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  1. [offtopic] 'Print' version is split into 10 pages. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Athlon Socket AM2 Review

    Hardware secrets - you suck.

    10 pages not saying very much is (irritating, but) acceptable, but when you split the print article into 10 pages, you've crossed line from greediness to stupidity.

    (fires up IE). Oh nice, and there's advertisments on each of the print pages too. How is that supposed to be printable?

  2. Well by Eightyford · · Score: 2, Informative · on Other Uses for an AGP Slot?

    You could always make try to hack your own peripheral.

  3. vt processors shipped in november by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Red Hat, Linux and Intel iMacs

    http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/news/656
    $400 though for a VT enabled P4

  4. Re:I am so upset about 64 bit busses by demachina · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Speculations Intel's Next Generation

    I'd agree the 64 bit part is a bit overrated and bleeding edge for most applications, unless you are handling massive data sets. Video editing, simulation, circuit design, seismic all can use it. Of course all the supercomputing fields need it. I imagine some big databases probably can too. Some games will probably need it to in a few years. Film animators are about to the point they will need 64 bit address space if the software developers will take the plunge.

    The best thing in the x86-64 API is they just added a lot more registers which are sorely lacking in IA32. 8 new registers and 8 SIMD registers can help performance a lot if you compile for them.

    Are you compiling for and taking advantage of all the new registers?

    They might have an even better chip if they had just tacked on the new registers on IA32 but since they were breaking the ABI anyway you can understand why they would go 64 bit since it has longer legs for the future. There are going to be more and more applications that will need 64 bit as RAM and disk capacity grows, and people start working with bigger data sets.

    Running Gentoo on amd64 is a bit bleeding edge. There are still a lot of apps that are masked out for it, partially just because no one tests and owns them since the user community is still pretty small. I find most things work fine when you unmask them. I need to start volunteering to support the packages I use that no one has blessed for amd64.

  5. Resources: by DancingSword · · Score: 1 · on Online Repository for Hardware Configurations?

    Auld Monitors: Monitor World

    PCI Vendor and Device lists

    ( maybe you can get Knoppix to tell you, with "lspci", what a device is, for the previous one...

    Many know of Adrian's Rojak Pot BIOS guide, sometimes useful for weird BIOS 'features' like the older "Format HD" that doesn't tell you this is for old RLL drives... even though no ESDI/RLL drives were sold in the year the mobo was made... (ouch)

    I bookmarked, but haven't bothered with yet, HardwareSecrets.com, maybe it's got the stuff youse want...

    -sigh- I USED to have a link to a (Russian?) site that listed all sorts of old drives' jumpers ( not the clothing ), dunno what happened to that one...

    If you find more such gems, add 'em, eh?

    Cheers,

    -me