Somebody did some benchmarks, and WineX is really really SLOW. This is what you get from emulation.
So your options now seem to be: 1) Reboot the machine in Windows and play the game natively 2) Run the game with WineX and get a third or a quarter the speed.
Everybody I know who ever tried to install Woody, myself included (Tried three times) were faced with the same problem: Woody claimed there were errors unpacking the installation packages, and didn't end up installing most of them, just downloading them.
Now, if it had been just me, I'd have written it off as Woody not liking my hardware, which would have been strange since it's such standard hardware, but possible. But when it happens to everybody else too, this tells me the problems are with Woody, not with my machine.
Woody has been anything but stable for me. On the other hand, the SAME machine has no problems installing RedHat or Mandrake. Strange, no?
Woody is outdated out of the box. KDE 2.2 instead of 3.02, Gnome 1.4 instead of 2.0 or whatever, XFree 4.1 instead of 4.2 or whatever... Woody doesn't seem to have ANY up-to-date software.
It's *nix only, which makes it useless to the vast majority of users. Sure, you can get a plugin for Windows browsers here http://www.lizardtech.com/download/?f=0&d=1 but that doesn't mean you can compress images.
A more suitable alternative is JPEG2000. And if this patent thing helps it's rollout get along faster, I'm all for it.
I uesd it to install KDE 2.2 and mess around. Having never used Linux seriously I found it quite a learning experience, and am putting together a linux box.
However, I found that KDE's performance via Cygwin was extremely slow (AthlonXP 1900+ & GeForce 3), and quite unstable (Applications were crashing and there seemed to be tons of bugs). Some people hailed this as a desktop replacement for Windows 95 users... I think they're kidding themselves.
The PS2 is great and all, but it's cost effectiveness for power is not matched by the XBox. The PlayStation 2 also costs a lot more than an XBox after you consider the cost of both the PS2 _and_ the overly restrictive Linux kit.
Lemme get this straight... You BREAK YOUR CONTRACT, and then are SURPRISED and PISSED OFF when they CATCH YOU DOING IT?
Gimme a break. You broke the contract by exiting the area you agreed to stay in. If they catch you doing it, tough luck. You shouldn't have violated your contract.
Privacy my ass, you people just don't want to get caught breaking the rules.
Yes, and you can also make arrays of IDE drives. They won't get up to those kinds of bandwidths for two reasons (You can't get more than two per channel with ATA133, but serialATA will solve this, second is the PCI bus, they just can't do 360MB/s).
Assuming a max transfer rate (non-burst) of 20-50MB/s depending on the location of the disc, you could see 80-200MB/s with current technologies.
And with the introduction of SerialATA... You can have more drives per channel, so we can get even closer.
I can see no reason for 10,000RPM and 15,000RPM drives to be SCSI-only anymore. consumer technologies like ATA133 or SerialATA are giving consumer drives bandwidth that they can't hope to consume. Do these 10K and 15K RPM drives really need a SCSI connection? What's the point of pushing faster and faster consumer bus connections if manufacturers are unwilling to take advantage of them with faster drives.
Oh yeah, and referring to some earlier posts, Renderman _IS_ a shader language (like Cg)! So what, when you say that renderman will never be replaced by shaders languages, do you mean that Renderman will never be replaced by Renderman because Renderman isn't itself? Am I the only one that is confused by your logic?
Shader languages such as Cg (Indeed, even Cg itself) is supported by many software renderers. Software renderers use pixel shaders, they just don't do it in realtime or in hardware.
So it is in fact conceivable that we can see professional pre-rendered animations done using Cg.
Looks like you people don't know what you're talking about. GPUs and shader languages are independant.
The ISP had the option of cutting off those users. They didn't have to add more capacity.
Even if for some retarded reason they couldn't cut off those users, now that the bandwidth is no longer required, because these 13 users are no longer on the network, they have full use of this equipment. If they use it, it's no longer damages; one can argue they would have purchased it eventually.
In short, if these are really upgrade costs (as the damages), there are two possibilities:
1) They're not damages, the ISP had other alternatives
2) They are too high. Since the fraudulent users are no longer on the network, the ISP must sell off the equipment now that it's not required.
For example, my school recently banned MSN messenger. Blocked it too.
In order to get around these blocks, I wrote a CGI program that I run on my home PC that presents a chat-like interface and reads MSN log files created by Patchou's Plus extension. I then used the AutoIT DLL to allow my CGI program to send messages using MSN.
The result? I can chat with anyone on my MSN contact list from any computer that has HTTP access. I have a dynamic IP, so it's difficult to block me. And my remote-MSN method uses a standard web server, so you can't block it based on ports.
Why is "Use IE" not an valid statement for PS3 users? It is entirely reasonable for them to use a computer to surf the web rather than a wannabe-computer like the PS3.
And no, I don't support MS or IE. In fact, I use Opera.
Regards, Guspaz.
I remember back in the day when HFS+ was first introduced... People were wondering if it was worth it.
Of course, back then, HFS+'s attraction wasn't speed at all, it was space, since it uses smaller allocation blocks than HFS... Which is almost a non-problem these days with such large harddrives available so cheap.
In fact, I question the original HFS, who would design a file system that required a new incompatible file system just to have a different size of allocation blocks?
Regards, Adam.
For those of us who own Windows, it's easier to just use the Windows DLLs with Wine. They're more compatible. I mean, most people have an old copy of Win95 or Win98 lying around, right?
Regards, Guspaz.
PS2rate only works with PS2 mice, hence the name. It also doesn't work with optical mice.
You should try a USB mouse, They're fixed at 125hz, which is pretty decent.
In addition, optical mice are really cheap now... Logitech has one for 20$, and it's not bad.
Regards, Guspaz.
I agree, I wouldn't have any problem at all saturating both the up and downstream of a 100mbit internet connection. In fact, I'm pretty sure I could use up an OC12 all by myself too assuming I had a gigabit network card that could handle the speed and a nice RAID setup;-)
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Somebody did some benchmarks, and WineX is really really SLOW. This is what you get from emulation.
So your options now seem to be:
1) Reboot the machine in Windows and play the game natively
2) Run the game with WineX and get a third or a quarter the speed.
No thanks, I pick option 1!!!
Regards, Guspaz.
Actually WC3 uses DirectX. Perhaps the Mac version uses OpenGL.
Diablo 2 also uses DirectX, but again, there's a Mac version.
Regards, Guspaz.
Everybody I know who ever tried to install Woody, myself included (Tried three times) were faced with the same problem: Woody claimed there were errors unpacking the installation packages, and didn't end up installing most of them, just downloading them.
Now, if it had been just me, I'd have written it off as Woody not liking my hardware, which would have been strange since it's such standard hardware, but possible. But when it happens to everybody else too, this tells me the problems are with Woody, not with my machine.
Woody has been anything but stable for me. On the other hand, the SAME machine has no problems installing RedHat or Mandrake. Strange, no?
Regards, Guspaz.
Woody is outdated out of the box. KDE 2.2 instead of 3.02, Gnome 1.4 instead of 2.0 or whatever, XFree 4.1 instead of 4.2 or whatever... Woody doesn't seem to have ANY up-to-date software.
Regards, Guspaz.
It's *nix only, which makes it useless to the vast majority of users. Sure, you can get a plugin for Windows browsers here http://www.lizardtech.com/download/?f=0&d=1 but that doesn't mean you can compress images.
A more suitable alternative is JPEG2000. And if this patent thing helps it's rollout get along faster, I'm all for it.
Regards, Guspaz.
I uesd it to install KDE 2.2 and mess around. Having never used Linux seriously I found it quite a learning experience, and am putting together a linux box.
However, I found that KDE's performance via Cygwin was extremely slow (AthlonXP 1900+ & GeForce 3), and quite unstable (Applications were crashing and there seemed to be tons of bugs). Some people hailed this as a desktop replacement for Windows 95 users... I think they're kidding themselves.
Regards, Guspaz.
Does it make pancakes?
The PS2 is great and all, but it's cost effectiveness for power is not matched by the XBox. The PlayStation 2 also costs a lot more than an XBox after you consider the cost of both the PS2 _and_ the overly restrictive Linux kit.
Regards, Adam.
Lemme get this straight... You BREAK YOUR CONTRACT, and then are SURPRISED and PISSED OFF when they CATCH YOU DOING IT?
Gimme a break. You broke the contract by exiting the area you agreed to stay in. If they catch you doing it, tough luck. You shouldn't have violated your contract.
Privacy my ass, you people just don't want to get caught breaking the rules.
Regards, Guspaz
Yes, and you can also make arrays of IDE drives. They won't get up to those kinds of bandwidths for two reasons (You can't get more than two per channel with ATA133, but serialATA will solve this, second is the PCI bus, they just can't do 360MB/s).
Assuming a max transfer rate (non-burst) of 20-50MB/s depending on the location of the disc, you could see 80-200MB/s with current technologies.
And with the introduction of SerialATA... You can have more drives per channel, so we can get even closer.
Why would any consumer CHOOSE to have spam delivered to them? Wouldn't 99.99% just say "No thanks, I'd rather not subscribe to your spam service."?
Regards, Guspaz.
I can see no reason for 10,000RPM and 15,000RPM drives to be SCSI-only anymore. consumer technologies like ATA133 or SerialATA are giving consumer drives bandwidth that they can't hope to consume. Do these 10K and 15K RPM drives really need a SCSI connection? What's the point of pushing faster and faster consumer bus connections if manufacturers are unwilling to take advantage of them with faster drives.
Regards, Guspaz.
Oh yeah, and referring to some earlier posts, Renderman _IS_ a shader language (like Cg)! So what, when you say that renderman will never be replaced by shaders languages, do you mean that Renderman will never be replaced by Renderman because Renderman isn't itself? Am I the only one that is confused by your logic?
Regards, Guspaz.
Shader languages such as Cg (Indeed, even Cg itself) is supported by many software renderers. Software renderers use pixel shaders, they just don't do it in realtime or in hardware.
So it is in fact conceivable that we can see professional pre-rendered animations done using Cg.
Looks like you people don't know what you're talking about. GPUs and shader languages are independant.
Regards, Guspaz.
The ISP had the option of cutting off those users. They didn't have to add more capacity.
Even if for some retarded reason they couldn't cut off those users, now that the bandwidth is no longer required, because these 13 users are no longer on the network, they have full use of this equipment. If they use it, it's no longer damages; one can argue they would have purchased it eventually.
In short, if these are really upgrade costs (as the damages), there are two possibilities:
1) They're not damages, the ISP had other alternatives
2) They are too high. Since the fraudulent users are no longer on the network, the ISP must sell off the equipment now that it's not required.
Regards, Guspaz.
For example, my school recently banned MSN messenger. Blocked it too.
In order to get around these blocks, I wrote a CGI program that I run on my home PC that presents a chat-like interface and reads MSN log files created by Patchou's Plus extension. I then used the AutoIT DLL to allow my CGI program to send messages using MSN.
The result? I can chat with anyone on my MSN contact list from any computer that has HTTP access. I have a dynamic IP, so it's difficult to block me. And my remote-MSN method uses a standard web server, so you can't block it based on ports.
Works like a charm.
Regards, Guspaz.
Why is "Use IE" not an valid statement for PS3 users? It is entirely reasonable for them to use a computer to surf the web rather than a wannabe-computer like the PS3.
And no, I don't support MS or IE. In fact, I use Opera.
Regards, Guspaz.
I remember back in the day when HFS+ was first introduced... People were wondering if it was worth it. Of course, back then, HFS+'s attraction wasn't speed at all, it was space, since it uses smaller allocation blocks than HFS... Which is almost a non-problem these days with such large harddrives available so cheap. In fact, I question the original HFS, who would design a file system that required a new incompatible file system just to have a different size of allocation blocks? Regards, Adam.
For those of us who own Windows, it's easier to just use the Windows DLLs with Wine. They're more compatible. I mean, most people have an old copy of Win95 or Win98 lying around, right? Regards, Guspaz.
I knew it! Only second post! Darn!
What's the point of posting on-topic posts with valid information when ALL MY POSTS START AT 0 AND ARE NEVER MODDED UP????
Regards, Guspaz.
First post by me?
Nah.
Regards, Guspaz.
Second post! Bwa!
PS2rate only works with PS2 mice, hence the name. It also doesn't work with optical mice. You should try a USB mouse, They're fixed at 125hz, which is pretty decent. In addition, optical mice are really cheap now... Logitech has one for 20$, and it's not bad. Regards, Guspaz.
I agree, I wouldn't have any problem at all saturating both the up and downstream of a 100mbit internet connection. In fact, I'm pretty sure I could use up an OC12 all by myself too assuming I had a gigabit network card that could handle the speed and a nice RAID setup ;-)
Regards, Guspaz.
He's already using Sculpey for his models. Read the article better next time.