I'll second the Burnout3 choice in single player. Only, too bad they don't propose multi-console LAN play as I really hate split-screen and I'm too cheap to play on Live... What's TV resolutions, something like 400 lines right ? So basically each player gets 200 lines each in split-screen mode, but you're still expected to drive 200mph through traffic-filled streets ? I don't think so !
Excellent suggestion you throw in about why not creating one's own Live server. Just such a service already exists for multi-console LAN play, but as far as I've tried only few games actually support multi-console LAN (Halo2 being one of them but you can't play co-op the solo missions).
Far many more games support Live, so this idea of some day have a free Live clone is very interesting indeed.. With the many modded xboxen around, and people who want to play their backed-up games, maybe it's just a matter of time ?
Re:Other record: Best reviewed game ever?
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I have a different kind of record to propose...
However, British Xbox gamers will have to wait for two days until 11 November, when the game will be unveiled in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
No mention that the french version has been out for some time. I actually thought for a moment that they had forgotten, but they no have not !
"With more than 1.5 million copies already pre-ordered,
Notice the clever interpretation; what they really meant was, "With more than 1.5 million copies already pre-0wned
Coming from W Bush, this is incredibly short-sighted and selfish. Protect american jobs today, wreck the planet, and risk loosing million of lives tomorrow (not just americans, thank you very much)? Just look over to Florida where hurricanes are become more & more powerful every year, but not many realize the connection between cause and effect. Eventually we'll all pay the price.
Actually I have two 21" right on front of me. The first one is a venerable Iiyama vision Master 500 paid +/- 1250 euros 7 years ago, and is by far my best buy in terms of computer equipment.
The second one I got for just 175 euros (and they're going for 150 now) and is a HP A4576A which sports a Trinitron tube, does 107 KHz horizontal refresh rate and looks almost as good as my Iyama.
My point is that today you can find second-hand 21" CRT monitors for 150 euros a piece, so for me the decision to go dual-headed was a no brainer.
Executive summary (=for the lazy who don't RTFA)
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only nVidia GPUs are supported now. ATI's are just not supported by ID at this point in time
the same features are supported on both platforms
the win32 version is noticeably (25-50%) faster when using higher-end video hardware than the linux version
in lower quality settings, both versions are about the same.
That's it folks. For more boring details, well RTFA:)
Fortunately you may get a fresh, Ms-certified, Live dashboard right from the source (for people wondering: torrent link to SlaYers EvoX Auto-Installer v2.6 FINAL, the über-installation disc for modded xboxes).
Fractions... Who needs fractions ? You get two hands and each holds 5 fingers... 5 + 5 = 10 (tada!)... It's that simple, really. No need to complicated issues, and later think what's that screw size again, or what's an 1/1.8" CCD in real units, not to mention interoperability with foreign countries (assuming the UK would go along with it too).
Your example about one hour makes little sense: if an hour was 10 minutes, half-an-hour would be 5 minutes...easy. One quarter of an hour would still be one quarter of an hour. And instead of rounding everything up to multiples of 2 or 5 minutes, we would have learned the length of time of one minute, and we'd all be speaking in minutes instead of trying to find a higher meaningful multiple value. So actually this would even work nicely:-)
The Product ID and Product Key are not retained beyond the end of the Windows Update session, unless the Product ID is not valid.
So much for the majority of consumers running pirated XP Corp versions... Since they would no longer be able to get updates, I wonder how long until they become the next source of virus-spreading craze.
As an interesting side effect, perhaps this will finally encourage people in this group to massively ditch XP Corp and go for Linux instead.
I was still at university in 1996 and the computing science department was running on a SINGLE ibm server with 128Mb of ram, running AIX 4.x.
This thing ran an Oracle database, mail/web servers, did nfs/nis, supported two dozen X-terminals and at least 50 text terminals. We would run out of memory only very occasionally, when people started doing stupid things like run their window manager on the server itself rather than use the one built-in the X terminals.
The machine was not fast, but it ran to the department needs and people weren't less intelligent because of this. Maybe quite the opposite in fact: since you didn't want to compile your progamming assignment every couple lines, people were more considerate about writing quality code in the first place and make use of the resources we had more efficiently. This produced a generation of programmers who were concerned about writing good code.
Today, any a 2GHz+ PC with 1GB+ of ram would put the machine we were using back then to shame in terms of raw computing power and even i/o, with the proper supporting hardware (fast scsi disks, cyclades serial ports board, etc.)
One last thing about Linux IIRC, part of the memory used by programs is actually shared if two or more users use the same application, so memory utilization is efficient in a multi-user setup.
How is that: 30,000+ employees and the standard web browser is Netscape 7. IE6 is fine too, and is also supported by the IT group, but it isn't the standard. Engineers usually use Mozilla or Firefox, while some use Safari. We have designed our Intranet and corporate website such that it does not rely on proprietary software to begin with, that's all.
Let the boss handle what bosses normally do and just take the decision based on IT recommendations alone... You know it makes sense.
Just because a single site "looks bad" by the boss' taste is hardly an excuse for letting open your company's IT infrastructure to all sort of malware and viruses. Even if not for the technical aspect, the boss will understand how much money can saved by avoiding the problems in the first place, and should be convinced. Same as with backups, really: this comment from earlier today, is pretty insightful to that matter: how much is your data worth ? Justify the migration "costs" (free in your case, but some cosmetic issues the boss will have to do with) by figuring out what your data is worth to begin with.
You've got it. And the most common such ASIC in Cisco's middle range is called PXF for Parallel Express Forwarding.
PXF is basically a programmable ASIC using a custom assembly language (think of it as a FPGA) where packets come in one side and are pushed through columns. Each PXF is one grid of 4 rows x 4 colums (16 CPU in total), and packets stay in each column for 128 cycles. Each column is responsible for one task, rarely two. What one PXF does includes IP decapsultaion and encapsulation, sanity checks (ttl, etc.), netflow accounting, NAT, L2TP, Policing/CAR, MAC rewrite, WRED, WFQ, LLQ, traffic shaping, L2TP LNS. This was 2 years ago on the c7200 and c7400 platform; now they're using two PFX processors in serial on newer platforms to do even more features.
PXF is found on the c7200 platform (NSE-1), c7304, c7401, OSM line cards for the Cat6K/c7600, ESR 10k and uBR 10K where two PXF are working in serial, 10720, and probably more.
So the PXF basically does the features described above in hardware. When the c7304 was introduced it was the quickest NAT box that Cisco had with 2Mpps switching performance with NAT. The main router CPU was hovering at 0% utilization, obviously. Not too shaby.. I'd like to see a PC do that but I don't think it's gonna happen any time soon:)
Good point. I like being ble to multitask several things on screen, this imposes that I browse websites in a window rather than full-screen. While my screen resolution is 1280 my browser rarely exceeds 1150x900 in actual window resolution. Removes the window decorations, the various web browser bars, and the useable resolution drops to something near 1024x768. I don't mind sites designed for 800x600 since most of them will render well no matter the resolution (remember that HTML is supposed to be fluid)..
A better definition of the problem would be: what's the minimum useable browser estate rather than the computer's screen resolution. Let people use higher resolutions if they want to, and allow web sites to scale up. This is IMHO the real issue.
On the topic: anyone tried WindowsUpdate recently in 640x480 ? Not pretty.
Actually, I believe it is the basic, empty chassis which costs $450K...
Individual line cards will be much more expensive. Carriers will need to buy several, perhaps even many of these to take advantage of the architecture.
Some Catalyst 6500 and GSR line cards already retail at >$300K.
Just for clarification I have absolutely no affiliation with the person which I linked in parent post, nor am I publishing anything. My post was to illustrate that anybody with 5 seconds and google can find this info (search for xpkey.exe, the link will show at the bottom of the first page).
Concerning all of Cisco's products subject to a serious vulnerability, their take on this is pretty clear (text below copied from the last one to date):
"Customers without Service Contracts
Customers who purchase direct from Cisco but who do not hold a Cisco service contract and customers who purchase through third-party vendors but are unsuccessful at obtaining fixed software through their point of sale should get their upgrades by contacting the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). [...]"
So in their case, you get the software upgrades, no strings attached. It'd be nice to see Microsoft continue to do the same, for the greater good.
I'm in exactly in the same situation for having participated to one OSS project as a brief contributor. Searching either on my name or on my email address will turn up dozen of ChangeLog entries listing my email address.
Worse than that, my name and email also appear on one OSS project's discussion board, in full and with really akeward comments from 1997 or so... Kind of embarassing to read them now, especially with potential clients googling anybody's identities 8-)
I don't otherwise sign up my primary email address to any lists of sorts, and I use fake names when signing up for non-essential things; I also use disposable webmail addresses and vanity domains for that purpose. I only clean-up web accounts accounts prior to expecting some sort of comfirmation email, after which the account goes back to the abandoned, spammed-to-death status for another while.
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I had no idea that SO MANY people were interested in tank jumping ;)
I'll second the Burnout3 choice in single player. Only, too bad they don't propose multi-console LAN play as I really hate split-screen and I'm too cheap to play on Live... What's TV resolutions, something like 400 lines right ? So basically each player gets 200 lines each in split-screen mode, but you're still expected to drive 200mph through traffic-filled streets ? I don't think so !
Far many more games support Live, so this idea of some day have a free Live clone is very interesting indeed.. With the many modded xboxen around, and people who want to play their backed-up games, maybe it's just a matter of time ?
However, British Xbox gamers will have to wait for two days until 11 November, when the game will be unveiled in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
No mention that the french version has been out for some time. I actually thought for a moment that they had forgotten, but they no have not !
"With more than 1.5 million copies already pre-ordered,
Notice the clever interpretation; what they really meant was, "With more than 1.5 million copies already pre-0wned
Okay I'll shut up now :D
Coming from W Bush, this is incredibly short-sighted and selfish. Protect american jobs today, wreck the planet, and risk loosing million of lives tomorrow (not just americans, thank you very much)? Just look over to Florida where hurricanes are become more & more powerful every year, but not many realize the connection between cause and effect. Eventually we'll all pay the price.
Does not look so good, does it ? Let's try the other form:
Right here... much better :)
This simple trick brought to you by someone fed up to see such gross mistakes allowed to make it to frontpages.
My point is that today you can find second-hand 21" CRT monitors for 150 euros a piece, so for me the decision to go dual-headed was a no brainer.
That's it folks. For more boring details, well RTFA :)
Fortunately you may get a fresh, Ms-certified, Live dashboard right from the source (for people wondering: torrent link to SlaYers EvoX Auto-Installer v2.6 FINAL, the über-installation disc for modded xboxes).
Your example about one hour makes little sense: if an hour was 10 minutes, half-an-hour would be 5 minutes...easy. One quarter of an hour would still be one quarter of an hour. And instead of rounding everything up to multiples of 2 or 5 minutes, we would have learned the length of time of one minute, and we'd all be speaking in minutes instead of trying to find a higher meaningful multiple value. So actually this would even work nicely :-)
So much for the majority of consumers running pirated XP Corp versions... Since they would no longer be able to get updates, I wonder how long until they become the next source of virus-spreading craze.
As an interesting side effect, perhaps this will finally encourage people in this group to massively ditch XP Corp and go for Linux instead.
This thing ran an Oracle database, mail/web servers, did nfs/nis, supported two dozen X-terminals and at least 50 text terminals. We would run out of memory only very occasionally, when people started doing stupid things like run their window manager on the server itself rather than use the one built-in the X terminals.
The machine was not fast, but it ran to the department needs and people weren't less intelligent because of this. Maybe quite the opposite in fact: since you didn't want to compile your progamming assignment every couple lines, people were more considerate about writing quality code in the first place and make use of the resources we had more efficiently. This produced a generation of programmers who were concerned about writing good code.
Today, any a 2GHz+ PC with 1GB+ of ram would put the machine we were using back then to shame in terms of raw computing power and even i/o, with the proper supporting hardware (fast scsi disks, cyclades serial ports board, etc.)
One last thing about Linux IIRC, part of the memory used by programs is actually shared if two or more users use the same application, so memory utilization is efficient in a multi-user setup.
How is that: 30,000+ employees and the standard web browser is Netscape 7. IE6 is fine too, and is also supported by the IT group, but it isn't the standard. Engineers usually use Mozilla or Firefox, while some use Safari. We have designed our Intranet and corporate website such that it does not rely on proprietary software to begin with, that's all.
Just because a single site "looks bad" by the boss' taste is hardly an excuse for letting open your company's IT infrastructure to all sort of malware and viruses. Even if not for the technical aspect, the boss will understand how much money can saved by avoiding the problems in the first place, and should be convinced. Same as with backups, really: this comment from earlier today, is pretty insightful to that matter: how much is your data worth ? Justify the migration "costs" (free in your case, but some cosmetic issues the boss will have to do with) by figuring out what your data is worth to begin with.
I wonder if this will also work in tight spaces, where you end-up inching your way through.
You've got it. And the most common such ASIC in Cisco's middle range is called PXF for Parallel Express Forwarding.
PXF is basically a programmable ASIC using a custom assembly language (think of it as a FPGA) where packets come in one side and are pushed through columns. Each PXF is one grid of 4 rows x 4 colums (16 CPU in total), and packets stay in each column for 128 cycles. Each column is responsible for one task, rarely two. What one PXF does includes IP decapsultaion and encapsulation, sanity checks (ttl, etc.), netflow accounting, NAT, L2TP, Policing/CAR, MAC rewrite, WRED, WFQ, LLQ, traffic shaping, L2TP LNS. This was 2 years ago on the c7200 and c7400 platform; now they're using two PFX processors in serial on newer platforms to do even more features.
PXF is found on the c7200 platform (NSE-1), c7304, c7401, OSM line cards for the Cat6K/c7600, ESR 10k and uBR 10K where two PXF are working in serial, 10720, and probably more.
So the PXF basically does the features described above in hardware. When the c7304 was introduced it was the quickest NAT box that Cisco had with 2Mpps switching performance with NAT. The main router CPU was hovering at 0% utilization, obviously. Not too shaby.. I'd like to see a PC do that but I don't think it's gonna happen any time soon :)
A better definition of the problem would be: what's the minimum useable browser estate rather than the computer's screen resolution. Let people use higher resolutions if they want to, and allow web sites to scale up. This is IMHO the real issue.
On the topic: anyone tried WindowsUpdate recently in 640x480 ? Not pretty.
Time to update your success story pages again.
Regards,
Linus
Individual line cards will be much more expensive. Carriers will need to buy several, perhaps even many of these to take advantage of the architecture.
Some Catalyst 6500 and GSR line cards already retail at >$300K.
Wait.... Weren't these found on that russian website the other day ?
And no one shouting 'DUPE' ??? I don't get it.
Just for clarification I have absolutely no affiliation with the person which I linked in parent post, nor am I publishing anything. My post was to illustrate that anybody with 5 seconds and google can find this info (search for xpkey.exe, the link will show at the bottom of the first page).
People w/o a valid SP1 key, please I implore you, don't look over this way =)
" Customers without Service Contracts
Customers who purchase direct from Cisco but who do not hold a Cisco service contract and customers who purchase through third-party vendors but are unsuccessful at obtaining fixed software through their point of sale should get their upgrades by contacting the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). [...]"
So in their case, you get the software upgrades, no strings attached. It'd be nice to see Microsoft continue to do the same, for the greater good.
Worse than that, my name and email also appear on one OSS project's discussion board, in full and with really akeward comments from 1997 or so... Kind of embarassing to read them now, especially with potential clients googling anybody's identities 8-)
I don't otherwise sign up my primary email address to any lists of sorts, and I use fake names when signing up for non-essential things; I also use disposable webmail addresses and vanity domains for that purpose. I only clean-up web accounts accounts prior to expecting some sort of comfirmation email, after which the account goes back to the abandoned, spammed-to-death status for another while.