I don't know how you managed that, but I have never had Be freeze up on me...granted every part of my machine is supported by Be, since I've been running it since R3
Ok, I'll admit, I just like the fact that the codec's real name is "DivX;-)" smiley face included. That being said, I got it working easily (though you MUST MUST MUST be in 16bpp).
For testing DivX's I just went to http://divx.ctw.cc/ and checked out their Trailers section. All the trailers I tried worked great.
Only problems I noticed where that sometimes after playing one DivX, if you try to play another it would sometimes be messed up...quitting and restarting xmps worked though.
Well, I haven't read all of the comments...but after reading the article I'm left with one question. Who codes to the metal these days? I mean I'm going to go on a limb and guess that 95% of programs out there are written in something like C/C++ or Perl, where the metal is a non-issue. The cpu's aren't written to directly except by a compiler, and guess what - most code is somewhat portable between CPU's in a language (though maybe not between OS's). That being said, if I buy a new cpu who cares if it's x86 or not, since I can take a program, recompile, and there I am.
This is one feature I see as a benefit for open source and the rest. It makes the instruction set a non-issue. That's also one of the reasons I run linux/freebsd/openbsd (depending on which of my machines). Back when I was strictly a windows guy when I looked at computers to buy, it was x86 only. Now I have a choice between Sun, x86, hell even a (gasp) mac if I want. Why? Because I have that same code that I can recompile to run on the right OS on whatever hardware. Sure C code or whatever isn't going to pull as good speed as raw assembly in all cases, but if it means a CPU manufacturer can whip together a better cpu with a nice compiler, then who cares?
Maybe chip manufacturers should forget staying compliant to a single ISA and just give us better performance. It sucks for MS users, but for the rest of us I promise you an OS will soon follow, and with a recompile you're ready to go with all the apps you're used to.
Nice to see I'm not the only one here that thinks this is complete bullshit. He basically said "I'm smart so I was able to hack them and here is a picture of their monitor". As for the stock stuff I saw nothing about stock pumping/dumping schemes or insider info, just someone telling someone else to buy this or that...granted I didn't read it all (the aweful colors scared me away).
Oh ya, since when can you get a picture of someone by hax0ring them?
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You're right, the term "Open Source" as you think of it is polluted...in a sort. A better way of saying is that the term is changing. In this lovely world in which we live, with these lovely languages we speak, a word or phrase only means what people think it means. Just like the hacker vs. cracker arguments, Open Source means what the majority of people believe it means, regardless of what some company or group defines it as.
It's the same as free software - you may say that means that you are free to use the code for wahtever you like - you know what it really means? It means you don't pay to use it...and that's because I guarentee you that's what the majority of people think it means. A word or phrase only has the meaning by which the majority understands it.
Funny...setting up my 3d card was easy... I just downloaded X 4.0 and ran install.sh
Then I downloaded the 2 files from nVidia and just did a simple 'make' (as noted in the README). From there I played some SoF (which I just ran the simple installer from Loki to install).
Granted nVidia's support for its drivers make it easy to install / hard to maintain, but they work plain and simply. I had a lot more problems with my 3dfx voodoo 3 back in the day (differing versions of Mesa, wrong versions of glide...the damned kernel module not compiling).
It's getting easier...just takes time.
Re:GNUtella only runs on *BSD, not Linux
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How does the BSD port run a microsoft Visual Basic file - or better yet, WHY? Perhaps you were referencing the windows version as being buggy with VBS...but last I checked VB wasn't ported to *BSD.
I don't know. I averaged 40-50fps on my C466 w/ a V3-3000 using XF86 3.3.5. When I switched to 4.0 that dropped down to 20fps or so. Granted that was with 64mb of ram and it jumped a little (but not much) with 128.
Oh well...I get 70fps or so with my GeForce GTS, so I'm happy.
Offtopic, I don't care, I have to agree. I literally laughed my ass off and called my brother (who actually got the ILOVEYOU virus, but on his webmail account, plus, he uses netscape so he's less endangered) to check it out - even he got the irony.
Now I know you feel the need to bash Microsoft but think for a second. Just because they have a developmental unit working doesn't mean it's ready for fullscale deployment. How much is the cost per unit? too much right now - they can't market until it's reasonable (well atleast what MS thinks is reasonable). It does take time for chips to be made and all, and who's to say it's perfect? They have a dev unit up and running some pretty demos and that's that.
It's not the ping pong balls...it's the NUMBER of balls. There are a few hundred there, each made up of how many polygons? Then realize that all of those balls are falling, bouncing and recoiling from the snaps of the mouse-traps (atleast that's what they look like to me) which are ALSO bouncing around in the room. That means a lot of physics (figuring the motion for all the balls and all of the traps). I wasn't there but I know that if the industry (take it for what it's worth) made a big deal out of it - there was a reason.
Re:Cool... is this the modernized Amiga?
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Since you're apparently speaking on behalf of BeOS...get your story straight. There are office apps (productivity or whatever the term is these days), graphics apps, and quite a large programming base (though not as large as linux obviously)...and btw, Be didn't give up on BeOS, they're continuing to support it as the development platform for BeIA as well as since they're essentially the same OS with small difference, support for beia IS support for BeOS...but I'm rambling and off topic so I'll shut up now.:)
You're emphasizing the wrong part of the statement. All it's saying is that you can release only a binary with no requirement to release the code. It's saying you can release only an executable with no extra licensing or fees.
As stated above, Borland has no power over my creations.
Linux already does have different directory trees than other Unices or whatever you feel like calling them. What is/opt? I've never seen that on any of my other boxes. Granted I don't see it on mine either but all those who use redhat have it. Directory structures aren't a problem as long as a program is capable of finding where things should be (such as an environment variable). We have a $HOME, why not a $SYS for/usr/sbin or a $BIN for/usr/bin, that way if I want them to be/system/bin I can without trouble.
This way if I want a "user friendly" system tree where normal users aren't bothered with system trees, I can. After all, isn't part of the beauty of linux the fact that I can do whatever I want with it...or atleast I should be able to with minor difficulty?
Why are you so damned anal? He's releasing the source, there for it's open source. It doesn't matter if some standards group defines open source by a different meaning. And those that pay royaltees are commercial companies, the people who SHOULD have to pay to make money off of someone elses work. I want to play with this I can free of charge, I can change what I want, so what's the problem? Why are you bitching?
It's not limited to 500mb. In fact, I don't even use the image. I've been using BeOS since r3 as my toy OS. Just open up the Drive Partitioner (cannot remember the name, but it's in preferences in the Be menu) and repartition/make a new parititon. Then, bust open a trusty bash shell in Terminal and run "Installer" and boom, install onto new partition.
$30 CPM? I hope you're just trying to go to an extreme on examples. I would LOVE to see someone offering 30 cpm, or hell, a site that makes 30 cpm on impressions. Last I checked even Hotmail was only able to pull in approx 15cpm.
Just out of curiosity...what advantages do you see GPL having over the BSD license for Apple? Personally I see the BSD license as more commercially friends (because it is) - and since Apple is hopefully in business to make money, I'm sure there must have been some reasons behind it. And it's a daemon, not a demon.
Well said, and very correct. That is the one problem I've noticed a lot of these days. People go for something that they can get away with, and suddenly when they can't, they get pissed. It's like the people speed, then get pissed at the cop when they're pulled over - if you weren't speeding in the first place you wouldn't have a ticket!
Back on topic, Netpliance has every right to lock-out cheapskates from their product. If you don't like it - don't bitch, use something else.
Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that whenever I try to start up X I get a syslog'd error about MTRR and mem overlapping (32mb vs 64mb at the 0xe0000000...point, where the vid card maps its ram). I have a voodoo3/3000. Anyone else have this problem, and will something as simple as disabling MTRR in the kernel fix this?
Nowhere do they say what CPU it is. While any standard 1Ghz cpu (Athlon, P3/Coppermine, etc.) are hella-expensive, doesn't mean they couldn't have some alternative running at 1Ghz for much cheaper...of course it also doesn't mean they're fast at all.
I've noticed a LOT of posts regarding when they'll be able to do this... The answer: Within a year.
Almost every (if not every) console is sold at a loss. The hardware isn't where the money is, it's the licensing. Microsoft has the money to deploy these at a fair loss, and still make it back from licensing fees, and boom, they still make a profit off of the whole deal...and possibly control of another market.
$75 for a 300mhz Celeron? I got my 400mhz Celeron for $55...oh well.
Also, did they necessarily say Intel? I'm sure someone like AMD would love a nice bulk order...maybe even Cyrix's reincarnation (what company is that again?)
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I don't know how you managed that, but I have never had Be freeze up on me...granted every part of my machine is supported by Be, since I've been running it since R3
Joking I hope? ;-) is a hacked Mpeg 4 Codec for movies.
DIVX sucks, DIVX is a pay-per-view system.
DivX
Big difference.
Ok, I'll admit, I just like the fact that the codec's real name is "DivX ;-)" smiley face included. That being said, I got it working easily (though you MUST MUST MUST be in 16bpp).
For testing DivX's I just went to http://divx.ctw.cc/ and checked out their Trailers section. All the trailers I tried worked great.
Only problems I noticed where that sometimes after playing one DivX, if you try to play another it would sometimes be messed up...quitting and restarting xmps worked though.
Well, I haven't read all of the comments...but after reading the article I'm left with one question. Who codes to the metal these days? I mean I'm going to go on a limb and guess that 95% of programs out there are written in something like C/C++ or Perl, where the metal is a non-issue. The cpu's aren't written to directly except by a compiler, and guess what - most code is somewhat portable between CPU's in a language (though maybe not between OS's). That being said, if I buy a new cpu who cares if it's x86 or not, since I can take a program, recompile, and there I am.
This is one feature I see as a benefit for open source and the rest. It makes the instruction set a non-issue. That's also one of the reasons I run linux/freebsd/openbsd (depending on which of my machines). Back when I was strictly a windows guy when I looked at computers to buy, it was x86 only. Now I have a choice between Sun, x86, hell even a (gasp) mac if I want. Why? Because I have that same code that I can recompile to run on the right OS on whatever hardware. Sure C code or whatever isn't going to pull as good speed as raw assembly in all cases, but if it means a CPU manufacturer can whip together a better cpu with a nice compiler, then who cares?
Maybe chip manufacturers should forget staying compliant to a single ISA and just give us better performance. It sucks for MS users, but for the rest of us I promise you an OS will soon follow, and with a recompile you're ready to go with all the apps you're used to.
Anyways, I'm rambling, so I'll shaddup now.
My assumption is that it means they're the first to actually sell the thing running a linux kernel, or support linux development on it?
Nice to see I'm not the only one here that thinks this is complete bullshit. He basically said "I'm smart so I was able to hack them and here is a picture of their monitor". As for the stock stuff I saw nothing about stock pumping/dumping schemes or insider info, just someone telling someone else to buy this or that...granted I didn't read it all (the aweful colors scared me away).
Oh ya, since when can you get a picture of someone by hax0ring them?
You're right, the term "Open Source" as you think of it is polluted...in a sort. A better way of saying is that the term is changing. In this lovely world in which we live, with these lovely languages we speak, a word or phrase only means what people think it means. Just like the hacker vs. cracker arguments, Open Source means what the majority of people believe it means, regardless of what some company or group defines it as.
It's the same as free software - you may say that means that you are free to use the code for wahtever you like - you know what it really means? It means you don't pay to use it...and that's because I guarentee you that's what the majority of people think it means. A word or phrase only has the meaning by which the majority understands it.
Funny...setting up my 3d card was easy...
I just downloaded X 4.0 and ran install.sh
Then I downloaded the 2 files from nVidia and just did a simple 'make' (as noted in the README). From there I played some SoF (which I just ran the simple installer from Loki to install).
Granted nVidia's support for its drivers make it easy to install / hard to maintain, but they work plain and simply. I had a lot more problems with my 3dfx voodoo 3 back in the day (differing versions of Mesa, wrong versions of glide...the damned kernel module not compiling).
It's getting easier...just takes time.
How does the BSD port run a microsoft Visual Basic file - or better yet, WHY? Perhaps you were referencing the windows version as being buggy with VBS...but last I checked VB wasn't ported to *BSD.
I don't know. I averaged 40-50fps on my C466 w/ a V3-3000 using XF86 3.3.5. When I switched to 4.0 that dropped down to 20fps or so. Granted that was with 64mb of ram and it jumped a little (but not much) with 128.
Oh well...I get 70fps or so with my GeForce GTS, so I'm happy.
Offtopic, I don't care, I have to agree. I literally laughed my ass off and called my brother (who actually got the ILOVEYOU virus, but on his webmail account, plus, he uses netscape so he's less endangered) to check it out - even he got the irony.
Now I know you feel the need to bash Microsoft but think for a second. Just because they have a developmental unit working doesn't mean it's ready for fullscale deployment. How much is the cost per unit? too much right now - they can't market until it's reasonable (well atleast what MS thinks is reasonable). It does take time for chips to be made and all, and who's to say it's perfect? They have a dev unit up and running some pretty demos and that's that.
It's not the ping pong balls...it's the NUMBER of balls. There are a few hundred there, each made up of how many polygons? Then realize that all of those balls are falling, bouncing and recoiling from the snaps of the mouse-traps (atleast that's what they look like to me) which are ALSO bouncing around in the room. That means a lot of physics (figuring the motion for all the balls and all of the traps). I wasn't there but I know that if the industry (take it for what it's worth) made a big deal out of it - there was a reason.
Since you're apparently speaking on behalf of BeOS...get your story straight. There are office apps (productivity or whatever the term is these days), graphics apps, and quite a large programming base (though not as large as linux obviously)...and btw, Be didn't give up on BeOS, they're continuing to support it as the development platform for BeIA as well as since they're essentially the same OS with small difference, support for beia IS support for BeOS...but I'm rambling and off topic so I'll shut up now. :)
You're emphasizing the wrong part of the statement. All it's saying is that you can release only a binary with no requirement to release the code. It's saying you can release only an executable with no extra licensing or fees.
As stated above, Borland has no power over my creations.
Linux already does have different directory trees than other Unices or whatever you feel like calling them. What is /opt? I've never seen that on any of my other boxes. Granted I don't see it on mine either but all those who use redhat have it. Directory structures aren't a problem as long as a program is capable of finding where things should be (such as an environment variable). We have a $HOME, why not a $SYS for /usr/sbin or a $BIN for /usr/bin, that way if I want them to be /system/bin I can without trouble.
This way if I want a "user friendly" system tree where normal users aren't bothered with system trees, I can. After all, isn't part of the beauty of linux the fact that I can do whatever I want with it...or atleast I should be able to with minor difficulty?
Why are you so damned anal?
He's releasing the source, there for it's open source. It doesn't matter if some standards group defines open source by a different meaning. And those that pay royaltees are commercial companies, the people who SHOULD have to pay to make money off of someone elses work. I want to play with this I can free of charge, I can change what I want, so what's the problem? Why are you bitching?
It's not limited to 500mb.
In fact, I don't even use the image. I've been using BeOS since r3 as my toy OS. Just open up the Drive Partitioner (cannot remember the name, but it's in preferences in the Be menu) and repartition/make a new parititon. Then, bust open a trusty bash shell in Terminal and run "Installer" and boom, install onto new partition.
$30 CPM?
I hope you're just trying to go to an extreme on examples. I would LOVE to see someone offering 30 cpm, or hell, a site that makes 30 cpm on impressions. Last I checked even Hotmail was only able to pull in approx 15cpm.
Just a question, ignore if you will.
Just out of curiosity...what advantages do you see GPL having over the BSD license for Apple? Personally I see the BSD license as more commercially friends (because it is) - and since Apple is hopefully in business to make money, I'm sure there must have been some reasons behind it. And it's a daemon, not a demon.
*applause*
Well said, and very correct. That is the one problem I've noticed a lot of these days. People go for something that they can get away with, and suddenly when they can't, they get pissed. It's like the people speed, then get pissed at the cop when they're pulled over - if you weren't speeding in the first place you wouldn't have a ticket!
Back on topic, Netpliance has every right to lock-out cheapskates from their product. If you don't like it - don't bitch, use something else.
Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that whenever I try to start up X I get a syslog'd error about MTRR and mem overlapping (32mb vs 64mb at the 0xe0000000...point, where the vid card maps its ram). I have a voodoo3/3000. Anyone else have this problem, and will something as simple as disabling MTRR in the kernel fix this?
A 1Ghz WHAT though.
Nowhere do they say what CPU it is. While any standard 1Ghz cpu (Athlon, P3/Coppermine, etc.) are hella-expensive, doesn't mean they couldn't have some alternative running at 1Ghz for much cheaper...of course it also doesn't mean they're fast at all.
I've noticed a LOT of posts regarding when they'll be able to do this...
The answer: Within a year.
Almost every (if not every) console is sold at a loss. The hardware isn't where the money is, it's the licensing. Microsoft has the money to deploy these at a fair loss, and still make it back from licensing fees, and boom, they still make a profit off of the whole deal...and possibly control of another market.
$75 for a 300mhz Celeron? I got my 400mhz Celeron for $55...oh well.
Also, did they necessarily say Intel? I'm sure someone like AMD would love a nice bulk order...maybe even Cyrix's reincarnation (what company is that again?)