When I bought my EEE I did so because the website said I would get 7 hours of battery life from it. If this article is to be believed I should be getting about 3 hours of life out of each charge, yet in reality I regularly see 7 hours of battery life from it. Sure, I do keep the screen rather dim (but its still plenty bright to read slashdot) and don't peg the CPU at 100% the whole time, but it seems like common sense that if I did then the battery life would suffer. I can even keep the wireless turned on the whole time.
The summary seems to focus strongly on the setup of the laptops in these tests as optimized for battery life and yet somehow unfair. Meanwhile the article itself spends most of text playing up the bickering between Intel and AMD and in the end isn't really saying anything at all.
Everybody uses their laptops differently; some people use them as portable access to slashdot while others use them as portable desktops. These people are obviously going to see differing battery lifetimes. Instead of trying to come up with a realistic range or average battery lifetime for these different workloads it only makes sense to give the consumer the absolute maximum the battery will last and let common sense tell them that pegging the CPU or bumping the screen up to 11 will give lower times.
I've run into this exact same situation actually. I was born outside of Philly and go to the University of Rochester. I can't hear any accents in the people around me, but I've been told that I have an interesting accent on more than one occasion. Of course, the other people I know that go here and grew up within an hour or two of where I did don't have this problem.
AVG would be my choice, and is what I run on my parent's computer. I have had problems with it in the past though that make me not use it on this machine, specificly the computer will sometimes refuse to load Windows unless I uninstall the program. I don't know why this happens, but it has made me wary of using it again (this has happened three times now on two different computers). My parents have never had such a problem, so your results may vary.
Funny, I just installed the Windows port, and the option to report idle time is still there, but the option of which type of idle time should be reported (not using the computer, or not using gaim) has been removed. It is this the change log is referring to.
Actually, no. Divx and Xvid are MPEG4 implementions. There are, however, too complex for the ipod to support (as another poster said, the ipod only supports simple profile and baseline profile.)
For your vector drawing needs, let me point you to a program called Inkscape. While it is not yet as fully featured as something like Corel Draw, it is rapidly improving, and much, much better then a program like Xfig I believe.
I use 2.6 on a Pentium 133 with 48mb of RAM, and I have noticed *huge* differences in the boot time. KDE seems to start up slower, but run a bit faster... well, at least the mouse seems to lag a bit less... its hard to tell when everything runs so slow to begin with. Running either 2.4 or 2.6 still eats my swap file, but I guess thats what I get for using such old hardware. Oh, and Gnome acts the same.
Oh! I know the answer to this one... source-based install with Gentoo!
/joke
Seriously though, getting the (proprietary) display adapter to work under linux is a challenge, but there are some web resources out there that might be able to help you, try google. However, I must agree that the threshold for linux is way too high for the Windows users that everybody seems to want to target, but it seems like the average linux zealot/slashdot'er believes that everybody should be able to recompile their kernel blind. Oh well, someday people will learn... improvements are starting to take place already.
Same here. I normally use Windows, and have Linux on an old box to play with, but there is something about BeOS that keeps calling me back. The only thing holding me back from continuse use of BeOS (and Linux) is my winmodem... I'm too cheap to buy a new one and broadband should be ready "soon". However, once OpenBeOS is ready I hope I can replace my main OS with Be. So I guess that makes 12.5 BeOS users.
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Well, I must some of the more recent demos are well up to par with the groundbreaking demoes of the early '90s. Groups such as farbrausch (fr-08, fr-19, fr-25, fr-30), kewlers (variform), and conspiracy (Genesis, A Place Called Universe) have all have released amazing demos recently, and continue to do so into the future.
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Second Reality is part of side two (Kickin' it Oldschool) of the Mindcandy DVD Vol. 1 From there is should be easy to make a divx file of the demo, or of any other of the demos featured on the disc (ie Unreal by Future Crew, etc).
I must say, as a born again Christian (as in Christian by choice and not because my relatives are) these games paint a very bad picture for Christians in general. I agree with another poster that this must be because of an untapped market because no real Christian developement team would sink to such lows by choice. It is humilating to thing somebody would expect anybody to buy these games. Anyway, just because one is a Christian does not mean that all other games are off limits. In fact, my favorite games are Continuum and Unreal Tournament 2003, which i enjoy very much for the action/gameplay. I guess I should have supected somebody would come along and do this... its a shame.
Um, no. The parent is talking about Wolf3d, of which Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the sequel. But yes, I stopped playing the game for a while after I saw those zombies...
Ok, yes HL was based on Quake 1, BUT, there were some last minute Q2 addins to the engine that Valve included. Or so I have read. This might be why people believe HL is based on the Q2 engine.
I must say, my Windows XP machine has remained more stable then any other machine I have. The only problem I (infrequently) have is due to third party programs. My Windows box is also where I due most of my computing (internet doesn't work with linux/too slow... bah) yet runs fine. And yes, I do a lot more then play games and check email/read/.
Gnome (1.x) just doesn't run well, and freezes frequently. KDE (2.x) is a bit better, though some things just don't work (not KDE's fault I know). I realize that Gnome 2.x and KDE 3.1 are out, though I do not believe my linux box can handle the download/compile/and all around bloat of these lastest releases (P100, 48Mg RAM, 28.8kps modem...). So maybe I am being unfair in critizing these desktop environments, but I must stick to what I have and know. I have tried Redhat's Blue Curve, though I can't say I had enough time to properly test it due to hardware problems (PIII 733, 256Mg RAM, 56kps *winmodem*...).
Now don't get me wrong, XP is not without its bugs. Yet when it comes to stablity, I have only seen XP matched by BeOS, which has been (sadly) removed from my machine due to its age/usefulness.
And no, I have not used Mac OS X, or any Mac OS for a really, really long time. And yes, your results may vary from mine.
You know, I would *love* a re-enactment of Gettysburg, esp the last charge by the confederates. If only I know somebody with a LOT of free time and some map making skill...
Hard to imagine a 'serious review' site would neglect to test these features.
I'm sure that they had these benchmarks all nice and ready to publish, however, according to the article, nvida forbade Maximum PC from publishing the results of those benchmarks.
As a near 16 year old, I must say that something like this sounds great. I know I for one am extremely interested in learning the shell. Also, most everybody I know can duel boot and install linux with the GUI, as well as use KDE or Gnome. I believe any power user knows how to use a shell, and will be essencial for your class. Also, with any free software it seems neccesary to know how to compile source, which should be taught from day two. I would not recogmend putting 8 year olds with 16 year olds, maybe 12-16. In fact, eight seems too young for this class period. Live cds sound like a bad idea as well, my experince with them has left a bad taste in my mouth. At this age, breaking things comes naturally, so learning to troubleshoot is important, esp. troubleshooting X. Teaching programming for anything but bash/sh is a bad idea, as there are many other programing classes out there. Assuming that these kids know next to nothing is also a bad idea, for kids like this a advanced and quick pae by dayt wo should be underway. That seems to be all for now, though I must say I would love to be able to sign up for this class, I would love more info on it.
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I good converter is at www.dbpoweramp.com If you choose to get this, make sure to go to the codec page and download the ogg vorbis codec, and take a look at the file selector, which will make selecting your files a lot easier. It also comes with a cd ripper if you choose to re-encode your files.
I found it at www.theargon.com, before the site was redone. It no longer appears to be there anymore, but I guess you can email the site operator and ask about it. I am not sure what Aleph Press, the credited author of the quote, is either. Sorry.
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pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work pgp5 anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left to speak up." ~Alara Rogers (Aleph Press)
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When I bought my EEE I did so because the website said I would get 7 hours of battery life from it. If this article is to be believed I should be getting about 3 hours of life out of each charge, yet in reality I regularly see 7 hours of battery life from it. Sure, I do keep the screen rather dim (but its still plenty bright to read slashdot) and don't peg the CPU at 100% the whole time, but it seems like common sense that if I did then the battery life would suffer. I can even keep the wireless turned on the whole time.
The summary seems to focus strongly on the setup of the laptops in these tests as optimized for battery life and yet somehow unfair. Meanwhile the article itself spends most of text playing up the bickering between Intel and AMD and in the end isn't really saying anything at all.
Everybody uses their laptops differently; some people use them as portable access to slashdot while others use them as portable desktops. These people are obviously going to see differing battery lifetimes. Instead of trying to come up with a realistic range or average battery lifetime for these different workloads it only makes sense to give the consumer the absolute maximum the battery will last and let common sense tell them that pegging the CPU or bumping the screen up to 11 will give lower times.
I've run into this exact same situation actually. I was born outside of Philly and go to the University of Rochester. I can't hear any accents in the people around me, but I've been told that I have an interesting accent on more than one occasion. Of course, the other people I know that go here and grew up within an hour or two of where I did don't have this problem.
AVG would be my choice, and is what I run on my parent's computer. I have had problems with it in the past though that make me not use it on this machine, specificly the computer will sometimes refuse to load Windows unless I uninstall the program. I don't know why this happens, but it has made me wary of using it again (this has happened three times now on two different computers). My parents have never had such a problem, so your results may vary.
Funny, I just installed the Windows port, and the option to report idle time is still there, but the option of which type of idle time should be reported (not using the computer, or not using gaim) has been removed. It is this the change log is referring to.
Actually, no. Divx and Xvid are MPEG4 implementions. There are, however, too complex for the ipod to support (as another poster said, the ipod only supports simple profile and baseline profile.)
For your vector drawing needs, let me point you to a program called Inkscape. While it is not yet as fully featured as something like Corel Draw, it is rapidly improving, and much, much better then a program like Xfig I believe.
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I use 2.6 on a Pentium 133 with 48mb of RAM, and I have noticed *huge* differences in the boot time. KDE seems to start up slower, but run a bit faster... well, at least the mouse seems to lag a bit less... its hard to tell when everything runs so slow to begin with. Running either 2.4 or 2.6 still eats my swap file, but I guess thats what I get for using such old hardware. Oh, and Gnome acts the same.
Oh! I know the answer to this one... source-based install with Gentoo!
/joke
Seriously though, getting the (proprietary) display adapter to work under linux is a challenge, but there are some web resources out there that might be able to help you, try google. However, I must agree that the threshold for linux is way too high for the Windows users that everybody seems to want to target, but it seems like the average linux zealot/slashdot'er believes that everybody should be able to recompile their kernel blind. Oh well, someday people will learn... improvements are starting to take place already.
Same here. I normally use Windows, and have Linux on an old box to play with, but there is something about BeOS that keeps calling me back. The only thing holding me back from continuse use of BeOS (and Linux) is my winmodem... I'm too cheap to buy a new one and broadband should be ready "soon". However, once OpenBeOS is ready I hope I can replace my main OS with Be. So I guess that makes 12.5 BeOS users.
Well, I must some of the more recent demos are well up to par with the groundbreaking demoes of the early '90s. Groups such as farbrausch (fr-08, fr-19, fr-25, fr-30), kewlers (variform), and conspiracy (Genesis, A Place Called Universe) have all have released amazing demos recently, and continue to do so into the future.
Second Reality is part of side two (Kickin' it Oldschool) of the Mindcandy DVD Vol. 1 From there is should be easy to make a divx file of the demo, or of any other of the demos featured on the disc (ie Unreal by Future Crew, etc).
I must say, as a born again Christian (as in Christian by choice and not because my relatives are) these games paint a very bad picture for Christians in general. I agree with another poster that this must be because of an untapped market because no real Christian developement team would sink to such lows by choice. It is humilating to thing somebody would expect anybody to buy these games. Anyway, just because one is a Christian does not mean that all other games are off limits. In fact, my favorite games are Continuum and Unreal Tournament 2003, which i enjoy very much for the action/gameplay. I guess I should have supected somebody would come along and do this... its a shame.
Um, no. The parent is talking about Wolf3d, of which Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the sequel. But yes, I stopped playing the game for a while after I saw those zombies...
Ok, yes HL was based on Quake 1, BUT, there were some last minute Q2 addins to the engine that Valve included. Or so I have read. This might be why people believe HL is based on the Q2 engine.
From the SHOULD dept. Something like this should happen, though I think its one of those "shoulda-know-better" things your mother told you about.
I must say, my Windows XP machine has remained more stable then any other machine I have. The only problem I (infrequently) have is due to third party programs. My Windows box is also where I due most of my computing (internet doesn't work with linux/too slow... bah) yet runs fine. /.
And yes, I do a lot more then play games and check email/read
Gnome (1.x) just doesn't run well, and freezes frequently. KDE (2.x) is a bit better, though some things just don't work (not KDE's fault I know). I realize that Gnome 2.x and KDE 3.1 are out, though I do not believe my linux box can handle the download/compile/and all around bloat of these lastest releases (P100, 48Mg RAM, 28.8kps modem...). So maybe I am being unfair in critizing these desktop environments, but I must stick to what I have and know. I have tried Redhat's Blue Curve, though I can't say I had enough time to properly test it due to hardware problems (PIII 733, 256Mg RAM, 56kps *winmodem*...).
Now don't get me wrong, XP is not without its bugs. Yet when it comes to stablity, I have only seen XP matched by BeOS, which has been (sadly) removed from my machine due to its age/usefulness.
And no, I have not used Mac OS X, or any Mac OS for a really, really long time. And yes, your results may vary from mine.
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You know, I would *love* a re-enactment of Gettysburg, esp the last charge by the confederates. If only I know somebody with a LOT of free time and some map making skill...
As a near 16 year old, I must say that something like this sounds great. I know I for one am extremely interested in learning the shell. Also, most everybody I know can duel boot and install linux with the GUI, as well as use KDE or Gnome. I believe any power user knows how to use a shell, and will be essencial for your class. Also, with any free software it seems neccesary to know how to compile source, which should be taught from day two. I would not recogmend putting 8 year olds with 16 year olds, maybe 12-16. In fact, eight seems too young for this class period. Live cds sound like a bad idea as well, my experince with them has left a bad taste in my mouth. At this age, breaking things comes naturally, so learning to troubleshoot is important, esp. troubleshooting X. Teaching programming for anything but bash/sh is a bad idea, as there are many other programing classes out there. Assuming that these kids know next to nothing is also a bad idea, for kids like this a advanced and quick pae by dayt wo should be underway. That seems to be all for now, though I must say I would love to be able to sign up for this class, I would love more info on it. Robo210
I good converter is at www.dbpoweramp.com If you choose to get this, make sure to go to the codec page and download the ogg vorbis codec, and take a look at the file selector, which will make selecting your files a lot easier. It also comes with a cd ripper if you choose to re-encode your files.
I found it at www.theargon.com, before the site was redone. It no longer appears to be there anymore, but I guess you can email the site operator and ask about it. I am not sure what Aleph Press, the credited author of the quote, is either. Sorry.