Lately I've had to do this with tv-links also, the download rate seemed much slower than the playback rate...or something. I would frequently have to pause and let the stream download. I did not know if it was my ISP (Suddenlink, used to be Cox- in north-central OK at Stillwater), or their website and/or links.
I hate to see this happen, there were a lot of things I would watch on tv-links. Most of it is not available readily elsewhere (to my knowledge) except from a torrent site.
I have an OSHA certified hardhat embedded in my skull, you insensitive clod!
Hold on, I'm picking up this really cool radio station in my head...Why are my dentures buzzing??? WTF?....Hey, I don't need my TV's remote control anymore!! w00t!!!
Then they would have to change the acronym BATF to something else, like BAMTF, or something. Perhaps this could be the next/. poll?
If you could walk into the convenience store/gas station and ask for and get a 'pack of Northern Lights 100's', then I might warm up to my job as a convenience store clerk.
Depends on which end you are on- the giving end (upload), or the receiving end (you end up as Son of Goatse). You seem to be coming from the 'giving end' perspective...nothing wrong with that- better to give than receive as they say!
On a serious note, WTF?!?!? Why is anyone still using ActiveX for anything? It's propensity for Bad Shit (TM) has been legendary for too long for this crap to keep happening. Anyone still using ActiveX needs beaten unconscious with a clue stick...last century!
As others have previously posted, RealPlayer works pretty good on *nix, but I will not let it near my wife's WinXP ProSP2 machine. So far on Windows (have no clue and don't care about Vista-my experience has been with Win 3.1, 95, 98SE, 2000, and XP Pro), it still sucks. Also as previous posters have said: the alternatives to RealPlayer would probably have the same issues under similar conditions that is experienced with RealPlayer.
Okay, to be fair and looking at the bright side:;) We should applaud Real's Marketdroid-fu. This is a prime example of leveraging the synergy of the dynamics of the interaction of MS's Windows/IE combo and RealPlayer to maximum levels possible at this time. They both will continue to update the pogra^H^H^H^H^Hprograms to introduce new and unprecedented bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures as soon as R&D can infect^H^H^H^H^H^Himplement these upgrades to the cattle^H^H^H^H^H^Hconsumers. This strategy will increase our profits^Wusefulness concerning our herd^Wconsumers, while obfusticating^Wmultitasking our resources to rape^Wreward our victims^Wpartners.
Or some such BS. YMMV, proceed at your own risk, caveat emptor,etc.
I think we are on the same side here, but this reply will let you (YES!-YOU are empowered here!!) decide, or rebuke my assumptions (but not my viewpoint-this is debatable!) as you see fit.
Yeah, that's a good point. Dependence on DirectX has been a major stumbling block, but you still have to deal with the graphic card/chip drivers. *ATI-I'm glaring at you!* Historically, also some wireless drivers/support
It gets better all the time. I understand that there are those that instant gratification is not fast enough for them, but: 'As for me, I am looking forward to our new Gutsy Overlords!' (upgrading from Fiesty to Gutsy this weekend) And I am waiting to see how ATI delivers on their Linux support coming Real Soon!
For any of your older games (Win 95-98) give DOSBox and VirtualBox a try- they work great for me and both are just a 'sudo apt-get install' away if you have the all of the Ubuntu/Kubuntu repositories enabled.
The only issue I've had running games on Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) have to do with glacial framerates due to my ATI vid card and the sucky drivers for same. I'm really looking forward to ATI's getting with the Linux program soon. (I've heard they will make it happen, but still waiting....)
BF2142...Uhmm, good luck with that. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it needing WinXPSP2 as one of it's requirements. This could be a stretch for Linux for a while.
I was a sniper and chopper pilot of some renown in Desert Combat (mod of BF1942), and made a lot of maps (coop/single player and conquest) for both BF1942 and Desert Combat when I still dual booted between Kubuntu 6.10 and WinXP Pro. When I went to Linux only, I had moved all of my maps and tools to my wife's WinXP machine. Unfortunately, the vid card (nVidia TNT64/32 MB AGP) wasn't enough for the tools- Battlecraft especially, but would at least run the game if I turned the eyecandy down.
My point is: gaming on Linux can be tricky, and sometimes VERY limited depending on your vid card/chip. nVidia can work well (so I've heard), Intel's chips seem to work really nice, but with ATI, you have a darn near impossible time getting any kind of hardware acceleration.
ATI example: with CentOS4, Fedora Core4 and 5, Mandrake 9.0, and Ubuntu 5.10(?) on a P3 800 kit with 512 MB PC133 RAM, TuxRacer worked great with the old nVidia TNT 64 card. Now with a P4 (prescott) 3.0, 2 gig's of PC3200 RAM and an ATI 9550 256 MB card, TuxRacer (now PPRacer?) only gets about one frame every several seconds- totally unplayable.
As to your 4th paragraph....ROCK ON, DUDE! that's the same way I go about it and have converted quite a few users to Ubuntu from Windows- they are even HAPPY now! I work on PC's as a second job, and have gotten to the point of turning down Windows PC's except for some of my old customers- I just do not take on any 'my computer is running so slow, and what are all of these pop-ups about' type jobs anymore unless they agree to either a *nix install, or have their WGA approved Windows OS disc for a format/fresh install. I have decided that I don't want the money enough to deal with Windows other than a format and fresh install, and have further decided that Win Vista shall never enter my house or especially, my network.
I put up with my wife's WinXP ProSP2 (fully and currently patched, with current AV (Avast), Spybot Search and Destroy and their Tea Timer running with nightly scans (all current updates-nightly before the scans), Lavasoft's AdAware- updated and ran every night, Windows Defender, XP's firewall (has been configured as tight as practical *sigh*),and ZoneAlarm's firewall (active, restrictive settings, and current) because she seems determined to resist *nix assimilation, but that's probably my fault!
Never forget Google and the Ubuntu forums for info- they are your support friends. Other than ATI's crappy Linux support, I have found (easily) the solutions to any glitches that have reared their ugly head.
Side note: so far Automatix2 has worked great for me, but YMMV. Games are the only area I have found to be a hassle with Linux, but if ATI delivers....We'll see, but it sounds good.
FTFA: "But GMR-based heads maxed out, and the industry replaced the technology in recent years with an entirely different kind of head. Yet researchers are predicting that technology will soon run into capacity problems, and now GMR is making a comeback as the next-generation successor."
*Scotty sets down mouse- looks at keyboard and replies:"How quaint."*
Having seen all of the referenced articles and links on my own, this just ties it all together nicely.
On the downside, if you haven't been subjected or hunted out the background info, TFA is kind of sparse.
Yes, but they also remount when you put another cd in. This can be changed.
Worried about a BSOD on Ubuntu? WTF?!?!? Quit trolling please....you are not taken as being rational or serious- Yeah, you can find app's that simulate a BSOD for *nix, but they are usually log-in screens, or screen savers.
Do yourself a favor, and quit the BSOD/Linux relationship now while you MAY have a chance to escape/. unscathed.
We (the TAU of ME(Tux Anarchy Union of Mother Earth)-who are assuming control(ref: Rush:2112 Overture) are now own all yer base!) have spoken and will be watching you!
Even though I did not ask this question (not even thought about it really), your answer got me to thinking about it from that angle, and various little projects I've messed around with and had fun with will now require some more work on my part. I don't see it as an inconvenience, but an oversight on my part that needs corrected. Even if I could care less about anyone else being able to figure out what I was up to, the benefits for me alone are making the extra work on doc's desirable...I've lost stuff before where I had figured out some stuff, all the ins and outs, the relevent crap, etc.- and lost it all.
I'll now have to take 3 steps forward and 2 steps back due to my slackness in an offsite backup(DO NOT yell FIRE in my house, you insensitive clod!:-) ).
I'm getting older than dirt- just can't remember most of it anymore...what I was thinking THEN to make it work?....How did THAT work again (the easy way compared to the hard way)?, etc.
I now am almost fanatical about backups, but looking back on the few things I could recover I have to sometimes wonder: WTF?
You have hit the nail on the head...with an atomic sledgehammer. I salute!
I have learned the hard way that you speak truthfully and wisely. *bows down in homage*
*disclaimer: turn down sarcasm filter-in a strange way I am not joking...I really appreciate your post as a wake up call/WTF?!-Did you forget the basics, fool? kind of thing-really*
They just had to make sure Ballmer wasn't coming along- there is a chair shortage there. It also gave them time to gather the hardcopies of their latest 419 scam^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbusiness proposal for him to peruse.
All the nefarious world LOVES Bill and his sterling OS- once they found out that he wasn't denying Vista (as others have already joked about), the red carpet us rolled out: "Welcome MS!!! May our SPAM and phishes be your SPAM and phishes!!! BTW, got any spare botnets with you? Help us out, bro!"
I nominate Natalie Portman in Hot Grits as a baseline for this study....
"Thermal segregation then proceeded in a runaway process as the dark side lost its surface ice and got darker still. Now the leading hemisphere is as dark as a tarred street and the trailing hemisphere resembles freshly fallen snow."
So, we can terraform hot planets by tarring the streets and thus creating freshly fallen snow?...or does this mean that if we tar the streets then Natalie Portman will sled away with me in the new snow?
Do we have to create the streets first?, or just start 'tarring' everything- tarred and feathered?...would this be better still? The tar and nicotine content of my smokes must be interfering here....I'm going back to smoking hot grits....be back to you all after the study is completed next year...decade...century...whatever.( If Natalie Portman is involved, then don't expect to hear from me at all- I'll probably die from shock and not be able to reply!!!)
Yeah, I was going to nominate myself for this award, but when you put it that way....well, I have to concede to MS's Junk-fu. But does the Storm botnet run Linux?...No?, well I guess I am SOL here. The win goes to MS botNets, hands down.
I'll bet SETI@Home would love this kind of power- too bad it's relegated to Windows spambotnets.
Thankfully I have lost track of this shite since I have been running Kubuntu since 5.10.(now on 7.04, and no problems!)
I used to try to care, but now I am content to keep my own shite squared away, and let the rest muddle through on their own. I will help if asked, otherwise...Darwin Awards for you! ( why fsck up a good, stable network running great for me and my own)
It may be beyond me to answer your question about 'HILF's', but this is where I ended up upon completion of cleaning my Logitech TrackMan Marble mouse ball...Grhhh!
I feel somewhat cheated that my mouse only has one ball, but so do I, so we get along well.
Since I'm here tho'- I LUV MILF's! I even married the MILF I met! Where else can you get a one-balled BJ without going to a scary pr0n site? HILF's....mmmm, maybe 'Heterosexuals I'd Lovfe To Fsck?
But never would '* like to fsck' and Windows would come up in the same sentence from me.
More than likely it would be 'In Soviet Wherever, MS fscks YOU!
I don't have mod points (so no +1 Funny for you from me), so I am posting on this.(please note: I have no problems with your post-I think it's also insightful to me, but I am using it as a fulcrum to leverage my reply- think segue.
Your scenario. YES! BRING IT ON!!!...ASAP!!!
Personally, I despise cellphones and most cellphone users. I am 'trapped' in the public meatspace and constantly being subjected to cellphone users and their conversations at work. I FRIGGING don't care to hear your phone conversations...at all. What gives you all (cellphone users) the mindset that enables you to think that the rest of the public should bow down to your phone call when dealing with the public? Why should I care that you are at such and such a place doing whatever(totally unrelated to the situation). Like I really care about your babysitter problems during a conference at work. You all have become slaves/drones to your phone instead of using it as a viable tool.
Thanks to the internet and people more accomplished than me, I have found and implemented jammer tech at my home. Now I don't have to put up with any cellphone calls when in my own home...no matter who is visiting-they have zero signal, in or out. They have to leave my property (other than a small 2 ft. x 2ft. space in the back corner of my yard- and that corner is filled with rose bushes!!!!) to get a useable signal.
I'm tired of the hassles of dealing with the masses using their cellphones. The only two automobile accidents I've been involved in the past 25 years have been initiated by cellphone users running into me because they were distracted by their phone conversations, both not my fault(according to both the Police investigation, and the admittance of the phone-user involved). If you come into my place of business and try to juggle interacting with me(The Business-TM) and your phone conversation...I will ignore you and deal with EVERYONE ELSE before I EVEN acknowledge you exist, much less see what I can help you with. Problem with that? Too bad, keep yer private shit private...I'm not req'd by law to put up with it. Preferably, go somewhere if you can't use common sense and some vestige of what's acceptable in public.
Got problems with that??, then turn your shite off when you enter my house-it's MY CASTLE, AND I RUN THE KINGDOM! I can even unplug the landline from the phonejack!!! (only phone access into the house besides VOIP, which I also control)
Heh! Heh! Come around 'MyPlace' and get pwned, f*ck'd, and humiliated due to your cellphone- there is more than just a 'jammer' working...and I give first-time offenders the lowdown when they enter MyPlace (tm), so get over it.
(Lumpy_(12016): I am in full support of the reply you posted- please do take this as a personal attack! You just created a fulcrum that I could not resist!!
I think we are on the same side here, but if not....please reply.....I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Good point, and the Japanese are real good at pushing a tech base. Just from TFA, they are comparing it to the Zero fighter from WW2. That was the Pacific Theater 'Air Superiority Fighter' for the first couple of years back then. Don't put it past Mitsubishi to pull this off like they did with the original Zero.
"... You have to go active to see targets, particularly well concealed targets and that makes you "visible" as well. If the new JDAF fighter can remain "unseen" until it gets up close and personal and is a lighter, smaller and more nimble aircraft, the F-22 may have a problem."
Yeah, guided in by something like our own AWAC's or Aegis (sp?) class ships, that could be very effective, and by now via joint exercises I imagine they have this down pat.
I don't really see us getting into any armed conflict with Japan in the foreseeable future, but we do have a habit of trying to keep our hole card hidden.
No real surprise on the war games though...diesel-electric subs of modern design are only 'noisy' on the surface (or snorkel depth) when recharging the batteries with the diesel engines. Diesels are loud by nature, that's hard to work around, but our atomic powered subs still emit some noise where the diesel-electric boats have the potential to be even more quiet when submerged. I don't know what happened, but it would seem to me that the carrier battlegroup commander did not foresee this and thus did not plan/allow for this threat. "The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." Karl von Clausewitz and some quote about surprise only being in the mind of the commander that failed to plan for whatever happened. (horribly mangled paraphrase, but the basic concept is there- a quick, inept google search did not provide a remedy)
I would class this as a 'SWAG' (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) instead of just a WAG just due to the fact that you backed up your claims to somewhat in your delivery. Not actually scientific in the true, but basically equates to an 'educated guess', which you fulfilled.
In spite of your AC posting, I'm glad the current Moderators are giving you some love. Usually I never see (thus reply) to AC posts, but you bring up some interesting points that I'm appreciative of reading and now am able to think about.
I'm sure you have your reasons for posting AC, but you could set up several/. accounts to use if your normal one could be a problem at work, home, etc.
If your 'insight' only applies to this topic...that's cool, it was some good thinking and you asked good questions. (don't ask me for the right answers!-I don't have the brains or the time to be on top of everything that shows up on/,!)
If this is more typical of your insight in general, then set up an account so you can be seen by more people- that's the beauty of how a diverse online community like/. thrives and gives to it's users: different, informed, thoughtful, creative ideas, and viewpoints on many subjects.
Yeah, there's some noise too, but that's humans for you!
Maybe I'm just confused, or still dazed from work, but I'm having a hard time with bicycles and miles per gallon (mpg). Do you mean that with this tech they could build bikes so efficient that petroleum burning vehicles would be obsolete? I can vaguely imagine some (to me) near magical tech that combines a spring of this stuff with a flywheel system that enables you to pedal at first, then use stored energy...or something. (still dazed from work!) Trust me...I'm not trolling or flaming your post- I really don't understand where you were heading with this. Well, now that my brain is engaged, TFA mentions it is not pliable enough(compared to steel) to probably make a spring-but something else may come of this tech in that direction.
If you have the time and inclination, I would really appreciate a reply(here or email: myusername+@hotmail.DOTcom) from you about this...you seem to have a cognitive thought about this, but it's not jumping out and biting me yet. The light weight bike I get, but could this be taken much farther?
I used to cook in a restaurant, we were only open from 0500 to 1200 on Saturday, and were REALLY busy. We had hired a dishwasher named Billy- he was a stereotypical drunk, had several DUI's, and was confined to a bicycle as transportation. One Saturday he phoned in VERY drunk (I answered the phone) and claimed he 'couldn't get his bicycle started' and couldn't make it in to work. The boss fired him on the spot...er, the phone. I regretted the extra work, but I had to laugh my a** off!
Since there is no '+1 Extremely Insightful but Caustic Sarcasm' for this, I'm glad the current moderators have treated you well...that's some funny stuff you write!
"Seriously, that's what consumer reports and the Internet are for." Good point. The problem has had various attempts towards a solution for ages: guilds, unions, certifications, licenses, etc., but it's kind of like catching rainwater with a net. 'Word of mouth'(good or bad) advertising carries more weight with most people than some ad on TV as there seems to be a level of trust. Consumer Reportshttp://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm, and some internet sites have a good rep for good info-easy to access.
Actually, he just made an observation. I have also noted the same. Most people outside of your mom's basement just want their stuff to work. They don't care what makes it work, how it works, what technology it came from, etc.- just that they can make it work without a hassle...nothing more.
Crawl back in your mom's basement unless you have something useful to add to the discussion.
"It isn't just mechanics who do it..." How true. This is one of the reasons I quit working at a big name sound card company in Stillwater, Oklahoma as a tech support advisor. We were required to keep our call times down to a max of 8 minutes, required to meet a sales quota per week, and to push new accy's to the caller. My expectations about the job (even after the interview) led me to think I would be providing tech support, not bolstering their sales department. Needless to say, that job did not last too long (9 months or so?).
Me: Hello, thank you for calling ***, how can I help you? Caller: My MP3 player's LCD screen looks worse than a patchwork quilt-it's all blotches! Me: I see. What you need to do is go to our website, update your firmware, update the software, and maybe follow knowledge base article XYZ1234. While I have you on the phone...we have our 'go wherever' external speaker system and battery pack for your mp3 player available as a package deal right now- I can take your order right this minute with your credit card #!
Oh yeah, your mp3 player....Have you tried a new battery?- just let it charge at least 24 hours before you try it! If that don't work, call us back...We got yer back! *hangs up-6 min 45 sec! w00t!*
You would think that with all of the competition in most markets, that customer service would rate a high priority. Most outfits seem to view that as an expense with no payback anymore-they don't seem to want to look at the long view. Maybe that's the New Thing (tm), and valid now...I don't know, but maybe I'm just too old fashioned to really get it.
And yeah, women usually pay more for auto parts/repairs than men do. I've seen it happen too many times to doubt this. (my experience is women pay a 'gender surcharge' of around 15-20%)
This is a good point. The chances of any device working after a botched firmware update are usually very slim to mostly none.
"Most people are like your dad." Very true. They expect it to 'Just Work' out of the box like most other electrical appliances if hooked up properly.
Firmware? Software? Hardware? Beware?!?!?...WTF?!?!?...Shouldn't it just play my movie?
Yeah, this kind of crap will just go down like a brick in a swimming pool with the general public.
From a/. geek's POV, this is kind of sad, but a realistic view of the world outside of Mom's Basement(tm).:-)
"On the practical side, look at what a nightmare it is to keep windows updated. They want to do that with firmware?"
Heh! Heh! Your toaster just formed a rebel alliance with all other electrical appliances in your home to form a spam-serving botnet-just like Windows PC's do! LOL!!! Yeah- Joe Sixpack will LOVE having to deal with this!
I would suggest just recruiting some Monkey Ninja Pirate Robots to sail it for you. With their 133t skillz, they should remain undetected unless a container ship carrying music cd's and/or movie dvd's comes into Ahoy! range.
Oh, and look out for sharks with friggin' lasers attached to their heads-bad for sailboats.
And your ears are not vibration senors? Hmmm...methinks you may need some remedial education on this one.
Sound is nothing more complicated than the brain's reacting to specific nerve impulses from the auditory nerves due to vibrations affecting cilia (all 'tuned' to respond to specific frequencies of vibration-like piano strings) that are attached to these aforementioned nerves. Basically, sound is all in your head...outside of your head it's all just vibrations of varying frequencies.
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Lately I've had to do this with tv-links also, the download rate seemed much slower than the playback rate...or something. I would frequently have to pause and let the stream download. I did not know if it was my ISP (Suddenlink, used to be Cox- in north-central OK at Stillwater), or their website and/or links.
I hate to see this happen, there were a lot of things I would watch on tv-links. Most of it is not available readily elsewhere (to my knowledge) except from a torrent site.
I have an OSHA certified hardhat embedded in my skull, you insensitive clod!
Hold on, I'm picking up this really cool radio station in my head...Why are my dentures buzzing??? WTF?....Hey, I don't need my TV's remote control anymore!! w00t!!!
Then they would have to change the acronym BATF to something else, like BAMTF, or something. /. poll?
Perhaps this could be the next
If you could walk into the convenience store/gas station and ask for and get a 'pack of Northern Lights 100's', then I might warm up to my job as a convenience store clerk.
Why yes, I frequently post while drunk!
Depends on which end you are on- the giving end (upload), or the receiving end (you end up as Son of Goatse).
;)
You seem to be coming from the 'giving end' perspective...nothing wrong with that- better to give than receive as they say!
On a serious note, WTF?!?!?
Why is anyone still using ActiveX for anything? It's propensity for Bad Shit (TM) has been legendary for too long for this crap to keep happening. Anyone still using ActiveX needs beaten unconscious with a clue stick...last century!
As others have previously posted, RealPlayer works pretty good on *nix, but I will not let it near my wife's WinXP ProSP2 machine. So far on Windows (have no clue and don't care about Vista-my experience has been with Win 3.1, 95, 98SE, 2000, and XP Pro), it still sucks. Also as previous posters have said: the alternatives to RealPlayer would probably have the same issues under similar conditions that is experienced with RealPlayer.
Okay, to be fair and looking at the bright side:
We should applaud Real's Marketdroid-fu. This is a prime example of leveraging the synergy of the dynamics of the interaction of MS's Windows/IE combo and RealPlayer to maximum levels possible at this time. They both will continue to update the pogra^H^H^H^H^Hprograms to introduce new and unprecedented bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures as soon as R&D can infect^H^H^H^H^H^Himplement these upgrades to the cattle^H^H^H^H^H^Hconsumers.
This strategy will increase our profits^Wusefulness concerning our herd^Wconsumers, while obfusticating^Wmultitasking our resources to rape^Wreward our victims^Wpartners.
Or some such BS. YMMV, proceed at your own risk, caveat emptor,etc.
I think we are on the same side here, but this reply will let you (YES!-YOU are empowered here!!) decide, or rebuke my assumptions (but not my viewpoint-this is debatable!) as you see fit.
Regards!
Yeah, that's a good point. Dependence on DirectX has been a major stumbling block, but you still have to deal with the graphic card/chip drivers. *ATI-I'm glaring at you!* Historically, also some wireless drivers/support
It gets better all the time. I understand that there are those that instant gratification is not fast enough for them, but:
'As for me, I am looking forward to our new Gutsy Overlords!' (upgrading from Fiesty to Gutsy this weekend)
And I am waiting to see how ATI delivers on their Linux support coming Real Soon!
For any of your older games (Win 95-98) give DOSBox and VirtualBox a try- they work great for me and both are just a 'sudo apt-get install' away if you have the all of the Ubuntu/Kubuntu repositories enabled.
The only issue I've had running games on Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) have to do with glacial framerates due to my ATI vid card and the sucky drivers for same. I'm really looking forward to ATI's getting with the Linux program soon. (I've heard they will make it happen, but still waiting....)
BF2142...Uhmm, good luck with that. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it needing WinXPSP2 as one of it's requirements. This could be a stretch for Linux for a while.
I was a sniper and chopper pilot of some renown in Desert Combat (mod of BF1942), and made a lot of maps (coop/single player and conquest) for both BF1942 and Desert Combat when I still dual booted between Kubuntu 6.10 and WinXP Pro. When I went to Linux only, I had moved all of my maps and tools to my wife's WinXP machine. Unfortunately, the vid card (nVidia TNT64/32 MB AGP) wasn't enough for the tools- Battlecraft especially, but would at least run the game if I turned the eyecandy down.
My point is: gaming on Linux can be tricky, and sometimes VERY limited depending on your vid card/chip. nVidia can work well (so I've heard), Intel's chips seem to work really nice, but with ATI, you have a darn near impossible time getting any kind of hardware acceleration.
ATI example: with CentOS4, Fedora Core4 and 5, Mandrake 9.0, and Ubuntu 5.10(?) on a P3 800 kit with 512 MB PC133 RAM, TuxRacer worked great with the old nVidia TNT 64 card. Now with a P4 (prescott) 3.0, 2 gig's of PC3200 RAM and an ATI 9550 256 MB card, TuxRacer (now PPRacer?) only gets about one frame every several seconds- totally unplayable.
As to your 4th paragraph....ROCK ON, DUDE! that's the same way I go about it and have converted quite a few users to Ubuntu from Windows- they are even HAPPY now!
I work on PC's as a second job, and have gotten to the point of turning down Windows PC's except for some of my old customers- I just do not take on any 'my computer is running so slow, and what are all of these pop-ups about' type jobs anymore unless they agree to either a *nix install, or have their WGA approved Windows OS disc for a format/fresh install. I have decided that I don't want the money enough to deal with Windows other than a format and fresh install, and have further decided that Win Vista shall never enter my house or especially, my network.
I put up with my wife's WinXP ProSP2 (fully and currently patched, with current AV (Avast), Spybot Search and Destroy and their Tea Timer running with nightly scans (all current updates-nightly before the scans), Lavasoft's AdAware- updated and ran every night, Windows Defender, XP's firewall (has been configured as tight as practical *sigh*),and ZoneAlarm's firewall (active, restrictive settings, and current) because she seems determined to resist *nix assimilation, but that's probably my fault!
Never forget Google and the Ubuntu forums for info- they are your support friends. Other than ATI's crappy Linux support, I have found (easily) the solutions to any glitches that have reared their ugly head.
Side note: so far Automatix2 has worked great for me, but YMMV. Games are the only area I have found to be a hassle with Linux, but if ATI delivers....We'll see, but it sounds good.
FTFA:
"But GMR-based heads maxed out, and the industry replaced the technology in recent years with an entirely different kind of head. Yet researchers are predicting that technology will soon run into capacity problems, and now GMR is making a comeback as the next-generation successor."
*Scotty sets down mouse- looks at keyboard and replies:"How quaint."*
Having seen all of the referenced articles and links on my own, this just ties it all together nicely.
On the downside, if you haven't been subjected or hunted out the background info, TFA is kind of sparse.
Yes, but they also remount when you put another cd in. This can be changed.
/. unscathed.
Worried about a BSOD on Ubuntu? WTF?!?!? Quit trolling please....you are not taken as being rational or serious- Yeah, you can find app's that simulate a BSOD for *nix, but they are usually log-in screens, or screen savers.
Do yourself a favor, and quit the BSOD/Linux relationship now while you MAY have a chance to escape
We (the TAU of ME(Tux Anarchy Union of Mother Earth)-who are assuming control(ref: Rush:2112 Overture) are now own all yer base!) have spoken and will be watching you!
Even though I did not ask this question (not even thought about it really), your answer got me to thinking about it from that angle, and various little projects I've messed around with and had fun with will now require some more work on my part. I don't see it as an inconvenience, but an oversight on my part that needs corrected.
Even if I could care less about anyone else being able to figure out what I was up to, the benefits for me alone are making the extra work on doc's desirable...I've lost stuff before where I had figured out some stuff, all the ins and outs, the relevent crap, etc.- and lost it all.
I'll now have to take 3 steps forward and 2 steps back due to my slackness in an offsite backup(DO NOT yell FIRE in my house, you insensitive clod!
I'm getting older than dirt- just can't remember most of it anymore...what I was thinking THEN to make it work?....How did THAT work again (the easy way compared to the hard way)?, etc.
I now am almost fanatical about backups, but looking back on the few things I could recover I have to sometimes wonder: WTF?
You have hit the nail on the head...with an atomic sledgehammer. I salute!
I have learned the hard way that you speak truthfully and wisely. *bows down in homage*
*disclaimer: turn down sarcasm filter-in a strange way I am not joking...I really appreciate your post as a wake up call/WTF?!-Did you forget the basics, fool? kind of thing-really*
They just had to make sure Ballmer wasn't coming along- there is a chair shortage there.
It also gave them time to gather the hardcopies of their latest 419 scam^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbusiness proposal for him to peruse.
All the nefarious world LOVES Bill and his sterling OS- once they found out that he wasn't denying Vista (as others have already joked about), the red carpet us rolled out: "Welcome MS!!! May our SPAM and phishes be your SPAM and phishes!!! BTW, got any spare botnets with you? Help us out, bro!"
I nominate Natalie Portman in Hot Grits as a baseline for this study....
"Thermal segregation then proceeded in a runaway process as the dark side lost its surface ice and got darker still. Now the leading hemisphere is as dark as a tarred street and the trailing hemisphere resembles freshly fallen snow."
So, we can terraform hot planets by tarring the streets and thus creating freshly fallen snow?...or does this mean that if we tar the streets then Natalie Portman will sled away with me in the new snow?
Do we have to create the streets first?, or just start 'tarring' everything- tarred and feathered?...would this be better still? The tar and nicotine content of my smokes must be interfering here....I'm going back to smoking hot grits....be back to you all after the study is completed next year...decade...century...whatever.( If Natalie Portman is involved, then don't expect to hear from me at all- I'll probably die from shock and not be able to reply!!!)
Yeah, I was going to nominate myself for this award, but when you put it that way....well, I have to concede to MS's Junk-fu.
But does the Storm botnet run Linux?...No?, well I guess I am SOL here.
The win goes to MS botNets, hands down.
I'll bet SETI@Home would love this kind of power- too bad it's relegated to Windows spambotnets.
Thankfully I have lost track of this shite since I have been running Kubuntu since 5.10.(now on 7.04, and no problems!)
Yes, I caught the recent article about the cracked Linux boxes: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217, but I also saw this: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/07/1722202, so I am still leaning towards MS systems causing the most problems.
I used to try to care, but now I am content to keep my own shite squared away, and let the rest muddle through on their own.
I will help if asked, otherwise...Darwin Awards for you! ( why fsck up a good, stable network running great for me and my own)
It may be beyond me to answer your question about 'HILF's', but this is where I ended up upon completion of cleaning my Logitech TrackMan Marble mouse ball...Grhhh!
I feel somewhat cheated that my mouse only has one ball, but so do I, so we get along well.
Since I'm here tho'- I LUV MILF's! I even married the MILF I met! Where else can you get a one-balled BJ without going to a scary pr0n site?
HILF's....mmmm, maybe 'Heterosexuals I'd Lovfe To Fsck?
But never would '* like to fsck' and Windows would come up in the same sentence from me.
More than likely it would be 'In Soviet Wherever, MS fscks YOU!
I don't have mod points (so no +1 Funny for you from me), so I am posting on this.(please note: I have no problems with your post-I think it's also insightful to me, but I am using it as a fulcrum to leverage my reply- think segue.
Your scenario. YES! BRING IT ON!!!...ASAP!!!
Personally, I despise cellphones and most cellphone users. I am 'trapped' in the public meatspace and constantly being subjected to cellphone users and their conversations at work. I FRIGGING don't care to hear your phone conversations...at all.
What gives you all (cellphone users) the mindset that enables you to think that the rest of the public should bow down to your phone call when dealing with the public? Why should I care that you are at such and such a place doing whatever(totally unrelated to the situation). Like I really care about your babysitter problems during a conference at work.
You all have become slaves/drones to your phone instead of using it as a viable tool.
Thanks to the internet and people more accomplished than me, I have found and implemented jammer tech at my home. Now I don't have to put up with any cellphone calls when in my own home...no matter who is visiting-they have zero signal, in or out. They have to leave my property (other than a small 2 ft. x 2ft. space in the back corner of my yard- and that corner is filled with rose bushes!!!!) to get a useable signal.
I'm tired of the hassles of dealing with the masses using their cellphones.
The only two automobile accidents I've been involved in the past 25 years have been initiated by cellphone users running into me because they were distracted by their phone conversations, both not my fault(according to both the Police investigation, and the admittance of the phone-user involved).
If you come into my place of business and try to juggle interacting with me(The Business-TM) and your phone conversation...I will ignore you and deal with EVERYONE ELSE before I EVEN acknowledge you exist, much less see what I can help you with.
Problem with that? Too bad, keep yer private shit private...I'm not req'd by law to put up with it. Preferably, go somewhere if you can't use common sense and some vestige of what's acceptable in public.
Got problems with that??, then turn your shite off when you enter my house-it's MY CASTLE, AND I RUN THE KINGDOM! I can even unplug the landline from the phonejack!!! (only phone access into the house besides VOIP, which I also control)
Heh! Heh! Come around 'MyPlace' and get pwned, f*ck'd, and humiliated due to your cellphone- there is more than just a 'jammer' working...and I give first-time offenders the lowdown when they enter MyPlace (tm), so get over it.
(Lumpy_(12016):
I am in full support of the reply you posted- please do take this as a personal attack! You just created a fulcrum that I could not resist!!
I think we are on the same side here, but if not....please reply.....I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Good point, and the Japanese are real good at pushing a tech base.
Just from TFA, they are comparing it to the Zero fighter from WW2. That was the Pacific Theater 'Air Superiority Fighter' for the first couple of years back then. Don't put it past Mitsubishi to pull this off like they did with the original Zero.
"... You have to go active to see targets, particularly well concealed targets and that makes you "visible" as well. If the new JDAF fighter can remain "unseen" until it gets up close and personal and is a lighter, smaller and more nimble aircraft, the F-22 may have a problem."
Yeah, guided in by something like our own AWAC's or Aegis (sp?) class ships, that could be very effective, and by now via joint exercises I imagine they have this down pat.
I don't really see us getting into any armed conflict with Japan in the foreseeable future, but we do have a habit of trying to keep our hole card hidden.
No real surprise on the war games though...diesel-electric subs of modern design are only 'noisy' on the surface (or snorkel depth) when recharging the batteries with the diesel engines. Diesels are loud by nature, that's hard to work around, but our atomic powered subs still emit some noise where the diesel-electric boats have the potential to be even more quiet when submerged.
I don't know what happened, but it would seem to me that the carrier battlegroup commander did not foresee this and thus did not plan/allow for this threat.
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." Karl von Clausewitz and some quote about surprise only being in the mind of the commander that failed to plan for whatever happened. (horribly mangled paraphrase, but the basic concept is there- a quick, inept google search did not provide a remedy)
"My WAG is that..."
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I would class this as a 'SWAG' (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) instead of just a WAG just due to the fact that you backed up your claims to somewhat in your delivery. Not actually scientific in the true, but basically equates to an 'educated guess', which you fulfilled.
In spite of your AC posting, I'm glad the current Moderators are giving you some love.
Usually I never see (thus reply) to AC posts, but you bring up some interesting points that I'm appreciative of reading and now am able to think about.
I'm sure you have your reasons for posting AC, but you could set up several
If your 'insight' only applies to this topic...that's cool, it was some good thinking and you asked good questions. (don't ask me for the right answers!-I don't have the brains or the time to be on top of everything that shows up on
If this is more typical of your insight in general, then set up an account so you can be seen by more people- that's the beauty of how a diverse online community like
Yeah, there's some noise too, but that's humans for you!
Maybe I'm just confused, or still dazed from work, but I'm having a hard time with bicycles and miles per gallon (mpg). Do you mean that with this tech they could build bikes so efficient that petroleum burning vehicles would be obsolete?
I can vaguely imagine some (to me) near magical tech that combines a spring of this stuff with a flywheel system that enables you to pedal at first, then use stored energy...or something. (still dazed from work!) Trust me...I'm not trolling or flaming your post- I really don't understand where you were heading with this.
Well, now that my brain is engaged, TFA mentions it is not pliable enough(compared to steel) to probably make a spring-but something else may come of this tech in that direction.
If you have the time and inclination, I would really appreciate a reply(here or email: myusername+@hotmail.DOTcom) from you about this...you seem to have a cognitive thought about this, but it's not jumping out and biting me yet.
The light weight bike I get, but could this be taken much farther?
I used to cook in a restaurant, we were only open from 0500 to 1200 on Saturday, and were REALLY busy. We had hired a dishwasher named Billy- he was a stereotypical drunk, had several DUI's, and was confined to a bicycle as transportation. One Saturday he phoned in VERY drunk (I answered the phone) and claimed he 'couldn't get his bicycle started' and couldn't make it in to work. The boss fired him on the spot...er, the phone. I regretted the extra work, but I had to laugh my a** off!
Heh! Heh!
/.!....nevermind! *looks out basement window at cute neighbor's house again wistfully*
When I'm drillin', I don't "bottom out" 'til 8 inches..er, I mean miles.
What? Oh, this is
Televised Darwin Awards?!?!?
For that I would actually start watching TV again! Finally, a REAL reality show!
I am intrigued sir, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Why yes, I am cynical, and believe society has outsmarted itself. It's a case of we are educated beyond our intelligence.
Since there is no '+1 Extremely Insightful but Caustic Sarcasm' for this, I'm glad the current moderators have treated you well...that's some funny stuff you write!
"Seriously, that's what consumer reports and the Internet are for."
Good point. The problem has had various attempts towards a solution for ages: guilds, unions, certifications, licenses, etc., but it's kind of like catching rainwater with a net.
'Word of mouth'(good or bad) advertising carries more weight with most people than some ad on TV as there seems to be a level of trust. Consumer Reportshttp://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm, and some internet sites have a good rep for good info-easy to access.
No, his point was exactly what he stated.
Actually, he just made an observation. I have also noted the same.
Most people outside of your mom's basement just want their stuff to work. They don't care what makes it work, how it works, what technology it came from, etc.- just that they can make it work without a hassle...nothing more.
Crawl back in your mom's basement unless you have something useful to add to the discussion.
BEGONE TROLL!!!!
"It isn't just mechanics who do it..."
How true.
This is one of the reasons I quit working at a big name sound card company in Stillwater, Oklahoma as a tech support advisor.
We were required to keep our call times down to a max of 8 minutes, required to meet a sales quota per week, and to push new accy's to the caller. My expectations about the job (even after the interview) led me to think I would be providing tech support, not bolstering their sales department.
Needless to say, that job did not last too long (9 months or so?).
Me: Hello, thank you for calling ***, how can I help you?
Caller: My MP3 player's LCD screen looks worse than a patchwork quilt-it's all blotches!
Me: I see. What you need to do is go to our website, update your firmware, update the software, and maybe follow knowledge base article XYZ1234.
While I have you on the phone...we have our 'go wherever' external speaker system and battery pack for your mp3 player available as a package deal right now- I can take your order right this minute with your credit card #!
Oh yeah, your mp3 player....Have you tried a new battery?- just let it charge at least 24 hours before you try it!
If that don't work, call us back...We got yer back! *hangs up-6 min 45 sec! w00t!*
You would think that with all of the competition in most markets, that customer service would rate a high priority. Most outfits seem to view that as an expense with no payback anymore-they don't seem to want to look at the long view. Maybe that's the New Thing (tm), and valid now...I don't know, but maybe I'm just too old fashioned to really get it.
And yeah, women usually pay more for auto parts/repairs than men do. I've seen it happen too many times to doubt this. (my experience is women pay a 'gender surcharge' of around 15-20%)
"...forbid something happen mid-stream."
/. geek's POV, this is kind of sad, but a realistic view of the world outside of Mom's Basement(tm). :-)
This is a good point. The chances of any device working after a botched firmware update are usually very slim to mostly none.
"Most people are like your dad."
Very true. They expect it to 'Just Work' out of the box like most other electrical appliances if hooked up properly.
Firmware? Software? Hardware? Beware?!?!?...WTF?!?!?...Shouldn't it just play my movie?
Yeah, this kind of crap will just go down like a brick in a swimming pool with the general public.
From a
"On the practical side, look at what a nightmare it is to keep windows updated. They want to do that with firmware?"
Heh! Heh! Your toaster just formed a rebel alliance with all other electrical appliances in your home to form a spam-serving botnet-just like Windows PC's do! LOL!!! Yeah- Joe Sixpack will LOVE having to deal with this!
I would suggest just recruiting some Monkey Ninja Pirate Robots to sail it for you.
With their 133t skillz, they should remain undetected unless a container ship carrying music cd's and/or movie dvd's comes into Ahoy! range.
Oh, and look out for sharks with friggin' lasers attached to their heads-bad for sailboats.
And your ears are not vibration senors? Hmmm...methinks you may need some remedial education on this one.
Sound is nothing more complicated than the brain's reacting to specific nerve impulses from the auditory nerves due to vibrations affecting cilia (all 'tuned' to respond to specific frequencies of vibration-like piano strings) that are attached to these aforementioned nerves.
Basically, sound is all in your head...outside of your head it's all just vibrations of varying frequencies.