Seriously, have you ever tried working with files over the network?, mounting/making iso's/mpegs, shit, even batching pictures, it's all SLOW AS HELL on 100mbit.
And by the way, having more than 1GB memory for/tmp (ramdisk) does wonders when you work with mpeg files;)
But I agree with not having hard drives in workstations (well, just one 100mb oughta do it), that noise should be restricted to the closet!
However, to MacDailyNews, 230 million downloads sounds small when you take a look at Apple's QuickTime. We're assuming that Kazaa Media Desktop has been through various versions and all of these various versions have been lumped together to reach the 230 million downloads figure Reuters mentions.
230 million is not enough downloads to set the download record, Kazaa. Looks like Kazaa forgot about a cross-platform behemoth that's been around for a long, long time:
In a press release dated, October 10, 2000, "Apple today announced that more than 100 million copies of its QuickTime 4 software have been distributed to Mac and Windows users worldwide."
In a November 28, 2001 press release, "Driven by the popularity of high-quality QuickTime content on popular web sites, one million copies of Apple's QuickTime 5 are being downloaded every three days. The rate of QuickTime 5 downloads has steadily increased since its launch in April, putting QuickTime 5 on track to exceed 100 million downloads in its first year of distribution. 'More than 300,000 people download QuickTime 5 to their Macs and PCs every day,' said Philip Schiller, Apple?s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing."
"QuickTime 5 was downloaded over 100 million times by both Windows and Mac customers in its first year. Every day, more than 300,000 people download QuickTime..."
And, most recently, in a press release dated, October 15, 2002, "Apple today announced that more than 25 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in less than 100 days... More than 126 million users downloaded the QuickTime Player via the Internet in the last year..."
If you think about it, do the math, and use a little bit of common sense, 230 million doesn't sound like much now, does it?
I second that (albeit only 2 months). I used to have many problems compiling 2.5, but the newer releases are truly wonderful, also the new module system kick ass, esp. now when I can compile ALSA in and not worry about a thing. 2.5 is WAY easier to get up and running than 2.4, I really recommend trying it out, but be sure to read Documentation/Changes ! (although I run Debian/Woody and didn't bother to upgrade anything except module-init-tools, works for me;)
Oh, and while ur at it u might want to take a look at devfs too (I run it without devfsd and I didn't have any problems, u just need to change inittab from ttyX to vc/X, fstab and lilo/grub).
The only kinks I had was with xine which doesn't like v4l, but mplayer works fine... Hmm, oh and same FPS for Q3, I doubt that any of u will feel much difference anywhere (unless u didn't use the preempt patch for 2.4). But I haven't played with NPTL yet, does anybody have any experience with that?
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Amen.
Seriously, have you ever tried working with files over the network?, mounting/making iso's/mpegs, shit, even batching pictures, it's all SLOW AS HELL on 100mbit.
/tmp (ramdisk) does wonders when you work with mpeg files ;)
And by the way, having more than 1GB memory for
But I agree with not having hard drives in workstations (well, just one 100mb oughta do it), that noise should be restricted to the closet!
Yes, quicktime beats kazaa:
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http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P11
However, to MacDailyNews, 230 million downloads sounds small when you take a look at Apple's QuickTime. We're assuming that Kazaa Media Desktop has been through various versions and all of these various versions have been lumped together to reach the 230 million downloads figure Reuters mentions.
230 million is not enough downloads to set the download record, Kazaa. Looks like Kazaa forgot about a cross-platform behemoth that's been around for a long, long time:
In a press release dated, October 10, 2000, "Apple today announced that more than 100 million copies of its QuickTime 4 software have been distributed to Mac and Windows users worldwide."
In a November 28, 2001 press release, "Driven by the popularity of high-quality QuickTime content on popular web sites, one million copies of Apple's QuickTime 5 are being downloaded every three days. The rate of QuickTime 5 downloads has steadily increased since its launch in April, putting QuickTime 5 on track to exceed 100 million downloads in its first year of distribution. 'More than 300,000 people download QuickTime 5 to their Macs and PCs every day,' said Philip Schiller, Apple?s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing."
"QuickTime 5 was downloaded over 100 million times by both Windows and Mac customers in its first year. Every day, more than 300,000 people download QuickTime..."
And, most recently, in a press release dated, October 15, 2002, "Apple today announced that more than 25 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in less than 100 days... More than 126 million users downloaded the QuickTime Player via the Internet in the last year..."
If you think about it, do the math, and use a little bit of common sense, 230 million doesn't sound like much now, does it?
This sucks.
Well I live over that sea, and you are absolutely right, although I would say it's only half the people you meet that ... dislike yanks.
At TheParty we usually pack around 4000 people, that's in Denmark, come on, you can do better than this, shu.
Yes, only the Americans are stupid enough to buy our crap.
Now please mod this and parent as Flamebait.
I second that (albeit only 2 months). I used to have many problems compiling 2.5, but the newer releases are truly wonderful, also the new module system kick ass, esp. now when I can compile ALSA in and not worry about a thing. 2.5 is WAY easier to get up and running than 2.4, I really recommend trying it out, but be sure to read Documentation/Changes ! (although I run Debian/Woody and didn't bother to upgrade anything except module-init-tools, works for me ;)
Oh, and while ur at it u might want to take a look at devfs too (I run it without devfsd and I didn't have any problems, u just need to change inittab from ttyX to vc/X, fstab and lilo/grub).
The only kinks I had was with xine which doesn't like v4l, but mplayer works fine... Hmm, oh and same FPS for Q3, I doubt that any of u will feel much difference anywhere (unless u didn't use the preempt patch for 2.4). But I haven't played with NPTL yet, does anybody have any experience with that?
Hmm, so I'm not a geek because I don't use windows? Oh well, at least I sleep better at night...
1. Gimp :)
;)
2. xChat (unless u know a better native.app, I couldn't)
3. PAN
4. Gimp
5. oOffice.org
well, halfway there
Hmm, I just carry VISA - that way I can just buy what I need, and the weight doesn't kill me ;)
A darkened house, lot's of beds, some furniture, Pink Floyd, 802.11b, some laptops (one iBook :) - no mess, the way it should be.
But then again, I'm not a geek, I'm just insane.