That was EXACTLY my point. In the old metamoderation system, if you marked two or more moderations as unfair (which was often the case) you would automatically lose a point of karma. That was quite ridiculous for those of us who actually metamoderated fairly.
Is it now possible to claim 2 moderations as unfair without losing karma yourself? I thought that was a pretty piss-poor choice, especially with the rampant crackhead moderation that's been going on recently. Great work, guys.
As in: the drivers included up until 2.4.8 were over 6 months old and lacked a lot of features compared to those mainted on http://opensource.creative.com . These are now fixed in the kernel and fully up-to-date, which I consider to be a good thing.
Though not a showstopper by any means, the EMU10K1 driver has been fixed from 2.4.8, and is now fully up-to-date. I've been using the drivers from opensource.creative.com since the release of the 2.4 kernel, and this is definitely a welcome change. Check it out!
Really, someone must have had their head screwed on a little less than tight with this one. PPPoE is a nice idea, and it's in fact a really clever hack, BUT IT'S NOT A GOOD METHOD OF CONNECTION. It's a clever hack in the same way that PPP-over-SSH is a clever VPN tactic, but if I were to suggest to my boss that we use PPP-over-SSH for the VPN on our corporate network I'd be laughed out of his cube. I don't know why some DSL companies (*cough Verizon cough*) think that this is a good idea over normal DHCP. In the meantime, I think I'll stick with the 10 static IPs that SpeakEasy.net will allow me with my home service using a normal ethernet router, thank you.
Another trick for improving both speed and stability in Netscape 4.x is to set the Cache setting to never compare the current page with cache. It literally loads twice as fast.
I've actually been using the standard Netscape Flash plugins in 0.9.1,.2, and.3 now, and they all work great. There was some scratchy sound at one point, but that was an unrelated kernel bug with my sound driver. What problems in particular have you been experiencing?
It seems like whenever a project becomed GPLed, the name is changed slightly from the original to include the word open, making it totally non-descript. While I will admit that the Star in StarOffice really had nothing to do with the product, Tux Racer says it all. Changing the name to Open Racer says nothing about the software and makes it sound so...plain. Would they be willing to accept suggetions for a different name for the GPLed branch, and does anyone have any good ideas?
Wow. They should check out GOGO. It's originally based on LAME, with major portions of the code rewritten in assembly for speed. It takes advantage of SMP as well, and my dual PIII-550 can encode an average length song in 15-17 seconds using variable bitrate encoding at 128kbps or 192kbps. Granted, I don't know how well nasm would fair on a Mac (probably not at all), but it's a great tool for x86.
There's one major problem with these tests: they used the 2.4.5 kernel. There are many known VM issues with these release. In fact, the VM subsystem is just plain BROKEN. The swap/cache paging is completely out of whack and sends swap through the roof, not to mention horrid performance on any intensive activities. High performance disk testing certainly falls under this category. This would explain why the XFS results were so poor compared to their previously reported results, as well as why the ReiserFS scores don't match every other benchmark that's been published to date. I'm sure that if the same tests were repeated with the 2.4.6 kernel (which includes major VM fixes as well as a few ReiserFS cleanups) we'd see some surprisingly different results, most of which would more closely match the ReiserFS scores that have been posted in the past.
The problem with companies like @Home and Charter is that they are too focused on expanding their customer base than actually maintaining a proper infrastructure. I hear stories every day from people who's cable access is unusable at 5 PM and fire up the 56K on their phone line to check their mail. Another case for DSL, perhaps?
The problem they're going to run into is that being funded by a land-based business in any country is going to subject them to some laws therein. IANAL and can't point out specifics for you, but this point was brought up before with the idea of Napster moving to Sealand, because accepting payments from the states or any other country would put them under some US laws as a business.
That's actually a Dell problem. Check out how much crap they've loaded up by default. When I bought my Inspiron 8000 laptop from them (PIII-850), it took WinME a full 35+ seconds to load from start to finish. For kicks, I did a fresh install with WinME before I installed Mandrake, and it loaded from start to finish in under 10 seconds. Who leaves the default install from a manufacturer, anyways?
I think by now this is a pretty moot point, few people if anyone is still using their service, with multiple OpenNap networks (go OggVorbis!) holding their own, along with all the other P2P clients out there. It's a shame MusicCity moved away from OpenNap onto their own client, their server farm was awesome (though I'd love to see a Morpheus client for Linux, they have some really neat stuff going on there).
I think by now this is a pretty moot point, few people if anyone is still using their service, with multiple OpenNap networks (go OggVorbis!) holding their own, along with all the other P2P clients out there. It's a shame MusicCity moved away from OpenNap onto their own client, their server farm was awesome (though I'd love to see a Morpheus client for Linux, they have some really neat stuff going on there).
Forgive me, but I tend to disagree with this quite heavily. While I wouldn't say it's the best, the Dell Inspiron 8000 blows this out of the water for compatability. I'm partial to Mandrake 8.0, but any distribution is supported on this machine, and the ATI M4 Mobility or nVidia GeForce GO video, ESS Maestro3 sound, and Intel EEPro100 onboard ethernet are all supported out of the box. Hell, even the Lucent Winmodem is one of the supported models on www.linmodems.org and works great. Dell's support is great, their options are extremely configurable, and I've been enjoy watching my DVDs with Xine on trips for a while now. I'd recommend this laptop to anyone for Linux use, and would definitely pick it well ahead of an iBook.
As someone already mentioned, it takes standard PC100 memory, and it COOKS! I've never had a problem with any of the hardware or the operating system, though I know not everyone is a Solaris afficiendo (haven't tried Linux on it, no reason to). One thing to note is that if you're planning on reinstalling it, make sure to use the 04/01 release of Solaris 8. There are disclaimers all over Sun's download page at http://www.sun.com/solaris as to why.
The title would make it seem like they're replacing M$ Office with StarOffice, which is not the case. StarOffice is being used to replace Applix on UNIX workstations (there is not a single mention of Linux in the article), which I guess is interesting, but not very notable. It's also not open source, as the article says. I'm still looking forward to the release of StarOffice 6.0, regardless.
It was compared to IIS as well, and with the waining percentages of other webservers, many of which are slow as dogs, there really wasn't any need. I think their points were abundantly clear.
Actually, I beg to differ. Xine is currently the BEST DVD player for Linux, and supports Xvideo playback in both windowed and fullscreen mode, which videolan does not. Further, LiViD release libcss long ago and works with a libcss plugin for Xine, so this isn't the first time this has been out for the public to grab, though I suppose it might not be based on the same thing. Regardless, that was quite a declaration, sir.
Guess what? Everyone that complained about GCC 2.96 being broken (and not reading http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html) despite the fact that their code wasn't C99 complient STILL WON'T COMPILE. Now you can't complain that your code won't work because it's a developmental compiler, you'll actually have to fix it. Numerous examples of this are listed at the above URL, I'd highly suggest you try it out. I have a feeling quite a few people are gonna be red in the face over this one.;-)
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That was EXACTLY my point. In the old metamoderation system, if you marked two or more moderations as unfair (which was often the case) you would automatically lose a point of karma. That was quite ridiculous for those of us who actually metamoderated fairly.
Is it now possible to claim 2 moderations as unfair without losing karma yourself? I thought that was a pretty piss-poor choice, especially with the rampant crackhead moderation that's been going on recently. Great work, guys.
As in: the drivers included up until 2.4.8 were over 6 months old and lacked a lot of features compared to those mainted on http://opensource.creative.com . These are now fixed in the kernel and fully up-to-date, which I consider to be a good thing.
Though not a showstopper by any means, the EMU10K1 driver has been fixed from 2.4.8, and is now fully up-to-date. I've been using the drivers from opensource.creative.com since the release of the 2.4 kernel, and this is definitely a welcome change. Check it out!
Really, someone must have had their head screwed on a little less than tight with this one. PPPoE is a nice idea, and it's in fact a really clever hack, BUT IT'S NOT A GOOD METHOD OF CONNECTION. It's a clever hack in the same way that PPP-over-SSH is a clever VPN tactic, but if I were to suggest to my boss that we use PPP-over-SSH for the VPN on our corporate network I'd be laughed out of his cube. I don't know why some DSL companies (*cough Verizon cough*) think that this is a good idea over normal DHCP. In the meantime, I think I'll stick with the 10 static IPs that SpeakEasy.net will allow me with my home service using a normal ethernet router, thank you.
Another trick for improving both speed and stability in Netscape 4.x is to set the Cache setting to never compare the current page with cache. It literally loads twice as fast.
I've actually been using the standard Netscape Flash plugins in 0.9.1, .2, and .3 now, and they all work great. There was some scratchy sound at one point, but that was an unrelated kernel bug with my sound driver. What problems in particular have you been experiencing?
I'm thoroughly impressed, at this point Mozilla never crashes on me, and rendering is instantaneous. Great job, guys!
It seems like whenever a project becomed GPLed, the name is changed slightly from the original to include the word open, making it totally non-descript. While I will admit that the Star in StarOffice really had nothing to do with the product, Tux Racer says it all. Changing the name to Open Racer says nothing about the software and makes it sound so...plain. Would they be willing to accept suggetions for a different name for the GPLed branch, and does anyone have any good ideas?
Wow. They should check out GOGO. It's originally based on LAME, with major portions of the code rewritten in assembly for speed. It takes advantage of SMP as well, and my dual PIII-550 can encode an average length song in 15-17 seconds using variable bitrate encoding at 128kbps or 192kbps. Granted, I don't know how well nasm would fair on a Mac (probably not at all), but it's a great tool for x86.
There's one major problem with these tests: they used the 2.4.5 kernel. There are many known VM issues with these release. In fact, the VM subsystem is just plain BROKEN. The swap/cache paging is completely out of whack and sends swap through the roof, not to mention horrid performance on any intensive activities. High performance disk testing certainly falls under this category. This would explain why the XFS results were so poor compared to their previously reported results, as well as why the ReiserFS scores don't match every other benchmark that's been published to date. I'm sure that if the same tests were repeated with the 2.4.6 kernel (which includes major VM fixes as well as a few ReiserFS cleanups) we'd see some surprisingly different results, most of which would more closely match the ReiserFS scores that have been posted in the past.
The problem with companies like @Home and Charter is that they are too focused on expanding their customer base than actually maintaining a proper infrastructure. I hear stories every day from people who's cable access is unusable at 5 PM and fire up the 56K on their phone line to check their mail. Another case for DSL, perhaps?
The problem they're going to run into is that being funded by a land-based business in any country is going to subject them to some laws therein. IANAL and can't point out specifics for you, but this point was brought up before with the idea of Napster moving to Sealand, because accepting payments from the states or any other country would put them under some US laws as a business.
That's actually a Dell problem. Check out how much crap they've loaded up by default. When I bought my Inspiron 8000 laptop from them (PIII-850), it took WinME a full 35+ seconds to load from start to finish. For kicks, I did a fresh install with WinME before I installed Mandrake, and it loaded from start to finish in under 10 seconds. Who leaves the default install from a manufacturer, anyways?
I think by now this is a pretty moot point, few people if anyone is still using their service, with multiple OpenNap networks (go OggVorbis!) holding their own, along with all the other P2P clients out there. It's a shame MusicCity moved away from OpenNap onto their own client, their server farm was awesome (though I'd love to see a Morpheus client for Linux, they have some really neat stuff going on there).
I think by now this is a pretty moot point, few people if anyone is still using their service, with multiple OpenNap networks (go OggVorbis!) holding their own, along with all the other P2P clients out there. It's a shame MusicCity moved away from OpenNap onto their own client, their server farm was awesome (though I'd love to see a Morpheus client for Linux, they have some really neat stuff going on there).
Forgive me, but I tend to disagree with this quite heavily. While I wouldn't say it's the best, the Dell Inspiron 8000 blows this out of the water for compatability. I'm partial to Mandrake 8.0, but any distribution is supported on this machine, and the ATI M4 Mobility or nVidia GeForce GO video, ESS Maestro3 sound, and Intel EEPro100 onboard ethernet are all supported out of the box. Hell, even the Lucent Winmodem is one of the supported models on www.linmodems.org and works great. Dell's support is great, their options are extremely configurable, and I've been enjoy watching my DVDs with Xine on trips for a while now. I'd recommend this laptop to anyone for Linux use, and would definitely pick it well ahead of an iBook.
Barney Doom was one of the original reasons I got into FPSs in the first place! How sad.
As someone already mentioned, it takes standard PC100 memory, and it COOKS! I've never had a problem with any of the hardware or the operating system, though I know not everyone is a Solaris afficiendo (haven't tried Linux on it, no reason to). One thing to note is that if you're planning on reinstalling it, make sure to use the 04/01 release of Solaris 8. There are disclaimers all over Sun's download page at http://www.sun.com/solaris as to why.
That's not the point. Some of us don't want people to know that our machine exists.
that rocket looks like a giant...
Wang, pay attention!
The title would make it seem like they're replacing M$ Office with StarOffice, which is not the case. StarOffice is being used to replace Applix on UNIX workstations (there is not a single mention of Linux in the article), which I guess is interesting, but not very notable. It's also not open source, as the article says. I'm still looking forward to the release of StarOffice 6.0, regardless.
It was compared to IIS as well, and with the waining percentages of other webservers, many of which are slow as dogs, there really wasn't any need. I think their points were abundantly clear.
Actually, I beg to differ. Xine is currently the BEST DVD player for Linux, and supports Xvideo playback in both windowed and fullscreen mode, which videolan does not. Further, LiViD release libcss long ago and works with a libcss plugin for Xine, so this isn't the first time this has been out for the public to grab, though I suppose it might not be based on the same thing. Regardless, that was quite a declaration, sir.
Guess what? Everyone that complained about GCC 2.96 being broken (and not reading http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html) despite the fact that their code wasn't C99 complient STILL WON'T COMPILE. Now you can't complain that your code won't work because it's a developmental compiler, you'll actually have to fix it. Numerous examples of this are listed at the above URL, I'd highly suggest you try it out. I have a feeling quite a few people are gonna be red in the face over this one. ;-)