This reminded me of the Androsynth from Star Control.
In the manual for Star Control II (which fleshes out the history from the first game), some car salesman made himself as a televangelist and fought to declare clones sub-human, call them "Androsynth."
I don't mind the clones making those weird-ass transforming ships - the Chmmr ships kick butt in the melee mode.
Hmmm... an article about "secured CDs," and a matching piece on those "online music services"... they're all crap in the industry's currently two-pronged attack against users who know better (anybody else who don't just use plain-old CD players). And the third prong is going to be the word of law (DMCA, SSSCA, whatever).
I'm not surprised if the services will work only with Windoze and/or MacOS (the latter with a bit of complaint-flooding). I have a WinXP box right now, but I'm prepared to use Linux. I don't want to lose my music service account because I am not using the "proper" OS.
Otherwise, they're all crap to me. I'll get my ass back to live shows.
One of my latest worries 'bout using Linux is keeping track of what programs I am (or am not) using in my computer. How do I know what versions of whatever programs am I using? How about libraries? I know Gnucash requires the latest in everything, but that requires major upgrading software-wise - what if every "cool" Linux app has to be like that?
Even better, how about a more... easy-to-understand-for-Joe-Schlub kind of listing for programs to be used by me? Win98 has on default "Program Files," and most installation programs *assume* stuff is going to installed there. However, I'm too dumb to know what is/usr/local/bin,/usr/bin or otherwise.
And I still worry about having older versions of anything at all making a security risk.
No, I will not subject myself to using package formats. I want things to still be compiled to the best of their ability to be fitting with my computer.
Ever since I heard of the "legitimization" of music-selling through the Internet, I have this worry.
(Note: replace the references to Julie Andrews with your favorite artists if necessary.)
Suppose Julie Andrews is going to record a new album (she can sing a bit... just one second more...), and the record label is going to use SDMI to "secure" the music on CD. Suppose the only software that can read SDMI-secured CDs are for Windoze and Macs.
Suppose the online copies of the Julie Andrews album is released in Windows Media format rather than something useful like Vorbis.
Does that mean I'm shit out of luck if I'm using Linux and looking for "street legal" SDMI-compliant software (with the RIAA pulling the Intervideo defense to shut us up)?
Will the RIAA get MP5-armed agents to do a "shoot to kill" at the next Jon Johansen?
Will the SDMI ever be used in the first place to create "racism by reason of operating system?"
Trivia: Ms. Andrews' case against the doctor who wrecked her voice would have been handled by Lewis A. Kaplan if it weren't for the doctor's settlement.
I never cared for any of this stuff. I'm glad tho to see better and better projects available for the rendering world. Perhaps in the future, they'll be the ones striking for higher wages, and hollywood will have to actually finish their beef with the Screen Actors Guild to atleast get *something* into their commercials.
The Screen Actors Guild didn't have a beef with Hollywood. Instead, Hollywood and Broadway is beefin' with Madison Avenue because they're the ones making the product ads. Voiceovers (and character voices) in movies are also done by the SAG, after all.
Whereas Intel has the IA64-ready compiler from the RedHat folks and so on (and puts less emphasis on the x86 compatibility of the Itanium), will AMD's x64 architecture get its own compiler or will the x64 end up as an marginal improvement to a dying breed? --
Since Adaptec charged an arm, leg, and/or a liver for SCSI host adapters as an expansion card, I had to resort to buying a motherboard with an integrated SCSI adapter (It's an Adaptec 2940U2W in an Asus P2B-S) for now. Someday, I'm going to get a new motherboard, but I might need to get a SCSI adapter as a PCI card from Symbios/LSI Logic. Does anybody know if LSI Logic's Ultra2 and Ultra160 adapters is supported in Linux? Thanks a lot.
I (heart, linked to an external RAID array and a couple of CD-ROM drives) SCSI. --
One issue with date pagers...
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If a company from U.S. or the rest of the world can make a date pager product, what kind of functions would they have that the products from China, Japan, and Germany did not have?
Should the date pager information be vague ("I'm a computer hobbyist"), or specific ("RH Linux 6.1, 2.2.14 kernel, bla, bla, bla, Windows users need not apply.")?
[Imagine me walking into an electronics store, holding a date pager and asking a salesman for an exchange.]
Me: I want to send back this date pager. It's defective.
Salesman: What do you mean?
Me: I turned it on, made the appropriate settings, and it still doesn't ring.
Salesman: Okay, I'll take a look. (salesman takes out a date pager tester, and the date pager rings.) Well, it rings when the tester's on. May I look into your settings?
Me: Sure. (The salesman hands me the date pager, and I typed in a passcode to reveal the settings.) Here, you asked for it.
Salesman: (reads the display, and laughs...) I can't believe it!
Me: What happened?
Salesman: You've cranked it up to "Heterosexual male computer user/Linux user/occasional FPS gamer (Q3A and UT)/musicals-enjoying theatregoer' in search for a 'Tall, leggy, multi-talented woman with similar interests and is a fan of Ute Lemper.'" I don't even know this thing had these settings! You should try turning down most, if not all, of the settings so it can ring more often... --
What can Loki do about support for simulator-related game hardware equipment? If one were to make or port a flight sim (driving sim, anything else associated with specialized controllers) for Linux, the optional hardware (joysticks, control panels, pedals, etc.) should be supported, right?
Does A3D have any plans to release the A3D 3D sound programming stuff to be used for Linux? If so, will A3D work with the Loki programmers to get the 3D sound working? --
Yeah, I saw Mr. Lehman talking about the same thing about how he helped built the e-mail services in the Beacon School and getting a static IP even with the bureaucracy in New York City's Board of Ed. (/me applauses.)
However, I still want to see Linux as the client in the computer labs AND the servers. I am even willing to bring my computer from my home office to my workplace (a computer lab in college). Can that be done? --
Well, if the FPS company guy is going to make a gee-whiz 3D VR drivel of a game, why isn't there a rocket launcher!? The only weapons shown are a big machine gun with a VFD display, and dual Uzi's. All of the better games have RL's and a sniper weapon (railgun, etc). How about camping, "l33t5p34k," and all of that lamer stuff that would come from the first three players in the game?
Even worse, I can see the obvious Windoze window interface when the programmers and the Lone Gunmen tried to "hax0r" their way into the computers... No wonder the game has gone bonkers!
On a secondary note, why did the woman who created this "game" have to be so... ashamed for all of this stuff, to make a character that killed the players? Is this another way to say that women geeks should be ashamed of working with such games? --
(Well, here are my favorite parts of the first half of this interview:)
FS: So what's a typical date between you and Anna [Kang]?
John: Lately we've been building some model rockets. I did an interview one time and someone asked me about my teenage years, and I mentioned rockets and bombs and stuff like that. And I was thinking, you know, that was kind of fun, I liked that. Of course nowadays you can just go on the internet and say "I want one of these and one of these and one of these." They now have powerful rockets that we never had back when I was doing it - these high powered rockets with something like 2000 Newton/seconds of thrust!
FS: Do you and Anna ever 1on1 deathmatch?
John: Just yesterday we were out at Apple, and Anna was playing one of the Apple guys - she was kicking his ass. I was in a meeting with some other people, so they were playing for a while, and she was just waling on him. But then when I finished that meeting, they snuck me into that guy's room and they sat me down and I came back to a narrow victory. I expected to hear her cursing from the other side of the building. She still thought it was the other guy magically acquiring skills at the end of the game!
(end of favorite-part highlight.)
People used to blabber on about how "a rich guy like BillG of Micros~1 can find the right woman, bla, bla, bla, becuz he's rich, etc." when they tell me that I should stop whining about being single. Well, this is one relationship that sounds more interesting than that of BillG. For one thing, he is still improving himself as a programmer (instead of being "Chief whip-cracker/slavedriver") and he has to spend time with the missus. Now I want people to tell me about John Carmack and Anna Kang when they tell me to stop whining about being single. --
[A Marshall Goldberg -- mgoldberg at sdesigns dot com (I'll spamproof the address) has replied to me regarding a letter I have written about this situation. Take a look.]
Dear Kit,
Thank you for your kind letter.
It is our intention to release a fully legitimate, licensed and legal driver and navigator for DVD playback under Linux. For technical and legal reasons, we cannot do this with our Hollywood Plus product, only with our new NetStream 2000 product. There is no logical argument which you can provide me which will convince me to break the law or the legitimate copyright and patent agreements to which we abide.
No company in the world, except for Sigma Designs, has announced support for DVD under Linux. Other companies have offered to support an Open Source effort, but as you know, the legality of these efforts is currently under litigation, and those products do not have complete feature sets. They cannot navigate DVD menus and take advantage of all of the features of DVD.
[Poster's note: I have quoted a bit of the introduction from the OpenDVD.org - Journalist's fact sheet. This paragraph below is a response to the first few statements about the Linux user's privilege to play DVD's in Linux.]
You mentioned in your quote, when you started your letter, that the DVD industry has refused to support Linux. This is untrue, as you know that we have announced support for Linux.
When The Matrix was released on DVD, there were two scenes were some Dolby Digital decoders skipped audio for 1/2 of a second. Our customers demanded that we fix the problem, and we did. This is the kind of product we make. It is the best. It is the one which gets the "Kick Ass" awards.
That's about all I can say, except that I get these requests every day, and it is very unfortunate that the Linux community has singled us out to attack, when we are the ones who hired the programmers and spent the money to develop a product for Linux.
Maybe you can come and visit us at LinuxWorld.
Marshall
[P.S: Well, what do you think, kids? I've heard of the name of the product, so we must Politely ask about it in LinuxWorld, eh?] --
I want to read about companies that have support, not just anounce it. And new OS projects that are starting or are significantly changing. Is IBM doing anything for Linux? Does Creative have linux software? I want to hear about companies offering software not just drivers. Does Iomega have Gnome Zip utilities? Who is GPLing anything?
Creative Labs has the Creative Open Source web page with the Sound Blaster Live! sound card module (the emu10k1).
I may be the only one but I bought the Linux Version of Quake because ID is supporting Linux not just announcing support. I could give feed back with my $$.
You're not the only one, buddy! I bought Q3A for Linux too. Now if only I can get my tin box soon...
Off-topic: Assuming the Sigma people did finish their Linux-compatible DVD decoder product, what will the OpenDVD and LiViD people think of it? If the Linux software to run the decoder is GPL'd (assuming the decryption engine is done in hardware only -- programming calls to access the engine, but not the engine itself), will the OpenDVD/LiViD people still be satisfied with the source code? --
I used to use the Diamond Monster Sound MX300, until I got myself a copy of Quake 3 Arena, which I need actual game sounds instead of the stuttering that came out with the Open Sound System stuff at the time. Anyways, I have read about Creative Labs' drivers for Linux, so I bought the Sound Blaster Live! sound card and installed the appropriate drivers (through a LinuxNewbie tutorial) and I'm content as Tux itself!
Has anybody else here had that kind of experience leading to the use of some other sound cards besides Aureal's stuff?
When the heck will the A3D sound stuff work with Q3A? I thought that's more of a vestige from the programming with the Windows edition of Q3A, knowing that Aureal didn't do a thing for the A3D 3D sound stuff for linux yet. --
I'm using one "gaming modem" from 3com right now. The 3Com "Internet Gaming Modem" and the "56k PCI Faxmodem" are hardware modems that will work with Linux. I checked the boxes for both of them, and the system requirements say so (Minimum System Requirements: IBM® compatible 486DX or Pentium processor with available 2.1 PCI slot). Just use the latter modem (56k PCI Faxmodem) and go nuts, kids!
What should I do to work with the new modules?
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I've just erased all that is Microsoft so I live with only Linux from now on. I have just installed RedHat 6.1 with the updates and whatnot from a few hours ago... I'm downloading the linux-2.2.14.tar.gz file (not the.patch file) from ftp.us.kernel.org, and I'm reading a page on upgrading the kernel from Linuxnewbie.org at the same time. However, I can't put my finger on how to properly install and use the new 2.2.14-bundled modules. I know the computer will "modularize" everything else when I follow the Linuxnewbie directions, but I don't know how to make it so that I am using ONLY the latest module for my Adaptec SCSI controller (the "aic7xxx" module) and nothing more. The last time I used Linux, I remembered something to the effect of "the aic7xxx module is already loaded (possibly the 2.2.12-20 version, from an initrd file)" during the bootup sequence. Obviously I screwed up something back then. Even more, I will have to take care of the 3dfx Voodoo3 stuff and the Sound Blaster Live! support for the latest kernel as well. What should I do? --
I work at a computer lab in a library, an I for sure find it a little piece of hell when certain id10t users cross my way. A healthy number of users download the latest of what they use for their chat stuff even though it's against campus policy to do so. Another chunk of these (lusers) just save their stuff to the computers (not to disk), not paying attention to the "Save As" dialog with the file location. Most of these folks just rip the disk out of the computer (all running Windoze 95 - ECCH!) when the applications (M$ Office stuff, etc.) are still reading the disk, giving me the "Oh my God, is that a blue-screen!?" fit (and possible disk errors). This kind of stuff doesn't happen much to the older computer lab across the campus, but it happens with the "newer" library computer lab where I worked. Why is my workplace the "roach motel" for the ignorant masses?
Someday, this kind of ignorance and stupidity will bite these users in the ass. We'll be there to see this happening. --
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The only thing I know about the nForce2's sound part is the connection to the RealTek ALC650 audio CODEC/a?. If it's not the best chip out there for throwing MCP-T output to the analog connectors, then that's too bad.
I think the best thing to do is use the nForce2's SPDIF output and work from there. What receivers are good with a non-home-theatre PC setup?
This reminded me of the Androsynth from Star Control.
In the manual for Star Control II (which fleshes out the history from the first game), some car salesman made himself as a televangelist and fought to declare clones sub-human, call them "Androsynth."
I don't mind the clones making those weird-ass transforming ships - the Chmmr ships kick butt in the melee mode.
This is for the folks who have the "Space Quest Collection" (Yes, I've bought the real thing in eBay)...
How do I get the VGA edition of the first game to start working? Every time I started the game in Win98, it will crash... Will this happen in WinXP?
Hmmm... an article about "secured CDs," and a matching piece on those "online music services"... they're all crap in the industry's currently two-pronged attack against users who know better (anybody else who don't just use plain-old CD players). And the third prong is going to be the word of law (DMCA, SSSCA, whatever).
I'm not surprised if the services will work only with Windoze and/or MacOS (the latter with a bit of complaint-flooding). I have a WinXP box right now, but I'm prepared to use Linux. I don't want to lose my music service account because I am not using the "proper" OS.
Otherwise, they're all crap to me. I'll get my ass back to live shows.
I'm still afraid these CDs will blow up my DVD-ROM drive or something of the sorts - is that possibility still true?
One of my latest worries 'bout using Linux is keeping track of what programs I am (or am not) using in my computer. How do I know what versions of whatever programs am I using? How about libraries? I know Gnucash requires the latest in everything, but that requires major upgrading software-wise - what if every "cool" Linux app has to be like that?
/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin or otherwise.
Even better, how about a more... easy-to-understand-for-Joe-Schlub kind of listing for programs to be used by me? Win98 has on default "Program Files," and most installation programs *assume* stuff is going to installed there. However, I'm too dumb to know what is
And I still worry about having older versions of anything at all making a security risk.
No, I will not subject myself to using package formats. I want things to still be compiled to the best of their ability to be fitting with my computer.
I am not a person of the law, so I'll need some clarification to whether or not this proposed bill will impact Chapter 12 of
Whether or not any music-selling web site selling online recordings from any music publisher is not the beginning of my worries (though I could save money). My living nightmare of a copy-protected (Microsoft/AOLTW/Universal only?) recording of Julie Andrews' post-recovery voice in the year 20?? will still happen. And I would still stare down the barrel of an M4 if I want to descramble said recording so I can play it back with a computer running a high-performance free-software OS. Since there's no corporate media backing/approval with said OSes, how the hell can I do such a thing legally?
(Note: replace the references to Julie Andrews with your favorite artists if necessary.)
Suppose Julie Andrews is going to record a new album (she can sing a bit... just one second more...), and the record label is going to use SDMI to "secure" the music on CD. Suppose the only software that can read SDMI-secured CDs are for Windoze and Macs.
Suppose the online copies of the Julie Andrews album is released in Windows Media format rather than something useful like Vorbis.
Does that mean I'm shit out of luck if I'm using Linux and looking for "street legal" SDMI-compliant software (with the RIAA pulling the Intervideo defense to shut us up)?
Will the RIAA get MP5-armed agents to do a "shoot to kill" at the next Jon Johansen?
Will the SDMI ever be used in the first place to create "racism by reason of operating system?"
Trivia: Ms. Andrews' case against the doctor who wrecked her voice would have been handled by Lewis A. Kaplan if it weren't for the doctor's settlement.
The Screen Actors Guild didn't have a beef with Hollywood. Instead, Hollywood and Broadway is beefin' with Madison Avenue because they're the ones making the product ads. Voiceovers (and character voices) in movies are also done by the SAG, after all.
Regarding the possibility of movie-related computer firms (like Manex Visual Effects) having unions: see NYT on High Tech Unions and and find out if it's a good idea.
The web site for that SGI-made beauty is here (http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/), and a picture of it is here (http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/ima g es/2400L.jpg).
Whereas Intel has the IA64-ready compiler from the RedHat folks and so on (and puts less emphasis on the x86 compatibility of the Itanium), will AMD's x64 architecture get its own compiler or will the x64 end up as an marginal improvement to a dying breed?
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I (heart, linked to an external RAID array and a couple of CD-ROM drives) SCSI.
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If a company from U.S. or the rest of the world can make a date pager product, what kind of functions would they have that the products from China, Japan, and Germany did not have?
Should the date pager information be vague ("I'm a computer hobbyist"), or specific ("RH Linux 6.1, 2.2.14 kernel, bla, bla, bla, Windows users need not apply.")?
[Imagine me walking into an electronics store, holding a date pager and asking a salesman for an exchange.]
Me: I want to send back this date pager. It's defective.
Salesman: What do you mean?
Me: I turned it on, made the appropriate settings, and it still doesn't ring.
Salesman: Okay, I'll take a look. (salesman takes out a date pager tester, and the date pager rings.) Well, it rings when the tester's on. May I look into your settings?
Me: Sure. (The salesman hands me the date pager, and I typed in a passcode to reveal the settings.) Here, you asked for it.
Salesman: (reads the display, and laughs...) I can't believe it!
Me: What happened?
Salesman: You've cranked it up to "Heterosexual male computer user/Linux user/occasional FPS gamer (Q3A and UT)/musicals-enjoying theatregoer' in search for a 'Tall, leggy, multi-talented woman with similar interests and is a fan of Ute Lemper.'" I don't even know this thing had these settings! You should try turning down most, if not all, of the settings so it can ring more often...
--
What can Loki do about support for simulator-related game hardware equipment? If one were to make or port a flight sim (driving sim, anything else associated with specialized controllers) for Linux, the optional hardware (joysticks, control panels, pedals, etc.) should be supported, right?
Does A3D have any plans to release the A3D 3D sound programming stuff to be used for Linux? If so, will A3D work with the Loki programmers to get the 3D sound working?
--
Yeah, I saw Mr. Lehman talking about the same thing about how he helped built the e-mail services in the Beacon School and getting a static IP even with the bureaucracy in New York City's Board of Ed. (/me applauses.)
However, I still want to see Linux as the client in the computer labs AND the servers. I am even willing to bring my computer from my home office to my workplace (a computer lab in college). Can that be done?
--
Even worse, I can see the obvious Windoze window interface when the programmers and the Lone Gunmen tried to "hax0r" their way into the computers... No wonder the game has gone bonkers!
On a secondary note, why did the woman who created this "game" have to be so... ashamed for all of this stuff, to make a character that killed the players? Is this another way to say that women geeks should be ashamed of working with such games?
--
FS: So what's a typical date between you and Anna [Kang]?
John: Lately we've been building some model rockets. I did an interview one time and someone asked me about my teenage years, and I mentioned rockets and bombs and stuff like that. And I was thinking, you know, that was kind of fun, I liked that. Of course nowadays you can just go on the internet and say "I want one of these and one of these and one of these." They now have powerful rockets that we never had back when I was doing it - these high powered rockets with something like 2000 Newton/seconds of thrust!
FS: Do you and Anna ever 1on1 deathmatch?
John: Just yesterday we were out at Apple, and Anna was playing one of the Apple guys - she was kicking his ass. I was in a meeting with some other people, so they were playing for a while, and she was just waling on him. But then when I finished that meeting, they snuck me into that guy's room and they sat me down and I came back to a narrow victory. I expected to hear her cursing from the other side of the building. She still thought it was the other guy magically acquiring skills at the end of the game!
(end of favorite-part highlight.)
People used to blabber on about how "a rich guy like BillG of Micros~1 can find the right woman, bla, bla, bla, becuz he's rich, etc." when they tell me that I should stop whining about being single. Well, this is one relationship that sounds more interesting than that of BillG. For one thing, he is still improving himself as a programmer (instead of being "Chief whip-cracker/slavedriver") and he has to spend time with the missus. Now I want people to tell me about John Carmack and Anna Kang when they tell me to stop whining about being single.
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Dear Kit,
Thank you for your kind letter.
It is our intention to release a fully legitimate, licensed and legal driver
and navigator for DVD playback under Linux. For technical and legal reasons,
we cannot do this with our Hollywood Plus product, only with our new
NetStream 2000 product. There is no logical argument which you can provide
me which will convince me to break the law or the legitimate copyright and
patent agreements to which we abide.
No company in the world, except for Sigma Designs, has announced support for
DVD under Linux. Other companies have offered to support an Open Source
effort, but as you know, the legality of these efforts is currently under
litigation, and those products do not have complete feature sets. They
cannot navigate DVD menus and take advantage of all of the features of DVD.
[Poster's note: I have quoted a bit of the introduction from the OpenDVD.org - Journalist's fact sheet. This paragraph below is a response to the first few statements about the Linux user's privilege to play DVD's in Linux.]
You mentioned in your quote, when you started your letter, that the DVD
industry has refused to support Linux. This is untrue, as you know that we
have announced support for Linux.
When The Matrix was released on DVD, there were two scenes were some Dolby
Digital decoders skipped audio for 1/2 of a second. Our customers demanded
that we fix the problem, and we did. This is the kind of product we make. It
is the best. It is the one which gets the "Kick Ass" awards.
That's about all I can say, except that I get these requests every day, and
it is very unfortunate that the Linux community has singled us out to
attack, when we are the ones who hired the programmers and spent the money
to develop a product for Linux.
Maybe you can come and visit us at LinuxWorld.
Marshall
[P.S: Well, what do you think, kids? I've heard of the name of the product, so we must Politely ask about it in LinuxWorld, eh?]
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Creative Labs has the Creative Open Source web page with the Sound Blaster Live! sound card module (the emu10k1).
I may be the only one but I bought the Linux Version of Quake because ID is supporting Linux not just announcing support. I could give feed back with my $$.
You're not the only one, buddy! I bought Q3A for Linux too. Now if only I can get my tin box soon...
Off-topic: Assuming the Sigma people did finish their Linux-compatible DVD decoder product, what will the OpenDVD and LiViD people think of it? If the Linux software to run the decoder is GPL'd (assuming the decryption engine is done in hardware only -- programming calls to access the engine, but not the engine itself), will the OpenDVD/LiViD people still be satisfied with the source code?
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I guess the pages for Microsoft's visual programming stuff will smell like bad spaghetti.
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Has anybody else here had that kind of experience leading to the use of some other sound cards besides Aureal's stuff?
When the heck will the A3D sound stuff work with Q3A? I thought that's more of a vestige from the programming with the Windows edition of Q3A, knowing that Aureal didn't do a thing for the A3D 3D sound stuff for linux yet.
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The Winmodems are not modems web page has posted a letter on how to work these babies.
By the way, get rid of the "exec" part if this is used in the rc.serial file and start with "setserial" and the rest of the settings.
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Thanks a lot for that advice.
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I've just erased all that is Microsoft so I live with only Linux from now on. I have just installed RedHat 6.1 with the updates and whatnot from a few hours ago... I'm downloading the linux-2.2.14.tar.gz file (not the .patch file) from ftp.us.kernel.org, and I'm reading a page on upgrading the kernel from Linuxnewbie.org at the same time. However, I can't put my finger on how to properly install and use the new 2.2.14-bundled modules. I know the computer will "modularize" everything else when I follow the Linuxnewbie directions, but I don't know how to make it so that I am using ONLY the latest module for my Adaptec SCSI controller (the "aic7xxx" module) and nothing more. The last time I used Linux, I remembered something to the effect of "the aic7xxx module is already loaded (possibly the 2.2.12-20 version, from an initrd file)" during the bootup sequence. Obviously I screwed up something back then. Even more, I will have to take care of the 3dfx Voodoo3 stuff and the Sound Blaster Live! support for the latest kernel as well. What should I do?
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I work at a computer lab in a library, an I for sure find it a little piece of hell when certain id10t users cross my way. A healthy number of users download the latest of what they use for their chat stuff even though it's against campus policy to do so. Another chunk of these (lusers) just save their stuff to the computers (not to disk), not paying attention to the "Save As" dialog with the file location. Most of these folks just rip the disk out of the computer (all running Windoze 95 - ECCH!) when the applications (M$ Office stuff, etc.) are still reading the disk, giving me the "Oh my God, is that a blue-screen!?" fit (and possible disk errors). This kind of stuff doesn't happen much to the older computer lab across the campus, but it happens with the "newer" library computer lab where I worked. Why is my workplace the "roach motel" for the ignorant masses?
Someday, this kind of ignorance and stupidity will bite these users in the ass. We'll be there to see this happening.
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