Actually, I figured this one out yesterday. It was ESD all the way causing the issue. Esd and Artsd both cause issues when you have a sound card that can't handle the mixing at the hardware level. This laptop has ye olde crappy AC'97 embedded sound card. So when I would try to play a WMV or a MPG in mPlayer, it would hang until I killed esd. Now I need to figure out if there's a way to make mplayer pipe through esd so I don't have to kill esd every damn time I want to watch a wmv.
I agree, the ubuntu guide (NOT official) handles most things with aplomb but this one was a weird nit with my particular system. Now it works well.
Skype on the other hand is a piece of crap because I get get it working no way no how. I can connect, but I can't hear echo123. Very weird. I know it's not my network because I tested Skype from another machine and it's working (both Windows and Mac OS X).
You know....removing the code sounds like a major pain, but if I had done something similar, I would have removed the code and retested. Why? It's TOO easy to get sued now adays.
One thing I did notice....W did not say anything about it. Why? Because he, like myself, probably did not see a bit of difference between M and AO. Also, it's NOT A BIG DEAL!
I agree. Prophesies are predictions on what might happen. It doesn't mean that it WILL happen. I agree, some day, the events in Revelation may come to pass, but if you think about it a little, it could be when the sun goes supernova. It sounds an aweful lot like what may happen. Fire...Brimstone...it could happen. Of course maybe they are talking about the Earth being put away by a meteor or something. In any case, I don't think one should go and blindly follow anything, the Bible, The Koran or the Torah. I DO try to live life as close to the Bible as I can though and mostly because it just seems to be right, to me. You may differ. The great thing is if you repent when you DO scew up, you'll still go to heaven....at least that is the way I take it.
My favorite is I get a call. Something is down. I am in the middle of fixing it and I get 20 more calls about it being DOWN. YES I FREAKING KNOW IT'S DOWN!!! LET ME FRIGGIN WORK!
Yes and No. While I agree, you can install pretty much any SOFTWARE easily, sometimes hardware is a pain....like WiFi cards. Now once I found and learned ndiswrapper, unshield and cabextract I was able to get it working with wpa_supplicant. BUT one thing I have not figured out is how to play things like WMV files on my Linux box. I have gotten the codecs for mplayer but it won't work. By the way, ndiswrapper itself was apt-gettable, but the rest of my post(the windows driver you need for ndiswrapper) and the media codecs is NOT something that's covered by apt-get. My goal, at some point in the near future, is to build a dedicated Li8nux box required little to no hacking around to get things working (except obvious things like the codec issue).
Now, it still does nto mean it's brittle. Far from it. I have made all kinds of thing that would mess up a windows system but linux kept plugging away. Linux is definitely not brittle.
It's more then just dropping 2000-4000 table entries. You drop the registration, you delete the feels and you free up the records so someone else can register. The old system probably only had 3-4....maybe 6 tables. The new system running on UNIX (NOT programmed by us) probably has 15 tables. Why? I dunno. It's a package. It is what it is and I can't change it. Your comment shows ME that you have no idea what the heck your talking about. Keep in mind, this SAME mainframe is also supporting more registration activity occuring at the SAME time as this batch job as well as running payroll jobs, backups and other things that take a load. With all of this stuff running also on the new system as well.
I beg to differ. We have some pretty kickass pSeries machines and they don't come close to what our old Multiprise could turn out. Got to drop some students for non-payment? 2,000 to 4,000 records dropped in 20 min on mainframe vs 3-4 hours on the big UNIX Box. Mainframe systems EXCEL at I/O. They SUCK when they try and do computational heavy tasks. The mainframe we bought in 2000 did not even have floating point processors and it still performed better then our current solution. Mainframes DO kick very much butt in processing.
Some Slashdot editors prefer to look at Slashdot stories from the last 2 days and post the one in the submission been that looks similar to the others.....noone knows why!
Agreed. It's been the best distro I have ever tried for a extended period of time. I had Red Hat 6 a long time ago and while it was ok for the time, Ubuntu is loads better..
First off, anyone using the user agent for ANYTHING is stupid. It's so easily changed in browsers other then IE that I can get into sites intended for IE with any browser.
Second, why should this type of warning even be needed? Because Microsoft themselves are guilty of telling developers to ONLY code for thier browser....something no other browser asks developers to do. Microsoft has definitely shown yet again that they want people to ONLY use their stuff and they want a web that ONLY works in thier browser.
I think if they get too stupid with the costs of licensing, then Open Source software will start to take off even more. Why? It costs me ZERO or close to it to download a iso and run Linux one ANY number if servers or cores. Need support too? No problem. Run Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a support contract or find a company that sells support on a per incident basis. The thing is with all this dual core multiprocessing thing is people want a reasonable all you can eat pricing model. Charging per CPU or even per core is not that model. We'll go away.
Go to that site for a real interesting story on AM and FM radio. My guess is that analog TV wil never go away completely until it goes away on it's own.
They support online play indirectly with the GC. There's the broadband adapter (IF you can find it) and Warppipe(http://cubeonline.warppipe.com/). Now, Nintendo obviously does not support this directly(and neither will the company, Warppipe.com), but it will let you play Mario Kart (GC) online and alot of people have been using it and there is a community behind it.
Yeah. That's what I was kind of pointing at. Kind of sucks that the mod's call me a troll because I call using WAREZ WRONG and I call downloading MP3's WRONG. Note that I detest DRM still and I am on the side of LEGAL P2P use....which means sometimes I side on the side of the downloaders. Downloading WAREZ is wrong too. If you want software, for free, go download Linux or FreeBSD and you can do about 99.9999 percent of what you need to do with those OS's and the exceptions are getting fewer now adays. EASY video editing is not there yet....all Linux packages for this seem to try and make it look like Primere or some fancy editing program...I need something like iMovie...something easy, and simple. Kino and Cinelerra ain't easy. Kino looks to be easier then Cinelerra, but iMovie seems, to me, to be better over all and is dead easy to use. Exactly what I want for this. Once that has been fixed, I can switch to Linux and will possibly do this on my Powerbook.
I know! Just use open source!:D I know, does not always work. Did it ever appear to the WAREZ idiots that if they did not pirate things like Photoshop that Adobe MAY be able to charge less money? I know, they probably would not change the price, but piracy holds alot of things artificially high in price.....whether justified (software) or not (CD's).
If it (or anything else for that matter) being released for sale on a certain day, then why do stores have it this early? Never hear of overnight shipping?? Why is it even activated in the POS terminal?? I have always wondered this. I remember back in '95 seeing Windows 95 stacked up in Sam's Club and up HIGH for like 3 weeks or something like that. I understand the vageries of trucking, but do things have to be in the retailer's hand that long?
The T42 is a excellent machine. I currently have one and due to work, I need it to have Windows XP on it since it's owned by them, but soon I am looking into seeing if I can put a Linux partition on it. Got to be careful so I don't toast my work setup on it. It's nice to see that the fingerprint reader is getting support....BUT this device seems to be a little flakey, to me. The one in the iPaq h5555 was better.
NOT a dupe. That pac ONLY has WiFi with a EVDO card. This one has not only wifi and cellular, but ham radio on many bands as well as GPS and a Linux based computer.
More then just ham radio.....ANYTHING that has RF involved could be plagued by BPL, but Ham, Police, Fire, AM/FM, and lots of other RF driven things coulld be affected. PLUS, has anyone SEEN a power line? They are UNSHIELDED, never worked on for years in someplaces and are barely capable of carrying power.
The BIG reason that the power companies want this is they want to replace power meters with ones that call home for billing and that would eliminate a bunch of jobs (and create fewer new ones) and save money.
Say what you will about Think Geek, but there's alot of stuff on there I can't get anywhere. I DON'T shop there for computer parts....there are better places for that stuff. Think Geek has many unique items you can't get anywhere else:
Penguin Mints - I have had DIFFICULTY finding these....if Think Geek does not have them, I can go direct. My local Meijer USED to carry these...no more.
Caffinated Anything - Needed for long nights
T-Shirts - where else can you get a T-Shirt that says Dammit Jim I am a Sysadmin not a babysitter??
Cool Mugs/Glasses/Shot Glasses
Orielly Books (not the best place, but they do have them)
Cool geeky cube decorations
Again, I never buy computer stuff from them. I can get better prices elsewhere.
This may sound like an AD, but it isn't. I just love getting neat items I can't get anywhere else.
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Actually, I figured this one out yesterday. It was ESD all the way causing the issue. Esd and Artsd both cause issues when you have a sound card that can't handle the mixing at the hardware level. This laptop has ye olde crappy AC'97 embedded sound card. So when I would try to play a WMV or a MPG in mPlayer, it would hang until I killed esd. Now I need to figure out if there's a way to make mplayer pipe through esd so I don't have to kill esd every damn time I want to watch a wmv.
I agree, the ubuntu guide (NOT official) handles most things with aplomb but this one was a weird nit with my particular system. Now it works well.
Skype on the other hand is a piece of crap because I get get it working no way no how. I can connect, but I can't hear echo123. Very weird. I know it's not my network because I tested Skype from another machine and it's working (both Windows and Mac OS X).
You know....removing the code sounds like a major pain, but if I had done something similar, I would have removed the code and retested. Why? It's TOO easy to get sued now adays.
One thing I did notice....W did not say anything about it. Why? Because he, like myself, probably did not see a bit of difference between M and AO. Also, it's NOT A BIG DEAL!
I agree. Prophesies are predictions on what might happen. It doesn't mean that it WILL happen. I agree, some day, the events in Revelation may come to pass, but if you think about it a little, it could be when the sun goes supernova. It sounds an aweful lot like what may happen. Fire...Brimstone...it could happen. Of course maybe they are talking about the Earth being put away by a meteor or something. In any case, I don't think one should go and blindly follow anything, the Bible, The Koran or the Torah. I DO try to live life as close to the Bible as I can though and mostly because it just seems to be right, to me. You may differ. The great thing is if you repent when you DO scew up, you'll still go to heaven....at least that is the way I take it.
My favorite is I get a call. Something is down. I am in the middle of fixing it and I get 20 more calls about it being DOWN. YES I FREAKING KNOW IT'S DOWN!!! LET ME FRIGGIN WORK!
Yes and No. While I agree, you can install pretty much any SOFTWARE easily, sometimes hardware is a pain....like WiFi cards. Now once I found and learned ndiswrapper, unshield and cabextract I was able to get it working with wpa_supplicant. BUT one thing I have not figured out is how to play things like WMV files on my Linux box. I have gotten the codecs for mplayer but it won't work. By the way, ndiswrapper itself was apt-gettable, but the rest of my post(the windows driver you need for ndiswrapper) and the media codecs is NOT something that's covered by apt-get. My goal, at some point in the near future, is to build a dedicated Li8nux box required little to no hacking around to get things working (except obvious things like the codec issue).
Now, it still does nto mean it's brittle. Far from it. I have made all kinds of thing that would mess up a windows system but linux kept plugging away. Linux is definitely not brittle.
Would that not be on Spike?? Anyway, in his honor, I am going to watch my favorite movie with Scotty in it...Star Trek IV.
Hello computer??
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Keyboard! How quaint!
It's more then just dropping 2000-4000 table entries. You drop the registration, you delete the feels and you free up the records so someone else can register. The old system probably only had 3-4....maybe 6 tables. The new system running on UNIX (NOT programmed by us) probably has 15 tables. Why? I dunno. It's a package. It is what it is and I can't change it. Your comment shows ME that you have no idea what the heck your talking about. Keep in mind, this SAME mainframe is also supporting more registration activity occuring at the SAME time as this batch job as well as running payroll jobs, backups and other things that take a load. With all of this stuff running also on the new system as well.
I beg to differ. We have some pretty kickass pSeries machines and they don't come close to what our old Multiprise could turn out. Got to drop some students for non-payment? 2,000 to 4,000 records dropped in 20 min on mainframe vs 3-4 hours on the big UNIX Box. Mainframe systems EXCEL at I/O. They SUCK when they try and do computational heavy tasks. The mainframe we bought in 2000 did not even have floating point processors and it still performed better then our current solution. Mainframes DO kick very much butt in processing.
Some Slashdot editors prefer to look at Slashdot stories from the last 2 days and post the one in the submission been that looks similar to the others.....noone knows why!
Agreed. It's been the best distro I have ever tried for a extended period of time. I had Red Hat 6 a long time ago and while it was ok for the time, Ubuntu is loads better..
First off, anyone using the user agent for ANYTHING is stupid. It's so easily changed in browsers other then IE that I can get into sites intended for IE with any browser.
Second, why should this type of warning even be needed? Because Microsoft themselves are guilty of telling developers to ONLY code for thier browser....something no other browser asks developers to do. Microsoft has definitely shown yet again that they want people to ONLY use their stuff and they want a web that ONLY works in thier browser.
I think if they get too stupid with the costs of licensing, then Open Source software will start to take off even more. Why? It costs me ZERO or close to it to download a iso and run Linux one ANY number if servers or cores. Need support too? No problem. Run Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a support contract or find a company that sells support on a per incident basis. The thing is with all this dual core multiprocessing thing is people want a reasonable all you can eat pricing model. Charging per CPU or even per core is not that model. We'll go away.
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_radio.ht m
Go to that site for a real interesting story on AM and FM radio. My guess is that analog TV wil never go away completely until it goes away on it's own.
They support online play indirectly with the GC. There's the broadband adapter (IF you can find it) and Warppipe(http://cubeonline.warppipe.com/). Now, Nintendo obviously does not support this directly(and neither will the company, Warppipe.com), but it will let you play Mario Kart (GC) online and alot of people have been using it and there is a community behind it.
Yeah. That's what I was kind of pointing at. Kind of sucks that the mod's call me a troll because I call using WAREZ WRONG and I call downloading MP3's WRONG. Note that I detest DRM still and I am on the side of LEGAL P2P use....which means sometimes I side on the side of the downloaders. Downloading WAREZ is wrong too. If you want software, for free, go download Linux or FreeBSD and you can do about 99.9999 percent of what you need to do with those OS's and the exceptions are getting fewer now adays. EASY video editing is not there yet....all Linux packages for this seem to try and make it look like Primere or some fancy editing program...I need something like iMovie...something easy, and simple. Kino and Cinelerra ain't easy. Kino looks to be easier then Cinelerra, but iMovie seems, to me, to be better over all and is dead easy to use. Exactly what I want for this. Once that has been fixed, I can switch to Linux and will possibly do this on my Powerbook.
Hmm....easy way to fix this crap....don't pick the Valedictorian until May. This girl DESERVED to fail.
I know! Just use open source! :D I know, does not always work. Did it ever appear to the WAREZ idiots that if they did not pirate things like Photoshop that Adobe MAY be able to charge less money? I know, they probably would not change the price, but piracy holds alot of things artificially high in price.....whether justified (software) or not (CD's).
If it (or anything else for that matter) being released for sale on a certain day, then why do stores have it this early? Never hear of overnight shipping?? Why is it even activated in the POS terminal?? I have always wondered this. I remember back in '95 seeing Windows 95 stacked up in Sam's Club and up HIGH for like 3 weeks or something like that. I understand the vageries of trucking, but do things have to be in the retailer's hand that long?
Thanks for the info. Damn fine project. I would definitely be interested in this project. Pretty cool. This post needs modded up.
The T42 is a excellent machine. I currently have one and due to work, I need it to have Windows XP on it since it's owned by them, but soon I am looking into seeing if I can put a Linux partition on it. Got to be careful so I don't toast my work setup on it. It's nice to see that the fingerprint reader is getting support....BUT this device seems to be a little flakey, to me. The one in the iPaq h5555 was better.
All you need is a call. You can look it up in QRZ and many other online databases including the FCC's.
NOT a dupe. That pac ONLY has WiFi with a EVDO card. This one has not only wifi and cellular, but ham radio on many bands as well as GPS and a Linux based computer.
More then just ham radio.....ANYTHING that has RF involved could be plagued by BPL, but Ham, Police, Fire, AM/FM, and lots of other RF driven things coulld be affected. PLUS, has anyone SEEN a power line? They are UNSHIELDED, never worked on for years in someplaces and are barely capable of carrying power.
The BIG reason that the power companies want this is they want to replace power meters with ones that call home for billing and that would eliminate a bunch of jobs (and create fewer new ones) and save money.
Say what you will about Think Geek, but there's alot of stuff on there I can't get anywhere. I DON'T shop there for computer parts....there are better places for that stuff. Think Geek has many unique items you can't get anywhere else:
Penguin Mints - I have had DIFFICULTY finding these....if Think Geek does not have them, I can go direct. My local Meijer USED to carry these...no more.
Caffinated Anything - Needed for long nights
T-Shirts - where else can you get a T-Shirt that says Dammit Jim I am a Sysadmin not a babysitter??
Cool Mugs/Glasses/Shot Glasses
Orielly Books (not the best place, but they do have them)
Cool geeky cube decorations
Again, I never buy computer stuff from them. I can get better prices elsewhere.
This may sound like an AD, but it isn't. I just love getting neat items I can't get anywhere else.
Yeah we use these. They also have a very bad camera in them.