then finally to an Evergreen/AMD K5 150MHz, 32MB of RAM, a 2GB HDD, running Slackware and NT4. just last year I resurrected my dad and stopmom's spare computer with the help of damn small linux http://damnsmalllinux.org/ Firefox was decent, but the speed was actually excellent with dillo (javascript not available) running under fluxbox. wish I'd known years ago.
Actually I did, but when I installed Red Hat 5(not RHEL 5) and set up Netscape as the default browser on my 300MHZ I was still lacking the netzero connection program! That ended that, but I had to throw away the hdd because I couldn't remove lilo. lol. Anyone remember Ctrl-Alt-Del'ing the netzero start up program and ending the banner process to get non ad-supported dial up for free?
I still have a bunch of these. K6, K6-2, etc. everytime I plan on throwing them out I get nostalgic. the terms socket7 and K6 escaped me 'til I read the replies.
eeprom, fast page, edram, sram, and zip drive. I bought a tape backup used, but never installed it.
my buddy had chicago96 and memphis97 from warez sites. full of viruses and bugs. I think one was called activeX or winch95 or some such.
i remember buying a 3gb jts hdd from surplusauctions.com, which was egghead, and then bidding on a cheap 21" crt and thanking God I was outbid because I noticed a.3 dot pitch.
I innocently downloaded a alicecooper mp3 without even considering copyright! My first wave files were on the 300mb hdd and with the 3gb I bravely out a whole CD on it. never used napster, i mean they were begging to get caught. and my mp3 sounded terrible. (very low bitrate)
I'm sure noone cares. just mod me offtopic...or troll for the activex line:)
disambiguity: as opposed to hard disk, which we all know is the.7/1.44MB removable 3 1/2" disk we used to boot from.
seriously it took me years to stop callling it that after my second-hand 80/88 with the 5" floppies got replaced. even tho I knew better it was a bad habit I couldn't quit.
seriously, one of the first things I paid attention to back then was what the stuff was called, it always amazed me when people pointed to the case and called it a "cpu". I guess that was about when I was learning and it reminded me.
I actually had an argument one time about it and was told it could mean both!
Back in the late 80's or early 90's couldn't you swap out processor's? I admit I didn't know much back then but I thought that was how AMD and Cyrix got started, on boards meant for Intel CPU's.
And by CPU, I DON'T mean the case and everything inside:)
How's this one? From Creative.com
"The Vista audio architecture disables DirectSound 3D hardware acceleration; resulting in legacy DirectSound based EAX game titles not working as they did in XP. Issues that may be encountered:
Could range from loss of EAX functionality in EAX enabled games to a complete game incompatibility, depending on how the game title was authored. This would only happen with games that render 3D audio using DirectSound, it should not affect games that render 3D audio using OpenAL. Status:
These issues cannot be addressed by the Creative audio driver, because the functionality was purposely removed by the operating system. We look forward to game titles moving away from DirectSound and toward OpenAL for fully optimized Creative 3D audio hardware and technology support."
Search support for Vista and EAX on their site to find this.
The issue is that hardware acceleration of sound leaves the audio exposed to easy recording, bypassing DRM. Great solution MS.
Not to smirk but I have three different Creative Audigy soundcards and am not worried about losing compatibility. What's my secret?
And the driving force of people who don't want to see these laws is freedom of speech. For instance, taking down a site or limiting another's freedom of speech is necessarily a more fundamental issue than limiting a user's access to speech on a computer that user doesn't own. It's not that they're not both bad, but you can argue that when restricted to parental use content filtering may be appropriate. (I still don't recommend it.) But there are effective limitations of the value of censoring the internet or sites on the web. I take it as given that those who oppose both laws typically agree that there is no practical, distinct line between pornography and socially beneficial expression/information. Thus, one system blocks as much "bad" content as possible from the access of particular users, and attempts to allow "good" or "neutral" content. The other system forces universal censorship. What if I needed to provide a credit card to prove I'm over 18 to research abortion procedures or birth control? I want to learn more about "vaginal condoms" I guess. That's pure censorship. The ambiguity, the dilemma, is of course do public schools or public libraries actually have the right to implement content filters. I believe that is also wrong, but that it is another fight. Possibly with many ways to attack it, Steve
Damn Small Linux ( http://damnsmalllinux.org/ ) has a link to a mini itx store with via chipsets. You could build one of those. Some are fanless. Also immediately change your power supply. I use Antec and their better ones are dead quiet. Get an improved processor fan/heatsink like ones from Zalman. Use a case with good airflow. These will provide some relief and perhaps an energy efficient Hard Drive would help. Try letting it sleep much of the day and if you need it to wake to perform tasks you can schedule them.
Steve
"those who simply want to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of a machine. If you have a K6 or something, you REALLY want everything to be built for the K6, and ONLY for the K6. AMD's K6 is HORRIBLE at being an i386, but it's a GREAT little processor."
In a sense you're right. While I picked the components carefully before building my machine,regarding performance, I think I'm going back to 32bit Fedora after going back and forth between 32 and 64. Just for plugins and binaries. But Fedora will remain SMP optimised for my Pentium D. With 2GB memory and 256MB Vid memory I don't seem to need any more. I use Fluxbox regularly and notice a slight performance increase, and just for fun I will boot into Damn Small Linux. That's squeezing performance!
"Well, if you want to be a red hat beta tester, that's up to you. I mean, I want to be a Ubuntu beta tester, but in order to become one I had to edit my apt-sources and s/edgy/feisty/ and do a dist-upgrade. All Fedora users are beta testers."
I didn't have to do anything but enable conflicting 3rd party repos in yum and yum extender. (Thanks livna)
In a sense all Linux users are beta testers, but willingly so. With so many distros to choose from and a little experimenting we strike the balance that suits us. I might try Ubuntu-based Freespire when that arrives. On my 1GHz AMD or something. Sooner or later I'll try Ubuntu itself too. But I seem to stay with Fedora. It's not that I think it's the best, or even best for me, it's just my fav so far.
Steve
Oracle IS the problem. It would've been nice if the poster(one who posts) or the article had explanied that while this is childish, there's more to it than first appears.
Red Hat is huge for a Linux distro but has nowhere near Oracle's $$. Microsoft, who Red Hat directly competes with, has more $$ than anyone.
Now Oracle decides to compete with...Linux(?!) Fine, they should because the competition will only make the community stronger. Except maybe they should've put some work into developing a distro. They didn't. It's directly copied from Red Hat, Eillison admitted as such before it even happened. So there's no coopetition, they're rebranding Red Hat "Unbreakable"!
Unbreakable until they put Red Hat out of business. Then it would be pretty broken.
This would not normally be a weakness of the OSS business model, except Oracle is "undercutting" Red Hat intentionally, which they can afford to do for now. Some have suggested it's typical Ellison extracting vengeance for RH buying, I believe it was JBoss, out from under them.
Full disclosure; I'm typing this in Firefox, running on Fedora Core 6, an OS Red Hat gave me for free.
I don't tolerate it, I honestly like it. If I ever need Linux support I'll likely purchase it from them, even at a premium. I hope I never have needs that might tempt me away from MySQL as Oracle won't be in the running. and I'm genTOO busy to use a distro that eats all my time. (It's a terrible pun but i WANT you to flame me!)
While the cable commercials aren't wrong when they say you lose satellite in severe weather, they exaggerate. I've had both Digital Satellite and "Digital" Cable. Digital is almost always just a buzzword to confuse the ignorant. Most cable companies didn't increase their resolution when switching to digital.
Summary is that satellite has 480 lines. (480 in the 640x480)Cable has 240? something sad like that.
If you need your TV during a storm to keep you occupied then get cable. Me I turn mine off so it doesn't get surged. (I'd recommend Dish Network over DirecTV for political reasons go to http://www.eff.org/directvdefense/20030812_eff_pr. php for why Good Luck!
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Actually I did, but when I installed Red Hat 5(not RHEL 5) and set up Netscape as the default browser on my 300MHZ I was still lacking the netzero connection program! That ended that, but I had to throw away the hdd because I couldn't remove lilo. lol. Anyone remember Ctrl-Alt-Del'ing the netzero start up program and ending the banner process to get non ad-supported dial up for free?
I still have a bunch of these. K6, K6-2, etc. everytime I plan on throwing them out I get nostalgic. the terms socket7 and K6 escaped me 'til I read the replies.
.3 dot pitch.
...or troll for the activex line :)
eeprom, fast page, edram, sram, and zip drive. I bought a tape backup used, but never installed it.
my buddy had chicago96 and memphis97 from warez sites. full of viruses and bugs. I think one was called activeX or winch95 or some such.
i remember buying a 3gb jts hdd from surplusauctions.com, which was egghead, and then bidding on a cheap 21" crt and thanking God I was outbid because I noticed a
I innocently downloaded a alicecooper mp3 without even considering copyright! My first wave files were on the 300mb hdd and with the 3gb I bravely out a whole CD on it. never used napster, i mean they were begging to get caught. and my mp3 sounded terrible. (very low bitrate)
I'm sure noone cares. just mod me offtopic
I guess that's late 90's as well then. Interesting, thanks for the link.
disambiguity: as opposed to hard disk, which we all know is the .7/1.44MB removable 3 1/2" disk we used to boot from.
seriously it took me years to stop callling it that after my second-hand 80/88 with the 5" floppies got replaced. even tho I knew better it was a bad habit I couldn't quit.
seriously, one of the first things I paid attention to back then was what the stuff was called, it always amazed me when people pointed to the case and called it a "cpu". I guess that was about when I was learning and it reminded me.
I actually had an argument one time about it and was told it could mean both!
Back in the late 80's or early 90's couldn't you swap out processor's? I admit I didn't know much back then but I thought that was how AMD and Cyrix got started, on boards meant for Intel CPU's.
:)
And by CPU, I DON'T mean the case and everything inside
Hmmm, the post says up to 10km high...
Or...
Human/animal hybrids
How's this one?
From Creative.com
"The Vista audio architecture disables DirectSound 3D hardware acceleration; resulting in legacy DirectSound based EAX game titles not working as they did in XP.
Issues that may be encountered:
Could range from loss of EAX functionality in EAX enabled games to a complete game incompatibility, depending on how the game title was authored. This would only happen with games that render 3D audio using DirectSound, it should not affect games that render 3D audio using OpenAL.
Status:
These issues cannot be addressed by the Creative audio driver, because the functionality was purposely removed by the operating system. We look forward to game titles moving away from DirectSound and toward OpenAL for fully optimized Creative 3D audio hardware and technology support."
Search support for Vista and EAX on their site to find this.
The issue is that hardware acceleration of sound leaves the audio exposed to easy recording, bypassing DRM. Great solution MS.
Not to smirk but I have three different Creative Audigy soundcards and am not worried about losing compatibility. What's my secret?
Steve
And the driving force of people who don't want to see these laws is freedom of speech. For instance, taking down a site or limiting another's freedom of speech is necessarily a more fundamental issue than limiting a user's access to speech on a computer that user doesn't own. It's not that they're not both bad, but you can argue that when restricted to parental use content filtering may be appropriate.
(I still don't recommend it.)
But there are effective limitations of the value of censoring the internet or sites on the web.
I take it as given that those who oppose both laws typically agree that there is no practical, distinct line between pornography and socially beneficial expression/information. Thus, one system blocks as much "bad" content as possible from the access of particular users, and attempts to allow "good" or "neutral" content. The other system forces universal censorship. What if I needed to provide a credit card to prove I'm over 18 to research abortion procedures or birth control? I want to learn more about "vaginal condoms" I guess. That's pure censorship.
The ambiguity, the dilemma, is of course do public schools or public libraries actually have the right to implement content filters. I believe that is also wrong, but that it is another fight. Possibly with many ways to attack it,
Steve
Damn Small Linux ( http://damnsmalllinux.org/ ) has a link to a mini itx store with via chipsets. You could build one of those. Some are fanless. Also immediately change your power supply. I use Antec and their better ones are dead quiet. Get an improved processor fan/heatsink like ones from Zalman. Use a case with good airflow. These will provide some relief and perhaps an energy efficient Hard Drive would help. Try letting it sleep much of the day and if you need it to wake to perform tasks you can schedule them. Steve
sorry 'bout the crappy formatting :?
"those who simply want to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of a machine. If you have a K6 or something, you REALLY want everything to be built for the K6, and ONLY for the K6. AMD's K6 is HORRIBLE at being an i386, but it's a GREAT little processor." In a sense you're right. While I picked the components carefully before building my machine,regarding performance, I think I'm going back to 32bit Fedora after going back and forth between 32 and 64. Just for plugins and binaries. But Fedora will remain SMP optimised for my Pentium D. With 2GB memory and 256MB Vid memory I don't seem to need any more. I use Fluxbox regularly and notice a slight performance increase, and just for fun I will boot into Damn Small Linux. That's squeezing performance! "Well, if you want to be a red hat beta tester, that's up to you. I mean, I want to be a Ubuntu beta tester, but in order to become one I had to edit my apt-sources and s/edgy/feisty/ and do a dist-upgrade. All Fedora users are beta testers." I didn't have to do anything but enable conflicting 3rd party repos in yum and yum extender. (Thanks livna) In a sense all Linux users are beta testers, but willingly so. With so many distros to choose from and a little experimenting we strike the balance that suits us. I might try Ubuntu-based Freespire when that arrives. On my 1GHz AMD or something. Sooner or later I'll try Ubuntu itself too. But I seem to stay with Fedora. It's not that I think it's the best, or even best for me, it's just my fav so far. Steve
Oracle IS the problem. It would've been nice if the poster(one who posts) or the article had explanied that while this is childish, there's more to it than first appears.
Red Hat is huge for a Linux distro but has nowhere near Oracle's $$. Microsoft, who Red Hat directly competes with, has more $$ than anyone.
Now Oracle decides to compete with...Linux(?!)
Fine, they should because the competition will only make the community stronger. Except maybe they should've put some work into developing a distro. They didn't. It's directly copied from Red Hat, Eillison admitted as such before it even happened. So there's no coopetition, they're rebranding Red Hat "Unbreakable"!
Unbreakable until they put Red Hat out of business. Then it would be pretty broken.
This would not normally be a weakness of the OSS business model, except Oracle is "undercutting" Red Hat intentionally, which they can afford to do for now. Some have suggested it's typical Ellison extracting vengeance for RH buying, I believe it was JBoss, out from under them.
Full disclosure; I'm typing this in Firefox, running on Fedora Core 6, an OS Red Hat gave me for free.
I don't tolerate it, I honestly like it.
If I ever need Linux support I'll likely purchase it from them, even at a premium. I hope I never have needs that might tempt me away from MySQL as Oracle won't be in the running.
and I'm genTOO busy to use a distro that eats all my time. (It's a terrible pun but i WANT you to flame me!)
While the cable commercials aren't wrong when they say you lose satellite in severe weather, they exaggerate.. php for why
I've had both Digital Satellite and "Digital" Cable.
Digital is almost always just a buzzword to confuse the ignorant. Most cable companies didn't increase their resolution when switching to digital.
Summary is that satellite has 480 lines. (480 in the 640x480)Cable has 240? something sad like that.
If you need your TV during a storm to keep you occupied then get cable. Me I turn mine off so it doesn't get surged.
(I'd recommend Dish Network over DirecTV for political reasons go to http://www.eff.org/directvdefense/20030812_eff_pr
Good Luck!