There are drivers for the MOTU Midi Timepiece series in the ALSA main driver distribution. I don't know about the quality of the drivers yet, but if I can get Linux to install on an old laptop I have lying around (The laptop is VERY flaky and old, unfortunately...), I'm going to ask my Music 120 (Intro to Digital Music) professor for permission to try the laptop with the MOTU unit and synths in our studio.
Yeah... I've been an ardent suporter of NVidia, as they were the first vendor to release an open-source driver of an kind.
But they've gone BACKWARDS and they're promising a closed-source driver. What's up with that?
I ditched my Matrox G200 because the Windows drivers blew goats and they continuously promised to release specs and slipped on 3 promised dates spread out over nearly a year. I'm tempted to pop that board back in my machine now... Was going to let my roommate borrow my G200, but he might get my TNT!
Anyone know anything about the performance of the G200 compared to a TNT (original, not TNT2) under Windows nowadays? (Pretty much guaranteed that the G200 driver will be faster under Linux than the TNT...)
Source for GLX.o? Hmm... The TNT drivers I'm running had a nice little GPL attached to them. And yes, I do know that they had the disadvantage of being obfuscated source... People forget that NVidia was the FIRST vendor to release a GPLed driver for their board. Yeah, they've fallen behind, hopefully they make another surprise turnaround. (I recall hearing something about them waiting for DRI to come out before putting more effort into the drivers...)
The RAID techniques used by these cards are slightly different than those used by Linux. Unfortunately, this means that the RAID cards won't work with Linux unless it has specific driver support for the RAID features.
I have a Mylex FlashPoint SCSI card that had similar software RAID features. I wound up flashing the BIOS DOWN to a non-RAID BIOS because there was no support for the RAID features of the card under Linux and my mobo doesn't get along very well with cards that have 64K of onboard BIOS. (Apparently one of the worst bugs in VIA chipsets...)
So if you're a Linux user, don't get your hopes up as to being successful with this.
LCD pixels often have longer off-times than CRT pixels (A known problem), but the one advantage to this longer off-time is that you can have a slower refresh w/o flicker, because the pixel stays on. I'm not sure, but even without this natural "persistence" LCD pixels may remain turned on full-time until told otherwise.
As far as a SCSI interface - SCSI may be fast for storage, but it gets absolutely torched by even PCI. SCSI to your monitor would be a Bad Idea. The current monitor-to-videocard interfaces will scale quite well.
These guys started in the MatSci department here at Cornell. In fact, they were originally based in a building on the Engineering quad until moving to Binghamton.
The portability issue is key. I use Beam-It, and it makes things soooo convenient when I want to listen to music in a computer lab. Just bring headphones.:) Oh, and Beam-It takes a *lot* less time per CD han ripping - I can "beam" a CD in under a minute, but my machine rips+encodes at just a shade over 1x, i.e. 40-60 minutes depending on CD length.
They're giving away the results of who knows how much $$$ worth of research. This could be useful to a LOT of people. I'm working on a videoconferencing project here, and one of our next goals is wireless handheld video - the Itsy (if it has sufficient performance) could save us a lot of time. Otherwise, we'll have to design a Crusoe-based device.:)
I don't see what the point is of installing filtering software in public schools. In every school I went to, students were not allowed in a room without a teacher's presence. If you have a teacher watching the student, why do you need filtering software? If you do, then that teacher is obviously not doing their job. The solution is not filtering software, but to make sure that teachers are properly supervising and educating their students. (In a truly perfect society, the children would not have a desire to search for porn.) I wouldn't be surprised if installing filtering software INCREASED the viewing of pornography in schools. How many of you bypassed security on your school's machines just for the sake of seeing if you could do it? If anything, filtering software is an incentive to view porn. When I have time tonight, I plan on writing my own letter.
I'm sorry, but preexisting contracts take priority over Augustin's obligation to make money for shareholders. He's required by law to make money for the shareholders, but he is NOT allowed to break any laws/contracts in the process.
In addition, Augustin can make a clear case that interfering with Slashdot will be detrimental to VA, as any interference will destroy the site and nullify its value.
Lastly, at IPO time companies can specifically specify things they will not do to make money. Not doing those things is legal because the investors know what they're getting into. Sorry if I'm not giving too many details here, but I believe RedHat specified in their IPO that they will stick to open-source, and if a shareholder has a problem with that, too bad. (Among other things...)
That's the basic idea. IMHO, the best way to sum up the difference between "what's out there" and what Jim Griffin proposes is, "FM radio on steroids"
Disadvantages of FM radio: Having to change stations Lack of selection/bandwidth. FM equipment isn't too expensive for a small station, the license is. (Although the FCC is working on that problem, see past/. articles.)
A digital system in a higher band (read: More bandwidth) would offer far more. Kind of like the difference between AM in the 1.8 MHz area vs. FM in the 88-108 range. Kind of like what satellite (esp. DSS) has done for TV vs. broadcast - Dish now offers 500 channels with integrated channel guide and super-high quality. Think audio channel guide with 5.1 channel Dolby Digital surround sound.
OK, thanks. I wasn't worried about the speed too much, but the possibility of compatibility in any manner. Sounds cool. I work at the campus store here - we might get a few cards for stock and test one with our AirPort setup.
While Linus has promised that 2.4 will be much closer in time and features to 2.2 than 2.2 was to 2.0, the 2.1 series went well into the.1xx numbers.:) I think it even passed 150, although I can't be sure.
I think that's implied in the "For those who enjoy *panic*, *oops*...", and also from the "If you don't know where to get it, you should probably sticky to your cuddly 2.2.x kernel.
Go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ - They support a different set of cards than OSS (lots of overlap, but you NEED ALSA for a Trident 4DWave chipset - which is good because ALSA is much better than OSS.) In addition, they have full support for multiple soundcards/system.
I once emailed the guy about Linux support or the possibility of obtaining the source - no reply at all...:(
Which sucks because there are a helluva lot of modifications I'd love to make to Geiss in addition to a Linux port. (None to the graphical portion, but to the UI portion - I'm taking a class called "Introduction to Digital Music" and it would be really cool to be able to control a vis plugin with MIDI commands embedded in a Digital Performer (Yes, it's using a Mac) project. Geiss is cool, but it would be awesome if you could "script" specific waveform/color/screen combos for different pieces of music automatically.
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You misread that.
.15.x makes more sense because .16.x will just cause conflicts with GNOME features and increase memory usage.
Sawmill is the default in the development versions of GNOME, not the current stable release series.
The version of GNOME that comes with RH6.2 is from the stable release series - this still depends on E.
Hence, E
As Bero said, once GNOME gets the current devel tree into a stable release, Sawmill will be the default GNOME WM and E will be updated.
Don't need the external parport MP3 device - this has enough processor power and sound capability for that.
:)
Unfortunately, it's an internal modem on a daughtercard. Hmm... Might be a good place to put my X-10 MouseRemote.
There are drivers for the MOTU Midi Timepiece series in the ALSA main driver distribution. I don't know about the quality of the drivers yet, but if I can get Linux to install on an old laptop I have lying around (The laptop is VERY flaky and old, unfortunately...), I'm going to ask my Music 120 (Intro to Digital Music) professor for permission to try the laptop with the MOTU unit and synths in our studio.
Yeah... I've been an ardent suporter of NVidia, as they were the first vendor to release an open-source driver of an kind.
But they've gone BACKWARDS and they're promising a closed-source driver. What's up with that?
I ditched my Matrox G200 because the Windows drivers blew goats and they continuously promised to release specs and slipped on 3 promised dates spread out over nearly a year. I'm tempted to pop that board back in my machine now... Was going to let my roommate borrow my G200, but he might get my TNT!
Anyone know anything about the performance of the G200 compared to a TNT (original, not TNT2) under Windows nowadays? (Pretty much guaranteed that the G200 driver will be faster under Linux than the TNT...)
Source for GLX.o? Hmm... The TNT drivers I'm running had a nice little GPL attached to them. And yes, I do know that they had the disadvantage of being obfuscated source... People forget that NVidia was the FIRST vendor to release a GPLed driver for their board. Yeah, they've fallen behind, hopefully they make another surprise turnaround. (I recall hearing something about them waiting for DRI to come out before putting more effort into the drivers...)
Hmm... I know that some of the older Athlon mobos couldn't supply enough power to both the processor and the card, dunno about the Super7 mainboards.
Right. I know they're not full-blown RAID cards. But that's the exact same thing for the Promise cards described.
Thanks for the tip... I'll look into getting one over the summer...
The RAID techniques used by these cards are slightly different than those used by Linux. Unfortunately, this means that the RAID cards won't work with Linux unless it has specific driver support for the RAID features.
I have a Mylex FlashPoint SCSI card that had similar software RAID features. I wound up flashing the BIOS DOWN to a non-RAID BIOS because there was no support for the RAID features of the card under Linux and my mobo doesn't get along very well with cards that have 64K of onboard BIOS. (Apparently one of the worst bugs in VIA chipsets...)
So if you're a Linux user, don't get your hopes up as to being successful with this.
LCD pixels often have longer off-times than CRT pixels (A known problem), but the one advantage to this longer off-time is that you can have a slower refresh w/o flicker, because the pixel stays on. I'm not sure, but even without this natural "persistence" LCD pixels may remain turned on full-time until told otherwise.
As far as a SCSI interface - SCSI may be fast for storage, but it gets absolutely torched by even PCI. SCSI to your monitor would be a Bad Idea. The current monitor-to-videocard interfaces will scale quite well.
These guys started in the MatSci department here at Cornell. In fact, they were originally based in a building on the Engineering quad until moving to Binghamton.
The portability issue is key. I use Beam-It, and it makes things soooo convenient when I want to listen to music in a computer lab. Just bring headphones. :) Oh, and Beam-It takes a *lot* less time per CD han ripping - I can "beam" a CD in under a minute, but my machine rips+encodes at just a shade over 1x, i.e. 40-60 minutes depending on CD length.
Look at the price/performance. The Vaio reviewed has a MSRP of $3299 - And obliterates a $3500 Dell even when the Dell has an educational discount.
If Sony sold to educational markets, selling laptops in the Cornell campus store would be a lot easier...
I think the Transmeta is 1W flat-out, with the ARM even less. (250 mW, I think? Not sure...)
They're giving away the results of who knows how much $$$ worth of research. This could be useful to a LOT of people. I'm working on a videoconferencing project here, and one of our next goals is wireless handheld video - the Itsy (if it has sufficient performance) could save us a lot of time. Otherwise, we'll have to design a Crusoe-based device. :)
I don't see what the point is of installing filtering software in public schools. In every school I went to, students were not allowed in a room without a teacher's presence. If you have a teacher watching the student, why do you need filtering software? If you do, then that teacher is obviously not doing their job. The solution is not filtering software, but to make sure that teachers are properly supervising and educating their students. (In a truly perfect society, the children would not have a desire to search for porn.) I wouldn't be surprised if installing filtering software INCREASED the viewing of pornography in schools. How many of you bypassed security on your school's machines just for the sake of seeing if you could do it? If anything, filtering software is an incentive to view porn. When I have time tonight, I plan on writing my own letter.
I'm sorry, but preexisting contracts take priority over Augustin's obligation to make money for shareholders. He's required by law to make money for the shareholders, but he is NOT allowed to break any laws/contracts in the process.
In addition, Augustin can make a clear case that interfering with Slashdot will be detrimental to VA, as any interference will destroy the site and nullify its value.
Lastly, at IPO time companies can specifically specify things they will not do to make money. Not doing those things is legal because the investors know what they're getting into. Sorry if I'm not giving too many details here, but I believe RedHat specified in their IPO that they will stick to open-source, and if a shareholder has a problem with that, too bad. (Among other things...)
That's the basic idea. IMHO, the best way to sum up the difference between "what's out there" and what Jim Griffin proposes is, "FM radio on steroids"
/. articles.)
Disadvantages of FM radio:
Having to change stations
Lack of selection/bandwidth. FM equipment isn't too expensive for a small station, the license is. (Although the FCC is working on that problem, see past
A digital system in a higher band (read: More bandwidth) would offer far more. Kind of like the difference between AM in the 1.8 MHz area vs. FM in the 88-108 range. Kind of like what satellite (esp. DSS) has done for TV vs. broadcast - Dish now offers 500 channels with integrated channel guide and super-high quality. Think audio channel guide with 5.1 channel Dolby Digital surround sound.
OK, thanks. I wasn't worried about the speed too much, but the possibility of compatibility in any manner. Sounds cool. I work at the campus store here - we might get a few cards for stock and test one with our AirPort setup.
Can you have more than 2 cards on a network w/o an AP?
And are the Aviator cards compatible with AirPort?
While Linus has promised that 2.4 will be much closer in time and features to 2.2 than 2.2 was to 2.0, the 2.1 series went well into the .1xx numbers. :) I think it even passed 150, although I can't be sure.
Microsoft mice are actually pretty nice. Logitech is the master of cordless, MS has the Borg Eye technology, which I WANT. :)
I hope the DOJ splits their input device division into a seperate company - watch every other company rot away into oblivion.
I think that's implied in the "For those who enjoy *panic*, *oops*...", and also from the "If you don't know where to get it, you should probably sticky to your cuddly 2.2.x kernel.
Go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ - They support a different set of cards than OSS (lots of overlap, but you NEED ALSA for a Trident 4DWave chipset - which is good because ALSA is much better than OSS.) In addition, they have full support for multiple soundcards/system.
It's Geiss by Ryan Geiss.
:(
I once emailed the guy about Linux support or the possibility of obtaining the source - no reply at all...
Which sucks because there are a helluva lot of modifications I'd love to make to Geiss in addition to a Linux port. (None to the graphical portion, but to the UI portion - I'm taking a class called "Introduction to Digital Music" and it would be really cool to be able to control a vis plugin with MIDI commands embedded in a Digital Performer (Yes, it's using a Mac) project. Geiss is cool, but it would be awesome if you could "script" specific waveform/color/screen combos for different pieces of music automatically.
No problems in Ithaca, NY.
Probably because they'd lose half their customers in the area to Light.Speed (DSL) if they tried to pull crap like that.