It only helps if your 'friends' don't fit under the stereotype of 'joe six-pack'. Otherwise they'll have a 40 gig HD full of mp3s another full of pirated games, a blackbox for cable, and enough underage booze/illegal substances to get them sent to guantanamo;p
And when you ask them to make a stand they'll either tell you they are, by pirating the works, or 'I understand why they are, because of people like me'. Really, our failure is in society itself, not the laws that are springing up as a result of it.
ide-scsi hasben deprecated due to native atapi support, so its unlikely any such bug would get fixed.. also I think I had similiar issues to the poster, thankfully fixable by just installing a new version of cdrecord.
I've been using it since 1.2.x/1.3.xbeta series and I've noticed with the 'supposed' increase in features, the testing for them has seemingly gone in the toilet... 1.x series stuff I had basically no issues with kernel-wise unless I was using direct access hardware programs (like anything using svgalib), and it's quite possible that stuff just crashed my terminal (I still didn't know a lot back in those days, and the reset button was the quicker fix... until it detected a dirty unmount and spent 10 minutes checking the filesystem;p)
Seriously though 2.2 was mostly stable, although usb mass storage was borked in the older sub 2.2.19 kernels.
2.4 was mostly stable, way more featureful, but not quite as good as 2.2 (I actually found the 2.4.0 test kernels stabler than anything before 2.4.6 or after 2.4.9, up until like 2.4.20, and let me tell ya, the 2.5 devel kernels sucked until the.9x releases.
2.6 I honestly can't remember how the first few pub releases were, although I think I went back to 2.4.20 or 2.4.22 waiting for them to stabilize a bit.
As a further note here, support for sparc32 has sucked since 2.2.18 or so, and even most patchsets against newer kernels don't allow SMP on Sparcstation 20's (although some of the 2.4 kernels will run if compiled for UP on them, 2.6 still hasn't worked properly for me.)
Mind you this is just my views, but I've been seriously considering migrating a number of my boxes off linux because of these, as well as other annoying habits (like changing the freaking module tools between 2.4 and 2.6 leaving a gap during which they couldn't both be installed, ugh. Plus the whole DevFS being added then removed thing, which I actually found useful for automatically keeping my dev directory relatively clean).
Quake3 @ 90FPS on my 9800, but it hardlocks after like 30 seconds of OGL, and it's supposedly a 9800 only 'feature', so I can't comment on the other cards, except that as far as dri-devel goes they don't seem to have as serious of driver issues.
Just FYI, Planeshift is only as open source as Quake1/2/3, in that the source code to the engine is open source, but the datafiles for it ARE NOT. This is one of the big drawbacks to it and why I don't personally play/support it.
I don't know the specifics, but I've heard you can't buy a phone without providing a name/address, pretty much same as back in the landline days. Should you find out differently, be sure to reply, I'm damn curious to know myself.
It was some chinese hotshot who always flew alongside the recon planes we sent over and like waved to them or someshit, anyhow, according to the paper I read way back when, said hotshot got too close to the plane, and due to wind or sloppiness clipped the awacs, killing himself and causing the awacs to have to make an emergency landing at a chinese airbase wherein they were detained for a couple days/week while the chinese tore apart the plane before being allowing to leave (I don't remember how much disassembly they did or any of that stuff, but it was a big snafu before 9/11 I believe)
4 or 5pm actually, me and a buddy drove like 3 hours to San Jose to play the Battletech pods since the local place (non-DaB) had closed a few years before, only to find out they weren't allowing anyone under 21 in (we were both 18 at the time.)
If it's rewritable it's FLASH RAM, if it's write once read many, it's Read Only Memory (ROM).
Hence they definitely aren't using the same memory as a GBA ROM or else you wouldn't be able to install new games on it.
You're right! It'll be boss fight after boss fight, interspersed with 3 hour long travels from the location of the one boss to the next, so it'll be more realistic.
It basically already is, all extra languages are usually just front-ends to the gcc intermediate language which then compiles to machine code (I believe java and possible a few other languages have their own backends for generating bytecode, but I could be wrong).
Anyhow to sum it up, it doesn't make the compiler slower, it just makes COMPILING the compiler slower.. and takes up oodles of disk space as well (personally unless you need it, don't compile gcj/gnu classpath... it takes FOREVER to compile).
Actually forerunner of Starsiege/Tribes, Battledrome was out after Earthsiege 1 at least and possibly just before 2 (I've got my orig Battledrome CD here and it had an ad for Earthsiege 2 on the back I believe).
Gah, did anyone else have visions of him mimicing phaser noises behind the 'captain' on a simulator bridge while the captain is busy trying to negotiate with a hostile alien?;p
PlayStation Portable or somesuch, it's Sony's new foray into the portable gaming biz (aimed directly at the Nintendo DS, with better gfx, but a single screen, and quite possibly significantly lower battery time).
Sides, who knows it may get someone who'd never considered working on a cure for alzheimers to create one for the most important reason of all: to cure themselves:)
Probably because somebody didn't want to be told by their girlfriend 'no ***** for j00' It's called a sofa, where every man ends up if he doesn't do his 'master's bidding... Hey, women are just like Star Wars, they treat ya like their bitch;-p
I actually have a Via Nehemiah 1ghz chip in the system I'm typing from, and I can tell you for a fact it's much faster than a 300 mhz Pentium. That's not to say it doesn't have issues (small cache, crappy onboard video (basically 2d only ATM), etc)
Also mozilla lags it like a mofo, taking into consideration the fact that I have no less than 10 tabs open at one time.
However anything less than mozilla/monodevelop, even compiles, and the system is responsive enough to chat and watch a dvd at the same time, usually with a half dozen terminal windows open, and a compile or two going (a compile or two, mozilla, and ogle however is just asking for trouble!)
Anyhow the New Via chips aren't as bad as the old ones, speaking from experience... used to have an 800 mhz Epia, the old core that ID as a Centaur chip Ezra or something, and it was a bit slow if you had a lot of FP/MMX stuff going, but for the integer based ops it was at least as fast as my dads old P3/500 for most of what we were doing (considering the 64k l2 cache.
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It only helps if your 'friends' don't fit under the stereotype of 'joe six-pack'. Otherwise they'll have a 40 gig HD full of mp3s another full of pirated games, a blackbox for cable, and enough underage booze/illegal substances to get them sent to guantanamo ;p
And when you ask them to make a stand they'll either tell you they are, by pirating the works, or 'I understand why they are, because of people like me'. Really, our failure is in society itself, not the laws that are springing up as a result of it.
ide-scsi hasben deprecated due to native atapi support, so its unlikely any such bug would get fixed.. also I think I had similiar issues to the poster, thankfully fixable by just installing a new version of cdrecord.
I've been using it since 1.2.x/1.3.xbeta series and I've noticed with the 'supposed' increase in features, the testing for them has seemingly gone in the toilet... 1.x series stuff I had basically no issues with kernel-wise unless I was using direct access hardware programs (like anything using svgalib), and it's quite possible that stuff just crashed my terminal (I still didn't know a lot back in those days, and the reset button was the quicker fix... until it detected a dirty unmount and spent 10 minutes checking the filesystem ;p)
.9x releases.
Seriously though 2.2 was mostly stable, although usb mass storage was borked in the older sub 2.2.19 kernels.
2.4 was mostly stable, way more featureful, but not quite as good as 2.2 (I actually found the 2.4.0 test kernels stabler than anything before 2.4.6 or after 2.4.9, up until like 2.4.20, and let me tell ya, the 2.5 devel kernels sucked until the
2.6 I honestly can't remember how the first few pub releases were, although I think I went back to 2.4.20 or 2.4.22 waiting for them to stabilize a bit.
As a further note here, support for sparc32 has sucked since 2.2.18 or so, and even most patchsets against newer kernels don't allow SMP on Sparcstation 20's (although some of the 2.4 kernels will run if compiled for UP on them, 2.6 still hasn't worked properly for me.)
Mind you this is just my views, but I've been seriously considering migrating a number of my boxes off linux because of these, as well as other annoying habits (like changing the freaking module tools between 2.4 and 2.6 leaving a gap during which they couldn't both be installed, ugh. Plus the whole DevFS being added then removed thing, which I actually found useful for automatically keeping my dev directory relatively clean).
Quake3 @ 90FPS on my 9800, but it hardlocks after like 30 seconds of OGL, and it's supposedly a 9800 only 'feature', so I can't comment on the other cards, except that as far as dri-devel goes they don't seem to have as serious of driver issues.
Just FYI, Planeshift is only as open source as Quake1/2/3, in that the source code to the engine is open source, but the datafiles for it ARE NOT. This is one of the big drawbacks to it and why I don't personally play/support it.
I don't know the specifics, but I've heard you can't buy a phone without providing a name/address, pretty much same as back in the landline days. Should you find out differently, be sure to reply, I'm damn curious to know myself.
It was some chinese hotshot who always flew alongside the recon planes we sent over and like waved to them or someshit, anyhow, according to the paper I read way back when, said hotshot got too close to the plane, and due to wind or sloppiness clipped the awacs, killing himself and causing the awacs to have to make an emergency landing at a chinese airbase wherein they were detained for a couple days/week while the chinese tore apart the plane before being allowing to leave (I don't remember how much disassembly they did or any of that stuff, but it was a big snafu before 9/11 I believe)
I'd just finished reading this when I saw the parent post ;-p& mode=classic
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4 or 5pm actually, me and a buddy drove like 3 hours to San Jose to play the Battletech pods since the local place (non-DaB) had closed a few years before, only to find out they weren't allowing anyone under 21 in (we were both 18 at the time.)
Yeah... like CISCO :)
If it's rewritable it's FLASH RAM, if it's write once read many, it's Read Only Memory (ROM). Hence they definitely aren't using the same memory as a GBA ROM or else you wouldn't be able to install new games on it.
Lucas is saving it for a TV special :)
You're right! It'll be boss fight after boss fight, interspersed with 3 hour long travels from the location of the one boss to the next, so it'll be more realistic.
If that's really true, then why do they always regurgitate 'It's so small!' when I specifically fed them the line 'It's so HUGE!'? ;-p
It basically already is, all extra languages are usually just front-ends to the gcc intermediate language which then compiles to machine code (I believe java and possible a few other languages have their own backends for generating bytecode, but I could be wrong).
Anyhow to sum it up, it doesn't make the compiler slower, it just makes COMPILING the compiler slower.. and takes up oodles of disk space as well (personally unless you need it, don't compile gcj/gnu classpath... it takes FOREVER to compile).
Actually forerunner of Starsiege/Tribes, Battledrome was out after Earthsiege 1 at least and possibly just before 2 (I've got my orig Battledrome CD here and it had an ad for Earthsiege 2 on the back I believe).
Yeah! Only the robots are cooler and have all kinds of badass finishing moves ;-p
Gah, did anyone else have visions of him mimicing phaser noises behind the 'captain' on a simulator bridge while the captain is busy trying to negotiate with a hostile alien? ;p
And some men have gone back to singing alto, after a bad arguement with their girlfriends/wives ;p
PlayStation Portable or somesuch, it's Sony's new foray into the portable gaming biz (aimed directly at the Nintendo DS, with better gfx, but a single screen, and quite possibly significantly lower battery time).
The Syreen ship from Star Control 1/2 :-P
Sides, who knows it may get someone who'd never considered working on a cure for alzheimers to create one for the most important reason of all: to cure themselves :)
Probably because somebody didn't want to be told by their girlfriend 'no ***** for j00' It's called a sofa, where every man ends up if he doesn't do his 'master's bidding... Hey, women are just like Star Wars, they treat ya like their bitch ;-p
I just know the only time I've ever seen 'boi' used is often by women seeking skantily clad toned bisexual men for their harem...
I actually have a Via Nehemiah 1ghz chip in the system I'm typing from, and I can tell you for a fact it's much faster than a 300 mhz Pentium. That's not to say it doesn't have issues (small cache, crappy onboard video (basically 2d only ATM), etc)
Also mozilla lags it like a mofo, taking into consideration the fact that I have no less than 10 tabs open at one time.
However anything less than mozilla/monodevelop, even compiles, and the system is responsive enough to chat and watch a dvd at the same time, usually with a half dozen terminal windows open, and a compile or two going (a compile or two, mozilla, and ogle however is just asking for trouble!)
Anyhow the New Via chips aren't as bad as the old ones, speaking from experience... used to have an 800 mhz Epia, the old core that ID as a Centaur chip Ezra or something, and it was a bit slow if you had a lot of FP/MMX stuff going, but for the integer based ops it was at least as fast as my dads old P3/500 for most of what we were doing (considering the 64k l2 cache.