That's called "insurance fraud." It's usually highly illegal. It's also not unusual at all for individuals and groups to try their luck at getting away with it. Believe me, I'm sure they've taken a good look at what they're getting into.
I do not dispute that Q3 needs ALSA support. I know there are many issues with software mixing. I myself have a CS4630-based card, and I love the thing.
The great-grandparent poster was asking about how to get rid of 2+ sec. xruns. I say to either use a sound server that is meant to do low latencies, such as jackd, or to get a real sound card.
No, I don't know that he uses a crappy sound device for sure. But given the ubiquity of software-driven sound processing, I find it probable that this is his problem.
We'll both get dragged away by the Gestapo. Together. Like old times. It'll be fun!
OK, maybe that was a little bit over the top. But you get the point: if that is your reason for not donating, then the terrorists^Wpoliticians have already won.
Most of the passes in the Gutmann wipe are designed to flip the bits in MFM/RLL encoded disks, which is an encoding that modern hard disks do not use.
In a followup to his paper, Gutmann said that it is unnecessary to run those passes because you cannot be reasonably certain about how a modern hard disk stores data on the platter. If the encoding is unknown, then writing random patterns is your best strategy.
In particular, Gutmann says that "in the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data... For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do".
In other words, DBAN doesn't work for modern hard drives. It's as good as random scrubbing. Which is not that effective anyway.
Nintendo is not a division of an extremely successful multinational corporation: it is a multinational corporation. There is nothing to support it if it fails to show a profit.
All we want are the goddamn hardware specs. How is that too much to ask for?
Though, maybe that's the wrong question to ask. One that might get some answers is: "How much will open documentation (no NDA, no strings attached) cost us?"
Money is always a touch-and-go subject for free software; there isn't ever enough (is there ever?). Is this a cause worth donating for?
And even then, it's only a temporary solution. If we give in like that, the danger is that more companies will do the same, including those that previously gave them to us when we asked for them. And of course, this will have to be repeated for nearly every chipset.
I guess we're reduced to the status quo. It's probably better to have slow progress yet keep the integrity of our guiding principles.
Oh no, I wasn't saying that someone should go out and knock him over the head with a bat; I was just saying that it would be so convenient if by chance something with enough force did in fact hit him on the head.
I mean, please, I'm a/.er---I have more class than that...
Won't a baseball bat coincidentally land on his head with such force that he become incapacitated and conveniently forget all about this prude shit (that doubtlessly is poised to make him a pretty penny)?
I haven't gotten very far into the book yet, but this all has shades of The Road to Serfdom, wherein Hayek proposes that certain kinds of socialism, especially the kinds wrapped in the stolen cloak of classical liberalism, inevitably lead to fascism and Stalinism in the extreme, due to the authoritarian nature of the government necessary to run the planning, even if these systems are often put in place by well-meaning, intelligent individuals. Or at least, this is what I recall so far.
That's a funny statement, "They can't just rely on enthusiasts." The ones I talk to are absolutely smitten with them at the moment. It is common knowledge (well, everywhere except the known Intel-whoring sites) that the Athlon64 beats the Pentium 4, hands down, in everything but multimedia encoding. And their (single core) processors are better priced than Intel's, and they overclock better than Intel's too. I don't think I have to mention the thermal parameters either.
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That's called "insurance fraud." It's usually highly illegal. It's also not unusual at all for individuals and groups to try their luck at getting away with it. Believe me, I'm sure they've taken a good look at what they're getting into.
I do not dispute that Q3 needs ALSA support. I know there are many issues with software mixing. I myself have a CS4630-based card, and I love the thing.
The great-grandparent poster was asking about how to get rid of 2+ sec. xruns. I say to either use a sound server that is meant to do low latencies, such as jackd, or to get a real sound card.
No, I don't know that he uses a crappy sound device for sure. But given the ubiquity of software-driven sound processing, I find it probable that this is his problem.
You mean besides not relying on onboard sound or even some discrete sound cards, which do DSP and mixing in software, a la winmodems?
I suppose you could run JACK as a real-time process. This way, sound doesn't get preempted.
Or at least change an entire component at once. What is this, a 1/20th-ass effort?
Outside of the time period (these all originated in the 70's and 80's IIRC)?
WWW-RW -> RW-WWW -> RW4
As reported in Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users.
I believe that there was a story here on that.
Well, actually, Kazaa Lite. Close enough.
Too lazy to go looking, but this feels like old news.
Does it produce freedom toast? Will it include a freedom frier for freedom fries as well?
Seriously. Donate, grandparent poster.
We'll both get dragged away by the Gestapo. Together. Like old times. It'll be fun!
OK, maybe that was a little bit over the top. But you get the point: if that is your reason for not donating, then the terrorists^Wpoliticians have already won.
Q: Is the Gutmann method the best method?
A: No.
Most of the passes in the Gutmann wipe are designed to flip the bits in MFM/RLL encoded disks, which is an encoding that modern hard disks do not use.
In a followup to his paper, Gutmann said that it is unnecessary to run those passes because you cannot be reasonably certain about how a modern hard disk stores data on the platter. If the encoding is unknown, then writing random patterns is your best strategy.
In particular, Gutmann says that "in the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data... For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do".
In other words, DBAN doesn't work for modern hard drives. It's as good as random scrubbing. Which is not that effective anyway.
Except that if they run Linux, nobody gets paid. Well, unless somebody decided to sell licenses of a distro to them.
UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Nothing perceived contingent, nothing ventured.
But I suppose that's only the case with very few of us.
Nintendo is not a division of an extremely successful multinational corporation: it is a multinational corporation. There is nothing to support it if it fails to show a profit.
Apparently, nobody's picked up that domain.
All we want are the goddamn hardware specs. How is that too much to ask for?
Though, maybe that's the wrong question to ask. One that might get some answers is: "How much will open documentation (no NDA, no strings attached) cost us?"
Money is always a touch-and-go subject for free software; there isn't ever enough (is there ever?). Is this a cause worth donating for?
And even then, it's only a temporary solution. If we give in like that, the danger is that more companies will do the same, including those that previously gave them to us when we asked for them. And of course, this will have to be repeated for nearly every chipset.
I guess we're reduced to the status quo. It's probably better to have slow progress yet keep the integrity of our guiding principles.
Oh no, I wasn't saying that someone should go out and knock him over the head with a bat; I was just saying that it would be so convenient if by chance something with enough force did in fact hit him on the head.
/.er---I have more class than that...
I mean, please, I'm a
That's funny; I though it was entitled "Why I love xpdf." I wonder what could have given me such a strange notion...
Won't a baseball bat coincidentally land on his head with such force that he become incapacitated and conveniently forget all about this prude shit (that doubtlessly is poised to make him a pretty penny)?
Bush has tapped Chris...
Chris the Ninja-Pirate?
You know what this and that article remind me of?
I haven't gotten very far into the book yet, but this all has shades of The Road to Serfdom, wherein Hayek proposes that certain kinds of socialism, especially the kinds wrapped in the stolen cloak of classical liberalism, inevitably lead to fascism and Stalinism in the extreme, due to the authoritarian nature of the government necessary to run the planning, even if these systems are often put in place by well-meaning, intelligent individuals. Or at least, this is what I recall so far.
Could be all the "sales" they get through OEM versions. "Somebody sold a computer? Well, there's another sale of Windows!"
[insert typical gripe about uncompetitive MS behavior]
(didn't RTFA; instinct tells me I'm wrong about these numbers including the OEM sales)
That's a funny statement, "They can't just rely on enthusiasts." The ones I talk to are absolutely smitten with them at the moment. It is common knowledge (well, everywhere except the known Intel-whoring sites) that the Athlon64 beats the Pentium 4, hands down, in everything but multimedia encoding. And their (single core) processors are better priced than Intel's, and they overclock better than Intel's too. I don't think I have to mention the thermal parameters either.