I'll have to agree here. I got a pair of matched cards for SLI use, and after being dismayed by the lack of apparent improvement I simply disabled SLI and use the second card for an additional monitor while playing my favorite game.
Oddly, windows 95's device drivers and swap usage makes it perform more smoothly in 8M of ram than win 3.11 would have. However, you'll need to strip some unnecessary cruft to save on memory usage.
I ran '95 successfully for quite some time on a 386/40 with 8M ram before finally upgrading it to 16.
Macintosh, mid 1980's: Mac Filing System (MFS, used on the 400k floppies) and Apple's older and current HFS revisions all support(ed) an alternate stream. In Apple's case, theyre referred to as Forks. There's a resource fork, which contains application data, document resources, etc. There's also a data stream which commonly contains the document data itself.
Picture, if you will, an application with all of its support DLL's included within the executable file. You have nearly every macintosh application written prior to OSX.
"Alternate file streams" as it is is not a new invention from MSFT. It's a 20 year or more old technology. It's yet another other rework of a technology by MSFT that Apple originally designed.
Alternate file streams may have their uses, but theyre pretty much outmoded by the true random file access granted by any modern filesystem. You use a standardized file format (ELF, BFT, EXE, DLL, etc) that contains a table which contains locations and sizes for each data segment within a file. Even Apple have seen the light and moved away from forked and multistream files to a solution that works on flat (non-forked/streamed) filesystems.
Nice TV. However, this won't work in my community at all. Also, I somehow doubt the IDT works with comcast cable, as their systems don't use a digital customer ID card.
Sad thing is, mansonry conducts heat. While some regions might not consider this a problem, try living in a brick house when the temperature drops below 0 farenheight. It can't be fun, so the solution is to build a brick exterior and set up a wooden insulated studwall on the interior.
Besides, what is going to hold up your concrete second floor? Or is it that all houses in your country have no cellars or second floors? The cost of constructing a house made entirely of mortar, brick, and stone is immense. Thus, wooden houses.
In the ideal world, nothing burns. In the real world, even concrete and steel give under fire. In the ideal world, concrete and metal buildings are as inexpensive as wood. In the real world, this just isn't so.
Because AMD64 and related (Sempron, Opteron, et.al) chipsets do not have a DRAM controller. The AMD64 architecture has an on-cpu ram controller, eliminating the need and presence of a northbridge DRAM controller.
This is why dual- and quad-socket boards have ram slots surrounding or near each processor socket. Fewer links, shorter path, faster memory. We hope.
I have some 5+ year old scsi disks that can be low-level formatted with 4k sectors. This is nothing new, aside from the 'standard' increasing the sector size.
Memory serving, the scsi-2 spec also allows sector sizes up to 16k or more during a format, if the drive supports it.
(Just to clarify the idiom) I believe a good US/English replacement would be "The straw on the camel's back," but I do enjoy the drop flooding the bucket imagery.
Simple rules. Violations result in dns blocking via NXDOMAIN in my dns proxy.
1) No widgets. If an ad contains fake widgets/buttons/etc, its obviously designed to
confuse people into clicking them. 2) No blinking. Simple enough. Calm animations are fine, but no LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!
ads. 3) No bouncing. See above. 4) No popups. Firefox has pretty good popup blocking; it can even block popups from
plugins. 5) No noises or sounds. Even sites that have flash banners FOR the site with sounds get
them blocked. 6) No DHTML overlays. Those are just plain bullsh/t. 7) Do not dynamically modify content with javascript. First, its a waste of MY cpu time,
second, I dont want my article about CompSci to be littered with ads about loans,
childrens' toys, cars, and tampons. 8) If the ad or site attempts to resize my browser in any way, too bad. It's -my- browser,
-not- the advertisers. 9) No 'your computer is at risk' ads. My computer may be at risk, and if it is, I'm going
to secure it myself. 10)Why in the world would I want an ipod/ps2/xbox*/ps3/extra foot? *blocked*
Okay, so 10's just there so I have a tenth rule.:-D
At any rate, proxy dns's rule almost as much as adblock. I keep my adblocks in sync locally, making my browsing stay sane. I'm reminded why I block ads every day during work. My 'work' firefox session has no adblocking enabled to ensure sites I check for clients are viewed the way they see them. Gah.:P
$30 for the c64 $150 for the supercpu (20mhz) $75 for the memory module for the supercpu $30 for the 16meg FPM simm for the memory module $100 for the ide64 adaptor $150 for the ramlink $50 for the ramlink ram expansion board $30 for simms to fill the ramlink (16 more megs)
Unavailable on the c64: ehnanced graphics beyond 16 colors, expanded sound output.
In the long run, its far cheaper to get this than it is to get all the above components to build a comparable system. AND, it doesn't take a double-wide server case to fit it all in one enclosure (google for C128 tower if you're brave).
Yeahbut! I _do_ have a good AGP card on my 233mhz K6.:) My Matrox G200 (8meg) _still_ makes skips on mp3 playback (never tried X11amp, cause mpg123 is more effecient - no X interface to drive). As posted earlier, even a 128k buffer can kill _most- skips. Hm. speaking of matrox (offtopic now), how does one enable X for agp2x mode?:)
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I'll have to agree here. I got a pair of matched cards for SLI use, and after being dismayed by the lack of apparent improvement I simply disabled SLI and use the second card for an additional monitor while playing my favorite game.
Oddly, windows 95's device drivers and swap usage makes it perform more smoothly in 8M of ram than win 3.11 would have. However, you'll need to strip some unnecessary cruft to save on memory usage.
I ran '95 successfully for quite some time on a 386/40 with 8M ram before finally upgrading it to 16.
-jbevren
Funnier still: A linux user willing to use AOL!?
Macintosh, mid 1980's: Mac Filing System (MFS, used on the 400k floppies) and Apple's older and current HFS revisions all support(ed) an alternate stream. In Apple's case, theyre referred to as Forks. There's a resource fork, which contains application data, document resources, etc. There's also a data stream which commonly contains the document data itself.
Picture, if you will, an application with all of its support DLL's included within the executable file. You have nearly every macintosh application written prior to OSX.
"Alternate file streams" as it is is not a new invention from MSFT. It's a 20 year or more old technology. It's yet another other rework of a technology by MSFT that Apple originally designed.
Alternate file streams may have their uses, but theyre pretty much outmoded by the true random file access granted by any modern filesystem. You use a standardized file format (ELF, BFT, EXE, DLL, etc) that contains a table which contains locations and sizes for each data segment within a file. Even Apple have seen the light and moved away from forked and multistream files to a solution that works on flat (non-forked/streamed) filesystems.
-jbevren
Nice TV. However, this won't work in my community at all. Also, I somehow doubt the IDT works with comcast cable, as their systems don't use a digital customer ID card.
Sad thing is, mansonry conducts heat. While some regions might not consider this a problem, try living in a brick house when the temperature drops below 0 farenheight. It can't be fun, so the solution is to build a brick exterior and set up a wooden insulated studwall on the interior.
Besides, what is going to hold up your concrete second floor? Or is it that all houses in your country have no cellars or second floors? The cost of constructing a house made entirely of mortar, brick, and stone is immense. Thus, wooden houses.
In the ideal world, nothing burns. In the real world, even concrete and steel give under fire.
In the ideal world, concrete and metal buildings are as inexpensive as wood. In the real world, this just isn't so.
In Mother Russia, the concrete burns you!
-jbevren
Because AMD64 and related (Sempron, Opteron, et.al) chipsets do not have a DRAM controller. The AMD64 architecture has an on-cpu ram controller, eliminating the need and presence of a northbridge DRAM controller.
This is why dual- and quad-socket boards have ram slots surrounding or near each processor socket. Fewer links, shorter path, faster memory. We hope.
To quote a t-shirt I once saw at a faire, :-D
"Livers are evil and should be punished."
I have some 5+ year old scsi disks that can be low-level formatted with 4k sectors. This is nothing new, aside from the 'standard' increasing the sector size.
Memory serving, the scsi-2 spec also allows sector sizes up to 16k or more during a format, if the drive supports it.
(Just to clarify the idiom) I believe a good US/English replacement would be "The straw on the camel's back," but I do enjoy the drop flooding the bucket imagery.
-jbevren
http://imageserv2.pbfcomics.com/temporary/PBF055AD GameSystem.html :D
Simple rules. Violations result in dns blocking via NXDOMAIN in my dns proxy.
:-D
:P
1) No widgets. If an ad contains fake widgets/buttons/etc, its obviously designed to
confuse people into clicking them.
2) No blinking. Simple enough. Calm animations are fine, but no LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!
ads.
3) No bouncing. See above.
4) No popups. Firefox has pretty good popup blocking; it can even block popups from
plugins.
5) No noises or sounds. Even sites that have flash banners FOR the site with sounds get
them blocked.
6) No DHTML overlays. Those are just plain bullsh/t.
7) Do not dynamically modify content with javascript. First, its a waste of MY cpu time,
second, I dont want my article about CompSci to be littered with ads about loans,
childrens' toys, cars, and tampons.
8) If the ad or site attempts to resize my browser in any way, too bad. It's -my- browser,
-not- the advertisers.
9) No 'your computer is at risk' ads. My computer may be at risk, and if it is, I'm going
to secure it myself.
10)Why in the world would I want an ipod/ps2/xbox*/ps3/extra foot? *blocked*
Okay, so 10's just there so I have a tenth rule.
At any rate, proxy dns's rule almost as much as adblock. I keep my adblocks in sync locally, making my browsing stay sane. I'm reminded why I block ads every day during work. My 'work' firefox session has no adblocking enabled to ensure sites I check for clients are viewed the way they see them. Gah.
-jbev
$30 for the c64
;)
$150 for the supercpu (20mhz)
$75 for the memory module for the supercpu
$30 for the 16meg FPM simm for the memory module
$100 for the ide64 adaptor
$150 for the ramlink
$50 for the ramlink ram expansion board
$30 for simms to fill the ramlink (16 more megs)
Unavailable on the c64: ehnanced graphics beyond 16 colors, expanded sound output.
In the long run, its far cheaper to get this than it is to get all the above components to build a comparable system. AND, it doesn't take a double-wide server case to fit it all in one enclosure (google for C128 tower if you're brave).
Greets to #c-64
-jbev
Yeahbut! I _do_ have a good AGP card on my 233mhz :) My Matrox G200 (8meg) _still_ makes skips :)
K6.
on mp3 playback (never tried X11amp, cause mpg123
is more effecient - no X interface to drive). As
posted earlier, even a 128k buffer can kill _most-
skips. Hm. speaking of matrox (offtopic now),
how does one enable X for agp2x mode?