You don't upgrade a kernel for fun, only if there is an urgent need for it, to get something to work that is broken / not supported. This idea is really stupid.. What do you want to keep up? A website? Bit difficult if you unload the kernel
This thing is just for us geeks, not the 'doze users.. So we can just try out some of the other distros.. and I also think, it's so LokiGames support etc. can say: 'Sorry you need GLIBC2.xx for it, but luckily for you a suitable distro is not a 40hour download by 33k6 modem, but it's packed with it'...
I signed on with a "free of charge" internet provider recently, they gave me an option, which kind of commercial mail I was interrested in and which not... I don't mind receiving commercial mail, 'bout the cheapest K7-700 system, or the latest cheap DVD's, just stay out of my fuckin' mail box with those Chinese Big5 adds (can't read chinese anyway) and the hottest slut I've ever seen (always like 50+ orso anyway, 'kay make that 40) and also *DON'T* wanna know how to get rich fast (and die early).. Just wanna die like a (relative) poor old geek, as will happen to Alan and Linus probably.. (Unless Metasomething is the chicken with the gold eggs)..
Is it me, or are Altavista's results, deliberatly modified? I just notice some changes in behaviour recently, it seems like some contents is filtered out.. I can't really explain, I notice it with queries for various subjects... From guru techtalk to pr0n..:) Maybe one of the indications is the "related searches" item.. Though this must be made up of frequent searched items, using those searches results quite often in few results.. I take it, most searched for items are better haunted for by the spiders, or...? Well, it seems like search-engines in general are degradating... Where did the times go, that you didn't had to scroll through a searchengine-page looking for that much to tiny white box (not much bigger than the average picture for it's commercials), with not enough room to type in your query without scrolling?
Because most other compagnies you mention, are strugling to survive.. and they are putting their hopes on Linux (wise decission..) whereas Creative is an healthy compagny, would could do easely do without that 10% of the market.. Also, finally hardware manufacturers are opening up specs, what saves us painstacking work to try to reverse engineer every piece of hardware, which is sometimes impossible, due to the complexity of some propriety DSP's/ASICs and also enables us, to make even better drivers than the windoze users are custom to..
Great work, your patches, btw! Using a DVD, CDR and CDROM on one machine and it works just fine.. can't say the same under win9x, nt4 and win2k:( An intelligent too, I disconnected and reconnected my DVD hot and it even mentioned that it was powered down and not some weirdo 'eeeeeeck' messages in the kernel log;-) (Fan was suckin' my powersupply dry, had to reconnect it somewhere else..hate restarting;-) MBr
No DVD under Linux, huh? Well than don't look at this sample , it might confince you otherwise... Also, never heard about the DXR2 drivers on the Creative Opensource site? Or that Sigma Designs is planning on giving their next Hollywood chip native Linux support?!
With those Windoze players, I always have to mess around with my display settings, if I want to watch DVD.. with Nist I just compiled it in.. no need to mess with that anymore..
Man, what's wrong with some of you guys? Creative is doing just fine, with the CVS EMU10K1 driver and it is coming along just great, almost every issue at bugzilla is now dealt with.. Sound output is stable, it works with almost any app and on SMP systems and you can play upto 32!! wave streams at the sametime.. I just bought come cheapo speakerset with fake surround for the rear speaker output and it sounds nice, we even have a way to get the rear-volume slider to work now..
Okay, the AC97 mixer is really messed up, but that was because the soundcard specific register specs where lacking. Jon went to great lengths to sort out what could be released outside the NDA, well done!
And indeed, people like Alan Cox went into great trouble, to try to Unix-fy the driver, cleaning it up and making it readable, also to other programmers..
'and the support under linux is bad. It's rather non-standard.' Well, thank you.. that must me an insult to my adress I guess... I'll keep it in mind next time, if you mail me for help..
After doing some more research on the internet, I need to rectify some facts: Since 1986, no more that two reactors of the Chornobyl plant, have been operative..
In 1991, one of the two reactors caught fire and was taken offline and was taken back online in 1995. Currently there's only one reactor operational, the second one was taken offline in 1997 because it exceeded it's lifespan. The remaining reactor, is in such a bad shape, that it needs a half year of service for every half year of operation. Ukrainia has scheduled the last reactor to shut down before 01-01-2000, but is now probably forced to use it until end Q2 Y2K, because they still haven't received any money to finish building their new power plants and winters are very harsh over there..
Currently, Ukrainia had only power 22/24 hours, before powering up #3 and the Ukrainain public transport is largly electrical powered.
In the first year after the accident, the number of cleanup workers in the zone was estimated to be 211,000, and these workers received an estimated average dose between 165-250 millisievert (16.5 rem). In total, around 600-800,000 workers have been involved since 1986 and around 8000-10000 of them died.
Right after the accident, the main health concern involved radioiodine, with a half-life of eight days. During which those 135.000 people were not evacuated.. Today, there is concern about contamination of the soil with cesium-137, which has a half-life of about 30 years. It is true that the reactors themself are based on old analogue technologies, but the powergrid, auxialiary control units and power backup units aren't.
The POWERGRID and NOT the reactor itself perse, is THE main Y2K concern, according to the CIA. If the powergrid fails or miscommunication etc, the 5 powerplants Ukrainia has, have to be taken off-line. The ironony is, that reactors need power from the grid to be able be be shutdown, as the Chernobyl test disaster prooved. It is feared, that the current power backup system takes to long to get online, altough it has been improved (providing it is not hit by a y2k problem).
America has offered to send batteries and power generators and also offered to improve current reactors.. But is hindered by politics.. I'm in general anti-America, but it seems like America is the only one who cares.. The G7 still hasn't payed.
How precare is the situation of #4 at the moment? * In 1991, the Chornobyl plant suffered from an earthquake. * There is leaking rain water into the "sarcophagus" of unit 4, causing massive corrosion and major damage of the structural integerity as robot surveying showed. There's imminent need of $700,000 todo some very short term repairs to #4, but money lacks... * #4 contains still 70% of it's original fuel in dust form.. The roof of the 'sargophagus' is imminent to collapse. Does the term 'fall out' ring a bell to anyone? If it would collapse, the disaster would be much much bigger than in 1986.. Providing it won't ignite the nuclear fuel in #3, causing a real global disaster, which is a real fear. And don't forget the 1991 fire..
Russia and Lithuania still also are using 14 RBMK light water graphite reactors such as at Chornobyl. The RMBK 1000 model VVER 440-230 in Novovoronezh NPP (Russia), the same as used in Chornobyl, has already failed 17 times, during it's life... Some article on Sovjet reactors. Some other articles: Russia today , more info this and this
"The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years. The plants have safe and reliable controls that are protected from any breakdown with three safety systems." Vitaly Sklyarov, Minister of Power for the Ukrainian SSR., February 1986
Let me first make a summary of some of the facts known to me...
The Chernobyl plant (or Chornobyl as the Oekrainian people call it now), consisted out of 5 RBMK reactors.. The 1st reactor was brought back on line Oktober 1995 and the 4th this year, if I recall it right..
The Chernobyl plant is unique, because it was designed for two purposes: 1) Supplying power 2) Producing nucleair weapons.. This is also one of the main reasons, it lacks a containment structure.
During the construction of the plant, some engineers came to the believe, that the plant had structural design flaws in the cooling system and pleeded to halt the construction, these engineers where taken of the project and Russia made sure that the carrier ended as well..
The #4 reactor of the Chernobyl plant, exploded after series of human errors, when conducting a 'safety test'.
Before running the safety test, all three safety systems where disabled.
The test was performed to see, how long the reactor could hold out, when shutting it down and not generating power, without external power to the water cooling pumps & controls and without the backup power generators online.. Also, the emergency core cooling system was taken off-line.. The reactor was deliberaty put below a power output of 700MW, the strict minimum limit to garanty safe operations of all support systems and the reactor it self.. After a series of major human ignorance and errors that followed, mainly the work of Deputy chief engineer Dyatlov, who also lead the test, the reactor #4 finally exploded. In the immidiate vicinity, there where about 135000 people, who where only evacuated days after the incident happend... It took around 8000-10000 lives of worksman, mostly soldiers (liquidators), to put out the fire and to seal of the reactor, by building 'the Sarcophagus'. (Almost) all people, who did the footage on the accident, by helicopter, died. The radiation level in the surrounding environment, was much faster reduced, than scienctist would have expected, helped by a natural process called 'chitin'. Envision how in the western world, these rescue workers would be dressed like and than look at the liquidators
Since 1996, a lot of modifications are done to the Chornobyl reactors, but the basic design, with it's flaws, wasn't changed, nor is the situation surrounding these reactors... In 1997 Russia agreed to build more reactors, based on the RBMK models in Chornobyl.. In 1986, Russia could find 10.000 souls, who were send into their dead, to end the disaster.. In 1999, Ukrainian people know a lot more about radiation... Today, the area around Chernobyl is still inhabitat by Oekrainian people, who feel they are left alone by the government.. Unemployment is sky high, as you would expect, so no source of income and medical threatment is done under very bad conditions, by idealistic people who don't care about their own lives...
What if it would happend again now? What if they decide to run Y2K 'tests'?
Check for more info these links: this and this "The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years. The plants have safe and reliable controls that are protected from any breakdown with three safety systems." Vitaly Sklyarov, Minister of Power for the Ukrainian SSR., February 1986
I'm doing a science study myself ( telecommunications / electronics ) for 7 years now (got 1 license).
I hate math.. I can't get my head clear and pay attention.. every other subject is just fine, how complex it might be.. even applied physics is okay (a form of math )But just not math!
I often wish they still would teach subjects like history, chemistry or compagny administration next to the technical stuff I'm thaught.. Especially history, I love just it..
I 've got to agree that, Science schools teaches out of very outdated books and also that a lot of subjects really aren't interresting at all. I think the major reason is, that a lot of teachers are grown tired of there discipline after teaching it for several years, often the same stuff multiple times per day/week. That causes them to just wait for their paycheck every month, try to live a happy life and not to keep up with their discipline and just stick to the information out of the outdated schoolbooks their teaching.
I do have to admit, that a lot of the 'useless' things I was thaught at school, turned out to become very much of use later.. But that is mostly true for my non-technical background.. The primary things I was thaught by my technical studies, are learning fast, analyzing problems and not being afraid to take on any technical problem/job, without a propper background for it.. I just open up some books and read me in to it...Just do it!
I think the Science teachers that have grown tired of their job, should just change discipline, to keep them selfs fresh and motivated... I mean most Math teachers can teach Physics after a bit of re-schooling etc...
Sometimes I'm lucky and I get thaught by a teacher whois up to date And gives rats about the teaching schedule and prescribed books.. One example: " How do you mean: 'Internet is the future'? I think you guys have missed something.. Try to explain that to my old neighbour, a gardner and who always orders his gardening stuff over the internet.." I loved that one;-)
Point taken, but you know, you can also have bad luck when it comes to getting support for a commercial technical product... Maybe OSS and XiG are lame, I dunno..
But I myself also am experiencing this kind of thing al the time, when contacting SuSE, Maxtor, Promise, Seagate and yes, Creative. I'm overclocking my 300a, but that's not related to my computer problems... (A lot of OC-ers however, are being stupid and messing with their system speed, ignorant of the concequences. Maybe, the OSS guy wasn't very bright if it comes to technical issues or you were holding the wrong end of the stick)
You just have to get in contact with the right person, at the right position... My contact with Creative Developer support for Europe brought me nothing for Linux, Creative USA, however eventually did try to understand what I was saying.. While my Seagate HD still doesn't works right, thanks to Seagates crappy support; Maxtor even send me a firmware update, that I passed through to someone who had been on the phone for hours with them already, talking to several "Techs", leading to nothing for him... ("Must be Linux") The only thing I can say, before writing to support helpdesks, image how they are receiving it.. Often trowing in some technical weight at the start can buy you some credit.. and being reasonable and persistant can also help out..
Okay, just to be clear, I spoke with Jens Axboe about it, but this thing still won't work with Andre Hedrick's ata66 patches... I emailed Andre also about it, but I think they are both to busy with 2.4 or something, to fix it...
This is what I get to hear all the time at work, with friends etc.. Why do I need privacy? You think it's funny to yoke around with? Wait till all pieces of the puzzle come together!
Sure it isn't so nice from them, but that's what all commercial compagnies do.. Is that a good reason not to buy their products even if they are good? Okay, I tried the AX5 demo and I'm using Xfree86 3.3.5 and both suck on my Diamond G460, especially in 24bit mode, but hey, a lot of people are using it happily on their laptops etc.. I take it you're also against others, like 4front's OSS, VMware etc.. Well I tell you this, I rather have payware, than waiting and waiting for things that are suppose to happen.. I would love to get my hands on a commercial product like a DVD player (MpegTV?), with the Cinemaster engine or like VaroDVD running under Linux.( yes I tried Nist, nice, but why don't we have a better MPEG2 player yet? I thought MPEG2 already exist for quite some time, anyway..)
Being from Holland and the fact that Dutch girls don't like to be online, especially 4 years ago, I only met US/Canada girls on the net... This how I end up with a cyber relationship with a a girl from the US, who I met on IRC, when I was like 19. For one and a half year, we had great fun, but if neither one of you is deciding to immigrate, it has no future, as did we had... So that's why I don't look for female contact anymore on the net..
(btw, I used the nick TeddyBear for a while, but I kept being herassed by other males, either thinking I was a female or, what I later found out though I was a 'bear' (a very hairy bearded big homophile person) so I switched nicks..
How about creating an ethernet network card that chooses a random MAC adress at boot? I've been told ethernet cards are easy to make and with ~16^12 possibilities you aren't likely to gonna have a MAC collide.. Now the only thing for the Windows OSes is, that I don't know if the MAC adress is stored in the registry at the installation of the OS and if so, are windows programs retreiving their information from it? And the next thing to do, is finding a way to fool IPV6...
Oh, you think so, how about: "Sorry kid, we won't hire you, some information we gathered showed you're online till 2 O'clock during the working days, we can't have that over here.." Or, "Sorry kid, we noticed that you visit online porn quite frequently and we are afraid that it might influence your behaviour at work, since we have to many sexual harashment cases already." Or how about sending information about how many decrypted.vobs and.mp3s you hardened criminal own on your computer (Personally, I buy a cd & stuff it in mp3 on my compu, b'cause I'm damn lazy)?! Recently, I just pulled a CV from someones pc over the internet(just for the fun of doing it, by using a program that exploits M$ security problems), which stated the person was male and noticed a lot of male porn too. I also found some letters applying for jobs. Do you think he would like it if anyone else has access to this information? I mean look at Austrialia & America, you just need one anti-terrorist act and peopl who are in the impression Slashdot encourage anarchist & terroristic activities an online gathered information about you, would be enough to send you to jail... I can think of many other things, but my point is, everyone has the need of privacy and if you don't understand that, than you've got a lot to learn.
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You don't upgrade a kernel for fun, only if there is an urgent need for it, to get something to work that is broken / not supported. This idea is really stupid.. What do you want to keep up?
A website? Bit difficult if you unload the kernel
This thing is just for us geeks, not the 'doze users.. So we can just try out some of the other distros.. and I also think, it's so LokiGames support etc. can say: 'Sorry you need GLIBC2.xx for it, but luckily for you a suitable distro is not a 40hour download by 33k6 modem, but it's packed with it'...
Just my 1 eurocent...
$600k is not enuf...
There is a sollution, ya know...
I signed on with a "free of charge" internet provider recently, they gave me an option, which kind of commercial mail I was interrested in and which not... I don't mind receiving commercial mail, 'bout the cheapest K7-700 system, or the latest cheap DVD's, just stay out of my fuckin' mail box with those Chinese Big5 adds (can't read chinese anyway) and the hottest slut I've ever seen (always like 50+ orso anyway, 'kay make that 40) and also *DON'T* wanna know how to get rich fast (and die early).. Just wanna die like a (relative) poor old geek, as will happen to Alan and Linus probably.. (Unless Metasomething is the chicken with the gold eggs)..
Just my 2 eurocents...
Is it me, or are Altavista's results, deliberatly :)
modified?
I just notice some changes in behaviour recently, it seems like some contents is filtered out.. I can't really explain, I notice it with queries for various subjects...
From guru techtalk to pr0n..
Maybe one of the indications is the "related searches" item.. Though this must be made up of frequent searched items, using those searches results quite often in few results..
I take it, most searched for items are better haunted for by the spiders, or...?
Well, it seems like search-engines in general are degradating... Where did the times go, that you didn't had to scroll through a searchengine-page looking for that much to tiny white box (not much bigger than the average picture for it's commercials), with not enough room to type in your query without scrolling?
Just my 2 eurocents...
Because most other compagnies you mention, are strugling to survive.. and they are putting their hopes on Linux (wise decission..) whereas Creative is an healthy compagny, would could do easely do without that 10% of the market..
Also, finally hardware manufacturers are opening up specs, what saves us painstacking work to try to reverse engineer every piece of hardware, which is sometimes impossible, due to the complexity of some propriety DSP's/ASICs and also enables us, to make even better drivers than the windoze users are custom to..
Just my 1 eurocent..
MBr
Darn annoying that you can't moderate, when you've made a comment to a thread.. 'cause you sure deserve a -3...
Or try mailing Jake directly: Jacob Hawley jhawley@creative.com Maybe that'll help... MBr
Great work, your patches, btw! Using a DVD, CDR and CDROM on one machine and it works just fine.. can't say the same under win9x, nt4 and win2k :( An intelligent too, I disconnected and reconnected my DVD hot and it even mentioned that it was powered down and not some weirdo 'eeeeeeck' messages in the kernel log ;-) (Fan was suckin' my powersupply dry, had to reconnect it somewhere else..hate restarting ;-) MBr
Ever heard of Nist/Livid ?
No DVD under Linux, huh? Well than don't look at this sample , it might confince you otherwise... Also, never heard about the DXR2 drivers on the Creative Opensource site? Or that Sigma Designs is planning on giving their next Hollywood chip native Linux support?!
With those Windoze players, I always have to mess around with my display settings, if I want to watch DVD.. with Nist I just compiled it in.. no need to mess with that anymore..
Man, what's wrong with some of you guys? Creative is doing just fine, with the CVS EMU10K1 driver and it is coming along just great, almost every issue at bugzilla is now dealt with..
Sound output is stable, it works with almost any app and on SMP systems and you can play upto 32!! wave streams at the sametime.. I just bought come cheapo speakerset with fake surround for the rear speaker output and it sounds nice, we even have a way to get the rear-volume slider to work now..
Okay, the AC97 mixer is really messed up, but that was because the soundcard specific register specs where lacking. Jon went to great lengths to sort out what could be released outside the NDA, well done!
And indeed, people like Alan Cox went into great trouble, to try to Unix-fy the driver, cleaning it up and making it readable, also to other programmers..
'and the support under linux is bad. It's rather non-standard.' Well, thank you.. that must me an insult to my adress I guess... I'll keep it in mind next time, if you mail me for help..
Manuel Beunder AKA MBr Webmaster Linux-Sound Blaster Live! page:
ROTFLMAO ;-)
rr, 17 should be 7, typo... actually it's 8, including the last one, that is 8 for the whole plant..
After doing some more research on the internet, I need to rectify some facts:
Since 1986, no more that two reactors of the Chornobyl plant, have been operative..
In 1991, one of the two reactors caught fire and was taken offline and was taken back online in 1995. Currently there's only one reactor operational, the second one was taken offline in 1997 because it exceeded it's lifespan. The remaining reactor, is in such a bad shape, that it needs a half year of service for every half year of operation. Ukrainia has scheduled the last reactor to shut down before 01-01-2000, but is now probably forced to use it until end Q2 Y2K, because they still haven't received any money to finish building their new power plants and winters are very harsh over there..
Currently, Ukrainia had only power 22/24 hours, before powering up #3 and the Ukrainain public transport is largly electrical powered.
In the first year after the accident, the number of cleanup workers in the zone was estimated to be 211,000, and these workers received an estimated average dose between 165-250 millisievert (16.5 rem). In total, around 600-800,000 workers have been involved since 1986 and around 8000-10000 of them died.
Right after the accident, the main health concern involved radioiodine, with a half-life of eight days. During which those 135.000 people were not evacuated.. Today, there is concern about contamination of the soil with cesium-137, which has a half-life of about 30 years.
It is true that the reactors themself are based on old analogue technologies, but the powergrid, auxialiary control units and power backup units aren't.
The POWERGRID and NOT the reactor itself perse, is THE main Y2K concern, according to the CIA.
If the powergrid fails or miscommunication etc, the 5 powerplants Ukrainia has, have to be taken off-line. The ironony is, that reactors need power from the grid to be able be be shutdown, as the Chernobyl test disaster prooved. It is feared, that the current power backup system takes to long to get online, altough it has been improved (providing it is not hit by a y2k problem).
America has offered to send batteries and power generators and also offered to improve current reactors.. But is hindered by politics.. I'm in general anti-America, but it seems like America is the only one who cares.. The G7 still hasn't payed.
How precare is the situation of #4 at the moment?
* In 1991, the Chornobyl plant suffered from an earthquake.
* There is leaking rain water into the "sarcophagus" of unit 4, causing massive corrosion and major damage of the structural integerity as robot surveying showed. There's imminent need of $700,000 todo some very short term repairs to #4, but money lacks...
* #4 contains still 70% of it's original fuel in dust form.. The roof of the 'sargophagus' is imminent to collapse. Does the term 'fall out' ring a bell to anyone? If it would collapse, the disaster would be much much bigger than in 1986.. Providing it won't ignite the nuclear fuel in #3, causing a real global disaster, which is a real fear.
And don't forget the 1991 fire..
Russia and Lithuania still also are using 14 RBMK light water graphite reactors such as at Chornobyl. The RMBK 1000 model VVER 440-230 in Novovoronezh NPP (Russia), the same as used in Chornobyl, has already failed 17 times, during it's life...
Some article on Sovjet reactors.
Some other articles: Russia today , more info this and this
"The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years. The plants have safe and reliable controls that are protected from any breakdown with three safety systems." Vitaly Sklyarov, Minister of Power for the Ukrainian SSR., February 1986
Let me first make a summary of some of the facts known to me...
The Chernobyl plant (or Chornobyl as the Oekrainian people call it now), consisted out of 5 RBMK reactors..
The 1st reactor was brought back on line Oktober 1995 and the 4th this year, if I recall it right..
The Chernobyl plant is unique, because it was designed for two purposes:
1) Supplying power
2) Producing nucleair weapons.. This is also one of the main reasons, it lacks a containment structure.
During the construction of the plant, some engineers came to the believe, that the plant had structural design flaws in the cooling system and pleeded to halt the construction, these engineers where taken of the project and Russia made sure that the carrier ended as well..
The #4 reactor of the Chernobyl plant, exploded after series of human errors, when conducting a 'safety test'.
Before running the safety test, all three safety systems where disabled.
The test was performed to see, how long the reactor could hold out, when shutting it down and not generating power, without external power to the water cooling pumps & controls and without the backup power generators online.. Also, the emergency core cooling system was taken off-line..
The reactor was deliberaty put below a power output of 700MW, the strict minimum limit to garanty safe operations of all support systems and the reactor it self.. After a series of major human ignorance and errors that followed, mainly the work of Deputy chief engineer Dyatlov, who also lead the test, the reactor #4 finally exploded.
In the immidiate vicinity, there where about 135000 people, who where only evacuated days after the incident happend... It took around 8000-10000 lives of worksman, mostly soldiers (liquidators), to put out the fire and to seal of the reactor, by building 'the Sarcophagus'. (Almost) all people, who did the footage on the accident, by helicopter, died.
The radiation level in the surrounding environment, was much faster reduced, than scienctist would have expected, helped by a natural process called 'chitin'.
Envision how in the western world, these rescue workers would be dressed like and than look at the liquidators
Since 1996, a lot of modifications are done to the Chornobyl reactors, but the basic design, with it's flaws, wasn't changed, nor is the situation surrounding these reactors...
In 1997 Russia agreed to build more reactors, based on the RBMK models in Chornobyl..
In 1986, Russia could find 10.000 souls, who were send into their dead, to end the disaster..
In 1999, Ukrainian people know a lot more about radiation... Today, the area around Chernobyl is still inhabitat by Oekrainian people, who feel they are left alone by the government..
Unemployment is sky high, as you would expect, so no source of income and medical threatment is done under very bad conditions, by idealistic people who don't care about their own lives...
What if it would happend again now?
What if they decide to run Y2K 'tests'?
Check for more info these links: this and this
"The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years. The plants have safe and reliable controls that are protected from any breakdown with three safety systems." Vitaly Sklyarov, Minister of Power for the Ukrainian SSR., February 1986
I'm doing a science study myself ( telecommunications / electronics ) for 7 years now
;-)
(got 1 license).
I hate math.. I can't get my head clear and pay attention.. every other subject is just fine, how
complex it might be.. even applied physics is okay
(a form of math )But just not math!
I often wish they still would teach subjects like history, chemistry or compagny administration next to the technical stuff I'm thaught.. Especially history, I love just it..
I 've got to agree that, Science schools teaches out of very outdated books and also that a lot of subjects really aren't interresting at all.
I think the major reason is, that a lot of teachers are grown tired of there discipline after teaching it for several years, often the same stuff multiple times per day/week. That causes them to just wait for their paycheck every month, try to live a happy life and not to keep up with their discipline and just stick to the information out of the outdated schoolbooks their teaching.
I do have to admit, that a lot of the 'useless' things I was thaught at school, turned out to become very much of use later..
But that is mostly true for my non-technical background.. The primary things I was thaught by my technical studies, are learning fast, analyzing problems and not being afraid to take on any technical problem/job, without a propper background for it.. I just open up some books and read me in to it...Just do it!
I think the Science teachers that have grown tired of their job, should just change discipline, to keep them selfs fresh and motivated...
I mean most Math teachers can teach Physics after a bit of re-schooling etc...
Sometimes I'm lucky and I get thaught by a teacher whois up to date And gives rats about the teaching schedule and prescribed books.. One example: " How do you mean: 'Internet is the future'? I think you guys have missed something.. Try to explain that to my old neighbour, a gardner and who always orders his gardening stuff over the internet.." I loved that one
Point taken, but you know, you can also have bad luck when it comes to getting support for a commercial technical product... Maybe OSS and XiG are lame, I dunno..
But I myself also am experiencing this kind of thing al the time, when contacting SuSE, Maxtor, Promise, Seagate and yes, Creative. I'm overclocking my 300a, but that's not related to my computer problems...
(A lot of OC-ers however, are being stupid and messing with their system speed, ignorant of the concequences. Maybe, the OSS guy wasn't very bright if it comes to technical issues or you were holding the wrong end of the stick)
You just have to get in contact with the right person, at the right position... My contact with Creative Developer support for Europe brought me nothing for Linux, Creative USA, however eventually did try to understand what I was saying.. While my Seagate HD still doesn't works right, thanks to Seagates crappy support; Maxtor even send me a firmware update, that I passed through to someone who had been on the phone for hours with them already, talking to several "Techs", leading to nothing for him... ("Must be Linux") The only thing I can say, before writing to support helpdesks, image how they are receiving it.. Often trowing in some technical weight at the start can buy you some credit.. and being reasonable and persistant can also help out..
Just my thoughts, Manuel
Okay, just to be clear, I spoke with Jens Axboe about it, but this thing still won't work with Andre Hedrick's ata66 patches... I emailed Andre also about it, but I think they are both to busy with 2.4 or something, to fix it...
Lemmi think... Actually, you are confirming what I already said..
This is what I get to hear all the time at work, with friends etc.. Why do I need privacy? You think it's funny to yoke around with? Wait till all pieces of the puzzle come together!
Sure it isn't so nice from them, but that's what all commercial compagnies do..
Is that a good reason not to buy their products even if they are good?
Okay, I tried the AX5 demo and I'm using Xfree86 3.3.5 and both suck on my Diamond G460, especially in 24bit mode, but hey, a lot of people are using it happily on their laptops etc..
I take it you're also against others, like 4front's OSS, VMware etc.. Well I tell you this, I rather have payware, than waiting and waiting for things that are suppose to happen.. I would love to get my hands on a commercial product like a DVD player (MpegTV?), with the Cinemaster engine or like VaroDVD running under Linux.( yes I tried Nist, nice, but why don't we have a better MPEG2 player yet? I thought MPEG2 already exist for quite some time, anyway..)
Check this... LinuxDVD
Being from Holland and the fact that Dutch girls don't like to be online, especially 4 years ago, I only met US/Canada girls on the net... This how I end up with a cyber relationship with a a girl from the US, who I met on IRC, when I was like 19. For one and a half year, we had great fun, but if neither one of you is deciding to immigrate, it has no future, as did we had... So that's why I don't look for female contact anymore on the net..
(btw, I used the nick TeddyBear for a while, but I kept being herassed by other males, either thinking I was a female or, what I later found out though I was a 'bear' (a very hairy bearded big homophile person) so I switched nicks..
How about creating an ethernet network card that chooses a random MAC adress at boot? I've been told ethernet cards are easy to make and with ~16^12 possibilities you aren't likely to gonna have a MAC collide..
Now the only thing for the Windows OSes is, that I don't know if the MAC adress is stored in the registry at the installation of the OS and if so, are windows programs retreiving their information from it?
And the next thing to do, is finding a way to fool IPV6...
Oh, you think so, how about: "Sorry kid, we won't hire you, some information we gathered showed you're online till 2 O'clock during the working days, we can't have that over here.." Or, "Sorry kid, we noticed that you visit online porn quite frequently and we are afraid that it might influence your behaviour at work, since we have to many sexual harashment cases already." Or how about sending information about how many decrypted .vobs and .mp3s you hardened criminal own on your computer (Personally, I buy a cd & stuff it in mp3 on my compu, b'cause I'm damn lazy)?!
Recently, I just pulled a CV from someones pc over the internet(just for the fun of doing it, by using a program that exploits M$ security problems), which stated the person was male and noticed a lot of male porn too. I also found some letters applying for jobs. Do you think he would like it if anyone else has access to this information? I mean look at Austrialia & America, you just need one anti-terrorist act and peopl who are in the impression Slashdot encourage anarchist & terroristic activities an online gathered information about you, would be enough to send you to jail... I can think of many other things, but my point is, everyone has the need of privacy and if you don't understand that, than you've got a lot to learn.
Damn, to much in euforia about the Creative GPL CVS thing.. Ofcourse, where I stated CVS it should be CSS.. (duh)