For more info, go check out freenet6 for some info on IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels. They can hook you up with a free tunnel to the IPv6 bone. There are links to ipv6.org for some info on implementations on OS's. They list Windows 2000, NT4, Mac, Linux, All BSD's, Cisco routers, OS/390, OpenVMS, etc. They also had a link to a Quake I server on the IPv6 bone. Enjoy!
He didn't say that Mandrake made Grub. Stop making trouble.
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You seem to overlook Be's BeIA OS which is specifically made for products like this. According to a Be press release, FIC has selected BeIA for their Internet Appliances. Be also has some screenshots of BeIA.
I'm not saying that is what is on this new product but it could be very likely.
And why shouldn't it be? The internet is just a bunch of inter-connected WANs/LANs/etc.. I think if they want to integrate it, then let them. They need the biggest butt-kicking of a lifetime but I don't want the government telling me how to write my programs/OS/etc.. The business practices of the Redmond crew are terrible but let write the software the way they want to.
I just noticed on S3's site that they are pushing a new device (They will email when available) that will stream mp3's from your computer (MS only right now) to it through your phone lines (without affecting service). I remember reading how S3 was one of the earliest Transmetta takers (among manufactures) and that they were developing a Transmetta powered appliance. Does anyone know if this is it? It could be a good thing to hack (write linux interface/connect wirelessly/etc.). I'm just speculating right now. Insert your own wild guessing.
I agree that QBASIC would be a good start. I started on Applesoft Basic back in the day and let me tell you "Line numbers suck". I never left enough room in my line numbers and I ended up recoding because I ended up putting way to much stuff into my subroutines. When I got to college the first programming class I took was Basic and they were using QBASIC(no line numbers, YEAAA). I was ready for line number nightmares but was pleasantly surprised. The instructor also taught so C classes to everything he did was structure and subroutines. It so natural going from that class to the intro C class.
I had a job where we used QBASIC programs to read input from bar code readers for our badges so the QBASIC wasn't a waste for me.
almost every time I download an mp3 I end up buying another CD. There is a lot of good (and really bad) free music out there now and that can affect sales too. I don't think that looking at sales locally near campus will give you a very complete picture at all.
I was under the impression that the ID's are only being dropped on Coppermines. I was reading on Intel's site and the page I was reading stated how great it was to have the chip ID's on the new Xeons so you can monitor your "big" servers. I'd like to see what the Unisys 32 CPU server can do but Intel has a ways to go to get to big machines. Chipsets have made me leary in recent times.
I work at a 1/2 Billion dollar bank (Granted not huge by any means) and we are running on a Unisys mainframe running MCP/Unixware. Right after we bought our mainframe Unisys started coming out with their Clearpath mainframes which have 2 operating environments, MCP/Unixware and NT running on the same hardware. The new mainframes are up to 32 CPU's dynamically able to reallocate CPU's to either environment. This all sounds pretty cool but it is NT. The upside is that the mainframe programs do communicate with NT servers and if you do it internally it is much faster.
I have had some experience with IBM AS/400's and I know that they are rock solid and I hear the same things about the S/390's. I don't know why you wouldn't run a VM Linux session to at least check it out. There are a lot scarier things out there than Linux on mainframes!!
can you get when the OS overhead is so low? I noticed that there is a DVD plugin for the multimedia. I wonder how that happened on an "alternative" OS to easily and quietly. The renderware addon is interesting to me. My brother-in-law is needing a render farm for his 3d animation company. Might be worth checking into.
Read your subject "2 cards on ONE board". This is what they did for the Fury Maxx and what 3dfx is doing with the Voodoo5. ATI has been doing it every other frame and 3dfx is doing every other line. You won't use two cards together for maximum speed but you might get multiple monitors working if they have a PCI version.
I agree but the point of my post was for him to compare apples to apples(no pun intended). He was comparing a pre-built Mac to the price of a MB and CPU and throwing out the price of parts he had. My point was to compare the price of all the parts at least. The G3/G4 still will lose on price but you need to at least evaluate it fairly or go rant somewhere else.
You can't compare Mhz straight across either but I'm sure I buy all the claims. I have seen my brother-in-law's G3's/G4's in action and he uses them in his graphics/3d animation business and they are faster than a comparable speed x86 CPU. Most of his heavy 3d is done on a dual CPU NT box. He used to use a G3 233Mhz but the video card couldn't hack it. He did some amazing things with it though. If you saw Robbie Kenevil jump the Grand Canyon or jump the train then you saw some of his work (the simulations).
or if you would rather buy computers that the manufature will come onsite to fix instead of paying the salary for the extra people you need to build and maintain. I'm the only IT guy at my work and we have 250 employees which almost all of them have a PC. We are over half way with replacing old machines(as necessary) with leased Dells. 18 months ago I was working for a company that builds all there computers (except AS/400:)). We had 50 computers and needed 2 IT guys to keep up with it. I replaced/rebuilt every computer there and knew the machines much better than I know these Dells.
Salary is only part of what an employer pays so factory built machines are closer to the cost of custom built machines than you realize when you look at the bottom line(which most administration do). This all depends on your scale too. If you are smaller then it probably would make sense to build it yourself if you have the knowledge(which most reading this do).
Is this the board(s) you are talking about? Motorola MTX Plus It has dual 400 MHz MPC604e, dual 10/100 ethernet, onboard SCSI3, etc. It seems to be a fairly nice board but I haven't talked to a salesman yet.
and if you don't have them then it isn't as good of a deal. Of course the same thing can be said for a G3/G4 since they are finally using industry standards. Don't get me worng, I have an Athlon at home but the more I see my brother-in-law's G4 in use the more I think about it.
Why didn't you rent the widescreen version? We can get them here in podunk Nebraska. I just bought the widescreen because renting a couple times you might as well of bought it.
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The answer is "Yes firewire is hotpluggable" I agree that mouse, keyboards, serial are great uses for USB. Your statements stated that nothing else is as good as USB which isn't true. The combination of Firewire and USB should cover all the bases. Firewire could do it all but USB is very available and well suited to Wacom tablets, Palm Pilots, whatever. A USB mouse is way smoother than a PS/2 mouse.
Maybe you should switch to a Voodoo3. I can 60+fps@1024x768 with my Athlon 500Mhz. If you don't like UT then don't play it. Personally I love UT and don't play much Q3 but I think there is plenty of room for Q3/UT/Halflife/etc. without getting nasty about it.
Of cource if you were playing in WinXX then your Geforce would be quite respectable but it still has a ways to go in Linux. I built a system for a friend with a Geforce (win98) and tried it out in my system. I decided that for now I would stick with the V3 because of better driver support (at the time at least) and because I could buy 2 (which I did buy 2) of them for the same money as the Geforce. I figured by the time Nvidia gets the drivers up to speed I could upgrade again.
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Try firewire® if you are looking for something better. Don't tell me that none support 100+ devices/plug and play/etc. because firewire does and it has a much higher bandwidth then USB. USB 2.0 is supposed to have the same kind of bandwidth but the new version of firewire is supposed to raise the bar again. Don't come back with the $1.00/port charge from Apple because is has been $.25/machine for a while now. I generally agree that USB is great for a lot of things and very versatile but comes up short sometimes.
Now about PCI being crap: It has been great but is starting to get old. 66Mhz PCI helps but the bus is going to have to be improved as CPUs get faster. It is becoming more and more of a bottleneck as time progresses. I wish the migration from ISA to PCI had been quicker because it is time to make improvements again.
We had an AS/400 at my last job too. We had three phases coming in for power and could run with one of them down and we had 2 hours of battery backup on top of that. We did lose power for 14 hours once and did have to shut it down but everything else was down too including the phone systems. I imagine your 41,000 servers would still go down if they powerlines are out and they are at the same location.
I work at a bank now and we have a generator on top of the UPS and can run 2 days without a refuel. That ought to keep our Unisys mainframe (A14) up and running for a while. The Unisys already is running Unixware/MCP on it. I really would like to get a look under the hood but I'm just a lowly NT administrator keeping the rest of the network running:(.
That's because you already bought a new motherboard. It's all a matter of timing. I put together a new system for myself for Christmas and needed all new parts. The lower price of an Athlon more than made up for the higher priced MB. Intel had you upgrade MB's a couple times in the last couple of years so you should figure that in. I used to work for an authorized Intel dealer and Intel sent us a press release explaining that socketed CPU's will never break the 400Mhz mark because of technical limitations. This was to explain Slot1's purpose when the P2 266Mhz was top dog. Intel is working the system as much as they can. On the positive side, I can drop a Celeron in my P2 LX(66Mhz) MB and give it some more life.
Where is your C64/Apple II/Turbografix16/Colecovision/etc. emulators? Get your hands on Wings of Fury if you get an Apple II emulator. I spent sooo many hours playing it. Which CPU/OS are you using for your emulators?
ftp.apple.asimov.net is a great place to find Apple II emulators and disk images for Windows/Linux/etc. I've used Applewin for Win9x quite a bit and it works well. I haven't tried any of the Linux ones because when I'm in Linux I don't have time to mess with it(too much work getting done). You could try www.emulation.net if you are running Mac OS. They have dozens of emu's for Mac. acorn-gaming.com has some emulation news/emulator links/etc. Happy Hunting!!
Why Corel? It is just a Debian derivitive. Why do you give it more weight? Personally I like Mandrake better than Red Hat but am looking at other distros too.
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I'm not saying that is what is on this new product but it could be very likely.
I just finished it and I thought it was good and there is no way I'm going to go see what Hollywood did with 2 hours and any 1,000 page novel.
I realize the first post was joking around. ;-)
I had a job where we used QBASIC programs to read input from bar code readers for our badges so the QBASIC wasn't a waste for me.
I have had some experience with IBM AS/400's and I know that they are rock solid and I hear the same things about the S/390's. I don't know why you wouldn't run a VM Linux session to at least check it out. There are a lot scarier things out there than Linux on mainframes!!
You can't compare Mhz straight across either but I'm sure I buy all the claims. I have seen my brother-in-law's G3's/G4's in action and he uses them in his graphics/3d animation business and they are faster than a comparable speed x86 CPU. Most of his heavy 3d is done on a dual CPU NT box. He used to use a G3 233Mhz but the video card couldn't hack it. He did some amazing things with it though. If you saw Robbie Kenevil jump the Grand Canyon or jump the train then you saw some of his work (the simulations).
Salary is only part of what an employer pays so factory built machines are closer to the cost of custom built machines than you realize when you look at the bottom line(which most administration do). This all depends on your scale too. If you are smaller then it probably would make sense to build it yourself if you have the knowledge(which most reading this do).
and if you don't have them then it isn't as good of a deal. Of course the same thing can be said for a G3/G4 since they are finally using industry standards. Don't get me worng, I have an Athlon at home but the more I see my brother-in-law's G4 in use the more I think about it.
Of cource if you were playing in WinXX then your Geforce would be quite respectable but it still has a ways to go in Linux. I built a system for a friend with a Geforce (win98) and tried it out in my system. I decided that for now I would stick with the V3 because of better driver support (at the time at least) and because I could buy 2 (which I did buy 2) of them for the same money as the Geforce. I figured by the time Nvidia gets the drivers up to speed I could upgrade again.
Now about PCI being crap: It has been great but is starting to get old. 66Mhz PCI helps but the bus is going to have to be improved as CPUs get faster. It is becoming more and more of a bottleneck as time progresses. I wish the migration from ISA to PCI had been quicker because it is time to make improvements again.
I work at a bank now and we have a generator on top of the UPS and can run 2 days without a refuel. That ought to keep our Unisys mainframe (A14) up and running for a while. The Unisys already is running Unixware/MCP on it. I really would like to get a look under the hood but I'm just a lowly NT administrator keeping the rest of the network running :(.
ftp.apple.asimov.net is a great place to find Apple II emulators and disk images for Windows/Linux/etc. I've used Applewin for Win9x quite a bit and it works well. I haven't tried any of the Linux ones because when I'm in Linux I don't have time to mess with it(too much work getting done). You could try www.emulation.net if you are running Mac OS. They have dozens of emu's for Mac. acorn-gaming.com has some emulation news/emulator links/etc. Happy Hunting!!
Why Corel? It is just a Debian derivitive. Why do you give it more weight? Personally I like Mandrake better than Red Hat but am looking at other distros too.