Um, no. The Gigabyte G7VAXP may have a VIA KT400 northbridge on it, but it can not actually do 400 FSB with sync memory.
The only motherboard currently on the market that officially (as in, official support) does 400 FSB is the Asus A7N8X rev 2.0, with Nvidia's NForce2 chipset.
The first time I read "Cryptonomicon", I was slightly put out by how long and drawn out many of the passages and descriptions were. So I ended up reading the whole thing but sort of skimming over some of what I thought was less important stuff.
Imagine my suprise when, two year later, I picked up the book and decided to read through it again. I can't believe how much I missed the first time through. Sure, not all of it has everything to do with the storyline, but it's all entertaining, and quite funny in many places.
The best example I can (sorta) remember is when the younger Waterhouse is at the estate of his newly deceased grandmother, and all the relatives are trying madly to get the best inheritance. Waterhouse devises a formula that gets him what he wants. The whole scene had very little to do with the storyline, but it was great to read, and I'm glad he put it in there.
If you want short and to the point, go see a movie. Also, you dont know long and drawn out unless you've read the unabridged "Les Miserables."
Last time I was in S. Korea (December, 2001) someone quoted me a statistic that one out of every two people (that includes everybody- babies, homeless guys, old people) have a hand phone. (cell phone for those US-centric.)
I was being made fun of by old people because my state-of-the-art US cell phone at the time was a "brick".
Obviously, broadband is just as widespread. My 80-year old grandmother doesen't even have a washing machine, but she has DSL, for crying out loud.
I notice a lot of people who haven't used it are complaining about the low bitrate.aac's. Well, I actually bought a Live Phish track today that I have also ripped at 192k mp3 and level 6 ogg. I listened to all three with my MDR-EX70 neodymium driver earbuds, and guess what? They all sounded pretty much the same.
My friend has the exact same problem in reverse. His 12" TiBook wobbles like crazy when it's cold, but once it heats up, it gets level.
I guess there is something to be said for the plastic casing on my iBook. Totally unrelated, I heard that the iBook casing is bulletproof. Is that true?
I am forced to post an Onion article from olden days.
Despite Claims, Long Story Not Made Short SCHENECTADY, NY--Contrary to her pre-account vow, area resident Barb Schuyler's long story of how a series of cashier foul-ups at the grocery store Monday made her 25 minutes late for a dental appointment was not made short. "So then, it turns out the stupid woman forgot to ring in my Savers Club discount," Schuyler told friend Gloria Conlon nine minutes into the non-abbreviated tale. The story is the 1,643rd Schuyler has failed to make short since 1994.
Actually, my post was very on topic, considering that the guy specifically asks if rolling his own PVR is worth the money/hassle as compared to buying a TiVo. And nowhere in the original question do I see him asking about playing games or streaming Vorbis. So there.
Series 2 40 hour refurbed TiVo- $150 AR 120GB Maxtor Fluid Dynamic Bearings 5400RPM HD - $130 (Just using the same HD you did for clarity) Lifetime Service- $250 Total : $530
Mine does all kinds of fancy ff/rew/pause, I can easily schedule all recordings, etc., I can have TiVo tell me what to watch (I dont, but I could), I have 30-sec commercial skip, and I have a really nice remote that is extremely well designed and always works.
To be honest, I could really care less about MP3s and emulators and such, I already have a PC and a Mac that can stream MP3s, an Xbox (and a PC and a Mac) that will play emulators/games (and can also stream MP3, vorbis, divx, etc etc etc etc)
It's unethical to overclock your processor, then get it exchanged when it burns out because it was running outside of spec.
It's unethical for grey/black market vendors to overclock a slower processor, then sell it at premium prices. Believe me, this happens a lot, and is a big problem for processor manufacturers.
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Did I get sucked into some hellish wormhole? Or is this a normal Taco dupe?
A cast of each actor's head was sent to a company called Arius 3D, makers of ultrahigh-resolution scanners employed in 1999 to archive the works of Michelangelo. The Arius scanner is accurate down to 25 microns - the diameter of a mold spore.
This strikes me as a little bit weird. This sounds like really super cool tech that is bottlenecked by the cast of the actor's head. Why didnt they just scan the actor's head directly? Wouldnt that have been more accurate?
My TiVo is a great toy, but it's looking like it's time for this company to die. First they fire RB, and now they snuggle up to the content industry?
Geez, give them a break for chrissakes. They have to do that to cover their ass. Would you want the networks & the MPAA breathing down your neck? What do you expect them to do? Not put in the security stuff? Why dont they just do that and call it "instant lawsuit?"
But in all seriousness, I have a buddy who works for one of the major PVR companies (it's not TiVo, but it is one that allows you to do stream sharing). In the close caption stream, there is a bit (that's part of the CC spec) that, if set by the content provider, denotes that the content cannot be shared. All they are doing is following spec, which I am sure is FCC mandated (IANAFCCE). So get off their backs, and cancel your subscription. Good riddance.
So first of all, the/. title and the title of the article are "Life on the road with 3G," when he's not even using 3G? What the heck? From what I understand, 2.5G is an order of magnitude slower than 3G, isn't it?
Secondly, the whole article is pretty much a gripe/review of the specific Samsung A500 Hardware that he's using, and hardly even goes into the 2.5G service?!??! Thanks, buddy, for letting me know that the A500 has A. a crappy web browser, B. a crappy cable, and C. no bluetooth (crappy). I'm also glad to know that you think SMS is useless. That's really great to know IN YOUR SUPPOSED REVIEW OF 3G. WTF.
I know this has been said a bajillion times before, but could the editors please stop to read the stories they post once in a while?
is Mac OS X in a Nutshell. When I finally took the plunge and bought an iBook, one of the main reasons was for the bad-ass BSD core in OS X that I kept hearing about. Unfortunately, the official Apple documentation is extremely sparse, and coming from a heavy Windows background, OS X and Aqua were very foreign to me, and sort of intimidating.
So I did some research, and began looking at good books to help me make the "switch". Although the Pogue book is well written and entertaining, there is really not much in there that I didn't figure out on my own in the first two days just playing around with the OS. There is absolutely nothing in there about the BSD core. OS X In A Nutshell, on the other hand, goes through the Aqua Interface, then goes in depth into AppleScripting, the BSD core, and even has little tidbits on Perl & regular expressions and the like. It doesen't wax poetic like the Pogue book, but it's definitely a much more concisely written, useful book for the/. crowd.
Paco talks a lot about making changes to the inside of the store. But for me (and I am primarily an x86 user), as soon as I walked into the Apple store at some mall in Cincinnati, the product pretty much spoke for itself. I walked around, drooling over the pretty ibooks, running my finger round and round the static flywheel on the ipods, gawking at the humongous flatpanel displays. I wanted one of everything in the store.
My point being, has this Paco guy ever seen Apple's products? I think all they need to do is get people to come into the store in order to sell stuff. Granted, this doesen't mean you want crack vials lying on the floor or something, but you get my drift.
Ok, let it out. We all think it's quite funny that you're the first person to think up that you can fry an egg on an Athlon, or use it as a tanning bed, or whatever.
Fact is, Barton 3000+ dissapates 74W max, while Intel's P4 3gig dissapates 82W max. SO SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!
I have to say, being a lifelong Windows user (I had a stint with Macs briefly, 10 years ago in high school yearbook class, pagemaker and what not) I was getting quite fed up with my 9 pound, 1 hour, Sony Vaio AMD laptop. So last week I sold it and went out and bought a sleek little 12" ibook. Best purchase I've ever made. After the initial learning curve with OS X (why the heck isnt Ctrl+C working? Wait, what's this weird little symbol key?) I am really digging the ibook. It's so beautiful, has great battery life, and does everything I'd ever need in a laptop. I love that I can ssh into my colo box without having to download putty. Little stuff like that.
Anyways, long story short, if I had to do it again now with all these T&L windows laptops out, I would still go with the ibook.
I would definitely go thin and light. I bought the most powerful, largest screened laptop I could find (at the time). However, it's so unweildy, and drains battery power like nothing else. If I'm lucky (with two batteries in it) I'll be able to surf for 1 hour before it goes dead. Plus, by the amount of heat it generates, I know I'm going to have lap cancer by age 35.
In other words, I cant do a whole lot with it, and it's really heavy and awkward. My dad on the other hand, has a super small Sony Vaio that can go about 6 hours on a battery and still do everything I do, even though it's more underpowered.
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Um, no. The Gigabyte G7VAXP may have a VIA KT400 northbridge on it, but it can not actually do 400 FSB with sync memory.
The only motherboard currently on the market that officially (as in, official support) does 400 FSB is the Asus A7N8X rev 2.0, with Nvidia's NForce2 chipset.
Am I the only one who read this as "Surviving Tomatos?
The first time I read "Cryptonomicon", I was slightly put out by how long and drawn out many of the passages and descriptions were. So I ended up reading the whole thing but sort of skimming over some of what I thought was less important stuff.
Imagine my suprise when, two year later, I picked up the book and decided to read through it again. I can't believe how much I missed the first time through. Sure, not all of it has everything to do with the storyline, but it's all entertaining, and quite funny in many places.
The best example I can (sorta) remember is when the younger Waterhouse is at the estate of his newly deceased grandmother, and all the relatives are trying madly to get the best inheritance. Waterhouse devises a formula that gets him what he wants. The whole scene had very little to do with the storyline, but it was great to read, and I'm glad he put it in there.
If you want short and to the point, go see a movie. Also, you dont know long and drawn out unless you've read the unabridged "Les Miserables."
You don't go out and buy an eMac, or buy a tower, but you put exactly what you want in it. It's something that PC users have been doing for years
Yes, but in contrast, the typical custom PC is built to accomplish three goals as opposed to buying a prebuilt desktop:
1. Look better
2. Higher performance
3. Cheaper
These mac clone kits accomplish none of these things.
Spielberg won't do them. Point blank.
They're finally releasing Point Blank on DVD?
Last time I was in S. Korea (December, 2001) someone quoted me a statistic that one out of every two people (that includes everybody- babies, homeless guys, old people) have a hand phone. (cell phone for those US-centric.)
I was being made fun of by old people because my state-of-the-art US cell phone at the time was a "brick".
Obviously, broadband is just as widespread. My 80-year old grandmother doesen't even have a washing machine, but she has DSL, for crying out loud.
I notice a lot of people who haven't used it are complaining about the low bitrate .aac's. Well, I actually bought a Live Phish track today that I have also ripped at 192k mp3 and level 6 ogg. I listened to all three with my MDR-EX70 neodymium driver earbuds, and guess what? They all sounded pretty much the same.
My friend has the exact same problem in reverse. His 12" TiBook wobbles like crazy when it's cold, but once it heats up, it gets level.
I guess there is something to be said for the plastic casing on my iBook. Totally unrelated, I heard that the iBook casing is bulletproof. Is that true?
In short, NO.
I am forced to post an Onion article from olden days.
Despite Claims, Long Story Not Made Short
SCHENECTADY, NY--Contrary to her pre-account vow, area resident Barb Schuyler's long story of how a series of cashier foul-ups at the grocery store Monday made her 25 minutes late for a dental appointment was not made short. "So then, it turns out the stupid woman forgot to ring in my Savers Club discount," Schuyler told friend Gloria Conlon nine minutes into the non-abbreviated tale. The story is the 1,643rd Schuyler has failed to make short since 1994.
I forgot to include the Home Media Option which lets you have the webserver capability, that's an additional $99.
You can do this for free with series 1 TiVos using the bash shell and TiVoWeb.
Actually, my post was very on topic, considering that the guy specifically asks if rolling his own PVR is worth the money/hassle as compared to buying a TiVo. And nowhere in the original question do I see him asking about playing games or streaming Vorbis. So there.
Series 2 40 hour refurbed TiVo- $150 AR
120GB Maxtor Fluid Dynamic Bearings 5400RPM HD - $130 (Just using the same HD you did for clarity)
Lifetime Service- $250
Total : $530
Mine does all kinds of fancy ff/rew/pause, I can easily schedule all recordings, etc., I can have TiVo tell me what to watch (I dont, but I could), I have 30-sec commercial skip, and I have a really nice remote that is extremely well designed and always works.
To be honest, I could really care less about MP3s and emulators and such, I already have a PC and a Mac that can stream MP3s, an Xbox (and a PC and a Mac) that will play emulators/games (and can also stream MP3, vorbis, divx, etc etc etc etc)
I would say that, on the whole, nanoparticle cookie cutters sound extremely bad for your health.
It's unethical to overclock your processor, then get it exchanged when it burns out because it was running outside of spec.
It's unethical for grey/black market vendors to overclock a slower processor, then sell it at premium prices. Believe me, this happens a lot, and is a big problem for processor manufacturers.
Did I get sucked into some hellish wormhole?
Or is this a normal Taco dupe?
A cast of each actor's head was sent to a company called Arius 3D, makers of ultrahigh-resolution scanners employed in 1999 to archive the works of Michelangelo. The Arius scanner is accurate down to 25 microns - the diameter of a mold spore.
This strikes me as a little bit weird. This sounds like really super cool tech that is bottlenecked by the cast of the actor's head. Why didnt they just scan the actor's head directly? Wouldnt that have been more accurate?
My TiVo is a great toy, but it's looking like it's time for this company to die. First they fire RB, and now they snuggle up to the content industry?
Geez, give them a break for chrissakes. They have to do that to cover their ass. Would you want the networks & the MPAA breathing down your neck? What do you expect them to do? Not put in the security stuff? Why dont they just do that and call it "instant lawsuit?"
But in all seriousness, I have a buddy who works for one of the major PVR companies (it's not TiVo, but it is one that allows you to do stream sharing). In the close caption stream, there is a bit (that's part of the CC spec) that, if set by the content provider, denotes that the content cannot be shared. All they are doing is following spec, which I am sure is FCC mandated (IANAFCCE). So get off their backs, and cancel your subscription. Good riddance.
So first of all, the /. title and the title of the article are "Life on the road with 3G," when he's not even using 3G? What the heck? From what I understand, 2.5G is an order of magnitude slower than 3G, isn't it?
Secondly, the whole article is pretty much a gripe/review of the specific Samsung A500 Hardware that he's using, and hardly even goes into the 2.5G service?!??! Thanks, buddy, for letting me know that the A500 has A. a crappy web browser, B. a crappy cable, and C. no bluetooth (crappy). I'm also glad to know that you think SMS is useless. That's really great to know IN YOUR SUPPOSED REVIEW OF 3G. WTF.
I know this has been said a bajillion times before, but could the editors please stop to read the stories they post once in a while?
is Mac OS X in a Nutshell. When I finally took the plunge and bought an iBook, one of the main reasons was for the bad-ass BSD core in OS X that I kept hearing about. Unfortunately, the official Apple documentation is extremely sparse, and coming from a heavy Windows background, OS X and Aqua were very foreign to me, and sort of intimidating.
/. crowd.
So I did some research, and began looking at good books to help me make the "switch". Although the Pogue book is well written and entertaining, there is really not much in there that I didn't figure out on my own in the first two days just playing around with the OS. There is absolutely nothing in there about the BSD core. OS X In A Nutshell, on the other hand, goes through the Aqua Interface, then goes in depth into AppleScripting, the BSD core, and even has little tidbits on Perl & regular expressions and the like. It doesen't wax poetic like the Pogue book, but it's definitely a much more concisely written, useful book for the
Paco talks a lot about making changes to the inside of the store. But for me (and I am primarily an x86 user), as soon as I walked into the Apple store at some mall in Cincinnati, the product pretty much spoke for itself. I walked around, drooling over the pretty ibooks, running my finger round and round the static flywheel on the ipods, gawking at the humongous flatpanel displays. I wanted one of everything in the store.
My point being, has this Paco guy ever seen Apple's products? I think all they need to do is get people to come into the store in order to sell stuff. Granted, this doesen't mean you want crack vials lying on the floor or something, but you get my drift.
Ok, let it out. We all think it's quite funny that you're the first person to think up that you can fry an egg on an Athlon, or use it as a tanning bed, or whatever.
Fact is, Barton 3000+ dissapates 74W max, while Intel's P4 3gig dissapates 82W max. SO SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!
I have to say, being a lifelong Windows user (I had a stint with Macs briefly, 10 years ago in high school yearbook class, pagemaker and what not) I was getting quite fed up with my 9 pound, 1 hour, Sony Vaio AMD laptop. So last week I sold it and went out and bought a sleek little 12" ibook. Best purchase I've ever made. After the initial learning curve with OS X (why the heck isnt Ctrl+C working? Wait, what's this weird little symbol key?) I am really digging the ibook. It's so beautiful, has great battery life, and does everything I'd ever need in a laptop. I love that I can ssh into my colo box without having to download putty. Little stuff like that.
Anyways, long story short, if I had to do it again now with all these T&L windows laptops out, I would still go with the ibook.
There's a Quicktime movie demonstrating Safari's bookmarks on Slashdot.
I would definitely go thin and light. I bought the most powerful, largest screened laptop I could find (at the time). However, it's so unweildy, and drains battery power like nothing else. If I'm lucky (with two batteries in it) I'll be able to surf for 1 hour before it goes dead. Plus, by the amount of heat it generates, I know I'm going to have lap cancer by age 35.
In other words, I cant do a whole lot with it, and it's really heavy and awkward. My dad on the other hand, has a super small Sony Vaio that can go about 6 hours on a battery and still do everything I do, even though it's more underpowered.