I don't know why the meme that software (or pseudo-hardware) RAID5 "sucks up" CPU cycles continues to propogate.
It's because anandtech and tomshardware "experts" (like the grandparent) believe everything they read in a forum post. This is also the reason everyone believes Via chipsets suck even though they haven't in 5 years.
Great idea and allow take a moment to plug Linuxprinting.org as a fantastic resource that has helped me immeasurably. I used to disagree, but rare legacy hardware be damned! I'm in favour of things like ISA Sound Blaster cards and 10 Mbit NICs remaining supported if they were popular and have existing stable drivers and knowledge base, but support for hardware should be dropped if maintainers cannot be found.
Yes, Alienware would never want their precious "Worst tech support" crown tainted by a company whose support is the best (business) support in the industry. Do some googling.
Far be it for me to defend Dell but their business-level support is very good and the warranty is not barely-par, it is miles ahead of any other vendor. I don't know any company besides Dell that offers 3-year warranty on laptops.
Optiplex and Latitude hardware is very solid. Yes Dimensions suck but you get what you pay for.
I never knew that, but I'm also sure I've never heard of a motherboard with 2 AGP slots. There is certainly none available on the market now from the larger motherboard manufacturers (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI,...) Are you sure such a thing is possible and has been done by someone?
He has the same problem every other PC hardware cluebie has. They read some ancient forum posts about problems with Via chipsets circa 3-4 years ago and have regurgitated that opinion through to the present day. I only wish there was more than one damn ULi M1695-based on the market. Something's strange when Asus' cheapo arm makes the best 939 motherboard on the market.
The ASRock ULi-based board described by the grandparent is the first PCI-e/AGP board that offers true AGP performance. It's the best balance of price and features of any motherboard on the market today. Those hacked AGP work-alike slots are crap. See the following link: MSI makes the Neo3-F that has PCIe and the AGP-like AGR slot, but performance and compatibility of the AGR slot is not as good as what we would like. If you have a high-end AGP card, it will be a definite bottleneck, and if you have a low-end AGP card (9800 Pro or slower) and care about gaming, it's probably time to upgradeanyway.
Well, that assumes you use your shiny new CPU until it fails from wear. That is a pretty rare occurence in Slashdot circles (and the rest of the unwashed PC-using masses too for that matter).
This isn't just one out of thousands, it's one of perhaps a dozen or so that have a greater need than any other to ship without security holes (others might include the kernel, openSSH, samba, cups, bind, sendmail,...). I guess we have a difference of opinion, but there was a lot of press from the security community given to that firefox vulnerability in late September.
AFAYCT, yes but not to browser exploit writers. 1.06 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability and it should not have been shipped this way in a major distro release with the patched version available for at least 2 weeks now. Like it or not, many Linux users don't pay a lot of attention to security and may not set up automatic updates of their packages once they have 2006 installed. Shame on Mandriva for letting that slide on one of the most important packages in ANY distro these days. For more info see this Slashdot link
Yes it does - it will accuse you of trying to use your XP license on hardware it wasn't intended for and you'll have to reinstall and do the product activation mambo. Fun stuff.
I have a pair of Samsung 213T's, and I want them both on DVI, dammit. The one on VGA annoys me.
Annoys you because of an actual perceptable quality difference, or annoys you because of a crippling desire to spend even more on your PC hardware habit?
Where is the honor and dignity of journalism these days?
Obligatory: You must be new here
That being said, the inflammatory summaries have gotten far worse than usual within the last several months - the recent posting about "not being allowed to socialize with coworkers outside of work" was the worst offender in recent memory. It's really starting to grate.
Why would Taco even mention MAME emulation for a story about a keyboard hack? I appreciate the effort put forth to get this working, but there will be no "killer app" as a result of this. A full size keyboard sort of destroys the portability of the PSP, and I can already connect a full size keyboard to my PDA.
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Hey, if you're poor chances are you're stupid as well. Grandparent as case in point...
I don't know why the meme that software (or pseudo-hardware) RAID5 "sucks up" CPU cycles continues to propogate.
It's because anandtech and tomshardware "experts" (like the grandparent) believe everything they read in a forum post. This is also the reason everyone believes Via chipsets suck even though they haven't in 5 years.
Great idea and allow take a moment to plug Linuxprinting.org as a fantastic resource that has helped me immeasurably. I used to disagree, but rare legacy hardware be damned! I'm in favour of things like ISA Sound Blaster cards and 10 Mbit NICs remaining supported if they were popular and have existing stable drivers and knowledge base, but support for hardware should be dropped if maintainers cannot be found.
Yes, Alienware would never want their precious "Worst tech support" crown tainted by a company whose support is the best (business) support in the industry. Do some googling.
That's a trick question, as "SQL" doesn't stand for anything.
Troll or clueless? Only the shadow knows....
Far be it for me to defend Dell but their business-level support is very good and the warranty is not barely-par, it is miles ahead of any other vendor. I don't know any company besides Dell that offers 3-year warranty on laptops.
Optiplex and Latitude hardware is very solid. Yes Dimensions suck but you get what you pay for.
If it's a non-commercial OS I'm not so sure. IIRC the legal case against the name Mandrake wasn't tremendously strong in the first place.
dual-slot was the main draw of AGP8x
...) Are you sure such a thing is possible and has been done by someone?
I never knew that, but I'm also sure I've never heard of a motherboard with 2 AGP slots. There is certainly none available on the market now from the larger motherboard manufacturers (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI,
Well, it would be if Blizzard got the full $30 of the sale price which they don't...
Yes, but then again grandparent graduated from DeVry...
What're your problems with them?
He has the same problem every other PC hardware cluebie has. They read some ancient forum posts about problems with Via chipsets circa 3-4 years ago and have regurgitated that opinion through to the present day. I only wish there was more than one damn ULi M1695-based on the market. Something's strange when Asus' cheapo arm makes the best 939 motherboard on the market.
The ASRock ULi-based board described by the grandparent is the first PCI-e/AGP board that offers true AGP performance. It's the best balance of price and features of any motherboard on the market today. Those hacked AGP work-alike slots are crap. See the following link:
MSI makes the Neo3-F that has PCIe and the AGP-like AGR slot, but performance and compatibility of the AGR slot is not as good as what we would like. If you have a high-end AGP card, it will be a definite bottleneck, and if you have a low-end AGP card (9800 Pro or slower) and care about gaming, it's probably time to upgradeanyway.
If it doesn't, I return it. (And, yes, I even erase the ripped music.)
If you can't rip it, why the need for erasing the ripped music?
Well, that assumes you use your shiny new CPU until it fails from wear. That is a pretty rare occurence in Slashdot circles (and the rest of the unwashed PC-using masses too for that matter).
ScuttleMonkey would be well advised to change the upper-case B to a lower case one in the Slashback write-up...
This isn't just one out of thousands, it's one of perhaps a dozen or so that have a greater need than any other to ship without security holes (others might include the kernel, openSSH, samba, cups, bind, sendmail, ...). I guess we have a difference of opinion, but there was a lot of press from the security community given to that firefox vulnerability in late September.
AFAYCT, yes but not to browser exploit writers. 1.06 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability and it should not have been shipped this way in a major distro release with the patched version available for at least 2 weeks now. Like it or not, many Linux users don't pay a lot of attention to security and may not set up automatic updates of their packages once they have 2006 installed. Shame on Mandriva for letting that slide on one of the most important packages in ANY distro these days. For more info see this Slashdot link
With the amount of dust ATI is eating in nVidia's wake, I think it's ATI's engineers who lead in the parallel-crack-smoking olympics.
does XP force you to reinstall now??
Yes it does - it will accuse you of trying to use your XP license on hardware it wasn't intended for and you'll have to reinstall and do the product activation mambo. Fun stuff.
I'm glad your first /. post got modded up. You cracked me up too, love to see more physics geeks around.
I have a pair of Samsung 213T's, and I want them both on DVI, dammit. The one on VGA annoys me.
Annoys you because of an actual perceptable quality difference, or annoys you because of a crippling desire to spend even more on your PC hardware habit?
I don't know that you can rightly call SiS "good stuff"
Where is the honor and dignity of journalism these days?
Obligatory: You must be new here
That being said, the inflammatory summaries have gotten far worse than usual within the last several months - the recent posting about "not being allowed to socialize with coworkers outside of work" was the worst offender in recent memory. It's really starting to grate.
Can I ask what board that is? My circa-early-01 1200 MHz Thunderbird system came with a board that claimed not to support higher than 1.4 GHz
Why would Taco even mention MAME emulation for a story about a keyboard hack? I appreciate the effort put forth to get this working, but there will be no "killer app" as a result of this. A full size keyboard sort of destroys the portability of the PSP, and I can already connect a full size keyboard to my PDA.