From what i understand, if you are useing an overclocked Intel chip, then yes, as they change the cycles to suite the load and heat, you may age the chip, but the ageing is only slight.
On AMD chips, they run the same weather under load or not, so theres no ageing there.
Most of the damage to chips happens durning booting up, powering down and spikes and surges.
"First, a question: What's up with all this "Ctrl C" and Ctrl V" copy/paste stuff? In almost all Linux programs, when I want to copy a block of text (or a graphic or whatever) I just highlight the original, then click both mouse buttons (or the middle button if I have a 3-button mouse) where I want to paste it."
Id blame your mouse driver, you shoudl be able to remap if you want, otherwise try right click and select, if your copying that much text a day that the second click will cost you time then i woudl relay like to know what your doing.. Id like to know how you suvied when ctrl-v/c was the fastest way.. rembere before mice where had caught on.
"The first thing that happened after I fired up Windows XP is that it virtually ordered me to download a series of patches. I did so, but it wasn't like a SuSE update where you see every patch available and can say "yes" or "no" to each one if you like."
Ok, so i havent used windows update in a good year, but i clearly rembere being able to review and select which updates you wanted.
"Yes, that's the way it works, and if you don't do the updates your computer keeps annoying you, so you have to do them even if they take hours like they sometimes do."
Thats funny, see above point.
"but I think this lack of security for software installation may be one of the causes of the hidden spyware problems I keep reading about Windows users having,"
Acttuly most uses chose to install the programs that have spyware in them, so having to type a password will only slow it down, if you chose to install program X and its got spyware in it, having to typing your password makes no differnce
"First really rude surprise: mIRC costs $20. It isn't free like XChat. Supposedly you get a free 30 day trial, but my copy started blinking "your evaluation time is up" each time I started it after the 3rd day. Apparently the mIRC developers have a slight math problem."
And this is a problem with windows how?? ID talk to Mirc about that, hevens forbid having to pay for a computer program.
"It doesn't have the tabbed browser feature that makes work-related research (and pleasure reading) such a pleasure in Mozilla, Opera, and other modern browsers. "
Ok, so ive never used tabed broswers, but how about the tabed Taskbar that is on by default.. dose that compare?? if it dose, i turn it off anyway:)
"Why people will pay to have Explorer's popup feature shut off instead of simply downloading free Mozilla and clicking on a couple of little boxes to decide what they will allow Web servers to do to their browser windows escapes me."
probly because you can get free popup blocking software too.
"This experiment lasted less than 1/2 hour. I downloaded 2 'passes' worth of email and had to wade through over 200 spams to read 3 useful emails. I (heart) Mozilla's Bayesian spam filters. I will no longer use an email program that doesn't have fast, automatic, easy-to-use spam filtering."
once agine ive had no expreance with Mozilla, but in under 5 mins i set up my mail rules and i lower my daily spam from 200 to about 10, but then even then i do check, never relay on spamfiltering, everynow and then something gets filterd out, and it may be that new higher paying job interview.
"Please don't argue with me about this. I don't get paid a percentage for each (free) Mozilla download this article generates. I'm telling you to dump Outlook for your own good. Really."
same for me.
"My copy of Windows XP Pro seems to have a program included with it called 'Windows Messenger' that, as far as I can tell, is some sort of ad delivery mechanism. I haven't figured out how to turn it off."
ok, ill give the turning it off to you, took me a good 10 mins, but as for ad delivery, i get more on ICQ.
"I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can b
apprenltythere having a go at the universitsy out hear in.AU, on the bright side in Australia one can only be sued for copyright infrigment bassed on the ammount of proffit said person made.
No proffit, not worht sueing, they get nothign in return for the lawsuit.
Its only been a pain in the ass since some tosser decided to add the windows keys by defult on the bottom row rather then adding them up after the F-x keys like they shoudl of, i meen what touch typest needs to use the windows so much that it needs to incovnace the standerd layout?
reminds me of an old program i actaly payed for, McAfees 'Lost and Found' it only relay had two options at recovering, but at the time it was the best avible, I bought it cause of a review i read and a sample they gave out with the cd, good stuff too.
Damm shame when 2K came out Lost and foudn was pritty much droped, or compleatly renamed and hiden.
And I for one welcome VM that i dont have to pay a fortune for, i have yet to find a DOS emulator that works 100%, i wonder if theres even the slightest chance i can install DOS onto my current Xp1500+ machen, would be intresting to say the lest.
I dont know about it being becase you read too much/. , but i think the reson they would be willing to help is that this would look realy good in any future AnitTrust case..
"your honnor, we have helped the open source comunity devolpe a program that meens anyone can run any OS along side MS with out any problems, we dont see how you can accuse us of being Anti competive when we allow others to compeat on the same machene"
could you even imagen a futer MS install CD where it automaticly installs a VM *inx?
If you had botherd to open the Xen link, and read the page which was a whopping 8100 bytes in size you would of noticed "Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. We have a fully functional port of Linux 2.4 running over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution should run unmodified over the ported OS."
rather then just trolling off the two words "Microsoft Research"
speeking of which, I just whish all those stupid Video card and CPU reviews would drop games when they get over 100fps, its just stupid, and as we have seen before you hit limits outside of what your testing at points.
I still recon you realy had to try to dammage them, i bought an Xp1500+ and i tell you, i totaly suck at puting on heatsinks, no problems with the core though, sure i had to try 3 screwdrivers, 2 knifes and a pocketknife to gently attach the heat sink, but it didnt crack.
ok, how about this, MS can licence the Doom 5 engin off ID software, that sounds like what it would be like, and they can even try and outsource there APs to ID.
hehe.. imagin MS software being scripts in a gaming engine.
Anyone rembere the shit fights with the 486 overdrive chips??
Maybe Australia just got dumped with bum shipments, but i dont recall anyone geting one to run fault free for 24 hours.. but please, feal free to corect me... I was only 13ish around that time..
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From what i understand,
if you are useing an overclocked Intel chip,
then yes, as they change the cycles to suite
the load and heat, you may age the chip,
but the ageing is only slight.
On AMD chips, they run the same weather under
load or not, so theres no ageing there.
Most of the damage to chips happens durning
booting up, powering down and spikes and surges.
Overclocking's Impact on CPU Life
"First, a question: What's up with all this "Ctrl C" and Ctrl V" copy/paste stuff? In almost all Linux programs, when I want to copy a block of text (or a graphic or whatever) I just highlight the original, then click both mouse buttons (or the middle button if I have a 3-button mouse) where I want to paste it."
:)
Id blame your mouse driver, you shoudl be able
to remap if you want, otherwise try right click
and select, if your copying that much text a day
that the second click will cost you time then i woudl relay like to know what your doing..
Id like to know how you suvied when ctrl-v/c was
the fastest way.. rembere before mice where had
caught on.
"The first thing that happened after I fired up Windows XP is that it virtually ordered me to download a series of patches. I did so, but it wasn't like a SuSE update where you see every patch available and can say "yes" or "no" to each one if you like."
Ok, so i havent used windows update in a good
year, but i clearly rembere being able to review
and select which updates you wanted.
"Yes, that's the way it works, and if you don't do the updates your computer keeps annoying you, so you have to do them even if they take hours like they sometimes do."
Thats funny, see above point.
"but I think this lack of security for software installation may be one of the causes of the hidden spyware problems I keep reading about Windows users having,"
Acttuly most uses chose to install the programs
that have spyware in them, so having to type
a password will only slow it down, if you chose
to install program X and its got spyware in it,
having to typing your password makes no differnce
"First really rude surprise: mIRC costs $20. It isn't free like XChat. Supposedly you get a free 30 day trial, but my copy started blinking "your evaluation time is up" each time I started it after the 3rd day. Apparently the mIRC developers have a slight math problem."
And this is a problem with windows how??
ID talk to Mirc about that, hevens forbid having
to pay for a computer program.
"It doesn't have the tabbed browser feature that makes work-related research (and pleasure reading) such a pleasure in Mozilla, Opera, and other modern browsers. "
Ok, so ive never used tabed broswers, but how
about the tabed Taskbar that is on by default..
dose that compare?? if it dose, i turn it off anyway
"Why people will pay to have Explorer's popup feature shut off instead of simply downloading free Mozilla and clicking on a couple of little boxes to decide what they will allow Web servers to do to their browser windows escapes me."
probly because you can get free popup blocking software too.
"This experiment lasted less than 1/2 hour. I downloaded 2 'passes' worth of email and had to wade through over 200 spams to read 3 useful emails. I (heart) Mozilla's Bayesian spam filters. I will no longer use an email program that doesn't have fast, automatic, easy-to-use spam filtering."
once agine ive had no expreance with Mozilla,
but in under 5 mins i set up my mail rules and
i lower my daily spam from 200 to about 10,
but then even then i do check, never relay on
spamfiltering, everynow and then something gets
filterd out, and it may be that new higher paying
job interview.
"Please don't argue with me about this. I don't get paid a percentage for each (free) Mozilla download this article generates. I'm telling you to dump Outlook for your own good. Really."
same for me.
"My copy of Windows XP Pro seems to have a program included with it called 'Windows Messenger' that, as far as I can tell, is some sort of ad delivery mechanism. I haven't figured out how to turn it off."
ok, ill give the turning it off to you, took
me a good 10 mins, but as for ad delivery, i get
more on ICQ.
"I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can b
apprenltythere having a go at the universitsy out hear in .AU, on the bright side in Australia
one can only be sued for copyright infrigment bassed on the ammount of proffit said person made.
No proffit, not worht sueing,
they get nothign in return for the lawsuit.
kinda like those cable companys that charge you even if you arnt downloading 24/7 at full speed or watching TV 24/7
Just incase you have to leave the electronic banking world and use hard money.
I dont see Kats from Zero Wing there.
All your top50s are belong to us!
how about we lose the windows keys
and the right click key off the
keybord.
or the number of ppl who hope stright into BIOS on a new computer and turn numlock on by default :)
wow,
just tryed that real OS trick,
and blow me down with a feather
XP is a real OS after all.
Its only been a pain in the ass since some tosser decided to add the windows keys by defult on the bottom row rather then adding them up after the F-x keys like they shoudl of, i meen what touch typest needs to use the windows so much that it needs to incovnace the standerd layout?
im pritty sure you can head and tail in XP, but not limit it to a specific number..
:) /O and /O-
been too long since ive run *nix to rember
what exacatly head and tail dose
but try
reminds me of an old program i actaly payed for,
McAfees 'Lost and Found'
it only relay had two options at recovering,
but at the time it was the best avible,
I bought it cause of a review i read and a
sample they gave out with the cd, good stuff
too.
Damm shame when 2K came out Lost and foudn was pritty much droped, or compleatly renamed and hiden.
And I for one welcome VM that i dont have to pay a fortune for, i have yet to find a DOS emulator that works 100%, i wonder if theres even the slightest chance i can install DOS onto my current Xp1500+ machen, would be intresting
to say the lest.
I dont know about it being becase you read too much /. , but i think the reson they would be willing to help is that this would look realy good in any future AnitTrust case..
"your honnor, we have helped the open source comunity devolpe a program that meens anyone can run any OS along side MS with out any problems, we dont see how you can accuse us of being Anti competive when we allow others to compeat on the same machene"
could you even imagen a futer MS install CD where it automaticly installs a VM *inx?
If you had botherd to open the Xen link,
and read the page which was a whopping
8100 bytes in size you would of noticed
"Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. We have a fully functional port of Linux 2.4 running over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution should run unmodified over the ported OS."
rather then just trolling off the two words "Microsoft Research"
"Actually, the rate for downstream is more in the general area of 54Mbps per television channel sacrificed for internettraffic"
Cool, so living in Australia with its 40 Cable
channels has some advantage then??
speeking of which,
I just whish all those stupid Video card and CPU reviews would drop games when they get over 100fps, its just stupid, and as we have seen before you hit limits outside of what your testing at points.
And lets not talk about redhat 8 shall we?
I still recon you realy had to try to dammage them,
i bought an Xp1500+ and i tell you,
i totaly suck at puting on heatsinks,
no problems with the core though, sure i had to
try 3 screwdrivers, 2 knifes and a pocketknife to
gently attach the heat sink, but it didnt crack.
I think someoen at Intel or at the inquire is smokeing crack,
infact im suprised no one eles has pointed this out yet.
"No, it will never be called that, because computer geeks would just start getting beaten up again."
Again??
no one told me it was suposed to have stoped
at somepoint!!
damm all these IM cleints and i miss out on
the most importaned anoucemnt of my life!
There is a nice river in Australia called the 'Hovel'
ok, how about this,
MS can licence the Doom 5 engin off ID software,
that sounds like what it would be like, and they
can even try and outsource there APs to ID.
hehe.. imagin MS software being scripts in a
gaming engine.
Anyone rembere the shit fights with the 486 overdrive chips??
Maybe Australia just got dumped with bum shipments,
but i dont recall anyone geting one to run fault free for 24 hours..
but please, feal free to corect me...
I was only 13ish around that time..
Did you check the links in the story?
/.
thats what its refering to in the first
link, it links to a story hear on
about two weeks ago..