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This article from extremetech is pretty good. The first half is mostly about the swing improvements. Part II (halfway down) covers the rest.

Actually the Itanium contains the ability to run x86 instructions on-chip even though it is equipped with an entriely new instruction set. Here is an extremetech article on the built-on x86 instructions.

INtel doesn't plan on abandoning the x86 instruction set all that soon.

Given his list of requirements, C++ (with the Boost libraries) looks like the language to choose. Love it though I do, it must be admitted it can be real pig-dog tricky - but with patience and a little understanding it will get you there.

This article, Open Source for the Enterprise, gives a really good review of how to use C/C++ effectively, alongside other open-source technologies like mySQL, PHP, Perl, Python.

I'm still trying to work out exactly why his boss would specify multiple inheritance if he hadn't already decided that C++ was the answer

Go here to view the entire article on a single page without all the annoying crap around it :)

GeForce4 is set to be announced at the 5th of February by Nvidia.

The normal PCI bus can carry 133 MB/s (1066 Mb/s) but only during bursts.

I enjoyed two articles on ExtremeTech: High-Performance Buses and Interconnects by Leon Erlanger (dated November 8, 2001) and The Interconnect Conundrum by Nick Stam (dated January 28, 2002).

The normal PCI bus can carry 133 MB/s (1066 Mb/s) but only during bursts.

I enjoyed two articles on ExtremeTech: High-Performance Buses and Interconnects by Leon Erlanger (dated November 8, 2001) and The Interconnect Conundrum by Nick Stam (dated January 28, 2002).

Nvidia will announce the "Geforce4" Feb. 5. See here.

Read this article over at Extremetech. It shows how the 8bit chips are used more than any other type in real world applications. The 68k type, although old, are still used.

Read this article over at Extremetech. It shows how the 8bit chips are used more than any other type in real world applications. The 68k type, although old, are still used.

The new GUI? No use, since the older one is known by the users since 95, and the new one can be disorienting, despite Microsoft's claim of the contrary. Re-training is expensive


So turn off the new UI.


.net? Pure vaporware so far as far as real-world applications go.


Windows XP doesn't ship with the .NET runtime. And .NET is not 'pure' vaprware as far as real worl applications go (whatever the last part is supposed to mean). You're obvious ignorant as far as .NET goes. Head over to MSDN and download yourself a copy of the .NET SDK and have a look for yourself.


Server-side, WinXP is just not there(TM), and it offers a total amount of nothing over win2k.


There isn't a server side WinXP yet. When are you going to stop making shit up? You don't know much more about WinXP than guesses and what you read on random news sites do you?


Also, software compatibility is still to be tested.


Better than Windows 2000. XP like you stress is very much like 2000. XP also ships with compatibility modes for emulating 9x and NT4 enviroments.

Windows XP also ships with features such as remote desktop connection (Professional comes with a mini version of terminal server). There's also the 20 second bootup time (significantly faster than Windows 2000).

The Windows XP kernel also has significant improvements over the Windows 2000 kernel. Read about it here.

Windows XP will outperform Windows 2000 machines on reasonable hardware. It is background optimisations. After running XP for a few days, your machine will just fly. My PC boots in less than 12 seconds.

I think maybe you should use windows xp, research windows xp, stop making up 'facts' and then make a better more informed post. Wait...this is /. Carry on.

That would be NEC/Mitsubishis Feed Forward technology- more here

You can check out ExtremeTech's report here

That's not true, they use RDRAM or SDRAM or DDR SDRAM. In fact there's a brand new artice that benchmarks them all.

Take your pick of RAM (although RDRAM and DDR are the only real choices).

And it's not like Microsoft hasn't had
time to think this through, Extremetech
had a story on how to set up
an IIS server trying to get the patch before
code red got them. (And failed miserably of course)

Now wouldn't XP's registration service be better if it didn't let you actually use the system until you had the patches downloaded on registration. But then noone would buy it, and an exploit for the registration service would spoil everything once and for all for ms.

(yes, I suppose I should have spent a couple minutes searching on google before I posted my question).

I just found two comparisons:

Extreme Tech from June 18, 2001, compares Windows Media Video 3, 7 and 8, Real 8, MPEG-4, Sorenson MPEG-4, and QuickTime (Sorenson V3 and V2). Hard to get clear results, though it looks like they liked WMV and Real about the best.

Also, Digital Video.com (looks like it's from november) compares WMV8, Real 8, QT 5, Sorenson 3, H.263, VP3, and ZyGoVideo. Like many magazine articles, he declines to pick a "best", since it's so usage-dependant. He thought you needed to get to at least 800 kbps for VP3, didn't like ZyGo, liked Sorenson V3 better than H.263 (which he liked better than SV2), but thought WMV8 was better. Also RV8 wasn't as good, in his opinion, as WMV8.

Anyway, they might be worth a read...

See this article about Mitsubishi's feed forward driving (FFD) technology. (I don't recall what site originally pointed me to the article.)

Summary: By controlling the pixel voltages as a function of both the current frame and the next frame, average response time is reduced from about 35 ms (30 Hz) to about 10 ms (100 Hz). According to a Mitsubishi representative, FFD will be incorporated in mass-production LCD panels starting in the first quarter of 2002.

For those who feel like they're downloading the page over a 110-baud modem with an acoustic coupler located in the same room as a Disaster Area concert, here are some other similar comparisons.

For those who want to read more on this subject, check out this past slashdot article

Or just go here.

There are some tips there. Extreme Tech also ran an article a couple of days ago on the basics of securing wlans.Here is the link

Let's see, we have a Firingsquad review...

An AnandTech review.

And let's not forget ExtremeTech's review.

And finally Kyle and the gang at [H]ardOCP did a review.

Incidentally, [H] got their p4 to over 2.2ghz, but ran into heat issues at 2.3.

I'm curious where power supply requirements are headed. A year or two ago, 230-250W was fine, now I'm seeing Intel and AMD demanding 400W. The HFCs that come with these things are now two or three times the size of the socket. With PCs outnumbering vehicles (saw that stat somewhere) I wonder how the power demands and the heat generated will effect global warming and such.

Sure, its probably not much more than a few light bulbs right now (in both aspects). But like I said, where is it headed.

Most of this is all covered in an article at ExtremeTech

Most of this is all covered in an article at ExtremeTech

Java has to try harder.... for the scope on Open Source scope

In spite of these disadvantages, Java is still second only to C++ in popularity. It has slightly more SourceForge projects than Perl, and is the only language to crack the top 25. Freenet, at #3, is the top Java project by number of downloads. This is probably somewhat deceptive, since Perl's CPAN pre-dates SourceForge, and many of the most popular Open Source Perl modules on CPAN are not hosted on SourceForge. Perl's popularity is a bit harder to measure because CPAN is widely mirrored. But looking at paying Linux jobs on dice.com also reinforces Java's Open Source popularity. Java occupies the second slot behind C++ and just ahead of Perl.

Check it out.

PCI

PCI has historically held an important role in chipset interconnect architecture. Until recently, it has been responsible for connecting the North and South bridges, allowing up to 133MB/s (theoretical) transfer rates. When using faster drives, network adapters, and so on, the PCI bus became an inadequate interconnect bus. Both Intel and VIA have begun shipping chipsets utilizing proprietary point-to-point connections to increase interconnect bandwidth to 266MB/s. AMD's HyperTransport allow data transfer between the two bridges up to 1.6GB/s. We will go into more detail on these technologies shortly. These new interconnect methods relegate the PCI bus to just being another component hanging off the South Bridge. For a bunch of PCI information check out PCI & AGP. And for $25, you can download the latest PCI spec here.

PCI

PCI has historically held an important role in chipset interconnect architecture. Until recently, it has been responsible for connecting the North and South bridges, allowing up to 133MB/s (theoretical) transfer rates. When using faster drives, network adapters, and so on, the PCI bus became an inadequate interconnect bus. Both Intel and VIA have begun shipping chipsets utilizing proprietary point-to-point connections to increase interconnect bandwidth to 266MB/s. AMD's HyperTransport allow data transfer between the two bridges up to 1.6GB/s. We will go into more detail on these technologies shortly. These new interconnect methods relegate the PCI bus to just being another component hanging off the South Bridge. For a bunch of PCI information check out PCI & AGP. And for $25, you can download the latest PCI spec here.

Thanks for the article. It's pretty great.

this compares many other aspects other than benchmark, too.

I was under impression it's a quick hack of Java

Your impression doesn't betray you. If you had time take a look at thisJava vs. C#. Pretty interesting, C#'s syntax and functionalities are quite similar to Java.

A couple of days ago there was an article here on /. discussing the nature of content the ExtremeTech.com website. Some comments on that article at the time (including mine) made the mistake of assuming that the site was being run by ZD Net, which is a subsidiary of C|Net, which most readers here look down upon, however, aparently that information was in error. The tite is in fact managed by ZD Media which is a new division of Ziff Davis Publishing.

The earlier /. article is defintely worth a read though, when evaluating content from the Extreme Tech website.

Having said that, and regardless of the earlier postings here indicating inacuracies in the ExtremeTech hardware review being discussed here, I have to say the site look quite well put together and editorially fair.

--CTH


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Hey, I don't suppose anyone's noticed /.'s new advert.... for extremetech. Just the kind of hardware site that this article is talking about.
Hey, I hope this comment isn't censored...