I've always bought AMD processors and I love them. I currently have an Athlon 600 (which still does a great job running anything I throw at it, despite its age), a K6-2 400, and a K6-2 333 running my Linux server.
I never have been a big fan of benchmarks, I like to compare via practical use. In my experience, my AMD's perform better than an Intel CPU at the same clock speed.
As far as the heat thing goes, my systems reside in a room that has poor insulation. As a result it gets well over 100 degrees F in the summer... I'd hate to imagine what temp the CPUs reach, but I've never had a failure. I don't have huge cooling systems and I don't even have expensive heatsinks, just your 'run o' tha mill' cooler.
I've always been impressed by AMD's performance to price ratio. In my opinion it's a much better buy than an Intel CPU.
This article is rather lacking in technical information, but if CAT is going to be similar to a NAT device couldn't you just park a NAT router behind the CAT device? Back to square one.:)
I'll second that. I have 5 domains through gandi. No problems, easy to modify your domains. My friend uses them for all his domains too. I would highly recomend them.
My company registered their domain through Netsol (ugh). After a couple ISP changes none of our contact emails were vaild anymore. Since they want email confirmation in order to change anything it was impossible to make in modifications to the domain.
Network Solution's fix for this problem is to fax them a document on company letterhead authorizing the changes, which we did several times and they promptly ignored us.
I faxed them a strongly worded letter with the Vice President's sig several times in one day and they finally updated our info about a week later, I then promptly switched to gandi.net which I use for my personal domains.
Here's a little plug for gandi, ~$10USD/year, good service, easy to modify domains, sign up today!:D
Oh, and stay away from Network Solutions. They're the AOL of registrars.
My company runs IIS (yuck) and DSL.net shut off my connection when we got Code Red several weeks ago. I blocked off port 80 in our router and they agreed to restore our connection so I could download the patches (which I had been trying to do for the past 2 days with severely limited bandwidth thanks to Code Red).
Funny how my Apache server was just fine.:-) I've finally convinced our head admin to start using Linux instead, although he's switching due to Microsoft's stringent licensing contracts (XP) instead of for security reasons.
as anti-gun legislation. The bad guys don't play by the rules. You put backdoors in crypto, they'll use their own. You restrict or outlaw guns, you take them out of the hands of honest citizens and the bad guys still get them anyway.
Government by nature is always trying to expand it's control and power, this is just another example of that.
I live in southern California and my guitar amp was picking up some Korean radio station loud and clear. It's pretty cool, but makes it rather difficult to practice:P
Palm Vx in left front pocket, wallet in right leg pocket, cell phone clipped to right front, sunglasses (when not worn obviously) in left leg, nothing in rear pockets - messes up your spine.:)
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I was homeschooled most of my life and I am a very social person. Are you implying that if you don't go to school you can't have any human interaction?
Many of my friends growing up were also homeschooled, and sure, some of them were introverted. I saw just as many introverted and social misfits at public school too. Not to mention that the highschool social scene is a far cry from the real world. Since I wasn't limited to people of only my age group via public school, I am able to relate to people of all ages, from young children to elderly adults. I believe that homeschooling enhanced my social skills rather than inhibiting them.
Having been in both homeschool and public school, my opinion is that the quality of education you get from homeschooling is superior to public education. You get the personal attention you need, whereas in a public school the teacher's attention is split bettween 30 or more students. Not to mention you don't have all the classroom clowns trying to ruin everyone else's learning experience.
With homeschooling I could set my own pace. If I needed more time to learn something I could take it, if I got it right away I wouldn't have to sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for everyone else to catch up. I believe that this let me learn at an accelerated pace that I would not have had in public school.
In homeschooling I also learned the skills I need to teach myself. I graduated highschool from 10th grade and got a full time job 2 days later drafting in AutoCAD and started taking night classes in C programming at the local college. I had never done any sort of drafting before, but I was able to pick it up and teach myself very quickly. I saved everything I made and paid cash for a brand new car a year later. Now I work in Information Services and am very happy with my job. I consider myself 'ahead of the game' and I attribute that to my homeschooling. I sincerely believe I wouldn't be where I am today had I gone to public school all my life.
My goal here isn't to toot my own horn or boast about my accomplishments in life, my point is that you can be successful and have friends without having to go to public school.
Some people just aren't content with homeschooling, and I understand that. I'm not saying it's for everybody, but if Sean and his parents like it I fully encourage them to continue with it. I think sean would be better off for it.
I think many years ago Mr. Dvorak was the wise voice of the computer industry, but over the past few years he seems to be spewing stupidity. I used to have alot of respect for him, now I don't put much stock in his opinions at all.
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You've basically described down to the letter the system I voted on in Riverside, California.
You enter the building and sign in (I wasn't required to show ID, which bothers me). After you sign in they encode a cheap card (probably magnetic, I didn't look real closely). You then walk up to one of the touch-screen voting stations and insert your card, which the machine ingests and won't give back until you're done. On the screen you're presented with a layout identical to the sample ballot you recieved in the mail several weeks before. You touch the 'Yes' or 'No', the machine puts a green check mark on your selection and removes the other options removing the posibility of double voting.
When you're all done, the machine makes an audible tone and ejects the card which you hand back to the poll worker. It was all very slick and smooth.
The thing that concerns me is the inherrant insecurity of electronic systems. I know from personal experience that if someone designs a security measure, someone else can bypass it.
I tend to think that these touch-screen terminals are just about as secure as the punchcards, but I have very little faith in internet voting. Even if you couldn't crack the security and alter the vote count, what would stop someone from launching a massive DDoS attack against the vote server and keeping it offline. We've seen the effectivness of DDoS attacks against eBay and other major sites, and the ammount of time required to inact counter measures aginst the attack.
In my opinion, the electronic touch-screen voting is a good thing, internet voting is a bad thing.
I have 16 at last count, most in various stages of disection. Two type B's bravely sacrificed their lives that I may learn the secret to bypassing their encryption. Let us observe a moment of silence.
Another type B sheds a warm red glow on my wall at night.
A type A was modified to be portable. Makes a great little flashlight.
Several are scattered in pieces on my desk and may one day get reassembled. All my computers have at least one, my main system has 3.
I also gave a neutered one to my mom for use in her retail store.
I shipped two (2) to a couple of poor souls in Canada that can't get them.
All the others are neatly stacked in their little plastic bags on top of my dresser. I haven't quite decided what to do with them yet.
I'm not going to dodge - I'll admit I have not studied this enough to know where I stand. I certainly am against the monstrous profits going to studio chiefs, but I also want to make damn sure that poor writers are ripped off.
I too would like to see more and more poor writers ripped off. Long live the recording industry!
He said, and I quote, "I took the initiative in creating the internet." I don't see him saying anything about funding.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in late 1990 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England.
If I was him I'd be a little peeved at Algore (no that's not a typo) for trying to take credit for my accomplishments.
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I've always bought AMD processors and I love them. I currently have an Athlon 600 (which still does a great job running anything I throw at it, despite its age), a K6-2 400, and a K6-2 333 running my Linux server.
I never have been a big fan of benchmarks, I like to compare via practical use. In my experience, my AMD's perform better than an Intel CPU at the same clock speed.
As far as the heat thing goes, my systems reside in a room that has poor insulation. As a result it gets well over 100 degrees F in the summer... I'd hate to imagine what temp the CPUs reach, but I've never had a failure. I don't have huge cooling systems and I don't even have expensive heatsinks, just your 'run o' tha mill' cooler.
I've always been impressed by AMD's performance to price ratio. In my opinion it's a much better buy than an Intel CPU.
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This article is rather lacking in technical information, but if CAT is going to be similar to a NAT device couldn't you just park a NAT router behind the CAT device? Back to square one. :)
Is getting infected with a script kiddie's DDoS backdoor 'illegal bandwidth sharing?'
I'll second that. I have 5 domains through gandi. No problems, easy to modify your domains. My friend uses them for all his domains too. I would highly recomend them.
Network Solution's fix for this problem is to fax them a document on company letterhead authorizing the changes, which we did several times and they promptly ignored us.
I faxed them a strongly worded letter with the Vice President's sig several times in one day and they finally updated our info about a week later, I then promptly switched to gandi.net which I use for my personal domains.
Here's a little plug for gandi, ~$10USD/year, good service, easy to modify domains, sign up today!
Oh, and stay away from Network Solutions. They're the AOL of registrars.
I remember when my 5120 was the hot shit, now they're giving them away.
Is that how they spell "experimental" over there?
Gnutella never has worked well for me. File transfers are slow, and they always get cut off. It was all about Scour Exchange. :/
Now can I wear my T-shirt with DeCSS code on it without going to jail?
My company runs IIS (yuck) and DSL.net shut off my connection when we got Code Red several weeks ago. I blocked off port 80 in our router and they agreed to restore our connection so I could download the patches (which I had been trying to do for the past 2 days with severely limited bandwidth thanks to Code Red).
:-) I've finally convinced our head admin to start using Linux instead, although he's switching due to Microsoft's stringent licensing contracts (XP) instead of for security reasons.
Funny how my Apache server was just fine.
Government by nature is always trying to expand it's control and power, this is just another example of that.
So that Natalie Portman and I can have something to do other than screwing like rabbits
I live in southern California and my guitar amp was picking up some Korean radio station loud and clear. It's pretty cool, but makes it rather difficult to practice :P
Palm Vx in left front pocket, wallet in right leg pocket, cell phone clipped to right front, sunglasses (when not worn obviously) in left leg, nothing in rear pockets - messes up your spine. :)
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I agree.
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Amen. The 'socialization' that everyone talks about is easily defined: The process of turning children into socialists.
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Many of my friends growing up were also homeschooled, and sure, some of them were introverted. I saw just as many introverted and social misfits at public school too. Not to mention that the highschool social scene is a far cry from the real world. Since I wasn't limited to people of only my age group via public school, I am able to relate to people of all ages, from young children to elderly adults. I believe that homeschooling enhanced my social skills rather than inhibiting them.
Having been in both homeschool and public school, my opinion is that the quality of education you get from homeschooling is superior to public education. You get the personal attention you need, whereas in a public school the teacher's attention is split bettween 30 or more students. Not to mention you don't have all the classroom clowns trying to ruin everyone else's learning experience.
With homeschooling I could set my own pace. If I needed more time to learn something I could take it, if I got it right away I wouldn't have to sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for everyone else to catch up. I believe that this let me learn at an accelerated pace that I would not have had in public school.
In homeschooling I also learned the skills I need to teach myself. I graduated highschool from 10th grade and got a full time job 2 days later drafting in AutoCAD and started taking night classes in C programming at the local college. I had never done any sort of drafting before, but I was able to pick it up and teach myself very quickly. I saved everything I made and paid cash for a brand new car a year later. Now I work in Information Services and am very happy with my job. I consider myself 'ahead of the game' and I attribute that to my homeschooling. I sincerely believe I wouldn't be where I am today had I gone to public school all my life.
My goal here isn't to toot my own horn or boast about my accomplishments in life, my point is that you can be successful and have friends without having to go to public school.
Some people just aren't content with homeschooling, and I understand that. I'm not saying it's for everybody, but if Sean and his parents like it I fully encourage them to continue with it. I think sean would be better off for it.
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I think many years ago Mr. Dvorak was the wise voice of the computer industry, but over the past few years he seems to be spewing stupidity. I used to have alot of respect for him, now I don't put much stock in his opinions at all.
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Set up us the astroid!
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You've basically described down to the letter the system I voted on in Riverside, California.
You enter the building and sign in (I wasn't required to show ID, which bothers me). After you sign in they encode a cheap card (probably magnetic, I didn't look real closely). You then walk up to one of the touch-screen voting stations and insert your card, which the machine ingests and won't give back until you're done. On the screen you're presented with a layout identical to the sample ballot you recieved in the mail several weeks before. You touch the 'Yes' or 'No', the machine puts a green check mark on your selection and removes the other options removing the posibility of double voting.
When you're all done, the machine makes an audible tone and ejects the card which you hand back to the poll worker. It was all very slick and smooth.
The thing that concerns me is the inherrant insecurity of electronic systems. I know from personal experience that if someone designs a security measure, someone else can bypass it.
I tend to think that these touch-screen terminals are just about as secure as the punchcards, but I have very little faith in internet voting. Even if you couldn't crack the security and alter the vote count, what would stop someone from launching a massive DDoS attack against the vote server and keeping it offline. We've seen the effectivness of DDoS attacks against eBay and other major sites, and the ammount of time required to inact counter measures aginst the attack.
In my opinion, the electronic touch-screen voting is a good thing, internet voting is a bad thing.
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I have 16 at last count, most in various stages of disection. Two type B's bravely sacrificed their lives that I may learn the secret to bypassing their encryption. Let us observe a moment of silence.
Another type B sheds a warm red glow on my wall at night.
A type A was modified to be portable. Makes a great little flashlight.
Several are scattered in pieces on my desk and may one day get reassembled. All my computers have at least one, my main system has 3.
I also gave a neutered one to my mom for use in her retail store.
I shipped two (2) to a couple of poor souls in Canada that can't get them.
All the others are neatly stacked in their little plastic bags on top of my dresser. I haven't quite decided what to do with them yet.
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I'm not going to dodge - I'll admit I have not studied this enough to know where I stand. I certainly am against the monstrous profits going to studio chiefs, but I also want to make damn sure that poor writers are ripped off.
I too would like to see more and more poor writers ripped off. Long live the recording industry!
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He said, and I quote, "I took the initiative in creating the internet." I don't see him saying anything about funding.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in late 1990 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England.
If I was him I'd be a little peeved at Algore (no that's not a typo) for trying to take credit for my accomplishments.
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