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I couldn't find the Facebook bid increment anywhere.

I said it before Intel did it, jackass. I'm not a fanboy, BTW. I'll buy Intel when it makes sense. I just prefer AMD after about two decades of experience buying products of both companies.

The 486 had a DRAM controller on its die? I'm going to have to ask for a citation. I think you're thinking of either the on-die L1 cache or the MMU (memory management unit), neither of which is a system main memory controller. Here's a citation to the counter: List of Intel Chipsets at Wikipedia. See how the chipset determines the memory specs up until the Core i Series, including the 80486? Here's another: List of Intel Chipsets at World IQ. Here's another: Intel CPU and Chipset History at Overclock 3D courtesy of a forum post there by "PV5150".

An MMU has nothing to do with controlling the actual SIPPs, SIMMs, or DIMMs. It's a multiprocessing ("multiprocessing" doesn't mean "multi-core") feature that allows the processor to enforce memory address range protection so that program A doesn't stomp on program B's memory range. That's a separate concern from getting data into and out of the processor from main memory.

Why don't you go get a copy of something like Upgrading and Repairing PCs and inform yourself? Here's the ISBN.nu link for the 18th edition in case you're a bargain shopper: 18th edition. I have the fifth edition myself. I might get an updated version for the handy reference tables in the back featuring things like POST codes and error codes for SCSI controllers.

BTW, have you ever actually built a PC older than, say, a Pentium 4? Or owned one?

Que up those "in soviet Russia..." jokes

Can't find it. Do you have the ISBN?

From their authoring guidelines:

Which word processor should I use?
We would prefer that you use Microsoft Word, as our internal operations are set up to work most easily with this program. Your Acquisitions Editor will work with you if a special format is needed.

Que published/publishes lots of big technical reference books that are written by multiple authors. The last one I participated in (more than 5 years ago), they gave you an automated word template in which to write your chapter(s) and mark them up appropriately.

Note that I'm not suggesting the entire publishing industry runs on MSWord (far from it) or that Word is used to typeset (although occasionally I've heard of that as well), just that it's far more common than most people would suspect.

Anonymous for my own reasons...

Que the shark jokes!

Might wanna check out How Computers Work before getting too far into writing the new book. I've used it several times to explain concepts to new computer users.

Well can we distinguish a workstation from a "desktop" by the CPU architecture (Intel/AMD/ppc for desktops, sparc/IBM etc for workstations)? This wouldn't be canon, of course. As far as performance is concerned, the distinction seems blurred nowadays:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation

Paragraph 2 below:
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp? p=366538&rl=1



This one's a bit shady, but I'll put it in anyways:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/ ap/topics/popup/en/ws_vs_dimen?~lt=popup

Argh. I'd forgotten that 64-bit XP was *still* only XP Pro.

As for the Pentium 4's 64-bit capability, a quick Google search turned up a couple of sources and dates. The first Pentium 4 processors with EM64T support -- Intel's version of AMD64 (because there's no way they'd actually use a name with AMD in it!) -- came out in March, and apparently the "majority" of the Pentium 4 line has been 64-bit since June. Maybe PR is keeping quiet because the average user will be using XP Home?

January: The Pentium 4 adds 64-bit Extensions
March: Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets
June: Intel Shifts Pentium 4 to 64-Bits

When is Cisco, D-Link, Netgear, going to learn to turn on encryption by default?

It still astounds me that computers seem to halve people's intelligence. What is WEP going to get you?

Yes, I just karma whored a google search for "WEP encryption break".

Also, I don't use WEP at home, nor do I use any kind of encryption by default at work for our ethernet. In fact, I've only heard of things that are by default encrypted like interbank communication, and I would assume the military might use some encryption between some links, but its not universal.

So please, WAP manufactures, start doing what none of us already do on a daily basis. It will improve security.

I found the following Rails article quite helpful:

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/82

In particular it links to the following:

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/printerfrien dly.asp?p=328641&rl=1

Which is a very good discussion of characters sets in MySQL. I didn't realize it was so thorough. For instance you can have different character sets on tables, connections, and the server itself. Finally, it seems MySQL got something right. :-)

Naw, they would not go as far as modifying the power output without putting some sort of major notice on the system.

You're being sarcastic, right?

Click.

Everything about the [DELL] boxes were fairly standard for the most part.

Just hope they weren't manufactured between '98 and '04 (thru the 8100 series)... because they used nonstandard, proprietary, power supplies and motherboards.

And try to find a power supply for one of those frickin mini-HPs or compaqs for under $100...

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