So it's probably not supported. I don't know what chipset it's on, though some of the other Hauppage cards use the bttv set, which is supported, unofficially, under Linux and, IIRC, FreeBSD. The cool thing about it is the hardware mpeg2 encoder. All the others I've seen under $500 are software encoders, requiring a GHZ processor for realtime work. Now I can finally put all those episodes of Buffy on VCD;^)
It's fun. And a cool hack. Some of us get into that sort of thing. Really, what's the point of porting a server OS (such as, say, Linux) to a Palm Pilot? Palm OS is already perfectly good for running a Palm, so why do the port? Because it's fun.
There was an article in the April 98 Byte that went into the advantages of mainframes over PC's. Too bad the print archive aren't online anymore. When you buy a mainframe, you are buying support. Having the OS crash on a PC is an event that, while rarer than in the recent past, is still fairly common. Yes, even with Linux. When it crashes you reboot and, if you are unlucky, reload from backup. Having the OS crash on a mainframe is a dire event that results in a team of engineers being put on the next flight out to your site. The same applies to hardware problems. PC's have uptime measured in months,and sometimes years. Mainframes have uptime measured in years, and sometimes in decades.
I notice very little difference between my new GHZ machine and the 333 MHz machine it replaced. Compiles run faster, but I spend very little time compiling. I spend most of my time editing, and the processors have been able to keep up with my typing speed since the days of the 486-25. Web surfing? I/O bound. Video output? Also I/O bound. Most everything is I/O bound these days. Bus speed is more important than processor speed today. After all, when was the last time you saw anyone discussing spreadsheet recalculation performance?
My experience has been that someone programming an app doesn't have to learn all the inticacies of Oracle, etc, to get work done. The dba writes procerdures and other people just call that procedure instead of writing huge ugle SQL queries.
When I went to registeredtovoteornot.com (at 09:20 EST) it popped up a dialog box that read "This site has been slashdotted. Please move on", clicking "OK" redirected back here.
That might be a good idea. Under the right circumstances. If we pay the tax on the CDRs or DVDrs, but are then allowed to copy them amongst ourselves, for instance. That's sort of how ASCAP works (well, for sufficiently large values of "sort of").
Yeah, I usually get the same address when I log on but sommetimes my address will change while I'm on because the lease has expired. Getting DHCP working at home was fun. Comcast@home doesn't "officially" support linux so I had to try various switches to get DHCP working. At least they let me run a linux box, I hear there are ISP that don't allow it.
He's probably on a DHCP link, the IP address changes every time you log on with those. Well, not all of them, but that's the default. It allows the ISP to have more subscribers on a node than it has addresses. I suspect that the log got bollixed up and linked the port he was on to someone else's IP addr.
At one point, Linus had implemented device files in/dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. So he starts his terminal emulator program and tells it to use/dev/hda. That should have been/dev/ttyS1. Oops. Now his master boot record started with "ATDT" and the university modem pool phone number. I think he implemented permission checking the following day.
It can't be easily used to guess a password. Using a Dvorak keyboard would defeat it if they thought you were using querty, and vice versa. So would putting a timing loop with a good randomizer in the packet transmitting code. Unless you're trying to keep your data safe from the NSA/GCHQ there's little reason to worry.
Perhaps I should have put "#define SARCASM" at the top of the post?
Damn near every open source/free software project requires some sort of registration before you can contribute, and many require it before you can download. Thus, my tongue in cheek post.
I hear that some sourceforge projects also require that you be registered with them before you can contribute. They even require a login! I say we boycott every site that uses sourceforge for developement, in protest of this trampling upon our rights!
They use different libraries. You can run the apps if you have the libs, but you don't get the desktop integration. You can run plain old X apps on gnome and kde.
Mainly the historical value. People want to look at the code to see how things were done then. It ran on, IIRC, 8 bit machines as well as 16 bit. It might be interesting to port it to a 286, if you could find one, as the 286 probably had as much, or more, power as the PDP-8.
Before I went to bed last night I started xftp downloading the entire kde 2.2 SuSe directory from sourceforge. Now I've just got to get everything compiled and installed. In my copious spare time.
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So it's probably not supported. I don't know what chipset it's on, though some of the other Hauppage cards use the bttv set, which is supported, unofficially, under Linux and, IIRC, FreeBSD. The cool thing about it is the hardware mpeg2 encoder. All the others I've seen under $500 are software encoders, requiring a GHZ processor for realtime work. Now I can finally put all those episodes of Buffy on VCD ;^)
Given a BIOS that lets you Boot A PIII System In .8 Seconds and the Hauppage WinTV PVR card ($249) you could roll your own! Probably for lots less than $1000.
77.7777777% uptime is better than 9.999999%
It's fun. And a cool hack. Some of us get into that sort of thing. Really, what's the point of porting a server OS (such as, say, Linux) to a Palm Pilot? Palm OS is already perfectly good for running a Palm, so why do the port? Because it's fun.
There was an article in the April 98 Byte that went into the advantages of mainframes over PC's. Too bad the print archive aren't online anymore. When you buy a mainframe, you are buying support. Having the OS crash on a PC is an event that, while rarer than in the recent past, is still fairly common. Yes, even with Linux. When it crashes you reboot and, if you are unlucky, reload from backup. Having the OS crash on a mainframe is a dire event that results in a team of engineers being put on the next flight out to your site. The same applies to hardware problems. PC's have uptime measured in months ,and sometimes years. Mainframes have uptime measured in years, and sometimes in decades.
I notice very little difference between my new GHZ machine and the 333 MHz machine it replaced. Compiles run faster, but I spend very little time compiling. I spend most of my time editing, and the processors have been able to keep up with my typing speed since the days of the 486-25. Web surfing? I/O bound. Video output? Also I/O bound. Most everything is I/O bound these days. Bus speed is more important than processor speed today. After all, when was the last time you saw anyone discussing spreadsheet recalculation performance?
My experience has been that someone programming an app doesn't have to learn all the inticacies of Oracle, etc, to get work done. The dba writes procerdures and other people just call that procedure instead of writing huge ugle SQL queries.
That's the quote I was mis-quoting! Thanks.
When I went to registeredtovoteornot.com (at 09:20 EST) it popped up a dialog box that read "This site has been slashdotted. Please move on", clicking "OK" redirected back here.
Get over it.
The change to slash 2.2 didn't fix Timmys' problem with open italic tags. His tags and Tacos spelling. What would slashdot be without 'em?
That might be a good idea. Under the right circumstances. If we pay the tax on the CDRs or DVDrs, but are then allowed to copy them amongst ourselves, for instance. That's sort of how ASCAP works (well, for sufficiently large values of "sort of").
A beowulf cluster of /390 quake servers...
Yeah, I usually get the same address when I log on but sommetimes my address will change while I'm on because the lease has expired. Getting DHCP working at home was fun. Comcast@home doesn't "officially" support linux so I had to try various switches to get DHCP working. At least they let me run a linux box, I hear there are ISP that don't allow it.
He's probably on a DHCP link, the IP address changes every time you log on with those. Well, not all of them, but that's the default. It allows the ISP to have more subscribers on a node than it has addresses. I suspect that the log got bollixed up and linked the port he was on to someone else's IP addr.
At one point, Linus had implemented device files in /dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. So he starts his terminal emulator program and tells it to use /dev/hda. That should have been /dev/ttyS1. Oops. Now his master boot record started with "ATDT" and the university modem pool phone number. I think he implemented permission checking the following day.
It can't be easily used to guess a password. Using a Dvorak keyboard would defeat it if they thought you were using querty, and vice versa. So would putting a timing loop with a good randomizer in the packet transmitting code. Unless you're trying to keep your data safe from the NSA/GCHQ there's little reason to worry.
That their database is still Having Issues. We need a story on what's going on there.
Damn near every open source/free software project requires some sort of registration before you can contribute, and many require it before you can download. Thus, my tongue in cheek post.
I hear that some sourceforge projects also require that you be registered with them before you can contribute. They even require a login! I say we boycott every site that uses sourceforge for developement, in protest of this trampling upon our rights!
What does that have to do with the stroke he died of?
They use different libraries. You can run the apps if you have the libs, but you don't get the desktop integration. You can run plain old X apps on gnome and kde.
Mainly the historical value. People want to look at the code to see how things were done then. It ran on, IIRC, 8 bit machines as well as 16 bit. It might be interesting to port it to a 286, if you could find one, as the 286 probably had as much, or more, power as the PDP-8.
Before I went to bed last night I started xftp downloading the entire kde 2.2 SuSe directory from sourceforge. Now I've just got to get everything compiled and installed. In my copious spare time.
It is, or was, a chain music store.