Slashdot IS a good source for news, if not the best.
Both players are good, it just depends on your philosophy. I think that xine's gui wastes screen space, and xine eats processor time. Plus, it locks up unresponsively. *shrug*
But the point is, there are now two independant, very good movie players for linux. and that's cool.
And using the plf's xine libs, you are all set for dvd playback. mplayer builds usually have them in the code.
the MDK system's ive set up have like 5 checkmarks for "server options" - none of them are checked by default. And it warns you, "do you really want to do that? it might not be smart." Now, that's just mdk...but it's a major desktop *nix. The others might have the same thing...but i doubt stuff like lindows even puts apache in.
Then I read some comments. You gotta pay to write software for windows. What crap! They have the desktop computer section by the balls, and they keep squeezing for more money.
But the more they squeeze, the more people get sick and leave. So in part, I welcome this. Maybe a few more people will get the idea and switch to something freer....something that ends with "ix"... It keeps getting better all the time.
Eugenia, if you hadn't figured it out yet, does some crazy stuff.
on my system, it booted quite speedily, and that's a 300mhz k6-2. Boot time was nice and fast...system was pretty responsive running kde. definately usable.
sure there are some services, but nothing ridiculous. And mdk's services manager let's you pick and choose, stop and start, easily.
I'm sorry us poor mandrake users aren't as l33t as the gentoo folks...
right now, probably all the non-club guys are getting screwed on the mirrors. Club members are downloading from their nicely reserved mirrors (should be fast...but i'm not in the club, i got it yesterday morning as RC3). Who would you rather be a part of?
I reported a dhcp bug the other day. there were like 15 copies of taht bug - unfortunately no one reads bug reports before they post...so there are a lot of dupe's.
btw, it's fixed in 9.1. so take out 15 bugs from your total...:D
If you were working on a project, for 6 months, you wouldn't want to call it $Company+$SnazzyProjName+$CurrVersion every time. Call it something short and sweet.
Besides...if iwas a programmer, i'd like to use cool names. like bamboo and bluebird. it's not like intel doesn't do it, or microsoft. makes it personal...I'd put personal care into a project called "dolphin," but maybe not so much into "8.2" .
quoth the parent:
That's a lot of trouble to go through for a mandrake user.
Oh! I see how it is...Mandrake lusers are all retarded, eh? : )
you know, i've got no problems installing slack or whatever...but MDK has this neat thing in that most of the time, _it_just_works_. Which I like. We're not all retarded, you know...:P
upgrade is indeed an option in the new one, but i didn't try it. It auto-detected my currently installed version (rc2) automagically though, which was neato.
Depending on what you select at startup, you only get 3. I have three. rxvt, xterm, and konsole. You only get 2 if you're not running kde. ALL THE CHOICES DEPEND ONLY ON WHAT YOU INSTALL. And sometimes, having quick access to terminals is nice, even for a CLI-aware grandma.
ICEWM, baby, yeah. light, and fast, plus it has a "start" menu and other beautimous stuff. I love it. Themeable. Try it. you'll like it. It's very tweakable too.
Cache is less and less useful, the more you have of it. with 64K, you only cache miss, say, 10% of the time. Or your data is in cache, 90% of the time, say. With 256K, you only miss... 5% of the time. Adding another 768K, and you might get down to only 2%. Yay. You still have to load data in the first time - so it can't be in cache - it's all the way out on disk. Adding another 50 MB really won't help too much - especially for how much it costs - it will only snag another 1% tops. These are just numbers i'm making up - but that's pretty much how it goes.
Now - cache gets cheaper, and it makes it worth while to add more. But the "throw more cache at it" approach doesn't help a whole lot. And the more cache you have, the more expensive managing it becomes.
And just throwing on more CPUs doesn't help either - like another poster stated - you can add more processors, but managing them, making sure they are doing something useful and different, and not running into each others' memories...that's a trick too. 2-way SMP might be useful these days, but only for power users who really use their machines. Most people still only run one program at a time...it's usually not economically viable to ship smp systems for people that won't ever use them.
But if you read your article, you'd find a link to the amd-ia64 debugging tools for the next version of windows...which REQUIRES "AMD x86-64 Windows® Server 2003" - therefore - something is at least bouncing around over in redmond.
As you know, security is not a product that can be purchased off the shelf, but consists of policies, people, processes, and technology.
And that's thing to remember. It's not just whether you're running *NIX or Win*, but a host of other things. It's not about stylishly breaking in from some remote location through 80 different redirectors - and l33tly downloading all the data and breaking the web site.
Physical security. Information policies. Knowledgable administrators. Good solid tech.
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urpmi mplayer. it's in mandrake 9.1
thank you, the Mandrake Guy will be here all week...
Slashdot IS a good source for news, if not the best.
Both players are good, it just depends on your philosophy. I think that xine's gui wastes screen space, and xine eats processor time. Plus, it locks up unresponsively. *shrug*
But the point is, there are now two independant, very good movie players for linux. and that's cool.
And using the plf's xine libs, you are all set for dvd playback. mplayer builds usually have them in the code.
I'm happy.
the MDK system's ive set up have like 5 checkmarks for "server options" - none of them are checked by default. And it warns you, "do you really want to do that? it might not be smart." Now, that's just mdk...but it's a major desktop *nix. The others might have the same thing...but i doubt stuff like lindows even puts apache in.
+1 funny. Don't you love these arguments about simple words? seriously..you people need to go out and get lives... : )
you suck. : )
The first thing i thought was: "So, it starts."
... It keeps getting better all the time.
Then I read some comments. You gotta pay to write software for windows. What crap! They have the desktop computer section by the balls, and they keep squeezing for more money.
But the more they squeeze, the more people get sick and leave. So in part, I welcome this. Maybe a few more people will get the idea and switch to something freer....something that ends with "ix"
i'm sharing the files...no one has downloaded them. perhaps because they are labelled as rc3 and not final?
oh. in that case, i'm retarded. :D
Excellent post. be sure to read this. I made you a slashdot friend.
yes. optimized for mmx technologies. and chicken.
Eugenia, if you hadn't figured it out yet, does some crazy stuff.
on my system, it booted quite speedily, and that's a 300mhz k6-2. Boot time was nice and fast...system was pretty responsive running kde. definately usable.
sure there are some services, but nothing ridiculous. And mdk's services manager let's you pick and choose, stop and start, easily.
I'm sorry us poor mandrake users aren't as l33t as the gentoo folks...
right now, probably all the non-club guys are getting screwed on the mirrors. Club members are downloading from their nicely reserved mirrors (should be fast...but i'm not in the club, i got it yesterday morning as RC3). Who would you rather be a part of?
Me...i just like being good.
plf has mplayer.
a good mplayer has packages that aren't always legal to distribute everywhere.
xine is crappy.
Conclusion: get 9.1, install mplayer. be happy.
I reported a dhcp bug the other day. there were like 15 copies of taht bug - unfortunately no one reads bug reports before they post...so there are a lot of dupe's.
:D
btw, it's fixed in 9.1. so take out 15 bugs from your total...
I restarted. I'm running 2.02 though. what's the command to check shared files???
If you were working on a project, for 6 months, you wouldn't want to call it $Company+$SnazzyProjName+$CurrVersion every time. Call it something short and sweet.
Besides...if iwas a programmer, i'd like to use cool names. like bamboo and bluebird. it's not like intel doesn't do it, or microsoft. makes it personal...I'd put personal care into a project called "dolphin," but maybe not so much into "8.2" .
yeah. snag rc3, it's final. rc2 has some dhcp bugs that i've noticed, taht are fixed (zeroconf rulezors baby) in final (rc3)
quoth the parent:
:P
That's a lot of trouble to go through for a mandrake user.
Oh! I see how it is...Mandrake lusers are all retarded, eh? : )
you know, i've got no problems installing slack or whatever...but MDK has this neat thing in that most of the time, _it_just_works_. Which I like. We're not all retarded, you know...
upgrade is indeed an option in the new one, but i didn't try it. It auto-detected my currently installed version (rc2) automagically though, which was neato.
btw, your sig made me laugh.
i'm sharing this one right now on edonkey. At least i think i am...they're sitting in my mldonkey/incoming ...
Depending on what you select at startup, you only get 3. I have three. rxvt, xterm, and konsole. You only get 2 if you're not running kde. ALL THE CHOICES DEPEND ONLY ON WHAT YOU INSTALL. And sometimes, having quick access to terminals is nice, even for a CLI-aware grandma.
ICEWM, baby, yeah. light, and fast, plus it has a "start" menu and other beautimous stuff. I love it. Themeable. Try it. you'll like it. It's very tweakable too.
Cache is less and less useful, the more you have of it. with 64K, you only cache miss, say, 10% of the time. Or your data is in cache, 90% of the time, say. With 256K, you only miss... 5% of the time. Adding another 768K, and you might get down to only 2%. Yay. You still have to load data in the first time - so it can't be in cache - it's all the way out on disk. Adding another 50 MB really won't help too much - especially for how much it costs - it will only snag another 1% tops. These are just numbers i'm making up - but that's pretty much how it goes.
Now - cache gets cheaper, and it makes it worth while to add more. But the "throw more cache at it" approach doesn't help a whole lot. And the more cache you have, the more expensive managing it becomes.
And just throwing on more CPUs doesn't help either - like another poster stated - you can add more processors, but managing them, making sure they are doing something useful and different, and not running into each others' memories...that's a trick too. 2-way SMP might be useful these days, but only for power users who really use their machines. Most people still only run one program at a time...it's usually not economically viable to ship smp systems for people that won't ever use them.
But if you read your article, you'd find a link to the amd-ia64 debugging tools for the next version of windows...which REQUIRES "AMD x86-64 Windows® Server 2003" - therefore - something is at least bouncing around over in redmond.
As you know, security is not a product that can be purchased off the shelf, but consists of policies, people, processes, and technology.
And that's thing to remember. It's not just whether you're running *NIX or Win*, but a host of other things. It's not about stylishly breaking in from some remote location through 80 different redirectors - and l33tly downloading all the data and breaking the web site.
Physical security. Information policies. Knowledgable administrators. Good solid tech.