Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up.
As far as know, since the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal, Yahoo doesn't have those things either. Microsoft handles that for them. Yahoo Search is now just a front end for Bing.
I suppose Apple could come up with a similar deal with Microsoft for iSearch. It's Yahoo's variety of other properties and brands that have the value now.
When packed with explosives, this sounds like a perfect tool for assassination. Make it cheap, decrease noise, increase range, add some further refinement in stealthily bringing it into a location (composite materials?)....
Yes, this nifty hardware was built into Intel's 82802 Firmware Hub(EEPROM+RNG hardware). It was used in early 810 and 815 chipsets.
Most mobo manufacturers chose to use others plain-jane flash chips as they were cheaper and they could use them over their entire line of mobo's (VIA, SIS, etc). This and lack of support by software companies for the RNG resulted in intel discontinuing the "firmware hub".
Word out of Intel is that there is a future revision of the 865 chipset will have PAT disabled in hardware before being shipped to motherboard manufacturers. The system will just lock up if they try to enable it.
Windows 2000 Server for the Itanium has already been out... however you won't see it anywhere as the original Itanium flopped. I seem to recall it is labeled LE (Limited Edition) and doesn't fully support Itanium 2 (Someone can correct me on that last part if i'm wrong).
Windows XP for Itanium 2 workstations is already available.
Windows 2003 Server for the Itanium 2 is scheduled to be released in April... simulateously with the 32 bit versions.
Itanium can run IA32 completely in hardware, not through software emulation (as the Alpha did).
However it runs very slow (lack of OoO and being designed primarily for IA64 code causes this.) With IA32 code it performs like a Pentium clocked at 1/4 of the clock speed.
It was in nice pretty format... but damn slashdot kept throwing up:
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
So I had to put up the abomination that you see. Yes... Slashdot added spaces as it usually does, I'm not sure how to prevent it from doing that.
You have no e-mail address so I can't send it to you, and I'd rather avoid posting a public link and slashdotting my friends servers. So you'll have to take my word for it.
All of the other "example" postings are trolls. This is legit. Well for MS Word anyways. I don't know for the other office components (Powerpoint, Excel, etc).
I'm aware that it will ugly as heck... which is fine since it will be parsed by the machine.
"In late December, 2001, ECMA submitted the standards and TR to ISO/IEC JTC 1 via the latter's Fast-Track process. The subsequent 6-month evaluation and comment period resulted in two NO votes (Japan and UK) on the draft standards, and one NO vote (Japan) on the draft TR. All comments resulting from this review were considered at a ballot resolution meeting held in October, 2002. The two NO votes on the standards were resolved, making acceptance unanimous. However, Japan did not change its NO vote on the draft TR (Japan would like to see a formatted/readable rendering of the CLI class library as part of the standard, not as a TR; this will be considered for a future edition).
The ISO/IEC standards and TR will be published in December, 2002, and will be known formally as ISO/IEC 23270 (C#), ISO/IEC 23271 (CLI) and ISO/IEC 23272 (CLI TR). Equivalent specifications will be adopted as 2nd edition standards and TR by ECMA at its December, 2002, General Assembly."
For SCSI Ultra640 is being hammered out along with SA-SATA. Soon you'll be able to use big cheap SATA drives (or the usual expensive performance SCSI) on a SA-SCSI interface (but not visa versa). SA-SCSI will feature the benefits of SATA and more.
snatched from the site:
What is the difference between Parallel SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI? Parallel SCSI is a proven enterprise level technology for I/O and device requirements with a twenty-year history of reliability, flexibility and robustness. Parallel SCSI has limited device addressability as well as certain physical limits associated with the nature of its distributed transmission line architecture (performance and distance), plus large connectors that make it unsuitable for certain dense computing environments.
Serial Attached SCSI will leverage the proven SCSI technologies that customers expect in data center environments, providing robust solutions and generational consistency. It will be based on a serial interface, allowing for increased device support and bandwidth scalability, reducing the overhead impact that challenges today's SCSI environments. It will provide easy solutions for systems with simplified cable routing. It will also utilize Serial ATA development work on smaller cable connectors, providing customers a downstream compatibility with desktop class ATA technologies.
Finally, this simplified routing will enable a new generation of dense devices, such as small form factor hard drives, which will enable storage solutions to scale externally where traditional parallel SCSI cannot, due to cabling and voltage challenges.
Is Serial Attached SCSI complementary to or competitive with Serial ATA? Serial Attached SCSI complements Serial ATA by adding dual porting, full duplex, device addressing and it offers higher reliability, performance and data availability services, along with logical SCSI compatibility. It will continue to enhance these metrics as the specification evolves, including increased device support and better cabling distances. Serial ATA is targeted at cost-sensitive non-mission-critical server and storage environments. Most importantly, these are complementary technologies based on a universal interconnect, where Serial Attached SCSI customers can choose to deploy cost-effective Serial ATA in a Serial Attached SCSI environment.
"And if you really want to get ~15000RPM with IDE technology, just get an IDE RAID controller and use striping...using this method you can actually get to much higher theoretical speeds than a single 15000RPM drive. with 4 7200RPM drives you could get up to a theoretical speed of 28800RPM!!! "
Do keep in mind there are 2 factors in hard-drive performance: Access Times and Transfer rate. Your IDE-RAID zero is primarily upping your Sustained Transfer Rate along with giving you 4 times as many points of failure. Hope you have those drives on a 64-bit PCI bus too, or you get capped at 100 MB/sec by the bus boddle neck.
Many may not be interested (it's not free)... however PopUpCop
has this feature. There is a 30 day trial available. In addition, you get integration into IE (no annoying program in the system tray, like some blockers do), popup blocking, ad-removal, and a host of other features for dealing with annoyances.
I really wish MS would make these features standard in IE. However, I guess it will be awhile considering the whining that would ensue from advertisers (I read about various muttering when MS added cookie management).
Slashdot Mirror
Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up.
As far as know, since the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal, Yahoo doesn't have those things either. Microsoft handles that for them. Yahoo Search is now just a front end for Bing.
I suppose Apple could come up with a similar deal with Microsoft for iSearch. It's Yahoo's variety of other properties and brands that have the value now.
When packed with explosives, this sounds like a perfect tool for assassination. Make it cheap, decrease noise, increase range, add some further refinement in stealthily bringing it into a location (composite materials?)....
German software company SAP appears to be a possible target.
Agreed. I can see it now: Open Sores Linpus
What cards is this? Link?
Yes, this nifty hardware was built into Intel's 82802 Firmware Hub(EEPROM+RNG hardware). It was used in early 810 and 815 chipsets.
Most mobo manufacturers chose to use others plain-jane flash chips as they were cheaper and they could use them over their entire line of mobo's (VIA, SIS, etc). This and lack of support by software companies for the RNG resulted in intel discontinuing the "firmware hub".
Datasheet available here
The article is 3 pages long. You missed the last 2.
Borrowed that game and never did beat it...
Darn. Well I heard its on GBA... but i'm not really interested in handheld systems (my vision is really poor and I use a giant TV).
Word out of Intel is that there is a future revision of the 865 chipset will have PAT disabled in hardware before being shipped to motherboard manufacturers. The system will just lock up if they try to enable it.
So keep in mind this situation is temporary.
No it is not quite obvious. Browsercap is just detecting Opera 7 differently. Show me proof otherwise.
I'm not sure about that (HP switching to Alpha). Alpha is the redheaded stepchild of the Compaq/HP marriage.
I'd figure they would just stick with HP's own son PA-RISC.
Oh... forgot.
In regards to the AMD 64-bit platform MS has announced they will support it, but with what and when is unknown.
For workstations, it is unknown whether they will release a 64 bit version of Windows XP or wait until longhorn.
Current rumor has it an AMD64 version of Windows 2003 Server will debut in late fall.
Windows 2000 Server for the Itanium has already been out... however you won't see it anywhere as the original Itanium flopped. I seem to recall it is labeled LE (Limited Edition) and doesn't fully support Itanium 2 (Someone can correct me on that last part if i'm wrong).
Windows XP for Itanium 2 workstations is already available.
Windows 2003 Server for the Itanium 2 is scheduled to be released in April... simulateously with the 32 bit versions.
Itanium can run IA32 completely in hardware, not through software emulation (as the Alpha did).
However it runs very slow (lack of OoO and being designed primarily for IA64 code causes this.) With IA32 code it performs like a Pentium clocked at 1/4 of the clock speed.
It was in nice pretty format... but damn slashdot kept throwing up:
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
So I had to put up the abomination that you see. Yes... Slashdot added spaces as it usually does, I'm not sure how to prevent it from doing that.
You have no e-mail address so I can't send it to you, and I'd rather avoid posting a public link and slashdotting my friends servers. So you'll have to take my word for it.
All of the other "example" postings are trolls. This is legit. Well for MS Word anyways. I don't know for the other office components (Powerpoint, Excel, etc).
I'm aware that it will ugly as heck... which is fine since it will be parsed by the machine.
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This is ripped from another board where a beta tester posted it up.
The dog ran up the hillThe dog ran up the hillThe dog ran up the hillDogRanUpTheHill
*cough* *cough* BS!
C# will be and ISO standard. To be published shortly:
ISO/IEC 23270 (C#)
ISO/IEC 23271 (CLI)
ISO/IEC 23272 (CLI TR)
"In late December, 2001, ECMA submitted the standards and TR to ISO/IEC JTC 1 via the latter's Fast-Track process. The subsequent 6-month evaluation and comment period resulted in two NO votes (Japan and UK) on the draft standards, and one NO vote (Japan) on the draft TR. All comments resulting from this review were considered at a ballot resolution meeting held in October, 2002. The two NO votes on the standards were resolved, making acceptance unanimous. However, Japan did not change its NO vote on the draft TR (Japan would like to see a formatted/readable rendering of the CLI class library as part of the standard, not as a TR; this will be considered for a future edition).
The ISO/IEC standards and TR will be published in December, 2002, and will be known formally as ISO/IEC 23270 (C#), ISO/IEC 23271 (CLI) and ISO/IEC 23272 (CLI TR). Equivalent specifications will be adopted as 2nd edition standards and TR by ECMA at its December, 2002, General Assembly."
The full story is here.
For SCSI Ultra640 is being hammered out along with SA-SATA. Soon you'll be able to use big cheap SATA drives (or the usual expensive performance SCSI) on a SA-SCSI interface (but not visa versa). SA-SCSI will feature the benefits of SATA and more.
snatched from the site:
What is the difference between Parallel SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI?
Parallel SCSI is a proven enterprise level technology for I/O and device requirements with a twenty-year history of reliability, flexibility and robustness. Parallel SCSI has limited device addressability as well as certain physical limits associated with the nature of its distributed transmission line architecture (performance and distance), plus large connectors that make it unsuitable for certain dense computing environments.
Serial Attached SCSI will leverage the proven SCSI technologies that customers expect in data center environments, providing robust solutions and generational consistency. It will be based on a serial interface, allowing for increased device support and bandwidth scalability, reducing the overhead impact that challenges today's SCSI environments. It will provide easy solutions for systems with simplified cable routing. It will also utilize Serial ATA development work on smaller cable connectors, providing customers a downstream compatibility with desktop class ATA technologies.
Finally, this simplified routing will enable a new generation of dense devices, such as small form factor hard drives, which will enable storage solutions to scale externally where traditional parallel SCSI cannot, due to cabling and voltage challenges.
Is Serial Attached SCSI complementary to or competitive with Serial ATA?
Serial Attached SCSI complements Serial ATA by adding dual porting, full duplex, device addressing and it offers higher reliability, performance and data availability services, along with logical SCSI compatibility. It will continue to enhance these metrics as the specification evolves, including increased device support and better cabling distances. Serial ATA is targeted at cost-sensitive non-mission-critical server and storage environments. Most importantly, these are complementary technologies based on a universal interconnect, where Serial Attached SCSI customers can choose to deploy cost-effective Serial ATA in a Serial Attached SCSI environment.
Gigabit Ethernet:
1000^3 bits/sec = 1,000,000,000 bits/sec
1,000,000,000 bits/sec / 8 = 125,000,000 bytes/sec
125,000,000 bytes/sec / 1024 = 122070.3125 Kilobytes/sec
122070.3125 Kilobytes/sec / 1024 = 119.20928955078125 Megabytes/sec
Fast Ethernet:
100,000,000 bits/sec / 8 = 12,500,000 bytes/sec
12,500,000 bytes/sec / 1024 = 12207.03125 Kilobytes/sec
= 11.920928955078125 Megabytes/sec
Bus bandwidth:
32-bit/33 Mhz PCI ---> 127.2 MB/sec
64-bit/33 Mhz PCI ---> 254.3 MB/sec
64-bit/66 Mhz PCI ---> 508.6 MB/sec
64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X ---> 1017.3 MB/sec
IDE Interface bandwidth:
Ultra ATA/33 ---> 33 MB/sec
Ultra ATA/66 ---> 66 MB/sec
Ultra ATA/100 ---> 100 MB/sec
Ultra ATA/133 ---> 133 MB/sec
Serial ATA 1.0 ---> 150 MB/sec
SCSI Interface bandwidth:
Wide ---> 10 MB/sec
Fast ---> 10 MB/sec
Fast Wide ---> 20 MB/sec
Ultra ---> 20 MB/sec
Wide Ultra ---> 40 MB/sec
Ultra2 ---> 40 MB/sec
Wide Ultra2 ---> 80 MB/sec
Ultra160 ---> 160 MB/sec
Ultra320 ---> 320 MB/sec
Single disk sequential transfer rates (STR):
SCSI Seagate X-15K.3 --> 76.4MB/s - 51.1MB/s
SCSI Seagate X-15 - 36 LP --> 60.5 MB/sec - 45 MB/sec
SCSI Seagate X-15 --> 41 MB/sec - 29 MB/sec
SCSI IBM Ultrastar 36LZX --> 34.8 MB/sec - 22.8 MB/sec
IDE IBM 60GXP --> 39 MB/sec - 21 MB/sec
IDE Western Digital Caviar WD1000JB --> 43.8 MB/s - 27.9 MB/sec
"And if you really want to get ~15000RPM with IDE technology, just get an IDE RAID controller and use striping...using this method you can actually get to much higher theoretical speeds than a single 15000RPM drive. with 4 7200RPM drives you could get up to a theoretical speed of 28800RPM!!! "
Do keep in mind there are 2 factors in hard-drive performance: Access Times and Transfer rate. Your IDE-RAID zero is primarily upping your Sustained Transfer Rate along with giving you 4 times as many points of failure. Hope you have those drives on a 64-bit PCI bus too, or you get capped at 100 MB/sec by the bus boddle neck.
So Sony is the good guy to independent developers and engineers now?
Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail
Sony vs Modchips
Sony Uses DMCA To Shut Down Aibo Hack Site
Sony Crushes UK PS2 Mod Chip Developers
Connectix VGS PlayStation Reverse Engineering Stands Up In Court
Bleem! Playstation Emulator Will Ship
Judge to freeze Connectix Virtual Game System (VGS)
Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail Sony vs Modchips Sony Uses DMCA To Shut Down Aibo Hack Site Sony Crushes UK PS2 Mod Chip Developers Connectix VGS PlayStation Reverse Engineering Stands Up In Court Bleem! Playstation Emulator Will Ship Judge to freeze Connectix Virtual Game System (VGS) So.... Sony is the good guy to independent developers and engineers now?
"Deny all activeX objects from this company"
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