I thought that Alpha sysems running OpenVMS can emulate the old VAX systems. Not sure if PDP is VAX though. DEC had been doing emulation on their new hardware to provide a smooth upgrade path to Alpha. They were pretty good at it too.
I would also think that rather than emulating old hardware to run on new hardware, it would be better to rewrite the software every couple of decades.
but in a home for rich people... multiple AP' s are not a viable option as it doesn't hand off seamlessly.
There are some that do, model numbers escape me. Or it might be the card and software that automatically switches APs to the best one.
Not that I think it is necessary. I was able to get a pretty good 11Mbps (i.e. plenty good for internet) link where the AP is in the far corner of the basement and I was on the second floor. I think it would take a pretty huge house, or maybe one with concrete/stone/metal floors and walls to need multiple APs.
When researching what to get, I came across a Wired article about some guys that hacked the Engenius drivers for BSD to get Powerbooks to work with them.
I think they quadrupled the range because some of them are high power and high sensitivity cards, 200mw and -90db, respectively.
I think it is a ringing after-effect of IBM's PC model more than anything else. I doubt marketing types have near the power in this case as a lot of people used PC to mean x86 long before marketing took ahold of the term.
Besides, the article is about a notebook that SHIPS with Linux, straight from the manufacturer. So Apple doesn't qualify.
I have a tendency to use relatively obscure hardware (though not cheap, quite the opposite) and yet Knoppix worked fine for me. I was playing MP3s in less than five minutes. Granted, the sound chip is the ESS / Creative type.
It seems like people are misunderstanding what you mean, but you talk about two disparate things in one paragraph.
10GHz is still pretty expensive to deal with for consumer commodity parts for wireless radio. 5GHz is a hard enough sell as it is.
I'm not sure why CPUs don't have a larger range of speeds for dynamic clocking. There may be little power savings benefit for clocking slower than the minimum speed, and not much benefit to having intermediate speeds if the system can switch between the two frequencies when the load changes.
Apparently there are new Xeons, ones that support Intel's renaming of x86-64, unless those have been out for a long while and no one told the Slashdot editors.
It's worth noting that 802.11a has a significantly shorter theoretical maximum range when compared to the 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) solutions.
That is true but it is also far less crowded, with five or eight available channels in most countries. With the recent FCC posting, "a" is considered an indoor technology. I get pretty good range with "b" - something pretty close to the claimed 1000ft with the equipment I have, but that is with no obstructions. I really don't need that sort of range. The range problems a lot of people have with APs typically involve poor location and nothing more.
Interesting. I thought they weren't due out until later this year, and only on Xeons, but it looks like the Dell site shows it is available for some P4s too.
Are you sure that isn't the old memory segment technology introduced with the P6 die? I don't think that is x86-64.
"Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology" doesn't say 64 bit processing. It is kind of like the old memory segmentation method to reach beyond the limits of the address register.
Since when are server side error caused by the browser?
Since Slashdot hired set up a Ministry of Information? Of course, it is acting like Ministry of Silence, but a MoI might fit because it gives the silent treatment, and a MoS would be noisy.
I think the original post fits more, and I don't think it is necessarily overreacting.
I'd think that a lot of virus writers do what they do because they think it is cool, and no one really gets hurt, right? "Ranking" pests isn't the same as "ranking" murderers and rapists.
That's kind of why I hate press releases. Well not only because news sites just distill them into articles without investigation, but because they contain information not relevant to the newsbit, but to make it more adworthy.
For example, the release concerning Grand Haven's wireless network had information on Ottawa Wireless. The discription of Ottawa Wireless happens to say they also do WiMax, then says WiMax is a trademarked name. The problem is that Grand Haven's network didn't use it.
The last article I've seen specifically said that Walmart accounts for only about 10% of CD sales in the US. I think most of the complaints is mostly the "artists" don't have the "artistic integrity" they claim to have, and it bugs them. Heck, it would bug me if I'm willing to sell my integrity for a 10% raise.
Wow, that's crazy! (Well, to me) What do you have in there? I don't recall ever filling up every pci slot on an atx board (I have a nic, tv card, and a sound blaster card in mine).
Here's the deal, this is my HTPC. Because the onboard network chip is blown, I have added a gigabit card. One down, five to go.
Because the system is a bit too old for USB 2 and for some reason doesn't have onboard Firewire, I have an Adaptec Duoconnect, two down.
I have a video capture card with hardware video deinterlacer, three down.
The remaining three are just video input cards. Soon, one of them will be an HDTV ATSC / QAM tuner card.
Six cards. Granted, I don't use one or two of the video input cards much, but I like every S-Video device to have its own input rather than paying more for a lossy switch.
Then this was either a couple of years or more ago,
This was about two years ago. I did say "the last time".. and that doesn't necessarily mean last month. Not everyone upgrades every six months or whatever.
They aren't necessarily trying to rip people off even if the price is a bit higher. It costs money to run a storefront, and there are benefits to the customer too. I wanted to support a shop that has replacement parts I can get *that* day rather than waiting for a shipment.
Besides, the two forms of stores don't necessarily compare well either. Buy online, and you generally have to service it yourself. With a good local shop, at least a buyer can get diagnostic help should the need arise, hassle free returns, etc.
The last time I assembled a computer, the difference was $0. Granted, this was at a local shop. The chips weren't all that different in cost. This was pricing out the best board and the cheapest chip for each brand CPU.
The kicker at the time was that the Intel chipset board included sound, a couple Firewire ports and a network jack all onboard. Even the shop's best Athlon boards didn't have all three, so it would have been just as much money to buy the extra cards, and then two of precious open slots would be taken.
Those slots were important. I didn't assemble the replacement system (a used Xeon), but seriously, it has six PCI slots (four PCI 33/32 and two PCI 66/64) and I have a card in every slot.
Quite the contrary - when the only boxes you can buy are hobbled with the broadcast flag and other DRM, it'll probably become a lot more valuable!
I would not count on it.
Tivos have the ability to upgrade their software. I think these are also units that must be connected by phone to get the daily program guide information.
It is possible that Tivo might be pressured into violating the user's grandfather clause style rights.
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If the domain registration predates the book, possibly predates the particular crime the book is based on, I would think it is hardly a cash-in thing.
I thought that Alpha sysems running OpenVMS can emulate the old VAX systems. Not sure if PDP is VAX though. DEC had been doing emulation on their new hardware to provide a smooth upgrade path to Alpha. They were pretty good at it too.
I would also think that rather than emulating old hardware to run on new hardware, it would be better to rewrite the software every couple of decades.
but in a home for rich people... multiple AP'
s are not a viable option as it doesn't hand off seamlessly.
There are some that do, model numbers escape me. Or it might be the card and software that automatically switches APs to the best one.
Not that I think it is necessary. I was able to get a pretty good 11Mbps (i.e. plenty good for internet) link where the AP is in the far corner of the basement and I was on the second floor. I think it would take a pretty huge house, or maybe one with concrete/stone/metal floors and walls to need multiple APs.
When researching what to get, I came across a Wired article about some guys that hacked the Engenius drivers for BSD to get Powerbooks to work with them.
I think they quadrupled the range because some of them are high power and high sensitivity cards, 200mw and -90db, respectively.
I think it is a ringing after-effect of IBM's PC model more than anything else. I doubt marketing types have near the power in this case as a lot of people used PC to mean x86 long before marketing took ahold of the term.
Besides, the article is about a notebook that SHIPS with Linux, straight from the manufacturer. So Apple doesn't qualify.
But their other DVD-ROM drives are supported, just the +RW isn't
I don't understand what legality has to do with it.
I didn't realize it was out then, I thought it wasn't going to be available until mid-fall. I just hit the Intel site for information...
I have a tendency to use relatively obscure hardware (though not cheap, quite the opposite) and yet Knoppix worked fine for me. I was playing MP3s in less than five minutes. Granted, the sound chip is the ESS / Creative type.
It seems like people are misunderstanding what you mean, but you talk about two disparate things in one paragraph.
10GHz is still pretty expensive to deal with for consumer commodity parts for wireless radio. 5GHz is a hard enough sell as it is.
I'm not sure why CPUs don't have a larger range of speeds for dynamic clocking. There may be little power savings benefit for clocking slower than the minimum speed, and not much benefit to having intermediate speeds if the system can switch between the two frequencies when the load changes.
Apparently there are new Xeons, ones that support Intel's renaming of x86-64, unless those have been out for a long while and no one told the Slashdot editors.
It's worth noting that 802.11a has a significantly shorter theoretical maximum range when compared to the 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) solutions.
That is true but it is also far less crowded, with five or eight available channels in most countries. With the recent FCC posting, "a" is considered an indoor technology. I get pretty good range with "b" - something pretty close to the claimed 1000ft with the equipment I have, but that is with no obstructions. I really don't need that sort of range. The range problems a lot of people have with APs typically involve poor location and nothing more.
Interesting. I thought they weren't due out until later this year, and only on Xeons, but it looks like the Dell site shows it is available for some P4s too.
Are you sure that isn't the old memory segment technology introduced with the P6 die? I don't think that is x86-64.
"Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology" doesn't say 64 bit processing. It is kind of like the old memory segmentation method to reach beyond the limits of the address register.
Since when are server side error caused by the browser?
Since Slashdot hired set up a Ministry of Information? Of course, it is acting like Ministry of Silence, but a MoI might fit because it gives the silent treatment, and a MoS would be noisy.
I think the original post fits more, and I don't think it is necessarily overreacting.
I'd think that a lot of virus writers do what they do because they think it is cool, and no one really gets hurt, right? "Ranking" pests isn't the same as "ranking" murderers and rapists.
That's kind of why I hate press releases. Well not only because news sites just distill them into articles without investigation, but because they contain information not relevant to the newsbit, but to make it more adworthy.
For example, the release concerning Grand Haven's wireless network had information on Ottawa Wireless. The discription of Ottawa Wireless happens to say they also do WiMax, then says WiMax is a trademarked name. The problem is that Grand Haven's network didn't use it.
Let me guess, you to be consistent, you would be completely offended over the movie and the TV show called M*A*S*H?
The last article I've seen specifically said that Walmart accounts for only about 10% of CD sales in the US. I think most of the complaints is mostly the "artists" don't have the "artistic integrity" they claim to have, and it bugs them. Heck, it would bug me if I'm willing to sell my integrity for a 10% raise.
http://www.massmic.com/walmart.html
"Tool spokesman Mike Cubillos, aware that an album can lose up to 10 percent of its sales by not being carried by the chain."
The article is a few years old though.
Wow, that's crazy! (Well, to me) What do you have in there? I don't recall ever filling up every pci slot on an atx board (I have a nic, tv card, and a sound blaster card in mine).
Here's the deal, this is my HTPC. Because the onboard network chip is blown, I have added a gigabit card. One down, five to go.
Because the system is a bit too old for USB 2 and for some reason doesn't have onboard Firewire, I have an Adaptec Duoconnect, two down.
I have a video capture card with hardware video deinterlacer, three down.
The remaining three are just video input cards. Soon, one of them will be an HDTV ATSC / QAM tuner card.
Six cards. Granted, I don't use one or two of the video input cards much, but I like every S-Video device to have its own input rather than paying more for a lossy switch.
Then this was either a couple of years or more ago,
This was about two years ago. I did say "the last time".. and that doesn't necessarily mean last month. Not everyone upgrades every six months or whatever.
They aren't necessarily trying to rip people off even if the price is a bit higher. It costs money to run a storefront, and there are benefits to the customer too. I wanted to support a shop that has replacement parts I can get *that* day rather than waiting for a shipment.
Besides, the two forms of stores don't necessarily compare well either. Buy online, and you generally have to service it yourself. With a good local shop, at least a buyer can get diagnostic help should the need arise, hassle free returns, etc.
Interesting. The article you quote was dated July 29, 2003.
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Just ask all those people that bought slot Athlons how much they wish they would have gotten socket!
I was told that issue could be blamed on AMD. Supposedly they didn't allow slocket converters like those that were available for Intel systems.
The accepted term for what you say is "marketing".
The last time I assembled a computer, the difference was $0. Granted, this was at a local shop. The chips weren't all that different in cost. This was pricing out the best board and the cheapest chip for each brand CPU.
The kicker at the time was that the Intel chipset board included sound, a couple Firewire ports and a network jack all onboard. Even the shop's best Athlon boards didn't have all three, so it would have been just as much money to buy the extra cards, and then two of precious open slots would be taken.
Those slots were important. I didn't assemble the replacement system (a used Xeon), but seriously, it has six PCI slots (four PCI 33/32 and two PCI 66/64) and I have a card in every slot.
Quite the contrary - when the only boxes you can buy are hobbled with the broadcast flag and other DRM, it'll probably become a lot more valuable!
I would not count on it.
Tivos have the ability to upgrade their software. I think these are also units that must be connected by phone to get the daily program guide information.
It is possible that Tivo might be pressured into violating the user's grandfather clause style rights.