I wont paste a bunch of URLs, google can give you those.
But as an ex EE student (concentrating on digital electronics) i'd have to say that you will be best served if you understand the very basic fundamentals first.
It might sound boring, working out how/why a simple multivibrator (ooer!) cct works, or in just which direction current flow occurs when looking at the cct symbol for a diode. But you wont regret it, when you wonder whats up with your registered digital interface, or pondering what the deal is with open-collector outputs.
Besides, if youre really interested in electronics, this stuff IS interesting. Software writing starts to feel kinda like an arbitary exercise, after you have designed and built a few simple electronics circuits.
The "review" seems to be written to so obviously make Ep2 everything people wanted Ep1 to be? "This time, its great, fantastic, its perfect!" Bit too obvious.
They havent seen the movie, even if the script is fine, it dosent guarentee a good movie. This has to be a hoax, and even if its not, you should take it with a grain of salt. Its not a review of the movie, its a review of a questionably-authentic script, of unknown revision.
It turns out it is a good thing that 5.0-CURRENT was frozen, and they concentrated on 4.X STABLE. It means I dont have to worry about changing to a new 5.X branch.
It was kinda annoying that the FreeBSD guys obsoleted 3.X so quickly, they had only really just fixed the glaring issues with the ATA driver corruption problem and other important issues (that affected my use of FreeBSD 3.4 for fileserving) and then they went and obsoleted it.
If 4.X stays as the most current tree in STABLE for another year, hell, another 2 years, I for one will be happy. I dont see the 1-year cycle for major number increments as much really other than ticking over the most siginificant version-numbers. Stuff that gets MFC'd from CURRENT is usually good enough for STABLE, Look at Linus, he dosent feel a need to tick over the major version numbers for Linux. I'd stay with FreeBSD 4.x if it goes all the way to (say) 4.7 or 4.8.
As someone who has owned and travelled with a Toshiba 3500, Libretto L50, Gateway 2500, Dell i5000, and now a Dell i8000, it all depends on the model, not the vendor.
Thee 3500 (i386) was fairly solid, being old. (And expensive as new.) The Libretto was also okay, in that is small. If you are really worried about how much your laptop has to withstand, smaller (less mass) is definetly better. The Gateway was average, no glaring issues but it was plastic-y and flexed too much.
By far the best was the Dell i5000. This thing was big, but for its size it was solid, and it was built really well. Quality in design and manufature was the hallmark of this one, and it is still my favourite for use, asthetics, and ruggedness.
When I upgraded to the Dell i8000, I was SO dissapointed. The i8k is a low quality piece of creaking plastic-y junk compared to the i5000. Now dont get me wrong, the i8k blows everything else away WRT speed, graphics, expandability, etc. Its a worthwhile upgrade to the i5k on paper, but in use, I am dissapointed with the low build quality. They could have done a lot better on this one.
BTW, I always wanted one of these, but it just didnt seem quite worth it, seeing as my system is insured anyway, and I treat it carefully. Maybe for next time I fly, I will get one.
"Noxx asks: "My department is purchasing several new servers for an intranet website project.""
You are paying for a solution from the vendor, I hope, not jsut the barebones hardware.
Your vendor should be supplying a SOLUTION to your storage needs, not jsut dumping hardware on your loading dock and expecting you to do the rest. Get some people who have experience with SAN/NAS to give you an opinion, and get a 2nd or 3rd opinion if you have to. But you should pay for a solution, not for a DIY homebrew "Some assembly required" one size fits all package.
Your vendor should atleast have a consultant/rep give you an idea of what they think your needs are, and give you a quote you can understand and see is value for money. Otherwise get a new vendor.
The other busines issue Loki had were those Linux users like me that dont actually mind dual-booting to play Windows games. I got the OS with my laptop, I dont mind using it for games, that Linux truly and honestly dosent give any advantage for playing over Windows. (Unless you cant get a decent stable install of Windows happening on your system. Which a lot of people can manage, believe it or not.)
Dosent fit all. Wholly open source and popular-commercial-gaming just dont seem to go together.
Carmack is right, Linux gaming isnt a viable market. As asthetically displeasing as it is to the faithfull crowd, Windows holds the market on the gaming market. Hopefully this will accelerate the development going on in WINE and other API abstraction layers out there, so one day we can run most any Windows game reliably on Linux. That will be better IMO than Loki (or another company) scrabbling to port a subset of Win games to Linux, after the fact.
It is just plain more efficient for all involved, after all.
Many people have the wrong idea of what can be copyrighted, licenced, patented, etc. The idea that you can licence artwork (animation) under GPL is flawed, as any derivative artwork is automatically owned by the creator, as long as there is signiciant differences. You cant copyright a character or concept inside a piece of artwork, only the artwork itself.
GPL'ing artwork would be silly and unenforceable. It would be better to mark the code as GPL (or even better, BSD) and to claim copyright to your artworks, perhaps with the limitation "Commercial rights reserved." so that theoretically people can re-use the artwork, but not use it in a commercial product without asking you first.
That said, a company is quite within their rights to make a derivative (parody) work of your artwork, and use it how they please. The only way to stop that, is to trademark a logo or character within the artwork.
Ethernet is an unarbitrated broadcast-type link-layer. Its ideal for running packetised networks that dont have concrete service levels and can accommodate packetloss and collisions.
IEEE1394 is an arbitrated, virtual channel (either fixed, or on demand) link layer that has its own integrated protocols for data transport. It can also provide power on the same lead, and is ideal for devices that need to arbitrate a fixed bandwidth connection to specific host devices. Great for peripherals.
Google, is a very popular and efficient search engine that can find you most any information on the internet rapidly. Clueless people are not a bad thing per-se, as long as they accept that one should use the right tool, for the right job, and that the ability to educate yourself without whining to people on forums for help is a handy ability to have on the internet nowdays. Yet another "cant use Google" Ask Slashdot. (Go on, burn my lousy 1 karma for saying the truth.)
Immortality only worked if you stayed inside the chanber, thats why the Knight of the Crusades was still in there. Indy was only interested in testing that he picked correctly and was able to use the magic to heal his father.
Old Harry is getting on a bit now. I read that he often gets injured during filming of these kinda of movies, and that was one reason why a 4th wasnt seen a long time ago. I guess we've reached the day and age where CGI can fill in for him in some cases.
Is it just me, or will more CGI "classic" action-adventure movies spring up now due to the success of LoTR?
I jsut hope IJ4 has something more substantial plot-wise than the moronfest of TombRaider. The fact that they are writing the script around the fact they want to cash in on another in the series, this late, dosent give me confidence.
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BGP might help, but BGP requires routers (well, A router, but it has to be able to hold a big subset of the global routing table) and registered addresses on routable networks.
Unfortunatly, that kind of cost just cant be borne by enthusiasts, without forming an entity that really would become just another ISP. Wireless ethernet cards are one thing. Routers and billing and ISP costs and infrastructure, are something else.
Being able to network with all your neighbors is nice, but it wont replace broarband for downloading the latest game patches, mods, mp3s, divx's, etc.
They could do a deal with an ISP or maybe hook up with something like APANA, but who would pay, and how would fees be collected? As soon as you start involving money, it gets messy. And not many people would be willing to donate their seperate Internet connections bandwidth for other people's default routes.
Actually, the problem is that they are NOT plucking the refugees from their sinking decrepit indonesian junks and keeping them in secure premises where they are atleast fed and given a little health care.
What the Liberal-Coalition prefer happen is that their boats sink in the Indian Ocean and thus the problem just magically dissapears.
I'm sure the arabs involved would take the clean holding cell, given a choice.
No health care or welfare. If people cant afford user-pays, bad luck. So what happens if you are crippled due to illegal working conditions?
Privatise everything, because we know how well that works, and how the government will use the short-term proceeds for themselves.
Deregulate everything. Capitalism is a model that works wonderfully for every situation, and it means the government has less work to do!
Those with the biggest stick, get to say what goes. Money talks, its silly giving the little people a say, only the rich megacorps have any real opinion. Who cares if they corrupt the government.
Welcome to planet Reebok dada21. Dont forget to pay your toll on the way in and out, and please ensure you check in regularly so we can track your movements. Enjoy your stay.
Everyone thats actually in Australia knows that the government in power right now will never actually follow up on frivolous policy promises (their opinion) they use to win elections.
See, its a "NON-CORE" promise, if I may quote John Howard. Of course, we were never given a list of what actually were "CORE" promises, either. So we're actually used to being left in the dark, internet censorship & GTA3 being the least of our worries.
The caucasian conservatives that are making policy here should remember, their decendants were once boat people too.
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I wont paste a bunch of URLs, google can give you those.
But as an ex EE student (concentrating on digital electronics) i'd have to say that you will be best served if you understand the very basic fundamentals first.
It might sound boring, working out how/why a simple multivibrator (ooer!) cct works, or in just which direction current flow occurs when looking at the cct symbol for a diode. But you wont regret it, when you wonder whats up with your registered digital interface, or pondering what the deal is with open-collector outputs.
Besides, if youre really interested in electronics, this stuff IS interesting. Software writing starts to feel kinda like an arbitary exercise, after you have designed and built a few simple electronics circuits.
The "review" seems to be written to so obviously make Ep2 everything people wanted Ep1 to be? "This time, its great, fantastic, its perfect!" Bit too obvious.
They havent seen the movie, even if the script is fine, it dosent guarentee a good movie. This has to be a hoax, and even if its not, you should take it with a grain of salt. Its not a review of the movie, its a review of a questionably-authentic script, of unknown revision.
It turns out it is a good thing that 5.0-CURRENT was frozen, and they concentrated on 4.X STABLE. It means I dont have to worry about changing to a new 5.X branch.
It was kinda annoying that the FreeBSD guys obsoleted 3.X so quickly, they had only really just fixed the glaring issues with the ATA driver corruption problem and other important issues (that affected my use of FreeBSD 3.4 for fileserving) and then they went and obsoleted it.
If 4.X stays as the most current tree in STABLE for another year, hell, another 2 years, I for one will be happy. I dont see the 1-year cycle for major number increments as much really other than ticking over the most siginificant version-numbers. Stuff that gets MFC'd from CURRENT is usually good enough for STABLE, Look at Linus, he dosent feel a need to tick over the major version numbers for Linux. I'd stay with FreeBSD 4.x if it goes all the way to (say) 4.7 or 4.8.
As someone who has owned and travelled with a Toshiba 3500, Libretto L50, Gateway 2500, Dell i5000, and now a Dell i8000, it all depends on the model, not the vendor.
Thee 3500 (i386) was fairly solid, being old. (And expensive as new.) The Libretto was also okay, in that is small. If you are really worried about how much your laptop has to withstand, smaller (less mass) is definetly better. The Gateway was average, no glaring issues but it was plastic-y and flexed too much.
By far the best was the Dell i5000. This thing was big, but for its size it was solid, and it was built really well. Quality in design and manufature was the hallmark of this one, and it is still my favourite for use, asthetics, and ruggedness.
When I upgraded to the Dell i8000, I was SO dissapointed. The i8k is a low quality piece of creaking plastic-y junk compared to the i5000. Now dont get me wrong, the i8k blows everything else away WRT speed, graphics, expandability, etc. Its a worthwhile upgrade to the i5k on paper, but in use, I am dissapointed with the low build quality. They could have done a lot better on this one.
BTW, I always wanted one of these, but it just didnt seem quite worth it, seeing as my system is insured anyway, and I treat it carefully. Maybe for next time I fly, I will get one.
"Noxx asks: "My department is purchasing several new servers for an intranet website project.""
You are paying for a solution from the vendor, I hope, not jsut the barebones hardware.
Your vendor should be supplying a SOLUTION to your storage needs, not jsut dumping hardware on your loading dock and expecting you to do the rest. Get some people who have experience with SAN/NAS to give you an opinion, and get a 2nd or 3rd opinion if you have to. But you should pay for a solution, not for a DIY homebrew "Some assembly required" one size fits all package.
Your vendor should atleast have a consultant/rep give you an idea of what they think your needs are, and give you a quote you can understand and see is value for money. Otherwise get a new vendor.
Well maybe this says more about the bogus nature of investment and venture capital, than it does about commercial gaming on Linux.
VC is nice if you can get it, but IMO you shouldnt *rely* on it. Nothing beats a nice solid business plan that can make a profit.
Serious Sam would have been really nice.
The other busines issue Loki had were those Linux users like me that dont actually mind dual-booting to play Windows games. I got the OS with my laptop, I dont mind using it for games, that Linux truly and honestly dosent give any advantage for playing over Windows. (Unless you cant get a decent stable install of Windows happening on your system. Which a lot of people can manage, believe it or not.)
You got it backwards. I think you meant C:
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Yeah, Red Hat are making too much of a profit, so they should buy Loki and emulate them so they start bleeding red ink again.
Tell me, why should any other company have any intrinsic advantage over Loki themselves?
Dosent fit all. Wholly open source and popular-commercial-gaming just dont seem to go together.
Carmack is right, Linux gaming isnt a viable market. As asthetically displeasing as it is to the faithfull crowd, Windows holds the market on the gaming market. Hopefully this will accelerate the development going on in WINE and other API abstraction layers out there, so one day we can run most any Windows game reliably on Linux. That will be better IMO than Loki (or another company) scrabbling to port a subset of Win games to Linux, after the fact.
It is just plain more efficient for all involved, after all.
Ask an IPlawyer. :^)
Many people have the wrong idea of what can be copyrighted, licenced, patented, etc. The idea that you can licence artwork (animation) under GPL is flawed, as any derivative artwork is automatically owned by the creator, as long as there is signiciant differences. You cant copyright a character or concept inside a piece of artwork, only the artwork itself.
GPL'ing artwork would be silly and unenforceable. It would be better to mark the code as GPL (or even better, BSD) and to claim copyright to your artworks, perhaps with the limitation "Commercial rights reserved." so that theoretically people can re-use the artwork, but not use it in a commercial product without asking you first.
That said, a company is quite within their rights to make a derivative (parody) work of your artwork, and use it how they please. The only way to stop that, is to trademark a logo or character within the artwork.
Ethernet is an unarbitrated broadcast-type link-layer. Its ideal for running packetised networks that dont have concrete service levels and can accommodate packetloss and collisions.
IEEE1394 is an arbitrated, virtual channel (either fixed, or on demand) link layer that has its own integrated protocols for data transport. It can also provide power on the same lead, and is ideal for devices that need to arbitrate a fixed bandwidth connection to specific host devices. Great for peripherals.
Google, is a very popular and efficient search engine that can find you most any information on the internet rapidly. Clueless people are not a bad thing per-se, as long as they accept that one should use the right tool, for the right job, and that the ability to educate yourself without whining to people on forums for help is a handy ability to have on the internet nowdays. Yet another "cant use Google" Ask Slashdot. (Go on, burn my lousy 1 karma for saying the truth.)
Ah, you didnt pay attention.
Immortality only worked if you stayed inside the chanber, thats why the Knight of the Crusades was still in there. Indy was only interested in testing that he picked correctly and was able to use the magic to heal his father.
Old Harry is getting on a bit now. I read that he often gets injured during filming of these kinda of movies, and that was one reason why a 4th wasnt seen a long time ago. I guess we've reached the day and age where CGI can fill in for him in some cases.
Is it just me, or will more CGI "classic" action-adventure movies spring up now due to the success of LoTR?
I jsut hope IJ4 has something more substantial plot-wise than the moronfest of TombRaider. The fact that they are writing the script around the fact they want to cash in on another in the series, this late, dosent give me confidence.
BGP might help, but BGP requires routers (well, A router, but it has to be able to hold a big subset of the global routing table) and registered addresses on routable networks.
Unfortunatly, that kind of cost just cant be borne by enthusiasts, without forming an entity that really would become just another ISP. Wireless ethernet cards are one thing. Routers and billing and ISP costs and infrastructure, are something else.
Being able to network with all your neighbors is nice, but it wont replace broarband for downloading the latest game patches, mods, mp3s, divx's, etc.
They could do a deal with an ISP or maybe hook up with something like APANA, but who would pay, and how would fees be collected? As soon as you start involving money, it gets messy. And not many people would be willing to donate their seperate Internet connections bandwidth for other people's default routes.
A few hundred informationally-useless polycarbonate discs?
Seriously, I'd like to find a reasonable use for worthless CDroms, seeing as so many corporations like to give away so many of them.
Actually, the problem is that they are NOT plucking the refugees from their sinking decrepit indonesian junks and keeping them in secure premises where they are atleast fed and given a little health care.
What the Liberal-Coalition prefer happen is that their boats sink in the Indian Ocean and thus the problem just magically dissapears.
I'm sure the arabs involved would take the clean holding cell, given a choice.
What alternative do you suggest then?
No health care or welfare. If people cant afford user-pays, bad luck. So what happens if you are crippled due to illegal working conditions?
Privatise everything, because we know how well that works, and how the government will use the short-term proceeds for themselves.
Deregulate everything. Capitalism is a model that works wonderfully for every situation, and it means the government has less work to do!
Those with the biggest stick, get to say what goes. Money talks, its silly giving the little people a say, only the rich megacorps have any real opinion. Who cares if they corrupt the government.
Welcome to planet Reebok dada21. Dont forget to pay your toll on the way in and out, and please ensure you check in regularly so we can track your movements. Enjoy your stay.
Everyone thats actually in Australia knows that the government in power right now will never actually follow up on frivolous policy promises (their opinion) they use to win elections. See, its a "NON-CORE" promise, if I may quote John Howard. Of course, we were never given a list of what actually were "CORE" promises, either. So we're actually used to being left in the dark, internet censorship & GTA3 being the least of our worries.
The caucasian conservatives that are making policy here should remember, their decendants were once boat people too.