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Vignatti: X on WaylandVignatti: X on WaylandPosted Jun 13, 2012 16:42 UTC (Wed) by theophrastus (guest, #80847)Parent article: Vignatti: X on Wayland
Apologies for starting the comments out with a particularly out-of-the-loop question, but in the phrase: "...and stored on a DRM buffer (via the xwayland video driver)" does 'DRM' stand for Digital Rights Management? and if so, why, as a inveterate open source enthusiast, shouldn't i have a knee-jerk negative response to that? thankee.
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Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 16:45 UTC (Wed) by blecoint (subscriber, #131) [Link]
Actually it stands for Direct Rendering Manager: DRM as in DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) which you should be more familiar with.
Here it the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 16:58 UTC (Wed) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]
thank you. raw nerve endings semi-soothed now.
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 16:51 UTC (Wed) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028) [Link]
DRM Direct Rendering Manager
I think the initials confuse a lot of people.
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 18:42 UTC (Wed) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym :
According to the Jargon File, a journalist once asked hacker Paul Boutin what he thought the biggest problem in computing in the 1990s would be. Paul's straight-faced response was: "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms."
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 18:50 UTC (Wed) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]
perhaps there should be a parallel TLA to FLA as IPv4 to IPv6?
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 19:05 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Sure. There's even an RFC for it: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5513.txt?number=5513 !
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 19:51 UTC (Wed) by JohnMorris (subscriber, #73531) [Link]
You mean an ETLA?
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 14, 2012 6:01 UTC (Thu) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
Not to mention FETLA (a further ETLA) and an EFETLA (extended FETLA).. :-)
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 20:20 UTC (Wed) by carlm (guest, #84710) [Link]
Pondering my next laptop purchase to replace my ageing IBM: Intel CPU (with SSE, MMX, VT-x and AES instruction set), ECC RAM, SLC SSD, Nvidia PCI express SLI GPU (from GTX range) with support for DRM, DRI and the various 3D API's. Decent LCD (IPS, not TFT, and forget about RGB CRT). Throw in an XXL LIB for on the go and support for USB 3.0, DVD (incl. PAL), hot-swappable HDD, VGA, DVI. Throw in TRS/RCA... I'll be playing/recording plenty of PCM, WAV with XMP, CBR MP3, VBR OGG and ABR AAC. Add some funky GaP/SiC/AlN LEDs and let the fun begin. FTW!
All clear?
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 20:26 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Once you find it, please post make, model and price here? ;-)
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 21:07 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Once you've got all of those you can replace it with a single giant acronym to rule them all.
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 21:08 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
And that *whoosh* sound was the joke flying right over my head until just a bit too late. Why is there no delete-dammit button that works for five seconds after you post or something? :)
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 21:14 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
I'm with you (see my sibling post). In those cases, I just hang my head and try to cry silently enough not to call any attention to myself.
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 14, 2012 1:03 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
You mean 'PC'?
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 14, 2012 1:55 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]
Nah, PS/2 ...
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 13, 2012 21:08 UTC (Wed) by cwillu (subscriber, #67268) [Link]
A POS without an SSD, DYT?
Vignatti: X on Wayland Posted Jun 22, 2012 15:51 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
Ogg isn't an acronym or abbreviation. :-P
DЯM Posted Jun 14, 2012 2:21 UTC (Thu) by gmatht (guest, #58961) [Link]
That was before unicode... it is like the IPv6 of TLAs ;)
DЯM Posted Jun 15, 2012 8:24 UTC (Fri) by fb (subscriber, #53265) [Link]
> That was before unicode... it is like the IPv6 of TLAs ;)
Priceless! Best comment of the month!
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