how well are the drivers for the gefore card working? are they playing nice with that k8t400? are the nvidia drivers 64bit or are they being run in "32-bit" mode? how well is OpenGL playing with the 64-bit OS, 64-bit Chip combo and again, how well are the nvidia drivers playing? is the OS running the AGP in AGP mode or is it PCI mode?
i bet i could easily get a P4 2.7 with this graphics card to product similar numbers, or even worse in linux with some effort to use least optimized drivers and setting the graphics card to PCI.
in fact, my P4 2.4x133@2.7x150 with a GF Ti 4600 doesn't post much better numbers, 55fps by stat fps. and thats on a 32bit "system" with fairly mature drivers and everything work "correctly/fullspeed"
im not an AMD zealot, but i wont make me decision based on a game that is notoriously bad at opengl and on a system that is running all beta software/drivers.
you remind me of a good point, quicktime is a streamable media, good for web content delivery. XVid does not currently stream, so the whole file must be downloaded.
this makes Opera look bad, definitely. is this not an anticompetative practice?
microsoft has not yet realized that this is not how they will survive in the future. people are too well informed and will continue to be more informed about these kinda of things and public opinion of microsoft will continue to get lower and lower.
eventually microsoft way kill itself with these practices, even if the government can't do it, and it's competitors can't do it.
is quicktime the prefered format for video? i prefer Xvid(open source, high quality, high compression).
its very nice to have so many options available, especially on linux now. i have been using crossover plugin to play quicktime movies on my linux box but now ill be able to play them native.
your credit is a reflection of your ability to pay bills, and be responsible for things you buy on credit.
your job only requires that you can do what you were hired for. if you have missed a car payment or even lost a car to reposession, does that mean that you are incapable of doing your job? no. in fact it means absolutedly nothing to your ability to do your job. you could fail to pay EVERY BILL that you have for 6 months, and still not have it effect your job in any way(unless you go to jail:) )
employers requireing this information is a clear violation of privacy. here is a comparable example.
a man applies for a job, the employer ask for a medical history so that they can determin if the man is going to miss many days for medical conditions. on this mans medical history, he has had broken leg due to a car accident and food poisoning in the last year. the company might assume that the man is sickly and a high risk for sick days and decide not to hire him. a car accident and food poisoning are obviosly just accidents and not necessarily the fault of the man, but he might not get a job because of this.
in the example, the man's privacy is violated and in violating that privacy, he was not given a job for stupid reasons and innacurate presumptions(that he was a risk for calling in sick days or missing work)
so past bad credit is similar in that what has been done in the past to personal credit is not a compelling reason to deny a person a job. they have nothing to do with each other.
in addition to that, a credit inquiry lowers your credit score by 2-5 points, which could make you not qualify for a car or home loan, or platinum card where just a vew points can mean a lot on interest rate or borrowable amount or even approval or dissaproval.
Linux Firewire TCP/IP is possible and their is a kernel patch for 2.4.18 and its built into 2.5.x and will be a feature of 2.6 -BUT- this is TCP/IP ONLY!, that means that windows file sharing will not see across this medium, you will have to use IP (//192.x.x.youipwhatever/share) which may not be a problem for you but it's something to consider.
This does work well, i have a firewire400 link between a windowsXP machine and gentoo linux and it works very well. I use NFS for file sharing as i feel Windows is the "guest" on my network and should pay homage to the exsisting linux machines:)
i do get very close to optimal speed accross this link for file sharing. i have susstained ~45Megabytes/second transfering large video files. on these same machines with 100 speed networking i get about 9.5Megabytes/second and with gigabit i can get about 35Megabytes/second, but only on large files.
The firewire link is by far the fastest but i think the gigabit is being help back by immature drivers on the linux side.
their are thousands of songs that no longer have copyright, just amass a collection of the oldiest, ALL of the oldies, get everything before ~1983(i think, isn't music copyrighted for 20 years?) and your set.
i have been waiting for hammer for what seems to be an eternity. its getting old, hype it up, push it back, repeat.
how fast is this thing going to be? 3200+, wow, in september huh, thats great, i bet it stack up to a 3.6+Ghz P4 nicely...........
moores law saw computer processing speed/power doubles every 18 months. so i have to ask myself: self, what speed were the chips that came out in april of 2002? and i say: well self, i think they are 1800+ and 2Ghz (amd/intel)right? something like that.
so.. in september wouldnt you need a 3600+/4Ghz ? and if so, isnt intel going to be a bit closer to that than amd?
i am a current/former/something amd fanatic, i use their chips and i suggest their chips to my customers, but this may come to an end soon as the price/performance ratio is evenning out, and AMD can't seem to put out a chip this decade.
subscribers send and recieve at speeds of 2Mbit to 155Mbit / second.
bands between 10-66Ghz with mesh topology capabilities, also recently amended for a 2-11Ghz band range as well.
support for QoS in devices, and also support for traffic shaping to improve web browsing experience while higher band protocals are being used.
--
basically, 802.16a is capable of 155Mbit ul/dl speeds in a zone, and use of directional antenea and focused areas allow degree zones to be set up allowing 155MBit/sec in as little as 2degree arc from antenea or better with better equipment. you could conceivably cover a circular area with ~27900MBit/sec agregate bandwidth.
--
please note that this info is from grouper.ieee.org and put into my own unorganized words, please read the docs for more precise info.
i think their should absolutely be a minimum set of credintials required. Many people are decieved by un-certified and un-qualified people. I run a tech service company that services small businesses and schools across the state, I also do some work on the west coast for a number of chrystler dealerships.
I deal with the incompetance of other "techs" almost daily. My customers have made descisions based on financial situations and they know that by spending less they get less, but still expect acceptable service which they do not receive by a lot of bull-**** computer companies.
just imagine the cost of replacing critical student records when an incompetant "tech" failed to follow proper procedures for backing up data on a server before a hardware upgrade. Or losing 100+ customer files at a car lot which could potentially cost millions.
plumbers, carpenters, electricians, hair stylist,etc,etc, must have certifications, logically so should computer techs.
The ONLY reason to say that a user can't use NAT or any other ICS system is because they cant afford for a user to use up their full pipe. this means 1 of two things.
1)they are overselling their service. They sell X amount of bandwidth and only have X amount avail. 2)they are selling bandwidth off of a fractional or band on demand type service where they are charged per GB they use, the more the customer uses, the higher their cost.
if #1 is the case, get a new ISP if you can, this is crap, you should get what you pay for, and they say you get X bandwidth, you can use X bandwidth.
if #2, this is legitamate but also the cost and risk of doing business. You should be selling tiered access if you concerned with this, and you should be selling the bandwidth as if the customer were going to use evry drop and make sure you have some profit or at least break even, then you make more if they use less and you business is not at risk.
this is in the Citizen Band, theirfore not requiering FCC license. this band is also available for Commercial use as long as exsisting channel space is respected.
if you abide by the power output and antenea hight you can use these channels for anything you want, except any encription method used is succeptable to hacks as it is LEGAL to listen and use any information broadcast on CB channels because that information is public domain while it is in transmission. if you want to use this for a network, get some really good encription.
but if the interference were in the frequency of IR light, it would be illegal as the FCC rules out non-IR signalling in this band of light. Unless TV Remote Controlls are being used extensively. Anyway, light is a physical thing, it is not radiation and is not succeptible to "blockout" level noise from any legal EM radiation.
realistically - the general would of course broadcast his order and all soldiers would immediately fire upon hearing the order, so total time til fire would be 1+ execution time, assuming that all soldiers could hear the general and also implying that the speed of sound is not considered a factor.
in fact, their would be absolutely no way to get a simple state machine to function in this manner, or to fire simultaniously, as it would have either a 0(no function or no action) or a 1(action) state, theirfor the general would be 0 at start, then would change to 1 for fire. the first soldier would then fire as he went to state 1, as a simple state machine has no logic to decide to "fire" or to "pass it on". so by this reasoning, the total time to have all soldiers fire would be N+1, N for the number of soldiers as the second soldier would of coarse fire as a result of the first soldier fireing and etc, and the general would have a time of 1 to give the order.
N+1.
now if the soldiers had logic to decide to "ass it on" AND memory and logic to calculate time decimation and N, then 2N-2 would be the only functional solution. this also assumes that not only the general, but the last soldier have different capabilities from the rest of the soldiers, as the last solider must calculate the total and also know to reverse the movement of data back towards the general.
-speed. i want speed, i dont want to drag a window accross the screen and have to wait for it to arive, or have it jerk its way to where i want it. i want windows to pop up quickly. i want instant and accurate feedback on what my program is doing, is it busy? is it truely busy or is the UI lagging?
-simplicity i want more control with less controllers. i dont need 7 buttons on each window to decide if i want to close, min, max, put to the back, bring forward, menu, etc. it should be(in my opinion): left, minimize and maximize right, close double click titlebar, shade right click title bar, menu maybee-right click minimize, put to back and and click in the window brings that window forward. any border should resize.
-standards i want standard controls throughout apps. the file,edit,view, etc should all have the same layout on each application. preferences should always be in the same spot, everywhere, and help should always be on the right end. id also like the option of puting the menu bar on the top ala Mac, but i want that choice.
-usable space i want usable desktop space. see fluxbox/blackbox. i dont want my file explorer to force me into a left side info bar. this should be optional. as in not like windows, but like mozilla.
-solid code how about some solid bugfree code. something that wont crash because i did a rightclick/properties on a file while also doing a file copy.
-personal i do like "skinning" to a certain extent. i like to be able to set color schemes and taskbar locations. but the buttons should be pretty much standard. Maybee be able to increase or decrease their size.
-keyboard 100% keyboard capable UI. easy to tab through open windows, easy to launch programs. standard shourtcut keys(cut/paste/copy/search) i dont run with just a keyboard, but some do mostly and i like keyboard shortcuts. using the keyboard and mouse together makes the UI way faster to navigate, assuming that your not running windows and have to wait for every little thing to happed before you even get input back.
use gentoo linux. kernel 2.4.19 should run very nicely on a 486. gentoo can compile everything specifically for your machine very easily. install X with fluxbox/blackbox. Dillo makes a great alternative browser for basic needs. And you can get netscape 4.71+ easily. Mozilla may be a little too big for you hardware.
in IDE, the controller and computer do not tell the drive how to write data, they just tell it what to write. they say, burn this data to the MBR, then burn this here and that there. they do not "controll" the device but they "instruct" it. get it?
theirfor, and IDE device on a firewire chain functions properly and without any problems because, computer 1 says "write this here" and it happens, and computer 2 says, "write this here" and the drive says "their is data their, overwrite?" and then computer 2 says, "naw, just write it over their instead." get it?
nice and easy, IDE drives are "smart", they are self-controlling, they have a buffer to help keep things straight and arange data for reading or writeing and to improve performance. to show the difference of "smart" and "dumb" devices, a floppy is dumb, it only does EXACTLY what the floppy controller says to do, i can at most check to see if a disk is in or write protected.
use multiple firewire ports. Many newer chipsets are comming with 2 firewire built in, NOT on the PCI bus. you wouldn't have the PCI bus limit of ~132MByte/second. 2 build in, plus whatever you wanted to put on the PCI bus.
Also, 66mhz/64bit PCI has 528MByte/second available on the bus, so firewire on 64/66pci would give you ~11 ports at full speed.
Many machines that have 64/66pci have multiple pci buses so you have 528Mb/bus.
this is a completely circumstantial situation. in some places Windows will not be significantly worse OR better than linux and vice versa.
Generally, i believe Linux provides a low TCO over the coarse of 1 year if measured from a "start from scratch" perspective. On the other hand, to convert from Windows to GNU/Linux is more time consuming and will generally take >1 year to see TCO go down. When licensing comes up on 200+ machines, Windows will certainly feel a lot more expensive, while linux will be free.
Finding IT staff than can handle all of your Linux AND Windows machines is a tough. Most Linux guys have purposely turned their backs on windows and in turn, lost some of their talent at fixing all the windows workstations that WILL exsist on your network.
One thing that i don't think has been addressed is cost of backups. Linux requires no extra backup software like windows does, and windows typically requires a complete system backup for every machine unlike linux, which can be backed up effectively on a per partition basis, litterally just the/home directory in most instances. And a simple tar command can backup everymachine to a compressed file, and stored easily on the server/tape/cd-r. This is much more difficult and time consuming on windows. And linux can be used to backup windows machines via tar/rar/zip and Samba/CIFS where Windows does not have the ability to backup Linux machies without inverstment in other software and a lot of time.
why not just make standard interfaces for all or most all devices?
Like postscript for printers?
just build every soundcard with a standard interface, you could still have all the fancy features but the driver would just be the standard sound interface.
regulate the standards via some group so that new modules or interface types could be added and and updated. like USB3 comes out, the group introduces the OPEN standard and then microsoft, linux, freebsd, etc etc could take that OPEN interface and built a driver for their OS. every device sound card whether it were a realtek onboard chip or a sound blaster audigy would interface to the OS the same way. You would need drivers for extended features not supplied by the standard interface, but id rather see my sound card work properly in the first place than b*tch about my EAX not functioning.
I'd like compare it loosely to IDE drives. Their are many different IDE drives as well as different chips on the drives and different firmware etc etc, but you can still plug in ANY ATA100 drive into an ATA100 controller and it would flawlessly, no driver installs, a stable flexible interface(that is now outdated by SATA:) )
to be able to install palm6 on one of the current PDAs. I know my e740 will be a bit out of date as far as WinCE machines are concerned, no doubt WinCE4 will require a 1Ghz+ proc and 256MB memory.
PalmOS6 on the other hand, will still be able to run on more modest hardware. I would hope that a XScale400Mhz wouold be enough.
and to be ablke to install PalmOS6 onto my e740 and bring it up to current would be great.
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how well are the drivers for the gefore card working? are they playing nice with that k8t400? are the nvidia drivers 64bit or are they being run in "32-bit" mode? how well is OpenGL playing with the 64-bit OS, 64-bit Chip combo and again, how well are the nvidia drivers playing? is the OS running the AGP in AGP mode or is it PCI mode?
i bet i could easily get a P4 2.7 with this graphics card to product similar numbers, or even worse in linux with some effort to use least optimized drivers and setting the graphics card to PCI.
in fact, my P4 2.4x133@2.7x150 with a GF Ti 4600 doesn't post much better numbers, 55fps by stat fps. and thats on a 32bit "system" with fairly mature drivers and everything work "correctly/fullspeed"
im not an AMD zealot, but i wont make me decision based on a game that is notoriously bad at opengl and on a system that is running all beta software/drivers.
you remind me of a good point, quicktime is a streamable media, good for web content delivery. XVid does not currently stream, so the whole file must be downloaded.
this must be the material the is used to make the "go anywhere, black instant round door to somewher else" in looney toons.
not only did she put the wrong apple in the pie, she didn't make any crust!?!?
- anyway
i have always known that apple's hardware was of a high quality, but wow.
this makes Opera look bad, definitely. is this not an anticompetative practice?
microsoft has not yet realized that this is not how they will survive in the future. people are too well informed and will continue to be more informed about these kinda of things and public opinion of microsoft will continue to get lower and lower.
eventually microsoft way kill itself with these practices, even if the government can't do it, and it's competitors can't do it.
is quicktime the prefered format for video? i prefer Xvid(open source, high quality, high compression).
its very nice to have so many options available, especially on linux now. i have been using crossover plugin to play quicktime movies on my linux box but now ill be able to play them native.
good work.
i prefer this to a retina scan in "minority report" the bilboard senses your cell phone getting close and pulls up an appropriet add.
also, this may help eliminate men seeing feminine higene adds
your credit is a reflection of your ability to pay bills, and be responsible for things you buy on credit.
:) )
your job only requires that you can do what you were hired for. if you have missed a car payment or even lost a car to reposession, does that mean that you are incapable of doing your job? no. in fact it means absolutedly nothing to your ability to do your job. you could fail to pay EVERY BILL that you have for 6 months, and still not have it effect your job in any way(unless you go to jail
employers requireing this information is a clear violation of privacy. here is a comparable example.
a man applies for a job, the employer ask for a medical history so that they can determin if the man is going to miss many days for medical conditions. on this mans medical history, he has had broken leg due to a car accident and food poisoning in the last year. the company might assume that the man is sickly and a high risk for sick days and decide not to hire him. a car accident and food poisoning are obviosly just accidents and not necessarily the fault of the man, but he might not get a job because of this.
in the example, the man's privacy is violated and in violating that privacy, he was not given a job for stupid reasons and innacurate presumptions(that he was a risk for calling in sick days or missing work)
so past bad credit is similar in that what has been done in the past to personal credit is not a compelling reason to deny a person a job. they have nothing to do with each other.
in addition to that, a credit inquiry lowers your credit score by 2-5 points, which could make you not qualify for a car or home loan, or platinum card where just a vew points can mean a lot on interest rate or borrowable amount or even approval or dissaproval.
Linux Firewire TCP/IP is possible and their is a kernel patch for 2.4.18 and its built into 2.5.x and will be a feature of 2.6 -BUT-
:)
this is TCP/IP ONLY!, that means that windows file sharing will not see across this medium, you will have to use IP (//192.x.x.youipwhatever/share) which may not be a problem for you but it's something to consider.
This does work well, i have a firewire400 link between a windowsXP machine and gentoo linux and it works very well. I use NFS for file sharing as i feel Windows is the "guest" on my network and should pay homage to the exsisting linux machines
i do get very close to optimal speed accross this link for file sharing. i have susstained ~45Megabytes/second transfering large video files. on these same machines with 100 speed networking i get about 9.5Megabytes/second and with gigabit i can get about 35Megabytes/second, but only on large files.
The firewire link is by far the fastest but i think the gigabit is being help back by immature drivers on the linux side.
good luck.
their are thousands of songs that no longer have copyright, just amass a collection of the oldiest, ALL of the oldies, get everything before ~1983(i think, isn't music copyrighted for 20 years?) and your set.
i have been waiting for hammer for what seems to be an eternity. its getting old, hype it up, push it back, repeat.
how fast is this thing going to be? 3200+, wow, in september huh, thats great, i bet it stack up to a 3.6+Ghz P4 nicely...........
moores law saw computer processing speed/power doubles every 18 months. so i have to ask myself:
self, what speed were the chips that came out in april of 2002? and i say:
well self, i think they are 1800+ and 2Ghz (amd/intel)right? something like that.
so.. in september wouldnt you need a 3600+/4Ghz ? and if so, isnt intel going to be a bit closer to that than amd?
i am a current/former/something amd fanatic, i use their chips and i suggest their chips to my customers, but this may come to an end soon as the price/performance ratio is evenning out, and AMD can't seem to put out a chip this decade.
subscribers send and recieve at speeds of 2Mbit to 155Mbit / second.
bands between 10-66Ghz with mesh topology capabilities, also recently amended for a 2-11Ghz band range as well.
support for QoS in devices, and also support for traffic shaping to improve web browsing experience while higher band protocals are being used.
--
basically, 802.16a is capable of 155Mbit ul/dl speeds in a zone, and use of directional antenea and focused areas allow degree zones to be set up allowing 155MBit/sec in as little as 2degree arc from antenea or better with better equipment. you could conceivably cover a circular area with ~27900MBit/sec agregate bandwidth.
--
please note that this info is from grouper.ieee.org and put into my own unorganized words, please read the docs for more precise info.
i think their should absolutely be a minimum set of credintials required. Many people are decieved by un-certified and un-qualified people. I run a tech service company that services small businesses and schools across the state, I also do some work on the west coast for a number of chrystler dealerships.
I deal with the incompetance of other "techs" almost daily. My customers have made descisions based on financial situations and they know that by spending less they get less, but still expect acceptable service which they do not receive by a lot of bull-**** computer companies.
just imagine the cost of replacing critical student records when an incompetant "tech" failed to follow proper procedures for backing up data on a server before a hardware upgrade. Or losing 100+ customer files at a car lot which could potentially cost millions.
plumbers, carpenters, electricians, hair stylist,etc,etc, must have certifications, logically so should computer techs.
The ONLY reason to say that a user can't use NAT or any other ICS system is because they cant afford for a user to use up their full pipe. this means 1 of two things.
1)they are overselling their service. They sell X amount of bandwidth and only have X amount avail.
2)they are selling bandwidth off of a fractional or band on demand type service where they are charged per GB they use, the more the customer uses, the higher their cost.
if #1 is the case, get a new ISP if you can, this is crap, you should get what you pay for, and they say you get X bandwidth, you can use X bandwidth.
if #2, this is legitamate but also the cost and risk of doing business. You should be selling tiered access if you concerned with this, and you should be selling the bandwidth as if the customer were going to use evry drop and make sure you have some profit or at least break even, then you make more if they use less and you business is not at risk.
this is in the Citizen Band, theirfore not requiering FCC license. this band is also available for Commercial use as long as exsisting channel space is respected.
if you abide by the power output and antenea hight you can use these channels for anything you want, except any encription method used is succeptable to hacks as it is LEGAL to listen and use any information broadcast on CB channels because that information is public domain while it is in transmission. if you want to use this for a network, get some really good encription.
but if the interference were in the frequency of IR light, it would be illegal as the FCC rules out non-IR signalling in this band of light. Unless TV Remote Controlls are being used extensively. Anyway, light is a physical thing, it is not radiation and is not succeptible to "blockout" level noise from any legal EM radiation.
realistically - the general would of course broadcast his order and all soldiers would immediately fire upon hearing the order, so total time til fire would be 1+ execution time, assuming that all soldiers could hear the general and also implying that the speed of sound is not considered a factor.
in fact, their would be absolutely no way to get a simple state machine to function in this manner, or to fire simultaniously, as it would have either a 0(no function or no action) or a 1(action) state, theirfor the general would be 0 at start, then would change to 1 for fire. the first soldier would then fire as he went to state 1, as a simple state machine has no logic to decide to "fire" or to "pass it on". so by this reasoning, the total time to have all soldiers fire would be N+1, N for the number of soldiers as the second soldier would of coarse fire as a result of the first soldier fireing and etc, and the general would have a time of 1 to give the order.
N+1.
now if the soldiers had logic to decide to "ass it on" AND memory and logic to calculate time decimation and N, then 2N-2 would be the only functional solution. this also assumes that not only the general, but the last soldier have different capabilities from the rest of the soldiers, as the last solider must calculate the total and also know to reverse the movement of data back towards the general.
-speed.
i want speed, i dont want to drag a window accross the screen and have to wait for it to arive, or have it jerk its way to where i want it. i want windows to pop up quickly. i want instant and accurate feedback on what my program is doing, is it busy? is it truely busy or is the UI lagging?
-simplicity
i want more control with less controllers. i dont need 7 buttons on each window to decide if i want to close, min, max, put to the back, bring forward, menu, etc. it should be(in my opinion):
left, minimize and maximize
right, close
double click titlebar, shade
right click title bar, menu
maybee-right click minimize, put to back
and and click in the window brings that window forward.
any border should resize.
-standards
i want standard controls throughout apps. the file,edit,view, etc should all have the same layout on each application. preferences should always be in the same spot, everywhere, and help should always be on the right end.
id also like the option of puting the menu bar on the top ala Mac, but i want that choice.
-usable space
i want usable desktop space. see fluxbox/blackbox. i dont want my file explorer to force me into a left side info bar. this should be optional. as in not like windows, but like mozilla.
-solid code
how about some solid bugfree code. something that wont crash because i did a rightclick/properties on a file while also doing a file copy.
-personal
i do like "skinning" to a certain extent. i like to be able to set color schemes and taskbar locations. but the buttons should be pretty much standard. Maybee be able to increase or decrease their size.
-keyboard
100% keyboard capable UI.
easy to tab through open windows, easy to launch programs. standard shourtcut keys(cut/paste/copy/search) i dont run with just a keyboard, but some do mostly and i like keyboard shortcuts. using the keyboard and mouse together makes the UI way faster to navigate, assuming that your not running windows and have to wait for every little thing to happed before you even get input back.
thats about it.
kinda like BeOS..
use gentoo linux. kernel 2.4.19 should run very nicely on a 486. gentoo can compile everything specifically for your machine very easily. install X with fluxbox/blackbox. Dillo makes a great alternative browser for basic needs. And you can get netscape 4.71+ easily. Mozilla may be a little too big for you hardware.
in IDE, the controller and computer do not tell the drive how to write data, they just tell it what to write. they say, burn this data to the MBR, then burn this here and that there. they do not "controll" the device but they "instruct" it. get it?
theirfor, and IDE device on a firewire chain functions properly and without any problems because, computer 1 says "write this here" and it happens, and computer 2 says, "write this here" and the drive says "their is data their, overwrite?" and then computer 2 says, "naw, just write it over their instead." get it?
nice and easy, IDE drives are "smart", they are self-controlling, they have a buffer to help keep things straight and arange data for reading or writeing and to improve performance. to show the difference of "smart" and "dumb" devices, a floppy is dumb, it only does EXACTLY what the floppy controller says to do, i can at most check to see if a disk is in or write protected.
use multiple firewire ports. Many newer chipsets are comming with 2 firewire built in, NOT on the PCI bus. you wouldn't have the PCI bus limit of ~132MByte/second. 2 build in, plus whatever you wanted to put on the PCI bus.
Also, 66mhz/64bit PCI has 528MByte/second available on the bus, so firewire on 64/66pci would give you ~11 ports at full speed.
Many machines that have 64/66pci have multiple pci buses so you have 528Mb/bus.
this is a completely circumstantial situation. in some places Windows will not be significantly worse OR better than linux and vice versa.
/home directory in most instances. And a simple tar command can backup everymachine to a compressed file, and stored easily on the server/tape/cd-r. This is much more difficult and time consuming on windows. And linux can be used to backup windows machines via tar/rar/zip and Samba/CIFS where Windows does not have the ability to backup Linux machies without inverstment in other software and a lot of time.
Generally, i believe Linux provides a low TCO over the coarse of 1 year if measured from a "start from scratch" perspective. On the other hand, to convert from Windows to GNU/Linux is more time consuming and will generally take >1 year to see TCO go down. When licensing comes up on 200+ machines, Windows will certainly feel a lot more expensive, while linux will be free.
Finding IT staff than can handle all of your Linux AND Windows machines is a tough. Most Linux guys have purposely turned their backs on windows and in turn, lost some of their talent at fixing all the windows workstations that WILL exsist on your network.
One thing that i don't think has been addressed is cost of backups. Linux requires no extra backup software like windows does, and windows typically requires a complete system backup for every machine unlike linux, which can be backed up effectively on a per partition basis, litterally just the
Running PPC Linux with MacOnLinux should be a good way to get a 800Mhz G4 OSX system for under a grand,
why not just make standard interfaces for all or most all devices?
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Like postscript for printers?
just build every soundcard with a standard interface, you could still have all the fancy features but the driver would just be the standard sound interface.
regulate the standards via some group so that new modules or interface types could be added and and updated. like USB3 comes out, the group introduces the OPEN standard and then microsoft, linux, freebsd, etc etc could take that OPEN interface and built a driver for their OS. every device sound card whether it were a realtek onboard chip or a sound blaster audigy would interface to the OS the same way. You would need drivers for extended features not supplied by the standard interface, but id rather see my sound card work properly in the first place than b*tch about my EAX not functioning.
I'd like compare it loosely to IDE drives. Their are many different IDE drives as well as different chips on the drives and different firmware etc etc, but you can still plug in ANY ATA100 drive into an ATA100 controller and it would flawlessly, no driver installs, a stable flexible interface(that is now outdated by SATA
be this is just my opinion
to be able to install palm6 on one of the current PDAs. I know my e740 will be a bit out of date as far as WinCE machines are concerned, no doubt WinCE4 will require a 1Ghz+ proc and 256MB memory.
PalmOS6 on the other hand, will still be able to run on more modest hardware. I would hope that a XScale400Mhz wouold be enough.
and to be ablke to install PalmOS6 onto my e740 and bring it up to current would be great.