As my present location has poor ventilation, I'm quite keen on how my computer influences temperature. I've noticed a somewhat disturbing trend in both CPUs and GPUs in requiring more and more power and really firing up the heat. It looks like this monstrous card will definitely be a room heater. With the exception of laptops, are there any graphics cards available that won't make my room an inferno when I'm gaming?
Regardless of whether the ACLU prevails or not, it is important and vital that their dissent is heard and recorded.
Unfortunately, I don't think this story will get the press it deserves. The only real, unbiased mainstream coverage of FISA seems to be coming from NPR.
On newer kernels, you should try the new b43 driver. As the owner of a Broadcom 4318-based laptop, I've noticed poor performance with ndiswrapper, failure to connect to many APs with bcm43xx, and no problems whatsoever with b43.
But the Pirate Bay folks are.. well.. pirates, and Tor frowns upon using high amounts of p2p bandwidth over Tor. If The Pirate Bay is going to endorse a technology, it needs to help them pirate. Freenet or I2P look like better codebases. It all comes down to how secure and convenient they want their protocol to be.
Looks like this would be an important step forward for running Windows games. From the wikipedia link:
Gallium 3D will provide a unified API exposing standard hardware functions such as shader units found on modern hardware. Thus, 3D APIs such as OpenGL 1.x/2.x, OpenGL 3.x, OpenVG, GPGPU infrastructure or even Direct3D (as found in the Wine compatibility layer) will need only a single back-end, called state tracker, targeting Gallium 3D API.
Actually, Seagate offers a 5-year warranty on their hard drives.
It's a major reason why I usually buy from Seagate instead of going to Western Digital or Samsung, which usually only a offer 3-year warranty.
Still, it's always best to keep backups. How nice the company is about replacements says nothing about how likely the drive is to fail.
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If Vista is any indication, they should DEFINITELY compile with -Os...
As my present location has poor ventilation, I'm quite keen on how my computer influences temperature. I've noticed a somewhat disturbing trend in both CPUs and GPUs in requiring more and more power and really firing up the heat. It looks like this monstrous card will definitely be a room heater. With the exception of laptops, are there any graphics cards available that won't make my room an inferno when I'm gaming?
About $75 is a lot of gas
Regardless of whether the ACLU prevails or not, it is important and vital that their dissent is heard and recorded. Unfortunately, I don't think this story will get the press it deserves. The only real, unbiased mainstream coverage of FISA seems to be coming from NPR.
On newer kernels, you should try the new b43 driver. As the owner of a Broadcom 4318-based laptop, I've noticed poor performance with ndiswrapper, failure to connect to many APs with bcm43xx, and no problems whatsoever with b43.
But the Pirate Bay folks are .. well .. pirates, and Tor frowns upon using high amounts of p2p bandwidth over Tor. If The Pirate Bay is going to endorse a technology, it needs to help them pirate. Freenet or I2P look like better codebases. It all comes down to how secure and convenient they want their protocol to be.
Gallium 3D will provide a unified API exposing standard hardware functions such as shader units found on modern hardware. Thus, 3D APIs such as OpenGL 1.x/2.x, OpenGL 3.x, OpenVG, GPGPU infrastructure or even Direct3D (as found in the Wine compatibility layer) will need only a single back-end, called state tracker, targeting Gallium 3D API.
Actually, Seagate offers a 5-year warranty on their hard drives. It's a major reason why I usually buy from Seagate instead of going to Western Digital or Samsung, which usually only a offer 3-year warranty. Still, it's always best to keep backups. How nice the company is about replacements says nothing about how likely the drive is to fail.