Then installing Linux [...] will give them a modern, supported, OS with a good and easy to use word processor (Open Office) for free.
OpenOffice is dead.
LibreOffice is the better Office clone. (I don't understand why so many students torrent MSOffice when they could get LO legally for free.)
I'm trying to switch over to linux, but only if I can run lotro. I'm hoping eventually swtor will play in wine...but right now I'll be happy just playing lotro.
I was under the impression that "Lord of the Rings Online" worked well in Wine 1.4, is it not the case? http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=4891
What GPU do you use? and what distro are you running?
In my opinion, in most (democratic) countries, the current voting system is too simple, and this simplicity favors the two major ruling parties, preventing all alternative voices from gaining any traction.
There are other (more complex) voting systems. I believe that some form of graphical user interface is necessary, should one ever intend to introduce any of these more complex systems.
None of this solves the software patents problem in the USA. The software patents problem isn't caused by some bad apple applications slipping through the procedures. The problem is that software has to conform to standards (interfaces and data formats), and these are being covered by thickets of patents.
I think everyone concerned about this sad state of affairs should read Xiph's comments to the FTC Patent Standards Workshop. Their submission focuses on how software patents affect Standards Setting Organizations.
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
This case has already been judged in France. You are acually entitled to the full retail price of all programs installed on your pc. Of course the refund policies never refund this much. You have to go to court to get it.
For several months, I've been looking for a hardware MPEG-2 encoder on a PCI card with SDI input that comes with Linux 2.6 drivers. Is someone aware of such a product?
Not sure that with gigahertz we got to enjoy the benefits. Word on my 233MHz G3 worked as well as it did on 800MHz G4 as it does on my 2x2GHz G5 and as well as it does on my 3.2GHz P4.
Faster processors do help in several areas, e.g. video and audio codecs. Have you tried H.264 encoding on your trusty G3?
IIRC Linus has said that back when he started coding Linux that he was not aware of the *BSD project (Free only at that point I think but am not sure) and that if he had known of it he would have simply used that.
I don't think any BSD code was publicly available when Torvalds started to work on Linux; v0.01 was released in September 1991, while 386BSD v0.0 (FreeBSD's ancestor) was not released until March 1992.
[...] a player that does a better codec (MPEG-4 or H.264)
Just a nit.
When you say "MPEG-4", I think what you really mean is MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, i.e. the profile used in numerous products like XviD, DivX, 3ivx, FFmpeg, and Nero Digital.
And H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 and Advanced Video Coding, is defined in the MPEG-4 specification as well.
In fact I am so happy with HT, that I am going to change my desktop to one, as it is a Linux machine with lots of running apps at the same time. Not mentionning that it is also a devel station with SQL+apache that benefited with HT according to my experience.
(Well it is time to upgrade anyway, and I choose HT over non HT).
Have you looked into socket-939 dual-core Athlons? Specifically, the Athlon64 X2 3800+ (2 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache per core) is available for $320.
All of these projects are hosted on the Red Hat Sourceware site, Red Hat provides infrastructure support. Some of the projects are developed by Red Hat engineers, as official Red Hat projects. Many of them are maintained by Red Hat engineers on their own time, with the work on these projects done mostly by volunteers on the net.
[I want] low power dissipation. This value has dramatically increased in the past few years, in the name of the top speed race, but at the price of our tranquility.
This is most definitely not true, e.g. take the different Athlon cores, and look at the fastest revision.
K7 core = 50 W @ 700 MHz (250 nm process)
K75 core = 65 W @ 1 GHz (180 nm)
Thunderbird = 72 W @ 1.4 GHz (180 nm)
Palomino = 72 W @ 1.73 GHz (180 nm)
Thoroughbred = 68.3 W @ 2.17 GHz (130 nm)
Barton = 76.8 W @ 2.2 GHz (130 nm)
You say you would settle for even a 1 GHz CPU. Have you considered Athlon XP-M CPUs?
AMD presented low-voltage (1.05-1.25V core voltage) Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 1800+, 1700+, 1600+, 1500+ and 1400+, based on Thoroughbred core, featuring ~25W TDP, and Barton-based 1800+ in microPGA package mainly for ultra light notebooks.
For performance notebook market AMD announced Barton-based Athlon XP-M 2400+ and 2500+ with 512Kb L2 cache along with AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+, 2500+, 2400+, 2200+ and 2000+ in OPGA package with 256Kb L2 cache. AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ and 2200+ are now available in both traditional mobile (~35W TDP), and desktop (~70W TDP) series.
In France, you can buy an Athlon XP-M 2200+ for 90 EUR. In the US, you can buy a 2400+ (1.80GHz, Barton core, Socket A, 266 MHz FSB, 512 KB L2 cache) for $80.
It will operate in the frequency range 5.18 Ghz and 5.32 Ghz.
Will 802.11n not operate in the U-NII upper band? (802.11a provides 4 20-MHz channels centered on 5.745, 5.765, 5.785, and 5.805 GHz.) Thus, will 802.11n only operate in 8 out of the 12 channels provided by 802.11a? (For reference, 802.11a also provides 8 20-MHz channels centered on 5.18, 5.20, 5.22, 5.24, 5.26, 5.28, 5.30, and 5.32 GHz.)
But it's really common for an industry standard to contain patented technologies. For example, many emerging communications standards are employing Turbo codes. Now these were invented quite recently, by some French researchers, and they perform incredibly well. But in order to implement these standards, you (or your supplier, or their supplier) have to pay royalties.
The other models - 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ are rated to operate at 65W while the 2700+ is rated to operate at 35W.
The desktop replacement (DTR) processors (3000, 3200, 3400) dissipate 81.5 W at full speed (TDP in Max P-State, 52.9 A @ 1.5 V). The mobile processors (2800, 3000, 3200) dissipate 62 W at full speed (also TDP in Max P-State, 42.7 A @ 1.4 V).
Where did you find the data sheet for the new low power cores? I couldn't locate it.
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They say that Intel is still manufacturing 386 processors for those who want them, but using a much smaller scale (perhaps 0.2 micron or whatever) because that's the only fabs they have nowadays.
What they say is true:-)
Intel calls them mature processors, and they are now sold to the embedded market. You can still buy a 486, a 386, or even a 186.
Comcast is, hands down, the largest spam source of the Internet with approximately 640 million messages every day. Personally, 25% of the spam I receive comes from the Comcast network. Of course, users are unaware that the latest virus has turned their computer into an open proxy sending millions of messages every day. I hope other major ISPs such as Road Runner (180 million), AT&T (150 million), and AOL (140 million) follow suit, and disconnect open proxies and zombies when they are found.
Wait just a second here. Do you mean to tell me that Intel and AMD still don't have no-execute flags for their page tables?
You need to pay attention. AMD's Opteron has been available for 10 months now. Processors that support the AMD64 instruction set architecture (e.g. Opteron) do have a per-page no-execute bit.
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Then installing Linux [...] will give them a modern, supported, OS with a good and easy to use word processor (Open Office) for free.
OpenOffice is dead.
LibreOffice is the better Office clone.
(I don't understand why so many students torrent MSOffice when they could get LO legally for free.)
Consider character code 0xB5 (181 decimal) in ISO/IEC 8859-1 (micro sign).
I was under the impression that "Lord of the Rings Online" worked well in Wine 1.4, is it not the case?
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=4891
What GPU do you use? and what distro are you running?
There are other (more complex) voting systems. I believe that some form of graphical user interface is necessary, should one ever intend to introduce any of these more complex systems.
I think everyone concerned about this sad state of affairs should read Xiph's comments to the FTC Patent Standards Workshop. Their submission focuses on how software patents affect Standards Setting Organizations.
Please do read Daniel J. Solove's article:
"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
You might try Flashblock
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
cf. Anatomy of real-time Linux architectures and the Real-Time Linux Wiki
Could you please provide a reference?
For several months, I've been looking for a hardware MPEG-2 encoder on a PCI card with SDI input that comes with Linux 2.6 drivers. Is someone aware of such a product?
I don't think any BSD code was publicly available when Torvalds started to work on Linux; v0.01 was released in September 1991, while 386BSD v0.0 (FreeBSD's ancestor) was not released until March 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/hist
When you say "MPEG-4", I think what you really mean is MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, i.e. the profile used in numerous products like XviD, DivX, 3ivx, FFmpeg, and Nero Digital.
And H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 and Advanced Video Coding, is defined in the MPEG-4 specification as well.
K7 core = 50 W @ 700 MHz (250 nm process)
K75 core = 65 W @ 1 GHz (180 nm)
Thunderbird = 72 W @ 1.4 GHz (180 nm)
Palomino = 72 W @ 1.73 GHz (180 nm)
Thoroughbred = 68.3 W @ 2.17 GHz (130 nm)
Barton = 76.8 W @ 2.2 GHz (130 nm)
You say you would settle for even a 1 GHz CPU. Have you considered Athlon XP-M CPUs?
In France, you can buy an Athlon XP-M 2200+ for 90 EUR. In the US, you can buy a 2400+ (1.80GHz, Barton core, Socket A, 266 MHz FSB, 512 KB L2 cache) for $80.AMD Athlon 64 Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet
Where did you find the data sheet for the new low power cores? I couldn't locate it.
Intel calls them mature processors, and they are now sold to the embedded market. You can still buy a 486, a 386, or even a 186.
The Itanium 2 is well ahead of every other architecture when it comes to SPECfp2000. Meanwhile, the Pentium 4 EE remains the SPECint2000 king.
Comcast is, hands down, the largest spam source of the Internet with approximately 640 million messages every day. Personally, 25% of the spam I receive comes from the Comcast network. Of course, users are unaware that the latest virus has turned their computer into an open proxy sending millions of messages every day. I hope other major ISPs such as Road Runner (180 million), AT&T (150 million), and AOL (140 million) follow suit, and disconnect open proxies and zombies when they are found.
See AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
5.6.1 No Execute (NX) Bit (page 173)
Search for Prescott New Instructions Software Developer's Guide on Intel's site.