Yes, IWantMoreSpamPlease, "Where in Hell is Carmen Sandiego" really does exist.
Blows my mind, thought the hardcore Apple ][ geek who told me about it was pulling my leg.
For the initial release of PearPC, you are undoubtedly correct. If you care to check more recent releases, you are somewhat less correct. Initiall release was about a 500:1 speed ratio. Current releases show about 40:1 speed ratio, now using recompilation techniques instead of CPU emulation. I strongly suspect the dynamic recompilation engine has a lot of room left for optimization at this point also. Give this project a bit more time to mature and it may well turn into a very usable product.
DOS uses support routines contained in BIOS ROM to access hardware. Your standard PC BIOS contains stuff like harddrive, floppy, video, printer and (horribly primitive and broken) serial port access routines. "Current" OS's pull some system config information from what BIOS discovers during boot, but more or less ignore BIOS completely after that.
In that position, I would tell have told said principle to go stuff himself until such time as he was willing to make a full apology, explaining his assitude in full, in front of a full school assembly.
Then again, I'm also a Rat Bastard to any ignorant gimp who insists on pissing me off after they've been given a chance to see the error of thier ways.
Conceit? I think not. Maxis/EA is developing this game not for direct personal gratificacation, but as thier livelyhood. The sell to the public for cash. They must develop something people WANT to buy. If enough people feel the in-game branding is a bad thing, Maxis/EA loses enough in sales that they would have been better off not taking McD's money in the first place.
Also I personally NOT like the concept of anyone else pushing lifestyle changes on me, even virtual changes. I'm also sure that there are a lot of people out there who would be insulted by this.
Disclaimer : I do not now, and never have been a Sims player.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. That poor little 386 wasn't decoding the MP3's, just acting as a fileserver. Streaming data to clients on LAN. It seemed to max out at somewhere around 2.5Mbps.
True enough, but IIRC that has little relevance here.
What I vaguely kinda sorta recall on the process is that it's not icebergs per se we're worried about melting. It's the caps themselves. Don't know about the arctic side, but a great deal of the antarctic ice is well above sea level, and loads of it is on top of rock that's well above sea level. In a nasty meltdown situation, such as the more rabid environmentalists scream about, this would be a huge pain.
If I really cared at this stage, probably wouldn't take long to find some numbers to play with from DOE or somesuch that showed how much ice where is situated in what matter. Since I live several hundred miles inland (and almost 1k feet above current sea level) it'd be the second-order and later effects that'd bother me in such a situation =)
Had an AMD 386DX40 box, 20MB RAM, 40MB HDD running Slackware 8. Managed to strip the install down to a hair under 20MB with a few system tools, Apache, Sendmail, and a couple userland goodies like PINE. It was running as households' gateway/firewall box to a 512k DSL hookup. Worked pretty well... max uptime was about 6 months (I was out of state for most of that time).
Eventually added another harddrive and turned it into the household MP3 server as well. Worked fine most of the time =)
Rackmount in the front room, next to the door and filing cabinets. Starting at the top of the rack there's a stuffed penguin sitting on top of the USRobotics 26-port TotalSwitch (24 ports @10mb, 2 @100bm), which is only in operation because the smaller, more useful hub is below it has no free ports. Left of the hub is the DSL modem. Under the modem resides our two 2u Intel L440GX+ server boxes. Beneath that is a 30-port telephone patch panel with only one port wired up. Leftover from trying to get a local FreeNet going... matching modem rack is in storage. Below that there's a small shelf with a monitor and KVM switch. Below that resides two UPS units, plugged to different outlets as current draw is too much with other electronics around...
Desk next to rack has a 21" monitor next to an aging K6 web browse/student use box (we do tutoring here). Then there's the two boxes in each bedroom her for personal use, the laptops, printers, and an ungodly assortment of peripherals and cards stored in the closets & scatterred around.
Let's not even get into the storage unit, which has all kinds of stuff... networking hardware for Apple ]['s even. Whoah.
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Just when I thought this point had been repeated enough times already...
Let me put it another way: MS's updates to the SP3 EULA are an annoyance.
Sorry to say, but the SP3 EULA is an annoyance AT BEST. At worst, you've given up admin rights on your own box. This makes it completely unusable where privacy of data matters (patient medical data is a recent high-profile example, insert several others here). Yes, it will be within MSFT's rights to install a patch, without your knowledge or consent that FUBARs your security setup. Will the fine folks there do so? Not neccessarily intentionally, but look at the track record. Perhaps in your way of thinking the EULA changes aren't enough to cause a switch to (Linux || Anything But Microsoft), but it should be enough to cause one to re-evaluate thier requirements and options.
(Deliberately ignoring part of the options, like firewalling off the netblock windowsupdate.microsoft.com resides in. I don't know for sure if this is the only place from which checks for needed updates are done from. Is it still a 'content push' model? Anyone?)
The SX-64 may be the rarest 64 made, but hardly the rarest Commodore. I think that (dubious) honor belongs to the 128B. Pure CP/M machine, Z80 CPU only rather than the dual Z80/65xx setup like the other 128 models.
For all the flaming Microsoft gets for copying stuff, it's amazing that KDE doesn't get the same. Just looking at the screenshots, its clearly evident that windows XP's style has definitely had influence on the KDE artists, in terms of icon style, colors, etc.
Funny... when WinXP first came out, I recall hearing loud bitching and groaning about how it "borrowed" look/style/etc ideas from KDE/Gnome. Now it's being said that KDE is stealing from WinXP? None of these products exist in a vaccum... elements evolving in tandem with each other may be unavoidable by now... the entire history of the computing idustry is filled with the wierdest incestuous relationships between ideas and products if you look long enough... perhaps the only way to avoid the appearrance of this would be a new interface paradigm, but every time I've heard someone bring this concept up, they've had little or nothing to back it with. Personally I don't really give a R.A.T.s ass who stole what idea from where, as long as nothing illegal was done and the result is a usable product.
Where was I going with the again? Oh hell, I've forgotten already... perhaps that in and of itself can serve as a metaphor for the entirety of this kind of debate.
You're not paranoid enough.
Think about all the wrangling they've done AFTER the court order to open up instant messaging... pretty well a dead issue by now, but I'd not be surprised if that issue gets revived.
WTF is this? "Score 3, Insightful" on what is clearly a troll? As was pointed out previously, in order to use this Linux dialer, one must already have an AOL account. Pengaol isn't making (or even trying to make) a profit here. AOLs' beef is simply about the loss of control over the customer "experience". Unfortunately for AOL, they're really selling a service, rather than an experience. My advice to them would be to give up and accept that not all users are complete idiots. Not all users want the extra bloat they call "services". Next!
Yes. It all sucks. As has been said in the past though, there is a certain range of problems for which *nix sucks twice as fast and ten times more reliably than Windows.
The XP series have thermal diodes, so that comment isn't valid in this case.
I've heard a few nasty rumors about Athlons and the thermal diodes... namely that the diodes aren't used as a marketing tactic partly because the CPU likes to blow in order to protect the diode. I'd like a pointer to more info before my next upgrade.
I was wondering when the Japanese would take the logical next step and transform cat girls from an anime fantasy to creepy reality.
Creepy? I must say... me has a thing for how some femmes act distinctly catty (though cats are pretty much just annoying). How can you call this creepy?
(maybe this is just the sleep deprivation talking. Bah)
I mean, I can make up an equation to calulate anything I want, but if I don't know what the value of any of the terms are, what good is it to anyone?
Knowing what the terms are is half the battle. True the results coming out of the equation are useless until we have better data going in, but for now it gives us some room for discussion, grist for the mill, yadda yadda yadda. We can at least have an idea on the bounds from plugging in edumacated (as opposed to educated) guesses in. The only real reason to bother filling values in for now, for sure, is that it's fun:)
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Yes, IWantMoreSpamPlease, "Where in Hell is Carmen Sandiego" really does exist. Blows my mind, thought the hardcore Apple ][ geek who told me about it was pulling my leg.
For the initial release of PearPC, you are undoubtedly correct. If you care to check more recent releases, you are somewhat less correct. Initiall release was about a 500:1 speed ratio. Current releases show about 40:1 speed ratio, now using recompilation techniques instead of CPU emulation. I strongly suspect the dynamic recompilation engine has a lot of room left for optimization at this point also. Give this project a bit more time to mature and it may well turn into a very usable product.
(d'oh replying to my own post...)
Should mention that it's the city police I've developed a poor attitude about. Not enough contact with county to develop an opinion as of yet.
Speaking as a resident of the Yakima area ...
The last truly honest policeman that I personally knew got railroaded out of town.
There may be others who aren't dirty, but I've yet to meet any of them.
dd + gzip, send result to large removable or networked drive.
Isn't this part of what I2O was supposed to solve?
More like the other way around...
DOS uses support routines contained in BIOS ROM to access hardware. Your standard PC BIOS contains stuff like harddrive, floppy, video, printer and (horribly primitive and broken) serial port access routines. "Current" OS's pull some system config information from what BIOS discovers during boot, but more or less ignore BIOS completely after that.
Title (almost) says it all.
I'm starting to believe that some sort of test for intelligence and background knowledge should be required to gain moderator privs. here.
Hrm... and I was thinking "very, very vague similarity to the Yellow Symbol."
... must... read... more... lovecraft...>/I>
In that position, I would tell have told said principle to go stuff himself until such time as he was willing to make a full apology, explaining his assitude in full, in front of a full school assembly.
Then again, I'm also a Rat Bastard to any ignorant gimp who insists on pissing me off after they've been given a chance to see the error of thier ways.
Conceit? I think not. Maxis/EA is developing this game not for direct personal gratificacation, but as thier livelyhood. The sell to the public for cash. They must develop something people WANT to buy. If enough people feel the in-game branding is a bad thing, Maxis/EA loses enough in sales that they would have been better off not taking McD's money in the first place.
Also I personally NOT like the concept of anyone else pushing lifestyle changes on me, even virtual changes. I'm also sure that there are a lot of people out there who would be insulted by this.
Disclaimer : I do not now, and never have been a Sims player.
MPEG audio decoding requires a good deal of CPU
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. That poor little 386 wasn't decoding the MP3's, just acting as a fileserver. Streaming data to clients on LAN. It seemed to max out at somewhere around 2.5Mbps.
Makes me wonder why I bother some days.
(-1, redundant)
80% (about) of icebergs are underwater.
True enough, but IIRC that has little relevance here.
What I vaguely kinda sorta recall on the process is that it's not icebergs per se we're worried about melting. It's the caps themselves. Don't know about the arctic side, but a great deal of the antarctic ice is well above sea level, and loads of it is on top of rock that's well above sea level. In a nasty meltdown situation, such as the more rabid environmentalists scream about, this would be a huge pain.
If I really cared at this stage, probably wouldn't take long to find some numbers to play with from DOE or somesuch that showed how much ice where is situated in what matter. Since I live several hundred miles inland (and almost 1k feet above current sea level) it'd be the second-order and later effects that'd bother me in such a situation =)
How about for a 4-person fileserver?
Had an AMD 386DX40 box, 20MB RAM, 40MB HDD running Slackware 8. Managed to strip the install down to a hair under 20MB with a few system tools, Apache, Sendmail, and a couple userland goodies like PINE. It was running as households' gateway/firewall box to a 512k DSL hookup. Worked pretty well... max uptime was about 6 months (I was out of state for most of that time).
Eventually added another harddrive and turned it into the household MP3 server as well. Worked fine most of the time =)
Rackmount in the front room, next to the door and filing cabinets. Starting at the top of the rack there's a stuffed penguin sitting on top of the USRobotics 26-port TotalSwitch (24 ports @10mb, 2 @100bm), which is only in operation because the smaller, more useful hub is below it has no free ports. Left of the hub is the DSL modem. Under the modem resides our two 2u Intel L440GX+ server boxes. Beneath that is a 30-port telephone patch panel with only one port wired up. Leftover from trying to get a local FreeNet going... matching modem rack is in storage. Below that there's a small shelf with a monitor and KVM switch. Below that resides two UPS units, plugged to different outlets as current draw is too much with other electronics around...
Desk next to rack has a 21" monitor next to an aging K6 web browse/student use box (we do tutoring here). Then there's the two boxes in each bedroom her for personal use, the laptops, printers, and an ungodly assortment of peripherals and cards stored in the closets & scatterred around.
Let's not even get into the storage unit, which has all kinds of stuff... networking hardware for Apple ]['s even. Whoah.
Just when I thought this point had been repeated enough times already...
Let me put it another way: MS's updates to the SP3 EULA are an annoyance.
Sorry to say, but the SP3 EULA is an annoyance AT BEST. At worst, you've given up admin rights on your own box. This makes it completely unusable where privacy of data matters (patient medical data is a recent high-profile example, insert several others here). Yes, it will be within MSFT's rights to install a patch, without your knowledge or consent that FUBARs your security setup. Will the fine folks there do so? Not neccessarily intentionally, but look at the track record. Perhaps in your way of thinking the EULA changes aren't enough to cause a switch to (Linux || Anything But Microsoft), but it should be enough to cause one to re-evaluate thier requirements and options.
(Deliberately ignoring part of the options, like firewalling off the netblock windowsupdate.microsoft.com resides in. I don't know for sure if this is the only place from which checks for needed updates are done from. Is it still a 'content push' model? Anyone?)
The SX-64 may be the rarest 64 made, but hardly the rarest Commodore. I think that (dubious) honor belongs to the 128B. Pure CP/M machine, Z80 CPU only rather than the dual Z80/65xx setup like the other 128 models.
For all the flaming Microsoft gets for copying stuff, it's amazing that KDE doesn't get the same. Just looking at the screenshots, its clearly evident that windows XP's style has definitely had influence on the KDE artists, in terms of icon style, colors, etc.
Funny... when WinXP first came out, I recall hearing loud bitching and groaning about how it "borrowed" look/style/etc ideas from KDE/Gnome. Now it's being said that KDE is stealing from WinXP? None of these products exist in a vaccum... elements evolving in tandem with each other may be unavoidable by now... the entire history of the computing idustry is filled with the wierdest incestuous relationships between ideas and products if you look long enough... perhaps the only way to avoid the appearrance of this would be a new interface paradigm, but every time I've heard someone bring this concept up, they've had little or nothing to back it with. Personally I don't really give a R.A.T.s ass who stole what idea from where, as long as nothing illegal was done and the result is a usable product.
Where was I going with the again? Oh hell, I've forgotten already... perhaps that in and of itself can serve as a metaphor for the entirety of this kind of debate.
You're not paranoid enough.
Think about all the wrangling they've done AFTER the court order to open up instant messaging... pretty well a dead issue by now, but I'd not be surprised if that issue gets revived.
Copy it, and resell it?
WTF is this? "Score 3, Insightful" on what is clearly a troll? As was pointed out previously, in order to use this Linux dialer, one must already have an AOL account. Pengaol isn't making (or even trying to make) a profit here. AOLs' beef is simply about the loss of control over the customer "experience". Unfortunately for AOL, they're really selling a service, rather than an experience. My advice to them would be to give up and accept that not all users are complete idiots. Not all users want the extra bloat they call "services". Next!
Yes. It all sucks. As has been said in the past though, there is a certain range of problems for which *nix sucks twice as fast and ten times more reliably than Windows.
The XP series have thermal diodes, so that comment isn't valid in this case.
I've heard a few nasty rumors about Athlons and the thermal diodes... namely that the diodes aren't used as a marketing tactic partly because the CPU likes to blow in order to protect the diode. I'd like a pointer to more info before my next upgrade.
Creepy? I must say... me has a thing for how some femmes act distinctly catty (though cats are pretty much just annoying). How can you call this creepy?
(maybe this is just the sleep deprivation talking. Bah)
I mean, I can make up an equation to calulate anything I want, but if I don't know what the value of any of the terms are, what good is it to anyone?
:)
Knowing what the terms are is half the battle. True the results coming out of the equation are useless until we have better data going in, but for now it gives us some room for discussion, grist for the mill, yadda yadda yadda. We can at least have an idea on the bounds from plugging in edumacated (as opposed to educated) guesses in. The only real reason to bother filling values in for now, for sure, is that it's fun