Sure... XP detects and manages sound cards just fiiiiine. Like my SB Audigy on my VIA KT333 Soyo motherboard. No wait - I forgot. I attempted to install either drivers from Creative's site or from the enclosed CD and both say that it can't find any Audigy hardware installed in my system. Which is funny, because I get a nice loud windows chord playing on my speakers when aforesaid dialog box pops up.
Soo.... I have to hack the.exe, extract files from the archive, manually update the drivers, then just ignore the 1394 Network Interface that perpetually has an error in the Device Manager.
Or I can switch over to SuSE 8.2 which loads it fine, autodetects the hardware and plays things without a hiccup.
This isn't (entirely) a problem with XP, it's also a problem with the hardware detection that Creative wrote into their drivers. But the OSS stuff bypasses whatever tomfoolery there is and just plain works.
Sending a man to permenantly live on the moon can take care of three outstanding problems in my view:
1) We can propel Dubya out into space and make him the first astduhnot - he can let us know how things are goin' up there. Give him an LED flashlight and a book on Morse code.
2) We can test out Carmack's new rocket with the first human passenger. After all, it's just Dubya.
3) No more Dubya. Did I mention that? Then we can start working on *gasp* helping people live above the poverty level.
Yes, I see bright things ahead in our future!
Check out iRiver's announcement on it's OGG Support Plan. Most 200-level and above players should have OGG support by Christmas eve.
The coolest by far appears to be the iFP-500 series, which has been release internationally (a while ago) but not released in the US yet. So impatient me went out and asked Santa for a Squeezebox.
After months of therapy, I finally came to terms with the fact that I'm upset because RHN is gone. They locked my entitlements and prefs, and so now I can't manage the scores of machines I have deployed. I'm reasonably okay with the whole Enterprise-Fedora concept where there is one supported enterprise product and one free personal edition, but I just feel kinda worried about when my RHN subscription goes away for good and another buffer overflow exploit comes around.
No kidding! You're not trolling at all - I'm sick of RedHat too. I loved how they completely yanked all forms of support immediately and without much warning. Now all the servers I deployed - and there are a LOT of them - are completely stranded out in the desert of the unsupported.
Now I don't mind that they're looking to make money, that's no big deal. But then act like SuSE: sell the CD's, give away the previous release for free. Charge more for the professional. But don't completely DELETE AN ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE AND LEAVE YOUR USER BASE STRANDED. Move towards a SuSE model - then to an Enterprise/community model - but don't think it's as easy as deleting a file to remove a distro.
...not that that's a bad thing. Rocky IV was a very cookie-cutter underdog story in the boxing ring. This is the same underdog story basically - same fights, same conflict, same resolution.
Now, I do like Rocky IV - even though I don't admit it to most people. It invokes a specific emotion of being able to strike back against whatever sorta thing has oppressed/angered/controlled you in the past.
I thought for those willing to have fun watching fight sequences and sci-fi battles - and not looking for psychodrama - this is a good fit. Just don't come in expecting a lesson in nihilism or postmodern philisophy and you'll be fine.
But Fedora isn't a consumer "retail" product - it's a community product. So it's community supported, with no backing by RedHat aside from whatever resources they feel inclined to donate. So small business support & maintenance is gone.
I'm a troll. w00t! BTW, I love SuSE and am drooling for 9.1...
Yup. I'm mad. Damn mad. I don't think it's a good thing that SuSE goes to Novell (read: Netscape and AOL), and now that RedHat has decided to kill off consumer Linux we've now entered into the dark ages. If Linux survives 2004 I'll be surprised now. Yeah yeah I know Debian Slackware Gentoo blah blah blah - but really as far as a polished, retail-ready product goes for the consumer and small business, Linux just jumped off the proverbial cliff into a sea of proverbial thumbtacks and razorblades coated with the proverbial salt and lemon juice.
Why have a delay? I don't get it... so code was leaked and people will find some multiplayer hacks - release single player (which is what the game is really designed for) and mop up networking code later.
iRiver made an announcement a few days ago about what devices past and future will be supported. Most aside from the lowest-model devices (i.e. 100-series) will be supported, but those with only 8Mbit flash will either support MP3/OGG or WMA/MP3, but not both. The newest devices out on the market will have 16Mbit flash, and so should support plenty of formats including Ogg.
The one I'm most looking forward to is the iFP-500, their 256M to 1GB (w00t!) solid state player. Ogg support, up to 1GB flash. Very nice.
Check out http://www.xzaust.com/index.php?page=matrix - they've posted the supposed leaked plotline broken down in sequence with screenshots of the trailer. As much as people protest and as much as I hate to think it... it seems like this is the acutal storyline of the movie.
So Ballhead said he was going to try to make more competitive software. No big revelations in this article, other than the mistaken assumption that you can't sell software for Linux and make a profit.
But so what if he does? So what if he makes better software? Thinks of better ways to perform clustering? Develops more efficient user interfaces? All the ideas and themes will trickle down to Linux if they're good enough anywho.
Of course, we're all assuming that Ballhead's definition of "Add Value" == "Embrace and Extend" == "Steal Ideas and Make Them Proprietary"
Lessee... AOL aquires Netscape, Netscape starts doing everything _but_ being a successful browser, Netscape starts flopping like a fat kid off the high dive.
I would like to say that RedHat has more staying power than Netscape and so won't succumb to the same problems... but if you look at Jamie Zawinski's (http://www.jwz.org) editorials about how crapulated AOL's management of Netscape was, it would be hard to believe that RedHat will be able to retain the same talent under a bad mega-corporate structure.
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Sure... XP detects and manages sound cards just fiiiiine. Like my SB Audigy on my VIA KT333 Soyo motherboard. No wait - I forgot. I attempted to install either drivers from Creative's site or from the enclosed CD and both say that it can't find any Audigy hardware installed in my system. Which is funny, because I get a nice loud windows chord playing on my speakers when aforesaid dialog box pops up. .exe, extract files from the archive, manually update the drivers, then just ignore the 1394 Network Interface that perpetually has an error in the Device Manager.
Soo.... I have to hack the
Or I can switch over to SuSE 8.2 which loads it fine, autodetects the hardware and plays things without a hiccup.
This isn't (entirely) a problem with XP, it's also a problem with the hardware detection that Creative wrote into their drivers. But the OSS stuff bypasses whatever tomfoolery there is and just plain works.
Australia.
Sending a man to permenantly live on the moon can take care of three outstanding problems in my view: 1) We can propel Dubya out into space and make him the first astduhnot - he can let us know how things are goin' up there. Give him an LED flashlight and a book on Morse code. 2) We can test out Carmack's new rocket with the first human passenger. After all, it's just Dubya. 3) No more Dubya. Did I mention that? Then we can start working on *gasp* helping people live above the poverty level. Yes, I see bright things ahead in our future!
The coolest by far appears to be the iFP-500 series, which has been release internationally (a while ago) but not released in the US yet. So impatient me went out and asked Santa for a Squeezebox.
After months of therapy, I finally came to terms with the fact that I'm upset because RHN is gone. They locked my entitlements and prefs, and so now I can't manage the scores of machines I have deployed. I'm reasonably okay with the whole Enterprise-Fedora concept where there is one supported enterprise product and one free personal edition, but I just feel kinda worried about when my RHN subscription goes away for good and another buffer overflow exploit comes around.
Now I don't mind that they're looking to make money, that's no big deal. But then act like SuSE: sell the CD's, give away the previous release for free. Charge more for the professional. But don't completely DELETE AN ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE AND LEAVE YOUR USER BASE STRANDED. Move towards a SuSE model - then to an Enterprise/community model - but don't think it's as easy as deleting a file to remove a distro.
...not that that's a bad thing. Rocky IV was a very cookie-cutter underdog story in the boxing ring. This is the same underdog story basically - same fights, same conflict, same resolution. Now, I do like Rocky IV - even though I don't admit it to most people. It invokes a specific emotion of being able to strike back against whatever sorta thing has oppressed/angered/controlled you in the past. I thought for those willing to have fun watching fight sequences and sci-fi battles - and not looking for psychodrama - this is a good fit. Just don't come in expecting a lesson in nihilism or postmodern philisophy and you'll be fine.
But Fedora isn't a consumer "retail" product - it's a community product. So it's community supported, with no backing by RedHat aside from whatever resources they feel inclined to donate. So small business support & maintenance is gone. I'm a troll. w00t! BTW, I love SuSE and am drooling for 9.1...
Yup. I'm mad. Damn mad. I don't think it's a good thing that SuSE goes to Novell (read: Netscape and AOL), and now that RedHat has decided to kill off consumer Linux we've now entered into the dark ages. If Linux survives 2004 I'll be surprised now. Yeah yeah I know Debian Slackware Gentoo blah blah blah - but really as far as a polished, retail-ready product goes for the consumer and small business, Linux just jumped off the proverbial cliff into a sea of proverbial thumbtacks and razorblades coated with the proverbial salt and lemon juice.
Why have a delay? I don't get it... so code was leaked and people will find some multiplayer hacks - release single player (which is what the game is really designed for) and mop up networking code later.
iRiver made an announcement a few days ago about what devices past and future will be supported. Most aside from the lowest-model devices (i.e. 100-series) will be supported, but those with only 8Mbit flash will either support MP3/OGG or WMA/MP3, but not both. The newest devices out on the market will have 16Mbit flash, and so should support plenty of formats including Ogg. The one I'm most looking forward to is the iFP-500, their 256M to 1GB (w00t!) solid state player. Ogg support, up to 1GB flash. Very nice.
Check out http://www.xzaust.com/index.php?page=matrix - they've posted the supposed leaked plotline broken down in sequence with screenshots of the trailer. As much as people protest and as much as I hate to think it... it seems like this is the acutal storyline of the movie.
So Ballhead said he was going to try to make more competitive software. No big revelations in this article, other than the mistaken assumption that you can't sell software for Linux and make a profit. But so what if he does? So what if he makes better software? Thinks of better ways to perform clustering? Develops more efficient user interfaces? All the ideas and themes will trickle down to Linux if they're good enough anywho. Of course, we're all assuming that Ballhead's definition of "Add Value" == "Embrace and Extend" == "Steal Ideas and Make Them Proprietary"
True, tho you could just have mozilla install the spellchecker xpi from the Netscape FTP site and have Mozilla plus Netscape's spellchecker.
Main reason I was superhappy that NS7 came out was so that I could snag the new spellchecker (old ones crashed mozilla >= 1.0)
Lessee... AOL aquires Netscape, Netscape starts doing everything _but_ being a successful browser, Netscape starts flopping like a fat kid off the high dive.
I would like to say that RedHat has more staying power than Netscape and so won't succumb to the same problems... but if you look at Jamie Zawinski's (http://www.jwz.org) editorials about how crapulated AOL's management of Netscape was, it would be hard to believe that RedHat will be able to retain the same talent under a bad mega-corporate structure.