I haven't gotten 2.6.3 compiled yet, and here comes 2.6.4. Hell, I'm still running 2.6.0-gentoo. What's with this heightened release schedule? I mean, gcc is only so fast on my machine.
I think their estimates are off a little. $45 for a copy of Windows seems a little bit underpriced. I know an OEM installer, and he says that every copy of Windows they get (and they have to get multiple ones) costs on the order of $99. Granted, he's not a _big_ OEM builder, but he's still an OEM builder.
He also has a monopoly on the area's new PC market, but that's okay.
I've paid a Microsoft tax on two of my 11 PCs. Five of the others are too old to run Microsoft software, two of them are relics that will never leave my house. One is incapable of running any Microslut OS and it would be preferable if it stayed that way. One is a hunk of silicon which I didn't pay microslut taxes on. One other, my Quadra 630CD, runs a Microslut OS, but I didn't pay the taxes on that one, AAPL did way back when. (consequently, that thing runs Windows 3.1 on its 486/66 processor better than my native 486/66 did, with less RAM)
I think it might have to do with my (former) habit of binging on Vanilla Coke and Penguins before a night-long code-a-rama.
On a slightly unrelated topic, my migranes seem to start out with a little brightly-colored spot in one eye, that gradually spreads to engulf both eyes' fields of vision, and my head is left feeling a slight pain every time I move it. Then, ~25 - 30 minutes later, the slight pain on movement intensifies until it's like a horde of elephants is rampaging through my brain. Around a half hour later, I become violently ill, and puke. Sometimes more than once, sometimes not. Sometimes these happen for days in a row, sometimes not.
On another semi-unrelated note, an old family remedy in my family, post-nausea, is to drink old-fashioned, plain Coca-Cola after you puke. Normally it prevents puking again. Could this be related to the caffiene content of the Coke? It seems not to happen when Pepsi is substituted, however.
So the fuck what if he is? What has that to do with the price of cheese?
*waits for answer* *hears bewildered silence*
It makes no difference. The people who choose to live a different lifestyle than your own have just as much right to live that lifestyle as you do to live your own.
I'm not totally screwed on a mouseless 'doze box, either. However, it took me 4+ years to discover all the shortcuts. The most useful combination I've found on a Windows box is:
(winlogo) u r enter
And then select the "Linux 2.6" option at the resultant menu.
My Quadra 630CD runs OS 7.5.5 and hasn't crashed since I bought it, except when I enabled At Ease and found I couldn't log in and had to boot with extensions off.
As an added bonus, it has a 66MHz 486 and runs Windows 3.1 in addition to MacOS 7.5.5.
You advocate DiskDrake. I respond with a question:
What if I don't want to install XFree86 just to repartition my disks?
What if I want to partition my drives remotely, over ssh, from a text-only terminal, incapable of running VNC or any of the other remote X clients?
There is no killer solution, in a diverse world. If all Linux users or installer-people were alike, two things would happen: We'd likely refer to each other as "Eight of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 0" or similar, and there would be one, and only one, disk partitioning tool.
Unless you turned on this morning with a Luminglass above your head and called your neighbor "3 of 5, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 3", I highly doubt that only one partitioning tool will exist for quite some time.
Personally, I prefer cfdisk, because when I partition disks, I want it done without cryptic-ness and I don't want to install X (~20 mb of source download and ~10 hours of compilation) just to partition my hard drive.
Granted, I've never tried parted, but with tools like cfdisk, I don't need to, either.
now you get 133 Mb/s transfer (SATA is that speed I believe)
ATA/133 is 133MB/s (for once a number in a spec makes sense, eh?)
(next copied verbatim from Wikipedia) Initially Serial ATA was released at 150 megabytes per second but it is designed to scale up quite substantially from there. Serial ATA II will double throughput to 300 MB/s and then 600 MB/s is planned for around 2007.(end copied block)
Just nitpicking. You're close to correct, but, as the old saying goes: "close only counts in hand grenades and thermonuclear weapons."
You have a valid point here, however I would ask why in the name of God anyone would want to move away from Winamp 2.9x to something without media format support as extensive.
They want to double click an installer and have their OS Ogg enabled.
They have one: Winamp 2.91 plays Ogg Vorbis, among others
If they're using Windows Media Player to play their music, they deserve to have the DRM chain yanked, hard.
People switching to WMA or AAC with iTunes instead of sticking with an older MP3 encoder as has been suggested here would be dumb as hell. WMA and AAC both have DRM installed, and enabled by default (iirc from my unhappy times trying to convert my WMA crap to Ogg goodness, but I don't know about AAC's default)
DivX is commercial software, and can thus afford to hire a webmaster who can be allowed to wake up stupid one day. Xiph's webmaster is probably one of their core coders.
DivX is also supported by winamp 2.91, without any plug-ins other than what comes with it. In addition, I'd definitely say that the AVI format was originated by someone other than DivX, given that according to Wikipedia, the AVI format is defined (thus was originated) by Microsoft. So DivX becomes an extension on a Microslut format that can be played by extensions to Microslut World Domination Take-over Software (aka WMP), thus making DivX itself only playable by third-party software. (Am I correct here in saying that having another party other than the DivX team and the end user-- in this case, WMP-- makes DivX third-party software?)
I'll give you that installing DirectShow filters is rather beyond certain users-- my mom included-- and that getting a standardized installer for the poor souls who have to use WMP would be a tremendous idea. But having users switch to WMA or AAC just makes for another inevitable format war; Ogg works on nearly every platform ever, with the possible exceptions of the Atari and the Amiga 500.* AAC works only on iTunes or very very compatible players; WMA works on Windows and WMP for Mac.
On another note, has Fraunhofer shown any interest (positive or negative) towards Linux and the OSS community? If they have, could this be an attempt to squeeze Linux out of the market for multimedia and thereby desktop systems? And is it possible (conspiracy theory) that Microslut could have funded them and/or be providing coders for this heinous act? (/conspiracy theory)
(*) For those who didn't catch it, this is a flat-out JOKE.
I think this will usher in the time when we see Ogg Vorbis and FLAC and other non-DRM formats floating around the major P2P networks. Already, 80% (estimate mine) of the music floating around the OpenFT network is in ogg vorbis format. Lots of the stuff floating around the FastTrack network is in mp3 format, but some is in WMA. I have seen around 20 or 30 ogg vorbis files (other than my own) on FastTrack. Gnutella has plenty of Ogg stuff floating around, due to the OSS nature of the network. At least the Neuros and the Karma support Ogg and (at least with the Karma) FLAC formats, so when my media becomes DRM-"protected", I'll be able to still listen to my music without constraints.
I assume the creators of LAME won't incorporate this "technology" into their very fine encoder until heavily-armed military officers show up at their developers' doors and breathe down their necks as they incorporate it.
I say we get/manufacture a cartridge full of excrement, and send smell-mails to all the spammers. Better yet, "smell-spam" the spammers. Nothing they could do about it; it's what they've been doing.
Right, but parent made a point about M$ Office, not OpenOffice. And Itanium, while being 64-bit, is virtually useless to the end user, due to its cost, and its inavailability to Joe Luser for his new gaming system. AMD64 is available now.
Windows XP 64-bit is still in beta release and won't be out for at least a year. SuSE Linux and Mandrake are already optimized for the AMD64 processor, and Linux's been ported to the DEC Alpha, PowerPC, and many other 64-bit processors for quite some time now.
Buying Adobe defeats the point. Say I have a document, like a research paper, that I need printed, but don't have a printer at home that works, but the school does. The school, however, uses Macs, and I use solely PCs. Do I:
(a) Put the document in Rich Text format and on the webserver root, and pray the fonts stay intact?
(b) Put the document in PostScript format and on the webserver root, and farking hope the school has a PostScript reader (note that Windows _does_ have the capability to print Postscript, but no native. preinstalled, ready-to-use reader)
(c) Use either KPrint's "Print to PDF" option, or OpenOffice.org 1.1's "Export PDF" option, keep my fonts intact, my document ready to print, easily read on 95% of the Macs at school, and small enough to not swamp my ADSL connection as I download it from the school
Unless you're on PCP, the correct answer is (c). If you are, the answer is (42).
I'll use Windows when there's an efficient, fast method to update _everything_ on the system in under a week. And FYI, Parent's Parent could have replaced emerge -u world with 'apt-get -u upgrade' and negated Parent's "simpletons" remark.
In other words, you've just been seriously pwned. Enjoy it while you can, wintroll!
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Uhm, thanks for the funny moderation, but I was trying to be serious.
I haven't gotten 2.6.3 compiled yet, and here comes 2.6.4. Hell, I'm still running 2.6.0-gentoo. What's with this heightened release schedule? I mean, gcc is only so fast on my machine.
Very nice, but does it play Ogg Vorbis?
I think their estimates are off a little. $45 for a copy of Windows seems a little bit underpriced. I know an OEM installer, and he says that every copy of Windows they get (and they have to get multiple ones) costs on the order of $99. Granted, he's not a _big_ OEM builder, but he's still an OEM builder.
He also has a monopoly on the area's new PC market, but that's okay.
I've paid a Microsoft tax on two of my 11 PCs. Five of the others are too old to run Microsoft software, two of them are relics that will never leave my house. One is incapable of running any Microslut OS and it would be preferable if it stayed that way. One is a hunk of silicon which I didn't pay microslut taxes on. One other, my Quadra 630CD, runs a Microslut OS, but I didn't pay the taxes on that one, AAPL did way back when. (consequently, that thing runs Windows 3.1 on its 486/66 processor better than my native 486/66 did, with less RAM)
I think it might have to do with my (former) habit of binging on Vanilla Coke and Penguins before a night-long code-a-rama.
On a slightly unrelated topic, my migranes seem to start out with a little brightly-colored spot in one eye, that gradually spreads to engulf both eyes' fields of vision, and my head is left feeling a slight pain every time I move it. Then, ~25 - 30 minutes later, the slight pain on movement intensifies until it's like a horde of elephants is rampaging through my brain. Around a half hour later, I become violently ill, and puke. Sometimes more than once, sometimes not. Sometimes these happen for days in a row, sometimes not.
On another semi-unrelated note, an old family remedy in my family, post-nausea, is to drink old-fashioned, plain Coca-Cola after you puke. Normally it prevents puking again. Could this be related to the caffiene content of the Coke? It seems not to happen when Pepsi is substituted, however.
I've found that post-migrane consumption of coffee helps me out a lot. Perhaps this is an excuse to start drinking the stuff like water.
Are you gay or something?
So the fuck what if he is? What has that to do with the price of cheese?
*waits for answer*
*hears bewildered silence*
It makes no difference. The people who choose to live a different lifestyle than your own have just as much right to live that lifestyle as you do to live your own.
--
I'm not totally screwed on a mouseless 'doze box, either. However, it took me 4+ years to discover all the shortcuts. The most useful combination I've found on a Windows box is:
(winlogo) u r enter
And then select the "Linux 2.6" option at the resultant menu.
My Quadra 630CD runs OS 7.5.5 and hasn't crashed since I bought it, except when I enabled At Ease and found I couldn't log in and had to boot with extensions off.
As an added bonus, it has a 66MHz 486 and runs Windows 3.1 in addition to MacOS 7.5.5.
You advocate DiskDrake. I respond with a question:
What if I don't want to install XFree86 just to repartition my disks?
What if I want to partition my drives remotely, over ssh, from a text-only terminal, incapable of running VNC or any of the other remote X clients?
There is no killer solution, in a diverse world. If all Linux users or installer-people were alike, two things would happen: We'd likely refer to each other as "Eight of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 0" or similar, and there would be one, and only one, disk partitioning tool.
Unless you turned on this morning with a Luminglass above your head and called your neighbor "3 of 5, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 3", I highly doubt that only one partitioning tool will exist for quite some time.
Personally, I prefer cfdisk, because when I partition disks, I want it done without cryptic-ness and I don't want to install X (~20 mb of source download and ~10 hours of compilation) just to partition my hard drive.
Granted, I've never tried parted, but with tools like cfdisk, I don't need to, either.
now you get 133 Mb/s transfer (SATA is that speed I believe)
ATA/133 is 133MB/s (for once a number in a spec makes sense, eh?)
(next copied verbatim from Wikipedia)
Initially Serial ATA was released at 150 megabytes per second but it is designed to scale up quite substantially from there. Serial ATA II will double throughput to 300 MB/s and then 600 MB/s is planned for around 2007.(end copied block)
Just nitpicking. You're close to correct, but, as the old saying goes: "close only counts in hand grenades and thermonuclear weapons."
You have a valid point here, however I would ask why in the name of God anyone would want to move away from Winamp 2.9x to something without media format support as extensive.
They want to double click an installer and have their OS Ogg enabled.
They have one:
Winamp 2.91 plays Ogg Vorbis, among others
If they're using Windows Media Player to play their music, they deserve to have the DRM chain yanked, hard.
People switching to WMA or AAC with iTunes instead of sticking with an older MP3 encoder as has been suggested here would be dumb as hell. WMA and AAC both have DRM installed, and enabled by default (iirc from my unhappy times trying to convert my WMA crap to Ogg goodness, but I don't know about AAC's default)
DivX is commercial software, and can thus afford to hire a webmaster who can be allowed to wake up stupid one day. Xiph's webmaster is probably one of their core coders.
DivX is also supported by winamp 2.91, without any plug-ins other than what comes with it. In addition, I'd definitely say that the AVI format was originated by someone other than DivX, given that according to Wikipedia, the AVI format is defined (thus was originated) by Microsoft. So DivX becomes an extension on a Microslut format that can be played by extensions to Microslut World Domination Take-over Software (aka WMP), thus making DivX itself only playable by third-party software. (Am I correct here in saying that having another party other than the DivX team and the end user-- in this case, WMP-- makes DivX third-party software?)
I'll give you that installing DirectShow filters is rather beyond certain users-- my mom included-- and that getting a standardized installer for the poor souls who have to use WMP would be a tremendous idea. But having users switch to WMA or AAC just makes for another inevitable format war; Ogg works on nearly every platform ever, with the possible exceptions of the Atari and the Amiga 500.* AAC works only on iTunes or very very compatible players; WMA works on Windows and WMP for Mac.
On another note, has Fraunhofer shown any interest (positive or negative) towards Linux and the OSS community? If they have, could this be an attempt to squeeze Linux out of the market for multimedia and thereby desktop systems? And is it possible (conspiracy theory) that Microslut could have funded them and/or be providing coders for this heinous act? (/conspiracy theory)
(*) For those who didn't catch it, this is a flat-out JOKE.
I think this will usher in the time when we see Ogg Vorbis and FLAC and other non-DRM formats floating around the major P2P networks. Already, 80% (estimate mine) of the music floating around the OpenFT network is in ogg vorbis format. Lots of the stuff floating around the FastTrack network is in mp3 format, but some is in WMA. I have seen around 20 or 30 ogg vorbis files (other than my own) on FastTrack. Gnutella has plenty of Ogg stuff floating around, due to the OSS nature of the network. At least the Neuros and the Karma support Ogg and (at least with the Karma) FLAC formats, so when my media becomes DRM-"protected", I'll be able to still listen to my music without constraints.
I assume the creators of LAME won't incorporate this "technology" into their very fine encoder until heavily-armed military officers show up at their developers' doors and breathe down their necks as they incorporate it.
As could the EFF, and it'd be more of the EFF's niche.
Yeah, I Yamato'd a Hive 12 times once. It was great.
I say we get/manufacture a cartridge full of excrement, and send smell-mails to all the spammers. Better yet, "smell-spam" the spammers. Nothing they could do about it; it's what they've been doing.
Tell me, who besides Orrin Hatch and Darl McBride and Hilary Rosen _doesn't_ enjoy pissing off the RIAA?
Add "Dubya getting re-elected" to that list of conditions, and I'll happily pay half the rent.
You can replace every mention of "Novell" in that article with "SCO Group", and every mention of "SCO Group" with "Linux" and it'd still be true.
Right, but parent made a point about M$ Office, not OpenOffice. And Itanium, while being 64-bit, is virtually useless to the end user, due to its cost, and its inavailability to Joe Luser for his new gaming system. AMD64 is available now.
You did.
To clue++ your goofy ass:
Windows XP 64-bit is still in beta release and won't be out for at least a year. SuSE Linux and Mandrake are already optimized for the AMD64 processor, and Linux's been ported to the DEC Alpha, PowerPC, and many other 64-bit processors for quite some time now.
Buying Adobe defeats the point. Say I have a document, like a research paper, that I need printed, but don't have a printer at home that works, but the school does. The school, however, uses Macs, and I use solely PCs. Do I:
(a) Put the document in Rich Text format and on the webserver root, and pray the fonts stay intact?
(b) Put the document in PostScript format and on the webserver root, and farking hope the school has a PostScript reader (note that Windows _does_ have the capability to print Postscript, but no native. preinstalled, ready-to-use reader)
(c) Use either KPrint's "Print to PDF" option, or OpenOffice.org 1.1's "Export PDF" option, keep my fonts intact, my document ready to print, easily read on 95% of the Macs at school, and small enough to not swamp my ADSL connection as I download it from the school
Unless you're on PCP, the correct answer is (c). If you are, the answer is (42).
I'll use Windows when there's an efficient, fast method to update _everything_ on the system in under a week. And FYI, Parent's Parent could have replaced emerge -u world with 'apt-get -u upgrade' and negated Parent's "simpletons" remark.
In other words, you've just been seriously pwned. Enjoy it while you can, wintroll!
(begin wide-eyed stare)
Did it hurt?
(end wide-eyed stare)
"So are you".
Asshat.
I've been using 2.6.0-test11 for some time now, and find it quite stable and satisfactory.
Seems this fixes a few bugs, and beefs up Wireless support. Sweet. Can't wait till we start seeing this in "production systems".