I guess anyone who thought linux sucked at multimedia is proved wrong with this thing, eh? Proof through example!
Now if only the built-in sound support was decent (the only good sound support option I've seen is to purchase OSS for $20).
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You could always adapt the Windows Solution to Linux and reboot.
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What's wrong with DR-DOS or FreeDOS? FreeDOS is Free Software, and the source code to DR-DOS is available as well, and both are small and fast. An embedded OS doesn't need a lot of the complexities that make Linux useful for a desktop PC.
Rather than acting like an elementary school student and going around using gratuitous pejoratives, perhaps you could've actually pointed out a URL of the HOWTO.
Actually, it is. ADSL is not available in most places, and 4 phone lines is cheaper than a dual-channel ISDN line (and faster than a single-channel ISDN).
Well, I know several people today who have over 15 GB of 128kbps mp3s. If they were to switch from mp3 to a full-Cd-quality lossless compression (usually compresses around 50%), that same mp3 collection would now take over 75 GB. Leave the remaining 150+ GB for digital video editing.
Why would RedHat want to censor this if they didn't feel they had to? Being called the "Microsoft of Linux" by a bunch of slashdotters can only help their stock price. To investors, a Microsoft of anything is a Good Thing(tm), since a company raking in billions of dollars a year in profits is a Good Thing(tm) when you're buying stock.
They replaced Nitrane with Frauenhoffer's inferior decoder in 2.20. I also had more decoder bugs, and higher CPU usage. Nitrane is back in v2.23 however, so go download the new version.
I'm not sure exactly why this all happened, but my suspicion is that they pulled Nitrane after being sued by the Amp people, and put it back in after being bought by AOL (since they now have the AOL legal muscle to defend them).
This has been happening for a while in various other forms. For example, Kevin Mitnick, after his federal charges are dropped (finally, several years later), will be hauled off to various states that have all charged him with computer crimes because the servers happened to be in those states.
The effect this creates was that even if somebody was completely innocent, and could win all the cases, they could be hauled around the U.S. and put on trial 15 different times, and would lose 10-20 years of their life before being finally cleared.
We're talking about 3dfx's revenue here. 3dfx probably makes less than 1% of its profits by selling video cards to CAD users. Almost all of its sales are to gamers.
Slashdot runs on Linux with mysql as the database, and it crashes too often. For a while mysql was crashing. Then the Linux kernel was crashing. All in all it's a big pile of unstable mess.
If you want, people like that running business laughing taking your money and callling you a loser, that is your choice...
What makes you think the CEOs of Exxon, AT&T, Intel, or IBM are any more caring about their customers? No business (except for a REALLY small one) cares about anything except its bottom line. If being nice to customers gets you more money, fine. Otherwise, forget it.
Summary: United States 292 vs. Everybody Else 208.
In the top ten, it's United States 7 vs. Everybody Else 3.
If you compile the stats by the country in which the corporation that made the computer is based, American companies are responsible for over 400 of the top 500 supercomputers (just about everything except the Japanese stuff).
This ranking above looks very different than the ranking of the top five computers. For example, Intel, who is #1, is basically a non-factor in the supercomputer market, with a mere three other computers on the list. H/P and Sun, which don't even make the top 50, seem to have the mid-level supercomputer market locked up, with 134 computers between them. SGI, however, is still the undisputed leader, from the high end (7/10) to the mid and low ends of ths list.
But do we really have software diversity? Most major mailservers run Sendmail - a new serious Sendmail security flaw (in addition to the hundreds already in existance) could make it very easy to compromise a large majority of mail hosts. If a worm can compromise even 5% of the systems, it'd be able to cause serious damage.
Incorrect. Since there are security holes in the OS, an unchecked program can still do damage in your "secure" environment. For example, up until about a year ago, any program could make itself suid root by exploiting an X security flaw (since X was set suid root in most cases).
Sure, Linux/UNIX is more safe when running unchecked programs, but it is still incorrect to say that it is a completely secure environment to run unchecked code in. Unchecked code is dangerous, no matter what OS you're running.
What about the (in)famous Internet Worm? That infected and traveled through a lot of different flavors of UNIX. Something like that happening again is not impossible.
Since we're nitpicking the original article, I felt I should nitpick the rebuttal as well. FWIW, "$130.000 dollars" is incorrect. "130.000 dollars" or "$130.000" would be correct.
IIRC, it ends up that your average performance will be about the same with Rambus as with SDRAM. For large block memory reads, Rambus is faster due to its higher bandwidth, but for small noncontiguous reads it's slower, due to its higher latency. For average use (whatever that is), they supposedly end up being about the same.
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And it deserves it more than that other summer blockbuster does.
Heresy!
This was just an amusing bathroom-humor movie. It was not an epic saga =)
Besides...how often does the average people need real-time applications anymore?
Most of the time. For example, for this particular application. They had to modify the kernel to make it do real-time stuff at least tolerably well.
I guess anyone who thought linux sucked at multimedia is proved wrong with this thing, eh? Proof through example!
Now if only the built-in sound support was decent (the only good sound support option I've seen is to purchase OSS for $20).
You could always adapt the Windows Solution to Linux and reboot.
What's wrong with DR-DOS or FreeDOS? FreeDOS is Free Software, and the source code to DR-DOS is available as well, and both are small and fast. An embedded OS doesn't need a lot of the complexities that make Linux useful for a desktop PC.
Rather than acting like an elementary school student and going around using gratuitous pejoratives, perhaps you could've actually pointed out a URL of the HOWTO.
Actually, it is. ADSL is not available in most places, and 4 phone lines is cheaper than a dual-channel ISDN line (and faster than a single-channel ISDN).
...for very large values of "interim."
Well, I know several people today who have over 15 GB of 128kbps mp3s. If they were to switch from mp3 to a full-Cd-quality lossless compression (usually compresses around 50%), that same mp3 collection would now take over 75 GB. Leave the remaining 150+ GB for digital video editing.
Why would RedHat want to censor this if they didn't feel they had to? Being called the "Microsoft of Linux" by a bunch of slashdotters can only help their stock price. To investors, a Microsoft of anything is a Good Thing(tm), since a company raking in billions of dollars a year in profits is a Good Thing(tm) when you're buying stock.
Wow, I don't spend as much time on my rebuttals to actual articles as this guy spends on his rebutalls to satirical ones.
They replaced Nitrane with Frauenhoffer's inferior decoder in 2.20. I also had more decoder bugs, and higher CPU usage. Nitrane is back in v2.23 however, so go download the new version.
I'm not sure exactly why this all happened, but my suspicion is that they pulled Nitrane after being sued by the Amp people, and put it back in after being bought by AOL (since they now have the AOL legal muscle to defend them).
Well, since it's GPL'd code, if enough people want ALSA support, they can write it themselves.
This has been happening for a while in various other forms. For example, Kevin Mitnick, after his federal charges are dropped (finally, several years later), will be hauled off to various states that have all charged him with computer crimes because the servers happened to be in those states.
The effect this creates was that even if somebody was completely innocent, and could win all the cases, they could be hauled around the U.S. and put on trial 15 different times, and would lose 10-20 years of their life before being finally cleared.
So if nobody uses GLIDE, and everybody uses OpenGL instead, why is Creative spending so much time writing GLIDE wrappers?
We're talking about 3dfx's revenue here. 3dfx probably makes less than 1% of its profits by selling video cards to CAD users. Almost all of its sales are to gamers.
Slashdot runs on Linux with mysql as the database, and it crashes too often. For a while mysql was crashing. Then the Linux kernel was crashing. All in all it's a big pile of unstable mess.
If you want, people like that running business laughing taking your money and callling you a loser, that is your choice...
What makes you think the CEOs of Exxon, AT&T, Intel, or IBM are any more caring about their customers? No business (except for a REALLY small one) cares about anything except its bottom line. If being nice to customers gets you more money, fine. Otherwise, forget it.
Okay, I was really bored, so I did more stats. This time by country.
USA: 292/500, 7/10, #1
Japan: 56/500, 1/10, #4
Germany: 47/500, 0/10, #15
UK: 29/500, 2/10, #7
France: 18/500, 0/10, #47
Canada: 8/500, 0/10, #29
Sweden: 7/500, 0/10, #71
Netherlands: 6/500, 0/10, #146
Switzerland: 6/500, 0/10, #339
Italy: 5/500, 0/10, #36
Australia: 5/500, 0/10, #102
Korea: 3/500, 0/10, #78
Denmark: 3/500, 0/10, #275
Belgium: 3/500, 0/10, #286
Spain: 3/500, 0/10, #314
Finland: 2/500, 0/10, #53
Norway: 2/500, 0/10, #193
Austria: 2/500, 0/10, #392
New Zealand: 1/500, 0/10, #64
Luxembourg: 1/500, 0/10, #247
Mexico: 1/500, 0/10, #436
Summary: United States 292 vs. Everybody Else 208.
In the top ten, it's United States 7 vs. Everybody Else 3.
If you compile the stats by the country in which the corporation that made the computer is based, American companies are responsible for over 400 of the top 500 supercomputers (just about everything except the Japanese stuff).
Okay, I was bored, so I went through and counted some stuff:
/. won't let me).
The numbers won't add up correctly because several of the machines were credited to two co-builders. Or I could have made a mistake.
Company: total, # out of the top 10, highest rank
(I tried to make this line up but apparently
SGI: 182/500, 7/10, #2
IBM: 118/500, 1/10, #8
Sun: 95/100, 0/10, #54
H/P: 39/100, 0/10, #150
Fujitsu: 23/500, 0/10, #26
NEC: 18/500, 0/10, #29
Hitachi: 12/500, 1/10, #4
Compaq: 5/500, 0/10, #49
Intel: 4/500, 1/10, #1
Self-made: 3/500, 0/10, #129
SNI: 2/500, 0/10, #66
Tsukuba: 1/500, 0/10, #18
Siemens: 1/500, 0/10, #355
This ranking above looks very different than the ranking of the top five computers. For example, Intel, who is #1, is basically a non-factor in the supercomputer market, with a mere three other computers on the list. H/P and Sun, which don't even make the top 50, seem to have the mid-level supercomputer market locked up, with 134 computers between them. SGI, however, is still the undisputed leader, from the high end (7/10) to the mid and low ends of ths list.
But do we really have software diversity? Most major mailservers run Sendmail - a new serious Sendmail security flaw (in addition to the hundreds already in existance) could make it very easy to compromise a large majority of mail hosts. If a worm can compromise even 5% of the systems, it'd be able to cause serious damage.
Incorrect. Since there are security holes in the OS, an unchecked program can still do damage in your "secure" environment. For example, up until about a year ago, any program could make itself suid root by exploiting an X security flaw (since X was set suid root in most cases).
Sure, Linux/UNIX is more safe when running unchecked programs, but it is still incorrect to say that it is a completely secure environment to run unchecked code in. Unchecked code is dangerous, no matter what OS you're running.
What about the (in)famous Internet Worm? That infected and traveled through a lot of different flavors of UNIX. Something like that happening again is not impossible.
Since we're nitpicking the original article, I felt I should nitpick the rebuttal as well. FWIW, "$130.000 dollars" is incorrect. "130.000 dollars" or "$130.000" would be correct.
IIRC, it ends up that your average performance will be about the same with Rambus as with SDRAM. For large block memory reads, Rambus is faster due to its higher bandwidth, but for small noncontiguous reads it's slower, due to its higher latency. For average use (whatever that is), they supposedly end up being about the same.