User: wolruf

SuSe already has public SMP PCs:not the same ?

On: Intel Says No SMP Support For Pentium 4

I already tested these machines and they were quad-CPU Itanium running @500MHz.

More information here:
http://www.suse.de/en/news/PressReleases/Itanium.h tml

Here's the output of 'cat/proc/cpuinfo' (I ripped the CPU numbers just in case and just showed the last CPU to reduce this message's size):

[...]

processor : 3
vendor : GenuineIntel
family : IA-64
model : Itanium
revision : 0
archrev : 0
features : standard
cpu number : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cpu regs : 4
cpu MHz : 500.053000
itc MHz : 500.053000
BogoMIPS : 497.02

So I now wonder if I tested real machines or were they just beta PCs or simulating such an architecture ? Anyone has information about these ? SourceForge also has such PCs, I don't know however if they are SMP but SuSe's ones were definitely SMP.

Re:SmartDownload is worse

On: Has Netscape's Browser Become Too Self-Serving?

How do you know about Opera ? You don't have the sources.

Uses Transmeta Crusoe

On: Firewall On A PCI card

Interesting:

http://merilus.com/firecard/entspecs.shtml

Videolan: MPEG2 over LAN with Linux soft server

On: Building A Small Video-On-Demand System?

http://www.videolan.org

Seen on Linux Expo 99 and 2000 in Paris
From the home page: "broadcast video on the campus, and provide the students with a MPEG2 software decoder. It will support streams from a satellite, a DVD or an MPEG2 compression card."

Already happened with 3DO ISA card: 3DO Blaster

On: Sega to develop Dreamcast PCI Card

Just to note that this is feasible at least with "normal" CD-ROMs.

The 3DO (a great old 32-bit console) had its ISA equivalent for PC by Creative Labs, called 3DO Blaster.

Pictures of the 3DO Blaster: http://members.tripod.com/~faberp/cl3dobl.htm

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Re:Bah

On: Review of the Matrox G450 For Linux

Twin View is being worked on for next driver release.
This is from #nvidia and is definitely not an _official_ statement.

DVDs players available

On: DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet

Hi,
There's videolan that work on many platforms (Linux x86, Linux PPC, framebuffer, SDL, etc. even BeOS) with unencrypted DVDs:

• http://www.videolan.org/
• And PowerDVD, a famous DVD player for Windows, announced a DVD player for Linux so, being closed (as I imagine), I guess it'll be able to play encrypted DVDs.

dnetc or rc5 on Geforce ?

On: SETI@Home -- Running On A PCI Card

Hi,

I'd like to know if running a dnetc on/for a Geforce would be feasible ?

Video cards nowadays got fabulous power (sometimes, more transistors than CPU) but are specialized. I believe their engines could do some matrix conversions, etc. so why not use them for dnetc or SETI ?

This is really meant to be serious.

Study on GNU GPL with french law

On: GPL To Be Tested In Court?

Hi,

There's been a french study over GPL and its viability with french laws, I was wondering if there was an equivalent for other countries.

• http://crao.net/gpl/ (warning: french only)

Two GPL Outlook mailbox converters

On: Is The Microsoft-Free Office Possible?

The following utilities are GPL and could be used to study the Outlook mailbox format:

• oe2mbx: converts Outlook Express 5 mailbox to Unix standard format,
• OtlkToNs: converts Outlook Express (not 5) mailbox to Netscape.

Sftp support ?

On: OpenSSH Now Supports SSH2

Is sftp a priority in the TODO list ?

MPEG-2 player demo at Linux Expo (unencrypted DVD)

On: LSDVD Starts Cooking

Hi,

There's a MPEG-2 player I saw first at Linux Expo 99 and then Linux Expo 2000 that runs on x86 but also Sparc, etc.
It runs a DVD unencrypted at full rate on a Celeron 400. They support X, and also GGI.
It's (soon to be) GPL when the school agrees (it's written by students):

VideoLAN

It's very impressive !

Screenshots:

Soutenance

Linux Expo

Re:GPL MPEG-2 (and DVD) player : some pictures

On: Are There Linux DVD Players on the Market?

Here are pictures from Linux-Expo 2000 (playing "Le Diner de Cons", a french unencrypted movie):

http://www.via.ecp.fr/assoce/linuxexpo-20000202/

This is definitely not vaporware, I forgot to add there's a Linux framebuffer port and a BeOS port.

GPL MPEG-2 (and DVD) player to be released here

On: Are There Linux DVD Players on the Market?

Well, there was a software-only MPEG2 decoder in this french computing school called ECP, it was playing MPEG-2 flow at Linux Expo 99 and playing unencrypted DVDs at Linux Expo 2000.

It'll be available here soon:

http://videolan.via.ecp.fr

I remember it compiles on x86, PPC and was playing at 30 fps on a Celeron 400 from a DVD.