You have to check Linux Media Labs!
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Digital VCRs
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I don't really know what you are after, but those guys are really doing something for the Linux community. their stuff has opensourced drivers because... that's what they had in mind when they built the board...
Check-out the specs!
Parameters:
CCIR and square resolution - 720x480 NTSC 60 fps, 720x576 PAL 50 fps
Motion JPEG compression and decompression in hardware - ZR36060 chip
Compression rates 3.5 - 30
Maximum JPEG image size 768x32768
Video stream DMA transfer into video board memory or RAM - allows for video in a window
Composite and S-Video analog input/output Possible Applications:
Internet-Video Production
WEB-cam
Home and semi-professional video editing
Video conferencing
Remote security monitoring
Anyone have any thoughts on how to utilize a very fat pipe comming in, but a thin pipe going out ?
Let's see... the way it is done now or something, is that you request the internet page you want by phone and get it by the dish.
If you have a very fat pipe, what about sending a set of internet pages to all the home users and have some kind of mechanism on the box that says which pages/sites to cache. Some parts of the TV could even always be powered on to make sure that when you want to surf your pages, the most recent one is already cached. For example, I could decide to cache slashdot, freshmeat, linuxtoday, russiatoday, cnn and userfriendly, and from time to time, turn the TV on to check on those sites... I mean the cached version. All you would have to do would be to send a continuously updated feed to the dishes...
Oh wait! I wouldn't be able to reply on/. whithout an uplink... err... was just an idea:-)
Come on, who ever said the majority of Linux users were narrow-minded morons?;-) Some kids have to grow-up, sure, but I guess it's all about freedom of choice and what system(s) suits you best.
With Linux getting such media attention, it's normal that some people in the community don't get the message or the point or whatever... It's like everything else, kids come, get bored and go away...
I'm definitely impressed with *BSD, and may well give it (them?) a go when I have a PC for it.
Anyway, the point is, we don't fight each other mind you, we just fight world domination by ONE and unique operating system... I want choice! I want the best system for the task, whichever it is... And if FreeBSD is that much better than other systems for File/Web/FTP servers, well, I'll just have to try it by myself!
Repeat after me, we're not fighting each other, we must keep an open mind and as they say over here, what have I contributed to the community today?
I mean come on! This is been a recurent posting on usenet for years... Black holes being pink... because they are made of spam:-) don't you find this funny? have you actually followed the link ?
Yup! I remember when I saw the machine in a computer show in France at around the same time... Gee, I only was a kid, but sure I wanted the machine real bad!!!! it was the PC 1512 if I remember well... it even had a mouse 8-)
My first computer was a CPC 464, and I think I already had the 6128 by the time, but gee, wasn't the 1512 a great computer;))))
I've read somewhere that those puppies work faster when you cool them down!
If they replace the current design locked on an external clock, what they probably will do eventually, I think overclocking is gonna take a completely new dimension. Of course it's not gonna be overclocking as such, it's gonna be more of a Mr deep freeze built from bits and bobs in the back of your garage...
much fun for the next (hopefully?) generation;-)
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I don't see a lot of positive comments here :-(
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Harmony Rides Again
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Gee, KDE, like it or not is going BIG! People don't like it for whatever reason ranging from it looks to much like windows to I hate it because it uses QT and QT ain't free...
Fair enuf... you don't like it don't use it.
Now... some people are working to make it completely free and settle down all the fuss about it, and that's the answer they get??? You can't tell people what to program or not, it's THEIR choice... pay them, and they may program something for you... otherwise, it's called a challange. Maybe like linux was... and I'm sure people were saying stuff like what a waste of resources, we already have windows, DOS and mimix, what's the need for yet another operating system?
The challange here is to make KDE free because it has the potential of becoming the desktop for less *nix litterate administrators...
I don't use it, but I keep an eye or two on it... And harmony's definitely the way to get KDE to become a free window manager like the rest of linux is...aren't you tickled when you hear that one of the main parts (to some people) of Linux isn't free when all the other major components of Linux are?
And just think about another thing... it doesn't really matter what you're coding, it's still a good way to attract attention on you when you're looking for a job... and surely effective!
I don't want to get in any flame war, but I've been installing windows 95/NT and fixing problems for the past 2 months, and I just hate windows... maybe there's something I don't get about windows,,, it's quite usable when it works, and drivers come on windows before any other operating system... that's called de-facto standard... not the best standard, but the one being widely used.
What really bothers me about the whole thing my system is better than yours is that for a newbie, linux looks like DOS and XFree isn't easy to configure... so maybe Gates is such a newbie... but lack of features? like what?
like not being able to telnet to the server to fix problems by editing simple text files? (sorry, that's a feature NT is lacking)
No Quota??? (mmhh... same again...)
and what's the true meaning of an application server?? a file server on which the application can be loaded? Sorry, that's not what I meant, I meant remote applications, where the display is actually exported to a thinner X-terminal client... Ah! Sorry, that's a *nix/Linux feature again!!!
How come I have to PAY to have more than 10 users accessing a file server when I can do that for free on Linux using samba??
What about the cost? what about the cost of having a DUMB sysadmin (sorry sys-tem-ad-mi-ni-stra-tor) in charge of your network?
Yeah... I'm pssed off, and I have a right too, because a system is not all about features, it's about a small number of core features that makes a server a server... like... stability? Is there a 3rd party stability module for NT? How come I get a BSOD when the cursor moves over a window? Oh! and How come I get a screwed-up linux partition when I launch win98 on my dual boot laptop? (yes I keep win98 on my laptop, 'coz i have a WINMODEM!!!!!
Really I don't care if I have integrated browser in my system or not! I want stability and ease of administration... vi/telnet does if for me, I don't have the bandwidth for pcanywhere or vnc (needed for any kind of remote NT administration!) but Linux is getting there in terms of ease of use... microsoft still struggles with implementing core features in their system... 64/128bit readiness anyone???
Yes, Micro$oft is scared of Linux... because people like us know exactly what's working and what's not... a few more years, and a lot of pssed-off people of the linux generation will become sysadmins and CEOs, and I know what those people will NOT use...
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From Quake to MRI imaging (was Q3A to the rescue?)
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Updated XFree86-3D FAQ
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I was thinking about that the other day... I'm doing 3D medical imaging, and a lot of the hardware available today to render complicated medical stuff is there and low in price thanks to the game industry... Silicon graphics were the way to go 10 years ago if you wanted to render MRI/CT data, but now, you can get the same kind of results with a PC and a good graphics card... I'm using IDL to prototype my algorithms, and I wish it were as fast on Linux as it is in windows, rendering wise, or computation wise (is that because visual C++ gives better code than gcc? is it because mesa is slower than the windoze implementation of opengl? dunno...) but ultimately, my stuff is gonna be coded using GTK (sorry, I'm a C person;) and any 3D acceleration I can get my hands on... basically, medimaging is nothing more than a boring 3D game;)
Anyway, my point is... with popular 3D games containing as many polygons as Quake, the hardware needed to render scenes at a good frame rate goes down in price because of this popularity, and benefits many other field of which... the medical imaging industry:-)
I don't remember much about the VME bus (is it still used?), but would that be any better than using a 100MBit ethernet backbone? It's an industrial 32/64bit wide bus as far as I recall, right?
Of course, the pricetag attached to such a system wouldn't compare very well to a normal cluster, but what about the speed increase?
Anybody knows more about VME and if linux supports VME architecture?
Disturbing picture... I've always been wondering why some ATM machines are so desperately slow when all I want is to have some cash with no receipt... Please wait... Please wait... Please wait...
Yeah sure, now I know why:-/ And you got me nervous on this one! is this thing broadcasting my PIN or something? my credit card number perhaps? where was the software made? which country?
Another reason NOT to use ATMs with graphic displays! or maybe... not to use them at all?
I'm thinking of using an old dec monochrome fixed frequency monitor with my millennium 2 since there's this sync-on-green hack available for it, but the question is...
There's only one coax connector at the back... so how do I tell Xfree to send a monochrome signal to it, as opposed to having a monochrome VGA/SVGA monitor where you just inject your color video signal that's displayed in grey levels?
Slashdot Mirror
Check-out the specs!
And a pictureI hope you guys succed!
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Let's see... the way it is done now or something, is that you request the internet page you want by phone and get it by the dish.
If you have a very fat pipe, what about sending a set of internet pages to all the home users and have some kind of mechanism on the box that says which pages/sites to cache. Some parts of the TV could even always be powered on to make sure that when you want to surf your pages, the most recent one is already cached.
For example, I could decide to cache slashdot, freshmeat, linuxtoday, russiatoday, cnn and userfriendly, and from time to time, turn the TV on to check on those sites... I mean the cached version. All you would have to do would be to send a continuously updated feed to the dishes...
Oh wait! I wouldn't be able to reply on /. whithout an uplink... err... was just an idea :-)
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Now... what exactly do they call a real operating system? Linux ? :-)
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With Linux getting such media attention, it's normal that some people in the community don't get the message or the point or whatever... It's like everything else, kids come, get bored and go away...
I'm definitely impressed with *BSD, and may well give it (them?) a go when I have a PC for it.
Anyway, the point is, we don't fight each other mind you, we just fight world domination by ONE and unique operating system... I want choice! I want the best system for the task, whichever it is... And if FreeBSD is that much better than other systems for File/Web/FTP servers, well, I'll just have to try it by myself!
Repeat after me, we're not fighting each other, we must keep an open mind and as they say over here, what have I contributed to the community today?
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It's not offensive or anything, it's just humour
Maybe I don't get it....
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My first computer was a CPC 464, and I think I already had the 6128 by the time, but gee, wasn't the 1512 a great computer ;))))
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If they replace the current design locked on an external clock, what they probably will do eventually, I think overclocking is gonna take a completely new dimension. Of course it's not gonna be overclocking as such, it's gonna be more of a Mr deep freeze built from bits and bobs in the back of your garage...
much fun for the next (hopefully?) generation ;-)
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Fair enuf... you don't like it don't use it.
Now... some people are working to make it completely free and settle down all the fuss about it, and that's the answer they get??? You can't tell people what to program or not, it's THEIR choice... pay them, and they may program something for you... otherwise, it's called a challange. Maybe like linux was... and I'm sure people were saying stuff like what a waste of resources, we already have windows, DOS and mimix, what's the need for yet another operating system?
The challange here is to make KDE free because it has the potential of becoming the desktop for less *nix litterate administrators...
I don't use it, but I keep an eye or two on it... And harmony's definitely the way to get KDE to become a free window manager like the rest of linux is...aren't you tickled when you hear that one of the main parts (to some people) of Linux isn't free when all the other major components of Linux are?
And just think about another thing... it doesn't really matter what you're coding, it's still a good way to attract attention on you when you're looking for a job... and surely effective!
So then again, you don't like it? don't use it.
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What really bothers me about the whole thing my system is better than yours is that for a newbie, linux looks like DOS and XFree isn't easy to configure... so maybe Gates is such a newbie... but lack of features? like what?
like not being able to telnet to the server to fix problems by editing simple text files? (sorry, that's a feature NT is lacking)
No Quota??? (mmhh... same again...)
and what's the true meaning of an application server?? a file server on which the application can be loaded? Sorry, that's not what I meant, I meant remote applications, where the display is actually exported to a thinner X-terminal client... Ah! Sorry, that's a *nix/Linux feature again!!!
How come I have to PAY to have more than 10 users accessing a file server when I can do that for free on Linux using samba??
What about the cost? what about the cost of having a DUMB sysadmin (sorry sys-tem-ad-mi-ni-stra-tor) in charge of your network?
Yeah... I'm pssed off, and I have a right too, because a system is not all about features, it's about a small number of core features that makes a server a server... like... stability? Is there a 3rd party stability module for NT? How come I get a BSOD when the cursor moves over a window?
Oh! and How come I get a screwed-up linux partition when I launch win98 on my dual boot laptop? (yes I keep win98 on my laptop, 'coz i have a WINMODEM!!!!!
Really I don't care if I have integrated browser in my system or not! I want stability and ease of administration... vi/telnet does if for me, I don't have the bandwidth for pcanywhere or vnc (needed for any kind of remote NT administration!) but Linux is getting there in terms of ease of use... microsoft still struggles with implementing core features in their system... 64/128bit readiness anyone???
Yes, Micro$oft is scared of Linux... because people like us know exactly what's working and what's not... a few more years, and a lot of pssed-off people of the linux generation will become sysadmins and CEOs, and I know what those people will NOT use...
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Silicon graphics were the way to go 10 years ago if you wanted to render MRI/CT data, but now, you can get the same kind of results with a PC and a good graphics card... I'm using IDL to prototype my algorithms, and I wish it were as fast on Linux as it is in windows, rendering wise, or computation wise (is that because visual C++ gives better code than gcc? is it because mesa is slower than the windoze implementation of opengl? dunno...) but ultimately, my stuff is gonna be coded using GTK (sorry, I'm a C person
Anyway, my point is... with popular 3D games containing as many polygons as Quake, the hardware needed to render scenes at a good frame rate goes down in price because of this popularity, and benefits many other field of which... the medical imaging industry :-)
Way to go folks!!!!
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I don't remember much about the VME bus (is it still used?), but would that be any better than using a 100MBit ethernet backbone? It's an industrial 32/64bit wide bus as far as I recall, right?
Of course, the pricetag attached to such a system wouldn't compare very well to a normal cluster, but what about the speed increase?
Anybody knows more about VME and if linux supports VME architecture?
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Any suggestion as what to buy and not to buy?
It's for fringe pattern analysis, so the quickcam won't do, I've already tried that ;-)
The requirements would be... black and white capture (512x512x8bpp), and be well supported under linux.
Cheers,
Egor
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What? you didn't even know she was? ;-)
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Yeah sure, now I know why :-/ And you got me nervous on this one! is this thing broadcasting my PIN or something? my credit card number perhaps? where was the software made? which country?
Another reason NOT to use ATMs with graphic displays! or maybe... not to use them at all?
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There's only one coax connector at the back... so how do I tell Xfree to send a monochrome signal to it, as opposed to having a monochrome VGA/SVGA monitor where you just inject your color video signal that's displayed in grey levels?
Any idea? Thanks :-)
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