Don't forget fake wookies, lightsabres, and princess/amazons. See.. Sorcery is good, and so is Super-Science.. Together, they are greater than the sum of their parts.
In Thundar the Barbarian, the moon cracks in two and destroys civilization as we know it.. That was because of a comet passing between the Earth and the moon, but close enough.:)
That's great, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to the topic at hand. In a KVM switch, you don't use the keyboard to send the video signal either. In the PS/2 world, one mouse can only be connected to a single PC.. That's why we have KVM switches.. The fact that you can't connect one USB mouse to multiple PCs directly isn't an added limitation that USB has compared to PS/2. Further down the page, you can see how I manage this at home.. It works fine, because my monitor handles the switching between which USB "chain" is active. Normal KVM switches tend to have a "ghost" circuit, that tricks the PC into thinking that it has an idle mouse/keyboard attached. The same sort of thing could be constructed for USB.. Read the USB device info into a small buffer in the KVM switch, and then don't notify the PC of disconnection unless the USB device is unplugged from the switchbox itself. In this way, you could have as many PCs connected to the switchbox as you cared to build ports for. Of course, the video signal would travel over a video cable, just as it does currently. The advantage is that you can hot-plug USB devices, and that there are many more types of devices available.. You could share, say, a USB biometric authentication device (thumbprint scanner) across a rack full of servers with this kind of thing. Its usefulness is limited to geeks (me) that have more than two PCs, but it could still turn a profit.
Well, I have this monitor. I connect two PCs running Win98/Windows200 to it. I connect one of them to the BNC inputs, and the other to the DSub. I connect my mouse and my keyboard to it. When I press the left-most button on the monitor, it switches control between the PCs. Assuming that they're both on, it works like a champ. I definitely think that there's a place in the market for a standalone unit that does this, though. Unfortunately, anything that isn't built into the monitor is going to have a detrimental effect on your image quality. That's why I switched from a KVM switch to a monitor that had it integrated. Also, it's vitally important that you have rock-solid USB support. I'm running 8 simultaneous USB devices now, so I've gotten all the kinks worked out. Win2k's USB support works substantially better than Win98SE's.
This article has NOTHING to do with turning SDRAM into RDRAM.. All they did was put a copper shield on a stick of SDRAM, making it look similar to a real RDRAM module. Doesn't Slashdot occasionally GLANCE at the links that are submitted before posting them?
The new 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 uses more than that.. Hell, it has an external power supply.. Just another of the many reasons why I won't be buying one, but that's not exactly the point of this comment.:)
Oh no.. We CAN choose to spin a platter 100 times faster. There's no guarantee that it won't punch a hole in space/time when it breaks loose from its mounting bracket, but that doesn't mean we can't do it anyway. Heh. Personally, I'd like a 15k RPM 20GB Ultra160 SCSI drive with four 2.5" platters interleaved like RAID 0, each with a seperate read/write mechanism. In theory, such a device could approach a 3ms access time, and fully saturate the PCI bus even on the innermost tracks.
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Let me know when I can order a "dry fibre pair" from my local telco, and I'll join you.;)
Virtually any DVD player, with the addition of an upscan converter, can be made to copy DVD titles to VHS. This is not something that Sony can fix, and it's not something peculiar to the PS2, unless the article is very badly translated. Now, if you could disable Macrovision from within the PS2, without the need for additional hardware, that would be a different story.
Sure, it was popular, but if you were playing back then, you'd almost certainly agree, after contemplation, that many many many of the servers offered terrible performance. It was popular IN SPITE of the bad server performance, not because of it.
Well, it depends on what you're comparing to.. When compared to PCI, you're right.. When compared to AGP without DMA transfers, it's not that big of a deal.
First, DMA transfers are nothing like a 400% speed boost. Maybe 20% on the outside, but probably more like 10%. Second, nVidia didn't license anything related to DMA from S3, SGI, or anyone else. The AGP implementation of one video card would likely not be of much use in the construction of a different card. The reason this driver is going to be closed-source is because nVidia doesn't want 3dfx and ATI checking out their register-level specs, especially in light of the commanding lead they current enjoy in the technology department. It's just like in Civilization 2.. You don't reveal the secret of Gunpower to the Mongols. As a user who benefits from open source software, I'm disappointed that the full drivers won't be open sourced. As an nVidia stockholder, I'm glad. Only companies whose technology has nothing to offer are willing to open their drivers.
Typically grits just take salt, pepper, and butter. Some people like to add stuff like crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese, and chopped green onions, but we make fun of those guys down here in da south.
I agree. I was totally stunned that the Gentus story didn't make it onto Slashdot. I didn't bother to write it in, since I assumed that 10,000 others already had.
What makes you think that a mainframe has only one network interface? I work with our mainframe every day, and I will freely admit that no quantity of Linux boxes could manage to do what it does. According to IBM, we have the highest transaction rate of any non-military mainframe on Earth. 1,000 Linux machines with RAID 5 and dual gigabit Ethernet cards in PCI66 slots would fail utterly to achieve the numbers we require.
You know, I'll bet that radio tube researchers thought that progress would slow down after they were forced to switch to those newfangled transistors. Typically, when man invents a new technology to replace the old, progress accelerates. Examples: Radio tubes vs. Transistors Longbows vs. Guns Carriages vs. Automobiles Radio vs. Television Modern Man vs. Neanderthal (I know they're not our precursors, but it makes for a good example) Hot-air Balloon vs. Aircraft
I'd imagine that any replacement for conventional digital circuit design will kick off another revolution full of fun and games.
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This is D-Link's 4-port 10/100 NIC.. It has Linux drivers, and it's only $165.
Don't forget fake wookies, lightsabres, and princess/amazons.
See.. Sorcery is good, and so is Super-Science..
Together, they are greater than the sum of their parts.
In Thundar the Barbarian, the moon cracks in two and destroys civilization as we know it.. That was because of a comet passing between the Earth and the moon, but close enough. :)
That's great, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to the topic at hand. In a KVM switch, you don't use the keyboard to send the video signal either. In the PS/2 world, one mouse can only be connected to a single PC.. That's why we have KVM switches.. The fact that you can't connect one USB mouse to multiple PCs directly isn't an added limitation that USB has compared to PS/2.
Further down the page, you can see how I manage this at home.. It works fine, because my monitor handles the switching between which USB "chain" is active.
Normal KVM switches tend to have a "ghost" circuit, that tricks the PC into thinking that it has an idle mouse/keyboard attached. The same sort of thing could be constructed for USB.. Read the USB device info into a small buffer in the KVM switch, and then don't notify the PC of disconnection unless the USB device is unplugged from the switchbox itself.
In this way, you could have as many PCs connected to the switchbox as you cared to build ports for. Of course, the video signal would travel over a video cable, just as it does currently. The advantage is that you can hot-plug USB devices, and that there are many more types of devices available.. You could share, say, a USB biometric authentication device (thumbprint scanner) across a rack full of servers with this kind of thing. Its usefulness is limited to geeks (me) that have more than two PCs, but it could still turn a profit.
I paid $600 for my car CD player last year. :)
Well, I have this monitor. I connect two PCs running Win98/Windows200 to it. I connect one of them to the BNC inputs, and the other to the DSub. I connect my mouse and my keyboard to it. When I press the left-most button on the monitor, it switches control between the PCs. Assuming that they're both on, it works like a champ. I definitely think that there's a place in the market for a standalone unit that does this, though. Unfortunately, anything that isn't built into the monitor is going to have a detrimental effect on your image quality. That's why I switched from a KVM switch to a monitor that had it integrated. Also, it's vitally important that you have rock-solid USB support. I'm running 8 simultaneous USB devices now, so I've gotten all the kinks worked out. Win2k's USB support works substantially better than Win98SE's.
This article has NOTHING to do with turning SDRAM into RDRAM.. All they did was put a copper shield on a stick of SDRAM, making it look similar to a real RDRAM module.
Doesn't Slashdot occasionally GLANCE at the links that are submitted before posting them?
Sorry, forgot to pick HTML mode: http://www.u-oplaz.com/oc/RAM_shield.htm
The new 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 uses more than that.. Hell, it has an external power supply.. Just another of the many reasons why I won't be buying one, but that's not exactly the point of this comment. :)
Oh no.. We CAN choose to spin a platter 100 times faster. There's no guarantee that it won't punch a hole in space/time when it breaks loose from its mounting bracket, but that doesn't mean we can't do it anyway. Heh.
Personally, I'd like a 15k RPM 20GB Ultra160 SCSI drive with four 2.5" platters interleaved like RAID 0, each with a seperate read/write mechanism.
In theory, such a device could approach a 3ms access time, and fully saturate the PCI bus even on the innermost tracks.
Nice.
Let me know when I can order a "dry fibre pair" from my local telco, and I'll join you. ;)
Virtually any DVD player, with the addition of an upscan converter, can be made to copy DVD titles to VHS. This is not something that Sony can fix, and it's not something peculiar to the PS2, unless the article is very badly translated.
Now, if you could disable Macrovision from within the PS2, without the need for additional hardware, that would be a different story.
Sure, it was popular, but if you were playing back then, you'd almost certainly agree, after contemplation, that many many many of the servers offered terrible performance. It was popular IN SPITE of the bad server performance, not because of it.
Well, it depends on what you're comparing to.. When compared to PCI, you're right.. When compared to AGP without DMA transfers, it's not that big of a deal.
First, DMA transfers are nothing like a 400% speed boost. Maybe 20% on the outside, but probably more like 10%. Second, nVidia didn't license anything related to DMA from S3, SGI, or anyone else. The AGP implementation of one video card would likely not be of much use in the construction of a different card. The reason this driver is going to be closed-source is because nVidia doesn't want 3dfx and ATI checking out their register-level specs, especially in light of the commanding lead they current enjoy in the technology department. It's just like in Civilization 2.. You don't reveal the secret of Gunpower to the Mongols.
As a user who benefits from open source software, I'm disappointed that the full drivers won't be open sourced. As an nVidia stockholder, I'm glad. Only companies whose technology has nothing to offer are willing to open their drivers.
The 'Dead allow copies of their live performances to be freely made and distributed.
Typically grits just take salt, pepper, and butter. Some people like to add stuff like crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese, and chopped green onions, but we make fun of those guys down here in da south.
I guess you drive down the street attracting women with your uncovered penis?
Sorry, my Slashdot number is lower. :)
I agree. I was totally stunned that the Gentus story didn't make it onto Slashdot. I didn't bother to write it in, since I assumed that 10,000 others already had.
What makes you think that a mainframe has only one network interface? I work with our mainframe every day, and I will freely admit that no quantity of Linux boxes could manage to do what it does. According to IBM, we have the highest transaction rate of any non-military mainframe on Earth. 1,000 Linux machines with RAID 5 and dual gigabit Ethernet cards in PCI66 slots would fail utterly to achieve the numbers we require.
Assuming that you consider 128kbit to be optimal. Personally, I encode all of my MP3s at 256.
Actually, it would take over 300 of those to clog a T3.
You know, this sounds quite a bit like RAID 5. Keep adding more drives, and you can pull the original without ill effect.
You know, I'll bet that radio tube researchers thought that progress would slow down after they were forced to switch to those newfangled transistors. Typically, when man invents a new technology to replace the old, progress accelerates. Examples:
Radio tubes vs. Transistors
Longbows vs. Guns
Carriages vs. Automobiles
Radio vs. Television
Modern Man vs. Neanderthal (I know they're not our precursors, but it makes for a good example)
Hot-air Balloon vs. Aircraft
I'd imagine that any replacement for conventional digital circuit design will kick off another revolution full of fun and games.