One silly thing about review sites comparing AMD64 to anything else is that they are still running them in 32bit mode. I found running in 64 bit mode gives you about 20% improvement in general code. When running guile working on very long integer operations we got a _6_ times improvement. Our simulations dropped from taking an 66 minutes to just over 11 minutes.
The MD5SUM file checks out against the PGP key and so do the ISOs against the MD5 sums. But dont take my word for it and test it yourself The PGP key used is 4F2A6FD2
Ofcause if you have the whole system simulated but still interacting with the hardware you can do much more fine grain tricks. Because we use an ARM simulator running on an ARM when I use I run it till it crashes and look at the instruction count. Then rerun to any point just before the crash. This has become a little tedious and with weird interrupt based hardware it becomes difficult to recreate exactly the same error. It would be nice to record the last x (10k?) states so you can rewind to any point before the error.
Oh I do love it. My boss had 100% faith in his code claiming that he tests it so much it cant have any bugs. Running it through valgrind showed pages worth of bugs which were only accidently non-fatal.
I remember a few years back (99-01) during the internet boom/desperation days there were lots oc sites giving away stuff. The best way to fing free stuff is from "free stuff" websites. I got lost of stuff:T-shirts, samples... My favorite was a train whistle (huge 9" wooden thing that sounds just like a train) and a very nice box of chocolates.
Unfortunately the're no longer many money burning web ventures.
Strange that the only area where we had originaly visual design has now almost completely moved to writing. I am thinking of hardware design CAD where the entire industry now uses VHDL/Verilog instead of schematics.
The reasons were because its is easier to CVS/grep/replace...
Acording to acroread they used QuarkXPress 4.1 and not even office. Also note that solaris nowdays runs on an x66. Must be one new ones we aren't supposed top know about.
OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support rteam.
Obviously someone hasn't been using the MS spell checker. And why are they distributing it in pdf format? I bet they didn't even use office to make this document.
OpenOffice does not have an e-mail client, so customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an e-mail application. Why don't you use this 'free' software? Because it doesn't come with an email client! Why don't you use a 'free' email client? Because it doesn't come with a web browser! Why don't you use a 'free' web browser...
Ensure that their mission-critical information is adequately protected from virus attack. Over the last month I have been sent over 20 virus infected MS office files. I hardly think this argument could possibly hold up.
OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support rteam. Consequently, if bugs go unresolved, users have the option to resolve problems by scouring through numerous community sites and chat rooms. As opposed to what? Finding out you have a bug in your software and waiting till the next version or patch two years down the line? OOo is bad because thee is a community of people happy to help you.
All in all its pretty pathetic. I doubt the person who wrote it was convinced.
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That is so over the top. Creating an entire PC just to show a picture? That's 200 for the screen and another 200 for the computer. On top of that they are recommending a hard disk? My version uses a 5 quid FPGA and some junk thrown away equipment. The LCD was a 12" 9bit colour from some factory and a fiend of a friend offered them to us for a quid each. And the RAM is an old 1Mb 30simm (I have about 3kg of these). There you go. A picture displaying system with no need for a huge/noisy PC power supply (runs from one of those 12v ac/dc plug converters). The images can be sent to it via a serial cable (two wires internally so it can be passed over any old cable you have lying around).
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One silly thing about review sites comparing AMD64 to anything else is that they are still running them in 32bit mode. I found running in 64 bit mode gives you about 20% improvement in general code.
When running guile working on very long integer operations we got a _6_ times improvement. Our simulations dropped from taking an 66 minutes to just over 11 minutes.
Thats Advanced Micro Devices
The MD5SUM file checks out against the PGP key and so do the ISOs against the MD5 sums. But dont take my word for it and test it yourself
The PGP key used is 4F2A6FD2
Thats what I was thinking. Also how will compases work during the big switch thanks to the solar wind?
This is a story from _April_.
Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet
As it launched it turned 90 degrees and skimmed along an inch off the ground through the croud.
Imagine the rocket needed to take these three guys up there and back.
The fact that the guy picked up a slice and it fell apart just proves the point.
Ofcause if you have the whole system simulated but still interacting with the hardware you can do much more fine grain tricks. Because we use an ARM simulator running on an ARM when I use I run it till it crashes and look at the instruction count. Then rerun to any point just before the crash.
This has become a little tedious and with weird interrupt based hardware it becomes difficult to recreate exactly the same error. It would be nice to record the last x (10k?) states so you can rewind to any point before the error.
Oh I do love it. My boss had 100% faith in his code claiming that he tests it so much it cant have any bugs. Running it through valgrind showed pages worth of bugs which were only accidently non-fatal.
New versions of third party browsers (FireFox, Netscape, Galeon...)
Five different British news papers with reporters all over the world all starying the story with "Dough!".
main()0 01110000011001010110010000100000011000010111010000 10000001010100011010000110100101101110011010110100 01110110010101100101011010110010000001101111011011 10001000000100000101110000011100100110100101101100 00100000010001100110111101101111011011000111001100 10000001000100011000010111100100101100001000000110 00010110111001100100001000000110000101101100011011 00001000000100100100100000011001110110111101110100 00100000011101110110000101110011001000000111010001 10100001101001011100110010000001101100011011110111 01010111001101111001001000000111001101101000011010 01011100100111010000100001"
{
char *binstring ="01001001001000000111001101101000011011110111000
char *ptr=binstring;
int got=0;
char c=0;
while (*ptr){
c=c1;
if ('1' == *ptr) c|=1;
if(8 = ++got) {
printf("%c", c);
got=0;
c=0;
}
ptr++;
}
printf("\n");
}
"I shopped at ThinkGeek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!"
Now I know I feel safer getting one.
I remember a few years back (99-01) during the internet boom/desperation days there were lots oc sites giving away stuff. The best way to fing free stuff is from "free stuff" websites. I got lost of stuff:T-shirts, samples... My favorite was a train whistle (huge 9" wooden thing that sounds just like a train) and a very nice box of chocolates.
Unfortunately the're no longer many money burning web ventures.
2.27 Mbps = 0.28375 MBps
4 GB / 0.28375 MBps = 14097 secs
14097 secs = 3h 54Mins
100km / 3h 54Mins = 25.53 km/h
25.53 km/h = 15.86 mph
Not bad for laden little pigeons
Strange that the only area where we had originaly visual design has now almost completely moved to writing. I am thinking of hardware design CAD where the entire industry now uses VHDL/Verilog instead of schematics.
The reasons were because its is easier to CVS/grep/replace...
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Acording to acroread they used QuarkXPress 4.1 and not even office.
Also note that solaris nowdays runs on an x66. Must be one new ones we aren't supposed top know about.
OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support rteam.
Obviously someone hasn't been using the MS spell checker.
And why are they distributing it in pdf format? I bet they didn't even use office to make this document.
OpenOffice does not have an e-mail client, so customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an e-mail application.
Why don't you use this 'free' software?
Because it doesn't come with an email client!
Why don't you use a 'free' email client?
Because it doesn't come with a web browser!
Why don't you use a 'free' web browser...
Ensure that their mission-critical information is adequately protected from virus attack.
Over the last month I have been sent over 20 virus infected MS office files. I hardly think this argument could possibly hold up.
OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support rteam. Consequently, if bugs go unresolved, users have the option to resolve problems by scouring through numerous community sites and chat rooms.
As opposed to what? Finding out you have a bug in your software and waiting till the next version or patch two years down the line? OOo is bad because thee is a community of people happy to help you.
All in all its pretty pathetic. I doubt the person who wrote it was convinced.
Acording to ICANN the sponsor for .xxx is The International Foundation for Online Responsibility. It wopuld be a bit weird when the organisation's main source of funding will come from the pr0n industry.
IFFOR brought to you by nastygirls.xxx
Uses for the new domains: .asia - Asian pr0n companies .cat - Feline pr0n companies .jobs - Jobs in the pr0n companies .mail - Pr0n spam companies .mobi - Pr0n to your mobile companies .post - Pr0n through your post companies .tel - Sex chatline companies .travel - Sex tourism companies .xxx - Unknown
Reminds me of a spoof spam male enhancement pyramid scheme.
You divide your penis into one inch parts and send them off to the people on the list and forward the email on.
Within a week you will receive 20feet of penis.
Interesting they didn't give out his email address.
For some reason slashdot cuts out the pound signs so that should be 200GBP.
That is so over the top. Creating an entire PC just to show a picture? That's 200 for the screen and another 200 for the computer. On top of that they are recommending a hard disk?
My version uses a 5 quid FPGA and some junk thrown away equipment. The LCD was a 12" 9bit colour from some factory and a fiend of a friend offered them to us for a quid each. And the RAM is an old 1Mb 30simm (I have about 3kg of these). There you go. A picture displaying system with no need for a huge/noisy PC power supply (runs from one of those 12v ac/dc plug converters). The images can be sent to it via a serial cable (two wires internally so it can be passed over any old cable you have lying around).