Well, I don't have an equivalent board for comparison, but I haven't had any problems at all with my A7N8X-D. Excepting the lack of APU support for harware mixing, I haven't noticed any flakiness with the nForce-specific componentry on this board. I have no problem believing Intel chipset support is more thorough, but I'd be surprised to find that VIA solutions are more stable. The only thing I'm waiting on is TCQ for the sii3112, but that's not even nForce2.
I like the pulsing LED on the hinge of a sleeping TiBook. It's really functional and isn't obnoxious. I think they did well with the LEDs in the power cable too in that it turns orange when the battery is charging. I share your distain for the glowing logo though, and I think the hinge LED might be driven with a duty cycle as it seems to have a flourescent light/CRT type of shimmer.
...since linux is open source and the formats are totally in the open, M$ can make their products easily work with Linux.
Yes, of course they can.
End result: Linux will never have the usability of windows.
What? The "usability" of Linux has nothing to do with whether or not Microsoft can make products for it.
Even if someone came out with a great new product for linux, M$ could simply change their OS so that it also works on windows.
So what? Do you really think most people would prefer app_foo+windows over app_foo+linux? I play America's Army which has a client for both Windows and Linux. I also like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and occasionally Battlefield 1942. Even though I have to dual boot for the sake of COD and the rest I still prefer AA on Linux. Microsoft knows this. They will never have to fight by changing Windows to accomodate Linux applications. They already know that the minute they do they're history.
I hate to say it, but for Linux to catch on, open source has got to go.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Disregarding the influence open source development has had on the quality of Linux, and disregarding the fact that the GPL is in it's nature, uhh... you're suggesting that... secrect formats of some sort for Linux applications will give the platform an edge because that would lock out Microsoft? No one in Redmond is afraid of that. They wouldn't even waste their breath laughing at the notion.
I know there is something to be said about the dynamics of an openly interoperable commodity software market versus Microsoft's fiat, but I think you've got it inverted in some way. There's a reason Microsoft has targeted Linux as enemy number one. It's not because the kernel is good, or even free. It's because it could change the entire economic ecosystem that Microsoft lives in.
...maybe IBM can come up with something
Like a bunch of pro-Linux advertising or a precedent setting pro-GPL court victory?
Linux? At this poitn it still can't compete at the level of the average user.
Dude, it's being sold at WalMart. How fscking pedestrian does it have to get?
What functionality is missing from these? IIRC, ALSA lacks support for hardware mixing via the APU, but everything else has fully functional open drivers. IDE was covered by an AMD driver back around 2.4.18/9 or so. The NIC was reverse engineered. There's nvidia_agp and even i2c support for lm_sensors.
"It started when Keith and Jim decided to pressure the XFree86 project on behalf of Linux distributions who felt that the XFree86 project wasn't acting in line with their business plans."
"There are companies who make money from bundling up software that they didn't write, yet don't feel that what they've gotten will allow them to compete with Microsoft the way they'd like. After seeing the courses of action that those parties have decided to take, I realized that it would become more and more unlikely that I'd be happy working in such an environment. This is my hobby. I don't do it for any religious or political reasons. When it become for aggravating than fun, it's time to move to another hobby."
Reading this, it appears that he wasn't agreeing with Packard, he was actually annoyed with him and the pressure to modernise XFree86 by Linux distros.
Agreed. I've requoted your post entirely to ensure it is seen if it isn't modded out of anonymity. Clearly, my original interpretation spun in opposition to truth of the matter.
No wonder a fork was needed... Not like current XFree86 developers look as the most motivated people in the world.
You might not be referring to Vojkovich's response, but IIRC nVidia was making some in-house improvements to XFree86 that would show up in their drivers (xaa and xrender, I think) and hopefully get folded back into XFree86. In other words, (provided I'm recalling this correctly), Vojkovich felt the same things that Packard and the Cygwin maintainer felt. The developers have been motivated, but the organization wasn't allowing them to implement their improvements.
Are you referring to the "autotoolization" work going on at freedesktop? If so, does Debian intend to use that branch, and package the installation with the directory conventions of other apps, i.e. stop segregating most of X under it's own directory?
When we went into Afghanistan Rumsfeld immediately cinched my respect with this: "If I know I'll tell you. If I don't know I'll tell you I don't know. And if I don't want you to know, I'll tell you, 'I don't want you to know.'"
It's too bad he got so flippant once we went into Iraq.
I think solid state storage would become commonplace before this would.
No doubt. Didn't we just have an article about nano-tube memory in the last few weeks? This thing we're talking about here is supposed to use a CRT-type electron gun (however small) shooting across atomosphere (even if it's just mm) at a silcon substrate. It sounds like something that should be implemented more like a hard drive than cheap, durable, archival media.
Uh... you do realise that you can play any musical instrument that has strings with a bow, right?
Unless, you're bowing a guitar specifically made to be played with a bow it will be little better instrumentally than an autoharp. Violins and the rest of the string section have curved fingerboards and deep notches at the waist so that individual strings can be isolated.
I'm so glad we put that to rest. All we need now is to find ourselves two women who only recognize Dick York as the One True "Derwood" (ya know, the first one? Duh!) and we can "double date".
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Are there any gurus in the house that could sketch the alternatives to String Theory that we would bet on? I'm curious as to what Quantum Loop Gravity is and wonder if there are any other candidates in the running.
My kernel is 1/30th the size of it's source tarball. "mozilla-browser" is a bit less than 1/3 the size of the source tarball disregarding the diff. What am I missing?
They take a snapshot of the code at 4.3.99-rcwhatever and stop syncing the files that are released with the 1.1 license. No biggie there. The biggie is the political impact. If freedesktop.org's repository is folded into Fedora we're one step closer to a wide userbase for an X11 that could embrace kdrive, or an autotool'd build system, etc...
There is relatively little criticism of Gentoo on/. and most of it is confined to jokes about the style of its advocates. The parent poster clearly indicated that he has been using Gentoo for 18 months on multiple machines and will continue to do so. I have installed Gentoo three times on both x86 and ppc hardware. I've found much to appreciate in the distribution, but many flaws as well. You seem to think critics are either lying about Gentoo's merits for the sake of a reaction or lack a presupposed savy neccessary to get the most out of it. This isn't the case. Indeed, installing Gentoo from stage1 doesn't take "work". It takes patience. If you want to call people lazy you should stop wrapping "./configure --foo && make && su -c 'make install'" with "emerge foo". If you want to crow about speed you should start with gprof instead of march=overclocked-barton. If you want to use an OS that makes you feel like a member of an exclusive club you should code your own. If you want to talk down to the rest of us you should keep in mind that we might not care.
I disagree. The functionality provied by DirectX is already available in Linux and DX's utility isn't wholly endorsed by the two biggest engines out there. Unreal is coded in a "cross-API" manner and Carmack's engines have only touched DX for input.
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Well, I don't have an equivalent board for comparison, but I haven't had any problems at all with my A7N8X-D. Excepting the lack of APU support for harware mixing, I haven't noticed any flakiness with the nForce-specific componentry on this board. I have no problem believing Intel chipset support is more thorough, but I'd be surprised to find that VIA solutions are more stable. The only thing I'm waiting on is TCQ for the sii3112, but that's not even nForce2.
So, uh... Mr. Spock would make green stop signs?
I like the pulsing LED on the hinge of a sleeping TiBook. It's really functional and isn't obnoxious. I think they did well with the LEDs in the power cable too in that it turns orange when the battery is charging. I share your distain for the glowing logo though, and I think the hinge LED might be driven with a duty cycle as it seems to have a flourescent light/CRT type of shimmer.
"Member's Mark"? Just what kind of club does Sam have?
Yes, of course they can.
End result: Linux will never have the usability of windows.
What? The "usability" of Linux has nothing to do with whether or not Microsoft can make products for it.
Even if someone came out with a great new product for linux, M$ could simply change their OS so that it also works on windows.
So what? Do you really think most people would prefer app_foo+windows over app_foo+linux? I play America's Army which has a client for both Windows and Linux. I also like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and occasionally Battlefield 1942. Even though I have to dual boot for the sake of COD and the rest I still prefer AA on Linux. Microsoft knows this. They will never have to fight by changing Windows to accomodate Linux applications. They already know that the minute they do they're history.
I hate to say it, but for Linux to catch on, open source has got to go.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Disregarding the influence open source development has had on the quality of Linux, and disregarding the fact that the GPL is in it's nature, uhh... you're suggesting that... secrect formats of some sort for Linux applications will give the platform an edge because that would lock out Microsoft? No one in Redmond is afraid of that. They wouldn't even waste their breath laughing at the notion.
I know there is something to be said about the dynamics of an openly interoperable commodity software market versus Microsoft's fiat, but I think you've got it inverted in some way. There's a reason Microsoft has targeted Linux as enemy number one. It's not because the kernel is good, or even free. It's because it could change the entire economic ecosystem that Microsoft lives in.
Like a bunch of pro-Linux advertising or a precedent setting pro-GPL court victory?
Linux? At this poitn it still can't compete at the level of the average user.
Dude, it's being sold at WalMart. How fscking pedestrian does it have to get?
What functionality is missing from these? IIRC, ALSA lacks support for hardware mixing via the APU, but everything else has fully functional open drivers. IDE was covered by an AMD driver back around 2.4.18/9 or so. The NIC was reverse engineered. There's nvidia_agp and even i2c support for lm_sensors.
Agreed. I've requoted your post entirely to ensure it is seen if it isn't modded out of anonymity. Clearly, my original interpretation spun in opposition to truth of the matter.
You might not be referring to Vojkovich's response, but IIRC nVidia was making some in-house improvements to XFree86 that would show up in their drivers (xaa and xrender, I think) and hopefully get folded back into XFree86. In other words, (provided I'm recalling this correctly), Vojkovich felt the same things that Packard and the Cygwin maintainer felt. The developers have been motivated, but the organization wasn't allowing them to implement their improvements.
Are you referring to the "autotoolization" work going on at freedesktop? If so, does Debian intend to use that branch, and package the installation with the directory conventions of other apps, i.e. stop segregating most of X under it's own directory?
They're really looking for "wierdos".
It's too bad he got so flippant once we went into Iraq.
No doubt. Didn't we just have an article about nano-tube memory in the last few weeks? This thing we're talking about here is supposed to use a CRT-type electron gun (however small) shooting across atomosphere (even if it's just mm) at a silcon substrate. It sounds like something that should be implemented more like a hard drive than cheap, durable, archival media.
Unless, you're bowing a guitar specifically made to be played with a bow it will be little better instrumentally than an autoharp. Violins and the rest of the string section have curved fingerboards and deep notches at the waist so that individual strings can be isolated.
Give us an example.
You can't tell your "astronauts" to replace broken Shuttle tiles either because they can't actually do anything like that on a "space-walk".
I'm so glad we put that to rest. All we need now is to find ourselves two women who only recognize Dick York as the One True "Derwood" (ya know, the first one? Duh!) and we can "double date".
Are there any gurus in the house that could sketch the alternatives to String Theory that we would bet on? I'm curious as to what Quantum Loop Gravity is and wonder if there are any other candidates in the running.
I'd be happy with a terminal like the console in Enemy Territory.
Yes.
The jigdo system provides DVDs.
My kernel is 1/30th the size of it's source tarball. "mozilla-browser" is a bit less than 1/3 the size of the source tarball disregarding the diff. What am I missing?
Do I have to read the book to know the difference between these two, or can I just rent the movie?
They take a snapshot of the code at 4.3.99-rcwhatever and stop syncing the files that are released with the 1.1 license. No biggie there. The biggie is the political impact. If freedesktop.org's repository is folded into Fedora we're one step closer to a wide userbase for an X11 that could embrace kdrive, or an autotool'd build system, etc...
There is relatively little criticism of Gentoo on /. and most of it is confined to jokes about the style of its advocates. The parent poster clearly indicated that he has been using Gentoo for 18 months on multiple machines and will continue to do so. I have installed Gentoo three times on both x86 and ppc hardware. I've found much to appreciate in the distribution, but many flaws as well. You seem to think critics are either lying about Gentoo's merits for the sake of a reaction or lack a presupposed savy neccessary to get the most out of it. This isn't the case. Indeed, installing Gentoo from stage1 doesn't take "work". It takes patience. If you want to call people lazy you should stop wrapping "./configure --foo && make && su -c 'make install'" with "emerge foo". If you want to crow about speed you should start with gprof instead of march=overclocked-barton. If you want to use an OS that makes you feel like a member of an exclusive club you should code your own. If you want to talk down to the rest of us you should keep in mind that we might not care.
I disagree. The functionality provied by DirectX is already available in Linux and DX's utility isn't wholly endorsed by the two biggest engines out there. Unreal is coded in a "cross-API" manner and Carmack's engines have only touched DX for input.