Alsa sound drivers are built right in. So now I don't need to copile them separately. The oss support for my sound card was very half ass, it didn't even support full duplex and hardware mixing.
Also, i2c and the lm sensors interface is built right in as well. So now I don't have to compile i2c and lm sensors to know how hot my mobo and cpu are running. They have saved my computer at least once. My cpu fan died on me, I wouldn't have known if I didn't have it graphed.
Also there's pre-emptible kernel option. It makes X more responsive, especially noticeable under heavy load and on slower computers. Supposedly better memory management as well, but as I have 768 megs of ram, I probably won't ever notice that.
There's also USB 2.0 support, and support for USB type removeable drivers. I think both of those are new.
There's probalby more, but those are the ones I know off hand.
pimpbot:~/mrtg# uname -a Linux pimpbot 2.6.0-test8 #5 Fri Oct 24 15:45:49 EDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
me too dude... me too..:( I'll probably wait till test10 or final as this one is working flawless for me right now so far.
The one thing that's annoyed me so far is the lack of documentation on how the new sensors interface works, and the fact that no programs seem to support it yet. Apparently you don't need lm sensors anymore, but that little tidbit is hidden away well within a vague statement on their website. Sensors now just use sysfs. That and i2c-viapro interferes with via686a driver. So don't build/insert i2c-viapro. Or else your sensors won't show up, took me forever googling to find that out. And the fact that I couldn't even find exactly how you were supposed to reading the sensors data.
Anyway, so now I'm using a dumb little php script as my glue right now to make mrtg still graph my temperatures. Here it is if anyone cares:
In gnome 2.4, footprint, run application, run with file, presents a "bells and whistles" file dialogue, with a button for your home directory, desktop, and documents, with rename, delete, and new directory buttons. Other gnome apps use this same dialogue. I assumed it was a gnome thing, but actually, it looks like a gtk thing as normal gtk apps use it.
Kinda weird that the "new file dialogue" takes away these useful features, looks like a step backwards, which leads me to believe I'm missing something here so I should probably just shut up as I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
It definitely needs some short cuts icons across the top, like for the user's home directory, the root dir, maybe per user configurable favorite directories, maybe a last used list even, that could be a pulldown, or some kind of small button that fans out a big directory list of previously used directories. And remember the last used directory on a per app basis some how, dunno if that's up to the application or the file selector tho. If you do that, you might not even need the left hand treeview pane, or at least can make it hideable so you have more room for the right hand pane.
Being able to create dirs, rename them, and delete files/dirs from that dialogue would be nice as well. But heck, if you're going to want that, you might as well just make a full blown gnome app and use an already much better dialogue, so I guess keeping the vanilla gtk one simple is a "good thing". Although, maybe a simple and a complex gtk file dialogue box would be nice.
Actually, which makes me think, I wonder if it would be possible to have an application use the simple gtk file dialogue, but if gnome was installed, it would use the full blown, bells and whisltes gnome dialogues if gnome happened to be installed, and do this automatically, so the programmers wouldn't have to even know about gnome, just simply call the gtk dialogue, and the various libraries would figure out the best one to use.
This would ease up the task for developers, so they wouldn't even have to explicitly program a gnome app to get gnome like features.
Well step 1 is pass anti-spam law. Step 3 is no spam, get it?
Seriously tho, it will be encorced on a company by company basis. Big shops like AOL Earthlink, and whoever will pursue the big spammers, once they stop, they'll go after the smaller time ones and then the fear will settle in. Sure then spam will be forced overseas or whatever, but it will still be drastically reduced, because not just everyone is willing to go to the trouble of moving overseas. Spam is big pain for businesses, they're customers demand they don't get it, so they employ people who primary job is to battle spam, come up with new technique to filter it out. I have a good friend who does just this all day long.
Anyway, baby steps... we don't have to stop the spam problem with one big, perfect piece of legislature all in one blow...
And cable users. If my uploads is pegged my ping times go sky high and download speed suffers. In fact my whole connection slows to a crawl. Heck, even if you're on a T1 or whatever and the outbound is pegged ping times suffer making the connection painful. Throttling is necessary for popular torrents no matter what speed connection you have.
Not that any of this matters, since BitTorrent is blocked on my network connection. *grumbles*
So change the port by trying this client. Everyone should change the port that bittorrent listens on, if everyone did, then ISPs couldn't easily block it. If they block incoming ports 6881-9 or whatever then it still might be blocked, but if someone else is on the torrent that changed their default port, then you still should be able to use it, although not as quickly.
After looking at the blue print of the Titanic I notice that it doesn't have enough life boats in case of emergency, and if too many wells are flooded, the water level will be too high and spill over into the other wells, I should have had totally seals off air tanks to make sure it'll float even if it was ripped in two.
So sure, it the titanic looked safe at the time, as did normal nuclear technology, but clear problems arise, like rods jamming, stuff corroding, etc, so you solve those problems and move on. Are these small nuclear reactors totally safe? Probably not, but since they're small the damage will be minimized, and then learn from the mistakes, solve more problems and try again.
That's kinda dumb that you have waste a cd to burn the songs and then re-rip them. If I can't directly save them to mp3 or ogg without hoops to jump thru, I'm not going to bother.
BTW While I think about, can anyone give me an example of a valid use of the DNS wildcard - its not that I don't believe that its useful, its just I don't know enough to prove that it is.
Sure, go here. Or did you mean a use for the global dns wildcard? In that case, no, I can't think of one.
That's the almost the same plan I have, except my nights and weekends start at 9pm, and it's $30/mo. Still cheaper than they're cheapest plan now which was $40/mo last I looked. Too bad Sprint's service in my town sucks now. It was great maybe 2-3 years ago, but apparently they sold off a bunch of towers (so I hear) and made it suck.
Checks are horribly insecure. Any information that someone needs for an electronic transaction from you bank account is right on each check you write. Once they have your account number, they can deposit and withdrawl however much they so feel like. But it leaves a trail, so you know who did it so you can get your money back, which will take time, after all it's YOUR money they're taking, not the banks. Or hell, if the wrong person gets ahold of your checking account, they could make bogus checks and start cashing em. Frank Abagnale Jr. anyone?
Credit cards are horrible insecure as well, but the CC companies take responsibility. If you never got your goods from the company, etc, do a charge back and you get your money back, and the company you dealt with gets screwed.
If there's a bogus charge on there that you didn't make, I think the CC company eats it. What I never got is that CC companies all offer credit card protection programs, they send you your credit report, you look it over, they have insurance against fraud etc. I'm like, you have to do that anyway (sans sending me a credit report), why I should I pay you money to do it?
I've also found that you should not dispose of dud D model rocket engines in fires, because you'll forget about them and about 30 minutes later or so they come shooting out.
This almost seems like the suit could be turned around. You're installing something on my computer without notifying me and without my permission. Today it's some stupid DRM like program, tommorrow it's spyware, next year it's a keylogger that transmits it's data to the FBI to make sure you aren't doing anything wrong. * gid checks to make sure his tinfoil hat is on tight.
Most of the screen shots were actually of HL2 running in a window on some guys desktop, I suppose those could have been faked as well, seems like an awful lot of trouble tho just to try and convince people that there was a leaked beta.
A friend passed along a bittorrent link to me of a supposed hl2 beta, not the source, I've seen screenshots, so I'm pretty sure it's out there somewhere. But as I didn't actually try it first hand (I've got better things to do than dl a crappy hl2 beta), or talk to a trusted friend whom tried it first hand, I can't be 100% positive, so I put the disclaimer "from what I hear" on it.
I'd like to think I have a pretty good bullshit-o-meter, so I only pass along information that I'm pretty darn sure is correct.
Lets see... quake3 is designed to be able to be played over a modem, it may use 10KB/sec up if you have it cranked up for isdn or cable modem usage. I've seen bittorrent suck down over 350KB/sec, using over 30x more bandwidth.
If you school has an underpowered router, than gaming can overload a router because of the sheer number of tiny packets going thru it, I'd bet that's what was going on. Kinda frustrating, no real fix for it, either get more ram for the router, or get a new one, those things can be darn expensive. But if the router is flipping out just because of a little online gaming, it's probably time to get a new router anyway, who knows what other headaches that poor thing has caused...
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Alsa sound drivers are built right in. So now I don't need to copile them separately. The oss support for my sound card was very half ass, it didn't even support full duplex and hardware mixing.
Also, i2c and the lm sensors interface is built right in as well. So now I don't have to compile i2c and lm sensors to know how hot my mobo and cpu are running. They have saved my computer at least once. My cpu fan died on me, I wouldn't have known if I didn't have it graphed.
Also there's pre-emptible kernel option. It makes X more responsive, especially noticeable under heavy load and on slower computers. Supposedly better memory management as well, but as I have 768 megs of ram, I probably won't ever notice that.
There's also USB 2.0 support, and support for USB type removeable drivers. I think both of those are new.
There's probalby more, but those are the ones I know off hand.
2 bad I suck:
g acy/i2c- 0/0-6000/temp_input1');( '/sys/devices/legacy/i2c- 0/0-6000/temp_input2');
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?
$TEMP1=file_get_contents('/sys/devices/le
$TEMP2=file_get_contents
printf("%.1f\n", $TEMP1/1000);
printf("%.1f\n", $TEMP2/1000);
echo ltrim(`uptime`);
echo ltrim(`hostname --long`);
?>
pimpbot:~/mrtg# uname -a
:( I'll probably wait till test10 or final as this one is working flawless for me right now so far.
Linux pimpbot 2.6.0-test8 #5 Fri Oct 24 15:45:49 EDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
me too dude... me too..
The one thing that's annoyed me so far is the lack of documentation on how the new sensors interface works, and the fact that no programs seem to support it yet. Apparently you don't need lm sensors anymore, but that little tidbit is hidden away well within a vague statement on their website. Sensors now just use sysfs. That and i2c-viapro interferes with via686a driver. So don't build/insert i2c-viapro. Or else your sensors won't show up, took me forever googling to find that out. And the fact that I couldn't even find exactly how you were supposed to reading the sensors data.
Anyway, so now I'm using a dumb little php script as my glue right now to make mrtg still graph my temperatures. Here it is if anyone cares:
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
In gnome 2.4, footprint, run application, run with file, presents a "bells and whistles" file dialogue, with a button for your home directory, desktop, and documents, with rename, delete, and new directory buttons. Other gnome apps use this same dialogue. I assumed it was a gnome thing, but actually, it looks like a gtk thing as normal gtk apps use it.
Kinda weird that the "new file dialogue" takes away these useful features, looks like a step backwards, which leads me to believe I'm missing something here so I should probably just shut up as I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
It definitely needs some short cuts icons across the top, like for the user's home directory, the root dir, maybe per user configurable favorite directories, maybe a last used list even, that could be a pulldown, or some kind of small button that fans out a big directory list of previously used directories. And remember the last used directory on a per app basis some how, dunno if that's up to the application or the file selector tho. If you do that, you might not even need the left hand treeview pane, or at least can make it hideable so you have more room for the right hand pane.
Being able to create dirs, rename them, and delete files/dirs from that dialogue would be nice as well. But heck, if you're going to want that, you might as well just make a full blown gnome app and use an already much better dialogue, so I guess keeping the vanilla gtk one simple is a "good thing". Although, maybe a simple and a complex gtk file dialogue box would be nice.
Actually, which makes me think, I wonder if it would be possible to have an application use the simple gtk file dialogue, but if gnome was installed, it would use the full blown, bells and whisltes gnome dialogues if gnome happened to be installed, and do this automatically, so the programmers wouldn't have to even know about gnome, just simply call the gtk dialogue, and the various libraries would figure out the best one to use.
This would ease up the task for developers, so they wouldn't even have to explicitly program a gnome app to get gnome like features.
Well step 1 is pass anti-spam law. Step 3 is no spam, get it?
Seriously tho, it will be encorced on a company by company basis. Big shops like AOL Earthlink, and whoever will pursue the big spammers, once they stop, they'll go after the smaller time ones and then the fear will settle in. Sure then spam will be forced overseas or whatever, but it will still be drastically reduced, because not just everyone is willing to go to the trouble of moving overseas.
Spam is big pain for businesses, they're customers demand they don't get it, so they employ people who primary job is to battle spam, come up with new technique to filter it out. I have a good friend who does just this all day long.
Anyway, baby steps... we don't have to stop the spam problem with one big, perfect piece of legislature all in one blow...
I've yet to encounter a p2p app that doesn't let you change the port.
And cable users. If my uploads is pegged my ping times go sky high and download speed suffers. In fact my whole connection slows to a crawl. Heck, even if you're on a T1 or whatever and the outbound is pegged ping times suffer making the connection painful. Throttling is necessary for popular torrents no matter what speed connection you have.
Not that any of this matters, since BitTorrent is blocked on my network connection. *grumbles*
So change the port by trying this client. Everyone should change the port that bittorrent listens on, if everyone did, then ISPs couldn't easily block it. If they block incoming ports 6881-9 or whatever then it still might be blocked, but if someone else is on the torrent that changed their default port, then you still should be able to use it, although not as quickly.
You sass that hoopy MarkusQ. Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel his.
After looking at the blue print of the Titanic I notice that it doesn't have enough life boats in case of emergency, and if too many wells are flooded, the water level will be too high and spill over into the other wells, I should have had totally seals off air tanks to make sure it'll float even if it was ripped in two.
So sure, it the titanic looked safe at the time, as did normal nuclear technology, but clear problems arise, like rods jamming, stuff corroding, etc, so you solve those problems and move on. Are these small nuclear reactors totally safe? Probably not, but since they're small the damage will be minimized, and then learn from the mistakes, solve more problems and try again.
That's kinda dumb that you have waste a cd to burn the songs and then re-rip them. If I can't directly save them to mp3 or ogg without hoops to jump thru, I'm not going to bother.
BTW While I think about, can anyone give me an example of a valid use of the DNS wildcard - its not that I don't believe that its useful, its just I don't know enough to prove that it is.
Sure, go here. Or did you mean a use for the global dns wildcard? In that case, no, I can't think of one.
That's the almost the same plan I have, except my nights and weekends start at 9pm, and it's $30/mo. Still cheaper than they're cheapest plan now which was $40/mo last I looked. Too bad Sprint's service in my town sucks now. It was great maybe 2-3 years ago, but apparently they sold off a bunch of towers (so I hear) and made it suck.
Checks are horribly insecure. Any information that someone needs for an electronic transaction from you bank account is right on each check you write. Once they have your account number, they can deposit and withdrawl however much they so feel like. But it leaves a trail, so you know who did it so you can get your money back, which will take time, after all it's YOUR money they're taking, not the banks. Or hell, if the wrong person gets ahold of your checking account, they could make bogus checks and start cashing em. Frank Abagnale Jr. anyone?
Credit cards are horrible insecure as well, but the CC companies take responsibility. If you never got your goods from the company, etc, do a charge back and you get your money back, and the company you dealt with gets screwed.
If there's a bogus charge on there that you didn't make, I think the CC company eats it. What I never got is that CC companies all offer credit card protection programs, they send you your credit report, you look it over, they have insurance against fraud etc. I'm like, you have to do that anyway (sans sending me a credit report), why I should I pay you money to do it?
I've also found that you should not dispose of dud D model rocket engines in fires, because you'll forget about them and about 30 minutes later or so they come shooting out.
This almost seems like the suit could be turned around. You're installing something on my computer without notifying me and without my permission. Today it's some stupid DRM like program, tommorrow it's spyware, next year it's a keylogger that transmits it's data to the FBI to make sure you aren't doing anything wrong. * gid checks to make sure his tinfoil hat is on tight.
That janitor wasn't Matt Damon, was it?
Most of the screen shots were actually of HL2 running in a window on some guys desktop, I suppose those could have been faked as well, seems like an awful lot of trouble tho just to try and convince people that there was a leaked beta.
Get what story straight?
A friend passed along a bittorrent link to me of a supposed hl2 beta, not the source, I've seen screenshots, so I'm pretty sure it's out there somewhere. But as I didn't actually try it first hand (I've got better things to do than dl a crappy hl2 beta), or talk to a trusted friend whom tried it first hand, I can't be 100% positive, so I put the disclaimer "from what I hear" on it.
I'd like to think I have a pretty good bullshit-o-meter, so I only pass along information that I'm pretty darn sure is correct.
heh, HL2 kinda came out tho, a beta copy got leaked tho from what I hear....
I also happen to have a leaked copy of Linux 2.6.0-test7!
Heh, I forget exactly who said it originally, but I've always seen most casino gambling/state lotteries, etc, as a tax on people who can't do math.
Any machine that is in a Casino has to undergo rigorous testing, they test the exact odds, make sure it's legal, etc.
I'm not sure who tests it, but in Nevada, it's probably the NGC.
Hey a flight overbooker is an important job, just like telephone sanitizers.
Lets see... quake3 is designed to be able to be played over a modem, it may use 10KB/sec up if you have it cranked up for isdn or cable modem usage. I've seen bittorrent suck down over 350KB/sec, using over 30x more bandwidth.
If you school has an underpowered router, than gaming can overload a router because of the sheer number of tiny packets going thru it, I'd bet that's what was going on. Kinda frustrating, no real fix for it, either get more ram for the router, or get a new one, those things can be darn expensive. But if the router is flipping out just because of a little online gaming, it's probably time to get a new router anyway, who knows what other headaches that poor thing has caused...