Actually MIB 1's plot was scaled back a lot *after filming*... the DVD goes into how the galaxy was being transferred between races (the scene where Mr. Rosenburg gets shot had a meeting between both) and the bug stole it just to start a war. This was Too Complicated so they looped a lot of dialogue etc.
I remember once seeing part of the bridge set recreation done for "Relics" at Great America (Paramont owns that too:P ) but my memory might be hazy on that bit. Anyway, there was definiely a captain's chair replica from that too.
Given that basically all of those $49 Dreamcasts are gone from the shelves at this point, the PS1 price drop is probably more likely to be owed to higher integration, mainland Chinese (cheap!) production, and the desire to sell more of the PS1 catalogue...
If you're gonna go nvidia, might as well get a ti200 or ti4400, tho, slightly more expensive but much better values... I think higher-end gf4ti's have better 2d circuits than previous nvidia products, too. It's something one needs to do homework on.
Another thing to note is that it should be almost trivial for Nintendo to make a Gamecube 2 in a couple of years - the ATI/ArtX team is still together I think, and IBM is still actively developing the PPC G3 core and might even be including the GC's SIMD unit next year in generally available chips. It's a lot less challenging than designing the PS2/PS3, albeit a bit more than XBox2.
I'm playing around with dvgrab, transcode (working on a few filters for it, too), etc. You can use divx4 and xvid to make.avi's, and mjpegtool's mpeg2enc and toolame to make VCD's and SVCD's. A very modular approach.
Note that DV *is* a bit lossy, but it's not too bad, aside from the fact that the color space is a bit odd - 4/1 x/y reduction instead of the 2/2 done in mpeg-2. So encoding a final result with >352 horizontal resolution is subpar in that regard.
When it all works, the dvgrab solution is much smoother than analog ones as the sync is handled by your camcorder or other codec device. The Linux drivers are sometimes flaky though, and you need to have a good set for it all to work.
Now to finally get around to setting up the IR reciever so I can use the cable mouse off my digital cable box... and then automated recording... PVR-land here I come (albeit very expensively:) )
The Gigabyte 7IXE4 was the only all-AMD chipset single Socket A board commercially released. Nice board, I have one... I wish it was still in production actually.
I just had a 20GB Deskstar 40GV begin to go (and my spare was starting to go too) so that hits a bit close to home... (just put in a Maxtor D740X 80GB tho to replace it, vroom)
With Debian and the 82559-based Intel NICs I've used with PXE, I did not need any special PXE settings, just pxelinux and the dhcp-server and tftp-hpa daemons in Debian woody/unstable. I've successfully booted a kernel with a ~30-31MB initrd.gz (decompressing to 128MB) and it's not difficult to use at all. I'm building three diskless cluster boxen using the D810EMO which also works very well for this. You can even load memtest86 to test the box, since it uses the Linux loader.
I was researching the Eden platform stuff before this announcement - the original specs were for 533mhz CPUs. Basically the difference is that these CPUs are supposedly tested at higher temperatures and guaranteed to run without a fan. Also note that under Linux with the right software the multiplier can be completely unlocked on the C3 series and changed in software.
I just ordered some Casedge Micro/FlexATX small cases from www.techstore.com for ~$40. Some shops have the AOpen H340D with 180W P4-rated PSU (from Sparkle) for $45-50, too.
I grabbed an October 2000 unit last night for a friend's christmas present and the Linux CD-R worked on it. It might have been one of the last units with the old BIOS, but people have gotten Dec. 2000 units working as well. I believe that if the CD is burned correctly - which the dreamcast.tar.bz2 does - it will work - only some Japanese units cannot boot from CD(-R) at all. (YMMV, just in case...)
The fact they offered AMD systems was about the only thing that differentiated their hardware from Dell, whom Gateway (stores aside) is merely a poor copy of.
It would be nice if they actually sold stuff out of the stores, too, even if not full systems. There's a lot of space at the one near me which could actually be used to make money. Scary concept, I know...;)
At least Gateway has a better accessory store (NECX) - mostly because they bought that rather than made one themselves.
I think they just let the domain expire, and then the Project Mayo people got it to promote OpenDIVX as the next real DIVX, which has aparently worked.
... and the Athlon performed below spec in beta as well. It's not a damning problem, unless there's a bug in the shipping version. Which will probably happen in May/June since Via is going into PRODUCTION in April.
There is code in arch/i386/setup.c which disables the PSN if detected, so unless someone accidently slips and loads a kernel module designed to re-activate it Linux users have nothing to worry about.
Besides, if you have an Ethernet card with a loaded driver, your machine already has an ID.
Yup... but that wasn't the issue... Amptron exclusively sells relabled PC Chips mobos, and can only be considered competition in the _marketing_ space if anything. Of course they sell a lot of other things too, such as monitors (someone i know swears by their 15" ones) etc.
This is the only explination why the Amptron dual board needs an APIC module, as only PC Chips would dare build dual boards without the APIC chips soldered on...
I know VA dosen't build their own components - I'd be suprised if they _weren't_ using Intel-made mobos for instance, esp. since Intel bought a stake in them IIRC. I wouldn't find getting an Intel board upsetting at all though.:) (In fact, I'm writing this on an AST PPro200 with an Intel mobo _and_ case. Nice box.)
This sorta thing happens all over the place... for instance in a lot of places the same company owns the (aparently) competing radio stations in the same genre and making it _look_ like a non-monopoly.
This isn't going to be pretty folks... most of the vendors who would actually sell PC Chips boards to people are going to use cheaper components all around. You're likely to see lower-grade memory and power supplies in these boxes too, and overall they'll be a lot less reliable than a Windozer from someone reputable enough to use good parts.
PC Chips uses several different brand names to confuse people. It's kind of like how Magnavox and several other brand names sell Funai VCR's of about the same quality.
OTOH, enough of these mobos actually work... otherwise they'd be completely run out of the industry. You're one of the lucky ones:)
It's a real shame A/Open, Asus, or Tyan didn't sell mobos using the ALI Aladdin IV... it was arguably the first chipset equal to the 430HX.
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A VIA C3... you can get it on an EPIA board for about a tenth the price of Transmeta's eval board, natch.
Actually MIB 1's plot was scaled back a lot *after filming*... the DVD goes into how the galaxy was being transferred between races (the scene where Mr. Rosenburg gets shot had a meeting between both) and the bug stole it just to start a war. This was Too Complicated so they looped a lot of dialogue etc.
I remember once seeing part of the bridge set recreation done for "Relics" at Great America (Paramont owns that too :P ) but my memory might be hazy on that bit. Anyway, there was definiely a captain's chair replica from that too.
Given that basically all of those $49 Dreamcasts are gone from the shelves at this point, the PS1 price drop is probably more likely to be owed to higher integration, mainland Chinese (cheap!) production, and the desire to sell more of the PS1 catalogue...
If you're gonna go nvidia, might as well get a ti200 or ti4400, tho, slightly more expensive but much better values... I think higher-end gf4ti's have better 2d circuits than previous nvidia products, too. It's something one needs to do homework on.
Another thing to note is that it should be almost trivial for Nintendo to make a Gamecube 2 in a couple of years - the ATI/ArtX team is still together I think, and IBM is still actively developing the PPC G3 core and might even be including the GC's SIMD unit next year in generally available chips. It's a lot less challenging than designing the PS2/PS3, albeit a bit more than XBox2.
I'm playing around with dvgrab, transcode (working on a few filters for it, too), etc. You can use divx4 and xvid to make .avi's, and mjpegtool's mpeg2enc and toolame to make VCD's and SVCD's. A very modular approach.
:) )
Note that DV *is* a bit lossy, but it's not too bad, aside from the fact that the color space is a bit odd - 4/1 x/y reduction instead of the 2/2 done in mpeg-2. So encoding a final result with >352 horizontal resolution is subpar in that regard.
When it all works, the dvgrab solution is much smoother than analog ones as the sync is handled by your camcorder or other codec device. The Linux drivers are sometimes flaky though, and you need to have a good set for it all to work.
Now to finally get around to setting up the IR reciever so I can use the cable mouse off my digital cable box... and then automated recording... PVR-land here I come (albeit very expensively
The Gigabyte 7IXE4 was the only all-AMD chipset single Socket A board commercially released. Nice board, I have one... I wish it was still in production actually.
+1, Funny...
I just had a 20GB Deskstar 40GV begin to go (and my spare was starting to go too) so that hits a bit close to home... (just put in a Maxtor D740X 80GB tho to replace it, vroom)
The one linked to is an NLX case, but if you look at the left side you can select the 1300 series which I'm using...
With Debian and the 82559-based Intel NICs I've used with PXE, I did not need any special PXE settings, just pxelinux and the dhcp-server and tftp-hpa daemons in Debian woody/unstable. I've successfully booted a kernel with a ~30-31MB initrd.gz (decompressing to 128MB) and it's not difficult to use at all. I'm building three diskless cluster boxen using the D810EMO which also works very well for this. You can even load memtest86 to test the box, since it uses the Linux loader.
I'm building a FlexATX box around the Intel D810EMO board, and that's pretty tiny... and these motherboards are smaller than that.
I was researching the Eden platform stuff before this announcement - the original specs were for 533mhz CPUs. Basically the difference is that these CPUs are supposedly tested at higher temperatures and guaranteed to run without a fan. Also note that under Linux with the right software the multiplier can be completely unlocked on the C3 series and changed in software.
Looks cool... the one aggrevation is they stuck a Realtek NIC on instead of the Intel 82562 that Intel uses.
I just ordered some Casedge Micro/FlexATX small cases from www.techstore.com for ~$40. Some shops have the AOpen H340D with 180W P4-rated PSU (from Sparkle) for $45-50, too.
I grabbed an October 2000 unit last night for a friend's christmas present and the Linux CD-R worked on it. It might have been one of the last units with the old BIOS, but people have gotten Dec. 2000 units working as well. I believe that if the CD is burned correctly - which the dreamcast .tar.bz2 does - it will work - only some Japanese units cannot boot from CD(-R) at all. (YMMV, just in case...)
The fact they offered AMD systems was about the only thing that differentiated their hardware from Dell, whom Gateway (stores aside) is merely a poor copy of.
;)
It would be nice if they actually sold stuff out of the stores, too, even if not full systems. There's a lot of space at the one near me which could actually be used to make money. Scary concept, I know...
At least Gateway has a better accessory store (NECX) - mostly because they bought that rather than made one themselves.
I think they just let the domain expire, and then the Project Mayo people got it to promote OpenDIVX as the next real DIVX, which has aparently worked.
"The Intel® 186 processor is the original member of the Intel Architecture family." I guess all those IBM 5150 PC's and XTs used AMD chips. ;)
There is code in arch/i386/setup.c which disables the PSN if detected, so unless someone accidently slips and loads a kernel module designed to re-activate it Linux users have nothing to worry about.
Besides, if you have an Ethernet card with a loaded driver, your machine already has an ID.
Yup... but that wasn't the issue... Amptron exclusively sells relabled PC Chips mobos, and can only be considered competition in the _marketing_ space if anything. Of course they sell a lot of other things too, such as monitors (someone i know swears by their 15" ones) etc.
This is the only explination why the Amptron dual board needs an APIC module, as only PC Chips would dare build dual boards without the APIC chips soldered on...
I know VA dosen't build their own components - I'd be suprised if they _weren't_ using Intel-made mobos for instance, esp. since Intel bought a stake in them IIRC. I wouldn't find getting an Intel board upsetting at all though. :) (In fact, I'm writing this on an AST PPro200 with an Intel mobo _and_ case. Nice box.)
This sorta thing happens all over the place... for instance in a lot of places the same company owns the (aparently) competing radio stations in the same genre and making it _look_ like a non-monopoly.
This isn't going to be pretty folks... most of the vendors who would actually sell PC Chips boards to people are going to use cheaper components all around. You're likely to see lower-grade memory and power supplies in these boxes too, and overall they'll be a lot less reliable than a Windozer from someone reputable enough to use good parts.
PC Chips uses several different brand names to confuse people. It's kind of like how Magnavox and several other brand names sell Funai VCR's of about the same quality.
OTOH, enough of these mobos actually work... otherwise they'd be completely run out of the industry. You're one of the lucky ones :)
It's a real shame A/Open, Asus, or Tyan didn't sell mobos using the ALI Aladdin IV... it was arguably the first chipset equal to the 430HX.