I worked at a computer recycling company for a few months. Every system was first booted with memtest86+ and then knoppix for hardware detection (funny using linux for that...).
And you know what? Over 80% of the pre-Athlon AMD processor systems had *terrible* memory bandwidth. I'm talking 50-100MB/s. I have a P2 450 that more that doubles that speed.
*That* is why AMD should be making *good* chipsets. They have made some in the past, but they have funny bugs in them, like requiring a mouse to be plugged in to boot and etc.
It has taken a long time for the alternative chipsets to gain traction with Intel processors because the Intel chipsets are so *good*.
I like AMD, my first system that I built myself was a k6 350 and it is still chugging along today. But only 128MB of ram is cachable by the chipset, and that makes many things slower than they should be. Another point where my P2 450 beats the AMD just because of a shit chipset.
Then you need to submit bug reports. Attach the file if you can to the report also.
Right now, OOo 2 beta is getting testing on several fronts. Windows, and various linux distributions like FC4, Ubuntu, Novell/Suse, Mandriva, etc. Basically any disktop distro. Even Debian has it in their experemental repository.
I have been using OOo 1.9.125 that is in FC4 heavily for spreadsheets and filtering. I have found a couple crasher bugs, and a couple ones also on filtered spreadsheet rows.
Um, yes yum works, but I would never agree with someone saying it works well.
It is very slow and hogs memory like only beta versions of mozilla. It sets its pace at the time it takes to check to see if any of the repositories have changed, even if it checked 30 seconds ago.
A "yum search" not only hits the network, but it takes over 50MB of ram to do that.
With a good setup, the second and third shots could be keyed to one trigger so they all go off at once. Though in reality, being stealth and setting up a bunch of guns with syncronized triggers probably wouldn't work well in the field.
Though this would work with multiple snipers. Even two or three snipers could fool this system and easily fool the guards unless the system had a memory of past gun shots...
My advice would be to wait for the fuel reformer/fuel cell technology it has the best of all worlds.
That is like saying "don't use any open source software until you can use it for everything".
The point of hybrids is that they are not the best possible, but a practical stepping stone that helps in the interim while helping to shift alternatives to a postive in popular culture.
Since the Word.doc format is actually the COM memory written to disk, I'm surprised there haven't been *several orders of magnatude* more problems with Word and interoparability between versions. They have done a remarkable job walking on quick sand.
Yes structured formats use more space and can be slower. It is ineresting to see that saving only takes 2x the time in OOo it does in word, and that includes compression time.
After reading the Wikipedia article on MRAM I'm getting the idea that the author thinks it will slice bread also.
There is no mention as to what the hurtles have been in the technology, and how sensitive it will be to external magnetic fields or any negatives about the technology (and *every* technology has drawbacks).
Anyone albe to play a knowledgeable devil's advocate for MRAM?
1) StarOffice 8 will come out *after* OpenOffice 2 will. This means you will have stable open source competing with stable commercial software. Not beta versions of OOo.
2) With OOo 1.1 and 2rc we have spell checking, dictionaries, and database interfaces. Yes, staroffice will give you a library of clipart. And I'm sure OOo will be just as easy to deploy with pre-configured database server interfaces as StarOffice.
3) With OOo 2 you will be able to deploy with the MSI installer. So it is a matter of: configure once, deploy to desktops (leave MS Office), begin training, deploy with OOo set to default. After that you can remove MS Office slowly after you're sure the user has been using OOo without problems.
Remember, Word started its dominance in the 90s. It took them nearly 10 years to get to that point. So, don't give up, your work will be rewarded in the afterlife.:)
Also, if you ever run into a corporate project in its early stanges (or even if it is past due and overbudget already) contact your local open source integrator and at the same time call in the big guns: Red Hat, Novell, etc. They may be able to save the project and show how open source companies could have helped solve the problem in the first place.
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Oh, do tell!
I'm just saying that the chipsets available for AMD processors have had a relatively high probability of being slow.
Though VIA has had a bad track record for their PCI bus implementations.
I worked at a computer recycling company for a few months. Every system was first booted with memtest86+ and then knoppix for hardware detection (funny using linux for that...).
And you know what? Over 80% of the pre-Athlon AMD processor systems had *terrible* memory bandwidth. I'm talking 50-100MB/s. I have a P2 450 that more that doubles that speed.
*That* is why AMD should be making *good* chipsets. They have made some in the past, but they have funny bugs in them, like requiring a mouse to be plugged in to boot and etc.
It has taken a long time for the alternative chipsets to gain traction with Intel processors because the Intel chipsets are so *good*.
I like AMD, my first system that I built myself was a k6 350 and it is still chugging along today. But only 128MB of ram is cachable by the chipset, and that makes many things slower than they should be. Another point where my P2 450 beats the AMD just because of a shit chipset.
Check out the 2.0 codeline page.
It's closer than you think.
I stand corrected. Though I remember having to go to that page only a few months ago to sign up for MSN IM without the native client.
:(
That was the first hit for "gaim msn" on google too.
Then you need to submit bug reports. Attach the file if you can to the report also.
Right now, OOo 2 beta is getting testing on several fronts. Windows, and various linux distributions like FC4, Ubuntu, Novell/Suse, Mandriva, etc. Basically any disktop distro. Even Debian has it in their experemental repository.
I have been using OOo 1.9.125 that is in FC4 heavily for spreadsheets and filtering. I have found a couple crasher bugs, and a couple ones also on filtered spreadsheet rows.
The epitome of slashdot. You didn't read my the page I linked to did you?
Summary: It says that MSN's IM uses non-standard encryption now and there is a certain future date where it will be required.
It is not known if gaim will work with msn after that date.
..through yahoo.
So even if gaim can't access msn directly it will work through yahoo.
area concert look like the parade of pink faries
And now folks, you know why they have "Don't ask, don't tell".
Um, yes yum works, but I would never agree with someone saying it works well.
It is very slow and hogs memory like only beta versions of mozilla. It sets its pace at the time it takes to check to see if any of the repositories have changed, even if it checked 30 seconds ago.
A "yum search" not only hits the network, but it takes over 50MB of ram to do that.
Yum is only tolerable when called from cron IMO.
It looks like you haven't seen what this joke is about.
3. The purpose of the sniper is to flip out and kill people from far away.
Then you need syncronized shooting.
With a good setup, the second and third shots could be keyed to one trigger so they all go off at once. Though in reality, being stealth and setting up a bunch of guns with syncronized triggers probably wouldn't work well in the field.
Though this would work with multiple snipers. Even two or three snipers could fool this system and easily fool the guards unless the system had a memory of past gun shots...
You know what else would help? Nuclear power. [...] We wouldn't need to drill for natural gas...
Yeah, we'd just have to drill for radio active material. How does that make things better?
Yep, submitted a couple bugs on table conversions that were fixed around version 1.9.m65.
My advice would be to wait for the fuel reformer/fuel cell technology it has the best of all worlds.
That is like saying "don't use any open source software until you can use it for everything".
The point of hybrids is that they are not the best possible, but a practical stepping stone that helps in the interim while helping to shift alternatives to a postive in popular culture.
Heh, if you really are european, then you should be rating your speed in Kph...
So, is faster always better?
.doc format is actually the COM memory written to disk, I'm surprised there haven't been *several orders of magnatude* more problems with Word and interoparability between versions. They have done a remarkable job walking on quick sand.
Is that why you aren't even a one minute man?
Since the Word
Yes structured formats use more space and can be slower. It is ineresting to see that saving only takes 2x the time in OOo it does in word, and that includes compression time.
So, is faster always better?
Is that why you aren't even a one minute man?
Can we please have a version without the assumption of government investing in the private sector as a good thing?
Really, taking money away (taxes or whatever name they want to put on it) so that one group chooses where it should go just doesn't make much sense.
Uhmm, OOo 2 has been using half of the memory that 1.1.4 usually requires on my windows machine.
I haven't been benchmarking how fast OOo 2 is, but neither are speed daemons.
And if you think OOo 1.1 is prettier than OOo 2, please go back to your Motif desktop and leave the rest of us alone.
Unfortunately, only for inport though.
After reading the Wikipedia article on MRAM I'm getting the idea that the author thinks it will slice bread also.
There is no mention as to what the hurtles have been in the technology, and how sensitive it will be to external magnetic fields or any negatives about the technology (and *every* technology has drawbacks).
Anyone albe to play a knowledgeable devil's advocate for MRAM?
Err, let me see...
1) StarOffice 8 will come out *after* OpenOffice 2 will. This means you will have stable open source competing with stable commercial software. Not beta versions of OOo.
2) With OOo 1.1 and 2rc we have spell checking, dictionaries, and database interfaces. Yes, staroffice will give you a library of clipart. And I'm sure OOo will be just as easy to deploy with pre-configured database server interfaces as StarOffice.
3) With OOo 2 you will be able to deploy with the MSI installer. So it is a matter of: configure once, deploy to desktops (leave MS Office), begin training, deploy with OOo set to default. After that you can remove MS Office slowly after you're sure the user has been using OOo without problems.
Don't lose hope, brother.
:)
Remember, Word started its dominance in the 90s. It took them nearly 10 years to get to that point. So, don't give up, your work will be rewarded in the afterlife.
A quick search found that there is Open Source compettition for the blackberry also (albeit at the protocol level -- maybe at the server level also).
There are also Open Source applications available on the blackberry (and other phones that support J2ME & MIDP).
Also, if you ever run into a corporate project in its early stanges (or even if it is past due and overbudget already) contact your local open source integrator and at the same time call in the big guns: Red Hat, Novell, etc. They may be able to save the project and show how open source companies could have helped solve the problem in the first place.