Uhh...how exactly is that supposed to prove that vista isn't slower than xp? The OS itself is dog slow on identical hardware...we're downward directed to deploy vista to all workstations 10 minutes ago at my work and we're having to upgrade the hell out of or buy entirely new machines just to get the same level of usability we had before... If we want to go that route though, solaris 10 is WAYYY faster than windows xp or vista... i run it on 8 spark 64 processors with 256 gigs of ram, it's way faster than my old P4 box running xp!

Just implement RFC 3514 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

"piqued the curiosity of a few of us" Is an understatement...I can't be the only one who started monitoring freshmeat for the inevitable post...even if it is just to know what the project is this is genius marketing even if it was unintentional :)

True, but remember the 22MHz it squishes on also works both ways for that, with 12 effectively 1/4 of the bandwidth would be completely clear, and 13 a half would be clear. (no other channels interfering. Channel 14 in itself isn't illegal, so the parts of 12 and 13 that step on it are fine)
It's 2483.5 MHz that's the beginning of the "illegal" band, 12 can't possibly hit that, and 13 comes to a max of 2483 MHz. While it's true you'll still get interference from channel 11 (and tiny bits from 9 and 10), it will be far...far less than the lower channels

Not to mention ".ogm" ...which almost all of my media is in (i couldn't imagine converting all of it either...it would probably kill my hard drives). I've been using MediaTomb to transcode though.

I believe channels 12-14 are reserved due to them being adjacent to satellite communications frequencies, and can potentially interfere. 14 is illegal to use (it actually overlaps with satellite frequencies) but 12 and 13 actually aren't, they're merely disabled for being too close that they could POTENTIALLY interfere. As long as you're running at fairly low power (no external antenna with linear amplifier), those channels are legal to use and should be near 100% clear of traffic.

I would recommend using 12 , it's legal and nobody else will be on them due to only DD-WRT and other modded firmwares being able to set them :)

I was going to mod you up (hopefully someone else will!) but figured I'd chime in. Many of us are already playing blu-ray using mplayer for YEARS now...and it's easy to do straight from the disk. Heck...before i got a blu-ray drive for my PC...i was ripping and playing them on the PS3 :)

Ugh...seriously.."localization" to some companies means..remove half the story, all the jokes, then let the local high school re-voice it. (seriously...WHERE do you find such terrible voice actors, i can't even hire ones that bad myself)

Thank GOD NIS America leaves the JA voice track in the games... (which by extension means Gust's games also)

Let's take the wayback machine to somewhere around...say..1998, granted though in this case they were acquired BEFORE their big MMO :)

To date, as far as I can tell, Origin Systems has never made a bad (debatable, based on personal taste) or unsuccessful (not up for debate) game. They've got a perfect record. And they're raking in more money every month. If that's a recipe for disaster, sign me up!

They never could follow up UO, everything after it ended up getting canceled, blizzard's path seems eerily similar. It's not a perfect comparison, but still...

Well...he does have a point for some cards..take r500 series for example (such as x1550). Proprietary drivers dropped support for drivers >9.3, radeon opensource drivers get an average of 10fps in older games such as UT2004 or less powerfull games like Touhou 8. radeonhd drivers work, but aren't much faster and are still fairly unstable (15-20fps average, crashing every 10 minutes or so, driver has a long way to go still as the game is still more or less unplayable). Note that this is on a card roughly equivalent to a geforce 7600, and rarely dips below 60fps with the proprietary drivers.

I applaud their efforts and overall my experience with ATI on linux has been great but there IS still a huge problem with them dropping support for some cards. For ones like mine there's only a few options.

1. Stop playing 3d games.
2. work on the radeonhd driver to help support my card. (a LOT is still not implemented, or incompatible with my specific card, I'd love to help but this would be very time consuming)
3. get a new video card. (I'm actually happy with my hardware though..just the drivers lately are the issue)
4. (what I actually do) Patch the proprietary driver for new kernel/xorg-server versions, the changes between a few versions are relatively minor, and easy to debug and track down. It only takes a few hours to get it working on an unsupported kernel version or xorg version, though tbh i haven't tried to get it working >=1.7 yet, I'm running the proprietary driver 9.3 currently on 2.6.31.6-rt19 with xorg-server-1.6.5-r1

I use ATI myself and won't bash them for doing a good thing, but he does have a point, ATI DOES still drop cards from driver support very quickly, and well before many of the cards are adequately supported by the OS driver (which means your system effectively can't update X, mesa, etc, and that latest ubuntu ISO has no option for 3d acceleration for his card without painful downgrades or modifying the driver himself).

I was thinking the same thing, it does sound similar.

heh, funny WOW related story. I bought the game after being told it had "role playing" shards. After being a long time ultima online and neverwinter nights player, i thought it would be cool to get into another MMO with role playing. (NWN realy was, if you found a good server). I spent HOURS upon HOURS coming up with a backstory for my character, being careful with the creation and look so it fit, and reading up on the history of Azeroth. (it was a role playing, pvp server). Excited, i joined in on the horde side...it turns out trying to role play on the specificly labeled role playing servers in WOW gets you laughed out of the game O_x. I tried playing it for a month but found the game mechanics dry and repetitive, it's nothing more than an endless grind, there's no getting together by a campfire at night telling stories of your adventures, really none of the interesting things you would find in other online rpg's.

anyways, you sound like you're looking for exactly what i'm looking for...an actual online ROLE PLAYING game. you probably would have liked the origional ultima online (before the year 2000, when the Renaissance expansion came out, but even after that there was still a lot of guilds that never broke character in game). The expansions have pretty much turned it into a crappy version of WOW though, its now all about the l00t grind :/ You probably also would have enjoyed Neverwinter Nights during the time a lot of the better servers were still up (the singleplayer epicly sucked), most were FORCED role playing (you break character, you get banned, you get a few warnings of course). Never played online games besides those where you could go hours/days without fighting and still be completely into it :)

no kidding, same thing i was thinking, his radio's are shit, he just has enough of them to get the EQUIVILANT of a decent radio unit for a hell of a lot more money. (kinda a stupid way of doing it) besides, if i had 25k to put (more) radios in my car (i already have 2m+cb in my 03 mr2), i'd get a nice yaesu unit for normal use, and one of these hooked up to my carputer. http://gnuradio.org/

As someone else with a similar front projection system, if yours is fast enough try out a 3d system that uses electronically controlled glasses. Works with pretty much any 3d game already and looks awesome, you just have to tune what the offset is. I was never much of a fan of world of warcraft...but at 96 inches in full 3d i have to say it was pretty badass for a while :). When tuned properly it's like you're looking through a window out into the world. (text and chats float at the "pane" of the window, everything else drops behind)

well...why not make a minimal OS for it? assuming you use a pic32 it has a network stack built in already anyways, toss on a 802.11b chipset and an anteanna trace, add a SD card slot you can bitbang to/from, and buy a replacement nintendo DS screen for it, and you could build yourself a portable, wifi enabled, pic based, touchscreen terminal for under $200 that can run all year.