NewTek has already stated that they will *not* port to linux. A/W and RFX (one of thier distributor) keeps getting requests for a linux port and they did already do the renderer. since maya does not need trim support in open GL (it does its own) maya can run on mesa. they would be foolish not to.
for some reason a/w announced a mac port (to os x i believe) - oh wait!, os X got delayed. i would not be surprised if apple payed them for it. (some rumor about a trade for quicktime 4 or something) as vocal as the mac market is, most of the desktop 3d market (in studios) is still irix and NT with alot of people still wanting to use linux, especially with the recent ports and announcements of new ports. until then its the renderfarm / server (small server) OS. big servers being solaris, irix, etc.
even then the linux port would be more for studios and the like. they are the ones clamoring for that and actually have clout.
Apple should just let OS X run ppc linux binaries so people writing linux apps can just compile those. theyll need something like an X server but for apple it shouldnt be that big a deal.
mpeg is spelled out in "Computer Networks A Systems Approach" by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, published by Morgan Kaufmann. its not the actuall spec, but an explination of how its done so theoretically you could make your own version of it. but it could help as you go over the source for mpeg codec.
im stay with the g400 for now wait until the 3d thing is more settled. that way your real needs (good static images) are being met.
dont bet on any hardware untill the drivers actually are released. how do we know microsoft wont buy nvidia next week? after compaq bought digital, ill believe almost anything can happen there.
also, the only benchmark that really counts the application your using.
It seems nvidia fears losing thier secrets and intelectuall property (or the company they licenced from). if this is a concern, how come we dont see matrox card rip offs for example?
of course the company nvidia licenced from has no reason to care for nvidias problems, it does not hurt them at all and they may even use it to somehow try to get more $$ from nvidia...
im not opposed to nvidia using thier own infrastructure to open GL and all that, just the binary only thing. if they dont like DRI, thats thier right to implement as they see fit.
of course its thier right to only release binary drivers too, but they should not expect much bussiness from me.
for everyone dismissing thier recomendation, that depends on their needs/ethics etc., not yours.
wouldnt it be nice to have an alpha with a good card? i dont have either (still using the original mellenium) but ill guess this is much easier with a g400 then an nvidia card...
email is too easy to forge. files on computers are too easy to change. timestamps can be altered.
while its true that a photograph can be faked altered etc (yes, you can output to negative and then process as normal) usually clues can give it away, such as the "noise" being too regular in one part of said picture etc. its a game of cat and mouse.
this is not so easy with files. files are a closed set and thus alot easier to doctor for the courts without leaving any holes.
i personally dont think any electronic communication should be concidered admissible evidence in any court of law.
>Which is easier to forge? A digital signature, or pen and ink signature? I would guess the latter.
which is easier to steal? i would guess the former. its easier to remember that you signed something in pen and paper then to remember that you mouse clicked it when your testifying in court.
i dont know how hard/easy it is to forge a signature in front of the so called handwriting experts. (because i know nothing about that)
as to a digital signature, how paranoid do you have to be about such a sensitive piece of data?
the software already exists. almost everyone already has it, and AFAIK its still the best compression available.(especially when mpegs start using wavelet compression)
think about it, they make a lot of money. i would not be surprised if many of them came out of the companies that make the "protection" software. (norton, symantic etc)
i think some of these companies would not like seeing reliable free software hit the mainstream because that would distroy thier market.
one more reason not to use commercial, closed source software in the first place.
most X software works best with at least 3 mouse buttons, and using any of it with a 2 button mouse is a pain. so is the x server hack with holding down both mouse buttons to emulate the one in the middle. a notebook really made for use with X would have a 3 button pointer.
the only notebook i know of which has 3 button mice and are still affordable by most of us are thinkpads (yes, i know of tadpole and RDI, i said affordable by most of us) but they have thier own support problems when it comes to linux. like the modem support, and i think sound card support too. dont know if thats been solved yet.
perception becomes reality / drug pushers
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at least in the minds of the money people in software. all of these reports could simply be engineered to an effect, or they could just be happinging on thier own, either case is really bad news for MS if thats what chinas media is really doing and/or the people believe it.
i think using free software encourages self reliance and some form of independance (you can come up with your own solution, you can fix it, you dont have to wait for someone else) for some, even a responsibility to report bugs or not complain. this is something MS dont like since they want china to give them lots of money and dependence, thus leading to more money. alot like a drug pusher. is this close to the perception of MS in china?
thats ghostscript doing the rendering thats taking forever (and possibly the conversion to postscript) if you get a printer with postscript on board(1) its as fast in linux as in any other unix(2)
i guess this is just another driver thing. those makeing personal printers make windose drivers (and mac drivers if your lucky) and linux just does it like the rest of unix, postscript. unfortuneatly, postscript is unheardof in commercial software land. if adobe was not greedy about postscript it probably would have become the standard it was supposed to be.
(1) This is expensive. all ive seen are laser printers.
(2) Sco, i dont care what your lawers think, linux is a unix.
the page at intel says to use samba and dave for mac or unix.
AFAIK, linux is the only "unix" that can actually mount an smb share. otherwise its smbclient, which is similar to ftp. not nearly as nice as just mounting a share.
DAVE is a commercial product. this may be a concern to some potential users.
the cobalt cube also does appletalk and nfs. of course, so can freebsd but for some reason intel chose not to enable either.
in the case of appletalk i dont blame them. it has to be the most inefficent file sharing ive ever seen. (stupid packets the just get sent along for no reason (keepalive?) bogging down the rest of that subnet)
anyway, i dont know the price/performance etc of these devices let alone how they compare, but for a small department, the cube seems like a much better buy.
i dont work for cobalt or even use thier product, just making an observation. i did just set up a freebsd file server / gateway / firewall (and then converted it to openbsd because freebsd is still using the broken rsaref and i need to ssh in.) so i found the article interesting.
many people here are wondering about accountability etc of those who wrote the software. theres nothing wrong with a hospital paying for the development of open source software and still holding the authors accountable, or at least going back to them when/if something goes wrong. thats between the two parties involved.
having installed it several times now, its always been good in the install. never failed to detect and use both nics (every machine i installed on had two nics, including a notebook with a pair of pcmcia ones) never had to do anything beyond just letting the default media type do its thing.
ftp is great, when your network is configured, it goes out on the net and gets a list of ftp sites for you. (unless you tell it not to) i dont know of any linux dist that does this. IMO, getting the CD is really more for supporting the cause than actually installing the OS. if you split up the architectures, all the install packages for a given one fit on a (100meg) zip disk. (about 70megs for x86)
does this release include the october release of gnome?
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since they are so similar, it could just be the little details like the installation.
example, ibm thinkpad 701. you probably want the easiest/fastest install in case you want to do it again. turns out the freebsd could not detect its hard drive. netbsds install did not offer to clear the MBR which had lilo on it (when i got it, it had linux on it) so it runs openbsd.
i still think openbsd is easier to install than the other two, except that you do cant just use a default partition table, but i never do that anyway.
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for some reason a/w announced a mac port (to os x i believe) - oh wait!, os X got delayed. i would not be surprised if apple payed them for it. (some rumor about a trade for quicktime 4 or something) as vocal as the mac market is, most of the desktop 3d market (in studios) is still irix and NT with alot of people still wanting to use linux, especially with the recent ports and announcements of new ports. until then its the renderfarm / server (small server) OS. big servers being solaris, irix, etc.
even then the linux port would be more for studios and the like. they are the ones clamoring for that and actually have clout.
Apple should just let OS X run ppc linux binaries so people writing linux apps can just compile those. theyll need something like an X server but for apple it shouldnt be that big a deal.
mpeg is spelled out in "Computer Networks A Systems Approach" by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, published by Morgan Kaufmann. its not the actuall spec, but an explination of how its done so theoretically you could make your own version of it. but it could help as you go over the source for mpeg codec.
im stay with the g400 for now wait until the 3d thing is more settled. that way your real needs (good static images) are being met.
dont bet on any hardware untill the drivers actually are released. how do we know microsoft wont buy nvidia next week? after compaq bought digital, ill believe almost anything can happen there.
also, the only benchmark that really counts the application your using.
It seems nvidia fears losing thier secrets and intelectuall property (or the company they licenced from). if this is a concern, how come we dont see matrox card rip offs for example?
of course the company nvidia licenced from has no reason to care for nvidias problems, it does not hurt them at all and they may even use it to somehow try to get more $$ from nvidia...
im not opposed to nvidia using thier own infrastructure to open GL and all that, just the binary only thing. if they dont like DRI, thats thier right to implement as they see fit.
of course its thier right to only release binary drivers too, but they should not expect much bussiness from me.
for everyone dismissing thier recomendation, that depends on their needs/ethics etc., not yours.
wouldnt it be nice to have an alpha with a good card? i dont have either (still using the original mellenium) but ill guess this is much easier with a g400 then an nvidia card...
Kinetix (now discreet) would have to rewrite most
of MAX to get it to linux. its steeped in wintel.
while its true that a photograph can be faked altered etc (yes, you can output to negative and then process as normal) usually clues can give it away, such as the "noise" being too regular in one part of said picture etc. its a game of cat and mouse.
this is not so easy with files. files are a closed set and thus alot easier to doctor for the courts without leaving any holes.
i personally dont think any electronic communication should be concidered admissible evidence in any court of law.
so whatever happend to the fifth ammedment?
pass in quick on ne3 proto tcp/udp from any port = 4000 to any port > 1024
use your network interface instead of ne3 and put this line in /etc/ipf.rules /etc/ipf.rules to restart the firewall.
then, ipf -Fa -f
>Which is easier to forge? A digital signature, or pen and ink signature? I would guess the latter.
which is easier to steal? i would guess the former. its easier to remember that you signed something in pen and paper then to remember that you mouse clicked it when your testifying in court.
i dont know how hard/easy it is to forge a signature in front of the so called handwriting experts. (because i know nothing about that)
as to a digital signature, how paranoid do you have to be about such a sensitive piece of data?
the software already exists. almost everyone already has it, and AFAIK its still the best compression available.(especially when mpegs start using wavelet compression)
i think some of these companies would not like seeing reliable free software hit the mainstream because that would distroy thier market.
one more reason not to use commercial, closed source software in the first place.
no matter how much they parade security, its still software for which the user does not have source, and thus, can not trust.
most X software works best with at least 3 mouse buttons, and using any of it with a 2 button mouse is a pain. so is the x server hack with holding down both mouse buttons to emulate the one in the middle. a notebook really made for use with X would have a 3 button pointer.
the only notebook i know of which has 3 button mice and are still affordable by most of us are thinkpads (yes, i know of tadpole and RDI, i said affordable by most of us) but they have thier own support problems when it comes to linux. like the modem support, and i think sound card support too. dont know if thats been solved yet.
i think using free software encourages self reliance and some form of independance (you can come up with your own solution, you can fix it, you dont have to wait for someone else) for some, even a responsibility to report bugs or not complain. this is something MS dont like since they want china to give them lots of money and dependence, thus leading to more money. alot like a drug pusher. is this close to the perception of MS in china?
i guess this is just another driver thing. those makeing personal printers make windose drivers (and mac drivers if your lucky) and linux just does it like the rest of unix, postscript. unfortuneatly, postscript is unheardof in commercial software land. if adobe was not greedy about postscript it probably would have become the standard it was supposed to be.
(1) This is expensive. all ive seen are laser printers.
(2) Sco, i dont care what your lawers think, linux is a unix.
it definately goes under humor!
AFAIK, linux is the only "unix" that can actually mount an smb share. otherwise its smbclient, which is similar to ftp. not nearly as nice as just mounting a share.
DAVE is a commercial product. this may be a concern to some potential users.
the cobalt cube also does appletalk and nfs. of course, so can freebsd but for some reason intel chose not to enable either.
in the case of appletalk i dont blame them. it has to be the most inefficent file sharing ive ever seen. (stupid packets the just get sent along for no reason (keepalive?) bogging down the rest of that subnet)
anyway, i dont know the price/performance etc of these devices let alone how they compare, but for a small department, the cube seems like a much better buy.
i dont work for cobalt or even use thier product, just making an observation. i did just set up a freebsd file server / gateway / firewall (and then converted it to openbsd because freebsd is still using the broken rsaref and i need to ssh in.) so i found the article interesting.
many people here are wondering about accountability etc of those who wrote the
software. theres nothing wrong with a hospital
paying for the development of open source software
and still holding the authors accountable, or
at least going back to them when/if something
goes wrong. thats between the two parties
involved.
having installed it several times now, its always
been good in the install. never failed to detect
and use both nics (every machine i installed on had two nics, including a notebook with a pair of
pcmcia ones) never had to do anything beyond just
letting the default media type do its thing.
ftp is great, when your network is configured, it
goes out on the net and gets a list of ftp sites
for you. (unless you tell it not to) i dont know
of any linux dist that does this. IMO, getting
the CD is really more for supporting the cause
than actually installing the OS. if you split
up the architectures, all the install packages
for a given one fit on a (100meg) zip disk.
(about 70megs for x86)
tell that to the developers of maya and
softimage (anyone still use softimage?)
it makes a big difference with artisan.
all the modern hardware use 8 bit planes.
im also waiting for good hardware for 2d gl stuff
in linux. until then ill put up with irix.
overlay planes are needed by many high end apps,
and if these cards dont support overlay they may
not get far.
does this release include the october release of
gnome?
since they are so similar, it could just be
the little details like the installation.
example, ibm thinkpad 701. you probably want
the easiest/fastest install in case you want to
do it again. turns out the freebsd could not
detect its hard drive. netbsds install did not
offer to clear the MBR which had lilo on it
(when i got it, it had linux on it)
so it runs openbsd.
i still think openbsd is
easier to install than the other two, except
that you do cant just use a default partition
table, but i never do that anyway.
i and many other /. readers do.