Click-N-Run never shared any code with apt-get. It originally called the apt-get executable to download and install the software, but now the Click-N-Run client downloads the software itself, and uses dpkg to install it. This is just an accidental miswording by Michael Robertson.
It only says the code is mapped to the bottom 15MB. Each program has its own address space. It still exists in any part of physical memory it wants to, but the beginning virtuial address is put in the lower 16MB instead of the current default, which I believe relocates programs to 0x08048000 or something like that.
I went out with a girl who was actually impressed by my coding skills. She knew about them and me before we went out, and kept asking "so you're really good with computers, right?" Of course, I was being modest, and saying "well, maybe you could say that." Maybe she just wants money....
We watched a movie on my HTPC+projector too, unfortunately mine isn't silent. I'd like to go to a truly silent setup, but I figure I need at least an AthlonXP 1500+ to do what I want with it. On the plus side, the fan noise helps mask my tinnitus...
"This is your collar. That is the transmitter. Get too far from the transmitter, BOOM! Take hostages, BOOM! Damage transmitter, BOOM!"
So, what would happen in the event of a power failure? All the prisoners with collars would explode, as the collar would lose the signal of the transmitter and think it had wandered too far away.
The packaging program (Click-N-Run) already runs through kdesu, so that normal users can install software if they have root access. See various dotfiles in/usr/share/clicknrun for details.
One nice thing about using Gentoo is that I'm more compelled to learn the workings of everything I touch now.
It's entirely possible that the original poster was on his way to lunch when the workers began, and an hour later, on his way back (it was a long lunch), they were still at it.
Postfix is more than adequate for my needs. There's also Qmail and others. I've just found Postfix to be a lot easier to configure. Note that my server is a personal one with only three users... I'm not sure what features sendmail might have that a large organization with 1000+ users on a mail server would need, that might not be provided by other packages.
Postfix is more than adequate for my needs. There's also Qmail and others. I've just found Postfix to be a lot easier to configure. Note that my server is a personal one with only three users... I'm not sure what features sendmail might have that a large organizati
Are you referring to VST audio plugins? I'm talking about VST softsynths like FM7, Triangle II, and Absynth. I have used VST Freeverb in Acid before (FreeverbX would always crash), but I don't remember which wrapper I used.
The Reason + Acid sync problem is purely a sync issue.
Ah, I see. I thought you meant there was too much latency from software to sound card. My MIDI keyboard outputs a time signal, but I just can't get Acid to sync to it. Rebirth would just fine.
The poster probably meant licensed player. There are a number of organizations that own patents on various parts of the DVD technology, and a manufacturer must pay royalties on all of those, plus pay for the use of the DVD trademark. They also probably have to sign NDA's in order to get their player certified (which I believe is a requirement of use of the trademark). So, no Open Source player will ever be authorized.
Have you tried Acid Pro 4? The latest patch level seems to run pretty well with VST instruments (4.0b right now). Don't use Win9x, ME, or XP. You need Windows 2000. Also, if you're using a Creative Labs or EMU APS sound card, you NEED the kX project drivers. With the kx driver, Windows 2000, Acid Pro 4, and two or three softsynths, I can get down to 5ms latency on my Athlon XP1800+. It helps if you turn off all the user interface effects in Windows, like scrolling and fading menus, mouse shadow (if possible), smooth scrolling, etc. as the GDI stupidly runs at a higher priority than the applications themselves. So, when you open a menu, the softsynths will buzz and/or skip.
Another cool thing about Acid 4 is the ability to use odd time signatures. Sure, you could make a 5:4 song on a 4:4 grid, but proper grid snapping makes laying out the song a whole lot easier. I just finished a 5:4 jungle-ish track in Acid. Very cool stuff.
You might be able to find Acid Pro 4 for as cheap as $160 in a music or guitar magazine. I paid $200 from Sonic Foundry's web site. The SF price is a bit higher now.
Finally, if you make movies too, the 5.1 plugin is the cheapest Dolby Digital encoder available (I got it also for $200, up to $250 or so now). All other DD encoders I've found were at least $800-$1200.
I was doing stuff like this on my TI-85 in 9th grade (5+ years ago). How the heck does this guy get a patent on something so obvious that an only moderately advanced 9th grader could figure it out? I'm sure lots of young students have tried varing the terms of various equations to see what happens. What's the patent number, and what exactly does he claim?
Argh... Digital theaters do NOT use MPEG-2 compression! Digital movies are stored on a large SCSI RAID array, using 4:1 lossless compression of HDTV resolution signals. The compression I believe is an SMPTE standard (or some other standards group) for sending HDTV around the studio. It's then fed through a decoder which is connected directly to the 3-chip DLP projector. The DLP chips at the time digital cinema was introduced had a resolution of 1280x1024. I don't know if that's improved since then.
I'd say anyone with a projector has an 80% chance of also owning an HTPC these days. It's the only way to get smooth scaled video without paying a few thousand dollars for a Faroudja or similar video scaler/line doubler/quadrupler/deinterlacer/3:2 pulldown remover. Tvtime in Linux works well enough for video source (it chokes hard on film though -- if any tvtime guys are reading, it needs 3:2 pulldown removal! Maybe I'll help out with development when I get some time, just get 3:2 pulldown removal!). Dscaler in Windows supports everything from a $15 bt878 capture card to a several hundred dollar SDI interface available from Cellar Cinemas, and if you set up the capture card's video proc amp right, it'll look great with all of them. In Linux, Ogle is excellent for film-source NTSC dvd's (mplayer has serious sync and stutter issues with any mpeg-2 material I've tried in it), mplayer and xine are great for DivX and DV video (gotta watch those home videos from my digital camera you know), xmms is great for CD audio with the LIRC plugin,...
Basically, in the high end, an HTPC offers a lot of integration, and simplifies the user interface. Instead of having to switch the audio/video inputs on my receiver, video switcher, etc, I can just press a button or two on my remote, and switch modes on the HTPC.
The Lindows Media Center computer is indeed a mistake. It's useless for the high end. It's a good first stab though.
How does one tune into HDNet or the PBS loop with the MyHD? I have this card, I'm working on a Linux driver (it only displays color bars so far... no video capture yet), but I can't figure out how to tune to different subchannels/PIDs of a transport stream or whatever the correct term is (I need to learn more about transport streams obviously).
Unfortunately I can't sell or give away my open source software to home theater distributors, because of the stupid DVD-CCA and all those other greedy pigs.
My HTPC runs on Linux, uses Ogle for DVD playback, xine for music playback (with JESS for visualization), tvtime for analog video (I wrote an effect for the sound blaster live OSS drivers that delays the sound to compensate for the video delay introduced by tvtime), has an OpenGL user interface I wrote, controls my projector via RS-232, and is all navigatable with the remote control that came with my HDTV tuner card. I'm still writing the driver for the HDTV card, but the remote works great with lirc. From bootup to shutdown, the only thing that looks like difficult is the text that scrolls along the bottom of the screen. To get rid of that I just have to set the text palette to black, since I'm using 8bpp vesafb.
Everyone who sees my "Remote controlled wall" thinks it's pretty cool.
Of course, you'll have better results with SPDIF output, as with software decoded audio the software has to deal with imperfect sound card DAC's, whereas a separate decoder or integrated decoder/receiver will have a DAC referenced to a zero error timing source, so that the sound plays exactly at the rate it would in the studio.
Gasoline is only pricy right now because the oil industry said so. My uncle works for a refinery, he says there's plenty of supply, but the price is set higher. I guess because they can get away with it when there's a "war" going on.
It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about, otherwise you would've logged in. But whatever, I'll refute your points anyway so nobody else says the same things.
An economy car, such as the Geo Metro, gets up to 55 MPG. That's more than twice as efficient as your GMC Jimmy, probably four times as efficient as a lot of the trucks around where I live. If you commute 30 miles to/from work, which is about average for the US, at 22MPG, you'll use almost $5 of gasoline each day, $25 a week, $100 a month. If you could spend only $40 a month on gasoline, that $60 could go to something more useful. Or, if you don't need the extra cash, you can donate it to a good cause.
MKE stands for Matsushitu Kotobuko Electronics (or something similar to that). Also known as Panasonic. Plug it into the Panasonic interface on any old multi-CD sound card, like the Sound Blaster 16 MCD or possibly Sound Blaster 16 IDE. I've also seen Aztec and ESS sound cards with the Panasonic 40-pin interface. These drives were frequently rebranded as Creative. Sometimes, if plugged into an IDE port, they will randomly eject and close their tray, flash the light, and possibly cause hardware damage or other misbehavior in various components.
I once sold a guy a 4x Panasonic interface CD-ROM for $30. That was several years ago. I shipped the drive, and he never paid me. It turned out that the phone number he gave me was for his previous employer, who didn't know how to reach him, or something like that (don't recall exactly). Lousy Texan thief (I'm not associating Texas with thievery, mind you, he was simply from Texas).
I have seen realtek 8139 NICs with DIP sockets for boot roms. My laptop has an integrated 8139, and builtin network boot support. So does a cheap ECS motherboard I have with integratged everything.
DUDE, you're not getting the POINT. University is NOT FOR GETTING PEOPLE JOBS!!! It's for academic enrichment, broadening your horizons, learning things because they're interesting, and simply learning how to learn. Stop complaining and either be the change you want to see in the world, or go somewhere else. Why don't you teach your own course about the latest industry standards?
As nearly everyone else has said... it's the concepts that matter. Whether it's at 128kbits or 1mbit, a serial communication interface with a tx line and an rx line will always have the same basic concepts.
Token ring is still used quite a bit in industrial settings, like oil refineries (my uncle is a manager at an oil refinery). They like to use what's been proven to work reliably, and token ring doesn't fail them. They even still use arcnet, because it works well over the distances of the plant, and it doesn't ever crap out.
Not to mention, token ring uses a different way of communicating than any other line protocol I'm aware of. I would love to learn token ring.
Another thing I think should be taught at some point is I2C. That way I wouldn't have to figure it out myself when I go to reverse engineer a Windows driver for a card that has I2C devices on it.
A one-wire bidirectional interface is cool. Having a clock line and only one master helps make it easier.
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Click-N-Run never shared any code with apt-get. It originally called the apt-get executable to download and install the software, but now the Click-N-Run client downloads the software itself, and uses dpkg to install it. This is just an accidental miswording by Michael Robertson.
It only says the code is mapped to the bottom 15MB. Each program has its own address space. It still exists in any part of physical memory it wants to, but the beginning virtuial address is put in the lower 16MB instead of the current default, which I believe relocates programs to 0x08048000 or something like that.
I went out with a girl who was actually impressed by my coding skills. She knew about them and me before we went out, and kept asking "so you're really good with computers, right?" Of course, I was being modest, and saying "well, maybe you could say that." Maybe she just wants money....
We watched a movie on my HTPC+projector too, unfortunately mine isn't silent. I'd like to go to a truly silent setup, but I figure I need at least an AthlonXP 1500+ to do what I want with it. On the plus side, the fan noise helps mask my tinnitus...
Lastly, if you want to prevent escapes:
"This is your collar. That is the transmitter. Get too far from the transmitter, BOOM! Take hostages, BOOM! Damage transmitter, BOOM!"
So, what would happen in the event of a power failure? All the prisoners with collars would explode, as the collar would lose the signal of the transmitter and think it had wandered too far away.
The packaging program (Click-N-Run) already runs through kdesu, so that normal users can install software if they have root access. See various dotfiles in /usr/share/clicknrun for details.
One nice thing about using Gentoo is that I'm more compelled to learn the workings of everything I touch now.
It's entirely possible that the original poster was on his way to lunch when the workers began, and an hour later, on his way back (it was a long lunch), they were still at it.
Postfix is more than adequate for my needs. There's also Qmail and others. I've just found Postfix to be a lot easier to configure. Note that my server is a personal one with only three users... I'm not sure what features sendmail might have that a large organization with 1000+ users on a mail server would need, that might not be provided by other packages.
Postfix is more than adequate for my needs. There's also Qmail and others. I've just found Postfix to be a lot easier to configure. Note that my server is a personal one with only three users... I'm not sure what features sendmail might have that a large organizati
It still doesn't support VST/i natively.
Are you referring to VST audio plugins? I'm talking about VST softsynths like FM7, Triangle II, and Absynth. I have used VST Freeverb in Acid before (FreeverbX would always crash), but I don't remember which wrapper I used.
The Reason + Acid sync problem is purely a sync issue.
Ah, I see. I thought you meant there was too much latency from software to sound card. My MIDI keyboard outputs a time signal, but I just can't get Acid to sync to it. Rebirth would just fine.
The poster probably meant licensed player. There are a number of organizations that own patents on various parts of the DVD technology, and a manufacturer must pay royalties on all of those, plus pay for the use of the DVD trademark. They also probably have to sign NDA's in order to get their player certified (which I believe is a requirement of use of the trademark). So, no Open Source player will ever be authorized.
Have you tried Acid Pro 4? The latest patch level seems to run pretty well with VST instruments (4.0b right now). Don't use Win9x, ME, or XP. You need Windows 2000. Also, if you're using a Creative Labs or EMU APS sound card, you NEED the kX project drivers. With the kx driver, Windows 2000, Acid Pro 4, and two or three softsynths, I can get down to 5ms latency on my Athlon XP1800+. It helps if you turn off all the user interface effects in Windows, like scrolling and fading menus, mouse shadow (if possible), smooth scrolling, etc. as the GDI stupidly runs at a higher priority than the applications themselves. So, when you open a menu, the softsynths will buzz and/or skip.
Another cool thing about Acid 4 is the ability to use odd time signatures. Sure, you could make a 5:4 song on a 4:4 grid, but proper grid snapping makes laying out the song a whole lot easier. I just finished a 5:4 jungle-ish track in Acid. Very cool stuff.
You might be able to find Acid Pro 4 for as cheap as $160 in a music or guitar magazine. I paid $200 from Sonic Foundry's web site. The SF price is a bit higher now.
Finally, if you make movies too, the 5.1 plugin is the cheapest Dolby Digital encoder available (I got it also for $200, up to $250 or so now). All other DD encoders I've found were at least $800-$1200.
I was doing stuff like this on my TI-85 in 9th grade (5+ years ago). How the heck does this guy get a patent on something so obvious that an only moderately advanced 9th grader could figure it out? I'm sure lots of young students have tried varing the terms of various equations to see what happens. What's the patent number, and what exactly does he claim?
Argh... Digital theaters do NOT use MPEG-2 compression! Digital movies are stored on a large SCSI RAID array, using 4:1 lossless compression of HDTV resolution signals. The compression I believe is an SMPTE standard (or some other standards group) for sending HDTV around the studio. It's then fed through a decoder which is connected directly to the 3-chip DLP projector. The DLP chips at the time digital cinema was introduced had a resolution of 1280x1024. I don't know if that's improved since then.
MS-DOS is still copyrighted you know... I don't know how well Microsoft's DOS network drivers work in FreeDOS.
I'd say anyone with a projector has an 80% chance of also owning an HTPC these days. It's the only way to get smooth scaled video without paying a few thousand dollars for a Faroudja or similar video scaler/line doubler/quadrupler/deinterlacer/3:2 pulldown remover. Tvtime in Linux works well enough for video source (it chokes hard on film though -- if any tvtime guys are reading, it needs 3:2 pulldown removal! Maybe I'll help out with development when I get some time, just get 3:2 pulldown removal!). Dscaler in Windows supports everything from a $15 bt878 capture card to a several hundred dollar SDI interface available from Cellar Cinemas, and if you set up the capture card's video proc amp right, it'll look great with all of them. In Linux, Ogle is excellent for film-source NTSC dvd's (mplayer has serious sync and stutter issues with any mpeg-2 material I've tried in it), mplayer and xine are great for DivX and DV video (gotta watch those home videos from my digital camera you know), xmms is great for CD audio with the LIRC plugin, ...
Basically, in the high end, an HTPC offers a lot of integration, and simplifies the user interface. Instead of having to switch the audio/video inputs on my receiver, video switcher, etc, I can just press a button or two on my remote, and switch modes on the HTPC.
The Lindows Media Center computer is indeed a mistake. It's useless for the high end. It's a good first stab though.
How does one tune into HDNet or the PBS loop with the MyHD? I have this card, I'm working on a Linux driver (it only displays color bars so far... no video capture yet), but I can't figure out how to tune to different subchannels/PIDs of a transport stream or whatever the correct term is (I need to learn more about transport streams obviously).
Unfortunately I can't sell or give away my open source software to home theater distributors, because of the stupid DVD-CCA and all those other greedy pigs.
My HTPC runs on Linux, uses Ogle for DVD playback, xine for music playback (with JESS for visualization), tvtime for analog video (I wrote an effect for the sound blaster live OSS drivers that delays the sound to compensate for the video delay introduced by tvtime), has an OpenGL user interface I wrote, controls my projector via RS-232, and is all navigatable with the remote control that came with my HDTV tuner card. I'm still writing the driver for the HDTV card, but the remote works great with lirc. From bootup to shutdown, the only thing that looks like difficult is the text that scrolls along the bottom of the screen. To get rid of that I just have to set the text palette to black, since I'm using 8bpp vesafb.
Everyone who sees my "Remote controlled wall" thinks it's pretty cool.
Of course, you'll have better results with SPDIF output, as with software decoded audio the software has to deal with imperfect sound card DAC's, whereas a separate decoder or integrated decoder/receiver will have a DAC referenced to a zero error timing source, so that the sound plays exactly at the rate it would in the studio.
Gasoline is only pricy right now because the oil industry said so. My uncle works for a refinery, he says there's plenty of supply, but the price is set higher. I guess because they can get away with it when there's a "war" going on.
It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about, otherwise you would've logged in. But whatever, I'll refute your points anyway so nobody else says the same things.
An economy car, such as the Geo Metro, gets up to 55 MPG. That's more than twice as efficient as your GMC Jimmy, probably four times as efficient as a lot of the trucks around where I live. If you commute 30 miles to/from work, which is about average for the US, at 22MPG, you'll use almost $5 of gasoline each day, $25 a week, $100 a month. If you could spend only $40 a month on gasoline, that $60 could go to something more useful. Or, if you don't need the extra cash, you can donate it to a good cause.
Remember that on the Panasonic interface, pin 1 is usually away from the power connector, instead of next to the power connector like IDE.
MKE stands for Matsushitu Kotobuko Electronics (or something similar to that). Also known as Panasonic. Plug it into the Panasonic interface on any old multi-CD sound card, like the Sound Blaster 16 MCD or possibly Sound Blaster 16 IDE. I've also seen Aztec and ESS sound cards with the Panasonic 40-pin interface. These drives were frequently rebranded as Creative. Sometimes, if plugged into an IDE port, they will randomly eject and close their tray, flash the light, and possibly cause hardware damage or other misbehavior in various components.
I once sold a guy a 4x Panasonic interface CD-ROM for $30. That was several years ago. I shipped the drive, and he never paid me. It turned out that the phone number he gave me was for his previous employer, who didn't know how to reach him, or something like that (don't recall exactly). Lousy Texan thief (I'm not associating Texas with thievery, mind you, he was simply from Texas).
I have seen realtek 8139 NICs with DIP sockets for boot roms. My laptop has an integrated 8139, and builtin network boot support. So does a cheap ECS motherboard I have with integratged everything.
DUDE, you're not getting the POINT. University is NOT FOR GETTING PEOPLE JOBS!!! It's for academic enrichment, broadening your horizons, learning things because they're interesting, and simply learning how to learn. Stop complaining and either be the change you want to see in the world, or go somewhere else. Why don't you teach your own course about the latest industry standards?
As nearly everyone else has said... it's the concepts that matter. Whether it's at 128kbits or 1mbit, a serial communication interface with a tx line and an rx line will always have the same basic concepts.
Token ring is still used quite a bit in industrial settings, like oil refineries (my uncle is a manager at an oil refinery). They like to use what's been proven to work reliably, and token ring doesn't fail them. They even still use arcnet, because it works well over the distances of the plant, and it doesn't ever crap out.
Not to mention, token ring uses a different way of communicating than any other line protocol I'm aware of. I would love to learn token ring.
Another thing I think should be taught at some point is I2C. That way I wouldn't have to figure it out myself when I go to reverse engineer a Windows driver for a card that has I2C devices on it.
A one-wire bidirectional interface is cool. Having a clock line and only one master helps make it easier.