Last time I checked this out (prolly a couple of builds ago), it was suffering some fairly extreme memory usage, like about 20+ MB of ram. Is this still the case, or should I wait till the final version before worrying about this?
I know I look at video cards with a number of things in mind. They are:
How well will it run with Windows 2000 and Linux
How well will it play Unreal Tournament and Quake
How much does it cost?
I don't give a flying hoot how many floating point mega textured shaded pixel snagget things it can draw in 1 bazillionith of a second. I wanna play games and have KDE look funky in 1024x768 mode. Benchmarks don't impress me, I'm afraid. I honestly just care about how well the card will run on my machine and play the games I like.
And this review answered exactly that. It is almost precisly the review I have been waiting for. The NIVA kicked serious butt, and is now my #1 choice.
I think Signal11 has shown the moderation system for what it really is, and he's quite successful at it.
I don't mind the guy. Yeah he does the karma whore routine, but I was under the impression that was his aim.
Up until a few weeks ago, I was a member of a local linux user group mailing list, but left when keeping up with it got in the way of work (too much fun arguing). This mailling list is a card carring member of the "Everything Microsoft does is bad, Everything "open source" is good/better/more efficient". Well, that's not true, but if I would point this out, there would be a sense of moral outrage. They had their points in what they said, of course, but most of them refused to see the possibility they *could* be wrong.
/. is a bit like that too, and Sig's outragious karma demonstrates it in how the moderation is done.
my fridge is remarkably similar to this. I have at least one friend who refuses to go into my kitchen, for fear of catching something science hasn't named yet. I came back from one holiday, and found this container of green stuff. It was really quite pretty, sort of like a rolling hills, covered in grass/moss, but in miniture. I wonder what it was to begin with.
200 bugs in a week? What were the beta testers doing during the lead up to this release?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's their job to report these sort of issues. Sure, you'll never get the full range of weird hardware during a test cycle, but it looks like either the testers weren't reporting the bugs (which happens a lot), or Redhat didn't bother to fix them (which I sort of doubt).
It's nice to see the larger players in the whole multimedia finally saying out loud that the whole MP3 thing is getting way out of hand.
The RIAA are doing everybody a massive dis-service by their actions. What I find very offensive is that an American company's whinging and bitching is telling me what I can and can't do here in Australia.
Still, money buys influence just as well in Australia as it does in the US, so I shouldn't be surprised.
is that like the rest of the world, our politicans are near to complete morons, or being advised by people who are.
We're talking about a country that makes it legal for government security organisations to hack (crack - whatever) into our computers and cover it up, a government that wants to set up a nation wide filtering system to stop us from seeing Bad Things.
It's doomed, they know it, we know it, but in typical political style, they refuse to admit it.
I've been running the latest versions of KMail, straight from CVS, and I've also just installed the latest GPG. They're working fine for me, without any special configuration needed at all.
KMail has a config box for setting it up. All I did was tell it where GPG was, and KMail picked up the rest.
All too easy.
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I'm a little surprised at this. Iinet's main legal man is, or was, the current chairman of Electronic Frontiers Australia, our version of EFF, although without as much money I'd guess.
iinet is also very prominant in Western Australia's internet community. Given these two things, I'd say they are as a company idealy situated to make a stand. That they're not, is quite disappointing. I'm not sure that any other internet organisation here in WA can match their resources, and if they aren't prepared to go into bat for us, or at least even pretend to make a stand, then us West Australian users are pretty much fresh outta luck.
And now they're saying that linking is almost illegal! Where the hell did this come from??
I don't mind losing, but I do object to not being allowed to play.
If they really believed that the wouldn't have to bother with an "official response" to the GNOME Foundation, now would they?
They answered this in the first paragraph of the response.
Quote: "The recent announcements regarding the formation of a GNOME Foundation coupled with the Sun/Hewlett Packard decision to use GNOME as their standard desktop has resulted in a deluge of requests to the KDE Core Team asking what our "position" is. Well, this is it. We offer this position paper in the hope that we can put this behind us and get back to coding.
I'm glad you mentioned those films. Tinker, Tailor in particular I rember as being just such a great movie. I have very fond memories sitting down with my parents and watching these films, discussing them trying to work out plots, names, who was the spy, etc. Needless to say, I never worked it out.
Next step will be the junkies regulating drug imports, Dracula in charge of the Red Cross Blood bank and politicians & tele-evangelists in charge of moral standards and public deciency.
Mulder? Um, is he the one who drives the car all the time? Remind me - I'm not sure. Quite franky, if I may call you frank, I really couldn't care who replaces Mulder. As long as Scully is there, I'll be watching.:)
At least to the casual user. How do you equip a part time internet user with the tools to protect themselves? You can't make people download and configure Junkbuster, PGP, high encryption patches for Windows and Netscape, etc... They don't have the time or the knowledge that these tools are even there. And even if they did, I'm sure most people don't appreciate just how much monitoring of our online use there is, and so see the need for them.
The UK is requiring every ISP allow the security agencies to monitor what websites are being viewed by everybody. International tools like Eshilon (sp?) monitoring our emails and who knows what other online chats...
My beloved Australian government just passed an ammendment bill that allows one of our security organisations (ASIO) to hack into our computers, copy, modify, delete any data they think is relivant to national security. I can only hope that the computers have to be in Australia. They're also allowed to disable any encryption or logon device that prevents further monitoring as well. And btw, if somebody could explain why/. thought this story wasn't important enough to the online community to run, please let me know.
It's my opinion that the governments of the world will legistate the internet into becoming just another form of media. This is inevitable I think. The net isn't the last frontier anymore - it's been beaten down so that the powers that be can control it.
Which is sad, but had to happen. They monitor us by our use of credit cards and other financial records, and the internet will be made to work for them in the same manner.
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I imagine they could release new versions under a different license, couldn't they? But their support department would hate them, because they would effectivally have two user and code bases to support.
A story about Mattell, a company, installing and using spy software is news, but a story I submit about an Australian government department being given legal rights to hack into your computers and install spy software isn't?
Yes I know I'm whinging, sorry. Just needed to get that off my chest.:) I'm in a grumpy mood - my house got broken into. Grr.
why i'm switching from Windows 2000 to Linux... Rubbish like this is a great reason. But from my trolling of the web, it's also the best way to assure privacy. No Cuteftp/Gozilla installed spy advert software, no being refused access to the programs I've payed for. With open source, the chance of trojan code being buried is way less. Not impossible of course, but pretty well down there. This could be a really good marketing angle, for somebody who knows what they're doing.
I was wondering about that too. I remember when Visual Basic 3.0 first became really popular. There was a woosh of small apps everywhere, doing all sorts of stupid things. One positive though will be giving a lot of people experience at Linux programming, although at a high level. Once people see they can get it to what they want, and in a nice flash GUI program, then businesses might be more inclined to trial it, and hopefully start using it.
The success of Linux in the home desktop market is going to follow sucess in the business and education market. People run at home what they use at work or school. My father uninstalled Star Office and bought Office 97, because that was what he used at work. He's not stupid. He just wants to use one tool in both places, home and work.
Home consumers aren't going to be buying these 64 bit PC's for a while, but businesses and universities are. And that's significant. Alf from marketing, and part time Quake/Unreal Tournament adict, sees the new server crunching away at 64 bits, ohhs and ahhs with the rest of the IT guys, and then goes out and buys one to play games with.
Or something like anyway. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I think the home market will follow the other markets, and those other markets are the ones likely to adopt the Itanium.
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Last time I checked this out (prolly a couple of builds ago), it was suffering some fairly extreme memory usage, like about 20+ MB of ram. Is this still the case, or should I wait till the final version before worrying about this?
I know I look at video cards with a number of things in mind. They are:
How well will it run with Windows 2000 and Linux
How well will it play Unreal Tournament and Quake
How much does it cost?
I don't give a flying hoot how many floating point mega textured shaded pixel snagget things it can draw in 1 bazillionith of a second. I wanna play games and have KDE look funky in 1024x768 mode. Benchmarks don't impress me, I'm afraid. I honestly just care about how well the card will run on my machine and play the games I like.
And this review answered exactly that. It is almost precisly the review I have been waiting for. The NIVA kicked serious butt, and is now my #1 choice.
I think Signal11 has shown the moderation system for what it really is, and he's quite successful at it.
I don't mind the guy. Yeah he does the karma whore routine, but I was under the impression that was his aim.
Up until a few weeks ago, I was a member of a local linux user group mailing list, but left when keeping up with it got in the way of work (too much fun arguing). This mailling list is a card carring member of the "Everything Microsoft does is bad, Everything "open source" is good/better/more efficient". Well, that's not true, but if I would point this out, there would be a sense of moral outrage. They had their points in what they said, of course, but most of them refused to see the possibility they *could* be wrong.
/. is a bit like that too, and Sig's outragious karma demonstrates it in how the moderation is done.
my fridge is remarkably similar to this. I have at least one friend who refuses to go into my kitchen, for fear of catching something science hasn't named yet. I came back from one holiday, and found this container of green stuff. It was really quite pretty, sort of like a rolling hills, covered in grass/moss, but in miniture. I wonder what it was to begin with.
200 bugs in a week? What were the beta testers doing during the lead up to this release?
:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's their job to report these sort of issues. Sure, you'll never get the full range of weird hardware during a test cycle, but it looks like either the testers weren't reporting the bugs (which happens a lot), or Redhat didn't bother to fix them (which I sort of doubt).
I think I'll still buy it though.
I say.
It's nice to see the larger players in the whole multimedia finally saying out loud that the whole MP3 thing is getting way out of hand.
The RIAA are doing everybody a massive dis-service by their actions. What I find very offensive is that an American company's whinging and bitching is telling me what I can and can't do here in Australia.
Still, money buys influence just as well in Australia as it does in the US, so I shouldn't be surprised.
is that like the rest of the world, our politicans are near to complete morons, or being advised by people who are.
We're talking about a country that makes it legal for government security organisations to hack (crack - whatever) into our computers and cover it up, a government that wants to set up a nation wide filtering system to stop us from seeing Bad Things.
It's doomed, they know it, we know it, but in typical political style, they refuse to admit it.
I've been running the latest versions of KMail, straight from CVS, and I've also just installed the latest GPG. They're working fine for me, without any special configuration needed at all.
KMail has a config box for setting it up. All I did was tell it where GPG was, and KMail picked up the rest.
All too easy.
I'm a little surprised at this. Iinet's main legal man is, or was, the current chairman of Electronic Frontiers Australia, our version of EFF, although without as much money I'd guess.
iinet is also very prominant in Western Australia's internet community. Given these two things, I'd say they are as a company idealy situated to make a stand. That they're not, is quite disappointing. I'm not sure that any other internet organisation here in WA can match their resources, and if they aren't prepared to go into bat for us, or at least even pretend to make a stand, then us West Australian users are pretty much fresh outta luck.
And now they're saying that linking is almost illegal! Where the hell did this come from??
I don't mind losing, but I do object to not being allowed to play.
If they really believed that the wouldn't have to bother with an "official response" to the GNOME Foundation, now would they?
They answered this in the first paragraph of the response. Quote: "The recent announcements regarding the formation of a GNOME Foundation coupled with the Sun/Hewlett Packard decision to use GNOME as their standard desktop has resulted in a deluge of requests to the KDE Core Team asking what our "position" is. Well, this is it. We offer this position paper in the hope that we can put this behind us and get back to coding.
Because they're just as influenced by the corperate dollar as are the US politicans.
I'm glad you mentioned those films. Tinker, Tailor in particular I rember as being just such a great movie. I have very fond memories sitting down with my parents and watching these films, discussing them trying to work out plots, names, who was the spy, etc. Needless to say, I never worked it out.
Fond days indeed.
Next step will be the junkies regulating drug imports, Dracula in charge of the Red Cross Blood bank and politicians & tele-evangelists in charge of moral standards and public deciency.
A quick looks seems to say it's their implementation of a scripting language, so that would put it on par with JSP, as it requires servlet support.
:)
I don't know if it's better than JSP - have to have a go and see I suppose. And coincedently I have a free weekend coming up too!
Mulder? Um, is he the one who drives the car all the time? Remind me - I'm not sure. Quite franky, if I may call you frank, I really couldn't care who replaces Mulder. As long as Scully is there, I'll be watching. :)
Eh?? Darn - they did too. I'd completly forgotten about that. My story was just the bill becoming law, you're right.
/. and its editors...
My appologies to
At least to the casual user. How do you equip a part time internet user with the tools to protect themselves? You can't make people download and configure Junkbuster, PGP, high encryption patches for Windows and Netscape, etc... They don't have the time or the knowledge that these tools are even there. And even if they did, I'm sure most people don't appreciate just how much monitoring of our online use there is, and so see the need for them.
/. thought this story wasn't important enough to the online community to run, please let me know.
The UK is requiring every ISP allow the security agencies to monitor what websites are being viewed by everybody. International tools like Eshilon (sp?) monitoring our emails and who knows what other online chats...
My beloved Australian government just passed an ammendment bill that allows one of our security organisations (ASIO) to hack into our computers, copy, modify, delete any data they think is relivant to national security. I can only hope that the computers have to be in Australia. They're also allowed to disable any encryption or logon device that prevents further monitoring as well. And btw, if somebody could explain why
It's my opinion that the governments of the world will legistate the internet into becoming just another form of media. This is inevitable I think. The net isn't the last frontier anymore - it's been beaten down so that the powers that be can control it.
Which is sad, but had to happen. They monitor us by our use of credit cards and other financial records, and the internet will be made to work for them in the same manner.
I imagine they could release new versions under a different license, couldn't they? But their support department would hate them, because they would effectivally have two user and code bases to support.
Yeah, sorry - I meant to include it in my original message. /. really needs an edit message function.
Try this story on Yahoo. It's fairly brief, but you get the message.
A story about Mattell, a company, installing and using spy software is news, but a story I submit about an Australian government department being given legal rights to hack into your computers and install spy software isn't?
:) I'm in a grumpy mood - my house got broken into. Grr.
Yes I know I'm whinging, sorry. Just needed to get that off my chest.
It's one of the more sucessful trolls I've seen for a while.
Look at all those people biting!
Um, no - no idea. What's the scoop on this then?
why i'm switching from Windows 2000 to Linux... Rubbish like this is a great reason. But from my trolling of the web, it's also the best way to assure privacy. No Cuteftp/Gozilla installed spy advert software, no being refused access to the programs I've payed for. With open source, the chance of trojan code being buried is way less. Not impossible of course, but pretty well down there. This could be a really good marketing angle, for somebody who knows what they're doing.
I was wondering about that too. I remember when Visual Basic 3.0 first became really popular. There was a woosh of small apps everywhere, doing all sorts of stupid things. One positive though will be giving a lot of people experience at Linux programming, although at a high level. Once people see they can get it to what they want, and in a nice flash GUI program, then businesses might be more inclined to trial it, and hopefully start using it.
This is my take on things.
The success of Linux in the home desktop market is going to follow sucess in the business and education market. People run at home what they use at work or school. My father uninstalled Star Office and bought Office 97, because that was what he used at work. He's not stupid. He just wants to use one tool in both places, home and work.
Home consumers aren't going to be buying these 64 bit PC's for a while, but businesses and universities are. And that's significant. Alf from marketing, and part time Quake/Unreal Tournament adict, sees the new server crunching away at 64 bits, ohhs and ahhs with the rest of the IT guys, and then goes out and buys one to play games with.
Or something like anyway. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I think the home market will follow the other markets, and those other markets are the ones likely to adopt the Itanium.