That is true in MOST cases, but not always. Some internal video cards do have their own VRAM, like the savages used in older BioStar boards. I have one BioStar board that has 32MB VRAM with an option to share up to another 32MB from system RAM.
Strange as it sounds, I found that powdered sugar produces a much stickier, fluid gel. you just have to make it at least a day in advance and skim the fuel oil used off the top ( no all of it goes into making the gel)
What I want to know is.... is Xv working again on the X1xxx series cards again? I know it worked on the older drivers ( 8.24-ish?) but the drivers in debian stable ( 8.36? ) Xv was never there. Not to mention that watching video with GL or GL2 rendering would totally crash X whenever you hit the stop button. If they have Xv working ( and the AIGLX support I would happily throw my X1600 back in.... as it is for dvd / video watching my ti4200 outperforms it.
Hell, if you got it to run on Linux, you'd have the undying love of a few thousand people for a few days until someone else stole it. uTorrent 1.6x runs just fine on linux under WINE.... and has for a long time already.
May not be your kind of books but try Anne Mccaffrey, or Piers Anthony. While Rowling is pretty good with her character flow, in comparison she looks like a candle next to the forestfire of Mccaffreys' "Pern" series. Rowling only works with a small set of characters in her whole series.... now that she has her feet "wet" with this whole series I will be interested in seeing what, if anything, she will write next.
Better question, if you had encrypted data and they scanned it for certain patterns ( or just had a mega cluster / back door ) and blocked YOUR encrypted packets are they in violation?
try right clicking a link, and select open in new window. On my laptop it always makes the second window about 1/4 screen size and directly centered, this also happens if you click a link that opens in a new window. I will ahve to try the ctrl+n combo out. I also found out i can't use the backspace key to go back in the browser history:-( and I didn't see anywhere to set keybinds or anything either ( about:config doesn't work... or for that matter any of the about pages like in mozilla) that why I am asking people here ( many mac users) if there are any hidden preferences or workarounds.
If you don't want it leanr to read web pages a little better? There are TWO downloads for windows XP liste, one WITH quiktime and one WITHOUT.....but i do feel the same way about the resize issue...
My take on it is it is a good START for apple, but there are a few minor annoyances to work out. First let me start off by saying I don't have any experiance with safari on Apple hardware or an apple OS at all ( unless you still consider that apple basic thing on the IIe years ago) so I don't know if this is how it normally acts or not. The first minor annoyance i have is window placement / remembering. I can't seem to get it to open all new windows maximised ( with firefox / mozilla ETC. all i have to do is close a second launched maximised window and it will always launch new windows maximised) secondly so far when it launches a new window, no matter what else is on the desktop the window is plopped directly centered ( no smart placing of new windows it seems)
Ok so there are a few annoyances, BUT i must say FONTS render very well. The fonts in safari are noticibly SLIGHTLY better rendered than FF / Mozilla, I couldn't tell you about internet explorer, haven't used it in a long time.
The bug report button is pretty cool, offers to send in a SS of the misbehaving page to the developers ( although you would still have to file a manual bug report if the page actually crashes the browser)
Also, combo boxes ( like the moderator boxes) look pretty nice, and the fade in / out of menu items is nice for eye candy.
another plus is virtual scrolling ( through the synaptics touchpad on my laptop) works well, I remember the old mozilla builds yet where it didn't work, good to see Apple got it right right away.
if anyone knows how to FORCE safari for windows to open maximised new windows ( no I can't just use tabs, i often flip windows between 3 monitors so i can have several different pages at a time for research) please feel free to post them here.
they wouldn't be that drastic, it would cut their own business. ALL encryption would throttle banksites.... not to mention a lot of the ISPs' own FAQ pages are SSL / HTTPS..... so you think they would throttle theur own users to the FAQ pages.... forcing the user to call in for tech support that most of the time ( not if the network is unreachable, of course) could be answered from the FAQ?
silly AC mass can neither be created nor destroyed ( deleted) try it localhost$: mv mass/dev/null BASH: PERMISION DENIED - PHYSICTS RESOURCE VIOLATION.
Now if only there was a way to show how caring about the climate would MAKE money... what you mean it can? Hmmm 25 years down the road we wouldn't have the problems that are looming now? BAH Corporate america would rather spend $2 less per year and just cover up anything they can, after all it will save 2 WHOLE dollars, not to mention the instant gratification factors. Many of us americans want instant gratifications and to hell with waiting or what anyone else wants. Yeah not the greatest view, but hey, we can all just go out and vote to change that right??? Nope sorry, the electoral college holds the reigns and it doesn't matter what the majority wants.
Personally I would love to see the U.S. embrace something like this, or at least make a pledge to LESSEN the greenhouse emissions, then STICK TO IT. Yes it might make my life a little more difficult in the short run, but will make my later life easier as well as my childrens life ( if i decide to have any that is). And no, this is not a bleeding heart " think of the children" outlook, anyone who is not concerned with their descendants well being needs to rethink their position a little bit i think ( like most of corporate america where money is everything and to hell with everything not a profit)
Personally i try to buy from "greener" companies if possible, but this is not always possible. The best way to pressure companies into being cleaner / greener would be everyone who does agree to the G8 aggreement to buy from the greenest companies as possible, that is the only way to hurt the dirtier companies... through the profit margin...
it's a matter of the power level. the most powerful consumer wi-fi access point I've seen puts out 500 milliwatts. the local FM radio station puts out about 100,000 Megawatts.
I would assume that you actually mean 100K WATTS because at 100,000 Megawatts you should be able to pick that station up on the other side of the planet.
As for the 100K WATTS, that is reasonable, ONE of the local stations here broadcasts at approximately that and has roughly a 3 state radius ( wisconsin upper michigan and minnesota, and parts of upper illinois)
Is Linux the alternative? Not even close. If the out of the box (or off the torrent) install won't play DVDs or MP3s, it's not ready for public consumption. An out of the box Windows install generally*** just works without searching the web and downloading obscure codecs and media players.
Actually "Windows" will NOT play DVD's, strange codecs ( you generally get lucky if WMP downloads a codec you need and it works). This is a common misconception about Windows. Almost all of the added funcionality ( DVD playback any extra media players ETC...) is added to the sytems sellers image by the company you bought the PC from. For example install a retail copy ( or just plain old pirated copy;-P ) of windows and see how much funcionality you get, i bet you will find that many Linux distros are actually MORE usefull "out of the box" than windows is. If linux had the same OEM support that windows has ( codec licensing DVD licensing and other GOOD preloaded software ) it would be as easy or easier to sell than OS/X is. Hopefully after Dell has finished testing the market waters we may even see licensed codecs and such coming from them, as well as see other bigger named vedors picking up the idea as well.
1) Driver support. Hardware manufacturers need to start either giving up drivers (like nVidia does, I'm not RMS, I don't care whether they are binary, they have to Just Work (tm), good enough that it doesn't crash the system every 10 seconds (ATi))
Why does everybody bash ATI drivers in linux? in my experience ATI drivers were somewhat bad years ago when i first bought my radeon 9200....but the windows drivers were as bad or WORSE. even now for that card half of the updated/upgrade software simply hangs on launching windows installer for that card. my laptop has no problems with the 200M-EXPRESS card. My main desktop did have an issue with my X1600 pro... but that was a bios settings issue. simply set the bios AGP_APERTURE size to the correct size for the card and there are no problems.
I have actually had the reverse experiance, I had problems with a GeForce4 card from NVidia, i had to wait 2-3 revisions before the problem was solved.
Maybe you had problems with ATI that I didn't, or maybe you never tried ATI products under linux and just go by what other people say about them.... doesn't really matter to me which one it is, I use whatever works whether it is NVidia or ATI or even Intels chipsets.
I must say though that since AMD took over ATI that the drivers have improved performance wise. within the last 3-4 versions i have picked up 30-40 FPS in fgl_glxgears when running fullscreen, it doesn't really matter since videos played smooth at even much lower framerates but for someone who wants to play GL games it could be nice to get those extra frames.
P.S. does NVidia come with any testing programs ( like ATI fgl_glxgears) ?
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That is true in MOST cases, but not always. Some internal video cards do have their own VRAM, like the savages used in older BioStar boards. I have one BioStar board that has 32MB VRAM with an option to share up to another 32MB from system RAM.
Strange as it sounds, I found that powdered sugar produces a much stickier, fluid gel. you just have to make it at least a day in advance and skim the fuel oil used off the top ( no all of it goes into making the gel)
What I want to know is.... is Xv working again on the X1xxx series cards again? I know it worked on the older drivers ( 8.24-ish?) but the drivers in debian stable ( 8.36? ) Xv was never there. Not to mention that watching video with GL or GL2 rendering would totally crash X whenever you hit the stop button. If they have Xv working ( and the AIGLX support I would happily throw my X1600 back in.... as it is for dvd / video watching my ti4200 outperforms it.
The "Fairy schedular"....same as in town? Where are you going San Fransisco?
The only problem being that when linus fires up his new debian install he would blow a gasket.... the tasksel entry for Desktop System is Gnome......
And yes there is a tasksel workaround at the net-install boot prompt for KDE, but that is more work...
May not be your kind of books but try Anne Mccaffrey, or Piers Anthony. While Rowling is pretty good with her character flow, in comparison she looks like a candle next to the forestfire of Mccaffreys' "Pern" series.
Rowling only works with a small set of characters in her whole series.... now that she has her feet "wet" with this whole series I will be interested in seeing what, if anything, she will write next.
Take regular rubbing alcohol, cut it by One Third (so 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol, 1/2 cup water)
There fixed your math for ya.
Better question, if you had encrypted data and they scanned it for certain patterns ( or just had a mega cluster / back door ) and blocked YOUR encrypted packets are they in violation?
Nah, kde looks better on my computer, the DPY on the "humans" just isn't life like enough for me, I need my HD plasma monitor....
call me when it hits 2.5X faster than an unpatched IE on vanilla win XP.... without firewalling. damn, that would be fast....
try right clicking a link, and select open in new window. On my laptop it always makes the second window about 1/4 screen size and directly centered, this also happens if you click a link that opens in a new window. I will ahve to try the ctrl+n combo out. I also found out i can't use the backspace key to go back in the browser history :-( and I didn't see anywhere to set keybinds or anything either ( about:config doesn't work... or for that matter any of the about pages like in mozilla) that why I am asking people here ( many mac users) if there are any hidden preferences or workarounds.
If you don't want it leanr to read web pages a little better? There are TWO downloads for windows XP liste, one WITH quiktime and one WITHOUT.....but i do feel the same way about the resize issue...
My take on it is it is a good START for apple, but there are a few minor annoyances to work out. First let me start off by saying I don't have any experiance with safari on Apple hardware or an apple OS at all ( unless you still consider that apple basic thing on the IIe years ago) so I don't know if this is how it normally acts or not. The first minor annoyance i have is window placement / remembering. I can't seem to get it to open all new windows maximised ( with firefox / mozilla ETC. all i have to do is close a second launched maximised window and it will always launch new windows maximised) secondly so far when it launches a new window, no matter what else is on the desktop the window is plopped directly centered ( no smart placing of new windows it seems)
Ok so there are a few annoyances, BUT i must say FONTS render very well. The fonts in safari are noticibly SLIGHTLY better rendered than FF / Mozilla, I couldn't tell you about internet explorer, haven't used it in a long time.
The bug report button is pretty cool, offers to send in a SS of the misbehaving page to the developers ( although you would still have to file a manual bug report if the page actually crashes the browser)
Also, combo boxes ( like the moderator boxes) look pretty nice, and the fade in / out of menu items is nice for eye candy.
another plus is virtual scrolling ( through the synaptics touchpad on my laptop) works well, I remember the old mozilla builds yet where it didn't work, good to see Apple got it right right away.
if anyone knows how to FORCE safari for windows to open maximised new windows ( no I can't just use tabs, i often flip windows between 3 monitors so i can have several different pages at a time for research) please feel free to post them here.
I beleive the correct term for matter that get forcefully EJECTED from a volcano is called...... ejecta, not ejaculate.
they wouldn't be that drastic, it would cut their own business. ALL encryption would throttle banksites.... not to mention a lot of the ISPs' own FAQ pages are SSL / HTTPS ..... so you think they would throttle theur own users to the FAQ pages.... forcing the user to call in for tech support that most of the time ( not if the network is unreachable, of course) could be answered from the FAQ?
Don't worry, i tried to kill myself also when i sat down to watch that movie. I'm just sorry to hear that they succeeded...
Dear Sir or Madame, you seem to have made a typo in your guide / F.A.Q. on slashdot... #5 should be NRTFA (Never Read The F$#@ing Article)
It means Windows NT3.1 not Windows 3.1 for workgroups Kind of like the publicly known name for Windows NT5.1 is Windows XP
silly AC mass can neither be created nor destroyed ( deleted) try it localhost$: mv mass /dev/null BASH: PERMISION DENIED - PHYSICTS RESOURCE VIOLATION.
Now if only there was a way to show how caring about the climate would MAKE money... what you mean it can? Hmmm 25 years down the road we wouldn't have the problems that are looming now? BAH Corporate america would rather spend $2 less per year and just cover up anything they can, after all it will save 2 WHOLE dollars, not to mention the instant gratification factors. Many of us americans want instant gratifications and to hell with waiting or what anyone else wants. Yeah not the greatest view, but hey, we can all just go out and vote to change that right??? Nope sorry, the electoral college holds the reigns and it doesn't matter what the majority wants.
Personally I would love to see the U.S. embrace something like this, or at least make a pledge to LESSEN the greenhouse emissions, then STICK TO IT. Yes it might make my life a little more difficult in the short run, but will make my later life easier as well as my childrens life ( if i decide to have any that is). And no, this is not a bleeding heart " think of the children" outlook, anyone who is not concerned with their descendants well being needs to rethink their position a little bit i think ( like most of corporate america where money is everything and to hell with everything not a profit) Personally i try to buy from "greener" companies if possible, but this is not always possible. The best way to pressure companies into being cleaner / greener would be everyone who does agree to the G8 aggreement to buy from the greenest companies as possible, that is the only way to hurt the dirtier companies... through the profit margin...
it's a matter of the power level. the most powerful consumer wi-fi access point I've seen puts out 500 milliwatts. the local FM radio station puts out about 100,000 Megawatts.
I would assume that you actually mean 100K WATTS because at 100,000 Megawatts you should be able to pick that station up on the other side of the planet.
As for the 100K WATTS, that is reasonable, ONE of the local stations here broadcasts at approximately that and has roughly a 3 state radius ( wisconsin upper michigan and minnesota, and parts of upper illinois)
I assume you meant sex-tupled sales? ;-P
Is Linux the alternative? Not even close. If the out of the box (or off the torrent) install won't play DVDs or MP3s, it's not ready for public consumption. An out of the box Windows install generally*** just works without searching the web and downloading obscure codecs and media players.
;-P ) of windows and see how much funcionality you get, i bet you will find that many Linux distros are actually MORE usefull "out of the box" than windows is. If linux had the same OEM support that windows has ( codec licensing DVD licensing and other GOOD preloaded software ) it would be as easy or easier to sell than OS/X is. Hopefully after Dell has finished testing the market waters we may even see licensed codecs and such coming from them, as well as see other bigger named vedors picking up the idea as well.
Actually "Windows" will NOT play DVD's, strange codecs ( you generally get lucky if WMP downloads a codec you need and it works). This is a common misconception about Windows. Almost all of the added funcionality ( DVD playback any extra media players ETC...) is added to the sytems sellers image by the company you bought the PC from. For example install a retail copy ( or just plain old pirated copy
1) Driver support. Hardware manufacturers need to start either giving up drivers (like nVidia does, I'm not RMS, I don't care whether they are binary, they have to Just Work (tm), good enough that it doesn't crash the system every 10 seconds (ATi))
Why does everybody bash ATI drivers in linux? in my experience ATI drivers were somewhat bad years ago when i first bought my radeon 9200....but the windows drivers were as bad or WORSE. even now for that card half of the updated/upgrade software simply hangs on launching windows installer for that card. my laptop has no problems with the 200M-EXPRESS card. My main desktop did have an issue with my X1600 pro... but that was a bios settings issue. simply set the bios AGP_APERTURE size to the correct size for the card and there are no problems.
I have actually had the reverse experiance, I had problems with a GeForce4 card from NVidia, i had to wait 2-3 revisions before the problem was solved.
Maybe you had problems with ATI that I didn't, or maybe you never tried ATI products under linux and just go by what other people say about them.... doesn't really matter to me which one it is, I use whatever works whether it is NVidia or ATI or even Intels chipsets.
I must say though that since AMD took over ATI that the drivers have improved performance wise. within the last 3-4 versions i have picked up 30-40 FPS in fgl_glxgears when running fullscreen, it doesn't really matter since videos played smooth at even much lower framerates but for someone who wants to play GL games it could be nice to get those extra frames.
P.S. does NVidia come with any testing programs ( like ATI fgl_glxgears) ?