Now there's conflicting information here. One poster says it was a common HP printer. You say it was an "antique 3rd party product". Now, unless microsoft makes printers now, I'm guessing you have a good chance of having 3rd party printer drivers on your machine.
I use National Instruments E series MIO cards using rtlinux to sample a single channel at 400Khz, and process the data realtime on a dual PII-450.
It's not cheap (the board itself is at least $1000 US), but it does support 16 analog inputs and 2 analog outputs. They have other boards that could support the additional outputs you need.
Using rtlinux is pretty easy. I use comedi to control the cards. Freshmeat knows where to find these things.
They have released a gpib driver and a daq driver, however, they also have more than sufficieint technical documentation for their cards on their web site that can be used to write drivers.
In my work as a Test Engineer, I've used boards from Keithley-Metrabyte, Measurement Computing (Formerly ComputerBoards), and National Instruments. All work well with linux, providing you find the right drivers.
One good site for drivers is the Linux Lab Project. There are links to drivers for many different boards.
Another good project is the Comedi project, which maintains drivers for quite a few cards, and supports the use of RTLinux, RTAI, and card access from kernel modules.
My current favorite is the National Instruments E series boards. The drivers in the Comedi project are quite good, and the cards have an excellent set of features.
Might as well shut down the entire Internet. Is the RIAA going to use this to sue everyone who has ever written a single web page with a hyperlink to any other site?
Hmm.. that is an interesting idea. A non-violent "sit-in" on the internet. If enough people in the right places could be convinced to join in, how much of the internet could be "shut down" for a day? (with the nice "thank you" to the MPAA for bringing you this shutdown).
Just once I'd like to see the press release FOLLOW the code release, rather than the other way around. Just once I'd like to believe that the companies involved REALLY care about the product, and not about the marketing hype they get from it.
Funny, but the Utah-GLX driver for the Matrix G400 gets close to the same performance that the windows version does, while the TNT driver gets about 1/3 the performance. Do you still think that it is related to the X server?
Even the ATI Rage Pro driver performs better than the TNT driver does. That's truly sad.
Actually, the driver internals are important to *US*. Releasing a binary only driver helps LINUX only. *BSD and so on gain no benefit. Utah-GLX provides drivers for both all of the above. This is a true community effort, and we must rely on others to produce code that is usable by all.
Also, the last closed driver I used worked with only a limited configuration. Will I be able to run this with ANY recent kernel (2.2.* or 2.3.*, and 2.4.* when it comes out), or will I have to wait for updates?
The only reason we ask for source is so that we can maintain the code and perpetuate it. It allows ports to operating systems that haven't had the benefit of huge media hype, and allows interoperability to continue into the forseen future.
Suppose I want to install systems at my work that run Linux, use a TNT-based 3D card, and use OpenGL to display data. I want those systems to benefit from the latest stable kernel development. So I have to RISK that the drivers will someday disappear, when nvidia and/or SGI decide not to continue supporting them.
Then I'll need to make the decision to continue using the older kernel with the driver that works, or upgrade, and switch to a card that has a driver. I'll probably switch to a Matrox at that point, since the driver has source, and *I* can make it work on a newer kernel if I have to.
This is not a hypothetical situation. A lot of people using Linux are using it as a technical solution, and we *DO* care about internals.
For example, if someone makes an aim-enhancing cheat, someone else might make a shot-dodging cheat, which cancel's it out. As long as everyone has the cheats, it's still a fair field.
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Nope. edlin is a lot like "ed", which is a very very old unix editor.
Except that the patch in question was for windows XP, not vista, IIRC.
Now there's conflicting information here. One poster says it was a common HP printer. You say it was an "antique 3rd party product". Now, unless microsoft makes printers now, I'm guessing you have a good chance of having 3rd party printer drivers on your machine.
Ahh, Chicken Poop Bingo. They had that at the festivities after the 4th of July parade in Munising, MI this year.
I use National Instruments E series MIO cards using rtlinux to sample a single channel at 400Khz, and process the data realtime on a dual PII-450.
It's not cheap (the board itself is at least $1000 US), but it does support 16 analog inputs and 2 analog outputs. They have other boards that could support the additional outputs you need.
Using rtlinux is pretty easy. I use comedi to control the cards. Freshmeat knows where to find these things.
They have released a gpib driver and a daq driver, however, they also have more than sufficieint technical documentation for their cards on their web site that can be used to write drivers.
In my work as a Test Engineer, I've used boards from Keithley-Metrabyte, Measurement Computing (Formerly ComputerBoards), and National Instruments. All work well with linux, providing you find the right drivers.
One good site for drivers is the Linux Lab Project. There are links to drivers for many different boards.
Another good project is the Comedi project, which maintains drivers for quite a few cards, and supports the use of RTLinux, RTAI, and card access from kernel modules.
My current favorite is the National Instruments E series boards. The drivers in the Comedi project are quite good, and the cards have an excellent set of features.
I'm sure hundreds of people have submitted this as a story to the slashdot guys....
Might as well shut down the entire Internet. Is the RIAA going to use this to sue everyone who has ever written a single web page with a hyperlink to any other site?
Hmm.. that is an interesting idea. A non-violent "sit-in" on the internet. If enough people in the right places could be convinced to join in, how much of the internet could be "shut down" for a day? (with the nice "thank you" to the MPAA for bringing you this shutdown).
GNOME or KDE on the RH6.2 box?
What? servers don't need a GUI? Don't let
redmond find that out...
I would suspect that it has less to do with customer demand, and more to do with infiltration.
Go back and look at the latest RFC's for DNS. Underscore is now valid. In fact, nearly any character is. I'm pretty sure I saw that in there...
Just once I'd like to see the press release FOLLOW the code release, rather than the other way around. Just once I'd like to believe that the companies involved REALLY care about the product, and not about the marketing hype they get from it.
Funny, but the Utah-GLX driver for the Matrix G400 gets close to the same performance that the windows version does, while the TNT driver gets about 1/3 the performance. Do you still think that it is related to the X server?
Even the ATI Rage Pro driver performs better than the TNT driver does. That's truly sad.
Actually, the driver internals are important to *US*. Releasing a binary only driver helps LINUX only. *BSD and so on gain no benefit. Utah-GLX provides drivers for both all of the above. This is a true community effort, and we must rely on others to produce code that is usable by all.
Also, the last closed driver I used worked with only a limited configuration. Will I be able to run this with ANY recent kernel (2.2.* or 2.3.*, and 2.4.* when it comes out), or will I have to wait for updates?
The only reason we ask for source is so that we can maintain the code and perpetuate it. It allows ports to operating systems that haven't had the benefit of huge media hype, and allows interoperability to continue into the forseen future.
Suppose I want to install systems at my work that run Linux, use a TNT-based 3D card, and use OpenGL to display data. I want those systems to benefit from the latest stable kernel development. So I have to RISK that the drivers will someday disappear, when nvidia and/or SGI decide not to continue supporting them.
Then I'll need to make the decision to continue using the older kernel with the driver that works, or upgrade, and switch to a card that has a driver. I'll probably switch to a Matrox at that point, since the driver has source, and *I* can make it work on a newer kernel if I have to.
This is not a hypothetical situation. A lot of people using Linux are using it as a technical solution, and we *DO* care about internals.
Actually, it's not a school in California. It's Cleveland, Ohio. They were co-sponsored by NASA and TRW. But it is a real story.
I believe you are correct. It seems to be a common oversimplification.
Windows is the incumbent candidate. Microsoft doesn't need to push as hard because they already have momentum and presence.
Good point.
For example, if someone makes an aim-enhancing cheat, someone else might make a shot-dodging cheat, which cancel's it out. As long as everyone has the cheats, it's still a fair field.
Actually, it might be a better solution to give the client slightly inaccurate information.
Another possibility is that the server side introduce small random errors into the data that the client passes.
Either way would simulate the slight inaccuracy of the scope on the weapon, or perhaps jitter in the player's arm.
I think the lack of good teaching staff in CS stems from the fact that anyone who is at all good at programming can get a better paying job.