Recently purchased 2 XP 1600+s (1 in Dec and 1 in Jan) - both indicate they are Rev A5 (CPUID 662) and do not have the INVLPG bug according to AMD's errata sheet.
The fact that Microsoft chose to build a competing browser from the ground up and give it away for free, largely to do the same thing, vindicates this strategy
Microsoft originally sold IE as part of the 'Plus!' package for Windows 95. NT 4 in 1996, I think, was the first OS with it bundled. As I remember, IE versions up and including 4 pointed to a silly file on your hard drive as home and not their portal, MSN.
Ray Norda got the itch to take on M$ and started aquiring WordPerfect, licensed Borland's Quattro and Paradox to take on M$Office. Around that time, UnixWare was aquired from AT&T, etc. At the time, Novell was big and could afford it but botched it. They ended up selling WordPerfect to Corel for pennies on the dollar for what they paid for it... keeping GroupWise. IMO, that move killed Novell. And with it, they took out the last viable commerical packages to compete with Office.
AOL may be looking at RH to tie together the $230/mo cable subscription (tv, internet and phone) package which I suppose could work in limited markets but with the price tag of RH, they most certainly have bigger ideas. Will Steve Case follow in Norda's footsteps?
In some weird way, I want to support AOLTW - it's a great opportunity to get Linux out there into the world, even if it's an idiot-proof version.
It'd be interesting to see what the grand scheme is...
For XMas, I built a more modest version of linuxhardware's version: xp1600+, soyo d+, 512MB PC2100 DDR, MSI GF3 ti200, plextor 24/10/40 CDRW, antec 400W PSU, HSF. I had a case and a maxtor 60GB IDE drive already for it. I spent $900 with burn-in and shipping.
They chose all scsi, which is a bit over the top IMO - the dragon+ has 4 IDE controllers for 8 devices (2 of which are promise raid which can run as normal ide for linux). The PC2400 memory is overspec for the board (unless you want to boost the FSB beyond 148).
RH7.2 installed without a hitch - lan and audio drivers found and installed no problem. cdrecord is happy with the CDRW - no configuration there. I installed nvidia's drivers and have full opengl - that did require a kernel recompile (because of the the athlon I think). lm_sensors is working, etc. All on a board that was released in November - says a lot about the state of linux drivers.
Point is, I believe I have a rock solid system that by any measure meets price/performance/value.
I can also run the FSB at 143 reliably which shows the cpu/mem benchmarking as a xp 1800+. The geforce 3 ti200 can be overclocked to come close to a ti500 (the MSI driver provides overclocking in the windows driver - a linux version -nvclock - is available at http://209.167.100.83/ (evil3d).
I then removed the NIC card in another Win2k Pro Box and installed another vendor's card - same slot. Showed dialogs that the driver was loading and as it was dhcp, had an address assigned and was ready to go with no intervention or reboots.
Moved this card from slot 0 to slot 1 (regular PC - no hotswap slots, so it was powered down) - when it came back up, original driver was applied as a new instance (#2), dhcp worked fine - no intervention, no reboots.
What am I doing wrong?
If you install a NIC in Win2000 (Professional), Win2000 will find it and prompt for the driver. Then you reboot, assign it an IP address, etc., then reboot again.
Err... I just tried this on a fresh install of Win2K Pro on a laptop that had no NIC present during setup:
I inserted a 3Com 589E PCMCIA (while running) all drivers were installed and configured without prompting. No reboots either. I then configred both static IP and a dhcp and back again - without reboots.
I believe you're thinking of Win95:)
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Recently purchased 2 XP 1600+s (1 in Dec and 1 in Jan) - both indicate they are Rev A5 (CPUID 662) and do not have the INVLPG bug according to AMD's errata sheet.
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Why not AOL? If they're honorable with the RH bid, this could be seen as good PR within the community who's work they will profit...
Ray Norda got the itch to take on M$ and started aquiring WordPerfect, licensed Borland's Quattro and Paradox to take on M$Office. Around that time, UnixWare was aquired from AT&T, etc. At the time, Novell was big and could afford it but botched it. They ended up selling WordPerfect to Corel for pennies on the dollar for what they paid for it... keeping GroupWise. IMO, that move killed Novell. And with it, they took out the last viable commerical packages to compete with Office. AOL may be looking at RH to tie together the $230/mo cable subscription (tv, internet and phone) package which I suppose could work in limited markets but with the price tag of RH, they most certainly have bigger ideas. Will Steve Case follow in Norda's footsteps? In some weird way, I want to support AOLTW - it's a great opportunity to get Linux out there into the world, even if it's an idiot-proof version. It'd be interesting to see what the grand scheme is...
For XMas, I built a more modest version of linuxhardware's version: xp1600+, soyo d+, 512MB PC2100 DDR, MSI GF3 ti200, plextor 24/10/40 CDRW, antec 400W PSU, HSF. I had a case and a maxtor 60GB IDE drive already for it. I spent $900 with burn-in and shipping.
They chose all scsi, which is a bit over the top IMO - the dragon+ has 4 IDE controllers for 8 devices (2 of which are promise raid which can run as normal ide for linux). The PC2400 memory is overspec for the board (unless you want to boost the FSB beyond 148).
RH7.2 installed without a hitch - lan and audio drivers found and installed no problem. cdrecord is happy with the CDRW - no configuration there. I installed nvidia's drivers and have full opengl - that did require a kernel recompile (because of the the athlon I think). lm_sensors is working, etc. All on a board that was released in November - says a lot about the state of linux drivers.
Point is, I believe I have a rock solid system that by any measure meets price/performance/value.
I can also run the FSB at 143 reliably which shows the cpu/mem benchmarking as a xp 1800+. The geforce 3 ti200 can be overclocked to come close to a ti500 (the MSI driver provides overclocking in the windows driver - a linux version -nvclock - is available at http://209.167.100.83/ (evil3d).
I'm satisfied.
I then removed the NIC card in another Win2k Pro Box and installed another vendor's card - same slot. Showed dialogs that the driver was loading and as it was dhcp, had an address assigned and was ready to go with no intervention or reboots. Moved this card from slot 0 to slot 1 (regular PC - no hotswap slots, so it was powered down) - when it came back up, original driver was applied as a new instance (#2), dhcp worked fine - no intervention, no reboots. What am I doing wrong?