The proprietary ATI drivers (currently version 8.18.8) work as well as the nvidia drivers on both my amd64 and x86 boxes.
For how long has ATI even had drivers for amd64?
I ask this because their nonexistant support for amd64 -- and this was not even a year ago -- was the reason my dual-dvi 9600 was replaced by a 6800GT as soon as I got an opteron-based PC.
It's his forum. He makes the rules. He could cash the place out, if he wanted. Shut the servers down, tell everyone to go home.
It isn't his. He sold it years ago. He couldn't do that. Posting what he did is unprofessional as it is.
I think I'll give him a pass on the occasional rant.
Yes, but HE HAS A BLOG TOO. Why can't he put this THERE? THIS IS A BLOG POST! All it needs is a "Mood: Crushed / Music: The Cure" pair in small font somewhere.
Jesus.
- A.P.
YES, TERRORISTS WANT TO TAKE OUR PORN!!!11!
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Tier One ISPs Dying
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The scary thing is it makes you wonder is some terrorist who has intimate knowledge of how Tier 1 ISP's work doing a trial run in the middle of the night by knocking out Level 3 and Verio backbones so later they could try to knock out ALL the backbones in a co-ordinated terrorist attack.
It doesn't make me wonder that. Terrorists do not give a shit about this kind of thing. To even invoke the word "terror" in this discussion is ludicrous.
If I were a manager, one of my only policies would be to summarily fire anyone who came to work sick instead of working from home. There's nothing worse than some idiot who thinks their stupid little projects and deadlines are worth risking a massive, devastating outbreak amongst his coworkers. In fact, it doesn't really get much more thoughtless than that.
- A.P.
How the hell will it boost gaming performance?
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Intel and Laptop RAID?
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Seriously, I'm curious. I consider myself a technically proficient person, and I use RAID myself both at work and at home, but I fail to see how a mirrored disk will make Doom 3 run faster.
That sounds like a loophole. However I am not in favor of automated law enforcement, I like to face my accuser.
I can't stand speed cameras. I think they should all be destroyed, like they do in the UK. Fortunately, nearly all of the cameras in Australia are well-marked, with signs announcing the presence of a camera half a kilometer up the road.
It's easy enough to speed like a bat out of hell until you see one of the warning signs.
The only shitty camera setups are on the big multilane highways around the major cities, which, unfortunately, are set up in arrays several kilometers apart and take notice of the amount of time it takes you to travel between the two points. These are impossible to avoid.
Its kind of hard to get rid of your data on a hard drive.
In AIX, you just insert the System Diagnostics CD and tell it to scrub the disk. This is actually apparently US DOD-compliant, so it should probably suffice. Overwriting the disk about a dozen times with various patterns of data is apparently enough to render old data inaccessible.
There's still some disagreement on whether dmix is the way forward, but hopefully within a year or two software sound mixing will be like fonts are now - pretty much a solved problem.
When I built my latest PC, I had to migrate my old, 32 bit PCI sound card (which does not work or even fit in any other type of PCI slot) to the new PC simply because I refused to use esd or anything like it. The current software mixing options in Linux are the biggest pieces of shit ever thrust out of the bowels of the Linux software development community onto the chest of an unsuspecting userbase.
If I have to wait another two years for working software-mixing, I will be a Mac owner soon, too.
YEs, the US and Soviets sold them to him, and he used them against IRAN and the Kurds. He refused to prove that he had disposed of them and blocked the inspectors trying to find out.
You'd buy a bridge if the Bush administration tried to sell it to you, wouldn't you?
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The proprietary ATI drivers (currently version 8.18.8) work as well as the nvidia drivers on both my amd64 and x86 boxes.
For how long has ATI even had drivers for amd64?
I ask this because their nonexistant support for amd64 -- and this was not even a year ago -- was the reason my dual-dvi 9600 was replaced by a 6800GT as soon as I got an opteron-based PC.
- A.P.
Can we stop conflating a worm that runs on Windows with a "rootkit"?
It's his forum. He makes the rules. He could cash the place out, if he wanted. Shut the servers down, tell everyone to go home.
It isn't his. He sold it years ago. He couldn't do that. Posting what he did is unprofessional as it is.
I think I'll give him a pass on the occasional rant.
Yes, but HE HAS A BLOG TOO. Why can't he put this THERE? THIS IS A BLOG POST! All it needs is a "Mood: Crushed / Music: The Cure" pair in small font somewhere.
Jesus.
- A.P.
The scary thing is it makes you wonder is some terrorist who has intimate knowledge of how Tier 1 ISP's work doing a trial run in the middle of the night by knocking out Level 3 and Verio backbones so later they could try to knock out ALL the backbones in a co-ordinated terrorist attack.
It doesn't make me wonder that. Terrorists do not give a shit about this kind of thing. To even invoke the word "terror" in this discussion is ludicrous.
- A.P.
I thought everybody worked around the problem in newer browsers, so isn't this just a story about one really rich-again mofo?
Sorry I completely lost track of what you were saying hahahaha
No seriously what?
Apparently, the others are high-user-id posters on Slashdot.
Indeed.
I agree that the nano targets the market that is not used to carrying their entire music collection around
Sadly enough, there are PLENTY of people who can't even find 2 gigs' worth of music that they enjoy listening to.
There are lots of folks whose musical library would fit easily onto a nano, with lots of room to spare.
So, did you read his entire comment, or just skip to the line to which you could fire off a cheap snark in response?
- A.P.
If I were a manager, one of my only policies would be to summarily fire anyone who came to work sick instead of working from home. There's nothing worse than some idiot who thinks their stupid little projects and deadlines are worth risking a massive, devastating outbreak amongst his coworkers. In fact, it doesn't really get much more thoughtless than that.
- A.P.
Seriously, I'm curious. I consider myself a technically proficient person, and I use RAID myself both at work and at home, but I fail to see how a mirrored disk will make Doom 3 run faster.
- A.P.
That sounds like a loophole. However I am not in favor of automated law enforcement, I like to face my accuser.
I can't stand speed cameras. I think they should all be destroyed, like they do in the UK. Fortunately, nearly all of the cameras in Australia are well-marked, with signs announcing the presence of a camera half a kilometer up the road.
It's easy enough to speed like a bat out of hell until you see one of the warning signs.
The only shitty camera setups are on the big multilane highways around the major cities, which, unfortunately, are set up in arrays several kilometers apart and take notice of the amount of time it takes you to travel between the two points. These are impossible to avoid.
- A.P.
Congratulations.
Google is the biggest spyware company on the planet! They are just clever enough to use a search "honeypot", instead of invading your dinky system.
Proof? This is slashdot, we don't need to prove what we say here.
- A.P.
It's funny how the pro-welfare Democrats can balance the budget, but the anti-(personal) welfare Republicans can't.
The people in office right now are Republicans in name only. Don't let their idiocy confuse you.
- A.P.
CNet's article was below the belt.
Bullshit. It gave out a few personal details I could've found using Google. It's not like it gave the guy's SSN or home phone number.
Google's just being a little whiny bitch about all this.
- A.P.
That herring is pretty and red.
Its kind of hard to get rid of your data on a hard drive.
In AIX, you just insert the System Diagnostics CD and tell it to scrub the disk. This is actually apparently US DOD-compliant, so it should probably suffice. Overwriting the disk about a dozen times with various patterns of data is apparently enough to render old data inaccessible.
I guess this post is "funny" if you consider a bunch of Dells running Fedora a "UNIX environment".
AIX is still huge once you get out of college.
Damn, guess I better throw out my yagi and my omni.
Are you kidding?
$500 a month is half a month's pay to some people.
- A.P.
There's still some disagreement on whether dmix is the way forward, but hopefully within a year or two software sound mixing will be like fonts are now - pretty much a solved problem.
When I built my latest PC, I had to migrate my old, 32 bit PCI sound card (which does not work or even fit in any other type of PCI slot) to the new PC simply because I refused to use esd or anything like it. The current software mixing options in Linux are the biggest pieces of shit ever thrust out of the bowels of the Linux software development community onto the chest of an unsuspecting userbase.
If I have to wait another two years for working software-mixing, I will be a Mac owner soon, too.
- A.P.
YEs, the US and Soviets sold them to him, and he used them against IRAN and the Kurds. He refused to prove that he had disposed of them and blocked the inspectors trying to find out.
You'd buy a bridge if the Bush administration tried to sell it to you, wouldn't you?
- A.P.
And please, give me some of whatever you're smoking if you think AIX is a better choice for an OS. AIX has about as great of future as does hpux.
Tell me what Solaris does better than AIX.
- A.P.
AIX 5.3 on Power 5 on Hitachi, actually, with an IBM LTO tape library.
So much easier to manage; it isn't even close.
- A.P.
What could be better than shitty hardware, running a shitty operating system, married to shitty SAN disk, being backed up to a shitty tape silo?
Sun will be able to sell you the whole thing, from start to finish, now.
- A.P.