I am trying KDE at the moment. Gnome/Nautilus would stall on me and bring everything down. I am sure that the problem is SAMBA related.
Cheap RAID - No controller hardware required.
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I have installed software RAID 1 on my Linux systems and they boot faster. No hardwaer required, uses linux kernel software RAID - much faster than hardware raid on a dual processor system.
Works for IDE and SATA drives. Easy to do with new Debian Sarge installer.
RAID 1 for read speed!!!!
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I have installed software RAID 1 (mirroring) on a system with two SATA drives 2.6 kernel. It was easy with the new debian installer in Sarge.
The speed increase of the system was wonderful. Boot times, responce times etc. Write times remain the same but read times are halved.
I have since upgraded all our Linux servers to PATA Raid1 - Requires no raid controller. Query times have dropped. All for the price of a few 40GB IDE drives.
I now want RAID 1 for my home machine. For the boot times etc not just data redundancy.
Microsoft is a corp. dragging 15 years of legacy. I hoped that Longhorn would somthing NEW - but it looks like the same old story.
I will be using C# on a Linux and Windows platforms via Mono. I need advanced tools for Linux and it looks like Mono/Mono Develop will lead the way for me.
"We're evaluating how these NGSCB capabilities should be integrated into Longhorn, but we don't know exactly how it'll be manifested. A lot of decisions have yet to be made," said Mario Juarez, product manager in Microsoft's Security and Technology Business Unit. "We're going to come out later this year with a complete story."
I have been writing code for windows systems for the past 10 years. We have had good times (Win2000, WinXP) we have had bad times (Access, Security, VB, Me,....).
But today I realised that 'dare i say it' linux is
finaly (on my knees face to the sky tears in eyes) coming together. It may not be tomorrow, maybe not even Friday. But the day will soon be here when I can look at what i am coding around in a production enviroment.. I can ask questions about what will happen in the next OS release, and not get any marketing blurbs.
Microsoft realised that the Palladium idea would tighten thier noose of control. But that this would also be showdown time. Would the business world spend a fortune buying into this "secure world" where 2GB RAM is required. Where code is so 'tight' that 6GHz dual core PX could open notepad just as fast it did on my P1 233 Win98?
Linux does not represent a huge corperation requiering $$$$ to keep going. Microsoft has to be a money making empire and empires dont last forever - what happens when bill & co start dying.
I will still be around in 20 years 'falls on ground - so cant be struk down - waiting to be struk' but will they?
Linux gets faster with each release. It gets bigger and stronger, remember that an OS is just that. It is not some majical thing that will make majical things just majically happen as they keep promising us. They need some reason to milk the 'heard' for as long as they can. This is not going to be with an OS for much longer. Maybe they can finish DNFE (but i am shure it won't live upto the hype:)
Linux is made to be perfect. Windows is made to be Perfect(tm).
Besides Linux/Wine runs Winamp...... Winex runs windows games..... XoverOffice runs Photoshop....
Remember "build it and they will come".
"but when you come to modulate it onto RF, the extraneous signals just overload the modulator and end up not coming out of the receiver"
The RF output of a VCR recorder does have macrovision, RF modulation does not affect the operation of macrovision (macrovision is designed with this in mind). Macrivision's protection scheme works mainly by sending a....
"Macrovision is a videotape copy protection for VHS video cassette recorders [24]. It is used on pre-recorded videotapes, and it seems to be more common in North America than in Europe. It is also used in the new Settop Boxes to protect the outcoming signals against copying (e.g. DSS and Digicipher). When dubbing a protected tape, or copying a protected analogue signal, the picture that has gone through the recording VCR will get dark and then normal again periodically. The picture may also become unstable when it is at its darkest. Some televisions do not like Macrovision either. The top of the picture might be unstable all the time and the colors may flicker."
from http://web.quick.cz/pejovideo/eng/how_work.htm
"Macrovision(TM) is a copy-protection scheme for analog NTSC, PAL, YUV, and RGB video signals, commonly used in the consumer market. Copy protection is implemented by modifying the video signal so that an analog VCR cannot track the video signal for recording, but a TV will still display a normal image. DVD players, digital settop boxes for cable and satellite systems, and VCRs all include Macrovision copy protection."
Macrovision is a company that developed the a copy protection system to protect VHS tapes from bieng copied. EVERY "new" VCR has the Macrovision system designed into it.
This system messes with the video signal that leaves the device in such a way as to confuse the AGC (automatic gain control) in he video signal receiver (TV), which in turn screws up the picture.
All new digital products that output an analog video signal will/should have this system designed into them, to prevent the analog signal bieng copied.
Thios includes cable, satellite boxes, video cards etc.
Aparently when you click on the link provided by Linux Today you get:
"Unfortunately, we cannot satisfy this particular request because it comes from a source that is not authorized to redistribute our content..."
This is not redistribution in my opinion. This is how the net works(?).
Everytime I upgrade windows I not only have to rip the OS but a lot of the Apps to (ME=Poor3rdWorldSlave). Linux on the other-hand upgrades everything, supports older hardware better, by witch I mean my girls PI 233 MHz [IntelInside;)] 92MB PC.
I first used Win98 on it (2000 and XP won't install but it now uses Mandrake 9.2 & Gnome. It was an easy sell to get her off Win98 and onto Linux - not just because of the eyecandy;) - but because it runs Firefox wich takes 10s to print to a post script file compaired to 30+ secs using Opera & PDF Machine - I love this ability of Firefox.
On the email side Evolotion is usable enough for her because she loves it enough to forgive it the speed loss compaired to using TheBat mail client on 98.
This all works for me beacuse I use her Linux box to keep my dialup working without a hic-up, which saves on the telephone bill - infinite calls = 60 hours for $0.7:)
I wish I could melt all my warez, but I just can't get my dual monitor display working (I use it as a tv/dvd player) on my ATI RADEON 7000 / S3 cards with XFree86 that comes with Mandrake 9.2 (think its ver 4.3) but will try with Mandrake 10 and a downloaded 4.4 - Hope to hell it works!
If you are using Windows try Proxomitron. It is a HTML filtering proxy server that removes/limits banners/popups/animated gifs/Flash etc. The great thing is that it stops the crud before downloading it.
I am trying to find a Linux app that does the same job but no luck yet - closest is Webwasher. (I believe that Proximitron may work under Wine.)
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I am trying KDE at the moment. Gnome/Nautilus would stall on me and bring everything down. I am sure that the problem is SAMBA related.
I have installed software RAID 1 on my Linux systems
and they boot faster. No hardwaer required, uses linux kernel software RAID - much faster than hardware raid on a dual processor system.
Works for IDE and SATA drives. Easy to do with new Debian Sarge installer.
I have installed software RAID 1 (mirroring) on a system with two SATA drives 2.6 kernel. It was easy with the new debian installer in Sarge.
The speed increase of the system was wonderful. Boot times, responce times etc. Write times remain the same but read times are halved.
I have since upgraded all our Linux servers to PATA Raid1 - Requires no raid controller. Query times have dropped. All for the price of a few 40GB IDE drives.
I now want RAID 1 for my home machine.
For the boot times etc not just data redundancy.
Why does IE heading towards its next release trundle, whereas Firefox heading towards its next release moves swiftly?
"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0. Release date: August 27, 2002"
I rest my case.
"20 terabytes of data" This has to be the most bloated screensaver ever!
Easy as PIE - even WINE runs WC3 Your video card/linux setup support is your problem.
You are using a crappy distro. Use a debian based distro. No RPM's, great fonts, easy istall etc. Try UBUNTU, DEBIAN (SARGE) CD1 etc
Microsoft is a corp. dragging 15 years of legacy. I hoped that Longhorn would somthing NEW - but it looks like the same old story.
I will be using C# on a Linux and Windows platforms via Mono. I need advanced tools for Linux and it looks like Mono/Mono Develop will lead the way for me.
Another VB Viktom
The only problem I have with K3B is that it can't copy multi-track CD's. (eg. SVCD disk) This was the case around 3 months ago - has it changed?
I am thinking of trying Ubuntu Linux - currently on Mandrake 10.
Can you use Debian packages with Ubuntu?
I use KDE on a P1 233Mhz 96MB RAM PC. It is a little
slow to boot - but that happens about 1/month.
It is fine for:
Browsing (firefox)
Email (Evoloution)
PDF
Printing
I tried KDE 3.1 but 3.2 is faster. Gnome works but seems to be slower. IceWM works but not much speed diff. between that and KDE.
"We're evaluating how these NGSCB capabilities should be integrated into Longhorn, but we don't know exactly how it'll be manifested. A lot of decisions have yet to be made," said Mario Juarez, product manager in Microsoft's Security and Technology Business Unit. "We're going to come out later this year with a complete story." I have been writing code for windows systems for the past 10 years. We have had good times (Win2000, WinXP) we have had bad times (Access, Security, VB, Me, ....).
But today I realised that 'dare i say it' linux is
finaly (on my knees face to the sky tears in eyes) coming together. It may not be tomorrow, maybe not even Friday. But the day will soon be here when I can look at what i am coding around in a production enviroment.. I can ask questions about what will happen in the next OS release, and not get any marketing blurbs.
Microsoft realised that the Palladium idea would tighten thier noose of control. But that this would also be showdown time. Would the business world spend a fortune buying into this "secure world" where 2GB RAM is required. Where code is so 'tight' that 6GHz dual core PX could open notepad just as fast it did on my P1 233 Win98?
Linux does not represent a huge corperation requiering $$$$ to keep going. Microsoft has to be a money making empire and empires dont last forever - what happens when bill & co start dying.
I will still be around in 20 years 'falls on ground - so cant be struk down - waiting to be struk' but will they?
Linux gets faster with each release. It gets bigger and stronger, remember that an OS is just that. It is not some majical thing that will make majical things just majically happen as they keep promising us. They need some reason to milk the 'heard' for as long as they can. This is not going to be with an OS for much longer. Maybe they can finish DNFE (but i am shure it won't live upto the hype :)
Linux is made to be perfect. Windows is made to be Perfect(tm).
Besides Linux/Wine runs Winamp ...... Winex runs windows games ..... XoverOffice runs Photoshop ....
Remember "build it and they will come".
"but when you come to modulate it onto RF, the extraneous signals just overload the modulator and end up not coming out of the receiver"
....
The RF output of a VCR recorder does have macrovision, RF modulation does not affect the operation of macrovision (macrovision is designed with this in mind). Macrivision's protection scheme works mainly by sending a
"Macrovision is a videotape copy protection for VHS video cassette recorders [24]. It is used on pre-recorded videotapes, and it seems to be more common in North America than in Europe. It is also used in the new Settop Boxes to protect the outcoming signals against copying (e.g. DSS and Digicipher). When dubbing a protected tape, or copying a protected analogue signal, the picture that has gone through the recording VCR will get dark and then normal again periodically. The picture may also become unstable when it is at its darkest. Some televisions do not like Macrovision either. The top of the picture might be unstable all the time and the colors may flicker."
from http://web.quick.cz/pejovideo/eng/how_work.htm
"Macrovision(TM) is a copy-protection scheme for analog
NTSC, PAL, YUV, and RGB video signals, commonly used
in the consumer market. Copy protection is implemented by
modifying the video signal so that an analog VCR cannot
track the video signal for recording, but a TV will still display
a normal image. DVD players, digital settop boxes for cable
and satellite systems, and VCRs all include Macrovision
copy protection."
from http://www.intersil.com/data/an/an9806.pdf
Macrovision is a company that developed the a copy protection system to protect VHS tapes from bieng copied. EVERY "new" VCR has the Macrovision system designed into it.
This system messes with the video signal that leaves
the device in such a way as to confuse the AGC (automatic gain control) in he video signal receiver (TV), which in turn screws up the picture.
All new digital products that output an analog video signal will/should have this system designed into them, to prevent the analog signal bieng copied.
Thios includes cable, satellite boxes, video cards etc.
"Initially? Why initially? What about the millions of computer users out there that don't EVER want to give up their "eye-candy interface" ?"
Real "jedi" use the consol and only the consol young Padiwan.
The rest of us go on to more full featured desktop systems - GNOME/KDE etc.
http://stats.openoffice.org/wusage/index.htmle k of 3/9/2003 to 3/15/2003: Top 100 of 30,280 Documents Sorted by Access Count
/welcome/registration.html 34,069 /about-downloads.html 29,734 /download/mirrors.html [Referrers] 11,670 /about.html [Referrers] 7,408
/about.html 57,858 /about-downloads.html 45,531 /welcome/registration.html 38,913 /download/mirrors.html 12,800
/welcome/registration.html 41,316 /about.html 36,818 /contributing.html 27,339 /download/mirrors.html 17,821 /about-downloads.html 16,667 /servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload 14,643
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http://stats.openoffice.org/wusage/index.html Week of 3/9/2003 to 3/15/2003: Top 100 of 30,280 Documents Sorted by Access Count Rank Document Accesses 7 /welcome/registration.html 34,069
10 /about-downloads.html 29,734
25 /download/mirrors.html [Referrers] 11,670
40 /about.html [Referrers] 7,408
Week of 8/31/2003 to 9/6/2003: Top 100 of 36,358 Documents Sorted by Access Count
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7 /about-downloads.html 45,531
9 /welcome/registration.html 38,913
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21 /download/mirrors.html 12,800
Week of 2/29/2004 to 3/6/2004: Top 100 of 27,708 Documents Sorted by Access Count
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7 /welcome/registration.html 41,316
8 /about.html 36,818
10 /contributing.html 27,339
14 /download/mirrors.html 17,821
17 /about-downloads.html 16,667
25 /servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload 14,643
http://stats.openoffice.org/wusage/index.html Week of 3/9/2003 to 3/15/2003: Top 100 of 30,280 Documents Sorted by Access Count Rank Document Accesses 7 /welcome/registration.html [Referrers] 34,069
10 /about-downloads.html [Referrers] 29,734
25 /download/mirrors.html [Referrers] 11,670
40 /about.html [Referrers] 7,408
Week of 8/31/2003 to 9/6/2003: Top 100 of 36,358 Documents
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6 /about.html [Referrers] 57,858
7 /about-downloads.html [Referrers] 45,531
9 /welcome/registration.html [Referrers] 38,913
11 /project/www/dev_docs/source/download.html [Referrers] 31,967
21 /download/mirrors.html [Referrers] 12,800
Week of 2/29/2004 to 3/6/2004: Top 100 of 27,708 Documents
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7 /welcome/registration.html [Referrers] 41,316
8 /about.html [Referrers] 36,818
10 /contributing.html [Referrers] 27,339
14 /download/mirrors.html [Referrers] 17,821
17 /about-downloads.html [Referrers] 16,667
25 /servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload [Referrers] 14,643
Aparently when you click on the link provided by Linux Today you get: "Unfortunately, we cannot satisfy this particular request because it comes from a source that is not authorized to redistribute our content..." This is not redistribution in my opinion. This is how the net works(?).
Everytime I upgrade windows I not only have to rip the OS but a lot of the Apps to (ME=Poor3rdWorldSlave). Linux on the other-hand upgrades everything, supports older hardware better, by witch I mean my girls PI 233 MHz [IntelInside ;)] 92MB PC.
;) - but because it runs Firefox wich takes 10s to print to a post script file compaired to 30+ secs using Opera & PDF Machine - I love this ability of Firefox.
:)
I first used Win98 on it (2000 and XP won't install but it now uses Mandrake 9.2 & Gnome. It was an easy sell to get her off Win98 and onto Linux - not just because of the eyecandy
On the email side Evolotion is usable enough for her because she loves it enough to forgive it the speed loss compaired to using TheBat mail client on 98.
This all works for me beacuse I use her Linux box to keep my dialup working without a hic-up, which saves on the telephone bill - infinite calls = 60 hours for $0.7
I wish I could melt all my warez, but I just can't get my dual monitor display working (I use it as a tv/dvd player) on my ATI RADEON 7000 / S3 cards with XFree86 that comes with Mandrake 9.2 (think its ver 4.3) but will try with Mandrake 10 and a downloaded 4.4 - Hope to hell it works!
Cheers - enjoy the weekend.
"... The plan is a bloody brilliant way to get free analists working for the CIA, NSA, DIA ..."
Yhep - they need all the help they can get.
If this protocol is specifically designed for high speed connections, It would not help my 56Kbit dial-up connection :(
Would it be used for users of traditional broadband connections?
Could Linux assimilate this new protocol?
If you are using Windows try Proxomitron. It is a HTML filtering proxy server that removes/limits banners/popups/animated gifs/Flash etc. The great thing is that it stops the crud before downloading it.
I am trying to find a Linux app that does the
same job but no luck yet - closest is Webwasher.
(I believe that Proximitron may work under Wine.)
Any suggestions?