I know my internet connection doesn't get redialed a whole lot (bsd router) but it will change at least every time the power goes off and stays off for more than 20min thanks to my (and damn near any residential isp i know of) isp useing dynamic IPs.
Locking each user into a single IP address would be stupid, there are not enough, and then what do you do with windows servers running multiple virtual IPs? or NAT routers and the pcs behind them? notebooks moveing between access points?
Of course, if microsoft got hold of a TLD, say.micro, and EVERY windows that gets activated (or sold with bulk licenses) gets its own domain name, and host dyndns, now that could work, and makes it easy to block windows updaters at the server, just reverse DNS:)
Yeah, we have a policy, ask the customer once when they drop off the offending pc, and ring them again just incase, then if they didn't tell us to back up xyz folder, its their own damn fault.
As for the webcam stuff, have to be very carefull of that kind of thing in Australia, recent laws about requirement to contact police with ANY underage pornagraphic material means we can get some young people in a lot of trouble if they don't hide it well enough.
Vista is definitely going to make the whole "backup-reinstall-restore" thing more difficult, half the time our customers don't give us their passwords to windows, how will it be when the whole damn HDD can be locked up with strong security and they can't remember what letters where uppercase and what were lowercase...:/
Worst offenders i have seen so far on PCs, fileshareing programs (and 3rd party re-packagers) who bundle heavy spyware with their products, because you can bet $5 that they will not stop at just limewire, they will put on some esoteric kazaa version that comes with more "opt-in"s than a hotmail account;)
Best bet? Take off and nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure... (format reinstall in other words)
Hrmm, IRC chat servers could be prior art, they supply, on clients request, info on status and IP address of a user, which then allows direct communication (DCC).
Woops, missed that one, hehe, chalk one up for crappy 10 page layout:/
One thing they do however neglect to point out, after their wonderfull "better buy than Athlon 64 FX-60 if you are really a performance freak but want to save some money.", is that the fx-60 is is unlocked so far as multiplyer goes, that is the BIGGEST draw card for the fx range, and primarily why you would buy one, and no performance freak should ever look at their bank ballance, its bad for your heart;)
The testing of one rig with 2 sticks of 1G ddr ram (2x64bit bus, accessed in dual channel mode so 128bit) is VERY much inacurate against a rig running one stick of 1G (1x 64bit bus, can only be accessed in single channel, 64bit, mode), and I believe that is a serius error.
However, AMD is going to lag a little behind in the short term, although the memory latancy is still allmost half of what intels current parts are capable of (check out theinquirer.org for some interesting insights into thise issue).
It could come very close to "now". Release the vid to start "buffering" about 5 min before show is meant to start, get all the clients to start sucking down the torrent, with extra emphisis on the first 10min of video, then start when most of the swarm has the buffer, then just let the thing go as fast as it can, would mean that ISPs could cache the info locally (with their own high BW torrent server) and also have the client prefer to get its data from local sources before going outside the ISP, heck i believe azerus can do the "prefer local connections" thing allready and i know bitcomet can "preview" a torrent by forceing the swarm to send it the first chunks first.
Now all we need is a content provider to get the idea, and i would bet they could hire people to do this with better ideas than i can come up with;)
Yes, but of course a few years back a young uni graduate came up with an interesting way to do photo-lithography that cpu makers were quick to snap up.
Sometimes a new mind working on a problem can yeild solutions much faster than 1000 people thinking "the old way"
From what I have seen lately (talk of SGI adding an opteron range to its lines, as well as pruneing some of the dead wood of specialty hardware) they seem to be pushing toward the high-very high end server market, what with talks of putting ccNUMA backplanes with AMD cpus and getting out of the video side of things all together.
Basically competeing with the high end SUN and low end CRAY setups, from the info I have read about these chap 11 fileings, they are just removeing some old debts and have been promised a new bankroll from a few VCs.
Just shakeing down the house and don't want old debt/management to hinder how we plan to run from now on.
Only the US devision of SGI have filed, rest of world seems to be happy ticking over with what its doing.
I had heard (from the inquirer) that nvidia were looking at biteing a chunk off SGI in their graphics devision, obviousely an old dog can teach a new one some tricks:)
Funny thing is, I had a similar problem trying to get out of playing everquest2. Had to log onto the SOE (sony online entertainment) website, confirm a "secret" question, fill out a 5 page questionair on why I am leaveing and what they could do to make the game so I would stay (correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that their job?), and after all that, they had a 3 screen long page (much scrolling, and thats displayed at small font on 1600x1200 res) to answer a "are you sure you wouldn't rather keep playing" type question.
And of course my 2nd box account I had to repeat all the above for as well.
Now if this company used a rootkit to hide a reinstall folder for eq2, and just gave you "7 days free".... but SONY would never stoop to such underhanded tactics as to use rootkits.... right?
Yeah, but if you read the info (hell, even the summary) it states that it does not do quad AFR, it loadballances each pair of cards and AFRs that, and given that i have seen (on the inquirer.net) this thing pulling about 45fps in fear on one of those 30" monsters, the latancy would be negligable anyway.
This arguement was raised when they first started with the modern SLI tech, especially when the renderer doesn't support the SLI properly, I have never found any more lag than would be otherwise present (objectively) in any game that runs on it (and of course thanks to the new nvidia drivers you can disable SLI any time a dx window is not active).
Another thing to point out here (not seen anyone else mention it) that these use g71M chips, effectively overclocked 7900GO chips, obviusly to keep the power useage by the total graphics setup under the 700W mark:)
"Also, most repair shops don't waste their time with troubleshooting and repairing spyware/virus/software issues. The most that they usually do is save critical data and format/reinstall."
Just posting back fyi, we actually do attempt to (we let the customer know in advance, based off their description of whats going on, what their chances are of removeing the virus) remove virus/spyware if the customer really wants us to, of course we charge a premium for doing that kind of thing.
And yes, those pollicies just need to be known by the peeps doing customer/client service and of course by the techs, the customer just gets a quote on what needs to be done to fix a problem.
Well technically, if they are getting paid to do it, they are a pro(fessional).
The meaning of "pro" does not signify any competence in a job/task above the minimum required to get paid to do it.
Remember as well, lvl 1 tech support is little more than learning the words and reading from a script, which as an interesting co-incidence gives a good reason why anime dubbers have such a large pool of VERY VERY bad voice actors to draw on ^_^
Working atm in a medium sized business that does a large number (typically juggleing about 2-3 repairs per day, in addition to other duties) of repairs and "cleanups". What the OP will need is to draft a proposal to his manager to limit the types of solutions to each problem provided, its just not feasable to remove some of the modern spyware kits going around the web (vx2 anyone?) even microsoft is admitting that a format/reinstall is the only complete solution to them.
"major spyware/virus problems will have upto 10G of data backed up prior to formatting and installing with original supplied disks"
"primary componant failure (MB/CPU) will not be repaired, replacement being the only solution"
The usual disclaimers of course would have to be applied, no liabillity for data lost while the machine is on the premises or for any hardware damaged as a result of previus work done by other repairers, etc...
He needs not only to talk to the company law peeps about their liability, but also to someone outside the company in regards to covering his own arse.
Even though I only know of 3 people that use 940 socket machines for gameing (2 of them dual cpu rigs) I believe an ageia physX processor modded to the socket would be a good idea. The combination of extremely fast cpu-ppu bus combined with being able to use stock (well, reg ecc ram is kinda stock) ram to feed it would help to make multi socket opterons a very viable gameing platform, although as those 3 peeps (and me after seeing the BoM) know, it would not be a cheap one.
FB-DIMM increases the latancy of ram, effectively adding multiple memory controlers off the die. So far as amd have been preaching (and done a good job of showing in practice with the a64 core) off die memory controlers are a bottleneck.
The real order is Rent (a place to put your pc), bills (need the power and interweb), PC hardware, Games (not free, but get in enough betas, and you can lower the costs a lil) then food.
As for the transport thing, walking is my prefered method, with the cost of fuel, vehicals are more expensive to run and maintain than my pc, and i know what i prefer to spend time with:)
VLC (all versions, windows, linux and mac) is a great "all in one" solution, been pre-installing it on PCs at work (small system builder) for a while now, would be a bit more helpfull if it was an.msi file, but with the file tree + registry file on the site it can be cobbled together without much work.
As a good side effect you won't need dvd playback software (typically comes with dvd rom/burner, so mac would not have a windows version of these)
Not if you need to send that much data (multiple TB), works out better to pack a whole heap of HDD into a computer, dual giga lan, and just courier it to the location, more cost effective too as the PC/HDD combo is reuseable.
Wait, no, if you integrate with Japan you should still get the tentacle stuff, just dump china and... wait a tick, aren't they planning their own internet anyway?
For a start, WoW just sold the rights to have servers in other countries (check out the problems they are haveing in china with lag) and, as others are pointing out, some of the best and most rewarding play in mmog can be with people you don't know, i remember learning all the nasty words from some friends who played DaoC (/wave siberia) and of course had a great time doing it.
Another truely global MMOG is Eve online, one server, all nations (heck, it isn't even based in NA), theres sometimes a language barrier, but you work to reduce that.
As an OEMer, i can say that technically he is correct, so long as he uses the same case (and well, whoes to say that a pair of tinsnips can't move a "metal tag" and casemod his old one...) if the MB is not opperational, he may rebuild that PC legally with an OEM lisence.
So if for some reason someone might accidentally say, i dunno, drive a nail through the old MB, OMG it is broken! we must rebuild! make it stronger, faster, with more ass... windows xp:P
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I know my internet connection doesn't get redialed a whole lot (bsd router) but it will change at least every time the power goes off and stays off for more than 20min thanks to my (and damn near any residential isp i know of) isp useing dynamic IPs.
.micro, and EVERY windows that gets activated (or sold with bulk licenses) gets its own domain name, and host dyndns, now that could work, and makes it easy to block windows updaters at the server, just reverse DNS :)
Locking each user into a single IP address would be stupid, there are not enough, and then what do you do with windows servers running multiple virtual IPs? or NAT routers and the pcs behind them? notebooks moveing between access points?
Of course, if microsoft got hold of a TLD, say
Yeah, we have a policy, ask the customer once when they drop off the offending pc, and ring them again just incase, then if they didn't tell us to back up xyz folder, its their own damn fault.
:/
;)
As for the webcam stuff, have to be very carefull of that kind of thing in Australia, recent laws about requirement to contact police with ANY underage pornagraphic material means we can get some young people in a lot of trouble if they don't hide it well enough.
Vista is definitely going to make the whole "backup-reinstall-restore" thing more difficult, half the time our customers don't give us their passwords to windows, how will it be when the whole damn HDD can be locked up with strong security and they can't remember what letters where uppercase and what were lowercase...
Worst offenders i have seen so far on PCs, fileshareing programs (and 3rd party re-packagers) who bundle heavy spyware with their products, because you can bet $5 that they will not stop at just limewire, they will put on some esoteric kazaa version that comes with more "opt-in"s than a hotmail account
Best bet? Take off and nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure... (format reinstall in other words)
Hrmm, IRC chat servers could be prior art, they supply, on clients request, info on status and IP address of a user, which then allows direct communication (DCC).
Woops, missed that one, hehe, chalk one up for crappy 10 page layout :/
;)
One thing they do however neglect to point out, after their wonderfull "better buy than Athlon 64 FX-60 if you are really a performance freak but want to save some money.", is that the fx-60 is is unlocked so far as multiplyer goes, that is the BIGGEST draw card for the fx range, and primarily why you would buy one, and no performance freak should ever look at their bank ballance, its bad for your heart
The testing of one rig with 2 sticks of 1G ddr ram (2x64bit bus, accessed in dual channel mode so 128bit) is VERY much inacurate against a rig running one stick of 1G (1x 64bit bus, can only be accessed in single channel, 64bit, mode), and I believe that is a serius error.
However, AMD is going to lag a little behind in the short term, although the memory latancy is still allmost half of what intels current parts are capable of (check out theinquirer.org for some interesting insights into thise issue).
It could come very close to "now". Release the vid to start "buffering" about 5 min before show is meant to start, get all the clients to start sucking down the torrent, with extra emphisis on the first 10min of video, then start when most of the swarm has the buffer, then just let the thing go as fast as it can, would mean that ISPs could cache the info locally (with their own high BW torrent server) and also have the client prefer to get its data from local sources before going outside the ISP, heck i believe azerus can do the "prefer local connections" thing allready and i know bitcomet can "preview" a torrent by forceing the swarm to send it the first chunks first.
;)
Now all we need is a content provider to get the idea, and i would bet they could hire people to do this with better ideas than i can come up with
Yes, but of course a few years back a young uni graduate came up with an interesting way to do photo-lithography that cpu makers were quick to snap up.
Sometimes a new mind working on a problem can yeild solutions much faster than 1000 people thinking "the old way"
From what I have seen lately (talk of SGI adding an opteron range to its lines, as well as pruneing some of the dead wood of specialty hardware) they seem to be pushing toward the high-very high end server market, what with talks of putting ccNUMA backplanes with AMD cpus and getting out of the video side of things all together.
Basically competeing with the high end SUN and low end CRAY setups, from the info I have read about these chap 11 fileings, they are just removeing some old debts and have been promised a new bankroll from a few VCs.
Press release for dummies...
:)
Just shakeing down the house and don't want old debt/management to hinder how we plan to run from now on.
Only the US devision of SGI have filed, rest of world seems to be happy ticking over with what its doing.
I had heard (from the inquirer) that nvidia were looking at biteing a chunk off SGI in their graphics devision, obviousely an old dog can teach a new one some tricks
Funny thing is, I had a similar problem trying to get out of playing everquest2. Had to log onto the SOE (sony online entertainment) website, confirm a "secret" question, fill out a 5 page questionair on why I am leaveing and what they could do to make the game so I would stay (correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that their job?), and after all that, they had a 3 screen long page (much scrolling, and thats displayed at small font on 1600x1200 res) to answer a "are you sure you wouldn't rather keep playing" type question.
And of course my 2nd box account I had to repeat all the above for as well.
Now if this company used a rootkit to hide a reinstall folder for eq2, and just gave you "7 days free".... but SONY would never stoop to such underhanded tactics as to use rootkits.... right?
Yeah, but if you read the info (hell, even the summary) it states that it does not do quad AFR, it loadballances each pair of cards and AFRs that, and given that i have seen (on the inquirer.net) this thing pulling about 45fps in fear on one of those 30" monsters, the latancy would be negligable anyway.
:)
This arguement was raised when they first started with the modern SLI tech, especially when the renderer doesn't support the SLI properly, I have never found any more lag than would be otherwise present (objectively) in any game that runs on it (and of course thanks to the new nvidia drivers you can disable SLI any time a dx window is not active).
Another thing to point out here (not seen anyone else mention it) that these use g71M chips, effectively overclocked 7900GO chips, obviusly to keep the power useage by the total graphics setup under the 700W mark
"Also, most repair shops don't waste their time with troubleshooting and repairing spyware/virus/software issues. The most that they usually do is save critical data and format/reinstall."
Just posting back fyi, we actually do attempt to (we let the customer know in advance, based off their description of whats going on, what their chances are of removeing the virus) remove virus/spyware if the customer really wants us to, of course we charge a premium for doing that kind of thing.
And yes, those pollicies just need to be known by the peeps doing customer/client service and of course by the techs, the customer just gets a quote on what needs to be done to fix a problem.
Well technically, if they are getting paid to do it, they are a pro(fessional).
The meaning of "pro" does not signify any competence in a job/task above the minimum required to get paid to do it.
Remember as well, lvl 1 tech support is little more than learning the words and reading from a script, which as an interesting co-incidence gives a good reason why anime dubbers have such a large pool of VERY VERY bad voice actors to draw on ^_^
Working atm in a medium sized business that does a large number (typically juggleing about 2-3 repairs per day, in addition to other duties) of repairs and "cleanups". What the OP will need is to draft a proposal to his manager to limit the types of solutions to each problem provided, its just not feasable to remove some of the modern spyware kits going around the web (vx2 anyone?) even microsoft is admitting that a format/reinstall is the only complete solution to them.
"major spyware/virus problems will have upto 10G of data backed up prior to formatting and installing with original supplied disks"
"primary componant failure (MB/CPU) will not be repaired, replacement being the only solution"
The usual disclaimers of course would have to be applied, no liabillity for data lost while the machine is on the premises or for any hardware damaged as a result of previus work done by other repairers, etc...
He needs not only to talk to the company law peeps about their liability, but also to someone outside the company in regards to covering his own arse.
Even though I only know of 3 people that use 940 socket machines for gameing (2 of them dual cpu rigs) I believe an ageia physX processor modded to the socket would be a good idea. The combination of extremely fast cpu-ppu bus combined with being able to use stock (well, reg ecc ram is kinda stock) ram to feed it would help to make multi socket opterons a very viable gameing platform, although as those 3 peeps (and me after seeing the BoM) know, it would not be a cheap one.
"I'd rather see FB-DIMM"
FB-DIMM increases the latancy of ram, effectively adding multiple memory controlers off the die. So far as amd have been preaching (and done a good job of showing in practice with the a64 core) off die memory controlers are a bottleneck.
I am assumeing you mean 940 sockets, 939 does not support multi sockets.
"Rent, food, bills come first."
:P
:)
Not an avid PC gamer then
The real order is Rent (a place to put your pc), bills (need the power and interweb), PC hardware, Games (not free, but get in enough betas, and you can lower the costs a lil) then food.
As for the transport thing, walking is my prefered method, with the cost of fuel, vehicals are more expensive to run and maintain than my pc, and i know what i prefer to spend time with
/agree
.msi file, but with the file tree + registry file on the site it can be cobbled together without much work.
VLC (all versions, windows, linux and mac) is a great "all in one" solution, been pre-installing it on PCs at work (small system builder) for a while now, would be a bit more helpfull if it was an
As a good side effect you won't need dvd playback software (typically comes with dvd rom/burner, so mac would not have a windows version of these)
Stupid windows machines at work, had to go to uh, the cypher with dot com, to decode it, what ever happened to email clients with heavy encryption? :P
Hrmm, nope, 12:25pm saturday 1 apr here :)
:)
Let the pink run free!
Wait a tick, I got mod points to spend on apr 1st? this is awsome
Not if you need to send that much data (multiple TB), works out better to pack a whole heap of HDD into a computer, dual giga lan, and just courier it to the location, more cost effective too as the PC/HDD combo is reuseable.
:P
Small latancy problem though
Wait, no, if you integrate with Japan you should still get the tentacle stuff, just dump china and... wait a tick, aren't they planning their own internet anyway?
:)
Would get rid of a few gold farmers in MMOG too
For a start, WoW just sold the rights to have servers in other countries (check out the problems they are haveing in china with lag) and, as others are pointing out, some of the best and most rewarding play in mmog can be with people you don't know, i remember learning all the nasty words from some friends who played DaoC (/wave siberia) and of course had a great time doing it.
Another truely global MMOG is Eve online, one server, all nations (heck, it isn't even based in NA), theres sometimes a language barrier, but you work to reduce that.
As an OEMer, i can say that technically he is correct, so long as he uses the same case (and well, whoes to say that a pair of tinsnips can't move a "metal tag" and casemod his old one...) if the MB is not opperational, he may rebuild that PC legally with an OEM lisence.
:P
So if for some reason someone might accidentally say, i dunno, drive a nail through the old MB, OMG it is broken! we must rebuild! make it stronger, faster, with more ass... windows xp