Clearly, the guys at OHSU are just ticked at the guys down the freeway at the Linux Foundation and OSU Open Source Lab for getting all the sweet computer gear. I mean, all the OHSU guys get are protesters complaining about animal testing.
...First, I don't hate you. Second, I already have an iPod and cell phone, so I don't see any point in putting down money on a new phone/music player, especially one that can't be reliably modded to play Vorbis.
Youtube is free, and it's not worth $400 just for a little piece of black plastic that plays the same H.264 video that VLC and mplayer have had for years.
Also Apple's Quicktime MPEG4 library has some significant deficiencies; they don't implement the entire standard.
The ATI/AMD guys responsible for releasing docs are also FOSS devs working on X.org. The next data dump will be tcore code, which is used to program 3D shaders on R500 and R600 GPUs, and will probably be relevant to the R400 engine, which is similar to the engine in certain R500 cards. This is not a bait and switch; ATI needs the market share too badly.
I have 20GB of Vorbis files and a 4G iPod modded to use Rockbox. Until Apple makes it possible for newer iPods to be flashed with Rockbox, I'm not buying a newer one.
Oh, and it does require iTunes if you want to keep it up-to-date.
Go grab laptop-mode-tools (I guarantee it's available for your distro) and a kernel newer than 2.6.10, and then enjoy. Among other things, your hard drive will only spin up once every 10 minutes at most if you're not requesting reads or writes. It's possible to beat Windows in battery usage very easily -- Windows can't do things like power down the USB buses if there's nothing connected or requesting power, or sleep the CPU for 99% of its ticks.
Can anyone explain to me what "tickless kernel support" is? Sure. Basically, instead of having a regular tick in the kernel every handful of cycles to process interrupts and timers, processes are given long, dynamic timers with arbitrary lengths, which means that if an app wants to sleep for a relatively long period, it gets to sleep and not wake up the CPU, so the CPU sleeps longer and a lot of power is saved.
On one hand, things like the VM dirty writeback adjustments and default cpufreq frequency governors, as well as dynticks for more arches, are big performance improvements. On the other hand, they broke wireless packet injection patches for a lot of drivers... At any rate, I'll have to try this just to see if it really performs better. Things like laptop_mode which rely on optimized scheduling and writeback code should see improvements.
Um, your complaint is still valid in the face of, say, Torque's engine; you still have to pay up front for a developer's kit, even if you don't make money. What you're saying is pretty much, "Why can't I just grab a free or pirated version of their dev kit, make a game, and then put down money for the actual version if there's some commercial opportunity?" I mean, it works out fine for you, yes, but you're still cheating the company making the toolkit.
Right up to the moment they use an undelete tool on your laptop and find the formerly uninstalled encryption program on your hard drive.... Use ext3. Undeletion is much more difficult due to the way inodes are destroyed. Sure, there are tools that can do it, but only if the filesystem hasn't been touched since deletion. Combine that with an encrypted/home and you're home-free; the 4th and 5th Amendments should protect your passphrase.
Well, in this particular case, they don't have to write any kernel code, because the nice guys behind Dazuko have already provided an on-demand kernel module for scanning files as they are accessed, and so you don't have to link against the kernel headers. They're just whining because their code currently hooks the Windows kernel at disturbingly deep places and they can't port their apps directly to Linux because most of those same low-level symbols aren't visible.
Actually, it's any non-trivial transformation of the code. It could be something as simple as renaming a global variable to have a more obvious or easier-to-spell name.
I do write my own music, and personally I believe that a musician should only earn money through performance; it is the connection formed between a live performer and his audience that makes music come alive. I would gladly dedicate my life's work to the public domain; you still have to pay to see me play, though.
In about two years, they will have chips on the GPUs capable of decoding H.264 in hardware, and XvMC will hopefully support MPEG-4 hardware decoding. That's what this is about.
Just wait until they try to shut down 4chan. The Internet Hate Machine will sort things out.
In the UK, BT's internet service blocks/b/. It's on some blacklist because, well, you know that bear mascot of theirs? Yeah. That stuff. To their credit they left the rest of 4chan alone, which is impressive given that if they blocked/b/ they must at least have looked at what goes on in/d/.
To be fair, 4chan doesn't permit child pornography, and cooperates fully with the FBI whenever it shows up, turning over IP addresses and chat logs. Also,/d/ is easily the politest, sanest, most on-topic board on 4chan.
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Clearly, the guys at OHSU are just ticked at the guys down the freeway at the Linux Foundation and OSU Open Source Lab for getting all the sweet computer gear. I mean, all the OHSU guys get are protesters complaining about animal testing.
Get out there, show how fed up you are with these people. It's not hard to protest; just show up, wear a mask, and stand on the sidewalk.
Yeah, that's why some of us are not big fans of the child porn laws.
...First, I don't hate you. Second, I already have an iPod and cell phone, so I don't see any point in putting down money on a new phone/music player, especially one that can't be reliably modded to play Vorbis.
Youtube is free, and it's not worth $400 just for a little piece of black plastic that plays the same H.264 video that VLC and mplayer have had for years.
Also Apple's Quicktime MPEG4 library has some significant deficiencies; they don't implement the entire standard.
Does Wikipedia even have servers or an office in Italy? If not, then their lawsuit is pretty damn pointless.
The ATI/AMD guys responsible for releasing docs are also FOSS devs working on X.org. The next data dump will be tcore code, which is used to program 3D shaders on R500 and R600 GPUs, and will probably be relevant to the R400 engine, which is similar to the engine in certain R500 cards. This is not a bait and switch; ATI needs the market share too badly.
WiMP also stands for Windows Media Player, which makes his post much funnier.
The feature I need is not "can replace firmware," it's "plays Vorbis."
I have 20GB of Vorbis files and a 4G iPod modded to use Rockbox. Until Apple makes it possible for newer iPods to be flashed with Rockbox, I'm not buying a newer one. Oh, and it does require iTunes if you want to keep it up-to-date.
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html
Go grab laptop-mode-tools (I guarantee it's available for your distro) and a kernel newer than 2.6.10, and then enjoy. Among other things, your hard drive will only spin up once every 10 minutes at most if you're not requesting reads or writes. It's possible to beat Windows in battery usage very easily -- Windows can't do things like power down the USB buses if there's nothing connected or requesting power, or sleep the CPU for 99% of its ticks.
What I would like to know, personally, is why the aircrack-ng patches for injection (http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/) are still out-of-tree.
On one hand, things like the VM dirty writeback adjustments and default cpufreq frequency governors, as well as dynticks for more arches, are big performance improvements. On the other hand, they broke wireless packet injection patches for a lot of drivers... At any rate, I'll have to try this just to see if it really performs better. Things like laptop_mode which rely on optimized scheduling and writeback code should see improvements.
Um, your complaint is still valid in the face of, say, Torque's engine; you still have to pay up front for a developer's kit, even if you don't make money. What you're saying is pretty much, "Why can't I just grab a free or pirated version of their dev kit, make a game, and then put down money for the actual version if there's some commercial opportunity?" I mean, it works out fine for you, yes, but you're still cheating the company making the toolkit.
Well, in this particular case, they don't have to write any kernel code, because the nice guys behind Dazuko have already provided an on-demand kernel module for scanning files as they are accessed, and so you don't have to link against the kernel headers. They're just whining because their code currently hooks the Windows kernel at disturbingly deep places and they can't port their apps directly to Linux because most of those same low-level symbols aren't visible.
Actually, it's any non-trivial transformation of the code. It could be something as simple as renaming a global variable to have a more obvious or easier-to-spell name.
Actually, I modified my iPod Video with Rockbox to make it play OGGs.
I do write my own music, and personally I believe that a musician should only earn money through performance; it is the connection formed between a live performer and his audience that makes music come alive. I would gladly dedicate my life's work to the public domain; you still have to pay to see me play, though.
In about two years, they will have chips on the GPUs capable of decoding H.264 in hardware, and XvMC will hopefully support MPEG-4 hardware decoding. That's what this is about.
I know I'm asking for it, but here is my /d/ folder. Completely work-safe. https://locke.aweenet.net/~simpson/images/d/
In the UK, BT's internet service blocks /b/. It's on some blacklist because, well, you know that bear mascot of theirs? Yeah. That stuff. To their credit they left the rest of 4chan alone, which is impressive given that if they blocked /b/ they must at least have looked at what goes on in /d/.
To be fair, 4chan doesn't permit child pornography, and cooperates fully with the FBI whenever it shows up, turning over IP addresses and chat logs. Also,Just wait until they try to shut down 4chan. The Internet Hate Machine will sort things out.