An open-source program called fiasco (you can find it on freshmeat) reduced a picture (2.1M as a bmp, 800k or so png, 500k jpeg) to a 5k file. Very good quality (as good as the jpeg), and LOTS smaller. It can also do movies (without sound, someone want to do that and say bye to mpeg?) but even a 30 second movie was 2MB (if you put an mp3 with it, about 2.5MB for half a minute!!)
If I understood correctly from posts (I couldn't read it, netscape keeps requiring kill -9 when it gets there.) It uses a real fast core, and the same 133MHz bus. This would us a HUGE multiplier.
RDRAM, is not the only one for the P4 (see the earlier discussion on P4s). SDRAM still lives in Intel products. RDRAM may have a little performance gain over SDRAM, but is it worth the cost? Judgeing from Intel's inclusion of SDRAM, I would say no.
32-bit. My 486 from 1989 or so is 32-bit. Why??? 64-bit Alphas have been around since 486s. When is IA-64 really comming out?
Massive MHz (or in this case GHz), but how does it compare with a P3 or Athlon in perfomance per MHz? or for that matter, an Alpha.
Low watts. Great, but does it have the reduced clock speed when not plugged in to a wall outlet.
P3s Athlons, etc. have been RISC, but they translate the instructions in hardware, requiring lots of extra transistors, and making them run hotter.
When is this "due" out. I am guessing that it is only a test processor, and not a final (release) processor. So when is it due out, and will it be like the 800MHz+ P3's avalability or IA-64's, due in 1999, release.
As I couldn't see the whole article, feel free to correct me.
I hate the use of MB. Mb-Megabit, MB-MegaByte.
Also, Mega, in computers means 2^20 not 10^6!
I could imagine this ad for my computer (with this *stuff*, and overclock (haven't tested this high, yet))
731 MHz web server 440GB Hard drive, 536MB RAM
$300
for a
500MHz, 51GB (a "45"+"10" GB), 64MB RAM computer.
OK, maybe I am the only one who goes out and buys used hardware, and as-is stuff, but I have lots of SCSI cards (mostly SCSI-2) which I got for less than $30 each (usually $5). I got 1 gig Hard drives for $2. (3 of 4 worked, at an as-is sale).
Sure Firewire may be faster, but when all you can find is $100 or so cards, I will stick to SCSI for external stuff and IDE/ATAPI for big, slow, huge, cheap internal drives. Try looking for sales at computer stores where you live.
Look at a used computer shop or sale. I have gotten an EISA Adaptec SCSI-2 dual channel card that I haven't tested (among the computers I have I don't have an EISA MB), but it was before I bought it. Other SCSI-2 cards I got there have worked fine. They had 1Gig SCSI hds (as-is) but the 4 I got 3 worked) for $2.
I have gotten lots of $5 or so Adaptec SCSI cards, and $20 or so NCR ones, that work with no problems. The sad thing is they are going out of business, because a few things investers wanted didn't turn out right, not that they were losing money.
One SQL, (openSQL, maybe) does have a default password of "change", "changeme", or "changepass" (something similar). It was used in the setup of slash (the code that gives us slashdot), at our local lug.
If someone does not change that, it is their own fault, but it is an account that has to be logged on to, not the sa where you don't (if I understood right) have to log on.
I was not aware that either RDRAM or Ia-64s were ready to be shiped, and had been delayed for years, and that was the what I thought vaporware ment, until it was released in a real version, not pushed back for years and years. as opposed to being released on time, and working correctly.
The 1/5 of an alpha was with the test processors that are being used for development. This fact was given to me by a sysadmin that follows alphas, and other 64 bit processors (including the release of the IA-64). He has seldom been wrong about this sort of thing, and this was several months ago, perhaps the compilers have gotten better.
I am tired of seeing Intel put out more and more vaporware. RDRAM, IA-64, etc, etc... I don't know of any other chip maker that puts out so much vapor. AMD's chips did what they were intended to do. DEC (compaq) Alphas haven't failed yet, (supposed to be 1.5GHz+ by the end of the year.)
I am willing to bet that AMD will have a 64-bit arch out (mainstream) before Intel.
IA-64 has 1/5 the performance of an alpha under gcc, which is not optimised for the alpha. (likely the kind that is 3x an Athlon or more for a P3)
Even a 2 year old alpha can beat most P3s (1.5 -2x P3 MHz = alpha MHz in performance)
Another thing 550 P-3 $159, 600 Duron $99 (or 109, can't remember exactly). Duron is not 2/3 a P3's performance. Is Intel too greedy? In SV, I talked to an Intel CAD engeneer and he said as long as it sold for a 24 or 26% profit Intel would make anything. I wonder what AMD's profit level is.
btw anyone ever looked at Alpha vs Intel's touted FP performance? hint, Intel is in the dust.
The earth has the atmoshere to burn up debris. It is also will not have anything that will explode, except maybe the metiorite itself. The space station on the other hand could be coliding with these particles can rupture the skin. Space is a very low pressure environment. What happens when a high pressure container ruptures in a low pressure environment. That assumes that the station survives. KE=v^2*m (KE kenetic energy, v velocity, m mass) assume that it goes 5 miles/second (~8km/sec) which results in a very high force. a space craft 2m long is *obliterated* by a 1 cm plastic particle traveling @ 5 miles/second. imagine that particle hitting the ISS. Likely causing a MAJOR problem, or destroying it, possibly causing a chain of sattelite destruction, resulting in a loss of the ability to use sattelites at all.
I was looking at CompUSA's add, pentium 3s on one side athlons on the other. 733 MHz top p3s 1000 MHz top athlons Sure p3s are close to atlons at the same clock speed, but where are the 1 GHz p3s? (aside from their 'favorite' companies?) I see 1 GHz athlons. btw, when are the.18 micron copper alphas coming out? (supposedly 2.5 GHz+ ?)
*Based on my understanding* that said, You can access it as long as you don't copy their "black box". If you know what goes in and comes out, and make something that fills the funtion of the "black box" without touching their trade secrets, it is perfectly legal.
Another thing, This case might be doomed from the beginning because of the word "Hacker". I read 2600, but I think (sadly) that most people will see not multiple mega-corps bullying legal people, but stopping the hackers who most people think are bad. Alas, we are fighting the very thing (mass media) that turned "hacker" into a bad word, and any regular media, won't be presenting it fairly, just how they are told to.
I use wine to run some old games, and things. I did not have a copy of windows on my computer. (ignoring the backup copies where other computers store data). I used the wine implementation included with Wordperfect Office 2000 for Linux (which runs under wine) to run some things. Later, I got an 'official' version (Corel tinkered with it's to get it to work correctly), and it installed a different set of dlls, and used them. It does work better (on somethings, and worse on others) when using a full windows thing, (mount -t smbfs//windowsbox/c/mnt/winc, and point Wine's C: drive to/mnt/winc in/etc/wine.conf) but it does not require Windows at all.
WINE-Wine Is Not an Emulator Depending on your definition
Recently I saw that there is a very annoying paperclip made for vi. It was based on a userfriendly storyline. Sounds like we have either evil people or those that had someone they wanted to annoy.
This is from memory, please correct me if I am wrong.
When the Copyright was started in England, it was for 7 years to a specific publishing company. This publishing company, in exchange for copyright, agreed to suppress books that the crown felt were not good for some reason.
What you are agreeing to, with copyright, is a history of opression, and free software is now the next target. Big companys are using it to say that we are infringing on their rights, and in that way we are becoming more of a society where the individual is worth nothing, but companies and other large groups are worth something. Perhaps free software is one of the only places to challenge that, but companies are using the courts to attempt to stop it. We have a few very small lobbies (FSF and some others) that have the money or time to try and protect us. If the GPL is ruled invalid, then we will have to find a new licence, but we will have to continue challenging them. One important battle is this, but we are losing battles on the side rather often. For example: DVD playing under Linux (and everything else except 2) has to use DeCSS because the MPAA's underling will not make one. We are losing it because of our very nature which leaves us disorganized. If something does not change, free software makers (shall we use the real word-hackers) will become as hunted as crackers.
Just my $.02
Support DeCSS and all other free software, against oppression.
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An open-source program called fiasco (you can find it on freshmeat) reduced a picture (2.1M as a bmp, 800k or so png, 500k jpeg) to a 5k file. Very good quality (as good as the jpeg), and LOTS smaller. It can also do movies (without sound, someone want to do that and say bye to mpeg?) but even a 30 second movie was 2MB (if you put an mp3 with it, about 2.5MB for half a minute!!)
If I understood correctly from posts (I couldn't read it, netscape keeps requiring kill -9 when it gets there.) It uses a real fast core, and the same 133MHz bus. This would us a HUGE multiplier.
RDRAM, is not the only one for the P4 (see the earlier discussion on P4s). SDRAM still lives in Intel products. RDRAM may have a little performance gain over SDRAM, but is it worth the cost? Judgeing from Intel's inclusion of SDRAM, I would say no.
32-bit. My 486 from 1989 or so is 32-bit. Why??? 64-bit Alphas have been around since 486s. When is IA-64 really comming out?
Massive MHz (or in this case GHz), but how does it compare with a P3 or Athlon in perfomance per MHz? or for that matter, an Alpha.
Low watts. Great, but does it have the reduced clock speed when not plugged in to a wall outlet.
P3s Athlons, etc. have been RISC, but they translate the instructions in hardware, requiring lots of extra transistors, and making them run hotter.
When is this "due" out. I am guessing that it is only a test processor, and not a final (release) processor. So when is it due out, and will it be like the 800MHz+ P3's avalability or IA-64's, due in 1999, release.
As I couldn't see the whole article, feel free to correct me.
The first report russia put out was that the sub had colided with another sub. They seemed to imply that it was a US sub.
I heard that on NPR riding across Wyoming. But I also heard that there were 2 explosions, recorded, a small one, then the big one (3)
I hate the use of MB. Mb-Megabit, MB-MegaByte.
Also, Mega, in computers means 2^20 not 10^6!
I could imagine this ad for my computer (with this *stuff*, and overclock (haven't tested this high, yet))
731 MHz web server 440GB Hard drive, 536MB RAM
$300
for a
500MHz, 51GB (a "45"+"10" GB), 64MB RAM computer.
Makes me sick!
OK, maybe I am the only one who goes out and buys used hardware, and as-is stuff, but I have lots of SCSI cards (mostly SCSI-2) which I got for less than $30 each (usually $5). I got 1 gig Hard drives for $2. (3 of 4 worked, at an as-is sale).
Sure Firewire may be faster, but when all you can find is $100 or so cards, I will stick to SCSI for external stuff and IDE/ATAPI for big, slow, huge, cheap internal drives. Try looking for sales at computer stores where you live.
Look at a used computer shop or sale. I have gotten an EISA Adaptec SCSI-2 dual channel card that I haven't tested (among the computers I have I don't have an EISA MB), but it was before I bought it. Other SCSI-2 cards I got there have worked fine. They had 1Gig SCSI hds (as-is) but the 4 I got 3 worked) for $2.
I have gotten lots of $5 or so Adaptec SCSI cards, and $20 or so NCR ones, that work with no problems. The sad thing is they are going out of business, because a few things investers wanted didn't turn out right, not that they were losing money.
One SQL, (openSQL, maybe) does have a default password of "change", "changeme", or "changepass" (something similar). It was used in the setup of slash (the code that gives us slashdot), at our local lug. If someone does not change that, it is their own fault, but it is an account that has to be logged on to, not the sa where you don't (if I understood right) have to log on.
I was not aware that either RDRAM or Ia-64s were ready to be shiped, and had been delayed for years, and that was the what I thought vaporware ment, until it was released in a real version, not pushed back for years and years. as opposed to being released on time, and working correctly.
Thanks for the correction.
The 1/5 of an alpha was with the test processors that are being used for development. This fact was given to me by a sysadmin that follows alphas, and other 64 bit processors (including the release of the IA-64). He has seldom been wrong about this sort of thing, and this was several months ago, perhaps the compilers have gotten better.
I am tired of seeing Intel put out more and more vaporware. RDRAM, IA-64, etc, etc... I don't know of any other chip maker that puts out so much vapor. AMD's chips did what they were intended to do. DEC (compaq) Alphas haven't failed yet, (supposed to be 1.5GHz+ by the end of the year.)
I am willing to bet that AMD will have a 64-bit arch out (mainstream) before Intel.
IA-64 has 1/5 the performance of an alpha under gcc, which is not optimised for the alpha. (likely the kind that is 3x an Athlon or more for a P3)
Even a 2 year old alpha can beat most P3s (1.5 -2x P3 MHz = alpha MHz in performance)
Another thing 550 P-3 $159, 600 Duron $99 (or 109, can't remember exactly). Duron is not 2/3 a P3's performance. Is Intel too greedy? In SV, I talked to an Intel CAD engeneer and he said as long as it sold for a 24 or 26% profit Intel would make anything. I wonder what AMD's profit level is.
btw anyone ever looked at Alpha vs Intel's touted FP performance? hint, Intel is in the dust.
The earth has the atmoshere to burn up debris. It is also will not have anything that will explode, except maybe the metiorite itself. The space station on the other hand could be coliding with these particles can rupture the skin. Space is a very low pressure environment. What happens when a high pressure container ruptures in a low pressure environment. That assumes that the station survives. KE=v^2*m (KE kenetic energy, v velocity, m mass) assume that it goes 5 miles/second (~8km/sec) which results in a very high force. a space craft 2m long is *obliterated* by a 1 cm plastic particle traveling @ 5 miles/second. imagine that particle hitting the ISS. Likely causing a MAJOR problem, or destroying it, possibly causing a chain of sattelite destruction, resulting in a loss of the ability to use sattelites at all.
I was looking at CompUSA's add, pentium 3s on one side athlons on the other. 733 MHz top p3s 1000 MHz top athlons Sure p3s are close to atlons at the same clock speed, but where are the 1 GHz p3s? (aside from their 'favorite' companies?) I see 1 GHz athlons. btw, when are the .18 micron copper alphas coming out? (supposedly 2.5 GHz+ ?)
*Based on my understanding*
that said, You can access it as long as you don't copy their "black box". If you know what goes in and comes out, and make something that fills the funtion of the "black box" without touching their trade secrets, it is perfectly legal.
Another thing, This case might be doomed from the beginning because of the word "Hacker". I read 2600, but I think (sadly) that most people will see not multiple mega-corps bullying legal people, but stopping the hackers who most people think are bad. Alas, we are fighting the very thing (mass media) that turned "hacker" into a bad word, and any regular media, won't be presenting it fairly, just how they are told to.
GO 2600! GO EFF! where is the ACLU?
WINE-Wine Is Not an Emulator
Depending on your definition
Guess I will have to learn emacs.
When the Copyright was started in England, it was for 7 years to a specific publishing company. This publishing company, in exchange for copyright, agreed to suppress books that the crown felt were not good for some reason.
What you are agreeing to, with copyright, is a history of opression, and free software is now the next target. Big companys are using it to say that we are infringing on their rights, and in that way we are becoming more of a society where the individual is worth nothing, but companies and other large groups are worth something. Perhaps free software is one of the only places to challenge that, but companies are using the courts to attempt to stop it. We have a few very small lobbies (FSF and some others) that have the money or time to try and protect us. If the GPL is ruled invalid, then we will have to find a new licence, but we will have to continue challenging them. One important battle is this, but we are losing battles on the side rather often. For example: DVD playing under Linux (and everything else except 2) has to use DeCSS because the MPAA's underling will not make one. We are losing it because of our very nature which leaves us disorganized. If something does not change, free software makers (shall we use the real word-hackers) will become as hunted as crackers.
Just my $.02
Support DeCSS and all other free software, against oppression.
And aside from moderately intelegent people, who will notice?
Wine - the replace ment for Redmond