There is one very good reason to wait for 939. It supports unbuffered DDR Ram. RAM that most people are using with their Pentium 4 Dual DDR chipsets. Socket 940 is usable only with Registered ECC DIMMS which are more expensive and a bit harder to get a hold of.
So I assume that many people, like myslef, will take those 2 sticks of DDR 3200 RAM they invested in for their P4/875 setups, and use them in their Socket 939 motherboards.
Sory for responding to my own post, but I juist had a thought.
If Linux=tasty fruit, then does Monty Python's "Self Defense Against Fruits" skit be applicable as necassary training to the employees at microsoft?
Bill Gates:Ha. Right. Now, self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit.
(Grumbles from all)
New Programmer1: Oh, you promised you wouldn't do fruit this week. Bill Gates: What do you mean?
New programmer2: We've done fruit the last nine weeks....
New Programmer1: Can't we do something else?
New Programmer2: Like someone who attacks you with a pointed vi?
Either your posting lies, the doctor doesn't know his ass from his elbow -- and there are plent of those MD's around--, or the state he lives in has laws that you don't understand. Off duty healthcare workers are pretty much immune from lawsuits when they try to help someone off duty.
The doctor could have helped by pulling over and calling 911. Would he be obliged to perform CPR if someone was in cardica arrest? Nope. He could argue that without the proper protective equipment (Bag Valve Mask, Pocket Face Mask, gloves) that he would be exposing himself to the patients potential bloodborne pathogens. He could then argue that waiting for the ambulance to arrive was the most that any Good Samaritan could do.
Many of my co-workers (as paramedics) have stopped to help people out (in New York State) without fear of being sued. Actually, since Paramedics work under the license of a physician when they are on duty only, if a paramedic performed advanced life support when off duty (carrying intubation equipment in his personal car) you could be sure that he would be sued for practicing medicine without a license, even if there were no complications.
All the more reason for budget strapped people/small business/univeristies to take another look at the free unices or stay with Linux if they have already switched.
I have another idea: As soon as things like CPU freq scaling and ACPI really mature in the Linux kernel, you can bet your bottom dollar that people will argue that not only does Linux save you on upgrade costs, but can save you millions on the desktop in power operating costs as well.
Have you noticed how much juice the Prescott sucks up?
* hardware acceleration
* decent performance
* support for multiple simultaneous X displays
* open source drivers
Check out the DRI page. Seems ATi has reelased the specs to their older Radeon cards; you can get hardware 3D with Radeons upto a 9200 series. Not to mention fixed Xvideo support.
You can get a 9200 with 128MB of RAM and DVI for 44 bucks on Pricewatch. Another bonus is that their fanless; that's if a 6000rpm fan bothers you.
...writes "ATI has finally released official drivers for XFree 4.3.0 and updated their Linux drivers to 3.7.0 for supported XFree versions,
They have had support for 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 for the last six to eight months at least.
...users who have ATI Radeon cards can now benefit from an official release.
If you read the README these are all "officially unsuopported"
Unfortunately, ATI still insists on using RPM exclusively...
Again, if anybody cared to read their instructions, there are specific details on how to get these RPM's converted to debs via alien.
The only real news concerning ATI and Linux drivers isn't even mentioned here. I wonder how this passed as news, since these unofficial drivers have been out for the longest.
The real news is that ATI released 3.7.1 on the fourth. There was only one sentence in the changlelog: "Support added for the Radeon 9800XT"
Of course this, and the fact that that the new driver trashed alot of X servers, sent the Rage3d crown into a flame frenzy. ATI promised linux driver updates every two months, and after waiting and waiting (with numerous issued datailed here) they added one ChipID for the 9800XT which results in some unstable X servers for people who don;t even have 9800XTs?
As a result the 3.7.1 drivers were pulled several hours after being released with no explanation given.
I'm happy they are making an effort, but their enthusiasm seems misguided at best. After declaring that they re writing the ATI drivers from scratch (as oppesed from upgrading the Schneider drivers) they rename them from 3.2 to 3.7? What? Shoudn't the rewritten drivers from scratch be labeled a alpha or beta release at best?
I currently have two radeon cards, and have gone back using the open source Xfree 2d driver and dual booting into windows for playing games until this mess gets sorted out.
This is not a troll, I would happily buy one if my music was encoded in mp3, but it's not. All my tunes are ogg encoded, is there anyway to get this thing to play ogg short of putting Linux on it?
I'm waiting for the release of the new IBM Thinkpad X40 2.6 pounds and %20 smaller (with the same full size thinkpad keyboard) than my already tiny X22, 8 hours on 8cell lion batt with the Ultra Low Voltage Pentium M 1.0 Ghz proc.
It's all I need to run some Debian goodness.
BTW, prices start at $1499, and Intel should be releasing the centrino drivers soon.
Says who? The CNN and FOX blowhards who pound you with the words terrorism and terrorist every 30 fucking seconds?
Remember those kids who received very long jail sentences for stealing a stop sign at a dark intersection? The consequnces of the being that 3 other teenagers died.
You don't think that some people live in terror thinking that could someday happen again?
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You would have to get new RAM. Socket 939 lets you use the unbuffered DDR RAM you probably already have.
There is one very good reason to wait for 939. It supports unbuffered DDR Ram. RAM that most people are using with their Pentium 4 Dual DDR chipsets. Socket 940 is usable only with Registered ECC DIMMS which are more expensive and a bit harder to get a hold of.
So I assume that many people, like myslef, will take those 2 sticks of DDR 3200 RAM they invested in for their P4/875 setups, and use them in their Socket 939 motherboards.
Yeah, that's a latte money.
I know, place a bright orange helmet on my cranium and put me on the short bus.
How about a variation of a bootable Linux Game CD that you can also install later ala Knoppix?
Sory for responding to my own post, but I juist had a thought.
If Linux=tasty fruit, then does Monty Python's "Self Defense Against Fruits" skit be applicable as necassary training to the employees at microsoft?
Bill Gates:Ha. Right. Now, self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last
week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who
attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit.
(Grumbles from all)
New Programmer1: Oh, you promised you wouldn't do fruit this week.
Bill Gates: What do you mean?
New programmer2: We've done fruit the last nine weeks....
New Programmer1: Can't we do something else?
New Programmer2: Like someone who attacks you with a pointed vi?
well, you get the idea...
So does linux on linux=tasty fruit?
You woudn't happen to be the perpetrator who defrauded that young woman crdeit card, so you could build that "girl robot" for the prom?
Would this also apply to vinyl? I have lot's of rock on the dead wax, but I don't have the CD.
Would I be breaking any laws for downloading and MP3 of a song I have on vinyl?
If you think about it, vinyl is superior to both the CD and the MP3, so downloading the lossy MP3 should not be a problem.
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I would give my left testicle... and a kidney for a Linux client of Battlefield 1942.
Shit, over half the servers are on Linux server anyway.
Remember, the average person spends about 50% of their daily free time at home watching TV.
I DON'T WATCH TV!
I, um, spend my time here... and listening to songs thats have gratuitous amounts of cowbell.
Have you tried blackbox or openbox?
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Either your posting lies, the doctor doesn't know his ass from his elbow -- and there are plent of those MD's around--, or the state he lives in has laws that you don't understand. Off duty healthcare workers are pretty much immune from lawsuits when they try to help someone off duty.
The doctor could have helped by pulling over and calling 911. Would he be obliged to perform CPR if someone was in cardica arrest? Nope. He could argue that without the proper protective equipment (Bag Valve Mask, Pocket Face Mask, gloves) that he would be exposing himself to the patients potential bloodborne pathogens. He could then argue that waiting for the ambulance to arrive was the most that any Good Samaritan could do.
Many of my co-workers (as paramedics) have stopped to help people out (in New York State) without fear of being sued.
Actually, since Paramedics work under the license of a physician when they are on duty only, if a paramedic performed advanced life support when off duty (carrying intubation equipment in his personal car) you could be sure that he would be sued for practicing medicine without a license, even if there were no complications.
All the more reason for budget strapped people/small business/univeristies to take another look at the free unices or stay
with Linux if they have already switched.
I have another idea: As soon as things like CPU freq scaling and ACPI really mature in the Linux kernel, you can bet your bottom dollar that people will argue that not only does Linux save you on upgrade costs, but can save you millions on the desktop in power operating costs as well.
Have you noticed how much juice the Prescott sucks up?
I think the point is, you don't have a choice of not using the bloated Windows interface. You choose to use Gnome; that's just fine.
I choose to use blackbox:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1033236 475028 558208 0 32748 394020
-/+ buffers/cache: 48260 984976
Swap: 514040 0 514040
I can see the Warden welcoming Bob Villa to the big house: "Welcome to this old Penitentiary"
IS there a decent card for gnu/linux with:
* hardware acceleration
* decent performance
* support for multiple simultaneous X displays
* open source drivers
Check out the DRI page. Seems ATi has reelased the specs to their older Radeon cards; you can get hardware 3D with Radeons upto a 9200 series. Not to mention fixed Xvideo support.
You can get a 9200 with 128MB of RAM and DVI for 44 bucks on Pricewatch. Another bonus is that their fanless; that's if a 6000rpm fan bothers you.
They have had support for 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 for the last six to eight months at least.
If you read the README these are all "officially unsuopported"
Unfortunately, ATI still insists on using RPM exclusively...
Again, if anybody cared to read their instructions, there are specific details on how to get these RPM's converted to debs via alien.
The only real news concerning ATI and Linux drivers isn't even mentioned here. I wonder how this passed as news, since these unofficial drivers have been out for the longest.
The real news is that ATI released 3.7.1 on the fourth. There was only one sentence in the changlelog: "Support added for the Radeon 9800XT"
Of course this, and the fact that that the new driver trashed alot of X servers, sent the Rage3d crown into a flame frenzy. ATI promised linux driver updates every two months, and after waiting and waiting (with numerous issued datailed here)
they added one ChipID for the 9800XT which results in some unstable X servers for people who don;t even have 9800XTs?
As a result the 3.7.1 drivers were pulled several hours after being released with no explanation given.
I'm happy they are making an effort, but their enthusiasm seems misguided at best. After declaring that they re writing the ATI drivers from scratch (as oppesed from upgrading the Schneider drivers) they rename them from 3.2 to 3.7? What? Shoudn't the rewritten drivers from scratch be labeled a alpha or beta release at best?
I currently have two radeon cards, and have gone back using the open source Xfree 2d driver and dual booting into windows for playing games until this mess gets sorted out.
This is not a troll, I would happily buy one if my music was encoded in mp3, but it's not. All my tunes are ogg encoded, is there anyway to get this thing to play ogg short of putting Linux on it?
No mention of the computer OS or archs.
Nice.
I don't suppose you wear one of these and copy the data to the site daily?
/joke/
This way mom can cherish your every waking moment? Awwwwww that's sooooo sweeet!
New section for this website: lawsuits
I'm waiting for the release of the new IBM Thinkpad X40
2.6 pounds and %20 smaller (with the same full size thinkpad keyboard) than my already tiny X22, 8 hours on 8cell lion batt with the Ultra Low Voltage Pentium M 1.0 Ghz proc.
It's all I need to run some Debian goodness.
BTW, prices start at $1499, and Intel should be releasing the centrino drivers soon.
Says who? The CNN and FOX blowhards who pound you with the words terrorism and terrorist every 30 fucking seconds?
Remember those kids who received very long jail sentences for stealing a stop sign at a dark intersection? The consequnces of the being that 3 other teenagers died.
You don't think that some people live in terror thinking that could someday happen again?
link
Any time an emergency service vehicle has to resond to any incdent, there is an inherent danger to public saftey.
Would the cyberterrorism charge sit better with you if the responding sector car slammed into a utlity pole or killed an innocent bystander?
Here's and example; the call this gentleman was responding was unfounded, probably a crank call. He's dead.
Link
I'm not trolling, but you bring up an interesting point; do you know of anyone who will accept batteries for recyclying or safe disposal?
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