I have had the opportunity over the last several months to work with the VIA Epia-M, and Epia-PD boards.
I've used Debian as my primary OS, and the 2.6 kernel tree. Overall, everything seems to work quite well. The NIC has no problems of note. The soundcard was a snap. The I2C bus has been ignored, since I don't need any of it, but from what I read, there are (quite) a few problems with it's implementation & support under Linux. Their "padlock" features are for naught. Hardware random number gen has issues prior to (as best I can determine) 2.6.10, as in, "not bloody supported without a BIOS patch".
The main problem I have run into is with the graphics. Support for the unichrome graphics chipset is just plain AWFUL. Via claims "open source!", but all they have done is swipe the code from the OSS unichrome (reverse engineered) project, and incorporate it into a nightmarish install system which REQUIRES very specific versions of the kernel (both 2.6 and 2.4), running on very specific distros, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE. There is *nothing* available as a raw tarball (at least nothing as far as I can tell). You must run VERY specific versions of X.org, and or XFree86, and these drivers are available ONLY as binary modules, more or less, the unichrome chipset is unsupported.
The parent article's contention that IBM is a large proponent of open software is a baseless claim. IBM could care less about what software they or their customers run, as long as they can send the programming teams to Jaipur, bangalore, Sao Paulo, turn out their stateside programming staff to the streets, and convert the rest into mindless drones.
which was supposedly "repaired" by the dealership. 2 days after I picked up my jeep, the check engine light came back on.
Rather than take it in for a $90 diagnostic fee, I found a trick: put in key, turn "on", "off", "on", "off", and finally, "on", and the diagnostic code(s) display in the digital odometer.
Take that code to google, and I found that the jeep had the same problem which was supposedly "repaired".
I took it back in, and mentioned the codes it was showing, and put up a fight with the service manager saying, "No, you will not charge me for the 'diagnostic' check, I already know what it is. It's code ABC and XYZ. Now, fix."
Nah, I'm relieved. The faster this garbage gets sent to the heap, the faster Paramount will realize there is still a fanbase willing to pay good money to see good feature films, and reserve time to watch a weekly serial.
I'm stuck on 3 week business trip, DYING every Friday I don't get to see a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. now, THAT is good writing. THAT is a good show. it just kills me that I'm not home to see it.
I remember watching the first episode of this fiasco. I was scraping carpet glue off the terazzo on my living room floor. The first episode *should* have grabbed my attention, but all I could think was, "When will Dean Stockwell show up and zap 'Archer' out of this mess and into another mediocre television pilot."
TRIPE. This whole show was tripe. I watched TNG, DS9, and suffered through the semi-miserable Voyager, and for the most part, was able to keep my stomach in one piece. Enterprise, however, no bloody way.
Weak acting, WEAK. Horrible writing, just awful. Bad, bad stuff.
Gods have mercy, I watch TNG & DS9 on Spike every day, and even their worst episodes trump the best of "Enterprise", of which I have seen perhaps 10.
The show is so bad, it makes me sick, just plain sick.
I can say that SBC is completely out of their minds for buying AT&T, a company which has been losing money, in the billions, for years.... Perhaps SBC has a way to turn this around? I don't know, but I don't think so. I think the stock holders are going to be in for a rude, rude surprise.
As for Sprint? Hah. I would say in 6 to 8 months, you'll see Verizon buying them, assuming the Nextel deal goes through. If it doesn't? Sprint'll abandon it's wireline divisions, hurrah, and sell to the Germans.
That you are effectively locked-in to buying Monsanto seed for the rest of your life.
If you stop buying monsanto seed, and begin growing non-monsanto plants, monsanto can still sue you, because the soil is effectively monsanto property. Their claim, basically being "genetic modification of the soil". There have been a very few cases where Monsanto has been ordered by courts to remove the topsoil they "own".
Thus, year after year, you must pay out the A$$ to a greedy company hooked on profit.
"After routing my IP address through an anonymous proxy server in the US I however managed to unlock the content just as well and was presented with a license agreement I had to agree to prior to being able to play the content back. "
Telling the MPAA how you circumvented their DRM & violated the DMCA: Priceless.
though not nearly a scientific study, I thought these were great queries to do a side-by-side comparison with
"tenzin gyatso" (His Holiness, the Dalai Lama) "panchen lama" "tenzin delek" "tibet" "taiwan independence" etc etc etc.
My findings are not surprising, in any way. To China, that which is not in agreement with their version of the world either does not exist, or (for acoona at least) is diametrically opposed to what Google has to say.
I would hate to see acoona supplant google as the world's most frequently used search engine. The chances of this happening are very slim, I'd think, but the possibility does exist.
From a certain point of view, China and the US Government are in lock-step with each other, as long as mutual respect is shown. That which our power-caste doesn't want the people to seek, would simply not exist in acoonaworld.
I saw these all over the place when I travelled to Italy in late 2000. When I got back, I showed some of the photos I took to my jeep dealer, who was familiar with the car (it's made by Daimler/Chrysler, just like my jeep), and he was even familiar with the car.
He said the only way D/C would bring the car to the states was if they could a) get it to pass US emissions standards (looks like they did), and b) gas prices skyrocketed (looks like they did)
I do plan on buying one of these. It'll fit in my garage WITH my jeep.
And I choose to spend my time playing games. I prefer games with mature content, hell, I want MORE mature content in my games. I have a lot of money to spend on games. Should the studios ignore this? I don't think so.
GWB and his right-wing zealots can stick with Funtime with Moses(tm), I prefer GTA SA.
Of the five broadcast (major networks, and one indie and PBS) that I can extract over the air aren't worth it.
I could pay another $12.00 a month to the local cable monopoly to get another HD box to tune in the aforementioned five channels (well, subtract 2. The NBC affiliate and the indie station refuse to do business with local cable monopoly, they don't wanna give up their point-channels) plus a whopping selection of: HBO HD (wow, two new movies a month, geewhiz(tm)), TNT HD (CSI/Law & Order, anyone?) and Discover HD (what a purty tree frog).
All in all, the current state of HD sucks anyway. I guess i'll stick with my two cheapie ($40) Tv-wonder cards.
It's a shame that the host computer has to decode the MPEG data. that's a pretty serious performance hit (hence, the 1.2gHz CPU requirement). It's a shame the card doesn't do onboard decoding. I'd have paid an extra sheckel or two for that.
I currently pay $1500 a year, with a PRISTINE driving record, for a 100% paid-off nissan, and a 2002 Jeep wrangler (still making payments).
I drive ZERO miles to work, and average 10-20 miles per week.
Why I am paying this much for insurance? Because I'm living in a state with bad statistics. I would GLADLY let my insurance company monitor my driving, or lack thereof, to save money (if the money's right, of course)
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I have had the opportunity over the last several months to work with the VIA Epia-M, and Epia-PD boards.
I've used Debian as my primary OS, and the 2.6 kernel tree. Overall, everything seems to work quite well. The NIC has no problems of note. The soundcard was a snap. The I2C bus has been ignored, since I don't need any of it, but from what I read, there are (quite) a few problems with it's implementation & support under Linux. Their "padlock" features are for naught. Hardware random number gen has issues prior to (as best I can determine) 2.6.10, as in, "not bloody supported without a BIOS patch".
The main problem I have run into is with the graphics. Support for the unichrome graphics chipset is just plain AWFUL. Via claims "open source!", but all they have done is swipe the code from the OSS unichrome (reverse engineered) project, and incorporate it into a nightmarish install system which REQUIRES very specific versions of the kernel (both 2.6 and 2.4), running on very specific distros, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE. There is *nothing* available as a raw tarball (at least nothing as far as I can tell). You must run VERY specific versions of X.org, and or XFree86, and these drivers are available ONLY as binary modules, more or less, the unichrome chipset is unsupported.
The parent article's contention that IBM is a large proponent of open software is a baseless claim. IBM could care less about what software they or their customers run, as long as they can send the programming teams to Jaipur, bangalore, Sao Paulo, turn out their stateside programming staff to the streets, and convert the rest into mindless drones.
and i bet the automated email system runs on Linux! woohoo. More linux!
ugh.
Extend
Embrace
Extinguish
nuff said.
If fans of Enterprise can scrape up money to try and save a show, surely there is no
problem getting a few thousand geeks to "buy" Voyager from NASA.
GWB talks about this great "Ownership Society", well, here we go!
I, for one, would pay a few bucks to own a peice of history.
My great-great-great grandkids will be safe when Vger comes back because
they own it. Vger wouldn't kill it's owners, would it??
we don't need no stinkin constitution.
Well, looks like I'm not getting my free scoop. Walmart has run Baskin Robins out of town.
hehehe. if i had any mod points left, that's too damned funny. good one.
which was supposedly "repaired" by the dealership. 2 days after I picked up my jeep, the check engine light came back on.
Rather than take it in for a $90 diagnostic fee, I found a trick: put in key, turn "on", "off", "on", "off", and finally, "on", and the diagnostic code(s) display in the digital odometer.
Take that code to google, and I found that the jeep had the same problem which was supposedly "repaired".
I took it back in, and mentioned the codes it was showing, and put up a fight with the service manager saying, "No, you will not charge me for the 'diagnostic' check, I already know what it is. It's code ABC and XYZ. Now, fix."
Nah, I'm relieved. The faster this garbage gets sent to the heap, the faster Paramount will realize there is still a fanbase willing to pay good money to see good feature films, and reserve time to watch a weekly serial.
I'm stuck on 3 week business trip, DYING every Friday I don't get to see a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. now, THAT is good writing. THAT is a good show. it just kills me that I'm not home to see it.
his name is.
I remember watching the first episode of this fiasco. I was scraping carpet glue off the terazzo on my living room floor. The first episode *should* have grabbed my attention, but all I could think was, "When will Dean Stockwell show up and zap 'Archer' out of this mess and into another mediocre television pilot."
TRIPE. This whole show was tripe. I watched TNG, DS9, and suffered through the semi-miserable Voyager, and for the most part, was able to keep my stomach in one piece. Enterprise, however, no bloody way.
Weak acting, WEAK. Horrible writing, just awful. Bad, bad stuff.
Gods have mercy, I watch TNG & DS9 on Spike every day, and even their worst episodes trump the best of "Enterprise", of which I have seen perhaps 10.
The show is so bad, it makes me sick, just plain sick.
Troll me, I don't care, I have karma to burn.
I can say that SBC is completely out of their minds for buying AT&T, a company which has been losing money, in the billions, for years. ... Perhaps SBC has a way to turn this around? I don't know, but I don't think so. I think the stock holders are going to be in for a rude, rude surprise.
As for Sprint? Hah. I would say in 6 to 8 months, you'll see Verizon buying them, assuming the Nextel deal goes through. If it doesn't? Sprint'll abandon it's wireline divisions, hurrah, and sell to the Germans.
That you are effectively locked-in to buying Monsanto seed for the rest of your life.
If you stop buying monsanto seed, and begin growing non-monsanto plants, monsanto can still sue you, because the soil is effectively monsanto property. Their claim, basically being "genetic modification of the soil". There have been a very few cases where Monsanto has been ordered by courts to remove the topsoil they "own".
Thus, year after year, you must pay out the A$$ to a greedy company hooked on profit.
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"After routing my IP address through an anonymous proxy server in the US I however managed to unlock the content just as well and was presented with a license agreement I had to agree to prior to being able to play the content back.
"
Telling the MPAA how you circumvented their DRM & violated the DMCA: Priceless.
though not nearly a scientific study, I thought these were great queries to do a side-by-side comparison with
"tenzin gyatso" (His Holiness, the Dalai Lama)
"panchen lama"
"tenzin delek"
"tibet"
"taiwan independence"
etc etc etc.
My findings are not surprising, in any way. To China, that which is not in agreement with their version of the world either does not exist, or (for acoona at least) is diametrically opposed to what Google has to say.
I would hate to see acoona supplant google as the world's most frequently used search engine. The chances of this happening are very slim, I'd think, but the possibility does exist.
From a certain point of view, China and the US Government are in lock-step with each other, as long as mutual respect is shown. That which our power-caste doesn't want the people to seek, would simply not exist in acoonaworld.
disregard my bad english. I can't afford to turn my furnace on, and brain is frozen.
I saw these all over the place when I travelled to Italy in late 2000. When I got back, I showed some of the photos I took to my jeep dealer, who was familiar with the car (it's made by Daimler/Chrysler, just like my jeep), and he was even familiar with the car.
He said the only way D/C would bring the car to the states was if they could a) get it to pass US emissions standards (looks like they did), and b) gas prices skyrocketed (looks like they did)
I do plan on buying one of these. It'll fit in my garage WITH my jeep.
And I choose to spend my time playing games. I prefer games with mature content, hell, I want MORE mature content in my games. I have a lot of money to spend on games. Should the studios ignore this? I don't think so.
GWB and his right-wing zealots can stick with Funtime with Moses(tm), I prefer GTA SA.
I suppose it's all really a moot point, anyhow.
Of the five broadcast (major networks, and one indie and PBS) that I can extract over the air aren't worth it.
I could pay another $12.00 a month to the local cable monopoly to get another HD box to tune in the aforementioned five channels (well, subtract 2. The NBC affiliate and the indie station refuse to do business with local cable monopoly, they don't wanna give up their point-channels) plus a whopping selection of: HBO HD (wow, two new movies a month, geewhiz(tm)), TNT HD (CSI/Law & Order, anyone?) and Discover HD (what a purty tree frog).
All in all, the current state of HD sucks anyway. I guess i'll stick with my two cheapie ($40) Tv-wonder cards.
It's a shame that the host computer has to decode the MPEG data. that's a pretty serious performance hit (hence, the 1.2gHz CPU requirement). It's a shame the card doesn't do onboard decoding. I'd have paid an extra sheckel or two for that.
I just bought the 600 a month ago.
rather than paying for mobi, i decided to use my cheapie ($40) ati tv card, ffmpeg/ffserver and mmplayer (cellphone).
I stripped the output down to 1fts divx video, monural audio @ 8kpbs (sounds OK).
Cost? Free. I can watch any one of the 90 channels I get over my cable service (HBO, but why bother?)
I use it primarily to watch (rather *listen*) to my local baseball team. It is a nice technology show-off, though.
But of course.
I currently pay $1500 a year, with a PRISTINE driving record, for a 100% paid-off nissan, and a 2002 Jeep wrangler (still making payments).
I drive ZERO miles to work, and average 10-20 miles per week.
Why I am paying this much for insurance? Because I'm living in a state with bad statistics. I would GLADLY let my insurance company monitor my driving, or lack thereof, to save money (if the money's right, of course)
Mmmm. Must have more encoders. Mmmm. Linux MediaLabs
NO NO No and more no.
You are not a target for some whack-job and their Whoopie-knife. Keep your head right where it belongs, atop your shoulders.
Greed, quite literally, KILLS these days.