You most certainly can have multiple video cards in one system. Before dual head cards were common, I was running 4 monitors on a single computer. AGP was a pain because I think the spec only allowed one instance of AGP on a system. But that doesn't have to stop you from running other technologies such as PCI which I can assure you does work work in harmony with AGP as well as with itself.
If you feel like giving it ago, you ought to play with it in X. You can do some really cool stuff like making a monitor essentially act as a zoom for the mouse cursor by overlapping a monitor set at a low resolution and having a high vertual resolution over the top of a monitor with set at the same resolution as the virtual resolution of the other monitor.
Last time I tried that on a dual head card, it got very unhappy with me. Yet two cards working together with Xinerama worked very well as long as there was a very slight offset.
I haven't read the article, but for this point I don't think it matters.
Remember that the internet spans past just America. I'm a heavy internet user and in New Zealand and during the power cuts in America everything I used still worked. I user services all over the world including a few in America.
That aside, no matter how reliable something is, if it's critical it needs a contingency.
I would like to extend on this by saying that the more you restrict them, the less they will listen to you. I think guiding them rather than controlling them is the key. However, I have never been a parent, so I don't have many ideas on where to start. There are numerous stories about if you tell a person not to do something (especially children), they will then become curious and do it. Think pea, stone etc up nose.
Extremes in any view is likley to lead to problems.
Good luck.
Even if it doesn't succeed, it lays the ground work for ideas to spawn off that might lead to something better later on.
On the net there is a culture of take what you want. Open source works well with this, but economics based on scarcity does not. Thus leading to piracy. If piracy is reduced it's still a step forward.
Imagine watching the Matrix on that, such clarity, such detail.... wow!
Seriously though, I've heard of a cellphone which projects a keyboard onto a flat surface so that you can type more easily and don't have top use those tiny buttons. Technology like that will allow these things to get smaller without becomming harder to use because of the buttons becomming to small.
With the diversity of linux, it should not be attached to any specific distribution.... unless that is what you are trying to achieve. In which case the qualification won't be worth a lot.
It's probably worth having a few different levels, and maybe specialisations. Trying to cover the whole topic to a good standard in one go will be about as effective as trying to row a boat with a mango.
Some pre-thought (ie haven't thought far about it) ideas: Basic setup:
- Partitioning (effectivley)
-/etc
- optimizations
- interoprability/compatibility
Stuff that I can't think of a name for:
-/proc
- scripting
- making stuff user friendly (big potential to expand this one)
Networking:
- firewall
Security:
Admin:
- quotas
- User management
Concepts:
- Trade-offs ** very important
I am somewhat in a hurry this afternoon, but you can see that there is plenty of room to expand this. Want to add more, but got to go. Hope this helps.
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I'm still able to get to http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/ Some more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffXrghlrqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1F4DnvnX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnMHgwG9aAo
Agreed. You forgot one though!
You most certainly can have multiple video cards in one system. Before dual head cards were common, I was running 4 monitors on a single computer. AGP was a pain because I think the spec only allowed one instance of AGP on a system. But that doesn't have to stop you from running other technologies such as PCI which I can assure you does work work in harmony with AGP as well as with itself.
If you feel like giving it ago, you ought to play with it in X. You can do some really cool stuff like making a monitor essentially act as a zoom for the mouse cursor by overlapping a monitor set at a low resolution and having a high vertual resolution over the top of a monitor with set at the same resolution as the virtual resolution of the other monitor.
Last time I tried that on a dual head card, it got very unhappy with me. Yet two cards working together with Xinerama worked very well as long as there was a very slight offset.
Anyway, HTH.
But WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyy???? ;-)
I haven't read the article, but for this point I don't think it matters. Remember that the internet spans past just America. I'm a heavy internet user and in New Zealand and during the power cuts in America everything I used still worked. I user services all over the world including a few in America. That aside, no matter how reliable something is, if it's critical it needs a contingency.
I would like to extend on this by saying that the more you restrict them, the less they will listen to you. I think guiding them rather than controlling them is the key. However, I have never been a parent, so I don't have many ideas on where to start. There are numerous stories about if you tell a person not to do something (especially children), they will then become curious and do it. Think pea, stone etc up nose. Extremes in any view is likley to lead to problems. Good luck.
Even if it doesn't succeed, it lays the ground work for ideas to spawn off that might lead to something better later on. On the net there is a culture of take what you want. Open source works well with this, but economics based on scarcity does not. Thus leading to piracy. If piracy is reduced it's still a step forward.
Imagine watching the Matrix on that, such clarity, such detail.... wow!
Seriously though, I've heard of a cellphone which projects a keyboard onto a flat surface so that you can type more easily and don't have top use those tiny buttons. Technology like that will allow these things to get smaller without becomming harder to use because of the buttons becomming to small.
With the diversity of linux, it should not be attached to any specific distribution.... unless that is what you are trying to achieve. In which case the qualification won't be worth a lot.
/etc
/proc
It's probably worth having a few different levels, and maybe specialisations. Trying to cover the whole topic to a good standard in one go will be about as effective as trying to row a boat with a mango.
Some pre-thought (ie haven't thought far about it) ideas:
Basic setup:
- Partitioning (effectivley)
-
- optimizations
- interoprability/compatibility
Stuff that I can't think of a name for:
-
- scripting
- making stuff user friendly (big potential to expand this one)
Networking:
- firewall
Security:
Admin:
- quotas
- User management
Concepts:
- Trade-offs ** very important
I am somewhat in a hurry this afternoon, but you can see that there is plenty of room to expand this. Want to add more, but got to go. Hope this helps.