Heck, if it wasn't for some money problems I would have bought one for my apartment's living room (which currently has a PS/2E with a 14" monitor and a netcard and X) to use as a terminal. If I had the chance again, I'd buy it in a flash!
The only four-ways left are Xeons or some more expensive RISC machines. You may be able to get some nice Sparc 20's off of ebay and get the processor upgrades to them...
Intel tries to do the same with the WebOutfitter service. Basically, if you decide you want to click AGREE to get their software that checks for your Pentium!!! (you don't just get on the internet...), you agree to take intel's side in the event of any legal action against them and also agree to not present any meterial that would prove to degrade the expecte quality of the company's product. Symantec's is on a alrger scale, but they all try to do this. Whenever you download one of those binary windows drivers the license you must sign to get it requests the same behavior.
Remeber that episode when he started the company super-hyper-mega-cyber-power-net? They should have named it that, from the show, then it would have been funnier.
THe speed of this is awesome, but what about the other factors? Wouldn't security over the power lines be extremely lacking? It's not like the telephone network where most everyone has their own dedicated wire up to the junction box. I'd like to know how easy it would be to listen in on network traffic running over the power lines.
Why would we need more IRQ lines? A really nice aspect of PCI designs is that IRQs can be shared through IRQ steering. this way, your Net card, voodoo cards, and SB Live can all live on the same IRQ peacefully. This is, of course, assuming that your driver implemnattion is good.
If you get a pair of cheap computer speakers you can do this too. I remember my Soundblaster 16 making noise when my video display had a large write to it, and when I read from my sbpcd. Anyway, isn't this a violation of FCC regulations? I thought it was, in the part about this device may not make any interference, and must accept all incoming interference?
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Heck, if it wasn't for some money problems I would have bought one for my apartment's living room (which currently has a PS/2E with a 14" monitor and a netcard and X) to use as a terminal. If I had the chance again, I'd buy it in a flash!
The only four-ways left are Xeons or some more expensive RISC machines. You may be able to get some nice Sparc 20's off of ebay and get the processor upgrades to them...
Intel tries to do the same with the WebOutfitter service. Basically, if you decide you want to click AGREE to get their software that checks for your Pentium!!! (you don't just get on the internet...), you agree to take intel's side in the event of any legal action against them and also agree to not present any meterial that would prove to degrade the expecte quality of the company's product. Symantec's is on a alrger scale, but they all try to do this. Whenever you download one of those binary windows drivers the license you must sign to get it requests the same behavior.
Remeber that episode when he started the company super-hyper-mega-cyber-power-net? They should have named it that, from the show, then it would have been funnier.
THe speed of this is awesome, but what about the other factors? Wouldn't security over the power lines be extremely lacking? It's not like the telephone network where most everyone has their own dedicated wire up to the junction box. I'd like to know how easy it would be to listen in on network traffic running over the power lines.
Why would we need more IRQ lines? A really nice aspect of PCI designs is that IRQs can be shared through IRQ steering. this way, your Net card, voodoo cards, and SB Live can all live on the same IRQ peacefully. This is, of course, assuming that your driver implemnattion is good.
If you get a pair of cheap computer speakers you can do this too. I remember my Soundblaster 16 making noise when my video display had a large write to it, and when I read from my sbpcd. Anyway, isn't this a violation of FCC regulations? I thought it was, in the part about this device may not make any interference, and must accept all incoming interference?
'Nuff said. FU(K you supreme court.