I downloaded Big Buck Bunny 1920x1080 to test PureVideo on my new 8600GT only to learn that this feature isn't supported in linux.
The h264 and ogg files play with lots of interruptions in the video (but not the audio). The avi plays smoothly with some tearing.
This cpu is currently OCed to 2363MHz and the avi still shows some tearing. vlc seems to perform slightly better than totem-gstreamer using the latest blob from nvidia.
Somewhere in that site it talks about some of the problems of having 2 IP addresses, like confusing game servers and the like, but with a bit of tweaking you could get it functional. I don't think this solution explicitly provides failover functionality, but I suppose that could be scripted in somehow.
pfsense is a nice turnkey solution for this too, if you're not into spending a couple weeks solid trying to make your debian or lfs distro act like a router.
I use monowall and it works well with the following caveats:
1. It takes a bit of knowledge to learn to setup the qos, but this is true of any effective qos router.
2. It takes a bit of playing to get the pipe size right. Set it too high and it's ineffective. Set it too low and you're not utilising your bandwidth.
3. Your internet connection speed should be fairly consistent, otherwise you will be tweaking #2 all the way to an early grave. ADSL and cable are consistent in my experience, wISPs are not.
4. Your ISP can't be throttling you, as was mentioned by some others in this discussion, for that would effectively bring you back to the problem of #2 & #3.
I've used a debian gnu/linux install on old PII hardware as a router and I actually found the QoS to be unequalled. Once you learn the syntax of iptables (and a dozen other sysadmin skills) it works pretty much perfectly to preserve voip quality. For somebody that doesn't mind getting his hands dirty I recommend a linux router/shaper as your best solution
But, as the OP mentioned, linux is a bit dreadful to set up as a router for the uninitiated. (I haven't tried IPcop or any of the dedicated solutions so I can't speak for those.) For somebody that likes a nice shiny push-button interface, you can't beat m0n0wall, and like I said, with a bit of playing around it too can be very effective at preserving voip quality.
And to those who recommend limiting your torrents to 15% of your max bandwidth: your heart's just not in it. I want my torrents now. I don't want to have to run turn down my torrents every time the phone rings, and I sure as heck won't remember to turn them up again when the call's done. It's a beautiful thing to watch a torrent upload at a steady 100% of your uplink speed, get on the phone, and see your torrent continue at 100% minus 86 kbps while enjoying a phone call with flawless audio, then see the torrent fill up the gap as soon as you hang up. Geek's paradise.
Setting a cap on memory usage isn't a good solution, IMHO -- using well-designed memory handling that proactively frees memory seems to me to be a far better solution than a cap and garbage collection model. I haven't seen any mention of a cap, even if that's a natural conclusion based on the flat line that one can observe in the graphs.
If you check this fairly lengthy explanation of how memory usage was improved in FF3 you'll see that it is mostly attributed to reduced fragmentation and leaks, and smarting caching, just as you are advocating.
I've never had a commercially pressed CD rot I picked up a pair of Windows Server 2000 trial version CDs at a garage sale in 2003, still in the factory plastic. I successfully installed one of them onto a computer, then stuck both into a sleeve and into storage.
About a year later I tried installing from the same CD and the install failed on multiple attempts. I grabbed and tried the second CD with the same result. Inspection of the data side of the CDs revealed discoloured areas bounded by discreet wavy lines, something like the bronzing described above.
My personal hunch is that this is some form of planned obsolescence, like the movies you rent that supposedly degrade after a day or two--I've yet to have a factory-pressed audio CD or fully-licensed OS install CD degrade in quality, although I have some from 10+ years ago. Meanwhile, any audio CDR I have has shown audible signs of degradation usually within a year or two of recording.
Somehow I don't see very many linux user's picking these up for their machines What are you getting at here? You imply that price is a barrier for linux users specifically, but offer no explanation.
In an open market the consumer will pay whatever the card is worth to him. So given proper linux drivers and performance comparable to the windows counterpart, what makes an AMD video card worth less to a linux user than it would be to a Windows user?
I have to ask though, what do you have against using shareware?
It can't be an objection to its freeness (as in beer) or you wouldn't use linux.
It can't be an objection to its restrictiveness, or you wouldn't be using (or attempting to use) Windows.
And it can't be that the shareware license prevents that specific use of the software, because doesn't the Windows EULA stipulate against running Windows from virtual machines, mobile devices or while enjoying ice cream? Ok, just kidding about the virtual machine, I believe that restriction came about with Vista.
Sorry, my wording was ambiguous. I'm running FF portable from the flash drive, in Windows xp Pro, which is running from the hard drive. Good luck though;)
Firefox will be completely unresponsive, not even redrawing itself when a window that was obscuring it is moved, until the drive stops flashing, and then Firefox will instantly come back to life. I run FF3 RC1 portable in Windows xp from my dual channel flash driver (fast?) and I experience the same thing just as you have described it. I turned off caching and cookies in FF's options and I found that the unresponsive pauses immediately became shorter and less frequent, although they are still occurring.
I recently bought one of these. hdparm said it's reading at 26 MB/s. Then it said it was reading at 17 MB/s. Not sure why the variance.
Then I copied a 700 MB file onto it from a local hard drive in gnome, which reported initially that it was transferring at 20+ MB/s, but that dropped steadily until it levelled off around 6.1 MB/s.
Far from scientific, yes, but I wonder a)why the inconsistencies, and b)how these results compare with other products.
Or you could just not be a douche and say "PC" like everyone else. I didn't realise that not saying "PC" made me a douche, but thanks for the insight.
Not saying "PC only" is saying I'm so insecure about myself that I need to arbitrarily use my own terminology because whats popular does not make me stand out. Saying "Windows" when I mean Windows is drawing attention to myself?
And if I'm feeling insecure you have my assurance I won't reduce myself to ad hominem attacks in a public forum.
My understanding is that you use different resolutions of the photo. Just speculating here (I don't anticipate installing Silverlight for another 24 years or so), but I think you're on the money. It should work something like Google Earth, where the resolution is improved progressively as you zoom in.
Is this article telling me that this game will only run on personal computers? Because I spend my evenings on the mainframe and PC-only games are of no use to me, unless I can get some kind of emulation working.[/sarcasm]
Okay, seriously, can we drop the "pc" nomenclature? If you're talking about a specific cpu architecture then say "x86 only" or "68k only" or "alpha only". If, on the other hand, you're referring to a software platform, then say "DirectX 10" or "OpenBSD".
To say that a piece of software is "PC only" is to say nothing at all, except maybe "I subscribe to marketeer-perpetuated archaisms".
I don't know about his WRT router, but I used to be using HTB shaping on a Pentium II 400 MHz box, without ever seeing it take even so much as a percent of its CPU cycles. CPU usage in routers is more related to total throughput (barring a lot of encryption, such as with vpn). I ran linux a PII 350 for a router on a 10/1 connection and the fanless heatsink never even felt warm.
The hundreds of p2p connections crashing routers has more to do with their lack of other resources. M0n0wall, for example, has a connection table that maxes out at 30 thousand entries. You are not likely to saturate this at home, and if you did, you still wouldn't crash the router, you would just have to click that link a few times in your browser before succeeding to load a new web page. I suspect the common lockup of OTC routers under p2p load has more to do with a lack of RAM.
I've never used ddwrt, but any properly-configured qos solution should do the trick nicely.
I've used both stock debian and m0n0wall and I run my torrents unlimited up and down. I've never had an issue once I get the qos dialed in. Yes, it takes a bit of tweaking on the numbers, but once it's set neither I nor the person I'm voiping/gaming with can tell there's a torrent even running. Latency can go up slightly on web browsing, but that's where Ou's recommendation for a smaller p2p packet would really help.
I have Server 08 RC x64 installed at home and it seems stable and fast enough. Mind you, I hardly use it because a)it's no stabler and no faster than Ubuntu on the same dual-boot and b)I can name a dozen reasons why I find Ubuntu more usable (is there even one page on the internet that will load in IE without first interviewing me on security policies?).
By contrast, I've sat at dozens of Vista machines (I used to install internet) and found them consistently: slow, resource hogging, confusing in layout, and unstable (call it tilt-bits, DRM, bloat, or whatever you like; the experience is what it is).
So go ahead and argue that Server 08 has a great kernel and that Vista's is no different, but the glaring reality is that the Vista experience is teaching millions about PTSD, and until MS starts pricing Server 08 for the desktop, they don't really have a product to offer the desktop user.
My brother-in-law works for a small company (~60) and informs me that they recently bought some corporate vista licensing for the sole purpose of the continued right to install xp on new machines. So if by 'vista sales' they mean 'a sale of the right to continue to use xp on new installs' then yeah, I can account for a few of these 'vista sales'.
Or at least that's how I understood the deal. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I second the Moto Canopy vote. There's nothing more reliable; in fact, I'd call it overkill. Just make sure you choose the right frequency, i.e., you'll need the 900MHz if it's 500m of solid trees, but you'll get better throughput on the shorter wavelengths.
Oh, and be ready to drop $1000+ for a pair of radios and possibly antennae.
he's never worked(obviously) in a corporate environment... I work in a corporate environment where all of our email and calendaring is handled by Outlook/Exchange, and I have to agree with the article 100% on this point. Was there something good about this platform that you wanted to point out?
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The h264 and ogg files play with lots of interruptions in the video (but not the audio). The avi plays smoothly with some tearing.
This cpu is currently OCed to 2363MHz and the avi still shows some tearing. vlc seems to perform slightly better than totem-gstreamer using the latest blob from nvidia.
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look for the Linux Advance Routing Howto
Somewhere in that site it talks about some of the problems of having 2 IP addresses, like confusing game servers and the like, but with a bit of tweaking you could get it functional. I don't think this solution explicitly provides failover functionality, but I suppose that could be scripted in somehow.
pfsense is a nice turnkey solution for this too, if you're not into spending a couple weeks solid trying to make your debian or lfs distro act like a router.
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What about http://m0n0.ch/wall/
I use monowall and it works well with the following caveats:
1. It takes a bit of knowledge to learn to setup the qos, but this is true of any effective qos router.
2. It takes a bit of playing to get the pipe size right. Set it too high and it's ineffective. Set it too low and you're not utilising your bandwidth.
3. Your internet connection speed should be fairly consistent, otherwise you will be tweaking #2 all the way to an early grave. ADSL and cable are consistent in my experience, wISPs are not.
4. Your ISP can't be throttling you, as was mentioned by some others in this discussion, for that would effectively bring you back to the problem of #2 & #3.
I've used a debian gnu/linux install on old PII hardware as a router and I actually found the QoS to be unequalled. Once you learn the syntax of iptables (and a dozen other sysadmin skills) it works pretty much perfectly to preserve voip quality. For somebody that doesn't mind getting his hands dirty I recommend a linux router/shaper as your best solution
But, as the OP mentioned, linux is a bit dreadful to set up as a router for the uninitiated. (I haven't tried IPcop or any of the dedicated solutions so I can't speak for those.) For somebody that likes a nice shiny push-button interface, you can't beat m0n0wall, and like I said, with a bit of playing around it too can be very effective at preserving voip quality.
And to those who recommend limiting your torrents to 15% of your max bandwidth: your heart's just not in it. I want my torrents now. I don't want to have to run turn down my torrents every time the phone rings, and I sure as heck won't remember to turn them up again when the call's done. It's a beautiful thing to watch a torrent upload at a steady 100% of your uplink speed, get on the phone, and see your torrent continue at 100% minus 86 kbps while enjoying a phone call with flawless audio, then see the torrent fill up the gap as soon as you hang up. Geek's paradise.
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If you check this fairly lengthy explanation of how memory usage was improved in FF3 you'll see that it is mostly attributed to reduced fragmentation and leaks, and smarting caching, just as you are advocating.
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About a year later I tried installing from the same CD and the install failed on multiple attempts. I grabbed and tried the second CD with the same result. Inspection of the data side of the CDs revealed discoloured areas bounded by discreet wavy lines, something like the bronzing described above.
My personal hunch is that this is some form of planned obsolescence, like the movies you rent that supposedly degrade after a day or two--I've yet to have a factory-pressed audio CD or fully-licensed OS install CD degrade in quality, although I have some from 10+ years ago. Meanwhile, any audio CDR I have has shown audible signs of degradation usually within a year or two of recording.
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In an open market the consumer will pay whatever the card is worth to him. So given proper linux drivers and performance comparable to the windows counterpart, what makes an AMD video card worth less to a linux user than it would be to a Windows user?
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It can't be an objection to its freeness (as in beer) or you wouldn't use linux.
It can't be an objection to its restrictiveness, or you wouldn't be using (or attempting to use) Windows.
And it can't be that the shareware license prevents that specific use of the software, because doesn't the Windows EULA stipulate against running Windows from virtual machines, mobile devices or while enjoying ice cream? Ok, just kidding about the virtual machine, I believe that restriction came about with Vista.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9093718
Then I copied a 700 MB file onto it from a local hard drive in gnome, which reported initially that it was transferring at 20+ MB/s, but that dropped steadily until it levelled off around 6.1 MB/s.
Far from scientific, yes, but I wonder a)why the inconsistencies, and b)how these results compare with other products.
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And if I'm feeling insecure you have my assurance I won't reduce myself to ad hominem attacks in a public forum.
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Okay, seriously, can we drop the "pc" nomenclature? If you're talking about a specific cpu architecture then say "x86 only" or "68k only" or "alpha only". If, on the other hand, you're referring to a software platform, then say "DirectX 10" or "OpenBSD".
To say that a piece of software is "PC only" is to say nothing at all, except maybe "I subscribe to marketeer-perpetuated archaisms".
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The hundreds of p2p connections crashing routers has more to do with their lack of other resources. M0n0wall, for example, has a connection table that maxes out at 30 thousand entries. You are not likely to saturate this at home, and if you did, you still wouldn't crash the router, you would just have to click that link a few times in your browser before succeeding to load a new web page. I suspect the common lockup of OTC routers under p2p load has more to do with a lack of RAM.
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I've used both stock debian and m0n0wall and I run my torrents unlimited up and down. I've never had an issue once I get the qos dialed in. Yes, it takes a bit of tweaking on the numbers, but once it's set neither I nor the person I'm voiping/gaming with can tell there's a torrent even running. Latency can go up slightly on web browsing, but that's where Ou's recommendation for a smaller p2p packet would really help.
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By contrast, I've sat at dozens of Vista machines (I used to install internet) and found them consistently: slow, resource hogging, confusing in layout, and unstable (call it tilt-bits, DRM, bloat, or whatever you like; the experience is what it is).
So go ahead and argue that Server 08 has a great kernel and that Vista's is no different, but the glaring reality is that the Vista experience is teaching millions about PTSD, and until MS starts pricing Server 08 for the desktop, they don't really have a product to offer the desktop user.
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Or at least that's how I understood the deal. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Oh, and be ready to drop $1000+ for a pair of radios and possibly antennae.
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Or apt-get install msttcorefonts for debian/ubuntu users.
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