I think that is covered in the article, although I did not read through too much of the headache-inducing computer-translated Porgrish.
Yes, but with four cards, each with two outputs, you could have eight users! Although that would probably be too much use for all but email and word processing. You can probably do something similar with Matrox cards, I think they have a quad-output card or something crazy like that. Anyway, the dual-head cards are probably much more expensive than two low end single-head cards. Remember, you don't exactly need powerful video cards in these things.
If you had enough sound cards, you could set up multiple audio outs, yes? Configuring programs to default to outputting at/dev/dsp1 or whatever depending on which X display it was running on? You would need a lot of PCI slots, though. Three video cards and three sound cards, assuming there is one onboard sound card and an AGP or an integrated video card, would fill up most mobos I have seen, other than pretty high end ones. Not to mention stuff like a network card, if that is not integrated on the mobo. USB sound interface thingies would be good for this. USB headphones with a built-in sound card, now that would be nice.
Great for stuff like computers in a library/internet cafe/k-12 computer lab though. Can't be much slower than my high school's labs of early PowerMacs, can it? And I graduated in 2003 from a school in a relatively prosperous area. This is perfect for a place like Brazil. If you used a relatively powerful computer with enough PCI slots, I am sure you could get more than four users on it as well. Although, a thin-client system might be better, still.
The free accounts are great for signing up for forums and stuff that you don't want your real email address spread all over the net. Gmail's 1 gig of space means I won't have to clean out my inbox from all the spam for a few years!
then about 3 months later my first CD delaminated and started skipping
What did you do that your CDs delaminated in three months? I have not had a SINGLE cd delaminate. I have a CD that my parents bought me when I was in second grade (I just finished my first year of college) of some Bach organ fuges, it still plays just fine. I got the disk in 1992. Twelve years old, still plays fine. I have other CDs just as old, as do my parents. All of them play just fine. I don't think I have ever thrown a CD out due to it not working properly, other than disks that have been accidentally trod upon, and have cracked. The only problem I have is jewel cases getting dull over time, and cracking at the slightest amount of pressure.
I ask again, what did you do with them? Store them in direct sunlight? Keep them on the dashboard of your car in the summer? CDs are like records in some ways. As John Hartford sang, "Don't leave your records in the sun/They'll warp and they won't be good for anyone". This applies to CDs as well.
Yes. This is VERY nice. Saves me having to sit in front of the computer for the entire install. Before it was horrible. Pick packages, sit there twiddling my thumbs for anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. Now, just pick the packages, and go watch TV for a while, or go eat lunch or something. Much better.
While some may adopt X.org I would bet many will continue on using xfree86.
Actually, it looks more like some may continue on using xfree86 while most adopt X.org. I don't think many will keep their own fork. Redhat/Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, all the big ones have switched over, and many of the smaller ones as well.
I already paid for Windows 98SE when I bought my old computer. I will not be purchacing it in the future, thus any anti-trust lawsuit that gives me a few bucks is purely to my benefit. Since I will not be purchasing another copy of Windows, the "cost" will not be "passed along" to me.
Um, Quake 3 and America's Army? Yes, I can play those under Linux. Also, we have such titles as Savage and UT2004, recent games avaliable for Linux, and the upcoming Doom III. The MOST graphics intensive games seem to come out for Linux as well.
I would say the scale is more like:
Linspire... LFS
Linspire being, you can't do anything, command line is totally hidden, click here to do this, pray it works.
LFS being, you do everything yourself, nothing works at first, the commmand line is your friend, and once you get it working right, it will work every time.
There is NOT a problem with binary only vs. open source modules. It is a problem with the company lying to the kernel, saying their module has a GPL liscense, when in fact it does not. There would be no problem if the liscense string had said:
"GPL for files in the \"GPL\" directory; for others, only LICENSE file applies"
instead, however, it says:
"GPL\0for files in the \"GPL\" directory; for others, only LICENSE file applies"
Notice the sneaky \0.
Text based interfaces are better for some things, GUI for others. I don't use a text based web browser, but many other programs are great in text mode. The best thing about X is I can run lots of xterms all attatched to the same screen session.
Besides which, the full sized iPod is pretty damn "mini" too, IMHO. At least compared to my POS Archos 10 gig mp3 player that uses a full 2.5" laptop drive.
Advertisement? Its a review. I am not affiliated with them in any way, other than purchasing several LEDs from them. I am a college student at Michigan Tech. LSDiodes is a small company in Oregon or some such place. It was simply BY FAR the cheapest place to buy LEDs I could find, looked reasonably reputable, so I chanced my $18 on them. Is there something wrong with writing a review?
You must think that everyone that posts a review of a movie or of a CD was somehow involved in the production of that movie or CD.
Except it voids your warrenty. Luckily, the major things I have that don't have blue LEDs either are out of warrenty (IBM Workpad C3 docking station) or have no reason to ever be sent in for warrenty repair (Antec computer case) so I don't have to worry. The power light on my monitor stays green, though. I might put a dab of flat black paint over it, though. No reason to have it, really.
The only blue LED I have any problem with is the one in my center channel speaker. It is crazy bright, and lights up most of my dorm room at night. This has caused me to turn off the speakers at night. That light was more distracting and disturbing to sleep than the fan noise from my computer with 10 fans.
I recently bought a whole bunch of blue LEDs for $0.45 each from LSDiodes.com. This was a whole lot cheaper than ANY other place I could find. They shipped promptly, too. I got my diodes about 4 days later. They are on the west coast, I am in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, so thats pretty good. Equals the fastest shipping I have gotten from Amazon.com. Other places wanted like $2.75 for a blue LED. LSDiodes has 3mm, 5mm and two different sizes of surface mount: Tiny and miniscule.
I run Slackware. Most of the major stuff I need is avaliable as official packages from Pat, and quite a bit of other stuff is avaliable on LinuxPackages.net. I will usually look first to see if there is an official package, and if not, I will do a quick look on LinuxPackages.net, but those are usually a bit out of date, so I usually will end up just downloading the source and compiling it. I see nothing wrong with compiling my own stuff, as it doesn't take much longer. With checkinstall, I can even enter it into the package management system to uninstall easier in future.
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I think that is covered in the article, although I did not read through too much of the headache-inducing computer-translated Porgrish.
Yes, but with four cards, each with two outputs, you could have eight users! Although that would probably be too much use for all but email and word processing. You can probably do something similar with Matrox cards, I think they have a quad-output card or something crazy like that. Anyway, the dual-head cards are probably much more expensive than two low end single-head cards. Remember, you don't exactly need powerful video cards in these things.
If you had enough sound cards, you could set up multiple audio outs, yes? Configuring programs to default to outputting at /dev/dsp1 or whatever depending on which X display it was running on? You would need a lot of PCI slots, though. Three video cards and three sound cards, assuming there is one onboard sound card and an AGP or an integrated video card, would fill up most mobos I have seen, other than pretty high end ones. Not to mention stuff like a network card, if that is not integrated on the mobo. USB sound interface thingies would be good for this. USB headphones with a built-in sound card, now that would be nice.
Great for stuff like computers in a library/internet cafe/k-12 computer lab though. Can't be much slower than my high school's labs of early PowerMacs, can it? And I graduated in 2003 from a school in a relatively prosperous area. This is perfect for a place like Brazil. If you used a relatively powerful computer with enough PCI slots, I am sure you could get more than four users on it as well. Although, a thin-client system might be better, still.
The free accounts are great for signing up for forums and stuff that you don't want your real email address spread all over the net. Gmail's 1 gig of space means I won't have to clean out my inbox from all the spam for a few years!
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Or did they change that yet?
What did you do that your CDs delaminated in three months? I have not had a SINGLE cd delaminate. I have a CD that my parents bought me when I was in second grade (I just finished my first year of college) of some Bach organ fuges, it still plays just fine. I got the disk in 1992. Twelve years old, still plays fine. I have other CDs just as old, as do my parents. All of them play just fine. I don't think I have ever thrown a CD out due to it not working properly, other than disks that have been accidentally trod upon, and have cracked. The only problem I have is jewel cases getting dull over time, and cracking at the slightest amount of pressure.
I ask again, what did you do with them? Store them in direct sunlight? Keep them on the dashboard of your car in the summer? CDs are like records in some ways. As John Hartford sang, "Don't leave your records in the sun/They'll warp and they won't be good for anyone". This applies to CDs as well.
MINIfridge? You pansy!
Yes. This is VERY nice. Saves me having to sit in front of the computer for the entire install. Before it was horrible. Pick packages, sit there twiddling my thumbs for anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. Now, just pick the packages, and go watch TV for a while, or go eat lunch or something. Much better.
Bah. I can quit any time I want.
I already paid for Windows 98SE when I bought my old computer. I will not be purchacing it in the future, thus any anti-trust lawsuit that gives me a few bucks is purely to my benefit. Since I will not be purchasing another copy of Windows, the "cost" will not be "passed along" to me.
Now I can buy a 9800ProXT+ or whatever they are called now for $200 less! Happy days!
Um, Quake 3 and America's Army? Yes, I can play those under Linux. Also, we have such titles as Savage and UT2004, recent games avaliable for Linux, and the upcoming Doom III. The MOST graphics intensive games seem to come out for Linux as well.
I would say the scale is more like: Linspire ... LFS
Linspire being, you can't do anything, command line is totally hidden, click here to do this, pray it works.
LFS being, you do everything yourself, nothing works at first, the commmand line is your friend, and once you get it working right, it will work every time.
What about Thundercat?
Thunder Thunder! THUNDERCATS!!!!
HOO-OOOOOOO!
There is NOT a problem with binary only vs. open source modules. It is a problem with the company lying to the kernel, saying their module has a GPL liscense, when in fact it does not. There would be no problem if the liscense string had said:
"GPL for files in the \"GPL\" directory; for others, only LICENSE file applies"
instead, however, it says:
"GPL\0for files in the \"GPL\" directory; for others, only LICENSE file applies"
Notice the sneaky \0.
Yes, that is indeed what I am doing. Its nice too because I can sit down on any computer, ssh back to my computer, and attatch to the screen.
Text based interfaces are better for some things, GUI for others. I don't use a text based web browser, but many other programs are great in text mode. The best thing about X is I can run lots of xterms all attatched to the same screen session.
Besides which, the full sized iPod is pretty damn "mini" too, IMHO. At least compared to my POS Archos 10 gig mp3 player that uses a full 2.5" laptop drive.
Well, DUH! It requires more EFFORT to turn the off. I am lazy.
Advertisement? Its a review. I am not affiliated with them in any way, other than purchasing several LEDs from them. I am a college student at Michigan Tech. LSDiodes is a small company in Oregon or some such place. It was simply BY FAR the cheapest place to buy LEDs I could find, looked reasonably reputable, so I chanced my $18 on them. Is there something wrong with writing a review?
You must think that everyone that posts a review of a movie or of a CD was somehow involved in the production of that movie or CD.
I would be a fan of a nice, muted blue LED. One that is still a nice cold blue colour, but is not a piercingly bright point source.
/me goes at a 3mm blue LED with some sandpaper to see if it works.
Except it voids your warrenty. Luckily, the major things I have that don't have blue LEDs either are out of warrenty (IBM Workpad C3 docking station) or have no reason to ever be sent in for warrenty repair (Antec computer case) so I don't have to worry. The power light on my monitor stays green, though. I might put a dab of flat black paint over it, though. No reason to have it, really.
The only blue LED I have any problem with is the one in my center channel speaker. It is crazy bright, and lights up most of my dorm room at night. This has caused me to turn off the speakers at night. That light was more distracting and disturbing to sleep than the fan noise from my computer with 10 fans.
I recently bought a whole bunch of blue LEDs for $0.45 each from LSDiodes.com. This was a whole lot cheaper than ANY other place I could find. They shipped promptly, too. I got my diodes about 4 days later. They are on the west coast, I am in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, so thats pretty good. Equals the fastest shipping I have gotten from Amazon.com. Other places wanted like $2.75 for a blue LED. LSDiodes has 3mm, 5mm and two different sizes of surface mount: Tiny and miniscule.
You have actually MET people that BELIVE that?!?!?! /me loses more faith in the intelligence of the average population.
I run Slackware. Most of the major stuff I need is avaliable as official packages from Pat, and quite a bit of other stuff is avaliable on LinuxPackages.net. I will usually look first to see if there is an official package, and if not, I will do a quick look on LinuxPackages.net, but those are usually a bit out of date, so I usually will end up just downloading the source and compiling it. I see nothing wrong with compiling my own stuff, as it doesn't take much longer. With checkinstall, I can even enter it into the package management system to uninstall easier in future.