Great News !!! So Red Hat 8.0 soon...
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GCC 3.2 Released
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Excellent news !! To the whole team of adicts and great programmers having contributed to GCC 3.2, a million thanks !!!.
So I guess Red Hat 8.0 is now just around the corner.
I'm using my Personal JukeBox 100 6GB since December 2000. It must have been running about 4 hours a day since that time. In all that time, I maybe had to reset the device 8/9 times, and only once upgraded the firmware. It's a sturdy build, and it's been my best portable audio device ever...
I purchased mine from K55 in Zurich, Switzerland. They only sell mp3 players, and they have a long list of different devices. It's in german, and the prices are in Swiss Francs, but it's still an interesting browse...
If someone has some links or HD references for an upgrade, please feel free to answer to this reply.
I don't know about EQ, but with Asheron's Call it's not pure profit, as there is staff involved in creating the monthly online content. This is also what makes the game so much more fun and addictive, it's not just getting eXperience Points and 'OnlineCurrency' (pyreals), but new quests...
And if a company wants additional over the monthly income, you can always make an Expansion Pack for $20 that is mandatory for new quests, housing and lands to explorer...;-)
50 Million potential users for SWG ? That's great, but I don't believe the Online worlds will scale well for this kind of load. What will happen is that the providers will have to make loads of different server-worlds available.
In Asheron's Call (which I've played since 1998) there are 7+1 worlds. On a great day, I don't think you'll see more than 2500-3000 players per server-world.
As for revenue, if you take the 5Million and divide it by $10 per month per user, your 50 million Star Warriors suddenly become half a million players. And say you can host 10000 players per server-world, this will still require 100 servers excluding the database servers, authentication servers and the billing servers. Your worse nigthmare with these environments is having to make database roll-backs if a large bug is discovered ingame and players took advantage of it.
What about CPU upgrades on the Inspiron 8x00 ?
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Laptop Video Upgrade
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Anyone upgraded the CPU's on the Inspiron 8x00 series ?
Hmmm... I've seen bigger and better quality LCD panels from Saumsung, and probably cheaper too. Check out the Samsung SM181T, SM191T and SM210T. These screens have some great features such as 250cd/m2, Contrast 500:1, View-angle 170/170 (H/V), Response Time 25ms, Analog & DVI-D Digital connectors etc... Make sure your new LCD screen has a good Contrast setting and has a good response time (if you intend to play games on it.)
"...all for about $5 a month."
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The Last Place
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In the report it says : "Rinzy has hooked up this secluded society to 45 cable television channels, featuring everything from the BBC to Baywatch, all for about $5 a month: the price of a bag of red chillies."
Is that the cost of a bag of red chillies in the United States ? How much buying power is $5 in Bhutan ? So these people get to watch adverts for cars/food/luxuries that they will not be able to purchase.
So Linux is a 'free' Operating system. It would have been much harder for IDC, to evaluate how much revenue was generate in services to the IT industry and how much IT cost where saved because of Linux. I personnaly generate for about $40'000 revenue in 2001 in services linked to Linux (installation, troubleshooting, hardening). How much money I saved my clients is even harder to estimate. Since the installation of those systems last year, I've only had a couple of calls from those clients for support/bug_fixes, and the uptime has been amazing. How do you estimate that cost ?
If the Beagle contains the MassSpec, it's just normal you want to insure that the lander will be constructed in a clean-room conditions. Then again, I tought that all satelites and landers where created in clean-room conditions...
Avocent DS1800, give it a trial run first.
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Cheap KVM Over IP?
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Before you buy an Avocent, request a trial box from a supplier to test it. I had the opportunity to test one early last year for a very large implementation, and found that the Avocent DS1800 was not stable enough to guarante remote management of a critical production environment. I experienced some lockups in the device, resulting in a trip down the computer room. When you need to keep your KVM's firmware up to date as well as your OS, that is not a good sign.
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Logitech LVC-HD120 "TV Tank" Category: AV Price: Open (but 80,600 yen from Logitech Direct at
www2.ld.logitec.co.jp/)
The Gist: It can't blow up stuff and would probably get bogged down in a muddy field pretty darn quickly, but Logitech's new LVC-HD120 "Tank"
can do something your average M1A1/2 Abrams or Challenger MBT can't, and that's record television programs. Infinitely more practical, but
maybe with less immediate impact, the TV Tank houses a 120GB hard disk, turning it into a state-of-the-art video recorder. Logitech claims that the Tank can record a whole week's worth of TV
and helpfully provides an example, saying you could record 17 hours (from 7am to 12pm) of television every day over 7 days and it'd all fit on the hard disk. That's 119 hours in total, fact fans, although unless you have some serious satellite package being beamed into your apartment, you'd be hard pushed to find that much good stuff to record
each day, I reckon. Recording at the same resolution as DVD (720x480 dot, it says here) in MPEG-2 format, the TV Tank is compact at 105 x
145 x 220mm and finished in silver so that it won't look out of place alongside the rest of your AV gadgetry in the living room. There's a
USB 1.1 port for connecting up to Windows-compatible PCs and transferring video and what's recorded is represented as thumbnail
images onscreen for simple navigation.
First off, I haven't used Linux for this small project. I might give it a try in the future.
I got a 2nd hand Compaq Deskpro ENS (small form factor) with a 800Mhz cpu, added 384mb (cheap these days) and a whooping Western Digital 120Gb (8Mb cache) harddrive. The multimedia is taken care by the following three cards:
The Hauppauge is used only as the capture card (hardware mpeg encoding) and it comes with a TV Scheduler software. I need the TV Scheduler as there are no Electronic Program Guides (EPG) for my area. The WinTV-PVR-pci card, can do full D1 which has an image size of 704x480 for NTSC video sources or 704x576 for PAL video sources. For the best video image quality, the encoding can use MPEG2 12MB/sec. I also supports the selection of audio languages for special TV programs. (2x Mono tracks, one in French, the second one in English).
The Xcard can play back MPG and DiVX files using hardware decode. It will only play DiVX files from 4.02 upwards, and it can't handle the DiVX 5.x ¼ pixel motion compensation (QPEL) or global motion compensation (GMC). The Xcard playback supports a resolution of 720x576 at 30fps, with a maximum bit rate of 15Mbps.
Both these cards don't really require powerfull cpu's, so I could have gotten a simple 400Mhz processor, but I think I'll do some DiVX compression of some recordings in the future. I travel quite a lot for work, so I really need the ability to control the TV Scheduler remotely. For this reason, I decided to use the Windows 2000 Server operating system, and use the Terminal Service to publish the TV Scheduler application through a secure channel (SSL 128bit). Now I get to start my PVR from a Internet cafe across the world.
Clockwork Orange & Brunel University
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Gaming Zone?
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If you even wondered... those scenes for a Clockwork Orange have been filmed in the lecture theatre of Brunel University, Uxbridge, just north of Heathrow. I have some great memories from studying Information Technology at Brunel during the day and project films twice a week in those same lecture theatre where they brainwashed the character from the film.
Seen the new HP DeskJet 5550 ($150 list price) series of printers, they are so cheap... yet their Color Cartridges are 3/4 of the size of previous HP Cartridges, and not compatible with previous models. From HP's DeskJet 5550 page's add an optional automatic two-sided printing accessory and save up to 50 percent on paper costs and office file space, but you don't save your cartridge. Each additional Black/White cartridge is $20 and the Tri-Colors ones are $35.
HP makes it's money of cartridges rather than of their printers...
While I'm a long time DVD adept and love to purchase the films with the extra features, I rarely get to see them, or see the film again with the commentary audio track. I just don't have the time... do you ? FoTR is probably going to be the exception.
Wireless Fidelity. WECA's mission is to certify interoperability of Wi-Fi
(IEEE 802.11) products and to promote Wi-Fi as the global wireless LAN standard across all market segments.
You can expect a major release of RedHat when they move to gcc 3.x, but why would you need/want to delay a full distribution just for a Browser (Mozilla V1) or a Graphical Interface (KDE 3.x). If you followed this strategy, you would never have a release, waiting for gnome 1.5, then it's going to be Mozilla 1.0.1 with the patches, KDE 3.0.1 etc... Why not use the good (or easy to use) Red Hat update feature ?
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Excellent news !! To the whole team of adicts and great programmers having contributed to GCC 3.2, a million thanks !!!.
So I guess Red Hat 8.0 is now just around the corner.
- TOS-MK2018GAP GAP - 20 GB 4200 rpm / 13 ms / 1 MB / 2½" 9.5mm / ATA-66 oem
- TOS-MK3017GAP GAP - 30 GB 4200 rpm / 13 ms / 2 MB / 2½" 9.5mm / ATA-100 oem
- TOS-MK4018-GAP GAP - 40 GB 4200 rpm / 13 ms / 2 MB / 2½" 9.5mm / ATA-100 oem
- TOS-MK6021-GAS GAP - 60 GB 4200 rpm / 13 ms / 2 MB / 2½" 9.5mm / ATA-100 oem (Week 33)
Are those the ones you are speaking off ?I'm using my Personal JukeBox 100 6GB since December 2000. It must have been running about 4 hours a day since that time. In all that time, I maybe had to reset the device 8/9 times, and only once upgraded the firmware. It's a sturdy build, and it's been my best portable audio device ever...
I purchased mine from K55 in Zurich, Switzerland. They only sell mp3 players, and they have a long list of different devices. It's in german, and the prices are in Swiss Francs, but it's still an interesting browse...
If someone has some links or HD references for an upgrade, please feel free to answer to this reply.
I don't know about EQ, but with Asheron's Call it's not pure profit, as there is staff involved in creating the monthly online content. This is also what makes the game so much more fun and addictive, it's not just getting eXperience Points and 'OnlineCurrency' (pyreals), but new quests...
And if a company wants additional over the monthly income, you can always make an Expansion Pack for $20 that is mandatory for new quests, housing and lands to explorer... ;-)
50 Million potential users for SWG ? That's great, but I don't believe the Online worlds will scale well for this kind of load. What will happen is that the providers will have to make loads of different server-worlds available.
In Asheron's Call (which I've played since 1998) there are 7+1 worlds. On a great day, I don't think you'll see more than 2500-3000 players per server-world.
As for revenue, if you take the 5Million and divide it by $10 per month per user, your 50 million Star Warriors suddenly become half a million players. And say you can host 10000 players per server-world, this will still require 100 servers excluding the database servers, authentication servers and the billing servers. Your worse nigthmare with these environments is having to make database roll-backs if a large bug is discovered ingame and players took advantage of it.
Anyone upgraded the CPU's on the Inspiron 8x00 series ?
I've played AC for months on my Inspiron 8000 (GeForce2Go 32mb), I guess I could upgrade to a GeForce4Go 64mb for AC2.
Only problem was that I had to scale the graphics down to 1024x768, as it was too slow otherwise...
..includes a proprietary database. To me it looks a lot like the Progress database.
Hmmm... I've seen bigger and better quality LCD panels from Saumsung, and probably cheaper too. Check out the Samsung SM181T, SM191T and SM210T. These screens have some great features such as 250cd/m2, Contrast 500:1, View-angle 170/170 (H/V), Response Time 25ms, Analog & DVI-D Digital connectors etc... Make sure your new LCD screen has a good Contrast setting and has a good response time (if you intend to play games on it.)
In the report it says : "Rinzy has hooked up this secluded society to 45 cable television channels, featuring everything from the BBC to Baywatch, all for about $5 a month: the price of a bag of red chillies."
Is that the cost of a bag of red chillies in the United States ? How much buying power is $5 in Bhutan ? So these people get to watch adverts for cars/food/luxuries that they will not be able to purchase.
So Linux is a 'free' Operating system. It would have been much harder for IDC, to evaluate how much revenue was generate in services to the IT industry and how much IT cost where saved because of Linux.
I personnaly generate for about $40'000 revenue in 2001 in services linked to Linux (installation, troubleshooting, hardening). How much money I saved my clients is even harder to estimate.
Since the installation of those systems last year, I've only had a couple of calls from those clients for support/bug_fixes, and the uptime has been amazing. How do you estimate that cost ?
If the Beagle contains the MassSpec, it's just normal you want to insure that the lander will be constructed in a clean-room conditions.
Then again, I tought that all satelites and landers where created in clean-room conditions...
Before you buy an Avocent, request a trial box from a supplier to test it. I had the opportunity to test one early last year for a very large implementation, and found that the Avocent DS1800 was not stable enough to guarante remote management of a critical production environment. I experienced some lockups in the device, resulting in a trip down the computer room. When you need to keep your KVM's firmware up to date as well as your OS, that is not a good sign.
Name: Logitech LVC-HD120 "TV Tank"
Category: AV
Price: Open (but 80,600 yen from Logitech Direct at www2.ld.logitec.co.jp/)
The Gist: It can't blow up stuff and would probably get bogged down in a muddy field pretty darn quickly, but Logitech's new LVC-HD120 "Tank" can do something your average M1A1/2 Abrams or Challenger MBT can't, and that's record television programs. Infinitely more practical, but maybe with less immediate impact, the TV Tank houses a 120GB hard disk, turning it into a state-of-the-art video recorder. Logitech claims that the Tank can record a whole week's worth of TV and helpfully provides an example, saying you could record 17 hours (from 7am to 12pm) of television every day over 7 days and it'd all fit on the hard disk. That's 119 hours in total, fact fans, although unless you have some serious satellite package being beamed into your apartment, you'd be hard pushed to find that much good stuff to record each day, I reckon. Recording at the same resolution as DVD (720x480 dot, it says here) in MPEG-2 format, the TV Tank is compact at 105 x 145 x 220mm and finished in silver so that it won't look out of place alongside the rest of your AV gadgetry in the living room. There's a USB 1.1 port for connecting up to Windows-compatible PCs and transferring video and what's recorded is represented as thumbnail images onscreen for simple navigation.
I got a 2nd hand Compaq Deskpro ENS (small form factor) with a 800Mhz cpu, added 384mb (cheap these days) and a whooping Western Digital 120Gb (8Mb cache) harddrive. The multimedia is taken care by the following three cards:
Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 128
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-pci, for the video capture.
Realmagic Xcard that does MPG and DiVX playback.
- The Xcard can play back MPG and DiVX files using hardware decode. It will only play DiVX files from 4.02 upwards, and it can't handle the DiVX 5.x ¼ pixel motion compensation (QPEL) or global motion compensation (GMC). The Xcard playback supports a resolution of 720x576 at 30fps, with a maximum bit rate of 15Mbps.
Both these cards don't really require powerfull cpu's, so I could have gotten a simple 400Mhz processor, but I think I'll do some DiVX compression of some recordings in the future. I travel quite a lot for work, so I really need the ability to control the TV Scheduler remotely. For this reason, I decided to use the Windows 2000 Server operating system, and use the Terminal Service to publish the TV Scheduler application through a secure channel (SSL 128bit). Now I get to start my PVR from a Internet cafe across the world.If you even wondered... those scenes for a Clockwork Orange have been filmed in the lecture theatre of Brunel University, Uxbridge, just north of Heathrow.
I have some great memories from studying Information Technology at Brunel during the day and project films twice a week in those same lecture theatre where they brainwashed the character from the film.
I learned about it 4 hours AFTER 7PM. And why is there a meeting (Meetup) on saturday 7am ? I'm sure, I'm not going.
Video Orbits of the Projective Group.
Seen the new HP DeskJet 5550 ($150 list price) series of printers, they are so cheap... yet their Color Cartridges are 3/4 of the size of previous HP Cartridges, and not compatible with previous models.
From HP's DeskJet 5550 page's add an optional automatic two-sided printing accessory and save up to 50 percent on paper costs and office file space, but you don't save your cartridge. Each additional Black/White cartridge is $20 and the Tri-Colors ones are $35.
HP makes it's money of cartridges rather than of their printers...
While I'm a long time DVD adept and love to purchase the films with the extra features, I rarely get to see them, or see the film again with the commentary audio track. I just don't have the time... do you ? FoTR is probably going to be the exception.
Wireless Fidelity. WECA's mission is to certify interoperability of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) products and to promote Wi-Fi as the global wireless LAN standard across all market segments.
You can expect a major release of RedHat when they move to gcc 3.x, but why would you need/want to delay a full distribution just for a Browser (Mozilla V1) or a Graphical Interface (KDE 3.x). If you followed this strategy, you would never have a release, waiting for gnome 1.5, then it's going to be Mozilla 1.0.1 with the patches, KDE 3.0.1 etc... Why not use the good (or easy to use) Red Hat update feature ?
There was another destructive virus out in europe around the same time as Klez, yet it never got mentioned on McAfee/Symantec sites.
Followup, the routers in Portugal and Poland are back up, only one down is the EBone one in Frankfurt.