It may not be graphical, but after no more than an hour or two I was very comfortable with installing packages. I've not looked back to the package hell that's associated with rpms since.
After reading about the DeCSS case I finally decided to sit down and devote some time to getting DVD playback on my FreeBSD system. Xine seems to work pretty well. I'd prefer seing Xine and mplayer move forward rather than have WMP.
This won't be the case with 5.0. Its a well know fact that the maintainers of the project have said that 5.0 is not going to be ready for production or other machines that are critical. They've asked people to hold off and wait for 5.1 or even 5.2.
Yes, of course when March 31st 2005 rolls around all win2k servers will immediately shut down and require you to upgrade. * Mainstream support includes all the support options and programs that customers receive today, such as no-charge incident support, paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis, support for warranty claims, and hotfix support.
** Extended support includes assisted support that may be charged on an hourly basis and can include hotfix support. To receive non-security hotfix support, an extended hotfix support contract must be purchased within the first 90 days following the end of a product's mainstream support phase. Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the extended phase.
Oh wait, your complaint was total BS? I'm sorry. As you can see above, security updates will still be provided until the Extended Support period ends in 2007. You can't really expect MS to continue support for a product that's 7 years old, can you? How many Linux distros offer you support on your early 2.0 kernel?
I continue to wonder why every kernel release is considered news. Those who follow Linux development no doubt are well aware of the status of the kernel.
Welcome to slashdot! Don't expect articles posted here to actually represent what the original article says. Slashdot is even more sensationalist than most other news media.
Try visiting the xbox media player site again. You'll find the authors of that site have explicitly said that the purpose of xbmp is not to replace XP. What a bunch of raving fools. I hope one day the "articles" here will state facts, not meaningless opinions of some moron who's life goal is to shut down MS.
The following is from http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/news_latest.p hp
23-11-2002, 13:59 (Post by Shadow_Mx) XBMP2.0 causing confusions.
Well, I was directed to Slashdot.org to see a news article about XBMP in which it is compared to MCE.
Quote "If you can't afford the new Windows XP Media Center edition, why not grab yourself a modded XBOX, and check out the XBOX Media Player 2.0. The official site has some screen shots and previews. I am sure Gates will be real upset about this one. Somehow $300 for an x-box setup is cheaper than the $2000 XP boxes."
Please, people, don't give into that, XBMP 2.0 only has the MCE look, it can't record dvds, it can't record TV shows, it can't display TV on your Xbox... It only is a Media Player for the Xbox.
This article has to have used the lamest testing procedure anyone could have come up with.
Not only does it not address the issues such as increased temperature, increased power consumption, but every single test they performed was a high priority number cruncher.
You can, and will, see performance degredation in various aspects of your usage.
Did the author forget that other processes may be running at low priority as well and will be starved of cpu time? One that comes to mind and has been used as an example in the past is garbage collection in Java applications. The garbage collection process runs at low priority and simply won't happen.
Another issue is that it takes time to switch between tasks, the OS schedule has much more to deal with when running distributed computing processes. Not to mention the many megabytes of memory consumed by Folding@home.
While I support distributed computing applications I also think these tests are a poor picture of what really happens. Several others have already discussed the security concerns, so I won't even bother with that.
Its simply that you're given a certain amount of resources, you're intentionally getting around the system which insures you don't get more and you're therefore stealing. It's really pretty simple.
I think the difference between the targets of the article, and the DoS situations you mention, is that the Internet as a whole is responsible for bandwidth based DoS attacks and it should act proactively to stop them. They're also far easier to detect.
"Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper."
I think a friend of mine summed things up when he responded to this statement with: "... it's sad, whats really sad is most of the people that say that probably use windows to play all their warezed l33t games..."
I hope you don't see this as a troll, but I think the numbers will show that most people who do run Windows on their laptops dwarf the number of folks who actually end up being productive on their Linux running laptops.
Talk linux and opensource all you want, it doesn't change the fact that you're running a pirated copy of Windows and Office, not to mention all the games you enjoy.
Hopefully things will shape up as -CURRENT has gone into feature freeze and will soon go into code freeze in preperation for 5.0 Release, but don't expect 5.0 to be too stable.
There's not a whole lot of Linux distros that have been using 3.2 for 'quite a bit of time now'. Any of them that are have been released in the past month or two. With FreeBSD 5 scheduled to be released in the next two months (late November / early December). There's no reason to push such an unstable compiler to 4.x. FWIW 5 will ship with atleast 3.2.1 as its had for the past few months.
Hyperthreading needs to be used carefully. Certain applications you will end up with signifigant performance decreases with it enabled. Hyperthreading adds additional overhead to threading models and schedulers.
You may also want to build it without chatzilla, and mail/news. This not only improves the build time, but seems to make it faster. There's also galeon which is marginally faster than the mozilla built from ports.
Did you forget that MS patched the bugs exploited by Codered 18 months prior to codered's birth? If you want to place blame, blame the folks running those machines.
With the exception of your gripe about price of windows, you've obviously not played with anything since Windows 98/ME. Windows 2000 and XP have none of those issues you've mentioned. XP runs considerably faster than 2k even on low end pII based systems. It comes with a defrag tool that works just fine and handles this on its own without you noticing. I've never really had a problem that I've had to solve with a reinstall, and services are pretty much tuned for what most people will use the OS for.
I enjoy running FreeBSD and I love the group of people surrounding the project because they're not closed minded morons like those of the Linux camp. If you're going to take every opportunity to shoot down Windows then I suggest you go back to running Linux. With this said, I do realize that those with the loudest mouths behind Linux don't necessarilly represent the whole, but they sure make the group look like a bunch of raging lunatics.
Wireless networks are widely used outside of acadamia. I don't understand why you think they're not. Cruising around any metro city you're likely to fine numerous wireless accesspoints.
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It may not be graphical, but after no more than an hour or two I was very comfortable with installing packages. I've not looked back to the package hell that's associated with rpms since.
I installed libdvdcss as well as xine-dvdnav-plugin and all was fine, all be it a bit choppy on my lowly Celeron 400.
After reading about the DeCSS case I finally decided to sit down and devote some time to getting DVD playback on my FreeBSD system. Xine seems to work pretty well. I'd prefer seing Xine and mplayer move forward rather than have WMP.
As the subject says.
This won't be the case with 5.0. Its a well know fact that the maintainers of the project have said that 5.0 is not going to be ready for production or other machines that are critical. They've asked people to hold off and wait for 5.1 or even 5.2.
Yes, of course when March 31st 2005 rolls around all win2k servers will immediately shut down and require you to upgrade.
* Mainstream support includes all the support options and programs that customers receive today, such as no-charge incident support, paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis, support for warranty claims, and hotfix support.
** Extended support includes assisted support that may be charged on an hourly basis and can include hotfix support. To receive non-security hotfix support, an extended hotfix support contract must be purchased within the first 90 days following the end of a product's mainstream support phase. Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the extended phase.
Oh wait, your complaint was total BS? I'm sorry. As you can see above, security updates will still be provided until the Extended Support period ends in 2007. You can't really expect MS to continue support for a product that's 7 years old, can you? How many Linux distros offer you support on your early 2.0 kernel?
I continue to wonder why every kernel release is considered news. Those who follow Linux development no doubt are well aware of the status of the kernel.
Welcome to slashdot! Don't expect articles posted here to actually represent what the original article says. Slashdot is even more sensationalist than most other news media.
Try visiting the xbox media player site again. You'll find the authors of that site have explicitly said that the purpose of xbmp is not to replace XP. What a bunch of raving fools. I hope one day the "articles" here will state facts, not meaningless opinions of some moron who's life goal is to shut down MS.
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The following is from http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/news_latest.
23-11-2002, 13:59 (Post by Shadow_Mx)
XBMP2.0 causing confusions.
Well, I was directed to Slashdot.org to see a news article about XBMP in which it is compared to MCE.
Quote
"If you can't afford the new Windows XP Media Center edition, why not grab yourself a modded XBOX, and check out the XBOX Media Player 2.0. The official site has some screen shots and previews. I am sure Gates will be real upset about this one. Somehow $300 for an x-box setup is cheaper than the $2000 XP boxes."
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/23/1722247.s
Please, people, don't give into that, XBMP 2.0 only has the MCE look, it can't record dvds, it can't record TV shows, it can't display TV on your Xbox...
It only is a Media Player for the Xbox.
Like, does she have, like, another word she like, likes to say?
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This article has to have used the lamest testing procedure anyone could have come up with.
Not only does it not address the issues such as increased temperature, increased power consumption, but every single test they performed was a high priority number cruncher.
You can, and will, see performance degredation in various aspects of your usage.
Did the author forget that other processes may be running at low priority as well and will be starved of cpu time? One that comes to mind and has been used as an example in the past is garbage collection in Java applications. The garbage collection process runs at low priority and simply won't happen.
Another issue is that it takes time to switch between tasks, the OS schedule has much more to deal with when running distributed computing processes. Not to mention the many megabytes of memory consumed by Folding@home.
While I support distributed computing applications I also think these tests are a poor picture of what really happens. Several others have already discussed the security concerns, so I won't even bother with that.
I hope that case get trown out, cause otherwise a LOT of peoples are in trouble. I mean we see those uncap software ad banner everywhere on the net.
I hope they all get nailed, there's no reason this activity should be accepted.
Its simply that you're given a certain amount of resources, you're intentionally getting around the system which insures you don't get more and you're therefore stealing. It's really pretty simple.
I think the difference between the targets of the article, and the DoS situations you mention, is that the Internet as a whole is responsible for bandwidth based DoS attacks and it should act proactively to stop them. They're also far easier to detect.
"Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper."
:
I think a friend of mine summed things up when he responded to this statement with
"... it's sad, whats really sad is most of the people that say that probably use windows to play all their warezed l33t games..."
I hope you don't see this as a troll, but I think the numbers will show that most people who do run Windows on their laptops dwarf the number of folks who actually end up being productive on their Linux running laptops.
Talk linux and opensource all you want, it doesn't change the fact that you're running a pirated copy of Windows and Office, not to mention all the games you enjoy.
Kernel panic for two weeks now. :(
Hopefully things will shape up as -CURRENT has gone into feature freeze and will soon go into code freeze in preperation for 5.0 Release, but don't expect 5.0 to be too stable.
A comprehensive list of distributed projects can be found here http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/
There's not a whole lot of Linux distros that have been using 3.2 for 'quite a bit of time now'. Any of them that are have been released in the past month or two. With FreeBSD 5 scheduled to be released in the next two months (late November / early December). There's no reason to push such an unstable compiler to 4.x. FWIW 5 will ship with atleast 3.2.1 as its had for the past few months.
Uhh, why do you say this? Cardbus support has been around for quite some time now. Please check up on your sources. Good luck.
Hyperthreading needs to be used carefully. Certain applications you will end up with signifigant performance decreases with it enabled. Hyperthreading adds additional overhead to threading models and schedulers.
You may also want to build it without chatzilla, and mail/news. This not only improves the build time, but seems to make it faster. There's also galeon which is marginally faster than the mozilla built from ports.
Did you forget that MS patched the bugs exploited by Codered 18 months prior to codered's birth? If you want to place blame, blame the folks running those machines.
With the exception of your gripe about price of windows, you've obviously not played with anything since Windows 98/ME. Windows 2000 and XP have none of those issues you've mentioned. XP runs considerably faster than 2k even on low end pII based systems. It comes with a defrag tool that works just fine and handles this on its own without you noticing. I've never really had a problem that I've had to solve with a reinstall, and services are pretty much tuned for what most people will use the OS for.
I enjoy running FreeBSD and I love the group of people surrounding the project because they're not closed minded morons like those of the Linux camp. If you're going to take every opportunity to shoot down Windows then I suggest you go back to running Linux. With this said, I do realize that those with the loudest mouths behind Linux don't necessarilly represent the whole, but they sure make the group look like a bunch of raging lunatics.
Activation is not the same as registration. They're two seperate procedures, one is required and one is not. Activation being the required procedure.
Wireless networks are widely used outside of acadamia. I don't understand why you think they're not. Cruising around any metro city you're likely to fine numerous wireless accesspoints.