yeah, I remember this one time I sent my kid along to his friends April 1 birthday party.
The birthday boy was such a good friend that we decided to buy him two royal $700 decorative soaps, hand carved by an Italian designer, as a special investment gift, but wrap it in a great big cardboard box to make it look like a television set or something. (just for a little 1 April prank).
Turned out the prick of a birthday boy actually beat my kid up, so badly he needeed stitches. Last I heard the soaps were never seen again.
This will be a great help for distro packagers. Not the least of which, Knoppix would finally be able to play OpenGL games (Chromium!) straight out-of-the-box.
I applaud nVidia for their continuing support for Linux.
Like many others, I would be happier if the drivers were open-sourced, but realise that there is so much licensed technology in these cards, that getting permission from all the IP holders would be impossible, even if nVidia wanted to release the source.
I would highly suspect the reason for the jerkiness is that DMA on the dvd drive is turned off.
Ogle 0.8.5 is a truly brilliant DVD player (0.9.1 is better, but we'll take what we can get), and plays smooth as glass on most >500MHz systems with UDMA dvd drives.
FWIW, I can already walk into the local Dick Smith (Australasian equivalent of Fry's) and check out one of several Athlon systems running Mandrake Linux.
My heatpipe is made by an outfit called Tysol. They're bulky things, so don't bother trying to fit a couple of them in a dual-cpu motherboard.
My system is at full load 24/7, and CPU temperature (dependent on ambient air temperature) sits around 50'C. Previously it was as high as 60'C. Case temp. is around 10'C below that.
To expect a 10'C temperature drop isn't too unreasonable. Just make sure your heatpipe is conducting as much heat away from the chip as possible, by using a quality heat transfer compound (Arctic Silver works for me).
You also want to make sure you are exhausting the hot air from your case, either through a rear or top-mounted 80mm fan or by running the PC with the skin off. If you are still concerned about noise, you can run said fans at 5V instead of 12. Much quieter, but of course less air is being moved.
The heatpipe attached to my Athlon cpu works pretty well. The temperature drop after replacing my AMD fan/heatsink combo was between 5 and 10 degrees C.
I do see where you're coming from. Most people eat whatever they're fed by the media and marketing hype.
Perhaps I'm guilty of under-estimating human stupidity (or apathy), but if the inferiority/illegality of Microsofts operations weren't enough, with the arrival of DRM and Trusted Computing (whereby if Microsoft has their way they will be the final dictator on what is 'trusted') it won't take long for people to get sick of this and seek alternatives.
I know a *lot* of people already have, and I'm not talking about just the slashdot crowd. The point I guess, is that right now businesses can survive quite happily without any Microsoft product entering its premises.
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...how long it will take for these moons to appear in Celestia.
Quaoar and 2002 MN were added only a few days after being discovered.
... if anyone has a copy of the early revision (1996) of Bill Gates' The Road Ahead propaganda.
The one where he dismisses that Internet thing as a passing fad.
yeah, I remember this one time I sent my kid along to his friends April 1 birthday party.
The birthday boy was such a good friend that we decided to buy him two royal $700 decorative soaps, hand carved by an Italian designer, as a special investment gift, but wrap it in a great big cardboard box to make it look like a television set or something. (just for a little 1 April prank).
Turned out the prick of a birthday boy actually beat my kid up, so badly he needeed stitches. Last I heard the soaps were never seen again.
Hey wait a sec... where do you live?
This will be a great help for distro packagers. Not the least of which, Knoppix would finally be able to play OpenGL games (Chromium!) straight out-of-the-box.
I applaud nVidia for their continuing support for Linux.
Like many others, I would be happier if the drivers were open-sourced, but realise that there is so much licensed technology in these cards, that getting permission from all the IP holders would be impossible, even if nVidia wanted to release the source.
Well done, nVidia.
hook, line and sinker.
I would highly suspect the reason for the jerkiness is that DMA on the dvd drive is turned off.
Ogle 0.8.5 is a truly brilliant DVD player (0.9.1 is better, but we'll take what we can get), and plays smooth as glass on most >500MHz systems with UDMA dvd drives.
Wouldn't the melted snow make the wheat go soggy?
(snigger)
The memory cards are standard XBox parts, supplied by the evil empire itself.
What are these grits?
The only grits I know of are shoveled onto the garden path in snowy winter.
I guess if they're hot, it'd melt the snow more effectively...
What sort of temperatures do you reckon a meteor would be at just before impact on the Earth's surface?
Given the emotive response to parent, I rest my case.
Philistines.
Hmmm... Might you be a Scientologist?
Absolutely not!
And who's that Xenu?
But anyway, I just happen to think the aforementioned title was a damn entertaining movie.
'nuff said
More on this here
"Light passing through a flat glass lens will diverge." Not on my planet, bucko.
I'm not sure what planet you're on, but at least on this one, light passing through a flat lens does indeed diverge.
This means that, going by the "never use a .0 RH convention", the latest stable release will still be 7.3.
...that came from Dvorak was an exceptionally good keyboard layout.
FWIW, I can already walk into the local Dick Smith (Australasian equivalent of Fry's) and check out one of several Athlon systems running Mandrake Linux.
My heatpipe is made by an outfit called Tysol. They're bulky things, so don't bother trying to fit a couple of them in a dual-cpu motherboard.
My system is at full load 24/7, and CPU temperature (dependent on ambient air temperature) sits around 50'C. Previously it was as high as 60'C. Case temp. is around 10'C below that.
To expect a 10'C temperature drop isn't too unreasonable. Just make sure your heatpipe is conducting as much heat away from the chip as possible, by using a quality heat transfer compound (Arctic Silver works for me).
You also want to make sure you are exhausting the hot air from your case, either through a rear or top-mounted 80mm fan or by running the PC with the skin off. If you are still concerned about noise, you can run said fans at 5V instead of 12. Much quieter, but of course less air is being moved.
The heatpipe attached to my Athlon cpu works pretty well. The temperature drop after replacing my AMD fan/heatsink combo was between 5 and 10 degrees C.
Would someone care to explain who George Foreman is?
Uhh, the konqueror isn't just a web browser, it's also the KDE file manager.
What file manager do you use?
To have a great DE but a buggy file manager effectively renders the DE useless if you use the DE for any kind of file manipulation.
You say that KDE has never crashed on you but Konqueror has? What's the difference? Were you browsing the web, or a list of files at the time?
The DRM limitation is present in the Live! and Audigy 1 drivers too. But only on Windows. The linux driver has no such restrictions.
Don't worry,
I have it on good authority that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
I do see where you're coming from. Most people eat whatever they're fed by the media and marketing hype.
Perhaps I'm guilty of under-estimating human stupidity (or apathy), but if the inferiority/illegality of Microsofts operations weren't enough, with the arrival of DRM and Trusted Computing (whereby if Microsoft has their way they will be the final dictator on what is 'trusted') it won't take long for people to get sick of this and seek alternatives.
I know a *lot* of people already have, and I'm not talking about just the slashdot crowd. The point I guess, is that right now businesses can survive quite happily without any Microsoft product entering its premises.