(wow, here's a prime example of why I should NOT be defaulting to a score of 2, but anyway, here goes...)
Check out http://www.auschron.com/issues/vol17/issue24/food. fonda.html for a story on the place, and you might search around www.auschron.com (search for "miguel ravago") to see if you can find out where he is now.
Every time I see austin come up in a story, the austin-based/.'ers come out of the woodwork... there seem to be a lot of them! I think we need to organize an outing - go see how Chuy's can cope with the slashdot effect.
Actually... that's not a bad idea in general. Might be fun to organize outings for slashdotters around the world...
I'm sure that requests from the Linux community had a lot to do with the release of these drivers, but give them some credit - they've been working on these for more than 2 weeks. Read the FAQ - Dave said there are 10 man YEARS in the windows version of the drivers. These things don't fall together overnight. Linux users can get pretty impatient while they wait for hardware support, but it's important to refrain from shouting "(hardware vendor here) SUCKS!" if you mail them and you don't have drivers within 2 weeks.
NVIDIA did a good thing here - if you mailed them requesting the drivers, make sure you mail them and let them know how much you support their action.
Open source 3D drivers for today's cutting-edge video chipsets? I reserve the right to be excited. I understand that it's preliminary. That doesn't make me less excited.:-)
You said if you want raw IP, you will get it (and often for a lot less). Care to expand on this? I like the "for a lot less" part. Did they cut you a deal?
Does anyone have experience with SWBell in Austin? I've heard that if you use them as an ISP, you're asking for really bad latency... in the 800ms range. But they are CHEAP - $10/month compared to $20 at texas.net and $30 at jump point. I suppose this is a case of getting what you pay for, but... anyone have a GOOD experience w/ swbell?
My strange DSL experience was calling a few ISPs with inquiries, then having the telco van roll up to my house to install... nifty, except I hadn't yet ordered it from anyone! They're really pushing it, I guess.:-)
As a last resort, the UDP rocks, although it's unfortunate when it comes to that. There's a lot of potential for throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's been used effectively a few times though, I believe.
If every admin would utilize the MAPS, the ORBS database, and participate in these UDPs, the world would be a remarkably spam-free place.
Pin 14 on the ATX power supply connector is the "PS-ON" signal. From the ATX spec:
PS-ON is an active low signal that turns on all of the main power rails including 3.3V, 5V, -5V, 12V, and -12V power rails. When this signal is held high by the PC board or left open circuited, outputs of the power rails should not deliver current and should be held at a zero potential with respect to ground. Power should be delivered to the rails only if the PS-ON signal is held at ground potential. This signal should be held at +5VDC by a pull-up resistor internal to the power supply.
So, you should be able to hack it together to have that pin permanently grounded, so that the PS is always on. I haven't tried this; I think it should work fine, but don't blame me if your motherboard burns!:-)
I remember when I bought it I was about 11 years old. It had 3k of memory... I told my mom she could use 0.5k for her recipies.:-) I wasn't quite clear on the concept at the time...
Yeah, those damn fat-cat teachers, getting rich on their salaries for working only 10 months a year...
...never mind that many work about 60-70 hours a week during those 10 months, are paid relatively little, and are just as fed up with the "ever-expanding administration" as you are.
The teacher's unions *should* scream, as should taxpayers, to get more out of the money spent on schools. People are always so quick to blame the teachers - I've never understood that. I'm married to one, and let me tell you - there's no union conspiracy that *I* know of. In fact, most single teachers I know have trouble making ends meet.
Um.. that reply-to thing didn't come out right. What I *meant* was reply to the abuse address at any "contact" email they provide. i.e. if they say "mail me at getrichquick@hotmail.com" then you send your complaint to abuse@hotmail.com.
1) To get your $5 off, just click the button. No spam-sending seems to be necessary, but they DO want your email address. Go figure. You sure that's worth $5?
2) As pointed out elsewhere, these people specialize in BUILDING mailing lists and advertising profiles. Granted, it's an opt-in system, but I'm not inclined to trust them to shield me from spam.
3) If you're going to take the time to forward your spam, forward it to the system that it originated from, and any legit reply-to addresses or web pages listed in the spam. Most services have an abuse@ email, you can visit their site to find out. Learn to read the headers to avoid the decoys. It's quite the feeling of empowerment to get a message back saying that the account has been canceled, or to visit the web page the next day and see a 404 Not Found message.
Seems to me that what is really needed is a national database of spammers that ISPs can consult, so that the spammers can't hop from one service to another as they get discovered.
I can't figure out why the CAUCE page links to these guys... it sure seems shady to me.
The Free Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, so donations to them are tax deductable. I don't know if they want hardware or not, but money is always appreciated.:-)
It's a pain, but most major ISPs have an abuse@ email address, and most of the time, they get results. Learn to decipher the mail headers, and send mail to the originating host, as well as to anyone who hosts web sites mentioned in the spam. I've stopped counting the number of accounts I've gotten canceled, but I think spammers fear me now. Yes... they tremble in their boots... as they send me more spam.:/ It is satisfying to see a 404 Not Found on a spammer's URL though.:-)
Well, (here in Austin) you can get 128k up / 384k down for $40/month from SWBell, and you can get ISP services from SWBell for $10/month. However, I've heard that the SWB service on the ISP is horrible, and that latency can get to 300-400ms, etc. Jump Point (jump.net) is supposed to be much better, for $30/month. I can't verify any of this firsthand, though.
Where'd you get the higher numbers? Are you looking at more bandwidth & static IPs?
A lot of the comments are "wow I gotta get me one!" but not all of the slot 1 convertors do the magic SMP thing - many (most?) of them still need some rework to get SMP going. Search for "dual celeron trick" to find the japanese page that did this first, they have a list of adapters, and how well they work.
This looks like a really nice way to go. I tried the drill/solder trick, and finally got it going, but it was really flaky, and kept crashing my box. Which was bad. It's really hard to solder the wires onto the fingers on the edge of the card, and then cram it into the slot without disconnecting and/or shorting the wire. I gave up for a while, then tried some resoldering, and fried one of the celerons.:-( Oh well, I knew what I was getting into, it was only about $60.
This looks fool-proof, and the PPGA celerons are cheaper these days anyway. Guess I'll have to go blow another $160 or so.:-)
Ah, hadn't thought about that... it gets even more complicated when there are more fingers in the pie.:-) But then... didn't Creative actually buy EMU?
Not a bad start, but I sure wish they'd release source on these things. Precision Insight has noted that
Experience has shown us that once a hardware manufacturer sees the positive response they receive from the Linux community when support for their hardware is available, they will ultimately agree to allow the release of the driver source code.
Slashdot Mirror
(wow, here's a prime example of why I should NOT be defaulting to a score of 2, but anyway, here goes...)
. fonda.html for a story on the place, and you might search around www.auschron.com (search for "miguel ravago") to see if you can find out where he is now.
Check out http://www.auschron.com/issues/vol17/issue24/food
The food's still pretty darn good, though.
Every time I see austin come up in a story, the austin-based /.'ers come out of the woodwork... there seem to be a lot of them! I think we need to organize an outing - go see how Chuy's can cope with the slashdot effect.
Actually... that's not a bad idea in general. Might be fun to organize outings for slashdotters around the world...
I'm sure that requests from the Linux community had a lot to do with the release of these drivers, but give them some credit - they've been working on these for more than 2 weeks. Read the FAQ - Dave said there are 10 man YEARS in the windows version of the drivers. These things don't fall together overnight. Linux users can get pretty impatient while they wait for hardware support, but it's important to refrain from shouting "(hardware vendor here) SUCKS!" if you mail them and you don't have drivers within 2 weeks.
NVIDIA did a good thing here - if you mailed them requesting the drivers, make sure you mail them and let them know how much you support their action.
Umm... what app? what resolution? That would make your framerates more meaningful. :-)
Open source 3D drivers for today's cutting-edge video chipsets? I reserve the right to be excited. I understand that it's preliminary. That doesn't make me less excited. :-)
You said if you want raw IP, you will get it (and often for a lot less).
Care to expand on this? I like the "for a lot less" part. Did they cut you a deal?
Does anyone have experience with SWBell in Austin? I've heard that if you use them as an ISP, you're asking for really bad latency... in the 800ms range. But they are CHEAP - $10/month compared to $20 at texas.net and $30 at jump point. I suppose this is a case of getting what you pay for, but... anyone have a GOOD experience w/ swbell?
:-)
My strange DSL experience was calling a few ISPs with inquiries, then having the telco van roll up to my house to install... nifty, except I hadn't yet ordered it from anyone! They're really pushing it, I guess.
If every admin would utilize the MAPS, the ORBS database, and participate in these UDPs, the world would be a remarkably spam-free place.
So, you should be able to hack it together to have that pin permanently grounded, so that the PS is always on. I haven't tried this; I think it should work fine, but don't blame me if your motherboard burns!
There's also more info on ATX at http://www.teleport.com/~atx/
beat a commodore 64? easy. Vic20...
:-) I wasn't quite clear on the concept at the time...
I remember when I bought it I was about 11 years old. It had 3k of memory... I told my mom she could use 0.5k for her recipies.
Yeah, those damn fat-cat teachers, getting rich on their salaries for working only 10 months a year...
...never mind that many work about 60-70 hours a week during those 10 months, are paid relatively little, and are just as fed up with the "ever-expanding administration" as you are.
The teacher's unions *should* scream, as should taxpayers, to get more out of the money spent on schools. People are always so quick to blame the teachers - I've never understood that. I'm married to one, and let me tell you - there's no union conspiracy that *I* know of. In fact, most single teachers I know have trouble making ends meet.
Um.. that reply-to thing didn't come out right. What I *meant* was reply to the abuse address at any "contact" email they provide. i.e. if they say "mail me at getrichquick@hotmail.com" then you send your complaint to abuse@hotmail.com.
1) To get your $5 off, just click the button. No spam-sending seems to be necessary, but they DO want your email address. Go figure. You sure that's worth $5?
2) As pointed out elsewhere, these people specialize in BUILDING mailing lists and advertising profiles. Granted, it's an opt-in system, but I'm not inclined to trust them to shield me from spam.
3) If you're going to take the time to forward your spam, forward it to the system that it originated from, and any legit reply-to addresses or web pages listed in the spam. Most services have an abuse@ email, you can visit their site to find out. Learn to read the headers to avoid the decoys. It's quite the feeling of empowerment to get a message back saying that the account has been canceled, or to visit the web page the next day and see a 404 Not Found message.
Seems to me that what is really needed is a national database of spammers that ISPs can consult, so that the spammers can't hop from one service to another as they get discovered.
I can't figure out why the CAUCE page links to these guys... it sure seems shady to me.
Should be www.microsfot.com, not .org:
whois microsfot.com
[rs.internic.net]
Registrant:
JS technologies SA (MICROSFOT2-DOM)
Rue du Centre 72
St-Sulpice, 1025
CH
Domain Name: MICROSFOT.COM
The Free Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, so donations to them are tax deductable. I don't know if they want hardware or not, but money is always appreciated. :-)
What's up with that? Killed netscape 4.51. Hm.
Do you have any experience w/ SWBell as an ISP? I heard horror stories of 30Kbps...
... please just let us know.
If you'd prefer that we not sleep with your girlfriend again, please drop us a note.
If you'd rather not have your house robbed again, please call this number.
If you'd prefer that we not steal your services again, please reply to this address.
No, "opt out" is not an option.
It's a pain, but most major ISPs have an abuse@ email address, and most of the time, they get results. Learn to decipher the mail headers, and send mail to the originating host, as well as to anyone who hosts web sites mentioned in the spam. I've stopped counting the number of accounts I've gotten canceled, but I think spammers fear me now. Yes... they tremble in their boots... as they send me more spam. :/ It is satisfying to see a 404 Not Found on a spammer's URL though. :-)
Well, (here in Austin) you can get 128k up / 384k down for $40/month from SWBell, and you can get ISP services from SWBell for $10/month. However, I've heard that the SWB service on the ISP is horrible, and that latency can get to 300-400ms, etc. Jump Point (jump.net) is supposed to be much better, for $30/month. I can't verify any of this firsthand, though.
Where'd you get the higher numbers? Are you looking at more bandwidth & static IPs?
A lot of the comments are "wow I gotta get me one!" but not all of the slot 1 convertors do the magic SMP thing - many (most?) of them still need some rework to get SMP going. Search for "dual celeron trick" to find the japanese page that did this first, they have a list of adapters, and how well they work.
This looks like a really nice way to go. I tried the drill/solder trick, and finally got it going, but it was really flaky, and kept crashing my box. Which was bad. It's really hard to solder the wires onto the fingers on the edge of the card, and then cram it into the slot without disconnecting and/or shorting the wire. I gave up for a while, then tried some resoldering, and fried one of the celerons. :-( Oh well, I knew what I was getting into, it was only about $60.
:-)
This looks fool-proof, and the PPGA celerons are cheaper these days anyway. Guess I'll have to go blow another $160 or so.
Ah, hadn't thought about that... it gets even more complicated when there are more fingers in the pie. :-) But then... didn't Creative actually buy EMU?