Does anyone know of ANY device that will play Ogg format files? The Rio Volt SP100 and SP250 CD players look promising, with upgradeable firmware for "emerging standards." I've bothered their tech support a couple of times about future file formats, but they can't offer any real information, and I don't think I can hope for much. As about half of my digital music collection is stored in this format, it kinda makes buying such a device less than worthwhile.
Can't grab it quite yet, myself
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Linux 2.2.20 is Out
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· Score: 1, Offtopic
As my sole 2.2 machine is running Mandrake w/ ReiserFS, I can't grab it quite yet for my firewall. Keep an eye on their ftp site for the imminent 2.2 patch, and enjoy.
Questionable testing methods? He performed the EXACT SAME TEST on four processors, and both Athlons failed miserably. Regardless of how he tested them, the fact remains that the Intel chips didn't suffer damage, and the P4 KEPT RUNNING. Now, all of a sudden, AMD has a nice video out saying how their chips won't fail. Sorry guys, it's too little, too late. We're not falling for it.
My company has marketing types all over the world, and we set up some deal with UUnet to provide dial-in access from anywhere at a very nice price. They even included a nice dialer program that takes your current location and tracks down someplace near you, etc.
Alpha was the first non-x86 port of Linux, done by Linus himself after being given a DEC machine as a gift on a trip to the US (though I don't recall if it was on loan or not).
About 6 months ago I stumbled across an awesome GTK+ mail/news reader very similar in look to Netscape Messenger (and far superior to XFMail) called Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net/). It'll handle as many accounts as you want, supports threading and image view through gdk-pixbuf, is extremely fast (and decently configurable), and I've never had it crash on me. Some distributions are starting to pick it up now, and it's included in Mandrake 8.1, though I usually compile myself from source. I'd suggest giving it a look.
Sound segfaults still aren't fixed under Linux
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Quake3 v1.30 Final Is Out
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· Score: 5, Informative
If you've been experiencing segfaults when the sound system starts in Quake 3 under recent Linux kernels, it still isn't fixed, FYI. I've mailed the main Linux guy for Quake3 over at id multiple times, but he's basically said "the kernel's broken." All my Loki games work perfectly under 2.4.10, and I'm not sure if it's affecting all sound cards or only the two I've tried, but oh well, I figured I'd pass the word along.
Re:More details about the release...
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Mandrake 8.1 Released
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· Score: 3, Informative
Actually, it includes all four journaling filesystems in the install which are now available: ReiserFS, ext3, XFS, and JFS. Lots of great stuff in this one (XFree86 4.1.0, KDE 2.2.1, GCC 3.0.1), I'd suggest everyone check it out!
Depends. The basics like movement and firing would work, but you'd be missing some commands, and have some that didn't work - use the ingame menu to set those.
Yeah, the basics all look the same. It crashed and burned on some of the vm and other settings, so I just went through and configured again by hand. It's not a big deal.
BTW, don't expect to be strafe jumping or anything...
File Planet isn't a single machine, it's dozens in a multitude of locations. Cdrom.com, which at the time was a lowly, single PPro 200MMX running FreeBSD still holds the record, which I believe was achieved during a previous RedHat release.
If you're like me and have added libsafe to/etc/ld.so.preload to watch for buffer overflow attempts (an awesome package, I might add), you'll get the following when trying to connect to a game or host your own, which of course exits the game:
Libsafe violation detected on [machinename] at Sun Sep 23 00:25:03 2001
Libsafe version 2.0
Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Terminating/usr/local/games/wolfenstein/wolf.x86.
uid=0 euid=0 pid=10151
Call stack:
0x4001b465
0x4001b61e
Overflow caused by memcpy()
Speaking of Quake III, the engine for this is based on (or utilizes directly) the Quake III engine. Anyone know what would happen if I dropped my Quake III config file directly into the Wolfenstein test? I have a pretty tweaked setup for Q3 at this point, so it'd save me a lot of time. I'll probably try it anyways, but I was curious if anyone had already done so.
Does it bother anyone besides me that Congress is using the terrorist attacks as a blank check to take away civil liberties? As we all know, a bill has been proposed that would require back doors in all encryption products, which is NOT okay in my book. I'm all in favor of heightened security carried out in an intelligent manner, and I'm willing to give up some liberties for security, but the way this whole thing has been blamed on the internet is completely ridiculous.
Did you read his post? He's not comparing a G4 to a PIII/P4! He's comparing it to future G5s and how people might wait a couple of months for their release rather than buying G4s now when Apple needs the revenue most.
Disabling window.open has been around for a couple of releases now, it's just not the most straightforward thing to enable. I was most pleased to find that hitting enter after filling in a form will actually submit a request everyplace I tried it, assuming that's the intent of the form (i.e. a search engine). This seemed to be a hit-or-miss thing in previous releases.
Or more accurately, it doesn't really matter. Buy a power supply based on the wattage that you think you need, and of course make sure the fan is pointing outwards (Who the hell makes fans pointing inward through the bottom of a power supply? There's no exhaust!). When all is said and done, it's the same company making all those power supplies, anyways.
When will we see some improvements from the Alpha?
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Itanium Update
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· Score: 2
As someone with a few friends that recently made the move from Compaq's Alpha division over to Intel, what I'm most curious about is what revision of the chip will we see any improvements being incorporated from the Alpha design. I can't imagine Intel would want to let out any news on work that they bought instead of engineering themselves, but I think it'd be interesting to hear what exactly was directed ported over in the designs, if anything, as well as a detailed comparison of the two processors. Any info, anyone? Perhaps the second big revision of the IA64 chips?
It sounds like your problem has nothing to do with the drivers you're using, it's that you're using a sound daemon. Most quality sound cards (like the SB Live Value, 39 bucks on pricewatch) will mix up to 32 wav sources in HARDWARE. There's no need to use esound or arts sound daemons to do mixing for you, and they only muck up the works. I've been using the OSS drivers from opensource.creative.com for my SB Live, but these were merged into the latest kernel releases, so I have no need to look outside the kernel.
How many times have we seen this before? They had their connection to their ISP discontinued! This is hardly a conviction, nor would I in any way consider an ISP to be a government body. Okay, so it was an inconvenience, and the matter was settled, but the ISP was just doing what they felt was right in trying to resolve a problem, and inadvertantly targeted the wrong user. It's not like they were thrown in jail for visiting the US by Adobe. Come on.
With the -ac tree I try and do rapid rolling releases, sucking in new code to test it and also its interactions with other new code. By doing releases every few days I get a high number of people testing and reporting bugs before there are too many possible causes. This is how Linus trees used to work long ago, and I still think its the better technique.
Perhaps he meant the unstable series Linus releases. I sure as hell would NOT like to see a new "stable" kernel release every few days. The current faux-schedule of a new release every couple of weeks seems a bit too quick for decent testing to me, to tell you the truth.
...which I've run into with my current company, is that Microsoft aims for the big companies (and smaller ones too, of course) and gets them so firmly entrenched that a move just isn't possible. I'd love to move our mail server to something that doesn't crash every week, but with a few thousand users, it's just not going to happen. It's a good read, though.
I've worked with ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS extensively, and I can say I've had vastly different results than what many people have _read and repeated_ here. Ext2 is a nice filesystem, assuming you don't have to worry about an unclean shutdown. I can't count the number of times I've lost a filesystem entirely because it was ACTUALLY doing something when the power was lost, or just 2.4's bad VM sending the machine into oblivion and the filesystem with it. Ext3 was nice when I used it once or twice, until I turned DMA on for the disk, at which point it started corrupting itself quite nicely (not a hardware issue, trust me). I would hope this is fixed by now, but I always found it to be a nice feature. ReiserFS, but comparison, has never failed me. I've used it extensively on production machines under 2.2 and 2.4, and been using knfsd since 2.4.6 was released (damn ext2 hooks in the code, completely ridiculous). Obviously, you should find what suits your needs best, but some of the flaming and outright incorrect claims I've seen recently are just ridiculous. See what works for you, not just what RedHat tells you. I remember when Linux was about choice, not about RedHat telling me that I shouldn't use a certain filesystem on my machine and not giving me the CHOICE of doing so.
Why are they using devfs? I'm not sure who was smoking crack on that one, but it's junk. It's never really worked, and it doesn't work with half of the drivers currently out there, so forget about it if you want to use things like ReiserFS or nVidia cards. Furthermore, you can't decide to not use it in the install, and switching back to dev afterwards is a major PITA.
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Does anyone know of ANY device that will play Ogg format files? The Rio Volt SP100 and SP250 CD players look promising, with upgradeable firmware for "emerging standards." I've bothered their tech support a couple of times about future file formats, but they can't offer any real information, and I don't think I can hope for much. As about half of my digital music collection is stored in this format, it kinda makes buying such a device less than worthwhile.
As my sole 2.2 machine is running Mandrake w/ ReiserFS, I can't grab it quite yet for my firewall. Keep an eye on their ftp site for the imminent 2.2 patch, and enjoy.
Questionable testing methods? He performed the EXACT SAME TEST on four processors, and both Athlons failed miserably. Regardless of how he tested them, the fact remains that the Intel chips didn't suffer damage, and the P4 KEPT RUNNING. Now, all of a sudden, AMD has a nice video out saying how their chips won't fail. Sorry guys, it's too little, too late. We're not falling for it.
My company has marketing types all over the world, and we set up some deal with UUnet to provide dial-in access from anywhere at a very nice price. They even included a nice dialer program that takes your current location and tracks down someplace near you, etc.
Alpha was the first non-x86 port of Linux, done by Linus himself after being given a DEC machine as a gift on a trip to the US (though I don't recall if it was on loan or not).
*cough* Last item right here. *cough*
Could someone explain to me what this postercomment compression filter is in I'm violating (which this sentence was added to work around)?
About 6 months ago I stumbled across an awesome GTK+ mail/news reader very similar in look to Netscape Messenger (and far superior to XFMail) called Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net/). It'll handle as many accounts as you want, supports threading and image view through gdk-pixbuf, is extremely fast (and decently configurable), and I've never had it crash on me. Some distributions are starting to pick it up now, and it's included in Mandrake 8.1, though I usually compile myself from source. I'd suggest giving it a look.
If you've been experiencing segfaults when the sound system starts in Quake 3 under recent Linux kernels, it still isn't fixed, FYI. I've mailed the main Linux guy for Quake3 over at id multiple times, but he's basically said "the kernel's broken." All my Loki games work perfectly under 2.4.10, and I'm not sure if it's affecting all sound cards or only the two I've tried, but oh well, I figured I'd pass the word along.
Actually, it includes all four journaling filesystems in the install which are now available: ReiserFS, ext3, XFS, and JFS. Lots of great stuff in this one (XFree86 4.1.0, KDE 2.2.1, GCC 3.0.1), I'd suggest everyone check it out!
Depends. The basics like movement and firing would work, but you'd be missing some commands, and have some that didn't work - use the ingame menu to set those.
Yeah, the basics all look the same. It crashed and burned on some of the vm and other settings, so I just went through and configured again by hand. It's not a big deal.
BTW, don't expect to be strafe jumping or anything...
Yeah, I've played the Windows test, great stuff.
File Planet isn't a single machine, it's dozens in a multitude of locations. Cdrom.com, which at the time was a lowly, single PPro 200MMX running FreeBSD still holds the record, which I believe was achieved during a previous RedHat release.
If you're like me and have added libsafe to /etc/ld.so.preload to watch for buffer overflow attempts (an awesome package, I might add), you'll get the following when trying to connect to a game or host your own, which of course exits the game:
/usr/local/games/wolfenstein/wolf.x86.
Libsafe violation detected on [machinename] at Sun Sep 23 00:25:03 2001
Libsafe version 2.0
Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Terminating
uid=0 euid=0 pid=10151
Call stack:
0x4001b465
0x4001b61e
Overflow caused by memcpy()
Speaking of Quake III, the engine for this is based on (or utilizes directly) the Quake III engine. Anyone know what would happen if I dropped my Quake III config file directly into the Wolfenstein test? I have a pretty tweaked setup for Q3 at this point, so it'd save me a lot of time. I'll probably try it anyways, but I was curious if anyone had already done so.
Does it bother anyone besides me that Congress is using the terrorist attacks as a blank check to take away civil liberties? As we all know, a bill has been proposed that would require back doors in all encryption products, which is NOT okay in my book. I'm all in favor of heightened security carried out in an intelligent manner, and I'm willing to give up some liberties for security, but the way this whole thing has been blamed on the internet is completely ridiculous.
Did you read his post? He's not comparing a G4 to a PIII/P4! He's comparing it to future G5s and how people might wait a couple of months for their release rather than buying G4s now when Apple needs the revenue most.
Disabling window.open has been around for a couple of releases now, it's just not the most straightforward thing to enable. I was most pleased to find that hitting enter after filling in a form will actually submit a request everyplace I tried it, assuming that's the intent of the form (i.e. a search engine). This seemed to be a hit-or-miss thing in previous releases.
Or more accurately, it doesn't really matter. Buy a power supply based on the wattage that you think you need, and of course make sure the fan is pointing outwards (Who the hell makes fans pointing inward through the bottom of a power supply? There's no exhaust!). When all is said and done, it's the same company making all those power supplies, anyways.
As someone with a few friends that recently made the move from Compaq's Alpha division over to Intel, what I'm most curious about is what revision of the chip will we see any improvements being incorporated from the Alpha design. I can't imagine Intel would want to let out any news on work that they bought instead of engineering themselves, but I think it'd be interesting to hear what exactly was directed ported over in the designs, if anything, as well as a detailed comparison of the two processors. Any info, anyone? Perhaps the second big revision of the IA64 chips?
It sounds like your problem has nothing to do with the drivers you're using, it's that you're using a sound daemon. Most quality sound cards (like the SB Live Value, 39 bucks on pricewatch) will mix up to 32 wav sources in HARDWARE. There's no need to use esound or arts sound daemons to do mixing for you, and they only muck up the works. I've been using the OSS drivers from opensource.creative.com for my SB Live, but these were merged into the latest kernel releases, so I have no need to look outside the kernel.
How many times have we seen this before? They had their connection to their ISP discontinued! This is hardly a conviction, nor would I in any way consider an ISP to be a government body. Okay, so it was an inconvenience, and the matter was settled, but the ISP was just doing what they felt was right in trying to resolve a problem, and inadvertantly targeted the wrong user. It's not like they were thrown in jail for visiting the US by Adobe. Come on.
With the -ac tree I try and do rapid rolling releases, sucking in new code to test it and also its interactions with other new code. By doing releases every few days I get a high number of people testing and reporting bugs before there are too many possible causes. This is how Linus trees used to work long ago, and I still think its the better technique.
Perhaps he meant the unstable series Linus releases. I sure as hell would NOT like to see a new "stable" kernel release every few days. The current faux-schedule of a new release every couple of weeks seems a bit too quick for decent testing to me, to tell you the truth.
...which I've run into with my current company, is that Microsoft aims for the big companies (and smaller ones too, of course) and gets them so firmly entrenched that a move just isn't possible. I'd love to move our mail server to something that doesn't crash every week, but with a few thousand users, it's just not going to happen. It's a good read, though.
I've worked with ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS extensively, and I can say I've had vastly different results than what many people have _read and repeated_ here. Ext2 is a nice filesystem, assuming you don't have to worry about an unclean shutdown. I can't count the number of times I've lost a filesystem entirely because it was ACTUALLY doing something when the power was lost, or just 2.4's bad VM sending the machine into oblivion and the filesystem with it. Ext3 was nice when I used it once or twice, until I turned DMA on for the disk, at which point it started corrupting itself quite nicely (not a hardware issue, trust me). I would hope this is fixed by now, but I always found it to be a nice feature. ReiserFS, but comparison, has never failed me. I've used it extensively on production machines under 2.2 and 2.4, and been using knfsd since 2.4.6 was released (damn ext2 hooks in the code, completely ridiculous). Obviously, you should find what suits your needs best, but some of the flaming and outright incorrect claims I've seen recently are just ridiculous. See what works for you, not just what RedHat tells you. I remember when Linux was about choice, not about RedHat telling me that I shouldn't use a certain filesystem on my machine and not giving me the CHOICE of doing so.
Thanks for your appropriate metamoderation.
Why are they using devfs? I'm not sure who was smoking crack on that one, but it's junk. It's never really worked, and it doesn't work with half of the drivers currently out there, so forget about it if you want to use things like ReiserFS or nVidia cards. Furthermore, you can't decide to not use it in the install, and switching back to dev afterwards is a major PITA.