Re:BeOS useless for serving - this is not a troll
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True, and unlike some people, I am hoping, but probably against fate that BeOS won't go multiuser. I was under the impression that they wanted a top-notch Desktop OS, good for things like graphics, but very specifically designed around that with minimal multiuser/internet server stuff.. I like BeOS as is, without the unneeded burden of multi-user for its purposes... It's a good OS, but if they stretch it too far, the would probably degrade it..
Re:Problems I've had with RH 6 (mostly gnome relat
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Probably too late but what I meant to say was that display managers immediately would run through my.xinitrc/.xsession, while startx takes longer, I already set it to 3... I've been around linux since kernel 1.2.3, so I am kinda aware of the text configs for the most part:)
I like FreeBSD, but I personally like linux better. FreeBSD and linux develop similarly, but FreeBSD simply more rarely slaps a version number on it.... It's more a matter of taste as to version number slap or not, in FreeBSD you can spend that much time rebooting, recompiling if you run a current cvs snap...
I've always wanted a Playstation 2, now knowing it is called a 'supercomputer' makes me want it more. I haven't read the article, and what I want to know is what exactly a system needs to be a supercomputer..
What do you expect when you put people with what they do at home? I've known people who learned the way unix first and they had problems with windows... Mainly problems with not being able to do more sophisticated things... It is mainly a game of which you learn first, especially with things like KDE... But if you judged based on user-friendliness alone, macOS should have won hands down, why didn't it? Bad business decision of keeping the price too high when windows came out... Glad to see a bit of a comeback..
Re:Phone line. Is it really required?
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Digital VCRs
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It says it is only optional, basically making it possible to have a service like prevue guide or something more interactive.... at least that's what I thought
My personal experience is that it is a lot more difficult to get NT stable than linux, but that is just my experience. I like linux because my desktop looks cooler and things can get done more flexibly, especially with the command prompt, and I found NT's command prompt a bit too clunky...
However, I commend you on the maturity of your post in discussing NT, most posts with your point are very childish....
Re:Why not code this for a PC?
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Well, better add a MPEG2 board, no way a system would be able to do simultaneous real-time MPEG2 compression and decrompression simultaneously:) I think the community would be hard pressed to produce something this elegant and cheap, it's a cool idea, can't wait until there is a greater supply and competition drives prices down more.. I think they could do better than linux, general purpose OS shouldn't be used where not-needed, imho.
Re:Video Editing is easy.
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It's not the simple fact of the video editing being possible, it is that this company has taken video editing and all this stuff and put it in a tv-sized box with a interface as simple as a VCR's.... I don't think you would want to use a windows operating system for that, you need something more reliable.. Of course, in this case I don't think linux is appropriate either, FreeBSD might be closer, but in truth, this application shouldn't use a general purpose operating system but a specialized one that would be most efficient, it's not as cost-effective for producers, but would result in a better product. I have the same complaint about new gaming systems using operating systems like Windows CE..
I agree witht he folks blaming the problem on poorly engineered backend on the part of eBay with no failover. Also, I'm no big fan of Solaris, nor of Microsoft systems. My personal favorite is linux, but if I needed to set up something that would be the best performance and most reliable, I would go with FreeBSD... I think ftp.cdrom.com alone should be enough to convince people of FreeBSD's perfomance/reliability. I nearly worked with a company who did all compiles on clusters of FreeBSD machines, uptime was over a year when I got there... I think more people should be singing FreeBSD's praise, but I'll still be running linux on my personal system for a while to come, maybe one day I'll install FreeBSD again..
Xanim has quite a view good, current codecs, needs better audio support, and soon Systems streams (mpeg w/ audio) will be supported. You should visit www.mpegtv.com and try that on for size...
Could the percentage still be a lie if you sum up the usage of all the threads and it still is under a percent? I saw one player like this, mp3blaster, but as of late it has a few bugs on my system
I've been reading the thread, and while I am not a fan of 3dfx, and think the proprietary glide API is evil to have around, I think 3dfx is justified this time around... If Creative violated an NDA in the creation of its wrappers, then it is just plain wrong... I do not agree with 3dfx chasing after people who make glide wrappers without any NDA materials, and I think glide should be abolished and prefer nVidia now, but this time around Creative may have done something wrong, and people should not let the fact that glide is bad get in the way of the judgement of whether this is justified.
Umm.. no, Xfree86 simply implemented a more efficient 24 bpp mode remaining compatible in all other ways and provided hooks so that if a program was properly coded for older versions, it would have worked fine for 24bpp.. They behave exactly the same as older clients except less buggy in standard color depths (8,16,32,etc..)
Re:Problems I've had with RH 6 (mostly gnome relat
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I had the same sort of troubles with slow login and dsp.. When I used gdm it was fine, but I prefer startx.. I tried editing out all kinds of stuff in the startup, but nothing... I don't use gnome-session or anything... The dsp really annoys me I could not find any sensible thing doing it.. Reminds me of how windows does stuff for no reason, it scares me.. and the install of unneeded stuff as part of a 'minimal' install also seems too windowish and bad...
I'm running it now, haven't had a problem with it. Of course, I opted not to install any gnome stuff as I have no need of it, I like plain ol' windowmaker fine... I downloaded it for free, I did buy the 5.1 version to support them, but that was the the only one I bought because of my budget, and I certainly am glad that if I was to buy a redhat, it was before the prices raised. I don't think it's worth that much... Probably I'll switch when some other distribution releases something up to date and stable, like Debian or Stampede. I think RedHAt is better for new users and windows-users, but not the choice for a server distro...
On the issue of tech support, if the story is true, there is/are some person/people to fire, a tech support person with that attitude should not be allowed to wrok like that. My only experience with their tech support was them telling me they didn't support a problem with their broken printer setup for certain Canon printers... I had to research and fix it myself (stupid redhat setup didn't realize that the printer was not designed for the bpp)
Well, I'll be fine about Redhat's existance as long as they don't go off writing proprietary libraries and breaking compatibility... But I probably won't use them for too much longer if the distribution gets any more bloated than it already is (a 120 meg minimum install seems insane)
I looked at the article and, as much as I love linux, I thought the article over-hyped linux and mostly compared NT and linux on points those of us in the linux community like to brag about. There was some negatives said about linux, but if doing a fully comprehensive review, it would need to address more issues that would concern average windows users. Maybe I missed something in the article, but I did not see much of a discussion of user-interface friendliness. NT is a bit more user-friendly and has more unified appearance. X offers moore flexibility with less user-friendliness (though even brain dead people should be able to figure out how to work a window manager, even if they don't look EXACTLY the same. Just my two cents..
Actually, not necessarily... In my case, the regional coding is done in player, that is why I can disable region coding, or change my region coding at will if I so desired, same with the Macrovision copy protection, in the newer drives the drives do it, but at first, about when 2x drives were dominating, the dvd 'enhancements' were left in the software, insecure.
A little off-topic,but I heard about another driver for linux that had been developed using some dos drivers under dosemu being monitored. How legal is this kind of reverse engineering? If someone managed to wrestle wine with a few modifications to the source to load and run a dvdplayer program (like creative encore player) would a driver for the hardware based on that be illegal?
But software is just plain ol slower.. You could say the same thing about graphics cards, everything should be software, 3d graphics, even 2d drawing... And by that reasoning, winModems that rely on the cpu for performance is a step in the right direction. I personally Love getting hardware specialized for given tasks, video, 3d, and 3d-accelration each have seperate boards in my computer... As long as the hardware is produced so it works as advertised, any OS problems are resolved in drivers...
I personally don't see how 3com would lose this lawsuit. They, just like every company made it clear in the fine print what was going on. It was a bit deceptive to say all this stuff about x2, but EVERY business says the deceptive stufff as loudly as possible and makes you read the fine print for the real deal. If 3com should lose this, pretty much any company that has done any advertising owes their consumers.
When I got back from my fast ethernet conenction and had to use my home computer again, I got tired of the 28.8k, and was prejudiced against ISDN as it is WAY too expesnive for a still puny connection. DSL not available here, but what is available is cable modems. Internet access at VERY high and reliable connection for 40 dollars a month.. I ended getting a 56k modem though and am fine with it. The cable mdoem cost too much for me (i.e. 500 dollars) and I don't have the extra money for the service either. I still can't understand why anyone would be on ISDN in this day an age when cheaper, faster alternatives are available..
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True, and unlike some people, I am hoping, but probably against fate that BeOS won't go multiuser. I was under the impression that they wanted a top-notch Desktop OS, good for things like graphics, but very specifically designed around that with minimal multiuser/internet server stuff.. I like BeOS as is, without the unneeded burden of multi-user for its purposes... It's a good OS, but if they stretch it too far, the would probably degrade it..
Probably too late but what I meant to say was that display managers immediately would run through my .xinitrc/.xsession, while startx takes longer, I already set it to 3... I've been around linux since kernel 1.2.3, so I am kinda aware of the text configs for the most part :)
I like FreeBSD, but I personally like linux better. FreeBSD and linux develop similarly, but FreeBSD simply more rarely slaps a version number on it.... It's more a matter of taste as to version number slap or not, in FreeBSD you can spend that much time rebooting, recompiling if you run a current cvs snap...
I've always wanted a Playstation 2, now knowing it is called a 'supercomputer' makes me want it more. I haven't read the article, and what I want to know is what exactly a system needs to be a supercomputer..
What do you expect when you put people with what they do at home? I've known people who learned the way unix first and they had problems with windows... Mainly problems with not being able to do more sophisticated things... It is mainly a game of which you learn first, especially with things like KDE... But if you judged based on user-friendliness alone, macOS should have won hands down, why didn't it? Bad business decision of keeping the price too high when windows came out... Glad to see a bit of a comeback..
It says it is only optional, basically making it possible to have a service like prevue guide or something more interactive.... at least that's what I thought
My personal experience is that it is a lot more difficult to get NT stable than linux, but that is just my experience. I like linux because my desktop looks cooler and things can get done more flexibly, especially with the command prompt, and I found NT's command prompt a bit too clunky...
However, I commend you on the maturity of your post in discussing NT, most posts with your point are very childish....
Well, better add a MPEG2 board, no way a system would be able to do simultaneous real-time MPEG2 compression and decrompression simultaneously :) I think the community would be hard pressed to produce something this elegant and cheap, it's a cool idea, can't wait until there is a greater supply and competition drives prices down more.. I think they could do better than linux, general purpose OS shouldn't be used where not-needed, imho.
It's not the simple fact of the video editing being possible, it is that this company has taken video editing and all this stuff and put it in a tv-sized box with a interface as simple as a VCR's.... I don't think you would want to use a windows operating system for that, you need something more reliable.. Of course, in this case I don't think linux is appropriate either, FreeBSD might be closer, but in truth, this application shouldn't use a general purpose operating system but a specialized one that would be most efficient, it's not as cost-effective for producers, but would result in a better product. I have the same complaint about new gaming systems using operating systems like Windows CE..
I agree witht he folks blaming the problem on poorly engineered backend on the part of eBay with no failover. Also, I'm no big fan of Solaris, nor of Microsoft systems. My personal favorite is linux, but if I needed to set up something that would be the best performance and most reliable, I would go with FreeBSD... I think ftp.cdrom.com alone should be enough to convince people of FreeBSD's perfomance/reliability. I nearly worked with a company who did all compiles on clusters of FreeBSD machines, uptime was over a year when I got there... I think more people should be singing FreeBSD's praise, but I'll still be running linux on my personal system for a while to come, maybe one day I'll install FreeBSD again..
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com is more up to date.
Xanim has quite a view good, current codecs, needs better audio support, and soon Systems streams (mpeg w/ audio) will be supported. You should visit www.mpegtv.com and try that on for size...
Could the percentage still be a lie if you sum up the usage of all the threads and it still is under a percent? I saw one player like this, mp3blaster, but as of late it has a few bugs on my system
I've been reading the thread, and while I am not a fan of 3dfx, and think the proprietary glide API is evil to have around, I think 3dfx is justified this time around... If Creative violated an NDA in the creation of its wrappers, then it is just plain wrong... I do not agree with 3dfx chasing after people who make glide wrappers without any NDA materials, and I think glide should be abolished and prefer nVidia now, but this time around Creative may have done something wrong, and people should not let the fact that glide is bad get in the way of the judgement of whether this is justified.
Umm.. no, Xfree86 simply implemented a more efficient 24 bpp mode remaining compatible in all other ways and provided hooks so that if a program was properly coded for older versions, it would have worked fine for 24bpp.. They behave exactly the same as older clients except less buggy in standard color depths (8,16,32,etc..)
I had the same sort of troubles with slow login and dsp.. When I used gdm it was fine, but I prefer startx.. I tried editing out all kinds of stuff in the startup, but nothing... I don't use gnome-session or anything... The dsp really annoys me I could not find any sensible thing doing it.. Reminds me of how windows does stuff for no reason, it scares me.. and the install of unneeded stuff as part of a 'minimal' install also seems too windowish and bad...
I'm running it now, haven't had a problem with it. Of course, I opted not to install any gnome stuff as I have no need of it, I like plain ol' windowmaker fine... I downloaded it for free, I did buy the 5.1 version to support them, but that was the the only one I bought because of my budget, and I certainly am glad that if I was to buy a redhat, it was before the prices raised. I don't think it's worth that much... Probably I'll switch when some other distribution releases something up to date and stable, like Debian or Stampede. I think RedHAt is better for new users and windows-users, but not the choice for a server distro...
On the issue of tech support, if the story is true, there is/are some person/people to fire, a tech support person with that attitude should not be allowed to wrok like that. My only experience with their tech support was them telling me they didn't support a problem with their broken printer setup for certain Canon printers... I had to research and fix it myself (stupid redhat setup didn't realize that the printer was not designed for the bpp)
Well, I'll be fine about Redhat's existance as long as they don't go off writing proprietary libraries and breaking compatibility... But I probably won't use them for too much longer if the distribution gets any more bloated than it already is (a 120 meg minimum install seems insane)
Sorry, read the article and saw 16MHz, that is one heck of a proportional increase..
Sorry for being ingnorant, but what is the normal clock for one of em?
I looked at the article and, as much as I love linux, I thought the article over-hyped linux and mostly compared NT and linux on points those of us in the linux community like to brag about. There was some negatives said about linux, but if doing a fully comprehensive review, it would need to address more issues that would concern average windows users. Maybe I missed something in the article, but I did not see much of a discussion of user-interface friendliness. NT is a bit more user-friendly and has more unified appearance. X offers moore flexibility with less user-friendliness (though even brain dead people should be able to figure out how to work a window manager, even if they don't look EXACTLY the same.
Just my two cents..
Actually, not necessarily... In my case, the regional coding is done in player, that is why I can disable region coding, or change my region coding at will if I so desired, same with the Macrovision copy protection, in the newer drives the drives do it, but at first, about when 2x drives were dominating, the dvd 'enhancements' were left in the software, insecure.
A little off-topic,but I heard about another driver for linux that had been developed using some dos drivers under dosemu being monitored. How legal is this kind of reverse engineering? If someone managed to wrestle wine with a few modifications to the source to load and run a dvdplayer program (like creative encore player) would a driver for the hardware based on that be illegal?
But software is just plain ol slower.. You could say the same thing about graphics cards, everything should be software, 3d graphics, even 2d drawing... And by that reasoning, winModems that rely on the cpu for performance is a step in the right direction. I personally Love getting hardware specialized for given tasks, video, 3d, and 3d-accelration each have seperate boards in my computer... As long as the hardware is produced so it works as advertised, any OS problems are resolved in drivers...
I personally don't see how 3com would lose this lawsuit. They, just like every company made it clear in the fine print what was going on. It was a bit deceptive to say all this stuff about x2, but EVERY business says the deceptive stufff as loudly as possible and makes you read the fine print for the real deal. If 3com should lose this, pretty much any company that has done any advertising owes their consumers.
When I got back from my fast ethernet conenction and had to use my home computer again, I got tired of the 28.8k, and was prejudiced against ISDN as it is WAY too expesnive for a still puny connection. DSL not available here, but what is available is cable modems. Internet access at VERY high and reliable connection for 40 dollars a month.. I ended getting a 56k modem though and am fine with it. The cable mdoem cost too much for me (i.e. 500 dollars) and I don't have the extra money for the service either. I still can't understand why anyone would be on ISDN in this day an age when cheaper, faster alternatives are available..