And yet you're the same sort of person who if I said I didn't like Lord of The Rings 2: Elrod Strikes Back or whatever you people's favorite movie or music (The System is Down?) is, after 15 minutes, you'd be all "you didn't give it a chance".
Why don't you ask that question once you gain a little experience, kid? At least the other replier had used both. For games, maybe, but still better than judging your opinion on how distracted by Junkyard Wars you were while it booted up.
Well I'm glad that you're able to play your games on your Apple, but there's people with serious work to do with their machines. If they're not doing anything very CPU/GPU intensive and the Apple's what they prefer working on, so be it. I'm not Applebashing here, I'm just saying that building your own is not the right solution. If you're going to buy last-generation hardware, at least get good support and some software to satisfy those bearded-terminal-hacker cravings.
And I hope you didn't literally throw out that XP machine. I'm sure there's someone who could have given it a better home. I've found that running a legitimate copy of XP with proper signed drivers gives perfectly fine stability.
With the sort of "previous generation" hardware that is supported on the Apple platform, who would want to do something like this? It's not as though you can just drop in your new AGP Geforce 3 you bought with all the money you saved downloading WaReZed pirate bootlegs on Kazaa. If it's not in one of Apple's all in one plug and go machines that freshman design majors drool over, you're just out of luck.
And we're talking primitive too. There's a reason why artists and musicians are trading in on PC's running XP in droves. Look up a supported hardware list for the newest Apple Computers OS. I think you'll wonder, as I did, whether they're getting parts from 2 to 3 generations ago at a discount.
What you're really paying for with an Apple is their support, their backwards-compatible-with-BSD operating system (for all you bearded terminal hackers), and the pleasure of doing business with a company like Apple that many here have deluded themselves into believing that they support open source.
You're much better off putting the same money into a Windows machine, or perhaps Solaris if you want a good workstation with firewalling capabilities.
"Whos runs X apps over the network?" I do, and I've seen _many_ places where people should as well. Quick example: my girlfriend does finite element analysis using ANSYS. She has to trudge up... blah blah blah
I'm calling bullshit on you too. You talk about credentials, then you provide none but the typical Slashdot "Oh look at me I have a girlfriend" post. Why isn't she using remote X Windows like you say, pray tell? Could it be because it's too slow, prone to display issues, and a pain in the ass to set up?
How about embedded apps? Wouldn't it be simpler to move processing to a server somewhere, and just run a simple X server on the device? It certainly seems more efficient and less expensive than trying to stuff ample hardware onboard each one of them. But, hey, let's ignore that obvious use for X, and claim "no one uses it anymore!"
You must work for Sun. I'll put you in the "bearded terminal hacker category".
XF86 _DOES_ have DirectX. We call this "DRI", and if you combine it with SDL, there you go, DirectX for Linux. DRI is a local interface. It has none of the supposed problems X has with regards to performance. Even casual benchmarking of games in Linux and Windows reveals that any impact X has is minimal. There's also nothing preventing you from doing a hardware-accelerated GUI - the architecture is all there.
If there's nothing preventing me from doing it, then why doesn't anyone? DRI rarely works in its default configuration, as supplied by the muppets who set up distros around Linux and X. DRI doesn't support double buffering, even! Okay, sure you can interlace the traffic over a local network using RPC, but that's a hack in anyone's book.
I've given money on several occasions to open source causes, but I'm not going to shell out for every upgrade since that would just defeat much of the incentive to use open source.
Well my apologies to you. You're one of the good ones then. If there was a community full of people like you, the Open Source movement might have some momentum.
What remains though is that most of this community you speak of are refugees from either a childhood of pirated "wAreZ" collection and "Peer to Peer" music stealing, who got started on Unixlikes from t-files on boards they found, or bearded terminal hackers who won't let go of the past. Neither of these have the money nor the will to support an undertaking of this size.
However hopefully, the motivated ones such as yourself can come up with something better, that won't attract as many deadbeat members.
Thank you for the correction. Still, it's light years beyond anything X could ever accomplish, no matter how many half-baked and impossible to compile and use "extensions" the Linux crowd comes up with to patch it up.
The ship is leaking, sinking fast. It's time to build a new one before you all drown.
Oh why don't you just cram it. Pretty soon you'll be goosestepping and saying crap like "Mein Leiben!" when we shoot you just like all the other Nazis.
They're taking away features so they can give them back to people who pay the subscription fees (presumably to say "wow, that's a repost" 20 minutes before everyone else).
With the dot-com bust giving Transmeta a hard time, an approval by Microsoft could be just what they need to get back on their feet and out of bankruptcy.
Maybe this will be a lesson learned for the GNU/Linux community as well, to support the companies that use open source and contribute back to the movement. Everyone's all about freedom, but nobody seems to want to pay the price for it. Apparently Transmeta has seen this and is moving on to greener and more friendly pastures. Good for them I say, and I'm looking forward to the product.
Think about that the next time you Bittorrrent the latest release of Redhat instead of purchasing it. What would you do if they decided to switch over to Microsoft? You'd all be screwed then.
Someone on here jokingly mentioned that X was the only thing holding them back on IPv6. Really it should be X that's holding IPv6 back.
Can't we please start over with a clean slate on window management (perhaps even with a decent license)? X is a creaking relic of a time when everyone had to run their applications over a network because their own computers weren't fast enough. Does anyone do that anymore? I don't think so.
Far superior systems like Microsoft's DirectX and Apple Computer's Aqua seem to be the wave of the future. If the open source community can stop playing "bearded terminal hacker" for a moment to implement a more modern system, I believe it may be taken more seriously than this networking hack that was never meant to get past the first couple of versions.
I believe that the time these "mass storage" mp3 devices will come into common usage and acceptance will be when they support some form of realtime mp3 compression to record to the device on the fly.
I can't even count the number of times I've been sitting around and have wanted to record a good good joke I've heard, interesting lecture, or incriminating evidence on a friend. Why just the other day we were sitting around and came up with a wonderful joke involving people who read slashdot, a lack of bathing, the RIAA, a trained walrus, several assault rifles, and a copy of The O'Reilly factor.
All lost to the sands of time. Good realtime compression would be an excellent feature!
Search parties have been formed to explore Richie Stallman's office, who was last seen madly ranting "If they're not going to call it GNU/Universe, we'll just take our part out and leave!"
The problem is likely a poorly documented flaw in the way the Apple OS X's audio drivers and hardware convert audio for their media stream and player.
The Soundblaster 16 PCI clone found in most newer Apple computer machines has some issues with interference that were not a problem in comparable pentium II class machines where the more common metallic casing stopped most external RF. I suppose this is the sort of price you have to pay for plexiglass plastic casing, and is one of the reasons Apple has had a falling out in the music production industry in favor of cheaper PC and turnkey systems.
Of course, thumbing your nose at the RIAA with "do not steal music" stickers as copy protection probably did not help.
Perhaps a bit offtopic, but how would something like this be useful to the GNU Radio project or how could the project help efforts to figure this out? I know that radio telescopes are used when studying space and all, but could some sort of software radio be more adaptive in nature, able to measure planetary/stellar phenomena in a more precise manner?
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And yet you're the same sort of person who if I said I didn't like Lord of The Rings 2: Elrod Strikes Back or whatever you people's favorite movie or music (The System is Down?) is, after 15 minutes, you'd be all "you didn't give it a chance".
Why don't you ask that question once you gain a little experience, kid? At least the other replier had used both. For games, maybe, but still better than judging your opinion on how distracted by Junkyard Wars you were while it booted up.
Well I'm glad that you're able to play your games on your Apple, but there's people with serious work to do with their machines. If they're not doing anything very CPU/GPU intensive and the Apple's what they prefer working on, so be it. I'm not Applebashing here, I'm just saying that building your own is not the right solution. If you're going to buy last-generation hardware, at least get good support and some software to satisfy those bearded-terminal-hacker cravings.
And I hope you didn't literally throw out that XP machine. I'm sure there's someone who could have given it a better home. I've found that running a legitimate copy of XP with proper signed drivers gives perfectly fine stability.
With the sort of "previous generation" hardware that is supported on the Apple platform, who would want to do something like this? It's not as though you can just drop in your new AGP Geforce 3 you bought with all the money you saved downloading WaReZed pirate bootlegs on Kazaa. If it's not in one of Apple's all in one plug and go machines that freshman design majors drool over, you're just out of luck.
And we're talking primitive too. There's a reason why artists and musicians are trading in on PC's running XP in droves. Look up a supported hardware list for the newest Apple Computers OS. I think you'll wonder, as I did, whether they're getting parts from 2 to 3 generations ago at a discount.
What you're really paying for with an Apple is their support, their backwards-compatible-with-BSD operating system (for all you bearded terminal hackers), and the pleasure of doing business with a company like Apple that many here have deluded themselves into believing that they support open source.
You're much better off putting the same money into a Windows machine, or perhaps Solaris if you want a good workstation with firewalling capabilities.
Perhaps so, but at least I don't post as an Anonymous Coward. What would your girlfriend say if she found out???
"Whos runs X apps over the network?" I do, and I've seen _many_ places where people should as well. Quick example: my girlfriend does finite element analysis using ANSYS. She has to trudge up... blah blah blah
I'm calling bullshit on you too. You talk about credentials, then you provide none but the typical Slashdot "Oh look at me I have a girlfriend" post. Why isn't she using remote X Windows like you say, pray tell? Could it be because it's too slow, prone to display issues, and a pain in the ass to set up?
How about embedded apps? Wouldn't it be simpler to move processing to a server somewhere, and just run a simple X server on the device? It certainly seems more efficient and less expensive than trying to stuff ample hardware onboard each one of them. But, hey, let's ignore that obvious use for X, and claim "no one uses it anymore!"
You must work for Sun. I'll put you in the "bearded terminal hacker category".
XF86 _DOES_ have DirectX. We call this "DRI", and if you combine it with SDL, there you go, DirectX for Linux. DRI is a local interface. It has none of the supposed problems X has with regards to performance. Even casual benchmarking of games in Linux and Windows reveals that any impact X has is minimal. There's also nothing preventing you from doing a hardware-accelerated GUI - the architecture is all there.
If there's nothing preventing me from doing it, then why doesn't anyone? DRI rarely works in its default configuration, as supplied by the muppets who set up distros around Linux and X. DRI doesn't support double buffering, even! Okay, sure you can interlace the traffic over a local network using RPC, but that's a hack in anyone's book.
I call bullshit, sir.
Oh... You can't (read).
I've given money on several occasions to open source causes, but I'm not going to shell out for every upgrade since that would just defeat much of the incentive to use open source.
Well my apologies to you. You're one of the good ones then. If there was a community full of people like you, the Open Source movement might have some momentum.
What remains though is that most of this community you speak of are refugees from either a childhood of pirated "wAreZ" collection and "Peer to Peer" music stealing, who got started on Unixlikes from t-files on boards they found, or bearded terminal hackers who won't let go of the past. Neither of these have the money nor the will to support an undertaking of this size.
However hopefully, the motivated ones such as yourself can come up with something better, that won't attract as many deadbeat members.
Thank you for the correction. Still, it's light years beyond anything X could ever accomplish, no matter how many half-baked and impossible to compile and use "extensions" the Linux crowd comes up with to patch it up.
The ship is leaking, sinking fast. It's time to build a new one before you all drown.
Oh why don't you just cram it. Pretty soon you'll be goosestepping and saying crap like "Mein Leiben!" when we shoot you just like all the other Nazis.
They're taking away features so they can give them back to people who pay the subscription fees (presumably to say "wow, that's a repost" 20 minutes before everyone else).
With the dot-com bust giving Transmeta a hard time, an approval by Microsoft could be just what they need to get back on their feet and out of bankruptcy.
Maybe this will be a lesson learned for the GNU/Linux community as well, to support the companies that use open source and contribute back to the movement. Everyone's all about freedom, but nobody seems to want to pay the price for it. Apparently Transmeta has seen this and is moving on to greener and more friendly pastures. Good for them I say, and I'm looking forward to the product.
Think about that the next time you Bittorrrent the latest release of Redhat instead of purchasing it. What would you do if they decided to switch over to Microsoft? You'd all be screwed then.
Someone on here jokingly mentioned that X was the only thing holding them back on IPv6. Really it should be X that's holding IPv6 back.
Can't we please start over with a clean slate on window management (perhaps even with a decent license)? X is a creaking relic of a time when everyone had to run their applications over a network because their own computers weren't fast enough. Does anyone do that anymore? I don't think so.
Far superior systems like Microsoft's DirectX and Apple Computer's Aqua seem to be the wave of the future. If the open source community can stop playing "bearded terminal hacker" for a moment to implement a more modern system, I believe it may be taken more seriously than this networking hack that was never meant to get past the first couple of versions.
I believe that the time these "mass storage" mp3 devices will come into common usage and acceptance will be when they support some form of realtime mp3 compression to record to the device on the fly. I can't even count the number of times I've been sitting around and have wanted to record a good good joke I've heard, interesting lecture, or incriminating evidence on a friend. Why just the other day we were sitting around and came up with a wonderful joke involving people who read slashdot, a lack of bathing, the RIAA, a trained walrus, several assault rifles, and a copy of The O'Reilly factor. All lost to the sands of time. Good realtime compression would be an excellent feature!
Search parties have been formed to explore Richie Stallman's office, who was last seen madly ranting "If they're not going to call it GNU/Universe, we'll just take our part out and leave!"
The problem is likely a poorly documented flaw in the way the Apple OS X's audio drivers and hardware convert audio for their media stream and player.
The Soundblaster 16 PCI clone found in most newer Apple computer machines has some issues with interference that were not a problem in comparable pentium II class machines where the more common metallic casing stopped most external RF. I suppose this is the sort of price you have to pay for plexiglass plastic casing, and is one of the reasons Apple has had a falling out in the music production industry in favor of cheaper PC and turnkey systems.
Of course, thumbing your nose at the RIAA with "do not steal music" stickers as copy protection probably did not help.
Perhaps a bit offtopic, but how would something like this be useful to the GNU Radio project or how could the project help efforts to figure this out? I know that radio telescopes are used when studying space and all, but could some sort of software radio be more adaptive in nature, able to measure planetary/stellar phenomena in a more precise manner?
These guys have analyzed the packets being sent back and forth and have determined Apple is tracking everyone who uses the site to an insane degree.
The analysis is good. Not bad for a couple of college guys.
John Carceni has written a nice article on several remote exploits present in the new Suse.
my nuts itch.
Some prior art that dates from before their filing. Our patent system is so broken.
Perhaps this article could change your mind on the subject. It's pretty scary.
I've got the ISO mirrored here. Take it easy on it guys ;)
You're buying a firewall, not a computer. This is a good article about the phenomenon
Mirrored here along with one of my friends' experiences with this particular hardware
Mirrored here I'm not sure how they plan to track people down.