One of the best ways to cut down power and cpu heat at the same time is something like Vcool. It works for windows and they have a linux kernel patch to do the same thing. The only problem I have is this wintv will lock the chipset unless it is set to dib draw mode.
Also, for God's sake do not run distributed.net, seti@home, etc.. if you are trying to save power... My 500mhz k6-2 system draws twice the power with distributed.net on than while it is sitting idle.
I don't know about your personal savings but I plan to save more than 3 years for my retirement. Even the 5 year average on S&P 500 is still positive... Investing in a balanced fund (combo of stocks and bonds) would have done even better and run circles around social security.
These problems we see with enron, worldcom, etc.. are the natural shakeout of this new economy BS.. Like when CmdrTaco made $7 million from selling slashdot and god knows how much more from the lnux merger. I'm guessing the market will slide even more after all these frauds are exposed but the economy is still growing and you would have to be a fool not to include some stocks in your long term savings plan.
The cheapest 4.7G dvd drive from pricewatch is $36 which is $7.66/gig. A 60 gig hard drive is only $69 which works out to be $1.15/gig. There just isn't any reason to use DVD for online storage when hard drive space is so cheap. The software raid driver in linux makes these large arrays easy with a trivial amount of hardware behind it.
A liability has nothing to do with warranties or with cost.. A good example is the tragic death of the little kid who drown at a birthday party. The party was free and was even "open" because parents could attend too but there is no question that the homeowner (and his insurance company) will be held liable for the death. OTOH a warranty is basically a guarantee or contract.. Anyone can offer something without warranty unless it is forbidden by law (new car lemon laws..).
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, this claims their cards support Dimension Technologies 3d lcd displays. Their monitors use a single lcd but have special optics that makes alternating columns of pixels visable to each eye.
I glanced at this the other day and noticed they are allowing Earthlink and AOL in addition to their Road Runner. RR has been really good in this area but it might be interesting to test out earthlink because it is $4/mo cheaper. I just hope I don't get forced into AOL cable though..
To me, this looks like AMD doesn't give a rats ass about its customers customers who use linux.
There are several workarounds for buggy cpus and chipsets in the kernel now which could only have come from extensive debugging. The same holds true for identifying the bug under win2k: AMD and/or Microsoft noticed a problem and went about trying to identify and fix it. The fact that no effort (not even to look at the amd errata sheets) was spent on the Linux team even trying to identify the crashes makes them out to be the ones who don't give a rats ass.
The patch is a one line registry change to tell win2k not to use PSE. Not only was this problem made public over a year ago but the patch is open source. The linux developers could have easily incorporated it into the kernel but I think they just don't take linux on the desktop too seriously.
Add 'mem=nopentium' to your lilo/grub/whatever bootup or compile the kernel for i386 to avoid extended cpu operations. The fault is something in the page size extension and agp.. which is strange because I though agp would be more of a chipset issue than processor.
First of all, there is no code difference between "server" and "desktop" distributions of Linux. That's right, none. A desktop system can be tuned for server operation by enabling SMP and increasing things like file descriptors as necessary. Perhaps you are confusing this with Microsoft's Windows 2000, which places restrictions on the desktop versions such as limiting incoming connections and removing soft raid.
Your other two points prove you to be an apologist for atrocious development practices. Linux 2.4 is (and was always) advertised as a stable kernel series resulting from development in the 2.3 series. The linux developers seriously need to look at the FreeBSD model of development -> stable -> release rather than this orgy of code rewrites and new features. You want to add new features? Fine, put them in 2.5. Just don't fuck with 2.4 unless it is a bug or security fix.
Couldn't believe it myself. Guess they are just trying to stick it to linux with that "[Freebsd] has historically encouraged unencumbered experimentation" comment.
I'd like to see the specific vulnerability used by these email worms. Yes I realize there was an auto execute bug but that has been patched. I'll admit I do use Windows for my desktop and Freebsd for servers (lost patience with stable linux kernels) but I am in now way blinded to the fact the XP vulnerability announced today is indeed a serious hole and should be fixed.
I understand that the narrowcasting strategy has changed significantly here to attract Microsoft haters but in all honesty, what could Microsoft do to stop the viruses/worms? Short of completely disabling internet connectivity there just isn't anything to stop them completely on any OS.
that they block sites that run mailing lists that simply don't require a conformation for a mailing list subscription. These people are not spammers going through newsgroups and websites farming e-mails. They are running sites with just a simple "add my e-mail to your mailing list" and even promptly remove people that ask to be removed. The RBL team calls this "spam" because the address isn't explicitly confirmed.
I used to run RBL on a number of my mail servers until I realized who they were blocking.
A quick quote:" Montreal police hauled the father in last week after investigators, who were monitoring his 15-year-old son via tapped telephones, overheard the father and another man make plans for the assault, police officials said"
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One of the best ways to cut down power and cpu heat at the same time is something like Vcool. It works for windows and they have a linux kernel patch to do the same thing. The only problem I have is this wintv will lock the chipset unless it is set to dib draw mode.
Also, for God's sake do not run distributed.net, seti@home, etc.. if you are trying to save power... My 500mhz k6-2 system draws twice the power with distributed.net on than while it is sitting idle.
These problems we see with enron, worldcom, etc.. are the natural shakeout of this new economy BS.. Like when CmdrTaco made $7 million from selling slashdot and god knows how much more from the lnux merger. I'm guessing the market will slide even more after all these frauds are exposed but the economy is still growing and you would have to be a fool not to include some stocks in your long term savings plan.
The cheapest 4.7G dvd drive from pricewatch is $36 which is $7.66/gig. A 60 gig hard drive is only $69 which works out to be $1.15/gig. There just isn't any reason to use DVD for online storage when hard drive space is so cheap. The software raid driver in linux makes these large arrays easy with a trivial amount of hardware behind it.
A liability has nothing to do with warranties or with cost.. A good example is the tragic death of the little kid who drown at a birthday party. The party was free and was even "open" because parents could attend too but there is no question that the homeowner (and his insurance company) will be held liable for the death. OTOH a warranty is basically a guarantee or contract.. Anyone can offer something without warranty unless it is forbidden by law (new car lemon laws..).
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, this claims their cards support Dimension Technologies 3d lcd displays. Their monitors use a single lcd but have special optics that makes alternating columns of pixels visable to each eye.
I glanced at this the other day and noticed they are allowing Earthlink and AOL in addition to their Road Runner. RR has been really good in this area but it might be interesting to test out earthlink because it is $4/mo cheaper. I just hope I don't get forced into AOL cable though..
There are several workarounds for buggy cpus and chipsets in the kernel now which could only have come from extensive debugging. The same holds true for identifying the bug under win2k: AMD and/or Microsoft noticed a problem and went about trying to identify and fix it. The fact that no effort (not even to look at the amd errata sheets) was spent on the Linux team even trying to identify the crashes makes them out to be the ones who don't give a rats ass.
It is easily fixed through software and there doesn't seem to be any noticeable performance hit when turning off PSE.
The patch is a one line registry change to tell win2k not to use PSE. Not only was this problem made public over a year ago but the patch is open source. The linux developers could have easily incorporated it into the kernel but I think they just don't take linux on the desktop too seriously.
Add 'mem=nopentium' to your lilo/grub/whatever bootup or compile the kernel for i386 to avoid extended cpu operations. The fault is something in the page size extension and agp.. which is strange because I though agp would be more of a chipset issue than processor.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q 270/7/15.ASP
Since September of 2000..
First of all, there is no code difference between "server" and "desktop" distributions of Linux. That's right, none. A desktop system can be tuned for server operation by enabling SMP and increasing things like file descriptors as necessary. Perhaps you are confusing this with Microsoft's Windows 2000, which places restrictions on the desktop versions such as limiting incoming connections and removing soft raid.
Your other two points prove you to be an apologist for atrocious development practices. Linux 2.4 is (and was always) advertised as a stable kernel series resulting from development in the 2.3 series. The linux developers seriously need to look at the FreeBSD model of development -> stable -> release rather than this orgy of code rewrites and new features. You want to add new features? Fine, put them in 2.5. Just don't fuck with 2.4 unless it is a bug or security fix.
http://www.microsoft.com/partner/products/microsof tnet/SharedSourceCsharpCLIFAQ.asp
Couldn't believe it myself. Guess they are just trying to stick it to linux with that "[Freebsd] has historically encouraged unencumbered experimentation" comment.
Hacking? Like sending a .bat file with
/u
format c:
I'd like to see the specific vulnerability used by these email worms. Yes I realize there was an auto execute bug but that has been patched. I'll admit I do use Windows for my desktop and Freebsd for servers (lost patience with stable linux kernels) but I am in now way blinded to the fact the XP vulnerability announced today is indeed a serious hole and should be fixed.
I understand that the narrowcasting strategy has changed significantly here to attract Microsoft haters but in all honesty, what could Microsoft do to stop the viruses/worms? Short of completely disabling internet connectivity there just isn't anything to stop them completely on any OS.
http://www.geocities.com/wtnbkysh/
Hopefully... Didn't try it yet but it looks like it uses the linux binary module with some FreeBSD patch code.
that they block sites that run mailing lists that simply don't require a conformation for a mailing list subscription. These people are not spammers going through newsgroups and websites farming e-mails. They are running sites with just a simple "add my e-mail to your mailing list" and even promptly remove people that ask to be removed. The RBL team calls this "spam" because the address isn't explicitly confirmed.
I used to run RBL on a number of my mail servers until I realized who they were blocking.
Go to http://www.pricewatch.com. They have very low prices but the dealers always seem to screw you on shipping. Still cheaper than retail.
A quick quote:" Montreal police hauled the father in last week after investigators, who were monitoring his 15-year-old son via tapped telephones, overheard the father and another man make plans for the assault, police officials said"