Having a fast machine is cool. Having a Hummer just makes you look like a moron. If you can afford a Hummer, you can afford a nice luxury sports car, which would (a) be faster and more fun to drive, (b) be more comfortable, (c) not be horrendously ugly, and (d) not have a fractional MPG rating.
You can't compare the G5 and Area 51 because they're intended for different purposes. The alienware box would be a better gaming box than the G5, because there aren't a lot of Mac games and games are generally single-threaded. The G5 would smoke the alienware at most media applications (Photoshop, video editing, 3D rendering, encoding, etc.), if only because it's got Altivec and dual procs (a lot of media apps are multithreaded). For just about anything else, both boxes are extreme overkill and the comparison is irrelevent.
I' personally, would rather have the G5, because it runs OSX and it's not ugly as shit. Also, it's 64-bit, which makes it a lot more future-proof than a P4.
Getting the source for the compiler wouldn't help, because you'd still have to compile it with a proprietary compiler, which could add a backdoor. The best thing would be to make sure the code could be compiled with the standard commercial version of VC++ 6, which Microsoft probably didn't have the foresight to insert any backdoors into.
I'll bet you current hardware (with extra video memory, possibly) could push 6000x4000 in Quake 3. Of course, Doom III at 800x600 would still probably look better than Q3 at 6000x4000.
So you hear about this nice program you want. You go to its home page, and decide to get it. You go to their download page and download the tar.gz source. You extract it, run./configure. It needs some library that you've never heard of. You go find that library, download and install it. You go back to the original program. It wants another library. You go get that library, but it won't compile with gcc-3.3. You retry it with gcc-2.95, and it fails with a different error. You go in edit the code to try to fix the error. Eventually, it works. You go back to your original program again, and this time,./configure finishes. Now, if you're lucky, it will compile without error. You make install, and it places parts of itself in ten different places under/usr/local/. Hope you like that program, cause you're never going to get it fully uninstalled.
Or, you can just apt-get install programname, and save yourself all that trouble. If there's ever a new version of that program, it will be upgraded automatically (unless you don't want it to be). If you want to remove it, see where its files are located, or reinstall it, all of those are one command away. If you want to read about something before you install it, you can still do that. It's not like apt will refuse to install something if you've been to its web site.
I can make a slack install that fit's in 8 meg or take a full 5 gig....
You can also do that with Debian.
redhat or debian you HAVE to wait for someone to make a package
No, you don't. Redhat and Debian both include gcc, make, and gunzip. You're free to upgrade by hand any time you want to. The difference is that with those distros, you don't have to.
Quicktime 6 uses MPEG4 for video compression. It's hard to find a more generally available codec. If it's Sorenson you're bitching about, mplayer and Xine both have open-source decoder implementations.
KaZaA Lite is illegal because it is a hacked version of the original KaZaA client. giFT and mlDonkey are legal because they're completely original, and they don't truely connect to the FastTrack network in the same fashion as KaZaA.
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Actually, most of Knoppix's hardware detection is already in Debian. Try apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid. The only difference is that Debian doesn't integrate them into the installer.
IIRC, it's 2 to 1, not 3 to 1. Also, both OpenSSH vulns were/are quite difficult to exploit, while the lsh vuln had an exploit linked form the Slashdot front page.
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Having a fast machine is cool. Having a Hummer just makes you look like a moron. If you can afford a Hummer, you can afford a nice luxury sports car, which would (a) be faster and more fun to drive, (b) be more comfortable, (c) not be horrendously ugly, and (d) not have a fractional MPG rating.
I' personally, would rather have the G5, because it runs OSX and it's not ugly as shit. Also, it's 64-bit, which makes it a lot more future-proof than a P4.
Probably it does, but I wouldn't buy it. For $50 more you can get a faster Firewire drive with 3 times the capacity. From newegg, no less.
Morphix LightGUI will fit easily on a 256MB card/drive/watch.
It's not like things don't work the exact same way in every other OS created in the past 10 years.
Personally, I'd prefer a cello for this type of application.
Getting the source for the compiler wouldn't help, because you'd still have to compile it with a proprietary compiler, which could add a backdoor. The best thing would be to make sure the code could be compiled with the standard commercial version of VC++ 6, which Microsoft probably didn't have the foresight to insert any backdoors into.
Go tell that to the kernel swsusp developers. Or, better yet, since it's so trivial, why don't you just go implement it?
They'll be legal, but still inferior to PNG in every way.
Does anyone actually use either of those? Didn't think so.
I'll bet you current hardware (with extra video memory, possibly) could push 6000x4000 in Quake 3. Of course, Doom III at 800x600 would still probably look better than Q3 at 6000x4000.
Two.
It worked just fine for me. Just make sure you have hotplug installed and it should set it up automatically.
Or, you can just apt-get install programname , and save yourself all that trouble. If there's ever a new version of that program, it will be upgraded automatically (unless you don't want it to be). If you want to remove it, see where its files are located, or reinstall it, all of those are one command away. If you want to read about something before you install it, you can still do that. It's not like apt will refuse to install something if you've been to its web site.
You can also do that with Debian.
redhat or debian you HAVE to wait for someone to make a package
No, you don't. Redhat and Debian both include gcc, make, and gunzip. You're free to upgrade by hand any time you want to. The difference is that with those distros, you don't have to.
And your UID numbers are almost exactly 4x different.
Quicktime 6 uses MPEG4 for video compression. It's hard to find a more generally available codec. If it's Sorenson you're bitching about, mplayer and Xine both have open-source decoder implementations.
FWIW, 440hz is A above middle C, not below.
Yes.
No one's made a better calculator, so they have no incentive to lower prices.
The TI-86 and 89 are both really nice calculators, and you can download programs supporting RPN for them if you can't live it without it.
Doom 3 should run fine on any GeForce 4, as long as you're not going for 16x AA at 1600x1200.
KaZaA Lite is illegal because it is a hacked version of the original KaZaA client. giFT and mlDonkey are legal because they're completely original, and they don't truely connect to the FastTrack network in the same fashion as KaZaA.
Actually, most of Knoppix's hardware detection is already in Debian. Try apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid. The only difference is that Debian doesn't integrate them into the installer.
IIRC, it's 2 to 1, not 3 to 1. Also, both OpenSSH vulns were/are quite difficult to exploit, while the lsh vuln had an exploit linked form the Slashdot front page.