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Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini@comcast.net>

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...Everything up to that point is a red herring or a dead end.

Totally agree except for the point where you hope that ATI hw+sw combo will work better for you.
Come to the force... get an nVidia.

ATI might be faster, but IT sure can't take curves as nicely as an nVidia.
It is like owning a dragster, you can do 1/4 mile realy fast, but that is about it.

I owned a voodoo, voodoo3, GeForce3, and then ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 9700 pro.
I have retruned my 9700, and am waiting for my FX5800.

I did try realy hard to get it to work. But ATIs support, even with the evidence in front of them was: upgrade everything and re-install. They did not even bother reading what versions of drivers I had.

Here is the tale of the Radeon 9700 pro nightmare.


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Oh, but I received a much more appropriate banner, don't you think? Targeted advertising at its finest!

Like this?

Comcast Home Network Addendum Looks like Comcast lets you have up to five computers behind a router. Since they offer a home networking plan now, I guess they had to ease up a bit.

And the ending, as strange as it is, pulls on the fact that her name is the name of a flower.

And you're assuming Kishiro always intended to end the series this way. In fact, he originally intended to continue the series with Gunnm travelling into space. But for personal reasons he decided to cut the series short. Now he's changed his mind again and has already published a new story line that pretends the confrontation with Melchizidek never happened. There were plans for an English translation, but these seem to be on hold for some reason.

I have to pick a nit with the premise of the series. Much of the action in this series takes place in The Scrapyard, a place that lives on the garbage that falls from the mysterious floating city Tiphares (Salem in the Japanese original). Now, as the story progresses, it's revealed that The Scrapyard is somewhere in the middle of North America (Missouri, I think -- it's been a while) and that Tiphares/Salem floats because it's dangling from an orbital ring.

Except the only place you can have a geosynchronous orbital ring is over the equator! Oh well.

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I personally couldn't live without my parallel port. Never mind printers and scanners, but think of the Coffee for god's sake! (I personally controll my bedroom lights via parallel port)

I have a distribution node running at http://pcp03249578pcs.wanarb01.mi.comcast.net:8891 /S9C7yhFAWLw/ for the next 24 hours or 100 downloads, whichever comes first.

Funny you should mention that--Microsoft teamed up with Signetics to create a WOFS for their write-only memory chip.

It is fairly easy to fix a Blinking Nes. The NES was poorly designed and the connector pins bend out over time. In order to fix this all you need to do is a buy a new pin cartridge connector.

Its also a good idea to clean your Carts. Wipe down the pins with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol. It works great.

Right now Ive got almost all of the NES games I want. I still need to pick up metal gear and contra.

Nothing Like playing metroid, zelda, and the megaman games on an old NES. Mmmmm nostagic.

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I believe that I used 16k cluster sizes for my RAID-0 array. After a bit of trial and error, this seemed to get the best results. However, I have a friend with a KG7-RAID that insists that 32k clusters, and others insist on 64k clusters. My experience with 64k clusters was that it wasn't as fast.

Here is an old benchmark of my array from a year ago or so. Mine is the image on the right. On the left is a Seagate X15-36LP.

http://home.woh.rr.com/zborgerd/atto.jpg

There are probably some faster drives and controllers now though. My array used dual Deskstar 60GXP drives (40 GB each). My buddy used some newer Maxtor ATA 133 drives and got slower read speeds than mine. He did, however, get faster write speeds. I think that it has something to do with the cluster sizes.

For anyone attempting to set up an IDE RAID array: experiment a bit, and be sure to have Norton Ghost. :) It's time consuming, but it is the easiest way to get the best performance. Here is some useful info for setting choosing a cluster size. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dbergstein/KT-7.html

Which says:

"If you feel that you have been a victim of Internet abuse which took place in part or completely on the Comcast Network, please report the incident to abuse@comcast.net. Make sure to include the date and time of the incident, log files, spam examples or any other information that may be useful to the investigation and verification of the incident as well as your name and phone number or e-mail address so we may contact you directly."

Generally, I've found a good amount of weblogs just to be a way to report what's going on in people's lives to a wider audience. Some are full of angst, but most are very straightforward, like The Fudge Report.

Yeah, god forbid people learned all about my bowel movements or something, that would be an invasion of my privacy!

I predict it will be used heavily by these guys. (note to the non-observant: take a good look at the guy in the back, second from the right...)

PowerPC G4 1000 2 1500 256 Mac OSX 7.5 [572] Textures 4 8 Markus Groeteke Jun 11, 2002

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AthlonMP 1667 2 1024 256 Win XP 7.0 [b / 543] Textures 8 3 Luca [effector] Feb 11, 2002

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"yes, Newtek optimized for both for Altivec and SSE2!"

Those are your words. Those are the benchmarks pulled off your site. That is not even half as fast rendering the same frame.

Again the farm economy rules that benchmark. More macines mean better performance. Frame rendering scales linearly with machine count. Which means price performance counts. Which means you can buy 3 dual athlon machines instead of a single G4 tower and not just double the G4s performance, but render frames 6 times as fast for a given cost.

Have fun with quake at 640 x 480... I guess...

I've got an ADI Ocelot which can handle all my IR needs. It has an X10 interface, and an IR transmit and receive. There are tools so that you can take Pronto IR files and convert them for use with the Ocelot. It has ladder logic programming and in addition to learning IR it can receive and compare IR so you can write some really useful code. I usually take my Radio Shack 7-n-1 remote and just program the TV, VCR, CBL, etc for generic items and let the Ocelot turn on the appropriate items such as an old color TV (uses X10 to turn it on), a VCR (used as the remote tuner and for recording), my stereo (volume control). You can get fancier if you want. In addition I use Mister House to select the programs I want to be recorded and it programs the VCR to do it (sort of a PVR just with a VCR). I can have it turn on everything and put it on the correct channel in case I forget.

Check out the Linux Home Automation pages for some further details.

I once rented a movie called "the last broadcast". It was some cheap "Blair witch" ripoff, but I like low-quality movies (They're a good laugh ;)). With the video I rented I got "the making of the NJ devil" for free.
I had a blast watching the movie because it was full of crap, so I decided to watch "the making of".
It became clear that the whole movie was just intended to be a big commercial for a system that directly beams movies from sattelites to theaters (cos that's how the movie was shown for the first time in theaters.. beamed). They also show part of the systems they used and explain it quite a bit.
It's a damn shame I can't remember the exact name of the system, would love to read up on it

Looks like this is it: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jeffreyschwartz/The% 20Consultant.htm

Its all in the terms of service:

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Actually, that is the AUP...there TOS is here. And depending on how you define it, it kinda prohibits it.

6vii....FOR ANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, OR AS AN END-POINT ON A NON-COMCAST LOCAL AREA NETWORK OR WIDE AREA NETWORK, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) OR A VPN TUNNELING PROTOCOL...

Assuming that you have multiple computers in your residence, I would think that your NAT/Router/Whatever box would fit the strict definition of an "end-point on a non-comcast local area network". Don't get me wrong, I think the policy is bunk between that and the whole VPN prohibiting thing...Let me use my account how I want as long as I don't abuse it.

Let them cancel my account...there is always DSL in my area.

As others have observed, if you want another IP they charge you for it. So does AT&T, @Home, and many other cable modem providers. If you can cram all your systems into one IP through NAT, they don't seem to have any problems with it.

Only use of NAT to provide access to computers that are not on your property

viii. ... AND CUSTOMER AGREES NOT TO USE THE SERVICE ... AS AN END-POINT ON A NON-COMCAST LOCAL AREA NETWORK OR WIDE AREA NETWORK, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) OR A VPN TUNNELING PROTOCOL;

or connect the Comcast Equipment to any computer outside of the Customer's premises.

File and Print Sharing. ...Comcast therefore recommends that the Customer connect only a single computer to the Service and that the Customer disable file and print sharing and other capabilities that allow users to gain access to the Customer's computer. Any Customer who chooses to participate in the Service using other than a single computer ...

• How do I configure my home networking equipment to function on the new Comcast network?

Although Comcast doesn't support Home Networking equipment at this time, we recommend that you review your manufacturer's guide for instructions on setting DHCP, a dynamic hosting configuration protocol, and domain names in the setup of any equipment you have connected to our network.