I have always found distributed.net to be a relative structured organization. Their software with personal proxies made joining much easier than the Seti project, esp for people behind corporate firewalls. Small unobtrusive clients (esp for the des/rc5 projects) for a LOT of platforms.
It would be a shame to see them disappear. They've had/has a lot of cumulative computing power, and it ought to be put to real use.
Ah, the days of installing the res/rc5-42 clients on lots of 386 and 486 machines and actually having them do some real computing....
I've waited for SFF boxes for a long time. Perfect for small desktops (PC X stations:) on the kitchen, living room, bedroom etc...
What's putting me off is that motherboards and cabinets have been non-standard and hard to upgrade. If we can have a new truly small form factor just as standardized as ATX (right, standard non-standard you might say, but still...) it will be a big step ahead for me.
Battery Info on my ThinkPad says around 14W (22W with DVD spinning), with a network pc card active.
Depends on your battery setup I presume. I don't have very strict battery savings settings.
So I suppose that 15W is a realistic average...
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In a new house I woul go for cat7 wire. It has several advantages. First it's certified for gigabit ethernet, secondly the wires are individually shielded. It has 8 wires in each cable and you can easily run two 100Mbps/FDX in one cable.
Anyone remember Workplace Shell? How every file was just another object that could be associated with any number of apps? How you could - if you wanted to - associate through filename suffixes, but what you really did was to associate through the object class hierarchy?
Boy, do I miss that!
A fully CORBA compliant desktop manager.
GNOME/KDE folks should really spend a couple of weeks to discover all the implications of that.
I've never liked the Alphas due to the poor design. They only managed to get performance by increasing the MHz on the thing.
I saw some performance numbers early on, with an Alpha 275MHz and an PowerPC 601 100MHz.
PowerPC relative performance: 100
Alpha relative performance: 175
So, for 175% higher MHz, it only performed 75% faster. This was with a small CPU benchmark, entirely contained in the L1 cache.
To me, that's poor design.
It isn't just a question of physical RAM, but also a question of virtual memory size. The 4GB addressable range is split up into various block with different uses, like 1-2GB for apps, 1-2GB for system/OS, 1-2GB for hardware (i.e memory mapping for 3D gfx gards). This is the reason Windows 9x only support 512MB memory max.
So, any single app in your 4GB Intel achine cannot access the entire 4GB address range. If you need 4GB you're out of luck. (this is a bit simplified).//The Toon
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I have always found distributed.net to be a relative structured organization. Their software with personal proxies made joining much easier than the Seti project, esp for people behind corporate firewalls. Small unobtrusive clients (esp for the des/rc5 projects) for a LOT of platforms.
It would be a shame to see them disappear. They've had/has a lot of cumulative computing power, and it ought to be put to real use.
Ah, the days of installing the res/rc5-42 clients on lots of 386 and 486 machines and actually having them do some real computing....
I prefer MicroPlanet Gravity myself for win/nntp stuff...
I've waited for SFF boxes for a long time. Perfect for small desktops (PC X stations :) on the kitchen, living room, bedroom etc...
What's putting me off is that motherboards and cabinets have been non-standard and hard to upgrade. If we can have a new truly small form factor just as standardized as ATX (right, standard non-standard you might say, but still...) it will be a big step ahead for me.
//TheToon
Anything generally known that was made with Blender?
Battery Info on my ThinkPad says around 14W (22W with DVD spinning), with a network pc card active.
Depends on your battery setup I presume. I don't have very strict battery savings settings.
So I suppose that 15W is a realistic average...
In a new house I woul go for cat7 wire. It has several advantages. First it's certified for gigabit ethernet, secondly the wires are individually shielded. It has 8 wires in each cable and you can easily run two 100Mbps/FDX in one cable.
Anyone remember Workplace Shell? How every file was just another object that could be associated with any number of apps? How you could - if you wanted to - associate through filename suffixes, but what you really did was to associate through the object class hierarchy?
Boy, do I miss that!
A fully CORBA compliant desktop manager.
GNOME/KDE folks should really spend a couple of weeks to discover all the implications of that.
I've never liked the Alphas due to the poor design. They only managed to get performance by increasing the MHz on the thing. I saw some performance numbers early on, with an Alpha 275MHz and an PowerPC 601 100MHz. PowerPC relative performance: 100 Alpha relative performance: 175 So, for 175% higher MHz, it only performed 75% faster. This was with a small CPU benchmark, entirely contained in the L1 cache. To me, that's poor design.
It isn't just a question of physical RAM, but also a question of virtual memory size. The 4GB addressable range is split up into various block with different uses, like 1-2GB for apps, 1-2GB for system/OS, 1-2GB for hardware (i.e memory mapping for 3D gfx gards). This is the reason Windows 9x only support 512MB memory max. So, any single app in your 4GB Intel achine cannot access the entire 4GB address range. If you need 4GB you're out of luck. (this is a bit simplified). //The Toon