So it's sorta like DDR in that respect, right? Unfortunately, Rambus just isn't as adherent to accepted standards as DDR is. Who's going to be manufacturing DDR anyway? Rambus has been suing almost every IC company out there when they announce a plan for DDR.
Really? Okay, that's kinda good to know. I say kinda because all of the 815 boards that I've seen look like they would go into an e-machines case. When I said "It would be the first non-VIA, natively-SDRAM chipset for an Intel processor since the 440BX", I meant on the same caliber as the 440BX, not some consumer-oriented board bombarded with a CNR slot and onboard sound/video.
I hated the idea of forcing all public school libraries to use proprietary filters. Not only do the filters take up valuable system resources (of which is sparse due to the underfunding of public school IT departments), but they are also often hacked, circumvented, or deceived. Personally, I would opt for a firewall which blocks a daily updated list of "naughty" sites. I would also have the Napster master blocked, as well as Gnutella's UDP port. To finish the fortress, Windows 2000 for all the terminals (that's right, no Linux, but these are supposed to be Internet terminals, not telnet-equipped hacking stations).
I've seen too many stories of CyberPatrol being hacked and circumvented. Filter software just isn't the option; time to opt for good old "FORBIDDEN".
...and the packet structure, and the 16-bit wide bus, and...
When I learned that Rambus ran on a packet structure, steam poured forth from my ears. To hear that something as low-level as RAM was being tainted with yet another proprietary packet structure just made my decision for me: boycott Rambus.
Also, take into account that an SDRAM system without all the bells and whistles of Rambus runs faster anyway. I think that the Rambus strategy was just too weird to implement. Sure, a packet system for system memory might be good for server stability, but not at the performance hit that has been reported.
Maybe it's the beginning of them getting their head out of their arse.
"Currently, we can see the ears. Unfortunately, the forehead is still locked behind the pelvis. If we can remove that Rambus contract, we just might be able to extract the head fully."
...the pointy-haired boss puts on a press announcement:
"We apologize for making keyboards without the letter 'Q'. We're sorry. We're morons. We hear strange voices in our heads. I have broccoli in my socks."
Retail stores like CompUSA and BestBuy make most of their profit off of the little things. The profit margin is huge on items like CD-R[W] media, cabling, disk cases/holders, cleaning materials, and the like. The three biggest "profit whores" are Kensington, Belkin, and Targus (good products, but very overpriced). I'd recommend getting this stuff online, since they make more money off of return procedures and shipping large items.
I work at CompUSA, so I really should know about this. However, I'm looking for another job (non-retail, preferably systems administration) before I end up going insane due to the retail mindset.
...it's a mongrel. An inbred mix of the *nices, NT, and OSX Server. The connection mix is even worse; from ISDN to T1 to T3. And there's T3 servers which squander the connection speed advantage by using lag-prone technology like Java servlets or perl scripts.
I'm sorry, but I've seen too many websites make their creators look like morons. Slashdot is a great one, but many company websites are interactive laughing stocks.
I'm going to serve on a jury in two weeks, and I started thinking about something: Could the Counter-Strike mod and weapon stats be used as evidence? Just think of it, in any trials or court martials, it could be argued that a 9MM bullet was not fired from an H&K MP5, but from a Steyr TMP. CS now has the vital statistics on each weapon (ammo, weight, muzzle velocity, energy in joules of the projectile, etc.), so this isn't too weird of an idea. Then again, I'd ditch the HL engine if possible; wouldn't CS be more interesting on top of Soldier of Fortune? Picture it: real head shots! Limb shots! And the almighty Nether Region Shot!
That's how every company operates. Unfortunately, under the "safe harbor" clause "Under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995", they're protected from litigation based on the statements. You can barely even say "N'yah, n'yah! I told you so!" without having their lawyers/liars knocking on your door.
...considering their tactics lately, they're that stray mutt covered in mud that walks on and rolls around all over your Oriental rug. Definetly a mutt.
...but not NVidia. They could be secretly issued the P4 architecture by Intel so they could start work on a native-DDR chipset for the P4. Intel would still make its DDR-MTH chipset, but NVidia would stave off the demand. Rambus as we know it would shrivel up (but it won't die off; Sony's PS2 uses RDRAM [damnit!])
Personally, I'm looking forward to NVidia's chipset if they do actually make it. It would be the first non-VIA, natively-SDRAM chipset for an Intel processor since the 440BX.
"SDMI's Leonardo Chiariglione said Salon's last story was "slander"..."
Well, isn't the sales tactic which SDMI is planning to use considered extortion by almost every corporate-world-hating human on the planet?
I am seeing an alarming trend which 'net upstarts and conglomerate giants alike are using to push products: limited functionality per unit paid. This is evident in the many time-based and per-incident "services" out there (iOpener, Cue:Cat, TiVo, Y@p) and the rampant sales of consumable products (phone cards, printer ink cartridges that go for $50 per unit, etc.). The companies feel that they can start an endless stream of profit due to the nature of their products. The worst part of this is when the company knowingly makes the consumable products inferior (HP with their printers that can't clean themselves, Digital:Convergence with their shoddy PCB and housing, etc.). Then, there's the nightmare of customer service; companies that put you on hold eternally unless you buy more of their products. Personally, I am offended that the BBB and other watchdog agencies aren't cracking down on this. It's a blatant and legal swindling of the consumers.
...and pushed Intel off the pier to go "sleep with the proprietary hardware." IMHO, the entire Rambus-Intel deal turned into one of the largest incidents of extortion in the corporate world. Furthermore, due to Intel's contract with Rambus, they can't sue for damages; and we all know that Intel could've been doing much better things with the year that has passed since the Rambus deal. Instead of dicking around with the Rambus interface, they could've optimized the P3 and released the P4 in July. But it didn't happen this way, due to the gag orders and hush money shelled out by Rambus. The original 820 chipset was basically the Rambus chipset with a translator hub for SDRAM. Since the MTH wasn't perfect, the chipset bombed and Intel re-released the 820 only in Rambus form. Not since the 440BX has there been an Intel chipset that natively accepts SDRAM, and unless some action is taken against Rambus, things might stay that way for some time.
Uh oh. Well, this could be good and bad. The amount of ammo left in a bullet clip could be monitored, but doing so would add one step to the reloading process. Also, these wearable systems might integrate another currently civilian tactic into warfare: hacking. I fear that this might open up a logistics and tactical nightmare.
"Also, dynamicly creating and removing swap files (or extending and shrinking them) is going to cause your filesystem to become massivly fragmented very quickly..."
I just checked the fragmentation of the partition with WINNT on it: here's the summary:
Total fragmentation = 37 %
File fragmentation = 75 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
"Graphics rendering systems would be slowed down many orders of magnitude if this much data had to be swapped per frame.
Damn right; when I ran those 7 instances of Quake 3, they played back the cinematics at worse than 1 frame per second! That's what happens when a rendering program is forced to use virtual memory! I could've had even more instances of Q3, but I set com_hunkmegs to 128, and the eighth instance couldn't reserve that much.
...and he has one of these rulers. On one end, there's a telescoping 6-inch length that's about 2 millimeters wide; when I was young, I used to extend this and pretend it was a walkie-talkie. Ah, those were the days.
"In general, you can't safely resize partitions at runtime."
Well, gee, isn't that why Windows uses a swap file? How else could my virtual memory be boosted by 600MB in less than two minutes? It seems that Linux is too bound to its infrastructure to make any changes for the better. Personally, I'd prefer a setup where you define the maximum limit of the swap file by the size of its partition. The OS would then gauge how much it would need, and adjust appropriately. If multiple instances of huge programs execute, the system can adjust accordingly. If someone thought of this need before me, then a similar setup probably already exists; I wouldn't be surprised if Solaris or Irix were like this.
Didn't you see me mention that my swap file changed sizes? I do know the main difference between the Windows and Linux virtual memory subsystems.
Someone else before you brought up the fact that you can change the size of the swap partition with a script. No karma points for you. Also, wouldn't multiple swap partitions seriously fragment the memory, as well as causing intermittent instances of downtime just to copy the contents while the partitions are being made? I don't know about you, but I HATE it when a server has downtime just to make some file system maintenance.
What's the size limit on a Tux2 partition? I know that the limit to NTFS5 is 4 exabytes (!) and that FAT32 starts to be less efficient than NTFS at 32GB. I never got a chance to take ext2 to the limit (mainly because it was only a 10GB hard drive).
Personally, I like the name to this one. It has a clear connection to Linux in some way, while just looking at the ext2 name makes you wonder how the hell it got that name. Anyone care to reveal the nomenclature origins of ext2?
(I apologize ahead of time if this gets posted twice; the college network is performing like a 28.8 modem today.)
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So it's sorta like DDR in that respect, right? Unfortunately, Rambus just isn't as adherent to accepted standards as DDR is. Who's going to be manufacturing DDR anyway? Rambus has been suing almost every IC company out there when they announce a plan for DDR.
Really? Okay, that's kinda good to know. I say kinda because all of the 815 boards that I've seen look like they would go into an e-machines case. When I said "It would be the first non-VIA, natively-SDRAM chipset for an Intel processor since the 440BX", I meant on the same caliber as the 440BX, not some consumer-oriented board bombarded with a CNR slot and onboard sound/video.
I've seen too many stories of CyberPatrol being hacked and circumvented. Filter software just isn't the option; time to opt for good old "FORBIDDEN".
When I learned that Rambus ran on a packet structure, steam poured forth from my ears. To hear that something as low-level as RAM was being tainted with yet another proprietary packet structure just made my decision for me: boycott Rambus.
Also, take into account that an SDRAM system without all the bells and whistles of Rambus runs faster anyway. I think that the Rambus strategy was just too weird to implement. Sure, a packet system for system memory might be good for server stability, but not at the performance hit that has been reported.
"We apologize for making keyboards without the letter 'Q'. We're sorry. We're morons. We hear strange voices in our heads. I have broccoli in my socks."
Dilbert (to Dogbert): "Good writing."Dogbert: "Thanks."
I work at CompUSA, so I really should know about this. However, I'm looking for another job (non-retail, preferably systems administration) before I end up going insane due to the retail mindset.
I'm sorry, but I've seen too many websites make their creators look like morons. Slashdot is a great one, but many company websites are interactive laughing stocks.
I'm going to serve on a jury in two weeks, and I started thinking about something: Could the Counter-Strike mod and weapon stats be used as evidence? Just think of it, in any trials or court martials, it could be argued that a 9MM bullet was not fired from an H&K MP5, but from a Steyr TMP. CS now has the vital statistics on each weapon (ammo, weight, muzzle velocity, energy in joules of the projectile, etc.), so this isn't too weird of an idea. Then again, I'd ditch the HL engine if possible; wouldn't CS be more interesting on top of Soldier of Fortune? Picture it: real head shots! Limb shots! And the almighty Nether Region Shot!
I can only see one reason for being awake at this specific time, and it has more to do with Cheech and Chong than Slashdot.
That's how every company operates. Unfortunately, under the "safe harbor" clause "Under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995", they're protected from litigation based on the statements. You can barely even say "N'yah, n'yah! I told you so!" without having their lawyers/liars knocking on your door.
...considering their tactics lately, they're that stray mutt covered in mud that walks on and rolls around all over your Oriental rug. Definetly a mutt.
Personally, I'm looking forward to NVidia's chipset if they do actually make it. It would be the first non-VIA, natively-SDRAM chipset for an Intel processor since the 440BX.
Kensington just makes those expensive computer accessories which should be cheap.
...can the computerized system deal with a spinout? Or will it just tumble to its oblivion?
Well, isn't the sales tactic which SDMI is planning to use considered extortion by almost every corporate-world-hating human on the planet?
I am seeing an alarming trend which 'net upstarts and conglomerate giants alike are using to push products: limited functionality per unit paid. This is evident in the many time-based and per-incident "services" out there (iOpener, Cue:Cat, TiVo, Y@p) and the rampant sales of consumable products (phone cards, printer ink cartridges that go for $50 per unit, etc.). The companies feel that they can start an endless stream of profit due to the nature of their products. The worst part of this is when the company knowingly makes the consumable products inferior (HP with their printers that can't clean themselves, Digital:Convergence with their shoddy PCB and housing, etc.). Then, there's the nightmare of customer service; companies that put you on hold eternally unless you buy more of their products. Personally, I am offended that the BBB and other watchdog agencies aren't cracking down on this. It's a blatant and legal swindling of the consumers.
...and pushed Intel off the pier to go "sleep with the proprietary hardware." IMHO, the entire Rambus-Intel deal turned into one of the largest incidents of extortion in the corporate world. Furthermore, due to Intel's contract with Rambus, they can't sue for damages; and we all know that Intel could've been doing much better things with the year that has passed since the Rambus deal. Instead of dicking around with the Rambus interface, they could've optimized the P3 and released the P4 in July. But it didn't happen this way, due to the gag orders and hush money shelled out by Rambus. The original 820 chipset was basically the Rambus chipset with a translator hub for SDRAM. Since the MTH wasn't perfect, the chipset bombed and Intel re-released the 820 only in Rambus form. Not since the 440BX has there been an Intel chipset that natively accepts SDRAM, and unless some action is taken against Rambus, things might stay that way for some time.
Uh oh. Well, this could be good and bad. The amount of ammo left in a bullet clip could be monitored, but doing so would add one step to the reloading process. Also, these wearable systems might integrate another currently civilian tactic into warfare: hacking. I fear that this might open up a logistics and tactical nightmare.
I just checked the fragmentation of the partition with WINNT on it: here's the summary:
Total fragmentation = 37 %
File fragmentation = 75 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
Ouchie. Looks like I'm defragging this weekend.
Damn right; when I ran those 7 instances of Quake 3, they played back the cinematics at worse than 1 frame per second! That's what happens when a rendering program is forced to use virtual memory! I could've had even more instances of Q3, but I set com_hunkmegs to 128, and the eighth instance couldn't reserve that much.
...and he has one of these rulers. On one end, there's a telescoping 6-inch length that's about 2 millimeters wide; when I was young, I used to extend this and pretend it was a walkie-talkie. Ah, those were the days.
Well, gee, isn't that why Windows uses a swap file? How else could my virtual memory be boosted by 600MB in less than two minutes? It seems that Linux is too bound to its infrastructure to make any changes for the better. Personally, I'd prefer a setup where you define the maximum limit of the swap file by the size of its partition. The OS would then gauge how much it would need, and adjust appropriately. If multiple instances of huge programs execute, the system can adjust accordingly. If someone thought of this need before me, then a similar setup probably already exists; I wouldn't be surprised if Solaris or Irix were like this.
Someone else before you brought up the fact that you can change the size of the swap partition with a script. No karma points for you. Also, wouldn't multiple swap partitions seriously fragment the memory, as well as causing intermittent instances of downtime just to copy the contents while the partitions are being made? I don't know about you, but I HATE it when a server has downtime just to make some file system maintenance.
So who will start work on cs_enigma? This would make a great CS map!
Personally, I like the name to this one. It has a clear connection to Linux in some way, while just looking at the ext2 name makes you wonder how the hell it got that name. Anyone care to reveal the nomenclature origins of ext2?
(I apologize ahead of time if this gets posted twice; the college network is performing like a 28.8 modem today.)