This is pretty awesome. I too started S@H in 1999 on a 366MHz Toshiba laptop (Satellite 2060CDS, K6-II), which was also my first Linux machine. I managed to crunch about 200 workunits until I got tired of the fan noise. It's worse than any desktop fan or HD noise.
In addition, I noted how the S@H team seemed to neglect optimizing the client, so I got into other projects. S@H sucks particularly on the K6. My P2-350 runs it over twice as fast as the K6-2 of similar MHz, partly because it can use the 686 optimized version.
I still prefer S@H over things like distributed.net; the latter poses purely mathematical problems, which IMHO should not be bruteforced. The RC5 crack is plain silly, and the OGR is something that might be 'solved' by other means some day. In addition, things like protein folding could use a proper theory, as you can only bruteforce individual cases. But there's no scientific shortcut in SETI, you just have to keep looking.
There's a good reason why the quantum spin was named spin in the first place: A charged particle with spin exhibits a magnetic moment, and so does a rotating charged sphere. However, electron spin is quantized differently from rotation, so we know it's not really rotation.
> Choice and standardisation are opposites, each has its own benefits.
They are not necessarily opposites. For example, you can run any X application with any windowmanager. It's the standard X that enables a free, unbiased choice of the windowmanager. There are countless similar examples in the Free software community.
Another example might be a standard document format. If people used an open standard instead of the Word DOC, they would have the choice between several word processors.
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When you're doing a network install of Linux or BSD, you need to boot the machine somehow. Using a floppy is nicer than burning a CD just for that purpose. Not every machine has a bootable CD drive anyway. And when you're doing some bleeding edge testing, you may need a boot floppy to fix your system.
If you're installing the same OS on several machines, it might be better to burn a whole CD of the OS. But it's kind of pointless to do for one machine, if you can do it directly over the net.
The floppy may be obsolete for YOU, but for many others it's still quite useful. Many arguments against floppies are only about file transfer, they often forget the ability to boot. E.g. USB keychains are not so universally bootable.
Of course, the reason is that Windows and other MS programs are so intuitive and easy to use that you never need any books or courses to use them to their fullest extent!;-)
But what do I know, I haven't used their products for years. I'm sure they have only improved during these years!
..but the plural of virus is viruses or (to use the Latin form) viri. More generally, the plural of a Latin noun ending with -us is -i, although in modern English it's OK to use English plural.
Quite possibly the interface is not standard like DVI. I'm not sure if the situation has improved, but at least I have an ancient 486 laptop with a great little screen that's completely useless, because of the nonstandard inferface.
> LCDs are digital. Adding in circuitry to go analog->digital (VGA, with ALL the bizarro resolutions that it implies) or even traditional external DVI (with it's ability to drive long cable runs, unlike the typical short runs required inide a laptop) costs money.
> Implementing straight VGA is kinda tricky because the conversion has to scale the signal up to the LCD's native resolution on-the-fly. There's plenty of circuitry between a DVI input and the actual LCD.
AFAIK, there is nothing digital in the LCD itself. The voltage/current that drives an individual pixel is an analogical quantity.
In theory, you could drive an LCD in the same way as CRT, by scanning one line at a time, from a VGA input. I think the reason most LCDs have a digital _interface_ is that there are better ways of driving them. With CRTs we have VGA because you have to update the entire screen for every frame, but for LCDs you can just update the changes.
It depends on the card. My laptop has a four-way sound card which has worked on all fours with Linux since 2.2.14 or so. It means you can't generalize it at all. It doesn't mean 2.5 is always better than 2.4.
Funnily enough, the card could be used with an Amiga style tracker.. except that modern trackers do the mixing in software so there's no need.
IMHO, audio compression (mp3, ogg etc.) has a lot to do with network transmission, not simply storage. Broadband connection speeds have not improved by anything comparable to storage capacities. I just bought a 120 GB HD, but for my Net connection I can't get much better than cable, which gives about 1Mbps down and 300 kbps up. I live in a small town in Finland, and the only better option would be ADSL which only improves upstream rate, for about double the price.
The article talks about the possibility (mainy in a SF context) that an AI might have a complete, holistic understanding of the entire universe, and a magical way of interacting with it. This is actually quite close to the concept of enlightenment.
(OT: It would be great to be able to use Everything2 brackets on/.:)
Don't forget war... the perpetual motion of sticks, stones, sabers,
bullets and missiles throughtout history of Man... (and the sentient black goo used in the Gulf war)
AFAIK, the original script featured humans as a part of a
supercomputer array, a Beowulf Cluster for a better Slashdot
recognition. However, it was thought too difficult a concept for the
ignorant masses, and the energy idea was used instead.
Still, despite the problems with the Second Law, it could be possible
that the Borg were using humans to _convert_ energy to a form more
suitable for them. For example, to convert hydrocarbons into heat.
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Hey, you should watch Star Wreck V, where humans attack the Borg cube by installing Windows 95 on it.
In addition, I noted how the S@H team seemed to neglect optimizing the client, so I got into other projects. S@H sucks particularly on the K6. My P2-350 runs it over twice as fast as the K6-2 of similar MHz, partly because it can use the 686 optimized version.
I still prefer S@H over things like distributed.net; the latter poses purely mathematical problems, which IMHO should not be bruteforced. The RC5 crack is plain silly, and the OGR is something that might be 'solved' by other means some day. In addition, things like protein folding could use a proper theory, as you can only bruteforce individual cases. But there's no scientific shortcut in SETI, you just have to keep looking.
The plural of Nazi is Nazis. No apostrophes there. ;-)
That's pedantic. Sorry. Didn't mean to nitpick or anything.
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Welcome to 1984, Mr. Anderson.
There's a good reason why the quantum spin was named spin in the first place: A charged particle with spin exhibits a magnetic moment, and so does a rotating charged sphere. However, electron spin is quantized differently from rotation, so we know it's not really rotation.
They are not necessarily opposites. For example, you can run any X application with any windowmanager. It's the standard X that enables a free, unbiased choice of the windowmanager. There are countless similar examples in the Free software community.
Another example might be a standard document format. If people used an open standard instead of the Word DOC, they would have the choice between several word processors.
Truly an American icon.
Yeah, when I was in college we had 100baseT.
(|Perl> + |Python>)/sqrt{2}
And as soon as I get a quantum cable connection, you can warez my copy of "The Qubbit, or (|There> + |Back again>)/sqrt{2}".
If you're installing the same OS on several machines, it might be better to burn a whole CD of the OS. But it's kind of pointless to do for one machine, if you can do it directly over the net.
The floppy may be obsolete for YOU, but for many others it's still quite useful. Many arguments against floppies are only about file transfer, they often forget the ability to boot. E.g. USB keychains are not so universally bootable.
But what do I know, I haven't used their products for years. I'm sure they have only improved during these years!
..but the plural of virus is viruses or (to use the Latin form) viri. More generally, the plural of a Latin noun ending with -us is -i, although in modern English it's OK to use English plural.
What a strong woman.
(I'm sure you've all seen the photo of the model, it's huge and must be quite heavy too with all the metal parts.)
No, I was thinking of a rootkit.
Whoa! It seems Slashdot articles have become sentient and even developed some Ninjutsu duplication skillz!
If you really want to reach enlightenment, you'd better start by not using X at all. ;-)
Quite possibly the interface is not standard like DVI. I'm not sure if the situation has improved, but at least I have an ancient 486 laptop with a great little screen that's completely useless, because of the nonstandard inferface.
> Implementing straight VGA is kinda tricky because the conversion has to scale the signal up to the LCD's native resolution on-the-fly. There's plenty of circuitry between a DVI input and the actual LCD.
AFAIK, there is nothing digital in the LCD itself. The voltage/current that drives an individual pixel is an analogical quantity.
In theory, you could drive an LCD in the same way as CRT, by scanning one line at a time, from a VGA input. I think the reason most LCDs have a digital _interface_ is that there are better ways of driving them. With CRTs we have VGA because you have to update the entire screen for every frame, but for LCDs you can just update the changes.
Funnily enough, the card could be used with an Amiga style tracker.. except that modern trackers do the mixing in software so there's no need.
IMHO, audio compression (mp3, ogg etc.) has a lot to do with network transmission, not simply storage. Broadband connection speeds have not improved by anything comparable to storage capacities. I just bought a 120 GB HD, but for my Net connection I can't get much better than cable, which gives about 1Mbps down and 300 kbps up. I live in a small town in Finland, and the only better option would be ADSL which only improves upstream rate, for about double the price.
(OT: It would be great to be able to use Everything2 brackets on /. :)
Don't forget war... the perpetual motion of sticks, stones, sabers, bullets and missiles throughtout history of Man... (and the sentient black goo used in the Gulf war)
Still, despite the problems with the Second Law, it could be possible that the Borg were using humans to _convert_ energy to a form more suitable for them. For example, to convert hydrocarbons into heat.