None of the Athlons or Durons I've built have had any problems with Tux Racer (Mostly on Man8.1 default install).
My nephew spends hours Sliding that little penguin arround with that bloody elevator music going, & not once has there been a freeze or lockup, much to my dissapointment.
With economies of scale monopolies are best, with govt ownership comes voter control, as politicians have learnt here in Oz, they can lose office if the prices jump too much. & ontop of that all net profits go back to the govt meaning less tax is need. Useally the combination of those 2 factors mean they end up breaking even plus a little bit left over.
California wouldn't have had any electricity problems if a state owned utility controlled electricity supplies from the power station to the fuse box in every home (the only state in Oz that's had any trouple is the only state with privatised electricity companies)
Look at all the broadband providers that have gone bust in the US. Now if there was a publically owned cable utility nationwide in the US with the economies of scale that only a govt utility has those problems wouldn't have happened.
Really when its electricty, gas, water & telcos the govt does it best.
It doesn't even stop them expanding overseas, Singapore Telecom Singapore's govt phone 'n broadband monopoly has purchased businesses arround the planet. Telstra, Australia's govt telco (now majority govt owned/minority private owned) has made huge inroads into Asia, particularly Vietnam.
Simply because the price that's set by where the demand & supply curves meet up, makes it unprofitable to do so.
Consequently HP, Compaq, IBM, Packard Bell/Nec, etc all lose money on their home computer sales. The only people making money on home sales are local neihbourhood whitebox cloners, & many only do because they are ripping off the tax dept by selling up & re-opening under a different name every year or so to dodge salestax.
Look at Internet appliances, the public only buys them when they cost about $100, about a 1/3 of what they cost by the time they get to the retail shelves.
The only way to overcome this problem is through the economies of scale of a supply monopoly - maybe through the govt contrating a company to build a factory & supplying every household with one in lue of a $500 removed from everyones tax-returns. Oh how the economic (ir)rationalists would hate that. But the only alternative would be the ongoing waste of having more than half a dozen odd 1st-tier OEMs going bust & slowly taking over each other till all that's left is a dualopoly/monopoly, which would in the end cost the nation much more.
Plus computers just arn't user friendly, they just don't work like tellys & fridges do. Personally I think the day will come when domestic electronics giants like Sony, Philips or Panasonic will just embed a slot on all their TV circut boards & stick a couple of empty 5.25 inch drive bays on the side. Then if people want to pay extra to have a computer built into their new TV they just pay an extra fee & a card with an ebedded chipset/cpu (like a Geode X86) & memory is plugged in & a hard drive & OS is fitted & they get a remote control keyboard/trackpad thrown into the cardboard box that their TV comes with, all before the TV is picked up or deleived. The OS would have to have a office bundle & brouser complete with plugins (Real, Quickime, WMP, Flash, Shockwave, Acrobat)already embedded into it (So users won't have to fuck arround with that sort of thing) & a dumbed down front end. Afterall with HDTV eventually all Tellies will come with PC standard resolution (ie pixals small enough for decent text imaging).
Economies of scale & all that (you know the only Oz state that has had problems like California is Vicoria which just happens to be the only Oz state to have privatised it govt Electricity utility
Really you can't beat govt Telco monopolies - look at Nokia & Singapore Telecom.
"...Be only made about 1,800 BeBoxes, I believe, and they are rapidly becoming collector's items, so you'll have to move fast. Be produced two models, which were identical in all but the processors. The first model was the Dual603-66, which was powered by two PowerPC 603 CPUs, each operating at 66Mhz. The second model was the Dual603-133, which had two PowerPC 603e CPUs. Each of these ran at 133Mhz, and in addition had twice the level 1 cache size of the CPUs in the Dual603-66. Both models of BeBox have been criticised for the lack of a level 2 cache, but it was a simple engineering choice: the MPC105 (the memory controller, bus arbitrator and PCI bridge) could either support a single CPU and a level 2 cache, or two CPUs. The performance gains due to a level 2 cache were vastly outweighed by the performance boost from a second CPU. The CPUs are soldered directly to the motherboard; one cannot swap them for faster (or, if you were perverse enough) slower processors.
The BeBox has some amazing features. Firstly, it has both the ISA and PCI busses which are so common in the x86 PC world. This means that one can plug any standard PC peripheral into it. It also has both ATA (IDE) and SCSI 2 disk interfaces, with an external SCSI 2 port. It has a standard AT keyboard interface, a standard PS/2 mouse port, four standard 9-pin RS232 serial ports, four MIDI ports (two in and two out, for two channels), two standard PC joystick ports and 16 bit sound line in and out through RCA phono plugs and stereo minijacks for a microphone and headphones. It also has some more strange IO abilities; three InfraRed ports (for IR device control, not IrDA) and something known as the "GeekPort".
Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has. On the front bezel of the BeBox, there are two bar graphs made of green lights. Each graph represents the amount of work each CPU is doing - you can tell at a glance whether the application you're running is taxing the machine's processors or not. As they say, "We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the hardware, but we can see the blinking lights!"..."
With connectors galor on the back, many more than a ATX PC. Heaps of different Audio ports, multiple MIDI ports & of course the famouse BeBox 'Geek Port'.
This two-component trojan was discovered in the end of December 2001. The trojan being installed on a user's system constantly upgrades its main component that connects to 2001-007.com website and reports user's ID, web browser a user is using and all URLs that a web browser and all its child windows open. The trojan violates user's privacy and opens a security hole in a system by downloading and activating executable files.
The main component of the trojan is Explorer.exe file that is located in Windows folder in \Explorer\ subfolder (do not mix with the original Windows' Explorer.exe). This component is constantly upgraded by the second trojan component that has the name 'DlDer.exe' and is located in Windows folder.
The DlDer.exe file is most likely dropped to user's system by ActiveX applet or Javascript code that a user doesn't notice when he is browsing Internet. The exact way how this file is dropped is not yet known. The case is under investigation.
The DlDer.exe file when it is started downloads Explorer.exe file from a website and puts it to \Windows\Explorer\ folder. Then the trojan creates a startup key for Explorer.exe file. On next System restart the Explorer.exe file is activated and it creates a startup key for DlDer.exe file and starts to connect to 2001-007.com website and report user's ID, web browser and all URLs that a user visits to there.
We recommend to delete both trojan components from an infected system. If these components can't be deleted (locked files) they should be deleted from pure DOS (in case of Windows 9x system) or renamed with different extensions (EXA for example) with immediate system restart (in case of Windows NT/2000/XP system).
[F-Secure Anti-Virus Research Team, December 28th, 2001]"
Unless you are ripping multimedia (or porn, or home videos, well you know what I mean)
that small change comes in handy when you're broke
on
The Euro
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· Score: 2
Here in Oz we have $1 & $2 coins. Whenever I come home I dump the contents of my pockets into a shoe box ontop of my telly.
Every time I'm broke & I'm fanging to buy a shot of smack, or a case or beer, or a bottle of bourbon, I dump the contents onto the bed, push all the crap to the sides (glasses, pieces of paper, receipts, prescriptions, tissues, pens, etc) & tally ap all the 50c, $1, & $2 coins, & it useally adds up to over $60. Which works out to at least 2 2doz cases of beer or 3 bottles of generic borbon, or about 3 shots of smack (at my current tolerance)
Its recession if they don't join
on
The Euro
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· Score: 2
Because British exports to the continent are just not going to be competitive unless they either devalue or join the Euro zone.
Look at Oz its the devaluation of the currency that has had Oz had about the best peform economy relative speaking from the Asian monatary crisis & dott.bomb crash to now.
It makes Aussie exports cheap & imports expensive, which is giving us monthly trade surpluses & just 6% unemployement, without needing 'working poor' wages like the US, while still being a welfare state (well compared with the US any way)
Macedonia & Kosovo are using the Euro too
on
The Euro
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· Score: 2
as their currency.
Also the 20 official countries of the African France & the 15 odd unofficial African Franc countries are in a way going to be in the Euro zone too. Because now the African Franc is pegged to the Euro instead of the French Franc
Ah Punt was pegged to de pound tilll the Euro came
on
The Euro
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· Score: 2
& So was the Irish pound,
I've got a Irish pound left over from my holidays in 76 & its says 'redeemable for one pound sterling in London' on it, well something to that effect.
For the whole period of the Irish Free State the Pound was pegged, then during the Republic the pound was pegged & it was still pegged to the UK pound when it became the punt, it only got unpegged from the Brit pound I think about 3 years ago when the Euro was introduced for everything but cash purposes, when it became pegged to the Euro instead.
So really its with the Euro that Ireland got full monetary independence from the UK.
The people who wrote Claris Works, which is the original source for Apple Works, are also responsable for Gobe, which is like a BeOS port of Claris Works, only better, have brought out a version of Gobe for Windows & are making a Linux port too.
They made it so FT clients/transparent servers had to logon 1st, to block out 3rd party clients, but if they want they could change the FT service back to the no logon 1st setup (so it will still work even if the FT companies shutdown) anytime they choose to.
If they don't mind 3rd party clients loging into the network, they can change it back so that even if they shutdown the Kazar apps on all our PCs will still work.
Look at Xolox, they shutdown, but just by loading a patch so the app doesn't have to logon on to the Xolox site to check for an update 1st (a requirement of the original app) the Xolox P2P apps still work.
Just go to to zeropiad.con, they have the Xolox no-update patch.
QNX is where its at for embedded applications, whether its the 'machine that goes beep' in hospitals or its nuclear reactors.
W2K/XP is/are where its at for the best balance of stability & compatibility for a desktop system
BSD is the server OS
Amiga classic is still consided by many to be the video editing platform. Have you seen the prices a 10 year old towered upraded video toaster goes for campared with a Wintel PC of the same age & new retail price?
Linux is the cheapskate OS for cheapscapes who have hangups about infringing on copyright, & is also the script kiddie OS of choice. Plus is the *nix OS for compatibility.
OS/2 is the bankers OS, being the OS of choice for ATM & counter teller workstations.
While Mac OSX has the potential to displace maybe more than half of the above.
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None of the Athlons or Durons I've built have had any problems with Tux Racer (Mostly on Man8.1 default install).
My nephew spends hours Sliding that little penguin arround with that bloody elevator music going, & not once has there been a freeze or lockup, much to my dissapointment.
But only govt monopolies.
As in govt utility monopolies
With economies of scale monopolies are best, with govt ownership comes voter control, as politicians have learnt here in Oz, they can lose office if the prices jump too much. & ontop of that all net profits go back to the govt meaning less tax is need. Useally the combination of those 2 factors mean they end up breaking even plus a little bit left over.
California wouldn't have had any electricity problems if a state owned utility controlled electricity supplies from the power station to the fuse box in every home (the only state in Oz that's had any trouple is the only state with privatised electricity companies)
Look at all the broadband providers that have gone bust in the US. Now if there was a publically owned cable utility nationwide in the US with the economies of scale that only a govt utility has those problems wouldn't have happened.
Really when its electricty, gas, water & telcos the govt does it best.
It doesn't even stop them expanding overseas, Singapore Telecom Singapore's govt phone 'n broadband monopoly has purchased businesses arround the planet. Telstra, Australia's govt telco (now majority govt owned/minority private owned) has made huge inroads into Asia, particularly Vietnam.
Simply because the price that's set by where the demand & supply curves meet up, makes it unprofitable to do so.
Consequently HP, Compaq, IBM, Packard Bell/Nec, etc all lose money on their home computer sales. The only people making money on home sales are local neihbourhood whitebox cloners, & many only do because they are ripping off the tax dept by selling up & re-opening under a different name every year or so to dodge salestax.
Look at Internet appliances, the public only buys them when they cost about $100, about a 1/3 of what they cost by the time they get to the retail shelves.
The only way to overcome this problem is through the economies of scale of a supply monopoly - maybe through the govt contrating a company to build a factory & supplying every household with one in lue of a $500 removed from everyones tax-returns. Oh how the economic (ir)rationalists would hate that. But the only alternative would be the ongoing waste of having more than half a dozen odd 1st-tier OEMs going bust & slowly taking over each other till all that's left is a dualopoly/monopoly, which would in the end cost the nation much more.
Plus computers just arn't user friendly, they just don't work like tellys & fridges do. Personally I think the day will come when domestic electronics giants like Sony, Philips or Panasonic will just embed a slot on all their TV circut boards & stick a couple of empty 5.25 inch drive bays on the side. Then if people want to pay extra to have a computer built into their new TV they just pay an extra fee & a card with an ebedded chipset/cpu (like a Geode X86) & memory is plugged in & a hard drive & OS is fitted & they get a remote control keyboard/trackpad thrown into the cardboard box that their TV comes with, all before the TV is picked up or deleived. The OS would have to have a office bundle & brouser complete with plugins (Real, Quickime, WMP, Flash, Shockwave, Acrobat)already embedded into it (So users won't have to fuck arround with that sort of thing) & a dumbed down front end. Afterall with HDTV eventually all Tellies will come with PC standard resolution (ie pixals small enough for decent text imaging).
Really he should check his sources (even when it includes himself) if he wants to be taken seriously in this business.
Anyone see a retraction coming?
Economies of scale & all that (you know the only Oz state that has had problems like California is Vicoria which just happens to be the only Oz state to have privatised it govt Electricity utility
Really you can't beat govt Telco monopolies - look at Nokia & Singapore Telecom.
Notice 'Here's a quote... ', & then the quotation marks "...the quote..."
Well a summary anyway, at "the Linux for BeBox website".
Here's a quote...
"...Be only made about 1,800 BeBoxes, I believe, and they are rapidly becoming collector's items, so you'll have to move fast. Be produced two models, which were identical in all but the processors. The first model was the Dual603-66, which was powered by two PowerPC 603 CPUs, each operating at 66Mhz. The second model was the Dual603-133, which had two PowerPC 603e CPUs. Each of these ran at 133Mhz, and in addition had twice the level 1 cache size of the CPUs in the Dual603-66. Both models of BeBox have been criticised for the lack of a level 2 cache, but it was a simple engineering choice: the MPC105 (the memory controller, bus arbitrator and PCI bridge) could either support a single CPU and a level 2 cache, or two CPUs. The performance gains due to a level 2 cache were vastly outweighed by the performance boost from a second CPU. The CPUs are soldered directly to the motherboard; one cannot swap them for faster (or, if you were perverse enough) slower processors.
The BeBox has some amazing features. Firstly, it has both the ISA and PCI busses which are so common in the x86 PC world. This means that one can plug any standard PC peripheral into it. It also has both ATA (IDE) and SCSI 2 disk interfaces, with an external SCSI 2 port. It has a standard AT keyboard interface, a standard PS/2 mouse port, four standard 9-pin RS232 serial ports, four MIDI ports (two in and two out, for two channels), two standard PC joystick ports and 16 bit sound line in and out through RCA phono plugs and stereo minijacks for a microphone and headphones. It also has some more strange IO abilities; three InfraRed ports (for IR device control, not IrDA) and something known as the "GeekPort".
Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has. On the front bezel of the BeBox, there are two bar graphs made of green lights. Each graph represents the amount of work each CPU is doing - you can tell at a glance whether the application you're running is taxing the machine's processors or not. As they say, "We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the hardware, but we can see the blinking lights!"..."
With connectors galor on the back, many more than a ATX PC. Heaps of different Audio ports, multiple MIDI ports & of course the famouse BeBox 'Geek Port'.
Really it had 1st class hardware for its day.
1st a quote..
"F-Secure Virus Descriptions
NAME: DlDer
ALIAS: Trojan.Win32.DlDer, Troj_DlDer
This two-component trojan was discovered in the end of December 2001. The trojan being installed on a user's system constantly upgrades its main component that connects to 2001-007.com website and reports user's ID, web browser a user is using and all URLs that a web browser and all its child windows open. The trojan violates user's privacy and opens a security hole in a system by downloading and activating executable files.
The main component of the trojan is Explorer.exe file that is located in Windows folder in \Explorer\ subfolder (do not mix with the original Windows' Explorer.exe). This component is constantly upgraded by the second trojan component that has the name 'DlDer.exe' and is located in Windows folder.
The DlDer.exe file is most likely dropped to user's system by ActiveX applet or Javascript code that a user doesn't notice when he is browsing Internet. The exact way how this file is dropped is not yet known. The case is under investigation.
The DlDer.exe file when it is started downloads Explorer.exe file from a website and puts it to \Windows\Explorer\ folder. Then the trojan creates a startup key for Explorer.exe file. On next System restart the Explorer.exe file is activated and it creates a startup key for DlDer.exe file and starts to connect to 2001-007.com website and report user's ID, web browser and all URLs that a user visits to there.
We recommend to delete both trojan components from an infected system. If these components can't be deleted (locked files) they should be deleted from pure DOS (in case of Windows 9x system) or renamed with different extensions (EXA for example) with immediate system restart (in case of Windows NT/2000/XP system).
[F-Secure Anti-Virus Research Team, December 28th, 2001]"
Now some links
Astechnica Forum - "Is download.com infected with a virus???"
Arstechnica Forum - "explorer.exe and Explorer.exe"
Computing.Net Forum - "How to delete trojan in explorer.exe"
Gnutella Forum - "p2p Trojan info"
I don't seem to have the problem when I use Opera
or whatever its called.
Although it only works with readers & writers that are raw bit or whatever compatible.
It just copies the raw binary patern or something off the CD onto another one.
So if its a copy protected CD, you just end up with an identical copy protected CD
"Just set it up to ignore errors, so it doesn't try to amend the errors".
Unless you are ripping multimedia (or porn, or home videos, well you know what I mean)
Here in Oz we have $1 & $2 coins. Whenever I come home I dump the contents of my pockets into a shoe box ontop of my telly.
Every time I'm broke & I'm fanging to buy a shot of smack, or a case or beer, or a bottle of bourbon, I dump the contents onto the bed, push all the crap to the sides (glasses, pieces of paper, receipts, prescriptions, tissues, pens, etc) & tally ap all the 50c, $1, & $2 coins, & it useally adds up to over $60. Which works out to at least 2 2doz cases of beer or 3 bottles of generic borbon, or about 3 shots of smack (at my current tolerance)
Because British exports to the continent are just not going to be competitive unless they either devalue or join the Euro zone.
Look at Oz its the devaluation of the currency that has had Oz had about the best peform economy relative speaking from the Asian monatary crisis & dott.bomb crash to now.
It makes Aussie exports cheap & imports expensive, which is giving us monthly trade surpluses & just 6% unemployement, without needing 'working poor' wages like the US, while still being a welfare state (well compared with the US any way)
as their currency.
Also the 20 official countries of the African France & the 15 odd unofficial African Franc countries are in a way going to be in the Euro zone too. Because now the African Franc is pegged to the Euro instead of the French Franc
& So was the Irish pound,
I've got a Irish pound left over from my holidays in 76 & its says 'redeemable for one pound sterling in London' on it, well something to that effect.
For the whole period of the Irish Free State the Pound was pegged, then during the Republic the pound was pegged & it was still pegged to the UK pound when it became the punt, it only got unpegged from the Brit pound I think about 3 years ago when the Euro was introduced for everything but cash purposes, when it became pegged to the Euro instead.
So really its with the Euro that Ireland got full monetary independence from the UK.
The people who wrote Claris Works, which is the original source for Apple Works, are also responsable for Gobe, which is like a BeOS port of Claris Works, only better, have brought out a version of Gobe for Windows & are making a Linux port too.
They made it so FT clients/transparent servers had to logon 1st, to block out 3rd party clients, but if they want they could change the FT service back to the no logon 1st setup (so it will still work even if the FT companies shutdown) anytime they choose to.
Maybe Kazar's just taken this course.
If they don't mind 3rd party clients loging into the network, they can change it back so that even if they shutdown the Kazar apps on all our PCs will still work.
Look at Xolox, they shutdown, but just by loading a patch so the app doesn't have to logon on to the Xolox site to check for an update 1st (a requirement of the original app) the Xolox P2P apps still work.
Just go to to zeropiad.con, they have the Xolox no-update patch.
The shareware/freeware scene for the Mac is pathetic compared with Windows, Linux & even BeOS
Mac OS is the go as far as desktop publishing is concerned.
W98SE is the go as far as games & application 'n driver compatibility is concerned.
BeOS is the 'bees knees' as far as music editing is concerned. Hence its the OS for the TASCAM SX-1 Integrated Audio Production Station & IZ Tech's RADAR 24, plus its the OS of choice for Edirol - Roland UA100
QNX is where its at for embedded applications, whether its the 'machine that goes beep' in hospitals or its nuclear reactors.
W2K/XP is/are where its at for the best balance of stability & compatibility for a desktop system
BSD is the server OS
Amiga classic is still consided by many to be the video editing platform. Have you seen the prices a 10 year old towered upraded video toaster goes for campared with a Wintel PC of the same age & new retail price?
Linux is the cheapskate OS for cheapscapes who have hangups about infringing on copyright, & is also the script kiddie OS of choice. Plus is the *nix OS for compatibility.
OS/2 is the bankers OS, being the OS of choice for ATM & counter teller workstations.
While Mac OSX has the potential to displace maybe more than half of the above.
That'l do for now
The Hebrews just invaded it
Anyway that's all ancient history
I remember reading somewhere that the reason why they didn't make all slots 64bit was because they couldn't afford giving up on the extra real estate
The lives of 5% of the total of a rare species are obviousl more important than the lives of 4% of the total of a plague species.
A (ex)cattlestation full of African game animals would be no worse on the enviroment than a cattlestation full of tradition grazing livestock.
Really this is just going to be like Dubbo's open plane zoo , but on a grander scale