Several of the devices in the Clix line, including the U10 (which I have), can be upgraded to use alternate firmware - to use it as a mass storage device. (But to rebuild the playlists, you'll need EasyPMP.)
Barring that, I have to confess I did run into trouble syncing using MTP through amaroK. It worked, but it was horribly unreliable. The whole setup reeks.
Because lots of Gentoo users are beginners who want to learn. Whether you think Gentoo is appropriate for them or not, they will find a good installer useful and will get to the actual using the system part without getting stuck on silly installation mistakes and giving up. Since the installer is optional, there's no harm done.
While I agree with you in principle, and after running `sed -e s/gentoo/Ubuntu/ig`, I find I couldn't possibly disagree.
But ask yourself this: Does Gentoo really need yet another ricer?
The notebook I'm using right now has this amount of memory, and was easily available in stores 1 year ago. Last time I checked, a web browser should never require the absolute latest system for day-to-day operations (which include having another application in the background, such as a word processor or even MSVC 2005.)
My system has 3GB memory. Within a few hours of my typical usage of Firefox, the process has balooned to over 512MB in size. If it remains unchecked (i.e., it sits idle overnight), it becomes sluggish, unresponsive, and unusable. With only 10 tabs open, I have to wait over 5 seconds after opening a tab to begin typing a URL. Then, the entire process locks up for a second or so before it even makes the DNS query.
In fact, I noticed that when I upgraded from 1GB to 2GB and then to 3GB, Firefox's performance got noticably worse, nearly to the point of being completely unusable. I'm literally afraid to upgrade to 4GB now.
It's gotten so bad, that I deliberatly avoid loading it any more, and I've been using Opera and Konqueror far more often.
(Konq still has some problems with its JavaScript engine that make it a pain to use, but at least it doesn't take 5 seconds to respond to my input!)
I'd run gprof on Firefox, but compiling it for profiling would take far too much time (and slow it down even more!) for me to bother investing in it to figure out why the hell it's so goddamn slow to begin with.
This is sick. I don't understand why these companies think that market segmentation helps their business or why courts and governments agree with them on it. I simply can't fathom what went through their minds to develop region coding for DVDs and legally enforce this kind of separation.
IPv4 is tested and issues with it have been identified and fixed in most implementations.
The only problem which cannot be increased in the implementation is the limitation on the number of octets used for the address space.
So why not simply increase the number of octets!
And how, pray tell, would this change be made universal? Given Microsoft's IPv6 support track record, I don't forsee them updating their IPv4 support to add more octets, and such a change would inevitably require a universal update before it can even begin to be used!
What we have right at this moment is a rather substantial infrastructure which has supported IPv6 for nearly a decade, but has had that feature either disabled or disused. The Internet's endpoints (read: ISP subscribers) by and large do not support IPv6, and Microsoft has only made support for it default in their latest (and most unpopular) OS. All it would take to use IPv6 right now, is for ISPs to update their networks to support IPv6 and for Microsoft to push IPv6 as a critical update to all Windows XP systems, and we will have a stable and usable IPv6 internet. And since IPv6 is backward-compatible with IPv4, the rest of the endpoints (read: servers, datacenters, etc.) can take their time making the switch.
Why break an outdated and outmoded protocol when we've got a perfectly usable one right now? All we need is for ISPs to get off their sorry asses and do that.
I can actually think of a couple very nice uses for it - one could better learn Emacs or Vi keys if there were a visual reference on the keyboard, for example. Additionally, I occasionally type in Japanese, and I acquired a Japanese keyboard for just that purpose. Imagine hitting Zenkaku and SCIM automatically changes the keys to display Japanese characters! Or, imagine keys being off when they wouldn't do anything anyway - kinda like George Carlin's lightbulb ("a lightbulb that only shines light on things worth looking at... nah, too idealistic...").
Or, maybe you don't like the font that your keyboard uses. Or perhaps you'd want to have it display random letters or words or pictures on every key and change them every few keystrokes.
There's no reason *not* to have a keyboard like that, IMO.
IMHO, it's not that Linux is "too hard" or any such hogwash. It's not that users are stupid. I think it's just that the average user is out of touch with his needs. Oh, it's fine if you don't do much with a computer to begin with - Windows is good enough for most for that reason. It was good enough for me for a very long time, and I grew up with MS-DOS.
But as I used my computer more and more, I started hitting brick walls - there came a point where Windows wasn't good enough any more, and I became increasingly frustrated with it. As Windows got "easier to use," it became less and less useful - especially as applications started to dumb down, too. Now, when I'm forced to use Windows XP, I can't perform even the simplest tasks without access to a good command shell (read: Bash). I've grown up. I've come to terms with my needs. I use Linux, and it meets virtually all of my needs.
IMO, people that still use Windows are still riding their little bike with its cute little tassels and training wheels, and need to grow up so they can get on their hopped-up Harley.
Given that the Optimus Three has an alpha driver available, I'd say it's reasonable to guess that the full keyboard will have support very, very quickly; and based on some of the things they say about all of their input devices (open standards and all that), and given that they seem to fully approve of the Linux driver (with a link to it from their own website), the new keyboard's driver will probably be based on the existing Optimus driver.
Why have I never heard of Rodinia, Pannotia, and other "supercontinents" that "existed prior to Pangaea"? I'd always been taught in my Geology classes that Pangaea was the ONLY supercontinent on geologic history. Is this even taught now?
Bringing Neal Adams into this makes me wonder a lot of things about what I wasn't told about.
I still don't understand why anyone would need DHCP anyway, when an address can simply be generated, based on the local router and hardware MAC, and still provide reasonably good routing. Why is a stateful address configuration even needed in the IPv6 context? I mean, I understand the need in the IPv4 space, but...
I read it this way: Private financial gain in this case means that you are producing income from goods that are not within your rights to sell or manufacture. That is, there is an exchange of money involved in infringement under 506(a)1. Under 506(a)2, it's simply a case of reproduction of copyrighted materials with a total value in excess of $1,000. Though it's not clear if it means reproduction of at least one work to the value of $1,000 or the reproduction of at least $1,000 worth of works.
Intel's own specification documents. The GMA 950 lacks 3D T&L. The GMA X3000 adds a hardware T&L engine. Look at the page you linked to.
I defy you to show me a software-rendered beryl desktop that pulls 60fps at that resolution.
I didn't intend to imply that it's not a full 3D rendering pipeline. I said it's a rasterizer. It handles texturing and that sort of thing, but all of the other essential computation is done outside the hardware - 3D transform and lighting is done primarily in software, and is supported by the extremely fast 2D rasterizer with its basic 3D extensions.
No, it isn't. If it was, it would mean that everything else would be done in software and all 3d graphics will run slow. At "slide-show" speeds. Which isn't the case.
Intel states in their documentation that the GMA9x0 is absent a 3D T&L engine. They added one in the GMA 3000, making it the first card that isn't simply a rasterizer. The GMA 9x0 have pixel shaders, which, I assume, is used to handle texture processing and other basic operations, but all of the other work - Matrix transformations, perspective, texture pre/post-processing/mip-maps, and so on, are all done in software, whereas the Voodoo II, as I understand, did the majority of that work in hardware.
That's what I'm complaining about, and that's why I hate the GMA 9x0.
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I dunno about you, but I don't like WiMPy Wine. Just doesn't have that kick.
Several of the devices in the Clix line, including the U10 (which I have), can be upgraded to use alternate firmware - to use it as a mass storage device. (But to rebuild the playlists, you'll need EasyPMP.)
Barring that, I have to confess I did run into trouble syncing using MTP through amaroK. It worked, but it was horribly unreliable. The whole setup reeks.
Indeed, but I wouldn't mind being the guy that had his games stolen from him.
While I agree with you in principle, and after running `sed -e s/gentoo/Ubuntu/ig`, I find I couldn't possibly disagree.
But ask yourself this: Does Gentoo really need yet another ricer?
Want to see something funny? Read /. in Opera with the new discussion system turned on.
(Opera slows down so much that it becomes nearly unusable.)
My system has 3GB memory. Within a few hours of my typical usage of Firefox, the process has balooned to over 512MB in size. If it remains unchecked (i.e., it sits idle overnight), it becomes sluggish, unresponsive, and unusable. With only 10 tabs open, I have to wait over 5 seconds after opening a tab to begin typing a URL. Then, the entire process locks up for a second or so before it even makes the DNS query.
In fact, I noticed that when I upgraded from 1GB to 2GB and then to 3GB, Firefox's performance got noticably worse, nearly to the point of being completely unusable. I'm literally afraid to upgrade to 4GB now.
It's gotten so bad, that I deliberatly avoid loading it any more, and I've been using Opera and Konqueror far more often.
(Konq still has some problems with its JavaScript engine that make it a pain to use, but at least it doesn't take 5 seconds to respond to my input!)
I'd run gprof on Firefox, but compiling it for profiling would take far too much time (and slow it down even more!) for me to bother investing in it to figure out why the hell it's so goddamn slow to begin with.
This is sick. I don't understand why these companies think that market segmentation helps their business or why courts and governments agree with them on it. I simply can't fathom what went through their minds to develop region coding for DVDs and legally enforce this kind of separation.
And how, pray tell, would this change be made universal? Given Microsoft's IPv6 support track record, I don't forsee them updating their IPv4 support to add more octets, and such a change would inevitably require a universal update before it can even begin to be used!
What we have right at this moment is a rather substantial infrastructure which has supported IPv6 for nearly a decade, but has had that feature either disabled or disused. The Internet's endpoints (read: ISP subscribers) by and large do not support IPv6, and Microsoft has only made support for it default in their latest (and most unpopular) OS. All it would take to use IPv6 right now, is for ISPs to update their networks to support IPv6 and for Microsoft to push IPv6 as a critical update to all Windows XP systems, and we will have a stable and usable IPv6 internet. And since IPv6 is backward-compatible with IPv4, the rest of the endpoints (read: servers, datacenters, etc.) can take their time making the switch.
Why break an outdated and outmoded protocol when we've got a perfectly usable one right now? All we need is for ISPs to get off their sorry asses and do that.
Hi, I'm in IT and I've talked to everyone I know who is also in IT in my area (northwestern Washington) about IPv6 rollout.
I've gotten exactly one answer from all of them: never.
So, yeah, I'm wondering when it's gonna happen.
Walk or bike for a change.
Where possible, of course.
Get back in that coffin, you!
*raises hand*
I can actually think of a couple very nice uses for it - one could better learn Emacs or Vi keys if there were a visual reference on the keyboard, for example. Additionally, I occasionally type in Japanese, and I acquired a Japanese keyboard for just that purpose. Imagine hitting Zenkaku and SCIM automatically changes the keys to display Japanese characters! Or, imagine keys being off when they wouldn't do anything anyway - kinda like George Carlin's lightbulb ("a lightbulb that only shines light on things worth looking at ... nah, too idealistic...").
Or, maybe you don't like the font that your keyboard uses. Or perhaps you'd want to have it display random letters or words or pictures on every key and change them every few keystrokes.
There's no reason *not* to have a keyboard like that, IMO.
... and not just in Soviet Russia.
IMHO, it's not that Linux is "too hard" or any such hogwash. It's not that users are stupid. I think it's just that the average user is out of touch with his needs. Oh, it's fine if you don't do much with a computer to begin with - Windows is good enough for most for that reason. It was good enough for me for a very long time, and I grew up with MS-DOS.
But as I used my computer more and more, I started hitting brick walls - there came a point where Windows wasn't good enough any more, and I became increasingly frustrated with it. As Windows got "easier to use," it became less and less useful - especially as applications started to dumb down, too. Now, when I'm forced to use Windows XP, I can't perform even the simplest tasks without access to a good command shell (read: Bash). I've grown up. I've come to terms with my needs. I use Linux, and it meets virtually all of my needs.
IMO, people that still use Windows are still riding their little bike with its cute little tassels and training wheels, and need to grow up so they can get on their hopped-up Harley.
I had 512kB of VRAM, and I was damned happy, thank you very much. And I could even push 800x600 at 4 bits!
(4-bit 640x480 is done in less than 256kB, FYI.)
Comcast already does this.
It's called "cable Internet service."
Given that the Optimus Three has an alpha driver available, I'd say it's reasonable to guess that the full keyboard will have support very, very quickly; and based on some of the things they say about all of their input devices (open standards and all that), and given that they seem to fully approve of the Linux driver (with a link to it from their own website), the new keyboard's driver will probably be based on the existing Optimus driver.
Why have I never heard of Rodinia, Pannotia, and other "supercontinents" that "existed prior to Pangaea"? I'd always been taught in my Geology classes that Pangaea was the ONLY supercontinent on geologic history. Is this even taught now?
Bringing Neal Adams into this makes me wonder a lot of things about what I wasn't told about.
I've had WoW working in Wine since 0.9.22, and I'm sure there are others who've had it working even sooner. It has run flawlessly since 0.9.30.
I still don't understand why anyone would need DHCP anyway, when an address can simply be generated, based on the local router and hardware MAC, and still provide reasonably good routing. Why is a stateful address configuration even needed in the IPv6 context? I mean, I understand the need in the IPv4 space, but...
Are you sure? I thought it was supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista? And I thought there was a whole upgrade plan laid out?
Perhaps I'm wrong. Thanks for letting me know!
I read it this way: Private financial gain in this case means that you are producing income from goods that are not within your rights to sell or manufacture. That is, there is an exchange of money involved in infringement under 506(a)1. Under 506(a)2, it's simply a case of reproduction of copyrighted materials with a total value in excess of $1,000. Though it's not clear if it means reproduction of at least one work to the value of $1,000 or the reproduction of at least $1,000 worth of works.
Yeah, so I use Gentoo. Thankfully, I don't have to do it often.
Intel's own specification documents. The GMA 950 lacks 3D T&L. The GMA X3000 adds a hardware T&L engine. Look at the page you linked to.
I didn't intend to imply that it's not a full 3D rendering pipeline. I said it's a rasterizer. It handles texturing and that sort of thing, but all of the other essential computation is done outside the hardware - 3D transform and lighting is done primarily in software, and is supported by the extremely fast 2D rasterizer with its basic 3D extensions.
Intel states in their documentation that the GMA9x0 is absent a 3D T&L engine. They added one in the GMA 3000, making it the first card that isn't simply a rasterizer. The GMA 9x0 have pixel shaders, which, I assume, is used to handle texture processing and other basic operations, but all of the other work - Matrix transformations, perspective, texture pre/post-processing/mip-maps, and so on, are all done in software, whereas the Voodoo II, as I understand, did the majority of that work in hardware.
That's what I'm complaining about, and that's why I hate the GMA 9x0.
It's hard to develop decent (3D) drivers when all you've got is a rasterizer (full 2D pipeline).