IIRC, the AMD K6 chip had certain specific optimizations that needed to be set to get the best performance. Can you check to see what flags your binaries were compiled with in either Slack or SuSE?
Unfortunately I already deleted the suse 9.1 partition, so I can't say anything about that for sure. Besides, I'm not quite sure exactly how to find out which flags they used when compiling the binaries.
If the problem is cause by unoptimized binaries, then that means suse may have changed the way they compile stuff since 8.2, because it worked just fine on the machine in question.
You know, I think I encountered the same problem. Installed 9.1 on a spare partition right beside my old suse 8.2 install. The amazing thing was, xmms for example used almost 30% cpu while playing music, whereas it used 5% at most on suse 8.2. The system as a whole felt abnormally sluggish. The machine is an k6-2 400MHz (SB16 here too, hehe).
Now I realize that there must be something seriously wrong somewhere, because everyone else is talking about how much snappier 9.1 feels than earlier versions. I'd just like to know what exactly is making the system seem like it's crawling through tar. Top doesn't show any other programs sucking up the cpu's power.
For now, I'll just accept the fact that it's probably some unlucky combination of hardware/software, because I don't have the time to start investigating. I still believe suse 9.1 would be an awesome distro if I could just figure out what's causing the problem.
When I was younger my father actually used our labrador retriever to fetch him beer. He would sit in the living room watching TV or something, and the dog would go downstairs to the kitchen, *open the fridge* (it had a pedal-thingy near the floor), grab a bottle of beer and bring it to my father.
Unfortunately the dog couldn't open the bottles, but it at least lived up to the purpose of it's race (retrieving stuff).
I point you to the happypenguin post i wrote while ago about getting kohan to work on newer glibc's. I wrote another one about Jagged Alliance 2 aswell, although it seems someone has written much better instructions about ja2 since my post.
I figure any old game should work using similar techniques.
I just have to add F-Zero GX to that list, man that game is the shit. The sense of speed is just amazing. I had some friends over last night, and they could barely put down the controllers in order to drink from their coffee cups. That's how much they enjoyed racing against each other.
Heh, I always used to think they should have tuned down the unarmed combat in Fallout 2.
Why? It was a long time since I played it, but I think I did play one character who became a master at martial arts. I mean, this dude could kick the shit out of *anyone*.
You remember how the enemies could be thrown back hollywood-style by a particularly strong attack? Well, let me tell you (and I remember this because I always laughed out loud when it happened): I had several enemies literally fly out of the screen by a nasty piercing kick (or whatever the strongest kick was) to their eyes. This was funny because they would *reeally sloowly* float off to the edge of the screen and beyond. I think they almost always died.
Yes, the "Critical" skill probably had something to do with this.
The light kit gives people who bought the first version of the Gameboy Advance a chance to not feel bad about buying it. It's still pretty much the same console.
So what i'm saying is, if you already own the old GBA there's probably no point in buying the SP since you can always get the light kit. I'd like to think the SP's target audience are people who don't already own a GBA.
Don't know if this one is DC++ or just plain DC (what's the difference between them anyway?), but it has nice features like multi-hub search, and I've used it successfully.
I just feel the problem with DC is that there doesn't seem to be any way to resume broken downloads from other sources automatically (or maybe it's just this client).
Gnucleus may be good, but so is
gtk-gnutella and mutella.
Gtk-gnutella has all the features I need: swarm downloading, blocking of bad (hammering) clients, SHA1, bandwidth throttling, ultrapeer support.. the works. Oh yeah, and an iptables-like filtering system with which one can create fairly complex rules to auto-download/auto-drop certain files selected with regexps etc.. (check for tutorials on the gtk-gnutella site for this one, it takes a bit of getting used to)
Mutella OTOH has no swarm downloading or advanced filtering (I think) but is console based, which has its advantages (think "screen" on remote server).
Don't forget the intelligence level of your audience.
Look at science software. It generally is chock-full of weird acronyms and has unexplained buttons. Or consider Linux, which is well-known for being ugly and unusable. These kinds of "blunders" are fine when you are creating software for genius-level IQ people who don't mind taking a few minutes out of every day to learn how to use their most vital tools.
Makes me wonder what the intelligence level of users of a certain, recently open-sourced 3D modelling program is.
Does Blender have a real ray tracer yet? If not, this would be the feature I would appreciate the most. Why? Example:
Make a 90% transparent glass object. Make it cast a shadow on a surface. Notice the shadow is as dark as it would have been if the object was 100% opaque.
With a ray tracer, on the other hand, the shadow's darkness would depend on the transparency of the object casting the shadow (as in real life).
Another solution, of course, would be to have Blender export POV-Ray scenes.
Other than this, I'd say Blender *rocks*, the interface is great, once you get the hang of it.. just a couple of evenings playing around, and it should pretty much feel fine. Remember, just because the interface is different, it doesn't have to be crap (yes, steeper learning curve blah blah).
2 cm of water in a test tube
A little Li on the bottom
Light a match and put the flame right above the opening of the test tube. When the hydrogen reaches the flame, it will combust with a funny whistling sound.
Just tell the kids not to drop the tubes.. the sound can be quite surprising.
With regards to the kernel itself Linus is the monkey at the top of the pole, everywhere else he's just a normal monkey with a Finnish accent.
Fun fact: Actually, his accent would be sort-of-Swedish. This is because people who live in Finland but talk Swedish as their native language sound very different than the Swedish-talking people from Sweden.
Oh.. i think it's a lot older than fifty years. According to nordic tales you probably have one of those +2 Swedish Knives of Bearslaying forged in the dark caverns of Kebnekaise.
The metal, originally known as 'Ril' (probably etymologically related to the english 'real', used by merchants to differentiate between the 'real' metal and fake ones) was very valuable and, when found in the mines, the miner would usually run around screaming 'mitt ril! mitt ril!' which roughly translates to 'my ril! my ril!'.
Many years later the dwarves adopted the commonly used phrase giving birth to the modern word 'Mithril'.
I bet skin and associated connective tissue should be relatively easy to replace, though, so you'll see a lot of actors in their 80's emulating young folks, just don't expect them to be able to do their own stunts.
Ugh.. That means we'll be seeing Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones 12: Quest for the Holy Stem Cells" (minus the stunts) in thirty years.
Laptops aren't going to solve anything. It's the people involved that need to be focused on:
Teachers
These people are responsible for making children learn something and if it weren't for good teachers I don't know where we would be right now. Teachers deserve WAY more respect (and money) than most of them get these days. With "teacher" I mean real, trained professional teachers, not untrained substitutes. To anyone unaware: teaching is not at all an easy task, it takes skills to make a large group of children grasp any concept, to make them behave in class etc. (I've worked as a substitute for a year, no formal training).
Teaching should be considered a noble profession, because you get to pass on desperately needed knowledge to the next generation.
Parents
I hate to say it, but in my experience, a surprisingly large number of parents don't really seem to care very much about how their kids are doing in school (parents have problems too). It's almost as if school was just some place you drop off your kids in the morning and pick them up after work. The parents are responsible for making the children realize how important school is, not just tell them the obligatory "you won't get a job unless you go to school", but to really make them understand the value of knowledge.
Most will probably agree that being a parent is certainly not a walk in the park.
I'm not from the US but I think these thing apply globally.
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Unfortunately I already deleted the suse 9.1 partition, so I can't say anything about that for sure. Besides, I'm not quite sure exactly how to find out which flags they used when compiling the binaries.
If the problem is cause by unoptimized binaries, then that means suse may have changed the way they compile stuff since 8.2, because it worked just fine on the machine in question.
Now I realize that there must be something seriously wrong somewhere, because everyone else is talking about how much snappier 9.1 feels than earlier versions. I'd just like to know what exactly is making the system seem like it's crawling through tar. Top doesn't show any other programs sucking up the cpu's power.
For now, I'll just accept the fact that it's probably some unlucky combination of hardware/software, because I don't have the time to start investigating. I still believe suse 9.1 would be an awesome distro if I could just figure out what's causing the problem.
When I was younger my father actually used our labrador retriever to fetch him beer. He would sit in the living room watching TV or something, and the dog would go downstairs to the kitchen, *open the fridge* (it had a pedal-thingy near the floor), grab a bottle of beer and bring it to my father.
Unfortunately the dog couldn't open the bottles, but it at least lived up to the purpose of it's race (retrieving stuff).
Maybe the real question is: What sort of math are CS majors NOT expected to take?
Must be the servers near you. I have no trouble finding vanilla servers when I play ET.
And yes, modders should think things through before putting together another "cool" mod.
I figure any old game should work using similar techniques.
I just have to add F-Zero GX to that list, man that game is the shit. The sense of speed is just amazing. I had some friends over last night, and they could barely put down the controllers in order to drink from their coffee cups. That's how much they enjoyed racing against each other.
Yes, because in Finland we have this thing called "reilu meininki".
Freudian slit?
Why? It was a long time since I played it, but I think I did play one character who became a master at martial arts. I mean, this dude could kick the shit out of *anyone*.
You remember how the enemies could be thrown back hollywood-style by a particularly strong attack? Well, let me tell you (and I remember this because I always laughed out loud when it happened): I had several enemies literally fly out of the screen by a nasty piercing kick (or whatever the strongest kick was) to their eyes. This was funny because they would *reeally sloowly* float off to the edge of the screen and beyond. I think they almost always died.
Yes, the "Critical" skill probably had something to do with this.
The light kit gives people who bought the first version of the Gameboy Advance a chance to not feel bad about buying it. It's still pretty much the same console.
So what i'm saying is, if you already own the old GBA there's probably no point in buying the SP since you can always get the light kit. I'd like to think the SP's target audience are people who don't already own a GBA.
Everybody can feel sort of happy this way, right?
I don't think we're very likely to see this in 2003..
Don't know if this one is DC++ or just plain DC (what's the difference between them anyway?), but it has nice features like multi-hub search, and I've used it successfully.
I just feel the problem with DC is that there doesn't seem to be any way to resume broken downloads from other sources automatically (or maybe it's just this client).
Gtk-gnutella has all the features I need: swarm downloading, blocking of bad (hammering) clients, SHA1, bandwidth throttling, ultrapeer support.. the works. Oh yeah, and an iptables-like filtering system with which one can create fairly complex rules to auto-download/auto-drop certain files selected with regexps etc.. (check for tutorials on the gtk-gnutella site for this one, it takes a bit of getting used to)
Mutella OTOH has no swarm downloading or advanced filtering (I think) but is console based, which has its advantages (think "screen" on remote server).
Don't you mean: The truth is out there, ol' chap!
Look at science software. It generally is chock-full of weird acronyms and has unexplained buttons. Or consider Linux, which is well-known for being ugly and unusable. These kinds of "blunders" are fine when you are creating software for genius-level IQ people who don't mind taking a few minutes out of every day to learn how to use their most vital tools.
Makes me wonder what the intelligence level of users of a certain, recently open-sourced 3D modelling program is.
Make a 90% transparent glass object. Make it cast a shadow on a surface. Notice the shadow is as dark as it would have been if the object was 100% opaque.
With a ray tracer, on the other hand, the shadow's darkness would depend on the transparency of the object casting the shadow (as in real life).
Another solution, of course, would be to have Blender export POV-Ray scenes.
Other than this, I'd say Blender *rocks*, the interface is great, once you get the hang of it.. just a couple of evenings playing around, and it should pretty much feel fine. Remember, just because the interface is different, it doesn't have to be crap (yes, steeper learning curve blah blah).
2 cm of water in a test tube
A little Li on the bottom
Light a match and put the flame right above the opening of the test tube. When the hydrogen reaches the flame, it will combust with a funny whistling sound.
Just tell the kids not to drop the tubes.. the sound can be quite surprising.
Fun fact: Actually, his accent would be sort-of-Swedish. This is because people who live in Finland but talk Swedish as their native language sound very different than the Swedish-talking people from Sweden.
The metal, originally known as 'Ril' (probably etymologically related to the english 'real', used by merchants to differentiate between the 'real' metal and fake ones) was very valuable and, when found in the mines, the miner would usually run around screaming 'mitt ril! mitt ril!' which roughly translates to 'my ril! my ril!'.
Many years later the dwarves adopted the commonly used phrase giving birth to the modern word 'Mithril'.
Just hold on the knife.. ;)
Ugh.. That means we'll be seeing Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones 12: Quest for the Holy Stem Cells" (minus the stunts) in thirty years.
If they somehow figure out how to repair brain damage due to old age with these cells, wouldn't that mean people could theoretically live forever?
I doubt it would be as easy as to just insert them into the brain and let it assimilate them, but still an interesting thought..
I Agree.
Laptops aren't going to solve anything. It's the people involved that need to be focused on:
Teachers
These people are responsible for making children learn something and if it weren't for good teachers I don't know where we would be right now. Teachers deserve WAY more respect (and money) than most of them get these days. With "teacher" I mean real, trained professional teachers, not untrained substitutes. To anyone unaware: teaching is not at all an easy task, it takes skills to make a large group of children grasp any concept, to make them behave in class etc. (I've worked as a substitute for a year, no formal training).
Teaching should be considered a noble profession, because you get to pass on desperately needed knowledge to the next generation.
Parents
I hate to say it, but in my experience, a surprisingly large number of parents don't really seem to care very much about how their kids are doing in school (parents have problems too). It's almost as if school was just some place you drop off your kids in the morning and pick them up after work. The parents are responsible for making the children realize how important school is, not just tell them the obligatory "you won't get a job unless you go to school", but to really make them understand the value of knowledge.
Most will probably agree that being a parent is certainly not a walk in the park.
I'm not from the US but I think these thing apply globally.
No wonder they lost, everyone knows know Linux and *BSD are designed for ice-hockey.. just ask Pittsburg and New Jersey.