I'm only ten paragraphs into the article, and I've already seen several mistakes and misunderstandings.. I don't think this author is qualified to give advice.
10% performance hit for having an ISA slot? I don't think so. First they talk about choosing an Intel architecture, then they say that the fastest FSB speed available is 266MHz? I guess they've never heard of the Pentium IV. (Though, of course, the Athlon is a better choice for this particular system..)
The fastest SCSI drives are significantly more than 15% faster than the fastest IDE drives.. The errors keep coming. Ugh.
VM in 2.4.10 is absolutely broken. The LKML is rife with reports of hangs, strange behavior, evil performance, etc, under heavy loads..
Pretty much fixed in 2.4.10-ac10-eatcache. Almost as fixed in 2.4.11, but more work definitely needs to be done before a company like RedHat will be willing to ship one of these kernels with the new VM code.
I haven't seen an IE crash in almost six months, and I use it heavily every day. What are you doing wrong?
Don't get me wrong.. I think Mozilla is great, but our Intranet apps at work require IE, so I'm stuck with it.
Microsoft has stated that they will not reveal the file format of the.msstyle file that stores Themes in Windows XP. That means that there won't be any user-land XP themes, unless someone reverse engineers the process.
You can ALMOST modify the.msstyle file by disabling File Protection and replacing the cached and "actual" copy of the file simultaneously. Unfortunately, there's an even deeper level of protection that greys out the option box that lets you select themes when Windows detects a modification that that file. Grr.
If the government can break our crypto, then why do they need backdoors?
PGP with a 2048 bit key length, and a 20+ character passphrase. The computing power required to attack that is totally astronomical. Unless you believe that all the major computer vendors are keeping the public 10 years behind the curve as part of a great conspiracy, and selling the "real" stuff to the NSA, it just isn't going to happen.
The point they were trying to make with that comment is this:
Even if you removed all other bottlenecks, a 1GHz version of a 500MHz CPU (with no other architectural improvements) will not perform twice the work of the 500MHz version due to clock overhead.
I did my test "blind" (made several dozen entries in a Winamp playlist of each file, and then hit "randomize" and closed the playlist window.)
However, now that I've had a few more days to play with it, there are some things that RC2 doesn't do very well. The Vorbis mailing list says that it's untuned, and that RC3 will improve the quality.
I just did this test.. Ogg vs. LAME at 128, 160, 192, and 256kbps. Ogg sounds better to me at every bitrate. I won't know for sure until I get home to better equipment.. Are you sure you're using RC2?
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I'm only ten paragraphs into the article, and I've already seen several mistakes and misunderstandings.. I don't think this author is qualified to give advice.
10% performance hit for having an ISA slot? I don't think so. First they talk about choosing an Intel architecture, then they say that the fastest FSB speed available is 266MHz? I guess they've never heard of the Pentium IV. (Though, of course, the Athlon is a better choice for this particular system..)
The fastest SCSI drives are significantly more than 15% faster than the fastest IDE drives.. The errors keep coming. Ugh.
10Mbit for $35? That's insane. Where do you live?
VM in 2.4.10 is absolutely broken. The LKML is rife with reports of hangs, strange behavior, evil performance, etc, under heavy loads..
Pretty much fixed in 2.4.10-ac10-eatcache. Almost as fixed in 2.4.11, but more work definitely needs to be done before a company like RedHat will be willing to ship one of these kernels with the new VM code.
I haven't seen an IE crash in almost six months, and I use it heavily every day. What are you doing wrong?
Don't get me wrong.. I think Mozilla is great, but our Intranet apps at work require IE, so I'm stuck with it.
Microsoft has stated that they will not reveal the file format of the .msstyle file that stores Themes in Windows XP. That means that there won't be any user-land XP themes, unless someone reverse engineers the process.
.msstyle file by disabling File Protection and replacing the cached and "actual" copy of the file simultaneously. Unfortunately, there's an even deeper level of protection that greys out the option box that lets you select themes when Windows detects a modification that that file. Grr.
You can ALMOST modify the
IIS is not enabled in a default install of Windows 2000 Pro, so you must have installed it before patching. Don't do that again. Heh.
PGP plugin for ICQ.
'nuff said.
Those killed in the WTC were victims of TERRORISM, not the WAR on terrorism.
Actually, I noticed that they changed the page several days ago. It still made me laugh, though.
Please post your private key and passphrase so we can read your message.
Thanks for your cooperation.
I like my encryption hard and my porn soft.
Video/audio encoding. SMP 2.2GHz would be roughly twice as fast as uniprocessor 2.2GHz in that sort of application.
If the government can break our crypto, then why do they need backdoors?
PGP with a 2048 bit key length, and a 20+ character passphrase. The computing power required to attack that is totally astronomical. Unless you believe that all the major computer vendors are keeping the public 10 years behind the curve as part of a great conspiracy, and selling the "real" stuff to the NSA, it just isn't going to happen.
If you drop a packet, the initiator should retransmit it. You lost a packet, but all the data got to the target in the end. See?
Packet loss is not the same as data loss.
The point they were trying to make with that comment is this:
Even if you removed all other bottlenecks, a 1GHz version of a 500MHz CPU (with no other architectural improvements) will not perform twice the work of the 500MHz version due to clock overhead.
SAIC's board of directors frequently includes Ex-CIA directors, and the like.
Examples: John Deutch, Robert Gates
How big do you think Google's databases are?
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I did my test "blind" (made several dozen entries in a Winamp playlist of each file, and then hit "randomize" and closed the playlist window.)
However, now that I've had a few more days to play with it, there are some things that RC2 doesn't do very well. The Vorbis mailing list says that it's untuned, and that RC3 will improve the quality.
I just did this test.. Ogg vs. LAME at 128, 160, 192, and 256kbps. Ogg sounds better to me at every bitrate. I won't know for sure until I get home to better equipment.. Are you sure you're using RC2?
I know. I read the story too.
The new name is much better anyway.
See? A little lawsuit never hurt anyone.
Touche'!
=)
Notice that he didn't call it a haiku?