Bud, keep it real. DOS runs in real mode, and AmigaOS never bothered to use the MMU facilities provided on post 680x0 (post 68000) to do address space or priviledge separation between OS and applications.
HEH, but no. This was on a Debian Linux with the intel WiFi drivers on my ex-roommate's Dell laptop.
And uh... the reasoning behind the binary blob is so that I, the owner of the card, can't control what I want my hardware to do? Fuck Intel. Its none of their business how I use my WiFi card. If I violate FCC regs, the FCC gets to go after me (the violator). The FCC enforces the regulations, not the manufacturer.
Not really. I have the last model of the iBook (got it Nov '05, how special). As GP said, an OpenFirmware nvram patch will take care of the spanning. Works great. I did it back in December and I haven't looked back. I certainly appreciate using my iBook with a 19' LCD at 1280x1024. The other thing you can modify is the sleep-on-lid-close behavior. I wouldn't suggest disabling the sleep. Although its probably nice to run your iBook with the screen closed (obviously with external screen, mouse, kbd), its innards don't handle the arising heat dissipation problems too well, apparently. Although who knows. Maybe that's FUD too. I wasn't ever too interested to find out:).
OSX runs just fine with 512MB of RAM. I should know. That's what I have in my '05 1.33Ghz iBook. Will I get more RAM? Yes. Why? Because the system bottoms on activities that aren't generally "normal" for it, such as running 5 emacs compiles, a QEMU emulation, and an application Quartz compositing extensively. That's just me though. When I'm in a saner mood, 512MB is more than enough for web browsing, word editing, email composing or coding.
On another note - yes, the CPU in my iBook isn't really a work horse. But honestly, the biggest problem I have right now is the 15GB left on my 40GB drive. I Really Wish I Had a Larger Drive (TM). Bigger screen resolution wouldn't hurt either, but I can live with it. I think its time someone realized that the two most important factors in a laptop a) RAM b) disk. Everything else should be reasonable w.r.t. price and power consumption.
...only because they're not really a market player. Don't think for a second that they're not screwing you over (by too much) simply because they have some kind of ethics or a trying to be "nice" (whatever that means) to the customer.
Intel likes binary blobs. Their WiFi cards come with a binary blob userspace program that uh... "enforces" FCC compliance on the hardware, whatever that means.
I think even that would be giving S3 too much credit. I personally still haven't forgiven them for the ViRGE graphics decelerators... and that was 10+ years ago!
Is direct rendering enabled? Is the OpenGL vendor string "ATi Technologies Inc". Basically... can you tell from the glxinfo that you're indeed running hardware accelerated graphics, or if you're using software MESA OpenGL? I think it could be the second in your case, and that your graphics wasn't properly set up. What distribution is this on?
First, I'm damn impressed. An S3 card beating an nVidia? Actually... an S3 with a decent performance? I'm not much of a gamer, and considering I would pretty much BUY only budget cards... this is looking really good, especially when put together with the FREE OSS LINUX drivers.
I know what I'll be putting inmy AMD64, whenever i make that. Nice.
GPS and Gallileo aren't the only systems. The Russian GLONASS (global navigation satellite system) system will be fully opened up commercially starting in 2007.
Well, its not that they ask Ferrari to slow down, its that due to their contract, Ferrari has no choice but remain uncompetitive.
At least I'm glad this year Bridgestone doesn't suck so much compared to last year. I mean Schumi is actually arriving within the top 3, and even winning!/pissed about the V8s though. Stupid.
I tried Mandriva 2006 Free... on my dad's laptop. He needed to hook-up to our wireless and couldn't figure it out how with their shitty GUI tools. Needless to say, considering the guy is a nuclear physicist, neither could I.
Oh sure I can bring it up/by hand/ using iwconfig and dhclient. But their crappy redhat-derived network up scripts (which aren't documented ANYWHERE, unlikes Debian's/Ubuntu's) and broken-ish KDE tools (both of them - the one in the "control panel" and the dock) don't seem to understand what to do with the 128 WEP key I give them.
Which is really the reason why Windows is so buggy and unstable - they have/had to support all the OLD bugs and undefined behaviors exploited by other software vendors. You can't really sell another version of Windows if say, Adobe Acrobat, doesn't run anymore - even if its Adobe's fault!
Yeah, I suppose you really don't need a Computer Science degree to be a computer technician. Leave to the people who umm, will become Software Engineers.
RMS was at UIC this week, giving an official speech Friday, and giving a Q&A session with CS students Thursday. After the session he sold off various wares such as T-Shirts, Books, keyfobs, etc.
The guy lives off his speeches. Give him a break. I "donated" $45 by buying a book and a t-shirt.
Now I also shot about 30 mins of footage (stupid kodak camera using ulaw for audio, meaning I couldn't fit more than 30 mins on a 1GB card, video is mp4v 640x480), and he obviously didn't mind. Video WILL be up at http://acm.cs.uic.edu/ at some point this week. Argh.
I'm all for reducing the number of bulges in my pants (is that an ipod+pda+cell+wallet in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?), but I'd rather have you know, separate devcies that do one thing well, rather than one that does everything piss-poorly or even averagely.
This is why I my iPaq isn't seeing much action these days. Sure, it has the potential to do a lot of things, but because it doesn't do most of them in a way thats really good, I don't end up using it. Music player? iPod. Phone? I'll take a phone over an iDen CF card. Digital camera? I'll take my DSLR (ok I don't really have one, since I already have a reg SLR) my point-and-shoot over a CF camera, or even any builtin ones. Checking email? Painful. Might as well pull out my iBook. Web browsing? Painful, might as well pull out iBook. Planner? iPod shows my planner, and might as well pull out computer to make changes. Contacts? Check.
Integrating all in one sounds like a good idea in theory. But like most things that sound good theory, its not that great in practice.
Combine this with Nokia's oher great integration stories, like the nGage and that featureless Linux phone... and.. well, not holding my breath.
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LD binds. LDD just shows the binds.
Humor is not one of my strong points, sorry.
Bud, keep it real. DOS runs in real mode, and AmigaOS never bothered to use the MMU facilities provided on post 680x0 (post 68000) to do address space or priviledge separation between OS and applications.
HEH, but no. This was on a Debian Linux with the intel WiFi drivers on my ex-roommate's Dell laptop.
And uh... the reasoning behind the binary blob is so that I, the owner of the card, can't control what I want my hardware to do? Fuck Intel. Its none of their business how I use my WiFi card. If I violate FCC regs, the FCC gets to go after me (the violator). The FCC enforces the regulations, not the manufacturer.
Not really. I have the last model of the iBook (got it Nov '05, how special). As GP said, an OpenFirmware nvram patch will take care of the spanning. Works great. I did it back in December and I haven't looked back. I certainly appreciate using my iBook with a 19' LCD at 1280x1024. The other thing you can modify is the sleep-on-lid-close behavior. I wouldn't suggest disabling the sleep. Although its probably nice to run your iBook with the screen closed (obviously with external screen, mouse, kbd), its innards don't handle the arising heat dissipation problems too well, apparently. Although who knows. Maybe that's FUD too. I wasn't ever too interested to find out :).
FUD.
OSX runs just fine with 512MB of RAM. I should know. That's what I have in my '05 1.33Ghz iBook. Will I get more RAM? Yes. Why? Because the system bottoms on activities that aren't generally "normal" for it, such as running 5 emacs compiles, a QEMU emulation, and an application Quartz compositing extensively. That's just me though. When I'm in a saner mood, 512MB is more than enough for web browsing, word editing, email composing or coding.
On another note - yes, the CPU in my iBook isn't really a work horse. But honestly, the biggest problem I have right now is the 15GB left on my 40GB drive. I Really Wish I Had a Larger Drive (TM). Bigger screen resolution wouldn't hurt either, but I can live with it. I think its time someone realized that the two most important factors in a laptop a) RAM b) disk. Everything else should be reasonable w.r.t. price and power consumption.
...only because they're not really a market player. Don't think for a second that they're not screwing you over (by too much) simply because they have some kind of ethics or a trying to be "nice" (whatever that means) to the customer.
Intel likes binary blobs. Their WiFi cards come with a binary blob userspace program that uh... "enforces" FCC compliance on the hardware, whatever that means.
I think even that would be giving S3 too much credit. I personally still haven't forgiven them for the ViRGE graphics decelerators... and that was 10+ years ago!
Run glxinfo.
Is direct rendering enabled? Is the OpenGL vendor string "ATi Technologies Inc". Basically... can you tell from the glxinfo that you're indeed running hardware accelerated graphics, or if you're using software MESA OpenGL? I think it could be the second in your case, and that your graphics wasn't properly set up. What distribution is this on?
First, I'm damn impressed. An S3 card beating an nVidia? Actually... an S3 with a decent performance? I'm not much of a gamer, and considering I would pretty much BUY only budget cards... this is looking really good, especially when put together with the FREE OSS LINUX drivers.
I know what I'll be putting inmy AMD64, whenever i make that. Nice.
GPS and Gallileo aren't the only systems. The Russian GLONASS (global navigation satellite system) system will be fully opened up commercially starting in 2007.
And if the charm didn't have the results expected, he'd just invite them over for a hunting party...
Uh... "drinking one self into a stupor" usually is a sign of not everything being right in someone's life. Maybe that was GPs cry for help?
I don't know.
Certainly, if my life had issues that would culminate in me picking up a drinking problem, I'd be sure to tell.
BookBurro. Teehee. I just imagined a burro saddled with books.
Well, its not that they ask Ferrari to slow down, its that due to their contract, Ferrari has no choice but remain uncompetitive.
/pissed about the V8s though. Stupid.
At least I'm glad this year Bridgestone doesn't suck so much compared to last year. I mean Schumi is actually arriving within the top 3, and even winning!
I tried Mandriva 2006 Free... on my dad's laptop. He needed to hook-up to our wireless and couldn't figure it out how with their shitty GUI tools. Needless to say, considering the guy is a nuclear physicist, neither could I.
/by hand/ using iwconfig and dhclient. But their crappy redhat-derived network up scripts (which aren't documented ANYWHERE, unlikes Debian's/Ubuntu's) and broken-ish KDE tools (both of them - the one in the "control panel" and the dock) don't seem to understand what to do with the 128 WEP key I give them.
Oh sure I can bring it up
Sheesh.
Actually you got it wrong - its "DOS ain't done 'till Lotus runs".
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http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/do
Which is really the reason why Windows is so buggy and unstable - they have/had to support all the OLD bugs and undefined behaviors exploited by other software vendors. You can't really sell another version of Windows if say, Adobe Acrobat, doesn't run anymore - even if its Adobe's fault!
Aptly named?
Yeah, I suppose you really don't need a Computer Science degree to be a computer technician. Leave to the people who umm, will become Software Engineers.
Lol.
Slashdotting the ACM server.
Nah, won't happen. No one reads my comments anyway.
RMS was at UIC this week, giving an official speech Friday, and giving a Q&A session with CS students Thursday. After the session he sold off various wares such as T-Shirts, Books, keyfobs, etc.
The guy lives off his speeches. Give him a break. I "donated" $45 by buying a book and a t-shirt.
Now I also shot about 30 mins of footage (stupid kodak camera using ulaw for audio, meaning I couldn't fit more than 30 mins on a 1GB card, video is mp4v 640x480), and he obviously didn't mind. Video WILL be up at http://acm.cs.uic.edu/ at some point this week. Argh.
I think its more sad when a *nix sysadm/netadm gets paid less than PeeCee support.
Then explain the logic behind using a Microsoft protocol to export storage, if both the client and the server pieces use *nix? Duh?
Wow. Where is this?
I'm all for reducing the number of bulges in my pants (is that an ipod+pda+cell+wallet in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?), but I'd rather have you know, separate devcies that do one thing well, rather than one that does everything piss-poorly or even averagely.
This is why I my iPaq isn't seeing much action these days. Sure, it has the potential to do a lot of things, but because it doesn't do most of them in a way thats really good, I don't end up using it. Music player? iPod. Phone? I'll take a phone over an iDen CF card. Digital camera? I'll take my DSLR (ok I don't really have one, since I already have a reg SLR) my point-and-shoot over a CF camera, or even any builtin ones. Checking email? Painful. Might as well pull out my iBook. Web browsing? Painful, might as well pull out iBook. Planner? iPod shows my planner, and might as well pull out computer to make changes. Contacts? Check.
Integrating all in one sounds like a good idea in theory. But like most things that sound good theory, its not that great in practice.
Combine this with Nokia's oher great integration stories, like the nGage and that featureless Linux phone... and.. well, not holding my breath.
I think Dvorak is right on this, which doesn't say much. I thought it was patently obvious. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, though.