Well, I don't think the hardware acceleration was part of x.3.3. I remember downloading my drivers from www.nvidia.com in order to get the acceleration. I believe XFree86 4 will have acceleration built in, but not in the current ones. Go check Nvidia's web site and try to apply their drivers. It's pretty easy (from what I remember).
But have a default selection if they don't know. Perhaps a dialog box along the lines of "What is the refresh rate of your monitor. If you don't know, just select ok and the default will be used." And have 60Hz already preselected. Then, either have a drop down box or a fill in text box (drop down is probably easier to do).
Note: I haven't even tried installing 6.1 yet, just commenting on what I've been reading.
Except for one problem: D&D doesn't have a movie to stand on that was already good. Sure, it has a crowd of roleplaying fans, but any group can tell you you need more than this. Look at Star Trek. It was having a hard time getting outside audiences (besides fans) to see the movies until the last one. And that was killing Paramount. Everyone loves Star Wars. Star Wars already had 3 very good movies behind it, so as one person said (here on/. I believe), it wouldn't matter if it was George Lucas's butt for 2 hours, it was still going to break records. This message is WAY off topic, but I just had to say something.
Except that The Matrix LD is at least twice the size or maybe even 3x the size (bigger disc, takes up more space) and probably has to be flipped to get the extra features (I have no idea, I'm just guessing). It probably doesn't have the PC extras either, like the entire website on the disc (I could be completely wrong about this too). While I wouldn't replace (right away anyway) an entire collection of LDs with DVDs, I think the DVD format is far superior to LD. The only thing LD has going for it is that some movies were released as a criterion collection (which I hardly know what that means) and will probably never be released that way again, though I think with all the extra space DVDs have, these same movies might be released with the extra features and just not called criterion collection (though I did see an Alien Criterion Collection on DVD at Tower recently). The only reason I finally got a DVD player was for my computer, to replace my CD-ROM drive. I would have gotten one sooner, but Star Wars wasn't (and still isn't) on DVD. And I would be willing to bet that the Star Wars DVDs (when they are finally released) are going to kick the crap out of the Star Wars LDs (of which I have the big black boxed collectors edition).
I had heard that Linux already has support for IPv6; but how about hardware(NICs, routers, network topologies)? And do they work with Linux? And will the software we use, will they work with Linux?
As far as I am aware, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think a NIC knows or cares about the difference between IPv4 and IPv6. In other words, the software is just telling the hardware what to do and the hardware doesn't really care about the software. Of course, I might know what I'm talking about, but not know what words to use to express it:)
Routers on the other hand, yes, will need to be upgraded to handle the different addressing scheme. I don't know about network topologies though.
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Or, every object will need to be connected to a central server in your house that has its own IP address. This way, you only need one address. Then, you connect to the central server and then you can use any other protocol you wish between that server and the other devices to switch them on.
I agree with you totally. If Sun really wanted to support Linux, they would have release a Java for Linux by now instead of forcing The Community to develop it for Linux (not that this is a Bad Thing).
That may be the case with @Home, but I have received no such addendum to my MediaOne agreement. I know they are both owned by the same parent company (AT&T at least partially owns @Home and fully owns MediaOne as far as I am aware), but that does not mean they both have the same service agreements.
Also, @Home hasn't been known for having great service anyway. They recently (1 or 2 months ago) introduced an upload cap of 128k (it was 300k before) because people were using their connections to put up webservers and it "wasn't designed for that" as someone from the company stated (don't remember who, it was in Inter@ctive Week). They also said that they do offer services for running web servers (although they cost a lot more) and if people want to run web servers, they should be upgrading their service. They also had to split their nodes to cope with demand (something MediaOne hasn't had to do or at least hasn't said they've had to do).
In other words, @Home looked at the use of running Web and FTP servers as an abuse whereas MediaOne just deals with it. This may be because most people aren't running Web and FTP servers over their cable modems so it's not causing a lot of congestion or MediaOne expected it to happen and took steps in advance to handle it.
I do know that MediaOne does run Linux (and not very securely from what I've heard), so this is probably another reason why they may be unwilling to support it.
I have MediaOne and no, he isn't violating his agreement. Their agreement states that they don't support internal LANs (home networks), but it doesn't say you can't have them. I even talked to tech support one night about this and he told me that basically, they can't help you troubleshoot any connection problems past the cable modem. So if your brothers computer can't access the Internet through the cable modem on your computer, go through your configs and make sure everything's right and don't call them, because they will tell you that your connection is fine.
Also in the agreement is that if you set up so many computers in your home that your speed becomes intolerably slow, don't call them because they will not help you (in other words, they're not going to up your bandwidth just so you can get Internet access in every room in your house). A lot of people run internal LANs that run through a cable modem or DSL, nothing wrong with any of it.
And I don't see any problem with having this kind of policy. This keeps them from having someone setting up 20 computers on a LAN in their home and then complaining that they aren't getting the bandwidth MediaOne said they'd get.
If Lucas has sold out, it was way back when he made Return of the Jedi with those Ewoks.
And yes, Lucas knows the character is childish, but that is what he created it for, kids, people between the ages of 10 and 15 (or something like that).
I actually expected Jar Jar to be worse than an Ewok. But, since he couldn't kill any Battledroids with his stupid antics and at least the ewoks could kill stormtroopers with their antics, I didn't find him as annoying. Sure, he is annoying, but not as bad as I thought he'd be. I do find some of the things he does funny (like eating the food by grabbing it with his tongue), but most things I did find annoying.
And no, I did not leave the theatre pissed (I actually went back for two more showings later that day and I think 3 more that weekend) because I thought it was a good movie and it made me feel like a kid again (exactly what it was supposed to do).
I guess the only question I have is, then why bother making the movie? Why waste over two hours of the audience's time to just hint at what is going to happen next?
Because it is a series of movies that are all tied together. He couldn't show us everything that was going to happen in this one because there would be nothing left to show. Hence they are titled Episode I, II, III, IV, V, and VI.
What he did show us is what is happening that gets Palpatine into power and the state of turmoil the galaxy is in at the moment. Also, from what I've heard, what happened in the first movie will result in much larger events in the next one.
Granted, mundane things must happen in the galaxy all the time - trade ships plying their wares, gov't officials moving around constantly. But this wasn't what star wars was about. Look at the title - Star Wars - it says a lot about what you should expect. Its not Land Wars, just Star Wars.
You apparently have not read the first chapter of the original novel. The entire plot of the first trilogy (Episodes I-III) is outlined right there in about a page and a half. That is what Star Wars is about.
He didn't say Linux, he said Unix. And I believe that Unix has been proven to be faster and more reliable than NT. It also scales better if I'm not mistaken.
The original Back Orifice ran invisibly. To my knowledge, this is because Windows 95 doesn't have a low level process viewer like NT does. It may not run invisibly under NT (be viewable in the process viewer), but we won't know until the 10th. That is unless cDc has released details about BO2K that I'm not aware of (which is very possible).
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Well, I don't think the hardware acceleration was part of x.3.3. I remember downloading my drivers from www.nvidia.com in order to get the acceleration. I believe XFree86 4 will have acceleration built in, but not in the current ones. Go check Nvidia's web site and try to apply their drivers. It's pretty easy (from what I remember).
But have a default selection if they don't know. Perhaps a dialog box along the lines of "What is the refresh rate of your monitor. If you don't know, just select ok and the default will be used." And have 60Hz already preselected. Then, either have a drop down box or a fill in text box (drop down is probably easier to do).
Note: I haven't even tried installing 6.1 yet, just commenting on what I've been reading.
Except for one problem: D&D doesn't have a movie to stand on that was already good. Sure, it has a crowd of roleplaying fans, but any group can tell you you need more than this. Look at Star Trek. It was having a hard time getting outside audiences (besides fans) to see the movies until the last one. And that was killing Paramount. Everyone loves Star Wars. Star Wars already had 3 very good movies behind it, so as one person said (here on /. I believe), it wouldn't matter if it was George Lucas's butt for 2 hours, it was still going to break records. This message is WAY off topic, but I just had to say something.
I have to agree with this (Look at Willow, UGH!)
What was wrong with Willow?
Except that The Matrix LD is at least twice the size or maybe even 3x the size (bigger disc, takes up more space) and probably has to be flipped to get the extra features (I have no idea, I'm just guessing). It probably doesn't have the PC extras either, like the entire website on the disc (I could be completely wrong about this too). While I wouldn't replace (right away anyway) an entire collection of LDs with DVDs, I think the DVD format is far superior to LD. The only thing LD has going for it is that some movies were released as a criterion collection (which I hardly know what that means) and will probably never be released that way again, though I think with all the extra space DVDs have, these same movies might be released with the extra features and just not called criterion collection (though I did see an Alien Criterion Collection on DVD at Tower recently). The only reason I finally got a DVD player was for my computer, to replace my CD-ROM drive. I would have gotten one sooner, but Star Wars wasn't (and still isn't) on DVD. And I would be willing to bet that the Star Wars DVDs (when they are finally released) are going to kick the crap out of the Star Wars LDs (of which I have the big black boxed collectors edition).
I had heard that Linux already has support for IPv6; but how about hardware(NICs, routers, network topologies)? And do they work with Linux? And will the software we use, will they work with Linux?
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As far as I am aware, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think a NIC knows or cares about the difference between IPv4 and IPv6. In other words, the software is just telling the hardware what to do and the hardware doesn't really care about the software. Of course, I might know what I'm talking about, but not know what words to use to express it
Routers on the other hand, yes, will need to be upgraded to handle the different addressing scheme. I don't know about network topologies though.
Or, every object will need to be connected to a central server in your house that has its own IP address. This way, you only need one address. Then, you connect to the central server and then you can use any other protocol you wish between that server and the other devices to switch them on.
I agree with you totally. If Sun really wanted to support Linux, they would have release a Java for Linux by now instead of forcing The Community to develop it for Linux (not that this is a Bad Thing).
That may be the case with @Home, but I have received no such addendum to my MediaOne agreement. I know they are both owned by the same parent company (AT&T at least partially owns @Home and fully owns MediaOne as far as I am aware), but that does not mean they both have the same service agreements.
Also, @Home hasn't been known for having great service anyway. They recently (1 or 2 months ago) introduced an upload cap of 128k (it was 300k before) because people were using their connections to put up webservers and it "wasn't designed for that" as someone from the company stated (don't remember who, it was in Inter@ctive Week). They also said that they do offer services for running web servers (although they cost a lot more) and if people want to run web servers, they should be upgrading their service. They also had to split their nodes to cope with demand (something MediaOne hasn't had to do or at least hasn't said they've had to do).
In other words, @Home looked at the use of running Web and FTP servers as an abuse whereas MediaOne just deals with it. This may be because most people aren't running Web and FTP servers over their cable modems so it's not causing a lot of congestion or MediaOne expected it to happen and took steps in advance to handle it.
I do know that MediaOne does run Linux (and not very securely from what I've heard), so this is probably another reason why they may be unwilling to support it.
I have MediaOne and no, he isn't violating his agreement. Their agreement states that they don't support internal LANs (home networks), but it doesn't say you can't have them. I even talked to tech support one night about this and he told me that basically, they can't help you troubleshoot any connection problems past the cable modem. So if your brothers computer can't access the Internet through the cable modem on your computer, go through your configs and make sure everything's right and don't call them, because they will tell you that your connection is fine.
Also in the agreement is that if you set up so many computers in your home that your speed becomes intolerably slow, don't call them because they will not help you (in other words, they're not going to up your bandwidth just so you can get Internet access in every room in your house). A lot of people run internal LANs that run through a cable modem or DSL, nothing wrong with any of it.
And I don't see any problem with having this kind of policy. This keeps them from having someone setting up 20 computers on a LAN in their home and then complaining that they aren't getting the bandwidth MediaOne said they'd get.
Could you be so kind as to inform those of us that don't know (like me) :)
If Lucas has sold out, it was way back when he made Return of the Jedi with those Ewoks.
And yes, Lucas knows the character is childish, but that is what he created it for, kids, people between the ages of 10 and 15 (or something like that).
I actually expected Jar Jar to be worse than an Ewok. But, since he couldn't kill any Battledroids with his stupid antics and at least the ewoks could kill stormtroopers with their antics, I didn't find him as annoying. Sure, he is annoying, but not as bad as I thought he'd be. I do find some of the things he does funny (like eating the food by grabbing it with his tongue), but most things I did find annoying.
And no, I did not leave the theatre pissed (I actually went back for two more showings later that day and I think 3 more that weekend) because I thought it was a good movie and it made me feel like a kid again (exactly what it was supposed to do).
I guess the only question I have is, then why bother making the movie? Why waste over two hours of the audience's time to just hint at what is going to happen next?
Because it is a series of movies that are all tied together. He couldn't show us everything that was going to happen in this one because there would be nothing left to show. Hence they are titled Episode I, II, III, IV, V, and VI.
What he did show us is what is happening that gets Palpatine into power and the state of turmoil the galaxy is in at the moment. Also, from what I've heard, what happened in the first movie will result in much larger events in the next one.
Granted, mundane things must happen in the galaxy all the time - trade ships plying their wares, gov't officials moving around constantly. But this wasn't what star wars was about. Look at the title - Star Wars - it says a lot about what you should expect. Its not Land Wars, just Star Wars.
You apparently have not read the first chapter of the original novel. The entire plot of the first trilogy (Episodes I-III) is outlined right there in about a page and a half. That is what Star Wars is about.
I have the same problem. Under Winbloze 95 I can get 1280x1024, but under Linux I get only 1024x768.
He didn't say Linux, he said Unix. And I believe that Unix has been proven to be faster and more reliable than NT. It also scales better if I'm not mistaken.
The original Back Orifice ran invisibly. To my knowledge, this is because Windows 95 doesn't have a low level process viewer like NT does. It may not run invisibly under NT (be viewable in the process viewer), but we won't know until the 10th. That is unless cDc has released details about BO2K that I'm not aware of (which is very possible).