It was a gaming system, so we're talking high-end AGP card, probably a sound card, I think it had a TV-in card also. So, yeah, quite a bit of load.
I don't remember if it had an auxiliary plug or not - I think it did, and it would have been plugged in because I'm careful about stuff like that:D But I do know that I hadn't opened the case for a few months at that point.
Honestly I haven't stuck with one since. I think I've used Gigabyte, MSI, and a small family of VIA boards since. The MSI board turned out to have an incredibly weird defect (it would cause memory faults if it was under low load, so I used it for a while with distributed.net running in the background before I proved it was the mobo and not the RAM or CPU) and I was hesitant to buy Gigabyte because I had nothing but trouble with one of their video cards. Mobo works fine though.
Besides one with the cap problem, the VIA boards have been the most reliable computers I've ever had - I've got a screenshot of WinXP hitting 400 days uptime on one, and I only rebooted it because the hard drive was getting noisy and I needed to replace it (which led to some interesting issues itself.)
Every once in a while I need to dig out an ancient email from my email repository. I don't have any way of knowing which one ahead of time - sometimes it's something obviously important, sometimes it turns out to be something incredibly unimportant (one of my friends deleted an important Livejournal entry once accidentally, but I'd responded to the entry with a mostly-unimportant comment and Livejournal emails me with the entire entry text when I do that. Surprise! It's important!)
On top of that, the sheer effort involved in figuring out which emails are important and which aren't simply isn't worth it. I've got around 400mb of email, containing at least 50,000 individual messages - it's cheaper, in terms of time and effort, to keep it all.
I like your diagnosis about the PSU. I'll have to dig out that old PSU (I still have it somewhere because the burnt connector is so awesome) and see if it has bad caps. But yeah, even if it was the PSU, the motherboard definitely contributed somehow - I've posted that picture quite often and the only people who've ever said "Hey, I had the exact same pattern!" were people with S2460s.
High-end PSU (500w I believe, I forget the maker - I'm obviously not using it anymore and this was two entire computer upgrade cycles ago.)
Remember that it was working fine for years, and remember that the pins were actually [i]burnt[/i] - it's hard for an inadequate PSU to burn pins on the mobo if the mobo itself isn't helping quite a lot.
I jumped on the dual-processor bandwagon pretty much the instant that commodity CPUs officially supported it. Namely, the Athlon MP. I got a Tyan Tiger motherboard and a friend did the same. Shortly thereafter I lost contact with that friend.
A few years later I went to turn on my computer as usual and it wouldn't turn on. A bit of troubleshooting later and I realized that the PSU connector had burned itself into the motherboard power socket because something on the motherboard had randomly decided to short itself. Four of the pins had fried (in a distinctive pattern, see here and here) and I ended up buying a new motherboard from a different manufacturer and a new power supply (thankfully, the other components had survived fine.)
About a year after that I ran into my friend. We were talking about upgrades and I dug out those pictures. Turned out he'd lost three Tyan Tiger motherboards, with the exact same burn pattern, before changing manufacturers.
So, yeah, I'm not touching Tyan again. I've never actually had a computer component burn itself to death before, and one time was enough.
[i]So what's the solution, in the meantime you're going to waste your expensive high def TV watching shitty standard format DVDs?[/i]
No, I'm going to waste my expensive high-def TV playing videogames.
I don't think it's worth buying a bluray player or an hd-dvd player for the relatively few movies I'd end up watching on it until cheap and good dual-format players come out. Which they will. It's not "never buy these", it's "wait on buying these until they're even cheaper".
The money he's been making is fantastic. I still doubt he's going to get elected. He doesn't have the mental share, he has ideas that are uncomfortable to many people, and while he's very well-known on the internet I question how well-known he is elsewhere.
Note that on the financial trade betting markets, he's [url=https://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/searchPageBuilder.jsp?z=1198441040843&grpID=95#]fifth place[/url].
Well, one step at a time, y'know? If you have a magic president who'll do both of those things, and has even a snowball chance in hell of getting elected (which is roughly where I rank Ron Paul's chance), let me know and I'll vote for him.
I dunno when you last tried WinXP 64, but I've been using it for over a year and I think the last time I had trouble was when I realized my sound card manufacturer was a dick and didn't have functional drivers. I'm not sure they had functional new drivers for XP either, though, since they were the same version number and the bug was (as near as I can tell) that they required Windows in a different language.
Basically, XP64 is pretty rock-solid now and, for any company that isn't junk, the drivers are quite mature.
On the other hand, I've seen people follow this logic to its illogical conclusion - "everything is Support's problem". When you end up spending ten minutes on the phone with support for a problem that you could have fixed yourself, in two minutes, if you'd just spent that hour reading the damn book in the first place . . . and you do that a dozen times . . . well, it might be Support's job, but the guy asking the questions should still be doing more himself.
I actually used Linux recently to determine what a piece of hardware was - I couldn't find Windows drivers that worked with it, but an Ubuntu boot disk detected it and told me exactly what it was.
(Which, annoyingly, was exactly what I'd thought it was. Stupid Windows laptop video drivers. Why can't they be more compatible?)
Because I can add a few small features to my version, close the source, rename it, strip all references to the GPL or to free software, and sell it packaged in stores for $50 each.
In addition to the previous comment, when I rate movies I'm usually rating movies that I remember. If a movie is entirely unmemorable, I'm not gonna remember that I watched it and thus I'm not going to rate it.
That means the above-average movies and the total flops get rated, but not the below-average movies.
You're still downloading the.zip before you view its contents, aren't you? Actually browsing the contents of a.zip on-line would require server-side decompression
Actually, no, it technically wouldn't. ZIP files store their table-of-contents starting at the end, with (I believe) a marker at the very end letting you know how large it is. If you're working with a protocol that allows you to download fragments of files, which I believe HTTP does, you could actually download only the parts of a ZIP file that you need to extract the files inside that you want.
I don't know if they're doing this, note. But it certainly would be cool, and it certainly would be possible.
I would happily and joyfully give up my right to vote in the next election for one million dollars.
A quarter of it would go to the Ron Paul campaign, since I really enjoy how he's fucking with the status quo. Half of it would go to the campaign of whatever final candidate I like the best. A quarter would go to me, since I'm greedy that way.
"But Zorba! How could you give up your vote!" Come on, do you honestly think that the various groups I like couldn't get far more than a single vote with that much cash spent on advertising? I'm not giving up my vote by taking this deal - I'm multiplying it enormously.
I don't know what the "break-even" point would be on this trade, I'd have to think about that seriously. But if you don't mind going into advertising a little bit, pretty much everyone should be willing to give up their next vote - or even all of their votes - for a sufficient amount of money. Unless the physical action of putting a piece of paper in a box is really that important to you, I suppose.
The one big advantage that you had running Quake under Windows was that it made TCP/IP network play a whole hell of a lot easier. That's why I did it, and that's why most people did it.
Single-player there wasn't a lot of reason for it, however.
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It was a gaming system, so we're talking high-end AGP card, probably a sound card, I think it had a TV-in card also. So, yeah, quite a bit of load.
:D But I do know that I hadn't opened the case for a few months at that point.
I don't remember if it had an auxiliary plug or not - I think it did, and it would have been plugged in because I'm careful about stuff like that
Honestly I haven't stuck with one since. I think I've used Gigabyte, MSI, and a small family of VIA boards since. The MSI board turned out to have an incredibly weird defect (it would cause memory faults if it was under low load, so I used it for a while with distributed.net running in the background before I proved it was the mobo and not the RAM or CPU) and I was hesitant to buy Gigabyte because I had nothing but trouble with one of their video cards. Mobo works fine though.
Besides one with the cap problem, the VIA boards have been the most reliable computers I've ever had - I've got a screenshot of WinXP hitting 400 days uptime on one, and I only rebooted it because the hard drive was getting noisy and I needed to replace it (which led to some interesting issues itself.)
I resolve to spend more time at the fun gym. I don't know why everyone always chooses the depressing one.
The directory is backed up and version-controlled, right?
Because if not, that might be an (admittedly crummy) attempt at a backup system.
Every once in a while I need to dig out an ancient email from my email repository. I don't have any way of knowing which one ahead of time - sometimes it's something obviously important, sometimes it turns out to be something incredibly unimportant (one of my friends deleted an important Livejournal entry once accidentally, but I'd responded to the entry with a mostly-unimportant comment and Livejournal emails me with the entire entry text when I do that. Surprise! It's important!)
On top of that, the sheer effort involved in figuring out which emails are important and which aren't simply isn't worth it. I've got around 400mb of email, containing at least 50,000 individual messages - it's cheaper, in terms of time and effort, to keep it all.
Yep, S2460.
I like your diagnosis about the PSU. I'll have to dig out that old PSU (I still have it somewhere because the burnt connector is so awesome) and see if it has bad caps. But yeah, even if it was the PSU, the motherboard definitely contributed somehow - I've posted that picture quite often and the only people who've ever said "Hey, I had the exact same pattern!" were people with S2460s.
High-end PSU (500w I believe, I forget the maker - I'm obviously not using it anymore and this was two entire computer upgrade cycles ago.)
Remember that it was working fine for years, and remember that the pins were actually [i]burnt[/i] - it's hard for an inadequate PSU to burn pins on the mobo if the mobo itself isn't helping quite a lot.
Funny thing about this, actually.
I jumped on the dual-processor bandwagon pretty much the instant that commodity CPUs officially supported it. Namely, the Athlon MP. I got a Tyan Tiger motherboard and a friend did the same. Shortly thereafter I lost contact with that friend.
A few years later I went to turn on my computer as usual and it wouldn't turn on. A bit of troubleshooting later and I realized that the PSU connector had burned itself into the motherboard power socket because something on the motherboard had randomly decided to short itself. Four of the pins had fried (in a distinctive pattern, see here and here) and I ended up buying a new motherboard from a different manufacturer and a new power supply (thankfully, the other components had survived fine.)
About a year after that I ran into my friend. We were talking about upgrades and I dug out those pictures. Turned out he'd lost three Tyan Tiger motherboards, with the exact same burn pattern, before changing manufacturers.
So, yeah, I'm not touching Tyan again. I've never actually had a computer component burn itself to death before, and one time was enough.
I don't think this is actually an argument with what he's claiming. I think you're just agreeing with him from a different angle.
[i]So what's the solution, in the meantime you're going to waste your expensive high def TV watching shitty standard format DVDs?[/i]
No, I'm going to waste my expensive high-def TV playing videogames.
I don't think it's worth buying a bluray player or an hd-dvd player for the relatively few movies I'd end up watching on it until cheap and good dual-format players come out. Which they will. It's not "never buy these", it's "wait on buying these until they're even cheaper".
Oh fuck that it doesn't like the URL for some reason.
https://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/searchPageBuilder.jsp?z=1198441040843&grpID=95#
THERE
Shit, too much vbcode for me. Fifth place.
The money he's been making is fantastic. I still doubt he's going to get elected. He doesn't have the mental share, he has ideas that are uncomfortable to many people, and while he's very well-known on the internet I question how well-known he is elsewhere.
Note that on the financial trade betting markets, he's [url=https://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/searchPageBuilder.jsp?z=1198441040843&grpID=95#]fifth place[/url].
Well, one step at a time, y'know? If you have a magic president who'll do both of those things, and has even a snowball chance in hell of getting elected (which is roughly where I rank Ron Paul's chance), let me know and I'll vote for him.
I dunno when you last tried WinXP 64, but I've been using it for over a year and I think the last time I had trouble was when I realized my sound card manufacturer was a dick and didn't have functional drivers. I'm not sure they had functional new drivers for XP either, though, since they were the same version number and the bug was (as near as I can tell) that they required Windows in a different language.
Basically, XP64 is pretty rock-solid now and, for any company that isn't junk, the drivers are quite mature.
Maybe.
On the other hand, I've seen people follow this logic to its illogical conclusion - "everything is Support's problem". When you end up spending ten minutes on the phone with support for a problem that you could have fixed yourself, in two minutes, if you'd just spent that hour reading the damn book in the first place . . . and you do that a dozen times . . . well, it might be Support's job, but the guy asking the questions should still be doing more himself.
I actually used Linux recently to determine what a piece of hardware was - I couldn't find Windows drivers that worked with it, but an Ubuntu boot disk detected it and told me exactly what it was.
(Which, annoyingly, was exactly what I'd thought it was. Stupid Windows laptop video drivers. Why can't they be more compatible?)
I have PDFs that make Foxit grind to a flaming halt. Curiously, they do the same thing on every version of Adobe Reader I've tried besides Reader 7.
Obviously, I use Reader 7.
Because I can add a few small features to my version, close the source, rename it, strip all references to the GPL or to free software, and sell it packaged in stores for $50 each.
In addition to the previous comment, when I rate movies I'm usually rating movies that I remember. If a movie is entirely unmemorable, I'm not gonna remember that I watched it and thus I'm not going to rate it.
That means the above-average movies and the total flops get rated, but not the below-average movies.
Did they look behind the couch?
That's where I always lose things.
They might be there.
Actually, no, it technically wouldn't. ZIP files store their table-of-contents starting at the end, with (I believe) a marker at the very end letting you know how large it is. If you're working with a protocol that allows you to download fragments of files, which I believe HTTP does, you could actually download only the parts of a ZIP file that you need to extract the files inside that you want.
I don't know if they're doing this, note. But it certainly would be cool, and it certainly would be possible.
Why? I'm doing nothing evil with my million dollars. It's quite different, besides the fact that there's a million bucks involved.
I would happily and joyfully give up my right to vote in the next election for one million dollars.
A quarter of it would go to the Ron Paul campaign, since I really enjoy how he's fucking with the status quo. Half of it would go to the campaign of whatever final candidate I like the best. A quarter would go to me, since I'm greedy that way.
"But Zorba! How could you give up your vote!" Come on, do you honestly think that the various groups I like couldn't get far more than a single vote with that much cash spent on advertising? I'm not giving up my vote by taking this deal - I'm multiplying it enormously.
I don't know what the "break-even" point would be on this trade, I'd have to think about that seriously. But if you don't mind going into advertising a little bit, pretty much everyone should be willing to give up their next vote - or even all of their votes - for a sufficient amount of money. Unless the physical action of putting a piece of paper in a box is really that important to you, I suppose.
The one big advantage that you had running Quake under Windows was that it made TCP/IP network play a whole hell of a lot easier. That's why I did it, and that's why most people did it.
Single-player there wasn't a lot of reason for it, however.