X development is way too closed. I can get a kernel snapshot all the time but can't get a snapshot even if it has some major fixes. And too me a kernel seams a lot more critical. More stuff can go wrong with a bad kernel than a bad X server. I wish they would release what they could much more often.
First of all mozilla is further along. I'm using a nightly build to post this. It works great and getting better daily. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to get a browser window opened I just kept on hitting file->new. It crashed before I saw a web page. I eventually got to see a web page taking a tip from a previous poster by trying to open a file and then typing in the url in the window that opens. It rendered yahoo horibly. It made yahoo look uglier than it really is. I am totally unimpressed. Then I noticed a whole bunch if GIFS! in the directory where I extracted opera. You would think they had some more tact and used pngs or xpms. It also used an interface similar to many windows programs and star office. I don't like star office just for that reason. I don't like to see windows in windows there is no reason for it. I just don't see myself paying $100 dollars for software thats gonna suck this bad. I don't think that they will make user interface changes when they go to beta or release. I'm happy with mozilla.
I'm going to merge a dog and a cat. This will make the perfect animal. I will sell many of these animals. I will patent my idea and retire a millionare.
java on linux sucks. I remember the last time I tried to do anything in java under linux. (a month ago) It was a nightmare. I downloaded the latest jdk and tried to compile jessie. I also had jikes installed on my computer. first I tried jikes. when that failed I used javac. when that failed I went back to jikes. Eventually it compiled half of the classes with one compiler the other half with the other compiler. Then I ran the thing. It was not worth the trouble. The UI was slow. The whole program was slow. Java is still a bitch to install and use correctly. There is no reason for it as there are plenty good free applications written in c/c++.
maybe I can take a look at this. ever since I learned x86 asm I've been wanting to do something with but have been too lazy now it looks like there's an operating system for me to fuck with. cool.
xfree86 development is closed and there is no good reason for it being that way. they always are giving you many warnings on how this could crash your computer and yadda yadda. Most people know this already and are willing to put up with a crash everyonce in a while just to be able to access some of the features of XFree 4.0. The last snapshot was very stable I never had it crash on me. Which I can't say about 3.3.5. I think they should open up their cvs server. cvs.xfree86.org to anonymous access. That way they could get more bug reports and there just doesnt seam like there is a good reason not to. There is a new experimental kernel release every week or so why not XFree. A bad kernel could do alot more damage than XFree misbehaving. (e.g. file system coruption, etc). I know the risks let me run XFree
this site is interesting but it really lacks substance. I went there hoping to see counter fud or ways to stop fud but its not much more than a mission statement. Hopefully it will turn into something
recently toms hardware did some benchmark tests between the athalon and coppermine(aluminummine). The athalon smoked the coppermine in all tests except for 3d games. there the athalon was only marginally better. One has to interpret these results correctly. How can the athalon smoke intel in fpu performance and only barely beat them in game performance. tom was using an nvidia g-force. This board isn't even out yet and the drivers don't have any amd optimizations yet. This benchmark was not a good benchmark. Tom is known to do that often. Back to the chip. I would get an atholon over a coppermine anyday.
yeah. and when shit happens you have to fix it yourself. make sure you have a receipt for every component you bought. Also be prepared to pay more because (in my area) prebuilt computers are cheaper than ones you put together. few people were ever forced to buy a car. It's more of a convenience thing. Oh wait you need a car to get to work. You need to use a windows computer at work. You need to take your work home. Now you need a computer at home. Not everyone can build their own computer. Say you are blind. You are not going to be able to play with the jumpers on your motherboard. laptops are another example. No one ever had to buy a windows computer, but many didn't take the time or money to learn how to put one together before they had one of their own. It takes time to learn to build a computer and for many time is money.
Let's see. It used to be that you couldn't buy a PC without windows installed. Even if you didn't want windows, you still had to pay for it. Hmmm.... that doesn't sound like being offered alternatives. Sounds like windows refund day.
video card cpu's dont run at 400MHz. they don't even break 200. The new 3dfx voodoos won't break 200. talk about getting your facts right. and yes under certain conditions your fast as processor wont keep up with your video card. I have 2 voodoo 2's and a 500mhz celeron. the processor still cant keep up with them. usually.
Why is he testing games with the G-Force. It may be the fastest thing out there but the drivers are not done. Expecially when it comes to 3dnow in the drivers. Tom did this in his last review of the coppermine. He tests his systems on graphics hardware that is not yest out nor is it complete. So far as I can tell the g-force isn't out and he shouldn't be using it to test other components. It seams ridiculous that an athalon can score much higher on the fpu mark but only hold its own on fpu performance in 3d games. The 3dgame benchmarks should be dismissed. They are invalid.
I was using ssh for a while. Then I heard of open ssh. Installing openssh was easier (rpm) and so was configuring it. When I got openssh running I got rid of telnet completely.
Originally when I got ssh I got the newest version. 2.x.x then I realized that it was incompatable as hell. So I had to get the 1.x.x version. openssh just worked, Everyone should use it, there is no reason not to.
This thing is incredible. My jaw dropped to the floor and didn't stop till it went down a few floors. This is the first time 3dfx will put something out that is good not only for gaming. They are using a completly new architecture this time. It's about time I was wondering when the kings of 3d would retake their crown.
Where I work we have 4 kinds of computers hpux nt solaris linux
hpux sucks. Those computers sit there and suck and crash all day. People are begging others to take them
nt. these make good workstations and ok file servers. they don't suck as bad as the hpux's and can actually do some work
solaris. these are the big babies. they sit there and work all day. these guys do the big shit. webservers firewalls and other bigshit
linux. these sit around similar to the solaris and do everything. weather they are work stations or dhcp or file servers. when you don't need anything to high end.
bottom line is that you don't put nt on a 4way smp box. you put solaris on that.
lets see there is a newer version of redhat. complete with a new glibc contains alot of speedups. there is also a new kernel with a big crapload of smp improvements. this isn't news. mindcraft will never come out with benchmarks showing linux as the victor. These benchmarks don't even say where improvements need to be done since they don't use the newest software. I'm sure the nt server had the newest service pack.
I've been using XFree 3.9.16 with an unfinished Voodoo3 driver. Not only is it faster than 3.3.5 but its more stable. I haven't had it crash ever. XFree86 is just over a meg and you can load font renderers and drivers as you need to. Plus xinerama is something no one else is supporting. I'm using enlightenment and its working great.
Ok this one isn't even that bad (for micro$haft). It won't run on NT. and your security settings can't be on high.
Isn't there something like this going on constantly on windows machines? A new email, virus, thingy every week. Why is this even here? Most/.ers run linux don't they.
ibm and maxtor manufacture the same harddrive. I have a maxtor sitting in my computer that was made by IBM. i like maxtor though their support is great. A while ago I had bad sectors on my maxtor harddrive. I called maxtor and had a new one ship to me within a few days and then I sent the bad one back.
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you are a moron. Kde runs on top of X. Which means for most that kde runs on top of XFree86. You have no idea what you are talking about.
X development is way too closed. I can get a kernel snapshot all the time but can't get a snapshot even if it has some major fixes. And too me a kernel seams a lot more critical. More stuff can go wrong with a bad kernel than a bad X server. I wish they would release what they could much more often.
First of all mozilla is further along. I'm using a nightly build to post this. It works great and getting better daily. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to get a browser window opened I just kept on hitting file->new. It crashed before I saw a web page. I eventually got to see a web page taking a tip from a previous poster by trying to open a file and then typing in the url in the window that opens. It rendered yahoo horibly. It made yahoo look uglier than it really is. I am totally unimpressed. Then I noticed a whole bunch if GIFS! in the directory where I extracted opera. You would think they had some more tact and used pngs or xpms. It also used an interface similar to many windows programs and star office. I don't like star office just for that reason. I don't like to see windows in windows there is no reason for it. I just don't see myself paying $100 dollars for software thats gonna suck this bad. I don't think that they will make user interface changes when they go to beta or release. I'm happy with mozilla.
you sing them a chef song
I'm going to merge a dog and a cat. This will make the perfect animal. I will sell many of these animals. I will patent my idea and retire a millionare.
java on linux sucks. I remember the last time I
tried to do anything in java under linux. (a month ago) It was a nightmare. I downloaded the latest jdk and tried to compile jessie. I also had jikes installed on my computer. first I tried jikes. when that failed I used javac. when that failed I went back to jikes. Eventually it compiled half of the classes with one compiler the other half with the other compiler. Then I ran the thing. It was not worth the trouble. The UI was slow.
The whole program was slow. Java is still a bitch to install and use correctly. There is no reason for it as there are plenty good free applications written in c/c++.
maybe I can take a look at this. ever since I learned x86 asm I've been wanting to do something with but have been too lazy now it looks like there's an operating system for me to fuck with. cool.
now hopefully people can feel more secure with their credit card on line.
xfree86 development is closed and there is no good reason for it being that way. they always are giving you many warnings on how this could
crash your computer and yadda yadda. Most people know this already and are willing to put up with a crash everyonce in a while just to be able
to access some of the features of XFree 4.0. The last snapshot was very stable I never had it crash on me. Which I can't say about 3.3.5. I think
they should open up their cvs server. cvs.xfree86.org to anonymous access. That way they could get more bug reports and there just doesnt
seam like there is a good reason not to. There is a new experimental kernel release every week or so why not XFree. A bad kernel could do alot
more damage than XFree misbehaving. (e.g. file system coruption, etc). I know the risks let me run XFree
this site is interesting but it really lacks substance. I went there hoping to see counter fud or ways to stop fud but its not much more than a mission statement. Hopefully it will turn into something
recently toms hardware did some benchmark tests between the athalon and coppermine(aluminummine). The athalon smoked the coppermine in all tests except for 3d games. there the athalon was only marginally better. One has to interpret these results correctly. How can the athalon smoke intel in fpu performance and only barely beat them in game performance. tom was using an nvidia g-force. This board isn't even out yet and the drivers don't have any amd optimizations yet. This benchmark was not a good benchmark. Tom is known to do that often. Back to the chip. I would get an atholon over a coppermine anyday.
yeah. and when shit happens you have to fix it yourself. make sure you have a receipt for every component you bought. Also be prepared to pay more because (in my area) prebuilt computers are cheaper than ones you put together. few people were ever forced to buy a car. It's more of a convenience thing. Oh wait you need a car to get to work. You need to use a windows computer at work. You need to take your work home. Now you need a computer at home. Not everyone can build their own computer. Say you are blind. You are not going to be able to play with the jumpers on your motherboard. laptops are another example. No one ever had to buy a windows computer, but many didn't take the time or money to learn how to put one together before they had one of their own.
It takes time to learn to build a computer and for many time is money.
Let's see. It used to be that you couldn't buy a PC without windows installed. Even if you didn't want windows, you still had to pay for it. Hmmm.... that doesn't sound like being offered alternatives. Sounds like windows refund day.
video card cpu's dont run at 400MHz. they don't even break 200. The new 3dfx voodoos won't break 200. talk about getting your facts right. and yes under certain conditions your fast as processor wont keep up with your video card. I have 2 voodoo 2's and a 500mhz celeron. the processor still cant keep up with them. usually.
Why is he testing games with the G-Force. It may be the fastest thing out there but the drivers are not done. Expecially when it comes to 3dnow in the drivers. Tom did this in his last review of the coppermine. He tests his systems on graphics hardware that is not yest out nor is it complete. So far as I can tell the g-force isn't out and he shouldn't be using it to test other components. It seams ridiculous that an athalon can score much higher on the fpu mark but only hold its own on fpu performance in 3d games. The 3dgame benchmarks should be dismissed. They are invalid.
Another Mesa Beta came out. On my 2 Voodoo 2's I get about the same Q3 performance and better quake2 performance under linux.
I was using ssh for a while. Then I heard of open ssh. Installing openssh was easier (rpm) and so was configuring it. When I got openssh running I got rid of telnet completely.
Originally when I got ssh I got the newest version. 2.x.x then I realized that it was incompatable as hell. So I had to get the 1.x.x version. openssh just worked, Everyone should use it, there is no reason not to.
Finally kde looks good. It seems like they took alot of annoyances out of kde. I'm an enlightenment person myself but I might have a look
This thing is incredible. My jaw dropped to the floor and didn't stop till it went down a few floors. This is the first time 3dfx will put something out that is good not only for gaming. They are using a completly new architecture this time. It's about time I was wondering when the kings of 3d would retake their crown.
Where I work we have 4 kinds of computers
hpux
nt
solaris
linux
hpux sucks. Those computers sit there and suck and crash all day. People are begging others to take them
nt. these make good workstations and ok file servers. they don't suck as bad as the hpux's and can actually do some work
solaris. these are the big babies. they sit there and work all day. these guys do the big shit. webservers firewalls and other bigshit
linux. these sit around similar to the solaris and do everything. weather they are work stations or dhcp or file servers. when you don't need anything to high end.
bottom line is that you don't put nt on a 4way smp box. you put solaris on that.
lets see there is a newer version of redhat. complete with a new glibc contains alot of speedups. there is also a new kernel with a big crapload of smp improvements. this isn't news. mindcraft will never come out with benchmarks showing linux as the victor. These benchmarks don't even say where improvements need to be done since they don't use the newest software. I'm sure the nt server had the newest service pack.
I've been using XFree 3.9.16 with an unfinished Voodoo3 driver. Not only is it faster than 3.3.5 but its more stable. I haven't had it crash ever.
XFree86 is just over a meg and you can load font renderers and drivers as you need to. Plus xinerama is something no one else is supporting. I'm using enlightenment and its working great.
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Ok this one isn't even that bad (for micro$haft). It won't run on NT. and your security settings can't be on high.
/.ers run linux don't they.
Isn't there something like this going on constantly on windows machines? A new email, virus, thingy every week. Why is this even here? Most
ibm and maxtor manufacture the same harddrive. I have a maxtor sitting in my computer that was made by IBM. i like maxtor though their support is great. A while ago I had bad sectors on my maxtor harddrive. I called maxtor and had a new one ship to me within a few days and then I sent the bad one back.