The help they are recieving from the NSA points out the many inadequacies of MS OS design.
NSA has a "secure" version of Linux, too. Applying your superior deductive skills, Linux is inadequate as well. I guess those GPL hippies really are amateurish lamers. Figures.
There is so much hostility on this site. I used to chalk it up to malevolence, then stupidity, and now my theory is that most of you were molested as children. Would you like to comment on the nature of your relationship with Uncle Johnson?
If you have a product that people love, they will pay for a sneak preview of the next version. Mac users are the same way. Just because you don't appreciate Windows doesn't mean that there aren't those that do.
Because you don't buy the source, you license it, dumbass. And if you want people to take the lamer GPL properly, you'd have to repsect Mircosoft's licences too.
Me thinks he doesn't understand because he didn't hear anything like that on his Korn and Britney Spears CDs.
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I don't rave but used to play my guitar/bass/keyboards/et cetera REALLY FUCKING LOUD. I don't play so much anymore but I've gotten into the habit of listening to music REALLY FUCKING LOUD (WHAT?!) I SAID REALLY FUCKING LOUD (OH! OKAY!) so I'm in the same boat as you. It's a pity that trance, d&b, gabber and industrial all sound best with the volume up to eleven when you're doing 90mph.
About five years ago I looked into the type of earphones you speak of. What you really want are professional musicians' earplugs, which are custom-molded to your ears and (unlike the cheap pieces of foam you get outside arena concerts) actually do something. Find an ear doctor in your area, get a hearing test, then ask him where to buy musicians' custom earplugs in your area. If he doesn't know, talk to local musicians, hell, just ask any DJ who's been spinning for more than five years and they might know.
Where do you live? I'm in DC and I don't even know if there is an electronica scene here... or maybe I just don't hang out with ravers. (Who all seem to be high-school drug addicts, forgive me if that hit close to home.:-)
The sad fact, however, is that even these type of earplugs can't protect you from all damage. Sound is just vibrations in the air, and these vibrations travel through bone. Human beings just weren't designed to be subjected to such noise levels. We're so obselete -- ears that go deaf from loud music, tissue that gets cancer from cell phones, hands that get CTS from using a keyboard/mouse... hey God, where's the fucking 2.0?;-)
IIRC the VIA chipset problems affected AGP 3D graphics and SBLive! cards... moving lots of data on the PCI or AGP bus could prompt a hard lockup. In other words, it primarily affected gamers, although if you left the box on for long enough hacking or surfing, chances are it would lock up then too. (No uneducated NT jokes, please.) It would easily stay up and running for the five to ten minutes it takes to install a SP.
I've been using NT5 since last May, so obviously the problems haven't keep me from being productive. SP1 and SP2 fix a lot of VIA stability issues, and the new 4-in-1 drivers and SBLive! drivers help a lot too. It's not perfect but is a major improvement... not that it was too terrible to begin with.
I agree with the other poster about VIA. They're the weak link in the chain, and if I could go back I would've gotten a 760-based board instead of the ASUS A7V I have now.
I'm builing a new NT server this fall, though, and I am going to use an A7V133. The VIA problems primarily affected heavy workstation users, and ASUS boards are pretty nice.
(For the money.)
It's been about six months since I've built a new box, and I'm always amazed at how much cheaper the hardware keeps getting. A week ago I bought a gig of Muskkin/Nanya CAS3 PC133 for $250. A 1.2GHz Athlon can be had for under $200 in retail box, and sinfully cheap if you buy grey market. $150 for a 30GB IBM ATA/100 drive (not going to be a very busy server). Hell, the software is going to be the most expensive thing in the box.:-)
Bullshit. Anand's review pits dual 1.2GHz Athlons against dual 1.7GHz P4s... and guess who comes out on top. How about we test that 1.7GHz P4 system against a 900MHz UltraSPARC III system, Intel-boy?;-p This immature idea that clock speed == computing power is so lame. But as your.sig so plainly demonstrates, so are you. And I thought these low-UIDs numbfucks were supposed to be so l337...
Okay, these are good points. As an NT user, I am aware of the existence of some compatability problems with the popular VIA Athlon chipsets. (Although I never had such problems, even before SP1.) And I am aware of how hot the damn things get.:-)
Does the lower power consumption really affect your power bill that much? I run two Athlon boxes, a P3 and an UltraSPARC II 24/7/365 in my apartment, so it would be good to save some dough, but to be honest I doubt that whatever you save on your power bill this year makes up for the extra money you paid for your slow Intel box.;-p
Personally, I bought a new machine five months or so ago, and instead of buying a P4, I went with a 1GHz Pentium III. A lot of my friends ridiculed me.
I would have ridiculed you, too -- for not buying an Athlon. With everything that we know know, how could anyone not buy AMD? (I feel like Elaine talking to that smoking pregnant psychic...) I mean, they're faster (perhaps not for all applications, but my own comparisons of the 800MHz P3 at work to the 800MHz Tbird at home say that they are), and they're cheaper (this is just undeniable). Unless you're looking at SMP solutions, anyone who has kept buying Intel chips over the past eight months needs a beating with the clue stick.
Now that the Athlon MP and dual-CPU mainboards have been released, it just restates what we knew a year ago: AMD is slowly but surely beating Intel at Intel's game.
Well, they're not looking so damned smart now, are they?
I think that both you and your friends need to try developing (assuming that you develop) or gaming (and I'm sure that you game) on AMD boxes for a week.
While the lot of you are correct in complaining that modern military technology significantly reduces the effectiveness of so-called "stealth" aircraft, please bear in mind that most of the United States' potential enemies do not have access to modern military technology. The militaries of the PRC, North Korea, and the entire Middle East are, for the most part, composed of Soviet surplus from the 1970s. (The exceptions are the US-friendly Arab/Israeli states, which rely on a combination of old Soviet tech and very old US tech. You'll see more F4s than F15s.)
When the average soldier in your enemy's infantry is armed with a Kalishnakov and a bag of rocks, stealth matters. When your enemy's armor division consists of a black-market Stinger in the back of an AMC Gremlin, stealth matters. The US has no quarrels -- no significant ones, anyway -- with countries who have the capability of producing comparable tech... the UK, Germany, Japan, et cetera. Our poorly equipped enemies allow us to make very good use of "antiquated" technology. When you're fighting a third-world country like Canada, you don't need a friggin' F22. Unless you're trying to impress Alanis, of course.
It's still not a pun, no matter how and you want it to be. Just accept that you didn't get FP and move on. American humor may be limited to puns, but at least we know what puns are, Quantum.
No. Condescension will be supported, as well as L4M3R spelling, but the service simply does not provide enough bandwidth to enable l337ness.
Modern l337 implementations require bandwidth that is at least comparable to home-grade DSL.
Case in point: I am posting this via a 28.8 modem. So while I am clearly able to be condescending (as in, "ha, ha! you misspelled condescending!"), this post's lack of positive moderation demonstrates a lack of l337 capabilities. And I am very l337, I assure you; the same post sent via T3 would have been personally modded to "+63, Homosexual Attraction" by Hemos upon being posted. If you aren't the newbie your UID implies, you would know that Hemos has performed similar "alterations" in the past.
Note the further use of condescension.
Anyhoo, I've wasted enough of reader time, good night.
Memory bus? You had memory busses? We had to transfer data between system components with an elaborate system of miniaute pullies. And these weren't compound pullies, sonny, and we had to pull the little buckets of bits back and forth by hand, all the live long day. The buckets only held one bit. And yet I was able to code a fully functional space station in only five minutes! Sheesh, kids these days...
As others have said, the Tyan board is so expensive because of the integrated SCSI and other goodies. In case you're wondering why we'd want the integrated components (which on consumer-level mainboards are usually undesirable), it is because this is a server-class board, and will very likely be rackmounted. If you're trying to stuff a MP board into a 1U case and only have two PCI risers available, having integrated SCSI, video, and networking is a huge plus.
But make sure that you're buying good integrated components, since you'll be keeping them for a while. Like the Intel STL2 (a dual-PIII board), which retails for about $600 but includes an Adaptec U160 controller, ATI video, and the oh-so-sexy Intel PRO 10/100 NIC. You may be able to do as well for less, but please research -- one "simiarly spec'ed" ASUS board does indeed include a SCSI controller, but it's a no-name SCSI2 controller, for fuck's sake.
$600 is very reasonable for a the first-available SMP Athlon board. People will pay for this board, trust me -- especially when they realize that they'll be saving major dough on higher-performing CPUs.
First of all, I can tell you that any 128MB sticks you get for $15 will be crap. The fact that you could get 512MB of crap won't make Doom run any faster. If you want increased performance, spend the dough on high-quality CAS2 Crucial, Mushkin, or Corsair PC133. Not only will it be faster and more stable, but the stuff is tested and certified.
But hey, if you're running a cheap MySQL server and just want bucketloads of RAM, go ahead with the cheap stuff. MySQL is more likely to fail before the hardware will anyway.
Slightly offtopic, but we are talking about RAM, after all. What is the deal with Nanya chips? I recently bought 1GB of Mushkin PC133 which was labeled as having "Nanya" chips, with a little star* and everything. I take it that Nanya is a maker of "value" (ie LAME) modules, but the price was right ($250!) so I bought the stuff anyway. Can anyone tell me if Nanya does not suck?
And no, I'm not getting it confused with the spring water. (Hungry for swap, thirsty for Nanya?)
PC RAM has gotten just as cheap as CPU cycles and IDE disks, it seems. This is of course due the the new market for DDR RAM and RAMBUS, but even DDR RAM is remarkably inexpensive. I hate to be one of those "Back in the day..." guys, but back in the day when I bought my first RAM upgrade for a PC, I payed more for 8MB than I would pay for 512MB today. Now that's fucking progress, mates.
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There is so much hostility on this site. I used to chalk it up to malevolence, then stupidity, and now my theory is that most of you were molested as children. Would you like to comment on the nature of your relationship with Uncle Johnson?
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So much hostility. Were you molested as a child?
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Download source, compile yourself.
Are all so lazy?
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About five years ago I looked into the type of earphones you speak of. What you really want are professional musicians' earplugs, which are custom-molded to your ears and (unlike the cheap pieces of foam you get outside arena concerts) actually do something. Find an ear doctor in your area, get a hearing test, then ask him where to buy musicians' custom earplugs in your area. If he doesn't know, talk to local musicians, hell, just ask any DJ who's been spinning for more than five years and they might know.
Where do you live? I'm in DC and I don't even know if there is an electronica scene here... or maybe I just don't hang out with ravers. (Who all seem to be high-school drug addicts, forgive me if that hit close to home. :-)
The sad fact, however, is that even these type of earplugs can't protect you from all damage. Sound is just vibrations in the air, and these vibrations travel through bone. Human beings just weren't designed to be subjected to such noise levels. We're so obselete -- ears that go deaf from loud music, tissue that gets cancer from cell phones, hands that get CTS from using a keyboard/mouse... hey God, where's the fucking 2.0? ;-)
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I've been using NT5 since last May, so obviously the problems haven't keep me from being productive. SP1 and SP2 fix a lot of VIA stability issues, and the new 4-in-1 drivers and SBLive! drivers help a lot too. It's not perfect but is a major improvement... not that it was too terrible to begin with.
I agree with the other poster about VIA. They're the weak link in the chain, and if I could go back I would've gotten a 760-based board instead of the ASUS A7V I have now.
I'm builing a new NT server this fall, though, and I am going to use an A7V133. The VIA problems primarily affected heavy workstation users, and ASUS boards are pretty nice.
(For the money.)
It's been about six months since I've built a new box, and I'm always amazed at how much cheaper the hardware keeps getting. A week ago I bought a gig of Muskkin/Nanya CAS3 PC133 for $250. A 1.2GHz Athlon can be had for under $200 in retail box, and sinfully cheap if you buy grey market. $150 for a 30GB IBM ATA/100 drive (not going to be a very busy server). Hell, the software is going to be the most expensive thing in the box. :-)
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Does the lower power consumption really affect your power bill that much? I run two Athlon boxes, a P3 and an UltraSPARC II 24/7/365 in my apartment, so it would be good to save some dough, but to be honest I doubt that whatever you save on your power bill this year makes up for the extra money you paid for your slow Intel box. ;-p
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Now that the Athlon MP and dual-CPU mainboards have been released, it just restates what we knew a year ago: AMD is slowly but surely beating Intel at Intel's game.
I think that both you and your friends need to try developing (assuming that you develop) or gaming (and I'm sure that you game) on AMD boxes for a week.--
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When the average soldier in your enemy's infantry is armed with a Kalishnakov and a bag of rocks, stealth matters. When your enemy's armor division consists of a black-market Stinger in the back of an AMC Gremlin, stealth matters. The US has no quarrels -- no significant ones, anyway -- with countries who have the capability of producing comparable tech... the UK, Germany, Japan, et cetera. Our poorly equipped enemies allow us to make very good use of "antiquated" technology. When you're fighting a third-world country like Canada, you don't need a friggin' F22. Unless you're trying to impress Alanis, of course.
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Modern l337 implementations require bandwidth that is at least comparable to home-grade DSL. Case in point: I am posting this via a 28.8 modem. So while I am clearly able to be condescending (as in, "ha, ha! you misspelled condescending!"), this post's lack of positive moderation demonstrates a lack of l337 capabilities. And I am very l337, I assure you; the same post sent via T3 would have been personally modded to "+63, Homosexual Attraction" by Hemos upon being posted. If you aren't the newbie your UID implies, you would know that Hemos has performed similar "alterations" in the past.
Note the further use of condescension.
Anyhoo, I've wasted enough of reader time, good night.
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But make sure that you're buying good integrated components, since you'll be keeping them for a while. Like the Intel STL2 (a dual-PIII board), which retails for about $600 but includes an Adaptec U160 controller, ATI video, and the oh-so-sexy Intel PRO 10/100 NIC. You may be able to do as well for less, but please research -- one "simiarly spec'ed" ASUS board does indeed include a SCSI controller, but it's a no-name SCSI2 controller, for fuck's sake.
$600 is very reasonable for a the first-available SMP Athlon board. People will pay for this board, trust me -- especially when they realize that they'll be saving major dough on higher-performing CPUs.
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But hey, if you're running a cheap MySQL server and just want bucketloads of RAM, go ahead with the cheap stuff. MySQL is more likely to fail before the hardware will anyway.
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And no, I'm not getting it confused with the spring water. (Hungry for swap, thirsty for Nanya?)
PC RAM has gotten just as cheap as CPU cycles and IDE disks, it seems. This is of course due the the new market for DDR RAM and RAMBUS, but even DDR RAM is remarkably inexpensive. I hate to be one of those "Back in the day..." guys, but back in the day when I bought my first RAM upgrade for a PC, I payed more for 8MB than I would pay for 512MB today. Now that's fucking progress, mates.
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