Quick, everyone consider switching to windows because this linux thing is obviously flawed and buggy!!
Seriously, this is bad (haven't RTFA yet of course), but not that bad. You shouldn't have an internet server running SMB anyway, and while it'll probably be on your desktop system (for those who run linux on the desktop), but a good little linux hacker will have a firewall running anyway, right?
Though I'm sure people like scoble will "mention" this in pointed ways:)
Isn't this what happened years ago with the old apple games, where the copy protection was taking more of the install disks than the programs were? Then things fell back to serial #s, and now the complexity of protection is slowly growing again? I can understand in a world where everyone has net, but in reality it's still very possible to want to purchase a game like halo2 and to not have a net connection.
I'm confused, the race is really close (252/254) with at least one major swing state still not finished counting and with the race there still at 50%/49% or so. I thought that if it was a tight race you didn't give up.
*sigh*
Re:Oh Debian, I don't know what to think
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I think "years" might be an exageration. About a year ago (or a bit more maybe) someone broke mod_perl and it took two or three days before and updated apache or mod_perl package was uploaded. Of course, since the mirrors update relatively quickly I couldn't just downgrade to version N-1. At this point I didn't know about the packages archives site, so my mod_perl sites were down for a few days while waiting for things to update. I used unstable for a server on the net (personal + hosting a few friends) and it was mostly ok, but every once and a while something like this would come out and kick me in the balls, which is the danger of running unstable.
I'm sure they'll find a way to get around that (ipod is re-recordable media, and therefor not fixed and therefor isn't pre-"recorded"). Or something like that.
Bummer, sorry to hear that. I have 2x19" CRTs and they work dandy, but that's something to think about as I've been considering going to LCD sometime. Anyway, good luck with the dual DVI.
If you look closely, you'll see right above the "nv" driver is the line for the "nvidia" driver and it's commented out. I just found it easier to comment and uncomment lines rather than re-write them. Since I was switching between "nv" and "nvidia" in an effort to figure out where the problem was.
I noticed this and assumed this, but thought that it was a bit odd that each connector had a different driver commented out.
Anyway, hope that it works out, feel free to throw me an email if it still doesn't work.
I have been using OpenBox almost exclusively for 3 months. It doesn't help. In fact, I just installed Gnome 2.8 a few days ago and unless I'm crazy (very possible), it's faster than OpenBox. And on a personal note, I don't think one should have to "cripple" their Desktop experience down to a minimal Window Manager in order to get equal performance with Windows. Just my opinion. Don't get wrong though - I like minimal WM's a LOT
Agreed, I was wondering if there was a significant difference between different apps running, or if it was the X setup.
Re: your x.org config Is there any reason why you're not using the twinview setup? I've been using that with my ti4200 and it's worked flawlessly. Perhaps the nvidia driver doesn't work as well with two separate device entries than twinview. I'm sure you noticed this, but I see that one device entry has nv as the driver, and the other has nvidia.
There is obviously some snipping, but you can check out the full thing at http://ufies.org/txt/XF86Config (it's XF86Config, but works with x.org... I'm just too lazy to change the name:)
Well, some of that has nothing to do with the video drivers or the second monitor so much as just the code underneath. A couple of things I noticed in the video.
- some of it does seem slower than it should be, especially the redraw for one window over another.
- the "trails" when minimizing is actually not a trail, but the "zoom" effect that nautilus/gnome uses.
I'm assuming that you've posted your XF86Config to these forums, and you (or others) have caught the obvious omissions of options. If not throw it to me and I'll see if I can see anything as I have a similar set up to you. However, some of it is "normal" as far as linux/X/gnome goes. I'd say give a different window manager like openbox or something like that a shot and see if it's the video or the software running (nautilus is getting better, but sadly still sucks compared to the windows explorer speed).
Most FPS I've played on windows on my ATI 9800 only go onto the primary display, the second one just basically is ignored (though it changes resolution and looks stupid, so at that point I generally turn off the second monitor).
It's under linux that xinerama screws up FPS games and stretches them over both monitors:(
If you're referring to the flat and transparent/translucent ones, I have, and while they're nicer than the crappy default PC keyboard I'm using now, it's not nearly as nice as my ergo keyboard at home.
If you're referring to some of the 'check for backspace at end of url' code that's been thrown out there, there is more than three lines, as you also would have to check for various forms of URI encoding as well.
Of course, that's just a bandaid to the problem, the solution is to fix the underlying code, which should have been fixed years ago.
Apparently this is fixed in IIS6 and w2k3, and that's what various users I've seen are recommending, but 'upgrade your server' is simply not a good solution (though a standard MS one).
Re:That gives us hope that we'll get IMAP
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To get the equivelant of folder filtering you set up a filter to mark everything with say, 'gimp-user' with a 'GIMP User' label and select the option to archive right away. Then you can just click on the label for gimp user on the left hand side and see all your gimp-user mail.
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re: folders
I doubt that folders (in the current sense that you have pop or imap folders) will be implemented. Gmail seems to have adopted a system that is different and possibly better in their use of labels. I'm not convinced one way or the other, but labels allows you to have pretty much the same abilities as you do with folders, and it works into their paradigm (mail is never deleted) really well.
Imap and retrieval from other accounts would be a big plus though. Of course, being able to run RAID with gmailfs would be nice as well:)
Anyone read Dale Brown's "Deception Point"? A fun book by the same author of The Davinci Code. Anyway, in it it brought up the dangers (or supposed dangers) of commercializing space. Basically if you gave corporations like say, pepsi, free reign to go into space as they pleased, do you think they would be more concerned with:
a) putting a huge "Drink Pepsi" sign on the moon or
b) continuing the mostly and un-exciting scientific research that NASA currently does.
No offense to corporations, but they are there to make money, and investing a billion dollars to put an earth orbiting banner up is going to satisfy their shareholders more than searching for the origins of the universe. Taken to an extreme think about space and the skies above us being as littered with advertising and crap as the roads and buildings and entertainment that we are subjected to every day are. How long before every shuttle is as littered with badges as a Nascar is?
Maybe it's the 'slippery slope' argument, but the book did a good job of explaining why NASA is in "control" of space and not the corporations.
Friend of mine's parents own a couple of mcdonalds and he works there as a manager, has been there for at least 5 years, probably much longer. He's not hurting for money either, not like he's breaking 6 figures or anything, but I'm sure he's making at least 40-60k (CND).
I used to be a hardcore ICQ User (still have it installed with a few contacts now)... but the mass public moved to MSN all of a sudden -- is this in part to the fact that Microsoft shoved it down our throats?
Depending on how you look at it it can be either considered "shoved down our throats" or "made available on the desktop for the average user".
In a way it's good, it's made so that anyone and their dog can communicate via IM (your opinions of how good this part of it is are subjective of course).
On the other hand, you can scream anti-competative, and unfair advantage. Basically they are killing or trying to kill icq/aim the same way that they tried (and in some ways succeeded) to kill netscape.
Yea, I know about HALT, but I was thinking of actually clocking down the CPU from 2G to 1G or whatever when idle. Something that I know it has the ability to do in the 2.6 series, but only on certain CPUs if I read the config info right.
That actually sounds like a neat feature in a sick and twisted sort of way. I would love to have my linux file server automatcially throttle it's CPU to prevent overheating and cut power consumption while it's idle.
Of course it's a server used by only me, in a very hot office, so the circumstances are probably not that common:) I could probably do it as well if I took the time and effort to do some research....
It also gives install options like LVM and raid (finally)!
However, it's still not all that impressive looking, still the same white text on blue that's been the same since I first used debian some 7 years ago. It's not bad, it's just not all that exciting.
Why is it that people who can't read are pitied, or made fun of, and people try to educate them, but it is perfectly acceptable to say (with pride) "I'm computer illieterate"?
No longer can ActiveX run in a pop-up or dialog window, and from what I can gather from the third item, when the dialog box comes up confirming the installation of an ActiveX control, the user will be able to see exactly what the program does.
Well, most spyware tells you exactly what it does now, it just does it in such a way that it's obsfuscated or hidden in the EULA or something and the phrase "share with partners" or "use our servers" or "use your cpu" or whatever is done in such a way that the user just ignores it. No spyware company would put "reports your browsing habits" in a three line description of their software.
Easy solution, no activex at all, ever. But that's just me;)
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Yes, but there's still no reason to run smbd on a net server :)
Quick, everyone consider switching to windows because this linux thing is obviously flawed and buggy!!
:)
Seriously, this is bad (haven't RTFA yet of course), but not that bad. You shouldn't have an internet server running SMB anyway, and while it'll probably be on your desktop system (for those who run linux on the desktop), but a good little linux hacker will have a firewall running anyway, right?
Though I'm sure people like scoble will "mention" this in pointed ways
Why would you assume that a better product will sell better than a properly marketted inferior one? Welcome!
Isn't this what happened years ago with the old apple games, where the copy protection was taking more of the install disks than the programs were? Then things fell back to serial #s, and now the complexity of protection is slowly growing again? I can understand in a world where everyone has net, but in reality it's still very possible to want to purchase a game like halo2 and to not have a net connection.
I'm confused, the race is really close (252/254) with at least one major swing state still not finished counting and with the race there still at 50%/49% or so. I thought that if it was a tight race you didn't give up.
*sigh*
I think "years" might be an exageration. About a year ago (or a bit more maybe) someone broke mod_perl and it took two or three days before and updated apache or mod_perl package was uploaded. Of course, since the mirrors update relatively quickly I couldn't just downgrade to version N-1. At this point I didn't know about the packages archives site, so my mod_perl sites were down for a few days while waiting for things to update. I used unstable for a server on the net (personal + hosting a few friends) and it was mostly ok, but every once and a while something like this would come out and kick me in the balls, which is the danger of running unstable.
I'm sure they'll find a way to get around that (ipod is re-recordable media, and therefor not fixed and therefor isn't pre-"recorded"). Or something like that.
Bummer, sorry to hear that. I have 2x19" CRTs and they work dandy, but that's something to think about as I've been considering going to LCD sometime. Anyway, good luck with the dual DVI.
If you look closely, you'll see right above the "nv" driver is the line for the "nvidia" driver and it's commented out. I just found it easier to comment and uncomment lines rather than re-write them. Since I was switching between "nv" and "nvidia" in an effort to figure out where the problem was.
I noticed this and assumed this, but thought that it was a bit odd that each connector had a different driver commented out.
Anyway, hope that it works out, feel free to throw me an email if it still doesn't work.
I have been using OpenBox almost exclusively for 3 months. It doesn't help. In fact, I just installed Gnome 2.8 a few days ago and unless I'm crazy (very possible), it's faster than OpenBox. And on a personal note, I don't think one should have to "cripple" their Desktop experience down to a minimal Window Manager in order to get equal performance with Windows. Just my opinion. Don't get wrong though - I like minimal WM's a LOT
Agreed, I was wondering if there was a significant difference between different apps running, or if it was the X setup.
Re: your x.org config
Is there any reason why you're not using the twinview setup? I've been using that with my ti4200 and it's worked flawlessly. Perhaps the nvidia driver doesn't work as well with two separate device entries than twinview. I'm sure you noticed this, but I see that one device entry has nv as the driver, and the other has nvidia.
Below is my setup:
Section "Device"
Identifier "TwinView"
VendorName "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "CursorShadow" "1"
Option "WindowFlip" "1"
#Option "NvAGP" "2"
#Option "DigitalVibrance" "2"
# sample twinview setup
Option "TwinView"
# be sure to replace the HorizSync and VertRefresh with correct values
# for your monitor!
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31-96"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "55-160"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x960,1280x960; 1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt,crt"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "TwinView"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "AGPTwinView"
Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Logitech MX 700"
EndSection
There is obviously some snipping, but you can check out the full thing at http://ufies.org/txt/XF86Config (it's XF86Config, but works with x.org... I'm just too lazy to change the name
Well, some of that has nothing to do with the video drivers or the second monitor so much as just the code underneath. A couple of things I noticed in the video.
- some of it does seem slower than it should be, especially the redraw for one window over another.
- the "trails" when minimizing is actually not a trail, but the "zoom" effect that nautilus/gnome uses.
I'm assuming that you've posted your XF86Config to these forums, and you (or others) have caught the obvious omissions of options. If not throw it to me and I'll see if I can see anything as I have a similar set up to you. However, some of it is "normal" as far as linux/X/gnome goes. I'd say give a different window manager like openbox or something like that a shot and see if it's the video or the software running (nautilus is getting better, but sadly still sucks compared to the windows explorer speed).
Most FPS I've played on windows on my ATI 9800 only go onto the primary display, the second one just basically is ignored (though it changes resolution and looks stupid, so at that point I generally turn off the second monitor).
:(
It's under linux that xinerama screws up FPS games and stretches them over both monitors
If you're referring to the flat and transparent/translucent ones, I have, and while they're nicer than the crappy default PC keyboard I'm using now, it's not nearly as nice as my ergo keyboard at home.
My $0.02 of course.
If you're referring to some of the 'check for backspace at end of url' code that's been thrown out there, there is more than three lines, as you also would have to check for various forms of URI encoding as well.
Of course, that's just a bandaid to the problem, the solution is to fix the underlying code, which should have been fixed years ago.
Apparently this is fixed in IIS6 and w2k3, and that's what various users I've seen are recommending, but 'upgrade your server' is simply not a good solution (though a standard MS one).
To get the equivelant of folder filtering you set up a filter to mark everything with say, 'gimp-user' with a 'GIMP User' label and select the option to archive right away. Then you can just click on the label for gimp user on the left hand side and see all your gimp-user mail.
re: folders
:)
I doubt that folders (in the current sense that you have pop or imap folders) will be implemented. Gmail seems to have adopted a system that is different and possibly better in their use of labels. I'm not convinced one way or the other, but labels allows you to have pretty much the same abilities as you do with folders, and it works into their paradigm (mail is never deleted) really well.
Imap and retrieval from other accounts would be a big plus though. Of course, being able to run RAID with gmailfs would be nice as well
Anyone read Dale Brown's "Deception Point"? A fun book by the same author of The Davinci Code. Anyway, in it it brought up the dangers (or supposed dangers) of commercializing space. Basically if you gave corporations like say, pepsi, free reign to go into space as they pleased, do you think they would be more concerned with:
a) putting a huge "Drink Pepsi" sign on the moon or
b) continuing the mostly and un-exciting scientific research that NASA currently does.
No offense to corporations, but they are there to make money, and investing a billion dollars to put an earth orbiting banner up is going to satisfy their shareholders more than searching for the origins of the universe. Taken to an extreme think about space and the skies above us being as littered with advertising and crap as the roads and buildings and entertainment that we are subjected to every day are. How long before every shuttle is as littered with badges as a Nascar is?
Maybe it's the 'slippery slope' argument, but the book did a good job of explaining why NASA is in "control" of space and not the corporations.
Friend of mine's parents own a couple of mcdonalds and he works there as a manager, has been there for at least 5 years, probably much longer. He's not hurting for money either, not like he's breaking 6 figures or anything, but I'm sure he's making at least 40-60k (CND).
I used to be a hardcore ICQ User (still have it installed with a few contacts now)... but the mass public moved to MSN all of a sudden -- is this in part to the fact that Microsoft shoved it down our throats?
Depending on how you look at it it can be either considered "shoved down our throats" or "made available on the desktop for the average user".
In a way it's good, it's made so that anyone and their dog can communicate via IM (your opinions of how good this part of it is are subjective of course).
On the other hand, you can scream anti-competative, and unfair advantage. Basically they are killing or trying to kill icq/aim the same way that they tried (and in some ways succeeded) to kill netscape.
Yea, I know about HALT, but I was thinking of actually clocking down the CPU from 2G to 1G or whatever when idle. Something that I know it has the ability to do in the 2.6 series, but only on certain CPUs if I read the config info right.
That actually sounds like a neat feature in a sick and twisted sort of way. I would love to have my linux file server automatcially throttle it's CPU to prevent overheating and cut power consumption while it's idle.
:) I could probably do it as well if I took the time and effort to do some research....
Of course it's a server used by only me, in a very hot office, so the circumstances are probably not that common
It also gives install options like LVM and raid (finally)!
However, it's still not all that impressive looking, still the same white text on blue that's been the same since I first used debian some 7 years ago. It's not bad, it's just not all that exciting.
Or you could do it easily and free with software raid....
Why is it that people who can't read are pitied, or made fun of, and people try to educate them, but it is perfectly acceptable to say (with pride) "I'm computer illieterate"?
No longer can ActiveX run in a pop-up or dialog window, and from what I can gather from the third item, when the dialog box comes up confirming the installation of an ActiveX control, the user will be able to see exactly what the program does.
;)
Well, most spyware tells you exactly what it does now, it just does it in such a way that it's obsfuscated or hidden in the EULA or something and the phrase "share with partners" or "use our servers" or "use your cpu" or whatever is done in such a way that the user just ignores it. No spyware company would put "reports your browsing habits" in a three line description of their software.
Easy solution, no activex at all, ever. But that's just me