Actually, there is also a Lollipop 5.0.1 update (also pushed OTA) for the Galaxy S4 i9500 (the phone of the article). I have it running currently on my S4.
source: http://www.sammobile.com/firmw...
This article makes no sense. It says the vulnerability affects the Galaxy S4 but only if you are running an outdated firmware (like Kit kat).
However, there is an official (pushed OTA) update to Jelly Bean on this device, so all you have to do to not be vulnerable is apply the update!
Same as usual: if you want to avoid vulnerabilities, update your stuff regularly.
Intel has shiped 14nm Core M CPUs (Broadwell) since december 2014 last year, and these ARM chips will only ship in 2016, so Intel still has a healthy lead.
The French surrender? I thought this old meme stopped being funny when it turned out it was NOT a good idea to invade Irak and the French turned out to be right to not go in all along
Not debating whether the meme is old or not but how does not fighting kill the French always surrender joke?
I'm just saying, the US is engaged in many conflicts, not all of which are very well justified, so you sound a bit like a warmongering cowboy when you say that.
See why it's not funny now?
Yes, it's consumers. Because it's a French company, if you have to dispute an over charge, they just surrender and back it off.
The French surrender? I thought this old meme stopped being funny when it turned out it was NOT a good idea to invade Irak and the French turned out to be right to not go in all along...
Anyway, I'll tell you who this is BAD news for: whoever is competing with T-Mobile in the US.
I'm myself in France and from what I gather, the "competitive market" of mobile operators in the US is in pretty bad shape.
Pretty ironic when you think about it, in the land of the Free Market.
Dinosaurs, get ready for some major disruption, there's a new competitor in town and it is meaner, leaner and and more aggressive than you are. Adapt fast or face extinction. Le the fun begin.
Maybe they should quit trying to structure their society into an amusement park and rely on others to handle the practical concerns that keep them alive, and instead take a hint from the likes of, say, North Korea, who actually face the problems that life puts in front of them and address them with their own hands instead of passing the buck to someone else like a little bitch.
That way they could also enjoy a quality of life simimilar to those who live North Korea!
Oh... wait... are you serious?
ATI HD5770 or nVidia GTX260 or GTX460. If you want to be able to use the latest in OpenGL 4.x and OpenCL, you'll want to go with ATI HD5770 or GTX460.
This reply post contains many errors and is not at all informative. The grandparent asked for video cards that work well with open source 2D/3D drivers, the ATI card he cites only has experimental support only, and will probably not be functionnal for a while, and those 2 nVidia cards he cites have no working 3D driver AT ALL. Please mod that post down to the basement.
The correct answer to his question is:
buy an ATI Radeon X1900 or less video card, I suggest the X1650. These cards have good open source 2D/3D drivers, where released within the last 5 years and can run the applications you mentioned. Anyting more recent would probably be less stable, but will improve over time, and Intel does not build "video cards".
On some cars, if you turn off the ignition, you lose power steering AND brakes!
BTW, if your car can do 0-60mph in 2sec, you really need to think about removing that rocket from your trunk.
The best/most user freindly way to use ffmpeg under Windows is to install "ffdshow" (Windows version of ffmpeg) and VirtualDub (GUI encoding software). Both can be downloaded and installed simply.
In that case, you can join the 170 people (so far) that have signed my pledge to "support graphics card manufacturers with open source drivers". At the end of the year I hope to have 1000 signatures and I will send a letter to ATI/AMD and nVidia representatives with the pledge and the signatures.
No, Linksys, like most manufacturers, often change the chipset they use in their wifi cards. So you basically don't know what your buying when you get a Linksys card and it's hit or miss to get it working. When using Linux you need to look for a wifi card with either a ZyDAS or Ralink chipset. If you can't find out what chipset the card is using, don't buy it! Find one where you can tell.
Anyways, I was thinking of adding one of these USB wireless accessories.. could anybody here recommend one that has a good track record of working in linux ?
anything from ZyDAS or Ralink should have good (and ever improving) fully supported, GPL drivers.
Why bother with this crap? Just get an Intel GMA X3000 integrated motherboard [wikipedia.org] and save time, power, money and hassle due to Intel "getting it" and releasing Open Source drivers and full specs. (You'll probably also be able to benefit from their free wireless drivers.
I tend to agree. ATI is one of the worst offenders by actively blocking open source development (still no open source r500 2D drivers just before the r600 comes out) _AND_ having crap proprietary drivers (no compositing support, low performance). I recommend the same: buy an Intel motherboard with integrated graphics an sign my (shameless plug) open3d pledge. There are 100 signatures and 900 to go!
Looks like it's time to sign the pledge to support open, 3d graphics drivers http://www.pledgebank.com/open3d and put some pressure on graphics card manufacturers.
I have to applaud this person for the huge work he has done to support all these webcams under Linux. However, from what I could tell from a quick google search, he seems to be one of these developpers who write GPL drivers for Linux (also GPL) but then refuse to have them included in the mainline kernel for some mystical reason. This situation really makes me sad because thousands, perhaps millions of people could have their webcam "just work" out of the box, but instead, they have to do all sorts of voodoo magic (look on google, find the package, compile it, patch source etc.). Statistically, a percentage of these people will spend a lot of time getting it to work, some people will fail to make it work and some won't even bother. What a waste. The worst part of it is that the driver, being GPL, could be included legally without the autor's consent however, this would risk alienating this valuable developper. Imagine if the people developping drivers for motherboard chipsets had the same attitude and what that would do to the usability of Linux. So please, Michel Xhaard, do a huge favor to the whole Free software comunity at little or no cost to yourself and get that driver in mainline.
Windows NT started on the Alpha processors, later was ported to x86. In recent years it was ported to x64 and Itanium (Itanium share nothing with x86 except the company that made them).
Don't invent problems where there aren't.
The OS might be portable (at great cost) but none of the software that makes Windows a success would be ported (look at your own examples: what software could you get for Alpha and Itanium?) making it pretty useless. On the other hand, most OSS software is ported to pretty much all platforms.
Ya. Great proof. What's next? The shape of a banana proves that Jesus is real? great video by the way, now I have repented my sins and have become a true believer!
As far as I can see, interruptibility of the GPU is only useful to make running several 3D programs (and the 3D desktop) a smoother experience. If this is not implemented (for XP) not many people would notice (ever run another 3D app and a game at the same time under XP?). Virtualized graphics memory is a bit more useful, but even if this was not implemented I suspect a lot of 3D applications (even DirectX 10 games) would be content with runing inside the 768MB of a GeForce 8800 GTX or even less. Modern OpenGL implementations already use "Graphics memory/AGP memory/main memory" to store their textures transparently from the 3D application's point of view, if this was done for DirectX as well for XP I suspect this would be sufficient to address that need.
You proclaim that there is "no reason why DirectX 10 can't work on windows XP", but offer absolutely no evidence to back up your claim. All the BS about DirectX 10 being impossible to port to XP is false. You want proof? When the Geforce 8 came out, nVidia supported all the new features for the card as extensions for OpenGL, including under XP. These are the same features that are available with DirectX 10 and supposably impossible to port to XP. And this was done without changing anything in Windows XP, only by modifying the driver! If it's possible with OpenGL without Microsoft's help, what can possibly make you think that it's impossible with DirectX WITH their help. At the end of the day, all these API's do is color pixels in a rectangle of the screen. I'm pretty sure ATI or nvidia could port DirectX 10 to windows 95 if there was a market for it.
Will Sony be offering up kernel patches and an RSX optimized OpenGL library for PS3/Linux?
The RSX is in fact some sort of GeForce 7900 variant. The drivers for such a "graphics card" usually contain 3 parts: a X.org driver (loaded by the X server), a kernel driver and an extra GLX module (probably the most important part of the driver). The part loaded into the kernel is not even the largest or most important so asking for patches to the PS3/Linux kernel is not quite the right question. What we need to ask from Sony is this:
when will you stop blocking Linux from accessing the RSX graphics chip (and the 256 Megs of memory it controls)
when will you contract nVidia to port it's driver to PS3/Linux
Once both these things happen we can use either the open source ("nv" and "nouveau" with a small patch to support the RSX) or the proprietary "nvidia" drivers, as
we do now on PC's. I can't say I would recommend PS3/Linux so long as it is crippled to using only half the hardware in the PS3.
This is a major step forward for those individuals who somehow believe that life evolving somewhere else proves that God doesn't exist. I might be aware that that line of reasoning is nuts, but hey...don't let me rain on your parade.;)
It's not about believing or not believing, it's about observation and theories that are supported by observation. For example, if we find life on Mars would that prove that God exists? Does anything? Iguess we are back to square one then.
Yep. The important thing is to create *COMPETITION*.
"Open Source" doesn't create competition, open file formats do - by allowing companies to pick and choose which software they use to work with their documents. Although I agree that open file formats create competition, I would also say that Open Source does create competition in the sense that if a company (or state) uses an Open Source program it can put several contractors in competition for the maintenance/development of the program.
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Actually, there is also a Lollipop 5.0.1 update (also pushed OTA) for the Galaxy S4 i9500 (the phone of the article). I have it running currently on my S4. source: http://www.sammobile.com/firmw...
This article makes no sense. It says the vulnerability affects the Galaxy S4 but only if you are running an outdated firmware (like Kit kat). However, there is an official (pushed OTA) update to Jelly Bean on this device, so all you have to do to not be vulnerable is apply the update! Same as usual: if you want to avoid vulnerabilities, update your stuff regularly.
Intel has shiped 14nm Core M CPUs (Broadwell) since december 2014 last year, and these ARM chips will only ship in 2016, so Intel still has a healthy lead.
The French surrender? I thought this old meme stopped being funny when it turned out it was NOT a good idea to invade Irak and the French turned out to be right to not go in all along
Not debating whether the meme is old or not but how does not fighting kill the French always surrender joke?
I'm just saying, the US is engaged in many conflicts, not all of which are very well justified, so you sound a bit like a warmongering cowboy when you say that. See why it's not funny now?
Yes, it's consumers. Because it's a French company, if you have to dispute an over charge, they just surrender and back it off.
The French surrender? I thought this old meme stopped being funny when it turned out it was NOT a good idea to invade Irak and the French turned out to be right to not go in all along...
Anyway, I'll tell you who this is BAD news for: whoever is competing with T-Mobile in the US. I'm myself in France and from what I gather, the "competitive market" of mobile operators in the US is in pretty bad shape. Pretty ironic when you think about it, in the land of the Free Market.
Dinosaurs, get ready for some major disruption, there's a new competitor in town and it is meaner, leaner and and more aggressive than you are. Adapt fast or face extinction. Le the fun begin.
Maybe they should quit trying to structure their society into an amusement park and rely on others to handle the practical concerns that keep them alive, and instead take a hint from the likes of, say, North Korea, who actually face the problems that life puts in front of them and address them with their own hands instead of passing the buck to someone else like a little bitch.
That way they could also enjoy a quality of life simimilar to those who live North Korea! Oh... wait... are you serious?
I pay 0€/min to call oz from France using the freebox.
It will be when the patents expire. That is, unless patent duration goes the same way as copyright...
This reply post contains many errors and is not at all informative. The grandparent asked for video cards that work well with open source 2D/3D drivers, the ATI card he cites only has experimental support only, and will probably not be functionnal for a while, and those 2 nVidia cards he cites have no working 3D driver AT ALL. Please mod that post down to the basement.
The correct answer to his question is:
buy an ATI Radeon X1900 or less video card, I suggest the X1650. These cards have good open source 2D/3D drivers, where released within the last 5 years and can run the applications you mentioned. Anyting more recent would probably be less stable, but will improve over time, and Intel does not build "video cards".
On some cars, if you turn off the ignition, you lose power steering AND brakes! BTW, if your car can do 0-60mph in 2sec, you really need to think about removing that rocket from your trunk.
on:
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Just thought I'd share that with my fellow junior-level, non sed speeking, nerds.
The best/most user freindly way to use ffmpeg under Windows is to install "ffdshow" (Windows version of ffmpeg) and VirtualDub (GUI encoding software). Both can be downloaded and installed simply.
In that case, you can join the 170 people (so far) that have signed my pledge to "support graphics card manufacturers with open source drivers". At the end of the year I hope to have 1000 signatures and I will send a letter to ATI/AMD and nVidia representatives with the pledge and the signatures.
Looks like it's time to sign the pledge to support open, 3d graphics drivers http://www.pledgebank.com/open3d and put some pressure on graphics card manufacturers.
I have to applaud this person for the huge work he has done to support all these webcams under Linux. However, from what I could tell from a quick google search, he seems to be one of these developpers who write GPL drivers for Linux (also GPL) but then refuse to have them included in the mainline kernel for some mystical reason.
This situation really makes me sad because thousands, perhaps millions of people could have their webcam "just work" out of the box, but instead, they have to do all sorts of voodoo magic (look on google, find the package, compile it, patch source etc.). Statistically, a percentage of these people will spend a lot of time getting it to work, some people will fail to make it work and some won't even bother. What a waste.
The worst part of it is that the driver, being GPL, could be included legally without the autor's consent however, this would risk alienating this valuable developper. Imagine if the people developping drivers for motherboard chipsets had the same attitude and what that would do to the usability of Linux.
So please, Michel Xhaard, do a huge favor to the whole Free software comunity at little or no cost to yourself and get that driver in mainline.
great video by the way, now I have repented my sins and have become a true believer!
As far as I can see, interruptibility of the GPU is only useful to make running several 3D programs (and the 3D desktop) a smoother experience. If this is not implemented (for XP) not many people would notice (ever run another 3D app and a game at the same time under XP?). Virtualized graphics memory is a bit more useful, but even if this was not implemented I suspect a lot of 3D applications (even DirectX 10 games) would be content with runing inside the 768MB of a GeForce 8800 GTX or even less. Modern OpenGL implementations already use "Graphics memory/AGP memory/main memory" to store their textures transparently from the 3D application's point of view, if this was done for DirectX as well for XP I suspect this would be sufficient to address that need.
All the BS about DirectX 10 being impossible to port to XP is false. You want proof? When the Geforce 8 came out, nVidia supported all the new features for the card as extensions for OpenGL, including under XP. These are the same features that are available with DirectX 10 and supposably impossible to port to XP. And this was done without changing anything in Windows XP, only by modifying the driver! If it's possible with OpenGL without Microsoft's help, what can possibly make you think that it's impossible with DirectX WITH their help. At the end of the day, all these API's do is color pixels in a rectangle of the screen. I'm pretty sure ATI or nvidia could port DirectX 10 to windows 95 if there was a market for it.
The RSX is in fact some sort of GeForce 7900 variant. The drivers for such a "graphics card" usually contain 3 parts: a X.org driver (loaded by the X server), a kernel driver and an extra GLX module (probably the most important part of the driver). The part loaded into the kernel is not even the largest or most important so asking for patches to the PS3/Linux kernel is not quite the right question. What we need to ask from Sony is this:
Once both these things happen we can use either the open source ("nv" and "nouveau" with a small patch to support the RSX) or the proprietary "nvidia" drivers, as we do now on PC's. I can't say I would recommend PS3/Linux so long as it is crippled to using only half the hardware in the PS3.
PS: sign my petition for open 3d drivers here: http://www.pledgebank.com/open3d
It's not about believing or not believing, it's about observation and theories that are supported by observation. For example, if we find life on Mars would that prove that God exists? Does anything? Iguess we are back to square one then.
Although I agree that open file formats create competition, I would also say that Open Source does create competition in the sense that if a company (or state) uses an Open Source program it can put several contractors in competition for the maintenance/development of the program.