As a proud owner of a 3dfx card (yeah I know there are better cards, but my Athlon 700 kinda compensates for it now) I really hate the situation with 3dfx on Linux.
Remember dev3dfx? I haven't used some other cards for Linux 3D yet - can anyone tell me if they need a device driver like this?
Mesa - can 3dfx support in Mesa ever be stand-alone? I have no interest in installing Glide. But Mesa requires it to support my card. It shouldn't need to. I guess the NVidia driver is considerably cleaner thanks to the absense of Glide.
Why don't we do it the other way round - just develop a good Mesa driver for every card, and implement Glide using Mesa? There are 2 advantages:
1. You don't need to install Glide if you don't need it - OpenGL apps are newer, usually more important to you, and exist in a larger quantity nowadays than Glide apps.
2. People not having 3dfx cards can also use the Glide library if they want to.
Remember sometime ago we had a story about evolution algorithms making robots....I wonder what king of sweet thing we'll get by putting this baby into the "gene pool"...
Anyone tried the Encap package manager? It is like the GNU Stow, just being around for longer and works a few times better. Keeps installed software in its own directory and create simlinks for you in/usr/local/bin, etc.
I found it extremely useful, especially when I install stuffs from source - I used to keep source tarballs or makefiles because of one reason - "make uninstall". With encap I don't have to - just a "epkg -r" and a "rm -rf" and you are done.
What's really great about it, is that it doesn't try to do anything to dependency. Keeping programs in their own directories and managing symlinks are all it does. It even doesn't delete your files when you do an uninstall - "epkg -r" merely removes the symlinks. I sometimes think it is designed for Slackware - and if SL makes use of this packaging system it'd become the best distribution ever. Features like apt-get would be trivial to implement on an each-program-has-its-own-directory system.
Going to work soon. I'm usually not up this early. It is that F****** earwig that crawled onto the backside of my earflip that waked me, and I'm now too frightened to get back to bed I guess. Gotta get some fix for these and the sowbugs...wish me luck.
How about a solution for this situation: introduce a law to ban asking for royalties after something has become popular.
I'm sure Rambus knew that SDRAM infringed on their patents - but they waited until it becomes stly popular, THEN asks for royalties. This is hypocritical beyond my imagination. Companies should lose the right to ask for royalties after, say, a year of introduction of an infringing design.
They simply should have asked when SDRAM first hit the market. That way, I doubt SDRAM would become as popular as today, but it'd certainly avoid situations like these. Unisys, BT, etc.
I'm working on an OpenGL driver with the company I'm with now so here's some of my thought after being in it for a while:
The OpenGL ARB is a lot slower in aporoving proposed extensions. The reason for this is that OpenGL was not designed with games in mind, and they have a lot to consider before adding an extension, so not to contaminate the OpenGL standard by mistake.
Direct3D is another story - MS accepts a lot of extensions propsed by cardmakers really quickly, primarily because it is designed for games, and for game developments, more features == better eye candies.
The result is, D3D now incorporates a lot of features that OpenGL doesn't. Hardware shadow, Texture compression, Bump mapping, Anisotropic filtering, Video texture are the most important ones.
On a driver level, the two are similar. However feature-wise, there are some capabilities of a video card that can be made use by D3D but not OGL, unless you add your propriety extensions, which I don't recall a lot of games use.
Maybe more companies like id can change the minds of the OGL ARB...
Does it have anything to do with Sashimi Systems?? What a yummy combination
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Works much the same way like M$IE makes anything other than allowing all ActiveX control to run bothersome. Without ActiveX it is a PGB (pretty good browser) and everyone knows why they have to put that damn un-disable-able fucking box asking for a click whenever you turn ActiveX off.
Offtopic I know, but it annoys the hell out of me when I use it.
If you file a patent, you should start charging royalties immediately, not after it has become popular. I hate it when people do it - e.g. Unisys.
It should be the patent filer's responsibility to inform everyone that a patent is in place. I bet GIF wouldn't be as popular as it is now if Unisys told people that it had the patent in the first place.
Waiting for the patented application to become popular then use it as a cashcow is just grossly hypocritical and unethical.
Region Coding. Nothing confidential. It is not a part of DeCSS and has nothing to do with encryption. To see how it works and how to bypass it, check out
www.inmatrix.com www.dvdutils.com
I hope one day everyone will know about the incentive behind region coding and ways to bypass it spread like wildfire - both software players and "real" players.
The issue is, does moving the graphical layer to the kernel makes this difference? Why are we so sure it is not caused by something else - e.g. the windows being redrawn too often? (maybe I'm wrong but what I'm seeing is that windows don't get drawn at places where the mouse pointer appears but somewhere in between as well - something completely unnecessary)
You sure cannot say everything about Window's 2D speed is because of the kernel integration. It just does not make much sense if you take notice of how close they perform in Q3A.
I remember clearly the days of NT3.51 - it's GUI is faster than XFree4 as well. Just want to know how he got "better than Window" 2D results. If I could do that it would be sweet.
Is your X faster than Windows in 2D? I must have misconfigured my XFree then...my 3.3.5 and 4.0 *feels* a tad slower than 98 or NT - I'm comparing the speed when I try to do opaque moves or resizes.
Windows is doing a great job here - the window is displayed whenever the mouse pointer is so it feels completely smooth. Meanwhile I always feels some lag when I do the same thing on X, no matter what window manager I use, on the same hardware.
Is anyone noticing the same thing and enlighten me what's going on and is there a way to fix it, by either playing with the configuration or the source?
I personally believe that the government is not trying to regulate the net.
It is just trying to make the net the nice place for all of us like it was a few years back - where everyone is anonymous and people can STILL do business as usual.
It is just trying to stop some companies who's trying to use the net to harm consumers (like "automatic demographed ad delivery").
The net without targetted advertisements is a perfectly functional to consumers (I remember I could buy online about 3 years ago where you didn't see as many banners)
Innocent people think that large corporations on the web must be trustworthy and fall to victim by their privacy statements of deception.
They don't understand that you can't really trust people on the web, and forget that the reason of existence of a lot of companies is profit maximization. These two combined gives you a bunch corporate victims making up I guess more than 80% of the web.
I'd say it would be pretty pathetic if FTC just sat there watching. Now give us some real results!
Hell, the point is, you don't HAVE to know what you are doing if you are using a good OS.
If you are just an ordinary user, you can't screw up the system no matter what you do. Period.
Requiring the user to "read directions" is a flaw on the designer's part.
I mean, it's OK to require the user to read directions in order to get things work, but it is also essential that the user cannot crash the system even if he/she does not read the directions.
I have used and tweaked Windows since 3.0 and I know Windows 9X cannot guarantee that.
Yes, the perpetual image of Windows crashes constantly is completely false, in a sense that they don't crash that often. But comparing to how frequently Linux crashes, hell, it seems often enough. In the long run, it creates the image of crashing constantly.
And hey, it need not reboot itself. After a while your resources will drom from 97% to 76% to 69% to 50% to 38%...and you know it is time to reboot.
You always know it is better for you to reboot it rather than it rebooting itself, right?
Well...not exactly that. I mean, once intelligence is created, the intelligence can decrease the entropy by reordering things (at least in their "mind")
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In order to Masq. correctly with PPPoE, you need to set up your Masq. clients to use the same MTU as the server.
So something like "ifconfig eth0 MTU=1492" on all your clients will do the trick.
Let's ping them back...it's gonna be fun.
As a proud owner of a 3dfx card (yeah I know there are better cards, but my Athlon 700 kinda compensates for it now) I really hate the situation with 3dfx on Linux.
Remember dev3dfx? I haven't used some other cards for Linux 3D yet - can anyone tell me if they need a device driver like this?
Mesa - can 3dfx support in Mesa ever be stand-alone? I have no interest in installing Glide. But Mesa requires it to support my card. It shouldn't need to. I guess the NVidia driver is considerably cleaner thanks to the absense of Glide.
Why don't we do it the other way round - just develop a good Mesa driver for every card, and implement Glide using Mesa? There are 2 advantages:
1. You don't need to install Glide if you don't need it - OpenGL apps are newer, usually more important to you, and exist in a larger quantity nowadays than Glide apps.
2. People not having 3dfx cards can also use the Glide library if they want to.
Remember sometime ago we had a story about evolution algorithms making robots....I wonder what king of sweet thing we'll get by putting this baby into the "gene pool"...
Go to safe mode (Win 2k), and cd to \WINNT\SYSTEM32\.
Get the name of your display driver's main DLL (from the INF file of your display driver) and rename it. Next time you boot you'll get a BSOD.
To change it back just boot to safe mode and rename again.
Anyone tried the Encap package manager? It is like the GNU Stow, just being around for longer and works a few times better. Keeps installed software in its own directory and create simlinks for you in /usr/local/bin, etc.
I found it extremely useful, especially when I install stuffs from source - I used to keep source tarballs or makefiles because of one reason - "make uninstall". With encap I don't have to - just a "epkg -r" and a "rm -rf" and you are done.
What's really great about it, is that it doesn't try to do anything to dependency. Keeping programs in their own directories and managing symlinks are all it does. It even doesn't delete your files when you do an uninstall - "epkg -r" merely removes the symlinks. I sometimes think it is designed for Slackware - and if SL makes use of this packaging system it'd become the best distribution ever. Features like apt-get would be trivial to implement on an each-program-has-its-own-directory system.
Going to work soon. I'm usually not up this early. It is that F****** earwig that crawled onto the backside of my earflip that waked me, and I'm now too frightened to get back to bed I guess. Gotta get some fix for these and the sowbugs...wish me luck.
How about a solution for this situation: introduce a law to ban asking for royalties after something has become popular.
I'm sure Rambus knew that SDRAM infringed on their patents - but they waited until it becomes stly popular, THEN asks for royalties. This is hypocritical beyond my imagination. Companies should lose the right to ask for royalties after, say, a year of introduction of an infringing design.
They simply should have asked when SDRAM first hit the market. That way, I doubt SDRAM would become as popular as today, but it'd certainly avoid situations like these. Unisys, BT, etc.
I'm working on an OpenGL driver with the company I'm with now so here's some of my thought after being in it for a while:
The OpenGL ARB is a lot slower in aporoving proposed extensions. The reason for this is that OpenGL was not designed with games in mind, and they have a lot to consider before adding an extension, so not to contaminate the OpenGL standard by mistake.
Direct3D is another story - MS accepts a lot of extensions propsed by cardmakers really quickly, primarily because it is designed for games, and for game developments, more features == better eye candies.
The result is, D3D now incorporates a lot of features that OpenGL doesn't. Hardware shadow, Texture compression, Bump mapping, Anisotropic filtering, Video texture are the most important ones.
On a driver level, the two are similar. However feature-wise, there are some capabilities of a video card that can be made use by D3D but not OGL, unless you add your propriety extensions, which I don't recall a lot of games use.
Maybe more companies like id can change the minds of the OGL ARB...
Does it have anything to do with Sashimi Systems?? What a yummy combination
Works much the same way like M$IE makes anything other than allowing all ActiveX control to run bothersome. Without ActiveX it is a PGB (pretty good browser) and everyone knows why they have to put that damn un-disable-able fucking box asking for a click whenever you turn ActiveX off.
Offtopic I know, but it annoys the hell out of me when I use it.
If you file a patent, you should start charging royalties immediately, not after it has become popular. I hate it when people do it - e.g. Unisys.
It should be the patent filer's responsibility to inform everyone that a patent is in place. I bet GIF wouldn't be as popular as it is now if Unisys told people that it had the patent in the first place.
Waiting for the patented application to become popular then use it as a cashcow is just grossly hypocritical and unethical.
10 home
20 print "WOZ VIRUS APPLE][ VERSION"
30 print chr$(4) + "BRUN WOZ"
40 print chr$(7)
50 run
Region Coding. Nothing confidential. It is not a part of DeCSS and has nothing to do with encryption. To see how it works and how to bypass it, check out
www.inmatrix.com
www.dvdutils.com
I hope one day everyone will know about the incentive behind region coding and ways to bypass it spread like wildfire - both software players and "real" players.
>A quick search on the Web the next day revealed
>that Brøderbund is owned by Mattel Interactive
I'm too out of synch...is it??? DAMN. Broderbund made so many nice games I enjoy...not to mention The Print Shop...
Now it's owned by Mattel and it can kiss its future goodbye.
The issue is, does moving the graphical layer to the kernel makes this difference? Why are we so sure it is not caused by something else - e.g. the windows being redrawn too often? (maybe I'm wrong but what I'm seeing is that windows don't get drawn at places where the mouse pointer appears but somewhere in between as well - something completely unnecessary)
You sure cannot say everything about Window's 2D speed is because of the kernel integration. It just does not make much sense if you take notice of how close they perform in Q3A.
I remember clearly the days of NT3.51 - it's GUI is faster than XFree4 as well. Just want to know how he got "better than Window" 2D results. If I could do that it would be sweet.
Is your X faster than Windows in 2D? I must have misconfigured my XFree then...my 3.3.5 and 4.0 *feels* a tad slower than 98 or NT - I'm comparing the speed when I try to do opaque moves or resizes.
Windows is doing a great job here - the window is displayed whenever the mouse pointer is so it feels completely smooth. Meanwhile I always feels some lag when I do the same thing on X, no matter what window manager I use, on the same hardware.
Is anyone noticing the same thing and enlighten me what's going on and is there a way to fix it, by either playing with the configuration or the source?
I personally believe that the government is not trying to regulate the net.
It is just trying to make the net the nice place for all of us like it was a few years back - where everyone is anonymous and people can STILL do business as usual.
It is just trying to stop some companies who's trying to use the net to harm consumers (like "automatic demographed ad delivery").
The net without targetted advertisements is a perfectly functional to consumers (I remember I could buy online about 3 years ago where you didn't see as many banners)
Innocent people think that large corporations on the web must be trustworthy and fall to victim by their privacy statements of deception.
They don't understand that you can't really trust people on the web, and forget that the reason of existence of a lot of companies is profit maximization. These two combined gives you a bunch corporate victims making up I guess more than 80% of the web.
I'd say it would be pretty pathetic if FTC just sat there watching. Now give us some real results!
Have you wondered how fast did they (and their motorbikes) smashed into each other?
For all I'm concerned, they should have ended being a big bloody pulp, end of story. How did they manage to pull something like that?
I think he means implementing from scratch, starting with the compression itself. I do think GIF is easier to implement than PNG and JPEG.
If you are talking about using them thru libraries like libpng, all of them are equally easy.
PNQ - PNQ's Not Quake.
No. Allegro is multiplatform...
Have you tried Allegro? After a feature comparison I find it to be still better...so I'm sticking to Allegro...
Hell, the point is, you don't HAVE to know what you are doing if you are using a good OS.
If you are just an ordinary user, you can't screw up the system no matter what you do. Period.
Requiring the user to "read directions" is a flaw on the designer's part.
I mean, it's OK to require the user to read directions in order to get things work, but it is also essential that the user cannot crash the system even if he/she does not read the directions.
I have used and tweaked Windows since 3.0 and I know Windows 9X cannot guarantee that.
Yes, the perpetual image of Windows crashes constantly is completely false, in a sense that they don't crash that often. But comparing to how frequently Linux crashes, hell, it seems often enough. In the long run, it creates the image of crashing constantly.
And hey, it need not reboot itself. After a while your resources will drom from 97% to 76% to 69% to 50% to 38%...and you know it is time to reboot.
You always know it is better for you to reboot it rather than it rebooting itself, right?
Something like it, called "DIME".
Well...not exactly that. I mean, once intelligence is created, the intelligence can decrease the entropy by reordering things (at least in their "mind")