Obviously the architecture has to be designed before it can be implemented (and have products using it ship), which makes the architecture older than the GPU itself.
I'm not spouting FUD, I'm speaking from personal experience. Using the nVidia-supplied driver for a GeForce 256 (and later, a GeForce3) caused repeatable crashes when using XVideo, as well as when changing resolutions. Both problems went away when I switched to the XFree86 (2D-only) nVidia driver.
The GeForce2GO in my laptop also has problems; for example, closing the lid and reopening it causes strange distortion along the left edge of the screen, like the pixels on the far right are bleeding over to the left-hand side. Restarting X cures it, but it seems to happen whenever the LCD is powered off and back on. And the nVidia driver doesn't support power management. There is no XFree86 driver for the GeForce2GO.
Oh, and let's not forget that wonderful multihead configuration syntax.
I think the 3650 is great (disclaimer: i have one). The keypad really isn't as bad as people make it out to be, and it has the best feature-set of any phone on the market.
And if you don't like the keypad, the 3660 will be here soon.
I recently got to play with a S-E T616, and while it's a very sexy little phone, it's feature-set leaves much to be desired. It's camera's max resolution is 288x253, and it only has a couple mb of memory built-in (non-upgradable). Running J2ME applets is painfully slow.
The 3650 has 4mb built-in, and can be upgraded with a MMC card. Mine came with a 16mb card, and you can get up to 128mb. Camera is 640x480 (still not great, but better than the T616), and it's very responsive when using 3rd party apps, of which there are plenty.
Veering back on-topic... I've used both phones with a Belkin USB BT dongle with no problem whatsoever, and they were able to send stuff from one phone to the other fine as well. I don't have a BT headset (yet), so I don't know how well they perform with one.
* Disable the vulnerable service until a patch is ready. * Change a configuration option which disables the vulnerable code. For example, if there is a vulnerability in Samba's LDAP code, you could disable just the LDAP functionality and be protected while keeping the service available. * Ensure that there is an additional layer of protection enabled; for example, if the exploit is remote, make sure that it's only open to the people who should be using it. If it's local, make sure that the program in question is only executable by trusted users. * Patch it themseleves, if the source is available.
These are just a few options. There are plenty more things that an attentive admin can do to mitigate their risk as soon as they know of a vulnerability.
Then your hardware (or IDE driver for that hardware) is likely broken. ide-scsi has zero to do with DMA. DMA is handled by the lower-level IDE driver which ide-scsi talks to.
"However, it does lack some serious functionality: DMA support. Not having DMA support for ide-scsi means that burning takes up a lot of cpu time and it is very easy to cpu-starve the cd-burning software resulting in a bad burn."
Bzzt. You lose, DMA works just fine with ide-scsi.
Just use hdparm on/dev/hdN or whatever the regular IDE device would be to enable DMA (if it isn't enabled at boot-time).
After I got laid off from my last job, I started working for a firm in another state. There's no question of going in to the office without flying to the opposite side of the country.
Most importantly, set concrete work hours. It really doesn't matter what they are, so long as they're consistent. Don't get lazy and sleep in.
Second, pick up a hobby that does not involve computers or technology in any way. I took up martial arts (Kali/Arnis and Kickboxing), which helped immensly. If I had a frustrating day at work, I would go to the gym and beat the shit out of the bags, pads, and Tae Kwan Do students.
Hobbies that require you to leave your house are best. You might enjoy basket weaving or knitting, but you'll still be at home. Pool is a very geeky sport, and a great way to get out and socialize.
Third, take breaks! Most states have laws about this; check yours. In general, they allow for a 5-15 minute break every 1-2 hours, plus a lunch hour.
In general, going stir crazy is your body's way of telling you to get off your ass and do something. Listen to your body.
Check out shoutcast's industrial genre. There are some really great industrial stations out there, which is nice because there's nothing like it on the (real) airwaves around where I live.
I'll just take a moment to plug ampedOut, my favorite station. Tune in Friday nights for "Dopamine," which is their live show.
This is along similar lines to what I was thinking.
My belief is that if something isn't available for you to buy, it's ok to get it some other way, since the owner isn't losing money. So the fact that most bands don't sell recordings of their live shows means (for me, at least) that it's ok to collect bootlegs of them.
The fact that this legislation only applies to movies which aren't available for purchase seems counterintuitative. You'd think that people trading DVD rips when the DVD is commercially available would do far more financial harm than people trading cam/TS copies of movies in theaters, or movies no longer in theaters which haven't been released on DVD.
A cammed/TS movie does not compare to the theater experience. I find it hard to believe that someone would go to the trouble of downloading 1.5+ gb of poor-quality video rather than spend $5 at a matinee.
"The only software that comes to my mind that required a dongle to function was Autocad (at least in the early 90s)."
Dongles seem(ed?) to thrive in vertical markets. The DOS version of ACI (an appraisal forms suite) used a parallel-port dongle, and I worked with some fancy green-screen compositing software (for the Mac, in the mid-late '90s) that used an ADB dongle.
"But how does this affect insurance? If it's their stuff and you only license it, they should cover the costs for keeping the jig insured against theft, right?"
Right. And the bank I financed my car through should be responsible for my auto insurance.
License-mania is a phase. It's happened before, and it will happen again. Western Union used to lease their telegraph machines, AT&T leased it's phone equipment, IBM leased it's computers, and so on. It will change, because in the end, it's a business model that antagonizes customers.
If you buy a 1541 or 1571, you can hook it up to your PC with a parallel cable. The cables are easily made, and there's freely available software for DOS, Linux, and Windows.
Unfortunately, Commodore disks aren't readable by PC 5.25" drives, as the 1541 uses GCR, an incompatible encoding scheme. PC floppy drives use MFM.
You can pick up a 1541 off ebay for $1 - $10 + shipping, or probably find one at a local secondhand shop or swapmeet. You might want to avoid the '41 in favor of a '71, as they are less prone to misalignment.
This setup works both ways, so if you have Commodore hardware (like my venerable 128D), you can use all the elite CBM warez on it.
A quick USEnet search on Google shows that they were posted on c.o.l.a. at 1993-02-26 08:16:27 PST by Lars Wirzenius.
I seem to remember that they were fairly widely distributed (on CD, the Infomagic set in particular) in the earlier days of Linux, along with two.au (Sun audio format, not Australia) files of Linus pronouncing "Linux" in English and Finnish.
It's awfully easy to dismiss FOSS efforts as "playing catch-up." One should take into consideration that FOSS hasn't been around nearly as long, and it's done a remarkable amount of catching up in the time it's had.
Some figures: Linux was started in 1991, and 1.0 was released in 1994. KDE was started in 1996, and 1.0 was released in 1998. DOS was started in 1979 (as QDOS, later 86-DOS), and PC-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981. Windows was started in 1983, and 1.0 released in 1984.
Personally, I think it's an amazing accomplishment that FOSS has developed to almost match the functionality of DOS/Windows in half the time.
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Heineken? Heineken?! Lad, enough crazy talk. Linus likes guinness, and so do I, so how about them instead?
If you're going to get a beer company to sponsor you, at least get one that makes real beer.
Obviously the architecture has to be designed before it can be implemented (and have products using it ship), which makes the architecture older than the GPU itself.
I'm not spouting FUD, I'm speaking from personal experience. Using the nVidia-supplied driver for a GeForce 256 (and later, a GeForce3) caused repeatable crashes when using XVideo, as well as when changing resolutions. Both problems went away when I switched to the XFree86 (2D-only) nVidia driver.
The GeForce2GO in my laptop also has problems; for example, closing the lid and reopening it causes strange distortion along the left edge of the screen, like the pixels on the far right are bleeding over to the left-hand side. Restarting X cures it, but it seems to happen whenever the LCD is powered off and back on. And the nVidia driver doesn't support power management. There is no XFree86 driver for the GeForce2GO.
Oh, and let's not forget that wonderful multihead configuration syntax.
"Someone's math is a little off here on how long it's been since the last S3 video card."
The article says it's the "first new GPU architecture in five years." Not the first new GPU.
It'd be even better if they just release the specs instead of providing a buggy, incompatible, crash-prone driver like nVidia does.
If you can't start making respectable jokes, I'm afraid I'll have to keel you.
Consider this a stern warning.
I don't use iSync (or a Mac, for that matter), but the 3650 speaks SyncML. Anything else which does should sync with it fine.
I think the 3650 is great (disclaimer: i have one). The keypad really isn't as bad as people make it out to be, and it has the best feature-set of any phone on the market.
And if you don't like the keypad, the 3660 will be here soon.
I recently got to play with a S-E T616, and while it's a very sexy little phone, it's feature-set leaves much to be desired. It's camera's max resolution is 288x253, and it only has a couple mb of memory built-in (non-upgradable). Running J2ME applets is painfully slow.
The 3650 has 4mb built-in, and can be upgraded with a MMC card. Mine came with a 16mb card, and you can get up to 128mb. Camera is 640x480 (still not great, but better than the T616), and it's very responsive when using 3rd party apps, of which there are plenty.
Veering back on-topic... I've used both phones with a Belkin USB BT dongle with no problem whatsoever, and they were able to send stuff from one phone to the other fine as well. I don't have a BT headset (yet), so I don't know how well they perform with one.
* Disable the vulnerable service until a patch is ready.
* Change a configuration option which disables the vulnerable code. For example, if there is a vulnerability in Samba's LDAP code, you could disable just the LDAP functionality and be protected while keeping the service available.
* Ensure that there is an additional layer of protection enabled; for example, if the exploit is remote, make sure that it's only open to the people who should be using it. If it's local, make sure that the program in question is only executable by trusted users.
* Patch it themseleves, if the source is available.
These are just a few options. There are plenty more things that an attentive admin can do to mitigate their risk as soon as they know of a vulnerability.
Then your hardware (or IDE driver for that hardware) is likely broken. ide-scsi has zero to do with DMA. DMA is handled by the lower-level IDE driver which ide-scsi talks to.
"However, it does lack some serious functionality: DMA support. Not having DMA support for ide-scsi means that burning takes up a lot of cpu time and it is very easy to cpu-starve the cd-burning software resulting in a bad burn."
/dev/hdN or whatever the regular IDE device would be to enable DMA (if it isn't enabled at boot-time).
Bzzt. You lose, DMA works just fine with ide-scsi.
Just use hdparm on
You don't think it's risky to keep sysadmins in the dark when there's a known exploit in the software they're running?
After I got laid off from my last job, I started working for a firm in another state. There's no question of going in to the office without flying to the opposite side of the country.
Most importantly, set concrete work hours. It really doesn't matter what they are, so long as they're consistent. Don't get lazy and sleep in.
Second, pick up a hobby that does not involve computers or technology in any way. I took up martial arts (Kali/Arnis and Kickboxing), which helped immensly. If I had a frustrating day at work, I would go to the gym and beat the shit out of the bags, pads, and Tae Kwan Do students.
Hobbies that require you to leave your house are best. You might enjoy basket weaving or knitting, but you'll still be at home. Pool is a very geeky sport, and a great way to get out and socialize.
Third, take breaks! Most states have laws about this; check yours. In general, they allow for a 5-15 minute break every 1-2 hours, plus a lunch hour.
In general, going stir crazy is your body's way of telling you to get off your ass and do something. Listen to your body.
Check out shoutcast's industrial genre. There are some really great industrial stations out there, which is nice because there's nothing like it on the (real) airwaves around where I live.
I'll just take a moment to plug ampedOut, my favorite station. Tune in Friday nights for "Dopamine," which is their live show.
This is along similar lines to what I was thinking.
My belief is that if something isn't available for you to buy, it's ok to get it some other way, since the owner isn't losing money. So the fact that most bands don't sell recordings of their live shows means (for me, at least) that it's ok to collect bootlegs of them.
The fact that this legislation only applies to movies which aren't available for purchase seems counterintuitative. You'd think that people trading DVD rips when the DVD is commercially available would do far more financial harm than people trading cam/TS copies of movies in theaters, or movies no longer in theaters which haven't been released on DVD.
A cammed/TS movie does not compare to the theater experience. I find it hard to believe that someone would go to the trouble of downloading 1.5+ gb of poor-quality video rather than spend $5 at a matinee.
Yes, but it would suck exponentially faster.
"The only software that comes to my mind that required a dongle to function was Autocad (at least in the early 90s)."
Dongles seem(ed?) to thrive in vertical markets. The DOS version of ACI (an appraisal forms suite) used a parallel-port dongle, and I worked with some fancy green-screen compositing software (for the Mac, in the mid-late '90s) that used an ADB dongle.
"But how does this affect insurance? If it's their stuff and you only license it, they should cover the costs for keeping the jig insured against theft, right?"
Right. And the bank I financed my car through should be responsible for my auto insurance.
License-mania is a phase. It's happened before, and it will happen again. Western Union used to lease their telegraph machines, AT&T leased it's phone equipment, IBM leased it's computers, and so on. It will change, because in the end, it's a business model that antagonizes customers.
If you buy a 1541 or 1571, you can hook it up to your PC with a parallel cable. The cables are easily made, and there's freely available software for DOS, Linux, and Windows.
Unfortunately, Commodore disks aren't readable by PC 5.25" drives, as the 1541 uses GCR, an incompatible encoding scheme. PC floppy drives use MFM.
You can pick up a 1541 off ebay for $1 - $10 + shipping, or probably find one at a local secondhand shop or swapmeet. You might want to avoid the '41 in favor of a '71, as they are less prone to misalignment.
This setup works both ways, so if you have Commodore hardware (like my venerable 128D), you can use all the elite CBM warez on it.
Well, on Tomb of the Cybermen, the TARDIS touched down on the surface of the planet, in the atmosphere.
I.e. the TARDIS has some sort of conventional (move around inside of space) propulsion system as well as it's dematerialization systems.
Obviously things can fly in space, unless you're a nutter who believes that the moon landing was faked.
As a matter of fact, the TARDIS can fly. Read the production notes for "The Tomb of the Cybermen" DVD.
There was a Tom Baker story (which I can't remember the name of) where the TARDIS was flying around in space as well.
Frist Psot!
Wlel, not rlaely.
A quick USEnet search on Google shows that they were posted on c.o.l.a. at 1993-02-26 08:16:27 PST by Lars Wirzenius.
.au (Sun audio format, not Australia) files of Linus pronouncing "Linux" in English and Finnish.
I seem to remember that they were fairly widely distributed (on CD, the Infomagic set in particular) in the earlier days of Linux, along with two
"Nintendo also officially announced two new colors for the GBA SP, Flame (red) and Onyx (black), and even lay out their reasoning for those picks..."
The fact that those colors have been available in Japan since the launch of the SP had nothing to do with it.
Right.
It's awfully easy to dismiss FOSS efforts as "playing catch-up." One should take into consideration that FOSS hasn't been around nearly as long, and it's done a remarkable amount of catching up in the time it's had.
Some figures:
Linux was started in 1991, and 1.0 was released in 1994.
KDE was started in 1996, and 1.0 was released in 1998.
DOS was started in 1979 (as QDOS, later 86-DOS), and PC-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981.
Windows was started in 1983, and 1.0 released in 1984.
Personally, I think it's an amazing accomplishment that FOSS has developed to almost match the functionality of DOS/Windows in half the time.