I've got two SMP BX systems, one has two overclocked C300@450's running NT and SETI as the screensaver, it's never crashed (pretty good for NT) Both CPU's are at 100% whenever I'm not at the console, they drop to bout 5% when I'm online..:)
The other system is a dual Coppermine 700 running RH6.2 that runs 2 instances of SETI, since July. It's never crashed. Both are on Gigabyte 6BXD motherboards with F.2 BIOS, both have AMI RAID controllers and 256MB of CAS2 Micron RAM.
The RAM is running 100MHZ on both boards, both are SLOT-1, I did the C300A mods myself, it was fun!!
I think you may have board/RAM issues, the BX chipset is the best x86 SMP chipset currently shipping for $/performance IMO.
Not if the list was cached on your machine. The first email from a given Server would initiate an Open Relay Test, if it comes back positive, add them to the 'bad' list, the entries would expire in 30 days or whenever. If the result is negative, it goes in the 'good' list and the expire is longer on the theory that a non-relaying server is much less likely to go open than an open relay is to get fixed. For the people that you converse with regularly, there will only be the one test. For spam, every email will probably get tested since they will come from different machines. You'll build up a list of open relays quickly though.
Anyone done the analysis taking into account the enormous amount of energy and water and toxic chemicals required to refine sand into semiconductor-grade silicon, grow the wafers and process them into high-efficiency photo-voltaic cells? I've read of 10 year energy-breakeven times for the high-efficiency single-crystal cells, less for the polycrystalline cells, that are about 1/2 as good.
nope, that's not how it works.. If one of the Iridium birds was hit with anything much bigger than a BB, there would be thousands of new things to track as it would blow big chunks out of the Iridium. Things in intersecting orbits tend to be moving at Km/sec relative speeds.
George Bush has all but directly stated that if elected, he will instruct the Justice Dept to drop ALL anti-trust cases, that includes Microsoft. Competition is bad for profits, that means it's bad for contributions and hence bad for George Bush and his friends.
Legend of Escaflowne - This is the story of a high-school student, Hitomi Kanzaki, who is mysteriously transported to another world, where Earth and the Moon are visible in the sky. As the Girl from the Phantom Moon (Earth), she is heralded as someone with great power in this new world, power which she uses both wisely and not so wisely, during the course of the series. A wonderful show, IMHO, with lots of action and character development.
Rurouni Kenshin TV and OVA's - Samurai story revolving around a retired samurai The TV series is 70+ episodes and has several story arcs. The OVA's (movie releases) are much more serious
Card Captor Sakura - 4th grader Sakura must collect magic cards she let free Light hearted (1st season anyway..) by CLAMP
Legend of Galactic Heros An epic tale of galactic war, 100+ episodes
Nadesico This is mostly lighthearted space adventure, along the lines of 'Irresponsible Captain Tylor'. Mars had been a successful Earth colony, but has been laid to waste by an alien race known as the Jovians. The Jovians are now headed for Earth, with the Battleship Nadesico, the most powerful in the human fleet, hot on their heels. The captain is a very young, supposedly brilliant young woman, who comes across as your basic anime teenager, including an unrequited (maybe?) crush on a young man with a mysterious past on Mars. He wants nothing more than to be a cook, but winds up piloting one of the ship's mechs.
Photon - hilarious, not for the little kids, lots of adult humor
Saber Marionette J - On a planet without women, Marionettes (very lifelike robots) take their place, 3 of them are endowed with special circuits, lots of funny action, but some serious scenes too.
. Partition Magic and funky partitioning done by Gateway... And the K7 is to blame? Dont think so...
. Windows , come on, you're running THE most unreliable PC operating system and you blame the CPU?
. Gateway - Like these guys are known for building good PCs? I think not.
. GeForce - This card pulls so much power from the AGP slot, Only the very top grade PC motherboards are built with strong enough on-board regulators to run this card. Nothing to do with the K7 again...
Here's a tip: Dont take a hardware job , troubleshooting's not your best ability..:)
What I've done on my OC'ed Celerons... I took the heatsink and chip, and applied a thick slurry of Comet cleanser (the abrasive kind) and water. Then swirl the chip and heatsink in a circular pattern, the Comet will grind down the high spots on the CPU and not mess with the low spots. After a few minutes, wipe it clean and see how much shiny surface is showing. Repeat until you get about 20-30% area polished, thats good enough to clean the whole thing up and use a THIN layer of the thermal grease, swirl it into place just like you did the Comet to get the thinnest layer possible. Those of you absolutists can go for 100% mirror finish on the CPU, then it is perfectly matched to your heatsink. You still need the grease, but just the slightest amount. The heatsink black oxide coating will not be removed, it's harder than the Comet particles. Oh yeah, DONT do this to a CopperMine processor or PowerPC, you dont want to put that much stress on the bare silicon back of the die.
I overclocked my Mac, I have a G3 300 that runs 366 with a 1.5:1 L2. I also put a ultri-wide SCSI card in and a 7200RPM drive, I also replace the cheesy apple 4x cd with a 32X Plextor Ultra SCSI. What do I use it for, websurfing and some image processing. Oh, it's a Powercomputing machine I bought years ago, it is within 20% of the latest iMac or G3 box in terms of performance. I also 'over clocked' my jetskis, my PC, my robot, etc... it's fun. I dont have any need to 'compensate' for some personal shortcoming, I just like to hack. The Celeron hack was a lot of fun, i spend about 3 hours with a loupe on, working with tweezers and a micro-tip soldering iron, it was lots of fun. Sure, I can afford a coupld of Coppermines, based on what I earn, I lost money on the time spent on the C300A's, but the exercise of skill and the results were worth it. Hell, I pulled two 8ns L2 cache chips off a G3 card and replaced them with the latest Moto late-write SRAMS so I could go from 150MHZ L2 to 250 on one board. (I got paid to do that one though...)
Dual fans... at least one will still work... I've got daul fan heatsinks on both of my C300A @450 . They really run nice in SMP mode after you do the BR# mod.
Yes, use heat sink compound, it's much better than those pads that come standard on heatsinks. If you are a real fanatic, you use some abrasive between the processor and heatsink and grind down all the high spots. the thinner the grease, the better the heat flow. I went from 42C to 35C by removing the pad and grinding the celeron flat and using thermal grease.
At what bitrate on the MP3? 512K/sec? or 32K/Sec There's a big difference there...
I can hear weird artifacts in MP's up to 192K, they give me a headache, something due to phasing of the audio at different frequencies. If I'm not betweeen the speakers, or it's mono, no problem. Only some music causes this. It's like a fatigue in my audio processing area. If it's only 10-20% bigger than a 128K/s MP3, and it doesnt arifact like MP3, I'll go for it. Too bad my Apex isnt upgradable to the new standard. Thats the real problem... Closed Hardware.
In one of my training classes in a previous life, we had a former DOD info security person, the subjects of crackers came up via discussing java class decompilers. He used to run a few systems that were in.mil that were connected to the Internet. They had systems with basic levels of security that were filtered mirrors of systems that had non-classified info. They used them to attract/eavesdrop on system crackers to learn their techniques. They logged all packets and system operations transparently to the cracker. What they really wanted was the cracking tools, they would let the system be compromised and 'owned' for a while in order to get the binaries to site cracking tools. They had the budget to write decompilers and object code identifiers that could examine a binary and determine what language and compiler revision had generated it.( I guess not many cracking tools are written in assembler) He said they would decompile the tool, examine it's code and after a while pull the system when nothing new had shown up, apply fixes to block the old tools, rename it, then wait to see what new attacks showed up. They used this only to gather info-war techniques, not to arrest crackers, although I'm sure they tried to identify them for future reference/surveillence. This was his team's only job, they would keep upping the bar to getting into the system, or leave the newest exploit open for a while to see how it was done. In all, it was a pretty interesting discussion we had after one of our class sessions...
Thanks for the pointer to gpart, I had to recompile it to get it to work with SuSE 6.3, but after that it did the trick, all 3 partitions are happy again. (FAQ authors, add these utils to the list..., I did a whole lot of google searches on 'recover/rebuild partition table' and never came across these utils...)
Now that's the kind of 'Slashdot Effect' I like...
Any suggestions as to how to rebuild a blown partition table when you dont have the original info? I've got a system with a zorched out MBR (Dont Ask) on a 30GB EIDE drive, I bought a second identical drive on which I mirrored the original drive. So I can experiment without risking the original data. I've found the first partition, start and end , and then found the start of the second, but then the tool I'm using cant get beyond 8GB.. And then I'm stuck as to how do I reconstruct the Partition Table given raw sector numbers? Any suggestions as to what Linux tools whould be useful for raw sector read/write and translation for Cyl/HD/Sect to LBA, then to Partition Format? Closed source Tools are OK, but Iv'e tried Norton, and NT's DiskProbe, they dont work. Most tools assume you have a MBR backup (Dont Ask.. again...) (OK... I tried replacing a MBR from 1 disk to another to fix a problem with LILO, forgot about the Partition Table, and didnt have a rescue disk... So now I get to learn all about disk partitioning, the hard way)
They arent thinking about their target market very much if they start the clock ticking as soon as you get the unit. I bought 3, planning on giving 2 away to my Mom and Sister when I go visit them this summer. My unit, I have other plans for that one... Anyway... It's going to be a real bitch if all of a sudden I have 5 months x 2 units worth of charges on my card before these things ever get powered up... I'll sit on them for a few months, still in sealed boxes, if charges show up, I'll dispute them. I have the sealed boxes for proof, I have not used the services yet, why should I pay for them. If they wont budge, then they go back for return and a reversal of charges. I signed no contracts when I bought my units. This should be interesting to see how this all plays out in the coming month or two...
Can Altivec do register moves between the GPR, FPR and Alti-Vec unit without having to do a Store/Load to memory/cache? One of the real pains of PPC is that it can't do a direct 64bit single beat read/write without using the FP registers, but you cant directly manipulate them, you have to do 2 32-bit stores then a double float load, then a double float store to your 64bit bus device.. its slow. PPC EC parts dont have floating point and have no method if accessing 64bit devices except through cacheline fill/castout bursting, not very helpful for I/O devices.
I called CC today about my order for 2 IOpeners, for my sisters...;) They got kind of huffy when I asked if the orders had been cancelled, 'We honor Our prices...' They also said they had 66 backorders at their store, and over 100 at the other store in town. But then this is Austin, home of NetPliance...
We may get them in... October, but they will be $99... snicker...
Slashdot Mirror
I've got two SMP BX systems, one has two overclocked C300@450's running NT and SETI as the screensaver, it's never crashed (pretty good for NT) Both CPU's are at 100% whenever I'm not at the console, they drop to bout 5% when I'm online.. :)
The other system is a dual Coppermine 700 running RH6.2 that runs 2 instances of SETI, since July. It's never crashed. Both are on Gigabyte 6BXD motherboards with F.2 BIOS, both have AMI RAID controllers and 256MB of CAS2 Micron RAM.
The RAM is running 100MHZ on both boards, both are SLOT-1, I did the C300A mods myself, it was fun!!
I think you may have board/RAM issues, the BX chipset is the best x86 SMP chipset currently shipping for $/performance IMO.
Not if the list was cached on your machine.
The first email from a given Server would initiate an Open Relay Test, if it comes back positive, add them to the 'bad' list, the entries would expire in 30 days or whenever. If the result is negative, it goes in the 'good' list and the expire is longer on the theory that a non-relaying server is much less likely to go open than an open relay is to get fixed.
For the people that you converse with regularly, there will only be the one test. For spam, every email will probably get tested since they will come from different machines. You'll build up a list of open relays quickly though.
OK, Where to get the drivers?
Google doesnt show any free drivers, just announcements for vaporware closed-source, payware drivers.
I'm not interested in buying a $250 X package to support a $250 card.
Anyone done the analysis taking into account the enormous amount of energy and water and toxic chemicals required to refine sand into semiconductor-grade silicon, grow the wafers and process them into high-efficiency photo-voltaic cells?
I've read of 10 year energy-breakeven times for the high-efficiency single-crystal cells, less for the polycrystalline cells, that are about 1/2 as good.
Our Neural Chernobyl by Bruce Sterling
is part of the Globalhead collection of his short stories.
Hackers get smart gene and put it into a retrovirus which gets loose and infects other species...
Oops..
nope, that's not how it works..
If one of the Iridium birds was hit with anything much bigger than a BB, there would be thousands of new things to track as it would blow big chunks out of the Iridium. Things in intersecting orbits tend to be moving at Km/sec relative speeds.
Should be 'thats just before things got wierd'
George Bush has all but directly stated
that if elected, he will instruct the Justice Dept to drop ALL anti-trust cases, that includes Microsoft. Competition is bad for profits, that means it's bad for contributions and hence bad for George Bush and his friends.
May I add ..
Legend of Escaflowne -
This is the story of a high-school student, Hitomi Kanzaki, who is mysteriously transported to another world, where Earth and the
Moon are visible in the sky. As the Girl from the Phantom Moon (Earth), she is heralded as someone with great power in this new
world, power which she uses both wisely and not so wisely, during the course of the series. A wonderful show, IMHO, with lots
of action and character development.
Rurouni Kenshin TV and OVA's - Samurai story revolving around a retired samurai
The TV series is 70+ episodes and has several story arcs.
The OVA's (movie releases) are much more serious
Card Captor Sakura - 4th grader Sakura must collect magic cards she let free
Light hearted (1st season anyway..) by CLAMP
Legend of Galactic Heros
An epic tale of galactic war, 100+ episodes
Nadesico
This is mostly lighthearted space adventure, along the lines of 'Irresponsible Captain Tylor'. Mars had been a successful Earth
colony, but has been laid to waste by an alien race known as the Jovians. The Jovians are now headed for Earth, with the
Battleship Nadesico, the most powerful in the human fleet, hot on their heels. The captain is a very young, supposedly brilliant
young woman, who comes across as your basic anime teenager, including an unrequited (maybe?) crush on a young man with a
mysterious past on Mars. He wants nothing more than to be a cook, but winds up piloting one of the ship's mechs.
Photon - hilarious, not for the little kids, lots of adult humor
Saber Marionette J -
On a planet without women, Marionettes (very lifelike robots) take their place, 3 of them are endowed
with special circuits, lots of funny action, but some serious scenes too.
Atom-Age makes a box that will produce good random numbera at 19.2Kbaud..
http://www.nshore.com/atom_age.htm
Hmm, thats 3600+ Miles per Hour, no airbag is going to save your repeater at that speed.
Someone who did a little bit more math....
Lessee...
:)
. Partition Magic and funky partitioning done by Gateway... And the K7 is to blame? Dont think so...
. Windows , come on, you're running THE most unreliable PC operating system and you blame the CPU?
. Gateway - Like these guys are known for building good PCs? I think not.
. GeForce - This card pulls so much power from the AGP slot, Only the very top grade PC motherboards are built with strong enough on-board regulators to run this card. Nothing to do with the K7 again...
Here's a tip:
Dont take a hardware job , troubleshooting's not your best ability..
What I've done on my OC'ed Celerons...
I took the heatsink and chip, and applied a thick slurry of Comet cleanser (the abrasive kind) and water. Then swirl the chip and heatsink in a circular pattern, the Comet will grind down the high spots on the CPU and not mess with the low spots. After a few minutes, wipe it clean and see how much shiny surface is showing. Repeat until you get about 20-30% area polished, thats good enough to clean the whole thing up and use a THIN layer of the thermal grease, swirl it into place just like you did the Comet to get the thinnest layer possible.
Those of you absolutists can go for 100% mirror finish on the CPU, then it is perfectly matched to your heatsink. You still need the grease, but just the slightest amount. The heatsink black oxide coating will not be removed, it's harder than the Comet particles.
Oh yeah, DONT do this to a CopperMine processor or PowerPC, you dont want to put that much stress on the bare silicon back of the die.
I overclocked my Mac, I have a G3 300 that runs 366 with a 1.5:1 L2. I also put a ultri-wide SCSI card in and a 7200RPM drive, I also replace the cheesy apple 4x cd with a 32X Plextor Ultra SCSI.
What do I use it for, websurfing and some image processing. Oh, it's a Powercomputing machine I bought years ago, it is within 20% of the latest iMac or G3 box in terms of performance.
I also 'over clocked' my jetskis, my PC, my robot, etc... it's fun. I dont have any need to 'compensate' for some personal shortcoming, I just like to hack. The Celeron hack was a lot of fun, i spend about 3 hours with a loupe on, working with tweezers and a micro-tip soldering iron, it was lots of fun. Sure, I can afford a coupld of Coppermines, based on what I earn, I lost money on the time spent on the C300A's, but the exercise of skill and the results were worth it.
Hell, I pulled two 8ns L2 cache chips off a G3 card and replaced them with the latest Moto late-write SRAMS so I could go from 150MHZ L2 to 250 on one board. (I got paid to do that one though...)
Dual fans... at least one will still work...
I've got daul fan heatsinks on both of my C300A @450 . They really run nice in SMP mode after you do the BR# mod.
Yes, use heat sink compound, it's much better than those pads that come standard on heatsinks. If you are a real fanatic, you use some abrasive between the processor and heatsink and grind down all the high spots. the thinner the grease, the better the heat flow. I went from 42C to 35C by removing the pad and grinding the celeron flat and using thermal grease.
At what bitrate on the MP3? 512K/sec? or 32K/Sec
There's a big difference there...
I can hear weird artifacts in MP's up to 192K,
they give me a headache, something due to phasing of the audio at different frequencies. If I'm not betweeen the speakers, or it's mono, no problem.
Only some music causes this. It's like a fatigue in my audio processing area.
If it's only 10-20% bigger than a 128K/s MP3, and it doesnt arifact like MP3, I'll go for it. Too bad my Apex isnt upgradable to the new standard.
Thats the real problem... Closed Hardware.
In one of my training classes in a previous life, .mil that were connected to the Internet. They had systems with basic levels of security that were filtered mirrors of systems that had non-classified info. They used them to attract/eavesdrop on system crackers to learn their techniques. They logged all packets and system operations transparently to the cracker. What they really wanted was the cracking tools, they would let the system be compromised and 'owned' for a while in order to get the binaries to site cracking tools. They had the budget to write decompilers and object code identifiers that could examine a binary and determine what language and compiler revision had generated it.( I guess not many cracking tools are written in assembler) He said they would decompile the tool, examine it's code and after a while pull the system when nothing new had shown up, apply fixes to block the old tools, rename it, then wait to see what new attacks showed up. They used this only to gather info-war techniques, not to arrest crackers, although I'm sure they tried to identify them for future reference/surveillence. This was his team's only job, they would keep upping the bar to getting into the system, or leave the newest exploit open for a while to see how it was done.
we had a former DOD info security person, the subjects of crackers came up via discussing java class decompilers.
He used to run a few systems that were in
In all, it was a pretty interesting discussion we had after one of our class sessions...
Thanks for the pointer to gpart, I had to recompile it to get it to work with SuSE 6.3, but after that it did the trick, all 3 partitions are happy again.
(FAQ authors, add these utils to the list..., I did a whole lot of google searches on 'recover/rebuild partition table' and never came across these utils...)
Now that's the kind of 'Slashdot Effect' I like...
Thanks again...
Any suggestions as to how to rebuild a blown partition table when you dont have the original info?
I've got a system with a zorched out MBR (Dont Ask) on a 30GB EIDE drive, I bought a second identical drive on which I mirrored the original drive. So I can experiment without risking the original data. I've found the first partition, start and end , and then found the start of the second, but then the tool I'm using cant get beyond 8GB.. And then I'm stuck as to how do I reconstruct the Partition Table given raw sector numbers?
Any suggestions as to what Linux tools whould be useful for raw sector read/write and translation for Cyl/HD/Sect to LBA, then to Partition Format?
Closed source Tools are OK, but Iv'e tried Norton, and NT's DiskProbe, they dont work. Most tools assume you have a MBR backup (Dont Ask.. again...)
(OK... I tried replacing a MBR from 1 disk to another to fix a problem with LILO, forgot about the Partition Table, and didnt have a rescue disk... So now I get to learn all about disk partitioning, the hard way)
They arent thinking about their target market very much if they start the clock ticking as soon as you get the unit. I bought 3, planning on giving 2 away to my Mom and Sister when I go visit them this summer. My unit, I have other plans for that one...
Anyway... It's going to be a real bitch if all of a sudden I have 5 months x 2 units worth of charges on my card before these things ever get powered up... I'll sit on them for a few months, still in sealed boxes, if charges show up, I'll dispute them. I have the sealed boxes for proof, I have not used the services yet, why should I pay for them. If they wont budge, then they go back for return and a reversal of charges. I signed no contracts when I bought my units. This should be interesting to see how this all plays out in the coming month or two...
Can Altivec do register moves between the GPR, FPR and Alti-Vec unit without having to do a Store/Load to memory/cache? One of the real pains of PPC is that it can't do a direct 64bit single beat read/write without using the FP registers, but you cant directly manipulate them, you have to do 2 32-bit stores then a double float load, then a double float store to your 64bit bus device.. its slow. PPC EC parts dont have floating point and have no method if accessing 64bit devices except through cacheline fill/castout bursting, not very helpful for I/O devices.
Looks pretty vaporous right now...
How much will it cost, and where can you buy it?
I called CC today about my order for 2 IOpeners, ;)
for my sisters...
They got kind of huffy when I asked if the orders had been cancelled, 'We honor Our prices...'
They also said they had 66 backorders at their store, and over 100 at the other store in town.
But then this is Austin, home of NetPliance...
We may get them in... October, but they will be $99... snicker...
All I see on the core site is screenshots from a game. I want to see what's inside the box.
This license is yet another form of
'You cant use this source in anyone else's programs but ours'
That's the real problem with license fragmentation IMO..