Scanning the FV25 mobo page it looks like a lot of the hardware is the same.
The prosavage 4 chipset needs XFree86 4.2.x or higher (4.1 locks the machine up solid) so pick your distribution accordingly, you can get 4.1.x to work if you download the newer driver from this page tho: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
I haven't tested the tv out yet as I've always had it hooked up to a monitor. I went the other way and stuffed a pci TV card in the thing (damn that was a tight fit:) so I could use it as a TV.
The onboard sound is nothing spectacular, but it gets the job done. Ethernet works fine as well, I believe it uses the realtek or tulip drivers.
I use mplayer just fine on my little pos 1 ghz celery with a dvd drive and a pro savage 4 chipset. It's just a matter of tweaking settings.
The machine is a Shuttle Spacewalker SV24. MPlayer performance can vary greatly on what X output driver you're using, I think I was using the xv drive. Also if you're playing from a cdrom, you'll want to add something like cache=8192 to your config file.
Actually I haven't used that machine in quite some time, it's currently collecting dust for me in my room.:)
What I really want in mplayer now is variable slomotion and frame by frame stuff.
I've never had a problem with 1.2 at all, I'm still running it now as I'm just waiting for the 1.2.1 debian packages to be released. If you still have the same problem with 1.2.1 then you should probably file a bug here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ You have to copy and paste that link in a browser because bugzilla has a redirect if the referer is/.
Well the cruft isn't totally gone until you update each row and then do a vacuum analyze. So you can do "update table set column=column; vacuum analyze" after the alter table.
Some more minor alter table stuff is still missing: In mysql you can "ALTER TABLE ADD column2 INT DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL AFTER column". Postgresql doesn't support adding a column at a specific location, nor can you set the default for a column, nor can you make it not null. With Postgresql you can still do it I guess, it's just more difficult using ALTER TABLE set default and ALTER TABLE set not null, or whatever the exact syntax is, but you cannot set where the column is add at.
Actually, one of the weirdess things with Postgresql, they removed the LIMIT N,M sytax for LIMIT M OFFSET N. Which will definitely break some of my code, albeit not hard to change it to be compatible again, but WHY?
Interestingly enough, I don't have a minimum font size set, and I can read everything on the page just fine. Although some of the fonts are rather small. I'm using the MS Arial truetype font w/ antialiasing.
Fonts always used to sucking in mozilla until I started using Arial, if you don't have arial installed, I'd seriously try to investigate how to do it with your distribution. If you can't figure out how, just reply to this with your distrubution and I'll try to help you out.
Well since bananas can't directly hold data that well since they rot so quickly, well have to use those bananas to store data by some other indirect means.
So, how many bananas would it take to feed all the monkeys needed to store the data? Monkey's aren't that smart so lets approximate each monkey can hold 4k worth of data.
Now we'd want redundancy so lets have triplictate monkeys for all our data, in case one dies, or runs away, or simply forgets.
26843545600 * 3 = 80530636800 monkeys
But now want want to figure out how many bannas they're gonna eat, lets say 5 bananas a day per monkey?
80530636800 * 5 = 402653184000 bananas to feel all monkeys per day
402653184000 * 365 = 146968412160000 bananas to feed all monkeys per year
146,968,412,160,000 or 146 trillion bananas per year, which is probably just slightly over the nation debt.
Overall, I think your method of using bananas to store all this data is quite ridiculous. The latency and dataloss would be unbearable. Plus think of all the poop these monkeys would create, and you'd NEVER be able to get PETA off your back.
They use 160 GB drives btw. And they claim 200 GB drives should be comming out any day now.
Plus they have 3 separate facilities, I'm assuming each is a "complete set".
I personally have two 120 GB drives which is way more than I need, but hey, I got a deal on em, so I bought two so one could be a backup (put it in a seperate machine, albeit at the same location) rsync is a wonderful tool.:) I'm a digital pack rat as well, what can I say?
I remember hearing about maradns earlier on/. I was running bind as a resolver for my home network, because my isp's dns servers were kinda far away from me, so I did a a dpkg --purge bind; apt-get install maradns; copied over the recursive example config, and I was off.
Heh, not that's it any of your business, but I have a girlfriend, although she's not a fan of the anime, but she's sat through a few movies with me, as I've sat through some of her movies as well. I'm really not that big of an Anime freak. I just happen to have a love of the surreal. Who happens to not like chopped up work.
As for getting turned on by Anime? I dunno, maybe I've been watching the wrong Anime, as I've only found one scene in a movie that I found erotic, and that was a borrowed tape from a friend. But as I said, I'm not that much of an Anime freak, so I really haven't seen that much.
Your missing my point, it's not about the nudity, or whatever else "the man" might want to censor. It's about seeing the movie as it was intended, and my freedom to do so. (without paying $18 for a dvd I'm gonna watch once or twice)
I seriously hate rental places, don't even get me started on that...
I'd sure as heck pay for a premium Anime channel with uncut stuff. It not like the stupid cartoon nudity turns me on or anything, I have much better stuff for that. I just really hate seeing an artists work cut up. So yes, I always buy the directors cut whenever possible, hell, I even listen to music albums all the way thru, song for song, to get the full experience.
I hate to break it to you, but Blockbuster has been known to edit their movies for content, they'll rent out a special block buster version of the dvd or whatever. I think there's a couple lawsuits against them for this. I'd I knew more, but Blockbuster or anyone else in the know hasn't been to verbal about it.
When linux went from 1.x to 2.x (circa 1995-96?) when they switched over to elf binaries from the a.out format they broke compatibility. ELF binaries do not run on Linux 1.2.x and below.
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Good grief. Read the article. Idiot.
Look man, there's no way he could have possibly read the article only 6 minutes after the article was posted. Give me a break, cut they guy some slack. He was only trying to post quickly to get easy karam from trigger happy moderators, is that illegal now?! Sheesh.
For the humor impaired, please note my oozing sarcasm.
That's the problem with most PVR/DVR's now... They're just not quite what I'm looking for. I don't want the subscription thing for tivo, that's bogus. Sure you can get away without it, but from what I hear, it's built around having it.
I just want a PVR that I can program like my stupid VCR. Start recording at 8pm thursday night, for 3 hours. Is that so hard? I don't want to pay for a lot of bell and whistles that I don't need/make it more expensive/make it more confusing.
Why insist on using something inefficient tho? CDR's are maybe $.50 a piece at best. I searched compusa.com real quick and you can get a 10 pack for $5.99. A 10 pack of CDRW's was $9.99. Now you can reuse the CDRW's, so I'm not wasting 50 cents every time I want to save something for any ammount of time, and better yet, I'm not producing as much garbage and am not being as wasteful. Even if CDRW's were maybe $5 a piece, I'd still think about using them because I wouldn't be throwing a chunk of plastic away every time I wanted to save something for awhile. Actually, the better solution might to just put a couple bigger hard drives in that PVR.:)
It's not like you have to do anything special to use CDRW's, they're a solution that exists now, today. Why not take advantage?
The problem with the Terapin VCD recorder is that it looks like it only records up to 74 minutes without user intervention. This make it essentially worthless, because I'd still have to have a vcr around to record thursday night on nbc, or whatever.
Actually, maybe if it had a method to automatically edit out all the commercials you could squeeze 3 hours in to 74 minutes.:)
There's tons of legit reasons for CDRW's. What if I want to save a friends episode, but only until my sister finally comes over, maybe months later to watch it. What if I want to save bunch of simpsons episodes to watch during thanksgiving. Or bigger yet, what if I want to record friends and then take it over to my girlfriend's place?
There's many reasons to save something for the medium term.
Why do people insist on trying to convince users that don't need something that they explicitly asked for? And have perfectly legit reasons to request the said item. Fully assess the situation first next time, and then make suggestions.
I've found it amazing what people will put with for free. I mean... look at linux, ba dum-ching. Just kidding, I run linux as my desktop so I'm allowed to make fun of it.:)
I'd probably get XM radio if I didn't have so many darn mp3's (mostly made from my own cd's, some are of other hard to find stuff that there's no way it's available on cd). I can hardly stand radio, the only time I listen to it is when I'm in the car and too lazy/busy driving to put in another cd.
As for cable, the only shows I watch anymore is with any regularity is thursday night stuff with my gf that she recorded.:) That and the history channel occassionally. Oh yeah, I occasionally flip through junk, immediately turning the channel when a commercial comes on.:)
Odd, I run it on Debian and it's crashes all the flipping time, to the point of unusable. It may be a only a specific combination of things or do, or the type of files that I move around, but it's unusable. I still run the experimental gnome2 debs, but I went back to using gentoo for my graphical filemanager.
And ya, the built in browser is dumb. If it doesn't render everything you'd possibly want to, it's pointless, period. Web browsers are interesting enough when it's just the browser you have to worry about, I run mozilla and am done with it, no other web browser needed.
[gid@pimpbot:~] dpkg --list |grep naut ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.7-1 Shared libraries that part of Nautilus (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.7-1 File manager and graphical shell (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.7-1 Development files of Nautilus (GNOME2)
Well if that's the case, couldn't everyone sue id software because they can't play quake3 while blind. A quake3 level could possibly be seen as a place exhibition, right? Suddenly the ADA doesn't makes sense, eh? Cyberspace != Meatspace.
"Gib Gnab" is actually a phrase from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the late Douglas Adams. (Dang it, why can't you underline stuff in/. comments?:( ) It's big bang spelled backards and not meant to be a referrence to the recently coined "gibs" in anyway. The reading of these books is a requirement to be a geek. I take them quite seriously.
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Scanning the FV25 mobo page it looks like a lot of the hardware is the same.
:) so I could use it as a TV.
The prosavage 4 chipset needs XFree86 4.2.x or higher (4.1 locks the machine up solid) so pick your distribution accordingly, you can get 4.1.x to work if you download the newer driver from this page tho: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
I haven't tested the tv out yet as I've always had it hooked up to a monitor. I went the other way and stuffed a pci TV card in the thing (damn that was a tight fit
The onboard sound is nothing spectacular, but it gets the job done. Ethernet works fine as well, I believe it uses the realtek or tulip drivers.
I use mplayer just fine on my little pos 1 ghz celery with a dvd drive and a pro savage 4 chipset. It's just a matter of tweaking settings.
:)
The machine is a Shuttle Spacewalker SV24. MPlayer performance can vary greatly on what X output driver you're using, I think I was using the xv drive. Also if you're playing from a cdrom, you'll want to add something like cache=8192 to your config file.
Actually I haven't used that machine in quite some time, it's currently collecting dust for me in my room.
What I really want in mplayer now is variable slomotion and frame by frame stuff.
Good thing I run linux. :)
I've never been happier since I switched to using linux as my primary desktop, gnome2 actually, (I used to run fluxbox, heh).
No doubt, idle computers use less power, and generate much less heat. I stopped running all of those programs once I found this out.
I've never had a problem with 1.2 at all, I'm still running it now as I'm just waiting for the 1.2.1 debian packages to be released. If you still have the same problem with 1.2.1 then you should probably file a bug here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ You have to copy and paste that link in a browser because bugzilla has a redirect if the referer is /.
Well the cruft isn't totally gone until you update each row and then do a vacuum analyze. So you can do "update table set column=column; vacuum analyze" after the alter table.
Some more minor alter table stuff is still missing: In mysql you can "ALTER TABLE ADD column2 INT DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL AFTER column". Postgresql doesn't support adding a column at a specific location, nor can you set the default for a column, nor can you make it not null. With Postgresql you can still do it I guess, it's just more difficult using ALTER TABLE set default and ALTER TABLE set not null, or whatever the exact syntax is, but you cannot set where the column is add at.
Actually, one of the weirdess things with Postgresql, they removed the LIMIT N,M sytax for LIMIT M OFFSET N. Which will definitely break some of my code, albeit not hard to change it to be compatible again, but WHY?
Interestingly enough, I don't have a minimum font size set, and I can read everything on the page just fine. Although some of the fonts are rather small. I'm using the MS Arial truetype font w/ antialiasing.
Just in case your curious I took a quick screenshot.
Fonts always used to sucking in mozilla until I started using Arial, if you don't have arial installed, I'd seriously try to investigate how to do it with your distribution. If you can't figure out how, just reply to this with your distrubution and I'll try to help you out.
Well since bananas can't directly hold data that well since they rot so quickly, well have to use those bananas to store data by some other indirect means.
So, how many bananas would it take to feed all the monkeys needed to store the data? Monkey's aren't that smart so lets approximate each monkey can hold 4k worth of data.
100 TB = 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 KB = 107374182400 KB
107374182400 KB / 4 = 26843545600 monkeys
Now we'd want redundancy so lets have triplictate monkeys for all our data, in case one dies, or runs away, or simply forgets.
26843545600 * 3 = 80530636800 monkeys
But now want want to figure out how many bannas they're gonna eat, lets say 5 bananas a day per monkey?
80530636800 * 5 = 402653184000 bananas to feel all monkeys per day
402653184000 * 365 = 146968412160000 bananas to feed all monkeys per year
146,968,412,160,000 or 146 trillion bananas per year, which is probably just slightly over the nation debt.
Overall, I think your method of using bananas to store all this data is quite ridiculous. The latency and dataloss would be unbearable. Plus think of all the poop these monkeys would create, and you'd NEVER be able to get PETA off your back.
They use 160 GB drives btw. And they claim 200 GB drives should be comming out any day now.
:) I'm a digital pack rat as well, what can I say?
Plus they have 3 separate facilities, I'm assuming each is a "complete set".
I personally have two 120 GB drives which is way more than I need, but hey, I got a deal on em, so I bought two so one could be a backup (put it in a seperate machine, albeit at the same location) rsync is a wonderful tool.
I remember hearing about maradns earlier on /. I was running bind as a resolver for my home network, because my isp's dns servers were kinda far away from me, so I did a a dpkg --purge bind; apt-get install maradns; copied over the recursive example config, and I was off.
Heh, not that's it any of your business, but I have a girlfriend, although she's not a fan of the anime, but she's sat through a few movies with me, as I've sat through some of her movies as well. I'm really not that big of an Anime freak. I just happen to have a love of the surreal. Who happens to not like chopped up work.
As for getting turned on by Anime? I dunno, maybe I've been watching the wrong Anime, as I've only found one scene in a movie that I found erotic, and that was a borrowed tape from a friend. But as I said, I'm not that much of an Anime freak, so I really haven't seen that much.
Your missing my point, it's not about the nudity, or whatever else "the man" might want to censor. It's about seeing the movie as it was intended, and my freedom to do so. (without paying $18 for a dvd I'm gonna watch once or twice)
I seriously hate rental places, don't even get me started on that...
I'd sure as heck pay for a premium Anime channel with uncut stuff. It not like the stupid cartoon nudity turns me on or anything, I have much better stuff for that. I just really hate seeing an artists work cut up. So yes, I always buy the directors cut whenever possible, hell, I even listen to music albums all the way thru, song for song, to get the full experience.
I hate to break it to you, but Blockbuster has been known to edit their movies for content, they'll rent out a special block buster version of the dvd or whatever. I think there's a couple lawsuits against them for this. I'd I knew more, but Blockbuster or anyone else in the know hasn't been to verbal about it.
When linux went from 1.x to 2.x (circa 1995-96?) when they switched over to elf binaries from the a.out format they broke compatibility. ELF binaries do not run on Linux 1.2.x and below.
The only thing worse than no information, is wrong information.
Good grief. Read the article. Idiot.
Look man, there's no way he could have possibly read the article only 6 minutes after the article was posted. Give me a break, cut they guy some slack. He was only trying to post quickly to get easy karam from trigger happy moderators, is that illegal now?! Sheesh.
For the humor impaired, please note my oozing sarcasm.
That's the problem with most PVR/DVR's now... They're just not quite what I'm looking for. I don't want the subscription thing for tivo, that's bogus. Sure you can get away without it, but from what I hear, it's built around having it.
I just want a PVR that I can program like my stupid VCR. Start recording at 8pm thursday night, for 3 hours. Is that so hard? I don't want to pay for a lot of bell and whistles that I don't need/make it more expensive/make it more confusing.
Why insist on using something inefficient tho? CDR's are maybe $.50 a piece at best. I searched compusa.com real quick and you can get a 10 pack for $5.99. A 10 pack of CDRW's was $9.99. Now you can reuse the CDRW's, so I'm not wasting 50 cents every time I want to save something for any ammount of time, and better yet, I'm not producing as much garbage and am not being as wasteful. Even if CDRW's were maybe $5 a piece, I'd still think about using them because I wouldn't be throwing a chunk of plastic away every time I wanted to save something for awhile. Actually, the better solution might to just put a couple bigger hard drives in that PVR. :)
It's not like you have to do anything special to use CDRW's, they're a solution that exists now, today. Why not take advantage?
The problem with the Terapin VCD recorder is that it looks like it only records up to 74 minutes without user intervention. This make it essentially worthless, because I'd still have to have a vcr around to record thursday night on nbc, or whatever.
:)
Actually, maybe if it had a method to automatically edit out all the commercials you could squeeze 3 hours in to 74 minutes.
There's tons of legit reasons for CDRW's. What if I want to save a friends episode, but only until my sister finally comes over, maybe months later to watch it. What if I want to save bunch of simpsons episodes to watch during thanksgiving. Or bigger yet, what if I want to record friends and then take it over to my girlfriend's place?
There's many reasons to save something for the medium term.
Why do people insist on trying to convince users that don't need something that they explicitly asked for? And have perfectly legit reasons to request the said item. Fully assess the situation first next time, and then make suggestions.
I've found it amazing what people will put with for free. I mean... look at linux, ba dum-ching. Just kidding, I run linux as my desktop so I'm allowed to make fun of it. :)
:) That and the history channel occassionally. Oh yeah, I occasionally flip through junk, immediately turning the channel when a commercial comes on. :)
I'd probably get XM radio if I didn't have so many darn mp3's (mostly made from my own cd's, some are of other hard to find stuff that there's no way it's available on cd). I can hardly stand radio, the only time I listen to it is when I'm in the car and too lazy/busy driving to put in another cd.
As for cable, the only shows I watch anymore is with any regularity is thursday night stuff with my gf that she recorded.
Very well could be Debian, the packages are in experimental after all. Probably why they're not in sid/unstable yet, heh.
Odd, I run it on Debian and it's crashes all the flipping time, to the point of unusable. It may be a only a specific combination of things or do, or the type of files that I move around, but it's unusable. I still run the experimental gnome2 debs, but I went back to using gentoo for my graphical filemanager.
And ya, the built in browser is dumb. If it doesn't render everything you'd possibly want to, it's pointless, period. Web browsers are interesting enough when it's just the browser you have to worry about, I run mozilla and am done with it, no other web browser needed.
[gid@pimpbot:~] dpkg --list |grep naut
ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.7-1 Shared libraries that part of Nautilus (GNOM
ii nautilus2 2.0.7-1 File manager and graphical shell (GNOME2)
ii nautilus2-data 2.0.7-1 Development files of Nautilus (GNOME2)
Well if that's the case, couldn't everyone sue id software because they can't play quake3 while blind. A quake3 level could possibly be seen as a place exhibition, right? Suddenly the ADA doesn't makes sense, eh? Cyberspace != Meatspace.
"Gib Gnab" is actually a phrase from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the late Douglas Adams. (Dang it, why can't you underline stuff in /. comments? :( ) It's big bang spelled backards and not meant to be a referrence to the recently coined "gibs" in anyway. The reading of these books is a requirement to be a geek. I take them quite seriously.