Binary only sucks, but i've been impressed with nvidia's efforts to bring it to Linux. the README does show that they have put a LOT of effort into it.
I am quite happy with nvidia's support of Linux, i have no crashes and do a lot of 3d gaming on Debian. I've used a 4200ti, a 4600 a 5200 and a 5700. the 5200 was slower than the 4200 in some respects so I returned it, and couldn't be happier with my 5700. I do realize it's half of what the latest ATI is (raw power wise). but I have to have nvidia because I have 2 DVI panels to power, and I don't see ATI making dual DVI out cards. Hell, with the way their drivers are I don't want one. IT's nice to see that nvidia seems to be catching up with the speed of ATI's boards..
what versions are these? I had read that a new 'type' of the universal print driver had come out. Wonder if our admins use it. i'm stuck at a corporate site and our support @ the farm end sucks. really sucks.
Last time I checked, France had a large Muslim population so the odds of a terrorist group finding them worthy of attacking are probably low. Plus, they have a lot of financial interests in Iraq among other middle-eastern countries.. why hate the French? they're nice people. They don't drop bombs on people in the name of liberation.
and, man do they have good food. except for the stuff that looks like snot
Skyway Bridge over the mouth of Tampa Bay here in south Florida is about 20 thousand feet long. AFAIK that's the longest suspension bridge in the world, according to wikipedia. The last one over that area was struck by a ship named Summit Venture and it created quite a spectacular and nasty accident. I remember seeing this eery reminder any time we took a trip north.
I do think Jacksonville owns the record for most rednecks within an incorporated city. Not making fun of you all, it's just the landmass is so ridiculously massive.. heh
I have supported MetaFrame, sold Citrix.. their product enables great things to happen over WANs, but corporations tend to abuse it from what I've seen.
And by abuse I mean shaving off having to do multiple installations in a corporation by having a central corporate MetaFrame farm. then the SQL server disk array fails. then the whole corp is disabled. Hello eggs, meet basket.
Also, be prepared to deal with the horrid hell that is Citrix printer support. It's not entirely their fault as some printer drivers want to do things in userspace vs kernel mode, but the support wasn't that good when I actually ran MetaFrame. It is better from what I hear now, but I'm only seeing it on the client end, and my corporate support SUCKS! And oh my god, there's nothign more frustrating than a Citrix session that's hung because of a stick print job or some print related mishap.
To print reliably, every citrix user will need a networked laserjet as their default printer. if they run windows..
so. good product, can save you in a pinch for a deployment and can do amazing things over heavy loaded WANs. But oh my GOD please test it in a lab before you deploy it. don't crush your people in the trenches. thanks
I always set windows above, or minimize windows with scrollage to ease this. Am i actually helping, do you think? I figure if it isn't writing to the screen cause i can't see it, then it isn't wasting its time:D
i agree with your point 100%. it's things like that that can make or break usability to people on the corners of the planet.
I'm not a trek fan and I can't believe I'm defending it, but there was a lot of depth to the tech in the stories.. you've got to be blind and/or ignorant to not know that.
I got xmms running and it plays OGG files well (but the included mediaplayer with openzaurus doesn't, and the Sharp ROM's media player has a horrendous interface).
It's gonna play OGGs pretty badly (IIRC) because it doesn't have an FPU, and ogg decoding requires intensive amounts of floating point ops. but, IIRC again i think the empeg people had someone working on it for them, a solution to decode in integer or something. check their messageboards for Ogg stuff. it wasnt but a year or two ago
First, in electronic format, textbooks can be continually corrected and updated, without the delays inherent in printed books (second and later editions are typically published on a five-year cycle)
maybe it's a five year cycle for true science texts, but for everything else in the US college system it seems like new editions come out yearly or bi-yearly. Thus negating the usefulness of the return that book you bought at the end of the semester. 'cause they won't want it any more..
You-know, I thought Gutenberg liberating books with movable type meant freedom of information on some level. Look how we've started to turn back the wheels of progress by making these texts a) artificially overpriced and b) released in such rapid succession youj can't return them to get some of your 'investment' back
So, kudos to the author(s) for releasing this book in such a way. Maybe the overclockers will learn a trick or two:D
(just HAD to bitch about the state of college texts. forgive me..)
I suppose, but damn.. athlon xp @ 1.66ghz, 768mb of 266mhz DDR and an a7v8x asus mobo.. via kt400, i think. dma is on on disks, i'm using the latest nvidia drivers, 8x, side band addressing on, i've tried forcing lower framerates and turning on AA (fakes it to look more smooth) and vice-versa.. different libSDL and openal.so's have made differences for me and made it playable @ 1024x768, but with static in the sound..
it's a sucky situation, really:)
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I've got a Zaurus sl-5500 now and I wish I could say the same thing about the Empeg. I've got one, love it to death, but because of the closed nature of it's code (the GUI, music player and other parts i think) the community is fading out as the product does.. (it was EOL'd maybe 2 yrs ago)
Sharp has been pretty crappy about their Zaurus support. THe 6000 is out here stateside, but you have to get the cool wide-aspect units from overseas. And those are expensive. my 5500 was dirt cheap, but the thing won't even sync with Linux out of the box. you must provide everything on that end yourself configuration wise, and usbnet isn 't the most reliable (2.6.3, 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 all act diff, of course, no Changelogs..) Sharp is really pathetic, there's no way to sync if you flash your Zaurus to the latest version of its ROM. it's been that way for a year. what a bunch of project-abandoning assholes..
and when you realize the Sharp ROM sucks and you load up openzaurus you find that older vers have some problems with flash media through a suspend, and newer versions have trouble keeping eth0 alive in the cradle. hotplug oopses and other little details, fun fun fun
it's a great tool and toy, i just have to wait for usbnet in 2.6.* to stop being a moving target. and i realize i will get a lot of use out of it in the end. it looks entirely possible to use gnokii to have it talk to my Nokia through IRDA to modem into work. I'll be able to do remote support when on-call and not have to even locate a hotspot.
openzaurus (now, really, OpenEmbedded) is improving... i'll give it time. i guess its more fun to hack and tweak an open-style PDA than deal with the limitations of a closed-up one.
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Binary only sucks, but i've been impressed with nvidia's efforts to bring it to Linux. the README does show that they have put a LOT of effort into it.
I am quite happy with nvidia's support of Linux, i have no crashes and do a lot of 3d gaming on Debian. I've used a 4200ti, a 4600 a 5200 and a 5700. the 5200 was slower than the 4200 in some respects so I returned it, and couldn't be happier with my 5700. I do realize it's half of what the latest ATI is (raw power wise). but I have to have nvidia because I have 2 DVI panels to power, and I don't see ATI making dual DVI out cards. Hell, with the way their drivers are I don't want one. IT's nice to see that nvidia seems to be catching up with the speed of ATI's boards..
competition never hurt a market
yeah, that xlibs snafu last week was pretty robust :)
for file in `find / -name '*.c'`; /tmp/$$; /tmp/$$ $file;
do sed s:Linux:"Sun Java Desktop":g $file >
mv
done;
what versions are these? I had read that a new 'type' of the universal print driver had come out. Wonder if our admins use it. i'm stuck at a corporate site and our support @ the farm end sucks. really sucks.
hehehehe that's the thing about Florida most people don't get. if you can't see the ocean, odds are you're surrounded by rednecks. :)
well, consider me corrected then, buddy
not in France ;)
Last time I checked, France had a large Muslim population so the odds of a terrorist group finding them worthy of attacking are probably low. Plus, they have a lot of financial interests in Iraq among other middle-eastern countries.. why hate the French? they're nice people. They don't drop bombs on people in the name of liberation.
and, man do they have good food. except for the stuff that looks like snot
mmm, no. sorry about that buddy.
Skyway Bridge over the mouth of Tampa Bay here in south Florida is about 20 thousand feet long. AFAIK that's the longest suspension bridge in the world, according to wikipedia. The last one over that area was struck by a ship named Summit Venture and it created quite a spectacular and nasty accident. I remember seeing this eery reminder any time we took a trip north.
A lot of people go there to commit suicide.
I do think Jacksonville owns the record for most rednecks within an incorporated city. Not making fun of you all, it's just the landmass is so ridiculously massive.. heh
I have supported MetaFrame, sold Citrix.. their product enables great things to happen over WANs, but corporations tend to abuse it from what I've seen.
And by abuse I mean shaving off having to do multiple installations in a corporation by having a central corporate MetaFrame farm. then the SQL server disk array fails. then the whole corp is disabled. Hello eggs, meet basket.
Also, be prepared to deal with the horrid hell that is Citrix printer support. It's not entirely their fault as some printer drivers want to do things in userspace vs kernel mode, but the support wasn't that good when I actually ran MetaFrame. It is better from what I hear now, but I'm only seeing it on the client end, and my corporate support SUCKS! And oh my god, there's nothign more frustrating than a Citrix session that's hung because of a stick print job or some print related mishap.
To print reliably, every citrix user will need a networked laserjet as their default printer. if they run windows..
so. good product, can save you in a pinch for a deployment and can do amazing things over heavy loaded WANs. But oh my GOD please test it in a lab before you deploy it. don't crush your people in the trenches. thanks
sorry, i assumed. i apologize
you're an idiot, you know that right?
leave the man alone. go look for conspiracies elsewhere
I always set windows above, or minimize windows with scrollage to ease :D
this. Am i actually helping, do you think? I figure if it isn't writing
to the screen cause i can't see it, then it isn't wasting its time
i agree with your point 100%. it's things like that that can make or
break usability to people on the corners of the planet.
I'm not a trek fan and I can't believe I'm defending it, but there was a
lot of depth to the tech in the stories.. you've got to be blind and/or ignorant to not know that.
Uhm. I'm sure the USS Enterprise was designed to fly in a vacuum; you know.. cause.. space is a vacuum.
*ahem*
my pda has a resume..
did you really have to do all that? s/foo/bar/ would have sufficed.
:D
you perl people
and those damned french chickens go 'kuh-kuh-kuhroo!' .. as they drop their bagets and run for the hills.
i would have replied earlier, but i was eating cake.
I got xmms running and it plays OGG files well (but the included mediaplayer with openzaurus doesn't, and the Sharp ROM's media player has a horrendous interface).
It's gonna play OGGs pretty badly (IIRC) because it doesn't have an FPU, and ogg decoding requires intensive amounts of floating point ops. but, IIRC again i think the empeg people had someone working on it for them, a solution to decode in integer or something. check their messageboards for Ogg stuff. it wasnt but a year or two ago
what kind of tools to encode? i want to watch video on my 5550 but am
surprised it can even do full motion..
First, in electronic format, textbooks can be continually corrected and updated, without the delays inherent in printed books (second and later editions are typically published on a five-year cycle)
:D
maybe it's a five year cycle for true science texts, but for everything else in the US college system it seems like new editions come out yearly or bi-yearly. Thus negating the usefulness of the return that book you bought at the end of the semester. 'cause they won't want it any more..
You-know, I thought Gutenberg liberating books with movable type meant freedom of information on some level. Look how we've started to turn back the wheels of progress by making these texts a) artificially overpriced and b) released in such rapid succession youj can't return them to get some of your 'investment' back
So, kudos to the author(s) for releasing this book in such a way. Maybe the overclockers will learn a trick or two
(just HAD to bitch about the state of college texts. forgive me..)
I suppose, but damn.. athlon xp @ 1.66ghz, 768mb of 266mhz DDR and an
:)
a7v8x asus mobo.. via kt400, i think. dma is on on disks, i'm using the latest nvidia drivers, 8x, side band addressing on, i've tried forcing lower framerates and turning on AA (fakes it to look more smooth) and vice-versa.. different libSDL and openal.so's have made differences for me and made it playable @ 1024x768, but with static in the sound..
it's a sucky situation, really
I've got a Zaurus sl-5500 now and I wish I could say the same thing about the Empeg. I've got one, love it to death, but because of the closed nature of it's code (the GUI, music player and other parts i think) the community is fading out as the product does.. (it was EOL'd maybe 2 yrs ago)
Sharp has been pretty crappy about their Zaurus support. THe 6000 is out here stateside, but you have to get the cool wide-aspect units from overseas. And those are expensive. my 5500 was dirt cheap, but the thing won't even sync with Linux out of the box. you must provide everything on that end yourself configuration wise, and usbnet isn
't the most reliable (2.6.3, 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 all act diff, of course, no Changelogs..) Sharp is really pathetic, there's no way to sync if you flash your Zaurus to the latest version of its ROM. it's been that way for a year. what a bunch of project-abandoning assholes..
and when you realize the Sharp ROM sucks and you load up openzaurus you find that older vers have some problems with flash media through a suspend, and newer versions have trouble keeping eth0 alive in the cradle. hotplug oopses and other little details, fun fun fun
it's a great tool and toy, i just have to wait for usbnet in 2.6.* to stop being a moving target. and i realize i will get a lot of use out of it in the end. it looks entirely possible to use gnokii to have it talk to my Nokia through IRDA to modem into work. I'll be able to do remote support when on-call and not have to even locate a hotspot.
openzaurus (now, really, OpenEmbedded) is improving... i'll give it time. i guess its more fun to hack and tweak an open-style PDA than deal with the limitations of a closed-up one.
I just got a brand-new SL-5500 for 180$ US off of eBay. I'd call that a bargain..