Don't get me started about the issues with the Intel GMA drivers. "8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going.
Yep, that is well known, and yes it is mostly fixed in 9.10.
Or if you need a fix now, you could try searching the MS Knowledge Base for a KB article describing the problem, and see if a hotfix is available. If it is available, thanks to the introduction of online hotfix request, you could request the hotfix for free right there. If not, you could try to contact MS support and talk about the problem, whether that is free or not depends.
On OS/2, MS was themselves partly to blame for choosing Windows instead of OS/2 back in 1991, and then attacking OS/2 afterwards. If MS chose OS/2 instead, Win32 would not even exist! Even worse, OS/2 did not require DOS while Windows did back then. Considering the attacks on DR-DOS got to the point where they ended up attempting to detect DR-DOS using the so-called AARD code and putting out a non-fatal warning message if it was detected, it would have been very important.
Intel even updated some existing low-end CPUs, including the E5300, E5400, E7200, E7300, Q8300, with VT technology. They updated the OEM version in June (PCN was issued in April) and the retail version in August (PCN was issued in July). No, the stepping has not been changed, the only way to tell is by the S-Spec and the product code. For more info, look up these CPUs on http://ark.intel.com/ or find the PCNs at http://intel.pcnalert.com/Portal/SearchPCNDataBase.aspx.
I'd have mentioned ServerWorks, but they got brought by Broadcom. Oh, in that case:
Next up: Broadcom.
Yep, from http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20090427213452_AMD_Does_Not_Expect_Broadcom_Nvidia_in_Next_Gen_Servers.html:
“For 2010 moving forward, the solutions coming out from AMD will be AMD and on AMD at this time. We don't expect to see new chipsets from Nvidia or Broadcom for server implementations in 2010. But they will continue to support all existing platforms moving forward through 2010”
In fact, if you didn't notice, AMD has just launched the SR56x0 chipset series for servers.
Which is precisely why corporate CEOs - and sundry other people at the top of various food chains - are likely to be the least ethical people you're going to meet. Ethically ambiguous people are thus more capable of making decisions that maximize profit, in true the-end-justifies-the-means fashion.
Yep, when I read this, I think of the "shareholder value" world, where employees and customers are dehumanized as something like "headcount" and "consumer" (yes, like a sociopath would do), the former as an expense to be reduced, while the latter is to be treated as something to squeeze maximum revenue out of using marketing, both in order to "maximize shareholder value". Yep, it is ridiculous, and indeed I think it ran many businesses to the ground (examples I think include Circuit City and GM).
[quote]Umm, Be's "custom hardware" was off the shelf dual PPC processors. There was not really anything special about it. They also paired with Mac clone makers to dual boot and did fine until Apple bought their major partner. [/quote]
After Amelio decided to buy NeXT instead of Be. As you can see, technically Apple buying Be would be almost perfect, like if Apple bought NeXT 5 years before when both Apple and NeXT were using 68K processors. Unfortunately, by the time Apple finally bought NeXT, NeXT already switched to running on x86 commodity hardware, and the 68K series were considered obsolete. But that is a different topic.
Thanks, WinMe always had a bad reputation, even though in theory it should not be any worse than Win98, and it is sad most didn't even bother to check for this. BTW, I have read that WDM audio drivers are needed for WinMe hibernation.
>Unfortunately, in my case the serial ports are disabled and I did not get into the BIOS and enable them before the GPU died.
You could in theory manipulate the BIOS settings from Linux. The CMOS is perfectly accessible from an OS, you just have to figure out what offset in the CMOS to manipulate in order to enable the serial ports.
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Don't get me started about the issues with the Intel GMA drivers. "8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going.
Yep, that is well known, and yes it is mostly fixed in 9.10.
Or if you need a fix now, you could try searching the MS Knowledge Base for a KB article describing the problem, and see if a hotfix is available. If it is available, thanks to the introduction of online hotfix request, you could request the hotfix for free right there. If not, you could try to contact MS support and talk about the problem, whether that is free or not depends.
Apple already has a rank-mounted server called the Xserve for this purpose.
On OS/2, MS was themselves partly to blame for choosing Windows instead of OS/2 back in 1991, and then attacking OS/2 afterwards. If MS chose OS/2 instead, Win32 would not even exist! Even worse, OS/2 did not require DOS while Windows did back then. Considering the attacks on DR-DOS got to the point where they ended up attempting to detect DR-DOS using the so-called AARD code and putting out a non-fatal warning message if it was detected, it would have been very important.
Yep, Apple pointed that out back when the original Mac launched in January 1984.
Oops, that was posted as AC again. Let me try again. Just in case it did not work, the name is yuhong.
Intel even updated some existing low-end CPUs, including the E5300, E5400, E7200, E7300, Q8300, with VT technology. They updated the OEM version in June (PCN was issued in April) and the retail version in August (PCN was issued in July). No, the stepping has not been changed, the only way to tell is by the S-Spec and the product code.
For more info, look up these CPUs on http://ark.intel.com/ or find the PCNs at http://intel.pcnalert.com/Portal/SearchPCNDataBase.aspx.
Yep, from http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20090427213452_AMD_Does_Not_Expect_Broadcom_Nvidia_in_Next_Gen_Servers.html:
“For 2010 moving forward, the solutions coming out from AMD will be AMD and on AMD at this time. We don't expect to see new chipsets from Nvidia or Broadcom for server implementations in 2010. But they will continue to support all existing platforms moving forward through 2010”
In fact, if you didn't notice, AMD has just launched the SR56x0 chipset series for servers.
Yep, I know. Part of what led to this is the "shareholder value" ideology that originated in the 1970s and became common in the 1980s. Here is some links: http://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-end-of-shareholder-value/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/oct/02/theobserver.observerbusiness4 http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_Fligstein.pdf http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28502078_ITM http://www.globalchange.com/shareholdervalue.htm It is off-topic though.
As I remember, only Semprons do not have them, and then only the older ones.
9.10 will be released soon, certainly by the end of this month. I think you can try the beta now, I think.
And also check the BIOS to make sure it can enable VT too.
Yep, not to mention there are also the better and less evil big corporations.
I would not go that far. Yes we should move away from "maximizing shareholder value". But we don't need to go that far to do it.
Well, "shareholder value" and "agency theory" are another mess altogether, but IMO they are horrible ideas.
Not exactly. That originated in the 1980s, I think, when the "shareholder value" revolution came.
Yep, when I read this, I think of the "shareholder value" world, where employees and customers are dehumanized as something like "headcount" and "consumer" (yes, like a sociopath would do), the former as an expense to be reduced, while the latter is to be treated as something to squeeze maximum revenue out of using marketing, both in order to "maximize shareholder value". Yep, it is ridiculous, and indeed I think it ran many businesses to the ground (examples I think include Circuit City and GM).
Well, I would not extend agency theory that far.
Yep, that wasn't just limited to training videos, there were similar things that was shown directly to consumers, and look what they found when someone examined the cables that was actually used, which is, yep, impossible with training videos:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/03/23/monster-hdmi-difference-scam-still-kickin-in-frys-electronic/
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/17/hdmi-cable-scam-used-to-fool-in-store-customers/
Yep, the x64 port of Windows was released with Windows Server 2003 SP1 back in April 2005.
[quote]Umm, Be's "custom hardware" was off the shelf dual PPC processors. There was not really anything special about it. They also paired with Mac clone makers to dual boot and did fine until Apple bought their major partner. [/quote] After Amelio decided to buy NeXT instead of Be. As you can see, technically Apple buying Be would be almost perfect, like if Apple bought NeXT 5 years before when both Apple and NeXT were using 68K processors. Unfortunately, by the time Apple finally bought NeXT, NeXT already switched to running on x86 commodity hardware, and the 68K series were considered obsolete. But that is a different topic.
Thanks, WinMe always had a bad reputation, even though in theory it should not be any worse than Win98, and it is sad most didn't even bother to check for this. BTW, I have read that WDM audio drivers are needed for WinMe hibernation.
Yep, interesting side effect. I mean, why do you think they want to find an excuse to not cancel your service?
>Unfortunately, in my case the serial ports are disabled and I did not get into the BIOS and enable them before the GPU died. You could in theory manipulate the BIOS settings from Linux. The CMOS is perfectly accessible from an OS, you just have to figure out what offset in the CMOS to manipulate in order to enable the serial ports.
Except that in this case, the board do work without a video card. Read the article