I agree about not asking slashdot, but asking the kernel developers. This was wholly inappropriate for "Ask Slashdot". If they wanted to write something about this issue, they should have gotten the other side of the story.
That's a good point though I have a pretty recent board (Abit KT7) and it supports booting from "USB Zip" and "USB FDD", which maybe this key could emulate?
My post was really referring to being able to read/write to these keys at the OS level though.
This is IBM we're talking here. Given their track record with Linux, I don't see why it shouldnt work with Linux either right now, or in the short term. I can't say anything about *BSD since I dont use them and have no real idea what HW support is like on those systems.
By the way, the moderators are really awake this morning : 33 posts only in that story, 26 moderated down : is/. suffering from a over-crowd of mods ?
Its not a moderation problem, Its all the ACs that post garbage. The signal/noise ratio on Slashdot lately has gotten ridiculous. I browse at +1 to avoid most of the crap, but it still irks me to see the list of stories and see something like (14 of 76 comments)
One idea I have to reduce the amount of crap is disallow the use of AC for the first several hours a story is posted, that way you lose a lot of the "First Post" and other flamage that usually happens within hours of a story being posted. At one point, a story (I believe it was the latest GNOME posting) had only 3 of 39 posts that were rated 1 or higher. A vast number of garbage posts and trolls happen within 2-3 hours of a story posting.
Why does everyone on here feel its right to waste the time and money of these people? Unlike email spam and telemarketers calling you and interrupting whatever it was you are doing, these companies are sending you mail, at their cost
Several people on here yesterday made the incorrect assumption that the USPS subsidizes direct marketing by increasing the first class postal rates. This is false. If a mass-mailer gets any discount for sending mail to a gazillion homes, its because he pre-sorted all the mail, and its very very likely he paid a sorting service to do that for him.
I just think its wrong to equate people who send mail to your home with email spam or telemarketers. We all know we can "just delete" spam, but its the fact that we all bear the cost of email spamming that makes it wrong. And telemarketers call and intrude upon our private time at home. But snail mail sent to us costs us nothing except the 5-second walk to the trash can (or better still, RECYCLE BIN!)
Frankly, the notion of sending junk back to the direct mailers is pretty childish. Death to email spammers though.;)
Um, hello, notice the "foot" icon at the top of the story? It means its a humor story, not necessarily NEWS. You can stop getting humor stories by selecting that in your preferences.
The drivers work just fine under 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12.... theres a patch you need for the last couple 2.4 test kernels, but otherwise everything should be ok.
Go to irc.openprojects.net in channel #nvidia and get them (and some help if you need).
I dont know what kind of problems YOU are having, but nvidia's drivers KICK ASS, and my GeForce2 can destroy any 3dfx card under Linux. I dont care if I dont have full and open source, just that the drivers work without problems, and for me, they have.
Sure, I'd like to see more openness from video/sound/other card companies but I cant see this purchase of 3dfx as a step backwards. It can and will only get better.
I think you are incorrect in your statement about using this "great soundcard" under Linux. Creative's cards are well-supported under Linux and there is definitely a difference between the emu10k1 drivers included with 2.2.18 and the ones found on opensource.creative.com. The biggest difference is that there is now a module for the ac97 codec. I do notice a sound difference, though slight.
Please. nVidia is not going to drop their support for linux. I am *very* happy with my Geforce2 GTS, a world better than the Voodoo3 my roommate has. And from everything I've heard on here, the 4/5 arent much better.
3dfx's exit as a video card manufacturer will not be a bad thing, hopefully it will get them in gear and make better chips.
gqcam is not just for the quickcam. The author says hes only tested it on his quickcam, but it works beautifully on many webcams including my creative labs webcam (USB version, running kernel 2.4.0-test7 last time i tried it)
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As long as you are talking about Apple categorization, I notice from time to time, Taco likes to take articles about the PowerPC (not necessarily in relation to MacOS) and label them as "Apple" instead of "Motorola" which he might want to create an icon for.:)
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You know, if you're going to troll, AND abuse your +2 bonus on it, you could do a better job than that.
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My post was really referring to being able to read/write to these keys at the OS level though.
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To lots of server admins, and other people concerned with security issues, this is not a trivial story and counts as "stuff that matters".
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Its not a moderation problem, Its all the ACs that post garbage. The signal/noise ratio on Slashdot lately has gotten ridiculous. I browse at +1 to avoid most of the crap, but it still irks me to see the list of stories and see something like (14 of 76 comments)
One idea I have to reduce the amount of crap is disallow the use of AC for the first several hours a story is posted, that way you lose a lot of the "First Post" and other flamage that usually happens within hours of a story being posted. At one point, a story (I believe it was the latest GNOME posting) had only 3 of 39 posts that were rated 1 or higher. A vast number of garbage posts and trolls happen within 2-3 hours of a story posting.
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Several people on here yesterday made the incorrect assumption that the USPS subsidizes direct marketing by increasing the first class postal rates. This is false. If a mass-mailer gets any discount for sending mail to a gazillion homes, its because he pre-sorted all the mail, and its very very likely he paid a sorting service to do that for him.
I just think its wrong to equate people who send mail to your home with email spam or telemarketers. We all know we can "just delete" spam, but its the fact that we all bear the cost of email spamming that makes it wrong. And telemarketers call and intrude upon our private time at home. But snail mail sent to us costs us nothing except the 5-second walk to the trash can (or better still, RECYCLE BIN!)
Frankly, the notion of sending junk back to the direct mailers is pretty childish. Death to email spammers though. ;)
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This is not "interesting", its a very old urban legend.
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Go to irc.openprojects.net in channel #nvidia and get them (and some help if you need).
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Sure, I'd like to see more openness from video/sound/other card companies but I cant see this purchase of 3dfx as a step backwards. It can and will only get better.
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3dfx's exit as a video card manufacturer will not be a bad thing, hopefully it will get them in gear and make better chips.
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