On Intel Xeons, noless. That said, they built it signficantly before the G5 Desktop and the G5 XServe were available. No offense, but much as I want a G5 and like the look-and-feel of Mac OS X, you have to admit that a bunch of overheating 1GHz G4's were significantly less cost effective than a similar bunch of P4 Xeons at the time the render farm was built.
Linux 2.6 really is the best thing since, erm, sliced bread. I've been helping my Linux friends install it on their machines this week, and the difference is rather noticable, to say the least. Hopefully it'll get in place across all the main distros pretty soon and the upgrade path will be easier for those who are afraid of recompiling for themselves (i.e. the vast majority if we want more Linux-on-the-Desktop use).
One of my biggest problems with the current driver model is the poor-ish support for loading drivers across minor revisions. I prefer GPL, and agree with a lot of the idealogical reasons behind Free and open source software. Companies, OTOH, do not. We need companies to write device drivers, since the complexity of something like an nVidia GeForce GPU is simply too much for a small team of people to reverse engineer.
One of the biggest problems at the moment is not being able to go to nVidia's website, download a precompiled binary module for your arch and load it into the kernel. Equally drivers off of a manufacturer's floppy or CD-ROM need to work this way too. Unfortunately it seemed that with Kernel 2.4, even a 0.0.1 difference in version number could mess things up and require recompilation. Has this been improved in 2.6?
I think that this is the level of compatibility that needs to be achieved before we see more widespread support by the HW manufacturers. It seems like the guys over a freedesktop.org will have their work on a graphical driver loading system in place quite soon, so this part of the deal is essentially solved.
Seriously, as a ardent Linux user and open source zealot, even I admit that Windows XP is a bit more user friendly for beginners. But removing more functionality than already has been removed in XP Home? Gnome and KDE will be more than a match for this setup, I'm sure.
As if Thailand cares anyway, who's going to pay $30 for Windows XP Neutered when you can go down to your local "store" and buy Windows 2003 Advanced Datacenter Server for a dollar?
I wrote a Perl script to go through the.config and do this very thing. I'm not what you'd call a "Perl king" so it never worked quite right, but surely someone else with higher skill than me could come up with something to do just this?
I build slim kernels, but I always build everything I chose not to compile in as a module. Literally, everything. That way, when I get a new or exotic piece of hardware that I want to just start playing with (and not worry about recompiling the kernel), I just plug it in and hotplug gets it, or failing that, a quick modprobe and it's ready to go.
I was really bored one day and tried to go to gopher.wiretap.spies.com, which I remember was a popular place on Gopher... in the last century. However it doesn't seem to exist any more. Are there any gopher servers left? I suspect the answer is yes, but I don't know where to find them.
Considering that all the releases before KDE 3.2 came with that butt-ugly Keramik theme and non-AA fonts by default, I'd say KDE has been lagging Gnome for some time. However, I'm very impressed with Plastik. Now they just need to clean up their toolbar button ordering and their menu structure.
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QT is less free than Linux because of the derived works issue. Projects using QT are counted as derived works of QT, and hence MUST be licensed under the GPL. Projects running on Linux aren't counted as derived works, and so can pick whatever license they choose. Therefore the Linux kernel is much closer in freedom to an LGPL'd toolkit like GTK than it is to a GPL'd toolkit like QT.
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The key issue is that apps running on GPL'd Linux aren't counted as derived works, whereas apps using the GPL'd QT toolkit are counted as derived works. This means that the developer can choose a license when he's developing his application for Linux, but he can't choose his license when developing with QT. Therefore QT is less free than the kernel.
... according to some, but I think it's rather useful. The old saying "Don't put your eggs in one basket" applies. (Friendly) Competition is good for open source software - witness KDE and Gnome's attempts to out-innovate eachother.
I don't think for one minute that SCO's claims about Linux are legitimate, but imagine if they were: and some idiot judge ordered that Linux distribution was stopped. I think all the BSD trolls might be glad of an alternative kernel and userland under those circumstances!
I've always thought Lindows and "LindowsOS" as they prefer it to be called sounded rather silly anyway. I think Lindows is a nice idea, and a good product, and an excellent way to get more people using Linux. However, much as I dislike some of Microsoft's business practices, I do think the name is too close, and I can see the judgement's point.
Well it's currently on $3751, so I hope he's not selling a copy! Otherwise there's gonna be one pissed off eBayer sending Mike Rowe some legal documents of his own!
Okay, so what's the Mac OS X product that Adobe have stopped producing? As a Linux user I'm not "up" with all the goings on in the Mac OS X world (I'd love to own a G5 but I can't afford one at the moment!).
A shade over 120 Sterling. I'm afraid I don't know how much this sort of thing costs in the US, but I would suggest Quiet PC USA as an excellent place to buy this sort of thing (they started out in the UK and is where I bought my bits). I will recoup around 20-40 selling the PSU and HSF on eBay, hopefully.
The Aluminium ones are actually less than the 450g maximum rated for P4 coolers. Admittedly the Copper one is over 800g, but if you go for the Alu one you shouldn't expect the motherboard to crack.
x86 assembler instructions translated to PPC assembler instructions (two fundamentally different microarchitecture designs, CISC vs RISC and endian issues) using the Win32 API translated to Xlib (X Windowing System) talking to Apple's X Server translated to PDF commands and sent to Quartz.
Can you say "speed demon"? If you need to run Adobe Illustrator that badly, then at this sort of speed it'll probably be easier to decompile it, port it and recompile it!
Why would a Mac user want a PC for Microsoft Office when Microsoft already produce a version of Office that is significantly superior to the Windows version that runs natively on Mac OS X?
I have recently become totally fed up with the high pitched whine my main work machine made, so I decided it was about time to do something about it. I bought a Zalman silent PSU, a Zalman flower CPU cooler, two Zalman silent case fans and a Zalman heatpipe graphics card cooler. When they say silent, they aren't totally silent (except for the heatpipe graphics card cooler which has no fan), but they're pretty damned quiet.
My PC is transformed, the loud, obtrusive, high pitched whine has now been reduced to a quiet, low pitched rumbling. I struggle to hear it when I'm 10 feet away, and even when sitting by it and working it's so much quieter it's much more enjoyable to use. Music is also a much nicer experience without the fan noise. I've even found that my CPU runs cooler with the Zalman heatsink than it did with the medium priced heatsink I had in there before.
Yes, HDMI is fully backward-compatible with DVI using the CEA-861 profile for DTVs. HDMI DTVs will display video received from existing DVI-equipped products, and DVI-equipped TVs will display video from HDMI sources.
It seems HDMI is more of a redefinition of the existing DVI standard to support consumer devices like televisions.
What sort of scores do people get on Solitaire when running in timed game mode with standard scoring? About five years ago (during one of my Linux holidays before I saw sense again and switched back to Redhat!) I was running Windows 98 and used to play Sol a lot, and got pretty fast. However I have no idea how fast I was compared to other people, because I couldn't find people posting their scores anywhere on the Internet at the time...
My best score ever was just over 11000, and I could generally get between 6000 and 10000 if I really concentrated.
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On Intel Xeons, noless. That said, they built it signficantly before the G5 Desktop and the G5 XServe were available. No offense, but much as I want a G5 and like the look-and-feel of Mac OS X, you have to admit that a bunch of overheating 1GHz G4's were significantly less cost effective than a similar bunch of P4 Xeons at the time the render farm was built.
Linux 2.6 really is the best thing since, erm, sliced bread. I've been helping my Linux friends install it on their machines this week, and the difference is rather noticable, to say the least. Hopefully it'll get in place across all the main distros pretty soon and the upgrade path will be easier for those who are afraid of recompiling for themselves (i.e. the vast majority if we want more Linux-on-the-Desktop use).
One of my biggest problems with the current driver model is the poor-ish support for loading drivers across minor revisions. I prefer GPL, and agree with a lot of the idealogical reasons behind Free and open source software. Companies, OTOH, do not. We need companies to write device drivers, since the complexity of something like an nVidia GeForce GPU is simply too much for a small team of people to reverse engineer.
One of the biggest problems at the moment is not being able to go to nVidia's website, download a precompiled binary module for your arch and load it into the kernel. Equally drivers off of a manufacturer's floppy or CD-ROM need to work this way too. Unfortunately it seemed that with Kernel 2.4, even a 0.0.1 difference in version number could mess things up and require recompilation. Has this been improved in 2.6?
I think that this is the level of compatibility that needs to be achieved before we see more widespread support by the HW manufacturers. It seems like the guys over a freedesktop.org will have their work on a graphical driver loading system in place quite soon, so this part of the deal is essentially solved.
It might be helpful to the Knoppix (and Kudzu) developers if you could send them the specifications of these machines that "don't work".
But that wouldn't be very crippled, would it...
Seriously, as a ardent Linux user and open source zealot, even I admit that Windows XP is a bit more user friendly for beginners. But removing more functionality than already has been removed in XP Home? Gnome and KDE will be more than a match for this setup, I'm sure.
As if Thailand cares anyway, who's going to pay $30 for Windows XP Neutered when you can go down to your local "store" and buy Windows 2003 Advanced Datacenter Server for a dollar?
I wrote a Perl script to go through the .config and do this very thing. I'm not what you'd call a "Perl king" so it never worked quite right, but surely someone else with higher skill than me could come up with something to do just this?
I build slim kernels, but I always build everything I chose not to compile in as a module. Literally, everything. That way, when I get a new or exotic piece of hardware that I want to just start playing with (and not worry about recompiling the kernel), I just plug it in and hotplug gets it, or failing that, a quick modprobe and it's ready to go.
I was really bored one day and tried to go to gopher.wiretap.spies.com, which I remember was a popular place on Gopher... in the last century. However it doesn't seem to exist any more. Are there any gopher servers left? I suspect the answer is yes, but I don't know where to find them.
Posting a link to a Geocities account in a Slashdot comment? You think that's sensible?
Considering that all the releases before KDE 3.2 came with that butt-ugly Keramik theme and non-AA fonts by default, I'd say KDE has been lagging Gnome for some time. However, I'm very impressed with Plastik. Now they just need to clean up their toolbar button ordering and their menu structure.
QT is less free than Linux because of the derived works issue. Projects using QT are counted as derived works of QT, and hence MUST be licensed under the GPL. Projects running on Linux aren't counted as derived works, and so can pick whatever license they choose. Therefore the Linux kernel is much closer in freedom to an LGPL'd toolkit like GTK than it is to a GPL'd toolkit like QT.
The key issue is that apps running on GPL'd Linux aren't counted as derived works, whereas apps using the GPL'd QT toolkit are counted as derived works. This means that the developer can choose a license when he's developing his application for Linux, but he can't choose his license when developing with QT. Therefore QT is less free than the kernel.
You can put comments in shell scripts?!
... according to some, but I think it's rather useful. The old saying "Don't put your eggs in one basket" applies. (Friendly) Competition is good for open source software - witness KDE and Gnome's attempts to out-innovate eachother.
I don't think for one minute that SCO's claims about Linux are legitimate, but imagine if they were: and some idiot judge ordered that Linux distribution was stopped. I think all the BSD trolls might be glad of an alternative kernel and userland under those circumstances!
I've always thought Lindows and "LindowsOS" as they prefer it to be called sounded rather silly anyway. I think Lindows is a nice idea, and a good product, and an excellent way to get more people using Linux. However, much as I dislike some of Microsoft's business practices, I do think the name is too close, and I can see the judgement's point.
;)
Why not just call it Winux instead?
Well it's currently on $3751, so I hope he's not selling a copy! Otherwise there's gonna be one pissed off eBayer sending Mike Rowe some legal documents of his own!
Okay, so what's the Mac OS X product that Adobe have stopped producing? As a Linux user I'm not "up" with all the goings on in the Mac OS X world (I'd love to own a G5 but I can't afford one at the moment!).
A shade over 120 Sterling. I'm afraid I don't know how much this sort of thing costs in the US, but I would suggest Quiet PC USA as an excellent place to buy this sort of thing (they started out in the UK and is where I bought my bits). I will recoup around 20-40 selling the PSU and HSF on eBay, hopefully.
The Aluminium ones are actually less than the 450g maximum rated for P4 coolers. Admittedly the Copper one is over 800g, but if you go for the Alu one you shouldn't expect the motherboard to crack.
Let's see now:
x86 assembler instructions translated to PPC assembler instructions (two fundamentally different microarchitecture designs, CISC vs RISC and endian issues) using the Win32 API translated to Xlib (X Windowing System) talking to Apple's X Server translated to PDF commands and sent to Quartz.
Can you say "speed demon"? If you need to run Adobe Illustrator that badly, then at this sort of speed it'll probably be easier to decompile it, port it and recompile it!
Why would a Mac user want a PC for Microsoft Office when Microsoft already produce a version of Office that is significantly superior to the Windows version that runs natively on Mac OS X?
I have recently become totally fed up with the high pitched whine my main work machine made, so I decided it was about time to do something about it. I bought a Zalman silent PSU, a Zalman flower CPU cooler, two Zalman silent case fans and a Zalman heatpipe graphics card cooler. When they say silent, they aren't totally silent (except for the heatpipe graphics card cooler which has no fan), but they're pretty damned quiet.
My PC is transformed, the loud, obtrusive, high pitched whine has now been reduced to a quiet, low pitched rumbling. I struggle to hear it when I'm 10 feet away, and even when sitting by it and working it's so much quieter it's much more enjoyable to use. Music is also a much nicer experience without the fan noise. I've even found that my CPU runs cooler with the Zalman heatsink than it did with the medium priced heatsink I had in there before.
32000? You realise that playing 10 games a day it would take you nearly 9 years to complete all 32000 games?!
It's a damned good job they do have the RAM, since there wouldn't be much hope for Spirit if they only had the Flash.
What sort of scores do people get on Solitaire when running in timed game mode with standard scoring? About five years ago (during one of my Linux holidays before I saw sense again and switched back to Redhat!) I was running Windows 98 and used to play Sol a lot, and got pretty fast. However I have no idea how fast I was compared to other people, because I couldn't find people posting their scores anywhere on the Internet at the time...
My best score ever was just over 11000, and I could generally get between 6000 and 10000 if I really concentrated.