I really don't like the Motif look at all. Bleah. HP uses for everything in the HP-UX tools, and I think they've created the ugliest desktop (maybe 'cept for OpenLook) ever.
I haven't decided between GNOME & KDE yet for looks, but let me make clear I respect the people who do both. I think Troll has been very reasonable meeting people's problems with the way Qt is liscensed.
Eventually I'll prolly install both. I'll run whichever panel I eventually decide on, but I'll use apps from both. I can't live w/o KLyx, Iagno (Ian is renaming Gnothello) and Gnibbles (XNibbles gtk-ified).
If I was running a business that needed not much bandwidth for the office (t1 would be fine) but wanted to run its own servers that needed mad crazy bandwidth (>10mbit), I'd colocate to a big ISP. Why pay for running unnecessary leased lines?
I may have to do this soon anyway. ADSL to the office and a colocation plan is the way to go...and your servers never have to move again, no matter where you go.
b) I don't accumulate uptimes, so I don't feel obligated to do things like try to move my computer while running by keeping it on the UPS while riding the elevator down to the car, then plugging it in to the lighter....
kernel.org was busy, so I got it from nic.funet.fi, just like the old days. 'Cept it went at 200k/s stead of 28.8kbps, I don't miss the dialup at all (I love college...).
Of course, everything is whacked now. I'll need to reinstall egcs (I'm now gcc2.8.1 for computer game compiling reasons, grrrr) or gcc2.7 to build it. ooof.
And find another working floppy (have yet to fix my lilo, too much trouble:) or risk screwing myself over and dump it on top of the old bootfloppy. prolly a bad idea.
So, as I read this, MS sez "OEMs must make their own decisions." I.e. MS will not refund OEM money. Not surprising: MS sold the OEMs the right to install MS products on all their pc's for a given price, or some very low price per pc. But the retail price of these products is quite high, ~$100 for windows, several hundred for Office. Neither MS nor the OEMs can afford a significant number of people demanding the refund...
I think what MS is saying is "We sell such a high volume, we can stand the nuts making a fast buck off us, and so can the OEMs. It's still a good racket." Which it is. But we can still get some PR, personal satisfaction, and $ from doing this:)
Poll idea: which brand of machines/architecture do you buy (for yourself, not work), or do you roll your own intel or alpha? I haven't bought an MS OS in quite a while, not since my original copy of win95 (needed for game programming bfore linux glide:)
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....SGI........
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Ohmygaaaaawwwwwwwwwd!
I _need_. Hehe. SGI has made a computer for the rest of us. Even I, the ultimate cheapskate, would consider one at ~$4k...too good to pass up...
I feel much better about Linux 2.2.0 now, my uptime is only 10 days since I got back to campus...I just couldn't deal with takin 'er down at the end of last semester.
I'm considering ways to drive from Pittsburgh to DC _up_. a) prepare car w/cigarette lighter adapter b) be sure ups is fully charged c) bring elevator to 7th floor d) make mad dash to car, plug in (may require add'l help). e) drive home happy with computer up. Don't stop engine.
Glide is for 3dfx boards. No, it's not open, but there's no real reason for it to be...it's _very_ closely bound to the Voodoo/2/Banshee/3 feature set. So why use it? It's faster that D3D. Like 2x as fast (on Fire and Darkness). Implementing an extra API on a well-designed game is almost always worth the effort (which isn't that much really).
Porting Heretic to GL would be a bad idea...Mesa is _slow_ compared to the DOOM engine. For 8bit color, low-res, 2.5D games, the original optimized software (Mesa is a software implementation of the GL standard) renderers make far more sense. GL software is just not up to the demands of games, even old ones...
Mesa is much more general. And can be linked to 3d APIs like glide. Which is the original purpose of GL. So it's not a bad idea for games which expect to run on accelerators to support GL, both under windows and linux.
Want hardware support under Linux? At this point, your only option is 3dfx, which is supported both by Glide and by Mesa linked to Glide. nVidia has shown support for RivaTNT Linux efforts, hopefully we'll see a GL or something for that eventually.
I haven't heard from Rendition (literally, they don't answer the phone) or seen any of their V2xxx series boards in 6 months. I wouldn't worry about RedLine at this point.
Um, "what does it require for 3DFx to allow a GLIDE port?" well 3dfx put Daryll Strauss (http://glide.xxedgexx.com) under NDA and let him port Glide to Linux. So it's there. You just install the SDK and use it. 3dfx wouldn't make this open: it'd reveal all the secrets of their hardware. Not a chance in hell. Reimplementing it would be _very_ hard since 3dfx wouldn't help...I'd call it effectively impossible. A 3dfx is pretty bloody complicated toy.
It's not hard to abstract the hardware rendering layer in a computer game. In fact it's a good idea-- under windoze you can use glide or another accelerated API where possible, with big speed improvements over directx. Many video card manufacturers supply a GL for their cards (GL was originally designed as a hardware API), and you can use that relatively painlessly.
Once id chooses to support several APIs under windoze, it's no more trouble to run under Linux w/Glide or GL. And enforcing compiler portability (eg between g++ & VC++5) results in cleaner code.
Encryption algorithms are not word processors. They are mathematical approaches, and like any other academic progress are pretty much useless unless published and criticized.
I congratulate Sarah for being level-headed and open, and for looking to publish her results. She does indeed have a bright future.
The press deserves a hearty slap with a moldy trout for truly lousy reporting. You wouldn't report a cancer cure this cavalierly, would you? there.
In a textbook of mine last year, there were some examples of experiments in rigging surveys. Using a few differently worded versions of the same question (not nearly so grotesquely biased as the Gates survey) they got _completely_ different results. Survey participants are highly susceptible to even slightly suggestive versions of the same question . . . every research institution has courses in research methods that cover this stuff.
after I heard him talk about elements of mythology in common with other cultural myths like Gilgamesh and Beowulf, in a video he made for the National Air&Space Museum's Star Wars exhibit last year. He certainly seems to take this stuff very seriously...
The Babylonians had Gilgamesh, the French The Song of Roland, the Danes Beowulf, the English everything Tolkien ever wrote (that was his goal in starting the whole thing! really!), and we Americans have Star Wars. I wouldn't say we did half bad, neither.
These things remind me of the 68HC11 (a common motorola microcontroller) board we're using in our MOBOT (me, dscherer, mfeghali, keg). We bought that (or, scherer did) for $100 from some guy who makes'em in his basement. I could beleive some professional guys with real equipment and fabs and all could put together a nice PC on a chip. After all, the IBM 500-series laptops aren't all that ar from this -- they just have a 2.5" HD, batteries, , PCMCIA slots, a keyboard and a screen.
I think the real ones are a bit harder to play with than the 6800-series tho....too bad....
Our mobot rulez now, it would whomp some serious tail with a real PC running linux!
Sure, full quality mp3 would be too expensive to compress. But most streamed audio isn't anywhere near 128kbit, stereo, 44khz. A typical real stream is like 8 or 16kbit to be easy on the modems -- and I bet at that low level mp3's get relatively cheap to compress...
You could do a slightly-cheesy (no true "live" broadcast) one w/an ftp or http server and many mp3 players. mpg123 certainly will play off a URL. I don't know if winamp does, but if you only care that linux people can listen:)
I believe it's possible to set up real streams off any http server (as the above poster mentioned) but I don't know what software is required from Real for realtime-audio compression for "live" radio. I imagine it takes up a good bit of processor power -- their player is certainly slow enough (though considering how much faster my mp3 player is, a good open-source rewrite of realplayer could speed things up a great deal...)
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if they're really PPC's and IBM plans to use linux on the architecture. The article doesn't mention what specific issues remain w/linux on R/S6k.
I guess you should talk to the LinuxPPC (www.linuxppc.org, distro's sold by www.linuxppc.com) people about this.
I need a thinkpad 800 (the R/S6k thinkpad, very elite) running linux.
Oh yeah.
I really don't like the Motif look at all. Bleah. HP uses for everything in the HP-UX tools, and I think they've created the ugliest desktop (maybe 'cept for OpenLook) ever.
I haven't decided between GNOME & KDE yet for looks, but let me make clear I respect the people who do both. I think Troll has been very reasonable meeting people's problems with the way Qt is liscensed.
Eventually I'll prolly install both. I'll run whichever panel I eventually decide on, but I'll use apps from both. I can't live w/o KLyx, Iagno (Ian is renaming Gnothello) and Gnibbles (XNibbles gtk-ified).
Wasn't an ars-tecnica review of the Visual workstations posted to /. like weeks ago?
Or is this a different one?
If I was running a business that needed not much bandwidth for the office (t1 would be fine) but wanted to run its own servers that needed mad crazy bandwidth (>10mbit), I'd colocate to a big ISP. Why pay for running unnecessary leased lines?
I may have to do this soon anyway. ADSL to the office and a colocation plan is the way to go...and your servers never have to move again, no matter where you go.
If I'm always compiling
a) I never have to do anything else, like work
b) I don't accumulate uptimes, so I don't feel obligated to do things like try to move my computer while running by keeping it on the UPS while riding the elevator down to the car, then plugging it in to the lighter....
was painfully slow for me, I hope it's not /.'d at 9:15 am....
kernel.org was busy, so I got it from nic.funet.fi, just like the old days. 'Cept it went at 200k/s stead of 28.8kbps, I don't miss the dialup at all (I love college...).
:) or risk screwing myself over and dump it on top of the old bootfloppy. prolly a bad idea.
Of course, everything is whacked now. I'll need to reinstall egcs (I'm now gcc2.8.1 for computer game compiling reasons, grrrr) or gcc2.7 to build it.
ooof.
And find another working floppy (have yet to fix my lilo, too much trouble
No disrespect to Miguel de Icaza and the GNOME boys, but:
Don't make me send Matthias Ettrich over there to kick your tale! mmmmmmm....LyX......
when some jackass makes himself look like a fool with a false-first posting :)
So, as I read this, MS sez "OEMs must make their own decisions." I.e. MS will not refund OEM money. Not surprising: MS sold the OEMs the right to install MS products on all their pc's for a given price, or some very low price per pc. But the retail price of these products is quite high, ~$100 for windows, several hundred for Office. Neither MS nor the OEMs can afford a significant number of people demanding the refund...
:)
:)
I think what MS is saying is "We sell such a high volume, we can stand the nuts making a fast buck off us, and so can the OEMs. It's still a good racket." Which it is. But we can still get some PR, personal satisfaction, and $ from doing this
Poll idea: which brand of machines/architecture do you buy (for yourself, not work), or do you roll your own intel or alpha? I haven't bought an MS OS in quite a while, not since my original copy of win95 (needed for game programming bfore linux glide
Ohmygaaaaawwwwwwwwwd!
I _need_. Hehe. SGI has made a computer for the rest of us. Even I, the ultimate cheapskate, would consider one at ~$4k...too good to pass up...
I feel much better about Linux 2.2.0 now, my uptime is only 10 days since I got back to campus...I just couldn't deal with takin 'er down at the end of last semester.
I'm considering ways to drive from Pittsburgh to DC _up_.
a) prepare car w/cigarette lighter adapter
b) be sure ups is fully charged
c) bring elevator to 7th floor
d) make mad dash to car, plug in (may require add'l help).
e) drive home happy with computer up. Don't stop engine.
Rule!
Glide is for 3dfx boards. No, it's not open, but there's no real reason for it to be...it's _very_ closely bound to the Voodoo/2/Banshee/3 feature set. So why use it? It's faster that D3D. Like 2x as fast (on Fire and Darkness). Implementing an extra API on a well-designed game is almost always worth the effort (which isn't that much really).
Porting Heretic to GL would be a bad idea...Mesa is _slow_ compared to the DOOM engine. For 8bit color, low-res, 2.5D games, the original optimized software (Mesa is a software implementation of the GL standard) renderers make far more sense. GL software is just not up to the demands of games, even old ones...
Mesa is much more general. And can be linked to 3d APIs like glide. Which is the original purpose of GL. So it's not a bad idea for games which expect to run on accelerators to support GL, both under windows and linux.
Want hardware support under Linux? At this point, your only option is 3dfx, which is supported both by Glide and by Mesa linked to Glide. nVidia has shown support for RivaTNT Linux efforts, hopefully we'll see a GL or something for that eventually.
I haven't heard from Rendition (literally, they don't answer the phone) or seen any of their V2xxx series boards in 6 months. I wouldn't worry about RedLine at this point.
Um, "what does it require for 3DFx to allow a GLIDE port?" well 3dfx put Daryll Strauss (http://glide.xxedgexx.com) under NDA and let him port Glide to Linux. So it's there. You just install the SDK and use it. 3dfx wouldn't make this open: it'd reveal all the secrets of their hardware. Not a chance in hell. Reimplementing it would be _very_ hard since 3dfx wouldn't help...I'd call it effectively impossible. A 3dfx is pretty bloody complicated toy.
It's not hard to abstract the hardware rendering layer in a computer game. In fact it's a good idea-- under windoze you can use glide or another accelerated API where possible, with big speed improvements over directx. Many video card manufacturers supply a GL for their cards (GL was originally designed as a hardware API), and you can use that relatively painlessly.
Once id chooses to support several APIs under windoze, it's no more trouble to run under Linux w/Glide or GL. And enforcing compiler portability (eg between g++ & VC++5) results in cleaner code.
Encryption algorithms are not word processors. They are mathematical approaches, and like any other academic progress are pretty much useless unless published and criticized.
I congratulate Sarah for being level-headed and open, and for looking to publish her results. She does indeed have a bright future.
The press deserves a hearty slap with a moldy trout for truly lousy reporting. You wouldn't report a cancer cure this cavalierly, would you?
there.
In a textbook of mine last year, there were some examples of experiments in rigging surveys. Using a few differently worded versions of the same question (not nearly so grotesquely biased as the Gates survey) they got _completely_ different results. Survey participants are highly susceptible to even slightly suggestive versions of the same question . . . every research institution has courses in research methods that cover this stuff.
Of course it's SRAM -- fast RAM is important. I also have a lovely 64meg HD cache of slowish DRAM.
... drool...
Hey -- I write videogames. Cache performance is all. If it's not in the cache, it might as well be on the floppy drive.
Fire and Darkness rulez! 3D realtime strategy, Win95/98/NT/Linux alpha@singularity.dyndns.com
Mmmmmmmmmmmm, voodoo3
after I heard him talk about elements of mythology in common with other cultural myths like Gilgamesh and Beowulf, in a video he made for the National Air&Space Museum's Star Wars exhibit last year. He certainly seems to take this stuff very seriously...
The Babylonians had Gilgamesh, the French The Song of Roland, the Danes Beowulf, the English everything Tolkien ever wrote (that was his goal in starting the whole thing! really!), and we Americans have Star Wars. I wouldn't say we did half bad, neither.
These things remind me of the 68HC11 (a common motorola microcontroller) board we're using in our MOBOT (me, dscherer, mfeghali, keg). We bought that (or, scherer did) for $100 from some guy who makes'em in his basement. I could beleive some professional guys with real equipment and fabs and all could put together a nice PC on a chip. After all, the IBM 500-series laptops aren't all that ar from this -- they just have a 2.5" HD, batteries, , PCMCIA slots, a keyboard and a screen.
I think the real ones are a bit harder to play with than the 6800-series tho....too bad....
Our mobot rulez now, it would whomp some serious tail with a real PC running linux!
Sure, full quality mp3 would be too expensive to compress. But most streamed audio isn't anywhere near 128kbit, stereo, 44khz. A typical real stream is like 8 or 16kbit to be easy on the modems -- and I bet at that low level mp3's get relatively cheap to compress...
You could do a slightly-cheesy (no true "live" broadcast) one w/an ftp or http server and many mp3 players. mpg123 certainly will play off a URL. I don't know if winamp does, but if you only care that linux people can listen :)
I believe it's possible to set up real streams off any http server (as the above poster mentioned) but I don't know what software is required from Real for realtime-audio compression for "live" radio. I imagine it takes up a good bit of processor power -- their player is certainly slow enough (though considering how much faster my mp3 player is, a good open-source rewrite of realplayer could speed things up a great deal...)