I have two dual machines. One dual pIII 600 on a Aopen mobo. And one dual PIII 733 on a MSI mobo. I have been experiencing lockups and sudden rebboots on both machines. When using various geforce cards. Everything from GeForce 256 (sdr) to Geforce 3 64M. It is very unstable and it mostly started after nvidias release of the 6.xx drivers. So I think they have done something that will make SMP systems unstable. To get more juice out of the cards. Since the 6.xx driver offered some 20% more fps in certain games.
I have tried to get some info from nvidia or other sources on this subject. But I has been unable to find any. I first tought it was my current hardware setup that was the problem. But now I have tried two different mobos and some 5-6 different geforce cards (different manufacturers to).
Its very annying in the long run since I am also working with 3d computer graphics. And if I work on a project I dont like a sudden lockup.
What would happen if you are watching your see-once DVD and you have a powerfailiure? - Your wife/husband/son/doughter/boss/grandparents call and say their car broke down and need help,
etc. etc. Would you get a new watch-once movie or is that movie void?
On the other hand, if its even cheaper. Then the ripping ppl can buy even more movies and rip and put on the internet for download.
Third thing, with the building of digital broadcasting systems for TV. The PPV systems will be supperior and with no waste of natural
resouces. Like the plastic trash etc. wich would come out of use-once-dvd:s.
a linux desktop as slick as OS X - would be really nice. (I would say userfriendly, but I am no expert in UI's so I will refrain from that) I am a Linux man myself, I like it alot. But Max OS X was a nice and new eXPerience =).
And if you look at a interesting sourceforge projekt named fink
This is prolly a bit offtopic - but hey, I am replying to a reply to my comment =)
He is loosing the war on software. As the years go.
I think apple should port Mac OS X to x86. That would be cool.
I hope the swedish gov. will do the same. Eventualy , move away from MS. Unless they prove themself beeing better but I doubt they will change into a more useroriented businessmodel. They are used to the money. But one day it will be gone.
And to everyone's suprise. Geforce4 is faster then the previous chipsets. Has more pipelines and bigger memory bandwidth. When will someone try the new and fresh marketing trick and announce hardwarre that is slower then the old hardware. (I hope MS didnt hear this and starts making hardware)
well, Obtained a copy of the script. Halft the movie is the director anyway. Like a good director can make a grand movie with a bad script and a bad director can trash any script.
So if someone obtained a copy of the script isnt that interesting.
Did you know that just about all countries send up thousands and thousands of weatherbaloons in the sky, every day. And you dont hear them killing people left and right?
That is metal intstruments that weights a few pounds. Hitting the ground in 200-300km/h that is more then enough to kill a man or destroy a car etc. etc.
So, I guess it wont be such a big problem. Now, or in the future.
afaik. there has been one or two incidents in 30 years in sweden of thoose landing in urban areas.
I think the right way to battle (?) against p2p technology and the fact that people steal (as he so vididly talked about) musicians works. Sure - people steal or consume the music without paying for it. Why are they not paying for it?
Well, it is quite expencive with records now a days. I am from sweden an here a record is somewhere between 18 and 20 dollars when going for full price. I think its around the same in the US - maybe alittle lower. Not sure. But anyhow its pretty expencive. So why spend a shitload of money for music with the only additional stuff you get apart from the music is a printed book and a plastic (or in some cases paper) case for the CD.
So, for the solution *clap* *clap* - How would they battle it?
This is my solution and I think it is quite a good one. But I guess you have to be the judges for that.
Lower the price of the CD's to about $5 or maybe $10. But not above that. And make the CD part music CD and part CD-rom. Lets make i a 700Mb CD. Put the normal audiotracks on the first 650M and then you put all the tracks as mp3 on a cd-rom part on the last 50M's. Ok, you can stop laughing now. The mp3's should be in a moderate format like 96Kbps maybe. So its ok for listening in a portable mp3-player etc. If you got the record with the case and superb audioquality on the audiopart and ok quality for you mp3-player. Then I guess the large part of the p2p cutomers (dial-up customers) would stop p2p-ering since it takes time is boring. You get broken songs etc. And instead of paying for the modemconnections you spend thoose pennies on CD's for you collection.
I think even a large part of broadband customers would buy CD's to get away from the hazzle of finding the tracks they want and the make sure the whole album is in nice quality etc. etc.
And five bux is what you spend on a lunch. Not a bigtime fanncy dinner like 18 bux is.
The calculations on enviroment/weather needs and infinite amount of storage. They can easily genereate petabytes and exabytes of data from their models. - So there is an application. Currently the labs doing weathersimulations build systems with upward of a couple of hundred terrabytes of storage.
I sure hope this don't stay on slashdot. It should really be public knowledge that this sort of thing can happen in the passport service that MS provide. - ASAP
There is network solutions out and also other networks topologies. But its hard to build a hypercube or hypertorus or something like that from e-pc's. But you can do it from normal pc's where you can put in several NIC's. And if you want to move even further you can go into the realms of dolphin or myrinet. But that is a priceissue.
Dolphin and myrinet will not only solve the pure bandwidth problem but it will also cut down on the latency. Since latency is the biggest problem if you look into the cluster enviroment not the pure bandwidth. 100Mbit is enough in terms of datatransfer in most cases. BUT you get a few microseconds of latency wich is a bigger problem for sync and will produce idle clocks etc. etc.
So build yourself a torus with myrinet or dolphin for the real fast clusters.
And you did what when the about one million inocents got killed in rawanda? And the some 40-50k got killed in korea. And the thousands that get killed in south-america every year?
Get some perspective. Terrorist attacks are always bad, but the world will not stop into a grinding halt becouse of this.
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I have never mentioned Quake3 or any other
game. - I am using my systems in 3dsmax R4+ and
Maya 4. And other professional 3d packages.
-P
I have only had problems using SMP systems. Not
single cpu-systems. Ranging from piii 500 to P4
1700 With 256-1,5G ram.
-P
I have two dual machines. One dual pIII 600 on
a Aopen mobo. And one dual PIII 733 on a MSI
mobo. I have been experiencing lockups and
sudden rebboots on both machines. When using
various geforce cards. Everything from
GeForce 256 (sdr) to Geforce 3 64M. It is
very unstable and it mostly started after
nvidias release of the 6.xx drivers. So I
think they have done something that will make
SMP systems unstable. To get more juice out of
the cards. Since the 6.xx driver offered some
20% more fps in certain games.
I have tried to get some info from nvidia or
other sources on this subject. But I has been
unable to find any. I first tought it was my
current hardware setup that was the problem.
But now I have tried two different mobos and
some 5-6 different geforce cards (different
manufacturers to).
Its very annying in the long run since I am
also working with 3d computer graphics. And if
I work on a project I dont like a sudden
lockup.
-P
What would happen if you are watching your
see-once DVD and you have a powerfailiure? -
Your wife/husband/son/doughter/boss/grandparents call
and say their car broke down and need help,
etc. etc. Would you get a new watch-once movie or
is that movie void?
On the other hand, if its even cheaper. Then the
ripping ppl can buy even more movies and rip
and put on the internet for download.
Third thing, with the building of digital
broadcasting systems for TV. The PPV systems
will be supperior and with no waste of natural
resouces. Like the plastic trash etc. wich would
come out of use-once-dvd:s.
Bottomline, this is an utterly stupid idea.
L
Yes yes and yes,
a linux desktop as slick as OS X - would be really
nice. (I would say userfriendly, but I am no
expert in UI's so I will refrain from that) I
am a Linux man myself, I like it alot. But Max
OS X was a nice and new eXPerience =).
And if you look at a interesting sourceforge
projekt named fink
This is prolly a bit offtopic - but hey, I am replying to a reply to my comment =)
-L
Yes,
But how much revenue every year does MS earn from
proprietary hardware? And afik they are doing
just fine.
He is loosing the war on software. As the years go.
I think apple should port Mac OS X to x86. That would be cool.
I hope the swedish gov. will do the same.
Eventualy , move away from MS. Unless they
prove themself beeing better but I doubt they
will change into a more useroriented
businessmodel. They are used to the money.
But one day it will be gone.
And to everyone's suprise. Geforce4 is faster then
the previous chipsets. Has more pipelines and
bigger memory bandwidth. When will someone try
the new and fresh marketing trick and announce
hardwarre that is slower then the old hardware.
(I hope MS didnt hear this and starts making hardware)
We are some 80% in .se that has used the internet
and some 60% that does it on a regular basis.
Did I tell you we have digital cellnetworks and use
sms ALOT. etc. Been a while since the US was in the techno-fronteir?
This was not a flamebait. This was just to pointout
how utterly uninteresting statistics like that is.
They can sell the info who is drinking what and how much
for unsolicitaed alchohol spam. What a wonderful
idea!
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU MIGHT ALREADY BE AN ALCOHOLIC! HAVE YOU TRIED OUR BE SOBER IN THREE DAYS PROGRAM!!! ONLY $9.99
Wouldnt you just love that? =)
well, Obtained a copy of the script. Halft
the movie is the director anyway. Like a good
director can make a grand movie with a bad
script and a bad director can trash any
script.
So if someone obtained a copy of the script
isnt that interesting.
Did you know that just about all countries send
up thousands and thousands of weatherbaloons
in the sky, every day. And you dont hear them
killing people left and right?
That is metal intstruments that weights a few
pounds. Hitting the ground in 200-300km/h
that is more then enough to kill a man or
destroy a car etc. etc.
So, I guess it wont be such a big problem.
Now, or in the future.
afaik. there has been one or two incidents in
30 years in sweden of thoose landing in urban
areas.
Is the table waterproof? And is there any fish that
survive in mineral oil? - In that case you can
make a pretty cool aqarium.
Not only companies running only office-apps switch to linux.
Dreamworks in glendale Los Angeles, CA has switched large parts of their desktops to linux.
And been successfull in the transition too.
yeah - fp =)
Do they bring back the boats or do they stay in the US?
And Do they need a workingpermit to row on US soil?
If they where to row into a house, by misstake. Would that be an act of terrorism?
I think the right way to battle (?) against p2p technology and the fact that people steal (as he so vididly talked about) musicians works. Sure - people steal or consume the music without paying for it. Why are they not paying for it?
Well, it is quite expencive with records now a days. I am from sweden an here a record is somewhere between 18 and 20 dollars when going for full price. I think its around the same in the US - maybe alittle lower. Not sure. But anyhow its pretty expencive. So why spend a shitload of money for music with the only additional stuff you get apart from the music is a printed book and a plastic (or in some cases paper) case for the CD.
So, for the solution *clap* *clap* - How would they battle it?
This is my solution and I think it is quite a good one. But I guess you have to be the judges for that.
Lower the price of the CD's to about $5 or maybe $10. But not above that. And make the CD part music CD and part CD-rom. Lets make i a 700Mb CD. Put the normal audiotracks on the first 650M and then you put all the tracks as mp3 on a cd-rom part on the last 50M's. Ok, you can stop laughing now. The mp3's should be in a moderate format like 96Kbps maybe. So its ok for listening in a portable mp3-player etc. If you got the record with the case and superb audioquality on the audiopart and ok quality for you mp3-player. Then I guess the large part of the p2p cutomers (dial-up customers) would stop p2p-ering since it takes time is boring. You get broken songs etc. And instead of paying for the modemconnections you spend thoose pennies on CD's for you collection.
I think even a large part of broadband customers would buy CD's to get away from the hazzle of finding the tracks they want and the make sure the whole album is in nice quality etc. etc.
And five bux is what you spend on a lunch. Not a bigtime fanncy dinner like 18 bux is.
-L
The calculations on enviroment/weather needs and infinite amount of storage. They can easily genereate petabytes and exabytes of data from their models. - So there is an application. Currently the labs doing weathersimulations build systems with upward of a couple of hundred terrabytes of storage.
-P
I sure hope this don't stay on slashdot. It should really be public knowledge that this sort of thing can happen in the passport service that MS provide. - ASAP
There is network solutions out and also other networks topologies. But its hard to build a hypercube or hypertorus or something like that from e-pc's. But you can do it from normal pc's where you can put in several NIC's. And if you want to move even further you can go into the realms of dolphin or myrinet. But that is a priceissue.
Dolphin and myrinet will not only solve the pure bandwidth problem but it will also cut down on the latency. Since latency is the biggest problem if you look into the cluster enviroment not the pure bandwidth. 100Mbit is enough in terms of datatransfer in most cases. BUT you get a few microseconds of latency wich is a bigger problem for sync and will produce idle clocks etc. etc.
So build yourself a torus with myrinet or dolphin for the real fast clusters.
And you did what when the about one million inocents got killed in rawanda? And the some 40-50k got killed in korea. And the thousands that get killed in south-america every year?
Get some perspective. Terrorist attacks are always bad, but the world will not stop into a grinding halt becouse of this.
BMW M5 - end of discussion -