Take a look at Maximum PC's article about the Athlon and GeForce (original GeForce). The specifications for the original GeForce called for an Intel Pentium II, III, or 100% compatible. Now from what you say, it should've worked. But it didn't. There were thousands of Athlon owners who couldn't even get Windows 98 to run straight (this was before Win2K was released).
As for the chipset, my 440BX is at about 90F. The DDR RAM chips on my GeForce 2 are usually about 110F. My P3 is about the same. I dare you to stick your finger on the 750 chipset and the CPU itself. Chances are, you can't even hold it on there for more than 300 milliseconds before getting scorched by the 180F heat.
As for the boards, at least mine wasn't built in a sweatshop. Speaking of foreign, I'm guessing that you are of either German or Russian nationality. Considering that AMD is funded by the German government, the very fact that you step right up to their defense solidifies my theory. "They are %100 percent compatible." Isn't that a little redundant?
Actually, now that I think of it, it was probably the GLide modules that caused the color abberations. You should've seen it, with every shotgun shot, there was a splash of rainbow color!
Anyway, the one part of DirectX that I really like is DirectSound. In case you haven't noticed, all the post-win95 Id Software titles used it (and I think they were developing with unix; just look at the Quake console; from mastering that, I managed to find out a buttload of BASH commands). When DirectSound is compared to OSS, DSound almost always wins. I'd like to see someone bridge that gap in Linux.
What a juxtaposition of new and old technology.
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2001: A Space Laptop
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A 10/100 LAN on a 10 year old space shuttle, that's a riot. Considering the laptop probably runs about 16 times faster than the five computers aboard the shuttle. Is it just me or does NASA seem extremely behind the times? (well, at least they aren't junking the entire rocket in space like they did in the sixties; I think we already have a space trash asteroid belt)
Microsoft put OpenGL on systems in 1996, well before 3d accelerators became popular, and way before Linux was even heard outside of suspendered bearded road-apple sessions. Sure, it was a software emulation driver, but at least it was something. I've seen the MesaGL drivers for the Voodoo 2 on Linux, and Quake 2 looks like crap! There's color abberations all over the place, inconsistent performance, etc. Just imagine what it would be like on the Linux equivalent of 3DSMAX!
I'll have to give Microsoft credit for standardizing OpenGL on Windows. Because it sure isn't anywhere near organized on Linux!
Seriously, the downfall of the AMD processors are two things: the incompatibility of the Athlon to the x86 architecture, and the instability and unreliability of the chipsets. The AMD 750 worked OK, that is, as long as you bought some peltier units for the chipset as well as the CPU. Also, AMD's legacy of overclocking (as well as general overkill) leads to even more stability. Ever tried to pass 100 amps through a 12-gauge wire? I DON'T THINK SO! It's basically the same thing with the Athlon clocking PC133 RAM at 200 MHz.
Regarding the chipsets, VIA's struggles are laughable. The boards always fizzle under the pressure (either physically or performance-wise). They embrace such gaudy, redundant standards as DMI, ACPI, and AC97. Their 4-in-1 drivers always introduce new problems into the system, after the driver engineers just got finished with last month's bugs. Currently, there is no Linux distribution whatsoever that can run any VIA chipset 100%. Even if the system is running, the ATA chipset is running on PIO 4, and the sound system can't be initialized. What do you expect from the world's only sweatshop PCB manufacturer?
Finally, Intel gets back to SDRAM chipsets (DDR as well, woohoo!). Guess that Pentium III 866 with the 820 chipset and 128 MB PC800 RDRAM is already obsolete. I was going to win that, too. Oh well, now for Northwood...
"but the G450 is interesting in its ability to use 2 monitors simultaneously."
NVidia already has this on their Quadro2 and Quadro2 MXR chipsets. I think the TwinView function is still only in the Windows drivers, but it'd probably be a welcome sight in Linux.
If the MiniDisc medium was used as a raw transfer device, maybe it would see much more potential. Instead, the players record only in analog (just recently augmented with proprietary digital recording). ATRAC is probably the least spectrum-considerate compression method. My benchmark is Nine Inch Nails; Trent's music is heavy on nearly all parts of the sonic spectrum. Even at 128kbps, it sounds perfect. But with ATRAC, there's frequency cutoffs that make it sound like a bad bootleg.
Different results, but consider this: if you like the dual-monitor setup, don't mind modifying your/etc/XF86Config file, and either own a 28" FD Trinitron Vega über monitor, or enjoy squinting at your 19" monitor, then Matrox is the way to go. But if you use a lot of OpenGL programs, go NVidia.
One side note, Diane Vanasse, once at Matrox, now works at NVidia as the PR dominatrix. I wonder if she's anything like Yvette the pyromaniac from The Kids In The Hall. "Hé! Mon feu!"
Re:Java on cell phones, eek.
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Sun Buys Cobalt
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"I have even seen something about java on mobile phones."
That will really suck, picture this on your cell phone:
Downloading addresses...Trying...Still Trying...STILL Trying...Download terminated; Java failed to initialize correctly.
...this is an obvious move by Sun to challenge Microsoft in the small server market (i.e.: the print/file server down the hall). Sun isn't content with the dot, it wants the printer, the files, soon, the world. Personally, my college uses Netware for that, and I'm ready to start the Win2K revolution (if I knew that Linux could file/print serve as reliably as Win2k, I would use it, but the Linux setup process is too convoluted, so I won't). I'm sick of the college network having a 275 ping on 10base when my high-school had a 120 ping on the same setup (with Macs, hehe).
Oh no, not another dark chapter to the Sun bible.
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I'm sick of Sun already. Between the Solaris identity crisis (the kernel version is 2.7, but they insist on giving it the insipidly alliterative name "Sun Solaris 7") and their patent/trademark hoodlums (see CmdrTaco's homepage for an example [his Invaders program]), my destiny is becoming all the more vivid:
Build a soundcard that doesn't suck, and
Oppose Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC, in every way, shape, and form.
"one terabyte (1,000 GB) in just five and a quarter inches of rack height.
Hello, who flunked out of math class? Oh, I remember, the entire hard drive industry!
One terabyte is
1024 GB
1,048,576 MB
1,073,741,824 KB
1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
Yes, I know, they use decimal sizes to try and make their units bigger (pun intended). But why not measure storage devices the same way the programs do? That way, we can trust the hard drive manufacturers more than we do now.
On an offtopic note, I am returning my three-year old Western Digital 2.5GB hard drive for a replacement (the warranty just expired a day after I called for the RMA, but there's a 60-day grace period! WOOHOO!). Anyone know what happens if they don't manufacture the drive I'm returning? Will I get a 13.6 or just a refabbed 2.5? The IDE interface on the drive is only PIO4, so I'd appreciate something better.
"Can you stream video over a 100Mbs ether comfortably? Perhaps this is the backend for your DeCSS based DVD Jukebox? Or the mega Tivo extra hard drive (I s'pose that'd take some work tho). But you could fit a hundred or so movies on there... we're just inching towards it now."
Now come on, we can all think of the uses for this. About ten racks of this could be used to augment ftp.cdrom.com (2 full terabytes of RAID 5, YEAH!).
Also, Rob, remember, not all of us get a $5000 a week check from andover.net. Not all of us have that Sony VAIO laptop with Debian 2.6. Not all of us have the selfish lust which you have, may I add, while still staying in your parents' house at Copenhagen, South Dakota (or wherever it is, I know for sure it's a European city in a midwestern state).
Apple introduces the one-click crash. Just click once on the Help icon, and your Mac is thrown into a system crash.
Apple introduces the one-click animé plugin for Adobe Photoshop. Just one click with the animé tool, and watch that special Apple magic come to life! (WARNING: Not for use on photographs of Steve Jobs, Steve Case, or Stephen Wozniak, as they morph into Jay from Mallrats, Jay Leno, and Chewbacca the Wookiee, respectively.)
Apple introduces the one-click Electronic Funds Transfer. For each click of the new Apple Pro Mouse, $500 is directly transferred to the accounts and estate of Mr. Steven Jobs. For each millisecond of dragging the mouse, 50 cents is transferred. (DISCLAIMERS: Apple is not responsible for bank statement errors on your part. Due to high latency issues dealing with the USB port structure to which the mouse is connected, as well as the Java which is used to power the EFT logger, funds may be withdrawn at a higher rate. The user is required to wear a stylish electronic tracking necklace which comes in five flavors. If insufficient funds are reported, the necklace will automatically detonate. Apple is an Equal Opportunity Swindler. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, LLC, CRAP, ETC.)
Apple introduces the one-click lobotomy. Just point your browser to any of these company webpages: Microsoft, Dell, HP, Micron, or Intel. You'll instantly have 50% of your brain mass removed by the special lobotomy Javascript plugin installed in Netscape Communicator 4.7 for the Mac. (DISCLAIMERS: Due to Javascript compilation latency, the process will take 5 agonizing days to complete. No anaesthesia is used in the process. Apple is not responsible for the following symptoms of the process: schizophrenia, delerium, homicidal tendencies, incest, and death. Use as directed.)
""What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts," states Hole singer Courtney Love on the band's Web site.
See? We have to oppose the monopolistic juggernauts of the music industry, the big 5. Sony is the first one that has to go, their infamous "acquire now, monetarily compensate later, maintain profit margin, grasshopper" doctrine has gone too far. I feel that Sony is mainly responsible for the Japanizing of American society. I think a protest should be lead against Sony; each protester with a piece of Sony's legacy in one hand, and a hammer in the other hand to smash the offending merchandise. And, to top it off, this will be done to the tune of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. I really have to borrow that Romy and Michelle's CD from my sister so I can rip that track.
I guess that MSNBC will have to apologize to its viewer and its web audience. Ballot stuffing is nothing new. Just take a look at out Judicial Quota System; I'll bet that Antonin Scalia got shoved in there by all those conservative senators, who are also the result of ballot stuffing. Nothing new, for we all know who the real President of the United States is: a Mr. William C. Gates, III.
The shrine of Linus Torvalds will be attended daily by his disciples, who spread around printed sheets of their project source code daily, a ritual begun by Kevin Mitnick in 2003.
Bill Gates, after his recent voluntary demotion to janitor, works yet another day in the halls of Microsoft. "Hey, I got sick of coding, and I had a change of conscience. This was the only way for me to escape," says Bill of his career decision.
Rob "Commander Taco" Malda spends yet another day in Cabo San Lucas, on the coastline, wearing only his 18-karat gold-enameled Speedo, coding away on his Sony VAIO laptop with Debian 20.2.13. The locals beg him to put on a shirt.
The Apple world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs, who died in a hyperbaric chamber accident. Apparently, he drank too much soda while in the chamber, causing his lungs to explode.
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Sony CEO Norio Ohaga and chief design technician Akio Morita trying yet again to take over the world with a proprietary programming language. The result was a humiliating failure similar to that of the original DIVX DVD format. Sony was forced to halt all product production except in the fields of personal sound systems, video production tools, and animé.
...since the Palm itself can't hold more than 2 or 8MB of data (depending on the model, and assuming that you didn't replace the flash memory chips, hehe). I'm predicting that the Palm OS patch would be warezed in less than three weeks after its release. Even if they stuck it in an InstallShield installation, it would be hacked and extracted in no time at all.
On a personal (and perhaps a little offtopic) note, I'm sick of hearing about these people having fun playing with the unit in the palm of their hand (pun intended). Since when was a monochrome toy that makes clicks and buzzes so fun? Oh yeah, I remember now, the etch-a-sketch! Haven't you PDA dorks grown up yet?
In Massachusetts, it's now illegal to dump a monitor, television, or other cathode-ray tube device without obtaining a permit. Last year, my PC class had to chuck ten ancient monitors; we just made it, because the deadline hadn't hit. However, I wonder how this will affect educational institutions and their tenacity to old hardware.
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As for the chipset, my 440BX is at about 90F. The DDR RAM chips on my GeForce 2 are usually about 110F. My P3 is about the same. I dare you to stick your finger on the 750 chipset and the CPU itself. Chances are, you can't even hold it on there for more than 300 milliseconds before getting scorched by the 180F heat.
As for the boards, at least mine wasn't built in a sweatshop. Speaking of foreign, I'm guessing that you are of either German or Russian nationality. Considering that AMD is funded by the German government, the very fact that you step right up to their defense solidifies my theory. "They are %100 percent compatible." Isn't that a little redundant?
Anyway, the one part of DirectX that I really like is DirectSound. In case you haven't noticed, all the post-win95 Id Software titles used it (and I think they were developing with unix; just look at the Quake console; from mastering that, I managed to find out a buttload of BASH commands). When DirectSound is compared to OSS, DSound almost always wins. I'd like to see someone bridge that gap in Linux.
A 10/100 LAN on a 10 year old space shuttle, that's a riot. Considering the laptop probably runs about 16 times faster than the five computers aboard the shuttle. Is it just me or does NASA seem extremely behind the times? (well, at least they aren't junking the entire rocket in space like they did in the sixties; I think we already have a space trash asteroid belt)
How 'bout enough to start the "soundcard that doesn't suck" project?
I'll have to give Microsoft credit for standardizing OpenGL on Windows. Because it sure isn't anywhere near organized on Linux!
Regarding the chipsets, VIA's struggles are laughable. The boards always fizzle under the pressure (either physically or performance-wise). They embrace such gaudy, redundant standards as DMI, ACPI, and AC97. Their 4-in-1 drivers always introduce new problems into the system, after the driver engineers just got finished with last month's bugs. Currently, there is no Linux distribution whatsoever that can run any VIA chipset 100%. Even if the system is running, the ATA chipset is running on PIO 4, and the sound system can't be initialized. What do you expect from the world's only sweatshop PCB manufacturer?
The article sounds best when you use the voice of The Beeb's own Oliver Scott.
As I always tell people, never trust the Zeed. What they report is usually unconfirmed, hearsay, or even untrue rumors.
Finally, Intel gets back to SDRAM chipsets (DDR as well, woohoo!). Guess that Pentium III 866 with the 820 chipset and 128 MB PC800 RDRAM is already obsolete. I was going to win that, too. Oh well, now for Northwood...
NVidia already has this on their Quadro2 and Quadro2 MXR chipsets. I think the TwinView function is still only in the Windows drivers, but it'd probably be a welcome sight in Linux.
If the MiniDisc medium was used as a raw transfer device, maybe it would see much more potential. Instead, the players record only in analog (just recently augmented with proprietary digital recording). ATRAC is probably the least spectrum-considerate compression method. My benchmark is Nine Inch Nails; Trent's music is heavy on nearly all parts of the sonic spectrum. Even at 128kbps, it sounds perfect. But with ATRAC, there's frequency cutoffs that make it sound like a bad bootleg.
One side note, Diane Vanasse, once at Matrox, now works at NVidia as the PR dominatrix. I wonder if she's anything like Yvette the pyromaniac from The Kids In The Hall. "Hé! Mon feu!"
That will really suck, picture this on your cell phone:
Downloading addresses... Trying... Still Trying... STILL Trying... Download terminated; Java failed to initialize correctly....this is an obvious move by Sun to challenge Microsoft in the small server market (i.e.: the print/file server down the hall). Sun isn't content with the dot, it wants the printer, the files, soon, the world. Personally, my college uses Netware for that, and I'm ready to start the Win2K revolution (if I knew that Linux could file/print serve as reliably as Win2k, I would use it, but the Linux setup process is too convoluted, so I won't). I'm sick of the college network having a 275 ping on 10base when my high-school had a 120 ping on the same setup (with Macs, hehe).
Build a soundcard that doesn't suck, and
Oppose Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC, in every way, shape, and form.
Hello, who flunked out of math class? Oh, I remember, the entire hard drive industry!
One terabyte is
1024 GB
1,048,576 MB
1,073,741,824 KB
1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
Yes, I know, they use decimal sizes to try and make their units bigger (pun intended). But why not measure storage devices the same way the programs do? That way, we can trust the hard drive manufacturers more than we do now.
On an offtopic note, I am returning my three-year old Western Digital 2.5GB hard drive for a replacement (the warranty just expired a day after I called for the RMA, but there's a 60-day grace period! WOOHOO!). Anyone know what happens if they don't manufacture the drive I'm returning? Will I get a 13.6 or just a refabbed 2.5? The IDE interface on the drive is only PIO4, so I'd appreciate something better.
Now come on, we can all think of the uses for this. About ten racks of this could be used to augment ftp.cdrom.com (2 full terabytes of RAID 5, YEAH!).
Also, Rob, remember, not all of us get a $5000 a week check from andover.net. Not all of us have that Sony VAIO laptop with Debian 2.6. Not all of us have the selfish lust which you have, may I add, while still staying in your parents' house at Copenhagen, South Dakota (or wherever it is, I know for sure it's a European city in a midwestern state).
Apple introduces the one-click crash. Just click once on the Help icon, and your Mac is thrown into a system crash.
Apple introduces the one-click animé plugin for Adobe Photoshop. Just one click with the animé tool, and watch that special Apple magic come to life! (WARNING: Not for use on photographs of Steve Jobs, Steve Case, or Stephen Wozniak, as they morph into Jay from Mallrats, Jay Leno, and Chewbacca the Wookiee, respectively.)
Apple introduces the one-click Electronic Funds Transfer. For each click of the new Apple Pro Mouse, $500 is directly transferred to the accounts and estate of Mr. Steven Jobs. For each millisecond of dragging the mouse, 50 cents is transferred. (DISCLAIMERS: Apple is not responsible for bank statement errors on your part. Due to high latency issues dealing with the USB port structure to which the mouse is connected, as well as the Java which is used to power the EFT logger, funds may be withdrawn at a higher rate. The user is required to wear a stylish electronic tracking necklace which comes in five flavors. If insufficient funds are reported, the necklace will automatically detonate. Apple is an Equal Opportunity Swindler. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, LLC, CRAP, ETC.)
Apple introduces the one-click lobotomy. Just point your browser to any of these company webpages: Microsoft, Dell, HP, Micron, or Intel. You'll instantly have 50% of your brain mass removed by the special lobotomy Javascript plugin installed in Netscape Communicator 4.7 for the Mac. (DISCLAIMERS: Due to Javascript compilation latency, the process will take 5 agonizing days to complete. No anaesthesia is used in the process. Apple is not responsible for the following symptoms of the process: schizophrenia, delerium, homicidal tendencies, incest, and death. Use as directed.)
See? We have to oppose the monopolistic juggernauts of the music industry, the big 5. Sony is the first one that has to go, their infamous "acquire now, monetarily compensate later, maintain profit margin, grasshopper" doctrine has gone too far. I feel that Sony is mainly responsible for the Japanizing of American society. I think a protest should be lead against Sony; each protester with a piece of Sony's legacy in one hand, and a hammer in the other hand to smash the offending merchandise. And, to top it off, this will be done to the tune of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. I really have to borrow that Romy and Michelle's CD from my sister so I can rip that track.
I probably had Robert C. Prince, III stuck in my head. He was the man behind the music and sound effects of DOOM.
I guess that MSNBC will have to apologize to its viewer and its web audience. Ballot stuffing is nothing new. Just take a look at out Judicial Quota System; I'll bet that Antonin Scalia got shoved in there by all those conservative senators, who are also the result of ballot stuffing. Nothing new, for we all know who the real President of the United States is: a Mr. William C. Gates, III.
Gee, isn't that the way that Microsoft Windows has been ever since 1992? Shows what the Palm coders were too busy playing with: Linux.
The shrine of Linus Torvalds will be attended daily by his disciples, who spread around printed sheets of their project source code daily, a ritual begun by Kevin Mitnick in 2003.
Bill Gates, after his recent voluntary demotion to janitor, works yet another day in the halls of Microsoft. "Hey, I got sick of coding, and I had a change of conscience. This was the only way for me to escape," says Bill of his career decision.
Rob "Commander Taco" Malda spends yet another day in Cabo San Lucas, on the coastline, wearing only his 18-karat gold-enameled Speedo, coding away on his Sony VAIO laptop with Debian 20.2.13. The locals beg him to put on a shirt.
The Apple world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs, who died in a hyperbaric chamber accident. Apparently, he drank too much soda while in the chamber, causing his lungs to explode.
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Sony CEO Norio Ohaga and chief design technician Akio Morita trying yet again to take over the world with a proprietary programming language. The result was a humiliating failure similar to that of the original DIVX DVD format. Sony was forced to halt all product production except in the fields of personal sound systems, video production tools, and animé.
On a personal (and perhaps a little offtopic) note, I'm sick of hearing about these people having fun playing with the unit in the palm of their hand (pun intended). Since when was a monochrome toy that makes clicks and buzzes so fun? Oh yeah, I remember now, the etch-a-sketch! Haven't you PDA dorks grown up yet?
In Massachusetts, it's now illegal to dump a monitor, television, or other cathode-ray tube device without obtaining a permit. Last year, my PC class had to chuck ten ancient monitors; we just made it, because the deadline hadn't hit. However, I wonder how this will affect educational institutions and their tenacity to old hardware.