This reminds me of the 2D accelerator wars of a few years ago. Many of the chipset makers tweaked the chips to get better benchmark scores but did not improve performance in real world applications.
I can't condemn ATI either because Q3A tweaking is a benefit for a popular game.
Besides Q3A is not the only game used as a benchmark. Are these other games optimized too?
I agree that he will not get a usable answer but it has started some interesting threads. It is interesting to see how the/. community feels about this type of situation.
Intel is pulling the same trick using the MHz number. All consumers see is the bigger number and assuming the chip is faster.
The only way to make it all true and fair would be for the manufacturers to start marking the chips with a number that more accurately identifies the actual capabilities of the chip.
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I agree. The only real diference between the layman and the lawer is a little bit of study on a subject. IANAL is realy a very meaningless statement if people do some research they can be on the same level as the lawer. On one narow subject that is.
the Athlon kicks the P4's ass! Down by 600 Mhz and only plain ordinary slow single rate PC133 memory and the Athlon still comes close. I think the article makes two very good points:
The P4 is a big waste of money
The reveiwers are morons.
Note to David Pitlyuk and Paul Mazzucco: Big Blue outperforms the top 486 in every benchmark too.
I was thinking that since the hole this virus exploits allows it to exicute any code it wants why not alter the virus to install the patch from M$?
The way I see it any system that is still vunerable will always be. The people running those systems are not paying attention and will never install the patch themselves. But since this worm is so good at finding those systems why not use it to force an update?
The last time I worked a night with nothing to do was at a tech support place. We would spend most of the night prank calling each other.
There wasn't really any other night staff to talk to but some of the best customer to talk to called late at night. I learned a lot about everything (like traffic light systems) just chatting with customers.
Right or wrong, the music companies have been suing almost everyone, and everything, as of late
Right or wrong I think the the litigation happy music industry is a clear indiction that it knows of its eventual demise. They Are trying to stay alive as long as possible by killing off any new distribution model (legal or otherwise).
In the past an artist or group had to rely on the big-boy record companies to get their music out into the world but the Net has changed that. I think it will take some years yet for the RIAA to fall and the current music industry model to change but I believe it will.
Once the middle man is out of the way and the artists get most of the money for sales then what kind of license disputes will there be?
Wireless is deffinatly a great solution for your situation. I've been using Aironet 4500 (2 mb) at my office for about a year.
I have two base stations. One is in the warehouse and is hooked up to a 12db omni mast on the roof (gives me about 1/4 mile range) and a 8db omni inside. It is connected to the ethernet hub which is connected to an ISDN.
The other base station is unwired and is used as a reapeater/bridge from the office to the warehouse.
Base stations are just computers running routing and brigding software. The Aironet routers are Motorola PPCs with an internal PCMCIA and retail wireless NIC (it even has the stickers on it).
The base stations just make installation and integration with a wired LAN easy.
If you are comfortable with getting a wireless NIC working under linux, then save some money and skip the base station.
All you would need is to get routed working on the linux box. If it is a good router (like a Cisco) it can do the IP Masq. for you. If it also has DHCP don't even worry about the 192.168.blah, just point the gateway on all the machines to the router and let it do the work
I personaly would avoid integating the wireless thru the windows machine. Its just a little too unstable.
Depending on the DSL router you may not even need the linux box to do the IP Masq.
Many of the DSL routers (The Cisco ones for sure,) will do that for you.
I've been setting up a lot of offices with the Cisco routers and all I have to do is plug it into the hub and point all the workstation's gateways to it. Simple.
I find it funny that there is so much talk (and M$ FUD) about Linux forking because of open source and so many developers, while M$ is proving that a single company can fork very well.
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Isn't this how Newspeak started. Eliminating certain words from the language then. . .
This reminds me of the 2D accelerator wars of a few years ago. Many of the chipset makers tweaked the chips to get better benchmark scores but did not improve performance in real world applications.
I can't condemn ATI either because Q3A tweaking is a benefit for a popular game.
Besides Q3A is not the only game used as a benchmark. Are these other games optimized too?
Maybe ATI's driver developers realy like Quake.
How about all the parts needed to make a gun but all the parts come from different incompatible guns.
I agree that he will not get a usable answer but it has started some interesting threads. It is interesting to see how the /. community feels about this type of situation.
I wonder if Intel has been getting hate mail for developing technologies that can be used by terrorists?
...don't know how to pull there head out of their ass.
What about the constant flow of pigeon bits flying out of the thing?
Yup, sure criminals around the world are going to obey this law just like they obey all the rest.
The only way to make it all true and fair would be for the manufacturers to start marking the chips with a number that more accurately identifies the actual capabilities of the chip.
Qwest never promises anything.
I agree. The only real diference between the layman and the lawer is a little bit of study on a subject. IANAL is realy a very meaningless statement if people do some research they can be on the same level as the lawer. On one narow subject that is.
I think the article makes two very good points:
Note to David Pitlyuk and Paul Mazzucco: Big Blue outperforms the top 486 in every benchmark too.
I was thinking that since the hole this virus exploits allows it to exicute any code it wants why not alter the virus to install the patch from M$?
The way I see it any system that is still vunerable will always be. The people running those systems are not paying attention and will never install the patch themselves. But since this worm is so good at finding those systems why not use it to force an update?
Barney the Purple Bastard.
I fit in that range and I never paid anyone for a get rich quick scheme. I also bet my income is a little more stable than Mr. Average Graduate.
I use sections from product keys on software. Those things look pretty damn random to me.
My user always try to use passwords that are too simple to warent post-its.
They're not a waste they're a storage system.
The last time I worked a night with nothing to do was at a tech support place. We would spend most of the night prank calling each other.
There wasn't really any other night staff to talk to but some of the best customer to talk to called late at night. I learned a lot about everything (like traffic light systems) just chatting with customers.
In the past an artist or group had to rely on the big-boy record companies to get their music out into the world but the Net has changed that. I think it will take some years yet for the RIAA to fall and the current music industry model to change but I believe it will.
Once the middle man is out of the way and the artists get most of the money for sales then what kind of license disputes will there be?
I changed the DHCP server in the office to point the DNS of all the workstations a linux box running DNS and Apache.
Then I created records for all the TLDs.
I then copied Networksolutions home page and added a notice that the net was down for Y2K testing.
Any DNS lookup returned a spoofed networksolutions.com and a notice that the net was down for Y2K testing.
Wireless is deffinatly a great solution for your situation.
I've been using Aironet 4500 (2 mb) at my office for about a year.
I have two base stations. One is in the warehouse and is hooked up to a 12db omni mast on the roof (gives me about 1/4 mile range) and a 8db omni inside. It is connected to the ethernet hub which is connected to an ISDN.
The other base station is unwired and is used as a reapeater/bridge from the office to the warehouse.
Base stations are just computers running routing and brigding software. The Aironet routers are Motorola PPCs with an internal PCMCIA and retail wireless NIC (it even has the stickers on it).
The base stations just make installation and integration with a wired LAN easy.
If you are comfortable with getting a wireless NIC working under linux, then save some money and skip the base station.
All you would need is to get routed working on the linux box. If it is a good router (like a Cisco) it can do the IP Masq. for you. If it also has DHCP don't even worry about the 192.168.blah, just point the gateway on all the machines to the router and let it do the work
I personaly would avoid integating the wireless thru the windows machine. Its just a little too unstable.
Depending on the DSL router you may not even need the linux box to do the IP Masq.
Many of the DSL routers (The Cisco ones for sure,) will do that for you.
I've been setting up a lot of offices with the Cisco routers and all I have to do is plug it into the hub and point all the workstation's gateways to it. Simple.
I find it funny that there is so much talk (and M$ FUD) about Linux forking because of open source and so many developers, while M$ is proving that a single company can fork very well.
Where will they stick that fork next?