I'd have a hard time justifying spending $3000.00 for that thing as a swap file. My system has 1 gig of ram and never ever hit's swap. It's faster this way because my system ram doesn't have to go through the pci bottleneck.
I would buy extra ram instead of this rocketdrive. The bandwidth of my system ram is 2.1GB/s. This rocketdrive benchmarks at 78MB/s.
well, the difference is the cost of making a source package (just instructions) is much lower then that of making binary packages. And in the end, instead of being stuck with one package which has dependencies depending on how the maintainer built it, you end up with a recipy where the user can choose whether he wants certain dependencies or not.
All I know is that making a gentoo package is a piece of cake, while making a debian package and maintaining can be hell on earth.
not only that, but people have been hitting 3.1Ghz on air cooling using the cheaper 2.4b chips.
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I'm sorry, was that a faux pas?
Egg on my face.
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But occifer, that's not a keg in the passenger seat. It's my laptop's battery pack!
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But the thought just came to me of using beer instead of water. That way you could make a beer computer! Who says beer makes you shite at math? you CAN get drunk and still do 4 bit additions:)
Hell, take that thing on a pub crawl and have your beer do it's own calculations of how much tip you should leave as it's on it's way down to your stomach!
Oh my goodness. You're so out of your freakin mind it's unbelievable. Here's some statistics which may shed light on your claim that banning handguns actually increased handgun violence in the UK:
Guns were used in only 4.7% of robberies in 1999 and 4.4% in 1998
Handgun homicide figures are very low and since 1980 have fluctuated
from a low of 7 in 1988, through to 35 in 1993 and a previous high of 39
in1997. So 42 gun murders in 1999 does not represent a statistically significant increase.
There is evidence of a growth in the use of imitation guns in crime but
no figures can be put on this. It is likely however that some of the rise in handgun crime is attributable to imitations.
I was AMAZED when I read this. Especially taking into account that population in the UK = pop of US/4 or so.
Now I feel I have to put in context one of your statements:
"My point is, if you can't stop criminals and psychopaths getting hold of weapons, you might as well at least allow ordinary people" to.
Ok, so you're suggesting a system just like the united states right? Let's see in the U.S.: In 1999, 58% of all gun deaths were suicides, and 38% were homicides.(SOURCE: Hoyert DL, Arias E, Smith BL, Murphy SL, Kochanek, KD. Deaths: Final Data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports. 2001;49 (8).)
It looks like guns are bad in the hands of ordinary people as well as criminals to me. *me wonders how many of those homicides were by ordinary people in a fit of rage, or by ordinary people accidentally shooting their friends/family etc. I wish I had those figures.
It seemed like bitkeeper was working out quite well for the linux kernel. I liked the detailed changelogs that started apearing after the switch.
Hopefully one of the teams working on Free alternatives will get it to a stage suitable for maintaining the kernel.
I wonder what they'll be using when linux 4.x rolls around? Maybe linux will still be using bitkeeper and the HURD will be using something like subversion (assuming the HURD becomes easy enough for us mortals to use by then:)
I'm hoping that by the time I wake up this afternoon there will be interesting comments by the top kernel hackers, the FSF and Linus about this.
omg.. To see someone make such a bold mistake... and a UMASS student on top of it..!!! EEEK!!.
You manage to contradict yourself in ONE SHORT POST: "The RIAA did not make a cent off the price fixing, as that had no effect on wholesale prices."
Then.. "won't buy the CD for our stores unless you sell it to us for $2 less than normal wholesale"
Erm.. so better retail price competition will affect wholesale price and yet wholesale price is not affected. Bravo!
You allowed your head to be spun by the RIAA's lies (on purpose?). The very fact that wholesale prices are inextricably tied to retail prices (can't sell for $10 what you're buying for $14) means that wholesale prices were also allowed to be held high.
Unless you live on another planet you must realize by now that the music industry is an example of when the middleman holds more power than the producer and the consumer put together. I don't think they need you to come to their defense, they have $1.00x10^7(8?) for that.
oh, and most important of all never, ever start your point by calling someone an idiot if you want to be taken seriously. It's not much to ask for a little politeness. Especially when you turn out to be wrong, then you just feel like an ass. I'm an UMASS student too. Please, I have limited bandwith due to oit shenanigans, don't make me use it to read an UMASS studen't making an ass out of himself.
But UMass amherst has been doing this for over a year. The worst is they also place lower priority on the bandwith coming from the doorms than their own oit company. Leaving me with a 999 ping to most quake servers.
Why buy a computer with a linux ripoff that charges you $99 a year and has everyone running as root. I almost forgot, they rebrand all the apps other people wrote too.
Mandrake is the OS I'd recommend to new linux users.
actually, they said they had lunch with the CEO. Who I might add, works in a cubicle like the other employees. Wanna compare/contrast with ATI's CEO?
that's not really true.
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1. You may think DRM is an american idea, but when you look at the companies behind it, most are multinationals. Sony, Microsoft, Intel, AMD etc etc.
2. The rest of the world uses the same pc hardware and will have DRM built in.
3. How much do you want to bet that foreign media companies won't follow suit? after all Americans don't like DRM either. No consumer does.
"In fact, according to an AMD UK representative, AMD's Opteron products will run any kind of content in the future -- contrary to the report in The Age, on which our original report, below, was based."
Of course they will, but palladium is built in and people can check whether you're running in secure mode or not. If you're not they can refuse to let you d/l their film/music/application etc. There is no way to turn palladium off completely no matter what this AMD rep is trying to imply.
Part of the content in The Age failed to distinguish between comments Moorhead made and conjecture, AMD said.
Yes,the reporter made a mistake but this still does not deny that palladium will be present in the opteron.
AMD, in fact, claims it is the "good guy", and even though it is a member of the "trusted computing" initiative, will allow users to opt in whether to use this type of technology or not.
There's no fucking way AMD is the good guy. They are including palladium in their chips. It is an OUTRIGHT LIE that users can opt in whether to use this or not. There is no way to completely opt out of using palladium hardware because the hardware will always correctly report whether you are in secure mode or not.
"There is nothing [in Hammer] that could actually prevent a user running unlicensed content," the representative from AMD said."
Correct! because that's how palladium is designed to work. You can be in secure mode, where you will be able to access palladium content, or you can be in unsecure mode (where you WILL be denied palladium content).
This is NOT a good thing. This is the method that M$ decided to use to SNEAK palladium in under the radar. Let those who don't wish to use it run in usecured mode, while the majority of the population will be cluelessly utilizing the palladium secure mode. They hope that then most media will require you to be in secure mode and even though you can still opt-out, in the end it will mean opting out of all the now dominant palladium only media.
Please please please don't mod shit like the parent up anymore. Yes, the reporter made a mistake, but that doesn't take away from the fact that palladium WILL be included in the opteron.
All of these/. comments are copying and pasting AMD SPIN on the story designed to FOOL you into thinking palladium is not included, or that you can completely opt out.
The truth is palladium is going to be included and you CANNOT FULLY OPT OUT. If AMD wants to really give users a way to fully opt out, they need to make their platform able to report on demand that they are running in secure mode when in fact they are not. They will not do this. Please stop reposting AMD SPIN on the issue it's making me fucking ill to my stomach. Thanks in advance.
AMD must have recieved a lot of flack for that interview. This is why they're trying to SPIN the issue.
There is no fucking way someone who works at AMD says by accident that they're including palladium. They either are or they're not and theres no internal confusion. It's a BFD.
The opteron still has palladium. Don't be fooled by comments carefully crafted to confuse you into thinking there's no palladium. When they say "it will still run unsecured content." They are just playing off the fact that palladium hardware allows you to run unsecured content when it runs in usecured mode.
Don't fool yourselves, most windows lusers will be running longhorn with secure mode on. That's how it all starts.
If you like your fair use rights, free software, competition in the software market, low prices, commodity computing... Get ready to bend over and be thoroughly pounded by the big devil in redmond for the rest of your breathing existance.
AMD's Opteron won't reject unlicensed content - Ron Goldin - Fri, Sep 20, 2002 - 10:46 AM
Ok, so it sounds like it STILL HAS PALLADIUM in it. This is how palladium hardware works, it can also run unsecured content, but not in secure mode.
WISE the fuck up folks. This is how palladium is designed to work at first. IT'S OPTIONAL. That's how they want to fuck us over, by getting most people without them even knowing.
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I would buy extra ram instead of this rocketdrive. The bandwidth of my system ram is 2.1GB/s. This rocketdrive benchmarks at 78MB/s.
All I know is that making a gentoo package is a piece of cake, while making a debian package and maintaining can be hell on earth.
In terms of packages, I just installed a new gentoo system today and there were a total of just over 20k packages to choose from.
not only that, but people have been hitting 3.1Ghz on air cooling using the cheaper 2.4b chips. Link
Egg on my face.
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But occifer, that's not a keg in the passenger seat. It's my laptop's battery pack!
Hell, take that thing on a pub crawl and have your beer do it's own calculations of how much tip you should leave as it's on it's way down to your stomach!
Am I?
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I was AMAZED when I read this. Especially taking into account that population in the UK = pop of US/4 or so.
Now I feel I have to put in context one of your statements:
"My point is, if you can't stop criminals and psychopaths getting hold of weapons, you might as well at least allow ordinary people" to.
Ok, so you're suggesting a system just like the united states right? Let's see in the U.S.: In 1999, 58% of all gun deaths were suicides, and 38% were homicides.(SOURCE: Hoyert DL, Arias E, Smith BL, Murphy SL, Kochanek, KD. Deaths: Final Data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports. 2001;49 (8).)
It looks like guns are bad in the hands of ordinary people as well as criminals to me. *me wonders how many of those homicides were by ordinary people in a fit of rage, or by ordinary people accidentally shooting their friends/family etc. I wish I had those figures.
omegod. I know you're already at +5, but I'm still desperately trying to mod you up as I wipe the tears from my eyes.
Hopefully one of the teams working on Free alternatives will get it to a stage suitable for maintaining the kernel.
I wonder what they'll be using when linux 4.x rolls around? Maybe linux will still be using bitkeeper and the HURD will be using something like subversion (assuming the HURD becomes easy enough for us mortals to use by then :)
I'm hoping that by the time I wake up this afternoon there will be interesting comments by the top kernel hackers, the FSF and Linus about this.
Don't you realize a typo when you see one?
"The RIAA did not make a cent off the price fixing, as that had no effect on wholesale prices."
Then..
"won't buy the CD for our stores unless you sell it to us for $2 less than normal wholesale"
Erm.. so better retail price competition will affect wholesale price and yet wholesale price is not affected. Bravo!
But UMass amherst has been doing this for over a year. The worst is they also place lower priority on the bandwith coming from the doorms than their own oit company. Leaving me with a 999 ping to most quake servers.
Wallmart design your mandrake PC
Why buy a computer with a linux ripoff that charges you $99 a year and has everyone running as root. I almost forgot, they rebrand all the apps other people wrote too.
Mandrake is the OS I'd recommend to new linux users.
They were invaluable to me, worked better than anything else. It must have been a successful trial.
So why aren't they up permanently? Why can't I listen to my favourite DJs every weekend on the essential mix?
actually, they said they had lunch with the CEO. Who I might add, works in a cubicle like the other employees. Wanna compare/contrast with ATI's CEO?
1. You may think DRM is an american idea, but when you look at the companies behind it, most are multinationals. Sony, Microsoft, Intel, AMD etc etc. 2. The rest of the world uses the same pc hardware and will have DRM built in. 3. How much do you want to bet that foreign media companies won't follow suit? after all Americans don't like DRM either. No consumer does.
"In fact, according to an AMD UK representative, AMD's Opteron products will run any kind of content in the future -- contrary to the report in The Age, on which our original report, below, was based."
Of course they will, but palladium is built in and people can check whether you're running in secure mode or not. If you're not they can refuse to let you d/l their film/music/application etc. There is no way to turn palladium off completely no matter what this AMD rep is trying to imply.
Part of the content in The Age failed to distinguish between comments Moorhead made and conjecture, AMD said. Yes,the reporter made a mistake but this still does not deny that palladium will be present in the opteron.
AMD, in fact, claims it is the "good guy", and even though it is a member of the "trusted computing" initiative, will allow users to opt in whether to use this type of technology or not.
There's no fucking way AMD is the good guy. They are including palladium in their chips. It is an OUTRIGHT LIE that users can opt in whether to use this or not. There is no way to completely opt out of using palladium hardware because the hardware will always correctly report whether you are in secure mode or not.
"There is nothing [in Hammer] that could actually prevent a user running unlicensed content," the representative from AMD said."
Correct! because that's how palladium is designed to work. You can be in secure mode, where you will be able to access palladium content, or you can be in unsecure mode (where you WILL be denied palladium content).
This is NOT a good thing. This is the method that M$ decided to use to SNEAK palladium in under the radar. Let those who don't wish to use it run in usecured mode, while the majority of the population will be cluelessly utilizing the palladium secure mode. They hope that then most media will require you to be in secure mode and even though you can still opt-out, in the end it will mean opting out of all the now dominant palladium only media.
Please please please don't mod shit like the parent up anymore. Yes, the reporter made a mistake, but that doesn't take away from the fact that palladium WILL be included in the opteron.
All of these /. comments are copying and pasting AMD SPIN on the story designed to FOOL you into thinking palladium is not included, or that you can completely opt out.
The truth is palladium is going to be included and you CANNOT FULLY OPT OUT. If AMD wants to really give users a way to fully opt out, they need to make their platform able to report on demand that they are running in secure mode when in fact they are not. They will not do this. Please stop reposting AMD SPIN on the issue it's making me fucking ill to my stomach. Thanks in advance.
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Do you think that a few years from now, if most of the content available to people is palladium only, Apple and it's 5% market share will hold out?
No way, they're gonna fold faster than a 2 pair vs a flush. They will be FORCED to add DRM.
The fact they fucked up, doesn't negate the fact they tried to restrict my fair use.
There is no fucking way someone who works at AMD says by accident that they're including palladium. They either are or they're not and theres no internal confusion. It's a BFD.
The opteron still has palladium. Don't be fooled by comments carefully crafted to confuse you into thinking there's no palladium. When they say "it will still run unsecured content." They are just playing off the fact that palladium hardware allows you to run unsecured content when it runs in usecured mode.
Don't fool yourselves, most windows lusers will be running longhorn with secure mode on. That's how it all starts.
If you like your fair use rights, free software, competition in the software market, low prices, commodity computing... Get ready to bend over and be thoroughly pounded by the big devil in redmond for the rest of your breathing existance.
Ok, so it sounds like it STILL HAS PALLADIUM in it. This is how palladium hardware works, it can also run unsecured content, but not in secure mode.
WISE the fuck up folks. This is how palladium is designed to work at first. IT'S OPTIONAL. That's how they want to fuck us over, by getting most people without them even knowing.
That's how palladium will work AT FIRST. All the palladium hardware will be able to run in insecure mode.
ever tried copying songs onto an ipod then onto another computer? apple doesn't LET you do it.