They have provided firmware upgraded for most of their older mp3 players that have the grunt to handle it, and now this linux-based player is the icing on the cake.
Long live Free Software/Open Standards. Kudos to iRiver.
Mind you, I don't see much this new beast can do that my $290 Zaurus 5600 can't. Okay, except for the internal hard drive and USB 2.0 part.
On a dual-boot Fedora/XP 2600 Athlon I administer the difference is staggering.
Boot time (from GRUB menu to login screen):
Windows XP/Lunar: ~20 seconds Fedora/XFree86/gdm: ~1.5 minutes
I don't know what Microsoft do, but they've tuned their boot process something wicked.
Granted, a stock Fedora install runs a whole lot more services (apache, sendmail), but I'm sure it can be much faster.
Many services don't need to run in series. For example, the random number generator can be started while ethernet discovery is taking place, or sendmail can start up while X is probing the monitor. Similar reasons why a 'make -j4' runs so much faster than 'make'; the two bottlenecks when compiling (or loading an OS), cpu and disk, just aren't being used the whole time, one is usually waiting on the other at any given time.
You're not seriously grouping those two together are you?
Windows 2000 does work (barely) with 128MB, but try anything less than 256 on XP and you'll wish you hadn't.
If you want to actually run more than one application under XP you'll neee at least 512MB.
Of course, this assumes you're going to use the standard Lunar interface. You can drop back to a simpler interface if you want, but the same arguments hold for dropping a linux desktop to icewm or fluxbox.
... had this problem with military laptops. What to do if they get invaded and need to dump their data before getting captured lest their tactical data fall into enemy hands?
They tried hotkey combinations, which would trigger a script to delete the hard drive, but they were either too complex to remember, or too easy to accidentally hit.
In the end, they painted a big red 'X' on the underside of the laptop right where the hard drive sits, and instructed the operator "point gun here".
for(( i=1; $i20; $((i++)) )); do # Do something to seed random number generator, probably involving the clock echo Erasing cycle $i; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda; done
The guy should at least give XP a shot (hell, even 2000)... infinitely more stable than any of the Windows 9x series.... except from a security point of view.
If you have Windows 98, and don't mind having to reboot every day or two, then you don't have to worry nearly as much as network-related vulnerabilities as 2000 or XP.
For the record, I have come across many documents from various sources that Word has screwed up so badly that it can't read them at all, but OpenOffice opens (and repairs) them without issue.
I see that while this is sped up 95x after being captured in real time, the frame rate is still 30fps.
I would love to see the same footage but with only half as many frames discarded; ie 60fps. It would make for a much smoother 'ride'.
It would only play on a computer, since your telly probably can't do 60fps non-interlaced, but the difference in visual quality would be staggerring.
Of course, I can just re-encode the footage from this AVI to 60fps, but the resultant speed-up would be 190x, which is probably altogether too fast! I guess using MPEG motion estimation might allow me to interpolate frames, but I'm not sure how to do that in mencoder.
I suppose if you were to post a high frame rate version, there is the slight issue that the smoldering remains of your server would not thank you if the file was twice as large.
Nifty, but if we all went out and did this, the price would skyrocket. Hell, if only all the people who read this story on Slashdot went out and did this, the price would skyrocket.
Slashdot Mirror
Knoppix 3.5 isn't even out yet (well, the free-for-download version, anyway).
You can order the CD along with tickets to LinuxTag, but that's not much good for those of us not in Deutschland.
That should read:
They have provided OGG Vorbis firmware upgrades....
Perhaps we should post to all-lugs@usa.org, or however we can get in touch with LUGs across the country to be ready to counter these clowns.
<rant>
I can't believe people still take MS seriously. Guess that's what happens when you buy half of congress.
</rant>
They have provided firmware upgraded for most of their older mp3 players that have the grunt to handle it, and now this linux-based player is the icing on the cake.
Long live Free Software/Open Standards. Kudos to iRiver.
Mind you, I don't see much this new beast can do that my $290 Zaurus 5600 can't. Okay, except for the internal hard drive and USB 2.0 part.
Actually I think the iPod looks pretty freaking ugly when stacked up against this beauty from iRiver.
Honestly, it looks like a mini refrigerator you might see in Kubrik's 2001 movie. And you can't do squat with it.
Whereas the iRiver looks more akin to handheld game consoles like the GameGear.
Disclaimer: I don't have shares in either company.
xterm doesn't do tabs.
A show-stopper if you're administering 30 different machines at once.
On a dual-boot Fedora/XP 2600 Athlon I administer the difference is staggering.
Boot time (from GRUB menu to login screen):
Windows XP/Lunar: ~20 seconds
Fedora/XFree86/gdm: ~1.5 minutes
I don't know what Microsoft do, but they've tuned their boot process something wicked.
Granted, a stock Fedora install runs a whole lot more services (apache, sendmail), but I'm sure it can be much faster.
Many services don't need to run in series. For example, the random number generator can be started while ethernet discovery is taking place, or sendmail can start up while X is probing the monitor. Similar reasons why a 'make -j4' runs so much faster than 'make'; the two bottlenecks when compiling (or loading an OS), cpu and disk, just aren't being used the whole time, one is usually waiting on the other at any given time.
Time to experiment with the & parameter...
> Windows 2000/XP is very quick with 128MB.
You're not seriously grouping those two together are you?
Windows 2000 does work (barely) with 128MB, but try anything less than 256 on XP and you'll wish you hadn't.
If you want to actually run more than one application under XP you'll neee at least 512MB.
Of course, this assumes you're going to use the standard Lunar interface. You can drop back to a simpler interface if you want, but the same arguments hold for dropping a linux desktop to icewm or fluxbox.
The elevators in the Math building, however, could use a little re-vamping.
Bah. Take the stairs.
Most mathematicians need all the exercise they can get.
... had this problem with military laptops. What to do if they get invaded and need to dump their data before getting captured lest their tactical data fall into enemy hands?
They tried hotkey combinations, which would trigger a script to delete the hard drive, but they were either too complex to remember, or too easy to accidentally hit.
In the end, they painted a big red 'X' on the underside of the laptop right where the hard drive sits, and instructed the operator "point gun here".
Put in knoppix CD
for(( i=1; $i20; $((i++)) )); do
# Do something to seed random number generator, probably involving the clock
echo Erasing cycle $i;
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda;
done
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.
So tell me, why did you resign?
Gosh, well I guess the millions of people who use the internet every day and NEVER GO NEAR A SINGLE PORNOGRAPHIC SITE are really missing out.
Sure, I do.
That way I could happily carry around over 500 high-quality oggs wherever I go, as opposed to the 60 or so I get with my current 256MB card.
Great for those long car rides.
... Microsoft Works
oh oh, I've got one:
how about
INN-TERR-NET not ENN-ERR-NAT
The guy should at least give XP a shot (hell, even 2000)... infinitely more stable than any of the Windows 9x series. ... except from a security point of view.
If you have Windows 98, and don't mind having to reboot every day or two, then you don't have to worry nearly as much as network-related vulnerabilities as 2000 or XP.
For the record, I have come across many documents from various sources that Word has screwed up so badly that it can't read them at all, but OpenOffice opens (and repairs) them without issue.
I see that while this is sped up 95x after being captured in real time, the frame rate is still 30fps.
I would love to see the same footage but with only half as many frames discarded; ie 60fps. It would make for a much smoother 'ride'.
It would only play on a computer, since your telly probably can't do 60fps non-interlaced, but the difference in visual quality would be staggerring.
Of course, I can just re-encode the footage from this AVI to 60fps, but the resultant speed-up would be 190x, which is probably altogether too fast! I guess using MPEG motion estimation might allow me to interpolate frames, but I'm not sure how to do that in mencoder.
I suppose if you were to post a high frame rate version, there is the slight issue that the smoldering remains of your server would not thank you if the file was twice as large.
I wonder if Network Associates lobbied against proper anti-spam regulations as strongly as Microsoft did.
It makes sense; you don't want the government to legislate against something you're selling protection from. It'd cut into your bottom line.
Suddenly I feel nauseous.
Since you don't seem terribly fond of it:
Please explain to me how in any way the economy of the 17th Century was worse than what we have now.
Nifty, but if we all went out and did this, the price would skyrocket. Hell, if only all the people who read this story on Slashdot went out and did this, the price would skyrocket.
Well I hope you're happy.
You've just slashdotted KFC!
The heads of two software companies say that their market isn't going to disappear and everybody else's in the industry will. Hardly surprising.
Recall that Sun is now pretty much a software company since their SPARCs can't compete with high-volume PC hardware.
Besides, they both missed the boat by about five years: Software is already Free.
...unless they happend to be a multinational.
Yay capitalism.
So where does the other 65p/89p go?
Oxfam administration costs?