My RoadRunner (Tampa Bay, Florida) is capable of (according to them) 768Kbps up and ~4Mbps down. From my own experience both of those numbers are pretty close to the truth, though I must admit it seems slow after being spoiled by a university line for so long.
Indeed. Georgia Tech does something of this fashion. Linux is used by many of the students, and there are campus newsgroups and such where almost any question you may have can be answered. However, it's made clear to you that this is an unsupported OS and, as such, it's not their job to fix your problems if something goes wrong (although they generally will at least try anyway).
It looks like it's using shades of color to do the anti-aliasing. I'm no master of AA tech (or even competent wrt to it) but I think you need a LCD to appreciate that properly.
That's great until you start writing a LOT of email. Then the latency of a SSH session can start really getting on your nerves. Even on my cable modem with a 50ms ping to my university box it's still semi-annoying.
I definitely wouldn't write anything but short replies while SSH'ing.
Hmm... couldn't someone just create a program that authenticates the installation like Microsoft's central server and install the OS on a private network with this running before actually connecting the machine to the Internet?
I believe there was a hack for Quake3's CD key protection that worked in much the same way, though I own a legal copy of that game (heh, what a lousy purchase) so I haven't really gone looking for ways to cheat it and might be dead wrong on that count.
"Don't worry, it'll get hacked. And someone will decide that you can't go to jail for hacking it, and that if you don't mass-copy (or put onto the Internet) your personal copy then you don't owe anybody any more money. And the studios wont like it, but hey, they'll buy a couple more laws to help them out."
Isn't this the kind of rational thinking that we've been hoping the courts would start using for a long time now? Personally, I'm through giving them this much credit. At this point I'm more likely to think something like the following:
It'll get hacked. A scapegoat will be found amongst the millions who wanted to see it hacked. He will be humiliated, have all his computers confiscated, and will be brought to trial. Everyone here will remind each other of what we all already know, that this is all stupid, and it won't do any good. In the meantime another breach of our privacy/rights will happen and everyone will think "oh, they'll finally realize how stupid this is." I've noticed the cycle by now, haven't you?
Hrm. I was using the Nvidia drivers with 2.4-test10 for a while. Try irc.openprojects.net #nvidia. I think they had a patch or something for it.
As far as the crashing... my machine has *never* crashed while running OpenGL applications. Including Quake3 and the Xscreensavers. I don't know about the GLUT demos, simply because I don't really feel like running demos on my machine when the actual programs I use work fine.
Not doubting that you're having problems, just noting that your experiences don't apply to everyone. In fact, I can honestly say that I've never had a better experience with a video card under linux than I have had with my GeForce2.
This statement includes the TNT2 Ultra I had, a Voodoo3 2000, a G200 and several older cards.
I use a GeForce2 MX, and while I strongly advocate the use of Nvidia's own drivers, the XF86 that is currently in unstable Debian has a nv driver that works quite decently for 2D. I have yet to try 3D using said driver, mainly because the nvidia driver usually is on my system LONG before I start thinking about gaming.
Additionally, I'm one of the what you would call more "hard core" gamers (One of those people who is willing to take Q3 ugly if it'll get me 100fps at all times) and the GeForce2 MX card works ALMOST as well under Linux on this system as it does in Win98, and I suspect any performance deficiencies don't have anything to do with the video card.
Hmmm...
AMD Duron 650: $49
Abit KT7: $122
128MB PC100 RAM: $42
Seriously, I'm not rich by any stretch of the word, but I manage to scrounge together enough to make an upgrade like this once a year or so. Anyone should be able to do so once every couple years. It's $213. Save up 59 cents per day for a year, 30 cents per day for two years, or 20 cents per day for three years and you could afford it.
If you can't afford that may I suggest another career?
My only gripe with this whole discussion (the majority of which is far beyond my meat and potatoes understanding of high end audio) is the fact that people dislike the format because it's proprietary. I mean the people responsible for DVD seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that they say how and on what equipment we can play our own discs, so how can we dock Sony's solution points for being proprietary when we don't even know if they have similar evil up their sleeves.
Maybe I'm way off here, but I'd almost rather take my chances letting Sony run the show than go through more DVD BS. I can't WAIT to see what happens when they control the movies I watch AND the music I listen to.
I find watching FPS gaming to be 10 times more entertaining than watching golf, which, judging by its airing on major television networks, is a spectator sport.
Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's wrong.
Wouldn't an 8mbit connection "suck" if you were used to it? I mean, why don't we all have gigabit ethernet connections? Damn those engineers for not having the foresight for making a system ready for 50 years in the future! The nature of tech is that there's something better five minutes after you buy the top of the line.
... which is why digital music is good. It'll force artists to put out an album of good songs, as opposed to one decent song and ten (if we're even lucky enough to get that many tracks anymore) pieces of crap. I can't tell you how many times I've run out and bought an album from a song I heard off the radio only to realize that the entire rest of the album sucked bigtime.
I don't understand why I should have to pay $18 per CD at all, much less if I'm only going to like a song or two.
Now I've got my MP3 collection, a 12x Plextor CD-R that has yet to ever burn a coaster, and a university Internet connection (except during vacation, at home I have cable, heh) and I still own over 100 legitimate CDs (most of which are under two years old, I tend to get rid of my older music when I get tired of it).
A kid down the hall from me has the same thing I do and he owns over 500 legit CDs.
99% of the music I've got on my hard drives isn't music you're going to find on Napster in any decent quantity, and what you will find isn't ripped well enough for me to be able to tolerate. Napster can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, so I'll tell you straight:
While I may not download music from the Internet consciously to "try before I buy", the record companies should rest assured that they're getting more than their fair share of money from me. If I really like a CD, I'll buy it, and I've bought enough "albums" that were just glorified singles from them that they can trust me on that one.
I saw a computer whilst I was out shopping for my geek's ration of clothing and in the department store I saw a computer set up to display online buying of ladies' shoes (DO NOT question my sexuality at this point, I played with it because it was a computer). Upon investigating I noticed that *EVERYTHING* was hidden. There were 2 icons in the start menu (Help and Shoe-Salesman or whatever), and nothing to speak of on the desktop. Seems like you could give your grandfather an NT box configured like this and let him bang on it as much as he wants without doing anything to it. Yes, you have to learn basic window-handling skills. Yes, even old people are capable of learning these (I taught a 95 year old woman in a nursing home how to use her "fully-capable" Compaq in a couple days). He won't, of course, be beyond getting stuck, but at least you could considerably narrow down what could have him that way. On the flip side, he gets winders, which lets him run the apps everyone at bridge is running and gives him the moderately-consistent interface that actually does help productivity, while being quite a bit higher up the foodchain than 98 stability-wise. He does lose the USB device support/DVD movie watching support, but I imagine when he is ready for these he is ready to have the rest of the computer at his disposal. If not, set Win2k up the same way when he gets his Christmas goodies.
Ugh, reading that post made me think that people might get the impression that i think linux = redhat. Not true, just that was the distribution that gave me that experience. Heh, enough crap out of me for a year.
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My RoadRunner (Tampa Bay, Florida) is capable of (according to them) 768Kbps up and ~4Mbps down. From my own experience both of those numbers are pretty close to the truth, though I must admit it seems slow after being spoiled by a university line for so long.
In that case they'd be the first tech company to have such intelligence in recent memory.
The "I'm a virgin" line only works on one group of people... virgins.
Guess we know one more thing about sam.
Indeed. I fixed a BIND problem for an ex-eFront webmaster the other day and he handed over the root password before I was able to say anything.
Furthermore, it's weeks later and the password still hasn't been changed, even though I have no reason to have access to the box anymore.
I'm certainly no security guru, but I sincerely hope that eFront never starts taking credit cards for anything.
Indeed. Georgia Tech does something of this fashion. Linux is used by many of the students, and there are campus newsgroups and such where almost any question you may have can be answered. However, it's made clear to you that this is an unsupported OS and, as such, it's not their job to fix your problems if something goes wrong (although they generally will at least try anyway).
It looks like it's using shades of color to do the anti-aliasing. I'm no master of AA tech (or even competent wrt to it) but I think you need a LCD to appreciate that properly.
That's great until you start writing a LOT of email. Then the latency of a SSH session can start really getting on your nerves. Even on my cable modem with a 50ms ping to my university box it's still semi-annoying.
I definitely wouldn't write anything but short replies while SSH'ing.
Hmm... couldn't someone just create a program that authenticates the installation like Microsoft's central server and install the OS on a private network with this running before actually connecting the machine to the Internet?
I believe there was a hack for Quake3's CD key protection that worked in much the same way, though I own a legal copy of that game (heh, what a lousy purchase) so I haven't really gone looking for ways to cheat it and might be dead wrong on that count.
"Don't worry, it'll get hacked. And someone will decide that you can't go to jail for hacking it, and that if you don't mass-copy (or put onto the Internet) your personal copy then you don't owe anybody any more money. And the studios wont like it, but hey, they'll buy a couple more laws to help them out."
Isn't this the kind of rational thinking that we've been hoping the courts would start using for a long time now? Personally, I'm through giving them this much credit. At this point I'm more likely to think something like the following:
It'll get hacked. A scapegoat will be found amongst the millions who wanted to see it hacked. He will be humiliated, have all his computers confiscated, and will be brought to trial. Everyone here will remind each other of what we all already know, that this is all stupid, and it won't do any good. In the meantime another breach of our privacy/rights will happen and everyone will think "oh, they'll finally realize how stupid this is." I've noticed the cycle by now, haven't you?
Hrm. I was using the Nvidia drivers with 2.4-test10 for a while. Try irc.openprojects.net #nvidia. I think they had a patch or something for it.
As far as the crashing... my machine has *never* crashed while running OpenGL applications. Including Quake3 and the Xscreensavers. I don't know about the GLUT demos, simply because I don't really feel like running demos on my machine when the actual programs I use work fine.
Not doubting that you're having problems, just noting that your experiences don't apply to everyone. In fact, I can honestly say that I've never had a better experience with a video card under linux than I have had with my GeForce2.
This statement includes the TNT2 Ultra I had, a Voodoo3 2000, a G200 and several older cards.
I use a GeForce2 MX, and while I strongly advocate the use of Nvidia's own drivers, the XF86 that is currently in unstable Debian has a nv driver that works quite decently for 2D. I have yet to try 3D using said driver, mainly because the nvidia driver usually is on my system LONG before I start thinking about gaming. Additionally, I'm one of the what you would call more "hard core" gamers (One of those people who is willing to take Q3 ugly if it'll get me 100fps at all times) and the GeForce2 MX card works ALMOST as well under Linux on this system as it does in Win98, and I suspect any performance deficiencies don't have anything to do with the video card.
Heh heh heh...
-Satan
Hmmm... AMD Duron 650: $49 Abit KT7: $122 128MB PC100 RAM: $42 Seriously, I'm not rich by any stretch of the word, but I manage to scrounge together enough to make an upgrade like this once a year or so. Anyone should be able to do so once every couple years. It's $213. Save up 59 cents per day for a year, 30 cents per day for two years, or 20 cents per day for three years and you could afford it. If you can't afford that may I suggest another career?
My only gripe with this whole discussion (the majority of which is far beyond my meat and potatoes understanding of high end audio) is the fact that people dislike the format because it's proprietary. I mean the people responsible for DVD seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that they say how and on what equipment we can play our own discs, so how can we dock Sony's solution points for being proprietary when we don't even know if they have similar evil up their sleeves.
Maybe I'm way off here, but I'd almost rather take my chances letting Sony run the show than go through more DVD BS. I can't WAIT to see what happens when they control the movies I watch AND the music I listen to.
I find watching FPS gaming to be 10 times more entertaining than watching golf, which, judging by its airing on major television networks, is a spectator sport. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's wrong.
Check out www.pringo.com/quakers.html if you're into that sort of thing.
People without hours a day to play soon find hours a day to play. Your family, job, and friends will all be there when you finish, scout's honor.
Wouldn't an 8mbit connection "suck" if you were used to it? I mean, why don't we all have gigabit ethernet connections? Damn those engineers for not having the foresight for making a system ready for 50 years in the future! The nature of tech is that there's something better five minutes after you buy the top of the line.
... which is why digital music is good. It'll force artists to put out an album of good songs, as opposed to one decent song and ten (if we're even lucky enough to get that many tracks anymore) pieces of crap. I can't tell you how many times I've run out and bought an album from a song I heard off the radio only to realize that the entire rest of the album sucked bigtime.
I don't understand why I should have to pay $18 per CD at all, much less if I'm only going to like a song or two.
Now I've got my MP3 collection, a 12x Plextor CD-R that has yet to ever burn a coaster, and a university Internet connection (except during vacation, at home I have cable, heh) and I still own over 100 legitimate CDs (most of which are under two years old, I tend to get rid of my older music when I get tired of it).
A kid down the hall from me has the same thing I do and he owns over 500 legit CDs.
99% of the music I've got on my hard drives isn't music you're going to find on Napster in any decent quantity, and what you will find isn't ripped well enough for me to be able to tolerate. Napster can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, so I'll tell you straight:
While I may not download music from the Internet consciously to "try before I buy", the record companies should rest assured that they're getting more than their fair share of money from me. If I really like a CD, I'll buy it, and I've bought enough "albums" that were just glorified singles from them that they can trust me on that one.
I saw a computer whilst I was out shopping for my geek's ration of clothing and in the department store I saw a computer set up to display online buying of ladies' shoes (DO NOT question my sexuality at this point, I played with it because it was a computer). Upon investigating I noticed that *EVERYTHING* was hidden. There were 2 icons in the start menu (Help and Shoe-Salesman or whatever), and nothing to speak of on the desktop. Seems like you could give your grandfather an NT box configured like this and let him bang on it as much as he wants without doing anything to it. Yes, you have to learn basic window-handling skills. Yes, even old people are capable of learning these (I taught a 95 year old woman in a nursing home how to use her "fully-capable" Compaq in a couple days). He won't, of course, be beyond getting stuck, but at least you could considerably narrow down what could have him that way. On the flip side, he gets winders, which lets him run the apps everyone at bridge is running and gives him the moderately-consistent interface that actually does help productivity, while being quite a bit higher up the foodchain than 98 stability-wise. He does lose the USB device support/DVD movie watching support, but I imagine when he is ready for these he is ready to have the rest of the computer at his disposal. If not, set Win2k up the same way when he gets his Christmas goodies.
Ugh, reading that post made me think that people might get the impression that i think linux = redhat. Not true, just that was the distribution that gave me that experience. Heh, enough crap out of me for a year.
Actually, for me it was Red Hat that detected my v770 as a 550, not the other way around. Not to rain on any parades or anything...