Most SACDs are dual layered - they will also contain the CD audio PCM track on there as well. That's so that the record company can press media ONCE and have it applicable to both buyers. The other advantage is that if you bought enough of these dual-mode CDs, you'll have a strong desire to get an SACD player. Good work to the marketing teams for this one!
Oh, you can probably still rip the CD audio track, too! Haven't got an SACD disc here yet to try. The same with DVD Audio - most discs include an alternate audio track such as DTS, Dolby Digital or PCM - and you can rip that one straight through digital as it is.
While consumer multichannel recording software (and hardware) seems a bit hard to get hold of (I haven't seen any, but I haven't looked too hard), you'll find that the SB Audigy 2 can do 24 bit, 96khz sound recording. M-audio have a similar product they have just released (with no digital inputs, mind you).
So it's very possible and within consumer reach to record high quality audio with their PC. It won't sound the same as SACD but again, MP3s don't sound as good as CDs yet they're still popular.
Audiophiles are excessive. If I had a job to support my audio lust, I'd probably be classed as one, too.
Audiophiles have gone for this sort of thing. These people don't play CDs with just a high end CD player, you'll find they use what is called a CD "transport" which is a CD player with a digital out. For a nice one, a few grand at least, ranging up to five figures for these things. Then you need to feed this wonderfully accurate string of 0's and 1's into a DAC. Not just the crappy DACs in your receiver of sound card, these DAC units are generally made to match the CD transport and will probably cost somewhere between half and double the cost of the transport itself. Then, with your thousand dollar interconnect cables (a pair of RCA plugs, for example, but you'll find preference towards 'balanced' connectors), they'll connect it to a preamplifier and then into a power amp, which may be a set of monoblocks (one power amp per speaker, sometimes they bi-amp them, too!). Then you've got the speaker cables and speakers and I'll be dammed when they stop paying thousands of dollars for a piece of copper wire. Yes, a well trained ear can hear the difference between speaker wire and it does stand to reason that each wire has its own characteristics and high quality speakers can help those characteristics materialise. Not all audiophiles are this obsessive/rich. You'll find some who spend a moderate amount of money and simply buy what's best in their price range. But deep down inside, we all know they want a pair of Krell reference monoblocks driving each channel (or a large house to entertain guests, whichever turns out to be cheaper).
They'll have a seperate unit for DVDs as well. Sometimes they'll have an entirely different *system*. (I've known audiphiles to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on a stereo system and spend only a few grand on their entire home theatre rig so it all comes down to priorities).
To them, you'll probably find that the analog outputs would suit them fine, assuming the quality of the DACs in the unit are up to scratch. For a new format such as SACD, the attraction is that digital sound encoded in DSD is a lot more freeform than PCM encoded material because you're not 'locked' in to a certain set of frequencies. The result is in a more natural, real sound with greater depth and image. A lot of the purists have avoided digital purely because vinyl 'sounds better'.
Oh, and the audiophiles won't care about copy protection too much. It'll degrade the quality of the recording anyway, no matter what you do.
You'll notice that there is no current method of transmitting DSD (direct stream digital) encoded data over SPDIF and there's no receiver that'll decode it. DSD is what SACD uses, not PCM.
Even so, there is no standard for transmitting the multichannel DVD-audio signal, nor is there any method of sending 24/192khz stereo data to a receiver/preamp other than to have the audio decoded with an external unit (say, the onboard decoder on a DVD/SACD player) and then feed the discreet channels in, one by one, via a whole stack of cables going to your receiver/preamp.
We could use a new digital interconnect standard. I know a lot of people hanging out for a new upgrade to their audiophile-grade system as a result of this.
I should also note that FireWire sounds like an idea here - the Onkyo DS-TX989 and the Integra gear has an option to add a firewire port when they release the upgrade. Some other high end audiophile-grade manufacturers also have a similar plan.
Yes, in my new Dell Inspiron 8200, my 60GB 5400RPM IBM Travelstar 60GH died after a month, taking some of the data down with it. I had a Dell service tech come out and replace it the next day, but it's rather distressing that such a drive, brand new, dies within a month. 60GB is a LOT of data, especially on a notebook where the information changes a lot more frequently than on a desktop system and backups are a lot harder to perform compared to datacentre/home use.
Interestingly, the 80GB drive is 4200RPM, claiming 30% more data transfer rate than the 60GB 5400RPM disk (which is on par with the 60GB Toshiba drive).
Oh, and Apple's new Tibook no longer ships with the IBM 5400RPM disks - they ship them with the 4200RPM 60GB 2.5" notebook drives (and IBM don't make any 2.5" 4200RPM drives)
In short, IBM's recent track record for reliability isn't the best and reliability on a notebook drive is far more critical than a desktop drive because it's harder to back it up.
I've got a DLT80 drive here. It stores around 40GB/tape of raw data (80GB with hardware compression) but unfortunately a lot of my data is already compressed in some shape or form.
It averaged around 5MB/sec across over 340MB of data I store on my ATA RAID array + a few other disks in the machine. It took up a total of ten tapes and took endless hours to do (plus I need to be around to switch tapes - audoloaders are hardly accessible to home users).
I find the ATA RAID1 solution more elegant. The only issue that bites is that you can't do historical backups or pull data off the drive you deleted two months ago but now decide you need (it's happened to me). But disk mirroring is realtime and provides an easy way to cut over to the other disk (as opposed to reformat, reinstall, restore with tapes)
I agree that we're getting a tad off topic here but Dell do not provide any such mechanism under Windows XP to force speedstep settings to full power. I believe their 'SmartStep' notebooks are the same - a quick hack is done at BIOS level and can't be changed.
Dell do not offer an easy way of forcing CPU power to full on battery under Windows XP with speedstep enabled. Sometimes I like to lower my CPU if I'm only typing documents or increase if if I'm doing on-the-run firewire video editing. Toshiba on the other hand offer a speedstep utility even under Windows XP which let me throw the CPU into full power mode at the expense of battery life.
For the record, I am comparing my Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 both running Windows XP.
They could still be real. I don't believe it, but it's possible.
1. It's a technology preview. It's not a widespread beta release - it's all internal at this stage. that means things might be uneven or rough. Don't believe me - read some old magazine reviews of the pre-beta IE4 releases with shell integration. Flip back to an old 1993 magazine (December issue of Windows Sources I think it was) and you'll find screenshots of a Windows UI that looks a little different to Windows 95 - but it was the Chicago Beta (around buld 200 or thereabouts - release/RTM of Win95 was around build 600 but they bumped it to 950 to sound cooler).
2. They could have changed the anti aliasing capabilities of Longhorn. Oh no! My OS X 10.2 screenshots are fake, they use better antialiasing than OS 10.1... see my point?
3. Yes, the sidebar doubles up on a lot of functions. How many ways can you run a program or copy a file in Windows XP? Microsoft love making it as easy (and confusing) as possible to do stuff, even if it means making it possible to do it in slightly less than a million ways.
4. The screenshots still say Windows XP. My Windows 98 betas still said 95. My Windows Me builds said 98 in their early phase. Microsoft don't care too much about polishing things in the pre-beta/development release stage.
5. No mention of object oriented FS. it's coming - I've had two Microsoft developers personally assure me that it's coming RSN - in the next release of Windows. So yes, fake, but I call upon different evidence for that decision.
I've found that most manufacturers get around the current WEP issues by using a method called weak key avoidance. This doesn't use a sequential init vector, therefore rendering the attack invunerable to things such as airsnort.
However, Cisco APs won't do that with my Orinoco cards. Orinoco APs won't do that with Cisco cards. Which is why I'd welcome some sort of standard "WEP plus" method implemented across the board. As each manufacturer implemented their own weak key avoidance algorithm via a firmware update on the cards and the AP itself, it should be a trivial task to implement a standard method, assuming the WiFi standards group doesn't make any stupid mistakes and require more powerful hardware. Wireless has been the hot technology lately, educational institutions have been the big users of this technology so the last thing they'll want to do is shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for another 100 access points (in the case of Monash here in Melbourne).
Also remember that WEP 128 (RC4) is NOT part of the Wi-Fi standard! I think they should address this one while they're at it as well.
I had two clients connected, so they only got 99,999 connections.
How many were a floodbot network? On AUSTnet (an IRC network I admin a server on), we periodically get an increase of 400-500 clients if someone smart decides to play funny buggers...
There's a local dentist advertising this. I was assuming it was some sort of laser thing, hell, it's been years since any innovation in the dentistry field.
With a check-up appointment next Thursday, I wonder whether it's worth going for the laser thing. The injection is probably half as bad, and even worse if it doesn't work properly.
What are the cost differences? Surely the attraction of less pain would draw more money. Hell, I'd pay a little extra for the laser thing.
THe ozone treatment actually makes me wonder. Having fillings is a risk - they'll have to replace them with fillings won't they? Maybe it's worth waiting till this treatment also becomes available here down under.
Has anybody here had the laser treatment? Is anybody willing to give a detailed comparison between conventional and laser treatment?
It seems to be common for computer science students to pull all-nighters and consume copious amounts of caffeinated substances.
Perhaps we should celebrate his life by an all-nighter, worldwide? Maybe a code-a-thon or something...
my DVD collection is larger than my CD collection
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I fail to see how a larger, different format could stop piracy. Remember how we had this thing back in the mid 90s where CDs stopped piracy? Look at them now. Expect a similar change when DVD-R comes down in price. Any new DVD format is likely to follow suit, just a matter of time. It may slow down piracy and give the market a window of time in which it can grow as a result of hard-to-duplicate material.
On a different note, my DVD collection is larger than my CD collection. DVDs cost me more than CDs do, too, then again, movies cost more to produce. I wonder what'll happen when DVD-R media comes to the same price that CD-R media is at now.
I went the desktop replacement notebook road not long ago which carries a Geforce4Go 440, the equiv. of a Geforce4MX 440. It lacks the vertex and pixel shaders which will really hurt DOOM3's performance.
I'm more or less interested to see whether Dell will offer the same format and keep the new NV3x mobile GPU module compatible with their existing machines - the ATI Mobility 7500, GeForce2Go and GeForce4go all share the same card format so you can easily drop a GeForce4Go in the older Inspiron 8000 series which has been around for over a year now. That is, assuming that you went for the higher res screen which seems more compatible with everything.
What's so good about David Bowie? He's a music artist. So is everbody else in my CD/MD/MP3 collection but I can't really see a reason that Bowie should stand out from all the others.
Is there something I've missed? Perhaps it's because I'm 20 and his stuff was before my time? That doesn't quite work as I do enjoy listening to all types of music, 60s, 70s, a lot of 80s and modernish stuff.
I'm not saying I don't like Bowie. Yeah, his stuff is good, but not exceptional to warrant a cult/religious following.
So to the community - what is it about David Bowie that fascinates you?
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I certainly hope this chipset has better Linux support than the earlier chipset.
I've had experience with a set of three nForce boards used in game servers and have had nothing but trouble. A board that costs a third of the price (the K7S5A) outperforms it. The integrated network controller stops responding if I'm not loading the network interface and refuses to update its ARP table. Graphics isn't worth the price difference - a K7S5A with a *GeForce4MX* would be cheaper and faster than an nForce with the integrated toys.
Given that they are including two NICs with this upcoming chipset, I hope their linux support is above par for this one.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200. I bought this thing a week ago. Nice machine, feels like a desktop PC in almost every way. I've got the 2GHz processor, the 1600x1200 "UltraSharp" display (with faster response times and a greater contrast/viewable angle), 24x CDRW/DVD combo drive, 60GB drive and the GeForce4 Go 440 (I'm a gamer and run large LANs so it's important to get a good gaming card vs. the Radeon).
Now it's a great machine, but the screen is VERY off-putting. The size is fine, the resolution is fine (for those who think 1600 gets a bit small, use it for five minutes and you'll change your mind) but the screen is pixelated. On the whiter areas, it's obvious - it's like a fine grane on the screen. Apparently this is the norm for such high-res screens but it really makes a difference to the usability of the machine. My 17" diamondtron NF based display looks nicer in comparison, and I remember preferring my 12.1" 800x600 LCD on my old Toshiba in preference.
Perhaps I should give Dell a call and see if they have any plans to offer a larger screen on their 8200s.
Slashdot meets are traditionally on the first Friday of the month.
I was thinking about the Melbourne events a number of months ago, and idly thought that it would be a damn cool idea to have a Slashdot meet, or something of the sort.
In my supreme slackness, I didn't do anything about it.
The Clawhammer samples that you're seeing now are locked 800MHz parts. This way the board builders get working parts, but don't get to leak benchmark numbers at this time.
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Most SACDs are dual layered - they will also contain the CD audio PCM track on there as well.
That's so that the record company can press media ONCE and have it applicable to both buyers. The other advantage is that if you bought enough of these dual-mode CDs, you'll have a strong desire to get an SACD player. Good work to the marketing teams for this one!
Oh, you can probably still rip the CD audio track, too! Haven't got an SACD disc here yet to try. The same with DVD Audio - most discs include an alternate audio track such as DTS, Dolby Digital or PCM - and you can rip that one straight through digital as it is.
While consumer multichannel recording software (and hardware) seems a bit hard to get hold of (I haven't seen any, but I haven't looked too hard), you'll find that the SB Audigy 2 can do 24 bit, 96khz sound recording. M-audio have a similar product they have just released (with no digital inputs, mind you).
So it's very possible and within consumer reach to record high quality audio with their PC. It won't sound the same as SACD but again, MP3s don't sound as good as CDs yet they're still popular.
Audiophiles are excessive. If I had a job to support my audio lust, I'd probably be classed as one, too.
Audiophiles have gone for this sort of thing. These people don't play CDs with just a high end CD player, you'll find they use what is called a CD "transport" which is a CD player with a digital out. For a nice one, a few grand at least, ranging up to five figures for these things. Then you need to feed this wonderfully accurate string of 0's and 1's into a DAC. Not just the crappy DACs in your receiver of sound card, these DAC units are generally made to match the CD transport and will probably cost somewhere between half and double the cost of the transport itself. Then, with your thousand dollar interconnect cables (a pair of RCA plugs, for example, but you'll find preference towards 'balanced' connectors), they'll connect it to a preamplifier and then into a power amp, which may be a set of monoblocks (one power amp per speaker, sometimes they bi-amp them, too!). Then you've got the speaker cables and speakers and I'll be dammed when they stop paying thousands of dollars for a piece of copper wire. Yes, a well trained ear can hear the difference between speaker wire and it does stand to reason that each wire has its own characteristics and high quality speakers can help those characteristics materialise. Not all audiophiles are this obsessive/rich. You'll find some who spend a moderate amount of money and simply buy what's best in their price range. But deep down inside, we all know they want a pair of Krell reference monoblocks driving each channel (or a large house to entertain guests, whichever turns out to be cheaper).
They'll have a seperate unit for DVDs as well. Sometimes they'll have an entirely different *system*. (I've known audiphiles to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on a stereo system and spend only a few grand on their entire home theatre rig so it all comes down to priorities).
To them, you'll probably find that the analog outputs would suit them fine, assuming the quality of the DACs in the unit are up to scratch. For a new format such as SACD, the attraction is that digital sound encoded in DSD is a lot more freeform than PCM encoded material because you're not 'locked' in to a certain set of frequencies. The result is in a more natural, real sound with greater depth and image. A lot of the purists have avoided digital purely because vinyl 'sounds better'.
Oh, and the audiophiles won't care about copy protection too much. It'll degrade the quality of the recording anyway, no matter what you do.
You'll notice that there is no current method of transmitting DSD (direct stream digital) encoded data over SPDIF and there's no receiver that'll decode it. DSD is what SACD uses, not PCM.
Even so, there is no standard for transmitting the multichannel DVD-audio signal, nor is there any method of sending 24/192khz stereo data to a receiver/preamp other than to have the audio decoded with an external unit (say, the onboard decoder on a DVD/SACD player) and then feed the discreet channels in, one by one, via a whole stack of cables going to your receiver/preamp.
We could use a new digital interconnect standard. I know a lot of people hanging out for a new upgrade to their audiophile-grade system as a result of this.
I should also note that FireWire sounds like an idea here - the Onkyo DS-TX989 and the Integra gear has an option to add a firewire port when they release the upgrade. Some other high end audiophile-grade manufacturers also have a similar plan.
Yes, in my new Dell Inspiron 8200, my 60GB 5400RPM IBM Travelstar 60GH died after a month, taking some of the data down with it. I had a Dell service tech come out and replace it the next day, but it's rather distressing that such a drive, brand new, dies within a month. 60GB is a LOT of data, especially on a notebook where the information changes a lot more frequently than on a desktop system and backups are a lot harder to perform compared to datacentre/home use.
Interestingly, the 80GB drive is 4200RPM, claiming 30% more data transfer rate than the 60GB 5400RPM disk (which is on par with the 60GB Toshiba drive).
Oh, and Apple's new Tibook no longer ships with the IBM 5400RPM disks - they ship them with the 4200RPM 60GB 2.5" notebook drives (and IBM don't make any 2.5" 4200RPM drives)
In short, IBM's recent track record for reliability isn't the best and reliability on a notebook drive is far more critical than a desktop drive because it's harder to back it up.
I've got a DLT80 drive here. It stores around 40GB/tape of raw data (80GB with hardware compression) but unfortunately a lot of my data is already compressed in some shape or form.
It averaged around 5MB/sec across over 340MB of data I store on my ATA RAID array + a few other disks in the machine. It took up a total of ten tapes and took endless hours to do (plus I need to be around to switch tapes - audoloaders are hardly accessible to home users).
I find the ATA RAID1 solution more elegant. The only issue that bites is that you can't do historical backups or pull data off the drive you deleted two months ago but now decide you need (it's happened to me). But disk mirroring is realtime and provides an easy way to cut over to the other disk (as opposed to reformat, reinstall, restore with tapes)
I agree that we're getting a tad off topic here but Dell do not provide any such mechanism under Windows XP to force speedstep settings to full power. I believe their 'SmartStep' notebooks are the same - a quick hack is done at BIOS level and can't be changed.
Dell do not offer an easy way of forcing CPU power to full on battery under Windows XP with speedstep enabled. Sometimes I like to lower my CPU if I'm only typing documents or increase if if I'm doing on-the-run firewire video editing.
Toshiba on the other hand offer a speedstep utility even under Windows XP which let me throw the CPU into full power mode at the expense of battery life.
For the record, I am comparing my Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 both running Windows XP.
They could still be real. I don't believe it, but it's possible.
... see my point?
1. It's a technology preview. It's not a widespread beta release - it's all internal at this stage. that means things might be uneven or rough. Don't believe me - read some old magazine reviews of the pre-beta IE4 releases with shell integration. Flip back to an old 1993 magazine (December issue of Windows Sources I think it was) and you'll find screenshots of a Windows UI that looks a little different to Windows 95 - but it was the Chicago Beta (around buld 200 or thereabouts - release/RTM of Win95 was around build 600 but they bumped it to 950 to sound cooler).
2. They could have changed the anti aliasing capabilities of Longhorn. Oh no! My OS X 10.2 screenshots are fake, they use better antialiasing than OS 10.1
3. Yes, the sidebar doubles up on a lot of functions. How many ways can you run a program or copy a file in Windows XP? Microsoft love making it as easy (and confusing) as possible to do stuff, even if it means making it possible to do it in slightly less than a million ways.
4. The screenshots still say Windows XP. My Windows 98 betas still said 95. My Windows Me builds said 98 in their early phase. Microsoft don't care too much about polishing things in the pre-beta/development release stage.
5. No mention of object oriented FS. it's coming - I've had two Microsoft developers personally assure me that it's coming RSN - in the next release of Windows. So yes, fake, but I call upon different evidence for that decision.
I've found that most manufacturers get around the current WEP issues by using a method called weak key avoidance. This doesn't use a sequential init vector, therefore rendering the attack invunerable to things such as airsnort.
However, Cisco APs won't do that with my Orinoco cards. Orinoco APs won't do that with Cisco cards. Which is why I'd welcome some sort of standard "WEP plus" method implemented across the board. As each manufacturer implemented their own weak key avoidance algorithm via a firmware update on the cards and the AP itself, it should be a trivial task to implement a standard method, assuming the WiFi standards group doesn't make any stupid mistakes and require more powerful hardware. Wireless has been the hot technology lately, educational institutions have been the big users of this technology so the last thing they'll want to do is shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for another 100 access points (in the case of Monash here in Melbourne).
Also remember that WEP 128 (RC4) is NOT part of the Wi-Fi standard! I think they should address this one while they're at it as well.
Nothing like seeing a new slashdot story with no comments. Was I seeing things? Was the lack of sleep finally getting to me?
:( I only got second post.
However, my eyes decieved me once again
At least.
Remember that there are TWO supervisor 2 engines in those machines (see the pic)
We've got *ONE* of these at work, along with a bunch of 6509s around the *core* network. Damn, they're cool.
So... like, when is someone going to rice up a Cisco?
I had two clients connected, so they only got 99,999 connections.
How many were a floodbot network? On AUSTnet (an IRC network I admin a server on), we periodically get an increase of 400-500 clients if someone smart decides to play funny buggers...
On the 19th in fact, it turns 20 years old, according to this information.
There's a local dentist advertising this. I was assuming it was some sort of laser thing, hell, it's been years since any innovation in the dentistry field.
With a check-up appointment next Thursday, I wonder whether it's worth going for the laser thing. The injection is probably half as bad, and even worse if it doesn't work properly.
What are the cost differences? Surely the attraction of less pain would draw more money. Hell, I'd pay a little extra for the laser thing.
THe ozone treatment actually makes me wonder. Having fillings is a risk - they'll have to replace them with fillings won't they? Maybe it's worth waiting till this treatment also becomes available here down under.
Has anybody here had the laser treatment? Is anybody willing to give a detailed comparison between conventional and laser treatment?
It seems to be common for computer science students to pull all-nighters and consume copious amounts of caffeinated substances.
Perhaps we should celebrate his life by an all-nighter, worldwide? Maybe a code-a-thon or something...
I fail to see how a larger, different format could stop piracy. Remember how we had this thing back in the mid 90s where CDs stopped piracy? Look at them now. Expect a similar change when DVD-R comes down in price. Any new DVD format is likely to follow suit, just a matter of time. It may slow down piracy and give the market a window of time in which it can grow as a result of hard-to-duplicate material.
On a different note, my DVD collection is larger than my CD collection. DVDs cost me more than CDs do, too, then again, movies cost more to produce. I wonder what'll happen when DVD-R media comes to the same price that CD-R media is at now.
This collides with the slashdot meetup date of next month....
I went the desktop replacement notebook road not long ago which carries a Geforce4Go 440, the equiv. of a Geforce4MX 440. It lacks the vertex and pixel shaders which will really hurt DOOM3's performance.
I'm more or less interested to see whether Dell will offer the same format and keep the new NV3x mobile GPU module compatible with their existing machines - the ATI Mobility 7500, GeForce2Go and GeForce4go all share the same card format so you can easily drop a GeForce4Go in the older Inspiron 8000 series which has been around for over a year now. That is, assuming that you went for the higher res screen which seems more compatible with everything.
What's so good about David Bowie? He's a music artist. So is everbody else in my CD/MD/MP3 collection but I can't really see a reason that Bowie should stand out from all the others.
Is there something I've missed? Perhaps it's because I'm 20 and his stuff was before my time? That doesn't quite work as I do enjoy listening to all types of music, 60s, 70s, a lot of 80s and modernish stuff.
I'm not saying I don't like Bowie. Yeah, his stuff is good, but not exceptional to warrant a cult/religious following.
So to the community - what is it about David Bowie that fascinates you?
I certainly hope this chipset has better Linux support than the earlier chipset.
I've had experience with a set of three nForce boards used in game servers and have had nothing but trouble. A board that costs a third of the price (the K7S5A) outperforms it. The integrated network controller stops responding if I'm not loading the network interface and refuses to update its ARP table. Graphics isn't worth the price difference - a K7S5A with a *GeForce4MX* would be cheaper and faster than an nForce with the integrated toys.
Given that they are including two NICs with this upcoming chipset, I hope their linux support is above par for this one.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200. I bought this thing a week ago. Nice machine, feels like a desktop PC in almost every way. I've got the 2GHz processor, the 1600x1200 "UltraSharp" display (with faster response times and a greater contrast/viewable angle), 24x CDRW/DVD combo drive, 60GB drive and the GeForce4 Go 440 (I'm a gamer and run large LANs so it's important to get a good gaming card vs. the Radeon).
Now it's a great machine, but the screen is VERY off-putting. The size is fine, the resolution is fine (for those who think 1600 gets a bit small, use it for five minutes and you'll change your mind) but the screen is pixelated. On the whiter areas, it's obvious - it's like a fine grane on the screen. Apparently this is the norm for such high-res screens but it really makes a difference to the usability of the machine. My 17" diamondtron NF based display looks nicer in comparison, and I remember preferring my 12.1" 800x600 LCD on my old Toshiba in preference.
Perhaps I should give Dell a call and see if they have any plans to offer a larger screen on their 8200s.
Yes, what the topic says.
Slashdot meets are traditionally on the first Friday of the month.
I was thinking about the Melbourne events a number of months ago, and idly thought that it would be a damn cool idea to have a Slashdot meet, or something of the sort.
In my supreme slackness, I didn't do anything about it.
I'd rather my server switch off than it bursting into flames. Some data loss is preferable to all.
To quote from HardOCP:
The Clawhammer samples that you're seeing now are locked 800MHz parts. This way the board builders get working parts, but don't get to leak benchmark numbers at this time.