Of course, they were the same version. Sniffing around in their script I found they were using some regular expression match to grab the versions, which for some reason didn't work on my kernel this time through. Some quick changes and it installed just fine.
Hmm, I had that problem when I had gcc 3.3 installed and the Nvidia module didn't want to compile and install. I changed the/usr/bin/gcc symlink to point to gcc295 and it worked fine. I use a custom compiled kernel though and not the Debian packaged ones. It didn't seem to like gcc 3.3 very much, but I guess it was just something it wasn't parsing right?
Would somebody mind posting a summary of what it takes to turn an Xbox into a standalone PVR, from modding to installation, etc.?
I don't think anyone is using it as a standalone PVR (does it even have PCI slots?). They're using them as a MythTV frontend box. The actual encoding and storage is handled by a seperate backend box (which can be conveniently hidden away in a basement or closet so it can be noisy and not bother you). All the communications between them is just over a network connection. You can of course have a frontend on the same box as the backend though too and communicate over the loopback interface.
That's why I went with a new Powerbook 15" instead of an iBook model. It's apparent to me the iBooks have too many design issues Apple hasn't addressed/completely solved yet.
Well, the iBook was an impulse buy ($1299 for the 12" model at the time) and the cheapest Powerbook was a 15" Titanium for around $2000. They didn't come out with the 12" Powerbooks until 6 months after I bought my iBook. I was thinking of upgrading to a 15" Powerbook until I saw all the problems with this white spot issue on the screens and the supposedly horrible battery life. My iBook gets a solid 3.5-4 hours on it's battery and I don't think I can live with less. G4 Powerbooks really need two batteries.
I would argue, but I realized after I posted that the original postulation of just moving a HD from an IBM to a Dell and expecting to pretty much just boot it up and go (what the parent was making it seem like), was laughable.
Well, if it was a Linux installation it'd most likely work fine. If it was Windows then you're probably SOL and need to reinstall. I've never had much luck moving a drive from one system to another with a completely different motherboard and drivers. Sure, it SEEMS to work, but I get odd instability issues. After a reinstall everything is peachy. That's why I hate getting a new system. With Linux I pop out the old disk, put it in the new system and am up and running in no time. When I build a new Windows box I know I'm in for at least 8 hours of patching, installing my software, restoring my data, etc. It's a pain in the ass.
I *could* go back to windows... if i wanted... not because of Apple but because of MS's crapness.
Well, not if you bought a lot of Mac software. You'd be pretty much screwed and have to scrap it. I'm inching into the Mac water but my iBook logic board problem made me take a step back and not put a lot of confidence in my Mac for production work. Basically I just use it for a mobile web browsing and e-mail machine. My real work is still done on my Windows box.
Because Apple does not let you run OS X on any other hardware, you are completely dependent on them for making your software work. If you get used to a certain environment and certain applications but then the hardware fails, you're screwed.
Can't you just drop the Mac drive into another Mac?
At lease check the link before you moderate someone as informative. It's clearly a picture of that Nazi guy from a few months back on Fark. He's got a huge friggin swastika tatooed on his neck. I'm pretty sure Dr. Kelly wasn't a Nazi biker... was he?
If you want to write a virus that will survive, won't you target antivirus company, like symantec.com, mcafee.com or pandasoftware.com ?
Why would the virus writers DDoS their own web sites? No, I don't find it to be an amazing coincidence that the very people supposedly fighting viruses also employ the people most knowledgeable about creating them. It's their job to know everything about viruses and it's their company's business to sell antivirus software. I was less suspicious back when McAfee used to give out free shareware versions, but when everyone went to charging a subscription fee yearly for updates it kind of became obvious that antivirus companies are behind most, if not all viruses in existence today.
Really, could they have not waited the 4 months to get their brand new shiney G5 based super-computer and not wasted so much money on all those G5 towers?
Waste what? From what I read they're just trading them in and Apple will sell them as used/refurbished units. They're probably getting a huge discount for the trade in of 4 month old machines, if they're paying anything at all. This is just a boost for Apple's marketing department to have a G5 cluster in one of the top supercomputer spots. What I never understood is why someone like IBM didn't come along and cluster 10,000 dual P4 nodes together for fun to get on the top spot. I'm sure they have the inventory to write that off.
Great. This will give SCO some good PR ammo. Thanks guys.
Who is the "us" you're referring to? Are you a virus writer? If this was Linux fanboys doing this they'd write a Linux virus since they don't even own a copy of Windows remember?
Note that Parliament is really faily similar to Congress. Though...less boring.
And the Prime Ministers have the real executive power in these countries anyway. When was the last time anyone paid any attention at all as to what Queen Elizabeth has said on foreign affairs? They're puppet heads for their government and a throwback to grander times, nothing more, nothing less. I'm just saying it's cute that countries still hold onto their monarchies for nostalgia even though the real power is in the hands of the people.. where it should be.
No dual-tuner support unless you buy the crippled DirecTV unit would be the killer for me. I don't have DirecTV (nor do I want it). With the Tivo I'd need to let it decide which programs I want to watch and which I will not catch. That's not acceptable to me when two of my favorite shows are running at the same time on different channels. Sure, the answer becomes "buy two Tivos then". With the Linux solution it becomes "just add another TV card". Which do you think is cheaper? If I want THREE programs at once? The Tivos start to add up!:-)
We've never had problems with it before under linux, but maybe MythTV doesn't like certain cards.
MythTV will work with any card that works with Video4Linux properly. Basically if you can reliably watch TV with it using XawTV then it should work fine for MythTV unless you're having other hardware problems. MythTV's software encoding definitely stresses the box at times so if it's at all unstable you'll probably crash the box. I had a Hauppauge WinTV dbx-stereo card (model 401) and it worked great. I've since switched to the PVR-250 card though and their drivers are a bit buggy at times so it's really ivtv's issue, but they're reverse engineering a closed source driver so more power to 'em.:-)
Hopefully, they will work out a SINGLE standard for getting copy/cut and paste working correctly.
X already does have a single standard for copying text. Select with the left mouse button, resize with the right, and paste with the middle. Are you saying there are apps that are broken and don't support that? File a bug report to the app's programmers to get it fixed. I can copy and paste between all my X apps like Mozilla and xterms.
By "residents" do you mean "US citizens currently residing in the US"? How about Green Card holders, or the various work permit holders (H1, L1, etc)? These people are not allowed to vote, yet are required to pay tax.
Some of us would say they should be deported. We have a high enough unemployment rate that we don't need to be importing workers. The country is full, find another to live in or go back to your home country. Try becoming a Japanese citizen sometime if you're not born there.
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RTFA? The author says that the Ultra 5's are UDMA 33.
Go search for "sun ultra 5 udma" on Google Groups and read some of the usenet articles about pissed off users getting crappy performance if you don't believe me. I've got over a dozen Ultra 10's and one Ultra 5 (same thing as the Ultra 10 except it's a desktop case instead of a tower) and we've NEVER seen decent performance out of the disks. Just because Sun claims their controller chip is ultra-dma 33 doesn't mean their drivers actually take advantage of it.
The only udma 33 feature I've gotten out of them is supporting up to 112 gigs on a 120 gig ATA drive. This is all with Solaris obviously since you'd be insane to want to put Linux on these overpriced underperforming PC wannabes. The build quality on the cases reminds me of a cheap Taiwan import company. Remember though, this was their first take at the low-end cheap desktop computing market. We picked up our Ultra 10's for a very cheap $3600 each in 1999. They completely blew away the Ultra-2's we were previously buying for $16,000 each in terms of price/performance.
..when I'd much prefer Linux. Though I won't get "64-bit computing" with Linux on sparc64, since the userland is only 32-bit. Unfortunately, no one cares enough to fix the situation.
Well, probably because 95% of the people using Linux just use an x86 box. An old Pentium II will run circles around most Sun boxes you could buy under $500 and you can pick the PII out of the trash. Don't get me wrong, I love my dual 75MHz Sparc-20 at home, but it is by no means comparable to any of my x86 boxes in terms of speed. It may be faster than my old 90MHz Pentium though.
Just beware that Ultra 5's and Ultra 10's have HORRIBLELY slow IDE buses (16 MB/sec or less). I don't believe they support DMA. You'd be better off getting a Sun Blade 100 or a used Ultra 10 with a SCSI card.
I can't connect directly to my friends's computer, and I can't run games (or any other) servers. Decentralised P2P suffers similarly.
Well, speaking from a business standpoint, I couldn't care less if people can't connect directly to our workstations from the Internet. The machines we want people to talk to are on the DMZ. Everything else is clients and internal protected servers (file servers, databases, etc.). IPv6 won't catch on until firewall software is updated to interoperate with it unfortunately. Don't expect people to have a change of heart and to suddenly go back to the bad old days of every system being wide open on the wild west Internet.
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Hmm, I had that problem when I had gcc 3.3 installed and the Nvidia module didn't want to compile and install. I changed the /usr/bin/gcc symlink to point to gcc295 and it worked fine. I use a custom compiled kernel though and not the Debian packaged ones. It didn't seem to like gcc 3.3 very much, but I guess it was just something it wasn't parsing right?
I don't think anyone is using it as a standalone PVR (does it even have PCI slots?). They're using them as a MythTV frontend box. The actual encoding and storage is handled by a seperate backend box (which can be conveniently hidden away in a basement or closet so it can be noisy and not bother you). All the communications between them is just over a network connection. You can of course have a frontend on the same box as the backend though too and communicate over the loopback interface.
Well, the iBook was an impulse buy ($1299 for the 12" model at the time) and the cheapest Powerbook was a 15" Titanium for around $2000. They didn't come out with the 12" Powerbooks until 6 months after I bought my iBook. I was thinking of upgrading to a 15" Powerbook until I saw all the problems with this white spot issue on the screens and the supposedly horrible battery life. My iBook gets a solid 3.5-4 hours on it's battery and I don't think I can live with less. G4 Powerbooks really need two batteries.
Well, if it was a Linux installation it'd most likely work fine. If it was Windows then you're probably SOL and need to reinstall. I've never had much luck moving a drive from one system to another with a completely different motherboard and drivers. Sure, it SEEMS to work, but I get odd instability issues. After a reinstall everything is peachy. That's why I hate getting a new system. With Linux I pop out the old disk, put it in the new system and am up and running in no time. When I build a new Windows box I know I'm in for at least 8 hours of patching, installing my software, restoring my data, etc. It's a pain in the ass.
Well, not if you bought a lot of Mac software. You'd be pretty much screwed and have to scrap it. I'm inching into the Mac water but my iBook logic board problem made me take a step back and not put a lot of confidence in my Mac for production work. Basically I just use it for a mobile web browsing and e-mail machine. My real work is still done on my Windows box.
Can't you just drop the Mac drive into another Mac?
At lease check the link before you moderate someone as informative. It's clearly a picture of that Nazi guy from a few months back on Fark. He's got a huge friggin swastika tatooed on his neck. I'm pretty sure Dr. Kelly wasn't a Nazi biker... was he?
I think it's more likely Darl will be spending some time with Ken Lay... in PRISON! Well, in a geek fantasy where Al Gore got elected perhaps. ;-)
Why would the virus writers DDoS their own web sites? No, I don't find it to be an amazing coincidence that the very people supposedly fighting viruses also employ the people most knowledgeable about creating them. It's their job to know everything about viruses and it's their company's business to sell antivirus software. I was less suspicious back when McAfee used to give out free shareware versions, but when everyone went to charging a subscription fee yearly for updates it kind of became obvious that antivirus companies are behind most, if not all viruses in existence today.
Waste what? From what I read they're just trading them in and Apple will sell them as used/refurbished units. They're probably getting a huge discount for the trade in of 4 month old machines, if they're paying anything at all. This is just a boost for Apple's marketing department to have a G5 cluster in one of the top supercomputer spots. What I never understood is why someone like IBM didn't come along and cluster 10,000 dual P4 nodes together for fun to get on the top spot. I'm sure they have the inventory to write that off.
Who is the "us" you're referring to? Are you a virus writer? If this was Linux fanboys doing this they'd write a Linux virus since they don't even own a copy of Windows remember?
He used to use SuSe at home and Red Hat at work... at least in 1999 according to the Linux kernel mailing list. :-)
And the Prime Ministers have the real executive power in these countries anyway. When was the last time anyone paid any attention at all as to what Queen Elizabeth has said on foreign affairs? They're puppet heads for their government and a throwback to grander times, nothing more, nothing less. I'm just saying it's cute that countries still hold onto their monarchies for nostalgia even though the real power is in the hands of the people.. where it should be.
How cute, they still have a monarch. How very 18th century of them. :-)
The Queen is handing out Knighthoods lately like the certification mills are handing out MCSEs. I guess it's fitting and just as useless.
Look, nobody's going to do any celebrating until you guys find a damn ocean of water so we can all get our free jumbo shrimp from Long John Silver's.
PS: Just kidding, congrats. :-)
No dual-tuner support unless you buy the crippled DirecTV unit would be the killer for me. I don't have DirecTV (nor do I want it). With the Tivo I'd need to let it decide which programs I want to watch and which I will not catch. That's not acceptable to me when two of my favorite shows are running at the same time on different channels. Sure, the answer becomes "buy two Tivos then". With the Linux solution it becomes "just add another TV card". Which do you think is cheaper? If I want THREE programs at once? The Tivos start to add up! :-)
MythTV will work with any card that works with Video4Linux properly. Basically if you can reliably watch TV with it using XawTV then it should work fine for MythTV unless you're having other hardware problems. MythTV's software encoding definitely stresses the box at times so if it's at all unstable you'll probably crash the box. I had a Hauppauge WinTV dbx-stereo card (model 401) and it worked great. I've since switched to the PVR-250 card though and their drivers are a bit buggy at times so it's really ivtv's issue, but they're reverse engineering a closed source driver so more power to 'em. :-)
Hopefully, they will work out a SINGLE standard for getting copy/cut and paste working correctly. X already does have a single standard for copying text. Select with the left mouse button, resize with the right, and paste with the middle. Are you saying there are apps that are broken and don't support that? File a bug report to the app's programmers to get it fixed. I can copy and paste between all my X apps like Mozilla and xterms.
The easy solution is that you shouldn't be using NAT on your web/mail/file server anyway. Get a Linksys box or a real firewall. ;-)
Some of us would say they should be deported. We have a high enough unemployment rate that we don't need to be importing workers. The country is full, find another to live in or go back to your home country. Try becoming a Japanese citizen sometime if you're not born there.
Go search for "sun ultra 5 udma" on Google Groups and read some of the usenet articles about pissed off users getting crappy performance if you don't believe me. I've got over a dozen Ultra 10's and one Ultra 5 (same thing as the Ultra 10 except it's a desktop case instead of a tower) and we've NEVER seen decent performance out of the disks. Just because Sun claims their controller chip is ultra-dma 33 doesn't mean their drivers actually take advantage of it.
The only udma 33 feature I've gotten out of them is supporting up to 112 gigs on a 120 gig ATA drive. This is all with Solaris obviously since you'd be insane to want to put Linux on these overpriced underperforming PC wannabes. The build quality on the cases reminds me of a cheap Taiwan import company. Remember though, this was their first take at the low-end cheap desktop computing market. We picked up our Ultra 10's for a very cheap $3600 each in 1999. They completely blew away the Ultra-2's we were previously buying for $16,000 each in terms of price/performance.
Well, probably because 95% of the people using Linux just use an x86 box. An old Pentium II will run circles around most Sun boxes you could buy under $500 and you can pick the PII out of the trash. Don't get me wrong, I love my dual 75MHz Sparc-20 at home, but it is by no means comparable to any of my x86 boxes in terms of speed. It may be faster than my old 90MHz Pentium though.
Just beware that Ultra 5's and Ultra 10's have HORRIBLELY slow IDE buses (16 MB/sec or less). I don't believe they support DMA. You'd be better off getting a Sun Blade 100 or a used Ultra 10 with a SCSI card.
Well, speaking from a business standpoint, I couldn't care less if people can't connect directly to our workstations from the Internet. The machines we want people to talk to are on the DMZ. Everything else is clients and internal protected servers (file servers, databases, etc.). IPv6 won't catch on until firewall software is updated to interoperate with it unfortunately. Don't expect people to have a change of heart and to suddenly go back to the bad old days of every system being wide open on the wild west Internet.