Maybe the itanium will flop... then I can pick it up for cheap and just run a IA64 *nix on it.;) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The whole x86 translation component will allow 32bit x86 code to run on it as-is.
It's slow and it's cruft, but legacy apps don't need to be recompiled. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Ironically enough, it usually takes a second or two for my start menu to come up when I click on it, but my bookmark dropdown in mozilla is instantaneous.:-P
I honestly can't see this sluggishness so many people are complaining about. My clicks, drags and dropdowns are immediate on my aging 333mhz celeron w/64mb ram. I have experienced sluggish response on drop-downs before, but that was back in M17. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Whoops. That's supposed to read "nov 30", not "dec 30". ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I can confirm that... I don't know where the performance "breaking point" is exactly with respect to speed/memory but I've got a celeron 333 w/64mb ram here, using dec 30's nightly of mozilla.
It takes about the same amount of time to load as netscape 4 did (approx 10 seconds, probably spent loading all the XUL for the interface). Pages display as soon as they are received and the images just pop right in without delay as fast as my modem can download them.
Even with norton systemworks, IRC and jabber in the background soaking up my meager memory, I don't get HD thrash from mozilla unless I open up over a half dozen windows with image and plugin-heavy pages.
I have noticed that if you leave mozilla alone for a while, you'll get some HD thrash when coming back to one of its windows even if you haven't increased your memory usage through other apps enough to make the OS swap mozilla out. Mozilla seems to swap itself out on its own when it notices it's not being used. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Since the human brain has about the same consistency as pudding, I daresay it's very malleable. =) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There is no such law here in Canada, but lord knows they've been trying. You'd think the lobbyists would clue in after the first few times being shot down with such colourful language as: hideously immoral, distasteful, an affront to our citizens' rights, etc... ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
They should charge admission.
Someone stop the P4! I'm getting dizzy! ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
These machines are tiny, but they're still not on the molecular scale. They're large enough that fluid dynamics still apply to them. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
They assemble themselves when the parts come into proximity of one another. I expect this is done with enzymes or enzyme-like structures. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Grab a recent mozilla build, open this xpi in it to install java support, and have fun.
SSL support, should you want it, is also installable from the "Install PSM" selection under the Debug drop-down menu. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It's because the Duron isn't that much cheaper than a Thunderbird* of equal frequency in North America. At least two people I know decided to just shell out the extra $15-20 for a Thunderbird* soon after they came out. The price gap is probably even less now for the slower chips.
* Or "Athlon with enhanced cache", but personally I think that's a long-winded and silly name. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There's also the issue of Rambus, inc's shadily-aquired patent on computer memory. They're suing everyone who makes DDR or DDR chipsets for royalty fees, which is probably putting a crimp in its deployment. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Didn't the quakes take out memory warehouses, and not chipset fabs? ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You forget that those quartz crystals the clocks are based on don't resonate at a nice, cleanly divisible rate for the sake of our convenience. Because of this neither the period nor the mhz rating is ever entirely precise.
Engineers can measure and compare all they like but those crystals will never be perfect, which is why the numbers are approximated. Since the difference in rated and actual frequency is negligable it's generally considered acceptable to do so.
I'm fully aware of vendors' dirty pool in their marketing schemes, but how exactly does that apply to actual frequency calculation? ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Right. My old socket7 motherboard ran the 166mhz chip in it at 2.5 x 66mhz.
The mhz ratings on chips are approximate, to boot. The only part of the equation that's exact is the multiplier. The bus speed always varies a little bit from its rated value, and even if it were exact you aren't going to get nice clean numbers (as in multiples of 33 or 100) by multiplying bus speeds like 66 or 133mhz.
The Celeron 333 was actually 66 x 5 = 330mhz for example, and that doesn't even take into account that the bus isn't actually running dead-on 66mhz.
AFCArchvile, some research before posting maybe? Not that it matters I suppose, people who know even less keep modding you up anyway.:-p ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Yes, there's a preference option and a hotkey for audio preview. Actually, there are preferences and hotkeys for just about everything. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The one line doesn't connect directly to many different countries. The reason re-routing couldn't help was because the remaining bandwidth became overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic it suddenly had to deal with.
They rerouted around the failure just fine, but what pipes they had left couldn't take the load.
This problem is a sobering reminder of a more widespread issue. The internet's pipes are generally "just fat enough" thanks to cost/profit determination. The net's fault-tolerant nature is made useless by the lines being barely large enough to handle regular traffic, nevermind extra load from balancing a failure. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I just use nvidia's 0.9.5 drivers with my geforce. My 3D is neither bloated nor suffering.:)
Open source drivers aren't required, but they sure make it easier to quickly get them running and optimized on even the most esoteric configurations. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Things like what? XFree86 DOES have that control panel and res-change capability he thought was missing. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I believe smbd and ftpd can also be configured to give a umask to files created/uploaded into ~/public_html ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Permission masks.
Wow... that was a tough one, I should go lie down now. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
AFCArchvile trolls like this a lot, though most of the time I don't think he realizes he's doing it. He simply posts with a partial perception of the subject matter.
Had he actually looked into it he would have found that XFree86 4.x has pretty decent autodetection, xvidtune is his missing "control panel", and that ctrl alt +/- will change resolutions on the fly (although many window managers don't like sudden res changes at all... but that's a fixable issue they can tackle).
I can't really fault him though if he's coming from a win32 environment. He's spent too much time being spoon fed (or having stuff crammed down his throat, depending on your POV). Have some tolerance.:-P ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the itanium will flop... then I can pick it up for cheap and just run a IA64 *nix on it. ;)
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The whole x86 translation component will allow 32bit x86 code to run on it as-is.
It's slow and it's cruft, but legacy apps don't need to be recompiled.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
...we'll be treated to a very expensive lightshow.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Ironically enough, it usually takes a second or two for my start menu to come up when I click on it, but my bookmark dropdown in mozilla is instantaneous. :-P
I honestly can't see this sluggishness so many people are complaining about. My clicks, drags and dropdowns are immediate on my aging 333mhz celeron w/64mb ram. I have experienced sluggish response on drop-downs before, but that was back in M17.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Whoops. That's supposed to read "nov 30", not "dec 30".
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I can confirm that... I don't know where the performance "breaking point" is exactly with respect to speed/memory but I've got a celeron 333 w/64mb ram here, using dec 30's nightly of mozilla.
It takes about the same amount of time to load as netscape 4 did (approx 10 seconds, probably spent loading all the XUL for the interface). Pages display as soon as they are received and the images just pop right in without delay as fast as my modem can download them.
Even with norton systemworks, IRC and jabber in the background soaking up my meager memory, I don't get HD thrash from mozilla unless I open up over a half dozen windows with image and plugin-heavy pages.
I have noticed that if you leave mozilla alone for a while, you'll get some HD thrash when coming back to one of its windows even if you haven't increased your memory usage through other apps enough to make the OS swap mozilla out. Mozilla seems to swap itself out on its own when it notices it's not being used.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Since the human brain has about the same consistency as pudding, I daresay it's very malleable. =)
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There is no such law here in Canada, but lord knows they've been trying. You'd think the lobbyists would clue in after the first few times being shot down with such colourful language as: hideously immoral, distasteful, an affront to our citizens' rights, etc...
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
They should charge admission.
Someone stop the P4! I'm getting dizzy!
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
These machines are tiny, but they're still not on the molecular scale. They're large enough that fluid dynamics still apply to them.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
They assemble themselves when the parts come into proximity of one another. I expect this is done with enzymes or enzyme-like structures.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Grab a recent mozilla build, open this xpi in it to install java support, and have fun.
SSL support, should you want it, is also installable from the "Install PSM" selection under the Debug drop-down menu.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It's because the Duron isn't that much cheaper than a Thunderbird* of equal frequency in North America. At least two people I know decided to just shell out the extra $15-20 for a Thunderbird* soon after they came out. The price gap is probably even less now for the slower chips.
* Or "Athlon with enhanced cache", but personally I think that's a long-winded and silly name.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There's also the issue of Rambus, inc's shadily-aquired patent on computer memory. They're suing everyone who makes DDR or DDR chipsets for royalty fees, which is probably putting a crimp in its deployment.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Didn't the quakes take out memory warehouses, and not chipset fabs?
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You forget that those quartz crystals the clocks are based on don't resonate at a nice, cleanly divisible rate for the sake of our convenience. Because of this neither the period nor the mhz rating is ever entirely precise.
Engineers can measure and compare all they like but those crystals will never be perfect, which is why the numbers are approximated. Since the difference in rated and actual frequency is negligable it's generally considered acceptable to do so.
I'm fully aware of vendors' dirty pool in their marketing schemes, but how exactly does that apply to actual frequency calculation?
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Right. My old socket7 motherboard ran the 166mhz chip in it at 2.5 x 66mhz.
:-p
The mhz ratings on chips are approximate, to boot. The only part of the equation that's exact is the multiplier. The bus speed always varies a little bit from its rated value, and even if it were exact you aren't going to get nice clean numbers (as in multiples of 33 or 100) by multiplying bus speeds like 66 or 133mhz.
The Celeron 333 was actually 66 x 5 = 330mhz for example, and that doesn't even take into account that the bus isn't actually running dead-on 66mhz.
AFCArchvile, some research before posting maybe? Not that it matters I suppose, people who know even less keep modding you up anyway.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Yes, there's a preference option and a hotkey for audio preview. Actually, there are preferences and hotkeys for just about everything.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The one line doesn't connect directly to many different countries. The reason re-routing couldn't help was because the remaining bandwidth became overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic it suddenly had to deal with.
They rerouted around the failure just fine, but what pipes they had left couldn't take the load.
This problem is a sobering reminder of a more widespread issue. The internet's pipes are generally "just fat enough" thanks to cost/profit determination. The net's fault-tolerant nature is made useless by the lines being barely large enough to handle regular traffic, nevermind extra load from balancing a failure.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I just use nvidia's 0.9.5 drivers with my geforce. My 3D is neither bloated nor suffering. :)
Open source drivers aren't required, but they sure make it easier to quickly get them running and optimized on even the most esoteric configurations.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Things like what? XFree86 DOES have that control panel and res-change capability he thought was missing.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I believe smbd and ftpd can also be configured to give a umask to files created/uploaded into ~/public_html
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Permission masks.
Wow... that was a tough one, I should go lie down now.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Way to generalize in a bitter rant. :-P
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
AFCArchvile trolls like this a lot, though most of the time I don't think he realizes he's doing it. He simply posts with a partial perception of the subject matter.
:-P
Had he actually looked into it he would have found that XFree86 4.x has pretty decent autodetection, xvidtune is his missing "control panel", and that ctrl alt +/- will change resolutions on the fly (although many window managers don't like sudden res changes at all... but that's a fixable issue they can tackle).
I can't really fault him though if he's coming from a win32 environment. He's spent too much time being spoon fed (or having stuff crammed down his throat, depending on your POV). Have some tolerance.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.