Yea the more I read reviews the more it seems like 512 is working fairly well for most people. A vid card upgrade is definitely in the works although its going to be hard not playing while I wait for the vidcard to arrive.
Same here although I have a somewhat lesser system
XP1900, GF 4 4200 64MB(this hurts), 512MB(could use 768 or a Gig for Doom 3)
Anyway on your rig that seems to be par for the course although I've seen some people say that 800x600 at medium is playable with that spec. You honestly probably won't see that big a hit playing a notch higher resolution wise. On my system once I'm in a room its not too bad but running through doorways causes a huge bit a chop and when any big action scene starts it chops a little as well. After playing with this setup for so long its really is surprising that I'm playing at 640x480 low. I think the last time I played a fps at such a low resolution was like 5 years ago.:)
One thing you can try is setting setting image_cacheMegs "32" to "96" or higher in the file DoomConfig.cfg. Some people are reporting that is helping smooth things out. YMMV
btw anyone who says this game sucks or isn't scary hasn't played at night in a dark room with headphones on. Awesome sound effects.
"Linux's development model pales in comparison, stability-wise to FreeBSD's,"
Trollbait.
" Linux is a great starter if you want to learn unix."
More Trollbait. Yep its a great "starter" OS but once you learn it you can move up to a real *nix like say *BSD...
"That leaves us with linux. linux tries to do everything for everyone but does all of it at a level lower than all of the systems listed above."
So Linux is Jack of all Trades Master of none?
He does say Linux is good for some things to his credit but sadly he just has to get in those "BSD is superior to Linux" jabs. Read between the lines people, the negative comments cancel out the positive ones.
" and thus simplifying things down to a horrid level. This not only upsets those who have followed Gnome since damn near day one"
Just a quick note on history here. For YEARS Gnome users used to hold the fact that KDE came its own WM as a huge negative. Gnome users used to constantly bash KDE because they "forced" users to use basically only one WM if they wanted the best experience. Why are they taking away our choice of WM used to be the rallying cry. There also used to be tons of threads about how Gnome was more customizeable because of the themeing you could do. In short Gnome was the desktop which upheld the FOSS philosophy of choice while KDE was the one sticking it to its users by offering less ways to setup your desktop. Yes you read that right, GNOME started off by saying choice was most important. My how things change.
"In order for the Linux community to accept the level of success that we have achieved already, it's time to realise that we don't need to bash out these stories all the time."
Why shouldn't we get to see these stories? You say that come out all the time, I don't agree. A private non-government US company as big as Lockheed is possibly going to Linux for 10,000+ desktops and that doesn't qualify as news because it happens so often? Since when? Last similar stories I recall are from the Autozone and Burlington coat factory articles from a while back. Sice then we've seen mostly talk from foreign governments but rarely huge US companies.
I don't care if it is replacing Solaris and not Windows its still interesting to me and many other users. Let me guess. You'd rather read yet another article on Ipods?
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"If you're going to use Gentoo to compile a standard KDE or Gnome system, you're probably better off using Mandrake or Fedora/Red Hat anyway."
Exactly. The problem is with every story on Gentoo(and even stories about other distros) we get to hear from Gentoo users who keeping pushing Gentoo as the best distro bar none. They usually make a statement about how rpm's suck, how they used to Mandrake or Suse but how lame that was compared to using Gentoo, and finally we get to hear over and over that Gentoo really is great for beginners if they can just read all of the documentation.
All distros have an army of supportors that post online saying that distro X is best. Gentoo happens to have a userbase that does this more then most as they are positive that easy to use distros like Mandrake and Fedora are overrated and not as good as Gentoo. And boy do they let us know that. What can I say? You reap what you sow.
" 1. Emulation doesn't get you the original controllers"
Not always an issue. A Dual Shock is IMHO the greatest consoel controller ever made. I have no problems playing Atari,Gensis,SMS, NES,SNES, N64 etc games all on a joystick that I'm comfortable with. Why would I want to suffer with those old Atari joysticks? Sorry but I did enough of that 20 years ago.
"2. Emulation doesn't get you your saves on your real cartridges."
And you would want this because? With an EMU you can save whenever you want if that's you thing.
"3. Emulators of many systems only gets the games playable. It doesn't get you perfect sound and picture of the original."
Actually for many older console systems you do get perfect sound and picture. Have you looked into Emulated gaming recently? There are a ton of really good emu's out there and even the oldest systems have new emulators coded for them now and then.
Plus with Emulation you don't have to keep 20 consoles around cluttering up your livingroom. The cartridges don't have to be cleaned, you won't wear the parts out, and you don't have to spend huge amount of money on games. I say this as someone who grew up with Atari, NES etc and I own a bunch of console systems and I won't be getting rid of any time soon. IMO Emulation is simply more practical and a better solution. Remember, its the games and gaming that matter, not the screws, chips, and solder that are holding the systems together. The games need to survive, the actual hardware which will become rarer and rarer and more likely to stop working doesn't.
btw my preferred setup is currently MHTPC which serves as a fantastic front end for all my console and arcade gaming needs.
"So those nice versions of Arial and Times New Roman and Courier and all the standards that your'e used to in Windows and MacOS? Not free to distribute. Not at all."
You couldn't be more wrong. The MS font pack ie corefonts etc are all FREE to distribute. Yes you read that right. The original terms under which these fonts were available explicitly allows you to redistribute these in their orginal form as long as its not for commercial use. From Microsoft's own FAQ.
# Anyone can download and install these fonts for their own use. # Designers can specify the fonts within their Web pages. Our guide to specifying fonts in Web pages explains how to do this. # You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or.sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or intranet site. # You must not supply the fonts, or any derivative fonts based on them, in any form that adds value to commercial products, such as CD-ROM or disk based multimedia programs, application software or utilities. See Microsoft's permissions site for more details.
So there you go. There are excellant Free as in Beer fonts available for the world to use for whatever OS they want. I don't even know that Microsoft could prevent one of the Free distros from including them with their base distro. Then again just downloading them after install like most of us do is probably the smarter move.
Free high quality Fonts available here. I thought everyone already knew about this? http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
" However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to in order to achieve proper usability. "
Let's be fair here. How many Gnome/GTK apps have their own File dialogs? Regardless or Gnome's HIG's, KDE's apps all tend to look and act like they were designed for one another. This is opposed to many of the marquee what I call "adopted" Gnome apps that don't integrate well with Gnome at all. Compare that with how Konq, Koffice, on Kontact work within KDE. KDE does in fact have more options, or what your calling "clutter" but overall its still more consistant then Gnome although that's finally started to change. Gnome also has the habit of making major interface changes between versions. Dialog boxes have been switched around and now the most fudemental way in which you interact with your OS ie file browsing has been turned on its head with Spatial. No warnings, no this is optional in 2.6 but will be switched on in 2.8 etc. KDE on the other hand has stayed consistant in the basic ways that matter for years now. The HIG's the Gnome devs go by are nice but they aren't some magic beans which have fixed all of Gnome's issues. Users from XP should try both and see what they like more, but I'll also say that IMHO KDE continues to be the more polished better managed project of the two.
". That memo stated that MS could target HP, Intel and other "partners". It must really suck to be an MS "partner". You do what they tell you and you can have some of the extra cash that falls down. Step out of line once and you can be squashed."
Yep and its doesn't matter how big you are. As big as Intel was they had to back down when Microsoft threatened them. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,1 4658,00.html
Then again what company didn't Microsoft threaten in the 90's?
Nice Rebuttal. Any and I mean any person in IT who deals with Windows on a regular basis will laugh at the idea that you don't ever have to deal with the tangled mess that is the Windows Registry. And no, real professionals don't install "tweaking" programs on their servers or clients in order to avoid the registry. Registry editting is a fact of life while maintaining Windows Systems.
On the other hand if your a Linux user and are asking yourself "How can I get ahold of some of this Registry action?" don't worry. Registry editting in all of it ugliness is coming to a Linux system near you.;)
http://www.kefk.net/Linux/Desktop/LPT-Desktop/Sc re enshots/screenshot-gnome-2-gconf-editor.jpg
Um, Sorry. Anyway anyone trying to run Doom 3 on a GF 4 MX is going to be pretty unhappy with the results. Of course that doesn't keep the idiots from PC Gamer stating that "So long as you have a GeForce 4MX card, you should be able to play Doom 3 with many of its bells and whistles at a decent clip." Sure, and there are WMD in Iraq...
I can't wait till Doom 3 goes retail and the Id forums are overloaded with users running 2.0GHz Celerons with Geforce 4mx's asking why they can't run it at anything other then 640x480 with everything turned off or set to low.
" They have something RedHat don't, sales offices world wide."
From Red Hat's webpage they have offices in
Africa | Austria | Belgium | Denmark | Eastern Europe | England | Finland | France | Germany | Ireland | Italy | Luxembourg | Middle East | The Netherlands | Norway | Portugal | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland
Australia | India | Singapore
and finally Japan | Greater China | Korea
Is that world wide enough?
Anyway I will give Novell credit for having greater reach in the VAR area because they've simply been doing the whole channel thing forever. But that doesn't change the fact that once NT 4.0 came out Novell went into a massive nosedive that hasn't really stopped yet. When I realized they were doing the whole linux thing I honestly didn't think it was the greatest idea, but seeing what they've done so far I'm starting to turn around and interested to see if Novell can use its marketing power to gain back many of those clients who fled Netware for NT years ago.
Shold have known better than to joke about Apple. The mods here who like apple don't appear have much of a sense of humor.
You should have saved the comment for the next piece of KDE software named Kxxx. Long rants about how OSS sucks at naming software always get modded +5 Informative.
" The new 8MP cameras produce tremendous amounts of noise at low ISO."
Certainly not all of them, and in all the rags I read I haven't seen them constantly harping on this an achilles heal to the new 8MP models. I guess I just wouldn't point that as a major reason not to buy these camera's. Sample link http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canonpro1/page15.a sp
Anyway you do make an excellant point about why go with a new 8MP when you can buy a Rebel etc. I think realistically though that its not a problem because the new 8MP models and the entry level DSLR line server very different audiences. There are many hobbists who want a really nice camera but don't want/have a need to use a lens system. There are also advantages to buying a fixed lens system such as not having to worry about dirt and potentially having a less complicated system to learn. Also don't forget that in the long run Fixed lens 8MP cameras are cheaper once you factor in the lens that most DSLR users start buying. Plus these 8MP's will no doubt be dropping in price as opposed to the DSLR's which will probably hold fast for longer due to a longer product cycle.
Anyway I don't kow why I wrote all of this since nobody will read it...
btw are you aware of all of those hacks which turn a Rebel basically into a 10D? Not that you shouldn't have bought the 10D.:) It's just interesting. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/0 2/004258.shtml
Or did you just charge him a "service fee". You probably already know all about this but in most states you would need to become a reseller and get a permit to do that. The way many consultants deal with computer hardware is to just sell items at cost as a service to clients and then add on a "servie or consultant fee". I just pointed this out because it sounded more like you did this as a one time thing as opposed to being an actual reseller who does this sort of thing all the time.
"I'm sure people are sick of "I did it the hard way, and everybody else should too so they'll be smart like me" attitude as well."
It's funny that you wrote that because that's the way its always been. In fact after Red Hat 5.0 came out I wrote a bunch of newbie friendly articles on how to do several things with Linux. At that time and sadly still today way too many Linux users begrudge users who don't want to learn everything the hard way. It annoys me to no end that users of less friendly Linux distros look down on users who don't want to learn about the guts of their distro. As if learning every single thing about your OS is some worthy goal for anyone besides a sysadmin. Some of us just want to install an OS and use it. No scratch that, MOST of us just want to install an OS and use it. It's the ubber tweakers who have nothing better to do than play with their computers who leave so many dark marks on the Linux community landscape.
Also regarding the grandparent he's spot on as well. Suse,Fedora,Mandrake, Xandros etc are all excellant at detecting hardware. People can stop with the astroturfing already. We all have different needs and there is no one "best/most stable/coolest/most Free/most pure distro".
My thoughts as well. No way that ends up being the cpu. Even in 15 months that will still be mucho expensive to produce, especially with 1MB cache. Sorry but unless X2 is going to retail at $750 these numbers are wrong.
"I'm not saying that MS deserves a humanitarian award. I'm just saying that we shouldn't be criticizing MS because they have pushed back LongHorn. Allowing sufficient time for good development is a GOOD thing."
Interesting theory but IMHO Longhorn being pushed back is just a sign that MS bit off more than they could chew and mismanaged the project. That's frankly way more probable then the idea that MS is being a good citizen. If MS could have gotten away with shipping Longhorn this year, XP Sp2 would not have gotten nearly as much attention by them. They are in reality just covering their asses while they develop a secure alternative.
I agree that criticizing them for a late Longhorn over and over is dumb as well but I guess I just disagree as to the why MS is doing it part. All IMHO and such.
Nope your not overly tinfoil-hatish. What they want to do is wrong in every single way. This goes against everything America was founded on and is supposed to stand for. Of course its hardly surprising considering our current Head of State uses the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper.
Reunite Church and State? Check. Hold citizens with trial or bail? Check. Nation building without proper cause? Check. Tax breaks that only benefit the rich? Check. Dismantle the EPA and let Corporations write Enviro Laws? Check. Create a Police State where you can spy on cizitens with impunity? Pending/already going on.
This nation has gone to Hell and the changes they are making and have already made are going to haunt us for the next 50 years. Fuckers.
Old versions of Word are certainly not nearly on the same level as WordPerfect goes. IMHO WP was just always a step ahead. You'll find lots of old WP running out there still to this day. Most Word users kept upgrading their office suite year after year. That or their versions of Word were upgraded when they bought new PCs. When 95% of computers sold come with either MS Works or MS Office SBE both of which contain new versions of Word it pretty dam hard Not to upgrade.
I gotta say when I the submission and kept thinking they were talking about WordPerfect and had made a mistake. I guess there are old Word users out there but its much more rare to see as opposed to old WordPerfect installs.
It seems to be progressing ok and I think for mom and dad it would work well in replacing that POS outlook express. I'd even go so far as to say that would probably hold true for any basic POP3 situation. But IMHO its still has a Long way to go to compete with Evolution of Linux and the Outlook on Windows. It also falls pretty far short as far as newsreaders go. But heh, its OSS and is only going to get better with time.
The article didn't say? Probably some tiny European anti-virus maker. Nobody actually believes that Microsoft built theirown AV software from scratch right? Microsoft's MO has been buy up other companies technology and release it as their own for a while now. Not for everthing but certainly a huge percentage of their software.
The Vorbis people are pretty aweful in that department. Why are they hiding the freaking acm version of the codec? When 1.0 or whatever came out I thought for sure they would change their crappy policy of hiding the directshow codec. But alas no. They for some reason don't want to reach 90% of the computing public.
From the readme for the acm version which your likely to find several places with the exception of vorbis.com
"Vorbis Sucks, but I found the stupid goddamned folder on some site in Mexico. Right-Click on the vorbisacm.inf file, and choose install. Make sure you've got this dumb-ass vorbis.acm file in the same directory when you're installing. Why this was difficult to find and why there were dead links to this crappy codec all over the place I have no idea. Don't like me making this easy for you? Blow me."
That's simply a load of shit that all OSS users and developers think that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong wrong wrong. Whoever modded this Insightful is an idiot.
This author wrote out a crappy article with bad reasoning and basically said if you disagree you wrong. Last time I checked one person didn't equal the entire OSS community. In fact many of the people here who are in fact in OSS agree that he's wrong. Also people either in OSS, Politics, Relgion, Proprietary software etc, ALL think that people who disagree with them are wrong. You saying OSS has a strangehold on this type of behavior or thought is bunk.
"X is what's wrong with the OSS community" where X is some wild overgeneralized post is a worthless statement at best.
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Yea the more I read reviews the more it seems like 512 is working fairly well for most people. A vid card upgrade is definitely in the works although its going to be hard not playing while I wait for the vidcard to arrive.
Same here although I have a somewhat lesser system
:)
XP1900, GF 4 4200 64MB(this hurts), 512MB(could use 768 or a Gig for Doom 3)
Anyway on your rig that seems to be par for the course although I've seen some people say that 800x600 at medium is playable with that spec. You honestly probably won't see that big a hit playing a notch higher resolution wise. On my system once I'm in a room its not too bad but running through doorways causes a huge bit a chop and when any big action scene starts it chops a little as well. After playing with this setup for so long its really is surprising that I'm playing at 640x480 low. I think the last time I played a fps at such a low resolution was like 5 years ago.
One thing you can try is setting setting image_cacheMegs "32" to "96" or higher in the file DoomConfig.cfg. Some people are reporting that is helping smooth things out. YMMV
btw anyone who says this game sucks or isn't scary hasn't played at night in a dark room with headphones on. Awesome sound effects.
"Linux's development model pales in comparison, stability-wise to FreeBSD's,"
Trollbait.
" Linux is a great starter if you want to learn unix."
More Trollbait. Yep its a great "starter" OS but once you learn it you can move up to a real *nix like say *BSD...
"That leaves us with linux. linux tries to do everything for everyone but does all of it at a level lower than all of the systems listed above."
So Linux is Jack of all Trades Master of none?
He does say Linux is good for some things to his credit but sadly he just has to get in those "BSD is superior to Linux" jabs. Read between the lines people, the negative comments cancel out the positive ones.
" and thus simplifying things down to a horrid level. This not only upsets those who have followed Gnome since damn near day one"
Just a quick note on history here. For YEARS Gnome users used to hold the fact that KDE came its own WM as a huge negative. Gnome users used to constantly bash KDE because they "forced" users to use basically only one WM if they wanted the best experience. Why are they taking away our choice of WM used to be the rallying cry. There also used to be tons of threads about how Gnome was more customizeable because of the themeing you could do. In short Gnome was the desktop which upheld the FOSS philosophy of choice while KDE was the one sticking it to its users by offering less ways to setup your desktop. Yes you read that right, GNOME started off by saying choice was most important. My how things change.
"In order for the Linux community to accept the level of success that we have achieved already, it's time to realise that we don't need to bash out these stories all the time."
Why shouldn't we get to see these stories? You say that come out all the time, I don't agree. A private non-government US company as big as Lockheed is possibly going to Linux for 10,000+ desktops and that doesn't qualify as news because it happens so often? Since when? Last similar stories I recall are from the Autozone and Burlington coat factory articles from a while back. Sice then we've seen mostly talk from foreign governments but rarely huge US companies.
I don't care if it is replacing Solaris and not Windows its still interesting to me and many other users. Let me guess. You'd rather read yet another article on Ipods?
"If you're going to use Gentoo to compile a standard KDE or Gnome system, you're probably better off using Mandrake or Fedora/Red Hat anyway."
Exactly. The problem is with every story on Gentoo(and even stories about other distros) we get to hear from Gentoo users who keeping pushing Gentoo as the best distro bar none. They usually make a statement about how rpm's suck, how they used to Mandrake or Suse but how lame that was compared to using Gentoo, and finally we get to hear over and over that Gentoo really is great for beginners if they can just read all of the documentation.
All distros have an army of supportors that post online saying that distro X is best. Gentoo happens to have a userbase that does this more then most as they are positive that easy to use distros like Mandrake and Fedora are overrated and not as good as Gentoo. And boy do they let us know that. What can I say? You reap what you sow.
" 1. Emulation doesn't get you the original controllers"
Not always an issue. A Dual Shock is IMHO the greatest consoel controller ever made. I have no problems playing Atari,Gensis,SMS, NES,SNES, N64 etc games all on a joystick that I'm comfortable with. Why would I want to suffer with those old Atari joysticks? Sorry but I did enough of that 20 years ago.
"2. Emulation doesn't get you your saves on your real cartridges."
And you would want this because? With an EMU you can save whenever you want if that's you thing.
"3. Emulators of many systems only gets the games playable. It doesn't get you perfect sound and picture of the original."
Actually for many older console systems you do get perfect sound and picture. Have you looked into Emulated gaming recently? There are a ton of really good emu's out there and even the oldest systems have new emulators coded for them now and then.
Plus with Emulation you don't have to keep 20 consoles around cluttering up your livingroom. The cartridges don't have to be cleaned, you won't wear the parts out, and you don't have to spend huge amount of money on games. I say this as someone who grew up with Atari, NES etc and I own a bunch of console systems and I won't be getting rid of any time soon. IMO Emulation is simply more practical and a better solution. Remember, its the games and gaming that matter, not the screws, chips, and solder that are holding the systems together. The games need to survive, the actual hardware which will become rarer and rarer and more likely to stop working doesn't.
btw my preferred setup is currently MHTPC which serves as a fantastic front end for all my console and arcade gaming needs.
"So those nice versions of Arial and Times New Roman and Courier and all the standards that your'e used to in Windows and MacOS? Not free to distribute. Not at all."
.sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or intranet site.
You couldn't be more wrong. The MS font pack ie corefonts etc are all FREE to distribute. Yes you read that right. The original terms under which these fonts were available explicitly allows you to redistribute these in their orginal form as long as its not for commercial use. From Microsoft's own FAQ.
# Anyone can download and install these fonts for their own use.
# Designers can specify the fonts within their Web pages. Our guide to specifying fonts in Web pages explains how to do this.
# You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or
# You must not supply the fonts, or any derivative fonts based on them, in any form that adds value to commercial products, such as CD-ROM or disk based multimedia programs, application software or utilities. See Microsoft's permissions site for more details.
So there you go. There are excellant Free as in Beer fonts available for the world to use for whatever OS they want. I don't even know that Microsoft could prevent one of the Free distros from including them with their base distro. Then again just downloading them after install like most of us do is probably the smarter move.
Free high quality Fonts available here. I thought everyone already knew about this?
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
" However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to in order to achieve proper usability. "
Let's be fair here. How many Gnome/GTK apps have their own File dialogs? Regardless or Gnome's HIG's, KDE's apps all tend to look and act like they were designed for one another. This is opposed to many of the marquee what I call "adopted" Gnome apps that don't integrate well with Gnome at all. Compare that with how Konq, Koffice, on Kontact work within KDE. KDE does in fact have more options, or what your calling "clutter" but overall its still more consistant then Gnome although that's finally started to change. Gnome also has the habit of making major interface changes between versions. Dialog boxes have been switched around and now the most fudemental way in which you interact with your OS ie file browsing has been turned on its head with Spatial. No warnings, no this is optional in 2.6 but will be switched on in 2.8 etc. KDE on the other hand has stayed consistant in the basic ways that matter for years now. The HIG's the Gnome devs go by are nice but they aren't some magic beans which have fixed all of Gnome's issues. Users from XP should try both and see what they like more, but I'll also say that IMHO KDE continues to be the more polished better managed project of the two.
". That memo stated that MS could target HP, Intel and other "partners". It must really suck to be an MS "partner". You do what they tell you and you can have some of the extra cash that falls down. Step out of line once and you can be squashed."
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Yep and its doesn't matter how big you are. As big as Intel was they had to back down when Microsoft threatened them.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,
Then again what company didn't Microsoft threaten in the 90's?
Nice Rebuttal. Any and I mean any person in IT who deals with Windows on a regular basis will laugh at the idea that you don't ever have to deal with the tangled mess that is the Windows Registry. And no, real professionals don't install "tweaking" programs on their servers or clients in order to avoid the registry. Registry editting is a fact of life while maintaining Windows Systems.
;)
c re enshots/screenshot-gnome-2-gconf-editor.jpg
On the other hand if your a Linux user and are asking yourself "How can I get ahold of some of this Registry action?" don't worry. Registry editting in all of it ugliness is coming to a Linux system near you.
http://www.kefk.net/Linux/Desktop/LPT-Desktop/S
Um, Sorry. Anyway anyone trying to run Doom 3 on a GF 4 MX is going to be pretty unhappy with the results. Of course that doesn't keep the idiots from PC Gamer stating that "So long as you have a GeForce 4MX card, you should be able to play Doom 3 with many of its bells and whistles at a decent clip." Sure, and there are WMD in Iraq...
I can't wait till Doom 3 goes retail and the Id forums are overloaded with users running 2.0GHz Celerons with Geforce 4mx's asking why they can't run it at anything other then 640x480 with everything turned off or set to low.
" They have something RedHat don't, sales offices world wide."
From Red Hat's webpage they have offices in
Africa | Austria | Belgium | Denmark | Eastern Europe | England | Finland | France | Germany | Ireland | Italy | Luxembourg | Middle East | The Netherlands | Norway | Portugal | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland
Australia | India | Singapore
and finally Japan | Greater China | Korea
Is that world wide enough?
Anyway I will give Novell credit for having greater reach in the VAR area because they've simply been doing the whole channel thing forever. But that doesn't change the fact that once NT 4.0 came out Novell went into a massive nosedive that hasn't really stopped yet. When I realized they were doing the whole linux thing I honestly didn't think it was the greatest idea, but seeing what they've done so far I'm starting to turn around and interested to see if Novell can use its marketing power to gain back many of those clients who fled Netware for NT years ago.
Shold have known better than to joke about Apple. The mods here who like apple don't appear have much of a sense of humor.
You should have saved the comment for the next piece of KDE software named Kxxx. Long rants about how OSS sucks at naming software always get modded +5 Informative.
" The new 8MP cameras produce tremendous amounts of noise at low ISO."
a sp
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Certainly not all of them, and in all the rags I read I haven't seen them constantly harping on this an achilles heal to the new 8MP models. I guess I just wouldn't point that as a major reason not to buy these camera's. Sample link http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canonpro1/page15.
Anyway you do make an excellant point about why go with a new 8MP when you can buy a Rebel etc. I think realistically though that its not a problem because the new 8MP models and the entry level DSLR line server very different audiences. There are many hobbists who want a really nice camera but don't want/have a need to use a lens system. There are also advantages to buying a fixed lens system such as not having to worry about dirt and potentially having a less complicated system to learn. Also don't forget that in the long run Fixed lens 8MP cameras are cheaper once you factor in the lens that most DSLR users start buying. Plus these 8MP's will no doubt be dropping in price as opposed to the DSLR's which will probably hold fast for longer due to a longer product cycle.
Anyway I don't kow why I wrote all of this since nobody will read it...
btw are you aware of all of those hacks which turn a Rebel basically into a 10D? Not that you shouldn't have bought the 10D.
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/
Or did you just charge him a "service fee". You probably already know all about this but in most states you would need to become a reseller and get a permit to do that. The way many consultants deal with computer hardware is to just sell items at cost as a service to clients and then add on a "servie or consultant fee". I just pointed this out because it sounded more like you did this as a one time thing as opposed to being an actual reseller who does this sort of thing all the time.
"I'm sure people are sick of "I did it the hard way, and everybody else should too so they'll be smart like me" attitude as well."
It's funny that you wrote that because that's the way its always been. In fact after Red Hat 5.0 came out I wrote a bunch of newbie friendly articles on how to do several things with Linux. At that time and sadly still today way too many Linux users begrudge users who don't want to learn everything the hard way. It annoys me to no end that users of less friendly Linux distros look down on users who don't want to learn about the guts of their distro. As if learning every single thing about your OS is some worthy goal for anyone besides a sysadmin. Some of us just want to install an OS and use it. No scratch that, MOST of us just want to install an OS and use it. It's the ubber tweakers who have nothing better to do than play with their computers who leave so many dark marks on the Linux community landscape.
Also regarding the grandparent he's spot on as well. Suse,Fedora,Mandrake, Xandros etc are all excellant at detecting hardware. People can stop with the astroturfing already. We all have different needs and there is no one "best/most stable/coolest/most Free/most pure distro".
My thoughts as well. No way that ends up being the cpu. Even in 15 months that will still be mucho expensive to produce, especially with 1MB cache. Sorry but unless X2 is going to retail at $750 these numbers are wrong.
"I'm not saying that MS deserves a humanitarian award. I'm just saying that we shouldn't be criticizing MS because they have pushed back LongHorn. Allowing sufficient time for good development is a GOOD thing."
Interesting theory but IMHO Longhorn being pushed back is just a sign that MS bit off more than they could chew and mismanaged the project. That's frankly way more probable then the idea that MS is being a good citizen. If MS could have gotten away with shipping Longhorn this year, XP Sp2 would not have gotten nearly as much attention by them. They are in reality just covering their asses while they develop a secure alternative.
I agree that criticizing them for a late Longhorn over and over is dumb as well but I guess I just disagree as to the why MS is doing it part. All IMHO and such.
Nope your not overly tinfoil-hatish. What they want to do is wrong in every single way. This goes against everything America was founded on and is supposed to stand for. Of course its hardly surprising considering our current Head of State uses the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper.
Reunite Church and State? Check.
Hold citizens with trial or bail? Check.
Nation building without proper cause? Check.
Tax breaks that only benefit the rich? Check.
Dismantle the EPA and let Corporations write Enviro Laws? Check.
Create a Police State where you can spy on cizitens with impunity? Pending/already going on.
This nation has gone to Hell and the changes they are making and have already made are going to haunt us for the next 50 years. Fuckers.
Old versions of Word are certainly not nearly on the same level as WordPerfect goes. IMHO WP was just always a step ahead. You'll find lots of old WP running out there still to this day. Most Word users kept upgrading their office suite year after year. That or their versions of Word were upgraded when they bought new PCs. When 95% of computers sold come with either MS Works or MS Office SBE both of which contain new versions of Word it pretty dam hard Not to upgrade.
I gotta say when I the submission and kept thinking they were talking about WordPerfect and had made a mistake. I guess there are old Word users out there but its much more rare to see as opposed to old WordPerfect installs.
It seems to be progressing ok and I think for mom and dad it would work well in replacing that POS outlook express. I'd even go so far as to say that would probably hold true for any basic POP3 situation. But IMHO its still has a Long way to go to compete with Evolution of Linux and the Outlook on Windows. It also falls pretty far short as far as newsreaders go. But heh, its OSS and is only going to get better with time.
The article didn't say? Probably some tiny European anti-virus maker. Nobody actually believes that Microsoft built theirown AV software from scratch right? Microsoft's MO has been buy up other companies technology and release it as their own for a while now. Not for everthing but certainly a huge percentage of their software.
The Vorbis people are pretty aweful in that department. Why are they hiding the freaking acm version of the codec? When 1.0 or whatever came out I thought for sure they would change their crappy policy of hiding the directshow codec. But alas no. They for some reason don't want to reach 90% of the computing public.
From the readme for the acm version which your likely to find several places with the exception of vorbis.com
"Vorbis Sucks, but I found the stupid goddamned folder on some site in Mexico.
Right-Click on the vorbisacm.inf file, and choose install.
Make sure you've got this dumb-ass vorbis.acm file in the same directory when you're installing.
Why this was difficult to find and why there were dead links to this crappy codec all over the place I have no idea.
Don't like me making this easy for you? Blow me."
That's simply a load of shit that all OSS users and developers think that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong wrong wrong. Whoever modded this Insightful is an idiot.
This author wrote out a crappy article with bad reasoning and basically said if you disagree you wrong. Last time I checked one person didn't equal the entire OSS community. In fact many of the people here who are in fact in OSS agree that he's wrong. Also people either in OSS, Politics, Relgion, Proprietary software etc, ALL think that people who disagree with them are wrong. You saying OSS has a strangehold on this type of behavior or thought is bunk.
"X is what's wrong with the OSS community" where X is some wild overgeneralized post is a worthless statement at best.