yeah granted their wireless support sucks but their tg3 based gige cards are ok.
Though I like the dlink 530-T card better. It's $33 CAD, hasa driver in linux [sk98lin] and gets me proper network speeds [I can write over network to another HD at 20MiB/sec as opposed to 9.8MiB/sec or so].
I'm running 2.6.12.5 on all my boxes [which include a Presario laptop, AMDX2 desktop, P4 Prescott desktop, P4 Smithfield desktop, P4 Northwood and a few AMD Semprons] with various configurations [both kernel and hardware].
My only complaint with 2.6.12.x is that the timer is poorly based on TSC [hint: cpufreq changes the TSC rate!!!]. So I keep losing time. Fortunately I've mitigated this through a */10 in my crontab and I run rdate.... it's a poor fix but for now will do.
I've had a few lock ups recently but I tend to blame the GLX module [happens with GL enabled XMMS plugins]. The kernel doesn't lock but XMMS basically rapes the cpu.
As for instability I've been able to boot/run Linux on pretty much anything. Laptops are fairly bad for standards compliance and some cheaper mobos like MSI are not too friendly.
Stick with ASUS or Gigabyte mobos, use dlink or broadcom networking, use nvidia GFX, etc... basically use HW from people who are linux friendly.:-)
So what? People were once by and large very racist and superstitious.
While we still have racism and gullible people around I think we have come enough from the lynch mobs of the 20s.
Just because "the norm" now has become vastly ignorant monopoly driven "consumers" doesn't mean we can't stand out against it.
For example, my personal demon are FPSes. No matter how much I want to play BF2 I won't install [re: buy and install, I won't pirate it either] a copy of windows. It's the principle of the thing.
I won't buy windows because they're not serious about producing an OS and I won't buy BF2 because they're not serious about gaming.
And this is all just contributing to the problem. People should know how to use their computers which includes installing an OS. Not like it's terribly hard, put CD in, follow prompts.
At least if the OS isn't bundled with the computer they have CHOICE!
Remember this "free market" thingy?
Also joe Q may not be super excited about filesystems and kernels but that doesn't make them any less important.
I mean joe Q probably doesn't care much about what in a car makes it fuel efficient either. Doesn't mean that's not important.
This is shortsighted thinking. Cutting out compatibility and stability features [e.g. proper FS, POSIX.1 comaptibility, etc, etc, etc] hurts the users because it limits the sources of software they can run.
Of course that's par for the course for people today. Think of what is only IMMEDIATELY beneficial...
You can carry multiply 256MB sticks with you [or a CD] and just have alternate sources.
When I give a presentation the slides are on a USB key, a CDR, two different websites and my email account. That way the likelyhood of me showing up with nothing to show is next to nothing.
A second hard disk won't help you if the laptop won't boot. You need copies of the material you can access without the laptop otherwise what's the point?
Ingenious my ass. CBV [callback verification] was COMMON back in the 80s as a method of user account verification [e.g. prevent people from making multiple accounts].
Of course back then it wasn't spam it was time. You had to limit users to [say] 30-60 mins per day online so that others could use it. So you limit them to one account per phone number.
Tom
Yet another problem hashcash can solve
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Hashcash doesn't care if you're blind and need special screen reading software.
It makes bulk spamming expensive as well. That may not apply to blog spamming as much but it's still a good way to slow them down.
For every cocky pushy engineer who thinks they deserve 150K/yr plus a company car there is a person behind them 10 years younger who will best them.
I'm sure just as I think [and once in a blue moon demonstrate] how better I am at some development issues then the more senior fellows and that while my talents are growing and maturing there are probably kids right now, ages around 12-13 who will be doing really cool shit by time I'm 30.
People seem to very quickly forget where they came from by time they get an ounce of "authorative stature". More so they forget that technology and knowledge is in a feedback loop.
Just like I am a leap ahead of my parents in computers (I was born around the same time 8080/6502 systems were getting popular) because of when I was born so are the kids today. They're growing up with net access, fast computers, tons of mature databases to draw knowledge off. I mean I didn't have access to citeseer when I started college. Kids do now.
And besides, Nortel did the same brain drain thing and look where that got them... Having PhDs on staff isn't a good thing if they're not creative or willing to put their knowledge to some useful purpose. Now the people at Google have done some cool shit, but so did the people at Nortel 20 years ago.
Just don't forget where you came from, drop the holier-than-thou-I-must-live-like-a-king attitude and you'll be fine.
You can still use/sell/support linux based software without paying this royalty.
Granted, I think Linus should have made this clear from the start. That way people wouldn't be "stuck".
So really, what he should do is grandfather existing users [that are at least positive and linux related, e.g. no porno sites] and then charge new users [or uses] of the name.
If you want a good lan party invest in a 16x gig-e switch or something [they're not expensive] and get proper gig-e cards in your computers [or if you have on board all the better].
That'll get you low-latency high bandwidth networking for cheap.
So some jackass wrote a program to make other jackasses upset. Play a different game. Whoopy do.
This isn't like he wrote a program to screw with medical documents or something.
I mean how many times have I been on an online racing game and the others are just "that much quicker" even if I hold that fucking X button down as hard as I can...
Does that mean they've "wronged me"? No it means the game is screwed up, that somehow people on the same equipment go faster and I don't give a damn.
You're not forced to buy the game, it's not governmental intrusion, what really is the story?
Like the tides of the ocean you can be assured of one constant thing. The price won't stay at 30$ but rise, rise, rise.
Sure the price is low now, demand is low as well. low demand, low price. See how that works?
Also, you can do BPL locally. There are bridges you can buy that put ethernet over the power wires in your home. You get like 5mbps for your troubles [or whatever it is] which is ok to surf the web but if you have file shares it's VERY SLOW.
CAT-5E is easy to route and can get you several hundred megabits per second for cheap.
What you need are STANDARDS in the software development process. E.g. for any given releast in Vx.y [fixed x] the config/command line parameters should be backwards compatible, etc, etc, etc.
From this you can get a bit better stable moving target.
As it stands people are largely just using "Best judgement" which often works but you occasionally get the "Why the fuck did you do that you psyhco motherfuck!" reaction to having a configuration file move three times within 6 months [hey Gentoo, wake the fuck up]
Look how well standards work for RH, this install [FC3] is ludicrously out of date and most of the tools routinely die on standard html, pdf, etc files.... Think I can easily upgrade it and not CHANGE THE ENTIRE OS AROUND?... ya right...
So before we set standards based on "what's on the disk" let's set standards based on "what's in the package".
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All I have to say is they better not rely on P4 based systems [including the Smithfield P4 [that's the dual core 8x0 series with EM64T]].
The 64-bit Intel P4 processors are largely inferior to the AMD64 design in ALL respects. So they better pull a new rabit out of their hats.
Tom
yeah granted their wireless support sucks but their tg3 based gige cards are ok.
Though I like the dlink 530-T card better. It's $33 CAD, hasa driver in linux [sk98lin] and gets me proper network speeds [I can write over network to another HD at 20MiB/sec as opposed to 9.8MiB/sec or so].
Tom
I'm running 2.6.12.5 on all my boxes [which include a Presario laptop, AMDX2 desktop, P4 Prescott desktop, P4 Smithfield desktop, P4 Northwood and a few AMD Semprons] with various configurations [both kernel and hardware].
My only complaint with 2.6.12.x is that the timer is poorly based on TSC [hint: cpufreq changes the TSC rate!!!]. So I keep losing time. Fortunately I've mitigated this through a */10 in my crontab and I run rdate.... it's a poor fix but for now will do.
Tom
I've had a few lock ups recently but I tend to blame the GLX module [happens with GL enabled XMMS plugins]. The kernel doesn't lock but XMMS basically rapes the cpu.
:-)
As for instability I've been able to boot/run Linux on pretty much anything. Laptops are fairly bad for standards compliance and some cheaper mobos like MSI are not too friendly.
Stick with ASUS or Gigabyte mobos, use dlink or broadcom networking, use nvidia GFX, etc... basically use HW from people who are linux friendly.
Tom
As soon as the they stop linking to "we split the story into 30 ad-ridden pages" stories I'll start reading TFA.
ok?
Tom
So what? People were once by and large very racist and superstitious.
While we still have racism and gullible people around I think we have come enough from the lynch mobs of the 20s.
Just because "the norm" now has become vastly ignorant monopoly driven "consumers" doesn't mean we can't stand out against it.
For example, my personal demon are FPSes. No matter how much I want to play BF2 I won't install [re: buy and install, I won't pirate it either] a copy of windows. It's the principle of the thing.
I won't buy windows because they're not serious about producing an OS and I won't buy BF2 because they're not serious about gaming.
Tom
And this is all just contributing to the problem. People should know how to use their computers which includes installing an OS. Not like it's terribly hard, put CD in, follow prompts.
At least if the OS isn't bundled with the computer they have CHOICE!
Remember this "free market" thingy?
Also joe Q may not be super excited about filesystems and kernels but that doesn't make them any less important.
I mean joe Q probably doesn't care much about what in a car makes it fuel efficient either. Doesn't mean that's not important.
Tom
So people can't use the name Linux in their product names... so what.
I can't think of any tools I use day to day that have Linux in the name anyways. BFD.
As for "poor hardware support" think the inverse, "poor support from hardware". I mean who do you think writes the windows drivers anyways?
Oh and stop trolling, your mother would be displeased.
Tom
This is shortsighted thinking. Cutting out compatibility and stability features [e.g. proper FS, POSIX.1 comaptibility, etc, etc, etc] hurts the users because it limits the sources of software they can run.
Of course that's par for the course for people today. Think of what is only IMMEDIATELY beneficial...
Tom
The point is why buy Vista for the ungodly monopolistic price they'll charge if all your going to do is DISABLE all the features?
I'd rather have them spend more time on a POSIX compatibility in the kernel then a spiffy new 3d gui which will be as useful as a belly button.
Tom
I thought Google DOES honor robots.txt files ...
If they do then it takes all of three seconds to tell Google to leave your site.
Tom
If you don't want google crawling your porno website then
1. Don't put it on the web
and/or
2. Password protect the content
I'm sure these people weren't complaining when their poisoned websites were polluting search engine databases to get more hits.
Now the engines are "too good" and they're complaining...
TOO FUCKING BAD!
Tom
You can carry multiply 256MB sticks with you [or a CD] and just have alternate sources.
When I give a presentation the slides are on a USB key, a CDR, two different websites and my email account. That way the likelyhood of me showing up with nothing to show is next to nothing.
A second hard disk won't help you if the laptop won't boot. You need copies of the material you can access without the laptop otherwise what's the point?
Tom
software raid?
It's easy to setup and only requires access to the media [e.g. P/S ATA, SCSI, USB, whatever].
Tom
Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.
...
Really? No shit! Imagine that, and here I was getting ready to see Lilo and Stich 2, or the latest alien clone or
Movie scripts are terribly unoriginal and whenever they do branch out they're always buried in controversy or what not.
Tom
Newsflash, "lower cost of living" and "3rd world" are all just relative.
There are X high tech jobs and Y people capable of doing it [worse is there are Z people claiming they can do it, so it's Y+Z in effect] where X Y.
So it isn't hard to believe that "the jobs" will be moving from one place to another as jobs are effectively load balanced.
Tom
Ingenious my ass. CBV [callback verification] was COMMON back in the 80s as a method of user account verification [e.g. prevent people from making multiple accounts].
Of course back then it wasn't spam it was time. You had to limit users to [say] 30-60 mins per day online so that others could use it. So you limit them to one account per phone number.
Tom
Hashcash doesn't care if you're blind and need special screen reading software.
It makes bulk spamming expensive as well. That may not apply to blog spamming as much but it's still a good way to slow them down.
Tom
For every cocky pushy engineer who thinks they deserve 150K/yr plus a company car there is a person behind them 10 years younger who will best them.
I'm sure just as I think [and once in a blue moon demonstrate] how better I am at some development issues then the more senior fellows and that while my talents are growing and maturing there are probably kids right now, ages around 12-13 who will be doing really cool shit by time I'm 30.
People seem to very quickly forget where they came from by time they get an ounce of "authorative stature". More so they forget that technology and knowledge is in a feedback loop.
Just like I am a leap ahead of my parents in computers (I was born around the same time 8080/6502 systems were getting popular) because of when I was born so are the kids today. They're growing up with net access, fast computers, tons of mature databases to draw knowledge off. I mean I didn't have access to citeseer when I started college. Kids do now.
And besides, Nortel did the same brain drain thing and look where that got them... Having PhDs on staff isn't a good thing if they're not creative or willing to put their knowledge to some useful purpose. Now the people at Google have done some cool shit, but so did the people at Nortel 20 years ago.
Just don't forget where you came from, drop the holier-than-thou-I-must-live-like-a-king attitude and you'll be fine.
Tom
I will because it's for the name only.
...
E.g. LinuxSoft
You can still use/sell/support linux based software without paying this royalty.
Granted, I think Linus should have made this clear from the start. That way people wouldn't be "stuck".
So really, what he should do is grandfather existing users [that are at least positive and linux related, e.g. no porno sites] and then charge new users [or uses] of the name.
Tom
low latency + radio == ... no.
If you want a good lan party invest in a 16x gig-e switch or something [they're not expensive] and get proper gig-e cards in your computers [or if you have on board all the better].
That'll get you low-latency high bandwidth networking for cheap.
Tom
This is just a video game right?
So some jackass wrote a program to make other jackasses upset. Play a different game. Whoopy do.
This isn't like he wrote a program to screw with medical documents or something.
I mean how many times have I been on an online racing game and the others are just "that much quicker" even if I hold that fucking X button down as hard as I can...
Does that mean they've "wronged me"? No it means the game is screwed up, that somehow people on the same equipment go faster and I don't give a damn.
You're not forced to buy the game, it's not governmental intrusion, what really is the story?
Tom
Like the tides of the ocean you can be assured of one constant thing. The price won't stay at 30$ but rise, rise, rise.
Sure the price is low now, demand is low as well. low demand, low price. See how that works?
Also, you can do BPL locally. There are bridges you can buy that put ethernet over the power wires in your home. You get like 5mbps for your troubles [or whatever it is] which is ok to surf the web but if you have file shares it's VERY SLOW.
CAT-5E is easy to route and can get you several hundred megabits per second for cheap.
Tom
Better yet explain what there is to patent about the ipod.
mp3 chip + media == player
WHAT A MARVELOUS IDEA I HOPE NOBODY ELSE THOUGHT ABOUT IT?
How about
cassette tape + decoder == walkman
Same idea, different technology.
Tom
Software is updated all the time.
... ya right...
What you need are STANDARDS in the software development process. E.g. for any given releast in Vx.y [fixed x] the config/command line parameters should be backwards compatible, etc, etc, etc.
From this you can get a bit better stable moving target.
As it stands people are largely just using "Best judgement" which often works but you occasionally get the "Why the fuck did you do that you psyhco motherfuck!" reaction to having a configuration file move three times within 6 months [hey Gentoo, wake the fuck up]
Look how well standards work for RH, this install [FC3] is ludicrously out of date and most of the tools routinely die on standard html, pdf, etc files.... Think I can easily upgrade it and not CHANGE THE ENTIRE OS AROUND?
So before we set standards based on "what's on the disk" let's set standards based on "what's in the package".
Tom