PCI != PCIe (PCI Express). AGP is currently obsolete. In fact, it's impossible to find any current-generation high end cards for it. It's also pretty hard to find any current motherboards with AGP slots.
Here's a little trick to stop spam that I literally discovered yesterday: take your mail server down for a while. Seriously. (Of course, this assumes that you have your own mail server, but I'm guessing a significant number of/.ers do.) Mine was unreachable yesterday because I forgot to renew my domain (heh, oops). Today I only recieved one piece of spam, and I'm sure that anything meaningful that didn't make it through yesterday got bounced back and will be resent. I dunno if it will last, but hey, its worth a shot.
I also remember hearing on TWiT that some guy has blocked all HTML e-mail outside of his whitelist to avoid spam, and it works. Seems a little too harsh though.
Considering Thermalright already makes an almost identical version specifically made for graphics cards which doesn't take up as much space, and probably doesn't cost much more (or maybe even less), what's the point? The one made for GPUs seems to be better anyway, since it only rose 35 deg. C w/ a 6800GT (with is much hotter than a 9800 Pro).
Posted by Steve in the Debian section on Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 17:10
Debian has now made the transition to the X.org installation of the X11 Window system. If you're running sid/etch you should be able to upgrade now.
The transition had previously been on hold until Sarge was released - as it was judged too major a change to add to the release at the last minute.
Now Sarge is out Debian development continues and one of the most anticipated changes is upon us. (Other changes are also occurring such as the C++ ABI upgrade).
Before starting the upgrade to X.org it's important to do two things:
Switch to a console as a paranoid safety measure. If something goes wrong, or X gets restarted you don't want to leave your upgrade in an inconsistent state.
Take a backup of/etc/X11 in case you experience problems.
The backup can be something as simple as running:
cp -R/etc/X11/etc/X11-old
The upgrade will attempt to automatically migrate your XFree86 configuration file to/etc/X11/xorg.conf, and in my case worked perfectly. Still better safe than sorry!
Once you've done those two things you should be ready to proceed. As always the first thing to do is update your list of available packages:
apt-get update
If you wish you can use aptitude instead, I know that I should promote that more.
With that out of the way the installation is started by running:
apt-get install xserver-xorg
This gave me the following output:
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxau6 libxdmcp6 lsb-base x11-common xfree86-common xserver-common
Suggested packages:
configlet-frontends libglide2
Recommended packages:
mdetect xresprobe
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xfree86
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libxau6 libxdmcp6 lsb-base x11-common xserver-xorg
The following packages will be upgraded:
xfree86-common xserver-common
2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 7437kB of archives.
As you can see the xserver-xfree86 package is scheduled for removal, as the two conflict.
After downloading the packages from the network you'll be asked which server you wish to run by default by debconf. Choose the xserver-org - as the other server will be removed.
That was literally all I had to do. There were several messages displayed about migrating the server's configuration which appeared to be completely successful:
xserver-xorg config warning: migrating xserver-xfree86 templates to xserver-xorg.
Other diagnostic messages also seemed to indicate the upgrade was occuring without any problems:
Adding system startup for/etc/init.d/x11-common.../etc/rcS.d/S70x11-common ->../init.d/x11-common
update-rc.d:/etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
Removing any system startup links for/etc/init.d/xfree86-common.../etc/rcS.d/S70xfree86-common
At this point the upgrade was complete, and the only thing left to do was to stop the currently running old installation of xserver-xfree86. The quick way to do this would be to simply reboot, although I wanted to do it manually to make sure it worked as expected.
Read the author line for the article. That was written by Daniel M. Frommelt. Zeldman is just one of the editors for ALA and writes once in a while, he doesn't write everything there.
I'm just guessing here, but the earbuds given with the iPod (and most relatively cheap earbuds) are probably 8 ohm headphones, unlike the 16 ohms of most headphones and the 32 ohms of high-end 'phones. (Probably don't have to explain this on/., but lower ohms = lower resistance = less power.) That means that the iPod can power the earbuds easier, so you're more likely to turn down the volume to save your ears, and (most likely inadvertenly) save power. This gives them a little more leniancy.
What's the power usage on this thing? For one transistor it doesn't matter too much, but remember that todays chips have billions of transitors in them- Intel's Prescott core is rediculously power comsumpive right now. Even worse, over 100 watts of the power is lost to heat! So, what's the power and thermal design power of these things?
Hell yes! Especially since that's the name of my school's FIRST Robotics Team, and we got into the nationals at our first regional AND we're a rookie team!
Wow, this looks really good. Being a Linux user and student, I've always wished I was as productive in Linux-native word processors as I am on Windows with Word (currently 2003). However, after using Word for my whole life, AbiWord and OpenOffice (OpenOffice especially) seem unintuitive (obviously the result of Microsoft brainwashing;)). Hopefully OpenOffice 2.0 will solve this problem for me, but in the meantime does anybody know of a good (as in you've actually used it successfully) Word-convert user's guide to AbiWord or OpenOffice? If there's another (preferably Gnome-native) word processor that you know a guide for, that's okay too.
Not only that, but it isn't even original! You can get a PREMADE acrylic case that is in the form of a briefcase from ClearPC. Not only that, but it fits ATX motherboards. Here's the product page and a couple reviews:
Yeah, actually, it's so damn close that it's almost like they ripped the hardware out of an XBox and stuck it in the case... the XBox has a 733 MHz Pentium III-based Celeron processor (with a modified version of the Tutalin core I belive), 64MB of RAM, and a NVidia GPU. Although the processor that's in the XBox is specially made for this purpose, maybe this company got their hands on the exclusive supply?
Also, what about expandability? (Note- I haven't RTFA yet, so don't bash me.) I'm guessing that there are DIMM slots in the motherboard. The only way to expand on the XBox's (measly) 64MB is the buy some chips and solder the (surface-mounted) chips in by hand. And even that requires a hacked bios (Cromwell).
So, anybody have plans to change this thing into a basic Linux box? I.e. basic word processing, internet, e-mail, etc with a basic (preferrably) Gnome desktop? Any takers?
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Seriously, haven't we had enough about the new Star Wars DVDs yet? Does this belong on the front page? Although this is a nerd site, that doesn't mean that all people are as obsessed as these people about Star Wars.
I had the same exact problem with VoIP, except I also didn't like the fact that 911 calls didn't go to the 911 center. However, I've figured out how to get around these problems:
Keep a regular landline on your current phone number, just with $0/month (no free minutes or low rates) local + long distance plan on it.
Build a box with Asterisk (the OSS PBX) on it, as well as 2 FXO cards and 1 FXS card.
Connect the phone line from the VoIP ATA to the first FXO card.
Connect the PSTN line to the second FXO card.
Configure Asterisk to use the PSTN line for incoming calls, and the VoIP line for outgoing calls. (You'll probably want your VoIP company to forward all calls to the PSTN line, I know that Vonage does this for free.)
Connect another ATA (you'll have to buy it yourself) to the FXS card.
Get a double-pole-double-throw relay. This basically connects one line through when there is power, and another when there isn't. Let the line from the Asterisk server go through when there is power, and the unmodified PSTN line go through when there isn't.
Configure Asterisk to only use the PSTN line for 911 calls.
Connect the line from the DPDT relay to the phone lines in your house/buisniness.
So yeah, that should cover it. If you want more info, chech the Asterisk-Users list under the topic "Vonage, PSTN, 911, and hardware question". I'm planning building a system with this setup later this year.
Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?
Um, isn't it obvious? Can you think of what the public's reaction would be if a company released a "Google browser" which contained spyware/adware? Plus the possiblity that they might want to make a browser in the future? After all, when you're a big company like Google, you've gotta cover your ass or it'll get sued to hell.
In ATI's case, I don't think it's a matter of expertise. I didn't have any problems getting their drivers to work (even with a 2.6.x kernel), and the OpenGL acceleration is great (1700fps on glxgears with my 9600). It's pretty simple, at least if you use Debian (I dunno about other distriutions). There's a whole page on it here:
ATI even encourages the circulation of those prebuilt packages. OK, sure, there should really be a nice GUI, but at least they provide Linux drivers in the first place unlike some other manufacturers...
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PCI != PCIe (PCI Express). AGP is currently obsolete. In fact, it's impossible to find any current-generation high end cards for it. It's also pretty hard to find any current motherboards with AGP slots.
(been in a coma for a while? :-P)
Pigs are flying and Linux is actually ready for the destop. Tonight at 11.
Here's a little trick to stop spam that I literally discovered yesterday: take your mail server down for a while. Seriously. (Of course, this assumes that you have your own mail server, but I'm guessing a significant number of /.ers do.) Mine was unreachable yesterday because I forgot to renew my domain (heh, oops). Today I only recieved one piece of spam, and I'm sure that anything meaningful that didn't make it through yesterday got bounced back and will be resent. I dunno if it will last, but hey, its worth a shot.
I also remember hearing on TWiT that some guy has blocked all HTML e-mail outside of his whitelist to avoid spam, and it works. Seems a little too harsh though.
Considering Thermalright already makes an almost identical version specifically made for graphics cards which doesn't take up as much space, and probably doesn't cost much more (or maybe even less), what's the point? The one made for GPUs seems to be better anyway, since it only rose 35 deg. C w/ a 6800GT (with is much hotter than a 9800 Pro).
Covered by AnandTech back in March. Now that's gettin old.
The Treo currently runs PalmOS. PalmSource is currently creating a version of PalmOS (named Cobalt, v6.1 I believe) which uses the Linux kernel.
Posted by Steve in the Debian section on Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 17:10
Debian has now made the transition to the X.org installation of the X11 Window system. If you're running sid/etch you should be able to upgrade now.
The transition had previously been on hold until Sarge was released - as it was judged too major a change to add to the release at the last minute.
Now Sarge is out Debian development continues and one of the most anticipated changes is upon us. (Other changes are also occurring such as the C++ ABI upgrade).
Before starting the upgrade to X.org it's important to do two things:
The backup can be something as simple as running:
cp -R /etc/X11 /etc/X11-old
The upgrade will attempt to automatically migrate your XFree86 configuration file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and in my case worked perfectly. Still better safe than sorry!
Once you've done those two things you should be ready to proceed. As always the first thing to do is update your list of available packages:
apt-get update
If you wish you can use aptitude instead, I know that I should promote that more.
With that out of the way the installation is started by running:
apt-get install xserver-xorg
This gave me the following output:
The following extra packages will be installed: libxau6 libxdmcp6 lsb-base x11-common xfree86-common xserver-common Suggested packages: configlet-frontends libglide2 Recommended packages: mdetect xresprobe The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xfree86 The following NEW packages will be installed: libxau6 libxdmcp6 lsb-base x11-common xserver-xorg The following packages will be upgraded: xfree86-common xserver-common 2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded. Need to get 7437kB of archives.
As you can see the xserver-xfree86 package is scheduled for removal, as the two conflict.
After downloading the packages from the network you'll be asked which server you wish to run by default by debconf. Choose the xserver-org - as the other server will be removed.
That was literally all I had to do. There were several messages displayed about migrating the server's configuration which appeared to be completely successful:
xserver-xorg config warning: migrating xserver-xfree86 templates to xserver-xorg.
Other diagnostic messages also seemed to indicate the upgrade was occuring without any problems:
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/x11-common ... /etc/rcS.d/S70x11-common -> ../init.d/x11-common
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/xfree86-common ... /etc/rcS.d/S70xfree86-common
At this point the upgrade was complete, and the only thing left to do was to stop the currently running old installation of xserver-xfree86. The quick way to do this would be to simply reboot, although I wanted to do it manually to make sure it worked as expected.
I use the IceWM window manager with the gnome display manager handling the logins - so to stop X I ran:
This step will differ if you're using KDE, in which case you'll need to use "/etc/init.d/kdm stop". If you're using another login manager such as wdm,
Read the author line for the article. That was written by Daniel M. Frommelt. Zeldman is just one of the editors for ALA and writes once in a while, he doesn't write everything there.
Sorry, mispoke there, I meant lower power use for the same output volume. :)
I'm just guessing here, but the earbuds given with the iPod (and most relatively cheap earbuds) are probably 8 ohm headphones, unlike the 16 ohms of most headphones and the 32 ohms of high-end 'phones. (Probably don't have to explain this on /., but lower ohms = lower resistance = less power.) That means that the iPod can power the earbuds easier, so you're more likely to turn down the volume to save your ears, and (most likely inadvertenly) save power. This gives them a little more leniancy.
No, actually, it has a right click on the trigger guard and a scroll wheel (which I'm assuming also acts like a 3rd button).
Looks like the XYZ server got shot. That's what you get for playing with guns kids. :P
What's the power usage on this thing? For one transistor it doesn't matter too much, but remember that todays chips have billions of transitors in them- Intel's Prescott core is rediculously power comsumpive right now. Even worse, over 100 watts of the power is lost to heat! So, what's the power and thermal design power of these things?
Hell yes! Especially since that's the name of my school's FIRST Robotics Team, and we got into the nationals at our first regional AND we're a rookie team!
Wow, this looks really good. Being a Linux user and student, I've always wished I was as productive in Linux-native word processors as I am on Windows with Word (currently 2003). However, after using Word for my whole life, AbiWord and OpenOffice (OpenOffice especially) seem unintuitive (obviously the result of Microsoft brainwashing ;)). Hopefully OpenOffice 2.0 will solve this problem for me, but in the meantime does anybody know of a good (as in you've actually used it successfully) Word-convert user's guide to AbiWord or OpenOffice? If there's another (preferably Gnome-native) word processor that you know a guide for, that's okay too.
Not only that, but it isn't even original! You can get a PREMADE acrylic case that is in the form of a briefcase from ClearPC. Not only that, but it fits ATX motherboards. Here's the product page and a couple reviews:
What a shame.
Yeah, actually, it's so damn close that it's almost like they ripped the hardware out of an XBox and stuck it in the case... the XBox has a 733 MHz Pentium III-based Celeron processor (with a modified version of the Tutalin core I belive), 64MB of RAM, and a NVidia GPU. Although the processor that's in the XBox is specially made for this purpose, maybe this company got their hands on the exclusive supply?
Also, what about expandability? (Note- I haven't RTFA yet, so don't bash me.) I'm guessing that there are DIMM slots in the motherboard. The only way to expand on the XBox's (measly) 64MB is the buy some chips and solder the (surface-mounted) chips in by hand. And even that requires a hacked bios (Cromwell).
So, anybody have plans to change this thing into a basic Linux box? I.e. basic word processing, internet, e-mail, etc with a basic (preferrably) Gnome desktop? Any takers?
Tolkein fans unite! We've found Frodo and friends!
...
But seriously, Slashdot is the only place you would expect to hear "hobbit-sized"...
Whois of fedora-redhat.com:
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Domain Name.......... fedora-redhat.com
Creation Date........ 2004-10-24
Registration Date.... 2004-10-24
Expiry Date.......... 2005-10-24
Organisation Name.... Raymond Jackson
Organisation Address. 224 Cedar Avenue
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. New York
Organisation Address. 95301
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... Raymond Jackson
Admin Address........ 224 Cedar Avenue
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ New York
Admin Address........ 95301
Admin Address........ NY
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... rayjackson23@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.2098994533
Admin Fax............
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Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94089
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
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Tech Phone........... +1.6198813096
Tech Fax............. +1.6198813010
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
Looks like somebody's gonna get arrested.
Seriously, haven't we had enough about the new Star Wars DVDs yet? Does this belong on the front page? Although this is a nerd site, that doesn't mean that all people are as obsessed as these people about Star Wars.
I had the same exact problem with VoIP, except I also didn't like the fact that 911 calls didn't go to the 911 center. However, I've figured out how to get around these problems:
So yeah, that should cover it. If you want more info, chech the Asterisk-Users list under the topic "Vonage, PSTN, 911, and hardware question". I'm planning building a system with this setup later this year.
Okay, here's the question: Can the FCC fine Sirus stations like they can regular ones? Since it's private, they can't, right?
Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?
Um, isn't it obvious? Can you think of what the public's reaction would be if a company released a "Google browser" which contained spyware/adware? Plus the possiblity that they might want to make a browser in the future? After all, when you're a big company like Google, you've gotta cover your ass or it'll get sued to hell.
Ob. quote: those who can't do, teach.
Wait a sec, leadership? How does that work? Teacher!
In ATI's case, I don't think it's a matter of expertise. I didn't have any problems getting their drivers to work (even with a 2.6.x kernel), and the OpenGL acceleration is great (1700fps on glxgears with my 9600). It's pretty simple, at least if you use Debian (I dunno about other distriutions). There's a whole page on it here:
ATI Linux driver packages for DebianATI even encourages the circulation of those prebuilt packages. OK, sure, there should really be a nice GUI, but at least they provide Linux drivers in the first place unlike some other manufacturers...