I have comcast cable. And a linksys wired router.
I recently replaced that router with a switch and a old p3 800 with 256megs of ram running IPcop. After doing so, and configuring its bandwith shaping, my bittorrent downloads gained about 100kbps and regular downloads also got faster. Also because of bandiwth shapping, vonage no longer "gets digital" while I talk and use bittorrent. I have also noticed that now with ipcop I can up my uploads in bittorrent from 15k to 25k with no issues. With my old linksys router, anything over 15k would kill my connection (couldn't even load webpages).
Your exactly correct. The purpose of this is to prevent OSX from running on PC's that do not have this chip. Not the other way around. SOmeone should mod you up.
well, that is correct, unless of course when I setup my fstab while installing gentoo I didn't include noauto as an option. Now I would have to be an idiot to do that. But hey, maybe I am:-)
I'm running gentoo on a pentium 166 with 64 megs of ram.
Sure I can hardly run X...and those compile times were killer. But it works!
Thank God thats not my main box and only a little router.
No, I'm open to discussion. But I was reply to a comment that EVERY video card on EVERY machine is unstable in X. Which is a lie.
X works, it works great if its setup right.
So i reboot and then its broke. Same thing. I still used a program which removed my kernel. The OP said virus's and programs on good OS's wont effect the OS. rm might not of effected the OS now, but it will on a reboot. And saying just restore can go for windows as well as linux. Unless no windows users keep backups.
Wow, I wonder what OS i'm using. I have NEVER had X crash. I use my pc every day, I play UT2004, open tons of apps, play a lot of open source games, doom 3, all sorts of stuff. In fact I'd call my system stable. It has been up and working perfect sense I built it 6 months ago (with reboots only for a kernel upgrade to add some power managment support for powernowd and a kernel upgrade)
Sure the kernel needs to be gpl. But modules dont need to be gpl (look at nvidia). Programs do not need to be gpl.
So nothing stops them from making a closed source "OS" on top of a GPL kernel, and making sure their "tweaks" dont break the GPL version of their OS from running.
A few linux distros have proprietary apps in them even now.
I'll get right on paying to test the beta of a piece of free software (unless they are going to start charging for IE). You know you have market penitration when you can get people to pay you to make sure their websites run in your browser.
I know all about it too, up until about a year ago I worked for MM myself. I got out of it because I didn't want to program in progress. I'm much happier away from the stress thats for sure.
Because non open source programs and languages can be changed and there is nothing we can do about it. Microsoft can drop C# support like they did VB6 and we can't fork it and keep on working with it. We get screwed and have to redo a lot of work to get up to speed on the next flavor of the week. If open source development changes direction or dies and enough people like it, they can fork the project and keep it going in the like minded direction.
After working with medisoft, PM2000, and WebMD's medical manager and intergy, I have to say WebMD's got a huge leg up on small/medium sized buisness software.
Easy to use is already there, but inexpensive is about impossible.
Exactly, thats what people dont get. I have a right to freedom, and a right to be alive. But if I decide to kill women with brown hair under 200 pounds exactly 5'8" wearing pink and then rape their lower and upper torso's seperatly. I deserve to be put in prison for the rest of my life, or executed. But its so not fair! Why should I get punished so severly?
No, it would be taken away all because they REPEATEDLY violated a well know law. It's not like you don't know the speed limit. It's that you CHOOSE to ignore it, and you know what will happen if you get caught. Let me write up an example:
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving while drunk for the 9th time and almost killed a family of four? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving a little faster then the safe driving speeds on the road, and accidentally hit a guy backing out of his hidden driveway killing him on impact? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving a little too fast and couldn't stop when that toddler ran out in the middle of the road in front of his house? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
You broke the law, not once, not twice, but at least half a dozen times to get a punishment of suspended license. You deserve to loose your driving privileges. This is what is wrong with America. People don't expect consciences. It's not like you didn't know what would happen, but you choose to bring it on yourself, so yes, you do deserve to be homeless and jobless.
How many times have you had to walk someone though a gui to set something up. It can be a pain. But if you could email then and say "Copy and paste this into/etc/X11/xorg.conf" or add this to the end of "insert file here". It becomes a lot eaiser. It also allows me to use SSH to admin my server over slow connections. Yes a GUI tool would be nice, but I dont feel its required. The majority of users by their PC's from a manufacture and it will already be setup. Plus, even in windows most gui configs for windows dont give you all the features. I know of several features we use at work that can only be enabled/disabled via the registry. And I still use the command prompt for most admin tasks.
So to answer your question, with the exception of a few distro's such as suse, most linux users/developers do not see as problem with editing text files to change settings. However, I would look to novell to slowly be changing that.
But the problem you are having is the only real problem with open source development. Which is unless somebody is getting paid, they rarley do work on a project that doesn't benifit them. A gui xorg.conf gives no benifit to a programmer or a advanced user. So nobody bothers writing it. But with the recent strides taken by novell, i'm sure they will have someone on the payroll adding it to yast soon enough.
I'm not saying its right, i'm just saying it is done. And I do concider what Sony did with everquest screwing over its users. They said, hey if you want to keep playing this game, go spend another 70-90.00 on hardware. But their client base at the time was so large, the losses didn't matter. And it didn't effect me because i'm a bleeding edge tech junky.
But things are forced all the time, sometimes by the market (monitor manufactures stop making smaller crts). Sometimes by big buisness (drop support for yoru product to move users to yoru new platform) And sometimes by the government ( force tv stations to move to digital tv requiring people to buy digital tv tuners)
When you buy a product designed to fail (as oppsosed to designed not to last forever) you tipically get a rating on that product. For example, my lightbulbs tell me on the box they last for X number of hours.
My monitor should work perfect for as long as video card manufactures put dvi ports on their cards.
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I'm actually patenting a solution to the hello world problem.
Basically, it generated a random string of chars that it searches for the phrase hello world (or any string you want really).
If it finds that phrase in the random chars then it sends it to standard out.
The program is still very slow in finding the strings, but I think as cpu's increase in speed it should become much faster.
I have comcast cable. And a linksys wired router. I recently replaced that router with a switch and a old p3 800 with 256megs of ram running IPcop. After doing so, and configuring its bandwith shaping, my bittorrent downloads gained about 100kbps and regular downloads also got faster. Also because of bandiwth shapping, vonage no longer "gets digital" while I talk and use bittorrent. I have also noticed that now with ipcop I can up my uploads in bittorrent from 15k to 25k with no issues. With my old linksys router, anything over 15k would kill my connection (couldn't even load webpages).
Your exactly correct. The purpose of this is to prevent OSX from running on PC's that do not have this chip. Not the other way around. SOmeone should mod you up.
switching from my linksys router to ipcop gained me about 100kbps in my downloads.
well, that is correct, unless of course when I setup my fstab while installing gentoo I didn't include noauto as an option. Now I would have to be an idiot to do that. But hey, maybe I am :-)
doesn't totem just use xine-lib?
I'm lucky I didn't have to worry about multimedia support
I just emerged mplayer and win32codecs
and on my ubuntu box I just followed ubuntuguide.org's instructions.
No problems at all.
I'm running gentoo on a pentium 166 with 64 megs of ram. Sure I can hardly run X...and those compile times were killer. But it works! Thank God thats not my main box and only a little router.
This makes me wonder if there is enough difference between all those distro's to actually necessitate the difference.
man this takes me back..
My parents were worried about Simons quest because it contained undead and vampires.
They worried about D&D. They worried about might and magic.
but they had no problem with hockey or football games, even mutant league games where you could kill people.
I'm making it my new mission to make nude sex hacks for every game out there. I want to stop the gaming industry in its tracks.
No, I'm open to discussion. But I was reply to a comment that EVERY video card on EVERY machine is unstable in X. Which is a lie. X works, it works great if its setup right.
So i reboot and then its broke. Same thing. I still used a program which removed my kernel. The OP said virus's and programs on good OS's wont effect the OS. rm might not of effected the OS now, but it will on a reboot. And saying just restore can go for windows as well as linux. Unless no windows users keep backups.
Wow, I wonder what OS i'm using. I have NEVER had X crash. I use my pc every day, I play UT2004, open tons of apps, play a lot of open source games, doom 3, all sorts of stuff. In fact I'd call my system stable. It has been up and working perfect sense I built it 6 months ago (with reboots only for a kernel upgrade to add some power managment support for powernowd and a kernel upgrade)
AMD64 3500
1 gig ram ddr400
nvidia 6800 GT 256meg
and what happens when they change the api?
will program 2 just update itself to use the new api?
api changes do happen, of course MS trys hard to keep it from happening, and in the process creates many bugs.
Sure the kernel needs to be gpl. But modules dont need to be gpl (look at nvidia). Programs do not need to be gpl. So nothing stops them from making a closed source "OS" on top of a GPL kernel, and making sure their "tweaks" dont break the GPL version of their OS from running. A few linux distros have proprietary apps in them even now.
Something is horribly wrong with my OS!
I'll get right on paying to test the beta of a piece of free software (unless they are going to start charging for IE). You know you have market penitration when you can get people to pay you to make sure their websites run in your browser.
I know all about it too, up until about a year ago I worked for MM myself. I got out of it because I didn't want to program in progress. I'm much happier away from the stress thats for sure.
Because non open source programs and languages can be changed and there is nothing we can do about it. Microsoft can drop C# support like they did VB6 and we can't fork it and keep on working with it. We get screwed and have to redo a lot of work to get up to speed on the next flavor of the week. If open source development changes direction or dies and enough people like it, they can fork the project and keep it going in the like minded direction.
medisoft....uhhh shiver.
After working with medisoft, PM2000, and WebMD's medical manager and intergy, I have to say WebMD's got a huge leg up on small/medium sized buisness software.
Easy to use is already there, but inexpensive is about impossible.
Exactly, thats what people dont get. I have a right to freedom, and a right to be alive. But if I decide to kill women with brown hair under 200 pounds exactly 5'8" wearing pink and then rape their lower and upper torso's seperatly. I deserve to be put in prison for the rest of my life, or executed. But its so not fair! Why should I get punished so severly?
No, it would be taken away all because they REPEATEDLY violated a well know law. It's not like you don't know the speed limit. It's that you CHOOSE to ignore it, and you know what will happen if you get caught. Let me write up an example:
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving while drunk for the 9th time and almost killed a family of four? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving a little faster then the safe driving speeds on the road, and accidentally hit a guy backing out of his hidden driveway killing him on impact? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
Taking away someone's license completely would usually mean the loss of their job, followed by the loss of their home, car, quite likely the loss of their spouse... All because they were driving a little too fast and couldn't stop when that toddler ran out in the middle of the road in front of his house? I don't think that's a reasonable punishment.
You broke the law, not once, not twice, but at least half a dozen times to get a punishment of suspended license. You deserve to loose your driving privileges. This is what is wrong with America. People don't expect consciences. It's not like you didn't know what would happen, but you choose to bring it on yourself, so yes, you do deserve to be homeless and jobless.
I look at it as an advantage.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf" or add this to the end of "insert file here". It becomes a lot eaiser. It also allows me to use SSH to admin my server over slow connections. Yes a GUI tool would be nice, but I dont feel its required. The majority of users by their PC's from a manufacture and it will already be setup. Plus, even in windows most gui configs for windows dont give you all the features. I know of several features we use at work that can only be enabled/disabled via the registry. And I still use the command prompt for most admin tasks.
How many times have you had to walk someone though a gui to set something up. It can be a pain. But if you could email then and say "Copy and paste this into
So to answer your question, with the exception of a few distro's such as suse, most linux users/developers do not see as problem with editing text files to change settings. However, I would look to novell to slowly be changing that.
But the problem you are having is the only real problem with open source development. Which is unless somebody is getting paid, they rarley do work on a project that doesn't benifit them. A gui xorg.conf gives no benifit to a programmer or a advanced user. So nobody bothers writing it. But with the recent strides taken by novell, i'm sure they will have someone on the payroll adding it to yast soon enough.
Yes, it requires you edit a file, and possibly install an app. But it does work and is easy to setup.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mouse_Scrollwheel
I have all 5 of my buttons working on my microsoft mouse.
Now I suggest (so you dont break X as so many people complain is impossible to fix) that you do this before editing the file
cp xorg.conf xorg_backup.conf
Now if you reboot and X doesn't work, you can type this
cp xorg_backup.conf xorg.conf
and it will work again.
I'm not saying its right, i'm just saying it is done. And I do concider what Sony did with everquest screwing over its users. They said, hey if you want to keep playing this game, go spend another 70-90.00 on hardware. But their client base at the time was so large, the losses didn't matter. And it didn't effect me because i'm a bleeding edge tech junky.
But things are forced all the time, sometimes by the market (monitor manufactures stop making smaller crts). Sometimes by big buisness (drop support for yoru product to move users to yoru new platform) And sometimes by the government ( force tv stations to move to digital tv requiring people to buy digital tv tuners)
Its not unheard of, even if it isn't right.
When you buy a product designed to fail (as oppsosed to designed not to last forever) you tipically get a rating on that product. For example, my lightbulbs tell me on the box they last for X number of hours.
My monitor should work perfect for as long as video card manufactures put dvi ports on their cards.