I was over at my bosses house last year and was playing quake3 on a 50' plasma screen. He was using a Geforce 3. He also had the exact same setup in his downstairs studio. So it would probably be safe to say that a Geforce4 would support it too.
A Geforce4 also supports dual monitors. I should tell my boss to get one and run dual plasmas.Quake3 @ 2732x768 would look pretty funny im sure. The quake3 engine is really adept at playing in unstandard resolutions.
Oh do I! Sometimes when I help someone new get 3D working under Linux I reflect on those days. When I bought my first computer I returned my windows CD and they gave me a 150$ rebate. Spent 2 weeks editing that stupid file *sigh* Say did you blow up any monitors back in the 90's? hmm shouldnt rant incoherantly on slashdot after a coding binge. -- note to self
The Geforce4 that is being previewed is 179-199$ usd. While I find your post amusing and your point valid. I despise people who comment on articles before reading them, well I hope you did not read it anyway.
Read the man page. The options with that start with -f are optimizations. The best complier options is not a really good question as it will be totally different from program to program. Adding to this is the fact that there is 2 different types of optimization. Optimization for speed and optimization for space. A good rule of thumb is to never optimize beyond level 2, -O2. The -march will make a difference between processors. -march=k6 for K6, athlon for k7, i586 for old pentiums and i686 for new pentiums. Some more options you may want to read in the man page are: -mpreferred-stack-boundary -fexpensive-opti mizations -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-functions -fno-exceptions -malign-loops -malign-jumps -ffast-math -fno-rtti -march -pipe -s
Take this up with Macromedia, they should perhaps be opening the sound device with O_NONBLOCK set.You could try use a wrapper such as esd or artsd around mozilla. Myself I just run xmms on/dev/dsp1 leaving/dev/dsp open for whatever webpage feels it necessary that I listen to it, I dont think all soundcards have multiple playback devices however...
I have been hearing about the stability of windows for some time now, I guess they got their problems with earlier versions ironed out, and have been wanting to give it a try.Not that I can recal ever having problems with my setup.
Everyone tells me their killer app the IE browser rocks.The trouble is application support. I would like to try some of these applications but I really dont want to give up the stuff I am used to. Like the gimp, xine, xmms, gaim, enlightenment, soundtracker, gcc, vi and LTSP(for all my net-appliances scattered about) just to mention a few I use most. I know there is comparable apps but they dont have all the features I need.
Now I have the opportunity to try some of these killer apps without having to sacrifice the things I have come to like so much, except hard drive space.
Have you been living in a cave or do you really not like GIMP? After all it was the original killer app for linux. Out of the little buttons they coded for the interface GTK grew out of GTK GNOME out of GNOME...
I'm still waiting for the killer audio app ardour(http://ardour.sourceforge.net) to start maturing.
On the topic of games. I like WineX pretty soon everything I play will run well enough under it and I wont have to waste an entire partition to play a couple games and watch demos from the demo scene. The worst part is is that it's the first partition on the disk which is the fastest and the best for swap and music file storage.
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Doable but think of the lag!
I was over at my bosses house last year and was playing quake3 on a 50' plasma screen. He was using a Geforce 3. He also had the exact same setup in his downstairs studio. So it would probably be safe to say that a Geforce4 would support it too.
A Geforce4 also supports dual monitors. I should tell my boss to get one and run dual plasmas.Quake3 @ 2732x768 would look pretty funny im sure. The quake3 engine is really adept at playing in unstandard resolutions.
You ever try to scribble on the outside of a tape? Darn they probably even make the rollers incompatible with a bic pen....
Oh do I! Sometimes when I help someone new get 3D working under Linux I reflect on those days. When I bought my first computer I returned my windows CD and they gave me a 150$ rebate. Spent 2 weeks editing that stupid file *sigh* Say did you blow up any monitors back in the 90's? hmm shouldnt rant incoherantly on slashdot after a coding binge. -- note to self
The Geforce4 that is being previewed is 179-199$ usd. While I find your post amusing and your point valid. I despise people who comment on articles before reading them, well I hope you did not read it anyway.
They cant give them away.
Read the man page. The options with that start with -f are optimizations. The best complier options is not a really good question as it will be totally different from program to program. Adding to this is the fact that there is 2 different types of optimization. Optimization for speed and optimization for space. A good rule of thumb is to never optimize beyond level 2, -O2. The -march will make a difference between processors. -march=k6 for K6, athlon for k7, i586 for old pentiums and i686 for new pentiums. Some more options you may want to read in the man page are:i mizations
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
-fexpensive-opt
-fomit-frame-pointer
-malign-functions
-fno-exceptions
-malign-loops
-malign-jumps
-ffast-math
-fno-rtti
-march
-pipe
-s
Sharp wants me to "upgrade" my browser from mozilla 0.9.9 to Internet Exploder or Netscape Navigator. I wonder if Opera is also antiquated :/
Take this up with Macromedia, they should perhaps be opening the sound device with O_NONBLOCK set.You could try use a wrapper such as esd or artsd around mozilla. Myself I just run xmms on /dev/dsp1 leaving /dev/dsp open for whatever webpage feels it necessary that I listen to it, I dont think all soundcards have multiple playback devices however...
I have been hearing about the stability of windows for some time now, I guess they got their problems with earlier versions ironed out, and have been wanting to give it a try.Not that I can recal ever having problems with my setup.
Everyone tells me their killer app the IE browser rocks.The trouble is application support. I would like to try some of these applications but I really dont want to give up the stuff I am used to. Like the gimp, xine, xmms, gaim, enlightenment, soundtracker, gcc, vi and LTSP(for all my net-appliances scattered about) just to mention a few I use most. I know there is comparable apps but they dont have all the features I need.
Now I have the opportunity to try some of these killer apps without having to sacrifice the things I have come to like so much, except hard drive space.
Hey,
Have you been living in a cave or do you really not like GIMP? After all it was the original killer app for linux. Out of the little buttons they coded for the interface GTK grew out of GTK GNOME out of GNOME...
I'm still waiting for the killer audio app ardour(http://ardour.sourceforge.net) to start maturing.
On the topic of games. I like WineX pretty soon everything I play will run well enough under it and I wont have to waste an entire partition to play a couple games and watch demos from the demo scene. The worst part is is that it's the first partition on the disk which is the fastest and the best for swap and music file storage.
*sigh*
And who is paying for the free stuff might I ask?