That's funny. My SBLive works fine under debian on a PPC (Oldworld Beige G3).
usual information here about 'contact if you can't get it to work' (aLnLdLyLlLiLnLuxppc@yahoo.com, remove the capital Ls for all you humans or humanoids).
Although it looks like your in good hands already. The proc directory (outdated now?) is very handy with diagnosing such problems.
I had my sound card working fine back in high school (1998) under redhat, and later, debian (the debian distro I downloaded across a 33.6kbps connection. ah, those were the days). The sound card was a generic no-name ISA deal. Later, I got my sbLive working just fine using an early emu10k1 module. Hell, at that time, that linux box could play quake, serve webpages, and later get me into trouble due to my administrative follies (my computer port scanned the DOE while I was on vacation? Whoops!). Perhaps the finest moment in my whole mulitmedia linux experience is when I had my 450 pIII playing DVDs (and doing everything else from class codework to productivity to playing the occasional game of starcraft).
However, Linux has plugged many thing years ago that windows left wide open. Like not opening ports that don't need to be open. Or changing IP addresses on the fly. Or inserting / removing drivers without rebooting. Or not crashing for an unspecified reason and then requiring a reboot. Or multitasking.
Essentially, somebody needs to stop benchmarking an OS on sound card installation. Remember, even a four year old can use linux.
Remember when TV used to just rot your mind? Apparently it is busting kneecaps now (figuratively of course). All without even having to own a TV! Is that service or what?
And open office isn't good enough?
besides, what's wrong with just using vi for word processing? Simple, reliable. if you are liike me and can spel prefect, vi will due everything you could evar want.
True. A good place to start is just to check bgcolor against text and at least make sure that is ok. once you have a value for text, convert any bgimage into greyscale and find the average grey value in 4x4, 8x8, and/or XxY neighborhoods or do a histogram. basically, just make sure the text contrasts enough with the image.
Doing a full screen cap would work, but screen cap and OCR would majorly bog down on a processor especially when working with huge arrays (the bitmaps would have to be huge in some cases), and might no be efficient enough to be worthwhile.
of course, contrast checking might be as well.
So, what exactly do all the numbers mean? Does anybody else think that this study might have been the result of dead monkey logic?
Andy
"Yaaarrr.... well, I guess it started innocently enough. I thought I had power over me piracy, yarr I did, downloading a song heeeere, a dirge there. I still bought cd's, but I did so less and less. Eventually, yaaaar, it escalated to movies and the last games for me X-box. But it didn't stop there.
"Pretty soon I had me eyepatch and started swashbuckling. I spent all me bullion on spiced rum and me ship, a fine seafaring vessel she be. Yaarr, I thought I could stop, but now it's gone to far. Now I am stuck in an endless loop of pillage, sack and plunder, yaaarrr."
Remember kids, only pirates wear eyepatches. Don't be a pirate, YAAAR!
That's true, but then they are just depressed. I think DARPA is looking for enhanced aggressiveness along with this not-eating-for-five-days thing.
Although, it would be funny to have a whole mess of depressed soldiers on the front line. "Soldier! I gave you an order!" "I know, just give me a second.. my girl left me, my dog died, and I'm going through some pretty hard times."
at least they would all have bright country music careers upon coming home, instead of becoming derranged shell-shocked shells of people.
-Andy in Chi
oh those brits.
what if some 'open source zealot' decides to do the same to the BBC with mydoom?
Man, those linux users, they are a rowdy bunch. Staying up late drinking whiskey and preaching open source, writin' up those nasty viruses, uh huh.
Well, with all the recent media exposure linux is recieving, this is to be expected.
-Andy in Chi
Do not forget how the article plainly states that linux SAVED the district money. I thought all that 'independant' research proved only Microsoft programs saved money!
It's nice to see linux in schools. My college over the course of 2 years phased out some nice linux servers in exchange for really crappy windows boxes because the school turned into some sort of microsoft school. Bah. So, when I highschool does it, awesome.
-Andy in Chi
Well, I tried. But hiring is kinda slow around these parts.
As far as a demoralizing invasion, I do not feel good about what my country did, even if there are some positive changes. All I can do seems like crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. Talking about what distribution the Iraqis use does two things: 1) put a human spin on it ("they use linux? I use linux too! wow, that rocks... I wonder what distro they use...") 2) I forgot what I was going to say here.
Also, if a good amount of Linux users become established in Iraq, there might not be room for the great western virus Windows to take hold.
Peace,
Android in Chi
We are going to get rid of spam in 2 years by replacing it with something much much worse. I'm so anxious for whatever comes after spam I'm wetting myself.
As long as there are things to sell, there is going to be ads. Sad sad world.
-A in Chi
Well, maybe I'm just completely off, but isn't SDRAM a format that describes how the ram 'fits', both as a hardware package and in signal format (ie. voltage level), where Rambus is a company making a memory format named after the company?
Not that price fixing is any good. Micron is pretty huge, and they do make quite a bit of chips, but you can purchase ram that isn't micron.
In fact, some of the micron memory i had would not play nice with the existing micron dimms in the system. What does that matter?
Well, I was just going to say you don't have to purchase micron memory. Hell, you don't have to purchase memory at all. Just dig it out of junked machines in the trash.
As for the limited options, there are quite a few flavours of sdram (ddr sdram, pc(mhz rating here) sdram, buffered sdram, ecc sdram, cas-(rating here) sdram), and it is not like there is only one sdram factory churning out sdram.
Anyways, before I turn this into some sort of betamax comparison, I'll stop by saying: BRING BACK EDO SIMM MEMORY!!!! yeah...
-AndyinChi
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it's a regular PCI sblive. Nothing mac specific.
That's funny. My SBLive works fine under debian on a PPC (Oldworld Beige G3). usual information here about 'contact if you can't get it to work' (aLnLdLyLlLiLnLuxppc@yahoo.com, remove the capital Ls for all you humans or humanoids). Although it looks like your in good hands already. The proc directory (outdated now?) is very handy with diagnosing such problems.
I had my sound card working fine back in high school (1998) under redhat, and later, debian (the debian distro I downloaded across a 33.6kbps connection. ah, those were the days). The sound card was a generic no-name ISA deal. Later, I got my sbLive working just fine using an early emu10k1 module. Hell, at that time, that linux box could play quake, serve webpages, and later get me into trouble due to my administrative follies (my computer port scanned the DOE while I was on vacation? Whoops!). Perhaps the finest moment in my whole mulitmedia linux experience is when I had my 450 pIII playing DVDs (and doing everything else from class codework to productivity to playing the occasional game of starcraft).
However, Linux has plugged many thing years ago that windows left wide open. Like not opening ports that don't need to be open. Or changing IP addresses on the fly. Or inserting / removing drivers without rebooting. Or not crashing for an unspecified reason and then requiring a reboot. Or multitasking.
Essentially, somebody needs to stop benchmarking an OS on sound card installation. Remember, even a four year old can use linux.
Remember when TV used to just rot your mind? Apparently it is busting kneecaps now (figuratively of course). All without even having to own a TV! Is that service or what?
And open office isn't good enough? besides, what's wrong with just using vi for word processing? Simple, reliable. if you are liike me and can spel prefect, vi will due everything you could evar want.
Doing a full screen cap would work, but screen cap and OCR would majorly bog down on a processor especially when working with huge arrays (the bitmaps would have to be huge in some cases), and might no be efficient enough to be worthwhile.
of course, contrast checking might be as well.
So, what exactly do all the numbers mean? Does anybody else think that this study might have been the result of dead monkey logic?
Andy
Better be able to, especially when they pull the licence from a crackerjack box.
"Yaaarrr.... well, I guess it started innocently enough. I thought I had power over me piracy, yarr I did, downloading a song heeeere, a dirge there. I still bought cd's, but I did so less and less. Eventually, yaaaar, it escalated to movies and the last games for me X-box. But it didn't stop there.
"Pretty soon I had me eyepatch and started swashbuckling. I spent all me bullion on spiced rum and me ship, a fine seafaring vessel she be. Yaarr, I thought I could stop, but now it's gone to far. Now I am stuck in an endless loop of pillage, sack and plunder, yaaarrr."
Remember kids, only pirates wear eyepatches. Don't be a pirate, YAAAR!
That's true, but then they are just depressed. I think DARPA is looking for enhanced aggressiveness along with this not-eating-for-five-days thing. Although, it would be funny to have a whole mess of depressed soldiers on the front line. "Soldier! I gave you an order!" "I know, just give me a second.. my girl left me, my dog died, and I'm going through some pretty hard times." at least they would all have bright country music careers upon coming home, instead of becoming derranged shell-shocked shells of people. -Andy in Chi
oh those brits. what if some 'open source zealot' decides to do the same to the BBC with mydoom? Man, those linux users, they are a rowdy bunch. Staying up late drinking whiskey and preaching open source, writin' up those nasty viruses, uh huh. Well, with all the recent media exposure linux is recieving, this is to be expected. -Andy in Chi
It's nice to see linux in schools. My college over the course of 2 years phased out some nice linux servers in exchange for really crappy windows boxes because the school turned into some sort of microsoft school. Bah. So, when I highschool does it, awesome. -Andy in Chi
The original Vi. none of this Vim nonsense.
Sure, smoking dvds would be all right, but exploding ones... that would be something to see. Especially the few that detonate on the shelf.
Well, I tried. But hiring is kinda slow around these parts. As far as a demoralizing invasion, I do not feel good about what my country did, even if there are some positive changes. All I can do seems like crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. Talking about what distribution the Iraqis use does two things: 1) put a human spin on it ("they use linux? I use linux too! wow, that rocks... I wonder what distro they use...") 2) I forgot what I was going to say here. Also, if a good amount of Linux users become established in Iraq, there might not be room for the great western virus Windows to take hold. Peace, Android in Chi
We are going to get rid of spam in 2 years by replacing it with something much much worse. I'm so anxious for whatever comes after spam I'm wetting myself. As long as there are things to sell, there is going to be ads. Sad sad world. -A in Chi
Well, maybe I'm just completely off, but isn't SDRAM a format that describes how the ram 'fits', both as a hardware package and in signal format (ie. voltage level), where Rambus is a company making a memory format named after the company? Not that price fixing is any good. Micron is pretty huge, and they do make quite a bit of chips, but you can purchase ram that isn't micron. In fact, some of the micron memory i had would not play nice with the existing micron dimms in the system. What does that matter? Well, I was just going to say you don't have to purchase micron memory. Hell, you don't have to purchase memory at all. Just dig it out of junked machines in the trash. As for the limited options, there are quite a few flavours of sdram (ddr sdram, pc(mhz rating here) sdram, buffered sdram, ecc sdram, cas-(rating here) sdram), and it is not like there is only one sdram factory churning out sdram. Anyways, before I turn this into some sort of betamax comparison, I'll stop by saying: BRING BACK EDO SIMM MEMORY!!!! yeah... -AndyinChi