I'm okay with being patient on that stat; the increase of 2xAA to 4xAA would be a exponential increase in processing, right? This is where driver optimization becomes more critical.
I figure Nvidia did enough internal testing to know they're safe on 2xAA but want to do further improvement before going higher.
For those who don't rtfa, the quake3 framerates for both cards had 2x antialiasing turned on. When thrown in the mix, this becomes a bit more impressive than the simple 1xx fps rate shown, as a number of current cards can achieve mid- or high-100s speeds but with no AA.
It's not simply the frame rate, but what's actually being generated in that frame.
One thing that should be done is an effective and QUICK way to terminate employment. My last workplace was a shining example of how to handle it all wrong. My boss tells me at 8:10 to attend a meeting in a conference room downstairs.. as everyone else is in a meeting across the hall. When I ask him point-blank 'do I still have a job?,' he looks down and mutters "I can't tell you; go to the meeting." Which, of course is the answer right there.
Now, at this point I have 15 minutes to wreak havoc, were I malicious. This was utterly ignorant handling of the situation. If you even promote the HINT a person may no longer be an employee, for shit's sake don't let them near an open account... did I mention I was the Unix admin? That the entire facility depended on three Alphas running various Oracle databases, DNS, etc on those Alphas? They are simply lucky I am not a vindictive person (I accept the company did what it had to, though I do still have a personal issue with the shoddy manner in which my 'boss' handled the entire affair).
Having spoken with a biker (sitting in the next room from me.;) ) he agrees that this vest is highly impractical. When you're launched from your bike, you keep your appendages close to your body and roll, similar to how paratroopers roll on landing to reduce the stress on your body.
I'd be curious to know what kind of bike your cubemate rides. It sure as hell isn't a sportbike. If you ever watch any kind of races (or some stupid show of fabulous road car crashes) you know most people forcibly dismounted from bikes don't roll. If you're tossed over the bars your legs are whipped outward via angular acceleration; you're sliding with your legs splayed outward. If you highside chances are you'll roll once, until your outward arm is again flung outward by angular acceleration and again, you're skidding down the road. And if someone rolls, chances are they'll be so damn disoriented they wn't be able to just 'hop up out of the road.' Dizziness does that to you.
If people just rolled, there would be no cases of road rash. After all, there's no flesh dragging across the ground...
-fester (owner of one sportbike, one streetfighter and a nice amount of leather- and kevlar-lined protective gear)
No, this is a case of money and influence over technology.
No, I think this is a case of poor marketing. It's a superior product, so much so the competetion even bought into it.. but the product was saddled with two companies who couldn't market the product. Digital was notoriously poor in marketing, and when Compaq bought them it was merely a product-rounding move. Compaq, after all, made their money in Intel-based crap and Capellas never really pushed the Alpha as the strong superior product it was.
The Alpha was a decent hardware/OS setup: I ran a number of them at my last job, supporting boxen using Oracle. The boxes were solid computers (even for older 4100-series machines!), Tru64 was fairly solid (only a tricky NFS glitch on one machine spotted a perfect record with them) and the 1 1/2 years I spent with Dec/Compaq/Tru64 was suprisingly excellent. It's a shame the companies involved pretty much killed them due to stupidity.
HP has been 'getting rid' of PA-RISC for ages. I remember attending an seminar on the virtues of Merced in the 1996-1997 timeperiod. At that time they planned phased out PA-RISC CPUs and were going to do PA emulation on Itanium by 2000 at the latest, to allow older HPUX installations to make a smooth transition.
In other words.. they'be been singing this song for at least 5 years and the Merced/cKinley delays have royally screwed their plans. They did have other plans on the horizon (though at the time I believe the roadmap only went to the 8500 or 8600 chips.. the 8700+ processors were probably a mad scramble when they realized it was going to be even longer.
.. as I'm TiVO-ignorant (but been considering a device like this). You record programs, you watch programs, TiVo tracks the programs you watch (all expected)... and as a result the device is instructed to record content you don't explicitly request? Is this an option to be turned off? Or (as I think I saw someone say) the TiVo will nuke content I wanted for content it thinks I want?
I like the Sopranos, so I record all the episodes of Season (x). My TiVO 'realizes' I like gangster things, so (unrequested) it tapes The Godfather from TNT (despite my owning the DVD set). In the process, it nukes 2-3 of my Sopranos episodes. Do I understand this correectly? Is there no way to turn this 'feature' off?
If this indeed is the case, I'll never own one of these things. Crap programming is one thing; having it foisted on me with no option (and erasing the little programming I do like) is bullshit, plain and simple.
I love my Vx. It serves a number of nifty litle uses..
Surrogate laptop.. until I become re-employed (and buy my iBook) it subs as a laptop.. ok, more of a compact email/web terminal. Between PalmEudora and AvantGo/EudoraWeb I still manage to get my various mail/web fixes. I only wish I could find a better NNTP client than the few out there so I could sync ASR.
Along those lines, AvantGo is great for snagging latest site content from news.com (I can hear the hissing here), AnandTech, BBC, Kernel Traffic (hey, you can roll your own), etc. Nice to read online content while sitting at a park, waiting at an airport, before going to sleep.
With pocket telnet/term programs, it makes a GREAT serial console in a pinch. I've used my Palm to reconfigure ethernet stacks and capture kernel oopses (doing that right now to debug an aic7xxx error).
Yes input can be a little cumbersome, but you can pick up a keyboard for ~$30 these days.. and I do a few journal entries.
I think I have the PDF for Linux LVM1 and a set of release notes for Tru64 in there.
When all else fails, I have a good Euchre program and DopeWars.:)
So yes, I still use my Palm. It's not as fancy or new as the latest crap, but for what it is and what it does, it is and does better than I expected.
Yeah.. legal, probably. After all, it is a down economy. I would not be suprised to see Spamhaus served a cease-and-desist before Verio does the Right Thing and starts punting luser spammers.
The admins & abuse people are the ones at Verio really taking it on the chin. I can only imagine the vitriol pouring in their mailboxes and publicly on forums like nanae.
The devil's in the details...:).. which now has me torn. I loved DareDevil as a kid, but am not crazy throwing money at the moviehaus if Stan may see no funds from that either. *sigh*
(I used to work for the ISC, so you might think I'm biased, but I wasn't involved with the ISC BIND project...
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Used to? Egad, who's filling your shoes on the ISC DHCP project? I've not been on dhcp-* lists since I was laid off in May.. what happened? IIRC, you were pondering a different direction to take at the time.
Sorry to hear.. your effort was appreciated on that and I had a nice failover system working thanks to your work.
-fester (was a poster from alcatel.com)
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Anyone have opinions/stats on the idea that OSX might be slower because of file-based instead of device-based swap? From what little bits I've read/seen, OSX is using a swapfile instead of your typical direct-to-char-device swapdisk. And I do know file-based swap can be slower because it's going through both the filesystem and drive io layers.
Is there a vmstat? Can anyone confirm/deny? Every time I see X speed questions/concerns this is the first thing I wonder. Or has someone an idea where to find swap comparisions between PPC/Linux, PPC/BSD (I presume there is such a thing) and OSX? If nothing else, I'd satisfy personal curiosity.
The controversy recently emerged from cyberspace in the person of Bart Sibrel, who has made a film questioning the Apollo Moon missions and who confronted astronaut Buzz Aldrin at a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9 and demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had in fact walked on the moon.
The 72-year-old Aldrin, the second man ever to touch the lunar surface, punched the 37-year-old Sibrel in the face. Sibrel asked that assault charges be filed, but Los Angeles County prosecutors declined. A videotape of the incident showed Sibrel following Aldrin on the street with a Bible and calling him a "thief, liar and coward," one prosecutor said.
How's that for refutation?:)
-fester (Good for Buzz.. I'm sure he and the others who risked their ass at the top of that Saturn V are sick of this crap)
Out of simple curiosity, I plugged 'panama phone company' into Google.. after all, what could this little pissant country have in the way of phone companines? And what are the first two links to pop up?
ps.. I'm sure Panamanians by and large dislike this as well.. the 'pissant' is directed at the governmental representation of Panama, which right now looks suspiciously like a boil on someone's ass.
Slightly related news? I turned on Bloomberg this AM and found the president discussing generic prescription drugs and how the drug companies are abusing the stay process in order to maintain a hold on the drug going generic. If he's starting to look at the generic-ization of meds, perhaps it's the tip of the iceberg for things such as this.
Disclaimer: I'm a right-winger, but dunno about this idea.. after all drug companies do take finantial risks to make new medications. But holding potential benefits for people's health over their head in the name of pure profit bothers me. Like the Microsoft stuff, it possibly sets a bad precedent.. I hate m$' heavy-handed tactics but having the government step in seems a bad idea.
Seriously, IRIX is about as stable as Windows 95. Have you ever used it?
I think it depends on your point of reference. When I worked as a student Unix lab luser, we just acquired a bunch of Indigos with 4.0.5f, and it seems fairly stable compared to what we were running in the lab before (HP diskless workstations (not even SWAP local.. don't ask)). If anything would happen, it typically would be a graphics hang curable with the Vulcan Death Grip.
The last job had a handful of systems (an Origin and a few Octanes): one Octane had semi-frequent graphics hangs but I think that was hardware on its way out. The other Octanes never had problems... and this was running typically pissey software (HKS Abaqus, PATRAN, ANSYS, ProE), either locally or over X/network (again, don't ask). These were systems running 6.5.x (all were at.15 when I was laid off).
My biggest beef with IRIX was the piss-poor default security. 4.0.x releases were HORRIBLE: things have become better in time but SGI's security for these boxes is still kinda shoddy at best. And with cheaper PC graphics hardware (or cheaper workstation-level graphics like HP's fx cards) SGI can no longer rest on their 'visualization' laurels.
No, Gentoo used to support this in the kernel... until 2.4.19-r7. It's been pulled out as of this update. When I asked about this on alt.os.linux.gentoo, I was pointed to this thread on the gentoo-user mailing list. In a nutshell, concerns of data loss when a system powerfails or bad interactions with preempt (which is also included in the Gentoo kernel) are the primary reasons. Luckily, the emerge --update did not toast my old kernel dist folder so i still have it... but you may want to wait.
This pertains to the current stable (1.2?) release.
Perhaps this move in the dev kernel will prompt someone in the Gentoo dist-building realm to re-add this to the kernel.
(i'd post a url to my questions in the ng but i x-no-archived the thread.. silly me)
(and this post is non-pro non-con xfs.. though I've worked with SGI systems, own an Indigo2 and think the fs is pretty solid).
Perhaps the best place to watch anything might be C-Span. Practically no pundits, no spin, no drool-at-the-mouth commentators talking over every single fscking thing and making themselves part of the event.
Having said that.. I'm only watching the Pentagon ceremony. I refuse to support or endorse any of the other tasteless 'tributes' from every media outlet today. For me, this should be a day to reflect, show some reverence and strengthen our resolve. IMHO, none of the coverage will do any of this.
I am proud and thankful of the freedoms this country affords me but sickened and ashamed of the so-called 'mainstream press' (on both sides.. I am bipartisan on my distain:) and what they do with those freedoms.
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I'm okay with being patient on that stat; the increase of 2xAA to 4xAA would be a exponential increase in processing, right? This is where driver optimization becomes more critical.
I figure Nvidia did enough internal testing to know they're safe on 2xAA but want to do further improvement before going higher.
For those who don't rtfa, the quake3 framerates for both cards had 2x antialiasing turned on. When thrown in the mix, this becomes a bit more impressive than the simple 1xx fps rate shown, as a number of current cards can achieve mid- or high-100s speeds but with no AA.
It's not simply the frame rate, but what's actually being generated in that frame.
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Right! Because people who drive heavier vehicles don't cause any more wear to the roads...oh, wait...
This is like saying Microsoft hardware is harder on PC components than Linux as you'll have to punch the reset button more often.
Judas.. prove to me my Toyota pickup 'causes more wear to the roads' than you pissant geo metro.
My pick for Dumbass Statement of the Week!
-'fester
(and fwiw, I need a truck, as I have motorcycles (needing occasional hauling) and jetskis (which cannot run themselves to the lake))
One thing that should be done is an effective and QUICK way to terminate employment. My last workplace was a shining example of how to handle it all wrong. My boss tells me at 8:10 to attend a meeting in a conference room downstairs.. as everyone else is in a meeting across the hall. When I ask him point-blank 'do I still have a job?,' he looks down and mutters "I can't tell you; go to the meeting." Which, of course is the answer right there.
.. did I mention I was the Unix admin? That the entire facility depended on three Alphas running various Oracle databases, DNS, etc on those Alphas? They are simply lucky I am not a vindictive person (I accept the company did what it had to, though I do still have a personal issue with the shoddy manner in which my 'boss' handled the entire affair).
Now, at this point I have 15 minutes to wreak havoc, were I malicious. This was utterly ignorant handling of the situation. If you even promote the HINT a person may no longer be an employee, for shit's sake don't let them near an open account.
I'd be curious to know what kind of bike your cubemate rides. It sure as hell isn't a sportbike. If you ever watch any kind of races (or some stupid show of fabulous road car crashes) you know most people forcibly dismounted from bikes don't roll. If you're tossed over the bars your legs are whipped outward via angular acceleration; you're sliding with your legs splayed outward. If you highside chances are you'll roll once, until your outward arm is again flung outward by angular acceleration and again, you're skidding down the road. And if someone rolls, chances are they'll be so damn disoriented they wn't be able to just 'hop up out of the road.' Dizziness does that to you.
If people just rolled, there would be no cases of road rash. After all, there's no flesh dragging across the ground...
-fester (owner of one sportbike, one streetfighter and a nice amount of leather- and kevlar-lined protective gear)
No, this is a case of money and influence over technology.
No, I think this is a case of poor marketing. It's a superior product, so much so the competetion even bought into it.. but the product was saddled with two companies who couldn't market the product. Digital was notoriously poor in marketing, and when Compaq bought them it was merely a product-rounding move. Compaq, after all, made their money in Intel-based crap and Capellas never really pushed the Alpha as the strong superior product it was.
The Alpha was a decent hardware/OS setup: I ran a number of them at my last job, supporting boxen using Oracle. The boxes were solid computers (even for older 4100-series machines!), Tru64 was fairly solid (only a tricky NFS glitch on one machine spotted a perfect record with them) and the 1 1/2 years I spent with Dec/Compaq/Tru64 was suprisingly excellent. It's a shame the companies involved pretty much killed them due to stupidity.
HP has been 'getting rid' of PA-RISC for ages. I remember attending an seminar on the virtues of Merced in the 1996-1997 timeperiod. At that time they planned phased out PA-RISC CPUs and were going to do PA emulation on Itanium by 2000 at the latest, to allow older HPUX installations to make a smooth transition.
In other words.. they'be been singing this song for at least 5 years and the Merced/cKinley delays have royally screwed their plans. They did have other plans on the horizon (though at the time I believe the roadmap only went to the 8500 or 8600 chips.. the 8700+ processors were probably a mad scramble when they realized it was going to be even longer.
.. as I'm TiVO-ignorant (but been considering a device like this). You record programs, you watch programs, TiVo tracks the programs you watch (all expected)... and as a result the device is instructed to record content you don't explicitly request? Is this an option to be turned off? Or (as I think I saw someone say) the TiVo will nuke content I wanted for content it thinks I want?
I like the Sopranos, so I record all the episodes of Season (x). My TiVO 'realizes' I like gangster things, so (unrequested) it tapes The Godfather from TNT (despite my owning the DVD set). In the process, it nukes 2-3 of my Sopranos episodes. Do I understand this correectly? Is there no way to turn this 'feature' off?
If this indeed is the case, I'll never own one of these things. Crap programming is one thing; having it foisted on me with no option (and erasing the little programming I do like) is bullshit, plain and simple.
- Surrogate laptop.. until I become re-employed (and buy my iBook) it subs as a laptop.. ok, more of a compact email/web terminal. Between PalmEudora and AvantGo/EudoraWeb I still manage to get my various mail/web fixes. I only wish I could find a better NNTP client than the few out there so I could sync ASR.
- Along those lines, AvantGo is great for snagging latest site content from news.com (I can hear the hissing here), AnandTech, BBC, Kernel Traffic (hey, you can roll your own), etc. Nice to read online content while sitting at a park, waiting at an airport, before going to sleep.
- With pocket telnet/term programs, it makes a GREAT serial console in a pinch. I've used my Palm to reconfigure ethernet stacks and capture kernel oopses (doing that right now to debug an aic7xxx error).
- Yes input can be a little cumbersome, but you can pick up a keyboard for ~$30 these days.. and I do a few journal entries.
- I think I have the PDF for Linux LVM1 and a set of release notes for Tru64 in there.
- When all else fails, I have a good Euchre program and DopeWars.
:)
So yes, I still use my Palm. It's not as fancy or new as the latest crap, but for what it is and what it does, it is and does better than I expected.This will force Verio to take action.
Yeah.. legal, probably. After all, it is a down economy. I would not be suprised to see Spamhaus served a cease-and-desist before Verio does the Right Thing and starts punting luser spammers.
The admins & abuse people are the ones at Verio really taking it on the chin. I can only imagine the vitriol pouring in their mailboxes and publicly on forums like nanae.
-fester
The devil's in the details... :) .. which now has me torn. I loved DareDevil as a kid, but am not crazy throwing money at the moviehaus if Stan may see no funds from that either. *sigh*
-fester
(I used to work for the ISC, so you might think I'm biased, but I wasn't involved with the ISC BIND project...
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Used to? Egad, who's filling your shoes on the ISC DHCP project? I've not been on dhcp-* lists since I was laid off in May.. what happened? IIRC, you were pondering a different direction to take at the time.
Sorry to hear.. your effort was appreciated on that and I had a nice failover system working thanks to your work.
-fester (was a poster from alcatel.com)
Anyone have opinions/stats on the idea that OSX might be slower because of file-based instead of device-based swap? From what little bits I've read/seen, OSX is using a swapfile instead of your typical direct-to-char-device swapdisk. And I do know file-based swap can be slower because it's going through both the filesystem and drive io layers.
Is there a vmstat? Can anyone confirm/deny? Every time I see X speed questions/concerns this is the first thing I wonder. Or has someone an idea where to find swap comparisions between PPC/Linux, PPC/BSD (I presume there is such a thing) and OSX? If nothing else, I'd satisfy personal curiosity.
-fester
from a recent news article...
:)
The controversy recently emerged from cyberspace in the person of Bart Sibrel, who has made a film questioning the Apollo Moon missions and who confronted astronaut Buzz Aldrin at a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9 and demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had in fact walked on the moon.
The 72-year-old Aldrin, the second man ever to touch the lunar surface, punched the 37-year-old Sibrel in the face. Sibrel asked that assault charges be filed, but Los Angeles County prosecutors declined. A videotape of the incident showed Sibrel following Aldrin on the street with a Bible and calling him a "thief, liar and coward," one prosecutor said.
How's that for refutation?
-fester (Good for Buzz.. I'm sure he and the others who risked their ass at the top of that Saturn V are sick of this crap)
Out of simple curiosity, I plugged 'panama phone company' into Google.. after all, what could this little pissant country have in the way of phone companines? And what are the first two links to pop up?
Privatization - Phone Company: and A Case of Privatization Gone Wrong: Panama's Wires Crossed. Perhaps this is the start of some revenue-generating stunt to pull some dumbass decision-maker's ass out of a fire somewhere?
-fester (capt. conspiracy?)
ps.. I'm sure Panamanians by and large dislike this as well.. the 'pissant' is directed at the governmental representation of Panama, which right now looks suspiciously like a boil on someone's ass.
From a Senator like Helmes, this is a old school shakedown of the Copyright industry. Once, he gets enough money his "objections" will disappear.
It better happen damn fast, then.. he's not running for re-election. His seat is being pursued by Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole (yes, that Elizabeth Dole).
Given the choice.. I'd prefer Helms. The campaign in this state has been utterly shameful, bordering on laughable.
Slightly related news? I turned on Bloomberg this AM and found the president discussing generic prescription drugs and how the drug companies are abusing the stay process in order to maintain a hold on the drug going generic. If he's starting to look at the generic-ization of meds, perhaps it's the tip of the iceberg for things such as this.
Disclaimer: I'm a right-winger, but dunno about this idea.. after all drug companies do take finantial risks to make new medications. But holding potential benefits for people's health over their head in the name of pure profit bothers me. Like the Microsoft stuff, it possibly sets a bad precedent.. I hate m$' heavy-handed tactics but having the government step in seems a bad idea.
-fester
Forbidden fruit?
:)
No, that would be the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
-fester
(cntl)(shift)(/)(F12)
iirc, the (Cntl)(Shift) are the left-side ones, and the (/) is the one on the numeric keypad.
(from the IRIX Specific System Administration book for 6.5)
-fester
I think it depends on your point of reference. When I worked as a student Unix lab luser, we just acquired a bunch of Indigos with 4.0.5f, and it seems fairly stable compared to what we were running in the lab before (HP diskless workstations (not even SWAP local.. don't ask)). If anything would happen, it typically would be a graphics hang curable with the Vulcan Death Grip.
The last job had a handful of systems (an Origin and a few Octanes): one Octane had semi-frequent graphics hangs but I think that was hardware on its way out. The other Octanes never had problems... and this was running typically pissey software (HKS Abaqus, PATRAN, ANSYS, ProE), either locally or over X/network (again, don't ask). These were systems running 6.5.x (all were at
My biggest beef with IRIX was the piss-poor default security. 4.0.x releases were HORRIBLE: things have become better in time but SGI's security for these boxes is still kinda shoddy at best. And with cheaper PC graphics hardware (or cheaper workstation-level graphics like HP's fx cards) SGI can no longer rest on their 'visualization' laurels.
-fester
No, someone somewhere in Congress is displaying their utter incompetence in solving a problem. Consider:
Did I actually 'get it?'
Gentoo supports this out-of-the-box...
No, Gentoo used to support this in the kernel... until 2.4.19-r7. It's been pulled out as of this update. When I asked about this on alt.os.linux.gentoo, I was pointed to this thread on the gentoo-user mailing list. In a nutshell, concerns of data loss when a system powerfails or bad interactions with preempt (which is also included in the Gentoo kernel) are the primary reasons. Luckily, the emerge --update did not toast my old kernel dist folder so i still have it... but you may want to wait.
This pertains to the current stable (1.2?) release.
Perhaps this move in the dev kernel will prompt someone in the Gentoo dist-building realm to re-add this to the kernel.
(i'd post a url to my questions in the ng but i x-no-archived the thread.. silly me)
(and this post is non-pro non-con xfs.. though I've worked with SGI systems, own an Indigo2 and think the fs is pretty solid).
"A picture is worth 2 Libraries of Congress"
.. but how many hairs is this?
Perhaps the best place to watch anything might be C-Span. Practically no pundits, no spin, no drool-at-the-mouth commentators talking over every single fscking thing and making themselves part of the event.
:) and what they do with those freedoms.
Having said that.. I'm only watching the Pentagon ceremony. I refuse to support or endorse any of the other tasteless 'tributes' from every media outlet today. For me, this should be a day to reflect, show some reverence and strengthen our resolve. IMHO, none of the coverage will do any of this.
I am proud and thankful of the freedoms this country affords me but sickened and ashamed of the so-called 'mainstream press' (on both sides.. I am bipartisan on my distain