- No upload/download cap - free static IP and DNS name - 1 GB Web account with PHP and MySQL - you can create as much web sites as you want - you can also create several email accounts. - you can choose your telephone number - you can receive the voice messages from your phone via email
The set top box provided by Free runs under Linux and almost all of their servers runs under Linux:-) (except NetApp for file storage)
It it hangs on boot during grub loading, all you have to do is to boot CD #1 "linux rescue", chroot to/mnt/sysimage and reinstall the boot sector wit a grub-install/dev/hda
I installed FC3 Saturday afternoon on my 3 home PCs. It worked fine on one (P4 3.0C, 865PE) and hanged on boot on 2 others (XP 3000 and XP 2400, SiS chipset).
In France people with an excellent line in big towns can get up to 8M/768k IP (10M/1M ATM) and the provider is currently installing ADSL2+ equipment (25M/3M max).
I live in rural France in a VERY small town in the middle of crop fields (100 inhabitants !) and I only have 1024K/128K ADSL access (2048K/128K within one month).
Gnome is fine to watch pictures or lauch some useful apps like FireFox, Thunderbird and the like but my most useful graphical app is XTerm... lots of XTerm:-)
With the previous kernels the P4 HT is treated like a true SMP which it "nearly" is...
From the OS point of view there is 2 "real" processors available. They share the same ressources (cache, execution units...) but there is not a "primary" and a "secondary" processor. They are equivalent like in a true SMP system.
The OS currently has no way to know if a process to be sent to one of the logicals processors will eat the ressources of the other processor or not.
I use the Con Kolivas SMT patch since 2.6.3 and it really makes my P4 3.0C fly compared to a stock kernel (Yes Seti always runs on it;-) )
Kernel 2.6.7 is the solution for this situation. It integrates the very useful following patch from Con Kolivas :
[PATCH] sched: SMT niceness handling
From: Con Kolivas
This patch provides full per-package priority support for SMT processors (aka pentium4 hyperthreading) when combined with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT.
It maintains cpu percentage distribution within each physical cpu package by limiting the time a lower priority task can run on a sibling cpu concurrently with a higher priority task.
It introduces a new flag into the scheduler domain
unsigned int per_cpu_gain;/* CPU % gained by adding domain cpus */
This is empirically set to 15% for pentium4 at the moment and can be modified to support different values dynamically as newer processors come out with improved SMT performance. It should not matter how many siblings there are.
How it works is it compares tasks running on sibling cpus and when a lower static priority task is running it will delay it till high_priority_timeslice * (100 - per_cpu_gain) / 100
eg. a nice 19 task (Note : Seti@Home for example:-) ) timeslice is 10ms and nice 0 timeslice is 102ms On vanilla the nice 0 task runs on one logical cpu while the nice 19 task runs unabated on the other logical cpu. With smtnice the nice 0 runs on one logical cpu for 102ms and the nice 19 sleeps till the nice 0 task has 12ms
remaining and then will schedule.
We don't use single drives but tape libraries with 1 to 8 drives (working in parallel), 9 to 400 tape slots and a nifty robotic arm to move the tapes:-)
You probably suggest to buy a DVD player with some kind of WindowsCE embedded into it ?
Kiss was already accused of not releasing source code of their product. They released the sources of ucLinux and busybox on the page where you can find the upgrades to their players.
Let's wait some more days and I would not be surprised at all if they add MPlayer to their GPL.zip file.
In any case, it will still not be very useful because they use binary kernel modules to pilot the video hardware and the front panel of the player (and they have the right to do so without releasing the source).
Personally, I'm very happy that a lot of companies release more and more products with Linux embedded into it, even if they did not strictly respect the GPL terms. The alternative could have been something coming from Microsoft !
I used to have problems with smooth playback of a lot of old DivX 3.11 files with versions previous but this problem disapeared for me with 2.7.4.
I just upgraded to the latest 2.8.0 two days ago and I've not found any problem during the playback of the 3.11 encoded DivX I watched yesterday : Alien.
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An you forget to tell that the Freebox itself runs under Linux :-)
Free.fr is an excellent provider.
:
:-) (except NetApp for file storage)
For the 30 Euros, you get
- No upload/download cap
- free static IP and DNS name
- 1 GB Web account with PHP and MySQL
- you can create as much web sites as you want
- you can also create several email accounts.
- you can choose your telephone number
- you can receive the voice messages from your phone via email
The set top box provided by Free runs under Linux and almost all of their servers runs under Linux
In France, we also have ADSL2+ in some areas :
:-)
20 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, and a Wifi/ADSL Router for 30 Euros/month.
No download limit !
http://adsl.free.fr/
This price also includes VoIP and television via IP.
As an added bonus, the Wifi access point/ADSL Router/VoIP/television runs under Linux
No it is not !
:-)
Can't find any Linux installer on this page
It it hangs on boot during grub loading, all you have to do is to boot CD #1 "linux rescue", chroot to /mnt/sysimage and reinstall the boot sector wit a grub-install /dev/hda
I installed FC3 Saturday afternoon on my 3 home PCs. It worked fine on one (P4 3.0C, 865PE) and hanged on boot on 2 others (XP 3000 and XP 2400, SiS chipset).
In France people with an excellent line in big towns can get up to 8M/768k IP (10M/1M ATM) and the provider is currently installing ADSL2+ equipment (25M/3M max).
I live in rural France in a VERY small town in the middle of crop fields (100 inhabitants !) and I only have 1024K/128K ADSL access (2048K/128K within one month).
As someone who does not pirates any software, I like OSS ideas best :-)
It's one of the worst movie I've ever seen.
Seeing the President of the US of A saving the planet if a little bit weird. Especially for somebody who is not American !
The Macintosh generated virus infecting the alien mothership computer system is also one of the dumbest scene I've seen in any movie !
Compared to Independance day, even "Plan 9 from outer space" appears to be a masterpiece of the seventh Art !
Argh, just fell in it !
The kernel Oopsed (no crash) when trying to launch an executable located on a NFSv3 server.
No problems anymore with the 1 character patch.
And all the proprietary modules I need still install and work fine (VMware, NVidia, Cisco VPN client)
Maybe you should wait for a new driver revision.
In the Readme of the current Linux driver (1.0-6111), GeForce 6800, 6800 GT and 6800 Ultra are listed but not the 6600 series.
There is not a lot of vibrations on an inline 4 cylinders like this Kawasaki.
:-)
If it were a Harley, he should not only use a solid state drive but he should also glue the CPU to the socket
cd, ls, cp, rm, mv, ln, head, tail, tee, grep, find, awk, sed, cat, more, vi, ps, kill
:-)
Gnome is fine to watch pictures or lauch some useful apps like FireFox, Thunderbird and the like but my most useful graphical app is XTerm... lots of XTerm
With the current P4 en Xeon, there is no way for the OS to find these informations which would be very useful for the scheduler.
Maybe in future HT processors from Intel ?...
With the previous kernels the P4 HT is treated like a true SMP which it "nearly" is...
;-) )
From the OS point of view there is 2 "real" processors available. They share the same ressources (cache, execution units...) but there is not a "primary" and a "secondary" processor. They are equivalent like in a true SMP system.
The OS currently has no way to know if a process to be sent to one of the logicals processors will eat the ressources of the other processor or not.
I use the Con Kolivas SMT patch since 2.6.3 and it really makes my P4 3.0C fly compared to a stock kernel (Yes Seti always runs on it
A ton of water or 1000 liters of water ? Thanks to the metric system, it's the same quantity.
No. We have 10x15 (in cm of course), 20x30, 30x45, etc...
:-)
Never heard about 4x6 and 5x7 sizes.
By the way, how did you call a 24x36 camera ?
A 0.945x1.417 camera ?
We don't use single drives but tape libraries with 1 to 8 drives (working in parallel), 9 to 400 tape slots and a nifty robotic arm to move the tapes :-)
Is there any Iomega Tape/Disc Library out there ?
In our computer room, we alreaty use SDLT 320 (160 GB uncompressed) and LTO (100 GB uncompressed).
I don't see any use for a 35 GB removable disc...
Iomega said the same thing in the past with 1st generation Jaz (1 Gb) when we used 2.6 and 6 Gb DLT tapes... Same old story...
Look at that, a X15 with a Ramjet :
s pe ech/x15-6spch.html
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/History/Speeches/x-15_
But the program was cancelled before the first flight with a working Ramjet.
Nevertheless, it could have been done in 1968 with a manned aircraft.
The X43 is not impressive at all.
It's not exactly the same thig but one of the X15 was fitted with a Ramjet :
s pe ech/x15-6spch.html
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/History/Speeches/x-15_
The X15 program was cancelled before the first flight with a Ramjet.
They have done waaaay better in the past :
s pe ech/x15-1spch.html
Mach 6.7 with the X15A-2. It was a manned aircraft.
The date ? Third of October 1967 !!!
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/History/Speeches/x-15_
You probably suggest to buy a DVD player with some kind of WindowsCE embedded into it ?
Kiss was already accused of not releasing source code of their product. They released the sources of ucLinux and busybox on the page where you can find the upgrades to their players.
Let's wait some more days and I would not be surprised at all if they add MPlayer to their GPL.zip file.
In any case, it will still not be very useful because they use binary kernel modules to pilot the video hardware and the front panel of the player (and they have the right to do so without releasing the source).
Personally, I'm very happy that a lot of companies release more and more products with Linux embedded into it, even if they did not strictly respect the GPL terms. The alternative could have been something coming from Microsoft !
I used to have problems with smooth playback of a lot of old DivX 3.11 files with versions previous but this problem disapeared for me with 2.7.4.
I just upgraded to the latest 2.8.0 two days ago and I've not found any problem during the playback of the 3.11 encoded DivX I watched yesterday : Alien.
xvid : yes
lavc : yes
files with b-frames : yes
files with gmc : yes
files with qpel : no (seems to be a hardware limitation)