Thank you. I finally got the gui working. (I think gui's are very important to projects like this since they are based on a larger acceptance.) Anyway, I'm uploading about as fast as I'm downloading, (Which is supprising since my download is usually 4x-5x my upload.) Hopefully I can get this in better than the 42 hours it's currently predicting.
There ARE hardware drivers for the hollywood+ for linux. The hollywood+ decodes the mp3 encoding, not the protection encoding. Lindows COULD have hardware decoding, (as evidenced by the article saying the manufacturer would put a hardware decoder in the next iteration of the box), if they wanted.
While I think bittorrent is a good idea, the fact that I've been sitting here over half an hour just trying to satisfy the stupid wxpython dependancies. Please, if a tool is to be well used, it needs to not require tis much work to install.
I actually have a computer alot like this. I have a via 733 w/ 512pc133 ram in the original shuttle case. (I have 200gb of hdd space so slightly more than thiers.) The one thing I have that they don't is the hardware decoder card. Honestly, you need one if your going to be decoding dvd's. A via isn't going to handle dvd decoding by it's self. That's just silly.
Comparing these to a windows media computer isn't even fair. They are 2 different beasts. A windows media computer is built around high end hardware capable of doing PVR duties. This little box is a dvd player w/ a hard drive, (as is mine). It was silly of them to sell this without a hardware decoder.
But with a hardware decoder it should do fine. (I run mine under windows because I haven't been able to get the drivers for the hardware video decoder working under linux. Also, I want a dvd player that works with my remote control and that I can pop the dvd in and have the menu come up, not something I have to work at the keyboard for. I know these features are available, but I haven't seen a simple package that combines these 3 things without me having to hack things up.) I get almost no cpu utilization under windows. When I do get jumps in the video/audio, it's caused by the isa bus (and I have bus mastering, it just sucks), not by the hardware. The box works well for what I wanted when I bought it: A dvd player that is small and trendy looking, but is updatable with standard pc parts and can take a LOT of storage for my music, (I have ALOT of music. I have ripped my hundred's of CD's to the computer to make them all portable at once).
But a media center? That it is not. The system reviewed should be compared to a set-top box that has a dvd player and can access mp3's, ogg's, and such. I'm thinking about building a new box to work as a media center, but I'll use a bigger case, MUCH stronger hardware so I can use PVR capabilities, and probably a package like the PVR ones that have been discussed here before. Either that or a windows media center computer.
Is there any way to use the machines John creates, (as he's referenced a ton of times in this thread so seems to be reliable), compatible with orcad? For my school's router we use orcad layout plus to build the boards and, honestly, having something I can autoroute with is nice. So is there any way to use the output of layout plus with these machines?
Etching photoresist and a copper board are rather different. Copper boards can do with only a small channel routed/etched to isolate the trace. Photoresist etch you really need to etch everything (either the positive or negative image of the mask). Photoresist isn't hard to etch. I think you can do it in pretty simple solutions. (We do it in a normal basic solution for positive photoresist.) It's the SIO2 we have to use hazardious stuff for. (We use HF which is very nasty stuff to come in contact with.)
As it turns out, I have an ASI (I took a few more than required courses) in Computer Science. And alot of my friends are Computer Science majors, so I can see how the classes help. It's reasonably simple to create a function, but, as we hear so many times here, many programmers do a poor job in how they make their functions. Going to classes teaches you things that improve your programs. Program Design (the 3rd programming class) was all about metrics and diagramming to do before writting a program. Algorithms teaches students better ways to approach problems.
Programmers who have been through class probably don't have the step on non-schooled programmers in the field of inventiveness and inginuity, but I think they more than make up for it in good programming practices, better documentation, and a better repeatable, auditable process for writing the code.
I'd say someone who goes through college and gets a degree, gets registered as a Professional Engineer, and is willing to be liable for their mistakes, then they can be an engineer.
But a programmer who took a couple of courses at the tech school and maybe a college course, then read a few books? Thats not an engineer.
In about a month and a half I finish up 4 years studying to be an electrical engineer. If I'd wanted to program I could have very easily learned a language and gone from there, (My brother learned 14 programming languages in a matter of 4-5 months.) There is alot more to engineering than being able to turn out some random product. We don't call bakers engineers no matter how technical their pastry is.
Yes, Knoppix will run without messing with your hard drive. You stick it in the cd-rom drive, it creates any directories that have to be writable into ram, and you can work on the computer without use of the hard drive. (This is why it is so well loved by people who continuiously have to fix computers.)
Mines the new The Thomas Crown Affair. It has action, romance, comedy... everything you want in a movie. The actors are good, the plot is entertaining. A well-rounded movie.
Other nomonees: I'd agree on The Big Hit but have to add What Dreams May Come, The Whole 9 Yards. Also the 13th warrior, but that might just be because it reminds me of the good ol' days of everquest.
Is there a list of theaters yet anywhere? I really want to go see it, (I was kicking myself for missing it the first time). The problem is now I can't find the theaters that have it. I live in Denver and I'm sure there's a theater in denver or boulder with it, it's just a matter of finding it.
Incidentally, if anyone knows a theater in Denver or Boulder showing it, Please tell me!
Would you be able to give a comparison of the differences between Mandrake 9.1 and Suse 8.2 (as well as is possible when neither is released). I have no intention of blacklisting Suse in any way, but once bitten (buying 7.2 and no go w/ liveEval 8.1) twice shy to jump through hoops to use it.
I bought Suse 7.3 back when I was trying distros because I couldn't get ISO's of it to use. To it's credit it installed, but the sound didn't work and overall I didn't like it as much as mandrake. Except I'd just spent 40 dollars for something I didn't like and didn't want.
Now I've heard that Suse 8 is excellent. I'm not trying to insult their level of software. But many times when I'm trying a new distrobution I reinstall multiple times before I decided I've got it done the way I want. I don't have an extra hard drive to mirror the ftp site on, (which is reasonably sad since I have a little over half a terabyte between my computers), I want a copy of the OS on site so that I know should things go bad, I have it here to install from. Also, even though I hear it's great, my live eval of suse 8.1 doesn't boot on any computer I've tried it on. Knoppix works excellent for providing a recovery environment, but Suse doesn't work, so you can see why I'd be understandably causious about doing a network type install or buying it.
Also, (I believe), Suse is still a part of United Linux which I do not want to support.
This is good to know because, see, I thought the problem in America was people DOWNLOADING their movies and music illegally. Now that we know it's people buying them from Asia, we can stop worrying about file sharing on P2P networks right?
I could buy Suse 8.2 CD's or I could download Mandrake 9.1 CD's. I think I'll stick w/ the distro that lets me know what I"m getting ahead of time. (And just FYI, after I tried a bunch of distros and decided I wanted Mandrake I joined the Mandrake Club so I'm AM supporting those who support my computer.)
Better yet! I can decrease the cost of the computers I sell by $13 by selling them without the CPU and requiring people to buy the cpu separate. Of course I have free instillation. And, in fact, I seel HP's but without the CPU. and I only offer one choise of CPU, (the one that came with the computer), that I will install for free. And, as it turns out, if you buy them both at the same time, the cpu just happens to already be in the computer so there really is no installation.
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Since it sounds as if SCO does not have a foot to stand on, I doubt the lawsuit will effect the kernels at all.
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Best april fools joke today. It's good to see the Slashdot editors laughing a bit at themselves.
Thank you. I finally got the gui working. (I think gui's are very important to projects like this since they are based on a larger acceptance.) Anyway, I'm uploading about as fast as I'm downloading, (Which is supprising since my download is usually 4x-5x my upload.) Hopefully I can get this in better than the 42 hours it's currently predicting.
There ARE hardware drivers for the hollywood+ for linux. The hollywood+ decodes the mp3 encoding, not the protection encoding. Lindows COULD have hardware decoding, (as evidenced by the article saying the manufacturer would put a hardware decoder in the next iteration of the box), if they wanted.
While I think bittorrent is a good idea, the fact that I've been sitting here over half an hour just trying to satisfy the stupid wxpython dependancies. Please, if a tool is to be well used, it needs to not require tis much work to install.
Comparing these to a windows media computer isn't even fair. They are 2 different beasts. A windows media computer is built around high end hardware capable of doing PVR duties. This little box is a dvd player w/ a hard drive, (as is mine). It was silly of them to sell this without a hardware decoder.
But with a hardware decoder it should do fine. (I run mine under windows because I haven't been able to get the drivers for the hardware video decoder working under linux. Also, I want a dvd player that works with my remote control and that I can pop the dvd in and have the menu come up, not something I have to work at the keyboard for. I know these features are available, but I haven't seen a simple package that combines these 3 things without me having to hack things up.) I get almost no cpu utilization under windows. When I do get jumps in the video/audio, it's caused by the isa bus (and I have bus mastering, it just sucks), not by the hardware. The box works well for what I wanted when I bought it: A dvd player that is small and trendy looking, but is updatable with standard pc parts and can take a LOT of storage for my music, (I have ALOT of music. I have ripped my hundred's of CD's to the computer to make them all portable at once).
But a media center? That it is not. The system reviewed should be compared to a set-top box that has a dvd player and can access mp3's, ogg's, and such. I'm thinking about building a new box to work as a media center, but I'll use a bigger case, MUCH stronger hardware so I can use PVR capabilities, and probably a package like the PVR ones that have been discussed here before. Either that or a windows media center computer.
Is there any way to use the machines John creates, (as he's referenced a ton of times in this thread so seems to be reliable), compatible with orcad? For my school's router we use orcad layout plus to build the boards and, honestly, having something I can autoroute with is nice. So is there any way to use the output of layout plus with these machines?
Etching photoresist and a copper board are rather different. Copper boards can do with only a small channel routed/etched to isolate the trace. Photoresist etch you really need to etch everything (either the positive or negative image of the mask). Photoresist isn't hard to etch. I think you can do it in pretty simple solutions. (We do it in a normal basic solution for positive photoresist.) It's the SIO2 we have to use hazardious stuff for. (We use HF which is very nasty stuff to come in contact with.)
Programmers who have been through class probably don't have the step on non-schooled programmers in the field of inventiveness and inginuity, but I think they more than make up for it in good programming practices, better documentation, and a better repeatable, auditable process for writing the code.
But a programmer who took a couple of courses at the tech school and maybe a college course, then read a few books? Thats not an engineer.
In about a month and a half I finish up 4 years studying to be an electrical engineer. If I'd wanted to program I could have very easily learned a language and gone from there, (My brother learned 14 programming languages in a matter of 4-5 months.) There is alot more to engineering than being able to turn out some random product. We don't call bakers engineers no matter how technical their pastry is.
Yes, Knoppix will run without messing with your hard drive. You stick it in the cd-rom drive, it creates any directories that have to be writable into ram, and you can work on the computer without use of the hard drive. (This is why it is so well loved by people who continuiously have to fix computers.)
I believe they meant 'as opposed to german' since knoppix is local to Germany (I think).
The soundtrack to the Thomas Crown Affair is excellent. I've got it and it's one of my favorite CD's. All the music is great and well used.
...The Sims causes introverts to become socialites.
yeah. right.
Other nomonees: I'd agree on The Big Hit but have to add What Dreams May Come, The Whole 9 Yards. Also the 13th warrior, but that might just be because it reminds me of the good ol' days of everquest.
Incidentally, if anyone knows a theater in Denver or Boulder showing it, Please tell me!
It's good to see something non-mainstream in the US but still definitively good win.
So for heavens sake, remember to use ducktape.
Would you be able to give a comparison of the differences between Mandrake 9.1 and Suse 8.2 (as well as is possible when neither is released). I have no intention of blacklisting Suse in any way, but once bitten (buying 7.2 and no go w/ liveEval 8.1) twice shy to jump through hoops to use it.
Now I've heard that Suse 8 is excellent. I'm not trying to insult their level of software. But many times when I'm trying a new distrobution I reinstall multiple times before I decided I've got it done the way I want. I don't have an extra hard drive to mirror the ftp site on, (which is reasonably sad since I have a little over half a terabyte between my computers), I want a copy of the OS on site so that I know should things go bad, I have it here to install from. Also, even though I hear it's great, my live eval of suse 8.1 doesn't boot on any computer I've tried it on. Knoppix works excellent for providing a recovery environment, but Suse doesn't work, so you can see why I'd be understandably causious about doing a network type install or buying it.
Also, (I believe), Suse is still a part of United Linux which I do not want to support.
This is good to know because, see, I thought the problem in America was people DOWNLOADING their movies and music illegally. Now that we know it's people buying them from Asia, we can stop worrying about file sharing on P2P networks right?
I could buy Suse 8.2 CD's or I could download Mandrake 9.1 CD's. I think I'll stick w/ the distro that lets me know what I"m getting ahead of time. (And just FYI, after I tried a bunch of distros and decided I wanted Mandrake I joined the Mandrake Club so I'm AM supporting those who support my computer.)
Thank you all very much. I might be making a trip today.
Anyone know of an electrical surplus in Denver Colorado? I could really use one.
Better yet! I can decrease the cost of the computers I sell by $13 by selling them without the CPU and requiring people to buy the cpu separate. Of course I have free instillation. And, in fact, I seel HP's but without the CPU. and I only offer one choise of CPU, (the one that came with the computer), that I will install for free. And, as it turns out, if you buy them both at the same time, the cpu just happens to already be in the computer so there really is no installation.
Since it sounds as if SCO does not have a foot to stand on, I doubt the lawsuit will effect the kernels at all.