I use VLC only when i really have to - i'd rather fire up my windows box and play whatever file here (except for ogg vorbis audio or video files), than try to VLC them on my g5 - it gets stuck on single frames while the audio continues, switches the audio to the optical outputs for no discernable reason, and generally runs poorly. Of course, it doess ogg files just fine, and can usually play avi files quicktime doesn't like (except when it hangs up or shunts the audio to the other outputs).//bitching
My main point was what the computer was designed for. the g5 is aggresiely marketecd as a personal computer, with some focus on professional worksation use (mainly movies). I have never seen a sparc station advertised as a personal computer, and i would consider (almost) any Sparc Station to be prohibitively priced to be a personal computer( this is, i admit, a rather wishy washy standard - and sun has lowered their prices.
Although 'supercomputer' is a really silly term to use for almost anything, since it contains about as much information as 'assault weapon', and is just as loaded (hahaha. no pun intended when i wrote that".
Call me a wacky bitch, but i actually like staroffice (in windows), which is free to me as a student. I don't like OpenOffice because its bloated and slow. In linux, i prefer using abiword for typing.
I wouldn't call an UltraSparc a personal computer (although i have one i use as such) seeing as a) they're even more overpriced than apple hardware and b) they're marketted as workstations (and most often used as such), not personal computers. seing as i know nothing about DEC Alpha stations, i'm going to keep my mouth shut, but my guess would be that its in the same boat.
the reason a lot of this wood is in such demand is that it was very very dense, causing it to sink. i read one of those 'look we're rich and smoke cigars these are the pretty things we can buy' catalogue that made a big deal about... i think it was a golf club, made out of this wood.
yellowdog != fully support g5s. i think gentoo does a better job, but i haven't tried on mine. I like yellowdog on my ibook, i just wish they'd occasionally update. but their warranty service on the last versoin is approaching EOL.
So far i only know of one compant that sells xserves (and only g4's, at the moment) with redundant PSU - Grande Vitesse Systems (or GVS). they also sell this hot 5 x 17" LCD panel display
You remember this from your SATS... (not you, specifically. in general)
The Tick:Spoon as Open Source Movement : ?????
oh, yeah. fork.
I'm all for open source software (although i'm not batty enough to use it exclusively), but sometimes its nice to have an official guardian, even if they do some boneheaded shite.
Note that i am a moron, and failed to read the full article.
However, it would be nice to see HP (and those its working with) iron out the possible difficulties and hardware conflicts (video drivers say what? answer: doooooooom), that would benefit the entire community, not just HP users (except, of course, that maybe they'll just go proprietary stuff so that all the drivers only work on HPs. but i don't think they're that evil.)
I would assume that HP would adopt a single flavor of linux, to decrease their hassle/improve support. and i can just image the tech support people once they've been'trained' to fix user problems on linux.
just because my sparcstation (BSD), dell (linux), homemade athlon xp 2600 system (Win2k), keep company with an ibook running linux and a g5 running OS X doesn't make me a fanboy.
wait... MTV plays music? clearchannel is one of the worst things to happen to the music industry - it gurantees the same drek anywhere you go. listen to college radio? chances are they use CMJ (college music journal) which tells you what to play and then, shockingly, thats the top play the next week. its amazing.
But my real point - this whole bit reminds me of the problems ASCAP had in the early 1940's. Those were/are the guys who collected fees for the playing of live music, and passed the dues onto the copyright holders. They were picky about who they were willing to represent (Jelly Roll Morton and Gene Autry couldn't get in on the deal). ASCAP starting treating their licensees, the ones who wanted to play the music live or on the radio, doubled its fees.
What happened? an upstart called BMI formed, with less than half the licensing fees. ASCAP stuck to traditional pop music of the era, BMI embraced the new stuff (rock and roll). Subsequently, the current market, between the two, is about 1.3 billion dollars, split about evenly.
What happens when you treat the people who want your music like crap? they deal, and move onto something else.
this goes back to my theory that games have been g oig to hell since (insert system name here), with varying plateues from the NES up to Dreamcast. old games were hard. damn hard. why? because if the game wasn't interesting, there isn't a whole lot of excitement getting your green square into the red castle. in newer games, its get you n-polygons full motion character into the 100 virtual acre perfectly rendered castle... thats all you have to do, but damn its pretty.
I actually did the same thing as your ibook friends - switched over to yellowdog linux on my ibook. on my dual 2gHz g5, i still run OS X, but i'm waiting to get KDE 3.2 running over it, since i've started to despise aqua.
i'm not just a wacky mac user. i also have a win2k athlon 2600 system and an old dell running mandrake 10.0.
when i bought the books (i think i was in middle school at the time, and doom was hot shit (i was on a mac, so i was a while behind the world), i really enjoyed the books. they were junk food, quick, easy, and temporarily satisfying.
It had enough 'backstory' (i lied, it didn't) to make up at least 2 novels. really -- i have em.
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little did you know that that is, in fact, a giant cat of death. they just pu a fake nanode case around a minivan.
I use VLC only when i really have to - i'd rather fire up my windows box and play whatever file here (except for ogg vorbis audio or video files), than try to VLC them on my g5 - it gets stuck on single frames while the audio continues, switches the audio to the optical outputs for no discernable reason, and generally runs poorly. Of course, it doess ogg files just fine, and can usually play avi files quicktime doesn't like (except when it hangs up or shunts the audio to the other outputs). //bitching
yes. sez it may work if you set your user sometyhing to mozilla. i assume that they'll fix it by the time its actually finished.
Or gigabit ethernet (dating back to the first rev dual g4's and standard in most PowerMac's now?
My main point was what the computer was designed for. the g5 is aggresiely marketecd as a personal computer, with some focus on professional worksation use (mainly movies). I have never seen a sparc station advertised as a personal computer, and i would consider (almost) any Sparc Station to be prohibitively priced to be a personal computer( this is, i admit, a rather wishy washy standard - and sun has lowered their prices. Although 'supercomputer' is a really silly term to use for almost anything, since it contains about as much information as 'assault weapon', and is just as loaded (hahaha. no pun intended when i wrote that".
Call me a wacky bitch, but i actually like staroffice (in windows), which is free to me as a student. I don't like OpenOffice because its bloated and slow. In linux, i prefer using abiword for typing.
I wouldn't call an UltraSparc a personal computer (although i have one i use as such) seeing as a) they're even more overpriced than apple hardware and b) they're marketted as workstations (and most often used as such), not personal computers. seing as i know nothing about DEC Alpha stations, i'm going to keep my mouth shut, but my guess would be that its in the same boat.
But if this rogue nation happens to put in the right sort of tracking beacon, just like the US did in 'tests', we might manage to knock it down.
the reason a lot of this wood is in such demand is that it was very very dense, causing it to sink. i read one of those 'look we're rich and smoke cigars these are the pretty things we can buy' catalogue that made a big deal about... i think it was a golf club, made out of this wood.
How bout how much on-land space you have? japan is pretty f'ing tiny.
yellowdog != fully support g5s. i think gentoo does a better job, but i haven't tried on mine. I like yellowdog on my ibook, i just wish they'd occasionally update. but their warranty service on the last versoin is approaching EOL.
So far i only know of one compant that sells xserves (and only g4's, at the moment) with redundant PSU - Grande Vitesse Systems (or GVS). they also sell this hot 5 x 17" LCD panel display
You remember this from your SATS... (not you, specifically. in general)
The Tick:Spoon as Open Source Movement : ?????
oh, yeah. fork.
I'm all for open source software (although i'm not batty enough to use it exclusively), but sometimes its nice to have an official guardian, even if they do some boneheaded shite.
Note that i am a moron, and failed to read the full article. However, it would be nice to see HP (and those its working with) iron out the possible difficulties and hardware conflicts (video drivers say what? answer: doooooooom), that would benefit the entire community, not just HP users (except, of course, that maybe they'll just go proprietary stuff so that all the drivers only work on HPs. but i don't think they're that evil.)
I would assume that HP would adopt a single flavor of linux, to decrease their hassle/improve support. and i can just image the tech support people once they've been'trained' to fix user problems on linux.
just because my sparcstation (BSD), dell (linux), homemade athlon xp 2600 system (Win2k), keep company with an ibook running linux and a g5 running OS X doesn't make me a fanboy.
wait... MTV plays music? clearchannel is one of the worst things to happen to the music industry - it gurantees the same drek anywhere you go. listen to college radio? chances are they use CMJ (college music journal) which tells you what to play and then, shockingly, thats the top play the next week. its amazing.
But my real point - this whole bit reminds me of the problems ASCAP had in the early 1940's. Those were/are the guys who collected fees for the playing of live music, and passed the dues onto the copyright holders. They were picky about who they were willing to represent (Jelly Roll Morton and Gene Autry couldn't get in on the deal). ASCAP starting treating their licensees, the ones who wanted to play the music live or on the radio, doubled its fees.
What happened? an upstart called BMI formed, with less than half the licensing fees. ASCAP stuck to traditional pop music of the era, BMI embraced the new stuff (rock and roll). Subsequently, the current market, between the two, is about 1.3 billion dollars, split about evenly.
What happens when you treat the people who want your music like crap? they deal, and move onto something else.
Really? then our own ellopsoid Earth isn't a planet? cooooool.
You're right. how dare he spend his money on a light, thin, quiet, power concious machine?
The Apple Store has retail locations in most major cities with nearly all base configutations available. Be a man. get a mac.
this goes back to my theory that games have been g oig to hell since (insert system name here), with varying plateues from the NES up to Dreamcast. old games were hard. damn hard. why? because if the game wasn't interesting, there isn't a whole lot of excitement getting your green square into the red castle. in newer games, its get you n-polygons full motion character into the 100 virtual acre perfectly rendered castle... thats all you have to do, but damn its pretty.
I actually did the same thing as your ibook friends - switched over to yellowdog linux on my ibook. on my dual 2gHz g5, i still run OS X, but i'm waiting to get KDE 3.2 running over it, since i've started to despise aqua.
i'm not just a wacky mac user. i also have a win2k athlon 2600 system and an old dell running mandrake 10.0.
when i bought the books (i think i was in middle school at the time, and doom was hot shit (i was on a mac, so i was a while behind the world), i really enjoyed the books. they were junk food, quick, easy, and temporarily satisfying.
It had enough 'backstory' (i lied, it didn't) to make up at least 2 novels. really -- i have em.
a il/-/0671 52562X/qid=1079629050/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-677186 2-0979112?v=glance&s=books
too lazy for html linkage
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det
wait... whats this sticky stuff on my des... hey... who put this box of tissues her... ewwwwwwwwww