True, and I'll add, in most games the real difference nowadays is made by the video card, and not the cpu. I upgraded the 1200Duron box here from a Geforce 2 to a Geforce 4 and my monitor doesn't support a high enough resolution to slow down UT2003:-) even in Linux.
In my experience, any changeover to or from a Via based board forces a reinstall(9x) or repair/reinstall (2000/XP). I don't really know why. The machine might boot and run fine afterward, but stable, it's not.
Sigh. I do love my Via hardware, the boards I have have treated me really good. I can't remember the last driver related crash I had.
But the new Nforce boards are looking pretty nifty:-)
For me it was partly the EULAs, partly the instability (yeah, WinXP can go belly up badly even with good hardware and drivers, I've seen Lightwave hose it down to a kernel crash), but mostly it was the lack of and expense of obtaining serious tools.
Lightwave and Homeworld/HW_Cat are the only reason I boot into windows anymore. 'specially since Xine got decent quicktime movie handling. Woot! Go Xine!
Step 1. Grandma calls grandson. "How do I do this?"
Step 2. Grandson ssh's into machine, does config and compile and remote reboot.
Step 3. ?? (Hopefully not another call from grandma:-)
Step 4. Profit? Well, no. Not financially anyway.
(I've had to do this for a few friends and relatives)
Smile, it's supposed to be funny too.
Besides, if you don't like to play with things like that, then get Grandma Mandrake 9.1 or another modern dist that has nearly every driver out there. I seriously doubt Grandma will be upgrading the machine herself - and if she does, and can't/doesn't get help for installing the hardware, then she's not necessarily going to get it working in windows, either. Lots of cutting-edge hardware has broken drivers; I know, I've fixed hundreds of machines with that type of problem *cough*ATI*cough*
Seriously, few non-tech savvy people can install their own new hardware either, so it's a moot point. That fact helps some of us make a living. So in terms of adding/upgrading hardware, windows isn't really ready for Grandma either. Hell, I've seen *tech-savvy* people struggle.
You do have a semi-good point about menuconfig, but it sure beats hell out of config. Don't like it? Write your own front end.
There are times when you don't have access to the drill, tap, flanges, bolts etc needed to put the components together properly. Like on the road in the mountains, for example (still haven't found time^H^H^H^H energy^H^H^H^H^H motivation to properly bolt that bumper up we knocked loose on a tree last weekend):-)
Nah, actually I think that there are good and bad handymen. The definition really is similar to "Jack of All Trades" except that some of them are Jills. Heh.
SB (who *is* a handyman, *and* a carpenter, and an experienced mechanic, and also agrees with your peeve and spends a lot of his time fixing other people's work too:-) particularly crappy drywall finishing and horrid flooring work, recently )
Yup. Have you ever read "The Mote in Gods Eye"? I'm thinking specifically of the part where they are chasing the Moties solar sail down, diving "into the sun". It's a fascinating piece of writing and was one of the things that helped me understand thermodynamics when I was young.
"The best swordsman in the world doesn't fear the second best swordsman; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot might do."
I agree, that one was hilarious. Yes, there are a lot of posts using that theme; but this one had was uniquely inventive. I loved the cowboy neal part.
You're right about energy absorption and equilibrium, but your analogy with the earth is flawed. The earth is not in equilibrium with the *sun* it is in equilibrium with it's *surroundings*, of which only a tiny fraction is the sun (and that tells you how much energy the sun does impart to the earth; if the sun wasn't there, the earth would be at around 4 degrees K or so:-)
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True, and I'll add, in most games the real difference nowadays is made by the video card, and not the cpu. I upgraded the 1200Duron box here from a Geforce 2 to a Geforce 4 and my monitor doesn't support a high enough resolution to slow down UT2003 :-) even in Linux.
SB
THG has always been fairly clueless about Linux.
AFAIC, they've mostly been fairly clueless. I quit reading their site more than a year ago.
SB
In my experience, any changeover to or from a Via based board forces a reinstall(9x) or repair/reinstall (2000/XP). I don't really know why. The machine might boot and run fine afterward, but stable, it's not.
Sigh. I do love my Via hardware, the boards I have have treated me really good. I can't remember the last driver related crash I had.
But the new Nforce boards are looking pretty nifty
SB
For me it was partly the EULAs, partly the instability (yeah, WinXP can go belly up badly even with good hardware and drivers, I've seen Lightwave hose it down to a kernel crash), but mostly it was the lack of and expense of obtaining serious tools.
Lightwave and Homeworld/HW_Cat are the only reason I boot into windows anymore. 'specially since Xine got decent quicktime movie handling. Woot! Go Xine!
SB
Step 1. Grandma calls grandson. "How do I do this?"
:-)
Step 2. Grandson ssh's into machine, does config and compile and remote reboot.
Step 3. ?? (Hopefully not another call from grandma
Step 4. Profit? Well, no. Not financially anyway.
(I've had to do this for a few friends and relatives)
Smile, it's supposed to be funny too.
Besides, if you don't like to play with things like that, then get Grandma Mandrake 9.1 or another modern dist that has nearly every driver out there. I seriously doubt Grandma will be upgrading the machine herself - and if she does, and can't/doesn't get help for installing the hardware, then she's not necessarily going to get it working in windows, either. Lots of cutting-edge hardware has broken drivers; I know, I've fixed hundreds of machines with that type of problem *cough*ATI*cough*
Seriously, few non-tech savvy people can install their own new hardware either, so it's a moot point. That fact helps some of us make a living.
So in terms of adding/upgrading hardware, windows isn't really ready for Grandma either. Hell, I've seen *tech-savvy* people struggle.
You do have a semi-good point about menuconfig, but it sure beats hell out of config. Don't like it? Write your own front end.
SB
Guess that's especially true if it's sealed from the environment under several layers of paint. :-)
How on *earth* did they find it?
SB
There are times when you don't have access to the drill, tap, flanges, bolts etc needed to put the components together properly. Like on the road in the mountains, for example (still haven't found time^H^H^H^H energy^H^H^H^H^H motivation to properly bolt that bumper up we knocked loose on a tree last weekend) :-)
:-) particularly crappy drywall finishing and horrid flooring work, recently )
Nah, actually I think that there are good and bad handymen. The definition really is similar to "Jack of All Trades" except that some of them are Jills. Heh.
SB (who *is* a handyman, *and* a carpenter, and an experienced mechanic, and also agrees with your peeve and spends a lot of his time fixing other people's work too
Well, although nobody seems to know what it was for, he was arrested once. :=(
SB
Dunno if it's what you're looking for, but a quick look on google showed this page
SB
1000 dBa....
:-)
Ground zero of a nuclear explosion?
SB
No, it's slashdotted. I can get there from slashdot, but the site is crawling....around 0.6-0.8 KB/s
SB
Good stories. Read them more than a quarter century ago. :-)
SB
I like what happens when you run across a title which isn't on the site.
Example: "It's not there, eh? -- Canadian"
Heh.
SB
Also photons and subatomic particles impacting on gas clouds around the star cause the glow (the impact transfers energy to the gas, heating it).
:-) here's a page with some good animations on it.
Sure makes for pretty pictures!
SB
We can slashdot God?
Awesome.
I think.
*runs*
SB
I'd invest in companies involved in space launch capability. Heavily. :-) With one caveat: I get to go, too ;-)
SB
If it was these two then I envy John Smith :-)
SB
When I got my new phone a month or so ago, after moving to a different state, Qwest offered me *unlimited long distance*(in US) for 20 bucks a month.
:-)
Shocked me.
I guess they're feeling the effects of 3 cents/minute phone cards
SB
I have no idea. Not sure I want to know, either.
SB
Yup.
Have you ever read "The Mote in Gods Eye"? I'm thinking specifically of the part where they are chasing the Moties solar sail down, diving "into the sun". It's a fascinating piece of writing and was one of the things that helped me understand thermodynamics when I was young.
Cheers
SB
Goatse is so 90s..... this would more properly express the gestalt of /.
*ducks and runs*
SB
"The best swordsman in the world doesn't fear the second best swordsman; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot might do."
Can't remember where I heard that...
SB
I agree, that one was hilarious. Yes, there are a lot of posts using that theme; but this one had was uniquely inventive. I loved the cowboy neal part.
Thanks Aardvark, I needed the laugh today.
SB
Saw one in a readers digest article a while back;
On a set of Japanese steak knives: "Do not insert into children."
Yeesh.
SB
You're right about energy absorption and equilibrium, but your analogy with the earth is flawed. The earth is not in equilibrium with the *sun* it is in equilibrium with it's *surroundings*, of which only a tiny fraction is the sun (and that tells you how much energy the sun does impart to the earth; if the sun wasn't there, the earth would be at around 4 degrees K or so :-)
SB