No, the electronics in computers came down in price. Enough so home users could afford computers. This is what made the PC industry take off. There is no way in hell I would've had a computer as a kid if they were $100k(us), but a price of $125(us) made it possible.
I've noticed a lot of problems with sourceforge lately. Do any developers (or others) have alternative plans in the event sourceforce becomes unusable or goes down completely? It would be a shame if a lot of projects were unavaliable or not easy to find for extended periods of time because we lost sourceforge. In fact, isn't freshmeat run by the same company? Even if hosting was found, it may take time for people to find the correct sites...especially if search engines haven't indexed them yet.
You are correct, however Linux has problems because many commercial hardware developers are assholes. MS Windows has problems because the people who make it are assholes.
Would you rather have an OS where the actual people who make it (not script kiddie fanboys) are not trying to screw you, or do you want assholes who deliberately make their software incompatible with everything else and try to squeeze every penny out of you. MS doesn't even care if their programs work, just as long as they get a sale. I bet if they thought could get away with it, they'd try selling a defective CD as an OS. Anyone remember MS Windows ME? That is the kind of crap they put out when they don't think they have any competition.
I don't think Linux is all that great--especially as a desktop OS, but it is much better than a MS operating system. Linux, GNU's libc, the X11 windowing system were modeled after Unix philosophies. Unix was made for servers, mainframes and terminals cared for by admins, not home users running single desktop machines. And if you need an OS for a server or mainframe, I wouldn't choose Linux either. It is certainly not the best in that department from what I've seen. IBM and other companies have made it better in the server department, but it is hardly perfect.
Not to mention MS is the entire reason we don't have any real choices for desktop OSes. The anti-trust lawsuits where just the tip of the iceburg. Why would anyone want to support them? They are a parasitic entity who doesn't have any legitimate place in the computing world.
Except I'm talking about glitches which happen all the time with MS software, not something that would happen with hard drives. Hard drives rarely just up and fail. I haven't had any. You should have plenty of warning because your logs are filling with HD errors. I don't run a server farm or anything, but that is my experience.
How many times have you experienced a mysterious system glitches caused by MS Win versus a hard drive or exploding computer? I've seen tonnes of glitches from MS but only experienced a dying hard drive once. Then again, I stopped using MS software at Win98 so I may be biased. XP is a bit more stable, but from what I've seen not much better in the "MS wants to control it all" and design department.
Did they really stop changing settings during updates and having weird glitches, or is it just wishful thinking on your part?
??? This never happened to me with Lilo.... The only problems I've had seemed to be different OSes tagging the partitions using different CHS units, lilo dies with an error and the fix/ignore options seems to get around this.
I guess just proves my comments about the poor code quality of many offical GNU projects. Proves point a as well. Flaky programs require the same things done over and over until it magically works. That is really bad. You are relying more on luck than skill.
a) Rebooting and reinstalling will only fix it if you made a mistake or you are using a poorly designed flaky OS. If it doesn't work the first time, why would it work a second?
b) Last time I checked, Ubuntu doubled as a live CD. In fact, how are you installing Ubuntu if you can't boot the CD?
c) Official GNU projects have the same poor code quality as MS. Stallman's goal is to take over the world, not produce a workable system. Don't use GRUB if you can avoid it.
"Okay, get your Windows CD." Computer's four years old and I've never had to use it. I really don't know where it is. "Oh, well, we don't help software pirates here....
d) This is a MS / commercial vendor problem. If you don't like copy protection and people accusing you of being a "pirate" even when you perchased a legit version of their software, then don't use their products. Especially if you are always losing the origional CD.
*Gets brother to fix entire mess.*
e) This is what you should have done in the first place. Someone who doesn't understand how computers work should not try to install an OS.
Imagine if you were allergic to your favorite food.... At least soy isn't as prevalent as wheat.
Maybe where you live, but in my area, it is in nearly every prepared food in the grocery store--including most breads. Though luckily for me many restaurants use animal fats or canola oil so I can eat there. Almost everything made at home has to be made from scratch, and I have to use real butter because they don't sell any non-soy margirines anymore.
I also have kidney failure (the same condition mentioned above caused it), so that bacon wrapped dish? I couldn't eat it because of too much sodium. When I was on hemodialysis I really had to watch foods high in potassium (bannanas, figs, oranges and such), but not so much now that I am on peritoneal dialysis. I still can't drink passonfruit juice--I am not sure if it has too much potassium (not on my chart) or if it has some toxin in it. And some cheap applejuice manufacturers grind the seeds (containing cyanide) into the juice--my body can't take it. I also have to watch foods high in phosphorus. (milk, cheese, nuts)
Let's just say a trip to the grocery store is a fun puzzle exercize.;-)
But my point was if foods aren't properly labeled, how will people be able to make informed choices about what they want to or need to eat? If cloned / geneticly engineered / normal food is just mixed together, how will doctors be able to determine if one of those is causing problems or if it is just that type of food in general?
They thought asbestos was not a problem until it was discovered as a cause for cancer. People were wearing asbestos underwear. Now if it is discovered some old building has even a little asbestos in the insulation, they break out the hazmat teams to get rid of it. Sometimes the dangers of a product are not discovered for a long time. How do we know all the problems which may develop due to cloning? That is why labeling is important.
Well, I think they will probably start small. Say in high density cities and move out from there. I think that is how cable broadband started...
I'm not sure if this is real or will work, but I do think someone trying this would probably need to create their own networks. Current ISPs just don't have that kind of latency and bandwidth. Nor could they supply the constant stream of packets needed to run a fully realtime high bandwith VR simulation. Just think of all the traffic shaping going on for small time things like voice over IP or bittorrent. I'm sure a VR system like this would use up much more bandwidth...
I hate how big business is given more rights over everyone else. If you own a trademark, you get first crack? What if you want to register your name? Say your name is Bill Crack, and some company decides on a whim they want billcrack.vr--why should they have first chance at registering your name?
I could see if they had a terms of service saying no abusing other's tradmarks or acquiring a trademarked name and auctioning it off to the highest bidder, but giving companies first crack just because they happen to have a trademark is unnesessary and unfair.
The statement "...new standards must be created, and network hardware must support those standards..." sounds like they either don't know what they are talking about or it is compeletely bogus. Exactly what modifications to ethernet hardware would be needed for this service? In fact, what changes to IP would be needed? There are already realtime flags/protocols and multicasting built into it. They would just need to buy the right routing equipment, wouldn't they?
I can see why they can't use normal ISPs, since most of them don't support multicast at the home user's end and their latency and bandwidth allowed is usually bad for games/vr. But why would they need to engineer whole new protocols? I just don't see it.
DNA defects - I'm not sure if the parent poster knew what he was talking about, but what about allergies? Defects or already existing genes in cows may be causing allergies. This gene could be increased by copying those cows.
If you eat a cow you and have an allergic reaction and it is only one in a thousand, it may have some ill effects when you eat that type of cow or drink its milk, but it will be so infreqent, you will probably shrug it off as a fluke. If every cow you eat has this allergen, then it could be a serious problem for you.
The FDA decided to not require labels for geneticly engineered plants. About two years ago I started having allergic reactions to soybeans. It was probably caused by the same thing which caused my immune condition (short version: I became allergic to my own blood), however, who is to say I am not allergic to some gene in the engineered soybeans and not the natural versions? There is no way for me to know because they are not distinguised and are mixed together.
Why not just have "safe for work" and "safe for taliban" flags with the option to sue the hell out of anyone who puts up a goatse like page or has "naughty words" in a page with one of those tags. Maybe even use digital signatures for "certified" sites. Then children's computers, school computers and "religious" freaks computers can be set up to only allow marked pages to be viewed. Then real adults don't have to worry about being harassed because stupid crap.
Those blacklists are idiotic. Expecting webmasters to register every site which may have anything which may be considered "offensive" by nut jobs is unbelievably stupid. Especially since these whackos will claim all sorts of silly things as offensive. Even just sites about science or other religious beliefs, all the while saying bigoted things about people of other religions or those who don't believe any specific religion at all. Yet they are the ones who say they are persecuted.
Just leave them in their own honeynet, and everyone will be happy.
Aside from your "sexual predators" comment (there are no more sexual preditors on the internet than any other form of social gathering or communications), all those other problems are due to self righteous bastards who should minde their own business.
When a person hires an employee, it should only matter that they will show up on time, do their job, and not cause problems in the workplace--like harrassing people because they don't follow a "one true religion" and such. And excluding someone from a job because they appear naked somewhere on the internet or even in pr0n, is doing exactly that. Beleiving it is wrong to be naked or have sex is a religious edict, nothing more. The manager who makes decisions based upon people's personal lives should not be hired. They are there to make the company run smoothly, not to try and enforce their moralistic beliefs on others.
I used to live in a place where the majority was a particular religion. They would constantly complain about perceived wrongs against people of their faith, yet they would be prejudice against everyone else. And if you looked into where they were "wronged" you would find out the people attacking them were really just defending themselves or retailiating against some really evil thing the "one true followers" did. They got to the point where the military had to be called in, and they'll mention how the government sent troops, but they'll leave out the fact they murdered nearly a hundred people including smashing in the heads of babies. Do you think it is right to smash in the heads of babies just because they weren't born into the "one true religion"???
If you didn't go to their church, they would not only refuse to be your friend, they would tell lies about you behind your back and do everything they could think of to screw you. They want to kill you, but they are afraid of the government, so they just do everything else they can think of. Just try holding down a job when after the wrong person/people find out you don't go to the "one true" church, they do everything they can think to either get you fired or make you quit. The others go along with it because they believe it is the right way to act, but they are to afraid to start things on their own.
I would like all programs to just be able to save their state. Then I wouldn't even be thinking about using hibernate. Like Mozilla and Firefox for example. You can bookmark a group of tabs, but the browser insists upon trying to load them off the network even if I am not connected and they are already cached. I just want to be able to read crap offline without a big hassle even after a reboot. This doesn't work, so lots of times I end up just leaving my computer on.
I think X Session Manager is supposed to do this, but I haven't had time to learn how it works, and most apps don't seem to have it working anyway...
How is this different than doing anything else with NShitia drivers? If they are using that kind of card, I don't see how they'd notice any difference if it crashes when it comes out of sleep. Just watching videos or sometimes nothing at all will cause the screen to go blank and the video to stop working. Luckily it usually doesn't completely crash the kernel so I can use SysRq or the power button to shut down properly. Though sometimes it crashes the kernel during shutdown. Looks like journaling filesystems came just in time...
I think I will go back to using the emachine w/the i810 graphics my dad gave me. At least with the intel graphics drivers, everything is stable, but it would be nice to upgrade.
Anyone know if there are any motherboards which support AMD64 processors with Intel graphics? Or some sort of graphics with open programming specs and open source drivers? Not likely, but I can hope. The AMD64 design sounds great, and I don't do accelerated 3D too heavily, so integrated graphics would work. Though it would be nice to accelerate raytracing as well, and if I had programming specs, maybe I could try something. I will probably just have to settle with an Intel processor with accel 3D or go with an AMD and just use the graphics unaccelerated? I don't really like either choice.
Interesting. So if I used brighter light bulbs (and used them during the day too), then I wouldn't get eyestrain as bad. That must be why when I put a light near my monitor so it reflects off the walls, it doesn't seem as bad. I forgot to mention that. The difficult thing is where to put it without being annoying. If the light is my field of vision, it is a problem. Me no likee afterimage.;-)
I still think it would be better overall to use a dark background though... At the minimum your monitor will need less power. You will save even more power if you need to use extra light to offset the brightness of your screen.
I think by step 3 you and many others may have a case for a class action lawsuit for wasting your bandwidth. I'm not sure if it is against any law, but if you put some sort of bandwidth wasting or no bots clause into your terms of service, then you should be able to sue. The judge would toss out the case for people who were actually violating copyright, but everyone else should get some money from them.
They would also be violating many people's first amendment rights by artificially making it more expensive to publish, but I don't know if they'd be technically breaking any law there.
I didn't even go into false DMCA reports. Somebody ought to get them for that...maybe with a slander of title lawsuit?
I'm thinking of putting up a website. I don't want to be screwed by these bastards. From their patterns, I don't think they are even trying to protect their copyrights, I think they are trying to eliminate anything they perceive as competition. Even free speech. As long as someone can be entertained by reading and posting on websites, usenet and such, it will take away time from buying / watching / listening to TV, music, DVDs, whatever. I don't want the media companies to do to the internet what they did to radio. What little bandwidth you can use for two way communication you either have to pay some company (cellphone) or take a bunch of tests for an obscure license (hams) or use unwanted frequencies (such as WiFi net sharing with microwave ovens).
I don't know where that guy's "grey is boring" or "black is cool/exciting" crap came from, but there is a very good reason computers have traditionally used a black background. CRTs are like a light bulb. The brighter the colors on your monitor, the more light they emit, the more eyestrain you are going to have. I'm sure that is one of the reasons the US based OSHA was recommending people use what are essentially sunglasses for their monitor. I think dark backgrounds work better.
LCDs are not as bad, but the backlight seems to cause a similar effect. What really sucks is websites and browsers break when I try to set them to a dark background.
Buying a C3 will do nothing to your existing applications, unless they use a plugin structure for software. E.g. in Java you can put a specialized VIA "cryptographic provider" in front of all the other providers,
Maybe this is why crypto functions were put into the Linux kernel? There are also add on cards which do crypto too...
For things like compression...
I noticed they put that into the kernel as well...
The majority of potential users out there (me inlcuded) just want something that works. They aren't going to be willing to deal with low budget hardware and second rate drivers just to push some religious agenda.
It is funny because you say you think binary drivers should be okay, but in my experience, binary drivers are like dealing with "low buget hardware and second rate drivers" and the open source drivers have been the highest quality of any drivers I have seen for the home market. I have a Nvidia card. The frakking binary drivers are total shit. Constant crashes (not only the driver, but sometimes the entire system!) while watching videos or 3D graphics. Sometimes just randomly. Sometimes during shutdown. WTF? In my decade of using Linux, I don't recall ever having an open source driver crash because it was buggy.
I don't really care what they say about needing to keep secrets. Whatever companies involved with that are either stupid or have some other agenda. Releasing programming specs won't make creating GPUs and any eaiser for their competitors. That is bullshit. The hard part is designing the internals of the chip.
Obviously, the open source drivers aren't going to do things where they aren't given the specs or can reverse engineer them. How about I give you a mystery chip and give you a vague description of what it does and expect you to make a program for it? Would you think that is reasonable or would you call me crazy???
I think the next graphics chipset I am going to buy will be open source. I wish intel made graphic cards because they work great. Open source drivers even, and I think they release the specs to everyone. I may go integrated, though I want an AMD64 processor and I don't think they make a motherboard with intel graphics and a AMD socket...
My dad's emachine runs linux great (just a minor issue with the hardware clock). It uses i810 graphics. Plus, with programming specs, (I saw a website before. I can't find it. Anyone have the url?) I may try playing with the chipset. Maybe I can make it do something interesting.
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No, the electronics in computers came down in price. Enough so home users could afford computers. This is what made the PC industry take off. There is no way in hell I would've had a computer as a kid if they were $100k(us), but a price of $125(us) made it possible.
I've noticed a lot of problems with sourceforge lately. Do any developers (or others) have alternative plans in the event sourceforce becomes unusable or goes down completely? It would be a shame if a lot of projects were unavaliable or not easy to find for extended periods of time because we lost sourceforge. In fact, isn't freshmeat run by the same company? Even if hosting was found, it may take time for people to find the correct sites...especially if search engines haven't indexed them yet.
You are correct, however Linux has problems because many commercial hardware developers are assholes. MS Windows has problems because the people who make it are assholes.
Would you rather have an OS where the actual people who make it (not script kiddie fanboys) are not trying to screw you, or do you want assholes who deliberately make their software incompatible with everything else and try to squeeze every penny out of you. MS doesn't even care if their programs work, just as long as they get a sale. I bet if they thought could get away with it, they'd try selling a defective CD as an OS. Anyone remember MS Windows ME? That is the kind of crap they put out when they don't think they have any competition.
I don't think Linux is all that great--especially as a desktop OS, but it is much better than a MS operating system. Linux, GNU's libc, the X11 windowing system were modeled after Unix philosophies. Unix was made for servers, mainframes and terminals cared for by admins, not home users running single desktop machines. And if you need an OS for a server or mainframe, I wouldn't choose Linux either. It is certainly not the best in that department from what I've seen. IBM and other companies have made it better in the server department, but it is hardly perfect.
Not to mention MS is the entire reason we don't have any real choices for desktop OSes. The anti-trust lawsuits where just the tip of the iceburg. Why would anyone want to support them? They are a parasitic entity who doesn't have any legitimate place in the computing world.
I just visited the appleseed site. http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/
The idea looks cool, but you've got a problem with your page (at the top).
Except I'm talking about glitches which happen all the time with MS software, not something that would happen with hard drives. Hard drives rarely just up and fail. I haven't had any. You should have plenty of warning because your logs are filling with HD errors. I don't run a server farm or anything, but that is my experience.
How many times have you experienced a mysterious system glitches caused by MS Win versus a hard drive or exploding computer? I've seen tonnes of glitches from MS but only experienced a dying hard drive once. Then again, I stopped using MS software at Win98 so I may be biased. XP is a bit more stable, but from what I've seen not much better in the "MS wants to control it all" and design department.
Did they really stop changing settings during updates and having weird glitches, or is it just wishful thinking on your part?
??? This never happened to me with Lilo.... The only problems I've had seemed to be different OSes tagging the partitions using different CHS units, lilo dies with an error and the fix/ignore options seems to get around this.
I guess just proves my comments about the poor code quality of many offical GNU projects. Proves point a as well. Flaky programs require the same things done over and over until it magically works. That is really bad. You are relying more on luck than skill.
a) Rebooting and reinstalling will only fix it if you made a mistake or you are using a poorly designed flaky OS. If it doesn't work the first time, why would it work a second?
b) Last time I checked, Ubuntu doubled as a live CD. In fact, how are you installing Ubuntu if you can't boot the CD?
c) Official GNU projects have the same poor code quality as MS. Stallman's goal is to take over the world, not produce a workable system. Don't use GRUB if you can avoid it.
d) This is a MS / commercial vendor problem. If you don't like copy protection and people accusing you of being a "pirate" even when you perchased a legit version of their software, then don't use their products. Especially if you are always losing the origional CD.
e) This is what you should have done in the first place. Someone who doesn't understand how computers work should not try to install an OS.
...or a glitch turned it on, or it was activated during an update... All problems I've seen many, many times with MS software and settings.
Maybe where you live, but in my area, it is in nearly every prepared food in the grocery store--including most breads. Though luckily for me many restaurants use animal fats or canola oil so I can eat there. Almost everything made at home has to be made from scratch, and I have to use real butter because they don't sell any non-soy margirines anymore.
I also have kidney failure (the same condition mentioned above caused it), so that bacon wrapped dish? I couldn't eat it because of too much sodium. When I was on hemodialysis I really had to watch foods high in potassium (bannanas, figs, oranges and such), but not so much now that I am on peritoneal dialysis. I still can't drink passonfruit juice--I am not sure if it has too much potassium (not on my chart) or if it has some toxin in it. And some cheap applejuice manufacturers grind the seeds (containing cyanide) into the juice--my body can't take it. I also have to watch foods high in phosphorus. (milk, cheese, nuts)
Let's just say a trip to the grocery store is a fun puzzle exercize. ;-)
But my point was if foods aren't properly labeled, how will people be able to make informed choices about what they want to or need to eat? If cloned / geneticly engineered / normal food is just mixed together, how will doctors be able to determine if one of those is causing problems or if it is just that type of food in general?
They thought asbestos was not a problem until it was discovered as a cause for cancer. People were wearing asbestos underwear. Now if it is discovered some old building has even a little asbestos in the insulation, they break out the hazmat teams to get rid of it. Sometimes the dangers of a product are not discovered for a long time. How do we know all the problems which may develop due to cloning? That is why labeling is important.
Well, I think they will probably start small. Say in high density cities and move out from there. I think that is how cable broadband started...
I'm not sure if this is real or will work, but I do think someone trying this would probably need to create their own networks. Current ISPs just don't have that kind of latency and bandwidth. Nor could they supply the constant stream of packets needed to run a fully realtime high bandwith VR simulation. Just think of all the traffic shaping going on for small time things like voice over IP or bittorrent. I'm sure a VR system like this would use up much more bandwidth...
I hate how big business is given more rights over everyone else. If you own a trademark, you get first crack? What if you want to register your name? Say your name is Bill Crack, and some company decides on a whim they want billcrack.vr--why should they have first chance at registering your name?
I could see if they had a terms of service saying no abusing other's tradmarks or acquiring a trademarked name and auctioning it off to the highest bidder, but giving companies first crack just because they happen to have a trademark is unnesessary and unfair.
The statement "...new standards must be created, and network hardware must support those standards..." sounds like they either don't know what they are talking about or it is compeletely bogus. Exactly what modifications to ethernet hardware would be needed for this service? In fact, what changes to IP would be needed? There are already realtime flags/protocols and multicasting built into it. They would just need to buy the right routing equipment, wouldn't they?
I can see why they can't use normal ISPs, since most of them don't support multicast at the home user's end and their latency and bandwidth allowed is usually bad for games/vr. But why would they need to engineer whole new protocols? I just don't see it.
DNA defects - I'm not sure if the parent poster knew what he was talking about, but what about allergies? Defects or already existing genes in cows may be causing allergies. This gene could be increased by copying those cows.
If you eat a cow you and have an allergic reaction and it is only one in a thousand, it may have some ill effects when you eat that type of cow or drink its milk, but it will be so infreqent, you will probably shrug it off as a fluke. If every cow you eat has this allergen, then it could be a serious problem for you.
The FDA decided to not require labels for geneticly engineered plants. About two years ago I started having allergic reactions to soybeans. It was probably caused by the same thing which caused my immune condition (short version: I became allergic to my own blood), however, who is to say I am not allergic to some gene in the engineered soybeans and not the natural versions? There is no way for me to know because they are not distinguised and are mixed together.
Why not just have "safe for work" and "safe for taliban" flags with the option to sue the hell out of anyone who puts up a goatse like page or has "naughty words" in a page with one of those tags. Maybe even use digital signatures for "certified" sites. Then children's computers, school computers and "religious" freaks computers can be set up to only allow marked pages to be viewed. Then real adults don't have to worry about being harassed because stupid crap.
Those blacklists are idiotic. Expecting webmasters to register every site which may have anything which may be considered "offensive" by nut jobs is unbelievably stupid. Especially since these whackos will claim all sorts of silly things as offensive. Even just sites about science or other religious beliefs, all the while saying bigoted things about people of other religions or those who don't believe any specific religion at all. Yet they are the ones who say they are persecuted.
Just leave them in their own honeynet, and everyone will be happy.
Aside from your "sexual predators" comment (there are no more sexual preditors on the internet than any other form of social gathering or communications), all those other problems are due to self righteous bastards who should minde their own business.
When a person hires an employee, it should only matter that they will show up on time, do their job, and not cause problems in the workplace--like harrassing people because they don't follow a "one true religion" and such. And excluding someone from a job because they appear naked somewhere on the internet or even in pr0n, is doing exactly that. Beleiving it is wrong to be naked or have sex is a religious edict, nothing more. The manager who makes decisions based upon people's personal lives should not be hired. They are there to make the company run smoothly, not to try and enforce their moralistic beliefs on others.
I used to live in a place where the majority was a particular religion. They would constantly complain about perceived wrongs against people of their faith, yet they would be prejudice against everyone else. And if you looked into where they were "wronged" you would find out the people attacking them were really just defending themselves or retailiating against some really evil thing the "one true followers" did. They got to the point where the military had to be called in, and they'll mention how the government sent troops, but they'll leave out the fact they murdered nearly a hundred people including smashing in the heads of babies. Do you think it is right to smash in the heads of babies just because they weren't born into the "one true religion"???
If you didn't go to their church, they would not only refuse to be your friend, they would tell lies about you behind your back and do everything they could think of to screw you. They want to kill you, but they are afraid of the government, so they just do everything else they can think of. Just try holding down a job when after the wrong person/people find out you don't go to the "one true" church, they do everything they can think to either get you fired or make you quit. The others go along with it because they believe it is the right way to act, but they are to afraid to start things on their own.
I would like all programs to just be able to save their state. Then I wouldn't even be thinking about using hibernate. Like Mozilla and Firefox for example. You can bookmark a group of tabs, but the browser insists upon trying to load them off the network even if I am not connected and they are already cached. I just want to be able to read crap offline without a big hassle even after a reboot. This doesn't work, so lots of times I end up just leaving my computer on.
I think X Session Manager is supposed to do this, but I haven't had time to learn how it works, and most apps don't seem to have it working anyway...
How is this different than doing anything else with NShitia drivers? If they are using that kind of card, I don't see how they'd notice any difference if it crashes when it comes out of sleep. Just watching videos or sometimes nothing at all will cause the screen to go blank and the video to stop working. Luckily it usually doesn't completely crash the kernel so I can use SysRq or the power button to shut down properly. Though sometimes it crashes the kernel during shutdown. Looks like journaling filesystems came just in time...
I think I will go back to using the emachine w/the i810 graphics my dad gave me. At least with the intel graphics drivers, everything is stable, but it would be nice to upgrade.
Anyone know if there are any motherboards which support AMD64 processors with Intel graphics? Or some sort of graphics with open programming specs and open source drivers? Not likely, but I can hope. The AMD64 design sounds great, and I don't do accelerated 3D too heavily, so integrated graphics would work. Though it would be nice to accelerate raytracing as well, and if I had programming specs, maybe I could try something. I will probably just have to settle with an Intel processor with accel 3D or go with an AMD and just use the graphics unaccelerated? I don't really like either choice.
Interesting. So if I used brighter light bulbs (and used them during the day too), then I wouldn't get eyestrain as bad. That must be why when I put a light near my monitor so it reflects off the walls, it doesn't seem as bad. I forgot to mention that. The difficult thing is where to put it without being annoying. If the light is my field of vision, it is a problem. Me no likee afterimage. ;-)
I still think it would be better overall to use a dark background though... At the minimum your monitor will need less power. You will save even more power if you need to use extra light to offset the brightness of your screen.
Yes, that is true. That is another reason.
It also saves power.
That is not flamebait. It is good security to ask before executing unknown code.
I think by step 3 you and many others may have a case for a class action lawsuit for wasting your bandwidth. I'm not sure if it is against any law, but if you put some sort of bandwidth wasting or no bots clause into your terms of service, then you should be able to sue. The judge would toss out the case for people who were actually violating copyright, but everyone else should get some money from them.
They would also be violating many people's first amendment rights by artificially making it more expensive to publish, but I don't know if they'd be technically breaking any law there.
I didn't even go into false DMCA reports. Somebody ought to get them for that...maybe with a slander of title lawsuit?
I'm thinking of putting up a website. I don't want to be screwed by these bastards. From their patterns, I don't think they are even trying to protect their copyrights, I think they are trying to eliminate anything they perceive as competition. Even free speech. As long as someone can be entertained by reading and posting on websites, usenet and such, it will take away time from buying / watching / listening to TV, music, DVDs, whatever. I don't want the media companies to do to the internet what they did to radio. What little bandwidth you can use for two way communication you either have to pay some company (cellphone) or take a bunch of tests for an obscure license (hams) or use unwanted frequencies (such as WiFi net sharing with microwave ovens).
I don't know where that guy's "grey is boring" or "black is cool/exciting" crap came from, but there is a very good reason computers have traditionally used a black background. CRTs are like a light bulb. The brighter the colors on your monitor, the more light they emit, the more eyestrain you are going to have. I'm sure that is one of the reasons the US based OSHA was recommending people use what are essentially sunglasses for their monitor. I think dark backgrounds work better.
LCDs are not as bad, but the backlight seems to cause a similar effect. What really sucks is websites and browsers break when I try to set them to a dark background.
I'm not too sure what the problem is with colors on window decorations, as long as they are not too hot. I use sort of flashy gradients on the focused window myself...
Yes, but if he doesn't need an upgrade, then it is much cheaper to not buy any hardware at all. ;-)
Maybe this is why crypto functions were put into the Linux kernel? There are also add on cards which do crypto too...
I noticed they put that into the kernel as well...
It is funny because you say you think binary drivers should be okay, but in my experience, binary drivers are like dealing with "low buget hardware and second rate drivers" and the open source drivers have been the highest quality of any drivers I have seen for the home market. I have a Nvidia card. The frakking binary drivers are total shit. Constant crashes (not only the driver, but sometimes the entire system!) while watching videos or 3D graphics. Sometimes just randomly. Sometimes during shutdown. WTF? In my decade of using Linux, I don't recall ever having an open source driver crash because it was buggy.
I don't really care what they say about needing to keep secrets. Whatever companies involved with that are either stupid or have some other agenda. Releasing programming specs won't make creating GPUs and any eaiser for their competitors. That is bullshit. The hard part is designing the internals of the chip.
Obviously, the open source drivers aren't going to do things where they aren't given the specs or can reverse engineer them. How about I give you a mystery chip and give you a vague description of what it does and expect you to make a program for it? Would you think that is reasonable or would you call me crazy???
I think the next graphics chipset I am going to buy will be open source. I wish intel made graphic cards because they work great. Open source drivers even, and I think they release the specs to everyone. I may go integrated, though I want an AMD64 processor and I don't think they make a motherboard with intel graphics and a AMD socket...
My dad's emachine runs linux great (just a minor issue with the hardware clock). It uses i810 graphics. Plus, with programming specs, (I saw a website before. I can't find it. Anyone have the url?) I may try playing with the chipset. Maybe I can make it do something interesting.
However, ATI may be going open source too?