What are you talking about? It's written in C++. The Microsoft XBOX SDK, a plugin for MS Visual Studio is required to compile the xbox binary. There is currently no open-source compiler that can produce xbox binaries. It's also not based on WMP 9 in any way. Video and audio playing parts are basically an xbox port of port of MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). And what do you mean by lowering costs by $200 below the price of a modded xbox? A PC/Mono based solution for $0 or -$50 ?
I am running 2.6.6 now and nvidia-installer from NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1 compiled a module for me without a hitch, just like on previous 2.6 kernels. No problems whatsoever.
Ditch the white earphones, period. If you're going to spend a few hundred bucks on a portable music player you may as well spend a bit more to actually be able to experience the full sound quality the iPod is able to provide. My recommendation: Etymotic ER-4P. Anyone who's heard them plugged into an iPod will see that the original white earphones are laughably bad in comparison and do not do the iPod justice. It's like a night & day difference. The etymotics just sound so much clearer, crisper and better in every way...
Does anybody have a howto on how I can migrate my LVM version 1.0.7 volumes from 2.4.23 to 2.6.0? I know LVM has been replaced by device-mapper. Do I have to run some kind of conversion tool, or will device mapper just magically find and activate my LVMs? I can't find any information on this.
Takes thin 2.5" laptop harddisks, 10 hours battery life, 2 second bootup time, nice and simple menu system, USB interface.
Been out for almost 2 years but it's still the best HD-based portable player, way better than the Nomad (only 2-3 hour battery life, bigger and heavier, worse sound quality, up to 30 seconds bootup) or Archos.
I've got a 30 gig drive in mine and use it with Etymotic ER4P noise isolating hifi earphones... Can't beat 300 full albums worth of music at 192kbit in your pocket...
There are some great games out for the DC, many look just as good as what's currently out for the PS2. At these prices it's great value for money. Some of my favorites:
-Soul Calibur
-Dead Or Alive 2
-Powerstone
-Powerstone 2
-V Rally 2
-Ferrari 355 Challenge
-Crazy Taxi 2
-Soldier of Fortune
-Unreal Tournament
-Quake III
There's also CD images on the net containing hundreds of NES / SNES images along with well working emulators...
Rock solid as 2.2.1? I'm running 2.2.1 stable on Xfree 4.10 / Kernel 2.4.10 and Konqueror is not stable at all - Try looking at local directories in tree mode, then select a few and move them around between different windows by dragging, segfaults all the time. Also happens sometimes when selecting several directories to delete at once. I have also experienced some segfaults while browsing websites which I don't recall the 2.0 ever doing. I hope they improve stability too cos this is getting a bit like Windows...
I had big problems with 2.4.9, despite 512 megs of RAM it was swapping needlessly when using KDE which slowed the box to a crawl sometimes (screen redraws taking seconds, CD writes messed up). Reiserfs also seemed slower than it should have been (e.g. listing a directory with hundreds of symlinks in Konqueror) - both of these things seem completely fixed in 2.4.10, box is running perfectly now. A very worthwhile upgrade
Will someone get their facts right?? Greatdomains.com is a domain auction site, an Ebay specifically for domains. They do NOT own races.com, look it up in whois.register.com (that's a whois server, not a website). Some guy in the UK registered the name.
They are not the same company. Register.com runs an affiliate program (add a banner on your site and receive a cut of registration fees) and Greatdomains is an affiliate. Furthermore, Greatdomains is only an Ebay specifically for domains, someone else is using them to auction the races.com name, Greatdomains doesn't actually own it. Lastly I think there's nothing wrong with grabbing good GENERIC names and selling them later. Checking whether anyone has a "right" to a certain name is subjective and totally impractical, especially considering that tens of thousands of domains are registered every day. Don't get me wrong, I think it's immoral to grab names of exisiting companies and then extorting those companies. Although in this particular case, if I were the second illegitimate owner of races.com I would give the name back as I wasn't really supposed to have it in the first place.
For things like 128 bit browsers and PGP, why do people bother with these complex schemes for legally bypassing the restrictions (e.g. OCR'ing the sources from paper)? I don't understand why the original files aren't made more widely available on servers outside the US - It's not like you're breaking any laws that apply to you if you host a copy of a 128 bit SSL browser or similar on a site that's located outside the US. I'd like to see more places like ftp.replay.com (located in Holland, serving the US versions of all the browsers etc). If it's about US companies trying to sell their software abroad, ideas such as developing on a foreign server might be worth considering, but I think there's way too much fuss about getting hold of US versions of software - only one person needs to break the law by exporting (you're hardly gonna get caught for an ftp transfer), once it's outside export restrictions don't apply anymore.
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What are you talking about? It's written in C++. The Microsoft XBOX SDK, a plugin for MS Visual Studio is required to compile the xbox binary. There is currently no open-source compiler that can produce xbox binaries. It's also not based on WMP 9 in any way. Video and audio playing parts are basically an xbox port of port of MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). And what do you mean by lowering costs by $200 below the price of a modded xbox? A PC/Mono based solution for $0 or -$50 ?
I am running 2.6.6 now and nvidia-installer from NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1 compiled a module for me without a hitch, just like on previous 2.6 kernels. No problems whatsoever.
Ditch the white earphones, period. If you're going to spend a few hundred bucks on a portable music player you may as well spend a bit more to actually be able to experience the full sound quality the iPod is able to provide. My recommendation: Etymotic ER-4P. Anyone who's heard them plugged into an iPod will see that the original white earphones are laughably bad in comparison and do not do the iPod justice. It's like a night & day difference. The etymotics just sound so much clearer, crisper and better in every way...
Does anybody have a howto on how I can migrate my LVM version 1.0.7 volumes from 2.4.23 to 2.6.0? I know LVM has been replaced by device-mapper. Do I have to run some kind of conversion tool, or will device mapper just magically find and activate my LVMs? I can't find any information on this.
www.pjbox.com, www.mp3factorydirect.net
Takes thin 2.5" laptop harddisks, 10 hours battery life, 2 second bootup time, nice and simple menu system, USB interface.
Been out for almost 2 years but it's still the best HD-based portable player, way better than the Nomad (only 2-3 hour battery life, bigger and heavier, worse sound quality, up to 30 seconds bootup) or Archos.
I've got a 30 gig drive in mine and use it with Etymotic ER4P noise isolating hifi earphones... Can't beat 300 full albums worth of music at 192kbit in your pocket...
There are some great games out for the DC, many look just as good as what's currently out for the PS2. At these prices it's great value for money. Some of my favorites:
-Soul Calibur
-Dead Or Alive 2
-Powerstone
-Powerstone 2
-V Rally 2
-Ferrari 355 Challenge
-Crazy Taxi 2
-Soldier of Fortune
-Unreal Tournament
-Quake III
There's also CD images on the net containing hundreds of NES / SNES images along with well working emulators...
Rock solid as 2.2.1? I'm running 2.2.1 stable on Xfree 4.10 / Kernel 2.4.10 and Konqueror is not stable at all - Try looking at local directories in tree mode, then select a few and move them around between different windows by dragging, segfaults all the time. Also happens sometimes when selecting several directories to delete at once. I have also experienced some segfaults while browsing websites which I don't recall the 2.0 ever doing. I hope they improve stability too cos this is getting a bit like Windows...
I had big problems with 2.4.9, despite 512 megs of RAM it was swapping needlessly when using KDE which slowed the box to a crawl sometimes (screen redraws taking seconds, CD writes messed up). Reiserfs also seemed slower than it should have been (e.g. listing a directory with hundreds of symlinks in Konqueror) - both of these things seem completely fixed in 2.4.10, box is running perfectly now. A very worthwhile upgrade
Will someone get their facts right?? Greatdomains.com is a domain auction site, an Ebay specifically for domains. They do NOT own races.com, look it up in whois.register.com (that's a whois server, not a website). Some guy in the UK registered the name.
They are not the same company. Register.com runs an affiliate program (add a banner on your site and receive a cut of registration fees) and Greatdomains is an affiliate. Furthermore, Greatdomains is only an Ebay specifically for domains, someone else is using them to auction the races.com name, Greatdomains doesn't actually own it. Lastly I think there's nothing wrong with grabbing good GENERIC names and selling them later. Checking whether anyone has a "right" to a certain name is subjective and totally impractical, especially considering that tens of thousands of domains are registered every day. Don't get me wrong, I think it's immoral to grab names of exisiting companies and then extorting those companies. Although in this particular case, if I were the second illegitimate owner of races.com I would give the name back as I wasn't really supposed to have it in the first place.
For things like 128 bit browsers and PGP, why do people bother with these complex schemes for legally bypassing the restrictions (e.g. OCR'ing the sources from paper)? I don't understand why the original files aren't made more widely available on servers outside the US - It's not like you're breaking any laws that apply to you if you host a copy of a 128 bit SSL browser or similar on a site that's located outside the US.
I'd like to see more places like ftp.replay.com (located in Holland, serving the US versions of all the browsers etc). If it's about US companies trying to sell their software abroad, ideas such as developing on a foreign server might be worth considering, but I think there's way too much fuss about getting hold of US versions of software - only one person needs to break the law by exporting (you're hardly gonna get caught for an ftp transfer), once it's outside export restrictions don't apply anymore.