Don't take this the wrong way, I've been using Linux on desktops, laptops and servers for about 5 years and it's been doing an outstanding job for me. However, just because it works for me doesn't mean it has to work for everyone, right?
That's probably right, but hardware compatibility doesn't imply user friendliness. We surely could take this discussion to the next level and argue what the "user friendliness" actually is. Where I consider Windows getting in the way, others may think it helps them figure out what's wrong and how to get things fixed.
Weak for you, somebody else might find them good enough to get a Mac.
Well, yeah, every Mac X PC thread always ends up like this because people fail to understand that there is no one right way to do things and therefore no one right software - this is the point I've been trying to raise all along but nobody seemed to get it...
That's probably right, but hardware compatibility doesn't imply user friendliness. We surely could take this discussion to the next level and argue what the "user friendliness" actually is. Where I consider Windows getting in the way, others may think it helps them figure out what's wrong and how to get things fixed.
Weak for you, somebody else might find them good enough to get a Mac.
Well, yeah, every Mac X PC thread always ends up like this because people fail to understand that there is no one right way to do things and therefore no one right software - this is the point I've been trying to raise all along but nobody seemed to get it...
Can you try it out with some other OutGauge mod then and check if it works correctly?
It's rather puzzling, do other mods using OutGauge work?
It would appear that LFS sends malformed OutGauge packets for some reason. Do you have LFS 0.6B?
Windows is not a definition but an OS family. I know it sounds like nitpicking, but just because Windows runs on 90 % of desktops doesn't make it "proper" in any way.
It's not as easy as you might think. I tried it once in VirtualBox (which should actually be a better shot that an actual PC) and I wasn't particularly excited by the stability or performance because the drivers for non-Mac x86 hardware are of very variable quality to say the least.
E. Reiljans mentioned market share so I wanted to establish what kind of market he was talking about...
What does the market share has to do with what OS is the right one for a particular user?Highest market share where? Are we talking desktops(~5 % *NIX), servers(50+ % *NIX), scientific mainframes(100 % *NIX)? I agree that the user is always right which kind of relativizes the definition of "proper OS". If anything, it should be "what I consider a proper OS".
A blank panel means the program is not receiving any OutGauge data. Are you sure you changed the OutGauge port both in LFS and ECMeter?
I have no use for SUA so I'm relying on referenced and documentation. SUA appears to be yet another UNIX implementation with its own specifics. I can't imagine it being useful for a corporate grade applications and the interprocess communication could be a nightmare. Where Windows uses named pipes, UNIX uses domain sockets, where Windows call SharedMemory(), UNIX uses mmap(), I certainly wouldn't want to debug anything mixing these together.
Perhaps the Xes are a bit overpriced here, but even the prices on newegg.com don't seem to favor the Thinkpads much. Just BTW, what exactly is a definition of a "proper OS"?
It's good to hear that, please let me know if you run into any troubles related to the updated kernel driver.
You just change the respective value in cfg.txt and ecmeter.cfg
This happens when ECMeter receives an invalid OutGauge packet. Try setting OutGauge and ECMeter to another port.
What does the error say? Do you have MSVC 2008 redist installed?
@Vain + DieKolkrabe
This is what I find the most worrying about this case. I understand there are some international agreements concerning handing over criminals, but these apply when someone commits a crime in his country and then flees across the borders. I wonder why there aren't any comments on how could have FBI shut down what was AFAIK a Hong Kong company owned by a German citizen. I found a link to this over 70 pages long indictment, I didn't read it through but it struck me how none of the defendants is/was a US citizen nor any of the companies is registered in US. Apparently, when you're the US gov, the Internet belongs to you and is subject to US laws...
This is what I find the most worrying about this case. I understand there are some international agreements concerning handing over criminals, but these apply when someone commits a crime in his country and then flees across the borders. I wonder why there aren't any comments on how could have FBI shut down what was AFAIK a Hong Kong company owned by a German citizen. I found a link to this over 70 pages long indictment, I didn't read it through but it struck me how none of the defendants is/was a US citizen nor any of the companies is registered in US. Apparently, when you're the US gov, the Internet belongs to you and is subject to US laws...
LFS doesn't use any predefined torque curves, IIRC it just calculates the torque on the fly using some generic equations. The input parameters of the equations can be adjusted with LFS Tweak.
It most certainly is not.
Considering the Thinkpad Xes cost about as much as comparable Macbooks, how is that surprising?
To get some torque curve you'd probably have to calculate it yourself using OutGauge and OutSim data, it would be rather crude but it could at least give you an idea what torque curves in LFS look like.
And how exactly are they going to use this to their own benefit? Are they going to ban IP's of quite possibly tens of thousands of computers? Are they going to censor the entire Internet traffic? Are they going to cut USA off the worldwide web?
9/11 allowed the US gov to introduce laws that were supposed to prevent such an event from happening again. Anonymous present a completely different kind of threat which cannot be fought with by SOPA or any kind of similar act... Still wonder why I find conspiracy theories hard to believe?
Ehm...
- The MacOS X is the only 100 % user-friendly UNIX-based OS? That's something an IT professional might find really useful.
- The OS is specifically tweaked to work with the HW found in Macs meaning better battery life, instant sleeping/resuming, no hassle with the drivers
- Quality of the displays found in MacBooks
- Lots of other little things you'd learn just by reading this thread
I'm not advocating Macs, I just consider this anti-Apple movement petty and stupid. If you don't like Macs, then don't buy any and stop coming off as such a douche...
You're right about the kernel causing LTWC to no longer work. The updated driver sets wheel's range to the maximum upon initialization, so when LTWC returns the wheel back to the kernel, the driver reinitializes the wheel and sets the range back to 900. Setting the range via sysfs is the preferred way now.
LOL.... Go Anonymous. This time I believe that they cause some actual damage as I find the accusations against Megaupload pretty outrageous.
MacOS X is indeed compiled with at least SSE2 support, but OSes don't do any kind of workload that would make them benefit from that much.
Windows supports SIMD instruction sets only to the extent of saving and restoring CPU register states properly.
Any chance this could be a motherboard issue? Can anyone of you try the wheel with another computer?
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