The ads in better homes and gardens don't appeal to me.. So? The articles in "self" and other women oriented magazines have many articles on sex, getting men to do what you want, and so on.. Why is no one decrying this? I personally haven't seen any "exploitive" ads. Suggestive, yeah. So?
;-) Depends on what controllers you use... You will spend $250 or so on SCSI controllers.. If you get 2 IDE controllers, and have one on each channel, will be about the same. But, I agree that for any more then 4 IDE devices, this starts to get silly, and if you need more then 4 or maybe 6 hard drives or hot swap capability, go with SCSI, as that's not IDE's market.. However, current IDE fits 99% of end users needs, and is as fast without using up many irqs for up to 4 devices. High end servers who need more the this should pay out the nose for SCSI, or get redundant external fiber channel linked storage such as SUN provides(which use SCSI in the enclosure) and get REAL reliability and fail over...
As well you should.. But that drive is much slower then the current crop of drives.. It's aural density is about 1/3 of the current crop of drives. Go to www.storagereview.com, click on "database". and compare the two drives(or 3 if you want to include your old IDE) for yourself.. the tests are in NT and windows, but the performance is comparable in Linux(Follows the NT trends moslty).
Also, you could go out and buy 20 movies you might want to watch in the future, and then not have to go out at all.. I would do this, if they were $2-$3, just for the convience of having the movies in my house already.. As long as this is kind of like a "trial version" of the DVD, and the non-crippled one is avalible if I want it, I would like the added choice... However, if a movie I liked like the Matrix was only avalible as "crippleware" it would REALLY piss me off!
Check out www.storagereview.com for good information on how fast hard drives REALLY are.. (and the fastest IDE and SCSI drives are curently almost the same speed...)
Actually, current IDE drives are about the same speed as curent scsi drives. The SCSI drives have high rotational rates (measured in RPM) and latency, and the IDE drives have much higher Areal Density (loosely measured in GB per platter).
This is lifted from a page at www.storagereview.com: "The primary way that hard disks have been increased in capacity and speed over the years is by storing more and more information into the same physical space. This is done by increasing how tightly packed together the bits on the disk are, which is the areal density or bit density of the platters." The differences in the two types of drives even out in situations where there is one drive per controller (and CPU usage is almost identical). (Also note, that for the price of one SCSI controller, you can buy quite a few IDE controllers, most of which have 2 controllers per card, so 4 disks would only take up 2 PCI slots, one if you also use the onboard controllers that usually come on motherboards..)
For more info, check out this section of www.storagereview.com: http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_int_per f_fact.html
Actually, the performance would probably be *WORSE*. Why? The Crusoe doesn't have out of order execution. That is part of how the power requirements are so low.. A lot of the circutry that other cpu's have is handled by the software driving the processor. So, you would still need a crusoe to crusoe translator to resolve dependancies and do OOO.
This is the only budget laser printer that has built in PostScript. Built in PostScript is the ultimate in compatibility and guarentees great output on any OS. It's also a 600x600 dpi printer, with "up to" 8 pages per minute. This is the most excelent printer for Unix OS's I have found for less then $500. The list price is $399, but it can be found for as low as $300.
They are planning on releasing binaries, probably sometime next month (though the time frame is not certain, they originaly said it would be around the first point release.. Oh wait, that's now..)
Ha. Linux supports your sound card, but you gotta pay $30 for the privilige. If this doesn't suit you, hack your own. The ALSA team has been trying to get specs for this card, but Aureal isn't willing to release anything, so this is the vendors fault.
There are only 2 out of the many sound cards out that don't have support, and you ended up with one of them. For that you are unlucky, but I don't think that makes Linux a bad gaming OS..
However, the 3d accelerator support question is a valid one, as less then half of the decent graphics cards out there have good Linux suppirt.. On the other hand, the Voodoo 2 I bought ~ 2 years ago has served me very well. Linux is ready if you can build your own hardware.
This thread was about recording from tape or vinal remember.. Both of those have high noise floors, and aren't all that great to begin with. The mp3's don't degrade this medium noticibly at all.. Most of my cd's I have at 160kb/sec, and tapes and such at anywhere from 64-128kb/sec, depending on content. I find no noticable loss of quality on any of my mp3's compared to the originals (I use notlame for compressing, BTW..)
(I realize the above is satire, but anyway:) Um, except that making a copy for backup use is fair and legal. Ever heard of "fair use"? The problem is that ease of copying for "fair use" also allows ease of copying for "unfair use" or "pirating". Either we must allow pirating to be possible, or get rid of the policy of "fair use". Media companies are of course trying to do the second.
Me. I have made mp3's from cassettes and records, as the digital copy I have will never degrade unlike the original medium. Also, as I don't have either a casstte or record player most of the places I listen to music, but do have computers, it's much more convient.
If I understand the release correctly, they will use that code as a base, and modify it from the utah glx to the DRI glx system.
"Building on the fast, stable 2D driver and the current GLX driver already written by the Linux community, Precision Insight will integrate support for 3D performance and features using the company-authored DRI architecture."
Depends highly on the video card/ driver set.. With my Voodoo 2, celeron 400 CPU, performance is about even with Windows 95, +-5% One of the main advantages of quake2 under Linux has been lower memory footprint of the OS, especially with the server, or non-glx (doesn't require X to be running) 3d acceleration. Also, the better drive caching helps lots too... The only real things holding Linux back now are X overhead (xfree 4.* should relieve this) and no 3d sound (though this is being worked on.)
But when can I have a decent set of tools for the Palm? Definatly more of them around, and the gcc toolchain out now: Doesn't build for me (gcc 2.95) Has little documentation (or at least very hard to find) If we can get tools for this little gizmo, why do the tools for the palm blow so badly?
Well, It sounds like the library has a policy on "no internet useage for erotic use" anyway... If there was good "censorware: out there that would do an effective job of kepping out goat pron and such I wouldn't mind.(This is what happens with magazines, as libraries won't carry penthouse or such) However, all censorware I have seen so far censors much more then your friendly neighborhood goat pron, they often filter breast feeding info and such educational stuff to (not to mention that some block out quite a lot of sites for "radical views" or anti-censorware sites or whatever kind of crap they pull.. that's just plain wrong.) If the library wants to keep out "smut" there are better ways to do it then with current censorware. librarians stationed close, peer watch, and other monitoring devices (logged dns lookups if need be) are some more viable solutions for now without censoring too much..
ACtually, after comparing your scsi drive to the Maxtor DiamondMax plus 40, the CPU usage is about the same (under windows 98 and NT anyway), and the Maxtor is quite a bit faster.
No, 7200 RPM with three the bit density of any SCSI drive out there is rather fast... Faster then the fastest 10000rpm scsi drive actually, but it does have higher CPU usage. Checkout www.storagereview.com for the real skinny... (a combination of aureal density and rpm is how you get hard drive speed, not rpm alone)(well, plus seek time, buffers, interface, etc..)
Which 40 gig ide drive is slow? The Maxtor Diamond Plus 40 is curently the fastest IDE drive out there. There is also a Maxtor Diamond 40 which is 5400 RPM and a bit slower, but still faster then most things going... Check out www.storagereview.com for info on the speed of the more recent hard drives.
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The ads in better homes and gardens don't appeal to me.. So?
The articles in "self" and other women oriented magazines have many articles on sex, getting men to do what you want, and so on.. Why is no one decrying this?
I personally haven't seen any "exploitive" ads. Suggestive, yeah. So?
;-)
Depends on what controllers you use...
You will spend $250 or so on SCSI controllers.. If you get 2 IDE controllers, and have one on each channel, will be about the same.
But, I agree that for any more then 4 IDE devices, this starts to get silly, and if you need more then 4 or maybe 6 hard drives or hot swap capability, go with SCSI, as that's not IDE's market..
However, current IDE fits 99% of end users needs, and is as fast without using up many irqs for up to 4 devices. High end servers who need more the this should pay out the nose for SCSI, or get redundant external fiber channel linked storage such as SUN provides(which use SCSI in the enclosure) and get REAL reliability and fail over...
As well you should.. But that drive is much slower then the current crop of drives.. It's aural density is about 1/3 of the current crop of drives.
Go to www.storagereview.com, click on "database". and compare the two drives(or 3 if you want to include your old IDE) for yourself.. the tests are in NT and windows, but the performance is comparable in Linux(Follows the NT trends moslty).
Also, you could go out and buy 20 movies you might want to watch in the future, and then not have to go out at all..
I would do this, if they were $2-$3, just for the convience of having the movies in my house already..
As long as this is kind of like a "trial version" of the DVD, and the non-crippled one is avalible if I want it, I would like the added choice...
However, if a movie I liked like the Matrix was only avalible as "crippleware" it would REALLY piss me off!
Check out www.storagereview.com for good information on how fast hard drives REALLY are..
(and the fastest IDE and SCSI drives are curently almost the same speed...)
Actually, current IDE drives are about the same speed as curent scsi drives.
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The SCSI drives have high rotational rates (measured in RPM) and latency, and the IDE drives have much higher Areal Density (loosely measured in GB per platter).
This is lifted from a page at www.storagereview.com:
"The primary way that hard disks have been increased in capacity and speed over the years is by storing more and more information into the same physical space. This is done by increasing how tightly packed together the bits on the disk are, which is the areal density or bit density of the platters."
The differences in the two types of drives even out in situations where there is one drive per controller (and CPU usage is almost identical).
(Also note, that for the price of one SCSI controller, you can buy quite a few IDE controllers, most of which have 2 controllers per card, so 4 disks would only take up 2 PCI slots, one if you also use the onboard controllers that usually come on motherboards..)
For more info, check out this section of www.storagereview.com:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_int_pe
Actually, the performance would probably be *WORSE*.
Why?
The Crusoe doesn't have out of order execution.
That is part of how the power requirements are so low..
A lot of the circutry that other cpu's have is handled by the software driving the processor. So, you would still need a crusoe to crusoe translator to resolve dependancies and do OOO.
Except that Palm has already buried WinCE...
This is the only budget laser printer that has built in PostScript. Built in PostScript is the ultimate in compatibility and guarentees great output on any OS.
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It's also a 600x600 dpi printer, with "up to" 8 pages per minute. This is the most excelent printer for Unix OS's I have found for less then $500. The list price is $399, but it can be found for as low as $300.
http://www.lexmark.com/printers/laser/Optra/E31
They are planning on releasing binaries, probably sometime next month (though the time frame is not certain, they originaly said it would be around the first point release.. Oh wait, that's now..)
Ha. Linux supports your sound card, but you gotta pay $30 for the privilige.
If this doesn't suit you, hack your own.
The ALSA team has been trying to get specs for this card, but Aureal isn't willing to release anything, so this is the vendors fault.
There are only 2 out of the many sound cards out that don't have support, and you ended up with one of them. For that you are unlucky, but I don't think that makes Linux a bad gaming OS..
However, the 3d accelerator support question is a valid one, as less then half of the decent graphics cards out there have good Linux suppirt..
On the other hand, the Voodoo 2 I bought ~ 2 years ago has served me very well. Linux is ready if you can build your own hardware.
Can you say "click through license agreament"?
This thread was about recording from tape or vinal remember..
Both of those have high noise floors, and aren't all that great to begin with. The mp3's don't degrade this medium noticibly at all..
Most of my cd's I have at 160kb/sec, and tapes and such at anywhere from 64-128kb/sec, depending on content. I find no noticable loss of quality on any of my mp3's compared to the originals (I use notlame for compressing, BTW..)
(I realize the above is satire, but anyway:)
Um, except that making a copy for backup use is fair and legal.
Ever heard of "fair use"?
The problem is that ease of copying for "fair use" also allows ease of copying for "unfair use" or "pirating".
Either we must allow pirating to be possible, or get rid of the policy of "fair use".
Media companies are of course trying to do the second.
Re:2..
Except that you could still copy the cd to tape..
How would cd's stop this?
Me.
I have made mp3's from cassettes and records, as the digital copy I have will never degrade unlike the original medium.
Also, as I don't have either a casstte or record player most of the places I listen to music, but do have computers, it's much more convient.
If I understand the release correctly, they will use that code as a base, and modify it from the utah glx to the DRI glx system.
"Building on the fast, stable 2D driver and the current GLX driver already written by the Linux community, Precision Insight will integrate support for 3D performance and features using the company-authored DRI architecture."
Don't y'all read the articles?
Depends highly on the video card/ driver set..
With my Voodoo 2, celeron 400 CPU, performance is about even with Windows 95, +-5%
One of the main advantages of quake2 under Linux has been lower memory footprint of the OS, especially with the server, or non-glx (doesn't require X to be running) 3d acceleration.
Also, the better drive caching helps lots too...
The only real things holding Linux back now are X overhead (xfree 4.* should relieve this) and no 3d sound (though this is being worked on.)
But when can I have a decent set of tools for the Palm?
Definatly more of them around, and the gcc toolchain out now:
Doesn't build for me (gcc 2.95)
Has little documentation (or at least very hard to find)
If we can get tools for this little gizmo, why do the tools for the palm blow so badly?
Well, It sounds like the library has a policy on "no internet useage for erotic use" anyway...
If there was good "censorware: out there that would do an effective job of kepping out goat pron and such I wouldn't mind.(This is what happens with magazines, as libraries won't carry penthouse or such)
However, all censorware I have seen so far censors much more then your friendly neighborhood goat pron, they often filter breast feeding info and such educational stuff to (not to mention that some block out quite a lot of sites for "radical views" or anti-censorware sites or whatever kind of crap they pull.. that's just plain wrong.)
If the library wants to keep out "smut" there are better ways to do it then with current censorware.
librarians stationed close, peer watch, and other monitoring devices (logged dns lookups if need be) are some more viable solutions for now without censoring too much..
ACtually, after comparing your scsi drive to the Maxtor DiamondMax plus 40, the CPU usage is about the same (under windows 98 and NT anyway), and the Maxtor is quite a bit faster.
No, 7200 RPM with three the bit density of any SCSI drive out there is rather fast...
Faster then the fastest 10000rpm scsi drive actually, but it does have higher CPU usage.
Checkout www.storagereview.com for the real skinny...
(a combination of aureal density and rpm is how you get hard drive speed, not rpm alone)(well, plus seek time, buffers, interface, etc..)
Which 40 gig ide drive is slow?
The Maxtor Diamond Plus 40 is curently the fastest IDE drive out there. There is also a Maxtor Diamond 40 which is 5400 RPM and a bit slower, but still faster then most things going...
Check out www.storagereview.com for info on the speed of the more recent hard drives.
From what I have read, 2.2.13 fixed all that pretty well.
I haven't followed up on that recently though, so I may be wrong..
1) AGP has been in the kernel for quite some time.
2) AGP has nothing to do with any webcam I have ever seen. Perhaps you mean USB?