as is mentioned earlier matrox will not release spec for the triangle set up. nvidia gives us everything, and even wrote the driver under a free licence. this ones real hard to figure out...
but thats just because its a bit more relevant to something i want to set up. anyway, im surprised red hat even bothered if its true that hardware is stacked in NTs favor. i doubt MS would accept if the hardware had to be agreed on by both sides. maybe the test should go on for three months on a publically accessable web server (the request is switched off to both with identical content) with a few equal CGIs (like a search). and count the server crashes of course...
id love to see Bill Vs RMS on celebrity death match! (or a real one for that matter)
see my post above (subject line:wishfull thinking) if they did it would probably be for tnt2. (or tnt3?)
maybe when xfree86-4.0 ships?
wishful thinking, but i dont see it happening.
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i keep hearning rumors that nvidia will support 3d for linux, or even that is has happend, supposedly weeks ago. i have yet to see anything resembling proof of this. alot of rumors are spread by wishfull thinking.
we still have sgi and for those that can deal with the limitations, 3dfx.
at 7:10am saturday morning (pacific time) i dont think this storys been up more than 1/2 hour.
how to "hot swap" scsi devices(with our rebooting)
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keep your internal drives on another scsi bus or on IDE. when you want to change your external devices, simply unload the scsi modules, and reload them as nescesary. modularity is a good thing. (yes this does imply linux. would not be surprised if some other OSs could also do it)
ive been doing this for years with my scsi zip drive.
still like using xemacs with its cc mode, integrated gdb etc. the only things it lacks are something to browse the structure of the code and something like sgis (who was also once known as sgi) opengl debugger. perhaps one of the IDEs being worked has stuff like this?
technically, it does not need three mouse buttons, buts its a pain to use X11 (the GUI) with only two mouse buttons. the only notebooks ive ever seen with three mouse buttons are sparc based.
you can you both buttons to emulate the third, but that does work with all applications (blender is a good example)
im more interested in getting work done than gaming.
is there a way to get 3d with an overlay planes in linux?
mesa does not support trimmed nurbs, this can be a problem with using mesa as the "standard" openGL for XFree86. trim curve support is important for 3d apps (maya etc)
i use slackware, but usually recomend red hat.
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it depends on what they want. i like it for myself and recomend it to those who want to learn directly. i like what red hat does and want to support them, but their dist is just not my taste. may go with them or debian for a little while anyway, the whole libc6 / libc5 thing is annoying...
i also prefer online docs. printed docs are often out of date (except for classics, like the C programming language). anyway, i think you may have a bad monitor or the lights in that room are too dim. these things can strain your eyes, sometimes causing a headache. it also helps for some people to have a high (at least 75) refresh rate.
that said, books that deal more with concept i do prefer in print. like the math book im learning from. (my school, the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, sucked so i have to teach myself now) but that which is more syntax is far better in print. using man pages is still easier than looking something some obscure function call in an appendix.
"The ultimate pipe dream would be if people felt compelled to switch because they found some killer app that just doesn't run on windows quite yet...."
id still prefer being able to choose my OS independantly of choosing applications.
you can just set it up with mlvwm and put everything they want in the "apple" menu. thats what i did for my compleatly computer illiterate roomate. no problems. you can even setuid a script for ppp. it shuts down cleanly when the modem is turned off. my opinion, but you can make an easier interface with unix/X than with NT.
of course, installing new software is different matter, but with you doing that, you can look for potential problems with anything requested before you install it.
people dont buy alphas blindly (at least lets hope not). lots of people buy alphas for linux. intel helped cygnus optimize gcc for intel. those looking for compiler performance will know this. it speaks louder than trying to sell the dec compiler for linux (somehow i suspect thats what you want to do) another compiler is a hard sell on very GNUish platforms. do the same thing, youll recover the costs in selling alphas alot faster than in sales of your super optimizing compiler.
compaq has the best catering service i have ever seen!
people tell me all the time that they would love to see maya, discreet (now theres something that will never happen, ive never seen a company more dependant on wintel than kinetix), alias etc. mostly irix people who like the better render times of wintel boxen but miss the environment and stability of linux. and MS haters who also refuse to touch a mac (perception as a toy and a crappy OS)
one of the things thats good about linux is that you can choose (or migrate)your hardware without worrying about software. this is lessening with all the binary only software out there.
There are companies like Mental Ray who write good software for all platforms of linux as well as the other OSs they support. (of course being funded by hollywood may have something to do with why they can afford to do this)
but anyway, it is another reason that open source software is preferable.
Slashdot Mirror
that sucks! whos your ISP? what you do with your
bandwith is your buissiness, not thiers.
thinking about getting one to run maya. K6
had some compatibility problems (at least we have seen stability problems with K6 consistantly).
"Version 1.1 also allows for the secure transfer of passwords"
hows uncle sam going to take to this? is it a
munition? crypto laws suck...
as is mentioned earlier matrox will not release
spec for the triangle set up. nvidia gives us
everything, and even wrote the driver under a
free licence. this ones real hard to figure out...
but thats just because its a bit more relevant
to something i want to set up. anyway, im
surprised red hat even bothered if its
true that hardware is stacked in NTs favor.
i doubt MS would accept if the hardware had to
be agreed on by both sides. maybe the test
should go on for three months on a publically
accessable web server (the request is switched
off to both with identical content) with a few
equal CGIs (like a search). and count the server
crashes of course...
id love to see Bill Vs RMS on celebrity
death match! (or a real one for that matter)
openBSD seems good. havent tried it yet.
also, if your web serving needs are simple,
use tinyhttpd. less hassel, and less load.
if you do use linux, i also find 2.0.36 to work
better than 2.2.x for such things.
see my post above (subject line:wishfull thinking)
if they did it would probably be for tnt2.
(or tnt3?)
maybe when xfree86-4.0 ships?
i keep hearning rumors that nvidia will support
3d for linux, or even that is has happend,
supposedly weeks ago. i have yet to see anything
resembling proof of this. alot of rumors are
spread by wishfull thinking.
we still have sgi and for those that can deal
with the limitations, 3dfx.
at 7:10am saturday morning (pacific time)
i dont think this storys been up more than
1/2 hour.
keep your internal drives on another scsi bus or on IDE. when you want to change your external devices, simply unload the scsi modules, and
reload them as nescesary. modularity is a good thing. (yes this does imply linux. would not be
surprised if some other OSs could also do it)
ive been doing this for years with my scsi zip drive.
still like using xemacs with its cc mode, integrated gdb etc. the only things it lacks are
something to browse the structure of the code and
something like sgis (who was also once known as sgi) opengl debugger. perhaps one of the IDEs
being worked has stuff like this?
technically, it does not need three mouse buttons, buts its a pain to use X11 (the GUI) with only
two mouse buttons. the only notebooks ive ever
seen with three mouse buttons are sparc based.
you can you both buttons to emulate the third,
but that does work with all applications (blender
is a good example)
im more interested in getting work done than gaming.
is there a way to get 3d with an overlay planes
in linux?
mesa does not support trimmed nurbs, this can be
a problem with using mesa as the "standard" openGL
for XFree86. trim curve support is important for
3d apps (maya etc)
it depends on what they want. i like it for
myself and recomend it to those who want to learn
directly. i like what red hat does and want to
support them, but their dist is just not my taste.
may go with them or debian for a little while anyway, the whole libc6 / libc5 thing is annoying...
isnt anything in print by definition outdated?
i also prefer online docs. printed docs are often
out of date (except for classics, like the C programming language). anyway, i think you may
have a bad monitor or the lights in that room are
too dim. these things can strain your eyes,
sometimes causing a headache. it also helps for
some people to have a high (at least 75) refresh rate.
that said, books that deal more with concept i do
prefer in print. like the math book im learning from. (my school, the Army and Navy Academy in
Carlsbad, sucked so i have to teach myself now)
but that which is more syntax is far better in print. using man pages is still easier than looking something some obscure function call in an
appendix.
i have used C in a philosophy class when it more
elegantly expressed my thought than english.
also, i have a friend with whom our conversation is usually a hybrid of c and english.
"The ultimate pipe dream would be if people
felt compelled to switch because they found some killer app that just doesn't run on windows quite yet...."
id still prefer being able to choose my OS independantly of choosing applications.
you can just set it up with mlvwm and put
everything they want in the "apple" menu. thats
what i did for my compleatly computer illiterate
roomate. no problems. you can even setuid a script
for ppp. it shuts down cleanly when the modem is
turned off. my opinion, but you can make an
easier interface with unix/X than with NT.
of course, installing new software is different matter, but with you doing that, you can look for
potential problems with anything requested before
you install it.
people dont buy alphas blindly (at least lets hope
not). lots of people buy alphas for linux. intel
helped cygnus optimize gcc for intel. those
looking for compiler performance will know this.
it speaks louder than trying to sell the dec
compiler for linux (somehow i suspect thats what you want to do) another compiler is a hard sell on
very GNUish platforms. do the same thing, youll
recover the costs in selling alphas alot faster than in sales of your super optimizing compiler.
compaq has the best catering service i have ever
seen!
i also want blender to be free. i was willing
to pay alot more for that manual. i hope it
happens....
go to blenders site and search for lightwave on
the news archives. i did a comparison of both
dont like TCL, but i do like tk.
yes i have written tcl code.
people tell me all the time that they would
love to see maya, discreet (now theres something
that will never happen, ive never seen a company
more dependant on wintel than kinetix), alias etc.
mostly irix people who like the better render times
of wintel boxen but miss the environment and
stability of linux. and MS haters who also refuse
to touch a mac (perception as a toy and a crappy OS)
one of the things thats good about linux
is that you can choose (or migrate)your hardware without worrying about software. this is lessening
with all the binary only software out there.
There are companies like Mental Ray who write
good software for all platforms of linux as well
as the other OSs they support. (of course being
funded by hollywood may have something to do
with why they can afford to do this)
but anyway, it is another reason that open source
software is preferable.