Wouldn't it be easier to just format a floppy disk as a system disk. Copy format, edit, fdisk, and any other essientials to the floppy. Boot the floppy on the 486 and then patition and format the hard drive? Then copy the other programs over to the hard drive?
The even more interesting thing is just how well the Kyro II line of card (Herc 3D Prophet 4500) is standing up to the GeForce 2 line of cards. That's not bad if I say so myself. At 1024x768x32, the card that nVidia dubbed "TNT 2 class" is keeping up with the GF2 pack, and is right behind the high-end GeForce 2.
Personally,I think that the Kyro 2 is the best deal in video accelerators right now. It's got plenty of juice for current games, produces a beautiful image, and can be puchased for a price as low as $60-$70. There really is no reason to buy a GF2MX considering the performance gain that you get with a Kyro 2. And, when the chips finally get a hardware T&L unit, they will be smokin.
Now, if only they would release those Linux drivers...
Even with T-Birds, they will most likely just lock up the machine before any real damage can be done. It doesn't take much time to fry a CPU, but the thing is normally going to lock up and puke long before it dies.
I've tested this with a Duron, and while they don't get as hot as the fastest Athlons, they still get pretty darn hot.
Typically, AMD based mobos are cheaper, and a $10 Cooler Master heatsink/fan is perfectly suitable for cooling. You need no more, unless you intend on overclocking the chip. Aside from that, every platform, regardless of CPU can at least benefit from an extra 12V fan to blow hot air out, or cool air in.
Besides... I have noticed that the Athlon XP 1600+ runs 5-10 C degrees cooler than the 1400 T-Birds. They are the same clock speed, but have a totally different core. It also depends on your mobo and BIOS among other things, but typically, the new Athlon XP line stays nice and cool.
Really though. Even if Athlons were more expensive to cool, do you think that it would cost an extra $200-$300? It's not likely.
"Of course not. AMD's processor benchmarks represent one _system_ configuration. They are meaningless (and misleading) across different systems."
And still, regardless of platform, the AMD Athlon XP still bests comparable Pentium 4 CPUs on an average benchmark. The proof is in the pudding Not only does AMD say so, but the major hardware testers say so, and more importantly I say so. I have tested them, and I know what is a better value, and I know what is a better CPU.
Intel makes good products, but they seriously need to check themselves. This Intel name thing has to stop, necause their products really just aren't worth the extra bucks.
The major problems with AMD's new approach is that their newer XP products really don't offer a significant advantage over their T-Bird line. I have a 1.4 GHz AYHJA T-Bird, that under the right conditions could be possibly OC'd all the way up to 1.6-1.8 GHz. A cooler running core of the XP isn't really a substantial reason to upgrade. The geeks know this. Why do they need to be "wowed" by some performance rating. The eXtreme Processing rating is merely there to start wowing the consumers that don't understant that "more MegaHurts" doesn't make it faster.
The only thing that I can say is...
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If you want an OGG player, then stop using MP3.
If more users start picking up on OGG, then they will support the format.
Opera has just figured out how to implement a good payment system for their products. They realize, that to succeed, they have to keep making their products better than everyone else's. This is the only way that they can make money, and stay on top of things. This means that they have to spread out their resources and develop on *all* platforms if possible, and try to make their product more stable, and faster than everyone elses.
It's still not a totally perfect if you use a digital cable. The PCM is still going through a conversion process that lowers the quality. Add to that the fact that CD Audio is subjust to (normal) anomalies to begin with, and is always subject to errors- even on the best players.
The most tried and true way is to use a good ripping program with error correction, like Exact Audio Copy from http://www.eac.de . It uses one of the most precise error correcting processes that I have ever seen in a ripper. Unfortunately, it will probably not work correctly with these new "CDs."
This is interesting, and very true. For a long time, I have just used Google to search for a web page instead of trying to make a guess. Often, the closest guess are wrong. Even some less experienced computer users, like my parents, use a search engine, and almost never type in an address.
If these are available, can you tell me where to find them? What region are they (I have an Apex player, so it doesn't matter.) There is a website that is full of Millennium fans, and none of them are aware of there ever being a DVD release. There were VHS rentals of the first few episodes, and someone converted his Japanese Millennium laser disk copies onto DVD-R, but those were costly.
I would like to get DSL service instead of Cable, but DSL is stil unavailable in my area. I kinda have this thing about avoiding AOL/Time Warner partners.
I was playing Virtual On on my Dreamcast last night, and the mechs reminded me of OMF 2097. I miss that old game. It was quite fun.
At http://www.omf.com/ you will find previews for the next OMF game, a 3d arena-type fighter. It's being made by many of the same designers of the original, and I hear that they purchased the rights from Epic Megagames.
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That's a frightening possibility that seems like it could be totally true.
I'd mod you up man, but I can't.
Internet Explorer?
It may not be a filesystem backend, but MS claims that it is part of the kernel backend.
Same thing applies. Let's ship our product with a peice of FUD that isn't required to make it "go" but the judges won't know the difference in court.
It's all part of the same ol' game.
I did the same thing with my old Duron. Most mobos can do it, you just have to make sure that it is set to do so.
Wouldn't it be easier to just format a floppy disk as a system disk. Copy format, edit, fdisk, and any other essientials to the floppy. Boot the floppy on the 486 and then patition and format the hard drive? Then copy the other programs over to the hard drive?
The even more interesting thing is just how well the Kyro II line of card (Herc 3D Prophet 4500) is standing up to the GeForce 2 line of cards. That's not bad if I say so myself. At 1024x768x32, the card that nVidia dubbed "TNT 2 class" is keeping up with the GF2 pack, and is right behind the high-end GeForce 2.
Personally,I think that the Kyro 2 is the best deal in video accelerators right now. It's got plenty of juice for current games, produces a beautiful image, and can be puchased for a price as low as $60-$70. There really is no reason to buy a GF2MX considering the performance gain that you get with a Kyro 2. And, when the chips finally get a hardware T&L unit, they will be smokin.
Now, if only they would release those Linux drivers...
Even with T-Birds, they will most likely just lock up the machine before any real damage can be done. It doesn't take much time to fry a CPU, but the thing is normally going to lock up and puke long before it dies.
I've tested this with a Duron, and while they don't get as hot as the fastest Athlons, they still get pretty darn hot.
Typically, AMD based mobos are cheaper, and a $10 Cooler Master heatsink/fan is perfectly suitable for cooling. You need no more, unless you intend on overclocking the chip. Aside from that, every platform, regardless of CPU can at least benefit from an extra 12V fan to blow hot air out, or cool air in.
Besides... I have noticed that the Athlon XP 1600+ runs 5-10 C degrees cooler than the 1400 T-Birds. They are the same clock speed, but have a totally different core. It also depends on your mobo and BIOS among other things, but typically, the new Athlon XP line stays nice and cool.
Really though. Even if Athlons were more expensive to cool, do you think that it would cost an extra $200-$300? It's not likely.
Just because you are using 133 MHz CAS2, doesn't mean that it is operating at 133 MHz... Or even CAS2 latency.
Just thought that you would like to know.
I agree, and if anything AMD is being VERY conservative about their ratings.
Athlon XP 2000 comparable to a a 2GHz P4? Lets try more than a 2.2 GHz P4, shall we?
"Of course not. AMD's processor benchmarks represent one _system_ configuration. They are meaningless (and misleading) across different systems."
And still, regardless of platform, the AMD Athlon XP still bests comparable Pentium 4 CPUs on an average benchmark. The proof is in the pudding Not only does AMD say so, but the major hardware testers say so, and more importantly I say so. I have tested them, and I know what is a better value, and I know what is a better CPU.
Intel makes good products, but they seriously need to check themselves. This Intel name thing has to stop, necause their products really just aren't worth the extra bucks.
The major problems with AMD's new approach is that their newer XP products really don't offer a significant advantage over their T-Bird line. I have a 1.4 GHz AYHJA T-Bird, that under the right conditions could be possibly OC'd all the way up to 1.6-1.8 GHz. A cooler running core of the XP isn't really a substantial reason to upgrade. The geeks know this. Why do they need to be "wowed" by some performance rating. The eXtreme Processing rating is merely there to start wowing the consumers that don't understant that "more MegaHurts" doesn't make it faster.
If you want an OGG player, then stop using MP3.
If more users start picking up on OGG, then they will support the format.
Why don't you just make a wav. and script the machine to play it through dev/dsp when you log in as root.
Oh. That would be too easy.
"Welcome!"
"You've got root!"
Opera has just figured out how to implement a good payment system for their products. They realize, that to succeed, they have to keep making their products better than everyone else's. This is the only way that they can make money, and stay on top of things. This means that they have to spread out their resources and develop on *all* platforms if possible, and try to make their product more stable, and faster than everyone elses.
You don't have to pay for Opera, but there is nothing wrong with paying for a good product. I support it, and I hope some of you will too.
I want Fabio to paint my Dodge Neon too.
Oops... My bad; must be the Google effect.
That link is http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
It probably uses the WMA format of some sort.
It's still not a totally perfect if you use a digital cable. The PCM is still going through a conversion process that lowers the quality. Add to that the fact that CD Audio is subjust to (normal) anomalies to begin with, and is always subject to errors- even on the best players.
The most tried and true way is to use a good ripping program with error correction, like Exact Audio Copy from http://www.eac.de . It uses one of the most precise error correcting processes that I have ever seen in a ripper. Unfortunately, it will probably not work correctly with these new "CDs."
They forgot to include an answer to "Why won't this playproperly in my CD player? It keeps skipping."
Personally, I hope that CD Player manufacturers *don't* design devices that support these fubared CDs.
This is interesting, and very true. For a long time, I have just used Google to search for a web page instead of trying to make a guess. Often, the closest guess are wrong. Even some less experienced computer users, like my parents, use a search engine, and almost never type in an address.
Maybe you were referring to the X-Files. We were talking about the other Chris Carter show, Millennium, which only had 3 seasons.
If these are available, can you tell me where to find them? What region are they (I have an Apex player, so it doesn't matter.) There is a website that is full of Millennium fans, and none of them are aware of there ever being a DVD release. There were VHS rentals of the first few episodes, and someone converted his Japanese Millennium laser disk copies onto DVD-R, but those were costly.
Now how about a Millennium movie, or perhaps a DVD boxed set of the series?
Now that was a wicked-sweet show.
I would like to get DSL service instead of Cable, but DSL is stil unavailable in my area. I kinda have this thing about avoiding AOL/Time Warner partners.
I was playing Virtual On on my Dreamcast last night, and the mechs reminded me of OMF 2097. I miss that old game. It was quite fun.
At http://www.omf.com/ you will find previews for the next OMF game, a 3d arena-type fighter. It's being made by many of the same designers of the original, and I hear that they purchased the rights from Epic Megagames.