On top of that, why can't the US achieve this sort of payload efficiency? Our space program has been around for ~50 years now and we're spending significantly more per satellite to launch them.
I've set up my wife to use Linux Mint on her desktop, Ubuntu on her laptop, and Xandros on the EEE PC.
However, even though Adobe flash and gnash work they are HORRIBLE. At best you can run that thing in the original screen size, but maximizing it to any significant resolution reduces the framerate to ~5fps.
Someone needs to come out with a solution, open or not, that doesn't force Xorg to peg the CPU every time you want to watch a Flash video (which is quite often).
Out of the three systems, only the EEE PC works well with Flash since the resolution is so small. It's impossible trying to run Flash full screen at my laptop's 1920x1200 resolution.
Dell has been losing market share to HP and Apple quite a while now (at least 6 quarters consecutively according to AC above).
HP and Apple's turnaround in the marketplace has been somewhat attributed to R&D and strong design teams which Dell lacks, according to "Why Dell isn't the next Apple."
You would also need to argue how much net profits extra customization adds to Dell's offerings. In the past, I've always thought the memory and hdd upgrades through Dell were ridiculous, I would rather just buy the parts separately and add them in myself.
I attended an AMD talk the other day where the presenter noted that a 10% difference in CPU clock was equivalent to having a black laptop instead of white (based on same spec Macbooks).
The consumer market has reached a point where customization and marginal performance options are taking a back seat to design and price point.
In the article they referred to nVidia chipsets, and AFAIK they have been unified chipsets since nForce2 (I could be wrong). Motherboards with these chipsets usually have those tiny chipset HSFs that rattle after 6+ months, and I always end up replacing them with passive heatsinks anyway.
But honestly, even though the chipsets can get relatively hot (35C+) passive heatsinks has worked fine for me.
Civilization 1 used a 16-bit signed integer to represent gold. I used to edit and lock the memory location for gold to 32767. Any higher and it wrapped around to negative gold.
There is a fairly stable closed source ATI driver from the AMD website that supports AIGLX (required for Compiz).
As for ATI open source drivers refer to this list. Copy and pasted for convenience:
Unsupported X1300 / R515 based cards. X1600 / R530 based cards. X1800 / R520 based cards. X1900 / R580 based cards.
2D acceleration only Xpress 200M Northbridge integrated GPUs
Good 3D acceleration support 9500 / R300 based cards. 9600 / rv350 or rv360 based cards. 9700 / R300 based cards. 9800 / R350 or R360 based cards. X300 / rv370 based cards. X600 / rv380 based cards. X700 / rv410 based cards. X800 / R420 or R423 or R430 or R480 based cards. X850 / R480 or R481 based cards. X1050 / rv370 based cards.
Full 3D acceleration support 7000 / rv100 based cards. 7200 / R100 based cards. 7500 / rv200 based cards. 8X00 / R200 based cards. 9000 / rv250 based cards. 9100 / R200 based cards. 9200 / rv280 based cards.
Who the hell pays $30 for a USB cable? When you need it here and now. Sometimes I get blindsided into doing impromptu troubleshooting and I don't always have my box of spare parts within a convenient distance.
I came across a few PC vs. Mac ads bashing Vista's low adoption rate and people were downgrading to WinXP. I guess Vista complainers is no longer geek-only, but rather mainstream now since Apple's advertising it?
If they want to "gamercize" it, why don't they put in some software where you can keep track of how many calories burned or some other scoring method, and allow people to upload their data? Gamers will do anything for points . . .
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You're missing a return statement in an int function . . . I'm sorry I noticed. :(
Comparisons between ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, ext2/3: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html
Direct link to benchmark images: http://linuxgazette.net/102/misc/piszcz/lg-102-piszcz-images.tar.gz
It's basically a tie between ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS depending on how your disk is being used most often.
On top of that, why can't the US achieve this sort of payload efficiency? Our space program has been around for ~50 years now and we're spending significantly more per satellite to launch them.
I've set up my wife to use Linux Mint on her desktop, Ubuntu on her laptop, and Xandros on the EEE PC.
However, even though Adobe flash and gnash work they are HORRIBLE. At best you can run that thing in the original screen size, but maximizing it to any significant resolution reduces the framerate to ~5fps.
Someone needs to come out with a solution, open or not, that doesn't force Xorg to peg the CPU every time you want to watch a Flash video (which is quite often).
Out of the three systems, only the EEE PC works well with Flash since the resolution is so small. It's impossible trying to run Flash full screen at my laptop's 1920x1200 resolution.
This already exists via this Grease Monkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11218
You can now see all photos of your friends (even if they were taken by someone else and marked for friends only).
Vista could always be ME v2, just a mistake that Microsoft learns from and improves on for their next OS. It was 2000 -> ME -> XP, remember?
Dell has been losing market share to HP and Apple quite a while now (at least 6 quarters consecutively according to AC above).
HP and Apple's turnaround in the marketplace has been somewhat attributed to R&D and strong design teams which Dell lacks, according to "Why Dell isn't the next Apple."
In response, Dell has been designing some great systems due to launch this year:
XPS m1330 ultraportable: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/05/more-pics-of-the-dell-xps-m1330/
Latitude XT tablet: http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/11/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-is-official-sexy/
E5000 / E6000: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/22/dells-leaked-latitude-e6000-and-e5000-series-of-laptops-pack-gp/
E4200 / E4300: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/up-close-with-dells-latitude-e4300-and-e4200-ultra-portables-wi/
You would also need to argue how much net profits extra customization adds to Dell's offerings. In the past, I've always thought the memory and hdd upgrades through Dell were ridiculous, I would rather just buy the parts separately and add them in myself.
I attended an AMD talk the other day where the presenter noted that a 10% difference in CPU clock was equivalent to having a black laptop instead of white (based on same spec Macbooks).
The consumer market has reached a point where customization and marginal performance options are taking a back seat to design and price point.
Bookies (online ones at least) will blackball you if you win too much of the time.
Ubuntu 8.04 will most likely revert back to FF 2.0 (and KDE 3) simply because it's LTS.
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In the article they referred to nVidia chipsets, and AFAIK they have been unified chipsets since nForce2 (I could be wrong). Motherboards with these chipsets usually have those tiny chipset HSFs that rattle after 6+ months, and I always end up replacing them with passive heatsinks anyway.
But honestly, even though the chipsets can get relatively hot (35C+) passive heatsinks has worked fine for me.
It's my understanding that Dell cross ships with battery pack replacements, good luck on getting your laptop fixed quickly.
If your max capacity is 32% of design capacity after just 1 year, then you can call up Dell and they will send you a new battery.
Civilization 1 used a 16-bit signed integer to represent gold. I used to edit and lock the memory location for gold to 32767. Any higher and it wrapped around to negative gold.
From the Read More section: AMD Release 900+ pages of GPU Specs.
There is a fairly stable closed source ATI driver from the AMD website that supports AIGLX (required for Compiz).
As for ATI open source drivers refer to this list. Copy and pasted for convenience:
Unsupported
X1300 / R515 based cards.
X1600 / R530 based cards.
X1800 / R520 based cards.
X1900 / R580 based cards.
2D acceleration only
Xpress 200M Northbridge integrated GPUs
Good 3D acceleration support
9500 / R300 based cards.
9600 / rv350 or rv360 based cards.
9700 / R300 based cards.
9800 / R350 or R360 based cards.
X300 / rv370 based cards.
X600 / rv380 based cards.
X700 / rv410 based cards.
X800 / R420 or R423 or R430 or R480 based cards.
X850 / R480 or R481 based cards.
X1050 / rv370 based cards.
Full 3D acceleration support
7000 / rv100 based cards.
7200 / R100 based cards.
7500 / rv200 based cards.
8X00 / R200 based cards.
9000 / rv250 based cards.
9100 / R200 based cards.
9200 / rv280 based cards.
This isn't a problem at coffee shops or other places I've been to that offer free wireless. Why would this be a problem on airplanes?
IANAL, but I think you can argue prior use. :)
One of the Party Poker patches erased C:\Program Files\*.
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I came across a few PC vs. Mac ads bashing Vista's low adoption rate and people were downgrading to WinXP. I guess Vista complainers is no longer geek-only, but rather mainstream now since Apple's advertising it?
So I guess I shouldn't be wearing this shirt while flying this holiday season?
If they want to "gamercize" it, why don't they put in some software where you can keep track of how many calories burned or some other scoring method, and allow people to upload their data? Gamers will do anything for points . . .
My partitions: OS + apps, my documents + binaries, games, temp
I backup the 2nd partition on a daily basis.
I have a games partition because I don't want to reinstall and/or saved games and configs need to stay intact.
I have a temp partition for everything else simply because I don't like cluttering up my OS partition too much.
It's not that I need the data division, but since my desktop has always been multi-hdd I come up with ways to categorize the data.
If you're running Workstation, you just need to run the configure script (/urs/bin/vmware-config.pl) again.