Number one in my book would be the requirement that it the ability to run whatever software the devices owner to choose to run.
Android is actually pretty good in that regard. If you pick out a phone that already runs Cyanogenmod and has a good kernel, whichdmit is more research than you should really have to do, it will do a good job of running software. You can install a full Linux in a chroot...
Number one in my book would be the requirement that it the ability to run whatever software the devices owner to choose to run.
Android is actually pretty good in that regard. If you pick out a phone that already runs Cyanogenmod and has a good kernel, which I admit is more research than you should really have to do, it will do a good job of running software. You can install a full Linux in a chroot...
I tried to look for what supports AOSP 6.0 and it's a pain in the ass. Did find one result, Galaxy S3 I think with some hardware not supported yet ; maybe what's needed is to know a list of 50 phone models or so and make a dozen canned searches or so on each (and how to select the likely models?). You find forum posts with no information and empty github pages. I believe we would have had it better in the era of web 1.0 - when there were even faq's in txt format still. You can find all kind of crazy stuff about old school hardware and software, and that'll be long reads or if not that long there will be the information about what it's about. Now if you do find something at all it's 'download this crap' or 'here is a code dump' or "rooting procedure : run xfgfhc.exe from that unknown file sharing site, download tyhggtyyiooui.apk from here, reboot with one finger in the jack and one in your private hole,..." And when a project has a website, it will be a dynamic one with five or seven sections but nothing in them ("so, there are no docs. Maybe I will find something on the wiki? Hmm, there's f.a.q. like material in the wiki but no system requirements except for setting up a build server...").
Sorry for the crapped out quoting : I'm on a phone and the comment box is running slow so I won't edit it by fear of losing my whole post.
The LTS have re-releases that often come with a newer kernel (16.04.1, 16.04.2,...). There's even a schedule for that. It overall brings better support for newer laptops etc. but you can install an older point version and apt-get upgrade it to ignore or avoid the changes.
The tragic thing : we're still waiting for Wayland so that these 3D desktops will properly run as does the window manager in Vista/7. And when it comes out I don't think the driver support will be stellar.
I like the fonts under linux actually. Spent a long time under Windows 9x and then XP with no anti-aliasing, I liked it that way back then. Then I migrated to Ubuntu Gnome 2 then Mint Mate mostly. Now there's anti-aliasing on the "light" setting I believe, without Cleartype (subpixel), as I see fit. Windows 7 and up only have Cleartype or no anti-aliasing, and that's perhaps the thing I hate most with Windows. You don't get a choice although it looks like ass on CRT monitor, non native res or now low dpi apps scaled on high dpi displays.
Otherwise the ability to run almost any binary and not from the command line, the fast graphics drivers even for crappy graphics cards etc., these are things to be missed from Windows.
You might be able to do something like install ubuntu 12.04 or mint 13 and downgrade Xorg. Beware of point updates like 12.04.5, 14.04.4, 17.2 and 17.3 if you specifically want older kernel/xorg. Perhaps Ubuntu 14.04.0 would even work. Mint 13 Xfce was great, ditto Mate, that's still a current LTS
I wonder that if you get an imported european DVD, maybe the ads aren't unskippable? I don't remember such ads on DVD but that was 10 years ago and over.
Alternatively I wonder why a DVD player feels it has to obey "unskippable" directives.. Region coding, I know every player ended up ignoring except maybe in the US where you found the "regulatory" pressure to honor it.
I mean, the H264 support isn't quite enough, it's a preliminary thing without API like vdpau and such (unless I missed something under Windows).
You can perhaps accelerate MPEG2 and DVD with specific software under Windows XP, but browser stuff needs at least a geforce 8 (8800 GTX/GTS not included).
Browser based video is extremely wasteful unless fully accelerated : it uses a ton of CPU for YUV to RGB, scaling, "compositing" into the web page (perhaps stuff is manually copied from a buffer into another and then it's dumbly pushed to the video card) I thought it was fairly obvious in the days youtube required a frigging 1.x GHz CPU to play full screen 240p whereas higher quality divx was fine on a 400MHz or 500MHz CPU. As it is, I could play modern youtube in full screen on a VIA C7 1GHz:), 360p webm in external player. That was in Windows 7 though as VIA graphics runs poorly in linux.
24 bit is used at the recording, editing, mastering stages because you can "waste" many bits due to digital volumes/levels not tightly adjusted, and not lose anything. Then as far ad human hearing is concerned 16/44 and 16/48 are the best. Some people upconvert things at 192 kHz and output on a DAC at 192 KHz, which lowers quality a tiny bit. Perhaps some rare genuine 191 content exists? Still likely to give slightly worse sound than 48 KHz.
I tried that sort of with a dumbphone. 2GB SD card with bootable linux mint iso, micro-USB cable. It boots! Sadly the phone only has USB 1.1 making the linux live USB totally unworkable. I might as well put MS-DOS in there.
An old school monochrome LCD pocket computer thing with storage on old SIM cards would be fun. Or it could be a nice silly place to store encryption, ssh keys. I wonder if there's NOR flash in there? Also, as a kid we found a really old phone as far as GSM goes. The SIM card was smartcard/debit card sized originally.
This includes video decoding hardware that is not compatible with anything and not good for anything. What can be done is to play video in an external player : smtube player or a firefox extension that opens/enqueue in VLC.
They still sell new AM3+ motherboards with ancient chipsets, 760G and geforce 7025, and just o e specific Asrock model with 770 chipset but with 970 in the name and USB3 on-board. I guess they run BIOS still.
Firefox became much faster at around version 17 or so. New versions brought less crashes, less memory leaking, faster javascript etc. Remember when opening a huge image such as 12 megapixels and higher was a sure crash?
But now new versions are more of a wash. Needs e10s as default, at the cost of breaking some extensions. Now, if we could just have stayed on html4 with an actually working open source Flash plugin and sites meant to work on dial up it would still be plenty fast on a single core and 512MB RAM desktop or laptop.
Naturally it's the most power hungry, compute hungry issue. If you want really good lighting or god forbid shadows it might need one hour per frame to render, whereas we'd rather have it take 10 ms. Id went to more static lighting with Rage. Although even Doom 3 lacked dynamic lighting for every imp fire shot and plasma gun shot.
Higher refresh rate is always a benefit even if your hardware is a bit slow, old or low end. You get lower latency, less tearing or when you get tearing it's less severe. So if you're after gaming performance a 1080p 144Hz screen is great. For really high end there's 2560x1440 144Hz, if you buy a 2160p 60Hz you're a sucker (or maybe not, as it may be actually cheaper)
What sucks is the market is so much oriented toward consolidation and high volumes, the options are few for high refresh monitors. So you can't get a 1600x900 at 120 or 144Hz to game with a low cost GPU or even an APU, or same with IPS panel. You can't get a 1920x1200 at 120Hz or one bigger than 24".
High refresh has been kept as a differentiator on high margin displays.
For example a 65-watt card may have 640 processing units while a 250-watt card with the same tech or almost the same might have 3072 processing units. It's as if Intel sold you a 20-core consumer CPU that uses up to 250 watts, which they don't but that would be physically possible.
It's been indicated that big Pascal is for HPC only, because the HBM2 availability is not there yet. I suppose they plan to sell what they can make at very high margins and that's all.
There's something like that that has been announced A high end socket with eight memory channels that takes a 32-core Opteron (16+16 MCM) or a 16-core Opteron and GPU with about 2000 units.
80C is about the regular target for temperature with most any card. If it's not gazzling too much gas the fan might be slow running. Every gen or half gen the power and fan control circuitry get more agressive/precise/low latency so you get something that tries to be high temperature, low heat and low noise.
R7 360 is a bit slower and less power hungry though for HDR maybe you need the follow up generation, only for the DP 1.3 interface plus hdmi 2.0 for TVs.
Hum, pushing 4K Solitaire and Minesweeper? That should put a very low load. Offer of low end GPU is fairly lacking yes.
Firefox has added support for suggestions one or two versions ago. It might work with duckduckgo and perhaps you need to focus on the search bar which is Ctrl-K. I'm not too interested in trying. You can do google searches with "bang commands" although I will likely follow on the advice and try startpage searches.
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Number one in my book would be the requirement that it the ability to run whatever software the devices owner to choose to run.
Android is actually pretty good in that regard. If you pick out a phone that already runs Cyanogenmod and has a good kernel, whichdmit is more research than you should really have to do, it will do a good job of running software. You can install a full Linux in a chroot...
Number one in my book would be the requirement that it the ability to run whatever software the devices owner to choose to run.
Android is actually pretty good in that regard. If you pick out a phone that already runs Cyanogenmod and has a good kernel, which I admit is more research than you should really have to do, it will do a good job of running software. You can install a full Linux in a chroot...
I tried to look for what supports AOSP 6.0 and it's a pain in the ass. Did find one result, Galaxy S3 I think with some hardware not supported yet ; maybe what's needed is to know a list of 50 phone models or so and make a dozen canned searches or so on each (and how to select the likely models?). ..."
You find forum posts with no information and empty github pages. I believe we would have had it better in the era of web 1.0 - when there were even faq's in txt format still.
You can find all kind of crazy stuff about old school hardware and software, and that'll be long reads or if not that long there will be the information about what it's about. Now if you do find something at all it's 'download this crap' or 'here is a code dump' or "rooting procedure : run xfgfhc.exe from that unknown file sharing site, download tyhggtyyiooui.apk from here, reboot with one finger in the jack and one in your private hole,
And when a project has a website, it will be a dynamic one with five or seven sections but nothing in them ("so, there are no docs. Maybe I will find something on the wiki? Hmm, there's f.a.q. like material in the wiki but no system requirements except for setting up a build server...").
Sorry for the crapped out quoting : I'm on a phone and the comment box is running slow so I won't edit it by fear of losing my whole post.
The LTS have re-releases that often come with a newer kernel (16.04.1, 16.04.2,...). There's even a schedule for that. It overall brings better support for newer laptops etc. but you can install an older point version and apt-get upgrade it to ignore or avoid the changes.
The tragic thing : we're still waiting for Wayland so that these 3D desktops will properly run as does the window manager in Vista/7. And when it comes out I don't think the driver support will be stellar.
I like the fonts under linux actually. Spent a long time under Windows 9x and then XP with no anti-aliasing, I liked it that way back then. Then I migrated to Ubuntu Gnome 2 then Mint Mate mostly. Now there's anti-aliasing on the "light" setting I believe, without Cleartype (subpixel), as I see fit. Windows 7 and up only have Cleartype or no anti-aliasing, and that's perhaps the thing I hate most with Windows. You don't get a choice although it looks like ass on CRT monitor, non native res or now low dpi apps scaled on high dpi displays.
Otherwise the ability to run almost any binary and not from the command line, the fast graphics drivers even for crappy graphics cards etc., these are things to be missed from Windows.
You might be able to do something like install ubuntu 12.04 or mint 13 and downgrade Xorg.
Beware of point updates like 12.04.5, 14.04.4, 17.2 and 17.3 if you specifically want older kernel/xorg. Perhaps Ubuntu 14.04.0 would even work. Mint 13 Xfce was great, ditto Mate, that's still a current LTS
I wonder that if you get an imported european DVD, maybe the ads aren't unskippable? I don't remember such ads on DVD but that was 10 years ago and over.
Alternatively I wonder why a DVD player feels it has to obey "unskippable" directives.. Region coding, I know every player ended up ignoring except maybe in the US where you found the "regulatory" pressure to honor it.
I mean, the H264 support isn't quite enough, it's a preliminary thing without API like vdpau and such (unless I missed something under Windows).
You can perhaps accelerate MPEG2 and DVD with specific software under Windows XP, but browser stuff needs at least a geforce 8 (8800 GTX/GTS not included).
Browser based video is extremely wasteful unless fully accelerated : it uses a ton of CPU for YUV to RGB, scaling, "compositing" into the web page (perhaps stuff is manually copied from a buffer into another and then it's dumbly pushed to the video card) :), 360p webm in external player. That was in Windows 7 though as VIA graphics runs poorly in linux.
I thought it was fairly obvious in the days youtube required a frigging 1.x GHz CPU to play full screen 240p whereas higher quality divx was fine on a 400MHz or 500MHz CPU.
As it is, I could play modern youtube in full screen on a VIA C7 1GHz
24 bit is used at the recording, editing, mastering stages because you can "waste" many bits due to digital volumes/levels not tightly adjusted, and not lose anything. Then as far ad human hearing is concerned 16/44 and 16/48 are the best.
Some people upconvert things at 192 kHz and output on a DAC at 192 KHz, which lowers quality a tiny bit. Perhaps some rare genuine 191 content exists? Still likely to give slightly worse sound than 48 KHz.
I tried that sort of with a dumbphone. 2GB SD card with bootable linux mint iso, micro-USB cable. It boots! Sadly the phone only has USB 1.1 making the linux live USB totally unworkable. I might as well put MS-DOS in there.
An old school monochrome LCD pocket computer thing with storage on old SIM cards would be fun. Or it could be a nice silly place to store encryption, ssh keys.
I wonder if there's NOR flash in there?
Also, as a kid we found a really old phone as far as GSM goes. The SIM card was smartcard/debit card sized originally.
Don't give them ideas..
It's one multi-window instance, if you allow me to nitpick.
This includes video decoding hardware that is not compatible with anything and not good for anything. What can be done is to play video in an external player : smtube player or a firefox extension that opens/enqueue in VLC.
They still sell new AM3+ motherboards with ancient chipsets, 760G and geforce 7025, and just o e specific Asrock model with 770 chipset but with 970 in the name and USB3 on-board. I guess they run BIOS still.
Firefox became much faster at around version 17 or so. New versions brought less crashes, less memory leaking, faster javascript etc.
Remember when opening a huge image such as 12 megapixels and higher was a sure crash?
But now new versions are more of a wash. Needs e10s as default, at the cost of breaking some extensions.
Now, if we could just have stayed on html4 with an actually working open source Flash plugin and sites meant to work on dial up it would still be plenty fast on a single core and 512MB RAM desktop or laptop.
Naturally it's the most power hungry, compute hungry issue. If you want really good lighting or god forbid shadows it might need one hour per frame to render, whereas we'd rather have it take 10 ms.
Id went to more static lighting with Rage. Although even Doom 3 lacked dynamic lighting for every imp fire shot and plasma gun shot.
You know GPU vendors have solved that by putting a hardware encoder on the die? ;)
Higher refresh rate is always a benefit even if your hardware is a bit slow, old or low end. You get lower latency, less tearing or when you get tearing it's less severe. So if you're after gaming performance a 1080p 144Hz screen is great. For really high end there's 2560x1440 144Hz, if you buy a 2160p 60Hz you're a sucker (or maybe not, as it may be actually cheaper)
What sucks is the market is so much oriented toward consolidation and high volumes, the options are few for high refresh monitors. So you can't get a 1600x900 at 120 or 144Hz to game with a low cost GPU or even an APU, or same with IPS panel. You can't get a 1920x1200 at 120Hz or one bigger than 24".
High refresh has been kept as a differentiator on high margin displays.
Sometimes a box of matches is cheaper than a cigarette lighter, and more reliable too.
For example a 65-watt card may have 640 processing units while a 250-watt card with the same tech or almost the same might have 3072 processing units.
It's as if Intel sold you a 20-core consumer CPU that uses up to 250 watts, which they don't but that would be physically possible.
It's been indicated that big Pascal is for HPC only, because the HBM2 availability is not there yet. I suppose they plan to sell what they can make at very high margins and that's all.
There's something like that that has been announced
A high end socket with eight memory channels that takes a 32-core Opteron (16+16 MCM) or a 16-core Opteron and GPU with about 2000 units.
80C is about the regular target for temperature with most any card. If it's not gazzling too much gas the fan might be slow running.
Every gen or half gen the power and fan control circuitry get more agressive/precise/low latency so you get something that tries to be high temperature, low heat and low noise.
R7 360 is a bit slower and less power hungry though for HDR maybe you need the follow up generation, only for the DP 1.3 interface plus hdmi 2.0 for TVs.
Hum, pushing 4K Solitaire and Minesweeper? That should put a very low load.
Offer of low end GPU is fairly lacking yes.
Firefox has added support for suggestions one or two versions ago. It might work with duckduckgo and perhaps you need to focus on the search bar which is Ctrl-K. I'm not too interested in trying. You can do google searches with "bang commands" although I will likely follow on the advice and try startpage searches.
So what do you think a "pro" would have to use? A Solaris desktop?