I have run the new TNT/TNT2 enhanced X server and it runs remote Mesa/GL apps very well when given enough network bandwidth. X isn't the real bottleneck here, it is the network. Go look at the bandwidth requirements of a modern 3D accelerator. Even PCI slots aren't really fast enough anymore. That makes what I have seen with my own eyes even more remarkable. X is quite flexible and will probably be extended much more in the future before it is replaced; probably with a superset of X itself.
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for this type of application. Open and free source with excellent development tools. Much cheaper than the embedded windows family.
I agree that the RTP area is nice. It may not be much like the area of Australia that Raster grew up in though. That is the measuring stick he is probably using and I can't really relate. But, taking into account his move to an umfamiliar country and toss in an ( from his view) agitating boss and I would probably freak or get pissed or both.
Sorry to see Raster go, but hopefully things will be better for him in a different environment.
Interesting error messages from w2kb3 system & application logs.
syslog: IPSec Policy agent started successfully.
applog: Failed to obtain Kerberos server credentials for ISAKMP/Oakley service. Kerberos authentication will not function. The most likely reason for this is lack of domain membership.
applog: The IP Security policy for ISAKMP/Oakley specified an encryption algorithm that is invalid due to export cryptography restrictions. All 3DES encryption used by ISAKMP/Oakley is weakened to standard DES encyption. Generally, this is benign. ISAKMP/Oakley will still be able to negotiate IP security parameters, and protect that negotiation with DES encryption. This should only be of concern if you demand that the ISAKMP/Oakley negotiation be protected with 3DES encryption. If this is the case, please contact your network administrator.
I sure am glad I'm moving to a job that involves a Linux based company. M$ is limiting local subnet negotiations because of export restrictions? Big Brother is alive and well. Little Brother lives just outside Redmond.
Translation: You don't care about transparent AS stuff. I, on the other hand, do care. I have three Linux boxes within a seven foot radius beside me. I use red and blue tinted transparent aterms to tell me at a glance which buried window corner is telneted to the box I need at the moment. Is that a trivial use? Not to me. And that transparent stuff that no one cares about has already been ported to WM via Alfredo's modified rxvt.
I bought Civ:CTP at LinuxExpo. I doubt that I will play it (not really my type of game), but I wanted to support Loki and encourage other companies that may port games I would like to play.
The quality of the port and packaging seem top-notch to me. The install went well, game was fast and generally it looked to be comparable to a PC or windows game. Not bad for a first effort. Congrats to the people at Loki!
Not! I have personally used the unified wrapper on an STB velocity 4400 (TNT based also). You only have to have a valid CL TNT Blaster serial# to d/l it.
their own variants of windows. Many apps need 'tuning' to run properly under NT and the W2K betas have serious problems running apps that are well behaved under 95, 98 and NT. What costs will be associated with the splintering or diluting of windows by MS themselves?
The first real problem with cheap smp was solved when intel developed and patented APIC. This structure has half of the interrupt control needed on the cpu, half in the chipset or auxillary chip like the iS82093AA.
Intel would not license this to AMD or Cyrix so they developed their own OpenPIC standard which the 6x86 and K5 supported. When AMD bought NexGen for their 6th generation design which evolved into the K6, it had no OpenPIC support and it wasn't worth the cost to add. Via did have OpenPIC support in atleast one version of chipset, but I never found a motherboard implementing SMP with it. Linux does indeed support OpenPIC SMP, but only on the PowerPC processors ( see linux/openpic.h). With only Cyrix having processor support for Openpic with the passing of the K5, and intel not letting anyone else make APIC compatible stuff, well, intel is the only SMP game for x86 systems. But OpenPIC was practical and robust enough for Motorola and IBM to make it a foundational part of the whole PowerPC line.
Sad really when you look at the unrelenting control that intel uses on the PC industry to maintain an environment that suits their needs at the expense of everything else.
Does your PnP modem allow you to disable the PnP "feature" and just set it for a specific port? Also, not trying to be a smartass, but are you sure that it is not a winmodem?
Also, Enlightenment is alpha software at best! It isn't even feature complete. It is currently at version 0.15.4, note the *0*. I like Linux, but it isn't for everyone. Neither is windows or MacOS or OS/2, Plan9, QNX, FreeBSD, dos, etc..
If you never use Linux just because of modem trouble, you may be missing a chance to learn about something that could be a powerful computing tool for you. There are several redhat newsgroups where you could probably find much friendly, useful help.
My system: Celeron 463a, TNT-agp, 128meg PC100, abit bx6. System built for friend: K6-2 350@400, TNT-agp, 64meg PC100, Asus P5A.
Both systems using nvidia detonator drivers & DX6.1 running win98 ( basically for games only).
Viper racing ( d3d game) internal benchmark @ 1024x768 on my celeron 463a(4.5x103) 50.3fps, K6-2 400 (4x100) 57fps. I don't play quake, so no nuumbers there. Unreal d3d is also a little faster on the K6-2 despite the slower clock rate.
...before you post. I didn't see any threats. Only the names, phone #'s and some photos of doctors that perform abortions. I didn't see a single threat, only a list of doctors that perform legal procedures. My opinion of whether this legal procedure is moral may differ from your opinion though.
How the heck are we supposed to take advantage of the last early-bird discount day when the friggin servers are being moved? That sounds like a severe lack of planning. The woman that answered the questions # didn't even know the servers were down or being moved. Thanks RedHat!!!
I had to save the web pages and edit the size=1 out of the code and reload to actually read the text.
It sounds quite slick and professional. Maybe it's a good thing the CD player in my car croaked.:) Hope they can keep the price low and still make money.
Dang right! We pay $89 for win98, (oops) $85 for win95 osr2.5 and $75 for WFW3.11. You don't want to get caught buying stuff that cheap by the M$ pirate police.. They sue.
Dang right! We pay $89 for win98, $95 for win95 osr2.5 and $75 for WFW3.11. You don't want to get caught buying stuff that cheap by the M$ pirate police.. They sue.
I don't disagree completely with the concept of ACs on/. and other sites, but I do disagree with JK's assesment. ACs usually take the 'no consequence for their actions' stance. They can anonymously interject anything into a reasonable discussion and derail or degrade it into a flamewar and not have to share a bit of identity or responsibility. Does he really think that there is a segment of society that shouldn't be held responsible for their actions in a public forum?
JK seems to want to celebrate and worship some of the worst of humanity ( the behaviour, not ACs) which leads me to wonder just what kind of guy he really is. He likes to stir things up, dosen't know hardly anything about computers, gets paid to write articles that generate tremendous response... Hmmmm.. do you suppose that he may post many of the AC comments that he is defending here?? Makes me wonder.
What about all my mental anguish? I've suffered greatly the past several years that we have been selling win 3.x, 95/98 and NT. Shouldn't M$ have to cover my psychiatric bills? Their psychotic Bills? Someone please stop the voices!!
Celeron 300a @ 463 bl-op csg.srs -> 8.12sec with x11amp playing ( no stutter at all), rc5des chunking ( nice -19), afterstep, gnome panel, netscape, etc.. 101 processes in all and 10meg into swap w/128meg ram.
I'm compiling egcs19990103 to see if it will improve any more.
Anonymous Cowards seem to have a very bad case of NIA-itis (Not Invented Anything-itis) and since their development time is completely unused, they have mucho time to complain about what others have implemented.
I like the approach that Raster & Mandrake have taken in developing Enlightenment. They haven't built on a flawed foundation. They have scraped the existing work when their knowledge has outgrown the limits of previous implementation. If MS had taken this approach, we might have a stable windows platform and no huge Linux growth.
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I have run the new TNT/TNT2 enhanced X server and it runs remote Mesa/GL apps very well when given enough network bandwidth. X isn't the real bottleneck here, it is the network. Go look at the bandwidth requirements of a modern 3D accelerator. Even PCI slots aren't really fast enough anymore. That makes what I have seen with my own eyes even more remarkable. X is quite flexible and will probably be extended much more in the future before it is replaced; probably with a superset of X itself.
for this type of application. Open and free source with excellent development tools. Much cheaper than the embedded windows family.
I agree that the RTP area is nice. It may not be much like the area of Australia that Raster grew up in though. That is the measuring stick he is probably using and I can't really relate. But, taking into account his move to an umfamiliar country and toss in an ( from his view) agitating boss and I would probably freak or get pissed or both.
Sorry to see Raster go, but hopefully things will be better for him in a different environment.
Interesting error messages from w2kb3 system & application logs.
syslog: IPSec Policy agent started successfully.
applog: Failed to obtain Kerberos server credentials for ISAKMP/Oakley service. Kerberos authentication will not function. The most likely reason for this is lack of domain membership.
applog: The IP Security policy for ISAKMP/Oakley specified an encryption algorithm that is invalid due to export cryptography restrictions. All 3DES encryption used by ISAKMP/Oakley is weakened to standard DES encyption. Generally, this is benign. ISAKMP/Oakley will still be able to negotiate IP security parameters, and protect that negotiation with DES encryption. This should only be of concern if you demand that the ISAKMP/Oakley negotiation be protected with 3DES encryption. If this is the case, please contact your network administrator.
I sure am glad I'm moving to a job that involves a Linux based company. M$ is limiting local subnet negotiations because of export restrictions? Big Brother is alive and well. Little Brother lives just outside Redmond.
"...and no one cares about transparent AS stuff."
Translation: You don't care about transparent AS stuff. I, on the other hand, do care. I have three Linux boxes within a seven foot radius beside me. I use red and blue tinted transparent aterms to tell me at a glance which buried window corner is telneted to the box I need at the moment. Is that a trivial use? Not to me. And that transparent stuff that no one cares about has already been ported to WM via Alfredo's modified rxvt.
I bought Civ:CTP at LinuxExpo. I doubt that I will play it (not really my type of game), but I wanted to support Loki and encourage other companies that may port games I would like to play.
The quality of the port and packaging seem top-notch to me. The install went well, game was fast and generally it looked to be comparable to a PC or windows game. Not bad for a first effort. Congrats to the people at Loki!
Not! I have personally used the unified wrapper on an STB velocity 4400 (TNT based also). You only have to have a valid CL TNT Blaster serial# to d/l it.
their own variants of windows. Many apps need 'tuning' to run properly under NT and the W2K betas have serious problems running apps that are well behaved under 95, 98 and NT. What costs will be associated with the splintering or diluting of windows by MS themselves?
I wonder what the virtual cpu under VMware looks like to this ActiveX control? Anyone have the setup to test this?
The first real problem with cheap smp was solved when intel developed and patented APIC. This structure has half of the interrupt control needed on the cpu, half in the chipset or auxillary chip like the iS82093AA.
Intel would not license this to AMD or Cyrix so they developed their own OpenPIC standard which the 6x86 and K5 supported. When AMD bought NexGen for their 6th generation design which evolved into the K6, it had no OpenPIC support and it wasn't worth the cost to add. Via did have OpenPIC support in atleast one version of chipset, but I never found a motherboard implementing SMP with it. Linux does indeed support OpenPIC SMP, but only on the PowerPC processors ( see linux/openpic.h). With only Cyrix having processor support for Openpic with the passing of the K5, and intel not letting anyone else make APIC compatible stuff, well, intel is the only SMP game for x86 systems. But OpenPIC was practical and robust enough for Motorola and IBM to make it a foundational part of the whole PowerPC line.
Sad really when you look at the unrelenting control that intel uses on the PC industry to maintain an environment that suits their needs at the expense of everything else.
Does your PnP modem allow you to disable the PnP "feature" and just set it for a specific port? Also, not trying to be a smartass, but are you sure that it is not a winmodem?
Also, Enlightenment is alpha software at best! It isn't even feature complete. It is currently at version 0.15.4, note the *0*. I like Linux, but it isn't for everyone. Neither is windows or MacOS or OS/2, Plan9, QNX, FreeBSD, dos, etc..
If you never use Linux just because of modem trouble, you may be missing a chance to learn about something that could be a powerful computing tool for you. There are several redhat newsgroups where you could probably find much friendly, useful help.
Good Luck
My system: Celeron 463a, TNT-agp, 128meg PC100, abit bx6.
System built for friend: K6-2 350@400, TNT-agp, 64meg PC100, Asus P5A.
Both systems using nvidia detonator drivers & DX6.1 running win98 ( basically for games only).
Viper racing ( d3d game) internal benchmark @ 1024x768 on my celeron 463a(4.5x103) 50.3fps, K6-2 400 (4x100) 57fps. I don't play quake, so no nuumbers there. Unreal d3d is also a little faster on the K6-2 despite the slower clock rate.
...before you post. I didn't see any threats. Only the names, phone #'s and some photos of doctors that perform abortions. I didn't see a single threat, only a list of doctors that perform legal procedures. My opinion of whether this legal procedure is moral may differ from your opinion though.
How the heck are we supposed to take advantage of the last early-bird discount day when the friggin servers are being moved? That sounds like a severe lack of planning. The woman that answered the questions # didn't even know the servers were down or being moved. Thanks RedHat!!!
I had to save the web pages and edit the size=1 out of the code and reload to actually read the text.
:) Hope they can keep the price low and still make money.
It sounds quite slick and professional. Maybe it's a good thing the CD player in my car croaked.
Dang right! We pay $89 for win98, (oops) $85 for win95 osr2.5 and $75 for WFW3.11. You don't want to get caught buying stuff that cheap by the M$ pirate police.. They sue.
Dang right! We pay $89 for win98, $95 for win95 osr2.5 and $75 for WFW3.11. You don't want to get caught buying stuff that cheap by the M$ pirate police.. They sue.
I don't disagree completely with the concept of ACs on /. and other sites, but I do disagree with JK's assesment. ACs usually take the 'no consequence for their actions' stance. They can anonymously interject anything into a reasonable discussion and derail or degrade it into a flamewar and not have to share a bit of identity or responsibility. Does he really think that there is a segment of society that shouldn't be held responsible for their actions in a public forum?
JK seems to want to celebrate and worship some of the worst of humanity ( the behaviour, not ACs) which leads me to wonder just what kind of guy he really is. He likes to stir things up, dosen't know hardly anything about computers, gets paid to write articles that generate tremendous response... Hmmmm.. do you suppose that he may post many of the AC comments that he is defending here?? Makes me wonder.
What about all my mental anguish? I've suffered greatly the past several years that we have been selling win 3.x, 95/98 and NT. Shouldn't M$ have to cover my psychiatric bills? Their psychotic Bills? Someone please stop the voices!!
Dang, the ftp site with the patch gives a 'can't set guest privileges'. Anyone have an alternate site for the >4GB patch? It isn't at linuxmama...
Does anyone know if Aureal has plans to give the information necessary for Linux support for their 3D sound chips?
Celeron 300a @ 463
bl-op csg.srs -> 8.12sec with x11amp playing ( no stutter at all), rc5des chunking ( nice -19), afterstep, gnome panel, netscape, etc.. 101 processes in all and 10meg into swap w/128meg ram.
I'm compiling egcs19990103 to see if it will improve any more.
Anonymous Cowards seem to have a very bad case of NIA-itis (Not Invented Anything-itis) and since their development time is completely unused, they have mucho time to complain about what others have implemented.
I like the approach that Raster & Mandrake have taken in developing Enlightenment. They haven't built on a flawed foundation. They have scraped the existing work when their knowledge has outgrown the limits of previous implementation. If MS had taken this approach, we might have a stable windows platform and no huge Linux growth.
Of course, this is only my opinion...
It is available but it isn't the release.. I've had it blow up a time or two. Can't hardly wait for the release.