That's what I do.... I select English UK, and then adapt...
However, if I say "French" in "Regional Options" (in the "Regional And Language Options", which specifically states it is for formatting dates and currencies, the date suddenly does say: "lundi 15 octobre 2007", and installer programs think I'm French. For example, I just set it to French and 'lo and behold my Java Control Panel suddenly is in French? Why?
So, please tell me how I can stay in English while using the French based locale. I can't... Just that you know. Selecting a non-English locale introduces a whole slew of issues.
The main problem with locales as implemented in many operating systems is that I cannot tell it to be en_LU. The only trick that works is English UK + adapt manually.
It was just the first thing that came to my mind that would make a plausible explanation. If you're in Canada, I wouldn't rule it out even if it's only 5%.
Microsoft listed the French-language Nvidia driver as an appropriate hardware update.
I'm not going to say that the update was good, but did you check if the system locale was by any chance set to French. There is no Operating System that I have encountered that handles system locales correctly. The all seem to assume that if you want your regional settings (currency, comma settings, time settings) for a certain region, that you speak the language of that region. Stupid example: Windows... You select the French locale on an English system, your date will display as "17:52 Lundi 15/10/2007", even if you are running an English machine. There is plenty of stuff screwed completely up by assuming a locale equals a language.
Sometimes, I think that people implementing this stuff have never ever lived in a country that has more than one language and where people actually might be interested in English operating systems even though it's not an official language in that country. It's a big mess, and neither Linux nor OS X do it much better.
Well.. It depends... If one can turn on Firewire mode, and access an unformatted disk without OS... Then it's firmware and not the OS.
Never said they couldn't do a lot of cool things, but to me something that works on a computer without an OS or bootloader being present is by definition firmware.
You do realise that all the "features" you list are a direct result of having a sane filesystem? (Apart from the last one, not sure about that) Most, if not all Unix operating systems can that and did that for ages.
There are many cool things that the Mac OS can do that aren't well publicized.
Target mode isn't part of the Mac OS, it's part of the firmware. It was damned useful for recovering data from my G3 iBook that had the logic board problem. It originally came with Mac OS 9 preinstalled, with Mac OS X disks included. It was independent from the OS.
Why did you need to look it up? Hydro means water. Cephalus means head. So, technically, they mean a "water head", which is a medical condition. I'm actually surprised you didn't know Hydro (from Hydrogen). Cephalus should be known from things like "Encephalogram".
Neither, I just misunderstood what the original poster was saying. He said that you cannot saturate a regular PCI bus with a few harddisks, and that as such if the RAM of the video card could be accessed at AGP speeds, then accessing the RAMs of the card should be by definition faster than accessing a swapfile on disk.
So, while I though he was talking exclusively about bus speeds, he wasn't...
Of course, PCIe is faster than AGP... I know that, you know that and those that don't know it can look it up on wikipedia.
Swap is more than that... It also allows you to recover a machine that runs out of memory due to a runaway process. Login remotely won't work if no process gets memory anymore, so you can't kill the runaway process. With swap, you'll be able to log in, kill the process and recover the machine. That said, it won't be fast, but at least you've got an option.
Read up on Virtual Memory, because there is much more behind it that just "dumping memory that's not used to disk".
Bull... Even onboard video adaptors are connected to via a bus and that bus will be either ISA, VESA Local Bus, PCI, AGP or PCIe, depending on the age of the machine.
Sorry, I get what you mean now... You mean that the write/read to AGP should be faster than a write/read to a disk because the bus is faster. I was comparing raw bus speeds...
Video RAM is designed for performance, not for stability. If a bit flips in your video RAM, a pixel is going to be bad or a texture will be slightly different. You're not going to notice.
A bit flip in your swap space (or main RAM), now that is something you really don't want to happen....
Scared that the plebs is going to revolt without their hit of Britney Spears? Oh, come on, music has thrived for millennia without big labels. There is no reason by local bands couldn't be popular, played on the radio because the DJ likes them, and get famous worldwide because their music is spread by word of mouth and MP3s....
Daft Punk is on EMI, so I can't support them by buying their albums
Why not? EMI is the (only) label that sells the DRM free songs on iTunes called "Plus". Sure, a bit more expensive, but DRM free. I, for one support that....
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That's what I do.... I select English UK, and then adapt...
However, if I say "French" in "Regional Options" (in the "Regional And Language Options", which specifically states it is for formatting dates and currencies, the date suddenly does say: "lundi 15 octobre 2007", and installer programs think I'm French. For example, I just set it to French and 'lo and behold my Java Control Panel suddenly is in French? Why?
So, please tell me how I can stay in English while using the French based locale. I can't... Just that you know. Selecting a non-English locale introduces a whole slew of issues.
The main problem with locales as implemented in many operating systems is that I cannot tell it to be en_LU. The only trick that works is English UK + adapt manually.
It was just the first thing that came to my mind that would make a plausible explanation. If you're in Canada, I wouldn't rule it out even if it's only 5%.
Microsoft listed the French-language Nvidia driver as an appropriate hardware update.
I'm not going to say that the update was good, but did you check if the system locale was by any chance set to French. There is no Operating System that I have encountered that handles system locales correctly. The all seem to assume that if you want your regional settings (currency, comma settings, time settings) for a certain region, that you speak the language of that region. Stupid example: Windows... You select the French locale on an English system, your date will display as "17:52 Lundi 15/10/2007", even if you are running an English machine. There is plenty of stuff screwed completely up by assuming a locale equals a language.
Sometimes, I think that people implementing this stuff have never ever lived in a country that has more than one language and where people actually might be interested in English operating systems even though it's not an official language in that country. It's a big mess, and neither Linux nor OS X do it much better.
Neither Saturn nor Jupiter are failed stars. Let Phil explain you this a bit better than I could
Couldn't agree more.... Sure, their firmware is pretty, but it still is firmware and is completely decoupled from the OS.
Well.. It depends... If one can turn on Firewire mode, and access an unformatted disk without OS... Then it's firmware and not the OS.
Never said they couldn't do a lot of cool things, but to me something that works on a computer without an OS or bootloader being present is by definition firmware.
You do realise that all the "features" you list are a direct result of having a sane filesystem? (Apart from the last one, not sure about that) Most, if not all Unix operating systems can that and did that for ages.
There are many cool things that the Mac OS can do that aren't well publicized.
Target mode isn't part of the Mac OS, it's part of the firmware. It was damned useful for recovering data from my G3 iBook that had the logic board problem. It originally came with Mac OS 9 preinstalled, with Mac OS X disks included. It was independent from the OS.
Mark "-1, Idiot": didn't even understand the summary.
Doesn't the EU mandate lead-free electronics already? I don't know if that includes harddisks though.
Why did you need to look it up? Hydro means water. Cephalus means head. So, technically, they mean a "water head", which is a medical condition. I'm actually surprised you didn't know Hydro (from Hydrogen). Cephalus should be known from things like "Encephalogram".
Anyways, time to revise your greek ;-)
You have to admit that /. has high entertainment value, even if you actually like Windows ;-)
Neither, I just misunderstood what the original poster was saying. He said that you cannot saturate a regular PCI bus with a few harddisks, and that as such if the RAM of the video card could be accessed at AGP speeds, then accessing the RAMs of the card should be by definition faster than accessing a swapfile on disk.
So, while I though he was talking exclusively about bus speeds, he wasn't...
Of course, PCIe is faster than AGP... I know that, you know that and those that don't know it can look it up on wikipedia.
Already noticed myself... Apologized and all...
No worries, I realised that after pushing "Submit"... Go back to the comment and you'll find that I corrected myself in a reply...
Swap is more than that... It also allows you to recover a machine that runs out of memory due to a runaway process. Login remotely won't work if no process gets memory anymore, so you can't kill the runaway process. With swap, you'll be able to log in, kill the process and recover the machine. That said, it won't be fast, but at least you've got an option.
Read up on Virtual Memory, because there is much more behind it that just "dumping memory that's not used to disk".
Bull... Even onboard video adaptors are connected to via a bus and that bus will be either ISA, VESA Local Bus, PCI, AGP or PCIe, depending on the age of the machine.
Sorry, I get what you mean now... You mean that the write/read to AGP should be faster than a write/read to a disk because the bus is faster. I was comparing raw bus speeds...
Video RAM is designed for performance, not for stability. If a bit flips in your video RAM, a pixel is going to be bad or a texture will be slightly different. You're not going to notice.
A bit flip in your swap space (or main RAM), now that is something you really don't want to happen....
Not wanting to burst your bubble but there is a significant difference between good old PCI and PCIe.
Scared that the plebs is going to revolt without their hit of Britney Spears? Oh, come on, music has thrived for millennia without big labels. There is no reason by local bands couldn't be popular, played on the radio because the DJ likes them, and get famous worldwide because their music is spread by word of mouth and MP3s....
Like a lie detector? Now that turns out to be sooooo accurate.
Raise of my temperature means I'm wanking off at porn.... No surprise to me ;-)
Daft Punk is on EMI, so I can't support them by buying their albums
Why not? EMI is the (only) label that sells the DRM free songs on iTunes called "Plus". Sure, a bit more expensive, but DRM free. I, for one support that....
I just don't see how there can be a mega-band without a major record label company.
Sure, but do we really want mega-bands in the first place?