That is a very interesting report. If true, and it looks to be, then it makes the Transmeta CPUs something to avoid, particularly if you're into fanless computing.
I'd rather someone capable of shifting their position when they get new information than someone who makes the wrong decision at the beginning and refuses to change it.
"Sure he drove us into a wall, but he never blinked" -- Jon Stewart on Bush.
I hope you don't use CNN, or any one news source as your only source of information on world events. In fact, pretty much any US TV news network is suspect.
Okay, I'll have a go at this, but I'll be using $A so I get to go up to $133 (damn, the US$ has really dropped). My favourite local discount computer supplier has a complete new system for $490. Trying to put something together from their cheapest listed new parts doesn't even manage more than motherboard and RAM before it's over $150. Another place I frequent fares no better.
Huh? As a person with one mini-ITX PC already, I'd have to say that Transmeta are hitting a major part of their market spot on with this release. Not only will a significant number of people already considering, say, a small media PC try a Transmeta board, but the more innovative hobbyist projects should drive a very successful grassroots advertising campain.
So, hard to rephrase as a new question, but ultimately you have to produce an open video card that has at least the features and performance that open/standard drivers can accomplish with a similarly-priced closed video card. Don't like your chances.
Funny that I had no problems getting a PC with a triple-head Parhelia for work about 4 months ago then.
The 3D cards from the major names contain many features that are completely irrelivant to a business environment, while Matrox's cards focus on productivity through a highlighy configurable multi-head opperation. It's great that you can easily decide to have independant desktops, or have the Matrox cards handle multiple monitors in hardware and present the a single screen to the OS. Gets around all sorts of legacy issues that are an unavoidable part of the corporate computing landscape.
Actually, the number one reason that Mac users are looked down upon by Windows users is that they (the Mac users) can't comprehend the simple idea that putting.doc on the end of your Word files makes life so much easier.
That and they (the Macs themselves) can't most play the popular games until much later than the PC. This is also the reason many Windows users write off the Linux OS as hobbyist only.
Just as a side note, these points are also among the reasons people, respectively, don't buy music at all and move to Linux.
After finally having some success with a Linux desktop install, I'm not going to be adding to the number of Windows PCs in my household ever again. Instead, I'm going to slowly convert Windows PCs to Linux as I sort out drivers for some of my less common hardware. If World of Warcraft comes out for Linux there's a very good chance that the only remaining Windows PCs in the house will be a couple of old Win98 laptops.
Ballmer can bitch all he wants about piracy eating into Windows profits, but there are alternatives out there now and his bitching only shows how much Microsoft still believes it has a monopoly despite what it said in court.
Next up on the hit list: Only pirates can run a PC without buying a copy of Windows?
This is a damn good point. If Microsoft truly believes that hardware costs are affecting Windows sales, they should do everything in their power to reduce the hardware requirements of Windows.
Why don't Microsoft do this? Why don't they reduce a lightweight, fast, version of Windows? "Windows Turbo(tm)" It'd probably only need a better installer and a few optimised DLLs. I know there's a Win98lite 3rd-party installer, has anyone developed anything to install a light-weight version of XP?
Are they still? Point out three decent titles from pocketheaven's releases list after about 1400 that are any good but aren't ports of old games, re-releases or sequels. In fact, sequels are even fair game if you can find any good ones.
MP3 isn't just a retail format. For me it's never been a retail format. But every bit of music I have bought has been turned into an MP3, and all of the good stuff is on my iPod.
Now, I guess I could go through and re-encode all my CDs to AAC since it's supposed to be better, but who has the time? Either way, how would anyone ever know which format I'm using?
The only place where I have separate subnets, they're specifically separated with no route between them, but if you've got your gateway setup properly, it should just work. Make sure ports 5900-5905 are not blocked or are NATted or whatever. Does other traffic go from subnet to subnet okay?
Anyone else notice that SLI has gone from 16 and 8 PCIE channels to 8 and 8? Also, the chipset only appears to support 20 channels total, so my hope for a 16 and 16 specialist board looks fairly unlikely.
I use the standard (Debian) VNC server install with x11vnc on a Linux box and connect to it over the 'Net from a Windows XP PC running an old version of the normal old VNC viewer. I've also used the standard xvncviewer to view a couple of Windows XP PCs over a LAN. I've even added a Pocket PC client into the mix over a wireless network. Functional, but not always the fastest.
I agree. I always try to give a show pilot+1 before I give up on it. I'll give it more of a chance if I'm picking it up late and people are raving about it, and less if the pilot really sucks. Strangerhood is definately in "the next episode better be good" territory.
Yes, and in fact, there's a company called Margi that produce a PCMCIA video card that's very fast and smooth if you want that third screen. (As long as you're not using Windows SP2, they've really been dragging their heels on a driver update.)
Yup. That's my setup I'm using right now. GeForce 4 (PCI) and 5000-series (AGP), both with passive heatsinks. Debian. startx -- +xinerama.
At work I have a laptop with built-in dual head, plus "maxivista" for virtual screens over ethernet and that USB2VGA adapter that popped up on all the gadget blogs a few months back. That's four screens on a normal day, plus a second ethernet-based connection to a Matrox Parhelia on a busy day. Most screens I've run at once is six -- It's impressive to drag a window all the way from one side to another.
Does anyone have any suggestions for my paragraph? I was thinking of saying something about the fact that anyone can setup their own old-school BBS if they want to, possibly with reference to the fact that a modem does work, all be it slowly, on the bonus voice(/fax) line that you get with (A)DSL. But I'm up for any other suggestions.
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That is a very interesting report. If true, and it looks to be, then it makes the Transmeta CPUs something to avoid, particularly if you're into fanless computing.
I'd rather someone capable of shifting their position when they get new information than someone who makes the wrong decision at the beginning and refuses to change it.
"Sure he drove us into a wall, but he never blinked" -- Jon Stewart on Bush.
I hope you don't use CNN, or any one news source as your only source of information on world events. In fact, pretty much any US TV news network is suspect.
I'm going to look to a pair of these when I'm putting together my dual-CPU SLI monster.
Okay, I'll have a go at this, but I'll be using $A so I get to go up to $133 (damn, the US$ has really dropped). My favourite local discount computer supplier has a complete new system for $490. Trying to put something together from their cheapest listed new parts doesn't even manage more than motherboard and RAM before it's over $150. Another place I frequent fares no better.
Huh? As a person with one mini-ITX PC already, I'd have to say that Transmeta are hitting a major part of their market spot on with this release. Not only will a significant number of people already considering, say, a small media PC try a Transmeta board, but the more innovative hobbyist projects should drive a very successful grassroots advertising campain.
Now, if I could only get the page to load...
So, hard to rephrase as a new question, but ultimately you have to produce an open video card that has at least the features and performance that open/standard drivers can accomplish with a similarly-priced closed video card. Don't like your chances.
The 3D cards from the major names contain many features that are completely irrelivant to a business environment, while Matrox's cards focus on productivity through a highlighy configurable multi-head opperation. It's great that you can easily decide to have independant desktops, or have the Matrox cards handle multiple monitors in hardware and present the a single screen to the OS. Gets around all sorts of legacy issues that are an unavoidable part of the corporate computing landscape.
That and they (the Macs themselves) can't most play the popular games until much later than the PC. This is also the reason many Windows users write off the Linux OS as hobbyist only.
After finally having some success with a Linux desktop install, I'm not going to be adding to the number of Windows PCs in my household ever again. Instead, I'm going to slowly convert Windows PCs to Linux as I sort out drivers for some of my less common hardware. If World of Warcraft comes out for Linux there's a very good chance that the only remaining Windows PCs in the house will be a couple of old Win98 laptops.
Ballmer can bitch all he wants about piracy eating into Windows profits, but there are alternatives out there now and his bitching only shows how much Microsoft still believes it has a monopoly despite what it said in court.
Next up on the hit list: Only pirates can run a PC without buying a copy of Windows?
Why don't Microsoft do this? Why don't they reduce a lightweight, fast, version of Windows? "Windows Turbo(tm)" It'd probably only need a better installer and a few optimised DLLs. I know there's a Win98lite 3rd-party installer, has anyone developed anything to install a light-weight version of XP?
Now, I guess I could go through and re-encode all my CDs to AAC since it's supposed to be better, but who has the time? Either way, how would anyone ever know which format I'm using?
Got a URL or model number for that?
Anyone else notice that SLI has gone from 16 and 8 PCIE channels to 8 and 8? Also, the chipset only appears to support 20 channels total, so my hope for a 16 and 16 specialist board looks fairly unlikely.
I use the standard (Debian) VNC server install with x11vnc on a Linux box and connect to it over the 'Net from a Windows XP PC running an old version of the normal old VNC viewer. I've also used the standard xvncviewer to view a couple of Windows XP PCs over a LAN. I've even added a Pocket PC client into the mix over a wireless network. Functional, but not always the fastest.
I agree. I always try to give a show pilot+1 before I give up on it. I'll give it more of a chance if I'm picking it up late and people are raving about it, and less if the pilot really sucks. Strangerhood is definately in "the next episode better be good" territory.
Yes, and in fact, there's a company called Margi that produce a PCMCIA video card that's very fast and smooth if you want that third screen. (As long as you're not using Windows SP2, they've really been dragging their heels on a driver update.)
At work I have a laptop with built-in dual head, plus "maxivista" for virtual screens over ethernet and that USB2VGA adapter that popped up on all the gadget blogs a few months back. That's four screens on a normal day, plus a second ethernet-based connection to a Matrox Parhelia on a busy day. Most screens I've run at once is six -- It's impressive to drag a window all the way from one side to another.
Does anyone have any suggestions for my paragraph? I was thinking of saying something about the fact that anyone can setup their own old-school BBS if they want to, possibly with reference to the fact that a modem does work, all be it slowly, on the bonus voice(/fax) line that you get with (A)DSL. But I'm up for any other suggestions.
Put Gmail password in escrow with pointer in will.