and I don't give a rat's ass what kernel it runs on. Hell, even Debian/Hurd is a pretty sweet system if you can manage to get it work.
I, for one, would definately give Debian/BSD a spin around the block once its somewhat usable. Right now the Hurd is way more advanced than the BSD port.
The reason I don't currently use BSD is because of games. I am one of those 3L337 linux gamer dudes who not only has managed to get linux installed, but rather I have lots and lots of kickass games for it. Some I compile from CVS, some I buy, some run under Wine. Fact is, if I can move a game from Win2k to Linux, I do it. The only games I still have on Win2k are a couple Baldur/Icewind games and Fallout Tactics. The rest of the ones that don't work in Wine suck anyways and I never play them.
I am experimenting with Gentoo though. I'm currently rebuilding in the background in a chrooted environment from Debian. Trying to get a stable system, although I think it really might be the new Nvidia drivers that are causing the problems.
Gentoo is pretty cool, but its no Debian. It seems well suited to being a Linux gaming platform though. Its toolchain is great and it is highly optimized. Wine (compiled from CVS) on Gentoo runs faster than native windows does, whereas wine (compiled from CVS) runs like crap in Debian.
Definitely Wesnoth. Open source notwithstanding, this is just one of my favorite games. Kind of reminds me of Empire or Xconq some times, with a bit of Heroes of Might and Magic flavoring. Its really pretty unique more than anything else. You can spend a lot of fun hours with this game.
bc is a great calc program, I still use it to do my checkbook in an xterm. Just turn on the Num-Lock and away you go...
1384 1384 .-52 1332 x=. 23.43+19.46 42.89 x -. 1289.11
Aside from being the world's easiest checkbook balancer, has some meat behind it. You can make small programs, do iterative calculations, lots of goodies.
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I use an external VCR for a tuner, run the signal into my TV card's video-in port, and the sound into the aux port on my sound card. Maybe you could find a TV tuner package that will function enough to let you view the video-in. Thats what I do.
Personally, I think they bailed out on the PC market because their cell processor probably kicks so much ass its going to make PC's obsolete. No doubt it runs Linux also. I see better days ahead, my friends... Of course this is just wild speculation on my part.
Mine takes about 24 hours for a complete rebuild of every package in the system from scratch, which is pretty amazing. Hell, it takes me almost that long to compile just the Kernel on my Netwinder.
Wouldn't that be something like Gentoo? You set up your USE=gtk2 and compile the entire system against it, rather than a bunch of binaries which are linked against who knows what version of pick a widget set. I know my system seems pretty consistent.
If I want to make something easy to read and portable, I use HTML, or if it is an official type document, then I use PDF. I only use internal word processor files for my archives, and I refuse to send anybody a Word doc file ever.
It had a primitive multitasker somewhat like DesqView, but not as good. If you loaded it on a 386 or better it could multitask better. I seem to remember some kind of "386 Enhanced" thingy in the control panel.
I actually had an 8086, which was kind of unusual back then. And it had EGA graphics! A full length card just covered with chips, lol.
I used to run a fire breathing Pentium II monster. It had a Tyan Thunder 100 SMP motherboard with 2 Pentium-II 450's on it. That was a pretty nice system, while it wasn't all that fast (compared to my new Athlon-XP) it never slowed down much either. It had tons of cycles and it chugged away at a steady pace no matter what you threw at it. Unfortunately the motherboard kicked the bucket a couple years ago so I upgraded. It was a great system though.
No doubt, I liked how Debian was laid out, but some tasks were just horrendous. Anytime you wanted to tweak something it was like a wild goose chase.
Gentoo is pretty minimal and I definately like it better than Debian. It still has the big iron feel though, unlike a lot of other Linux distros which seem more like toy OS's.
Making a cross-compiler setup is pretty easy with the GNU tools, you just pass options to ./configure like --target=arm-linux-pc. Its kind of fun actually and definately one of the neater features of the gcc system. Way back I made a cross debugger so I could debug running kernels interactively using my Netwinder server. Pretty cool stuff.
I made my system from a stage1, mainly just because it was kind of interesting. I compiled it from inside Debian and when it was done I could boot to Gentoo. It took me about 2 days for the full Gentoo xorg-x11 gnome-desktop with 90% of my favorite apps. I was satisfied enough that I wiped Debian and have been using Gentoo for about 3 months now. Additionally, I have been using the IBM JFS file system and am quite satisfied with its performance and stability.
I built everthing against kernel-2.6 headers, used NPTL instead of pthreads, and used '-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer'. These are hardly crazy exotic options, but the system runs rock solid stable and I definately don't have any performance issues.
The resultant system is very nice to use, pretty speedy, and easy to work with. I do some development work and often play around with source tarballs, so Gentoo's compiler toolchain is what drew me in. The speed boost is nice, but the compiler setup is the best feature IMO.
From what I could gather, the regeneration process involves electrolyzing the molten salts. This is not an easy or convenient process and has tons of problems, but it is doable on an industrial basis.
This chemical, Sodium Borohyrdate, is right up there with Sodium Hydride and Lithium Aluminum Hydride insamuch as it is a tremendously powerfull base. This stuff makes industrial strength liquid Drano look like water, and the only nice thing about the Boron compound is that it "supposedly" requires the presence of a catalyst before it explodes, ostensibly making it much more friendly to use. NaH and LiAlH are extremely dangerous and are used in organic synthesis, for example to turn something like vegetable oil directly into something like octane. Reactions are carried out in an ice water bath and in very small amounts.
In all practicality, this chemical is probably a bit too dangerous for public energy storage and transmission. Consider if your car ran on concentrated Nitric Acid instead of gasoline... its a similar scenario. Calcuim Carbide (produces Acetylene) is probably a lot safer than this stuff IMO.
Just like Hydrazine and Dinitrogen Pentoxide, theoretically they make an awesome medium for energy storage; however, untrained people really shouldn't be allowed in the same building as that stuff.
You're just above my post and I noticed you.
You can play these games offline. Once they are at 100% you can select to play offline from the steam menu. That issue kind of concerened me as well but it looks like they have addressed it.
One semi-cool thing about Valve's controversial Steam system is that it probably helps against cheaters in online games. A big problem with TFC was people were using all manner of cheating hacks such that it pretty much ruined the game for me years ago and I stopped playing it. Maybe with Steam:TFC this is now fixed, and I sure hope so. These multiplayer type games require an internet connection (unless its a LAN party) so having Steam running isn't a big deal, overall it more or less just acts like a server browser and automatic updater, both of which are better than the old versions. Remember that stupid Sierra Utilities? Well delete that piece of junk because you don't need it anymore.
It was pretty painless. I was meaning to get HL2 anyways and reading all this discussion prompted me to buy it. I hate having to stick a CD in to play a game and when I read that the Steam versions don't require that I promptly wiped HL1 and all from my drive and installed Steam.
After installing Steam, I was prompted to register my products, so I whipped out my ancient Half-Life GOTY Edition CD and punched in the number. It registered as the "Platinum Edition" and gave me included HL: Opposing Forces, TFC, Day of Defeat, and Counter Strike. Thats cool, I went to enter my OpFor key also but it said it was already registered.
Then, being somewhat of a cheapskate, I just got the online "Bronze" edition. Steam has been chugging away for a while and its nearly complete. Looks like I'll be playing in an hour or so.
Honestly, patching HL used to be a massive hassle, and I haven't played it since Steam became required to update TFC. I bought Doom3, now HL2, yep I did my part. Keep cranking out the games guys and people like me will probably keep buying them.
You don't have to climb anything, you just clip the payload onto the rope, cut the anchors, and away she goes. Then once its up there you reel in your line, fly back into orbit, and drop anchor back down to the Earth for another go. Apparently nobody goes fishing around here. Sheesh.
Nyah nyah... I did a Stage1 install :-P
I thought Mission Earth was a pretty fun read in a pulpy sci-fi way. And every day at work I wistfully think of how Soltan Gris merely stamped all those papers without looking at them. I need a stamper.
I have one of these things and it works fine. You could probably use joy2key to use it as a keyboard. I'm not sure if the shift functions work or not.
Whats the word on Debian's port to the BSD kernel? Mainly I just like the feature-rich Debian platform and I don't give a rat's ass what kernel it runs on. Hell, even Debian/Hurd is a pretty sweet system if you can manage to get it work.
I, for one, would definately give Debian/BSD a spin around the block once its somewhat usable. Right now the Hurd is way more advanced than the BSD port.
The reason I don't currently use BSD is because of games. I am one of those 3L337 linux gamer dudes who not only has managed to get linux installed, but rather I have lots and lots of kickass games for it. Some I compile from CVS, some I buy, some run under Wine. Fact is, if I can move a game from Win2k to Linux, I do it. The only games I still have on Win2k are a couple Baldur/Icewind games and Fallout Tactics. The rest of the ones that don't work in Wine suck anyways and I never play them.
I am experimenting with Gentoo though. I'm currently rebuilding in the background in a chrooted environment from Debian. Trying to get a stable system, although I think it really might be the new Nvidia drivers that are causing the problems.
Gentoo is pretty cool, but its no Debian. It seems well suited to being a Linux gaming platform though. Its toolchain is great and it is highly optimized. Wine (compiled from CVS) on Gentoo runs faster than native windows does, whereas wine (compiled from CVS) runs like crap in Debian.
I'm simply disgustapated by how far this thread has strayed from the topic.
Definitely Wesnoth. Open source notwithstanding, this is just one of my favorite games. Kind of reminds me of Empire or Xconq some times, with a bit of Heroes of Might and Magic flavoring. Its really pretty unique more than anything else. You can spend a lot of fun hours with this game.
Just set up a nice debian system, install Debian Jr., and load whatever charset and language that they use there... Ugandan?
Seems like a no-brainer. What other choice is there?
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bc is a great calc program, I still use it to do my checkbook in an xterm. Just turn on the Num-Lock and away you go...
Aside from being the world's easiest checkbook balancer, has some meat behind it. You can make small programs, do iterative calculations, lots of goodies.
Crap. Looks like the wiki site is slashdotted. I wonder if the server is running under the Hurd? Oops. My bad...