Not going to happen. NVidia and ATi have stated they couldn't open up the drivers if they wanted to. There's just too much licensed IP they don't have the rights to open. We don't have to wait for decent graphics drivers any more! Intel has open drivers!
Buy a desktop with integrated Intel graphics, slap in an "ADD2" card for DVI LCDs, and you have a fully open-source graphics system.
It works well for me - maybe not cutting edge video performance, but its not bad - way better than vesa or ati or nv open drivers.
GaAs isn't actually any faster than silicon, when transistors shrink to submicron levels.
Transistor sizes are so small now that the electrons never reach their maximum possible velocity (which is higher for GaAs). They are still accelerating by the time the cross the transistor. And they accelerate at the same rate in Si and GaAs.
GaAs was a handy trick for boosting speed when transistors were larger, but it is irrelevant now.
As for Access, there are MANY choices for databases in FOSS. I prefer MySQl.
Except for that little part of Access that designs queries, forms, reports, and makes databases generally usable by everyone from secretaries to executives to geeks. Nothing in FOSS-land comes close yet (except the very-beta OOo2.0).
- Mike
Gerold W. Neudeck, "The PN Junction Diode", 2nd ed., Vol. 2 of the "Modular Series on Solid State Devices", Addison-Wesley. 1989. TK7871.86.N48. This short book has the best diagrams illustrating electron/hole movement in the PN junction that I've seen. Very concise. Highly recommended, if you are interested in diode physics.
In fact, the entire Modular Series is worth owning. There are books are semiconductor fundamentals, bipolar transistors, FETs, fabrication and manufacturing, "advanced fundamentals", advanced MOSFETs, quantum mechanics, and carrier transport.
Ben G. Streetman, "Solid State Electronic Devices", 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, NJ. 1990. TK7871.85.S77
A good introduction to semiconductor physics, for electrical engineers.
Turning on Postfix 2.1's "address verification" feature immediately eliminated 90% of the spam that my company was receiving! (SpamAssassin + ClamAV + CRM114 catch the rest).
This feature confirms that the incoming email is coming from an account that also accepts email. (Spambots don't normally accept mail, of course...) The spam email never even makes it into your system this way, because the SMTP transaction is deferred until the address is verified.
- Mike
"However, yesterday she sent me an email wondering where the Access-like program is in Red Hat"
The most Access-like linux offering that I've seen is Rekall. Not free, though. But there are Linux and Windows versions (the Windows one seems a bit unstable yet). It has tables, queries, reports, forms, very similar to Access.
I never could get the OpenOffice/StarOffice database tools to work. They programs would just freeze when connecting to my Postgresql databases...
Has anyone found a cheap way to call the Turks & Caicos (British West Indies)? The local Cable and Wireless has a perfect monopoly, being on an island and all. The internet phone services are still pretty pricey.
I suppose it's fitting that it's $0.05/minute to the third-world, and $0.50 to an island of luxury villas...
3com tech support says no, it doesn't pass power on all of the switched ports. They said it passes power onto 1 of the 4 switched ports, but not enough to power another NJ100. Sounds a little garbled... but it's clearly not the cheap POE injection device that would be so useful.
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Buy a desktop with integrated Intel graphics, slap in an "ADD2" card for DVI LCDs, and you have a fully open-source graphics system.
It works well for me - maybe not cutting edge video performance, but its not bad - way better than vesa or ati or nv open drivers.
- Mike
No, GaAs is not the future.
GaAs isn't actually any faster than silicon, when transistors shrink to submicron levels.
Transistor sizes are so small now that the electrons never reach their maximum possible velocity (which is higher for GaAs). They are still accelerating by the time the cross the transistor. And they accelerate at the same rate in Si and GaAs.
GaAs was a handy trick for boosting speed when transistors were larger, but it is irrelevant now.
Gerold W. Neudeck, "The PN Junction Diode", 2nd ed., Vol. 2 of the "Modular Series on Solid State Devices", Addison-Wesley. 1989. TK7871.86.N48. This short book has the best diagrams illustrating electron/hole movement in the PN junction that I've seen. Very concise. Highly recommended, if you are interested in diode physics.
In fact, the entire Modular Series is worth owning. There are books are semiconductor fundamentals, bipolar transistors, FETs, fabrication and manufacturing, "advanced fundamentals", advanced MOSFETs, quantum mechanics, and carrier transport.
Turning on Postfix 2.1's "address verification" feature immediately eliminated 90% of the spam that my company was receiving! (SpamAssassin + ClamAV + CRM114 catch the rest). This feature confirms that the incoming email is coming from an account that also accepts email. (Spambots don't normally accept mail, of course...) The spam email never even makes it into your system this way, because the SMTP transaction is deferred until the address is verified. - Mike
The most Access-like linux offering that I've seen is Rekall. Not free, though. But there are Linux and Windows versions (the Windows one seems a bit unstable yet). It has tables, queries, reports, forms, very similar to Access.
I never could get the OpenOffice/StarOffice database tools to work. They programs would just freeze when connecting to my Postgresql databases...Has anyone found a cheap way to call the Turks & Caicos (British West Indies)? The local Cable and Wireless has a perfect monopoly, being on an island and all. The internet phone services are still pretty pricey.
I suppose it's fitting that it's $0.05/minute to the third-world, and $0.50 to an island of luxury villas...
3com tech support says no, it doesn't pass power on all of the switched ports. They said it passes power onto 1 of the 4 switched ports, but not enough to power another NJ100. Sounds a little garbled... but it's clearly not the cheap POE injection device that would be so useful.