** begin "this is your life" track from the fight club soundtrack...
I say, deliver me from the lame comments. I say, if you start a thread, start it with something interesting. If you post any kind of comment, douse the flames first. Contrary to what you may believe, you are NOT the bug exterminator. I say, down with all anonymous cowards. I say, deliver me from Swedish furniture. I say, deliver me from clear skin and white teeth. I say, never deliver me from the addiction that is irc. This is your life. Slashdot is your life. This is not your grande lante (sp).
This story may have been posted by the owner of the actual website in order to generate ad revenue, but I still checked it out anyway. My opinion? The shots aren't anything special. Nothing that we haven't already seen, and it still looks like it would suck because the card was only doing 8-10 fps with the blur extension enabled. It's worthless to me to sacrifice all that FPS for the sake of having a motion blur effect... woohoo. If it moves, shoot it. I get 90 fps in quake3 with my g400 (if I play in 640x480), and that's fine with me.
Well, if you're looking for something to keep all 2500 machines up to date, then I'd advise debian. Debian's apt tool makes maintenance very easy, especially over a large number of computers.
If you have a debian cd, or if you wouldn't mind making your own ftp mirror of a debian ftp server, you can have one single computer that acts as the "syncronizer". Now this idea I've just heard about, never actually tried it. All the other computers can be configured through a crontab to run apt-get update, and if you point them to that single machine on the network or whatever, it'd be so much easier.
Each machine's software configuration in perfect sync. I guess this would work, in theory, but again, i've never tried it myself. Well, Cheers. See ya later. Hope I dont get flamed or anything:) *ducks*
I guess you'd consider me a fellow cpsc student, as i program mostly in c++... i guess i should learn something more useful like perl, and i taught myself html as well (which really isn't programming, just a fun thing to learn)...
Well, it looks to me like there already is some support for 3com devices in the kernel... i can easily configure and use my 3com pcmcia modem/network card combo on my laptop. What is this new "official" support all about?
One more comment... this bit about the kid being influenced by violent games and such, that's just hillarious!:) I mean, i play Quake II and have played Doom before, but they don't like influence my mental thoughts and actions. That's like a sign of a psycopath or whatever.
Uhmm... that's just stupid. Linux rules, hands down. If you don't like the lack of free time, (which we high-school students know nothing of anyway), then that's your problem. Linux is not for newbies (not that i'm saying you are one); it offers much more hands-on experience with configuration and such, which IMO is cool. I guess what i'm trying to say is that what you said is just... crazy and stupid?
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** begin "this is your life" track from the fight club soundtrack...
I say, deliver me from the lame comments.
I say, if you start a thread, start it with something interesting.
If you post any kind of comment, douse the flames first. Contrary to what you may believe, you are NOT the bug exterminator.
I say, down with all anonymous cowards.
I say, deliver me from Swedish furniture.
I say, deliver me from clear skin and white teeth.
I say, never deliver me from the addiction that is irc.
This is your life. Slashdot is your life.
This is not your grande lante (sp).
** end music
This story may have been posted by the owner of the actual website in order to generate ad revenue, but I still checked it out anyway. My opinion? The shots aren't anything special. Nothing that we haven't already seen, and it still looks like it would suck because the card was only doing 8-10 fps with the blur extension enabled. It's worthless to me to sacrifice all that FPS for the sake of having a motion blur effect... woohoo. If it moves, shoot it. I get 90 fps in quake3 with my g400 (if I play in 640x480), and that's fine with me.
:)
/me runs like heck and sets up a firewall
- webfreak
webfreak@themes.org
http://e.themes.org developer
Well, if you're looking for something to keep all 2500 machines up to date, then I'd advise debian. Debian's apt tool makes maintenance very easy, especially over a large number of computers.
:) *ducks*
If you have a debian cd, or if you wouldn't mind making your own ftp mirror of a debian ftp server, you can have one single computer that acts as the "syncronizer". Now this idea I've just heard about, never actually tried it. All the other computers can be configured through a crontab to run apt-get update, and if you point them to that single machine on the network or whatever, it'd be so much easier.
Each machine's software configuration in perfect sync. I guess this would work, in theory, but again, i've never tried it myself. Well, Cheers. See ya later. Hope I dont get flamed or anything
-- webfreak
webfreak@themes.org
http://e.themes.org
I guess you'd consider me a fellow cpsc student, as i program mostly in c++... i guess i should learn something more useful like perl, and i taught myself html as well (which really isn't programming, just a fun thing to learn)...
- webfreak
Well, it looks to me like there already is some support for 3com devices in the kernel... i can easily configure and use my 3com pcmcia modem/network card combo on my laptop. What is this new "official" support all about?
One more comment... this bit about the kid being influenced by violent games and such, that's just hillarious! :) I mean, i play Quake II and have played Doom before, but they don't like influence my mental thoughts and actions. That's like a sign of a psycopath or whatever.
- webfreak
Uhmm... that's just stupid. Linux rules, hands down. If you don't like the lack of free time, (which we high-school students know nothing of anyway), then that's your problem. Linux is not for newbies (not that i'm saying you are one); it offers much more hands-on experience with configuration and such, which IMO is cool. I guess what i'm trying to say is that what you said is just ... crazy and stupid?
- webfreak