This guy is blogging from the DirectNIC datacenter in downtown New Orleans. Amazingly, they're still up. He seems to be having a hard time looking for diesel fuel. And then he starts talking about "survivalist hygiene"... He seems serious (to the point of being crazy) about staying there for the long haul.
You will be shitlisted unless suffusions.net adds an 'include:adelphia.net' directive in their SPF entry. You of course could add this line yourself to your glitterandtwang.org DNS if you started using that domain for your your email, as you have control over your own domain.
Is it just me or is the font that says PLAYSTATION 3 on the side same as the one used for the Spider-Man movie? The fact that they're both from Sony makes it seem more than just coincidence, even though it probably is.
Apple may have upgraded the bundled videocard just on the basis of component availability/price point, but I doubt this is a significant selling feature.
Acually, it is a signifigant selling feature:...the upgrade to a Radeon 9600 graphics card will allow the new iMac to take better advantage of Tiger features such as Core Image...
Now with Core Image, even just "2D desktop graphics" employ the video card's GPU using OpenGL vertex and pixel shaders. While the FX5200 is capable of supporting Core Image, its shader speed is laughably slow.
I just checked my library and they indeed have a copy, albeit in bound journal form. It's marked in the system as "LIB USE ONLY" so it probably means they wouldn't let me out of library with it. Bummer.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to spread FUD. It's good to know that newer BIOSes can cope with booting from drives other than primary master. The only problem I can see is if the drive first in the boot order is in a failure state and the motherboard's BIOS isn't aware and tries to boot from it anyway. This may be something people can live with to save the $400 on a 3ware card.
The best option for real hardware SATA (or IDE) RAID in Linux is 3ware, bar none. Their drivers have been in the official Linux kernel since the early 2.4 days, and they just work. Highly recommended.
Why real hardware RAID? Say, for example, your boot drive goes out in a software RAID configuration. Your system is suddenly unable to boot, requiring manual intervention for a rebuild. With hardware RAID, the BIOS built-in to the card handles things smoothly and your system can boot without a problem.
Sony's tiny VAIO laptops (the Picturebook series, the X505) have generally been made without a trackpad, simply because the laptops are so small. They all have trackpoints to handle pointing. I much prefer this design because the trackpad + "wrist rest' design of most laptops is horribly un-ergonomic for me.
The 50% on death row exonerated figure is indeed incorrect. Instead, the figure is that in a period of 12 years, more people on death row in Illinois were exonerated than put to death. From the CNN article you linked to: In the last dozen years in Illinois, 12 men have been executed, but 12 others once condemned to die have been exonerated -- three this year.
The number exonerated went to 13 when Gov. Ryan put a moratorium on the death penalty, and ultimately commuted the sentences of everyone on death row to life without parole (source).
Charter Communications has a large hub in my area and from what the "higher ups" have told me - they are quite angry.
This comes as no surprise as Charter is owned by Paul Allen, who owned TechTV prior to the buyout by Comcast. I can imagine that Charter customers had a hard time finding G4 on their channel lineups before the "merger." Is this just desserts?
Also, the article is a little dated in terms of what it talks about. Especially with the "... the consumer versions of which are limited to about 42 inches" which is VERY out of date.
It's talking about CRTs being limited to 42 inches.
I was going to post a message lambasting Wacom, as they were owned by self-appointed Messiah Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church cult (the "Moonies") through his Happy World front company (more info can be found through Google). Fortunately, it looks like they've broken free from Happy World.
The offending fedora-redhat.com page includes the graphic http://www.redhat.com/g/chrome/logo_rh_home.png to lend an official air to their site. Why doesn't Redhat simply change that image to say something like: "Notice from Redhat: this is NOT an official Redhat page. The download on this page contain malicious code. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. Please consult www.redhat.com for official details." They could even just check the referrer so it'll only give the message when loaded from fedora-redhat.com.
I've also seen various phishing emails that use graphics from the websites of the banks they're masquerading as (Citibank, SunTrust). Simply changing these would cut down on scams and trojans like these.
Both of those things look like they're simple adaptors that just change the plug from one to the other. Even the first link you mention says, "***IMPORTANT NOTE***: 10160 is the adapter ONLY, without chips and any software. If you do NOT have the related chips and software on your computer, we strongly recommend you to by the whole converter"
The one in that link looks more substantial and looks like it'll actually have some circuitry inside it, rather than just changing the pinout.
It would be really neat if I could do some of the more complicated audio analysis (FFT etc) that requires lots of vector math using the video cards gpu.
There's a company that actually does this. The Universal Audio UAD-1 audio DSP had a previous life as a video card and a DVD hardware accelerator. Check out this thread on the UAD forums for more technical information.
I really doubt that they'll lengthen the PM's pipeline much. Look at the Athlon XP -> Athlon 64 evolution - the pipeline was only stretched by a couple of clock cycles.
That's true. According to articles I've seen about the Pentium-M, its pipeline is only a little bit longer than the PIII's. I guess I misspoke - mod parent up!
Wow. This is amazing. The P6 (PPro, PII, PIII) architecture is coming back to the desktop. This does make pretty good sense. The P6 has high IPC, and by applying some Pentium 4 tricks (Quad-pumped FSB, longer pipeline), this can make for a killer CPU. For more information, check out this Ars Technica Article on the Pentium-M's P6 heritage. The chip doesn't even lie about it - its CPUID reports a P6 family CPU.
Hmm, where have I seen this before?
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Almost all of these "gaming laptops" are Sagers with a slick paint job and a huge markup. The Fragbook DR is actually a Sager NP8790 which you can get at places like Discount Laptops and Power Notebooks with the same specs and much, much cheaper.
All cars manufactured for sale in the United States during that time, regardless of performance, were legally required to have speedometers that only reach 85MPH and also highlight the speed of 55, which was the national maximum speed limit.
Just because a product emulates a look and feel doesn't mean it's BAD does it? Since when was there a patent on a GUI?
Ever since Apple got US patent number 2002089529 , titled Media Player Interface. Look at the drawings -- that's iTunes. That probably also explains why LSongs has the player controlls at the bottom of the screen.
I don't personally have a problem with Gmail, and I will probably use it. Especially with encrypted messages. Hah, scan that!
I wonder if gmail will detect PGP/GPG and send you ads for security and encryption-related products.
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Gomez Peer is a legitimate company that'll pay you for your bandwidth and CPU time. Basically, it checks various websites for reachability/performance. Apparently it's hard to get in, unless you're on their "most wanted" location list.
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This guy is blogging from the DirectNIC datacenter in downtown New Orleans. Amazingly, they're still up. He seems to be having a hard time looking for diesel fuel. And then he starts talking about "survivalist hygiene"... He seems serious (to the point of being crazy) about staying there for the long haul.
You will be shitlisted unless suffusions.net adds an 'include:adelphia.net' directive in their SPF entry. You of course could add this line yourself to your glitterandtwang.org DNS if you started using that domain for your your email, as you have control over your own domain.
Is it just me or is the font that says PLAYSTATION 3 on the side same as the one used for the Spider-Man movie? The fact that they're both from Sony makes it seem more than just coincidence, even though it probably is.
Apple may have upgraded the bundled videocard just on the basis of component availability/price point, but I doubt this is a significant selling feature.
...the upgrade to a Radeon 9600 graphics card will allow the new iMac to take better advantage of Tiger features such as Core Image...
Acually, it is a signifigant selling feature:
Now with Core Image, even just "2D desktop graphics" employ the video card's GPU using OpenGL vertex and pixel shaders. While the FX5200 is capable of supporting Core Image, its shader speed is laughably slow.
I just checked my library and they indeed have a copy, albeit in bound journal form. It's marked in the system as "LIB USE ONLY" so it probably means they wouldn't let me out of library with it. Bummer.
Wow, their cards looks pretty sweet. I'll be sure to check them out if I need to build a big server again.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to spread FUD. It's good to know that newer BIOSes can cope with booting from drives other than primary master. The only problem I can see is if the drive first in the boot order is in a failure state and the motherboard's BIOS isn't aware and tries to boot from it anyway. This may be something people can live with to save the $400 on a 3ware card.
The best option for real hardware SATA (or IDE) RAID in Linux is 3ware, bar none. Their drivers have been in the official Linux kernel since the early 2.4 days, and they just work. Highly recommended.
Why real hardware RAID? Say, for example, your boot drive goes out in a software RAID configuration. Your system is suddenly unable to boot, requiring manual intervention for a rebuild. With hardware RAID, the BIOS built-in to the card handles things smoothly and your system can boot without a problem.
Sony's tiny VAIO laptops (the Picturebook series, the X505) have generally been made without a trackpad, simply because the laptops are so small. They all have trackpoints to handle pointing. I much prefer this design because the trackpad + "wrist rest' design of most laptops is horribly un-ergonomic for me.
The 50% on death row exonerated figure is indeed incorrect. Instead, the figure is that in a period of 12 years, more people on death row in Illinois were exonerated than put to death. From the CNN article you linked to: In the last dozen years in Illinois, 12 men have been executed, but 12 others once condemned to die have been exonerated -- three this year.
The number exonerated went to 13 when Gov. Ryan put a moratorium on the death penalty, and ultimately commuted the sentences of everyone on death row to life without parole (source).
Charter Communications has a large hub in my area and from what the "higher ups" have told me - they are quite angry.
This comes as no surprise as Charter is owned by Paul Allen, who owned TechTV prior to the buyout by Comcast. I can imagine that Charter customers had a hard time finding G4 on their channel lineups before the "merger." Is this just desserts?
Also, the article is a little dated in terms of what it talks about. Especially with the "... the consumer versions of which are limited to about 42 inches" which is VERY out of date.
It's talking about CRTs being limited to 42 inches.
I was going to post a message lambasting Wacom, as they were owned by self-appointed Messiah Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church cult (the "Moonies") through his Happy World front company (more info can be found through Google). Fortunately, it looks like they've broken free from Happy World.
The offending fedora-redhat.com page includes the graphic http://www.redhat.com/g/chrome/logo_rh_home.png to lend an official air to their site. Why doesn't Redhat simply change that image to say something like: "Notice from Redhat: this is NOT an official Redhat page. The download on this page contain malicious code. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. Please consult www.redhat.com for official details." They could even just check the referrer so it'll only give the message when loaded from fedora-redhat.com.
I've also seen various phishing emails that use graphics from the websites of the banks they're masquerading as (Citibank, SunTrust). Simply changing these would cut down on scams and trojans like these.
Both of those things look like they're simple adaptors that just change the plug from one to the other. Even the first link you mention says, "***IMPORTANT NOTE***: 10160 is the adapter ONLY, without chips and any software. If you do NOT have the related chips and software on your computer, we strongly recommend you to by the whole converter"
The one in that link looks more substantial and looks like it'll actually have some circuitry inside it, rather than just changing the pinout.
I third the AVR suggestion. There's a decent HOWTO on getting an AVR toolchain going in linux here.
It would be really neat if I could do some of the more complicated audio analysis (FFT etc) that requires lots of vector math using the video cards gpu.
There's a company that actually does this. The Universal Audio UAD-1 audio DSP had a previous life as a video card and a DVD hardware accelerator. Check out this thread on the UAD forums for more technical information.
I really doubt that they'll lengthen the PM's pipeline much. Look at the Athlon XP -> Athlon 64 evolution - the pipeline was only stretched by a couple of clock cycles.
That's true. According to articles I've seen about the Pentium-M, its pipeline is only a little bit longer than the PIII's. I guess I misspoke - mod parent up!
Wow. This is amazing. The P6 (PPro, PII, PIII) architecture is coming back to the desktop. This does make pretty good sense. The P6 has high IPC, and by applying some Pentium 4 tricks (Quad-pumped FSB, longer pipeline), this can make for a killer CPU. For more information, check out this Ars Technica Article on the Pentium-M's P6 heritage. The chip doesn't even lie about it - its CPUID reports a P6 family CPU.
Almost all of these "gaming laptops" are Sagers with a slick paint job and a huge markup. The Fragbook DR is actually a Sager NP8790 which you can get at places like Discount Laptops and Power Notebooks with the same specs and much, much cheaper.
All cars manufactured for sale in the United States during that time, regardless of performance, were legally required to have speedometers that only reach 85MPH and also highlight the speed of 55, which was the national maximum speed limit.
Just because a product emulates a look and feel doesn't mean it's BAD does it? Since when was there a patent on a GUI?
Ever since Apple got US patent number 2002089529 , titled Media Player Interface. Look at the drawings -- that's iTunes. That probably also explains why LSongs has the player controlls at the bottom of the screen.
I don't personally have a problem with Gmail, and I will probably use it. Especially with encrypted messages. Hah, scan that!
I wonder if gmail will detect PGP/GPG and send you ads for security and encryption-related products.
Gomez Peer is a legitimate company that'll pay you for your bandwidth and CPU time. Basically, it checks various websites for reachability/performance. Apparently it's hard to get in, unless you're on their "most wanted" location list.
I remember a Ry4an Brase on St. Louis BBSes (like the BS Box). There can't be more than one Ry4an out there... is that you?