I submitted my page on Bill Jones's spams a couple days ago, and it was rejected:
2002-02-28 00:58:56 California Gubernatorial Canidate Resorts to Spam (articles,spam) (rejected)
Anyway, I'm not bitter. Check out my page on it anyway: http://polpo.org/jonesspam/. Basically, I pick apart the mail and the "click here to remove yourself from our list" page (which involves some novel Javascript-based HTML obfuscation) and find out who one of the spammers might be.
After talking with some people about this and doing a simple Google search I found that he's been doing this for a couple months now, with MSNBC doing this story on it in December. They have a followup story here.
By the way, don't count on Bill Jones's office writing you back when you complain to them about the spam. I haven't recieved a response yet.
Keep in mind that Tom himself rarely writes the articles on the site these days. The article you linked to is credited to Frank Völkel, Bert Töpelt, and Patrick Schmid. The P4/2666 article is credited to Frank Völkel and Bert Töpelt. The Hammer preview is by Frank Völkel.
However, Tom Pabst's name is the one that's in that logo on the top of every page (similar to AnandTech's Anand Lal Shimpi), so by doing so he puts his integrity at stake with every article.
Several people on the Silent-PC mailing list have underclocked and under-volted their systems, but I don't think anyone has been able to run a modern CPU such as an Athlon or P4 without a fan. Some people have reported success with older Celerons and K6-2s, however.
You could also buy a CPU that can run at 933MHz without a fan, the VIA C3. It's pretty good, but the FPU is quite anemic. Personally, I think it's a small price to pay for some peace and quiet.
Getting a fanless power supply has been a problem plaguing quiet-pc enthusiasts for some time. The company TKPower has manufactured them, but have been unwilling to sell to either individuals or small vendors.
Finally, Silicon Acoustics (who also sell the fanless 866MHz VIA C3 processor) have managed to wrestle some power supplies from TKPower. At $200, it is a bit steep, but is the only real safe way to have a fanless power supply. The form factor isn't standard ATX, but it is electrically compliant. If this could fit into that Gigabyte appliance case along with a C3, that'd be the way to go.
Personally, I find bulky watches with millions of features and complex digital displays cumbersome and outright dorky. Yes, we are nerds here, but we can have a LITTLE style, right?
The perfect watch, as far as I'm concerned, is the Junghans Atomic Solar line. The styling speaks for itself, and technically they're a marvel. Since they're solar powered and sync to the NIST WWVB radio station, all you have to do set your time zone once - and never do anything ever again. No batteries to change, no daylight saving to worry about, no time drifting ever. Junghans, being a German company, also makes watches that can sync to European time standard stations.
Check 'em out here and here. Unfortunately, at just under $1000, they certainly aren't for everyone..
I certainly can't afford one (yet), so I have to be content with my trusty Timex for now.:)
After poking around in the links in the article about the AD2818 EZ-Kit Lite that ran yesterday, I found that there is a version of GCC for several of the Analog Devices DSPs, called G21. It seems pretty old, however (1995), so it probably won't support their latest whiz-bang DSPs.
C4x GNU Tools appears to have the same thing for various TI DSP lines and appears to be better maintained.
I found these sites by searching google for "analog devices dsp gcc" and "ti dsp gcc.";)
It's free as in beer for uncommercial uses - go ahead and download it yourself. The only problem seems to be that they say it's just for RedHat or TurboLinux. However, it seems like it just puts itself in/opt and leaves things alone, thankfully. They did get it to work under SuSE.
geometric mean performance on multiple kernels compiled through it reached 47% improvement over GCC.
The testing didn't involve compiling kernels at all
I believe this misunderstanding comes from the fact that they called their different benchmarks "kernels" for some reason.
Missouri, the state I live in, has free web filing. The only restriction is that you can't itemize your deductions. I used it last year and it couldn't have been easier.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. If enough states do this, Uncle Sam probably would be more apt to do free filing.
That's because Voodoo cards never used AGP. Sure, they may have fit into an AGP slot but they functioned more or less like PCI cards. (I believe this is true even for the last Voodoo 4/5 generation.)
One note - I have a very similar case, the Antec SX830. Papst 8412NGLs do have some problem with low-frequency vibrations. When I had 5 of these mounted in the case (in each of the fan spots and one in the HDD rack) the case emitted a bad "growling" noise caused by these fans.
Papsts REALLY need to be decoupled from the case so these vibrations don't get amplified. Unfortunately the little fan caddies that are used with this case don't allow this. So, instead I've taken all but one of them out, and it's suspended from the HD rack with string. Works well; the case is a little warm but well within my Athlon 1200's spec.
Ian
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1. They succeed. We are all morons because they did in a few months what we (open source developers) couldn't do in ten years.
Note that Lindows can build on that ten years of open source development in WINE. It's not GPL -- it's an X11 type license.
From the wine-devel mailing list: "We switched from the BSD license to the X11 license on 2000/4/24 to enable commercial companies to be able to include WINE into their products."
The X11 license lets them use WINE without even displaying a copyright message like a BSD license would require.
Ian
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I remember the last so-called Apple product fake - the G4 Cube. The now-defunct site The Mac Junkie claimed that the leaked photo of the Cube was an utter fabrication. He gave some "evidence" of why he thought he was right, such as "Photoshop fingerprints."
Courtesy of archive.org's cached copy: "To conclude, I will eat my hat if Jobs unveils this very machine tomorrow. No, wait - I'll eat my hockey puck mouse."
The following morning, after Jobs announced it at MacWorld, the site went down temporarily and then permanently not long after. Oh well!
Years later, the rewrite without the history produced junk like the B-1 (which didn't even make it to the Persian Gulf war).
The B-1 was FINALLY used in operation Desert Fox in 1998 and Kosovo last year, and is performing round-the-clock duties in Afghanistan right now.
The history of the B-1 is pretty ridiculous. The project was cancelled with just four prototypes of the B-1A in 1977, and then restarted under Reagan as the B-1B in 1981 with delivery in 1985. After this painful gestation period they don't figure out what to do with the darn things until 1998.
I seriously think that we'll still have B-52s flying LONG after the B-1s get scrapped.
(Anyone with a better knowledge of the B-1, feel free to correct me.)
Given proper cooling - very reliable. The thermal diode in the MP/XP line improves this reliability even more. (Which brings up the question - do these boards fully support the diode?)
How well does it run with some random version of Linux or *BSD?
Perfectly.
The onboard stuff on the Tyan boards is quite standard: Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI, 3com 3c59x Ehernet.
This probably won't last much longer, but there's a Vader helmet (used in Empire) going for a fraction of what the Stormtrooper helmet is up to now. ($1,700 vs $8,865)
That's the power of a direct link from Slashdot's front page!
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This is not an IIS error page. It is an MSIE error page.
New Ultra ATA interface with Maxtor-patented Ultra ATA/133 protocol supporting burst data transfer rates of 133MB/s.
Maxtor-patented? I hope this is a typo or editing mistake. Looking around at http://www.uspto.gov/ doesn't reveal much, but Googling for information brings up a few press releases saying things such as "Ultra ATA/133 Is Based on Maxtor Patented ATA Technology" and "The Fast Drives specification and licensing rights for Ultra ATA/133 are available from Maxtor under non-disclosure."
Are other ATA standards patented like this, by Maxtor or other companies like Western Digital or Seagate?
Brian Valentine isn't exactly "some middle-manager salesman guy," he's senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows division and has been at MSFT since 1987.
I find that the standard Case Logic nylon cases to be the perfect balance of portability, density, protection, and durability. I have three of the 208-disc capacity models. (The 256 and 264 models are a little too bulky for me.) The faux-leather ones just seem a little weird for my tastes, and any hard-shelled cases I've seen seem too prone to breakage.
They hold liner notes well, but of course that halves the capacity, but I find it worth it. The one that holds my CD-ROMs has just discs in it, though.
By slowing down the reaction time of the brain and adjusting conditions in our virtual reality to convince the brain that time is moving slower or faster, the possibilities would be endless. 2 week vacations in a virtual Bahamas in only 5 minutes? Maybe a 2 year stay in virtual France in only 1 second. Just a thought. Heck, even if it isn't theoretically possible, it would make a great movie.
Total Recall. A little bit different, instead they just implanted the memories of the vacation in your head.
I don't think these things are going away any time soon. After they were brought to the attention of the USA's general public with CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, practically every major network latched on to the practice and haven't let go.
They've been in place for 10 years now. Flipping through normal cable TV, I don't think I can see anyone who doesn't do it, aside from the premium movie channels (thank goodness.)
Qwest sucks donkey dick in so many ways it is not even funny. I hope nothing mission-critical runs over those lines.
Yeah. We honestly had no other choice due to management which insisted on a one-year contract. Hardly anyone else would speak to us when we said we wanted that. Anyway, so far, so good. Our routing isn't the best, but we haven't had any downtime (knock on wood.)
Our only other option was ISDN, which is wayyyyy too slow. We were too far out for DSL, which in our experience sucks no matter what.
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I submitted my page on Bill Jones's spams a couple days ago, and it was rejected:
2002-02-28 00:58:56 California Gubernatorial Canidate Resorts to Spam (articles,spam) (rejected)
Anyway, I'm not bitter. Check out my page on it anyway: http://polpo.org/jonesspam/. Basically, I pick apart the mail and the "click here to remove yourself from our list" page (which involves some novel Javascript-based HTML obfuscation) and find out who one of the spammers might be.
After talking with some people about this and doing a simple Google search I found that he's been doing this for a couple months now, with MSNBC doing this story on it in December. They have a followup story here.
By the way, don't count on Bill Jones's office writing you back when you complain to them about the spam. I haven't recieved a response yet.
Ian
Keep in mind that Tom himself rarely writes the articles on the site these days. The article you linked to is credited to Frank Völkel, Bert Töpelt, and Patrick Schmid. The P4/2666 article is credited to Frank Völkel and Bert Töpelt. The Hammer preview is by Frank Völkel.
However, Tom Pabst's name is the one that's in that logo on the top of every page (similar to AnandTech's Anand Lal Shimpi), so by doing so he puts his integrity at stake with every article.
Ian
Several people on the Silent-PC mailing list have underclocked and under-volted their systems, but I don't think anyone has been able to run a modern CPU such as an Athlon or P4 without a fan. Some people have reported success with older Celerons and K6-2s, however.
You could also buy a CPU that can run at 933MHz without a fan, the VIA C3. It's pretty good, but the FPU is quite anemic. Personally, I think it's a small price to pay for some peace and quiet.
Ian
Getting a fanless power supply has been a problem plaguing quiet-pc enthusiasts for some time. The company TKPower has manufactured them, but have been unwilling to sell to either individuals or small vendors.
Finally, Silicon Acoustics (who also sell the fanless 866MHz VIA C3 processor) have managed to wrestle some power supplies from TKPower. At $200, it is a bit steep, but is the only real safe way to have a fanless power supply. The form factor isn't standard ATX, but it is electrically compliant. If this could fit into that Gigabyte appliance case along with a C3, that'd be the way to go.
Ian
Personally, I find bulky watches with millions of features and complex digital displays cumbersome and outright dorky. Yes, we are nerds here, but we can have a LITTLE style, right?
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:)
The perfect watch, as far as I'm concerned, is the Junghans Atomic Solar line. The styling speaks for itself, and technically they're a marvel. Since they're solar powered and sync to the NIST WWVB radio station, all you have to do set your time zone once - and never do anything ever again. No batteries to change, no daylight saving to worry about, no time drifting ever. Junghans, being a German company, also makes watches that can sync to European time standard stations.
Check 'em out here and here. Unfortunately, at just under $1000, they certainly aren't for everyone.
I certainly can't afford one (yet), so I have to be content with my trusty Timex for now.
Ian
After poking around in the links in the article about the AD2818 EZ-Kit Lite that ran yesterday, I found that there is a version of GCC for several of the Analog Devices DSPs, called G21. It seems pretty old, however (1995), so it probably won't support their latest whiz-bang DSPs.
;)
C4x GNU Tools appears to have the same thing for various TI DSP lines and appears to be better maintained.
I found these sites by searching google for "analog devices dsp gcc" and "ti dsp gcc."
Ian
Biting at the troll ...
/opt and leaves things alone, thankfully. They did get it to work under SuSE.
It's not free software.
It's free as in beer for uncommercial uses - go ahead and download it yourself. The only problem seems to be that they say it's just for RedHat or TurboLinux. However, it seems like it just puts itself in
geometric mean performance on multiple kernels compiled through it reached 47% improvement over GCC.
The testing didn't involve compiling kernels at all
I believe this misunderstanding comes from the fact that they called their different benchmarks "kernels" for some reason.
Ian
Missouri, the state I live in, has free web filing. The only restriction is that you can't itemize your deductions. I used it last year and it couldn't have been easier.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. If enough states do this, Uncle Sam probably would be more apt to do free filing.
Ian
The bug doesn't happen with a Voodoo card.
That's because Voodoo cards never used AGP. Sure, they may have fit into an AGP slot but they functioned more or less like PCI cards. (I believe this is true even for the last Voodoo 4/5 generation.)
Ian
One note - I have a very similar case, the Antec SX830. Papst 8412NGLs do have some problem with low-frequency vibrations. When I had 5 of these mounted in the case (in each of the fan spots and one in the HDD rack) the case emitted a bad "growling" noise caused by these fans.
Papsts REALLY need to be decoupled from the case so these vibrations don't get amplified. Unfortunately the little fan caddies that are used with this case don't allow this. So, instead I've taken all but one of them out, and it's suspended from the HD rack with string. Works well; the case is a little warm but well within my Athlon 1200's spec.
Ian
1. They succeed. We are all morons because they did in a few months what we (open source developers) couldn't do in ten years.
Note that Lindows can build on that ten years of open source development in WINE. It's not GPL -- it's an X11 type license.
From the wine-devel mailing list: "We switched from the BSD license to the X11 license on 2000/4/24 to enable commercial companies to be able to include WINE into their products."
The X11 license lets them use WINE without even displaying a copyright message like a BSD license would require.
Ian
I remember the last so-called Apple product fake - the G4 Cube. The now-defunct site The Mac Junkie claimed that the leaked photo of the Cube was an utter fabrication. He gave some "evidence" of why he thought he was right, such as "Photoshop fingerprints."
Courtesy of archive.org's cached copy: "To conclude, I will eat my hat if Jobs unveils this very machine tomorrow. No, wait - I'll eat my hockey puck mouse."
The following morning, after Jobs announced it at MacWorld, the site went down temporarily and then permanently not long after. Oh well!
Ian
it's design was such that there was NO payload space except for the camera
Prior to the SR-71's development, a variation of the A-12 called the YF-12 was developed that actually had a payload of bombs and/or AA missiles.
Ian
Years later, the rewrite without the history produced junk like the B-1 (which didn't even make it to the Persian Gulf war).
The B-1 was FINALLY used in operation Desert Fox in 1998 and Kosovo last year, and is performing round-the-clock duties in Afghanistan right now.
The history of the B-1 is pretty ridiculous. The project was cancelled with just four prototypes of the B-1A in 1977, and then restarted under Reagan as the B-1B in 1981 with delivery in 1985. After this painful gestation period they don't figure out what to do with the darn things until 1998.
I seriously think that we'll still have B-52s flying LONG after the B-1s get scrapped.
(Anyone with a better knowledge of the B-1, feel free to correct me.)
Ian
How reliable and compatible is the system?
Given proper cooling - very reliable. The thermal diode in the MP/XP line improves this reliability even more. (Which brings up the question - do these boards fully support the diode?)
How well does it run with some random version of Linux or *BSD?
Perfectly.
The onboard stuff on the Tyan boards is quite standard: Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI, 3com 3c59x Ehernet.
Ian
Do you mean broadcast packets?
This probably won't last much longer, but there's a Vader helmet (used in Empire) going for a fraction of what the Stormtrooper helmet is up to now. ($1,700 vs $8,865)
That's the power of a direct link from Slashdot's front page!
This is not an IIS error page. It is an MSIE error page.
Remember when a certain console that cost $199 at launch sold 410,000 units in the first week?
Look where it is now.
Not to knock it -- I love my Dreamcast, and especially now it is an incredible value.
Ian
Looking at the specs on the linked article:
New Ultra ATA interface with Maxtor-patented Ultra ATA/133 protocol supporting burst data transfer rates of 133MB/s.
Maxtor-patented? I hope this is a typo or editing mistake. Looking around at http://www.uspto.gov/ doesn't reveal much, but Googling for information brings up a few press releases saying things such as "Ultra ATA/133 Is Based on Maxtor Patented ATA Technology" and "The Fast Drives specification and licensing rights for Ultra ATA/133 are available from Maxtor under non-disclosure."
Are other ATA standards patented like this, by Maxtor or other companies like Western Digital or Seagate?
Ian
Brian Valentine isn't exactly "some middle-manager salesman guy," he's senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows division and has been at MSFT since 1987.
Ian
I find that the standard Case Logic nylon cases to be the perfect balance of portability, density, protection, and durability. I have three of the 208-disc capacity models. (The 256 and 264 models are a little too bulky for me.) The faux-leather ones just seem a little weird for my tastes, and any hard-shelled cases I've seen seem too prone to breakage.
They hold liner notes well, but of course that halves the capacity, but I find it worth it. The one that holds my CD-ROMs has just discs in it, though.
Ian
By slowing down the reaction time of the brain and adjusting conditions in our virtual reality to convince the brain that time is moving slower or faster, the possibilities would be endless. 2 week vacations in a virtual Bahamas in only 5 minutes? Maybe a 2 year stay in virtual France in only 1 second. Just a thought. Heck, even if it isn't theoretically possible, it would make a great movie.
Total Recall. A little bit different, instead they just implanted the memories of the vacation in your head.
me
I don't think these things are going away any time soon. After they were brought to the attention of the USA's general public with CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, practically every major network latched on to the practice and haven't let go.
They've been in place for 10 years now. Flipping through normal cable TV, I don't think I can see anyone who doesn't do it, aside from the premium movie channels (thank goodness.)
Ian
Qwest sucks donkey dick in so many ways it is not even funny. I hope nothing mission-critical runs over those lines.
Yeah. We honestly had no other choice due to management which insisted on a one-year contract. Hardly anyone else would speak to us when we said we wanted that. Anyway, so far, so good. Our routing isn't the best, but we haven't had any downtime (knock on wood.)
Our only other option was ISDN, which is wayyyyy too slow. We were too far out for DSL, which in our experience sucks no matter what.
Ian