Nearly all dists come with a kernel with all modules built. Most of them will detect and install modules based on hardware found. You can build your own kernel with one of two GUIs or a CLI and just build what you need. You maybe you just don't understand.
If you spook the horse it _will_ kick you, be nice to your pony;).
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
Red Hat has always been a pain. When I install new Slackware I just cram it in and copy all my old config over to the new install and we done. Well sometimes a little massaging is needed but not much.
Sys V sucks... BSD init rules.
PenGun
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"Linux doesn't sell because it's too deeply burried in unintuitive, undocumented, and unsupported software while it's status quo is heavily defended by armies of evangelists."
Actually Linux is extremly intuitive, but you gotta have some intuition. It's also much better documented than almost anything else out there, certainly better than any M$ OS. It's not for the weak and faint of heart. How does that go now:
"Real men write their own drivers"
Linus
PenGun
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It's not supposed to be user friendly. There are dists that try to do it all for you but they generally suck. You gotta love computers and their software to appreciate linux.
I'm very grateful, I just turned 60 and Slackware is my toy, endless fun. Gotta go beat the DVB-S stuff into shape I've been busy and apparently the sats are open again. Lesse VDR 1.4.1 and sc 0.5.10 should do it... hmmm wonder if softdevice does XvMC yet, I'll need that for HD on BEV.
PenGun
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*nix filesystems don't fragment hardly at all. That's not what you ment of course. User hostile is really where it's at as user friendly just produces pablum. And some of us have been weaned.
PenGun
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Nah... I kind of tread a middle path. I try to get the best I can for a reasonable $ and just normal physics is good enough for me;). The cables are actually pretty nice with spaced wires for dielectric coherence. I dunno, I got em' pretty cheap and they do sound good.
My favorite thing, to open a few people's eyes anyway, is to simply replace the interconnects from their CD player to their Preamp or Amp inputs with braided Kimber Cable, an amazingly cheap interconnect, and ask em' if it makes a difference. It almost always does noticably improve the sound.
Klipsch is the word you are looking for. They have never made an accurate speaker. Even the mighty Klipsch horn based corner filling beasts from the 50s were anything but accurate, impressive is what they do..
What you have is a poorly damped overly sensitive mush maker. It's not surprising you can't hear differences between compressed and merely digitaly simulated files, or between WMAs and WAVs if you like that better.
I guess I have to pull out my c**k here to prevent bandwith abuse.
M-Audio 24/96 Audiophile (the weakest link, the record player just destroys any digital effort BTW)
Sonic Frontiers SFL1 Signature with gold pin Mullard (factory modded)
Kimber Cable braided interconnects (cheap but very good)
Sonic Frontiers SFM75 Monoblocks with Svetlyana 6550Bs
Tara Time and Space Speaker Cables (oldies but goodies)
B&W Matrix 1 Speakers bi-wired with crossovers rebuilt with Multicaps (best bang for $ I ever experienced in audio)
The difference is obvious if you have the tools.
PenGun
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Of course it is. What's happening here, I'm not used to 2 karma, is that all the idiots that bought into i-tunes and apple computers for that matter are way too dumb to hack the tunes free by themselves. Not surprising really. After all they were smart enough to buy a MAC, but of course MACs are for the "it just works crowd".... it's gonna be blindingly stupid in there.
That should get my karma back whrer it belongs.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
It's very hard to beat and scales effortlessly. We've been doing it in Canada for a long time. Usually takes 4 - 5 hours after the last poll closes. Why do it the hard and screwed up way?
PenGun
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It also depends on your TV's settings, Default from factory TVs are way too bright, too contrasty, too saturated. The showroom at your TV dealer is what that's for.
Set up right you can get quite a bit more depth than not set up at all which is normal.
PenGun
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Ummm what is it... 8 usb and a gig network port. I don't think it'll be a problem to hook up to my Opty 165 running slak. It does almost every kind of media there is. Two burners, satellite card and a damn TV tuner. I'll get the better PS3 with the 60G drive, it'll be just fine for my new display a Sony 34XS955 CRT killer TV.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
When I was a kid, think late 60s, we invented our own game at school. We played it for 3 weeks till they banned it. The infirmary was way to busy.
Take two hard rubber balls, a bit bigger than fist sized is nice. 3/4" nylon rope about 4' long. Drill holes in the balls for the rope and knot it both sides of the balls to make a "bolo" 'bout 3' long.
Broken hockey stick handels 'bout 3' - 4', tape the ends eh', and a football field is all you need for "Bolo Ball".
No rules except to score you gotta wrap the bolo round some part of the opposing team's goal.
We played full contact tackle, rugby with sticks, and the whole school would come out and watch. It was mayhem with fairly serious injuries in every game. Damn it was fun.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
LCDs suck get a CRT for gaming. They are pretty bad at fast motion video too. I have yet to see one I don't dislike. My 34" Sony XS955 Super Fine Pitch HDTV CRT will be along soon, shipping 200#s from NY to Vancouver BC may seem crazy but I am very pleased. The local Sony store boss has one at home, won't trade for anything in his store.
Hmm 1400 lines vertical, I wonder what res it will go to;).
PenGun
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"We finally have displays that don't flicker at all, and they're so much more restful to watch."
After spending a week looking at TVs I am amazed that LCDs and Plasma displays _all_ show artifacts on any movement faster than quite slow. I can now see them in all those formats. To watch a $30,000 Sharp Aqueos go all shuddery when in full movement, like a sandstorm covering the whole display, is pretty sad.
I have a Sony 34XS955 on order from NY, they are disapearing fast. A flat screen CRT with the Super Fine Tube that does 1400 lines. That's instead of the 1080 max HD does. Possibly the best TV ever made, well that would be the XBR960 but this is almost as fine, no firewire out.
Modern TVs suck. I hope the laser thingy works better.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
This is lovely. Is that stay or stray, I like the stray interpretation. Now this bending the athiests over backwards is more a Foley kind of thing I imagine or perhaps you ment something else.
The WAR_ON_CHRISTMAS starts NOW.
PenGun
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Nearly all dists come with a kernel with all modules built. Most of them will detect and install modules based on hardware found. You can build your own kernel with one of two GUIs or a CLI and just build what you need. You maybe you just don't understand.
;).
... Standards and Practices !
If you spook the horse it _will_ kick you, be nice to your pony
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Red Hat has always been a pain. When I install new Slackware I just cram it in and copy all my old config over to the new install and we done. Well sometimes a little massaging is needed but not much.
... BSD init rules.
... Standards and Practices !
Sys V sucks
PenGun
Do What Now ???
"Linux doesn't sell because it's too deeply burried in unintuitive, undocumented, and unsupported software while it's status quo is heavily defended by armies of evangelists."
... Standards and Practices !
Actually Linux is extremly intuitive, but you gotta have some intuition. It's also much better documented than almost anything else out there, certainly better than any M$ OS. It's not for the weak and faint of heart. How does that go now:
"Real men write their own drivers"
Linus
PenGun
Do What Now ???
It's not supposed to be user friendly. There are dists that try to do it all for you but they generally suck. You gotta love computers and their software to appreciate linux.
... hmmm wonder if softdevice does XvMC yet, I'll need that for HD on BEV.
... Standards and Practices !
I'm very grateful, I just turned 60 and Slackware is my toy, endless fun. Gotta go beat the DVB-S stuff into shape I've been busy and apparently the sats are open again. Lesse VDR 1.4.1 and sc 0.5.10 should do it
PenGun
Do What Now ???
*nix filesystems don't fragment hardly at all. That's not what you ment of course. User hostile is really where it's at as user friendly just produces pablum. And some of us have been weaned.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Gimme gimme ... comon I know trix ...
Nah ... I kind of tread a middle path. I try to get the best I can for a reasonable $ and just normal physics is good enough for me ;). The cables are actually pretty nice with spaced wires for dielectric coherence. I dunno, I got em' pretty cheap and they do sound good.
My favorite thing, to open a few people's eyes anyway, is to simply replace the interconnects from their CD player to their Preamp or Amp inputs with braided Kimber Cable, an amazingly cheap interconnect, and ask em' if it makes a difference. It almost always does noticably improve the sound.
PenGun
Klipsch is the word you are looking for. They have never made an accurate speaker. Even the mighty Klipsch horn based corner filling beasts from the 50s were anything but accurate, impressive is what they do..
... Standards and Practices !
What you have is a poorly damped overly sensitive mush maker. It's not surprising you can't hear differences between compressed and merely digitaly simulated files, or between WMAs and WAVs if you like that better.
I guess I have to pull out my c**k here to prevent bandwith abuse.
M-Audio 24/96 Audiophile (the weakest link, the record player just destroys any digital effort BTW)
Sonic Frontiers SFL1 Signature with gold pin Mullard (factory modded)
Kimber Cable braided interconnects (cheap but very good)
Sonic Frontiers SFM75 Monoblocks with Svetlyana 6550Bs
Tara Time and Space Speaker Cables (oldies but goodies)
B&W Matrix 1 Speakers bi-wired with crossovers rebuilt with Multicaps (best bang for $ I ever experienced in audio)
The difference is obvious if you have the tools.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Open sores and free software are two very different things. There would be no open sores without free software, try to read a little history maybe.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Oh yeah that made me think. I have so many identities that some times I'm not sure who I am. I'm sure there are others here with that problem ;).
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PenGun
Do What Now ???
Of course it is. What's happening here, I'm not used to 2 karma, is that all the idiots that bought into i-tunes and apple computers for that matter are way too dumb to hack the tunes free by themselves. Not surprising really. After all they were smart enough to buy a MAC, but of course MACs are for the "it just works crowd" .... it's gonna be blindingly stupid in there.
... Standards and Practices !
That should get my karma back whrer it belongs.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
I'm not sure what you mean. We have ballots and you mark them with a pen, then you put em' the box. No chads.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
It's very hard to beat and scales effortlessly. We've been doing it in Canada for a long time. Usually takes 4 - 5 hours after the last poll closes. Why do it the hard and screwed up way?
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Rap and Hip Hop are valid genres of musical experesion, you sir are an asshole.
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Disclaimer:
I turned 60 sept 17th.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
It also depends on your TV's settings, Default from factory TVs are way too bright, too contrasty, too saturated. The showroom at your TV dealer is what that's for.
... Standards and Practices !
Set up right you can get quite a bit more depth than not set up at all which is normal.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Ummm what is it ... 8 usb and a gig network port. I don't think it'll be a problem to hook up to my Opty 165 running slak. It does almost every kind of media there is. Two burners, satellite card and a damn TV tuner. I'll get the better PS3 with the 60G drive, it'll be just fine for my new display a Sony 34XS955 CRT killer TV.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
When I was a kid, think late 60s, we invented our own game at school. We played it for 3 weeks till they banned it. The infirmary was way to busy.
... Standards and Practices !
Take two hard rubber balls, a bit bigger than fist sized is nice. 3/4" nylon rope about 4' long. Drill holes in the balls for the rope and knot it both sides of the balls to make a "bolo" 'bout 3' long.
Broken hockey stick handels 'bout 3' - 4', tape the ends eh', and a football field is all you need for "Bolo Ball".
No rules except to score you gotta wrap the bolo round some part of the opposing team's goal.
We played full contact tackle, rugby with sticks, and the whole school would come out and watch. It was mayhem with fairly serious injuries in every game. Damn it was fun.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
I dunno 'bout kids these days. I used to run the Softimage dongle as a service in NT 3.51.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
LCDs suck get a CRT for gaming. They are pretty bad at fast motion video too. I have yet to see one I don't dislike. My 34" Sony XS955 Super Fine Pitch HDTV CRT will be along soon, shipping 200#s from NY to Vancouver BC may seem crazy but I am very pleased. The local Sony store boss has one at home, won't trade for anything in his store.
;).
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Hmm 1400 lines vertical, I wonder what res it will go to
PenGun
Do What Now ???
DupeDVD
/dev/dvd=stream.dvd &&
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#!/bin/sh
rm stream.dvd
mkfifo -m 666 stream.dvd &&
sleep 1
dd if=/dev/dvd1 of=stream.dvd &
sleep 1
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z
Is a bit cooler but you need a DVD reader and a burner.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
"We finally have displays that don't flicker at all, and they're so much more restful to watch."
... Standards and Practices !
After spending a week looking at TVs I am amazed that LCDs and Plasma displays _all_ show artifacts on any movement faster than quite slow. I can now see them in all those formats. To watch a $30,000 Sharp Aqueos go all shuddery when in full movement, like a sandstorm covering the whole display, is pretty sad.
I have a Sony 34XS955 on order from NY, they are disapearing fast. A flat screen CRT with the Super Fine Tube that does 1400 lines. That's instead of the 1080 max HD does. Possibly the best TV ever made, well that would be the XBR960 but this is almost as fine, no firewire out.
Modern TVs suck. I hope the laser thingy works better.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
This is lovely. Is that stay or stray, I like the stray interpretation. Now this bending the athiests over backwards is more a Foley kind of thing I imagine or perhaps you ment something else.
... Standards and Practices !
The WAR_ON_CHRISTMAS starts NOW.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Are fair game eh'. Just like spys.
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PenGun
Do What Now ???
Oh yeah that'll work. If they could bring em' down they'd ne very happy, you remember the shuttle, spread all across the country ....
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PenGun
Do What Now ???
Oh come on. All you need is 'at', the dvb tool set with 'szap' and you good to go. The kids these days ... I dunno.
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PenGun
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