Stability is not important thanks to the new cluster server package and switches.
I can't believe you just said that with a straight face? Stability isn't important? I don't claim to be an admin or anything, but even with redundancy and clustering, when a server fails, it's going to mess things up. Do you want less stability on, say, the computers controlling the nuclear power plant near your home? I'm not willing to rely on clustering for something *that* mission critical. Or even better, are you willing to sacrifice stability on your company's payroll systems? I didn't think so. Give me stability!
But, how come the top sped you have is only 333mhz
Small correction of your facts: the fastest G3 runs at 450 MHz nowadays. Again, check your facts before you spout off about something you obviously know nothing about. I'm not a Mac-Evangelist, I prefer PC's. But Macs aren't bad machines to work on, especially for graphic design. And don't forget about the standards they're pushing that actually is *good* for the computer industry: USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire). Their machines have begun to move from the completely propietary format they were in to standard formats now. Oh well. Enough time wasted correcting ignorance.
I would honestly advise you set your sights a little higher and get a plain Palm III. Or the IIIe if you want to save some money, I guess. I just bought myself a Palm III a little under a month ago. It's nice knowing you've got the whole 2 MB of RAM, believe me. A hint on getting a nice price on your purchase: I got Office Depot to pricematch buy.com. I got a $250 Palm III for like $173 (buy.com's price + shipping). $80 off.
Close. According to their comparison sheets, the IIIe is a III that isn't upgradable at all, and doesn't automatically come with the Outlook conduit. And it has the IIIx screen. Though I'd like to know how I can upgrade (I think they mean the RAM) my new plain-ol III.
The new Alphas and the AMD K7 share a bus format now, so that they can use the same motherboards. The new interface is called Slot-B.
No, no, no. The K7 is going to be using a new interface called Slot A. You won't be able to interchange a K7 and an Alpha. Besides, like it's been said, these are two separate architectures: Alpha (RISC-based, 64 bit) vs. x86 (CISC-based, 32 bit). Not gonna be interchangable.
You can also exspect that price or probably less from the stores on pricewatch, because they are stolen or not manafactured of they dont deliver. I am not going to tell you where to buy your chips, but just look at the places on pricewatch. A 15 day warrantee? That is obviously not an authorized chip, all AMD chips come with a 3year manafactures warantee, same with Intel
Well, a 3 year warranty if you buy a *retail* version, not an OEM version. With a retail version, it's a boxed set, with fan, IIRC. OEM, you get the chip on a piece of foam to protect the pins. Nothing else. That's why it's so cheap. And it's not grey market, or stolen. It's perfectly legit.
Am I in the minority here to be interested in the technical issues here? Are there really that many people who would rather bicker about the Mac GUI vs other GUIs or whether a one-button mouse is inherently inferior to a multi-button mouse? I am sure that I will be flamed as a result of this message, but I am frustrated (and disappointed) by the petty squabbling that is going on, and curious if anyone else out there feels the same way.
Well, I agree fully. I use a Mac at work (education) and a dual-boot PC at home. I've never quite understood why people have to be such little children about "my OS is better than your OS" stuff. It's been said before on this topic, but I'll say it again...every OS has it's strengths and it's weaknesses. I have Professors I support here at the University who do very well with Macs. We also have some Alphas running as servers, which serve our purposes nicely. There is no defacto superior OS. It's all up to the user. Oh well, off the soapbox for now.
Win 95B on a P166 with 24 megs RAM Win 95A on a P166 with 16 megs RAM
Well, first guess is your memory. Running Win95 with anything less than 32 megs of memory just isn't a good idea. That's old news. Beyond that, there could be misconfigurations all over the place, with Windows, with your connection, with the individual programs...
Sure the majority of slashdot users have probably patched their kernel already but there are thousands and thousands of users (mostly in the commercial area) who don't have the knowledge to edit source code and recompile kernels. This is precisely the reason why Linux is regarded as a hacker OS and not ready for prime time. Well, I would tend to think, and yes, I could be wrong, but most, if not all Linux users out there probably have enough knowledge and/or wherewithal to be able to go into one C file and add in a/* and corresponding */ to comment out a line. Not trying to flame, just an observation on what I perceive as the Linux user base. If this comes out with the tags, sorry, I musta forgot all my html, cause previewing isn't showing the html...
Yeah, I suppose. But we all want fair tests, right? We as a community decried Mindcraft's tests. We'd be awful big hypocrites to not treat that hypothetical test fairly by subjecting it to anything less than normal (per se) traffic...
You just don't tell the public when it's going to happen. They know it's going to happen, I guess, but not when. One day, Walnut Creek is running off NT. The next, Linux. I'm sure it could be done with a modicum of fairness, at least.
True, things are swinging back to education. But you have to realize sometimes, that University administrators are making the IS decisions, sometimes contrary to the IS staff's recommendations. (Ex: KU's inexplicable move towards GroupWise away from Digital Unix...it's beginning) Universities aren't always going to be havens for Unices.
Remember, IIRC, Rob and others are still in school. There *should* be some priorities in effect. Of course, I could be wrong. T'wouldn't be the first time.
Perhaps, but first you have get this new standard accepted. If noone buys into it, it dies. Remember laser disc? And it's not necessarily going to come down to quality either, again I point to laser disc. Audio and visual quality of laser discs kicks VHS's butt, but how many people do you know who actually have a player, and can find media for it?
I disagree. I check here for news, any news. I don't always run over to Linux Today. If it bothers you that much, get off your lazy butt and set filters...oops, I forgot...you're too lazy to even get an account, much less set up filtering.
Not on my work Mac, it didn't. I put my resolution back to 832x648, and it was still pretty illegible. I suppose I coulda played with it more, but oh well.
I agree with the factions point. I'm a new linux user, grabbed RH 5.2 from work. I'm trying to get GNOME installed too. I don't understand all these little spats about distributions, GNOME vs. KDE, etc. None of it makes sense, and the depth to which some of these go tend to turn people off and make linux users look like a bunch of little kids sitting in mommy and daddy's basement. Just my $0.02.
Perhaps by sight they're ugly, but the actual design of the case kicks some major ass. Just find a way to make it more secure, and it'd be a cool case.
Then it shouldn't matter, because you're not supposed to be able to overclock a PIII...from the mouths of Intel employees who came to talk to us here at KU...
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What about the Cube? It's a little short on storage space, by your requirements, but it's kinda portable.
Well, 'tis slightly evident by the quality of the grammar and so on that whoever posted that drivel is a little lacking upstairs. I'm normally not one for personal attacks, but this was ridiculous. Oh well. I personally have highly enjoyed the couple of Kubrick movies I've seen. And I was looking forward to Eyes Wide Shut...I'm glad to hear it'll still be released. Now if he had the final cut ready yet is still to be seen.
All good and true, but something I've been wondering about: there seems to be the 3dfx side of graphics cards, and the other side, which has my Riva TNT card (STB Velocity 4400)...does that mean anything requiring 3dfx is unusable by me, either on my windows or linux side?
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Stability is not important thanks to the new cluster server package and switches.
I can't believe you just said that with a straight face? Stability isn't important? I don't claim to be an admin or anything, but even with redundancy and clustering, when a server fails, it's going to mess things up. Do you want less stability on, say, the computers controlling the nuclear power plant near your home? I'm not willing to rely on clustering for something *that* mission critical. Or even better, are you willing to sacrifice stability on your company's payroll systems? I didn't think so. Give me stability!
But, how come the top sped you have is only 333mhz
Small correction of your facts: the fastest G3 runs at 450 MHz nowadays. Again, check your facts before you spout off about something you obviously know nothing about. I'm not a Mac-Evangelist, I prefer PC's. But Macs aren't bad machines to work on, especially for graphic design. And don't forget about the standards they're pushing that actually is *good* for the computer industry: USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire). Their machines have begun to move from the completely propietary format they were in to standard formats now. Oh well. Enough time wasted correcting ignorance.
I would honestly advise you set your sights a little higher and get a plain Palm III. Or the IIIe if you want to save some money, I guess. I just bought myself a Palm III a little under a month ago. It's nice knowing you've got the whole 2 MB of RAM, believe me. A hint on getting a nice price on your purchase: I got Office Depot to pricematch buy.com. I got a $250 Palm III for like $173 (buy.com's price + shipping). $80 off.
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Close. According to their comparison sheets, the IIIe is a III that isn't upgradable at all, and doesn't automatically come with the Outlook conduit. And it has the IIIx screen. Though I'd like to know how I can upgrade (I think they mean the RAM) my new plain-ol III.
The new Alphas and the AMD K7 share a bus format now, so that they can use the same motherboards. The new interface is called Slot-B.
No, no, no. The K7 is going to be using a new interface called Slot A. You won't be able to interchange a K7 and an Alpha. Besides, like it's been said, these are two separate architectures: Alpha (RISC-based, 64 bit) vs. x86 (CISC-based, 32 bit). Not gonna be interchangable.
You can also exspect that price or probably less from the stores on pricewatch, because they are stolen or not manafactured of they dont deliver. I am not going to tell you where to buy your chips, but just look at the places on pricewatch. A 15 day warrantee? That is obviously not an authorized chip, all AMD chips come with a 3year manafactures warantee, same with Intel
Well, a 3 year warranty if you buy a *retail* version, not an OEM version. With a retail version, it's a boxed set, with fan, IIRC. OEM, you get the chip on a piece of foam to protect the pins. Nothing else. That's why it's so cheap. And it's not grey market, or stolen. It's perfectly legit.
Am I in the minority here to be interested in the technical issues here? Are there really that many people who would rather bicker about the Mac GUI vs other GUIs or whether a one-button mouse is inherently inferior to a multi-button mouse? I am sure that I will be flamed as a result of this message, but I am frustrated (and disappointed) by the petty squabbling that is going on, and curious if anyone else out there feels the same way.
Well, I agree fully. I use a Mac at work (education) and a dual-boot PC at home. I've never quite understood why people have to be such little children about "my OS is better than your OS" stuff. It's been said before on this topic, but I'll say it again...every OS has it's strengths and it's weaknesses. I have Professors I support here at the University who do very well with Macs. We also have some Alphas running as servers, which serve our purposes nicely. There is no defacto superior OS. It's all up to the user. Oh well, off the soapbox for now.
Win 95B on a P166 with 24 megs RAM
Win 95A on a P166 with 16 megs RAM
Well, first guess is your memory. Running Win95 with anything less than 32 megs of memory just isn't a good idea. That's old news. Beyond that, there could be misconfigurations all over the place, with Windows, with your connection, with the individual programs...
Sure the majority of slashdot users have probably patched their kernel already but there are thousands and thousands of users (mostly in the commercial area) who don't have the knowledge to edit source code and recompile kernels. This is precisely the reason why Linux is regarded as a hacker OS and not ready for prime time. /* and corresponding */ to comment out a line. Not trying to flame, just an observation on what I perceive as the Linux user base.
Well, I would tend to think, and yes, I could be wrong, but most, if not all Linux users out there probably have enough knowledge and/or wherewithal to be able to go into one C file and add in a
If this comes out with the tags, sorry, I musta forgot all my html, cause previewing isn't showing the html...
Yeah, I suppose. But we all want fair tests, right? We as a community decried Mindcraft's tests. We'd be awful big hypocrites to not treat that hypothetical test fairly by subjecting it to anything less than normal (per se) traffic...
You just don't tell the public when it's going to happen. They know it's going to happen, I guess, but not when. One day, Walnut Creek is running off NT. The next, Linux. I'm sure it could be done with a modicum of fairness, at least.
True, things are swinging back to education. But you have to realize sometimes, that University administrators are making the IS decisions, sometimes contrary to the IS staff's recommendations. (Ex: KU's inexplicable move towards GroupWise away from Digital Unix...it's beginning) Universities aren't always going to be havens for Unices.
Remember, IIRC, Rob and others are still in school. There *should* be some priorities in effect. Of course, I could be wrong. T'wouldn't be the first time.
You guys are some nit-picky sob's. It's just a movie! Chill out and just enjoy it!
No, I don't think so. Remember, the other Sith was named "Darth Sidious"....
Perhaps, but first you have get this new standard accepted. If noone buys into it, it dies. Remember laser disc? And it's not necessarily going to come down to quality either, again I point to laser disc. Audio and visual quality of laser discs kicks VHS's butt, but how many people do you know who actually have a player, and can find media for it?
I disagree. I check here for news, any news. I don't always run over to Linux Today. If it bothers you that much, get off your lazy butt and set filters...oops, I forgot...you're too lazy to even get an account, much less set up filtering.
Not on my work Mac, it didn't. I put my resolution back to 832x648, and it was still pretty illegible. I suppose I coulda played with it more, but oh well.
I agree with the factions point. I'm a new linux user, grabbed RH 5.2 from work. I'm trying to get GNOME installed too. I don't understand all these little spats about distributions, GNOME vs. KDE, etc. None of it makes sense, and the depth to which some of these go tend to turn people off and make linux users look like a bunch of little kids sitting in mommy and daddy's basement. Just my $0.02.
Perhaps by sight they're ugly, but the actual design of the case kicks some major ass. Just find a way to make it more secure, and it'd be a cool case.
Then it shouldn't matter, because you're not supposed to be able to overclock a PIII...from the mouths of Intel employees who came to talk to us here at KU...
What about the Cube? It's a little short on storage space, by your requirements, but it's kinda portable.
Well, 'tis slightly evident by the quality of the grammar and so on that whoever posted that drivel is a little lacking upstairs. I'm normally not one for personal attacks, but this was ridiculous. Oh well. I personally have highly enjoyed the couple of Kubrick movies I've seen. And I was looking forward to Eyes Wide Shut...I'm glad to hear it'll still be released. Now if he had the final cut ready yet is still to be seen.
All good and true, but something I've been wondering about: there seems to be the 3dfx side of graphics cards, and the other side, which has my Riva TNT card (STB Velocity 4400)...does that mean anything requiring 3dfx is unusable by me, either on my windows or linux side?