How much will all this video equipment weigh? Won't these race drivers be wanting to get the lightest possible car for strategic advangages. Anyways, this seems very cool.
If you are building your own system and trying to stay legit, you would buy your own copy of windows, you can legally get an OEM copy if you buy a motherboard/hard drive. Now I imagine this scenario, you buy a Dell computer, 2 years later your PIII-800 is feeling a little slow, so you swap out the ATX board with a board designed for a Pentium VII 2000Mhz, all goes well until inevitabley Windows breaks and its time to reinstall, the Dell Windows CD won't find the Dell BIOS any longer even though you legally are entitled to install Windows on that machine.
Considering that OS X is only going to be realeased for PPC, VMWare which is a virtualization program for x86 machines wouldn't work. There is the possibility of using existing Linux/BSD binaries for the PPC platform on OS X, and things such as X have already been ported, but OS X is going to be a consumer app, not a Unix clone. BTW, by the text about Unicode circles, are you talking about Larry Wall's section in Open Sources?
Even though its a flash animation, its funny, but I don't think that promoting piracy to the general public as a benefit of your services is good marketing, the obviously know that the/. crowd is generally anti-IP-law though, since they had the balls to do that.
I've been using the nightly bulids of Mozilla (pre-M16) for a while now and they have been much more stable and fast then Netscape is. This Opera browser seems like a good idea for low-memory systems though, Mozilla takes up 16m+. Does Opera support Java/SSL/JavaScript/DHTML though? These features are important to many people, and if Linux newbies find these to be missing they may have a negative image of the entire OS as being behind the times. Anyways, choice is good, bring on the new browsers!
What's happening with (H)DTV in other countries. IIRC in Japan they were pursuing a High-Def analog format. Anyone know what's going on with high-def in Europe? It also seems as if the television makers are trying to keep DTV capable TV prices at a premium as long as they can. For example, Sony makes a Wega 34" 16:9 HDTV capable set which sells for ~$6000. In America, this and some of their high end XBR projection screens are the only progressive-scan models. Whereas in Japan, they offer 29" and 34" 4:3 progressive scan models at seemingly resonable prices. AFAIK, when tuner boxes for DTV come down in price, it will only make a big difference for sets that progressive scan, which should be able to display 480P at least.
Looks like its time to re-install Windows...
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With Diablo II coming out and my sudden urge to use my DVD-ROM to play movies, it looks like I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and install Windows again. I hear that 98lite is the way to go if you're only using Windows for a few specialized tasks, but any other suggestions on how to keep win9x from taking up too much space?
This is cool that they were able to make a cluster for so cheap, but what advantages does this have over a beowulf cluster of Linux boxes? Also, in what areas is FreeBSD superiour to linux outside of clustering?
What about the stoner musician (guy with the weird 'nightcap') ? It seems that they have the Japanese equivalent of a stoner, a dumb blonde, and a thug (the big guy who wears a suit), of course it might just be the crappy dubbing making her seem stupid. I wonder how entertaining the show would be without the bad dubbing and silly charachters though? I personally enjoy the food stuff, but my family just watches it for laughs. Sucks about Fuji TV taking the sites down though
I guess I'm being skeptical here, but I won't buy into this whole Crusoe/Transmeta idea until I can sit at my breakfast table reading/. using wireless LAN. I think we are putting too much of a focus on this company simply because of Linus' involvement with them, which, while it may make Linux run better on the Crusoe chip, is not really that big of a deal. The entire webpad concept could be created right now using other lowpower chips such as the StrongArm, so what's the real need for the Crusoe, in an embedded system, you're not going to need 400+ Mhz of speed. It just seems that by the time this comes out, Intel will already have much faster, smaller die size chips that will blow it away for high speed work, and other low power chips such as StrongArm will continue to advance in technology as well.
I tried to install the ISO of Mandrake 7.0, It began to install, but couldn't read the CDROM afterwords. I'm using a SCSI Pioneer DVD-ROM on a Diamond Fireport 20. It boots the CD and all, but it can't read any of the RPMs to install, I don't think its mounting the disc correctly. I'll have to have my friend burn a 7.1 ISO for me to try out. Anyone else have problems with SCSI DVD/CD ROMs and Mandrake's installer?
Yes, my mom's work outsources programming work to programmers in India. From what I have heard, they make about 1/2 of what American programmers make. Although the best programmers usually get promoted to jobs in America with higher pay. We are transitioning from having sweatshop factory workers to having 'programming sweatshops' in poorer countries where people can by payed lower salaries for mind-work that would command more in this country. Is this wrong? I don't think so since the standard of living is lower in these countries, and making $25k USD may buy a lot more stuff over there.
When reiser, xfs, ext3 and all are finished and stable, which of them do you feel will become the de facto standard for Linux systems? I can see the prospect of three or four different filesystems as creating fragmentation in the Linux distributions. What are the advantages of each of the filesystems? I know ext3 can upgrade an existing ext2 system with the addition of the journal file, xfs has the backing of a major company (SGI) and reiserfs is supposed to be the fastest (no?), but which will be successful in the end?
I'm not sure if Excite@Home provides a (mandatory) proxy for their users to use for access (Cox@Home does). If that were the case, I know that Squid provides the abilities to limit both bandwith to client and also from the outside servers themselves. Or would they be using QoS to raise the priority to all connections to *.yourcompany.com? IMHO this is a bad idea, I mean imagine if Infinity Broadcasting (A radio chain, not the speaker company) paid Sony to make their recievers get the signal from Infinity stations better than other ones, thus enticing the reciever's users to listen to the Infinity stations. Doesn't sound like such a good idea, eh?
I'm using a 3dfx Banshee (ELSA Victory II) which I picked up for $50 a long time ago. You probably could pick up a Voodoo 3 in your price range. 3dfx currently has the best driver support, but NVidia and Matrox are quickly catching up. You probably could also get a TNT2 for ~$100, but the driver support currently isn't as good as the 3dfx support.
While I do play the occasional game on Linux (mostly quakeworld), I feel that Windows still offers a better platform for gamimg. Support for video, sound and input devices is better in Windows when it comes to speed and features. Even though Windows may be a better platform for games, I still agree that games for Linux are a Good Thing for sure, since even though they may not be as fast, they usually are more stable than their Windows counterparts. Also, they provide the advantage of not having to reboot, which I don't do except to play DVD movies. If video and sound card makers would offer higher quality drivers, publishers would see Linux as a better gaming platform, but they won't do that until there are more games to take advantage of their hardware, so that leaves us in a chicken and egg scenario. Oh well, I'll probably buy both a better vid card and some games sometime soon to show my support
I love seeing these kind of hacks, after about a week of boring stories and napster this and that, we've finally got a sweet hack to drool at. I'm just really really happy here, I've been waiting for a good story for the past couple days, good work slashdot.
I've tried Blade, LAME, and GoGo, and I've found that Bladeenc produced both the lowest quality MP3s and was also the slowest. However, I feel that patent issues over the MP3 format may cause some to push for an open solution such as Ogg Vorbis to our music compression needs. I hope that these issues can be settled though, I don't like to see people having their rights taken.
OT but, my Sony car CD player actually does need you to insert a quarter to play a CD. Every one that I've had has had the loading motor break in a month or less, so I've just given up. Now you have to push the cd in as far as you can, and use a quarter or other flat object to push it down onto the spindle. Perhaps Sony should patent this, and maybe make the quarters accidentally fall into some type of container:)
You obviously have no idea, I know my mother's company (A large investment firm) has many people in India who write code for them. There are areas in India which *are* technologically advanced, mainly the large cities. Problem is, the Indian programmers get paid about 1/2 of the american ones, but the good ones get promoted to work in america. And so what if the less advanced cultures are trying to use the internet to communicate with other english-speaking people. You don't own the internet, and you can't say that its only for English Speaking Technoids, I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. I have to deal with people speaking broken/no english every day in school, but I deal with those people as best I can, some of them actually turn out to be decent people once you get to know them, so please try not to judge people based on how technologically advanced their country is but instead what kind of people they are in general
When I first started using Linux desktops, I found GNOME to be terribly unstable. I tried versions up to 1.0 and still they had panel crashes every hour or so. I also tried KDE, but it was not astheticly appealing to me. I finally decided on Enlightenment without any other panel/filemanager. For me, the CLI is good enough to manage my files, and Enlightenment's root menu starts my apps just fine without crashing. It looks good too (see my screenshot on my website). However, I feel that GNOME provides a useful application set for Linux newbies, and for that I will applaud them, maybe I'll even give 1.2 a whirl on my other box. Keep up the good work.
Belive me, I'm sure that M$ will find some way (either legal or technical) to prevent the loading of another OS, of course, thoughts of $200 PIII 600s with NVida cards are very good. Although, someone will probably figure out how to hack it, then MS will end up changing the system again and again, same as Sony did to combat modchips (AFAIK, the latest systems are sealed and don't even have a paralell port anymore). This is MS we're talking about, I'm sure they've got the money/people to combat any 'uprising' from the 'evil linux commnuity'
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Considering that OS X is only going to be realeased for PPC, VMWare which is a virtualization program for x86 machines wouldn't work. There is the possibility of using existing Linux/BSD binaries for the PPC platform on OS X, and things such as X have already been ported, but OS X is going to be a consumer app, not a Unix clone. BTW, by the text about Unicode circles, are you talking about Larry Wall's section in Open Sources?
When reiser, xfs, ext3 and all are finished and stable, which of them do you feel will become the de facto standard for Linux systems? I can see the prospect of three or four different filesystems as creating fragmentation in the Linux distributions. What are the advantages of each of the filesystems? I know ext3 can upgrade an existing ext2 system with the addition of the journal file, xfs has the backing of a major company (SGI) and reiserfs is supposed to be the fastest (no?), but which will be successful in the end?
I. Thou shalt have no other MP3 Search Engines before Me
/kill a Napster user unless you are Metallica
II. Thou shoult not make unto Napster any incomplete MP3s
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the lord, Napster, in vain
IV. Thou shalt useth Napster every day to keep it holy
V. Honor Napster's Father, IRC, and its Mother, Fraunhofer
VI. Thou shalt not
VII. Thou shalt not try to pick up horny thirteen year old girls on Napster
VIII. Thou shalt not download MP3s that you do not have the CD of
IIX. Thau shalt not lie to Metallica just to have your account re-activiated
IX. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbors DSL connection
X. Nor their MP3 Files, or any other 'property' of thiers
I. Thou shalt have no other MP3 Search Engines before Me
/kill a Napster user unless you are Metallica
II. Thou shoult not make unto Napster any incomplete MP3s
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the lord, Napster, in vain
IV. Remember to use Napster every day to keep it holy
V. Honor Napster's Father, IRC, and its Mother, Fraunhoffer
VI. Thou shalt not
VII. Thou shalt not try to pick up horny thirteen year old girls on Napster
VIII. Thou shalt download MP3s that you do not have the CD of
IIX. Thau shalt not lie to Metallica just to have your account re-activiated
IX. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbors DSL connection
X. Nor their MP3 Files, or any other 'property' of thiers
When I first started using Linux desktops, I found GNOME to be terribly unstable. I tried versions up to 1.0 and still they had panel crashes every hour or so. I also tried KDE, but it was not astheticly appealing to me. I finally decided on Enlightenment without any other panel/filemanager. For me, the CLI is good enough to manage my files, and Enlightenment's root menu starts my apps just fine without crashing. It looks good too (see my screenshot on my website). However, I feel that GNOME provides a useful application set for Linux newbies, and for that I will applaud them, maybe I'll even give 1.2 a whirl on my other box. Keep up the good work.