1) Did you compile low latency support with sysctl support? In that case you have to turn on lowlatency mode on your own, a little known and not widely documented feature!
2) I actually had worse performance, w/ the 2.4 tree, when both low latency, and the O(1) scheduler were enabled, and am now using just low latency. In 2.5, AFAIK, they play much better, and it's sensible to enable both.
4) Are you using OSS, or alsa?
3) Gentoo now includes a safe hdparm script (I think it's installed by default, at least on ~x86), which works great. Check for it in/etc/init.d
4) Be wary of the difference between march and mcpu optimizations! The choice makes a big difference!
The current RC's do not include the precompiled packages, but with the release of 1.4, they will be available for the big things (KDE, Gnome, and some others), and will be optimized for common predefined architectures (like AthlonXP:-) ).
IIRC, one of the older 1.4 RC's had them in for testing.
On the other hand -- Schemas are a great idea.
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DTD vs. XML Schema
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Schemas enforce rules that are there because they make semantic sense in relation to the data they describe.
This is useful for everybody involved, and ensures proper software design.
That said, I do agree that they may only enforce rules in "the most primitive ways", but anything you can't describe in the schema, you can always move higher up in your code.
A month or so ago, I really wanted to join this project, but it (seemed like it?) was dead. I checked all the forums, checked the mailing lists, checked the newsletters... but there had not been any post in weeks.
Needless to say, I'm quite happy this has made it. One of the real problems with open source, especially on young projects, is communication. How can this be fixed? (Granted, hackers don't always have the best communication skills.) To think that a project with so much potential almost was lost!
Just an interesting though: what if all the money that went in to this trial went into development of Free software instead? (We might be a lot farther along. There can be more than one way to make competition...)
Anyone know how much has been spent??
Right here on slashdot (IIRCC)! XML is very often used on websites to truly seperate content from style. However, when you go to look at the HTML source, you won't see it. Why? Because the XML is being transformed into HTML by an XSLT engine on the server side, and the resulting HTML is sent to you.
Moreover, XML itself is intended only to express content. It is standards built on top of XML (such as XHTML), that define how that content should appear. Many websites use XHTML, but the casual observer would not notice -- the source code of the page is nearly identical.
In all of the three programming internships I've held (I'm still in college), XML was the underlying technology.
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Fun With Wine
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http://www.frankscorner.org/wine/ is an incredible resource.
Check it for info on how to run all of those hard-to-make-work programs.
He even shows how to get WineX working for free :-)
TheOpenCD project's ambitious mission statement was "To compile and distribute A CD-ROM containing a selection of high quality open source software for use on proprietary operating systems." They got so far as coming up with a great list of open source software.
Since then, the project seems to have died completely. I think it is very important to the open source community that a project like this is completed. Who's up for getting it going again?
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Mental slip above... I meant the pre-empt patch, rather than the O(1) scheduler.
Here are some things to consider:
1) Did you compile low latency support with sysctl support? In that case you have to turn on lowlatency mode on your own , a little known and not widely documented feature!
2) I actually had worse performance, w/ the 2.4 tree, when both low latency, and the O(1) scheduler were enabled, and am now using just low latency. In 2.5, AFAIK, they play much better, and it's sensible to enable both.
4) Are you using OSS, or alsa?
3) Gentoo now includes a safe hdparm script (I think it's installed by default, at least on ~x86), which works great. Check for it in /etc/init.d
4) Be wary of the difference between march and mcpu optimizations! The choice makes a big difference!
The current RC's do not include the precompiled packages, but with the release of 1.4, they will be available for the big things (KDE, Gnome, and some others), and will be optimized for common predefined architectures (like AthlonXP :-) ).
IIRC, one of the older 1.4 RC's had them in for testing.
This is useful for everybody involved, and ensures proper software design.
That said, I do agree that they may only enforce rules in "the most primitive ways", but anything you can't describe in the schema, you can always move higher up in your code.
Needless to say, I'm quite happy this has made it. One of the real problems with open source, especially on young projects, is communication. How can this be fixed? (Granted, hackers don't always have the best communication skills.) To think that a project with so much potential almost was lost!
If my laptop had my Geforce Ti 4200 inside it, it would not only be a furnace -- it would put an early demise to my chances of having children!! ;-)
Just an interesting though: what if all the money that went in to this trial went into development of Free software instead? (We might be a lot farther along. There can be more than one way to make competition...) Anyone know how much has been spent??
Moreover, XML itself is intended only to express content. It is standards built on top of XML (such as XHTML), that define how that content should appear. Many websites use XHTML, but the casual observer would not notice -- the source code of the page is nearly identical.
In all of the three programming internships I've held (I'm still in college), XML was the underlying technology.
http://www.frankscorner.org/wine/ is an incredible resource. Check it for info on how to run all of those hard-to-make-work programs. He even shows how to get WineX working for free :-)
TheOpenCD project's ambitious mission statement was "To compile and distribute A CD-ROM containing a selection of high quality open source software for use on proprietary operating systems." They got so far as coming up with a great list of open source software. Since then, the project seems to have died completely. I think it is very important to the open source community that a project like this is completed. Who's up for getting it going again?