Yes, and I'm sure all those lines of ATI Rage Pro support are being used for your Matrox card.
X is large, but it's not THAT large. What makes X seem big is really your window manager / desktop environment. I run WindowMaker, and X is quite fast, actually.
Quicktime itself is on the same level as AVI: It's just a container for encoded video and audio. You can create Quicktime videos in Linux, it's just that anyone with a Sorenson codec uses it.
Why doesn't an OEM make a bootable CD that resizes the FAT filesystem (which would be defragmented before shipping), install an OS image, and rewrite the boot sector? Since that would probably be 3rd party software (i.e. contract someone to develop it), and the *user* would be the one modifying the boot sequence, Microsoft would have to create a clause that states that you can't sell other operating systems at all, which is much too stupid for even Microsoft.
<rant> OTOH, I don't know why the [GNU/]Linux distro vendors don't do this themselves. Parted seems to be ready - what are they waiting for?
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<rant more="more"> I wonder if Debian would quit stalling my application (for almost 7 months now!) if I re-wrote the entire bloody installation system. If only I had the time...</rant>
Bah. X isn't that big. Take what top(1) reports, subtract your video memory, and the font cache, and the backing store (if applicable), and X isn't very big at all.
I think I'd buy one of these things if they supported IPv6 with anycast.
This is exactly the kind of thing IPv6 was designed for, and since I'm going
to start converting my home network to primarily use IPv6, this would be a
perfect addition to my setup.
if we each were born with a nuclear bomb, we would all respect each other more, and see each other less, less room for conflict and less conflicts escelating to violence, and less need for any real law.
You overestimate humanity. We'd all be dead, and a new species without built-in weapons of mass destruction would evolve.
I think maybe Progeny or some other Debian-based distro would be more likely. Debian is more integrated and has better quality-control mechanisms than most other distributions. It operates more like a single operating system than a bunch of software bundled together.
<rant>In short, it all boils down to RPM is a dirty hack that works well enough but still sucks. And no, apt for RPM does not make RPM as good as dpkg. If only I had the time to streamline dpkg a little better...</rant>At least, that's what my experience has been.
Well, maybe some people think of it that way, but I prefer not to confuse non-technical people with pointless inconsistency.
"TCP/IP" is notated like fractions are notated. It means "TCP over IP". If you're using UDP over IP, you shouldn't say "TCP over IP". Calling everything "TCP/IP" just confuses people. I once had a tech support rep ask me if you can "ping a certain port", which indicated confusion between TCP/IP and ICMP/IP.
In correct terms, it's not the "TCP/IP suite", but the "Internet Protocol suite".
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I don't know about the Windows platform, but I'm going to ditch this OEM nVidia card as soon as I can. I've just about had it with their shoddy binary-only drivers.
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... and a whole lot smarter! *ducks*
So add 5 bits to your key. Problem solved.
Well yes, but only with x86 emulation ... damn binary-only drivers.
X is large, but it's not THAT large. What makes X seem big is really your window manager / desktop environment. I run WindowMaker, and X is quite fast, actually.
Quicktime itself is on the same level as AVI: It's just a container for encoded video and audio. You can create Quicktime videos in Linux, it's just that anyone with a Sorenson codec uses it.
Do you know of a half-decent GRUB tutorial? I can never seem to collect the time to sit down and learn GRUB like I did CVS... from the manpages.
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OTOH, I don't know why the [GNU/]Linux distro vendors don't do this themselves. Parted seems to be ready - what are they waiting for?
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I wonder if Debian would quit stalling my application (for almost 7 months now!) if I re-wrote the entire bloody installation system. If only I had the time...</rant>
Bah. X isn't that big. Take what top(1) reports, subtract your video memory, and the font cache, and the backing store (if applicable), and X isn't very big at all.
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I think I'd buy one of these things if they supported IPv6 with anycast.
This is exactly the kind of thing IPv6 was designed for, and since I'm going
to start converting my home network to primarily use IPv6, this would be a
perfect addition to my setup.
I was for breaking Microsoft into little pieces long before I ever heard of Linux, or any alternative, for that matter.
Okay, fine. I'm a smartass who stands corrected and looks pretty foolish right about now.
I understood exactly what you said, and I still maintain that we'd all be dead. You're too optimistic.
Then there's the fact the Microsoft almost never redoes anything from scratch, which also leads me to believe that nothing has really changed.
You overestimate humanity. We'd all be dead, and a new species without built-in weapons of mass destruction would evolve.
Yeah, for about 10 years, after which people would FINALLY realize that copy protection is impossible.
Nobody needs to prove that D3D (that's what we're really talking about, isn't it?) is crap. John Carmack has already done that for us.
Does anyone have a link to the kernel compilation project? I can't find anything.
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How the hell did that get moderated Insightful? Funny, yes, but Insightful? That's a stretch.
<rant>In short, it all boils down to RPM is a dirty hack that works well enough but still sucks. And no, apt for RPM does not make RPM as good as dpkg. If only I had the time to streamline dpkg a little better...</rant>At least, that's what my experience has been.
A VIA chipset that sucks! Now that surprises me!
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Damn! Where did you get that shirt?
"TCP/IP" is notated like fractions are notated. It means "TCP over IP". If you're using UDP over IP, you shouldn't say "TCP over IP". Calling everything "TCP/IP" just confuses people. I once had a tech support rep ask me if you can "ping a certain port", which indicated confusion between TCP/IP and ICMP/IP.
In correct terms, it's not the "TCP/IP suite", but the "Internet Protocol suite".
I don't know about the Windows platform, but I'm going to ditch this OEM nVidia card as soon as I can. I've just about had it with their shoddy binary-only drivers.