The more I think about this the more I don't buy at all that the circuitry to provide even DVI-I, let alone regular 15 pin video, is very expensive. It just doesn't make any sense at all.
(not replying specifically to your post but to whole thread)
Your economic lession agrees with my current MacroEconomics class. Most boring class I'm taking this semester but that has nothing to do with the material itself;).
But this is no longer true with DVI, right? Obviously some circuitry is still required but the analog->digital conversion is no longer needed and that should reduce complexity quite a bit.
You should do a google search with your part number. Follow the links to the many LCD sellers and see if they can hook you up with the correct part. Form letter time;).
More importantly this merely expands the 640x480 to 1024x768 resulting in lots of fuzzy stuff. The labs at school run their 15" desktop LCDs at 800x600 instead of native 1024x768 and it looks about as fuzzy. I think they do it for accessability reasons but at least they don't lock down the control panel so it can be set to 1024x768 (with cleartext) if one so desires!
But those fuzzies just weren't worth it. I'd much rather have a *real* 1024x768 console.
I used to keep the console simple too except I've always had problems with this Dell Inspiron 4000 and display corruption when switching back and forth from console to X Windows. Recently I installed Slackware 9.0 and it uses the vesa fb by default (even for X!). I've been using it for a while and no display corruption at all. It works wonderfully and as a side benefit I get a nice big 1024x768 console fulling my LCD instead of some little odd looking 640x480 centered portion.
I'm a convert to the fb world. Of course I had to move X off of that vesa fb to the ati 128 driver but it was a pretty neat installation setup.
I agree with you 100%. I think the story writer mentioned eDonkey just to stop the howls of "this is just an eDonkey knock-off protocol" instead of "oooh, sweet isos, come to me babies..." I've used eDonkey before and it was a bit crufty software wise and usually had very few servers in the US. I'm all for a different implementation but give credit where credit is due.
Well of course it isn't exactly cheap as it is a negotiated contract with MS but the out of immediate pocket expense for most major compuses, and even smaller state community colleges, is fairly low for MS products. I can get Office XP for $25 or $35, XP for $35, dev pack for $40 and lots more and this is just a community college. Some major campuses have XP/2000 licenses for $5!
Microsoft products are crap no matter what the cost or license.
I like their mice and they have an excellent warranty and customer service. At least two of my optical mice have had the wires in the cord break where they enter the mouse body. Somewhat easy to fix with a soldering iron but MS will send a replacement mouse at absolutely no cost.
I just got a free MS optical notebook mouse which rocks! Nice short cord so no excess slack, same sweet little scroll wheel, and of course optical so it works on the leather arm of my chair.
I think part of it too is that OpenBSD is so small compared to a linux distribution. Lots of people use it for firewalls without XFree86 so the floppy install works excellently. There is no need for an ISO. Now if you want to run it on your desktop...
With gzip 1.2.4 the file containing "42" (3 bytes) results in a compressed size of 25 bytes.
So did you make a pkzip compatible file or a gzip file? I tried Winzip 8.1 SR-1 (5266) here on a Win2k system and the file with "42" (4 bytes, made with edit.com) became a 104 byte zip file.
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Immediately I'm thinking of politicians having heart attacks because well coordinated media blitzes are no longer functional! This would be awesome but definately perturbing to the general populace.
Thanks! For some reason I couldn't get google to bring up the 2nd part. Did you end up clicking on the author name and looking for the 2nd part via post titles?
So when you need to upgrade your multiple laptops you could just buy one nice laptop, a couple beautiful 17" LCDs, and a couple of mITX computers instead of buying multiple laptops. It doesn't sound like you need to upgrade anytime soon since you aren't hitting any performance limitations in the laptops (guessing) but eventually the day will come.
You think the bungee cords would stretch enough to let the hard drive hit the asphalt? Back to the drawing board--maybe mounting the hard drive underneath the car wasn't such a great idea!
Be sure to read up on the M10000 as Via didn't put in the CPU core that they had spec'ed for the initial release. Maybe by now they've released the new core.
Are you sure that it is actually his site and not a mirror? The google link to a.de page for his site, and apparently he is in Germany, is still shut down with a "come back after Sept. 20th" message...
Does anyone know more about where the project came from? I'm guessing internally from Suse as there aren't any links to external sites where development and source is available as far as I can see. The price and question page mentions the package includes 4 source CDs but is the only way to get the code to buy the package?
For a smaller company this might fly but for a bigger company the person asking this question has to be someone who has some power. Such change won't happen from the backoffice outward. Only forward thinking CEOs who embrace low cost replacements for windows licenses will adopt a "whole 9 yards" approach to open source.
This of course doesn't contradict anything you've said in your post--I'm just thinking about the medium-largish companies.
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The novelty of this wore off in 1998.
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The more I think about this the more I don't buy at all that the circuitry to provide even DVI-I, let alone regular 15 pin video, is very expensive. It just doesn't make any sense at all.
(not replying specifically to your post but to whole thread)
it ... doesn't ... stop ... for ... a ... long ... time ... come ... back ... in ... 24 ... hours ... just ... a ... bunch ... of ... wankers ... damn ... april ... fools ... it ... ain't ... funny ... no ... more ... pathetic
Your economic lession agrees with my current MacroEconomics class. Most boring class I'm taking this semester but that has nothing to do with the material itself ;).
But this is no longer true with DVI, right? Obviously some circuitry is still required but the analog->digital conversion is no longer needed and that should reduce complexity quite a bit.
You should do a google search with your part number. Follow the links to the many LCD sellers and see if they can hook you up with the correct part. Form letter time ;).
More importantly this merely expands the 640x480 to 1024x768 resulting in lots of fuzzy stuff. The labs at school run their 15" desktop LCDs at 800x600 instead of native 1024x768 and it looks about as fuzzy. I think they do it for accessability reasons but at least they don't lock down the control panel so it can be set to 1024x768 (with cleartext) if one so desires!
But those fuzzies just weren't worth it. I'd much rather have a *real* 1024x768 console.
I used to keep the console simple too except I've always had problems with this Dell Inspiron 4000 and display corruption when switching back and forth from console to X Windows. Recently I installed Slackware 9.0 and it uses the vesa fb by default (even for X!). I've been using it for a while and no display corruption at all. It works wonderfully and as a side benefit I get a nice big 1024x768 console fulling my LCD instead of some little odd looking 640x480 centered portion.
I'm a convert to the fb world. Of course I had to move X off of that vesa fb to the ati 128 driver but it was a pretty neat installation setup.
I agree with you 100%. I think the story writer mentioned eDonkey just to stop the howls of "this is just an eDonkey knock-off protocol" instead of "oooh, sweet isos, come to me babies..." I've used eDonkey before and it was a bit crufty software wise and usually had very few servers in the US. I'm all for a different implementation but give credit where credit is due.
Well of course it isn't exactly cheap as it is a negotiated contract with MS but the out of immediate pocket expense for most major compuses, and even smaller state community colleges, is fairly low for MS products. I can get Office XP for $25 or $35, XP for $35, dev pack for $40 and lots more and this is just a community college. Some major campuses have XP/2000 licenses for $5!
Microsoft products are crap no matter what the cost or license.
I like their mice and they have an excellent warranty and customer service. At least two of my optical mice have had the wires in the cord break where they enter the mouse body. Somewhat easy to fix with a soldering iron but MS will send a replacement mouse at absolutely no cost.
I just got a free MS optical notebook mouse which rocks! Nice short cord so no excess slack, same sweet little scroll wheel, and of course optical so it works on the leather arm of my chair.
Good stuff.
Do you have anything to back up the claim that the gaming industry is bigger than the movies and music industry?
I think part of it too is that OpenBSD is so small compared to a linux distribution. Lots of people use it for firewalls without XFree86 so the floppy install works excellently. There is no need for an ISO. Now if you want to run it on your desktop...
With gzip 1.2.4 the file containing "42" (3 bytes) results in a compressed size of 25 bytes.
So did you make a pkzip compatible file or a gzip file? I tried Winzip 8.1 SR-1 (5266) here on a Win2k system and the file with "42" (4 bytes, made with edit.com) became a 104 byte zip file.
Immediately I'm thinking of politicians having heart attacks because well coordinated media blitzes are no longer functional! This would be awesome but definately perturbing to the general populace.
Thanks! For some reason I couldn't get google to bring up the 2nd part. Did you end up clicking on the author name and looking for the 2nd part via post titles?
Here is part of "My Fake Job" found on alt.punk. It goes up to Day 16. Anyone have a link to the rest?
alt.punk part 1 of "My Fake Job"
Whomever hired this group to deliver a look without html to back up their approach should be put in charge of something they understand.
So when you need to upgrade your multiple laptops you could just buy one nice laptop, a couple beautiful 17" LCDs, and a couple of mITX computers instead of buying multiple laptops. It doesn't sound like you need to upgrade anytime soon since you aren't hitting any performance limitations in the laptops (guessing) but eventually the day will come.
So they started putting stuff between the PCB layers? Wow! Cool...
You think the bungee cords would stretch enough to let the hard drive hit the asphalt? Back to the drawing board--maybe mounting the hard drive underneath the car wasn't such a great idea!
Be sure to read up on the M10000 as Via didn't put in the CPU core that they had spec'ed for the initial release. Maybe by now they've released the new core.
Are you sure that it is actually his site and not a mirror? The google link to a .de page for his site, and apparently he is in Germany, is still shut down with a "come back after Sept. 20th" message...
Does anyone know more about where the project came from? I'm guessing internally from Suse as there aren't any links to external sites where development and source is available as far as I can see. The price and question page mentions the package includes 4 source CDs but is the only way to get the code to buy the package?
For a smaller company this might fly but for a bigger company the person asking this question has to be someone who has some power. Such change won't happen from the backoffice outward. Only forward thinking CEOs who embrace low cost replacements for windows licenses will adopt a "whole 9 yards" approach to open source.
This of course doesn't contradict anything you've said in your post--I'm just thinking about the medium-largish companies.