i thought the big deal between 7 and 8 was that with 8, they finally stripped out all the old 680x0 support code. or maybe that was 8.1, as another post mentioned. i never really was into macs after the 680x0's and my tibook (wintel user intermediary)
i have an LC II and an LC III, based off of the precursor to the Power PC chip, the 680x0 series. previous to the 68040, none of the chips had FPU's on them (for example, the LC II had a 68020, and the III had a 68030, meaning you either a)wrote your own software FPU, or B)install freeBSD for the 68k mac, which already has a software FPU...)
anywho, it takes 5 min to generate a new SSH crypt key every 2 hours. other than that, it's like a 6 hour install on a 1 gig drive + pains and headaches - but boy! do they make greak, quiet, and cool webservers. that's what mine is, at least:)
i know this goes against the great slashdot blackout, but this story was too big to miss out on.
disclaimer aside, intersting theroy on 8 bit processors. i have 0 education on processor design other than some extremely basic knowledge - bear with me- paralell processing can be *very* fast and *very* efficnet, otherwise sony wouldn't be using it to develop their PS3...would it be possible to run, say, eight 8086's (or 4004's?) in paralell, for essentially 64 bits or processing, run the production @.13 microns, put them all on one wafer, conenct them to 512k of L1 and/or L2 cache, and clock the whole thing @ 1.5 Ghz or so? you'd need a processor controller to divy up the various instructions between the processors, maybe a pentium or somthing - i dunno, somthing more efficent, most likely;). how would that fare?
this would be great to run a third display off of a second computer, as my powerbook g4 only has support for 2 displays- supposedly there's some support for this in OS 9 as an add-on app, but lets you put apps on a grid in a window on the main screen...
damn straight. i have a brand new (well, 3 months old) powerbook g4 w/ a mobile radeon card (60 fps in quake 3_, and scrolling is choppy at best. scrolling in IE on PC's running windows 95 at school (pII 233-550) and all my friend's computers scroll silky smooth. i'm running chimera 0.2, and it's at the bottom of accpetable. i have a hunch it has to do with antialiased text, but then again, OS 9 is just as slow:(
yeah. i can't play worth shit on counterstrike on my friend's rig w/a trackball. i had to use it anyways, and ended up turning the trackball upside down, and "invert mouse", and just remember that left was right, and vice versa. frags, sadly, went up:)
i think this is the last nail in the coffin for my friend - he refuses to budge from XP and buy a tibook for college next year due to lack of direct X support. granted, this allows for easier porting of code, i don't think it'll allow macs to displace PC's in the game-developing world when it comes to Direct X. it's getting close, though...
i can imagine hitachi is "buying" the HD "company" primarily for the microdrive tech, and to licence out the "pixie dust". the deskstar is no more. Glad i bought my WD1000BB when i did:)
so is IBM or hitachi going to keep good on their warranties for the umpteen billion deskstar drives on the market still under warranty?
why didn't WD or Maxtor buy this HD company spinoff? i'm sure IBM's hard drive tech research division is more than worth the money...
AOL also pays for very high-quality, ad-free hosting and I commend them for that.
i was just wondering where the free opensource community was comming up with the $$ to host probably a terrabyte of past nightly builds of umpteen different builds on different OS'es of 3 or 4 different products, not to mention the bandwidth needs of tens of thousands of copies of nightlies or stable builds being downloaded each day @ a good 20-100KB (or more)/sec. AOL truly roxorz in this respect. free AIM servers roxor too, even if the oscar protocol SUXORZ. enough 1337 for/\/\3. time3 4 5133p.
well let's just start with the concept, and you can work it from there. first off, it'll most likely saturate the gigabit eithernet. your best bet is to go with mpeg decoding, but enough about that... first, figure out how many pixels you are going to have. this is going to be a number like 1028x768, or 1600x1200. multiply the two numbers together, and then multiply THAT number by how much color depth you're planning on having (16, 24, 32 bit). that gives you your bandwidth req's. 1600x122 @ 24 bit color @ 60 fps is somthing like 3.2 gigabits per second. now you know why those video cards cost so much:-D MPEG-2 encode/decode in either software or hardware isn't a whole lot. most every digital video system uses it, including your DVD player. you could probably hack somthing together using firewire, but wait till this summer when apple updates firewire to an 800mbps/gigabit. i might suggest nan apple cube. it's slow, but it's silent, and does firewire, i think. also has eithernet onboard, but not gigabit. shrug.
i normally use.2 as my primary browser, and revert to mozilla.9.9 for downloading (chimera doesn't yet support downloading).
on their page they say they're going to be implementing the quartz...somthing (layer?). this is going to SLOW DOWN render speeds. why are they doing this? that doesn't make any sense. less cpu usage? beats the pants off of any pay-for browser, sans downloading. drag links/pictures to the desktop like IE would be really nice...
what is fizzilla, exactly? aqua-ized mozilla (mail, browser, text edit?)??
USB uses ALOT of cpu usage... is there any sort of usb hub that connects to the computer via a firewire port? firewire deals with devices by itself - no cpu interaction required. by having a usb hub/router on firewire, the hub/router could deal with all that w/o using up precious cpu cycles.
doesn't the geforce 4 have on-board MPEG-2 decoder/encoder? this mobo has 2 firewire ports, plus it has a second, unused 1394 bus on the mobo. that's 4 video/data I/O, and daisy-chainable up to 126 devices total (63 devices * 2 busses). add a 10/100/1000 card and you STILL have a slot open for that RS-232 card.
for the average, run of the mill, non-slashdot running (aka database server) geek, 2MB of cache is PLENTY. what you want to be looking at is primarily seek time, and secondly data burst transfer, THEN sustained, then wether or not it has more than 2 MB of cache.
if you want to hear yourself think - maxtor has a 160 GB drive (ide) that runs at 5400 rpm, but only has 2 MB cache. western digital makes a line of 100 gb and 120 gb drives, that come in 2 MB and 8 MB cache sizes. i recently bought a 100 GB 2MB cache, which is plenty fast. The only time cache over about 3 or 4 MB comes in handy is on A) webservers, or B) sql-type database servers.there's a reason why people don't buy SCSI hardware for their 31337 ha>0r system - nobody needs it - ATA 100/133 is cheap, and 2/3rds the speed of SCSI for 90% of their needs.
"Well, maybe a second question: will the 'real' writer ever come forward, or is this a topic for another conspiracy theory???"
more than likely not, as he probably killed himself after seeing what an atrocity he unleashed upon the masses with ep. 1
the story i've always heard was that lucas wrote an entire "play" that was 9 acts long, and when he went to fox to sell his story, they were like "great! but it's too long, try and cut it down" - so he put "act 4" into production....
...so in theroy, he did write a grand epic, it's sitting somewhere, we'll just probably never live long enough to see the true 9 act script.
my friend had me mill one for him for a science experiment. actually , ended up about 5 of them. he bought 2x2x1" aluminum blocks. i milled two holes through (one end to the other), side by side. he tapped them, and attached plumbing devices to the newly threaded areas. The other method was to bore four holes - two holes one one side that went 80% through, and 2 holes on the adjacent side that also went 80% through. tapped, and attached appropriate connectors. no leaks to patch. since the tops were flat, he also took the old heat sink + fan, removed the fan, and used that to dissipate evem more heat.
i never got the results back, but if anyone's interested, i can get the data to you, along with pics and more details.
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i thought the big deal between 7 and 8 was that with 8, they finally stripped out all the old 680x0 support code. or maybe that was 8.1, as another post mentioned. i never really was into macs after the 680x0's and my tibook (wintel user intermediary)
holy shit! what kind of ass-backwards country do YOU do tech support for??? ;)
but seriously - what kind of people/buisnesses are still using win 3.11? retail stores of some sort as cash registers?
i don't own a mac 512, nor do i plan to own one (i'd like one though). i guess its safe to tell me,
:-D
what exactly does the programmer's switch do?
now when can i buy a (suit) tie that ties itself? :)
i have an LC II and an LC III, based off of the precursor to the Power PC chip, the 680x0 series. previous to the 68040, none of the chips had FPU's on them (for example, the LC II had a 68020, and the III had a 68030, meaning you either a)wrote your own software FPU, or B)install freeBSD for the 68k mac, which already has a software FPU...)
:)
anywho, it takes 5 min to generate a new SSH crypt key every 2 hours. other than that, it's like a 6 hour install on a 1 gig drive + pains and headaches - but boy! do they make greak, quiet, and cool webservers. that's what mine is, at least
i know this goes against the great slashdot blackout, but this story was too big to miss out on.
.13 microns, put them all on one wafer, conenct them to 512k of L1 and/or L2 cache, and clock the whole thing @ 1.5 Ghz or so? you'd need a processor controller to divy up the various instructions between the processors, maybe a pentium or somthing - i dunno, somthing more efficent, most likely ;). how would that fare?
disclaimer aside, intersting theroy on 8 bit processors. i have 0 education on processor design other than some extremely basic knowledge - bear with me- paralell processing can be *very* fast and *very* efficnet, otherwise sony wouldn't be using it to develop their PS3...would it be possible to run, say, eight 8086's (or 4004's?) in paralell, for essentially 64 bits or processing, run the production @
this would be great to run a third display off of a second computer, as my powerbook g4 only has support for 2 displays- supposedly there's some support for this in OS 9 as an add-on app, but lets you put apps on a grid in a window on the main screen...
how well does VNC work with virtual desktops?
damn straight. i have a brand new (well, 3 months old) powerbook g4 w/ a mobile radeon card (60 fps in quake 3_, and scrolling is choppy at best. scrolling in IE on PC's running windows 95 at school (pII 233-550) and all my friend's computers scroll silky smooth. i'm running chimera 0.2, and it's at the bottom of accpetable. i have a hunch it has to do with antialiased text, but then again, OS 9 is just as slow :(
yeah. i can't play worth shit on counterstrike on my friend's rig w/a trackball. i had to use it anyways, and ended up turning the trackball upside down, and "invert mouse", and just remember that left was right, and vice versa. frags, sadly, went up :)
i think this is the last nail in the coffin for my friend - he refuses to budge from XP and buy a tibook for college next year due to lack of direct X support. granted, this allows for easier porting of code, i don't think it'll allow macs to displace PC's in the game-developing world when it comes to Direct X. it's getting close, though...
i can imagine hitachi is "buying" the HD "company" primarily for the microdrive tech, and to licence out the "pixie dust". the deskstar is no more. Glad i bought my WD1000BB when i did :)
so is IBM or hitachi going to keep good on their warranties for the umpteen billion deskstar drives on the market still under warranty?
why didn't WD or Maxtor buy this HD company spinoff? i'm sure IBM's hard drive tech research division is more than worth the money...
AOL also pays for very high-quality, ad-free hosting and I commend them for that.
/\/\3. time3 4 5133p.
i was just wondering where the free opensource community was comming up with the $$ to host probably a terrabyte of past nightly builds of umpteen different builds on different OS'es of 3 or 4 different products, not to mention the bandwidth needs of tens of thousands of copies of nightlies or stable builds being downloaded each day @ a good 20-100KB (or more)/sec. AOL truly roxorz in this respect. free AIM servers roxor too, even if the oscar protocol SUXORZ. enough 1337 for
well let's just start with the concept, and you can work it from there. first off, it'll most likely saturate the gigabit eithernet. your best bet is to go with mpeg decoding, but enough about that... first, figure out how many pixels you are going to have. this is going to be a number like 1028x768, or 1600x1200. multiply the two numbers together, and then multiply THAT number by how much color depth you're planning on having (16, 24, 32 bit). that gives you your bandwidth req's. 1600x122 @ 24 bit color @ 60 fps is somthing like 3.2 gigabits per second. now you know why those video cards cost so much :-D MPEG-2 encode/decode in either software or hardware isn't a whole lot. most every digital video system uses it, including your DVD player. you could probably hack somthing together using firewire, but wait till this summer when apple updates firewire to an 800mbps/gigabit. i might suggest nan apple cube. it's slow, but it's silent, and does firewire, i think. also has eithernet onboard, but not gigabit. shrug.
there's a reason why the patent office is still active today... ;)
i think this has already been done. it's called private/passworded servers :)
i still use aol 2.5 on my old 386... (copyright 1994)
:-D
not that i've turned ON my 386 in the last 3 years....but it's nice to know that i could if i needed to
i normally use .2 as my primary browser, and revert to mozilla .9.9 for downloading (chimera doesn't yet support downloading).
on their page they say they're going to be implementing the quartz...somthing (layer?). this is going to SLOW DOWN render speeds. why are they doing this? that doesn't make any sense. less cpu usage? beats the pants off of any pay-for browser, sans downloading. drag links/pictures to the desktop like IE would be really nice...
what is fizzilla, exactly? aqua-ized mozilla (mail, browser, text edit?)??
USB uses ALOT of cpu usage... is there any sort of usb hub that connects to the computer via a firewire port? firewire deals with devices by itself - no cpu interaction required. by having a usb hub/router on firewire, the hub/router could deal with all that w/o using up precious cpu cycles.
doesn't the geforce 4 have on-board MPEG-2 decoder/encoder? this mobo has 2 firewire ports, plus it has a second, unused 1394 bus on the mobo. that's 4 video/data I/O, and daisy-chainable up to 126 devices total (63 devices * 2 busses). add a 10/100/1000 card and you STILL have a slot open for that RS-232 card.
for the average, run of the mill, non-slashdot running (aka database server) geek, 2MB of cache is PLENTY. what you want to be looking at is primarily seek time, and secondly data burst transfer, THEN sustained, then wether or not it has more than 2 MB of cache.
if you want to hear yourself think - maxtor has a 160 GB drive (ide) that runs at 5400 rpm, but only has 2 MB cache. western digital makes a line of 100 gb and 120 gb drives, that come in 2 MB and 8 MB cache sizes. i recently bought a 100 GB 2MB cache, which is plenty fast. The only time cache over about 3 or 4 MB comes in handy is on A) webservers, or B) sql-type database servers.there's a reason why people don't buy SCSI hardware for their 31337 ha>0r system - nobody needs it - ATA 100/133 is cheap, and 2/3rds the speed of SCSI for 90% of their needs.
no need to freeze, no need to microwave, frozen microwave pizza-flavored hot pockets!
yum.
ahem (dons flame proof suit)...
in other news...
water wet
microsoft bad
"Well, maybe a second question: will the 'real' writer ever come forward, or is this a topic for another conspiracy theory???"
more than likely not, as he probably killed himself after seeing what an atrocity he unleashed upon the masses with ep. 1
the story i've always heard was that lucas wrote an entire "play" that was 9 acts long, and when he went to fox to sell his story, they were like "great! but it's too long, try and cut it down" - so he put "act 4" into production....
...so in theroy, he did write a grand epic, it's sitting somewhere, we'll just probably never live long enough to see the true 9 act script.
not sure how many points i get when normal-posting. this is old, so most likely no one will ever read/mod this...
my friend had me mill one for him for a science experiment. actually , ended up about 5 of them. he bought 2x2x1" aluminum blocks. i milled two holes through (one end to the other), side by side. he tapped them, and attached plumbing devices to the newly threaded areas. The other method was to bore four holes - two holes one one side that went 80% through, and 2 holes on the adjacent side that also went 80% through. tapped, and attached appropriate connectors. no leaks to patch. since the tops were flat, he also took the old heat sink + fan, removed the fan, and used that to dissipate evem more heat.
i never got the results back, but if anyone's interested, i can get the data to you, along with pics and more details.