if (!Directory.Exists(str)) Directory.CreateDirectory(str);
I prefer:
#!/perl mkdir($str) unless -d $str;
Once you go with short method names and hyper-abbreviated syntax, coupled with no memory management/pointers, you never go back. I can't stand such verbose crap as:
if (TheDirectoryExistsOnTheHardDiskButIsNotAFileOr ASymbolicLinkAndTheMoonIsInItsThirdPhase) { DoSomethingEvenLongerAndMoreVerbose() }
I like my system better: Change everyone's password directly on the server. Keep them in an encrypted (but easily searchable) database which only the admin can keep.
Tell the user to remember their password.
Demerit the user each time they have to ask for it, and publish the demerit count every week. Shame them. Demerit them further during daily inspections of workspaces if they have written it down anywhere.
Encourage "Survivor" tactics where workers try to figure out each other's passwords, and earn points for each password they discover. Keystroke logging, hidden cameras, it's all fair in the name of security. And of course, demerit the person who's password was compromised.
They will remember. Oh yes, they will remember.
On first day of hire: "WELCOME TO STRICTCO! YOUR EMPLOYEE NUMBER IS 103489923477730493. THE COSINE OF THAT IS YOUR PASSWORD. FORGET IT, AND WE DOCK YA!"
# Erik - 27 password demerits since 1997
Disclaimer: According to section 39485 of StrictCo's Employee Handbook, by using STRICTCO's Internet connection to post this message, the user's name and password demerit count must be published with each message, along with this disclaimer. Please report any violations to hr@strictco.gg
That, and the fact that when laymen try to get involved in the community to get familiar with it, they run into fanatical Linux-types who refuse to answer any question directly without criticising the person's lack of intelligence and unwillingness to find the information themselves, as well as the hordes of fanboi's who respond to everything with "OGG RULES! MP3s SUCK!".
I use WinXP at home because my home box is purely a game machine, no room for Linux. I use Winamp, and fact is, Ogg's take an extra half-second or so to load up than MP3s do, which are nearly instantaneous. The zero-patience attitude of technology consumers does not allow for such sloppiness, which is a strong reason to not convert everything over to Ogg.
That's assuming they know how to convert, or are willing to learn, which most people don't and aren't. And even if they did, everyone has 7 million MP3s from the Napster days, and it takes a REALLY long time to convert just one song to Ogg. Why bother?
MP3 is here to stay for a long time. Unless serious IP issues crop up with it, it'll definitely stay.
Ogg sounds better, but to most people, it's "a little better" or "unoticably better but I trust that it is, since everyone says so."
DVD burners and whatnot are standard options, but floppy drives are still virtually mandatory with a new system. Why? They simply won't die. People mucking around in DOS, setting up multi-boots, and a thousand other tasks need the quick, cheap, and bootable features of a floppy.
My gripe is that they're intolerably slow, and nobody seems to care. It's a 1.44mb device - why can't someone make a 100% hardware floppy emulation device that is similar to a USB keychain? It would need to be 100% hardware so that no drivers would be needed for very old operating systems. It would have to effectively fool the system into thinking it's a floppy - but read and write at RAM speeds instead of floppy speeds.
It would be nice if something like Bittorrent could be harnessed to make this type of system work in an opt-in manner, where a user's browser cache of a website, combined with an application, becomes a hosting node for that website, and the web servers keep track of who is caching for the site and randomly redirects traffic to the many nodes. The more popular your site becomes, the less likely you're actually serving up any pages!
I got erik.la a really long time ago, and it was being marketed as "Los Angeles' own domain!" way back then. Something like two years ago. I paid $100 for a year, and I believe I've renewed it at least once, so it's been a while.
Each submission must be the property of and an original work of the entrant. Submissions must be available for free public download and playable with the retail version of Unreal Tournament 2003 (patched to the 2225 update) for Phase I and Phase II. For Phase III, and for grand prize consideration, mods must be playable in Unreal Tournament 2004.
While the modders aren't giving up their mods to Epic, it's still the same thing: Epic makes you give it away to increase revenue of the retail product.
Never lose sight of the reasons company do things, lest ye look at what they do with distorted eyes. Some things are a win-win for companies and the communities, and this may very well be on of those things. But remember that they don't care if it's a win-win, and most companies will do anything for a buck.
A million bucks is nothing compared to the revenue generated by "The Next Counter-Strike" which is exactly what Epic is trying to create with this.
Ultimately, the developer of such a mod should be fairly compensated based on the popularity and ultimately, the sales, of their mod, not a one-time payout.
It's funny and sad that game developers are literally begging the community to create their next big hit for them.
On the other hand, a million dollars is a lot of money, and the poor CS developer probably got manipulated out of ever making that much money when he sold CS to Valve.
So hey, go make your mod and give it away to Epic!
That damn "Apache" subject got stuck on there again. Mozilla's form cache is so fun.
In traditional Slashdot manner, I posted before even reading the article or looking at the picture. After looking at the picture, I have to say - well done. All that technology seems to dissolve well into the background of the room, giving the appearance of not very much tech at all. The Way Things Should Be Done.
Even still, such a room is likely to cost a fortune. I travelled to Albequerque by motorcycle with a band - 5 people in a Van and no money between any of us - and we haggled down the cheapest damn hotel rooms we could find. People like us will always exist, and probably make up the majority.
What About Business Travelers you say? Sure.. when's the last time you were on a business trip and the company insisted you get the most expensive room possible? Uh huh.
These "things" of the future (homes, rooms, toilets) are always the same thing: They are not the Whatever of the Future, but simply the Whatever of the Very Rich.
I firmly believe that our futures hold simplicity, non-intrusiveness, and ease of use where technology is concerned. If television still exists in 100 years, it will be a nearly invisible unit, projecting onto a wall or an image floating in midair. Technology will dissolve into the very fabric of our lives as such that we will appear to be living in the 17th Century, when in fact we have lots of technology at our disposal.
I also do not believe that the capitalist system will disappear anytime soon. There will always be the rich, the middle class, and the poor. Most people cannot access high technology until it drops to commodity prices.
If you want to see what the future holds for technology, study the markets for the types of components that make up that technology. That which becomes cheap becomes widespread and ubiquitous.
I'll bet that the gub'ment comes down on Wired for doing this, even though we all know it's widely available source already. The gub'ment does not look at things so deep. They'll attack Wired for what they appear to be doing on the surface - disseminating hostile source - hell, they could be considered Terra-rists after this issue.
I work at an organization with over 34,000 employees. We tried Linux/Sendmail, it was too complicated and the admin GUI sucked. We switched to Exchange, but the box had pointy edges and was hurty.
Realizing that it was all very complex, we emailed all our employees their final message. It was a link to the SMTP RFC and a short list of instructions on how to use Telnet. Then we shut down the mail server and ate lunch.
Management reported an immediate profit increase projection for that month. While I'm sure this was due to productivity improvements facilitated by my fine IT department, some skeptical colleagues of mine think it was the mass exodus of employee resignations that took place around the time the new "mail system" went into place. I'm sure it was due to the rat problem in the cafeteria but nobody will listen to me.
If I worked in the Mozilla group, I'd feel pretty worthless right about now. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL/Netscape abandons Mozilla entirely after this. What's the point? Mozilla will never ship with AOL, and AOL doesn't seem to think it's bad that they'll be using IE forever. The sun is setting.
They'd know because their hit count on MSN.com would go down, since everyone's home page is configured to hit it.
Their hit count on Windows Update would go down, since every few times I launch IE, I see it checking for updates.
Their hit count on MSN messenger service would go down, since it's attached to Outlook Express for most people.
There's probably countless other times that Windows apps touch MS servers. They should probably monitor it and in the event of a severe drop after a patch, they can investigate.
a frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of the display. Why on earth would I upgrade? I can't see smaller pixels, faster framerate is irrelevant
A few people have mentioned to me that an FPS higher than the vertical refresh is irrelevant. I've always been confused at that, because I can always tell when something changed that caused my CS/Q3 FPS to drop from 250 to 90, even though my monitor only does 85hz.
I can't see it, I can feel it. And I'll take the pepsi challenge any day and show that I can tell the difference. All true gamers can. It's like when Neo saw everything turn green.:)
RE: RefreshForce. I've tried many of these. Most of them appear to fool the OS into thinking the card is not capable of any refresh rate other than the one you specify for a given resolution.
BF1942 has a major problem with these applications. It seems to force the card into 60hz regardless of anything. Removing this mode using one of these programs thus results in an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object - the game wants X, the card allows Y, and they do not come to an agreement.
While these programs are mostly very nice and work well, they shouldn't exist in the first place. Since they remove the modes from the system, some games require them to be completely uninstalled and the modes restored before they will work.
I know my problems are in actuality MS/XP refresh rate problems. But it still inexcusable that it exists at all and I can't blame MS completely. It's too implausible, and reeks of a lack of cooperation between video card manufacturers, MS, and game developers.
Video cards have a simple job when it comes to resolution and refresh rate: When using resolution X, use the best refresh rate Y, and if I have to tell it what that is, so be it. They can't do this.
A lot of this is due to games and their poor detection of capabilities, and lack of effort to try for the best refresh rate. However, it's hard to pin it all on them. Games generally don't have trouble detecting if you have EAX capability, or detecting how many axis are on your joystick, or whether you have a third button on your mouse. Sure, I've seen problems in these areas too, but the video card situation feels like someone just invented VGA yesterday and the video card manufacturers are struggling to make it all work.
I'm using the Cat 3.4 drivers. I can set the refresh separately too, but a few times both the ATI driver tabs and the XP display properties reported that I was in one refresh rate, but my monitor OSD said differently. Inexcusable. It was due to that "maximum capability" setting, and as a result it didn't mind lying to me as long as it avoided going over the maximum. Glad it was able to "protect" me.
But that's not the half of it. I set the refresh rate, and when entering a game, it changes, usually back to 60hz. When entering games, the resolution changes a lot, and it seems completely random what it ends up on.
Other problems I'm having include that mode switching in general takes three times as long as the NV card. Switching back to Windows from games results in a very long black screen, and until Cat 3.4 came along, I couldn't switch out of CS/HL at all without crashing the entire OS.
Let me give you an example of my typical day. I set the display capability to 1280x1024 @ 85hz because I want 85hz in CS. In CS, I accidentally had the mode set for 1600x1200. With ATI3.3, it would crash. With ATI3.4, it would actually draw a 1600x1200 screen in a 1280x1024 window. Yep, it was cut off, with part of the screen literally extending off the monitor into the void.
I change the capability to 1600x1200 @ 75hz and play a while. I quit and fire up BF1942, which due to CPU constraints, runs better at 1024x768. But, I'm at 75hz, because I have no way to tell the card that while it only supports 1600x1200 @ 75hz, it does 85hz in every other mode. I have to change the capability to 1280x1024 @ 85hz. BF1942 runs.
I run another game at 1600x1200. Unlike CS, where it drew off the screen, this one would simply blackscreen as a result of trying to go into 1600x1200 @ 85hz (since 85hz is my "maximum" resolution.) I reboot, and the first few times it happened, I looked for game patches before realizing that this stupid ATI driver was the cause.
The constant mode switches between games take several seconds, and perform an odd "screen wiping" effect that reeks of cheesy hardware. The NV switches modes smooth as butter.
I'm scared as hell to hook this thing into my TV. It might try to pump 2048x1024 @ 100hz at it and cause an explosion.
ATI also is crafty at tweaking their drivers to suck. They should be working on decent drivers instead of cheating on stupid benchmarks to get +1.9%.
I bought a Radeon 9700 Pro. The driver issues almost make it not worth the increased FPS over my Ti4400.
The refresh rate problem in XP is annoying as hell. ATI handles it even worse than NVidia, where you set your "maximum" refresh rate and your "highest" resolution, and it assumes that all lower resolutions can only handle that refresh rate.
There's no way to tell your ATI card, "My monitor can do 1280x1024 @ 85hz, but 1600x1200 @ only 75hz." You either get 75hz in everything if you want 1600x1200, or you get 85hz up to 1280x1024, and have to avoid 1600x1200 use lest ye risk getting "frequency over range".
NV handles it better with the driver, allowing you to set maximum refresh rates for every resolution individually.
These refresh rate tweaking programs don't help either, since half the games out there choke when you use them. PC 3d is in a bit of a sorry state right now, and I'm tired of it.
then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
They really should get better lawyers.
But the program was distributed. Isn't that their point? Someone distributed their code and attached the GPL to it, which they legally weren't allowed to do. It spread from there. They allege that IBM did this deliberately, sucking code out of SCO's UNIX, GPLing it, and slapping it into the kernel.
If they're right, it seems that any code proven as such, could never have been inserted into the Linux kernel and would need to be immediately removed, or face litgation from SCO.
Of course, we still don't know what code this is. They won't release it because we (Linux dev's) would just "cover our tracks" as if we could rewrite history (CVS history, specifically.)
Slashdot Mirror
if (!Directory.Exists(str)) Directory.CreateDirectory(str);
I prefer:
#!/perl
mkdir($str) unless -d $str;
Once you go with short method names and hyper-abbreviated syntax, coupled with no memory management/pointers, you never go back. I can't stand such verbose crap as:
if (TheDirectoryExistsOnTheHardDiskButIsNotAFileOr ASymbolicLinkAndTheMoonIsInItsThirdPhase) { DoSomethingEvenLongerAndMoreVerbose() }
s/you//g;
I like my system better: Change everyone's password directly on the server. Keep them in an encrypted (but easily searchable) database which only the admin can keep.
Tell the user to remember their password.
Demerit the user each time they have to ask for it, and publish the demerit count every week. Shame them. Demerit them further during daily inspections of workspaces if they have written it down anywhere.
Encourage "Survivor" tactics where workers try to figure out each other's passwords, and earn points for each password they discover. Keystroke logging, hidden cameras, it's all fair in the name of security. And of course, demerit the person who's password was compromised.
They will remember. Oh yes, they will remember.
On first day of hire: "WELCOME TO STRICTCO! YOUR EMPLOYEE NUMBER IS 103489923477730493. THE COSINE OF THAT IS YOUR PASSWORD. FORGET IT, AND WE DOCK YA!"
# Erik - 27 password demerits since 1997
Disclaimer: According to section 39485 of StrictCo's Employee Handbook, by using STRICTCO's Internet connection to post this message, the user's name and password demerit count must be published with each message, along with this disclaimer. Please report any violations to hr@strictco.gg
So this lets you use a hard disk as a floppy?
I agree.
That, and the fact that when laymen try to get involved in the community to get familiar with it, they run into fanatical Linux-types who refuse to answer any question directly without criticising the person's lack of intelligence and unwillingness to find the information themselves, as well as the hordes of fanboi's who respond to everything with "OGG RULES! MP3s SUCK!".
I use WinXP at home because my home box is purely a game machine, no room for Linux. I use Winamp, and fact is, Ogg's take an extra half-second or so to load up than MP3s do, which are nearly instantaneous. The zero-patience attitude of technology consumers does not allow for such sloppiness, which is a strong reason to not convert everything over to Ogg.
That's assuming they know how to convert, or are willing to learn, which most people don't and aren't. And even if they did, everyone has 7 million MP3s from the Napster days, and it takes a REALLY long time to convert just one song to Ogg. Why bother?
MP3 is here to stay for a long time. Unless serious IP issues crop up with it, it'll definitely stay.
Ogg sounds better, but to most people, it's "a little better" or "unoticably better but I trust that it is, since everyone says so."
DVD burners and whatnot are standard options, but floppy drives are still virtually mandatory with a new system. Why? They simply won't die. People mucking around in DOS, setting up multi-boots, and a thousand other tasks need the quick, cheap, and bootable features of a floppy.
My gripe is that they're intolerably slow, and nobody seems to care. It's a 1.44mb device - why can't someone make a 100% hardware floppy emulation device that is similar to a USB keychain? It would need to be 100% hardware so that no drivers would be needed for very old operating systems. It would have to effectively fool the system into thinking it's a floppy - but read and write at RAM speeds instead of floppy speeds.
I'd buy it.
It would be nice if something like Bittorrent could be harnessed to make this type of system work in an opt-in manner, where a user's browser cache of a website, combined with an application, becomes a hosting node for that website, and the web servers keep track of who is caching for the site and randomly redirects traffic to the many nodes. The more popular your site becomes, the less likely you're actually serving up any pages!
I got erik.la a really long time ago, and it was being marketed as "Los Angeles' own domain!" way back then. Something like two years ago. I paid $100 for a year, and I believe I've renewed it at least once, so it's been a while.
Each submission must be the property of and an original work of the entrant. Submissions must be available for free public download and playable with the retail version of Unreal Tournament 2003 (patched to the 2225 update) for Phase I and Phase II. For Phase III, and for grand prize consideration, mods must be playable in Unreal Tournament 2004.
While the modders aren't giving up their mods to Epic, it's still the same thing: Epic makes you give it away to increase revenue of the retail product.
Never lose sight of the reasons company do things, lest ye look at what they do with distorted eyes. Some things are a win-win for companies and the communities, and this may very well be on of those things. But remember that they don't care if it's a win-win, and most companies will do anything for a buck.
A million bucks is nothing compared to the revenue generated by "The Next Counter-Strike" which is exactly what Epic is trying to create with this.
Ultimately, the developer of such a mod should be fairly compensated based on the popularity and ultimately, the sales, of their mod, not a one-time payout.
It's funny and sad that game developers are literally begging the community to create their next big hit for them.
On the other hand, a million dollars is a lot of money, and the poor CS developer probably got manipulated out of ever making that much money when he sold CS to Valve.
So hey, go make your mod and give it away to Epic!
That damn "Apache" subject got stuck on there again. Mozilla's form cache is so fun.
In traditional Slashdot manner, I posted before even reading the article or looking at the picture. After looking at the picture, I have to say - well done. All that technology seems to dissolve well into the background of the room, giving the appearance of not very much tech at all. The Way Things Should Be Done.
Even still, such a room is likely to cost a fortune. I travelled to Albequerque by motorcycle with a band - 5 people in a Van and no money between any of us - and we haggled down the cheapest damn hotel rooms we could find. People like us will always exist, and probably make up the majority.
What About Business Travelers you say? Sure.. when's the last time you were on a business trip and the company insisted you get the most expensive room possible? Uh huh.
These "things" of the future (homes, rooms, toilets) are always the same thing: They are not the Whatever of the Future, but simply the Whatever of the Very Rich.
I firmly believe that our futures hold simplicity, non-intrusiveness, and ease of use where technology is concerned. If television still exists in 100 years, it will be a nearly invisible unit, projecting onto a wall or an image floating in midair. Technology will dissolve into the very fabric of our lives as such that we will appear to be living in the 17th Century, when in fact we have lots of technology at our disposal.
I also do not believe that the capitalist system will disappear anytime soon. There will always be the rich, the middle class, and the poor. Most people cannot access high technology until it drops to commodity prices.
If you want to see what the future holds for technology, study the markets for the types of components that make up that technology. That which becomes cheap becomes widespread and ubiquitous.
You must have written this article.
Answer: 0
I'll bet that the gub'ment comes down on Wired for doing this, even though we all know it's widely available source already. The gub'ment does not look at things so deep. They'll attack Wired for what they appear to be doing on the surface - disseminating hostile source - hell, they could be considered Terra-rists after this issue.
I work at an organization with over 34,000 employees. We tried Linux/Sendmail, it was too complicated and the admin GUI sucked. We switched to Exchange, but the box had pointy edges and was hurty.
Realizing that it was all very complex, we emailed all our employees their final message. It was a link to the SMTP RFC and a short list of instructions on how to use Telnet. Then we shut down the mail server and ate lunch.
Management reported an immediate profit increase projection for that month. While I'm sure this was due to productivity improvements facilitated by my fine IT department, some skeptical colleagues of mine think it was the mass exodus of employee resignations that took place around the time the new "mail system" went into place. I'm sure it was due to the rat problem in the cafeteria but nobody will listen to me.
Being even more specific gives an even funnier result..
Thanks, that's good to know.
0 -1 34454.asp?sym=MSFT
But just a day after my post, here we have articles like this one:
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/reuters05-3
Which will contribute to the general perception that Netscape/Mozilla is a dead product.
If I worked in the Mozilla group, I'd feel pretty worthless right about now. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL/Netscape abandons Mozilla entirely after this. What's the point? Mozilla will never ship with AOL, and AOL doesn't seem to think it's bad that they'll be using IE forever. The sun is setting.
Anyone notice their stock price has done rather well in the past 6 months, with a pretty major spike in the last month or so?
sco 6mo stock chart
They'd know because their hit count on MSN.com would go down, since everyone's home page is configured to hit it.
Their hit count on Windows Update would go down, since every few times I launch IE, I see it checking for updates.
Their hit count on MSN messenger service would go down, since it's attached to Outlook Express for most people.
There's probably countless other times that Windows apps touch MS servers. They should probably monitor it and in the event of a severe drop after a patch, they can investigate.
a frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of the display. Why on earth would I upgrade? I can't see smaller pixels, faster framerate is irrelevant
:)
A few people have mentioned to me that an FPS higher than the vertical refresh is irrelevant. I've always been confused at that, because I can always tell when something changed that caused my CS/Q3 FPS to drop from 250 to 90, even though my monitor only does 85hz.
I can't see it, I can feel it. And I'll take the pepsi challenge any day and show that I can tell the difference. All true gamers can. It's like when Neo saw everything turn green.
RE: RefreshForce. I've tried many of these. Most of them appear to fool the OS into thinking the card is not capable of any refresh rate other than the one you specify for a given resolution.
BF1942 has a major problem with these applications. It seems to force the card into 60hz regardless of anything. Removing this mode using one of these programs thus results in an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object - the game wants X, the card allows Y, and they do not come to an agreement.
While these programs are mostly very nice and work well, they shouldn't exist in the first place. Since they remove the modes from the system, some games require them to be completely uninstalled and the modes restored before they will work.
I know my problems are in actuality MS/XP refresh rate problems. But it still inexcusable that it exists at all and I can't blame MS completely. It's too implausible, and reeks of a lack of cooperation between video card manufacturers, MS, and game developers.
Video cards have a simple job when it comes to resolution and refresh rate: When using resolution X, use the best refresh rate Y, and if I have to tell it what that is, so be it. They can't do this.
A lot of this is due to games and their poor detection of capabilities, and lack of effort to try for the best refresh rate. However, it's hard to pin it all on them. Games generally don't have trouble detecting if you have EAX capability, or detecting how many axis are on your joystick, or whether you have a third button on your mouse. Sure, I've seen problems in these areas too, but the video card situation feels like someone just invented VGA yesterday and the video card manufacturers are struggling to make it all work.
I'm using the Cat 3.4 drivers. I can set the refresh separately too, but a few times both the ATI driver tabs and the XP display properties reported that I was in one refresh rate, but my monitor OSD said differently. Inexcusable. It was due to that "maximum capability" setting, and as a result it didn't mind lying to me as long as it avoided going over the maximum. Glad it was able to "protect" me.
But that's not the half of it. I set the refresh rate, and when entering a game, it changes, usually back to 60hz. When entering games, the resolution changes a lot, and it seems completely random what it ends up on.
Other problems I'm having include that mode switching in general takes three times as long as the NV card. Switching back to Windows from games results in a very long black screen, and until Cat 3.4 came along, I couldn't switch out of CS/HL at all without crashing the entire OS.
Let me give you an example of my typical day. I set the display capability to 1280x1024 @ 85hz because I want 85hz in CS. In CS, I accidentally had the mode set for 1600x1200. With ATI3.3, it would crash. With ATI3.4, it would actually draw a 1600x1200 screen in a 1280x1024 window. Yep, it was cut off, with part of the screen literally extending off the monitor into the void.
I change the capability to 1600x1200 @ 75hz and play a while. I quit and fire up BF1942, which due to CPU constraints, runs better at 1024x768. But, I'm at 75hz, because I have no way to tell the card that while it only supports 1600x1200 @ 75hz, it does 85hz in every other mode. I have to change the capability to 1280x1024 @ 85hz. BF1942 runs.
I run another game at 1600x1200. Unlike CS, where it drew off the screen, this one would simply blackscreen as a result of trying to go into 1600x1200 @ 85hz (since 85hz is my "maximum" resolution.) I reboot, and the first few times it happened, I looked for game patches before realizing that this stupid ATI driver was the cause.
The constant mode switches between games take several seconds, and perform an odd "screen wiping" effect that reeks of cheesy hardware. The NV switches modes smooth as butter.
I'm scared as hell to hook this thing into my TV. It might try to pump 2048x1024 @ 100hz at it and cause an explosion.
ATI also is crafty at tweaking their drivers to suck. They should be working on decent drivers instead of cheating on stupid benchmarks to get +1.9%.
I bought a Radeon 9700 Pro. The driver issues almost make it not worth the increased FPS over my Ti4400.
The refresh rate problem in XP is annoying as hell. ATI handles it even worse than NVidia, where you set your "maximum" refresh rate and your "highest" resolution, and it assumes that all lower resolutions can only handle that refresh rate.
There's no way to tell your ATI card, "My monitor can do 1280x1024 @ 85hz, but 1600x1200 @ only 75hz." You either get 75hz in everything if you want 1600x1200, or you get 85hz up to 1280x1024, and have to avoid 1600x1200 use lest ye risk getting "frequency over range".
NV handles it better with the driver, allowing you to set maximum refresh rates for every resolution individually.
These refresh rate tweaking programs don't help either, since half the games out there choke when you use them. PC 3d is in a bit of a sorry state right now, and I'm tired of it.
then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
They really should get better lawyers.
But the program was distributed. Isn't that their point? Someone distributed their code and attached the GPL to it, which they legally weren't allowed to do. It spread from there. They allege that IBM did this deliberately, sucking code out of SCO's UNIX, GPLing it, and slapping it into the kernel.
If they're right, it seems that any code proven as such, could never have been inserted into the Linux kernel and would need to be immediately removed, or face litgation from SCO.
Of course, we still don't know what code this is. They won't release it because we (Linux dev's) would just "cover our tracks" as if we could rewrite history (CVS history, specifically.)
It's all fun to read and follow though, isn't it?
"Re:Apache displacing IIS?"
Heh, don't you love it when Mozilla stuff a form field and you don't notice?
I wonder how many of my posts have had this subject...