Who cares, if there are no user appreciable benefits? I know at the moment I have both 32 bit and 64 bit libraries on my system. The way I see it thats twice the effort for package maintainers. If we follow your line of thought then we might as well all stay with x86-32, right?
Yet another reiteration of why you should use NoScript (or similar controls in your browser of choice) to only enable javascript on sites (preferably with one click) when they aren't working, and why more sites should be specifying their need for Javascript.
This is complete bollocks. Simple test: start glxgears and then stop the Xorg process (I forget the command), the wheels will still spin. Direct rendering in OpenGL essentially bypasses the X server and the OpenGL API is provided and/or implemented by your video card driver. Essentially you're talking straight to the hardware through a nice friendly abstraction layer just like DirectX.
The BIOS's sole boot task when it comes to booting an OS is to pass execution to the first sector of the primary disk. If you ask me thats quite an elegant and flexible convention and I prefer it over handing the complexity involded in filesystem and volume management over to the dickweeds who already make buggy BIOS releases for my motherboard.
The fewer complex operations at that level the better if you ask me. What you're advocating is along the lines of EFI
1. You're buying an OEM version therefore purchasing a motherboard and CPU. 2. If you're buying a x86_64 CPU and compatible mobo then you can get 64 bit Window's drivers for said hardware. 3. 32 bit application compatibility on 64 bit Window's will be perfect. 4. Given the above you should run a 64 bit Window's.
The only 'slight' hiccup's are that #2 doesn't take into account any existing hardware you may have, and that #3 just isn't true given the state of some Window's software out there. My point is pushing people buying new hardware to 64 bit isn't a bad thing and if you do your research before purchasing it is possible to have a smooth 64 bit experience on newly purchased hardware. I've been dual booting Windows XP "x64 Edition" with Linux since February last year and haven't come across a single 32 bit Window's app that couldn't be persuaded to work flawlessly.
I won't go as far as to say you made a bad choice choosing the 32 bit XP Pro license because even though, according to the Vista upgrade path webpage, as an XP x64 user you would have been eligible for upgrade pricing when moving move to a "better edition" of Vista (Presumeably Home Premium, Business or Ultimate) I've never actually seen XP x64 Edition on sale with a "free upgrade to Vista" coupon.
$751? You can get a retail version of Vista Ultimate on NewEgg for $380. Besides, you'd have to be a complete moron to buy the retail version when for the majority of people there are likely to be essentially three scenarios:
1) You're buying entirely new hardware and moving to Vista. Get an OEM version at $199 2) You're just upgrading the OS from XP with perhaps a memory and/or GPU upgrade to boot. Get an upgrade version at $250 3) You are buying an OEM PC in which case you'll pay the Vistatax, paying no more than you would have for XP.
So yes, Vista is expensive, but quit spreading fudd.
It'd be nice if you provided such a fix upstream, but it's BSD so you'd never be obligated to do so.
Technically even if it was GPL'd you'd never be legally obligated to provide the source (or a patch against it) unless you was distributing your modified version as a binary
AVI should die. Now. This container format is already stretched beyond it's original intent and abused to house things it shouldn't (VBR audio, H.264, MPEG-4 with B-frames). It's a horrible container format, switch to Matroska (mkv) already.
...the problem isn't patents. Theres not really a decent video codec that doesn't include patented algorithms and it doesn't matter anyway since VC-1 (WMV3) decoding has been in ffmpeg for some time now, and thats FOSS.
Lister: No, I don't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. NO TOAST. OR muffins! We don't LIKE muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smegging flapjacks!
What about all the easter eggs in the mIRC IRC client? Click the author's nose on the about dialog for a squeeful surprise. You'll have to find the others yourself:-)
I had heard very good things about Namecheap for sometime so I transferred all my RegisterFly domains there this morning and everything went smoothly. For those interested in Namecheap, use coupon code "marchmadness" to get $7.99 transfers instead of $8.88. This coupon code isn't associated with me in anyway.
Actually it did change one thing. The update for Windows Media Player 11 has disappeared off of Windows Update, but WMP 10 is still installed.
Also if you look in Add/Remove Programs (and check Show Updates) you'll see all your hotfixes are gone. Interesting that IE7 is still a seperate installation and wasn't pushed out in this SP. I guess thats because they're only really thinking about 2003 Server. I wonder if IE7 will become irremoveable in x86 XP SP3?
It's a service pack. It's what they should be, *minor* feature updates and hotfix rollup's.
If the system was kept up to date, this SP will only download/install only the few things that are missing and you don't have to go back and re-install anything.
No it won't. The full 350Mb appears on Windows Update even if you're fully patched up.
Mac OS X's kernel, Darwin, isn't based upo on Linux, it's based mostly on the Mach 3 micro kernel with a splash of FreeBSD code. That said, I would hazard a guess and say that a huge proportion of the kernel's code base is now written from scratch.
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This is due to shit driver support, nothing more. Wait a year.
Some BIOS releases from Asus still say you should use their AFUDOS utility not the Windows updater, which needs to be run from DOS. The best thing to do in this case if you don't have a floppy drive is to grab a bootable CD image of the Windows 98 boot disk from AllBootDisks which will work on most setup's (although the CD-ROM driver sometimes won't detect some drives)
...personally I'd rather declare any code I produce to belong to the Public Domain or just keep it entirely closed and private. The way law is makes anything else a headache. Seriously, if even lawyers can't agree on anything why does anyone in the Open Source community even bother? Personally I care more about other people being able to benefit from my code than preventing corporations from using it for profit.
SQLite is released to the public domain and it's some damn fine code.
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Who cares, if there are no user appreciable benefits? I know at the moment I have both 32 bit and 64 bit libraries on my system. The way I see it thats twice the effort for package maintainers. If we follow your line of thought then we might as well all stay with x86-32, right?
Yet another reiteration of why you should use NoScript (or similar controls in your browser of choice) to only enable javascript on sites (preferably with one click) when they aren't working, and why more sites should be specifying their need for Javascript.
Yeah unfortunately if you have a 64bit OS and browser you're out of luck when it comes to Java web applets.
This is complete bollocks. Simple test: start glxgears and then stop the Xorg process (I forget the command), the wheels will still spin. Direct rendering in OpenGL essentially bypasses the X server and the OpenGL API is provided and/or implemented by your video card driver. Essentially you're talking straight to the hardware through a nice friendly abstraction layer just like DirectX.
...That's physician not physicist
The BIOS's sole boot task when it comes to booting an OS is to pass execution to the first sector of the primary disk. If you ask me thats quite an elegant and flexible convention and I prefer it over handing the complexity involded in filesystem and volume management over to the dickweeds who already make buggy BIOS releases for my motherboard.
The fewer complex operations at that level the better if you ask me. What you're advocating is along the lines of EFI
Well that makes some sense, *in theory*:
1. You're buying an OEM version therefore purchasing a motherboard and CPU.
2. If you're buying a x86_64 CPU and compatible mobo then you can get 64 bit Window's drivers for said hardware.
3. 32 bit application compatibility on 64 bit Window's will be perfect.
4. Given the above you should run a 64 bit Window's.
The only 'slight' hiccup's are that #2 doesn't take into account any existing hardware you may have, and that #3 just isn't true given the state of some Window's software out there. My point is pushing people buying new hardware to 64 bit isn't a bad thing and if you do your research before purchasing it is possible to have a smooth 64 bit experience on newly purchased hardware. I've been dual booting Windows XP "x64 Edition" with Linux since February last year and haven't come across a single 32 bit Window's app that couldn't be persuaded to work flawlessly.
I won't go as far as to say you made a bad choice choosing the 32 bit XP Pro license because even though, according to the Vista upgrade path webpage, as an XP x64 user you would have been eligible for upgrade pricing when moving move to a "better edition" of Vista (Presumeably Home Premium, Business or Ultimate) I've never actually seen XP x64 Edition on sale with a "free upgrade to Vista" coupon.
$751? You can get a retail version of Vista Ultimate on NewEgg for $380. Besides, you'd have to be a complete moron to buy the retail version when for the majority of people there are likely to be essentially three scenarios:
1) You're buying entirely new hardware and moving to Vista. Get an OEM version at $199
2) You're just upgrading the OS from XP with perhaps a memory and/or GPU upgrade to boot. Get an upgrade version at $250
3) You are buying an OEM PC in which case you'll pay the Vistatax, paying no more than you would have for XP.
So yes, Vista is expensive, but quit spreading fudd.
It'd be nice if you provided such a fix upstream, but it's BSD so you'd never be obligated to do so.
Technically even if it was GPL'd you'd never be legally obligated to provide the source (or a patch against it) unless you was distributing your modified version as a binary
AVI should die. Now. This container format is already stretched beyond it's original intent and abused to house things it shouldn't (VBR audio, H.264, MPEG-4 with B-frames). It's a horrible container format, switch to Matroska (mkv) already.
...the problem isn't patents. Theres not really a decent video codec that doesn't include patented algorithms and it doesn't matter anyway since VC-1 (WMV3) decoding has been in ffmpeg for some time now, and thats FOSS.
Lister: No, I don't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. NO TOAST. OR muffins! We don't LIKE muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smegging flapjacks!
Talkie Toaster: Ahh so you're a waffle man.
..off topic... so shoot me.
What about all the easter eggs in the mIRC IRC client? Click the author's nose on the about dialog for a squeeful surprise. You'll have to find the others yourself :-)
No you don't need to install SP1 before installing SP2, all Microsoft service packs are cumulative (it's why they get bigger).
See where you can find your EPP auth codes in the RegisterFly control panel
I had heard very good things about Namecheap for sometime so I transferred all my RegisterFly domains there this morning and everything went smoothly. For those interested in Namecheap, use coupon code "marchmadness" to get $7.99 transfers instead of $8.88. This coupon code isn't associated with me in anyway.
In which case I guess it's specific to XP "x64 Edition" users.
Actually it did change one thing. The update for Windows Media Player 11 has disappeared off of Windows Update, but WMP 10 is still installed.
Also if you look in Add/Remove Programs (and check Show Updates) you'll see all your hotfixes are gone. Interesting that IE7 is still a seperate installation and wasn't pushed out in this SP. I guess thats because they're only really thinking about 2003 Server. I wonder if IE7 will become irremoveable in x86 XP SP3?
It's a service pack. It's what they should be, *minor* feature updates and hotfix rollup's.
If the system was kept up to date, this SP will only download/install only the few things that are missing and you don't have to go back and re-install anything.
No it won't. The full 350Mb appears on Windows Update even if you're fully patched up.
Mac OS X's kernel, Darwin, isn't based upo on Linux, it's based mostly on the Mach 3 micro kernel with a splash of FreeBSD code. That said, I would hazard a guess and say that a huge proportion of the kernel's code base is now written from scratch.
This is due to shit driver support, nothing more. Wait a year.
Some BIOS releases from Asus still say you should use their AFUDOS utility not the Windows updater, which needs to be run from DOS. The best thing to do in this case if you don't have a floppy drive is to grab a bootable CD image of the Windows 98 boot disk from AllBootDisks which will work on most setup's (although the CD-ROM driver sometimes won't detect some drives)
Anyone got the link to the response?
Link to the actual petition -> here
Nero Recode also does H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding but Ahead license all their encoder tech from someone else anyway.
...personally I'd rather declare any code I produce to belong to the Public Domain or just keep it entirely closed and private. The way law is makes anything else a headache. Seriously, if even lawyers can't agree on anything why does anyone in the Open Source community even bother? Personally I care more about other people being able to benefit from my code than preventing corporations from using it for profit.
SQLite is released to the public domain and it's some damn fine code.