Eh, doesn't really bother me, and never has. Who here is actually speaking publicly. I'm sark666 and your dwandy. You could say were all hiding behind our nicks. Anonymous coward is just a nick a lot of people share.
I just tried this and closed my browser, well actually closed a tab in ff, I would think the tab alone would be sufficient. I launched gmail a half hour later and was still able to log in. This is with the remember me box unchecked. Just exactly how long does it take to time out when it's not checked?
From what i understand with most emulators, it takes roughly 5-10 times the processing power to emulate one piece of hardware on another. but i remember reading years ago that since the xbox was basically a pc, that 1:1 emulation should be possible and not require a 6 ghz pc to run games at full speed. i haven't looked for awhile but was curious as to how this statement was flawed.
So is wine ahead or behind with dx9?
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Cedega 5.0 Released
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With ms having a mac version of office, is there a percentage of market share that would warrant a linux version? Of course, we all know the real reasons but I'd have liked to see the question raised just to see him squirm a little
I'd like to know when these bugs are a gecko exploit, or when they are because of the xul overheard of ff or because of extensions etc. I've used in galeon a lot in gnome. Would it be susceptible to these recent exploit.
Ipods have been around awhile now and this is the first one I'm tempted to get. I've never read much on how accessible they are in linux. Can they just be accessed as a regular harddrive? I noticed in rhythmbox it had an ipod tab, does that functionality have any limitations? Can I slap a live distro on it and boot from it? I'd like to hear from people's experiences outside of using itunes.
I was looking to get a gaming router, and I can't find the reviews right now, but there was a good roundup on anandtech or one of those sites.
They did their benchmarks using various p2p apps and games. They'd launch the games when the p2p apps were maxing the bandwidth.
Basically the benchmarks went like this for all of them:
Without 'super duper bandwidth adjuster thingie' average game ping 600
With super thingie: 450
So they all went from totally unplayable to totally unplayable.
I want to set up a box for gaming and voip, a linux box can be dedicated for this but I've read it's tricky to get it all working. But in the end it actually works unlike every gaming router I've read about.
If your personal experience is different, please post, but I've read the reviews for about 6 of em, and none of them were up to the job. Sure they knocked off 100 milliseconds, but not near enough to make it actually worth it to get a gaming router.
quote: Specifically, with the network heavily populated, the latency in and around 650-750ms without GameFuel turned on. Once the technology was active, the latency was reduced to around 440-500ms
So it went from totally unplayable to too shit to even consider playing.
I haven't read the article yet but I hope they show some benchmarks cause I was looking into getting a gaming router for games and voip, and all the ones I read on totally fail. I've read this can be done much better with a dedicated box. I've read it's tricky though, maybe someone will link to a nice guide, maybe for linux as well.
I can't believe nautilus doesn't have this. Or doesn't as of 2.10.
I really liked gnome for a long time but more and more I find it too simplified. Although, I also agree that kde can throw everything but the sink at you.
Gnome needs to put the options in tiers, the simplified ones are tier 1, and more advanced options are tier 2. Not disregard tier 2 entirely. Maybe not the idea solution, but I really like the look n feel of gnome in general, but sometimes I do need those 'advanced' features like invert selection, or how about in the gnome find, there is no way to stop it from searching sub directories! That's just ridiculous.
And for the limited options nautilus really does feel like a pig. And some things could be obvious speed ups. Like in details view don't bother showing icon previews (which konq does btw).
Hmm, I'm not sure whose post you are replying to, but yes I stated I don't know much about this industry. My only point was Alias must see something in linux as a viable desktop platform for it's customers if it bothered to port maya to linux. I mentioned that I certainly doubt it was out of good will like carmack porting id games to linux.
So please enlighten me as to why these companies would bother porting softimage, and maya to linux if there is no potential market for it.
I won't take your challenge as I don't really know what's going on in the industry, but from what I've read, it is still a windows desktop dominated field.
But, there must be some reason why they'd port maya to linux. I think of games by id software being ported to linux. Carmack started this not because it's not necessarily profitable, but because 'it's a good thing'. I certainly doubt this is Alias' reason. The desktop market for linux in this field is probably small, but I'd assume they see some growth in this area, otherwise why bother doing the port in the first place?
Well, the history goes back to the typewriter. Supposedly, the mainusers of typewriters did not like not have an audible click when typing as the were used to the audio confirmation of a typewriter. So even though the first keyboards were silent, it became 'standard' to make keyboards have the clicks. The mouse just followed suit.
This bugs me and looked into it a little a while back. I found a couple of silent keyboards but they seemed rare. I couldn't find one silent mouse. I looked for some hacks for mice but it sounded like you'd usually end up making the mouse non-functional.
Well, I did check that site but couldn't find anything related to flash. I realize that's all you wanted to point out as an example so if anyone else can provide info. I've googled a bit and only saw security issues with older versions of flash.
And this can happen with flash as well? I hate flash just as much as the next slashdotter, but my gf likes it for some games, and I thought with adblock, no biggie.
Yes flash can be bloated and annoying, I've never heard of malware,spyware, trojans etc gettting through via flash. I'm on linux 99% of the time now anyways but I'd like to know even just to inform my friends.
I know it's stallman's share everything mentality but personally I don't like my home being world readable. So I change it. But I could picture in business environments that they'd definately not like one user to read other users home. The user might not have access to the network like this, but sometimes the one machine is time shared with other employees. I think during install or something a distro should ask you how you want the default user permissions set up.
And since I've set my home this way, I assume this couldn't read my home right?
That's a shame. I had forgotten about this project myself, but as I soon as I saw the shots it came back instantly. 'Oh, that cool project!, what happened?' It just looks advanced, it looks right, it looks like a truly forward thinking desktop interface. Maybe someone with the skills will get motivated to continue it.
Sorry, I should have expanded on the things I've tried. One of the first was the renderaccel option, which didn't help. Besides trying ever nvidia binary under the sun, we next tried flashing his bios as some have reported that helped. Then I compiled a custom kernel as the ubuntu kernel as rivafb support compiled in.
I've stopped at that point, wanting to investigate more before trying more drastic things, like going to 2.6.3 kernel as thats what worked for him in mdk. Also considered going to xfree86 as thats available in ubuntu. I just find it really strange that mandrake was rock solid for him and ubuntu isn't. It seems to be a very illusive problem that some have solved with what you have done, some have solved it with flashing a bios etc.
But there doesn't seem to be an exact answer on what the actual underlying problem is. But thanks for your reply.
Is X.org in some way tied into nvidia lockups?
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Debian Sid Moves to X.Org
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I have debian sid installed with Xfree still without issue. I've always just installed the nvidia binaries from their site with no problems. I also wanted to check out ubuntu and installed it and still have no issues with nvidia binaries, not a single crash/lockup.
However, a lot of people seem to have this dreaded X lockup with nvidia binaries, and just about all of them were using Xorg. This can either be a complete freeze, or the pointer still moving but nothing is responsive. Usually you can still kill X but not always. This has also happened to my brother who was frustrated with mandrake and packages, so I recommended ubuntu to him. I went over to his house installed it and everything seemed fine. Then he had a lock up an hour in. Then another. The weird thing is, it doesn't usually happen during playing say an opengl game, but usually on the desktop by just moving the pointer quickly.
He never had these issues with mandrake 10. I installed various versions of the nvidia binary including the one he used to use with mandrake but all the same. I looked at the specs of mdk 10 (2.6.3 Xfree86). I'm not sure if it's a kernel issue, Xfree, or some other thing like (apci or apm?)
The logs give an error (i believe nvrm xid error) but nothing that would lead one to a solution.
Please don't reply to this saying this isn't a tech support forum. I've searched many forums trying to help my brother. At nvnews.net there are a couple of threads that go on for about 20 pages with many users having this problem with no solution in sight. I just thought I'd take a stab at the/. Maybe one of you have dealt with the problem and actually solved it.
I have never, and learned to mentally block out ads years ago before adsense existed probably like many of you here. Now, you might say that average joe six pack hasn't learnt this skill yet and might click through, but who is average joe six pack these days.
For example, I have quite a few friends who never used a computer in their lives until the late 90's. I'd see them confused by webpage layouts, clicking ok and cancel on boxes which obviously are ads, but they'd see it as a functional part of the page. In not too short a time, they were surfing 'like pros' in that they'd never click any ads and I could tell they had just learned to mentally ignore them. Now these guys are still highly ignorant on computers in general (in dealing with software/hardware issues, spyware, adware etc). I've helped them with that with ff, and all the other tools etc. But with browsing with ads they just picked that up on their own. I didn't have to teach them how to filter out ads. It seems pretty much anyone, computer literate or not, will soon enough learn to filter ads all on their own.
So who's joe sixpack these days? Our moms and dads? If so, I wonder as this generation gets older and the previous generation passes on, and an even more tech savvy generation comes online, how will any of these ad models sustain themselves.
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Eh, doesn't really bother me, and never has. Who here is actually speaking publicly. I'm sark666 and your dwandy. You could say were all hiding behind our nicks. Anonymous coward is just a nick a lot of people share.
Interesting, I don't like it, but interesting. I'd rather a tab be treated as it's own unique instance of the browser as far as cookies etc go.
I just tried this and closed my browser, well actually closed a tab in ff, I would think the tab alone would be sufficient. I launched gmail a half hour later and was still able to log in. This is with the remember me box unchecked. Just exactly how long does it take to time out when it's not checked?
From what i understand with most emulators, it takes roughly 5-10 times the processing power to emulate one piece of hardware on another. but i remember reading years ago that since the xbox was basically a pc, that 1:1 emulation should be possible and not require a 6 ghz pc to run games at full speed. i haven't looked for awhile but was curious as to how this statement was flawed.
I remember reading about progress with dx9 making it into wine. http://directxwine.sourceforge.net/
.9 beta? Kind of curious how the two compare now.
Did this ever make it into
Maybe people will end up compiling a list of hardware combinations that work fine, instead of throwing it at any random piece of hardware.
I used to love tvtome.com for tv shows, but he sold it and the big wigs always totally overhall the whole site, any others out there?
With ms having a mac version of office, is there a percentage of market share that would warrant a linux version? Of course, we all know the real reasons but I'd have liked to see the question raised just to see him squirm a little
I'd like to know when these bugs are a gecko exploit, or when they are because of the xul overheard of ff or because of extensions etc. I've used in galeon a lot in gnome. Would it be susceptible to these recent exploit.
Ipods have been around awhile now and this is the first one I'm tempted to get. I've never read much on how accessible they are in linux. Can they just be accessed as a regular harddrive? I noticed in rhythmbox it had an ipod tab, does that functionality have any limitations? Can I slap a live distro on it and boot from it? I'd like to hear from people's experiences outside of using itunes.
I was looking to get a gaming router, and I can't find the reviews right now, but there was a good roundup on anandtech or one of those sites.
They did their benchmarks using various p2p apps and games. They'd launch the games when the p2p apps were maxing the bandwidth.
Basically the benchmarks went like this for all of them:
Without 'super duper bandwidth adjuster thingie' average game ping 600
With super thingie: 450
So they all went from totally unplayable to totally unplayable.
I want to set up a box for gaming and voip, a linux box can be dedicated for this but I've read it's tricky to get it all working. But in the end it actually works unlike every gaming router I've read about.
If your personal experience is different, please post, but I've read the reviews for about 6 of em, and none of them were up to the job. Sure they knocked off 100 milliseconds, but not near enough to make it actually worth it to get a gaming router.
I couldn't find the article I read that did a comprehensive comparison of these gaming routers but here's something I found with a quick google:
http://www.gamingillustrated.com/dgl4300.php
quote:
Specifically, with the network heavily populated, the latency in and around 650-750ms without GameFuel turned on. Once the technology was active, the latency was reduced to around 440-500ms
So it went from totally unplayable to too shit to even consider playing.
I haven't read the article yet but I hope they show some benchmarks cause I was looking into getting a gaming router for games and voip, and all the ones I read on totally fail. I've read this can be done much better with a dedicated box. I've read it's tricky though, maybe someone will link to a nice guide, maybe for linux as well.
How about can I have a god damn invert selection.
I can't believe nautilus doesn't have this. Or doesn't as of 2.10.
I really liked gnome for a long time but more and more I find it too simplified. Although, I also agree that kde can throw everything but the sink at you.
Gnome needs to put the options in tiers, the simplified ones are tier 1, and more advanced options are tier 2. Not disregard tier 2 entirely. Maybe not the idea solution, but I really like the look n feel of gnome in general, but sometimes I do need those 'advanced' features like invert selection, or how about in the gnome find, there is no way to stop it from searching sub directories! That's just ridiculous.
And for the limited options nautilus really does feel like a pig. And some things could be obvious speed ups. Like in details view don't bother showing icon previews (which konq does btw).
Hmm, I'm not sure whose post you are replying to, but yes I stated I don't know much about this industry. My only point was Alias must see something in linux as a viable desktop platform for it's customers if it bothered to port maya to linux. I mentioned that I certainly doubt it was out of good will like carmack porting id games to linux.
So please enlighten me as to why these companies would bother porting softimage, and maya to linux if there is no potential market for it.
I won't take your challenge as I don't really know what's going on in the industry, but from what I've read, it is still a windows desktop dominated field.
But, there must be some reason why they'd port maya to linux. I think of games by id software being ported to linux. Carmack started this not because it's not necessarily profitable, but because 'it's a good thing'. I certainly doubt this is Alias' reason. The desktop market for linux in this field is probably small, but I'd assume they see some growth in this area, otherwise why bother doing the port in the first place?
I can just picture how scary 'drink at Moe's' would be tattooed on a demon's back.
Now if that ain't scary I don't know what is.
Well, the history goes back to the typewriter. Supposedly, the mainusers of typewriters did not like not have an audible click when typing as the were used to the audio confirmation of a typewriter. So even though the first keyboards were silent, it became 'standard' to make keyboards have the clicks. The mouse just followed suit.
This bugs me and looked into it a little a while back. I found a couple of silent keyboards but they seemed rare. I couldn't find one silent mouse. I looked for some hacks for mice but it sounded like you'd usually end up making the mouse non-functional.
Well, I did check that site but couldn't find anything related to flash. I realize that's all you wanted to point out as an example so if anyone else can provide info. I've googled a bit and only saw security issues with older versions of flash.
And this can happen with flash as well? I hate flash just as much as the next slashdotter, but my gf likes it for some games, and I thought with adblock, no biggie.
Yes flash can be bloated and annoying, I've never heard of malware,spyware, trojans etc gettting through via flash. I'm on linux 99% of the time now anyways but I'd like to know even just to inform my friends.
Any links on this?
I know it's stallman's share everything mentality but personally I don't like my home being world readable. So I change it. But I could picture in business environments that they'd definately not like one user to read other users home. The user might not have access to the network like this, but sometimes the one machine is time shared with other employees. I think during install or something a distro should ask you how you want the default user permissions set up.
And since I've set my home this way, I assume this couldn't read my home right?
That's a shame. I had forgotten about this project myself, but as I soon as I saw the shots it came back instantly. 'Oh, that cool project!, what happened?' It just looks advanced, it looks right, it looks like a truly forward thinking desktop interface. Maybe someone with the skills will get motivated to continue it.
Sorry, I should have expanded on the things I've tried. One of the first was the renderaccel option, which didn't help. Besides trying ever nvidia binary under the sun, we next tried flashing his bios as some have reported that helped. Then I compiled a custom kernel as the ubuntu kernel as rivafb support compiled in.
I've stopped at that point, wanting to investigate more before trying more drastic things, like going to 2.6.3 kernel as thats what worked for him in mdk. Also considered going to xfree86 as thats available in ubuntu. I just find it really strange that mandrake was rock solid for him and ubuntu isn't. It seems to be a very illusive problem that some have solved with what you have done, some have solved it with flashing a bios etc.
But there doesn't seem to be an exact answer on what the actual underlying problem is. But thanks for your reply.
I have debian sid installed with Xfree still without issue. I've always just installed the nvidia binaries from their site with no problems. I also wanted to check out ubuntu and installed it and still have no issues with nvidia binaries, not a single crash/lockup.
/. Maybe one of you have dealt with the problem and actually solved it.
However, a lot of people seem to have this dreaded X lockup with nvidia binaries, and just about all of them were using Xorg. This can either be a complete freeze, or the pointer still moving but nothing is responsive. Usually you can still kill X but not always. This has also happened to my brother who was frustrated with mandrake and packages, so I recommended ubuntu to him. I went over to his house installed it and everything seemed fine. Then he had a lock up an hour in. Then another. The weird thing is, it doesn't usually happen during playing say an opengl game, but usually on the desktop by just moving the pointer quickly.
He never had these issues with mandrake 10. I installed various versions of the nvidia binary including the one he used to use with mandrake but all the same. I looked at the specs of mdk 10 (2.6.3 Xfree86). I'm not sure if it's a kernel issue, Xfree, or some other thing like (apci or apm?)
The logs give an error (i believe nvrm xid error) but nothing that would lead one to a solution.
Please don't reply to this saying this isn't a tech support forum. I've searched many forums trying to help my brother. At nvnews.net there are a couple of threads that go on for about 20 pages with many users having this problem with no solution in sight. I just thought I'd take a stab at the
I have never, and learned to mentally block out ads years ago before adsense existed probably like many of you here. Now, you might say that average joe six pack hasn't learnt this skill yet and might click through, but who is average joe six pack these days.
For example, I have quite a few friends who never used a computer in their lives until the late 90's. I'd see them confused by webpage layouts, clicking ok and cancel on boxes which obviously are ads, but they'd see it as a functional part of the page. In not too short a time, they were surfing 'like pros' in that they'd never click any ads and I could tell they had just learned to mentally ignore them. Now these guys are still highly ignorant on computers in general (in dealing with software/hardware issues, spyware, adware etc). I've helped them with that with ff, and all the other tools etc. But with browsing with ads they just picked that up on their own. I didn't have to teach them how to filter out ads. It seems pretty much anyone, computer literate or not, will soon enough learn to filter ads all on their own.
So who's joe sixpack these days? Our moms and dads? If so, I wonder as this generation gets older and the previous generation passes on, and an even more tech savvy generation comes online, how will any of these ad models sustain themselves.
I love the series but never understood how it started in UK first, instead of the US. Anyone have any info on that?