I think that all SCSI RAID controllers disable it on the drives as the controller takes care of all queueing. Remember most of the SATA drives now have NCQ. WD chose to specifically disable this as their regular Caviar SE drives have queueing.
Just correcting myself. The latest PhotoScore supports WIA very well and so the don't use HP scanners doesn't really stand water anymore. Please note that I believe all the other Notation scanning software still requires TWAIN.
Obviously on Macs you would be using TWAIN only. (hopefully using a OSX TWAIN driver)
This software has to use TWAIN compatible scanners and the latest HP scanners are really WIA devices that support TWAIN as well (probably through some WAITWAIN interface). She's also probably a Sibelius user (it even includes PhotoScore Pro)
Epson scanners are really the way to go. Most of the scan engines are very similar and produce mostly similar results. Any high end HP/Canon/Epson will produce great results, though if she has "problems" with some of the music she scans in she may need to look at the higher-end scanners.
Interface is part of the problem as well. Virtually all scanners are USB1.1/2 except for highend scanners that support SCSI, Firewire or both. If she has a FireWire port, I would highly recommend she use this as it doesn't require a card like SCSI and is MUCH better than trying to work out one of a bunch of USB devices. The Epson Expression series of scanners work very well. And I can speak personally about the Epson Expression 10000XL.
Hate to point this out, but the FreeBSD is part of the BSD community that has become just as fragmented as the Linux community. Originally they had the same kernel, but now you have the NetBSD kernel, the OpenBSD kernel, the DragonflyBSD kernel, the Darwin kernel on microkernel, the MacOSX we're sorta the same thing as Darwin but we added a bunch of weird crap to piss off the OSS Nazis, and probably some other BSDs that do weird stuff. So stop this we are an all in one package crap. (Oh I forgot to mention GENTOOBSD!!!) ((ooooh and i forgot to mention the fact there are 3 types of FreeBSD))
Though let's be honest here. What are the chances that human, even a great pilot could beat a computer from the same technological age that can travel such great distances in a few hours. I realize that the Kessel run would be a good TSP problem... but surely for these super fast computers a program requiring O(n^2 2^n) time is possible.
They tried to leave it that way, but noone wanted to maintain it and now they are just refusing the support it. A lot of drivers already do not work with it.
Before people start down the decrying Gentoo path too much, realize that Gentoo offers a bunch of different kernel choices, one of which is called gentoo-sources and that is what this poster is referring to, not Gentoo using 2.6.13 or anything else. Just this one source tree. I use vanilla sources on a unstable (as in latest greatest version of software not stability) and I have not had a problem. My uptime is typically the time between when I notice one kernel version and when I notice the next kernel version.
Crazy thing is I noticed that I had installed at least 10 different patchlevel versions of Grub inbetween kernel versions without actually using any of those versions.
I don't think this guy is either... Just a realist about how you have to do things with clients when you are consulting. I'd love all my clients to at least use FireFox and some open source mail or webmail, but some of my clients think outlook+exchange is god.
I won't comment about your "Troubles" with Slackware except to say it's for Men/(and Women) who don't NEED man pages.
Now printers... OH My what fun. My general experience is that all printing in Windows will generally halt 5 times a day requiring a reboot. That is IF you can get it to recognize your printer at all. My linux experience is like this. Go to linuxprinting.org. Look up the driver. Install the Driver. Use cups web interfact to setup printer. Printer JUST WORKS and continues to do so until I change something.
Last time I checked most professional photo work is done on Macs. If fact outside of Video, I believe most of the content creation industry is Mac-oriented. In the Video industry things are more segmented. Broadcast video is Windows by a small majority. Now the rest of the video market is highly spintered with Windows, Mac, Linux, and other weird specialized systems all owning a share.
That's a Compactflash. Last I checked PC compact flash slots don't support the wi-fi adapters except in some weird linux/freebsd configs. Definitely not the normal. USB is a little bit more of a problem in making a multi use device. It could be done but it starts becoming a bit of an issue.
Of course the guy is being hired to work in China... likely by the Google of Cn. That makes this an international employment issue. And if he really is a search expert and that his primary field, it limits M$' ability to limit hit employment to search corporation competitiors. Of course It could be that he is going to work on Linguistics or some such field that is similar in nature but not competing with M$, and this would again limit M$' ability to restrict his employment as he is not competing.
No, Antonín Dvoák is the famed Czech composer and is distantly related to August Dvorak who was part of the team that created the DVORAK keyboard.
I still think it's funny that his blog is using WordPress:)
Why are you talking about Real-mode x86 and 68k assembly.
Outside of a few moments of real-mode x86 code during boot, we are only dealing with protected mode x86 (and probably p6 arch assembly at that) and ppc assembly. All that segmented memory stuff doesn't exist in protected mode anymore than it exists on the ppc.
Compare apples to oranges, not apples to snails.
CIFS is not just marketing speak. I believe it features are not limited to, the ability to use TCP as it's transport protocol instead of NBT(NetBIOS) and it's ability to appear very unix-like to unix clients.
The GPU are very fast... at performing vector and matrix calculations. This is the whole point. If general computing CPUs were capable of doing vector or matrix calcs very efficiently, we would probably not have GPUs.
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I think that all SCSI RAID controllers disable it on the drives as the controller takes care of all queueing. Remember most of the SATA drives now have NCQ. WD chose to specifically disable this as their regular Caviar SE drives have queueing.
I bet good money this was because AVG which a lot of geeky people tend to use was not on the list.
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy/postmortem.htm l
There is the postmortem of what they did and how they did it.
Just correcting myself. The latest PhotoScore supports WIA very well and so the don't use HP scanners doesn't really stand water anymore. Please note that I believe all the other Notation scanning software still requires TWAIN.
Obviously on Macs you would be using TWAIN only. (hopefully using a OSX TWAIN driver)
This software has to use TWAIN compatible scanners and the latest HP scanners are really WIA devices that support TWAIN as well (probably through some WAITWAIN interface). She's also probably a Sibelius user (it even includes PhotoScore Pro)
Epson scanners are really the way to go. Most of the scan engines are very similar and produce mostly similar results. Any high end HP/Canon/Epson will produce great results, though if she has "problems" with some of the music she scans in she may need to look at the higher-end scanners.
Interface is part of the problem as well. Virtually all scanners are USB1.1/2 except for highend scanners that support SCSI, Firewire or both. If she has a FireWire port, I would highly recommend she use this as it doesn't require a card like SCSI and is MUCH better than trying to work out one of a bunch of USB devices. The Epson Expression series of scanners work very well. And I can speak personally about the Epson Expression 10000XL.
Hate to point this out, but the FreeBSD is part of the BSD community that has become just as fragmented as the Linux community. Originally they had the same kernel, but now you have the NetBSD kernel, the OpenBSD kernel, the DragonflyBSD kernel, the Darwin kernel on microkernel, the MacOSX we're sorta the same thing as Darwin but we added a bunch of weird crap to piss off the OSS Nazis, and probably some other BSDs that do weird stuff. So stop this we are an all in one package crap. (Oh I forgot to mention GENTOOBSD!!!) ((ooooh and i forgot to mention the fact there are 3 types of FreeBSD))
Though let's be honest here. What are the chances that human, even a great pilot could beat a computer from the same technological age that can travel such great distances in a few hours. I realize that the Kessel run would be a good TSP problem ... but surely for these super fast computers a program requiring O(n^2 2^n) time is possible.
They tried to leave it that way, but noone wanted to maintain it and now they are just refusing the support it. A lot of drivers already do not work with it.
Before people start down the decrying Gentoo path too much, realize that Gentoo offers a bunch of different kernel choices, one of which is called gentoo-sources and that is what this poster is referring to, not Gentoo using 2.6.13 or anything else. Just this one source tree. I use vanilla sources on a unstable (as in latest greatest version of software not stability) and I have not had a problem. My uptime is typically the time between when I notice one kernel version and when I notice the next kernel version.
Crazy thing is I noticed that I had installed at least 10 different patchlevel versions of Grub inbetween kernel versions without actually using any of those versions.
Cause it would just a waste of bandwidth? I am actually going to try the word->pdf (this will be pdf with text not images) -> html
I don't think this guy is either ... Just a realist about how you have to do things with clients when you are consulting. I'd love all my clients to at least use FireFox and some open source mail or webmail, but some of my clients think outlook+exchange is god.
I always thought it was apt-get dist-upgrade ... maybe i have been doing it too long.
I won't comment about your "Troubles" with Slackware except to say it's for Men/(and Women) who don't NEED man pages.
... OH My what fun. My general experience is that all printing in Windows will generally halt 5 times a day requiring a reboot. That is IF you can get it to recognize your printer at all. My linux experience is like this. Go to linuxprinting.org. Look up the driver. Install the Driver. Use cups web interfact to setup printer. Printer JUST WORKS and continues to do so until I change something.
Now printers
Last time I checked most professional photo work is done on Macs. If fact outside of Video, I believe most of the content creation industry is Mac-oriented. In the Video industry things are more segmented. Broadcast video is Windows by a small majority. Now the rest of the video market is highly spintered with Windows, Mac, Linux, and other weird specialized systems all owning a share.
That's a Compactflash. Last I checked PC compact flash slots don't support the wi-fi adapters except in some weird linux/freebsd configs. Definitely not the normal. USB is a little bit more of a problem in making a multi use device. It could be done but it starts becoming a bit of an issue.
No it was not, but they did start selling their real mass produced plane a few years after the model t in 1909-1910.
Of course the guy is being hired to work in China ... likely by the Google of Cn. That makes this an international employment issue. And if he really is a search expert and that his primary field, it limits M$' ability to limit hit employment to search corporation competitiors. Of course It could be that he is going to work on Linguistics or some such field that is similar in nature but not competing with M$, and this would again limit M$' ability to restrict his employment as he is not competing.
No, Antonín Dvoák is the famed Czech composer and is distantly related to August Dvorak who was part of the team that created the DVORAK keyboard. I still think it's funny that his blog is using WordPress :)
Why are you talking about Real-mode x86 and 68k assembly. Outside of a few moments of real-mode x86 code during boot, we are only dealing with protected mode x86 (and probably p6 arch assembly at that) and ppc assembly. All that segmented memory stuff doesn't exist in protected mode anymore than it exists on the ppc. Compare apples to oranges, not apples to snails.
To Note: These people are also known as eMusicGear.com and as far as I know, they don't have any actual products.
CIFS is not just marketing speak. I believe it features are not limited to, the ability to use TCP as it's transport protocol instead of NBT(NetBIOS) and it's ability to appear very unix-like to unix clients.
The GPU are very fast ... at performing vector and matrix calculations. This is the whole point. If general computing CPUs were capable of doing vector or matrix calcs very efficiently, we would probably not have GPUs.