While it might be easy (or at least relatively painless) to changes websites &c to not use JPEG, it will be far from trivial for digital camera's , PDAs, cell-phones, webcams and what have you, that are more or less hardwired to generate JPEGs
Quicksilver rules.. of course Im slightly biassed as quite a bit of action takes place in my country (the netherlands) or in places I';ve been and am (to a degree) familair with.
Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car? Uh, have you even looked at iTunes? That circle in the top-right corner that says "Burn to CD?"
Maybe Im missing something here.. but if you can burn this to CD, you can then rip it off again cannot you ? (and therefore have a fully functional, 100% fair usable digital copy)
Any chance you are running on an athlon machine ? I've had the same problem on an athlon box, but have had no problems whatsoever on various pentium based systems.
I hope that at some point Gnome and KDE developers will drop their "proprietary" sound servers and just send sound events in a same way as they now do with graphics events.
While not really what you meant, running artsdsp esd& from somewhere in your KDE environment will give sound to both gnome and kde apps at the same time.
> What baffles me is why crackers go after targets like this.
Because if you manage to stick a compromise in (say) their sshd undetected, then after a few months you will 0wn all gentoo boxen.
And given the nature of gentoo, these will usually be boxen witha high band internet connection.
Now imagine owning a few 1000 linux boxes all connected to a high speed internet connection.
You could Ddos pretty much anything and everything.. or spam the entire world and it's dog 5 times over... or lay waste to all the root DNS servers.. or....
I've had foirst hand experience with a couple of those commercial Xservers when trying to get a wildcat card to work under Linux.
Big fun, not. It was expensive (mainly the card, which cost over $2000) and slow and required linking with different libGLs.
Doing the same with XF86 and an nvidia card (geforce 4 series) we got - better performance - much cheaper - no relinking necesary (the nvidia libGL.so can be plugged inplace of the mesa ones and will work).
I've tried another (commercial) xserver on an older gateway laptop with ATI rage mobility card.
One again it was an act of frustration comparable to my early days of XF4.0.0 (or actually 3.99.99) where you basically had to craft an entire XF86Config file by hand and pray it would work.
When I finally had evrything up and runnign the 2D was slower (although only slightly) and the Xserver was simply not stable.
The experimantal DRI patches for the 8M mobility were about as stable (cannot remember which one had a better framerate, but both allowed me to play quake3.
Having said all that though, this sounds like something really prmising, but unless they can get this towork on the latest geenration of GPUs (nvidia, ati, matrox) this will never take off.
And of course, it would need to be network transparent, so that you can still run xbiff on your solaris box and have it display onyour linux X-screen
Oddly enough I've never tried compiling GnuMACh, but mplayer compiles these days with a straight./configure; gmake; su -;gmake install
The tricky part seems to be to ensure you have the codecs mplayer needs, and have them in a palce where mplayer can find them (/usr/lib/win32) Oh, and you need to have a version of gcc that is know to work with mplayer.
We've ported our software from Sun to Linux (and to SGI, we used to have it on IBMs as well, but there is no amrket there anymore).
[ http://www.jasongeo.com for those who care about cutting edge seismic inversion, stochastic inversion and other really cool stuff. Though that site is the marketing friendly version ]
Anyway, we found that for our applications a 1Ghz PIII is about 3.5 times as fast as a Sun ultra 10/60/80 (with an Ultra II 440 cpu).
A blade 1000/750 is about half as fast as a PIII/1000
Yes, 90% is absolute crap,
but the 10% that isn't is there to help me.
I like version numbers in my bootup, I've more than once solved a bootup problem simply by seeing the version numbers floating by on the screen.
As for Solaris, I've been forced to do a set -x in too many/etc/rc2.d/SXXxxxxx scripts too many times, just to be able to figure out what exactly was hanging my boot process..
Ahhh, I see, it's fsck-ing my 420G harddisk, that's why it's sitting there idle for over an hour !!
As someone else has suggested, make kernel/modules verbosity either a kernel config option (those of us who need this info are usually the ones who built their own kernels anyway) or make it a lilo settable (append="bootup=verbose") option.
The latter would be great if you have to diagnose a box for which you haven't built a kernel .
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While it might be easy (or at least relatively painless) to changes websites &c to not use JPEG, it will be far from trivial for digital camera's , PDAs, cell-phones, webcams and what have you, that are more or less hardwired to generate JPEGs
Quicksilver rules.. of course Im slightly biassed as quite a bit of action takes place in my country (the netherlands) or in places I';ve been and am (to a degree) familair with.
Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car?
.. but if you can burn this to CD, you can then rip it off again cannot you ?
Uh, have you even looked at iTunes? That circle in the top-right corner that says "Burn to CD?"
Maybe Im missing something here
(and therefore have a fully functional, 100% fair usable digital copy)
So why all the fuss ?
The crucial thing (for me at least) is wether or not the NVidia binary drivers will work with this new version.
Judging form the fact that's forked of XF4.4rc2 it should , but I'd like to get confirmation .
The Knoppix that came with the C'T from a month ago already had a 2.6 kernel.
Suse 9.0 came with a 2.6 kernel (though neither had them as a default)
Twenty thousand dollars. That's not a typo. I know guys who make that much mowing lawns for a summer. .. you must have a reaaly big lawn then ...
Men
I remember that one.
Although as far as my recollection goes it was called tvwm (Toms Virtual WM)
except freedesktop does not do 3D accleration of NVidia cards yet ..
which is (given that Im doing a lot of 3D stuff) really what I need.
me too ;)
It's business as usual (or actually increasing)
Any chance you are running on an athlon machine ?
I've had the same problem on an athlon box, but have had no problems whatsoever on various pentium based systems.
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I hope that at some point Gnome and KDE developers will drop their "proprietary" sound servers and just send sound events in a same way as they now do with graphics events.
While not really what you meant, running
artsdsp esd&
from somewhere in your KDE environment will give sound to both gnome and kde apps at the same time.
> What baffles me is why crackers go after targets like this.
.. or spam the entire world and it's dog 5 times over ... or lay waste to all the root DNS servers .. or ....
Because if you manage to stick a compromise in (say) their sshd undetected, then after a few months you will 0wn all gentoo boxen.
And given the nature of gentoo, these will usually be boxen witha high band internet connection.
Now imagine owning a few 1000 linux boxes all connected to a high speed internet connection.
You could Ddos pretty much anything and everything
The possibilities are endless
How is linux support for this beast ?
Will it do decent GL ?
> My hero, Dijkstra (anyone who could live with
..
> 5 successive constanants in his name must be
> cool),
I hate to break it to you, but it's only 4. Count them
K S T R that's 4
The IJ combine to form a single vowel in dutch.
Odd but true.
I've had foirst hand experience with a couple of those commercial Xservers when trying to get a wildcat card to work under Linux.
.
Big fun, not.
It was expensive (mainly the card, which cost over $2000) and slow and required linking with different libGLs.
Doing the same with XF86 and an nvidia card (geforce 4 series) we got
- better performance
- much cheaper
- no relinking necesary (the nvidia libGL.so can be plugged inplace of the mesa ones and will work).
I've tried another (commercial) xserver on an older gateway laptop with ATI rage mobility card.
One again it was an act of frustration comparable to my early days of XF4.0.0 (or actually 3.99.99) where you basically had to craft an entire XF86Config file by hand and pray it would work.
When I finally had evrything up and runnign the 2D was slower (although only slightly) and the Xserver was simply not stable.
The experimantal DRI patches for the 8M mobility were about as stable (cannot remember which one had a better framerate, but both allowed me to play quake3
Having said all that though, this sounds like something really prmising, but unless they can get this towork on the latest geenration of GPUs (nvidia, ati, matrox) this will never take off.
And of course, it would need to be network transparent, so that you can still run xbiff on your solaris box and have it display onyour linux X-screen
Oddly enough I've never tried compiling GnuMACh, but mplayer compiles these days with a straight ./configure; gmake; su -;gmake install
The tricky part seems to be to ensure you have the codecs mplayer needs, and have them in a palce where mplayer can find them (/usr/lib/win32) Oh, and you need to have a version of gcc that is know to work with mplayer.
Well, do you have a support contract (with *HP*) on those boxes ? ...
if so, yes, they are
Having a support contract with HP was one of the things you had to have to be indemnified by HP, not just a piece of HP hardware.
We've been doing this for a (long) while.
Currenlty using Sophos antivirus but have used other products in the passed with equally good results.
The hold-down-the-button trick is very well known among Mac users, and all three of them are documented thoroughly.
....
So, basically you're saying that all 3 mac users are well documented ?
That means I know 67% of all mac users
We've ported our software from Sun to Linux (and to SGI, we used to have it on IBMs as well, but there is no amrket there anymore). [ http://www.jasongeo.com for those who care about cutting edge seismic inversion, stochastic inversion and other really cool stuff. Though that site is the marketing friendly version ] Anyway, we found that for our applications a 1Ghz PIII is about 3.5 times as fast as a Sun ultra 10/60/80 (with an Ultra II 440 cpu). A blade 1000/750 is about half as fast as a PIII/1000
Yes, 90% is absolute crap,
/etc/rc2.d/SXXxxxxx scripts too many times, just to be able to figure out what exactly was hanging my boot process ..
/modules verbosity either a kernel config option (those of us who need this info are usually the ones who built their own kernels anyway) or make it a lilo settable (append="bootup=verbose") option.
but the 10% that isn't is there to help me.
I like version numbers in my bootup, I've more than once solved a bootup problem simply by seeing the version numbers floating by on the screen.
As for Solaris, I've been forced to do a set -x in too many
Ahhh, I see, it's fsck-ing my 420G harddisk, that's why it's sitting there idle for over an hour !!
As someone else has suggested, make kernel
The latter would be great if you have to diagnose a box for which you haven't built a kernel .
A functional alternative to java ? You mean Like C# (C-dull)