Ghost supports EXT2 and EXT3, and if you use sector copy, you can use ReiserFS/UFS/HFS/etc.
Personally, I use Barts Boot cdrom, and ghost over tcp/ip to backup servers/workstations and laptops. I find ghost works great to backup a system that doesnt have an OS or a Partition over the network. Plus I can read.gho files with ghost explorer, incase I need a file off a backup.
If ghost worked under winex or dosemu, then I'd run it under knoppix, but for now, Barts Cdrom does the job.
What's interesting is most people subscribed to Slashdot feel safe enough to post thoughts about moral objections, moral orientations and political views.
Most of America isn't.
On that point, we have a term for those followers, the sheep of America. Joe Sixpack, the nannied people who vote the party line, who do what father did, who is satisfied with the status quo. And with Joe Sixpack making up over 50% of the voting public, its hard to get things changed and not passing thought crime'ish laws.
The article brings up many true concerns and valid points. And luckly, a few of us more open minded people have a place to talk about ideas without political or moral backlash. (Except Mod points) That article is posted on the web, I doubt will be published in any editoral newpaper or magazine columns around the USA. Are we the lucky few? - Secondlife
Speaking of standards, Look at how all carriers are pushing SMS interoperability, while European countries have had it for ages. The US is just started enabling interoperability. Everyone knows how to do it, just didnt see a need, until now.
On the other hand, Verizon is doing pretty well by just simply explaining users that they provide clearer calls/better coverage. Users don't care that part of the trick is 3G and such.
Verizon also lies on its coverage maps, and marks all non-coverage areas as "Roaming". They also include 2G coverage on their 3G maps.
Sprint claims they have the fastest network, which they dont.
You have to watch every company, they are trying to get customers just like everyone else. I normally would say look at coverage maps, but Verizon basically covers the entire map, and says "See we have the largest coverage area" which isnt true. AT&T Wireless has the largest coverage area, Verizon has the largest privately owned coverage area.
Its hard for consumers to know which plan to get, what carrier to choose, and listening to commericals as gospel, isn't very bright.
Of course 2 years from now, coverage won't be the issue, most telco's will have the entire USA coverered, and coverted to true 3G. I'll wait till 2006 before I say "3G" is dead, since it will have arrived.
Ya, drive to the store, browse the limited amount of cds, listen to even smaller amount, purchase the whole cd for 1 song you like, then take it home, rip and convert to your mp3 player. Hope you like hip-hop, country or top40.
No thanks.
Online is the best way to buy music, and there is even free legal music. The choice and cost wins over brick and mortar stores.
Cost per call. Analysts will take in account average call usage, amount of tech support to run the system, all the extra factors, and come up with an cost for each telco. (Couldnt google up an example, but there are many examples out there) VoIP is going to take the long haul costs out, since most telco's own thier own fibre, lots of savings. But its already down to layoffs and merger time for telcos, so anything that can lower costs, the better.
.10 cents is around the American average per POTS call, VoIP is going to lower the long haul and add extra services, great for America. Wonder why Japan has such high last mile cost, other than the wire mess and bad planning for expansion for copper.
I'm wondering how the work on merging FreeBSD Ports, Gentoo portage and Fink is coming along. There was an announcement that the groups where working on a Centeralized port systems (Together). 1 ports for every paltform. Then you could apt-get, emerge, pkgadd, rpm, whatever...
The saved man hours in a centeralized ports system would be amazing.
I was sure versions 1&2 of Intellimouse was 800dpi and version 3 was 1500dpi. But a search in google says version 3 is 6000dpi.
btw, I use 5 buttons all the time, im not going back to a 3 button mouse (or 2 and a wheel/button). In games, I always map +4 and +5, very handy. In CS, I can switch to knife when I need that quick kill and back to rifle. In other games, works nice for sniper rifle, very quick, switch fire, and switch back.
And for windows and linux, forward/back in webpages.
I upgraded from a GF3-TI500 to an ATI 9700 pro, almost as fast as the GF4-4200 or ATI 8500. At the time (2002) it was the king.
I first tried the Nvidia GF4-4600 for 199, and it didn't even feel faster(took it back). The ATI 9700 Pro, Ati's main comeback into the game, really was impressive. It was worth every penny (39,900 of em).
Anti-Aliasing was the new kid on the block, and the ATI 9700 pro allowed all games at the time (and most now) with AA turned on. Toms benchmarks shows the ATI 9700 pro still to be in the top 10. With video cards not doubling in speed every 6 months anymore (i miss you 3dfx), I dont expect to see the speeds jump like they use too. This card might just last me another year, and in the last 6 years, thats amazing in gfx card releases.
The only problem I've seen so far, is Nvidia's CG code really messes with ATI's textures and shaders. And with lots of developers loving Nvidia SDK's. ATI has been good to fix most bugs with ever new Catalyst release, but I'm still waiting SecondLife to get patched. (Nvidia CG bugs) Such a work horse of an engine (Havok), should be interesting to see Havok2 engine used. (Also used in Max Payne2)
The benchmark had me wondering, why only a P3.2ghz? I'd like to see them also include a High End AMD, and both mid range (2.6hz P4, AMD 2600) to round it out. Always wonder how many more FPS a faster CPU will give me, so I can just if its worth the cost. BTW Save those pics from toms hardware, then you can compare hardware later. I had to search the tomshardware.de for the benchmarks I was looking for 2002.
Anyone else notice how a system will pause when you put in a cdrom or format a floppy? This goes away when you have an SMP system. HT enabled p4's also remove this to some degree.
I'd like to see some typical performance on these types of activities, things that can "pause" a system for a couple seconds.
Loading websites with tons of thumbnails, searching hardrives with/without indexes (search pauses explorer). Programs that can Spike the CPU, use up all the buffer on a device, peg out virtual memory, freezes programs so you cant switch between them.
More multitasking benchmarks with responsiveness being goal. All benchmarks I see are geared around 1 app, how fast can you go, not how smooth can it go. This is why everyone is so interested in Linux kernel 2.4 MM patches or 2.6 low latency patches, to make the system smooth and responsive. People notice these "lags" in windows and linux.
The whole point is to be totally off the wall, not politically correct, push boundries, go far outside acceptable.
Look at GTA, people don't like that game for its violence, but its the best selling game series out. My state even passed a law against it, lucky it was declared unconstitutional by our WA state supreme court.
Won't spin off into politics, but I wish we had more anarchy like this. People should be able to do whatever they want, even its totally untasteful, politically incorrect or against your religion. This goes for everything. Legal consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. Play videos games, listen to music, read books, or watch porn.
Police should be peace officers, not moral guardians for the majority. - Happy Holidays, I would say Merry Christmas, but thats not politcally correct.
I perfer SI over Sven co-op, but lately I'be been playing some Natural Selection halflife mod. NS really is a blast if you have some good teammates and a commander who builds correctly and in order.
I think thats what makes SI and NS so much fun, the build aspect. Not just a FPS, but you have to work and build better weapons. You dont get the "AWP" frenzy like CS, as some servers even ban the AWP for that reason.
For a few years, people said "wouldn't it be cool if people could play C&C in FPS mode?". Then C&C Renegade came out, but it didn't really have the build out like C&C/Red Alert.
If anyone has seen Condition Zero or HalfLife2, both use steam now.
I do like steam, the recent server history and Buddy tracker really makes it fun. But 2 things that bothered me with Steam, is they removed Bots, they keep promising that there will be Mod's for download via Steam.
So they keep saying "Mods are coming to Steam" when will be able to subscribe (free) to mods? How about a date from valve.
I just wonder how long before states, start selling the databases to insurance companies to help with the expenses. States already sell personal information, what could be more personal, than your DNA.
When I first used Linux and I ran X, my thought was "damn, this is slow."
The only problem I have it trying to find the right modelines and configurations for higher resolutions and refresh rates. Things are better, configuration tools are almost complete.
But speed? Nope, even playing games in Vmware is fast.
With a HASH being calculated for each file, they need to allow multi-part downloads. This would speed up like bittorrent. Freenet doesnt have search results, you need an external freenet search engine.
MUTE returns search results. The only protection is Virtual Address that is randomly generated on startup.
The only weakness I noticed, is the "Hints" on which nodes to use, over time, keep a list of "Hints", you could in theory, do packet tracing to the hosts. You could spider, and try to map Virtual addresses. You could limit or block noisy hosts, that might be a simple solution.
The RIAA would have to go after the high bandwidth NODES, or hosts that site directly next to you. Simple port scan for a MUTE response would validate the user. They would assume you are guilty just for using the program. People need to use legtimate files to make seperate it from piracy only p2p networks. Maybe torrent style downloads with hash checking would do the trick.
Also, nice to see multiple clients and opensource, and GPL license.
With all the benchmarks from Toms Hardware or Extreme Tech, etc, you can it sum up.
AMD is the fastest for games, except older Quake3 engine based. Intel is faster at Media creation programs and desktop applications. (SSE2, and Intel optimizations are the main reason...)
Bang for the buck, I'd go with an ATI 9600 or Nvidia 5600 and AMD 2600 cpu for the sweet spot on a good gaming rig that will do everything now. By the time Doom3 or Halflife 2 comes out next year, the 500 bux you save could upgrade your motherboard to something faster at that time.
And as dual performance, notice how much P3 1.4's are, still 200 bux. But at 200 bux you can also get AMD 2800 MPs.
Lol, so, you start out running for mayor, promising the smaller companies (construction) projects if they support you, and donate towards your campaign. After elected, you help nominate judges to ease laws towards construction, which leads into more money for your election for the Governor. Easing tax burdens to keep large companies in your state, and try to make honey deals, you spend money on pork projects for all your supporters. Deny the local transportation requirements that might have to cross the richer areas of town. As the money rolls in, you run for Senate. Promise to ease tax laws, or support some religious view to gain support. Slander everyone, showing how righteous you are, never broke any laws (or just got caught), and you are the perfect person for the job.
Now as Senator, you get to join some nice Committees. Maybe join Energy and Natural Resource, so you allow a nice company from your home state to "Ahem, Bid" on natural gas mining in federal land.
After some time, you get bored with milking federal and state money and decided to run for President. All you need is a platform. If you're the Republican you have the religious backing, but you have to ban personal freedoms, unless its gun control and force religion on some states. If you're Democrat you have try to pass gun control and help further rights, (gay, women, etc) and spend lots of money public programs that don't work.
So after you choose your poison, Democrat or Republican, (Not Liberal, as it doesn't support big government) and you get start going to the national caucuses. Oh the fun of promising even bigger pork projects, kick backs and under handed political back stabbing. Debate over issues and sound the same every year.
Then after elected, you appoint Judges that agree with your "wink" personal views. Make powerful political and business contacts that help family and friends make billions. Purchase some banks maybe. After your term, you quit, and collect a check yearly for the rest of your life. Of course, you have to build a library, and do lots of 1000 dollar a plate dinners. Everyone wants to throw money at you.
My god this game sounds fun, and it pays well too!
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Yay, HD radio . . . wait, why do we want this again?
So Local radio stations can compete against XM and Sirus.
Ghost supports EXT2 and EXT3, and if you use sector copy, you can use ReiserFS/UFS/HFS/etc.
.gho files with ghost explorer, incase I need a file off a backup.
Personally, I use Barts Boot cdrom, and ghost over tcp/ip to backup servers/workstations and laptops. I find ghost works great to backup a system that doesnt have an OS or a Partition over the network. Plus I can read
If ghost worked under winex or dosemu, then I'd run it under knoppix, but for now, Barts Cdrom does the job.
What's interesting is most people subscribed to Slashdot feel safe enough to post thoughts about moral objections, moral orientations and political views.
Most of America isn't.
On that point, we have a term for those followers, the sheep of America. Joe Sixpack, the nannied people who vote the party line, who do what father did, who is satisfied with the status quo. And with Joe Sixpack making up over 50% of the voting public, its hard to get things changed and not passing thought crime'ish laws.
The article brings up many true concerns and valid points. And luckly, a few of us more open minded people have a place to talk about ideas without political or moral backlash. (Except Mod points) That article is posted on the web, I doubt will be published in any editoral newpaper or magazine columns around the USA. Are we the lucky few?
-
Secondlife
Speaking of standards, Look at how all carriers are pushing SMS interoperability, while European countries have had it for ages. The US is just started enabling interoperability. Everyone knows how to do it, just didnt see a need, until now.
On the other hand, Verizon is doing pretty well by just simply explaining users that they provide clearer calls /better coverage. Users don't care that part of the trick is 3G and such.
Verizon also lies on its coverage maps, and marks all non-coverage areas as "Roaming". They also include 2G coverage on their 3G maps.
Sprint claims they have the fastest network, which they dont.
You have to watch every company, they are trying to get customers just like everyone else. I normally would say look at coverage maps, but Verizon basically covers the entire map, and says "See we have the largest coverage area" which isnt true. AT&T Wireless has the largest coverage area, Verizon has the largest privately owned coverage area.
Its hard for consumers to know which plan to get, what carrier to choose, and listening to commericals as gospel, isn't very bright.
Of course 2 years from now, coverage won't be the issue, most telco's will have the entire USA coverered, and coverted to true 3G. I'll wait till 2006 before I say "3G" is dead, since it will have arrived.
Then go to the store and buy some CDs. DUH!!!!
Ya, drive to the store, browse the limited amount of cds, listen to even smaller amount, purchase the whole cd for 1 song you like, then take it home, rip and convert to your mp3 player. Hope you like hip-hop, country or top40.
No thanks.
Online is the best way to buy music, and there is even free legal music. The choice and cost wins over brick and mortar stores.
Cost per call. Analysts will take in account average call usage, amount of tech support to run the system, all the extra factors, and come up with an cost for each telco. (Couldnt google up an example, but there are many examples out there) VoIP is going to take the long haul costs out, since most telco's own thier own fibre, lots of savings. But its already down to layoffs and merger time for telcos, so anything that can lower costs, the better.
.10 cents is around the American average per POTS call, VoIP is going to lower the long haul and add extra services, great for America. Wonder why Japan has such high last mile cost, other than the wire mess and bad planning for expansion for copper.
I'm wondering how the work on merging FreeBSD Ports, Gentoo portage and Fink is coming along. There was an announcement that the groups where working on a Centeralized port systems (Together). 1 ports for every paltform. Then you could apt-get, emerge, pkgadd, rpm, whatever...
The saved man hours in a centeralized ports system would be amazing.
I was sure versions 1&2 of Intellimouse was 800dpi and version 3 was 1500dpi. But a search in google says version 3 is 6000dpi.
btw, I use 5 buttons all the time, im not going back to a 3 button mouse (or 2 and a wheel/button). In games, I always map +4 and +5, very handy. In CS, I can switch to knife when I need that quick kill and back to rifle. In other games, works nice for sniper rifle, very quick, switch fire, and switch back.
And for windows and linux, forward/back in webpages.
I did read it. ;) He could of used another motherboard, and he didnt include any mid level CPU's.
I upgraded from a GF3-TI500 to an ATI 9700 pro, almost as fast as the GF4-4200 or ATI 8500. At the time (2002) it was the king.
;)
I first tried the Nvidia GF4-4600 for 199, and it didn't even feel faster(took it back). The ATI 9700 Pro, Ati's main comeback into the game, really was impressive. It was worth every penny (39,900 of em).
Anti-Aliasing was the new kid on the block, and the ATI 9700 pro allowed all games at the time (and most now) with AA turned on. Toms benchmarks shows the ATI 9700 pro still to be in the top 10. With video cards not doubling in speed every 6 months anymore (i miss you 3dfx), I dont expect to see the speeds jump like they use too. This card might just last me another year, and in the last 6 years, thats amazing in gfx card releases.
The only problem I've seen so far, is Nvidia's CG code really messes with ATI's textures and shaders. And with lots of developers loving Nvidia SDK's. ATI has been good to fix most bugs with ever new Catalyst release, but I'm still waiting SecondLife to get patched. (Nvidia CG bugs) Such a work horse of an engine (Havok), should be interesting to see Havok2 engine used. (Also used in Max Payne2)
The benchmark had me wondering, why only a P3.2ghz? I'd like to see them also include a High End AMD, and both mid range (2.6hz P4, AMD 2600) to round it out. Always wonder how many more FPS a faster CPU will give me, so I can just if its worth the cost. BTW Save those pics from toms hardware, then you can compare hardware later. I had to search the tomshardware.de for the benchmarks I was looking for 2002.
Hey, lucky they didnt use a P4EE
We include memory, cpu, sound, gfx in benchmarks, why not basic I/O?
Seems one of the most important areas, seems to be left out.
Anyone else notice how a system will pause when you put in a cdrom or format a floppy? This goes away when you have an SMP system. HT enabled p4's also remove this to some degree.
I'd like to see some typical performance on these types of activities, things that can "pause" a system for a couple seconds.
Loading websites with tons of thumbnails, searching hardrives with/without indexes (search pauses explorer). Programs that can Spike the CPU, use up all the buffer on a device, peg out virtual memory, freezes programs so you cant switch between them.
More multitasking benchmarks with responsiveness being goal. All benchmarks I see are geared around 1 app, how fast can you go, not how smooth can it go. This is why everyone is so interested in Linux kernel 2.4 MM patches or 2.6 low latency patches, to make the system smooth and responsive. People notice these "lags" in windows and linux.
The whole point is to be totally off the wall, not politically correct, push boundries, go far outside acceptable.
Look at GTA, people don't like that game for its violence, but its the best selling game series out. My state even passed a law against it, lucky it was declared unconstitutional by our WA state supreme court.
Won't spin off into politics, but I wish we had more anarchy like this. People should be able to do whatever they want, even its totally untasteful, politically incorrect or against your religion. This goes for everything. Legal consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. Play videos games, listen to music, read books, or watch porn.
Police should be peace officers, not moral guardians for the majority.
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Happy Holidays, I would say Merry Christmas, but thats not politcally correct.
I perfer SI over Sven co-op, but lately I'be been playing some Natural Selection halflife mod. NS really is a blast if you have some good teammates and a commander who builds correctly and in order.
:)
I think thats what makes SI and NS so much fun, the build aspect. Not just a FPS, but you have to work and build better weapons. You dont get the "AWP" frenzy like CS, as some servers even ban the AWP for that reason.
For a few years, people said "wouldn't it be cool if people could play C&C in FPS mode?". Then C&C Renegade came out, but it didn't really have the build out like C&C/Red Alert.
Also, is it HL Mod day, nice
My wife bought herself a car, I got the payments. /me scratches head..
If anyone has seen Condition Zero or HalfLife2, both use steam now.
I do like steam, the recent server history and Buddy tracker really makes it fun. But 2 things that bothered me with Steam, is they removed Bots, they keep promising that there will be Mod's for download via Steam.
So they keep saying "Mods are coming to Steam" when will be able to subscribe (free) to mods? How about a date from valve.
I just wonder how long before states, start selling the databases to insurance companies to help with the expenses. States already sell personal information, what could be more personal, than your DNA.
There are the CK (Con Kolivas) and MM (Andrew Morton's) patches for 2.4 that provide what you want.
Whats keeping you at 2.4? Both Con and Andrew said, move to 2.6 it provides what you want.
Exactly, I dont mind satire, but thats pretty close to being the same url.
;)
Of course, us yanks have whitehouse.com, so we are use to it.
When I first used Linux and I ran X, my thought was "damn, this is slow."
The only problem I have it trying to find the right modelines and configurations for higher resolutions and refresh rates. Things are better, configuration tools are almost complete.
But speed? Nope, even playing games in Vmware is fast.
With a HASH being calculated for each file, they need to allow multi-part downloads. This would speed up like bittorrent. Freenet doesnt have search results, you need an external freenet search engine.
MUTE returns search results. The only protection is Virtual Address that is randomly generated on startup.
The only weakness I noticed, is the "Hints" on which nodes to use, over time, keep a list of "Hints", you could in theory, do packet tracing to the hosts. You could spider, and try to map Virtual addresses. You could limit or block noisy hosts, that might be a simple solution.
The RIAA would have to go after the high bandwidth NODES, or hosts that site directly next to you. Simple port scan for a MUTE response would validate the user. They would assume you are guilty just for using the program. People need to use legtimate files to make seperate it from piracy only p2p networks. Maybe torrent style downloads with hash checking would do the trick.
Also, nice to see multiple clients and opensource, and GPL license.
With all the benchmarks from Toms Hardware or Extreme Tech, etc, you can it sum up.
AMD is the fastest for games, except older Quake3 engine based.
Intel is faster at Media creation programs and desktop applications. (SSE2, and Intel optimizations are the main reason...)
Bang for the buck, I'd go with an ATI 9600 or Nvidia 5600 and AMD 2600 cpu for the sweet spot on a good gaming rig that will do everything now. By the time Doom3 or Halflife 2 comes out next year, the 500 bux you save could upgrade your motherboard to something faster at that time.
And as dual performance, notice how much P3 1.4's are, still 200 bux. But at 200 bux you can also get AMD 2800 MPs.
Where is the video-game version of Campaign 2004?
Lol, so, you start out running for mayor, promising the smaller companies (construction) projects if they support you, and donate towards your campaign. After elected, you help nominate judges to ease laws towards construction, which leads into more money for your election for the Governor. Easing tax burdens to keep large companies in your state, and try to make honey deals, you spend money on pork projects for all your supporters.
Deny the local transportation requirements that might have to cross the richer areas of town. As the money rolls in, you run for Senate. Promise to ease tax laws, or support some religious view to gain support. Slander everyone, showing how righteous you are, never broke any laws (or just got caught), and you are the perfect person for the job.
Now as Senator, you get to join some nice Committees. Maybe join Energy and Natural Resource, so you allow a nice company from your home state to "Ahem, Bid" on natural gas mining in federal land.
After some time, you get bored with milking federal and state money and decided to run for President. All you need is a platform. If you're the Republican you have the religious backing, but you have to ban personal freedoms, unless its gun control and force religion on some states. If you're Democrat you have try to pass gun control and help further rights, (gay, women, etc) and spend lots of money public programs that don't work.
So after you choose your poison, Democrat or Republican, (Not Liberal, as it doesn't support big government) and you get start going to the national caucuses. Oh the fun of promising even bigger pork projects, kick backs and under handed political back stabbing. Debate over issues and sound the same every year.
Then after elected, you appoint Judges that agree with your "wink" personal views. Make powerful political and business contacts that help family and friends make billions. Purchase some banks maybe. After your term, you quit, and collect a check yearly for the rest of your life. Of course, you have to build a library, and do lots of 1000 dollar a plate dinners. Everyone wants to throw money at you.
My god this game sounds fun, and it pays well too!