Actually, it's more like my real-life experiences driving on the freeway, where I drive 65 MPH on the 65 MPH road, and get cursed at for not speeding like everybody else.
Just thought a better car analogy would be useful.
Software players, like PowerDVD, are the source for most of the VM tricks and keys used to rip these discs, and the reason that these new discs don't work is because PowerDVD can't play them either.
I see some Apples, but more often I'm seeing netbooks. It depends on the venue and demographic of the conference; student-heavy get-togethers only have Apples if the students can afford it, and despite Apple's best attempts to offer student discounts, their little white books are still too fuckin' expensive for most of us.
Of course, I should disclose that I boycott Apple for other reasons.:3
Fedora 11 is the first release of any major distribution to include kernel mode-setting (KMS) for Intel GMA, ATI Radeon, and nVidia TNT2/GeForce chipsets. This is an excellent step forward in terms of moving off of crufty old graphics APIs and being able to use video cards in a more uniform, reliable manner.
Please see the header for the X.org SI DGA protocol. The parts that say "THIS IS THE OLD DGA API AND IS OBSOLETE. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE," I think, are really the best part.
DGA1, that header, is the one with mouse handling. DGA2 does not include it (check here if you're in an untrusting mood.)
DGA requires root. X is currently going towards being able to run unprivileged. Believe it or not, the mouse cursor is, in fact, a graphical element, and DGA still talks to the DDX when negotiating its HW cursor access.
If you want DGA, use KMS. It's the same style of direct-to-kernel access, and now with new features that DGA doesn't have, like "doesn't lock up your box due to kernel not liking your face."
And I'm not some numbnut, I'm an X.org developer. Or is that not enough qualification? I'm sure I can dig up mailing list posts from more senior devs that will confirm my original statement; namely, "DGA sucks."
a way to deal with this problem without asking for personal favors from X.org and the Linux kernel, namely, to use the DGA subsystem to achieve the required mouse behavior
DGA sucks. It's a painful kludge. When you use DGA, you are asking both X and the kernel to stand back and respect your right to draw whatever you like on the framebuffer. This is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds, and is just simply fail in modern setups.
If only it weighed 75 pounds, too. By the time I reached middle school, I had no problem carrying around 30lb+ computers and monitors. Now, to be fair, I'm more athletic than most geeks, but a 20-pound ball isn't gonna do shit against kids.
Child pornography is inherently offensive, which only limits its public display. It is not inherently dangerous, nor is it inherently harmful. It is evidence of a felony. Nothing more, nothing less. Would you say that a picture of an axe murderer's bloody implements warrants the same censoring? What about a picture of rape? A picture of a businessman hiring a hooker? Or that same businessman's expense account summaries, displaying his money laundering? Where the fucking hell is the line?
I have a stack of graphics cards from AMD. I have a stipend waiting for me at the end of summer once I finish my Summer of Code project. I have a paycheck sitting on my desk from Oregon State University from programming for the OSWALD project. I have a friend who is preparing to pay me for help writing a game.
I may not have the steady income of a Red Hat employee, but I'm certainly not unpaid.
I'm a musician and programmer by trade, but I'm not naive enough to think that copyright will forever ensure my income.
You want my code? Take it. Most of it's free, and that which isn't is still put into freeware.
You want my music? Take it. It's on my website. Free to download, as long as you follow a CC-BY-SA-NC. I only charge for performances, and permit bootlegs.
Seriously, most of the Mesa shader assemblers deal with very limited, simple, straightforward shader ISAs. This is icky. We're gonna need a full-on compiler for this.
In all honesty, a spinal tap is not that bad of a procedure, provided that the patient relaxes and doesn't try to use their back for a bit after the tap is done. Oh, and yeah, it hurts, but not (from what I've heard) any worse than a needle in the triceps, like a few vaccines.
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Actually, it's more like my real-life experiences driving on the freeway, where I drive 65 MPH on the 65 MPH road, and get cursed at for not speeding like everybody else.
Just thought a better car analogy would be useful.
Software players, like PowerDVD, are the source for most of the VM tricks and keys used to rip these discs, and the reason that these new discs don't work is because PowerDVD can't play them either.
So yeah, it's happening.
I see some Apples, but more often I'm seeing netbooks. It depends on the venue and demographic of the conference; student-heavy get-togethers only have Apples if the students can afford it, and despite Apple's best attempts to offer student discounts, their little white books are still too fuckin' expensive for most of us.
Of course, I should disclose that I boycott Apple for other reasons. :3
I wasn't aware that innovation directly translated to more stable, usable, understandable, or versatile systems.
http://trousers.sourceforge.net/faq.html
It'll get done once KMS for earlier Radeons gets merged upstream, in a week or so.
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=ae8199f5-18807-f5eeee66-ce59-42a4-8803
Note that my DNS servers are Level3 servers (4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.4) since they are much faster than Comcast DNS.
Fedora 11 is the first release of any major distribution to include kernel mode-setting (KMS) for Intel GMA, ATI Radeon, and nVidia TNT2/GeForce chipsets. This is an excellent step forward in terms of moving off of crufty old graphics APIs and being able to use video cards in a more uniform, reliable manner.
Please see the header for the X.org SI DGA protocol. The parts that say "THIS IS THE OLD DGA API AND IS OBSOLETE. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE," I think, are really the best part.
DGA1, that header, is the one with mouse handling. DGA2 does not include it (check here if you're in an untrusting mood.)
DGA requires root. X is currently going towards being able to run unprivileged. Believe it or not, the mouse cursor is, in fact, a graphical element, and DGA still talks to the DDX when negotiating its HW cursor access.
If you want DGA, use KMS. It's the same style of direct-to-kernel access, and now with new features that DGA doesn't have, like "doesn't lock up your box due to kernel not liking your face."
And I'm not some numbnut, I'm an X.org developer. Or is that not enough qualification? I'm sure I can dig up mailing list posts from more senior devs that will confirm my original statement; namely, "DGA sucks."
a way to deal with this problem without asking for personal favors from X.org and the Linux kernel, namely, to use the DGA subsystem to achieve the required mouse behavior
DGA sucks. It's a painful kludge. When you use DGA, you are asking both X and the kernel to stand back and respect your right to draw whatever you like on the framebuffer. This is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds, and is just simply fail in modern setups.
I'm sorry, but I had to point this out.
Periods go inside parentheses, just like quotation marks (or just about any other sentence-ending punctuation, really.)
I usually just stare at the code until it starts staring back; that's usually about when I realize that it's 6AM and I need to sleep.
-EPARSE. Re-read my post.
If only it weighed 75 pounds, too. By the time I reached middle school, I had no problem carrying around 30lb+ computers and monitors. Now, to be fair, I'm more athletic than most geeks, but a 20-pound ball isn't gonna do shit against kids.
Child pornography is inherently offensive, which only limits its public display. It is not inherently dangerous, nor is it inherently harmful. It is evidence of a felony. Nothing more, nothing less. Would you say that a picture of an axe murderer's bloody implements warrants the same censoring? What about a picture of rape? A picture of a businessman hiring a hooker? Or that same businessman's expense account summaries, displaying his money laundering? Where the fucking hell is the line?
Ooh, I saw that on that episode of the Daily Show I watched online!
I approve.
Well, they can perform deep inspections of my "package" anytime they like. :3
I have a stack of graphics cards from AMD. I have a stipend waiting for me at the end of summer once I finish my Summer of Code project. I have a paycheck sitting on my desk from Oregon State University from programming for the OSWALD project. I have a friend who is preparing to pay me for help writing a game.
I may not have the steady income of a Red Hat employee, but I'm certainly not unpaid.
I'm a musician and programmer by trade, but I'm not naive enough to think that copyright will forever ensure my income.
You want my code? Take it. Most of it's free, and that which isn't is still put into freeware.
You want my music? Take it. It's on my website. Free to download, as long as you follow a CC-BY-SA-NC. I only charge for performances, and permit bootlegs.
Culture is meant to be shared.
~ C.
Oregonians 3 Powell's.
I bought my Eee at a Best Buy.
Seriously, most of the Mesa shader assemblers deal with very limited, simple, straightforward shader ISAs. This is icky. We're gonna need a full-on compiler for this.
In all honesty, a spinal tap is not that bad of a procedure, provided that the patient relaxes and doesn't try to use their back for a bit after the tap is done. Oh, and yeah, it hurts, but not (from what I've heard) any worse than a needle in the triceps, like a few vaccines.