yeah, i'd probably agree with you here, mplayer and amarok can do what xbmc can do, but don't have a single interface.
i suspect that a lot of the point of porting it to linux is to run it on the ps3, and eventually on the xbox360, which is starting to boot linux, moreso than to run it under linux on regular pc's.
you could run it on a mac mini and get an appletv-killer - oh wait, apple are killing off the mini;-p
the other thought is that it could be legit on the xbox1 by running it under linux on that, although linux+mythtv frontend is stupidly slow on xbox1.
a big barrier to entry is to developing xbmc is that you need visual studio 2003, 2005 won't work as the xdk doesn't work with it, and i think you need the pro/enterprise version too - certainly not express; and you can't legitimately get hold of the xdk (the foss version really never took off). gcc would be much nicer, lets face it, the xbox1 is just an x86 pc.
by running on top of linux you also gain things like a nfs client - xbmc has ftp/web/samba, but ssh server and nfs client would be great, damn even vnc would be cool!
of course you're going to lose things like the instant boot and no-hassle capabilities of just running on the xbox1, but gain performance and flexibility by running under linux.
get the xbox360 booting linux (kinda done) with xbmc2 on top and i'll buy an elite;-)
Simple device Instant messaging (multiple protocols) Video conferencing Remote controlled Remote admin Preferably not PC-based/roll your own Large buttons Emergency facility (including multiple contact list) Automatically turn on the TV
And when presented to a solution to most of this ridiculous list of requirements, YOU COMPLAIN BECAUSE IT WON'T LOOK NICE?!
I can't see a 40Gb Archos 700 for under 150ukp (300usd) on ebay, and 30Gb WiFi-604's are 250ukp (500usd). So if that's "pennies on the dollar" then, they must be REAL expensive retail.
I've seen lots of these picture frames and they all seem to be either USB (yuck!) or SD card (slow as hell) based. Now to me, the ideal solution would be wireless.
Streaming photos from your Gallery2 or Xvids/MP3s from your fileserver just sounds great. Sure you could have some permanent storage like USB-host (for reading USB keys) or built-in RAM for caching (or when the network is down).
I'd love a hackable version, bung Linux on it: wget, NFS, jees even a MythTV frontend!
Of course the easy route would be that old P2 laptop with the busted keyboard but nice 14" screen, but its a bit bulky/noisey for the living room sideboard.....
I used to have a Virtuozzo server, but after I started noticing poor PHP performance, my hosts migrated to a Xen3 machine and I must say the speed *increase* was quite impressive, and that was running with less physical RAM allocated, and more swap, on the same spec Opteron box.
So maybe OpenVZ has some improvements over the commercial variant (seems backwards) or the article is talking about an old Xen2?
I'm currently moving onto a real hardware colo system, which is more hassle, but gives me more control.
Ten years ago, a crack development unit was sent to prison by the Supreme Court for patents they didn't infringe. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security datacentre to the Swedish undernet. Today, still wanted by Microsoft, they survive as kernel-devs of FOSS. If you have a core-dump, if no one else can debug, and if you can Email them, maybe you can hire... The Gnu-Team!
RMS has to be B.A, Linus as Hannibal, Ballmer as Colonel Decker
I thought all that was preventing you from running Vista under VMWare was Microsoft's licensing, i.e. you had to buy the uber-expensive ultra-mega-pro-corp-enterprise-unlimited version, and not the crappy home version dell gives you.
I know Vista Home can run VMWare Server as a host (tried it) and Parallels on the Mac can run the MSDN version as a guest (seen it).
So what's the news? Is it really just that Workstation 6 has come out of beta?
I always thought extradition was for when you commit a crime whilst living in a foreign country, they send you back to your mother country for punishment - so at least family can visit you in jail etc.
Phoning Australia from the US sure is going to eat his phone credits!
Sounds like the Aussie government is another of Bush's World Police bitches.
....or use Ubuntu, but I hope at least it will spur on driver development that can feed back into the mainstream kernel and maybe get some software houses to port software to Linux.
Now we just have to wait and see if the Microsoft-subsidised Vista machines are cheaper!
I'm looking for a SATA300 PCI card to go with my 3 or 4 SATA300 drives that are currently running on a SIL-3114 controller on my motherboard, I'd also like at least one esata port.
Does anyone know of a chipset with Linux drivers for motherboards or a PCI card? I'm not wonderfully keen on upgrading to a new motherboard (and therefore PCI-E GFX card, DDR2 RAM, processor etc.)
We all know that OSX has already been run under VMWare, but having recently tried it, I would much prefer if it was SUPPORTED by VMWare and Apple (don't really care about Parallels unless they release a free Linux version) mainly due to performance issues than legal ones.
For a start it runs pretty slowly (especially past 10.4.1) even with the little speed fixes, probably as there are no VMWare Tools to speed up disk, network, sound and graphics; and that it doesn't seem to work at all if you have Intel-VT enabled.
Then as VMWare doesn't have a guest option for it so you have to use Other/Linux/FreeBSD/WinNT and manually edit the.vmx files, this isn't a major issue like Tools though. I seem to recall Workstation 5.5 had a "Darwin" guest.
Then there are the patches you need to actually get it working, which equally apply to getting it working on bare metal PC's - AMD fixes, SSE3 emulators and various kernels, thus ruling out actually using a legit copy of OSX.
Also 10.4.8 won't even boot to the installer so you have to boot and run the disk utility from a previous version of OSX. If it was supported by Apple, then these last two points wouldn't be an issue.
Personally I don't think Apple will ever allow virtualisation or non-Mac hardware - unless they turn completely into a software/iPod shop, which seems likely I guess - hey it's not "Apple Computer" anymore!
It seems if you want to run whatever OS you want on your computer, you have to buy a Mac and Parallels (or VMWare Fusion) but personally I'd prefer a Linux host and OSX guest. Actually that's a thought, would it be against EULA to run a virtualised OSX on a Mac running Linux, it's still Apple hardware.....?
You mean once you've bought a book, you can only read it, you cannot loan it out, give it to a charity shop, or even show other people?
I guess it also means you can only read it in one place, jees I'll have to chose between the crapper and the train now.....
I guess once a year we'll have to buy a new version of the book if we wish to continue reading it, and subscribe to a new library every couple of months or else we won't be able to read any new books.
Better read the book quick too, before the vendor revokes your rights to read it.
And don't read any dodgey books as it'll probably dial home and report you to Homeland Security.
I was just thinking the other day that I could do with an ebook reader, like a big screen without the laptop bit, as I have so many ebooks and it's not the same reading whilst sitting in front of a PC. But the thing stopping me is that I know anything like that will be full of restrictions.
Fastest I've ever seen in England is on the 8Mbps ADSL I have at the moment, I've seen 500-600Kbps a couple of times, although not sustained.
I guess its the old adage that even if you have an OC-3, if the people you're downloading from are uploading at 5Kbps, it's still gonna be ticking over for days unless you can connect to hundreds of users.
Most torrents I've downloaded have been a good deal slower than FTP would be from a single source.
there's definitely something wrong with yum in fedora6, i've broken the rpm database twice.
and the new c-based yum cannot be interrupted with ctrl-c anymore it seems, which you usually need to do as you think that it must have crashed as its taking so long figure out the dependencies.
I definitely think Maxtor gets bad batches as opposed to bad drives in general. I bought five 80Gb DiamondMax9 drives a couple of years ago and all failed within about a month, after moderate use for a year. I only bothered getting one replaced under warranty, and I'm still using that replacement today.
I don't think I'll ever go back to Maxtor, I think a lot of their problem was they were ATA133 not 100 like Seagate, the key to using Maxtors seems to be using them externally - I guess USB2/1394 doesn't push them too hard.
I've just got an Email from my web host, the Maxtor SCSI on my server is about to fail....
I've had one WD2000JS fail on me out of half a dozen 2500KS/2000JS drives I've bought in the last 2 years, so far SATA seems more reliable than IDE to me, I really don't care about performance.
I've had no problems with half a dozen 80Gb Seagate 7200.9 IDE's I've bought lately - typical the one with the best warranty has no problems!
He should put the banner down and get on with some programming.
We all know Sony, Microsoft, and to some degree Apple are the spawn of Satan and their products are second-rate, but they're huge and already have a massive fanbase and product line that is firmly entrenched thanks to their marketing wallets.
Everyone hates Windows, still 3/4 the world uses it, they're keyboards aren't bad though.
Everyone knows the s2n ratio on the iPod is worse than anything from Creative, iRiver or Archos, you can't get your iTunes back off of it or play them on anything else, the screens scratch like a mofo and like everything Apple you'll have to replace it next year, but still it's the #1 portable audio player of choice.
Everyone knows the PS3 will have a poor Cell implementation and be overpriced, it's still going to sell in the millions.
WOW, I can't believe you prefer the look of Ubuntu to Fedora!
One of my main reasons for not even looking at Ubuntu for longer than about install+1 hour is that it just looks plain ugly compared to Fedora. How weird.... I mean I really hate the brown/orange thing and the Gnome icons and text seem to look years behind Fedora, more like RedHat before Bluecurve or SUSE's Gnome, it's just unfinished.
I was considering putting Ubuntu Dapper LTS on my new fileserver as I don't want to wait for CentOS 5 (RHEL5) and would like to brush up on my Debian skillz, but after playing with Dapper for a bit I'm just not impressed.
I mean, there seems to be so many options for installing software and configuring Ubuntu that it's actually a become a A Bad Thing(tm). With Fedora you install software using YUM and there's one or two "best practice" ways of doing things. Fedora is to Ubuntu as Python is to Perl in that way.
Stupid blacklists seem to blacklist by IP (or sometimes IP range!) instead of domain, which means that if one spammer is using your box, then all domains on that box will get blacklisted.
This is why my Email gets marked as spam by Yahoo. Sometimes it happens due to reverse DNS too (if you don't have complete control of your DNS, your reverse lookup may be a different domain - usually your host or ISP).
The best option is to colocate your own server, but it's too pricey for the average PHP hacker.
Or you could try complaining to e.g. Spamhaus and your host every time your IP gets blacklisted.
i'm getting really fed up of everything coming out of microsoft as some sort of audio or video stream - you can't even view sample code without downloading an.exe
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yeah, sorry forgot to make it clear that vs2003+xdk is only required for xbmc on xbox1, not the linux version, which uses gcc.
yeah, i'd probably agree with you here, mplayer and amarok can do what xbmc can do, but don't have a single interface.
;-p
;-)
i suspect that a lot of the point of porting it to linux is to run it on the ps3, and eventually on the xbox360, which is starting to boot linux, moreso than to run it under linux on regular pc's.
you could run it on a mac mini and get an appletv-killer - oh wait, apple are killing off the mini
the other thought is that it could be legit on the xbox1 by running it under linux on that, although linux+mythtv frontend is stupidly slow on xbox1.
a big barrier to entry is to developing xbmc is that you need visual studio 2003, 2005 won't work as the xdk doesn't work with it, and i think you need the pro/enterprise version too - certainly not express; and you can't legitimately get hold of the xdk (the foss version really never took off). gcc would be much nicer, lets face it, the xbox1 is just an x86 pc.
by running on top of linux you also gain things like a nfs client - xbmc has ftp/web/samba, but ssh server and nfs client would be great, damn even vnc would be cool!
of course you're going to lose things like the instant boot and no-hassle capabilities of just running on the xbox1, but gain performance and flexibility by running under linux.
get the xbox360 booting linux (kinda done) with xbmc2 on top and i'll buy an elite
So let me get this straight, you want:
Simple device
Instant messaging (multiple protocols)
Video conferencing
Remote controlled
Remote admin
Preferably not PC-based/roll your own
Large buttons
Emergency facility (including multiple contact list)
Automatically turn on the TV
And when presented to a solution to most of this ridiculous list of requirements, YOU COMPLAIN BECAUSE IT WON'T LOOK NICE?!
I can't see a 40Gb Archos 700 for under 150ukp (300usd) on ebay, and 30Gb WiFi-604's are 250ukp (500usd). So if that's "pennies on the dollar" then, they must be REAL expensive retail.
I've seen lots of these picture frames and they all seem to be either USB (yuck!) or SD card (slow as hell) based. Now to me, the ideal solution would be wireless.
Streaming photos from your Gallery2 or Xvids/MP3s from your fileserver just sounds great. Sure you could have some permanent storage like USB-host (for reading USB keys) or built-in RAM for caching (or when the network is down).
I'd love a hackable version, bung Linux on it: wget, NFS, jees even a MythTV frontend!
Of course the easy route would be that old P2 laptop with the busted keyboard but nice 14" screen, but its a bit bulky/noisey for the living room sideboard.....
Two words: Apple, Acorn
'Nuff said.
MS can't seriously believe they invented any part of the WIMP (GUI) system?
OK, Evolution does look a lot like Outlook, but hey Novell already signed up with the devil.
I used to have a Virtuozzo server, but after I started noticing poor PHP performance, my hosts migrated to a Xen3 machine and I must say the speed *increase* was quite impressive, and that was running with less physical RAM allocated, and more swap, on the same spec Opteron box.
So maybe OpenVZ has some improvements over the commercial variant (seems backwards) or the article is talking about an old Xen2?
I'm currently moving onto a real hardware colo system, which is more hassle, but gives me more control.
Ten years ago, a crack development unit was sent to prison by the Supreme Court for patents they didn't infringe. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security datacentre to the Swedish undernet. Today, still wanted by Microsoft, they survive as kernel-devs of FOSS. If you have a core-dump, if no one else can debug, and if you can Email them, maybe you can hire... The Gnu-Team!
RMS has to be B.A, Linus as Hannibal, Ballmer as Colonel Decker
I thought all that was preventing you from running Vista under VMWare was Microsoft's licensing, i.e. you had to buy the uber-expensive ultra-mega-pro-corp-enterprise-unlimited version, and not the crappy home version dell gives you.
I know Vista Home can run VMWare Server as a host (tried it) and Parallels on the Mac can run the MSDN version as a guest (seen it).
So what's the news? Is it really just that Workstation 6 has come out of beta?
I always thought extradition was for when you commit a crime whilst living in a foreign country, they send you back to your mother country for punishment - so at least family can visit you in jail etc.
Phoning Australia from the US sure is going to eat his phone credits!
Sounds like the Aussie government is another of Bush's World Police bitches.
A VB/MSSQL developer who knows nothing about security - surely not!
I'd say look into some FOSS conferences like EuroPython or LinuxWorld/Expo.
....or use Ubuntu, but I hope at least it will spur on driver development that can feed back into the mainstream kernel and maybe get some software houses to port software to Linux.
Now we just have to wait and see if the Microsoft-subsidised Vista machines are cheaper!
I'm looking for a SATA300 PCI card to go with my 3 or 4 SATA300 drives that are currently running on a SIL-3114 controller on my motherboard, I'd also like at least one esata port.
a dsa3r5-e.asp but I can't find it for sale anywhere in the UK/France.
d ex.php
The only one I can find that should work with Linux seems to be this Addonics model with uses SIL-3124: http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/
This Lindy one looks like it should work too, but 86 quid is absurd: http://www.lindy.com/uk/productfolder/05/51136/in
Does anyone know of a chipset with Linux drivers for motherboards or a PCI card? I'm not wonderfully keen on upgrading to a new motherboard (and therefore PCI-E GFX card, DDR2 RAM, processor etc.)
It would make sense for Sun to buy AMD, now that they're moving towards the Opteron/Linux platform (or Solaris x86).
Also it makes sense to prevent IBM from buying AMD.
I'm not sure if Sun has the cashflow though, are they actually bigger than AMD?
I wonder if Apple would be interested - they could dump Intel/Nvidia and use A[TI]MD instead....
Then there's Dell/Alienware, they could use a central source for CPU/GPU.
So they've not had the balls to fess up and name names!
Come on, who is the worst drive manufacturer, my money's on Maxtor - based on at least six drives dying within 6 months.
For that matter, does anyone have any opinion on whether Maxtor has improved since being bought by Seagate?
Has IBM improved since merging with Hitachi, or have they just renamed the Deathstar?
Does anyone even use Samsung drives? Whatever happened to Fujitsu and Conner - they really were bad, i.e. sometimes didn't even work when new!
Are Western Digital the best for SATA and Seagate the best for IDE, as is my opinion (got about a dozen of these and only one failure)
All Google told us is that temperature doesn't make a difference, and power-cycling may but they can't really tell as they don't do it often!
I have a friend who has a theory that BitTorrent is really bad for drives, as its constant read/write of little bits.
We all know that OSX has already been run under VMWare, but having recently tried it, I would much prefer if it was SUPPORTED by VMWare and Apple (don't really care about Parallels unless they release a free Linux version) mainly due to performance issues than legal ones.
.vmx files, this isn't a major issue like Tools though. I seem to recall Workstation 5.5 had a "Darwin" guest.
For a start it runs pretty slowly (especially past 10.4.1) even with the little speed fixes, probably as there are no VMWare Tools to speed up disk, network, sound and graphics; and that it doesn't seem to work at all if you have Intel-VT enabled.
Then as VMWare doesn't have a guest option for it so you have to use Other/Linux/FreeBSD/WinNT and manually edit the
Then there are the patches you need to actually get it working, which equally apply to getting it working on bare metal PC's - AMD fixes, SSE3 emulators and various kernels, thus ruling out actually using a legit copy of OSX.
Also 10.4.8 won't even boot to the installer so you have to boot and run the disk utility from a previous version of OSX. If it was supported by Apple, then these last two points wouldn't be an issue.
Personally I don't think Apple will ever allow virtualisation or non-Mac hardware - unless they turn completely into a software/iPod shop, which seems likely I guess - hey it's not "Apple Computer" anymore!
It seems if you want to run whatever OS you want on your computer, you have to buy a Mac and Parallels (or VMWare Fusion) but personally I'd prefer a Linux host and OSX guest. Actually that's a thought, would it be against EULA to run a virtualised OSX on a Mac running Linux, it's still Apple hardware.....?
iTunes/iPod for books?!
You mean once you've bought a book, you can only read it, you cannot loan it out, give it to a charity shop, or even show other people?
I guess it also means you can only read it in one place, jees I'll have to chose between the crapper and the train now.....
I guess once a year we'll have to buy a new version of the book if we wish to continue reading it, and subscribe to a new library every couple of months or else we won't be able to read any new books.
Better read the book quick too, before the vendor revokes your rights to read it.
And don't read any dodgey books as it'll probably dial home and report you to Homeland Security.
I was just thinking the other day that I could do with an ebook reader, like a big screen without the laptop bit, as I have so many ebooks and it's not the same reading whilst sitting in front of a PC. But the thing stopping me is that I know anything like that will be full of restrictions.
Fastest I've ever seen in England is on the 8Mbps ADSL I have at the moment, I've seen 500-600Kbps a couple of times, although not sustained.
I guess its the old adage that even if you have an OC-3, if the people you're downloading from are uploading at 5Kbps, it's still gonna be ticking over for days unless you can connect to hundreds of users.
Most torrents I've downloaded have been a good deal slower than FTP would be from a single source.
speaking out against putin? kasparov had better be carrying a geiger counter with him for a while....
i was just about to post the exact same comment!
there's definitely something wrong with yum in fedora6, i've broken the rpm database twice.
and the new c-based yum cannot be interrupted with ctrl-c anymore it seems, which you usually need to do as you think that it must have crashed as its taking so long figure out the dependencies.
I definitely think Maxtor gets bad batches as opposed to bad drives in general. I bought five 80Gb DiamondMax9 drives a couple of years ago and all failed within about a month, after moderate use for a year. I only bothered getting one replaced under warranty, and I'm still using that replacement today.
I don't think I'll ever go back to Maxtor, I think a lot of their problem was they were ATA133 not 100 like Seagate, the key to using Maxtors seems to be using them externally - I guess USB2/1394 doesn't push them too hard.
I've just got an Email from my web host, the Maxtor SCSI on my server is about to fail....
I've had one WD2000JS fail on me out of half a dozen 2500KS/2000JS drives I've bought in the last 2 years, so far SATA seems more reliable than IDE to me, I really don't care about performance.
I've had no problems with half a dozen 80Gb Seagate 7200.9 IDE's I've bought lately - typical the one with the best warranty has no problems!
He should put the banner down and get on with some programming.
We all know Sony, Microsoft, and to some degree Apple are the spawn of Satan and their products are second-rate, but they're huge and already have a massive fanbase and product line that is firmly entrenched thanks to their marketing wallets.
Everyone hates Windows, still 3/4 the world uses it, they're keyboards aren't bad though.
Everyone knows the s2n ratio on the iPod is worse than anything from Creative, iRiver or Archos, you can't get your iTunes back off of it or play them on anything else, the screens scratch like a mofo and like everything Apple you'll have to replace it next year, but still it's the #1 portable audio player of choice.
Everyone knows the PS3 will have a poor Cell implementation and be overpriced, it's still going to sell in the millions.
WOW, I can't believe you prefer the look of Ubuntu to Fedora!
One of my main reasons for not even looking at Ubuntu for longer than about install+1 hour is that it just looks plain ugly compared to Fedora. How weird.... I mean I really hate the brown/orange thing and the Gnome icons and text seem to look years behind Fedora, more like RedHat before Bluecurve or SUSE's Gnome, it's just unfinished.
I was considering putting Ubuntu Dapper LTS on my new fileserver as I don't want to wait for CentOS 5 (RHEL5) and would like to brush up on my Debian skillz, but after playing with Dapper for a bit I'm just not impressed.
I mean, there seems to be so many options for installing software and configuring Ubuntu that it's actually a become a A Bad Thing(tm). With Fedora you install software using YUM and there's one or two "best practice" ways of doing things. Fedora is to Ubuntu as Python is to Perl in that way.
I expect you're on a shared server.
Stupid blacklists seem to blacklist by IP (or sometimes IP range!) instead of domain, which means that if one spammer is using your box, then all domains on that box will get blacklisted.
This is why my Email gets marked as spam by Yahoo. Sometimes it happens due to reverse DNS too (if you don't have complete control of your DNS, your reverse lookup may be a different domain - usually your host or ISP).
The best option is to colocate your own server, but it's too pricey for the average PHP hacker.
Or you could try complaining to e.g. Spamhaus and your host every time your IP gets blacklisted.
i'm getting really fed up of everything coming out of microsoft as some sort of audio or video stream - you can't even view sample code without downloading an .exe
what's wrong with plain old text?