It's the same as the previous version, wonder what happened to that file? Look like he spent tons of time making a new gui, but not more than a few minutes to udpate some text files.
The queueing system is bizarre, the share percentage should be based off the selected torrent file size, not the amount of data downloaded. It also needs some kind of manual "yes damn it, seed all of these torrents until the cows come home" option.
Azureus runs fine on my linux box.... as long as I'm not running much else. It typically eats up 300+ megs of ram with a few torrents running. And it's gone rogue twice eating up as much ram as possible as fast as it could, once it brought entire machine down.
I know java is touted to be a "hog" that this seems a bit out of the ordinary, no? The memory usage is just crazy, seeing as how I only have 512 in the machine.
No, as the name says, Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator. Wine just provides the Windows API. This means that you will need an x86-compatible processor to run an x86 Windows application, for instance from Intel or AMD. The advantage is that, unlike solutions that rely on CPU emulation, Wine runs applications at full speed. Sometimes a program run under Wine will be slower than when run on a copy of Microsoft Windows, but this is more due to the fact that Microsoft has heavily optimized parts of their code, whereas mostly Wine is not well optimized (yet). Occasionally, an app may run faster under Wine than on Windows. Most apps run at roughly the same speed.
So no, it's not an emulator in the strict sense, it's merely an alternative implementation of the windows api. For more info, look here
I have Time Warner cable in Ohio. The already offer a DVR service for $5/mo extra, and I don't have to buy any equipment, that $5 is purely a rental fee. So I decided to try out the DVR since there's little risk. Does it suck? Maybe, it stores 36 hours of shows and the interface is sufficient, and I can even record two shows at once.
It really does all I really need. The fast forward is smart, and there's a go back 10 seconds or so button. And most importantly, it's easy to figure out and use.
Now this box isn't perfect, I think I might have a lemon, it fails to record certain episodes of CSI for no apparent reason and some other shows sometimes, actually it just seems there 2 or 3 channels it has this problem with. And the interface can get locked up for a bit. I think it's all part of the same problem tho. With that being said, I'm really not too unhappy with it skipping some episodes of CSI, since I don't always watch them anyway, and by chance it never skips a rerun of X-Files or the random movie, which is what I really only care about. But all of these problems may be fixed by me returning the unit for a new one.
Would I be happier with TiVo? Maybe. Would it be worth paying $8 a month more plus the initial investment? I seriously doubt it.
that's kilobytes, not kilobits. I have road runner and I get around 45-50 KiB/s (kilobytes/sec) upload, or 400 Kibit/s (kilobits/sec)--many times what a modem can do.
I wish everyone would just use the standard to end the confusion. Sure the standard is a little weird, but tough bananas.
why are we jumping on the bandwagon to bash it so soon without allowing it to get out of "beta"
WE aren't, look around, the majority of people I see talking are linux people defending the spyware tool--myself included. This article is a troll, move along.
I drove around my parent's 86 Corolla for awhile, one day I found out that the key in also worked in our 86 Camry, but not vice versa... or maybe it was the othe way around...
I recently got the Time Warner DVR cable box for $5 a month extra. It's damn nice, makes TV watchable again with the smart fastforward that rewinds a bit when I stop it, and other obvious nice features. It makes skipping commercials a breeze. An hour show is done in around 40 minutes and a 30 minute show is over in around 20. I select what I want to record through the built in cable guide that I'm already used to with my previous digital cable box. And I can get a season pass for a show that I always want to record.
I mostly got it so I could record and pause movies on the movie channels which was mostly what I watched since they are commercial free, but quickly found it very useful for recording prime time shit so I can view/skim it later.
I really can't think of anything else that I want the DVR to do, I'd be annoyed if it started recording a bunch of random shows that are like the X-Files which I have a season pass for. I'd rather stick to what shows I already like and prefer not to find any new crappy ones.
Well I have a gig of ram and the theme junk and other various eye candy off, but it still bumped it up. Maybe with all the crap I run a gig wasn't enough, but that seems rather hard to believe. I know Jdeveloper is a hog, but a gig? I am running dual head as well, so that probably soaks up more ram, although I only had a solid color background.
I'll have to give it another go. I looked over black viper's site, but really most of the services I can disable really don't use up that much ram.
How may I ask did you turn off the swap file? I've tried doing this and XP was nice enough to turn it back on, informing me it has done it for performance reason or some other such bs. I even tried to make it a small fixed size, and XP resized it for me.
Heck, I'd do the same thing as him: go for a big pile of money. Who knows what he's going to do with it, for all I know he's donating it to charity. I'd at least like to think that's what I'd do in his shoes.
The rest I agree with, too easy to bypass a flash (swap for a resistor would probably do it), and probably not that hard for a beep depending on implentation.
Or just put some electricians tape over it:) Heck, that would probably work to put the beep or click as well. Face it, these things aren't going away, we're going to have to deal with them.
Personally, I blame the mobile phone companies for the search of more advanced features to drive up the price of phones.
While nforce is popular, it's not really vital. They no longer have the good sound, and the onboard video isn't an option anymore, which pretty much makes it just like any old chipset now, except it's a bit faster, but quite a bit more expensive. Granted the onboard video wasn't anything special, but it was more than fast enough for normal 2d usage and casual gaming, as long you don't expect to play hl2 or doom3 at a decent frame rate. I ended up going with a AMD64 system, Asus K8V SE Deluxe, (K8T800 based) over an NForce option, because it was cheaper, had linux compatibility, and the disk performance was benchmarked a few places to be better. Which really is more what I cared about than squeezing out a few extra cpu cycles.
Of course this is mostly my opinion over what I've read, but my machine's rock solid and haven't had a single problem with the sound or onboard lan. And it works like a charm under linux and xp with no extra special drivers (xp sp2 did need extra special drivers actually). Just use the onboard promise sata controller, not the onboard via, because the via has a special feature where it doesn't blink the HD led.
Well I never really feel bad about the waste aspect, as that's almost non-existant to me. Because when I upgrade, a family member or friend usually gets and upgrade as well with my spare parts.:)
I just recently upgraded to an AMD64 system, did I need it? No. But it's damn handy having work stuff compile in half the time. Also the better frame rate in Doom3 didn't hurt either.:) Now that GeForce 6800GT that I bought? That was just a downright spluge, but I did upgrade from a 3+ year old video card.
It pains me knowing there are so many people that live with maxed out credit cards, broke, not being able to afford anything. With the sad reality that the credit card that was supposed to enable them to purchase more is actually doing the opposite with the compound interest that they owe and have to pay off.
Some people have good money sense, most certainly do not. I think I got mine from my Dad, he's always been a bit on the frugal side, and so am I. Any time as a kid when I wanted to buy something, even with my own money, he made me justify my purchase. To this day, I still justify all major purchases I make, limit myself to eating out once a week (sans the occasional fast food), etc.
You should pay all those credit cards off and upgrade only when you need more speed and have enough money to cover your full credit card bill next month... but that's just me--I don't like throwing money away. I know, I know... I'm unamerican.
here here... that drives me crazy. For what it's worth, I remember when doom2 first came out, people were calling it iD on usenet as well, so slashdot isn't doing anything new.
There were the same evangilists like you and myself that were correcting them--it's just "id" darn it. I can handle it in posts, but in the article short itself?! I often do wonder who first started it, or if it just a common mistake of those outside of the know.
Well I just looked up the pricing on a 1.8 ghz powermac g5 w/512 meg ram and a nvidia 6800GT, it totaled just less than $2100. I can buy a prebuilt similar athlon 64 system for probably around $1338 from a random first page hit on google. (www.cpusolutions.com if anyone cares) It's probably faster anyway--Athlon 64 2800+ and it's only $189 more for a 3400+.
My point? While PC's aren't exactly cheap, you can save a ton. I build my own machines, using spare parts. I can usually re-use my case, psu, dvd drive, sometimes ram, hard drive, floppy, sound card, network card (although most boards have it onboard now), re-use my copy of windows xp, etc... saving even more if you build your own machine. The nice thing is if one part of the machine is slow, I can easily replace the cpu/motherboard/video card as needed myself to get rid of my current bottleneck.
And every once in awhile, I have enough in spare parts that I can buy a new case, and what have you and I have an extra machine that I either can use to play with, sell to a friend for cheap, etc.
I really thought about running raid to speed up work, and increase reliability, but it's just not really worth it on the desktop.
raid-0: decreases reliability since you have 2 drives that can go bad instead of 1, lose 1 drive and you're dead in the water.
raid-1: doesn't give an performance increase, in fact it's a performance hit for a lot of things.
raid-5: I didn't know of any boards that did it at the time, and they extra cards are expensive, plus the extra 2 drives.
raid 0+1: gives you some good reliability, but now you're talking 4 drives to buy and worry about instead of 2 or 3.
I came to the conclusion, just got the fastest single ide drive you can buy, and go with that. (74 gig WD Raptor 10k SATA) And back up your stuff. The beauty of one drive is that there's only 1 drive to go bad and replace, you also use up less power and it's quieter. With raid-5, not only are you buying 3 drives, but if you really want that reliability, you better have an extra drive on hand just in case.
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It's the same as the previous version, wonder what happened to that file? Look like he spent tons of time making a new gui, but not more than a few minutes to udpate some text files.
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
btdownloadgui.py
The queueing system is bizarre, the share percentage should be based off the selected torrent file size, not the amount of data downloaded. It also needs some kind of manual "yes damn it, seed all of these torrents until the cows come home" option.
I don't get it, what's up with all the garbled gibberish that comes after that?
Azureus runs fine on my linux box.... as long as I'm not running much else. It typically eats up 300+ megs of ram with a few torrents running. And it's gone rogue twice eating up as much ram as possible as fast as it could, once it brought entire machine down.
I know java is touted to be a "hog" that this seems a bit out of the ordinary, no? The memory usage is just crazy, seeing as how I only have 512 in the machine.
2.2. Does Wine emulate a full computer?
No, as the name says, Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator. Wine just provides the Windows API. This means that you will need an x86-compatible processor to run an x86 Windows application, for instance from Intel or AMD. The advantage is that, unlike solutions that rely on CPU emulation, Wine runs applications at full speed. Sometimes a program run under Wine will be slower than when run on a copy of Microsoft Windows, but this is more due to the fact that Microsoft has heavily optimized parts of their code, whereas mostly Wine is not well optimized (yet). Occasionally, an app may run faster under Wine than on Windows. Most apps run at roughly the same speed.
So no, it's not an emulator in the strict sense, it's merely an alternative implementation of the windows api. For more info, look here
I have Time Warner cable in Ohio. The already offer a DVR service for $5/mo extra, and I don't have to buy any equipment, that $5 is purely a rental fee. So I decided to try out the DVR since there's little risk. Does it suck? Maybe, it stores 36 hours of shows and the interface is sufficient, and I can even record two shows at once.
It really does all I really need. The fast forward is smart, and there's a go back 10 seconds or so button. And most importantly, it's easy to figure out and use.
Now this box isn't perfect, I think I might have a lemon, it fails to record certain episodes of CSI for no apparent reason and some other shows sometimes, actually it just seems there 2 or 3 channels it has this problem with. And the interface can get locked up for a bit. I think it's all part of the same problem tho. With that being said, I'm really not too unhappy with it skipping some episodes of CSI, since I don't always watch them anyway, and by chance it never skips a rerun of X-Files or the random movie, which is what I really only care about. But all of these problems may be fixed by me returning the unit for a new one.
Would I be happier with TiVo? Maybe. Would it be worth paying $8 a month more plus the initial investment? I seriously doubt it.
I live in a hole in the Sprint network
Yeah, you and half the country. Cingular has been working great for me here, no more randomly dropped calls.
that's kilobytes, not kilobits. I have road runner and I get around 45-50 KiB/s (kilobytes/sec) upload, or 400 Kibit/s (kilobits/sec)--many times what a modem can do.
I wish everyone would just use the standard to end the confusion. Sure the standard is a little weird, but tough bananas.
why are we jumping on the bandwagon to bash it so soon without allowing it to get out of "beta"
WE aren't, look around, the majority of people I see talking are linux people defending the spyware tool--myself included. This article is a troll, move along.
I drove around my parent's 86 Corolla for awhile, one day I found out that the key in also worked in our 86 Camry, but not vice versa... or maybe it was the othe way around...
I recently got the Time Warner DVR cable box for $5 a month extra. It's damn nice, makes TV watchable again with the smart fastforward that rewinds a bit when I stop it, and other obvious nice features. It makes skipping commercials a breeze. An hour show is done in around 40 minutes and a 30 minute show is over in around 20. I select what I want to record through the built in cable guide that I'm already used to with my previous digital cable box. And I can get a season pass for a show that I always want to record.
I mostly got it so I could record and pause movies on the movie channels which was mostly what I watched since they are commercial free, but quickly found it very useful for recording prime time shit so I can view/skim it later.
I really can't think of anything else that I want the DVR to do, I'd be annoyed if it started recording a bunch of random shows that are like the X-Files which I have a season pass for. I'd rather stick to what shows I already like and prefer not to find any new crappy ones.
Well I have a gig of ram and the theme junk and other various eye candy off, but it still bumped it up. Maybe with all the crap I run a gig wasn't enough, but that seems rather hard to believe. I know Jdeveloper is a hog, but a gig? I am running dual head as well, so that probably soaks up more ram, although I only had a solid color background.
I'll have to give it another go. I looked over black viper's site, but really most of the services I can disable really don't use up that much ram.
How may I ask did you turn off the swap file? I've tried doing this and XP was nice enough to turn it back on, informing me it has done it for performance reason or some other such bs. I even tried to make it a small fixed size, and XP resized it for me.
Heck, I'd do the same thing as him: go for a big pile of money. Who knows what he's going to do with it, for all I know he's donating it to charity. I'd at least like to think that's what I'd do in his shoes.
The rest I agree with, too easy to bypass a flash (swap for a resistor would probably do it), and probably not that hard for a beep depending on implentation.
:) Heck, that would probably work to put the beep or click as well. Face it, these things aren't going away, we're going to have to deal with them.
Or just put some electricians tape over it
Personally, I blame the mobile phone companies for the search of more advanced features to drive up the price of phones.
While nforce is popular, it's not really vital. They no longer have the good sound, and the onboard video isn't an option anymore, which pretty much makes it just like any old chipset now, except it's a bit faster, but quite a bit more expensive. Granted the onboard video wasn't anything special, but it was more than fast enough for normal 2d usage and casual gaming, as long you don't expect to play hl2 or doom3 at a decent frame rate. I ended up going with a AMD64 system, Asus K8V SE Deluxe, (K8T800 based) over an NForce option, because it was cheaper, had linux compatibility, and the disk performance was benchmarked a few places to be better. Which really is more what I cared about than squeezing out a few extra cpu cycles.
Of course this is mostly my opinion over what I've read, but my machine's rock solid and haven't had a single problem with the sound or onboard lan. And it works like a charm under linux and xp with no extra special drivers (xp sp2 did need extra special drivers actually). Just use the onboard promise sata controller, not the onboard via, because the via has a special feature where it doesn't blink the HD led.
I'll probably end up waiting for the stable release, to be dubbed Evil Dead 1.6.0, or maybe even a few versions after that.
newegg
Well I never really feel bad about the waste aspect, as that's almost non-existant to me. Because when I upgrade, a family member or friend usually gets and upgrade as well with my spare parts. :)
:) Now that GeForce 6800GT that I bought? That was just a downright spluge, but I did upgrade from a 3+ year old video card.
I just recently upgraded to an AMD64 system, did I need it? No. But it's damn handy having work stuff compile in half the time. Also the better frame rate in Doom3 didn't hurt either.
It pains me knowing there are so many people that live with maxed out credit cards, broke, not being able to afford anything. With the sad reality that the credit card that was supposed to enable them to purchase more is actually doing the opposite with the compound interest that they owe and have to pay off.
Some people have good money sense, most certainly do not. I think I got mine from my Dad, he's always been a bit on the frugal side, and so am I. Any time as a kid when I wanted to buy something, even with my own money, he made me justify my purchase. To this day, I still justify all major purchases I make, limit myself to eating out once a week (sans the occasional fast food), etc.
You should pay all those credit cards off and upgrade only when you need more speed and have enough money to cover your full credit card bill next month... but that's just me--I don't like throwing money away. I know, I know... I'm unamerican.
here here... that drives me crazy. For what it's worth, I remember when doom2 first came out, people were calling it iD on usenet as well, so slashdot isn't doing anything new.
There were the same evangilists like you and myself that were correcting them--it's just "id" darn it. I can handle it in posts, but in the article short itself?! I often do wonder who first started it, or if it just a common mistake of those outside of the know.
I beg your pardon?
Well I just looked up the pricing on a 1.8 ghz powermac g5 w/512 meg ram and a nvidia 6800GT, it totaled just less than $2100. I can buy a prebuilt similar athlon 64 system for probably around $1338 from a random first page hit on google. (www.cpusolutions.com if anyone cares) It's probably faster anyway--Athlon 64 2800+ and it's only $189 more for a 3400+.
My point? While PC's aren't exactly cheap, you can save a ton. I build my own machines, using spare parts. I can usually re-use my case, psu, dvd drive, sometimes ram, hard drive, floppy, sound card, network card (although most boards have it onboard now), re-use my copy of windows xp, etc... saving even more if you build your own machine. The nice thing is if one part of the machine is slow, I can easily replace the cpu/motherboard/video card as needed myself to get rid of my current bottleneck.
And every once in awhile, I have enough in spare parts that I can buy a new case, and what have you and I have an extra machine that I either can use to play with, sell to a friend for cheap, etc.
Reminds me of this penny arcade strip.
you mean like this board?
I really thought about running raid to speed up work, and increase reliability, but it's just not really worth it on the desktop.
raid-0: decreases reliability since you have 2 drives that can go bad instead of 1, lose 1 drive and you're dead in the water.
raid-1: doesn't give an performance increase, in fact it's a performance hit for a lot of things.
raid-5: I didn't know of any boards that did it at the time, and they extra cards are expensive, plus the extra 2 drives.
raid 0+1: gives you some good reliability, but now you're talking 4 drives to buy and worry about instead of 2 or 3.
I came to the conclusion, just got the fastest single ide drive you can buy, and go with that. (74 gig WD Raptor 10k SATA) And back up your stuff. The beauty of one drive is that there's only 1 drive to go bad and replace, you also use up less power and it's quieter. With raid-5, not only are you buying 3 drives, but if you really want that reliability, you better have an extra drive on hand just in case.
This is already being done I believe. Check out alt.binaries.howard-stern and a.b.h-s.repost