On another note - anyone ever own one of these? I'm talking about the Intergraph Voodoo Rush Extreme. You know I don't give a crap about what kind of performance it gave, the thing was HUGE. I remember opening up the box and thinking damn this thing is gonna rock. And of course it did for the time:-)
I agree with you entirely. I too have a Voodoo3 (2000 PCI) and well, it hasn't had a game thrown at it yet that it hasn't been able to handle. Quake3? Smooth enough for me. Unreal Tournament? Again, runs fine. Hell, my room mate has a Voodoo Banshee and he enjoys Unreal Tournament just fine. But then he doesn't care about how many FPS he's getting. And neither do I. I'll upgrade when everything starts to come to a screeching halt.
On an entirely different note I'm trying to get my old Voodoo Rush Card to work with linux but am not finding to much info on it. Anyone got any points? It would be *much* appreciated, even if the answer is "no".
Publicize and thus legitimize? Come on now. They are informing us, people in search for "News for nerds, stuff that matters" about a programmer appearing on a chat channel. Nothing more nothing less.
Let's open up any magazine. I will almost guarentee they start with maybe a a few pages of advertisements. Then probably an into letter by the editor, or not, depending on the type of magazine. Closely followed by that is the index of the magazine. Then usuually a letters section, the articles (which is, of course, the sole reason one gets that magazine with the bunny on the front;-) ), and then maybe some sort of magazine specific content. Then at the end one might find some more ads and usually some form of ending letter or feature.
Websites are today's magazines in a way. And thus I don't think it is really possible to say that a layout is yours and yours only. That is, after all, all it is. A layout.
Stealing graphics, cgi or java programs et al would be a different issue.
Ok, ok, if that is indeed the situation then this case is exempt. However it still stands that the lady is, in the infamour words of Beavis and Butthead, a dumbass. I'm sorry, but putting hot coffee in between your legs is just stupid stupid stupid. No matter how hot the coffee is. Granted McDonald's shouldn't be selling scorching hot coffee... but still. Sorry for the above outburst, these sueing cases just really really irk me.
I never claimed to have done an intensive study of any of them. I never claimed to be a researcher in this area. For a project I was assigned I decided to see which OS really was easier to use / look at etc. Was it an intense study? No. Was it all inclusive? No. Is it informative? Yes. As the saying goes, first impressions count, and all I wanted to see is what people thought *initially* when exposed to these four OS/Window Managers. Go away anonymous coward.
I'm sure most people will agree with me, when I say that Helix-gnome has taken Gnome from being a collection of highly usable but unorganized applications, and shrink wrapped them together.
From the installer to the login screen, everything is well designed, looks very pretty, is well organized and just makes sense.
It it weren't for Helix-Gnome I would stick with KDE.
It seems to me that Helix-Gnome should perhaps become the default install of Gnome. I feel that Gnome is very much misconceived when compared to the likes of KDE et al. Helix-Gnome would help bring together all the applications. And let's be honest, first impressions are the most valuable. Your average linux newbie loads up gnome and thinks, well this is pretty neat. Then when he/she noticis all the inconsistencies and lack of organization they run screaming to KDE. Not so with Helix.
In fact I did a recent comparison in a group of 15 people, asking them to give their initial impressions on 1) kde (2.0 beta) 2) Gnome, 3) Helix-Gnome and 4)Windows 2000.
The questions revolved around usability, eye candy and easy of use. The results put KDE on top, Helix-gnome next, Window2000 and then Gnome. However the Windows2000 is somewhat misleading for most users had experience in windows. But the default install of Windows2000 lost major points on the eye candy factor, it really isn't very pretty by default.
The main comments were that people liked KDE's single click to open up icons. These were mostly adults who had used, but were not proficient with computers. I think especially for people who have not grown up using computers, the distinction between when to double click and when to single-click, or right-click, is very unclear. KDE did well in this area.
Helix-gnome received lots of compliments on organization and overall look and feel.
For anyone who is interested in a most excellent mediaval / technology book, you really should check out Timeline by Michael Crichton. It has some very VERY cool concepts in it. It revolves around the idea that the universe is not really a universe but rather a multiverse. That is, each potential path that could be taken, is taken, thus creating infinte amounts of universes. A company has developed away of "jumping" these universes thus sort of in a way allowing for time travel. Within the first 60 or so pages of the book the characters end up in medieval france, where one immediately gets his head chopped off by a knight riding by. A truly excellent read and as usualy with his books, full of scientific references and novel ideas.
Having lived on three continents; America, Africa and Europe (Holland) I must say that never in my life have I lived in a country this chock full of morons. The lady bought coffe and PUT IT IN HER LAP IN BETWEEN HER LEGS. What in god's name did she expect to happen? And then sued. And got money for it? What is wrong with people in this country. Seriously, I know many intelligent individuals here but I find the overall populous to be incredibly simple minded. I hurt myself - who can I get money from? Stop looking to blame others when the blame is on yourself.
I have been watching this trend that companies seem to be following; Having the user sign up for , and promising that the data you submit to them will not be used for anything other that their own records. Now it seems companies are changing policies left and right. So where does that leave us? Personally I get enough unwanted e-mail from . This is absolutely ridiculous. For a while it seemed we were heading in the right direction, people almost regarding internet forms where one agrees to a policy as a sort of signature. What is the legality of this? As far as I know when I signed up with Amazon.com they agreed not to sell or give out my user info to anyone. Now because they feel they may need to they change their policy.
It must be incredibly frustrating for those individuals who founded or co-founded amazon to see it heading this way.
Maybe the marketing / legal department at amazon has already figured out how to splice crack into their genes. Sure seems like it.
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Everyone seems to assume that indeed everything will indeed have an IP address. The issue at hand is that it really isn't all the easy nor necesary to get everything online... Why? Just think about it, for something to be online (and thus possibly exploitable by script kiddies) the device, be it a toaster, pilot light, etc. etc. wil have to be connected somehow or other. Wireless, ethernet, modem, but somehow connected. Somehow I don't see it likely that toaster ovens nor heaters will ever ship w/ modem or whatnot allowing the to "come online".
Sure cellular phones might have access to the internet, but the non-permanent state of them being online and the limited damage that one could do to a cell phone represent an almost built in security for those (disregarding the saftey and privacy issues).
It seems to me that perhaps the biggest problem in internet and LAN security will be the emergence of Cable and DSL as ways to connect to the internet. Now we have many people permanently connected to the internet. Script kiddies or any malicous hacker could probably find a way to monitor ones traffic especially w/ static ip's becoming more and more common, especially after the introduction of the new IP address scheme. So now you have the average user, mom, dad or sister or whatever connected permanently to a network with not always friendly people on it. And if Liunx is to become mainstream, it will present an ever greater problem. While windows may not be the ideal operating system, just because of it's lack of remote administration tools makes it a hell of a lot safer than an average redhat install. And let's face it, if Linux becomes the OS of choice, you will have many people installing Red Hat or whatnot without knowing what half of the daemons are that will be running. So Joe Blow will be permanently connected to the net, perhaps running telnetd ftpd sendmail and god knows what else. And the idea of keeping those services and packages up to date is probably beyond most average people's comprehension. So this seems to be a much larger problem than worrying about weather or not some damn 14 year old is gonna burn my toast. Cheers, Steve
This (to me) is somewhat saddening in a twisted way, for my first 'puter was a Packard Bell Legened 20 CD. 486. DX2. Play Doom? Boot w/ the left shift key held (or was it the right, since 4 megs of ram wasn't enough). One thing I must congratulate Packard Bell in is there design. Or rather lack of, I mean come on, I bought a new Hard Drive for this sucker, only to find out that while it had an open ide channel as well as an extra power cable, nowhere was there a place to mount another Hard Drive. And when the CD-Rom broke it took the tech guys 3 weeks to fix it. Although this lil puter does serve a nice job as router / masquerading in the closet. And I made a neato case for it too, fiber glass neon lights etc. etc. Just to make it look purty. Ah well. For what it's worth, they made me realize that home built is the way to go. You get the parts you want and can rely on, no exactly what brand everything is and where it is, and you can pick and choose. Cheers.
I think the main issue is taste in music. While I think the different is negligable when listen to rock music w/ loud drums / guitars, the sound quality becomes evident when one listens to say, classical or opera. MP3 encoders aren't too kind w/ that kinda thing, they tend to tear off a lot of important bytes. Which would not be noticed in rock but would in anything less.
Somehow I think some people wouldn't mind the loss of quality in their cars. Cars w/ tainted windows, hydrolics and subwoofers come to mind. When was the last time you heard Pavarotti coming from the windows?
I think MP3's are usefull. Obviously, sinc eI can sit ay my computer and listen to any of my cd's. And they sound good. But not perfect. That brings me to the issue of minidiscs (I know I know, offtopic) Does anyone here know if the quality is the same as to CD's? It sounds like it..... Does it depend on thje encoder version?
You know what, I think, nah, I definately remember seeing something like this on the web. I forget a link for it, but it was like a DiscMan, but one could load in Burned MP3 CD's and then the player wopuld player them as if the CD was just a regular Audio CD.... Sorry for the lack of info but I do know I saw it *somewhere*.
If someone posts somethnig anonymously on a web site message bord or whatnot, how can they be tracked? I mean, thouasands of people may be using the message board, or does it track IP's. And if so, doesn't AOL have a completely random IP address which they couldn't trace back to you? Whenever I see my syslogs involving AOL'ers it usually has blabla@Ne34455.something.else.aol.com.
Makes you kinda wonder what kinda web sites will arise, using these new "allowable" website names. Probably not anything to benefit linux methinks. While I think that free speach and all should be upheld, I'm not sure that it is appropriate and necesary to have the seven dirty words (which, btw, George Carlin does a very amusing skit to, gonig to see him Fri:) ) used for web site addresses. Nothing good will come out of it, just more pr0n sites trying to lure people into their grips. Which may be good for some people I 'spose, but most won't appreciate. -Foxman
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On another note - anyone ever own one of these? I'm talking about the Intergraph Voodoo Rush Extreme. You know I don't give a crap about what kind of performance it gave, the thing was HUGE. I remember opening up the box and thinking damn this thing is gonna rock. And of course it did for the time :-)
I agree with you entirely. I too have a Voodoo3 (2000 PCI) and well, it hasn't had a game thrown at it yet that it hasn't been able to handle. Quake3? Smooth enough for me. Unreal Tournament? Again, runs fine. Hell, my room mate has a Voodoo Banshee and he enjoys Unreal Tournament just fine. But then he doesn't care about how many FPS he's getting. And neither do I. I'll upgrade when everything starts to come to a screeching halt.
On an entirely different note I'm trying to get my old Voodoo Rush Card to work with linux but am not finding to much info on it. Anyone got any points? It would be *much* appreciated, even if the answer is "no".
Quick translation for those who don't speak the language and are interested:
YESS! Tweakers.net is broken!
We kneel before admin Rick hoping that this will speed up his fixing Tweakers.net.
In the meantime, here are a few pictures so we don't have to be bored.
I'm betting on two weeks after the next time it's featuredon the vaporware list.... ;-)
Windows 2000 Data Center comes above Windows 2000 Adnvaced server. I think it's called Data center.
Publicize and thus legitimize? Come on now. They are informing us, people in search for "News for nerds, stuff that matters" about a programmer appearing on a chat channel. Nothing more nothing less.
it's called Ebay.com. :-)
Ok,
;-) ), and then maybe some sort of magazine specific content. Then at the end one might find some more ads and usually some form of ending letter or feature.
Let's compare this to magazines for a second.
Let's open up any magazine. I will almost guarentee they start with maybe a a few pages of advertisements. Then probably an into letter by the editor, or not, depending on the type of magazine. Closely followed by that is the index of the magazine. Then usuually a letters section, the articles (which is, of course, the sole reason one gets that magazine with the bunny on the front
Websites are today's magazines in a way. And thus I don't think it is really possible to say that a layout is yours and yours only. That is, after all, all it is. A layout.
Stealing graphics, cgi or java programs et al would be a different issue.
Ok, ok, if that is indeed the situation then this case is exempt. However it still stands that the lady is, in the infamour words of Beavis and Butthead, a dumbass. I'm sorry, but putting hot coffee in between your legs is just stupid stupid stupid. No matter how hot the coffee is. Granted McDonald's shouldn't be selling scorching hot coffee... but still. Sorry for the above outburst, these sueing cases just really really irk me.
*Sigh*
I never claimed to have done an intensive study of any of them. I never claimed to be a researcher in this area. For a project I was assigned I decided to see which OS really was easier to use / look at etc. Was it an intense study? No. Was it all inclusive? No. Is it informative? Yes. As the saying goes, first impressions count, and all I wanted to see is what people thought *initially* when exposed to these four OS/Window Managers. Go away anonymous coward.
I'm sure most people will agree with me, when I say that Helix-gnome has taken Gnome from being a collection of highly usable but unorganized applications, and shrink wrapped them together.
From the installer to the login screen, everything is well designed, looks very pretty, is well organized and just makes sense.
It it weren't for Helix-Gnome I would stick with KDE.
It seems to me that Helix-Gnome should perhaps become the default install of Gnome. I feel that Gnome is very much misconceived when compared to the likes of KDE et al. Helix-Gnome would help bring together all the applications. And let's be honest, first impressions are the most valuable. Your average linux newbie loads up gnome and thinks, well this is pretty neat. Then when he/she noticis all the inconsistencies and lack of organization they run screaming to KDE. Not so with Helix.
In fact I did a recent comparison in a group of 15 people, asking them to give their initial impressions on 1) kde (2.0 beta) 2) Gnome, 3) Helix-Gnome and 4)Windows 2000.
The questions revolved around usability, eye candy and easy of use. The results put KDE on top, Helix-gnome next, Window2000 and then Gnome. However the Windows2000 is somewhat misleading for most users had experience in windows. But the default install of Windows2000 lost major points on the eye candy factor, it really isn't very pretty by default.
The main comments were that people liked KDE's single click to open up icons. These were mostly adults who had used, but were not proficient with computers. I think especially for people who have not grown up using computers, the distinction between when to double click and when to single-click, or right-click, is very unclear. KDE did well in this area.
Helix-gnome received lots of compliments on organization and overall look and feel.
For anyone who is interested in a most excellent mediaval / technology book, you really should check out Timeline by Michael Crichton. It has some very VERY cool concepts in it. It revolves around the idea that the universe is not really a universe but rather a multiverse. That is, each potential path that could be taken, is taken, thus creating infinte amounts of universes. A company has developed away of "jumping" these universes thus sort of in a way allowing for time travel. Within the first 60 or so pages of the book the characters end up in medieval france, where one immediately gets his head chopped off by a knight riding by. A truly excellent read and as usualy with his books, full of scientific references and novel ideas.
Having lived on three continents; America, Africa and Europe (Holland) I must say that never in my life have I lived in a country this chock full of morons. The lady bought coffe and PUT IT IN HER LAP IN BETWEEN HER LEGS. What in god's name did she expect to happen? And then sued. And got money for it? What is wrong with people in this country. Seriously, I know many intelligent individuals here but I find the overall populous to be incredibly simple minded. I hurt myself - who can I get money from? Stop looking to blame others when the blame is on yourself.
I have been watching this trend that companies seem to be following; Having the user sign up for , and promising that the data you submit to them will not be used for anything other that their own records. Now it seems companies are changing policies left and right. So where does that leave us? Personally I get enough unwanted e-mail from . This is absolutely ridiculous. For a while it seemed we were heading in the right direction, people almost regarding internet forms where one agrees to a policy as a sort of signature. What is the legality of this? As far as I know when I signed up with Amazon.com they agreed not to sell or give out my user info to anyone. Now because they feel they may need to they change their policy.
It must be incredibly frustrating for those individuals who founded or co-founded amazon to see it heading this way.
Maybe the marketing / legal department at amazon has already figured out how to splice crack into their genes. Sure seems like it.
Any pictures available?
Everyone seems to assume that indeed everything will indeed have an IP address. The issue at hand is that it really isn't all the easy nor necesary to get everything online... Why? Just think about it, for something to be online (and thus possibly exploitable by script kiddies) the device, be it a toaster, pilot light, etc. etc. wil have to be connected somehow or other. Wireless, ethernet, modem, but somehow connected. Somehow I don't see it likely that toaster ovens nor heaters will ever ship w/ modem or whatnot allowing the to "come online".
Sure cellular phones might have access to the internet, but the non-permanent state of them being online and the limited damage that one could do to a cell phone represent an almost built in security for those (disregarding the saftey and privacy issues).
It seems to me that perhaps the biggest problem in internet and LAN security will be the emergence of Cable and DSL as ways to connect to the internet. Now we have many people permanently connected to the internet. Script kiddies or any malicous hacker could probably find a way to monitor ones traffic especially w/ static ip's becoming more and more common, especially after the introduction of the new IP address scheme. So now you have the average user, mom, dad or sister or whatever connected permanently to a network with not always friendly people on it. And if Liunx is to become mainstream, it will present an ever greater problem. While windows may not be the ideal operating system, just because of it's lack of remote administration tools makes it a hell of a lot safer than an average redhat install. And let's face it, if Linux becomes the OS of choice, you will have many people installing Red Hat or whatnot without knowing what half of the daemons are that will be running. So Joe Blow will be permanently connected to the net, perhaps running telnetd ftpd sendmail and god knows what else. And the idea of keeping those services and packages up to date is probably beyond most average people's comprehension. So this seems to be a much larger problem than worrying about weather or not some damn 14 year old is gonna burn my toast.
Cheers,
Steve
Uninformative? Sure. Uninventitive. Ok.... Off-Topic. Even Possible... But Troll???
This (to me) is somewhat saddening in a twisted way, for my first 'puter was a Packard Bell Legened 20 CD. 486. DX2. Play Doom? Boot w/ the left shift key held (or was it the right, since 4 megs of ram wasn't enough). One thing I must congratulate Packard Bell in is there design. Or rather lack of, I mean come on, I bought a new Hard Drive for this sucker, only to find out that while it had an open ide channel as well as an extra power cable, nowhere was there a place to mount another Hard Drive. And when the CD-Rom broke it took the tech guys 3 weeks to fix it. Although this lil puter does serve a nice job as router / masquerading in the closet. And I made a neato case for it too, fiber glass neon lights etc. etc. Just to make it look purty. Ah well. For what it's worth, they made me realize that home built is the way to go. You get the parts you want and can rely on, no exactly what brand everything is and where it is, and you can pick and choose. Cheers.
Me: Computer, time for yer shots!
Computer: Nooooooo I don't wanna get my shots
I think the main issue is taste in music. While I think the different is negligable when listen to rock music w/ loud drums / guitars, the sound quality becomes evident when one listens to say, classical or opera. MP3 encoders aren't too kind w/ that kinda thing, they tend to tear off a lot of important bytes. Which would not be noticed in rock but would in anything less.
Somehow I think some people wouldn't mind the loss of quality in their cars. Cars w/ tainted windows, hydrolics and subwoofers come to mind. When was the last time you heard Pavarotti coming from the windows?
I think MP3's are usefull. Obviously, sinc eI can sit ay my computer and listen to any of my cd's. And they sound good. But not perfect. That brings me to the issue of minidiscs (I know I know, offtopic) Does anyone here know if the quality is the same as to CD's? It sounds like it..... Does it depend on thje encoder version?
Egads, you must be able to hear the dust mights crawl around the floor right now w/ that kinda hearing!
You know what, I think, nah, I definately remember seeing something like this on the web. I forget a link for it, but it was like a DiscMan, but one could load in Burned MP3 CD's and then the player wopuld player them as if the CD was just a regular Audio CD.... Sorry for the lack of info but I do know I saw it *somewhere*.
If someone posts somethnig anonymously on a web site message bord or whatnot, how can they be tracked? I mean, thouasands of people may be using the message board, or does it track IP's. And if so, doesn't AOL have a completely random IP address which they couldn't trace back to you? Whenever I see my syslogs involving AOL'ers it usually has blabla@Ne34455.something.else.aol.com.
Hmmmmmm,
:) ) used for web site addresses. Nothing good will come out of it, just more pr0n sites trying to lure people into their grips. Which may be good for some people I 'spose, but most won't appreciate.
Makes you kinda wonder what kinda web sites will arise, using these new "allowable" website names. Probably not anything to benefit linux methinks. While I think that free speach and all should be upheld, I'm not sure that it is appropriate and necesary to have the seven dirty words (which, btw, George Carlin does a very amusing skit to, gonig to see him Fri
-Foxman
-"We have to get ready for tomorrow! Why what are we going tomorrow Bill? The same thing we do everyday, try to take over the WORLD!"