To extend the previous poster's statement... Not only are the ATI cards insufficient in Linux as a capture device, but they're also inadequate for HDTV playback/TV out. The fglrx drivers support XVideo only up to a moderate resolution. At HDTV resolutions (1280x720 and 1920x1080 for sure), their XVideo just displays a black window. You have to use X shared memory, i.e. do ALL the rendering in software. A very difficult task. My Athlon 64 3200+ can't quite do it in real-time for all streams while simultaneously decoding 386kbps AC3. The hardware supports all the usual accelerations but there's no XvMC driver and the XVideo support stinks.
Unfortunately, I think it'll take a lot of people/actually/ cancelling their subscriptions before they get the hint.
I sure am glad I dumped Tivo service several years ago. I bought my HDR-112 before they changed the service agreement, so it still works in VCR mode without service. And these days, you can generate your own guide data using XMLTV. I have way less money in my HDR-112 + 200GB drive than anyone I know who's bought a modern PVR or put together a MythTV system. And no pop-up adds or commercials.
My older Thinkpad T40p has a whitelist, too. Luckily the Cisco 350 mini-PCI card I needed to connect to the corporate wireless LAN is on the whitelist. IBM actually sells the Cisco card with an IBM part number.
But forget trying to buy a random 802.11 a/b/g card and plug it in.
No offense, but anyone who has credit card debt is either a certifiable lunatic or has had some sort of personal crisis that necessitated the debt. And with proper health insurance the latter is unlikely to be a valid excuse for most people.
> I have 150% vision, but even on my 21 inch monitor I feel 1600x1200 is too small, and I seriously doubt average consumers knows how to hack XFree and.inf files to get the more decent 1400x1050 resolution.
For reasons beyond comprehension one cannot purchase a 1400x1050 desktop LCD, despite the fact that there are tons of 15" 1400x1050 laptop LCDs out there. So it's not like the manufacturers are oblivious to the fact there there is a step between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.
If that's not bad enough, the fact that they actually manufacture 1280x1024 5:4 aspect ratios displays instead of the more natural 1280x960 4:3 is truly mind-boggling.
Yeah, that's be a great idea, since cell-sites cover what, a couple of miles or so? And those lame-o HF radios they're using can only go the pathetic distance of 8000-12000 miles?
>but given that most people need that OS(haven't seen a linux distro which is ready for public consumption yet, though it works perfectly for my won needs)
Haven't seen a Windows distro which is ready for public consumption yet.:)
No, the drives have been cheap for awhile. It's the expensive media that makes it pointless right now. Last I checked, Ritek DVD+R dual-layer blanks were going for $9.50/each. Thanks but no thanks.
Sunbird's OK, I use it. But it's kinda buggy and limited. WebDAV is clunky and doesn't really work well. If you have dreams of publishing your departments calendars on a web server and scheduling group meetings (avoiding conflicts) like with Outlook/Exchange, forget it. It's really only useful for putting your own calendar up on a web server so you can schedule stuff from home, work, the road, etc.
And like I said, it's buggy. For example, I sucked in my old Outlook calendar in ical format using a converter, and it kinda puked on recurring appointments with exceptions. In fact, it appears that if you have a weekly meeting but you try to delete more than 5 or so of the individual recurrences, it starts forgetting about some of them! Pretty annoying. As a result, the old Outlook habit of setting up a weekly dept meeting, and then hitting delete on individual meetings that are cancelled doesn't work with Sunbird.
Still looking for a decent group calendaring app for UNIX users.
Forget the original natural keyboard. Give me the original IBM PC keyboard, with the Ctrl and CAPSLOCK keys in the original positions, where God intended. And without the dumb second set of arrows between the letters and the keypad, forcing the mouse even further off to the right and making my right arm sore.
Instead of a guy hauling all these weapons around, we need an Stargate weapons mod: P90 submachine gun (with the rail options being optical and laser sights, or a flashlight), 5-7 sidearm, Zat gun, a staff weapon, and some grenades. The Zat gun would be particularly fun to watch.
Right, all AMD K8-class processors have the NX-bit already. And despite the Intel-centric spin on the ZDNet article, the fact is that Intel has only announced that support for it is coming in future Intel parts. Unlike AMD, it doesn't appear you can buy any CPUs from Intel that support the NX bit today.
In other words, Intel is playing catch-up.
And note the comment in Ingo's linux-kernel posting that refers to the "existing NX support in the 64-bit x86_64 kernels... written by Andi Kleen". I.e. NX-bit support was already available to AMD64 owners running 64-bit linux kernels.
Yeah, but the only reason I ever print on 11x17 is precisely because the aspect ratio is wider than 8.5x11. Great for printing schematics, board layouts, or even just files with really long lines.
Besides, the metric system is boring. Even a child could learn it.:)
Support for imaginary numbers was one of the things that made the HP 42S such a cool EE calculator. Physically identical in size to the HP32SII that followed it, but with a two-line display and full HP-41CV software compatibility. My HP 42S still works great, but it's too bad that getting a spare from Ebay is pretty much cost-prohibitive.
For a garden-variety Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160GB PATA hard disk: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsal es/mark eting/detail/0,1081,578,00.html
the datasheet shows a sustained transfer rate of 32 to 58 MBytes/s (depending on the data's physical location).
With 100 Mbps Ethernet, you're lucky with good equipment to reach 12 MBytes/sec, maybe 13. So with worst-case transfer rate (for large files) off the spindle of 32 MBytes/s, you're already talking 2.5 times the transfer rate of the wire. Closer to the edge of the desk and you're talking 4.5 times the max wire rate of 100base-TX.
What do you define as "much faster"? I define this as "much slower".
The main thing stopping me right now is that only 5-port 1000base-T (or -TX or whatever) ethernet switches are even halfway cheap. 8-ports and beyond are still rather expensive for the home tinkerer. The client cards are either under $20 or free with new motherboards.
So, what distinguishes this release from the v3.7.0 drivers they released at the end of December? It supported XF86 4.1.0, 4.2.0, and 4.3.0 just fine, and I've been running 3.7.0 for two months now.
Or perhaps is the poster just now becoming aware of v3.7.0?
> Well, broadband *is* the opposite of baseband. Broadband is a modulated analog signal, while baseband is a digital signal.
Nope, RF is the opposite of baseband. Broadband means little to nothing except as a relative term of bandwidth. And large or small bandwidth does not imply either a baseband or an RF signal.
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Or the way I-35 from Hillsboro through Austin to San Antonio is mis-labelled as Hwy 81.
And the new white space on the left side of maps stinks.
> Sid is always "testing"
No, Sid is always unstable.
v7 for Linux was out nearly a month ago. I guess this continues the grand Slashdot time warp tradition, eh?
To extend the previous poster's statement... Not only are the ATI cards insufficient in Linux as a capture device, but they're also inadequate for HDTV playback/TV out. The fglrx drivers support XVideo only up to a moderate resolution. At HDTV resolutions (1280x720 and 1920x1080 for sure), their XVideo just displays a black window. You have to use X shared memory, i.e. do ALL the rendering in software. A very difficult task. My Athlon 64 3200+ can't quite do it in real-time for all streams while simultaneously decoding 386kbps AC3. The hardware supports all the usual accelerations but there's no XvMC driver and the XVideo support stinks.
Unfortunately, I think it'll take a lot of people /actually/ cancelling their subscriptions before they get the hint.
I sure am glad I dumped Tivo service several years ago. I bought my HDR-112 before they changed the service agreement, so it still works in VCR mode without service. And these days, you can generate your own guide data using XMLTV. I have way less money in my HDR-112 + 200GB drive than anyone I know who's bought a modern PVR or put together a MythTV system. And no pop-up adds or commercials.
What if your cellphone IS your Internet connection for laptop? Laptop users aren't always sitting in a Starbucks with 802.11 available.
My older Thinkpad T40p has a whitelist, too. Luckily the Cisco 350 mini-PCI card I needed to connect to the corporate wireless LAN is on the whitelist. IBM actually sells the Cisco card with an IBM part number.
But forget trying to buy a random 802.11 a/b/g card and plug it in.
> Last year we consolidated our Credit Card loans
No offense, but anyone who has credit card debt is either a certifiable lunatic or has had some sort of personal crisis that necessitated the debt. And with proper health insurance the latter is unlikely to be a valid excuse for most people.
> I have 150% vision, but even on my 21 inch monitor I feel 1600x1200 is too small, and I seriously doubt average consumers knows how to hack XFree and .inf files to get the more decent 1400x1050 resolution.
For reasons beyond comprehension one cannot purchase a 1400x1050 desktop LCD, despite the fact that there are tons of 15" 1400x1050 laptop LCDs out there. So it's not like the manufacturers are oblivious to the fact there there is a step between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.
If that's not bad enough, the fact that they actually manufacture 1280x1024 5:4 aspect ratios displays instead of the more natural 1280x960 4:3 is truly mind-boggling.
Yeah, that's be a great idea, since cell-sites cover what, a couple of miles or so? And those lame-o HF radios they're using can only go the pathetic distance of 8000-12000 miles?
Gee whiz, what were they thinking?
>but given that most people need that OS(haven't seen a linux distro which is ready for public consumption yet, though it works perfectly for my won needs)
:)
Haven't seen a Windows distro which is ready for public consumption yet.
No, the drives have been cheap for awhile. It's the expensive media that makes it pointless right now. Last I checked, Ritek DVD+R dual-layer blanks were going for $9.50/each. Thanks but no thanks.
Sunbird's OK, I use it. But it's kinda buggy and limited. WebDAV is clunky and doesn't really work well. If you have dreams of publishing your departments calendars on a web server and scheduling group meetings (avoiding conflicts) like with Outlook/Exchange, forget it. It's really only useful for putting your own calendar up on a web server so you can schedule stuff from home, work, the road, etc.
And like I said, it's buggy. For example, I sucked in my old Outlook calendar in ical format using a converter, and it kinda puked on recurring appointments with exceptions. In fact, it appears that if you have a weekly meeting but you try to delete more than 5 or so of the individual recurrences, it starts forgetting about some of them! Pretty annoying. As a result, the old Outlook habit of setting up a weekly dept meeting, and then hitting delete on individual meetings that are cancelled doesn't work with Sunbird.
Still looking for a decent group calendaring app for UNIX users.
Forget the original natural keyboard. Give me the original IBM PC keyboard, with the Ctrl and CAPSLOCK keys in the original positions, where God intended. And without the dumb second set of arrows between the letters and the keypad, forcing the mouse even further off to the right and making my right arm sore.
Instead of a guy hauling all these weapons around, we need an Stargate weapons mod: P90 submachine gun (with the rail options being optical and laser sights, or a flashlight), 5-7 sidearm, Zat gun, a staff weapon, and some grenades. The Zat gun would be particularly fun to watch.
b oo k/database/weapons.html
http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/stargate/blue
Right, all AMD K8-class processors have the NX-bit already. And despite the Intel-centric spin on the ZDNet article, the fact is that Intel has only announced that support for it is coming in future Intel parts. Unlike AMD, it doesn't appear you can buy any CPUs from Intel that support the NX bit today.
... written by Andi Kleen". I.e. NX-bit support was already available to AMD64 owners running 64-bit linux kernels.
In other words, Intel is playing catch-up.
And note the comment in Ingo's linux-kernel posting that refers to the "existing NX support in the 64-bit x86_64 kernels
Yeah, but the only reason I ever print on 11x17 is precisely because the aspect ratio is wider than 8.5x11. Great for printing schematics, board layouts, or even just files with really long lines.
:)
Besides, the metric system is boring. Even a child could learn it.
Support for imaginary numbers was one of the things that made the HP 42S such a cool EE calculator. Physically identical in size to the HP32SII that followed it, but with a two-line display and full HP-41CV software compatibility. My HP 42S still works great, but it's too bad that getting a spare from Ebay is pretty much cost-prohibitive.
Really? Perhaps you should upgrade your disks.
l es/mark eting/detail/0,1081,578,00.html
For a garden-variety Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160GB PATA hard disk:
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsa
the datasheet shows a sustained transfer rate of 32 to 58 MBytes/s (depending on the data's physical location).
With 100 Mbps Ethernet, you're lucky with good equipment to reach 12 MBytes/sec, maybe 13. So with worst-case transfer rate (for large files) off the spindle of 32 MBytes/s, you're already talking 2.5 times the transfer rate of the wire. Closer to the edge of the desk and you're talking 4.5 times the max wire rate of 100base-TX.
What do you define as "much faster"? I define this as "much slower".
The main thing stopping me right now is that only 5-port 1000base-T (or -TX or whatever) ethernet switches are even halfway cheap. 8-ports and beyond are still rather expensive for the home tinkerer. The client cards are either under $20 or free with new motherboards.
So, what distinguishes this release from the v3.7.0 drivers they released at the end of December? It supported XF86 4.1.0, 4.2.0, and 4.3.0 just fine, and I've been running 3.7.0 for two months now.
Or perhaps is the poster just now becoming aware of v3.7.0?
Dan
Most of the articles linked to are pretty old. Only two are even from this month, and they're from Friday/Saturday. Yawn.
Let's keep it current.
"but people keep wanting to use those $1 bills over the Ike dollars, the Susan B. dollars and I'm not sure what else."
Real men don't jingle. Who wants to have to walk around with a pocketful of noisy coins, anyway?
> Well, broadband *is* the opposite of baseband. Broadband is a modulated analog signal, while baseband is a digital signal.
Nope, RF is the opposite of baseband. Broadband means little to nothing except as a relative term of bandwidth. And large or small bandwidth does not imply either a baseband or an RF signal.