Your nVidia card is defective. RMA it. I had two 7900 that had broken overlay.
What, you don't think I'd check?
This one is a 6600GT - my research at the time suggested it presented an Xv interface so overlay would work but it wasn't implemented fully on the card - stuff like gamma control for Xv doesn't work.
We need to strip ATi of its driver team, and then strip nVidia of their hardware team, and merge the remainder.
What does it matter? Neither of them bother with proper overlay any more.
My last nVidia card was simply without overlay hardware. My last ATi card's overlay dropped resolution when a high refresh rate was used. At least the nVidia card could play a video at full res without resorting to GL.
It's not all about the 3D...:)
You do have a point about the drivers, though. While closed, nVidia's Linux module hasn't provided nearly as much heartache as ATi's... abomination.
Haven't played it... Off the top of my head the timeline of my Simpsons game history is (very roughly) Bart vs the Space Mutants, Something with Krusty (not actual title...);), Simpsons Wrestling, Hit & Run. There are probably others but they don't spring to mind immediately.
I'm too old for the arcade but (as with all about to turn 30) I'm drawing up plans for a MAME cab as I have a 21" CRT about to enter retirement and I got a decent enough PC for nothing from a friend recently.
I just fullscreen my xterm (mrxvt) which gives an ample 226 columns. As long as screen, irssi, mc and so on don't complain it's OK. Why fullscreen? I don't really use the mouse so it's as handy as anything else:)
When it comes to code... I try to stick to 80 columns (especially with ASM - sometimes 80 columns will be the environment) but if I really need it I'll go beyond that... If it helps understanding of some conditional statement, for example. No point splitting it up at illogical points.
To each their own, but I would love to see a Futurama game...
There was a Futurama game and it stunk up the place. It was the same format as every other cartoon franchise game - third person platformer. I swear they use the same engine for all those games, spend a weekend knocking some new models together, whisk up a few textured boxes to chuck obstacles in and there's your cartoon franchise game!
That said, Simpsons Hit & Run was a blast, which was a surprise as all previous Simpsons games were terrible (I can't remember a good one before that anyway...)
Also, before someone points out I should have used CPAN, I have had mixed success with installing perl packages using CPAN on Debian.
I wouldn't bother with CPAN on Debian - If it's not in apt I'm not bothered (since it's not my machine).
Issues I've had with CPAN on Slack amount to difficulties compiling Perl-GTK (not sure if it's 1 or 2 - possibly to do with lack of GNOME... GtkHTML springs to mind for some reason...) I had to do a bit of manual tweaking before I got it to build.
I actually switched to Slackware after apt broke one too many times under Ubuntu (some sort of Hedgebadger as I recall it). This wasn't an ESR style "I did all the wrong things and your distro broke so it's your fault". I added repositories as described in the FM and ended up with fun things like mutually exclusive dependencies (ie; two required libs which couldn't coexist).
I may have done something wrong but meh - managing my own dependencies always works and I'm not limited by what is (or more importantly, what is not) in apt.
That said, many of the servers I manage run Debian Stable. If the box isn't in my home it isn't going to get as much love;)
This isn't anwhere near as evil as collecting user's browsing data or cooperating with Chinese censorship. They are offering companies a PR service. I hope you're not saying that it's wrong to counter propaganda? That's all Moore's 'documentaries' are really, even when he makes good points (which isn't all that often).
Propaganda, whether political or corporate, exists to sway people's judgment. When it comes to the various forms of propaganda which surround us I'd much rather see it cut through with a little creative film-making than affirmed by an omnipresent behemoth.
I personally don't like Moore's movies but I'm more than happy to see contrary points of view aired. Corporate propaganda gets too much play.
I dunno, Music from the UK has historically been of substance.
Nah, that's just the marketing. I suppose there's a decent chuck of punk rock from the UK but stateside hardcore often blows it away (not always - you can't beat Crass or Subhumans (UK, not Canadian, although the Canadian Subhumans are pretty damn good))
Jazz and blues is from the states (OK, it's from Africa (check out Ali Farka Touré's traditional Malian guitar music... very bluesy)). Hell, Zappa was from the states - talk about your substance.
Note to self: Don't post on Slashdot with a saturday morning hangover. You have a tendency to ramble.
Do not tune stuff that is hidden unless you know what you are doing.
Is this comment really needed for a website full of Linux geeks? It is not as if this is the Microsoft Bob forum.
It sure is. They rolled out that old pipelining chestnut on page 5. This crap simply exhausts the maximum number of requests a server can handle more quickly. If the server isn't throttling individual connections (and I don't have one configured which does this) then it's probably a complete waste of time and bandwidth. It also makes you a very bad netizen for the sake of a two second wait.
Also, the article is called "Hacking Firefox". This is sure to attract all those who think they know what they're doing and get them all pumped up... They'll just change every value on there - "Whoah, I'm hacking the shit out of this thing!"
I'm tired of "hack" abuse... Even more irritating than the mainstream media's use or the term to mean cracking is the tech media's use to mean "configuring" or "maintaining" or "administering". Some jerkoff takes a few vitamins and he's biohacking. "Yeah, I totally hacked my brain by sleeping an extra 20 minutes"... Hack this, hack that. I realise it makes you believe you're attractive and can ride a skateboard without breaking your jaw but it's getting a little old. Every little adventure in the world (online or off) is not worthy of the word "hack".
However: (a) none of this would stop a well-produced song from sounding great on CD, if only labels weren't idiots, and (b) the smug vinyl fans seem to assume that this compression is only done to the CD master, when I've not seen any definite indication that the signal on their precious black plastic hasn't been similarly ruined.
I've seen this done to CDs from independent labels run by musically proficient people... Horrific. I'm not sure vinyl would stand up to that sort of treatment. You could get away with some dynamic sucking compression but after a point it would start to reveal itself as the noise it really is.
I know I was a vinyl snob, wasting good money on two copies of albums so I'd have a digital one for on the move, and a gorgeous slab of vinyl for my deck at home. Then I bought a better CD player (only as expensive as my record deck, at that) and CDs took the lead again on sound quality on my system.
I buy vinyl when possible (because it's still cool to me) and capture it to a moderate quality vorbis file for listening on the computer/on the move. I'm not really a HiFi nerd (that said, I'm only a well-paying job away from becoming one...) so the quality only concerns me to a point. A half-decent set of speakers and decent source (without too many compression artifacts and all that) will do me.
Look, if you're going to make up justifications for using vinyl, make them more convincing.
OK. The CD, while providing decent resolution, has made digital music production more popular. Nothing bad about this until you realise who runs the record labels. There was a phenomenon in rock music during the 70s where the first 30 seconds of the vinyl were made louder than the rest of the record. That initial kick would make the listener think "Whoah, this is loud!" and tell all his friends "Whoah, that was a loud record" - I won't attempt to inject some 70s vernacular.
The attempt to employ similar tricks on the CD has led to the use of digital compressor algorithms which are capable of much finer frequency isolation than their analogue counterparts. Since the CD can't go beyond 0 db, the perception of loudness has to be introduced by increasing the amplitude of the quieter frequencies. It sure is louder but all dynamic range is sucked out of the track. Taking the example of a rock or metal record, the vocals and guitar drown out the instruments which provide the "kick" - drums or bass for example. Not so bad if they stuck to that first 30 seconds of the CD but since there's no technical limitation (the wider spaced tracks of the louder part of the vinyl made it impossible to do this with the whole record) to make them do so the whole CD has this monstrous technique applied. This leaves aside the issue of CDs released with actual clipping distortion (samples beyond the 0 db threshold) - plenty of them out there too.
It is my guess that this is why some vinyl aficionados have some quality issues with the CD.
It is sorta like picking a keyboard like qwerty as a starting point, it may be arbitary but it supposedly was designed by the popularity of letter use and other so-called reasons.
OWERTY was designed to move the hammers of a typewriter most commonly hit in sequence further apart - efficiency was its goal, but its efficiency was reliant on clunky hardware.
Now that we don't have the problem of typewriter hammers sticking, why is QWERTY still in use?
There are more important things in life than making a shitload of money.
You seem not to be playing "Who dies with the most toys". You must have some form of schizoid personality disorder or one of those fashionable attention deficit thingies and must be prescribed some behaviour altering pills not entirely unrelated to cocaine. I suggest winemol or ruthlessitin.
I think you'll find yourself a productive and happy member of our little Monopoly playing family here if you follow my programme and just play along.
I've always had mixed feelings about hiphop and mixing from other artists
I haven't. I never understood the controversy over sampling... It's not as if some enterprising soul with a lot of patience is going to attempt to recreate the original piece from a series of seconds long samples. I'm not really a fan of the sort of music that relies on sampling but I understand the artistry.
Art is hard to pin down in legal terms. This is no accident - the law deals with matters of business, property and personal space - quantifiable and measurable phenomena. It tries to squeeze its way into morality and music but this rarely works out - creativity and emotion don't lend themselves to reasonable debate.
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Not really. Does it matter that the music producers who are howling are as much to blame as Apple's shitty cans.
This one is a 6600GT - my research at the time suggested it presented an Xv interface so overlay would work but it wasn't implemented fully on the card - stuff like gamma control for Xv doesn't work.
What does it matter? Neither of them bother with proper overlay any more.
My last nVidia card was simply without overlay hardware. My last ATi card's overlay dropped resolution when a high refresh rate was used. At least the nVidia card could play a video at full res without resorting to GL.
It's not all about the 3D...
You do have a point about the drivers, though. While closed, nVidia's Linux module hasn't provided nearly as much heartache as ATi's... abomination.
Haven't played it... Off the top of my head the timeline of my Simpsons game history is (very roughly) Bart vs the Space Mutants, Something with Krusty (not actual title...)
I'm too old for the arcade but (as with all about to turn 30) I'm drawing up plans for a MAME cab as I have a 21" CRT about to enter retirement and I got a decent enough PC for nothing from a friend recently.
I just fullscreen my xterm (mrxvt) which gives an ample 226 columns. As long as screen, irssi, mc and so on don't complain it's OK. Why fullscreen? I don't really use the mouse so it's as handy as anything else
When it comes to code... I try to stick to 80 columns (especially with ASM - sometimes 80 columns will be the environment) but if I really need it I'll go beyond that... If it helps understanding of some conditional statement, for example. No point splitting it up at illogical points.
There was a Futurama game and it stunk up the place. It was the same format as every other cartoon franchise game - third person platformer. I swear they use the same engine for all those games, spend a weekend knocking some new models together, whisk up a few textured boxes to chuck obstacles in and there's your cartoon franchise game!
That said, Simpsons Hit & Run was a blast, which was a surprise as all previous Simpsons games were terrible (I can't remember a good one before that anyway...)
I wouldn't bother with CPAN on Debian - If it's not in apt I'm not bothered (since it's not my machine).
Issues I've had with CPAN on Slack amount to difficulties compiling Perl-GTK (not sure if it's 1 or 2 - possibly to do with lack of GNOME... GtkHTML springs to mind for some reason...) I had to do a bit of manual tweaking before I got it to build.
I actually switched to Slackware after apt broke one too many times under Ubuntu (some sort of Hedgebadger as I recall it). This wasn't an ESR style "I did all the wrong things and your distro broke so it's your fault". I added repositories as described in the FM and ended up with fun things like mutually exclusive dependencies (ie; two required libs which couldn't coexist).
I may have done something wrong but meh - managing my own dependencies always works and I'm not limited by what is (or more importantly, what is not) in apt.
That said, many of the servers I manage run Debian Stable. If the box isn't in my home it isn't going to get as much love
Propaganda, whether political or corporate, exists to sway people's judgment. When it comes to the various forms of propaganda which surround us I'd much rather see it cut through with a little creative film-making than affirmed by an omnipresent behemoth.
I personally don't like Moore's movies but I'm more than happy to see contrary points of view aired. Corporate propaganda gets too much play.
Yeah. Well, I thought he was a man...
Nah, that's just the marketing. I suppose there's a decent chuck of punk rock from the UK but stateside hardcore often blows it away (not always - you can't beat Crass or Subhumans (UK, not Canadian, although the Canadian Subhumans are pretty damn good))
Jazz and blues is from the states (OK, it's from Africa (check out Ali Farka Touré's traditional Malian guitar music... very bluesy)). Hell, Zappa was from the states - talk about your substance.
Note to self: Don't post on Slashdot with a saturday morning hangover. You have a tendency to ramble.
No, it's the cloth-eared idiot masses that really are the problem.
I guess instilling a lack of critical faculties when it comes to music is as easy as with politics. Manufacturing Consent To Produce Shite Music.
It sure is. They rolled out that old pipelining chestnut on page 5. This crap simply exhausts the maximum number of requests a server can handle more quickly. If the server isn't throttling individual connections (and I don't have one configured which does this) then it's probably a complete waste of time and bandwidth. It also makes you a very bad netizen for the sake of a two second wait.
Also, the article is called "Hacking Firefox". This is sure to attract all those who think they know what they're doing and get them all pumped up... They'll just change every value on there - "Whoah, I'm hacking the shit out of this thing!"
I'm tired of "hack" abuse... Even more irritating than the mainstream media's use or the term to mean cracking is the tech media's use to mean "configuring" or "maintaining" or "administering". Some jerkoff takes a few vitamins and he's biohacking. "Yeah, I totally hacked my brain by sleeping an extra 20 minutes"... Hack this, hack that. I realise it makes you believe you're attractive and can ride a skateboard without breaking your jaw but it's getting a little old. Every little adventure in the world (online or off) is not worthy of the word "hack".
Hey, it exists today thanks to Harry Anslinger... who wasn't entirely unlike Jack Thompson.
I've seen this done to CDs from independent labels run by musically proficient people... Horrific. I'm not sure vinyl would stand up to that sort of treatment. You could get away with some dynamic sucking compression but after a point it would start to reveal itself as the noise it really is.
I buy vinyl when possible (because it's still cool to me) and capture it to a moderate quality vorbis file for listening on the computer/on the move. I'm not really a HiFi nerd (that said, I'm only a well-paying job away from becoming one...) so the quality only concerns me to a point. A half-decent set of speakers and decent source (without too many compression artifacts and all that) will do me.
OK. The CD, while providing decent resolution, has made digital music production more popular. Nothing bad about this until you realise who runs the record labels. There was a phenomenon in rock music during the 70s where the first 30 seconds of the vinyl were made louder than the rest of the record. That initial kick would make the listener think "Whoah, this is loud!" and tell all his friends "Whoah, that was a loud record" - I won't attempt to inject some 70s vernacular.
The attempt to employ similar tricks on the CD has led to the use of digital compressor algorithms which are capable of much finer frequency isolation than their analogue counterparts. Since the CD can't go beyond 0 db, the perception of loudness has to be introduced by increasing the amplitude of the quieter frequencies. It sure is louder but all dynamic range is sucked out of the track. Taking the example of a rock or metal record, the vocals and guitar drown out the instruments which provide the "kick" - drums or bass for example. Not so bad if they stuck to that first 30 seconds of the CD but since there's no technical limitation (the wider spaced tracks of the louder part of the vinyl made it impossible to do this with the whole record) to make them do so the whole CD has this monstrous technique applied. This leaves aside the issue of CDs released with actual clipping distortion (samples beyond the 0 db threshold) - plenty of them out there too.
It is my guess that this is why some vinyl aficionados have some quality issues with the CD.
Hired killers feeling empathy with a machine... Don't ask me what this means - All I know is it's fucked up.
Now that we don't have the problem of typewriter hammers sticking, why is QWERTY still in use?
Could I have some of your crack, please?
I have at least three kernel modules working on this system which were not part of the original source tree.
No, the fact that your country has a president put in place purely for the benefit of businesses operating there is what makes it a banana republic
You seem not to be playing "Who dies with the most toys". You must have some form of schizoid personality disorder or one of those fashionable attention deficit thingies and must be prescribed some behaviour altering pills not entirely unrelated to cocaine. I suggest winemol or ruthlessitin.
I think you'll find yourself a productive and happy member of our little Monopoly playing family here if you follow my programme and just play along.
ARGH! No time!
What happens to all the poor souls at work? Or worse, at home with their families?
Wait... did I just post in this thread? Shit! Sorry, buddy!
I haven't. I never understood the controversy over sampling... It's not as if some enterprising soul with a lot of patience is going to attempt to recreate the original piece from a series of seconds long samples. I'm not really a fan of the sort of music that relies on sampling but I understand the artistry.
Art is hard to pin down in legal terms. This is no accident - the law deals with matters of business, property and personal space - quantifiable and measurable phenomena. It tries to squeeze its way into morality and music but this rarely works out - creativity and emotion don't lend themselves to reasonable debate.
If I'm not mistaken xbmc is based on mplayer. The windows builds are decent enough as long as you grab one of the larger codec packs from the site.
VLC is also pretty damn good.