There is also Vores Øl (danish for Our Beer), a beer where the recipe is licensed under creative commons.
Details and recipe are available from http://www.voresoel.dk/. Unfortunately it is not currently available for purchase (it says on their homepage that they drank it instead).
What is disappointing is that the only FPU intensive benchmark (powray test) is actually won by the Athlon.
All the synthetic benchmarks seem to be integer benchmarks. The prime generator is, and super_pi is most likely also, just as TSCP (a chess simulator). MySQL is also integer intensive.
However it is strange that the Athlon wins the MySQL-insert benchmark, but looses select benchmark. The select benchmark should be memory intensive (because of the amount of RAM in the system), and the Insert should be disk-intensive (because of the need to sync).
Where are the FPU intensive benchmarks that the Athlon is trounced in?
Under normal circumstances a prime finder application does not use the FPU. And I also doubt that the super_pi application uses the FPU. However the powray benchmark (which actually uses the FPU), is one of the benchmarks where the Athlon wins.
So it would seem that it is the Integer benchmarks where the Athlon looses, instead. This also corresponds with how the normal Athlon fares against the normal Pentium.
As far as I have heard, the easiest way to get break such a cable, is to take a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher and spray the wire. Once the cable is throughly frozen, you will be able to break it apart with your hands.
I have also heard about the same trick being applied to motorcycle/bicycle locks.
I think that the problems with open-sourcing the drivers are that it will allow patent holders to look at the code, and see which patents a specific card is violating.
If I remember correctly, it is illegal to reverse engineer software in the US. So the patentholders cannot reverse engineer the drivers and then say: "You are violating our patents", because then they would have broken the law in order to do so.
However this is not an excuse for keeping the specs of the card secret. If there were parts of the specs that would be "off-limits" they could just leave them out.
However, I still bought an ATI Radeon 9600, even though I have to use a closed source driver for 3D. ATI still releases specs for 2D, which is better than NVidia releasing no specs at all...
I have a SB Live! 5.1 card and I have succesfully gotten AC3 passthrough working in Linux, using the driver from opensource.creative.com and xine.
You need the emu-tools from the same page, in order to correctly setup our card, but after that, everything works great. Normal sound is sent digitally as PCM... So Digital-out support is supported at least for Linux, and have been for at least half a year...
Unfortunately they seem to break down if they're used heavily. I have a Panasonic drive now that works, but the first one (also a Panasonic) lasted only a month, before it wouldn't read any floppies. The same thing happened to my friend's, and the two at my school. It seems as if they're unable to determine if it's a LS120 disk or a normal floppy, unless you fiddle a bit with the disk.
The new one have lasted almost a year now, but I haven't used it half as much as the old one.
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Details and recipe are available from http://www.voresoel.dk/. Unfortunately it is not currently available for purchase (it says on their homepage that they drank it instead).
However it is strange that the Athlon wins the MySQL-insert benchmark, but looses select benchmark. The select benchmark should be memory intensive (because of the amount of RAM in the system), and the Insert should be disk-intensive (because of the need to sync).
Where are the FPU intensive benchmarks that the Athlon is trounced in?
Under normal circumstances a prime finder application does not use the FPU. And I also doubt that the super_pi application uses the FPU. However the powray benchmark (which actually uses the FPU), is one of the benchmarks where the Athlon wins.
So it would seem that it is the Integer benchmarks where the Athlon looses, instead. This also corresponds with how the normal Athlon fares against the normal Pentium.
As far as I have heard, the easiest way to get break such a cable, is to take a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher and spray the wire. Once the cable is throughly frozen, you will be able to break it apart with your hands.
I have also heard about the same trick being applied to motorcycle/bicycle locks.
You can test if your browser supports MNG, by pointing it at:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/mngpics.html
My Konqueror (from Debian Unstable) does, but firefox (also from Debian Unstable) does not.
I think that the problems with open-sourcing the drivers are that it will allow patent holders to look at the code, and see which patents a specific card is violating.
If I remember correctly, it is illegal to reverse engineer software in the US. So the patentholders cannot reverse engineer the drivers and then say: "You are violating our patents", because then they would have broken the law in order to do so.
However this is not an excuse for keeping the specs of the card secret. If there were parts of the specs that would be "off-limits" they could just leave them out.
However, I still bought an ATI Radeon 9600, even though I have to use a closed source driver for 3D. ATI still releases specs for 2D, which is better than NVidia releasing no specs at all...
But if they have an uptime of almost 400 days and are running Linux, it also means that they are still vulnerable to the ptrace vulnerability.
:-(
Not very smart
I have a SB Live! 5.1 card and I have succesfully gotten AC3 passthrough working in Linux, using the driver from opensource.creative.com and xine.
You need the emu-tools from the same page, in order to correctly setup our card, but after that, everything works great. Normal sound is sent digitally as PCM... So Digital-out support is supported at least for Linux, and have been for at least half a year...
Unfortunately they seem to break down if they're used heavily. I have a Panasonic drive now that works, but the first one (also a Panasonic) lasted only a month, before it wouldn't read any floppies. The same thing happened to my friend's, and the two at my school. It seems as if they're unable to determine if it's a LS120 disk or a normal floppy, unless you fiddle a bit with the disk.
The new one have lasted almost a year now, but I haven't used it half as much as the old one.