Regarding #2 about the 64 bit drivers being more restrictive, could you please elaborate? Since the majority of PC's that I see available in the corporate environment come with the 32 bit version of the OS (which I still dissuade my clients from purchasing - they still get the XP preloads), I don't get much opportunity to come in contact with the 64 bit versions of Vista, 2003, and XP. I'm curious to know in a bit more detail about what is different about the 32 bit vs. 64 bit driver APIs.
Even though Apple might be able to handle 32 bit and 64 bit drivers simultaneously, it would seem logical to me that for optimal performance and stability, you would only want to use all 64 bit or all 32 bit on your system, no?
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned commercials. Even as an adult, I find it damn hard to concentrate when every 6 to 8 minutes my train of thought is interrupted by 12 dancing bunnies singing about their brand of toilet paper... Thank goodness for DVDs, MythTV, etc. to get rid of those unwanted interruptions.
First, we have not seen any cases where a users internet performance would be degraded, in our tests this issue only shows up with local network operations.
So I see! All that matters is the Internet performance of the average user, which is probably what, less than 5Mbps anyway! How silly of me to think there would be a problem with say... trying to access a corporate file server to work with say really big data files? Wow, I'm really going to recommend Vista to my clients now!
(4) "MySQL is free" * Only if your application which links against the client library is also GPL. Myth used to scare people away from opensource GPL code.
Has nobody here even bothered to look in the EXCEPTIONS file in the source? You are allowed to directly link to the client code if your choice of license is one of those listed in that file too. It is not *just* GPL.
The potential problem is that encryption of the voice stream adds latency to the transmission of the stream. Optimally you want 150 ms or less to pass in transmission, otherwise Bad Things can occur.
That being said, we have just switched Freeswitch to use SRTP in the past few days, which appears to support keyed transport. Does anybody else have experience using this library and can tell about your experience encrypting SIP and/or RTP with it?
Uhm, what newer set of modules? Certainly not what's in the kernel tree as of 2.6.15.x. Sil & nvidia SATA controlers on this motherboard, and drives show up as scsi type.
The core is in C, but extension modules can be in C++. I will be working on some of these in C++ in fact.
Of the little code that I have had time to look at, I like anthm's design thus far. If only there were more hours in the day so I could spend more time familiarizing myself with it. Damn school getting in the way of real life!
For what it is worth, I've been running Asterisk for a few years now. It promises a lot, but I always find that half of everything is literally broken in it. For example, recently we've been having lots of problems with app_queue.c and threads, and the monitor() function, and the mixmonitor() function (which completely segfaults asterisk on an x86_64). (The problem is not in my configuration, as when I don't change anything in the configuration, random things break between versions.)
This wouldn't be a problem if telephony was only a hobbyist thing, but I was going to start setting systems up for small businesses using asterisk. I was in line communications in the military, and would never recommend Asterisk for anything requiring 5 nines or more (which covers telephony). I am not even talking about problems with transporting voice over the internet, I am speaking at a design and engineering level within asterisk itself. Change something in one file, and you can cause a cluster bomb to take out several other modules or the whole system. Agree or disagree with me, but I speak from experience. I hope that everybody sees this criticism for what it's worth... and it is not meant to start a ideology war.
Perhaps the reason that OO uses more private memory than does MS Office is that MS Office links to all the MS dll files, while OO bundles its own internal libraries with it?
And from article/blog/whatever: "Now to be fair, OpenOffice.org is free and is cross platform, but does this really matter to the 90% of the users in the world who only use Windows?"
If it's legally free to use and does the same task, why wouldn't 90% of the users in the world who only use Windows *not* care? People always look for what's cheaper, sometimes even if it's not better (note how MS became the company it is today...)
Yeah, I noticed that whole MySQL client lib issue with my distros' (Slackware and Slamd64) builds of QT. I use MythTV, which requires a database, and without a lot of tweaking the QT that had a mysql module built against 4.0.x would simply not work with server 4.1.x... So I found it easier just to rebuild the mysql module and try again. Works fine for me.
And ever since 4.1.x came and so did prepared statements, I've never looked back... And now I'm eager for 5.0.x to stabilize a bit before I switch up to it...
It's a shame that people go on a rant without checking their facts. Then again, if people did, would this actually be Slashdot then? *grin*
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G.W. Bush read his inaugaration speech with a gaggle of goats eating barley and malt at the local tavern. A mouse steps in to talk to Cheney about poker. We put this line here because we think we can fool your spam filter, unless you use DSPAM.
I consider broadcasting and news to be a service, not a product. I generally consider a product to be an object that you can go to the store (or order off the internet) and actually touch in your hands.
While it's comforting that Microsoft was not amongst the brands listed, I don't know how Al Jazeera can a) be considered a brand, and b) the fact that it is up there seems somewhat disturbing... All I ever hear about Al Jazeera is how they always seem to have new tapes from various terrorists...
What never ceases to amaze me is that these greedy SOB's always label communism as evil and bad. Not every communistic society was totalitarian/stalinistic/maoistic.
Much of the state of Israel survived the past 150 or so years by forming kibutzim, which were small communities that pooled resources much in a communistic manner. Granted, as the country prospered, the importance of the kibutzim has faded, and most kibutzim are more and more privatized every year.
I read somewhere that the Chinese had the technology for mechanical clocks and watches for several hundred years before they were "invented" and commonplace in society, and that the Chinese had created such a heavy, overpowering beauracracy (think: the current abuse of patents and copywrights as a parallel) that they stifled innovation and failed to truly advance their society after the Khans returned to Mongolia.
It is of my opinion that if you take out a patent or copyright anything non-artistic for the purposes of exerting a monopoly on said works, then it really needs to be controlled in a reasonable manner to not forsake the rights of society as a whole to advance. People and organizations have the right to earn a living, but not "steal" from the society that grants them their power.
I have been using Slackware since not long after it officially became Slackware. I have tried out other distros, and while each has its strong points, the part of Slackware that I like so much is:
1. Simplicity
2. Customization, and ease with which that you can build your own packages
Slackware has always cut the fat from the install, and if you *really* want library-foo, you can find it either as a premade package, or build it yourself.
At least I can post and reveal who I am. You must hide your anti-semitic anti-zionist views behind a shadow.
Now what does 1 GB of webmail have to do with the supposed ethnic cleansing that Israel "perpetrates on a daily basis", to which you have provided no proof? Where are those Israeli death camps where the Palestinians are sent to be killed in showers and their bodies burned in ovens?
Israel is a Jewish state, but it acknowledges that there are non-jews there and allows them to follow their own customs. Oh and heck, there are Arab Knesset members...
I suggest you answer the white courtesy cluephone that is ringing in the/. lobby.
There is a product in Israel that we had to eat in the army called "Luf", and it's basically the equivalent of spam made out of a cow... most notably... all the parts of a cow that you didn't know were kosher...
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Regarding #2 about the 64 bit drivers being more restrictive, could you please elaborate? Since the majority of PC's that I see available in the corporate environment come with the 32 bit version of the OS (which I still dissuade my clients from purchasing - they still get the XP preloads), I don't get much opportunity to come in contact with the 64 bit versions of Vista, 2003, and XP. I'm curious to know in a bit more detail about what is different about the 32 bit vs. 64 bit driver APIs.
Even though Apple might be able to handle 32 bit and 64 bit drivers simultaneously, it would seem logical to me that for optimal performance and stability, you would only want to use all 64 bit or all 32 bit on your system, no?
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned commercials. Even as an adult, I find it damn hard to concentrate when every 6 to 8 minutes my train of thought is interrupted by 12 dancing bunnies singing about their brand of toilet paper... Thank goodness for DVDs, MythTV, etc. to get rid of those unwanted interruptions.
First, we have not seen any cases where a users internet performance would be degraded, in our tests this issue only shows up with local network operations.
So I see! All that matters is the Internet performance of the average user, which is probably what, less than 5Mbps anyway! How silly of me to think there would be a problem with say... trying to access a corporate file server to work with say really big data files? Wow, I'm really going to recommend Vista to my clients now!
(4) "MySQL is free" * Only if your application which links against the client library is also GPL. Myth used to scare people away from opensource GPL code.
Has nobody here even bothered to look in the EXCEPTIONS file in the source? You are allowed to directly link to the client code if your choice of license is one of those listed in that file too. It is not *just* GPL.
The potential problem is that encryption of the voice stream adds latency to the transmission of the stream. Optimally you want 150 ms or less to pass in transmission, otherwise Bad Things can occur.
That being said, we have just switched Freeswitch to use SRTP in the past few days, which appears to support keyed transport. Does anybody else have experience using this library and can tell about your experience encrypting SIP and/or RTP with it?
Uhm, what newer set of modules? Certainly not what's in the kernel tree as of 2.6.15.x. Sil & nvidia SATA controlers on this motherboard, and drives show up as scsi type.
The core is in C, but extension modules can be in C++. I will be working on some of these in C++ in fact.
Of the little code that I have had time to look at, I like anthm's design thus far. If only there were more hours in the day so I could spend more time familiarizing myself with it. Damn school getting in the way of real life!
For what it is worth, I've been running Asterisk for a few years now. It promises a lot, but I always find that half of everything is literally broken in it. For example, recently we've been having lots of problems with app_queue.c and threads, and the monitor() function, and the mixmonitor() function (which completely segfaults asterisk on an x86_64). (The problem is not in my configuration, as when I don't change anything in the configuration, random things break between versions.)
This wouldn't be a problem if telephony was only a hobbyist thing, but I was going to start setting systems up for small businesses using asterisk. I was in line communications in the military, and would never recommend Asterisk for anything requiring 5 nines or more (which covers telephony). I am not even talking about problems with transporting voice over the internet, I am speaking at a design and engineering level within asterisk itself. Change something in one file, and you can cause a cluster bomb to take out several other modules or the whole system. Agree or disagree with me, but I speak from experience. I hope that everybody sees this criticism for what it's worth... and it is not meant to start a ideology war.
Obligatory Office Space Quote:
"Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays"...
Perhaps the reason that OO uses more private memory than does MS Office is that MS Office links to all the MS dll files, while OO bundles its own internal libraries with it?
And from article/blog/whatever: "Now to be fair, OpenOffice.org is free and is cross platform, but does this really matter to the 90% of the users in the world who only use Windows?"
If it's legally free to use and does the same task, why wouldn't 90% of the users in the world who only use Windows *not* care? People always look for what's cheaper, sometimes even if it's not better (note how MS became the company it is today...)
Yeah, I noticed that whole MySQL client lib issue with my distros' (Slackware and Slamd64) builds of QT. I use MythTV, which requires a database, and without a lot of tweaking the QT that had a mysql module built against 4.0.x would simply not work with server 4.1.x... So I found it easier just to rebuild the mysql module and try again. Works fine for me.
And ever since 4.1.x came and so did prepared statements, I've never looked back... And now I'm eager for 5.0.x to stabilize a bit before I switch up to it...
It's a shame that people go on a rant without checking their facts. Then again, if people did, would this actually be Slashdot then? *grin*
is that this will add new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death...
Am I the only one who finds it ironic how the Scopes Monkey Trial has evolved into this?
How about a button with "Don't Panic" written in large, friendly letters on it?
Can you imagine their Indian call center folk trying to even pronounce "AMD Opteron" ?
...but according to the marketting division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a robot is "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
Does this device come with the Marvin, Eddie, or Mother personality?
I can see it now...
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Hi Jan Dopplemeyer,
Our n3w onl1ne pharmac`y has all new optIcal impl4nts to give you b3tter p3rform`4nce.
http://some.crap.site
G.W. Bush read his inaugaration speech with a gaggle of goats eating barley and malt at the local tavern. A mouse steps in to talk to Cheney about poker. We put this line here because we think we can fool your spam filter, unless you use DSPAM.
I consider broadcasting and news to be a service, not a product. I generally consider a product to be an object that you can go to the store (or order off the internet) and actually touch in your hands.
While it's comforting that Microsoft was not amongst the brands listed, I don't know how Al Jazeera can a) be considered a brand, and b) the fact that it is up there seems somewhat disturbing... All I ever hear about Al Jazeera is how they always seem to have new tapes from various terrorists...
What never ceases to amaze me is that these greedy SOB's always label communism as evil and bad. Not every communistic society was totalitarian/stalinistic/maoistic.
Much of the state of Israel survived the past 150 or so years by forming kibutzim, which were small communities that pooled resources much in a communistic manner. Granted, as the country prospered, the importance of the kibutzim has faded, and most kibutzim are more and more privatized every year.
I read somewhere that the Chinese had the technology for mechanical clocks and watches for several hundred years before they were "invented" and commonplace in society, and that the Chinese had created such a heavy, overpowering beauracracy (think: the current abuse of patents and copywrights as a parallel) that they stifled innovation and failed to truly advance their society after the Khans returned to Mongolia.
It is of my opinion that if you take out a patent or copyright anything non-artistic for the purposes of exerting a monopoly on said works, then it really needs to be controlled in a reasonable manner to not forsake the rights of society as a whole to advance. People and organizations have the right to earn a living, but not "steal" from the society that grants them their power.
Actually, in the words of kram (aka Mark Spencer of Digium), it's a "grok-a-dial..."
Guess he wants to compete with Sharman Networks AND groklaw.
And gee, I thought that service pack 2 with a firewall that can be controlled by ActiveX was going to fix all of those holes!
Oh, wait, actually service pack 2 renders some computer unbootable, so that must be the real trick!
I have been using Slackware since not long after it officially became Slackware. I have tried out other distros, and while each has its strong points, the part of Slackware that I like so much is:
1. Simplicity
2. Customization, and ease with which that you can build your own packages
Slackware has always cut the fat from the install, and if you *really* want library-foo, you can find it either as a premade package, or build it yourself.
My clients' servers run on slackware.
At least I can post and reveal who I am. You must hide your anti-semitic anti-zionist views behind a shadow.
/. lobby.
Now what does 1 GB of webmail have to do with the supposed ethnic cleansing that Israel "perpetrates on a daily basis", to which you have provided no proof? Where are those Israeli death camps where the Palestinians are sent to be killed in showers and their bodies burned in ovens?
Israel is a Jewish state, but it acknowledges that there are non-jews there and allows them to follow their own customs. Oh and heck, there are Arab Knesset members...
I suggest you answer the white courtesy cluephone that is ringing in the
There is a product in Israel that we had to eat in the army called "Luf", and it's basically the equivalent of spam made out of a cow... most notably... all the parts of a cow that you didn't know were kosher...