Really, if Im going to buy a new hardware id like to see some benchmarks. 3DMark would be nice, just for the hell of it. Also noticed it only has MMX support, wheres SSE?
Also, if your going to run linux on it, is there any compiler flags to make it faster for the cursoe chip? Also noted it had 0k level 2 cache, ouch.
Need to check which version of Grub they use, but Grub flaked out 2 times after I installed the RedHat 8.0. I finally used a mandrake install cd to get a good version of Grub working again so I could boot.
Grub complained about my partition table during the install, but did finally install and work.
Mozilla is slower in some areas. I use Mozilla daily.:)
Loading large tables and large quanity of images (thumbnails) are slower than IE. Download pre-buffering actually becomes a problem when you download large files, due to it downloading in your temp dir, then moving the file after its completed. Boris Zbarsky said a fix might land in around 1.3'ish http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129923
There are a few other slow downs in mozilla, but most are thread releated. 1 active tab can freeze mozilla, etc.. (I would like to see downloads spawn into a seperate process...)
That being said, the Mozilla developers are top notch in fixing bugs and user interaction. They have always been kind in replying and educating the users.
I noticed that loading large tables of thumbnails is quite slow on Mozilla. Very slow compared to other browsers. 100+ images can really task Mozilla. Checking Bugzilla, it seems to be a known problem, but I couldn't find an exact bug for this problem, a few evangelism bugs on coding styles mostly.
YaST2 and SaX2 can be better, but even as they are today blow most of Red Hat's preference panels away. On the other hand Red Hat's XFT font properties are no match to any other Linux distribution so far, while Red Hat has good integration for Qt and GTK+ toolkits, something that SuSE doesn't.
This is very important! People keep bitching about Anti-Aliased Font support, well why is RedHat the only including an advanced utility? Fonts are 99% of your visual aspect of your desktop, good looking fonts make a BIG difference. (side note, Mosfet Liquid engine/theme is a must..)
I'm a SuSE (sparc64), Mandrake (x86) user. Mostly because Mandrake had the better font support. I've switched over to RedHat 8.0 due to the XFT font support.
BTW, I shouldnt have to recompile the desktop to have decent font support. So dont keep saying "Compile yourself". If I wanted a source based, compile everything yourself distribution, I would use Gentoo. (Gentoo doesnt include all the custom applications for preferences.)
I know for the sparc versions, you can find the new 2.4.19 kernels and gcc 3.2 at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/SPARC/ (Mirrors also carry the/people directories, use a mirror)
Upgraded my SuSE Sparc64 8.0 to gcc3.2 and kernel 2.4.19, works great.
Who is going to protect my right(I'm a recording artist) to make a living off of my work? I depend on sales of my cd's, not on the number of copies of my work in existence!
You.
The law is there to protect you, use it. Dont try to offload your responsibility on me.
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
Its an article, not an indepth research study. Most people will only read bite sized articles as this, and thus get a small education on the problem.
Look at the laws being passed about drug perscription prices, the news articles on price fixing on drugs, the patents on genome. AIDs drugs waiting for FDA approval.
Use the article for what it is, a spark to make you think and ponder. - The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
1. Pharmaceutical companies have big ties into our government, controlling legislation. 2. Pharmaceutical companies can patent receptors which blocks other companies to interact with those receptors. 3. The FDA has limited manpower, which means less drugs tested. 4. Knowledge which researchers shared freely, is now corporate information, and locked away. 5. Pharmaceutical companies are holding licenses. Screwing the public on new drug treatments from other corporations.
And my favorite.
6. breweries-and-distilleries index are up 25 percent; shares in the pharmaceuticals index, meanwhile, are down 25 percent.
However, I'm wondering who'd actually buy it for those features rather than just take a digital camera with them.
Its not buy a camera, its get video features added in at no extra cost. Video camera phone attachments are selling quite well. People like having the option of sending pictures/movies of friends/family. Take a feature upgrade people are buying, make it a standard on the phone. This will reduce the cost and make it normal feature on phones.
Look at how people will buy new cell phones just for the ringtones. Features sell.
Phones are just now getting basic functionality that people want. Nobody wants to hold a phone the size of a brick, 2 color black on green display that only gets 9600 baud transfers.
With the new phones you have both IR/BlueTooth, for ease access. High speed (not cable modems or t1s, yet...). Cameras are just an App to show off the color features. You do realize, these are VIDEO PHONES that are out NOW.
3G is coming here, you cant stop it. The world standard is 3G, and people are buying these new phones all around the world. When the USA is fully 3G deployed, those phones that everyone buys in the UK/Japan will be in the US.
BTW, the new PDA/Phone combos are hot. Even crackberry (Umm, Blackberry) is a cool device.
3G isnt only phones, its mobile devices. Just think of some people using it. Police, fire departments, stores, warehouses, schools, business (vpn), construction, entertainment, etc..
People are not supporting old 2G technology, the future is 3G, there is no turning back for the phone companies. In fact most are finished rolling out thier base 3G network, only upgrades are next.
Try to buy a 2G phone/modem, not alot of choices are there...
Your right, this card is Perfect for the MAC. ATI seems to write better MAC drivers than Windows. I'm seeing alot of bugs on websites for the 9700 and games. It looks like the new patches/files coming out, most are for the 9700.
I was hoping ATI would get the drivers in order for the release. My friends who bought the 9700's, loved the speed with AA, but some games (UT2K3 Demo has problems, fixed with the newest patch..)
But what I really want for video in, is a divx/mpg4 capture device (card or firewire). -
Bernie Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, and four other telecoms executives who allegedly made a total of $28.2m (£18m) by "profiteering" in hot initial public offerings were sued last night by New York state.
Gnucleus allows you to have a gnutella master on a lan. I think its extermely cool they allow you to still use P2P. But a large place like a college should use local nodes, why waste bandwidth?
I find it easy to tell the difference, If they follow the Geneva Convention, then they are to be classified as a military unit. Freedom fighters would not blow up a school, terrorists would, which is in Geneva Convention on human rights. Taking of hostages is outlined in the convention, hostages no, detainees as spies yes. Guess you could bend the rules, but the basic is no murder or torture.
- Diversity training 101 - all white men are oppressors.
Lots of people I know wont buy an X-box, because its an m$ product. But, with so many m$ employees, always a couple of your buddies seem to work for m$.
So, m$ employees get to buy software for 10 bux. Now theres a reason to buy an X-box, when you can get 10 games for 100 bux. No reason to pirate your M$ OS either, when M$ gives it away for free. You just go to an m$ events, training, etc (and there are many around...) Hell, work alone (sun shop) M$ has given me (personally) multiple copies of NT server products with full licenses to keep. Too bad I cant sell them on E-Bay.
It takes time to design hardware, OGG Vorbis 1.0 hasnt even been out for full year. I was surprised that video games like Serrious Sam 2 used it. Even game companies are starting to use DIVX for video files for games(WarCraft3). The word is out, people are looking at it, just give it some time.
Soon as the video codec is released, and then production tools, we should see video hardware follow. I hope they dont make the same mistake as DIVX and have 20 different versions.
I remember when M$ visual basic came with the stuff to create your own webbrowser, 75K compiled, and you had a basic html browser, no table support, but it did render basic formated text. When I'm stuck using IE only sites, I use an IE enhancer, Crazy Browser, provides tabs, and other security features that I turn off (cookie/popups/etc), but its free and fills the missing functions.
And worse comes to worst, you look at the freaking source yourself.
Do you think Grandma can also fix bugs in the source when she finds them? There are non-programmers out there. They need to have some level of trust, and "Bob's WebBrowser and Tackle Shop" is going to be the perfect excuse for paladin.
This is why Paladin is going to sell. Cant trust those nasty OpenSource programmers, afraid of viruses? Trust our "Microsoft Signed(TM)" programs. Gives you those nice warm fuzzies about buying things on the Internet. Feel secure about your "Trusted" OS.
Hell, Grandma and Joe Six pack will be first in line to buy a Secure and easy to use OS with all the M$ support included.
You arnt against Security are you? Damn terrorist.
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The reason its not like normal water(vapor) projection, the droplets wont wet a surface. Which is important for indoor use.
Really, if Im going to buy a new hardware id like to see some benchmarks. 3DMark would be nice, just for the hell of it.
Also noticed it only has MMX support, wheres SSE?
Also, if your going to run linux on it, is there any compiler flags to make it faster for the cursoe chip? Also noted it had 0k level 2 cache, ouch.
Need to check which version of Grub they use, but Grub flaked out 2 times after I installed the RedHat 8.0. I finally used a mandrake install cd to get a good version of Grub working again so I could boot.
Grub complained about my partition table during the install, but did finally install and work.
Mozilla is slower in some areas. I use Mozilla daily. :)
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Loading large tables and large quanity of images (thumbnails) are slower than IE. Download pre-buffering actually becomes a problem when you download large files, due to it downloading in your temp dir, then moving the file after its completed. Boris Zbarsky said a fix might land in around 1.3'ish http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12992
There are a few other slow downs in mozilla, but most are thread releated. 1 active tab can freeze mozilla, etc.. (I would like to see downloads spawn into a seperate process...)
That being said, the Mozilla developers are top notch in fixing bugs and user interaction. They have always been kind in replying and educating the users.
full porn support
I noticed that loading large tables of thumbnails is quite slow on Mozilla. Very slow compared to other browsers. 100+ images can really task Mozilla. Checking Bugzilla, it seems to be a known problem, but I couldn't find an exact bug for this problem, a few evangelism bugs on coding styles mostly.
YaST2 and SaX2 can be better, but even as they are today blow most of Red Hat's preference panels away. On the other hand Red Hat's XFT font properties are no match to any other Linux distribution so far, while Red Hat has good integration for Qt and GTK+ toolkits, something that SuSE doesn't.
This is very important! People keep bitching about Anti-Aliased Font support, well why is RedHat the only including an advanced utility? Fonts are 99% of your visual aspect of your desktop, good looking fonts make a BIG difference. (side note, Mosfet Liquid engine/theme is a must..)
I'm a SuSE (sparc64), Mandrake (x86) user. Mostly because Mandrake had the better font support. I've switched over to RedHat 8.0 due to the XFT font support.
BTW, I shouldnt have to recompile the desktop to have decent font support. So dont keep saying "Compile yourself". If I wanted a source based, compile everything yourself distribution, I would use Gentoo. (Gentoo doesnt include all the custom applications for preferences.)
I know for the sparc versions, you can find the new 2.4.19 kernels and gcc 3.2 at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/SPARC/ (Mirrors also carry the /people directories, use a mirror)
Upgraded my SuSE Sparc64 8.0 to gcc3.2 and kernel 2.4.19, works great.
Who is going to protect my right(I'm a recording artist) to make a living off of my work? I depend on sales of my cd's, not on the number of copies of my work in existence!
You.
The law is there to protect you, use it. Dont try to offload your responsibility on me.
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
I want that bandwidth!
Its an article, not an indepth research study. Most people will only read bite sized articles as this, and thus get a small education on the problem.
Look at the laws being passed about drug perscription prices, the news articles on price fixing on drugs, the patents on genome. AIDs drugs waiting for FDA approval.
Use the article for what it is, a spark to make you think and ponder.
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Quick overview.
1. Pharmaceutical companies have big ties into our government, controlling legislation.
2. Pharmaceutical companies can patent receptors which blocks other companies to interact with those receptors.
3. The FDA has limited manpower, which means less drugs tested.
4. Knowledge which researchers shared freely, is now corporate information, and locked away.
5. Pharmaceutical companies are holding licenses. Screwing the public on new drug treatments from other corporations.
And my favorite.
6. breweries-and-distilleries index are up 25 percent; shares in the pharmaceuticals index, meanwhile, are down 25 percent.
A dirty little secret about 802.11b is that it can cover more than 20 kilometers with suitably directional antennas.
Good for stationary needs, and telcos are already starting WIFI in some locations. But 3G is better suited for mobile needs. (Plus its also VOICE)
WIFI is more like DSL, as 3G is more GPRS/PDA/Voice/mobile/911 related.
I have IRC running on mine. Now with a color display, maybe I can use BitchX. :)
However, I'm wondering who'd actually buy it for those features rather than just take a digital camera with them.
Its not buy a camera, its get video features added in at no extra cost. Video camera phone attachments are selling quite well. People like having the option of sending pictures/movies of friends/family. Take a feature upgrade people are buying, make it a standard on the phone. This will reduce the cost and make it normal feature on phones.
Look at how people will buy new cell phones just for the ringtones. Features sell.
Whats the Point?
Color, Speed, ease of access.
Phones are just now getting basic functionality that people want. Nobody wants to hold a phone the size of a brick, 2 color black on green display that only gets 9600 baud transfers.
With the new phones you have both IR/BlueTooth, for ease access. High speed (not cable modems or t1s, yet...). Cameras are just an App to show off the color features. You do realize, these are VIDEO PHONES that are out NOW.
3G is coming here, you cant stop it. The world standard is 3G, and people are buying these new phones all around the world. When the USA is fully 3G deployed, those phones that everyone buys in the UK/Japan will be in the US.
BTW, the new PDA/Phone combos are hot. Even crackberry (Umm, Blackberry) is a cool device.
3G isnt only phones, its mobile devices. Just think of some people using it. Police, fire departments, stores, warehouses, schools, business (vpn), construction, entertainment, etc..
People are not supporting old 2G technology, the future is 3G, there is no turning back for the phone companies. In fact most are finished rolling out thier base 3G network, only upgrades are next.
Try to buy a 2G phone/modem, not alot of choices are there...
Finally, the beginning of the end for IPV4!
Nope, Most use NAT'ed Ips.
Your right, this card is Perfect for the MAC. ATI seems to write better MAC drivers than Windows. I'm seeing alot of bugs on websites for the 9700 and games. It looks like the new patches/files coming out, most are for the 9700.
I was hoping ATI would get the drivers in order for the release. My friends who bought the 9700's, loved the speed with AA, but some games (UT2K3 Demo has problems, fixed with the newest patch..)
But what I really want for video in, is a divx/mpg4 capture device (card or firewire).
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Bernie Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, and four other telecoms executives who allegedly made a total of $28.2m (£18m) by "profiteering" in hot initial public offerings were sued last night by New York state.
I was thinking that also, they overcharged $480 million, and only had to pay back $67 million.
Gotta love that logic.
Gnucleus allows you to have a gnutella master on a lan. I think its extermely cool they allow you to still use P2P. But a large place like a college should use local nodes, why waste bandwidth?
Save the bandwidth for CounterStrike. (-;
I find it easy to tell the difference, If they follow the Geneva Convention, then they are to be classified as a military unit. Freedom fighters would not blow up a school, terrorists would, which is in Geneva Convention on human rights. Taking of hostages is outlined in the convention, hostages no, detainees as spies yes. Guess you could bend the rules, but the basic is no murder or torture.
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Diversity training 101 - all white men are oppressors.
Lots of people I know wont buy an X-box, because its an m$ product. But, with so many m$ employees, always a couple of your buddies seem to work for m$.
:)
So, m$ employees get to buy software for 10 bux. Now theres a reason to buy an X-box, when you can get 10 games for 100 bux. No reason to pirate your M$ OS either, when M$ gives it away for free. You just go to an m$ events, training, etc (and there are many around...) Hell, work alone (sun shop) M$ has given me (personally) multiple copies of NT server products with full licenses to keep. Too bad I cant sell them on E-Bay.
I hope Halo for PC runs under wine.
It takes time to design hardware, OGG Vorbis 1.0 hasnt even been out for full year. I was surprised that video games like Serrious Sam 2 used it. Even game companies are starting to use DIVX for video files for games(WarCraft3). The word is out, people are looking at it, just give it some time.
Soon as the video codec is released, and then production tools, we should see video hardware follow. I hope they dont make the same mistake as DIVX and have 20 different versions.
I remember when M$ visual basic came with the stuff to create your own webbrowser, 75K compiled, and you had a basic html browser, no table support, but it did render basic formated text.
When I'm stuck using IE only sites, I use an IE enhancer, Crazy Browser, provides tabs, and other security features that I turn off (cookie/popups/etc), but its free and fills the missing functions.
And worse comes to worst, you look at the freaking source yourself.
Do you think Grandma can also fix bugs in the source when she finds them? There are non-programmers out there. They need to have some level of trust, and "Bob's WebBrowser and Tackle Shop" is going to be the perfect excuse for paladin.
This is why Paladin is going to sell. Cant trust those nasty OpenSource programmers, afraid of viruses? Trust our "Microsoft Signed(TM)" programs. Gives you those nice warm fuzzies about buying things on the Internet. Feel secure about your "Trusted" OS.
Hell, Grandma and Joe Six pack will be first in line to buy a Secure and easy to use OS with all the M$ support included.
You arnt against Security are you? Damn terrorist.
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A version of Links that does gfx - http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/