There is a hackmaster hack out there called "Afterburner" which will allow you to do this as well (although it doesn't have as much eye candy, I'll admit....)
It does allow you to specify clock speeds for individual applications (for instance, from what I've heard of the architecture, you do not want to clock up IR applications... something about how the processor actually is used for the IR timings???)
I've used it, and it does work, but expect significantly reduced battery life. Nowadays, I just use it with some of the extra options turned on (if your memory is good in the unit, there is a no-wait checkbox that speeds up memory accesses) etc....
Another startling point -- do NOT rely on pricewatch for memory.
Let me re-phrase this. There is good memory, and there is cheap memory. Cheap memory sucks. I bought a few 256mb dimms off of pricewatch (and ebay... shiver) that weren't worth the reduced price over known brands (micron, crucial etc).
After having a fit, and thinking my year old system board was going flakey (it's had questionable memory from the start), I bought 512MB from a computer show (can't remember the vendor). The guy had a memory tester there, and allowed me to look at the testing and results.
Lesson of the day -- when using pricewatch for memory, look for known good vendors (which is why the article is here in the first place) or for known good manufacturers. Do not buy the cheap stuff.....:)
"I DEFY you to run MS office over a network. Not office '92 either. Office 2k or above. Its just too much traffic, and what if you lose the packet that sends the "save" command?"
I would then hope to god almighty that you are using TCP on top of your IP. If you lose a packet, it's not Microsoft's fault (heck, they didn't even build the entire stack, did they?)
I must second this one. I bought a set, after doing about a week of solid reviewing on the internet.
Then I set them up at home. DAMN! is all I can say to the amount and quality of sound that you can put through these.
I have them paired up with a turtle beach santa cruz, which is the "quietest" sound card I've ever owned. I used to be a creative labs user, but this card blows away anything "I've" heard by them.
But that's my opinion. You're entitled to yours. But go listen to the Klipsch at Comp USA... you'll be impressed....
Dear lord, man. I can see where you might want to give your child "opportunities" that you didn't have growing up, but for gods sake, I also think you should let her choose what she wants to do every now and again.
I'm not trying to trample on you, but a lot of your post isn't necessarily about your daughter. It's about you.
Actually, in Columbus OH, my friend looked into this, and eenet was doing a special for 200$/month, + another 200$ for line loop....
Okay, I'm stupid, that's darn close to 500$/month. But he's already got the csu/dsu and t1 router. We'll probably set up wireless links and assist in his payment for a T1 if it comes to non-flat-rate-cable modem access.
Girls / Women talk about that stuff a heck of a lot more than guys do, let me tell ya. Once you get to know a member of the opposite sex well enough, you can start to see "insight" into how they work.... and I guarantee you that.
On a side note, a friend of mine was talking to me about the same subject. I asked him "I wonder if they talk about us the way we talk about them". Knowing the answer to this question myself, I wanted to see his opinion.
He told me "Hell yes. Well, probably not about me, but yea...."
I've got a cyrix m2-300 for a file server... never had a day of downtime other than my own screw-ups... and bad kernel code for the promise ide card (darn thing will never see ata-100 without corrupting a disk... on a READ!)
I've had issues with all of my AMD systems, though, and I feel it has to do with board/chipset selection. For instance, I currently run a tbird 900 with an Abit kt7-raid. Once top rated on toms hardware (of course, that's when I bought it) and then all of a sudden, people started bitching about it.
Me too.
There's just something not right. I've replaced everything around this board, and every now and again it gets finicky.... (sp?) but for the most part, it is solid, and doesn't give me a problem. (p.s. their highpoint raid solution sucks for a home user, but for a server, I'm sure it's a godsend...)
Remember, you also need the 65$ per chip -- makes it closer (with tax) to about 7000$ (tax on xbox, shipping for mod chip).. not to mention the fun hours of tearing apart 25 xboxes.
I've always used 3 1/2" diskettes for this task, and it hasn't killed my eyes yet. (Although, you can never be too careful.)
I just slide back the dust cover, and look at the sun through the magnetic media portion of the diskette. Voila - perfect picture, and your eyes don't hurt.
I decided about 2 years ago to purchase a new receiver and DVD player, even though I was holding on to the hope that was PS2, to play DVD's.
Now I'm kinda glad I bought the stand-alone DVD player. Why?
The PS2's fans are LOUD. OK, they're not bone-jarringly loud, and I'm sure I could learn to ignore them, but there's nothing like having a full dolby digital + subwoofer set-up in your basement, and being able to hear a pin drop... With the PS2 as a DVD player (my roomie's used it before as such), there's just too much noise....
I agree that Nintendo's own internal software group tends to do a really great job... but I can't believe they don't have a "mario" game out for the system (Like Mario64, etc). I used to love playing SMB on the NES as a kid (As well as Zelda and Metroid).
I would have figured they'd have one of these 3 out already.... Kinda makes me want to hold off even more, until it hits the 100$ mark:)
To be honest, though... have you ever seen a console "raise" in price? I don't think I have. I would think that consumers at that point would balk at the idea of buying a piece of electronics at a much higher than previously discounted price... especially since the consoles are everywhere now.
Now, gasoline on the other hand.. don't get me started there.
You also have to look at assets (although, generally the more liquid a company is, the better...) as well, if you are speaking of the wealth of a company (or a person, for that matter.)
Now, I'm not trying to be smart-alecky, since I don't know their holdings either. But the assets for each company are probably vastly different.
I've been doing some pricing on a new machine for myself (of which I cannot afford yet), and some of the newer kt333 chipsets come with AGP 8x, as well as USB 2.0 etc.
I have to agree with most other posts here -- I don't think we should be too particularly worried, seeing as there is not an epidemic of "computer disease" going around....
However, one of the things that mosts disgusts me is telephones. Picture this -- I do telecommunications (end-user) support for a living. Often when people leave, I'm in charge of picking up their phone, cleaning, and readying it for re-deploy.
Some of the older phones (they're all Rolm) have buttons that are prone to getting downright cruddy. I physically have to scrape the number pad off with a screwdriver to get all the dirt off, and then I use the specified cleaner for the phone.
And don't get me started about the women (men too?) that wear a lot of makeup, and then it seamlessly transfers itself to the handset and microphone portion... ewwwww.
Some of the stuff is downright nasty, and I can assure you, might possibly cause disease. If you licked it.
I've tried to do something similar before -- namely, breaking up.wav files so that I could distribute the pieces to other machines to encode.
I ran into a snag.
It seems the encoder I was using at the time (bladeenc) was inserting silence at the end of each mp3, to keep it to spec. What I can imagine is that even with DVD encoding, you'd need a "master" that would give out file chunks to the worker bees. But -- it would have to be intelligent enough to know when you wanted a new keyframe, and split up the.avi /.vob in that sense.
In other words, you may as well just build one heck of a fast machine, and try to get 30-40fps encoding out of it, rather than try to put together something to distribute it and encode it. That's my 2 cents, and I may be wrong....
This may be true, but I agree with the parent-parent-pa (oh whatever) post...
We have a ton of HP printers at my place of employment. I remember talking with the service guy one lazy afternoon, and he was complaining about a printer not working. Seems that if you don't use the "HP" toner carts (some secretary ordered lexmark, which sell the same cartridge) for some reason you WILL have problems.
Of course, that's what I've seen here. Your milage may vary. Under 18 not admitted without parent. May cause cancer.
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There is a hackmaster hack out there called "Afterburner" which will allow you to do this as well (although it doesn't have as much eye candy, I'll admit....)
It does allow you to specify clock speeds for individual applications (for instance, from what I've heard of the architecture, you do not want to clock up IR applications... something about how the processor actually is used for the IR timings???)
I've used it, and it does work, but expect significantly reduced battery life. Nowadays, I just use it with some of the extra options turned on (if your memory is good in the unit, there is a no-wait checkbox that speeds up memory accesses) etc....
Another startling point -- do NOT rely on pricewatch for memory.
:)
Let me re-phrase this. There is good memory, and there is cheap memory. Cheap memory sucks. I bought a few 256mb dimms off of pricewatch (and ebay... shiver) that weren't worth the reduced price over known brands (micron, crucial etc).
After having a fit, and thinking my year old system board was going flakey (it's had questionable memory from the start), I bought 512MB from a computer show (can't remember the vendor). The guy had a memory tester there, and allowed me to look at the testing and results.
Lesson of the day -- when using pricewatch for memory, look for known good vendors (which is why the article is here in the first place) or for known good manufacturers. Do not buy the cheap stuff.....
"I DEFY you to run MS office over a network. Not office '92 either. Office 2k or above. Its just too much traffic, and what if you lose the packet that sends the "save" command?"
I would then hope to god almighty that you are using TCP on top of your IP. If you lose a packet, it's not Microsoft's fault (heck, they didn't even build the entire stack, did they?)
I must second this one. I bought a set, after doing about a week of solid reviewing on the internet.
Then I set them up at home. DAMN! is all I can say to the amount and quality of sound that you can put through these.
I have them paired up with a turtle beach santa cruz, which is the "quietest" sound card I've ever owned. I used to be a creative labs user, but this card blows away anything "I've" heard by them.
But that's my opinion. You're entitled to yours. But go listen to the Klipsch at Comp USA... you'll be impressed....
????
25% better framerates?
This didn't just turn into a Quake3 AMD vs Intel style discussion, did it?
I know you're joking. Do you know I'm joking?
Dear lord, man. I can see where you might want to give your child "opportunities" that you didn't have growing up, but for gods sake, I also think you should let her choose what she wants to do every now and again.
I'm not trying to trample on you, but a lot of your post isn't necessarily about your daughter. It's about you.
Not only that, but we've had people in our R&D department who have kept FULL CD's on our file server.
A quick cursory check one evening yielded 7 gigabytes worth of CD's. MS office, Windows, PC Anywhere... and this guy didn't work in our department!!!
Strange how quotas came about the very next year.
Actually, in Columbus OH, my friend looked into this, and eenet was doing a special for 200$/month, + another 200$ for line loop....
Okay, I'm stupid, that's darn close to 500$/month. But he's already got the csu/dsu and t1 router. We'll probably set up wireless links and assist in his payment for a T1 if it comes to non-flat-rate-cable modem access.
While that is definitely some fun information (re- dreamcast), it's not for everyone.
Per the divx page on dcemulation.com,:
"Status: - Videos can be up to 496x496 but 320x240 or lower recommended."
So, no real full-screen 720x480 video for me.....
Are you kidding?
Girls / Women talk about that stuff a heck of a lot more than guys do, let me tell ya. Once you get to know a member of the opposite sex well enough, you can start to see "insight" into how they work.... and I guarantee you that.
On a side note, a friend of mine was talking to me about the same subject. I asked him "I wonder if they talk about us the way we talk about them". Knowing the answer to this question myself, I wanted to see his opinion.
He told me "Hell yes. Well, probably not about me, but yea...."
:)
Hey!!! :)
I've got a cyrix m2-300 for a file server... never had a day of downtime other than my own screw-ups... and bad kernel code for the promise ide card (darn thing will never see ata-100 without corrupting a disk... on a READ!)
I've had issues with all of my AMD systems, though, and I feel it has to do with board/chipset selection. For instance, I currently run a tbird 900 with an Abit kt7-raid. Once top rated on toms hardware (of course, that's when I bought it) and then all of a sudden, people started bitching about it.
Me too.
There's just something not right. I've replaced everything around this board, and every now and again it gets finicky.... (sp?) but for the most part, it is solid, and doesn't give me a problem. (p.s. their highpoint raid solution sucks for a home user, but for a server, I'm sure it's a godsend...)
Remember, you also need the 65$ per chip -- makes it closer (with tax) to about 7000$ (tax on xbox, shipping for mod chip).. not to mention the fun hours of tearing apart 25 xboxes.
:)
Of course, to each his own
Sounds like you need a beowulf cluster of sims.
Ba-BumBum!
:)
I've always used 3 1/2" diskettes for this task, and it hasn't killed my eyes yet. (Although, you can never be too careful.)
I just slide back the dust cover, and look at the sun through the magnetic media portion of the diskette. Voila - perfect picture, and your eyes don't hurt.
Gotta wonder about the UV rays though.... ???
Check Out Penny Arcade's take on this.
I decided about 2 years ago to purchase a new receiver and DVD player, even though I was holding on to the hope that was PS2, to play DVD's.
Now I'm kinda glad I bought the stand-alone DVD player. Why?
The PS2's fans are LOUD. OK, they're not bone-jarringly loud, and I'm sure I could learn to ignore them, but there's nothing like having a full dolby digital + subwoofer set-up in your basement, and being able to hear a pin drop... With the PS2 as a DVD player (my roomie's used it before as such), there's just too much noise....
I agree that Nintendo's own internal software group tends to do a really great job... but I can't believe they don't have a "mario" game out for the system (Like Mario64, etc). I used to love playing SMB on the NES as a kid (As well as Zelda and Metroid).
:)
I would have figured they'd have one of these 3 out already.... Kinda makes me want to hold off even more, until it hits the 100$ mark
To be honest, though... have you ever seen a console "raise" in price? I don't think I have. I would think that consumers at that point would balk at the idea of buying a piece of electronics at a much higher than previously discounted price... especially since the consoles are everywhere now.
Now, gasoline on the other hand.. don't get me started there.
You also have to look at assets (although, generally the more liquid a company is, the better...) as well, if you are speaking of the wealth of a company (or a person, for that matter.)
Now, I'm not trying to be smart-alecky, since I don't know their holdings either. But the assets for each company are probably vastly different.
RE: 8x AGP:
I've been doing some pricing on a new machine for myself (of which I cannot afford yet), and some of the newer kt333 chipsets come with AGP 8x, as well as USB 2.0 etc.
It's out there, but do we use it? not yet....
Toms Hardware also has a review of this card; however, it's not actual silicon -- he just reviews the spec sheets that Matrox has given them.
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www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q2/020514/index.
Beware -- I was just trying to get to the 3rd page in the review -- it appears to be getting slower..... ?
I have to agree with most other posts here -- I don't think we should be too particularly worried, seeing as there is not an epidemic of "computer disease" going around....
However, one of the things that mosts disgusts me is telephones. Picture this -- I do telecommunications (end-user) support for a living. Often when people leave, I'm in charge of picking up their phone, cleaning, and readying it for re-deploy.
Some of the older phones (they're all Rolm) have buttons that are prone to getting downright cruddy. I physically have to scrape the number pad off with a screwdriver to get all the dirt off, and then I use the specified cleaner for the phone.
And don't get me started about the women (men too?) that wear a lot of makeup, and then it seamlessly transfers itself to the handset and microphone portion... ewwwww.
Some of the stuff is downright nasty, and I can assure you, might possibly cause disease. If you licked it.
I've tried to do something similar before -- namely, breaking up .wav files so that I could distribute the pieces to other machines to encode.
.avi / .vob in that sense.
I ran into a snag.
It seems the encoder I was using at the time (bladeenc) was inserting silence at the end of each mp3, to keep it to spec. What I can imagine is that even with DVD encoding, you'd need a "master" that would give out file chunks to the worker bees. But -- it would have to be intelligent enough to know when you wanted a new keyframe, and split up the
In other words, you may as well just build one heck of a fast machine, and try to get 30-40fps encoding out of it, rather than try to put together something to distribute it and encode it. That's my 2 cents, and I may be wrong....
wish that they'd come out with "worse" statistics.
Then maybe I'd quit this filthy habit that I've grown to love called smoking....
I wonder what the average lifespan is doing for those of us in the cancer-stick habit?
This may be true, but I agree with the parent-parent-pa (oh whatever) post...
We have a ton of HP printers at my place of employment. I remember talking with the service guy one lazy afternoon, and he was complaining about a printer not working. Seems that if you don't use the "HP" toner carts (some secretary ordered lexmark, which sell the same cartridge) for some reason you WILL have problems.
Of course, that's what I've seen here. Your milage may vary. Under 18 not admitted without parent. May cause cancer.