Opteron is the Stronghammer, and Athlon64 is the Clawhammer.
I don't think the Athlon 64 will support SMP at all (similar to Athlon XP), and will probably have smaller caches than the Opteron. Other than that, I believe they're functionally equivilant.
I dunno, sounds like it'd be good if it were able to detect the error, carry on with what it was doing, and alert the sysadmin to the problem, who can then schedule downtime to fix it, rather than having an unexpected hardware error in the middle of something important...
It's modular, looks nice (well, the default skin is a bit gaudy, but there are perfectly normal skins available), doesn't crash, doesn't use loads of memory, makes an effort to support encryption (although it doesn't sign your logs), keeps the logs in a straight text file (stupid ICQ database! ugh!), keeps all its settings in its own.ini file (no registry crap), keeps your contact list in an.xml file...
I agree that games should be made more immersive and less superficial, but turning on all the eye candy really makes a huge difference. Even just 2x antialiasing is enough to smooth out most rough polygon edges and makes for a much nicer gaming experience, and the only card that can do that without a significant performance hit is the Radeon 9700.
You can stick to 800x600 with bad filtering, blurry textures and jaggy edges on a GeForce 2, but I much prefer the sharper textures available to a 128mb card, and the added anisotropic filtering and fullscreen antialiasing of a beefy GPU.
It's not the 75gb drives, but the 75GXP model of drive. I had a 45gb 75GXP that died.
Their 120GXP and 180GXP lines are quite nice, however. The 180GXP has all the speed of the 8mb Western Digitals, with the acoustic technology (fluid dynamic bearings!) of the new Seagate ATA IV/V drives.
Why slow down the cpu fan? Your cpu's going to make the same amount of heat whether you have a fast fan, slow fan, or no fan at all. It reaches an equilibrium with the environment and stays at a certain temperature, but still produces the same amount of heat energy.
In fact, speeding the fan up would move more heat from the CPU into the room, that's why the CPU temperature goes down.
New drives have varying acoustic states which can be changed with manufacturer-provided software.
IBM drives, for instance, have two modes, full-performance mode and quiet mode. Performance mode has the usual seek noise, although all modern drives are quite quiet, but quiet mode is absolutely silent. Even with my ear inches from the drive, I can't hear it seeking at all. It's eerie when you're loading windows and you can't hear your drive - makes you think it locked up.:)
You can use the "IBM Feature Tool" to manage IBM drives' acoustic management, along with monitoring drive temperature and setting power-saving modes. Maxtor drives, from what I've heard, have three modes, quiet, performance and a blend of the two.
The schemes used to reduce seek noise introduce a slight penalty to seek time, however, but in many applications seek time is not that important (such as PVRs, where high throughput is needed). Quiet mode makes defragging take noticably longer, though.
No. Doing this will only cause the water to split, since water is much easier to electrolyze than salt is. You'd have to melt the salt (not dissolve, but melt with very high temperature) in order to electrolyze it.
Any Windows print driver will let you send its output to a file, and there are many printer drivers that come with Windows that output PostScript for the printer. So, in essense, Windows comes with save-to-PS support.
How many driver revisions has Nvidia had total? This is offset by Nvidia having a single driver download for every chip they've ever made. ATI has a million different revisions, all with cryptic names, making it extremely difficult to find which driver you're looking for.
If you change the action for URL: Mailto in the filetype registration, you can have Mozilla automatically compose emails instead of whatever the default is (Outlook, Outlook Express). Very handy for using IE and Mozilla Mail together.
Video compression codecs already do this. With DivX, the only time the entire frame is stored is when the scene changes - after that, they're "delta frames" which record the differences between frames. The algorithms are pretty complex for detecting when part of a frame is moving and eliminating even more bits to store.
I believe there's also a sort of timer, ex. every 200 frames has to be a key frame, so that things don't stay corrupted for too long if there's a glitch in the stream.
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Have you considered the C3 chip from VIA?
Opteron is the Stronghammer, and Athlon64 is the Clawhammer.
I don't think the Athlon 64 will support SMP at all (similar to Athlon XP), and will probably have smaller caches than the Opteron. Other than that, I believe they're functionally equivilant.
Yes...
100mbps = ~12.5 mbytes/sec
5gb = 5000mbytes
5000/12.5=400 seconds, or 6.7 minutes.
You're, not your.
I dunno, sounds like it'd be good if it were able to detect the error, carry on with what it was doing, and alert the sysadmin to the problem, who can then schedule downtime to fix it, rather than having an unexpected hardware error in the middle of something important ...
Then again, isn't that what ECC memory is for?
Very clever! Except... Internet2 is not the new internet. They're two seperate networks with different goals.
Thanks for playing, though.
They transferred all this data over Internet2 and the writeup says "...set a new internet speed record ...". Isn't that cheating?
That's like saying "Our new car can go 6000 mph! (on a conveyer belt moving at 5950 mph).
What's wrong with Trillian Pro?
.ini file (no registry crap), keeps your contact list in an .xml file...
It's modular, looks nice (well, the default skin is a bit gaudy, but there are perfectly normal skins available), doesn't crash, doesn't use loads of memory, makes an effort to support encryption (although it doesn't sign your logs), keeps the logs in a straight text file (stupid ICQ database! ugh!), keeps all its settings in its own
What's there not to like?
More like:
2003: Holy crap! You can now make your own blue-laser dvd's!!! 24 gigabytes.. that's like 1/4th of my hard drive on every disk!
I agree that games should be made more immersive and less superficial, but turning on all the eye candy really makes a huge difference. Even just 2x antialiasing is enough to smooth out most rough polygon edges and makes for a much nicer gaming experience, and the only card that can do that without a significant performance hit is the Radeon 9700.
You can stick to 800x600 with bad filtering, blurry textures and jaggy edges on a GeForce 2, but I much prefer the sharper textures available to a 128mb card, and the added anisotropic filtering and fullscreen antialiasing of a beefy GPU.
the one.
That's kinda funny - part of the reason this card took so long was the move to
You have to cook it. You can't eat it raw!
It's not the 75gb drives, but the 75GXP model of drive. I had a 45gb 75GXP that died.
Their 120GXP and 180GXP lines are quite nice, however. The 180GXP has all the speed of the 8mb Western Digitals, with the acoustic technology (fluid dynamic bearings!) of the new Seagate ATA IV/V drives.
Why slow down the cpu fan? Your cpu's going to make the same amount of heat whether you have a fast fan, slow fan, or no fan at all. It reaches an equilibrium with the environment and stays at a certain temperature, but still produces the same amount of heat energy.
In fact, speeding the fan up would move more heat from the CPU into the room, that's why the CPU temperature goes down.
until SCSI prices fall and I can cache in!!!!
:)
Pun intended?
New drives have varying acoustic states which can be changed with manufacturer-provided software.
:)
IBM drives, for instance, have two modes, full-performance mode and quiet mode. Performance mode has the usual seek noise, although all modern drives are quite quiet, but quiet mode is absolutely silent. Even with my ear inches from the drive, I can't hear it seeking at all. It's eerie when you're loading windows and you can't hear your drive - makes you think it locked up.
You can use the "IBM Feature Tool" to manage IBM drives' acoustic management, along with monitoring drive temperature and setting power-saving modes. Maxtor drives, from what I've heard, have three modes, quiet, performance and a blend of the two.
The schemes used to reduce seek noise introduce a slight penalty to seek time, however, but in many applications seek time is not that important (such as PVRs, where high throughput is needed). Quiet mode makes defragging take noticably longer, though.
Ahh, you're right.
Oh well.
No. Doing this will only cause the water to split, since water is much easier to electrolyze than salt is. You'd have to melt the salt (not dissolve, but melt with very high temperature) in order to electrolyze it.
When I run a Fortune 500 company, we're going to have a huge bulletproof glass floor in the lobby, which will show the datacenter below.
And you'll have heated floors for free!
Any Windows print driver will let you send its output to a file, and there are many printer drivers that come with Windows that output PostScript for the printer. So, in essense, Windows comes with save-to-PS support.
How many driver revisions has Nvidia had total? This is offset by Nvidia having a single driver download for every chip they've ever made. ATI has a million different revisions, all with cryptic names, making it extremely difficult to find which driver you're looking for.
Nvidia's drivers are lightyears ahead of ATIs.
Dr Hu?
Does he use a sonic screwdriver?
If you change the action for URL: Mailto in the filetype registration, you can have Mozilla automatically compose emails instead of whatever the default is (Outlook, Outlook Express). Very handy for using IE and Mozilla Mail together.
Video compression codecs already do this. With DivX, the only time the entire frame is stored is when the scene changes - after that, they're "delta frames" which record the differences between frames. The algorithms are pretty complex for detecting when part of a frame is moving and eliminating even more bits to store.
I believe there's also a sort of timer, ex. every 200 frames has to be a key frame, so that things don't stay corrupted for too long if there's a glitch in the stream.