I can second that, I bought an AIW Radeon 7500 recently (for the realtime MPEG1/MPEG2 encoding in Windows), and in Linux using the "ati.2" drivers from the GATOS project (gatos.sf.net) with XF86 4.2.0 it works beautifully. I haven't pushed 3D too much, just played XMMS's OpenGL plugin but it works smoothly and well. TV is good except the sound chip doesn't work so I have to patch audio into the soundcard directly (no RF support either, though that might have changed recently, just Composite and SVideo work but that's all I use--I don't have TV out where I live) 3D performance in Windows is definitely good enough for me, but I don't do much gaming so my requirements aren't too high.
Overall I'm very impressed with the card, and it's definitely a worthy successor to my old ATI AIW Pro (Mach64). It even comes with a remote control, and the "ati_remote" CVS drivers work well, though I had to tweak it a bit so it doesn't repeat buttons nonstop when I quickly press them.
I think one alternative would be to switch to an amp setup, and have a 1/8" stereo to RCA cable going into the preamp inputs... I'm pretty sure the voltages coming out of a portable player could drive that, though I've heard some amps take 6V inputs, but have a switch for the 400mV inputs (anyone care to confirm?)
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The first thread about this 'lilo' guy and his 'bullshit' had me believing the trolls, but now that we've got a second thread about it I'm starting to wonder.:)
umm, sorry to burst your bubble, but DcDivX doesn't play most DivX's very well. I do appreciate the development being done on it, but the last I tried it, even with a 320x240 DivX movie, it froze nonstop through any action scenes. Perhaps it'd be better for Anime, though.
Except for the java-gnome project java-gnome.sourceforge.net which, unfortunately, I had nil luck compiling (just the java-gtk part) on my Debian 2.2 system the other day... but still, I would LOVE to be able to write GTK/GNOME apps in Java:-)
Well, I wouldn't mind buying them sometime since I've seen a lot of miscellaneous rerun episodes from all the seasons, but not
all of the episodes in sequence...
Heh, he probably doesn't allow secure credit-card transactions because even he knows they're not necessarily safe;-)
More tech-savvy than we give him credit for I guess?:)
Only thing I'd say to that car analogy is, usually cars are *already* capable
of handling the extra power without extra cooling,
'cept maybe tweaking the ignition timing or using colder spark plugs (that may qualify as
on-par with changing the cooling system in a PC... since that's a mechanical change)
but most of the time I don't think that's necessary at all.
Heh, you know, I saw something exactly like that in some example document I read
on the SAIR Linux Administration certification. I don't have the document here so I couldn't
say exactly what they said, but it was something like cp/dev/fd0/somefile/home/somewhere
The effect of doing such things, for those who don't know is:
scitus:~# cp/dev/fd0/pcmcia.tar/
cp: cannot stat `/dev/fd0/pcmcia.tar': Not a directory
That's interesting; I have a VIA686-based chipset, but not the VIA onboard sound
(C-Media CM8738 onboard sound), actually an Iwill KK266 motherboard (rev. 1.2), and I've not seen any lockups at all.
DMA mode with the CDROM causes some random hardware lockups, but they go away briefly.
I've never had a lockup due to my HDD; then again all I have is an ATA33 and an ATA66-based HD, and the ATA66-based HD sits in standy mode a good portion of the time
(it's my media/swap disk drive and this machine has 256MB RAM in it, so swapping doesn't occur too often)
Hey, how about an idea like having an application load.so libraries into RAM on system bootup
or something, and keep them in memory all ready to go for when a program using that library starts up?
like say load all the KDE libs or GNOME libs or both on startup so when you login to your KDE or GNOME session,
everything loads faster... or is that not the core speed issue here?
I believe engines can be modified to run on pure alcohol without problems; somewhere I think I read that
it requires designing engines with higher compression ratios. I think ethanol isn't really much of a problem,
but methanol can become one due to corrosion. Also I read somewhere that ethanol burns hotter than gasoline, so temperature could be an issue.
But I've heard of Brazilians driving on 100% ethanol, so doubtlessly they either modified regular gasoline engines or have engines built to take
100% ethanol, all engineering issues accounted for.
The engines we use in the 'states are, obviously, designed and tuned to run on GASOLINE efficiently, and the 10% ethanol maximum is probably just
the maximum tolerance the engine can take before combustion is hampered.
Sure, but... if all his messages are public record, including his encrypted ones, you'll have people all over
the place doing brute-force attacks trying to decrypt his mail.
Eventually they will succeed.
DEFINITELY try TIGHT encoding!
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I can't urge it enough. My boss wanted to study some of his Oracle stuff, but the files and db were on
one of the computer lab machines... so he asked me to set up WinVNC on it and give him the IP/display#/password.
I suggested to him TridiaVNC (www.tridiavnc.com) since the latest
release supports Tight encoding, so I gave him the Tridia vncviewer.exe binary and set it up on the Oracle machine.
He said it was so good compared to hextile encoding that it felt almost as good as running it locally.
He was on a modem, while the college is on a T1. I tried it myself from home and I must say, I was impressed.
Sure, the Start menu doesn't pop up instantaneously, but it doesn't take more than 2 seconds to pop up. Considering how I'm used to running telnet over my modem line,
I could tolerate it well enough. I also tried a Tight VNC session to my home computer; I was able to play Xtris well enough without trouble, minus maybe tuning the speed
down a notch or two to make it more comfortable.
The school-to-home session was 8-bit 640x480, the home-to-Oracle-machine session was 800x600x32bpp
Try this in a shell script:
exec rxvt -fn vga -fg white -bg black -tn rxvt -geometry 118x43+33+36 -name xlynx -pixmap/usr/local/lynxbg.xpm -ut +sb -e lynx $*
while 'vga' is a 8x16 VGA font, and lynxbg.xpm is available here, which
was warped from some other image I found, possibly from E or Eterm or something.
Moreover, I used the -name xlynx so that I could save WindowMaker settings to remove the titlebar and resizebar.
Then I added it to the WM root menu and bound it to CTRL-SHIFT-L, so ^ShiftL brings up
a purdy lynx screen in the center of my 1024x768 screen:)
I'm typing this in one of those right now...
Heh, we got it bass-ackwards here. We have a remote control program for our computer lab computers,
but we only use it for snooping, not for remote support. Students/teachers actually come to us when they need help.
It makes for meeting girls easier, although not really since most girls probably aren't turned on by a bunch of geeks in jeans and untucked t-shirts
hovering over her showing her how to save a file;-)
Not on any of the Star Trek shows? Well, this is a movie, but consider ST IV, when they go back to the 20th century...
Yeah, you saw a mouse there, in Dr. Nichols' office, on that silly Macintosh.
The best part is where he tries to talk into the mouse... maybe that's saying something;
how about integrating speech and keyboard input with graphical output?
Yeah, but, Sony is probably thinking that the sale of characters represents
lost potential profit, because there is 1 character (and thus 1 set of monthly fees paid to Sony to
create it) but 2 people involved. Sony would rather have them both create their own characters, and have twice the revenue as they would have with the character-sale situation.
So, ultimately, it comes down to profit motive. Watching Sony lose this case would be an enjoyable conclusion:)
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I can second that, I bought an AIW Radeon 7500 recently (for the realtime MPEG1/MPEG2 encoding in Windows), and in Linux using the "ati.2" drivers from the GATOS project (gatos.sf.net) with XF86 4.2.0 it works beautifully. I haven't pushed 3D too much, just played XMMS's OpenGL plugin but it works smoothly and well. TV is good except the sound chip doesn't work so I have to patch audio into the soundcard directly (no RF support either, though that might have changed recently, just Composite and SVideo work but that's all I use--I don't have TV out where I live)
3D performance in Windows is definitely good enough for me, but I don't do much gaming so my requirements aren't too high.
Overall I'm very impressed with the card, and it's definitely a worthy successor to my old ATI AIW Pro (Mach64). It even comes with a remote control, and the "ati_remote" CVS drivers work well, though I had to tweak it a bit so it doesn't repeat buttons nonstop when I quickly press them.
I think one alternative would be to switch to an amp setup, and have a 1/8" stereo to RCA cable going into the preamp inputs... I'm pretty sure the voltages coming out of a portable player could drive that, though I've heard some amps take 6V inputs, but have a switch for the 400mV inputs (anyone care to confirm?)
The first thread about this 'lilo' guy and his 'bullshit' had me believing the trolls, but now that we've got a second thread about it I'm starting to wonder. :)
SVCD does use, by standard, Variable Bitrate MPEG-2 encoding, if I'm not mistaken.
umm, sorry to burst your bubble, but DcDivX doesn't play most DivX's very well. I do appreciate the development being done on it, but the last I tried it, even with a 320x240 DivX movie, it froze nonstop through any action scenes. Perhaps it'd be better for Anime, though.
Heh, the CEO of RealNames did post on Slashdot, and he certainly wasn't labeled as a troll:
here
Except for the java-gnome project java-gnome.sourceforge.net :-)
which, unfortunately, I had nil luck compiling (just the java-gtk part) on my Debian 2.2 system the other day...
but still, I would LOVE to be able to write GTK/GNOME apps in Java
I always use www.bz2.us.kernel.org when downloading kernels...
It seems to give me a random mirror site every time
Well, I wouldn't mind buying them sometime since I've seen a lot of miscellaneous rerun episodes from all the seasons, but not
all of the episodes in sequence...
Heh, he probably doesn't allow secure credit-card transactions because even he knows they're not necessarily safe ;-)
:)
More tech-savvy than we give him credit for I guess?
Only thing I'd say to that car analogy is, usually cars are *already* capable
of handling the extra power without extra cooling,
'cept maybe tweaking the ignition timing or using colder spark plugs (that may qualify as
on-par with changing the cooling system in a PC... since that's a mechanical change)
but most of the time I don't think that's necessary at all.
The effect of doing such things, for those who don't know is: /dev/fd0/pcmcia.tar /
scitus:~# cp
cp: cannot stat `/dev/fd0/pcmcia.tar': Not a directory
That's interesting; I have a VIA686-based chipset, but not the VIA onboard sound (C-Media CM8738 onboard sound), actually an Iwill KK266 motherboard (rev. 1.2), and I've not seen any lockups at all. DMA mode with the CDROM causes some random hardware lockups, but they go away briefly. I've never had a lockup due to my HDD; then again all I have is an ATA33 and an ATA66-based HD, and the ATA66-based HD sits in standy mode a good portion of the time (it's my media/swap disk drive and this machine has 256MB RAM in it, so swapping doesn't occur too often)
I think you mean it uses "cheap lossy" compression, not "cheap lossless".
Hey, how about an idea like having an application load .so libraries into RAM on system bootup
or something, and keep them in memory all ready to go for when a program using that library starts up?
like say load all the KDE libs or GNOME libs or both on startup so when you login to your KDE or GNOME session,
everything loads faster... or is that not the core speed issue here?
RMS, a Harvard graduate? I didn't know that... I thought he was at MIT... did he go there before?
I believe engines can be modified to run on pure alcohol without problems; somewhere I think I read that it requires designing engines with higher compression ratios. I think ethanol isn't really much of a problem, but methanol can become one due to corrosion. Also I read somewhere that ethanol burns hotter than gasoline, so temperature could be an issue. But I've heard of Brazilians driving on 100% ethanol, so doubtlessly they either modified regular gasoline engines or have engines built to take 100% ethanol, all engineering issues accounted for. The engines we use in the 'states are, obviously, designed and tuned to run on GASOLINE efficiently, and the 10% ethanol maximum is probably just the maximum tolerance the engine can take before combustion is hampered.
Hey, it's the president of the United States we're talking about here... SOMEBODY will at least try :)
Sure, but... if all his messages are public record, including his encrypted ones, you'll have people all over the place doing brute-force attacks trying to decrypt his mail. Eventually they will succeed.
I can't urge it enough. My boss wanted to study some of his Oracle stuff, but the files and db were on one of the computer lab machines... so he asked me to set up WinVNC on it and give him the IP/display#/password. I suggested to him TridiaVNC (www.tridiavnc.com) since the latest release supports Tight encoding, so I gave him the Tridia vncviewer.exe binary and set it up on the Oracle machine. He said it was so good compared to hextile encoding that it felt almost as good as running it locally. He was on a modem, while the college is on a T1. I tried it myself from home and I must say, I was impressed. Sure, the Start menu doesn't pop up instantaneously, but it doesn't take more than 2 seconds to pop up. Considering how I'm used to running telnet over my modem line, I could tolerate it well enough. I also tried a Tight VNC session to my home computer; I was able to play Xtris well enough without trouble, minus maybe tuning the speed down a notch or two to make it more comfortable. The school-to-home session was 8-bit 640x480, the home-to-Oracle-machine session was 800x600x32bpp
With Debian it sure does. apt-get install postgresql (although Debian installs it by default it would seem... at least debian 2.2 potato from CDs)
Try this in a shell script: /usr/local/lynxbg.xpm -ut +sb -e lynx $* :)
I'm typing this in one of those right now...
exec rxvt -fn vga -fg white -bg black -tn rxvt -geometry 118x43+33+36 -name xlynx -pixmap
while 'vga' is a 8x16 VGA font, and lynxbg.xpm is available here, which was warped from some other image I found, possibly from E or Eterm or something. Moreover, I used the -name xlynx so that I could save WindowMaker settings to remove the titlebar and resizebar. Then I added it to the WM root menu and bound it to CTRL-SHIFT-L, so ^ShiftL brings up a purdy lynx screen in the center of my 1024x768 screen
Heh, we got it bass-ackwards here. We have a remote control program for our computer lab computers, but we only use it for snooping, not for remote support. Students/teachers actually come to us when they need help. It makes for meeting girls easier, although not really since most girls probably aren't turned on by a bunch of geeks in jeans and untucked t-shirts hovering over her showing her how to save a file ;-)
Not on any of the Star Trek shows? Well, this is a movie, but consider ST IV, when they go back to the 20th century... Yeah, you saw a mouse there, in Dr. Nichols' office, on that silly Macintosh. The best part is where he tries to talk into the mouse... maybe that's saying something; how about integrating speech and keyboard input with graphical output?
Yeah, but, Sony is probably thinking that the sale of characters represents lost potential profit, because there is 1 character (and thus 1 set of monthly fees paid to Sony to create it) but 2 people involved. Sony would rather have them both create their own characters, and have twice the revenue as they would have with the character-sale situation. So, ultimately, it comes down to profit motive. Watching Sony lose this case would be an enjoyable conclusion :)