Even if you had the source to the program, you have no guarantees that the processor will use them correctly (as specified), or that the processor doesn't have microcode that basically ignores whatever you wrote. You'd also need to verify the entire compilation toolset as well...
I have to agree. One annoyance that was fixed recently with a hotfix, and I've been just fine. As stable, if not more than XP, and with UAC turned off, (I know, I know), not really that annoying at all.
I think the issue with UAC is the fact that during your initial setup, and tweaking, and configuring, you get that dialog so many times you just want to scream. But after you get everything set up the way you like it, how much real change do you do, other than installing/removing apps?
I don't replace my video card daily, or change my screen saver every hour...
In any case, although I run BSD and linxu boxes by day for a living, Vista is working just fine for me.
I had a very similar experience to this with a Microsoft bCentral hosted site. I have a domain name that used to have about 50k different email addresses, although now, there' sjust very few actual accounts, but the 49,997 other accounts are on every other spammers list.
The bcentral server hits me a quarter million times a day on heavy spam days, I just finally had to put in a permanent ban. Nobody at MS would deal with it, and finding the person to report it to was horrendously difficult.
ALthough at least now, I have a good selection of spamtrap addresses to use...:)
I'm thinking that just running an extension cord over to my neighbors and wiring it up to my meter will help, w/o all that nasty solar garbage on my roof, and w/o all the expense...
Or go to home depot, get a nice 6000 watt generator, plug it in and let it run the meter backwards...
Getting the meter to run backwards isn't that complicated... The fact that people find this news is amazing...
Sheesh, this makes it? Nobody in New England's heard of winterizing? Us hicks out in Montana have managed to figure it out, and we're on the wrong side of the Mississippi...
9 or so years ago I got a call early on a Saturday morning from tech support saying that all of our modem lines had stopped picking up, and were just ringing through with no answer.
CHecked modem banks, everything seemed ok. Called the phone company (of course, trying to get through to a tech on a Saturday was entertaining, but with a few hundred modems down, we eventually got through.
Turned out somebody ripped and cut out 900 pair of cable going to our location *In the Central office*. Not outside in a duct, or in the street, but actually in the CO. Took 'em all day to fix it, then a whole lot of lip-diddling w/o any real results as to who the guilty party was.
They're all weasels.
Flip a coin... It's not like you'll there 4ever.
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People change jobs, what, 5 times on average? You're young, pick what you think will be the most fun. Chances are, 10 years from now, you'll be doing something different anyway.
I've always had a love-hate relationship with AMD, some of my AMD systems have been great, then I seem to have a run of bad luck, switch to Intel, then AMD comes out with something great, I switch, works good for a while, then start having problems on new systems, switch back to Intel, and the cycle continues...
But now I've finally settled, 3800, 4GB of RAM, does everything I need and more, and I don't see a reason to switch to AM2, nor to core 2, for a long, long time. About the only thing I expect to upgrade for a couple years minimum is the graphics card... This will give AMD a chance to be up to AM4 by then, and Intel with about 20 cores/chip, and then I can upgrade to something that just kicks butt...
----Intel has been on a bad path since abandoning faster CPUs. 4 GHz will always be faster than 2 CPUs at 2 GHz except for 100% paralizable problems----
This statement is patently false, unless you're going to say that the 2 CPU's execute identical instructions in identical clock cycles, access memory in identical ways, and have a whole host of other identicalities (is that a word?)
There's also the issue of "perceived" performance... THe locked up program/device driver stuck in a loop that keeps me from accessing my machine quickly can have much less impact if the other CPU is available to keep on working...
However, I do agree with you it's a bad idea.
It's probably time for a leveraged buyout of intel...
Perhaps it is an unsolvable problem. So what? bands that want their music out there will get it out there, movies may change to smaller budget, or better yet, theater-only releases, in finely crafted theaters with tuned sound systems and something to make the theater experience truly enjoyable.
In short, people will figure out a way, even if it has to go through some dying and evolving from the current system.
Vmware ACE would probably be a good choice, it allows you to lock down the host hardware, disabling various pieces.
VM's can run off of network shares if you set things up right. Fast network, and you won't see a problem. I have run VM's off mirrored ximeta netdisks over 100meg with NTFS as the partition type, and it worked great, although it was only about 4 machines accessing it at one time. For office apps and such, it's a piece of cake.
I encourage people to use vmware for laptops. Create an encrypted disk with the vmware image that they want to run, then if the laptop gets stolen, you have to decrypt the disk before you can get to the really good stuff. Backups are easy, and it makes if necessary, laptop "sharing" something that you can do pretty easily as well. Multiple shifts can PC share easily as well. It's also easier to fix problems test updates and such by just snagging a copy of the image, and monkeying with it.
Citrix and remote desktop have their places as well.
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Even if you had the source to the program, you have no guarantees that the processor will use them correctly (as specified), or that the processor doesn't have microcode that basically ignores whatever you wrote. You'd also need to verify the entire compilation toolset as well...
I have to agree. One annoyance that was fixed recently with a hotfix, and I've been just fine. As stable, if not more than XP, and with UAC turned off, (I know, I know), not really that annoying at all.
I think the issue with UAC is the fact that during your initial setup, and tweaking, and configuring, you get that dialog so many times you just want to scream. But after you get everything set up the way you like it, how much real change do you do, other than installing/removing apps?
I don't replace my video card daily, or change my screen saver every hour...
In any case, although I run BSD and linxu boxes by day for a living, Vista is working just fine for me.
I had a very similar experience to this with a Microsoft bCentral hosted site. I have a domain name that used
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to have about 50k different email addresses, although now, there' sjust very few actual accounts, but the 49,997 other accounts are on every other spammers list.
The bcentral server hits me a quarter million times a day on heavy spam days, I just finally had to put in a permanent ban. Nobody at MS would deal with it, and finding the person to report it to was horrendously difficult.
ALthough at least now, I have a good selection of spamtrap addresses to use...
I'm thinking that just running an extension cord over to my neighbors and wiring it up to my meter will help, w/o all that nasty solar garbage on my roof, and w/o all the expense...
Or go to home depot, get a nice 6000 watt generator, plug it in and let it run the meter backwards...
Getting the meter to run backwards isn't that complicated... The fact that people find this news is amazing...
Sheesh, this makes it? Nobody in New England's heard of winterizing? Us hicks out in Montana have managed to figure it out, and we're on the wrong side of the Mississippi...
9 or so years ago I got a call early on a Saturday morning from tech support saying that all of our modem lines had stopped picking up, and were just ringing through with no answer.
CHecked modem banks, everything seemed ok. Called the phone company (of course, trying to get through to a tech on a Saturday was entertaining, but with a few hundred modems down, we eventually got through.
Turned out somebody ripped and cut out 900 pair of cable going to our location *In the Central office*. Not outside in a duct, or in the street, but actually in the CO. Took 'em all day to fix it, then a whole lot of lip-diddling w/o any real results as to who the guilty party was.
They're all weasels.
People change jobs, what, 5 times on average? You're young, pick what you think will be the most fun. Chances are, 10 years from now, you'll be doing something different anyway.
Nethack
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
Plain old windows solitaire
Doom
Adventure
Because new games are: "a maze of twisty little passages, all alike".
Too little, too late.
I've always had a love-hate relationship with AMD, some of my AMD systems have been great, then I seem to have a run of bad luck, switch to Intel, then AMD comes out with something great, I switch, works good for a while, then start having problems on new systems, switch back to Intel, and the cycle continues...
But now I've finally settled, 3800, 4GB of RAM, does everything I need and more, and I don't see a reason to switch to AM2, nor to core 2, for a long, long time. About the only thing I expect to upgrade for a couple years minimum is the graphics card... This will give AMD a chance to be up to AM4 by then, and Intel with about 20 cores/chip, and then I can upgrade to something that just kicks butt...
posted by Charles... Maybe this is OSS evolution in action.
----Intel has been on a bad path since abandoning faster CPUs. 4 GHz will always be faster than 2 CPUs at 2 GHz except for 100% paralizable problems----
This statement is patently false, unless you're going to say that the 2 CPU's execute identical instructions in identical clock cycles, access memory in identical ways, and have a whole host of other identicalities (is that a word?)
There's also the issue of "perceived" performance... THe locked up program/device driver stuck in a loop that keeps me from accessing my machine quickly can have much less impact if the other CPU is available to keep on working...
However, I do agree with you it's a bad idea.
It's probably time for a leveraged buyout of intel...
Perhaps it is an unsolvable problem. So what? bands that want their music out there will get it out there, movies may change to smaller budget, or better yet, theater-only releases, in finely crafted theaters with tuned sound systems and something to make the theater experience truly enjoyable.
In short, people will figure out a way, even if it has to go through some dying and evolving from the current system.
Me, I'll be able to take it or leave it
Vmware ACE would probably be a good choice, it allows you to lock down the host hardware, disabling various pieces.
VM's can run off of network shares if you set things up right. Fast network, and you won't see a problem. I have run VM's off mirrored ximeta netdisks over 100meg with NTFS as the partition type, and it worked great, although it was only about 4 machines accessing it at one time. For office apps and such, it's a piece of cake.
I encourage people to use vmware for laptops. Create an encrypted disk with the vmware image that they want to run, then if the laptop gets stolen, you have to decrypt the disk before you can get to the really good stuff. Backups are easy, and it makes if necessary, laptop "sharing" something that you can do pretty easily as well. Multiple shifts can PC share easily as well. It's also easier to fix problems test updates and such by just snagging a copy of the image, and monkeying with it.
Citrix and remote desktop have their places as well.
There's lots of options, but if you're a unix guy, RT just kicks butt. If you're a windows guy, I'm sure it does, but I've never tried it.
If you haven't tried it, try it, then look at other options. You may stop after step 1, instead of lather, rinse, repeat.
RT is pretty powerful. We have something like 200k tickets in our database, and it hums right along.
I think a dab of epoxy would've been a heck of a lot simpler and just as effective.