Why should venders fix this it an OS problem and Microsofts fault. Working around bugs only lead to more bugs and problems.
Reminds me of a CS class I once had, the lecture (admittedly a unix advocate) was explaining a problem with software deadlines. ie release now (for market reasons) and fix problem later:
-MS build next version of Windows and Office at same time, so that they can release together.
-Office is tested on beta versions of windows, which obviously has bugs, the Office peeps work around the bugs.
-mean while the windows peeps fix the bugs
-near release office found not to work right because it is trying to work around bugs which aren't there. (Why they let an Office app play voodoo with the OS is up to you to decide)
-need to release on time, so put bugs back in windows problem sorted.
It will be difficult for MS to fix the message system w/o breaking old apps.
waiting ages for that next gen card, which is never delivered, just new iterations of current technology to fill the gap.
Anyone else reminded of another company?
I was thinking similar.
If the greate 5 music empires realy are sinking ships, I'd think Sony should be carefull not to flush the rest (or large part) of its business down with its music division.
I realy dont think it possible for them to get us to buy music at such steap prices ever again.
And buying new gfx cards, bigger hdd, and the occasional mobo+cpu upgrade, aint any different?
ok hdd, mobo+cpu may not be that often, but if you want to keep up with gaming on PC the min gfx card to play the most recent games tend to cost about the same as a console, if not more if your one of those hard edge ppl (GameCube was 120 pounds here in uk).
PC gaming is not so cheap compared to consoles, otherwise that market would have died long ago.
If you disagree, I ask you, will ur hw play UT2003 and Doom3 (when it comes out) with a decent fps (never ever drop below 40) and all the setting up reasonably full?
My brother got an offspring CD for xmas, It refuses to work on his MS windows box, But my Linux reads it fine.
I haven't bothered to much to look into why, but I noted it had this extra track out on its lonesome towards the edge of the disk.
This may seem a strange concept, but I asked my optition this (as opposed to/.) =)
He said to make sure that the refresh is above 75Hz if not more, the higher the better (well my current monitor is doing 64.9 =/)
And yes it is the low refresh that is hurting your eyes. One way to spot exceptional bad refresh to look just over the top of the monitor, if you can see it flicker then the refresh is way too low.
I have a theory, I assume you build your own ALSA modules for a 2.4 kernel.
If you run:./configure --help
you get a list of options you can set, here an intersting one:
--with-sequencer=yes,no driver will (not) be compiled with sequencer support
note default is not to compile sequencer support
I use ALSA 0.9+ (linux 2.4+patch, and 2.5) and I have a SB Live (EMU10K1) and my midi is fine with pmidi, not tested OSS compat but snd-seq-oss loads ok.
I use the sfxload thats in Debian sarge awe-drv package, and I load either 2GMGSMT.SF2 4GMGSMT.SF2 8MBGMSFX.SF2 (fav: 4GMGSMT.SF2) which come on the sblive windows driver cd.
$ pmidi -l
Port | Client name | Port name
65:0 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 0
65:1 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 1
65:2 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 2
65:3 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 3
I've had this talk on IRC b4, it is impossible to ID client users at all.
Lets look at what the server can find out:
Nick, =/
Hostname/IP, at home I have a modem account and each time I dial out I get a new IP/hostname
Ident, well I run oidentd on my box and that provides a ~/.oident for users to config their responce (inc random), there is a/etc/oident to limit what users can do, but hey I know the root pw to my box (plus windows irc clients eg mirc have a configurable identd build in)
public/private keys, users can always generate a new key pair, and if you try stop this be handing out keys whats stop the user just getting more?
Theres a whole load of ideas to ID users, but each one doesn't stop those who want to get round them. Because there is no system that doesn't place some trust on the client system!
I've noticed something else.
If you follow the link from the front pages it dont work. but if you click 'read more' to bring the article up and follow the link from that page then it does work.
My current guess is that they block 'slashdot.org' but not 'developers.slashdot.org'
Or just copy the url and paste it into your address bar.
With Mozilla just:
-Right click->copy link location
-Ctrl+T for new tab
-Middle click on address bar, to paste
-Press return
They are, Resident Evil is an example of that.
But anyway just because some of their games are targeted at the young, does not make them any less fun to play.
I have sonic adventure 2, and as long as tails voice dont make you too homicidal (I know ppl who switch the lang to jap because of it) It is fun to play (but not too challenging). I wish it had more of what the game calls action levels, ie the ones where you run around as fast as you can (which is what made sonic famous in the first place)
Games I look forward to: Metriod Prime (and Fusion (GBA)), Zelda and some others.
I was waiting for Perfect Dark Zero (was a main reason for buying a cube) but alas it is not to be, PD0 will go to the X-Box (which I will not buy)
Nope, I asked in Ionstroms forum some time ago, they're really dependant on DirectX with the modifications they've done to the UT2003 engine, it seems shame to me
But my h/w is still too slow what ever OS I'm running, and those will be my next PC games (I'm also waiting for Metriod Prime+Fusion but they're console games)
I do have DeusEx1 running fine in plain old winehq Wine, I was well happy cause I love DeusEx (one of the realy few games I've played through multiple times) and I boot MS windows very rarely, esp not for a quick play in between work
And you probably already know UT2003 retail box has the Linux client in it.
here
on the DRI web site is a little explianation about ATI naming specificaly:
The difference between the 8500, 8500 LE, and the 8800 is clockspeed. The 8500 LE is made by third party manufacturers.
I have always used ATI cards, but at the moment I only have a ATI Radeon, so I can't try ATI's new drivers. I will probably upgrade for ut2003 and DeusEx 2. But any way I have a lot of confidence in the DRI people.
If you can wait a little bit Xiph recon that Ogg Theora will be ready by June 2003.
Beta stuff is already out, but I dont think you want to go into the business of beta testing.
where I'am at we call em LPF (little plastic feet).
And the sales man aint folling you LPF are very important w/o them your motherboard would short out from touching the back plate its mounted to. (unless like my friend ur mobo lives in a cardboard box)
The opposite of Motivator posters, not exactly Linux or BSD (well except the 'limitations' poster)
But here has some realy good stuff. Most geeks (and Disaffected college students) should love them.
Some of my favorites are:
Procrastination
Motivation
Meetings
Consulting
But it is realy hard for me to choose any favorite. Also check out the stuff about fownies:-( they managed to get copyright on them:-)
I am proud that unlike with windows, Linux has competing distros. I always tell new Linux users they should experiment with different distros to find which they like best
I dont think RH sucks, I just had one those 'I must defend' moments, since I honestly think Debian is being unfairly miss labeled as 'old' by too many people.
I know there is now apt4rpm, but it was generally true that if you install an rpm that was not from the CD you end up in dependency hell. Apt4RPM is a good example of why competing distros is a good thing. Every one brings something to the table
There are many good packages in main (afaik Debian has the biggest archive of packages 10'000+) Its just people tend to attack based on those few 'must have' and I was aiming to be pre-emptive.
I will probable try gentoo one day, if I get a spare box, my desktop is setup how I need it. I just dont have the free time to try out lots of different distros as I did a few years back. But I do know you can setup apt to install from source instead of prebuilt bins (the kernel build scripts give a hint of this, and I hope that maybe one day as simple as 'apt-get build ' for example)
Woody/Stable: for production systems, like servers, not ur desktop
Sarge/testing: testing the next release for stable, nice for office like desktops
SID/Unstable: all the new can cool stuff that aint yet tested, this is for ur desktop.
Considering the number of packages and archs Debian
has/supports it does a way better job then RH,MDK etc.
Infact that was the reason I switch from MDK to Debian.
After installing a Mozilla RPM, it was obvious
how old the libs were, how nasty RPM can be, and how
it is a very bad idea to install any thing on those
distro that did not come on its CD
You may point out stuff like Openoffice and GNOME 2, but
just like they may not be on the before mentioned CDs,
they are not in the main archive (Well they are now)
but there always was apt archive with those debs for you to point
your sources.lst at.
I have both testing and unstable in my sources.lst,
and testing set to default in me apt.conf. So
my system is kept upto date with sarge, but I can still
install stuff from SID (apt-get -t unstable install )
Yes I know parent was a joke, but I dislike Debian
being labeled as 'old' (esp w/ compared to RH and MDK), and I love apt and dpkg
My banks online banking service works fine with mozilla.
I duno if you have HSBC where you at, but it is a big international bank. It lets you use ebanking for your credit cards, current accounts and saving accounts.
Here in the UK, HSBC took over Midland bank, and I beleive it stands for Hong-Kong and Singapore Banking C-somthing =) (with some effort I could probably look it up)
A lot of people have trouble telling the difference between the linux kernel (which is on discussion here) and a Linux OS (which your favorite distro provides you with)
Try googling for 'linux kernel bugs' and you'll get:
Results 1 - 50 of about 433,000. Search took 0.50 seconds.
1 million less!!! (no doubt all RH bugs;-)
(incase the smily didn't give it away that last line was a joke)
Those extra bugs will be the result of installing s/w which has bugs (eg BIND =)
Slashdot Mirror
Why should venders fix this it an OS problem and Microsofts fault. Working around bugs only lead to more bugs and problems.
Reminds me of a CS class I once had, the lecture (admittedly a unix advocate) was explaining a problem with software deadlines. ie release now (for market reasons) and fix problem later:
-MS build next version of Windows and Office at same time, so that they can release together.
-Office is tested on beta versions of windows, which obviously has bugs, the Office peeps work around the bugs.
-mean while the windows peeps fix the bugs
-near release office found not to work right because it is trying to work around bugs which aren't there. (Why they let an Office app play voodoo with the OS is up to you to decide)
-need to release on time, so put bugs back in windows problem sorted.
It will be difficult for MS to fix the message system w/o breaking old apps.
thats a bit short sighted, and its not so obvious.
One the one hand we have open source which is subject to large amount of peer review.
On the other hand we have closed source where no way near as many people can check the code, end users can't help much in finding them either.
A persistent h4x0r maybe helped a little by the O/S, but security through obscurity has been proven to fail, time and again
waiting ages for that next gen card, which is never delivered, just new iterations of current technology to fill the gap.
Anyone else reminded of another company?
I was thinking similar.
If the greate 5 music empires realy are sinking ships, I'd think Sony should be carefull not to flush the rest (or large part) of its business down with its music division.
I realy dont think it possible for them to get us to buy music at such steap prices ever again.
And buying new gfx cards, bigger hdd, and the occasional mobo+cpu upgrade, aint any different?
ok hdd, mobo+cpu may not be that often, but if you want to keep up with gaming on PC the min gfx card to play the most recent games tend to cost about the same as a console, if not more if your one of those hard edge ppl (GameCube was 120 pounds here in uk).
PC gaming is not so cheap compared to consoles, otherwise that market would have died long ago.
If you disagree, I ask you, will ur hw play UT2003 and Doom3 (when it comes out) with a decent fps (never ever drop below 40) and all the setting up reasonably full?
My brother got an offspring CD for xmas, It refuses to work on his MS windows box, But my Linux reads it fine.
I haven't bothered to much to look into why, but I noted it had this extra track out on its lonesome towards the edge of the disk.
This may seem a strange concept, but I asked my optition this (as opposed to /.) =)
He said to make sure that the refresh is above 75Hz if not more, the higher the better (well my current monitor is doing 64.9 =/)
And yes it is the low refresh that is hurting your eyes. One way to spot exceptional bad refresh to look just over the top of the monitor, if you can see it flicker then the refresh is way too low.
I have a theory, I assume you build your own ALSA modules for a 2.4 kernel. ./configure --help
If you run:
you get a list of options you can set, here an intersting one:
--with-sequencer=yes,no driver will (not) be compiled with sequencer support
note default is not to compile sequencer support
I use ALSA 0.9+ (linux 2.4+patch, and 2.5) and I have a SB Live (EMU10K1) and my midi is fine with pmidi, not tested OSS compat but snd-seq-oss loads ok.
I use the sfxload thats in Debian sarge awe-drv package, and I load either 2GMGSMT.SF2 4GMGSMT.SF2 8MBGMSFX.SF2 (fav: 4GMGSMT.SF2) which come on the sblive windows driver cd.
$ pmidi -l
Port | Client name | Port name
65:0 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 0
65:1 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 1
65:2 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 2
65:3 | Emu10k1 WaveTable | Emu10k1 Port 3
Lets look at what the server can find out:
Nick, =/
Hostname/IP, at home I have a modem account and each time I dial out I get a new IP/hostname
Ident, well I run oidentd on my box and that provides a ~/.oident for users to config their responce (inc random), there is a /etc/oident to limit what users can do, but hey I know the root pw to my box (plus windows irc clients eg mirc have a configurable identd build in)
public/private keys, users can always generate a new key pair, and if you try stop this be handing out keys whats stop the user just getting more?
Theres a whole load of ideas to ID users, but each one doesn't stop those who want to get round them. Because there is no system that doesn't place some trust on the client system!
I've noticed something else.
If you follow the link from the front pages it dont work. but if you click 'read more' to bring the article up and follow the link from that page then it does work.
My current guess is that they block 'slashdot.org' but not 'developers.slashdot.org'
Or just copy the url and paste it into your address bar.
With Mozilla just:
-Right click->copy link location
-Ctrl+T for new tab
-Middle click on address bar, to paste
-Press return
I have never heard of open source hardware.
Sure theres open source Specs, Designs and/or VHDL for stuff (eg Grapics cards)
But you seem to be looking for a hardware solution.
My only thought is runing some ogg tarkis encoder on an embedded linux board
They are, Resident Evil is an example of that.
But anyway just because some of their games are targeted at the young, does not make them any less fun to play.
I have sonic adventure 2, and as long as tails voice dont make you too homicidal (I know ppl who switch the lang to jap because of it) It is fun to play (but not too challenging). I wish it had more of what the game calls action levels, ie the ones where you run around as fast as you can (which is what made sonic famous in the first place)
Games I look forward to: Metriod Prime (and Fusion (GBA)), Zelda and some others.
I was waiting for Perfect Dark Zero (was a main reason for buying a cube) but alas it is not to be, PD0 will go to the X-Box (which I will not buy)
Nope, I asked in Ionstroms forum some time ago, they're really dependant on DirectX with the modifications they've done to the UT2003 engine, it seems shame to me
But my h/w is still too slow what ever OS I'm running, and those will be my next PC games (I'm also waiting for Metriod Prime+Fusion but they're console games)
I do have DeusEx1 running fine in plain old winehq Wine, I was well happy cause I love DeusEx (one of the realy few games I've played through multiple times) and I boot MS windows very rarely, esp not for a quick play in between work
And you probably already know UT2003 retail box has the Linux client in it.
here on the DRI web site is a little explianation about ATI naming
specificaly:
The difference between the 8500, 8500 LE, and the 8800 is clockspeed. The 8500 LE is made by third party manufacturers.
I have always used ATI cards, but at the moment I only have a ATI Radeon, so I can't try ATI's new drivers. I will probably upgrade for ut2003 and DeusEx 2. But any way I have a lot of confidence in the DRI people.
If you can wait a little bit Xiph recon that Ogg Theora will be ready by June 2003.
Beta stuff is already out, but I dont think you want to go into the business of beta testing.
I'm looking at the screen shots, and with all those pop-out menu's, I'm left thinking CDE.
where I'am at we call em LPF (little plastic feet).
And the sales man aint folling you LPF are very important w/o them your motherboard would short out from touching the back plate its mounted to. (unless like my friend ur mobo lives in a cardboard box)
The opposite of Motivator posters, not exactly Linux or BSD (well except the 'limitations' poster)
:-( they managed to get copyright on them :-)
But here has some realy good stuff. Most geeks (and Disaffected college students) should love them.
Some of my favorites are:
Procrastination
Motivation
Meetings
Consulting
But it is realy hard for me to choose any favorite. Also check out the stuff about fownies
I am proud that unlike with windows, Linux has competing distros. I always tell new Linux users they should experiment with different distros to find which they like best
I dont think RH sucks, I just had one those 'I must defend' moments, since I honestly think Debian is being unfairly miss labeled as 'old' by too many people.
I know there is now apt4rpm, but it was generally true that if you install an rpm that was not from the CD you end up in dependency hell. Apt4RPM is a good example of why competing distros is a good thing. Every one brings something to the table
There are many good packages in main (afaik Debian has the biggest archive of packages 10'000+) Its just people tend to attack based on those few 'must have' and I was aiming to be pre-emptive.
I will probable try gentoo one day, if I get a spare box, my desktop is setup how I need it. I just dont have the free time to try out lots of different distros as I did a few years back. But I do know you can setup apt to install from source instead of prebuilt bins (the kernel build scripts give a hint of this, and I hope that maybe one day as simple as 'apt-get build ' for example)
Woody/Stable: for production systems, like servers, not ur desktop
Sarge/testing: testing the next release for stable, nice for office like desktops
SID/Unstable: all the new can cool stuff that aint yet tested, this is for ur desktop.
Considering the number of packages and archs Debian has/supports it does a way better job then RH,MDK etc.
Infact that was the reason I switch from MDK to Debian. After installing a Mozilla RPM, it was obvious how old the libs were, how nasty RPM can be, and how it is a very bad idea to install any thing on those distro that did not come on its CD
You may point out stuff like Openoffice and GNOME 2, but just like they may not be on the before mentioned CDs, they are not in the main archive (Well they are now) but there always was apt archive with those debs for you to point your sources.lst at.
I have both testing and unstable in my sources.lst, and testing set to default in me apt.conf. So my system is kept upto date with sarge, but I can still install stuff from SID (apt-get -t unstable install )
Yes I know parent was a joke, but I dislike Debian being labeled as 'old' (esp w/ compared to RH and MDK), and I love apt and dpkg
My banks online banking service works fine with mozilla.
I duno if you have HSBC where you at, but it is a big international bank. It lets you use ebanking for your credit cards, current accounts and saving accounts.
Here in the UK, HSBC took over Midland bank, and I beleive it stands for Hong-Kong and Singapore Banking C-somthing =) (with some effort I could probably look it up)
A lot of people have trouble telling the difference between the linux kernel (which is on discussion here) and a Linux OS (which your favorite distro provides you with)
;-)
Try googling for 'linux kernel bugs' and you'll get:
Results 1 - 50 of about 433,000. Search took 0.50 seconds.
1 million less!!! (no doubt all RH bugs
(incase the smily didn't give it away that last line was a joke)
Those extra bugs will be the result of installing s/w which has bugs (eg BIND =)
True, but Microsoft have a law all to their own any way, so its all OK.