You might notice that I even had trouble installing Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.
Next I have to figure out why VLC for linux freezes when I 2x zoom a video, why tasks run via wine never disappear from the task list even when they're closed, and why it fails to resume from stand-by.
It seems even open-source software runs better on XP. That's not a very good sign for the open-source OS.
We'd need to replace them first. Specifically windows XP, which is essentially the same as 5 years ago (it was released 2002 right?), and is still quite easy to get working, and quite easy to use. I mean, contrast the following:
Installing Firefox 2.0 on XP: Download the installer from the firefox website, run and keep pressing "next".
Installing Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6 (linux): Download a.tar.gz from the firefox website. Open it to find what appears to be all the files that make up firefox. Extract it and attempt to run various things, firefox, updater etc. Nothing happens (at all). Attempt to read the readme, which seems to contain just a web address. Go there, and look at the woeful "install instructions", which don't actually say anything[1]. Go hunting on the net. Eventually find that the best way to get FF2 is to run a few command-line commands on yum to activate the "Development" download repository and download FF2 for Fedora Core 7.
[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.1/relea senotes/#install Installing Firefox 2: Please note that installing Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
And then there's the struggle to activate hardware-acceleration on my Radeon X1900 under FC6. Apparently just installing the ati driver isn't enough, I have to use the command-line-login to run some really long commands at run-level 3 (without the help of copy-paste), followed by modifying the X config file myself to undo some of what these commands did, specifically reverting the modules section back to the default 7 or so modules (just removing the whole section works), instead of just loading dri, which the defaults included anyway. Then I had to add some more lines to disable some things so that it didn't drop back to software rendering for no obvious reason.
On XP? Just install the drivers, and the newest direct-X as part of whatever 3D app or game wants to use it. Works first time.
Don't forget that AMD was also talking about opening up the hypertransport spec and their cpu socket (from the 4x4 line?) so that you could use a cpu and another chip, either graphics or specialist, in a dual-cpu board. Would be interesting to see a socket 940 graphics processor, that's for sure.
You're forgetting three things:
1: It doesn't necessarily destroy anything at it's maximum range, it can just get that far.
2: It slows down in flight (it's a bullet not a rocket/missile) so it's going much faster at short range.
3: It travels in an arc, so it's technically travelling farther than 200 miles, which increases it's speed and therefore damage.
Btw, at 2000mph a 3.2kg weight has 2.56 MJ (megajoules) of energy, equivalent to the explosive force of 600 grams (1.35 lbs) of tnt. Although, that's not a very useful statistic because they're armour piercing rounds not explosive.
The 8 MJ (probably muzzle energy) quoted in the title would be nearly 2kg (4.2 lbs) of tnt. That should leave quite a dent in a wall, or a tank for that matter.
If a crash and reboot results in no usb, that's likely a bios fault, usb hardware fault or usb driver fault, not the fault of whatever OS you're using. I have a system here that can bluescreen with random errors, followed by being unable to boot due to read errors on the hard-disk. It's not the hard-disk though, putting that in another pc shows there aren't any errors on it. Instead, it's the motherboard's hard-disk controller. Unplugging the pc for a while resets the motherboard and it can read the hard-disk again.
Exactly. Most bioses can support usb drives as well.
Although weirdly the receiver for my wireless keyboard has both usb and purple ps2 (ie keyboard) plugs, but only needs one of them plugged in (or both). It will be powered and have a working keyboard either way.
And lastly quite a few newer motherboards can hotplug ps2. I don't know how they do it though, all I know is if I plug a ps2 keyboard in with the pc on, the keyboard lights flash and then it works.
Well I bought 2 wiis (one for someone else), one not much before Christmas by ringing a store exactly as the delivery arrived and then getting there in time, and one on amazon.co.uk on December 22nd which was delivered on December 23rd (yes, the Saturday before Christmas).
I don't see what people are complaining about, I had no trouble getting any before Christmas, and I didn't pre-order either. I guess you just need to know where to look and be lucky. Though both wii play and extra nunchuks were sold out at the time.
Well I have NoScript (don't really use anymore), Ad-Block Pro, IETab, Google Toolbar, Long Titles and Resurrect Pages extensions, so it's not them (hope that helps).
Are there any other good ones I should know about?
They're both licensing things I think. Or MS being ignorant of today's codecs and telling themself that everyone uses WMV. I would have thought Xvid would gladly give permission to bundle their codec with windows if only they were asked.
I occasionally do a little freelance computer repair work, and 99% of the time I'm removing popups from startup that are either from adware or from missing adware. I'm also nearly always asked what can be done to make said computer run faster, and so I take a little look and see that immediately after login the pc has 110% ram usage, and 20-50% cpu usage. Typically it's a cut-price pre-built pc with 256MB of ram and several peices of crapware that use a good 50-100MB between them. I clean a few off that they don't want and recommend them to get some more ram (another 256MB is under £20, even at pcworld) if they want to play games newer than 5 years old on it.
I'm always thanked for how much faster the pc is afterwards. In one case they actually thanked me for making it quieter because I removed something using 100% of their cpu and forcing the fans to full speed.
And *I* meant that it's only what *we* would consider the latest games that it can't play.
It would be able to play tetris -easy-, regardless of the design requirements. I don't think can still make pcs that would be too slow, the technology is so redundant it's lost.
Except that that would mean that companies that could afford $5M easily could intentionally infringe on as many patents as they liked, even drawing the legal battle out long enough to bankrupt the holder.
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I'd say the "Games" argument covers OSX too. I know games do exist for OSX and Linux, but there are far far more for windows.
I've nearly given up on linux because everything takes so long to set up. See post: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=218242&cid= 17724152
You might notice that I even had trouble installing Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.
Next I have to figure out why VLC for linux freezes when I 2x zoom a video, why tasks run via wine never disappear from the task list even when they're closed, and why it fails to resume from stand-by.
It seems even open-source software runs better on XP. That's not a very good sign for the open-source OS.
We'd need to replace them first. Specifically windows XP, which is essentially the same as 5 years ago (it was released 2002 right?), and is still quite easy to get working, and quite easy to use. I mean, contrast the following:
.tar.gz from the firefox website. Open it to find what appears to be all the files that make up firefox. Extract it and attempt to run various things, firefox, updater etc. Nothing happens (at all). Attempt to read the readme, which seems to contain just a web address. Go there, and look at the woeful "install instructions", which don't actually say anything[1]. Go hunting on the net. Eventually find that the best way to get FF2 is to run a few command-line commands on yum to activate the "Development" download repository and download FF2 for Fedora Core 7.
a senotes/#install
Installing Firefox 2.0 on XP:
Download the installer from the firefox website, run and keep pressing "next".
Installing Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6 (linux):
Download a
[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.1/rele
Installing Firefox 2:
Please note that installing Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
And then there's the struggle to activate hardware-acceleration on my Radeon X1900 under FC6. Apparently just installing the ati driver isn't enough, I have to use the command-line-login to run some really long commands at run-level 3 (without the help of copy-paste), followed by modifying the X config file myself to undo some of what these commands did, specifically reverting the modules section back to the default 7 or so modules (just removing the whole section works), instead of just loading dri, which the defaults included anyway. Then I had to add some more lines to disable some things so that it didn't drop back to software rendering for no obvious reason.
On XP? Just install the drivers, and the newest direct-X as part of whatever 3D app or game wants to use it. Works first time.
Don't forget that AMD was also talking about opening up the hypertransport spec and their cpu socket (from the 4x4 line?) so that you could use a cpu and another chip, either graphics or specialist, in a dual-cpu board. Would be interesting to see a socket 940 graphics processor, that's for sure.
No, they're using Intel chips in their line of servers that previously used AMD chips. For the pro-AMD slashdotters, this is "a very bad thing"(tm).
Sorry, that was supposed to have linebreaks in it.
You're forgetting three things: 1: It doesn't necessarily destroy anything at it's maximum range, it can just get that far. 2: It slows down in flight (it's a bullet not a rocket/missile) so it's going much faster at short range. 3: It travels in an arc, so it's technically travelling farther than 200 miles, which increases it's speed and therefore damage. Btw, at 2000mph a 3.2kg weight has 2.56 MJ (megajoules) of energy, equivalent to the explosive force of 600 grams (1.35 lbs) of tnt. Although, that's not a very useful statistic because they're armour piercing rounds not explosive. The 8 MJ (probably muzzle energy) quoted in the title would be nearly 2kg (4.2 lbs) of tnt. That should leave quite a dent in a wall, or a tank for that matter.
Actually half-life: source doesn't really have updated graphics, just an updated engine, so it still looks awful.
If it was any good then the Black Mesa mod for Half-life 2 might not still be going.
Counter-strike source would have been a better example, they actually remade the levels to a modern detail level.
Didn't they actually pretend it had health benefits at some point in the past?
Or am I thinking of some other body-destroying drug?
It's still not a metal.
A lot of rss readers can't parse a custom dtd, they assume that rss is pretty much fixed, and ignore the dtd line completely.
Did you just claim silicon was a metal?
It's not, that's why electronic circuits are printed to it, it's a good insulator. The circuits themselves are copper.
If a crash and reboot results in no usb, that's likely a bios fault, usb hardware fault or usb driver fault, not the fault of whatever OS you're using. I have a system here that can bluescreen with random errors, followed by being unable to boot due to read errors on the hard-disk. It's not the hard-disk though, putting that in another pc shows there aren't any errors on it. Instead, it's the motherboard's hard-disk controller. Unplugging the pc for a while resets the motherboard and it can read the hard-disk again.
Exactly. Most bioses can support usb drives as well.
Although weirdly the receiver for my wireless keyboard has both usb and purple ps2 (ie keyboard) plugs, but only needs one of them plugged in (or both). It will be powered and have a working keyboard either way.
And lastly quite a few newer motherboards can hotplug ps2. I don't know how they do it though, all I know is if I plug a ps2 keyboard in with the pc on, the keyboard lights flash and then it works.
Wii Play: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wii-Play-Wiimote-controlle r/dp/B000INYT0G/sr=8-1/qid=1168620977/ref=pd_ka_1/ 202-6446174-2571802?ie=UTF8&s=videogames
Availability: In Stock
There's a great review covering all the games on wii play on there too.
Well I bought 2 wiis (one for someone else), one not much before Christmas by ringing a store exactly as the delivery arrived and then getting there in time, and one on amazon.co.uk on December 22nd which was delivered on December 23rd (yes, the Saturday before Christmas).
I don't see what people are complaining about, I had no trouble getting any before Christmas, and I didn't pre-order either. I guess you just need to know where to look and be lucky. Though both wii play and extra nunchuks were sold out at the time.
>>2) The manufacturer of your network chip to divulge which OEM it got sold to (easier if the chip belongs to dell, but many of them are broadcom)
This only works if you're using the mac address that came pre-programmed into the chip. After all, it's trivial to change it.
Except the names are probably trademarked, so you'd still get sued.
Well I have NoScript (don't really use anymore), Ad-Block Pro, IETab, Google Toolbar, Long Titles and Resurrect Pages extensions, so it's not them (hope that helps).
Are there any other good ones I should know about?
It can't play dvds from scratch either.
They're both licensing things I think. Or MS being ignorant of today's codecs and telling themself that everyone uses WMV. I would have thought Xvid would gladly give permission to bundle their codec with windows if only they were asked.
I occasionally do a little freelance computer repair work, and 99% of the time I'm removing popups from startup that are either from adware or from missing adware. I'm also nearly always asked what can be done to make said computer run faster, and so I take a little look and see that immediately after login the pc has 110% ram usage, and 20-50% cpu usage. Typically it's a cut-price pre-built pc with 256MB of ram and several peices of crapware that use a good 50-100MB between them. I clean a few off that they don't want and recommend them to get some more ram (another 256MB is under £20, even at pcworld) if they want to play games newer than 5 years old on it.
I'm always thanked for how much faster the pc is afterwards. In one case they actually thanked me for making it quieter because I removed something using 100% of their cpu and forcing the fans to full speed.
You get a letter? Some companies don't even bother with that...
You could always sell it to both groups.
And *I* meant that it's only what *we* would consider the latest games that it can't play.
It would be able to play tetris -easy-, regardless of the design requirements. I don't think can still make pcs that would be too slow, the technology is so redundant it's lost.
Except that that would mean that companies that could afford $5M easily could intentionally infringe on as many patents as they liked, even drawing the legal battle out long enough to bankrupt the holder.