Are you sure? On my desktop, firefox itself takes up a good 300MB if you have ~ 5 tabs and keep it open for abit. I have 2GB, and frequently bump into swap.
1. Max power is very transient; unless you're running some power virus program, it's dumb to design your thermal solution to max power when it is only achieved for a couple of miliseconds. 2. Most processors (not sure for chipsets) have throttling that bring down the frequency/voltage of the processor in the case that you're actually running a power virus program.
In short, designing a thermal solution for max power is over engineering; and not needed. TDP is based on the power dissipated while running "intensive applications".
This is daft. My pocketpc (HTC Trinity) can play youtube videos using the flv plugin on TCPMP. And yes, battery life is longer than ten minutes. There is no stuttering whatsoever. Does anyone on Slashdot even have a smartphone?
That's psycho. Assuming a 50k price for Porsche's and Intel's current employee count of 80k, that's a 4 billion dollar investment right there, or half a year of profit. You really think that would be a rounding error?? I can see that now... umm... board of directors, our profits dropped by 50% this year, but employee morale is through the roof! Yeah, right.
I just wiped Gentoo from my box and installed Feisty. It is buggy as heck. Recently, there was a kernel upgrade that forced all PCs with ICH5 and SATA drives to not boot. http://dschneller.blogspot.com/2007/06/beware-of-u buntu-kernel-2620-16.html I have had tons of problems getting the NVIDIA driver to not crash; ubuntu has it's own nvidia-glx & co. modules, and I can't download NVIDIA's latest versions. I'm stuck with "nv" at this point.
Ubuntu also doesn't come with any compiler. You have to apt-get build-essentials. What is with that? Sooner or later (usually sooner), everyone has to compile something if they run Linux. Oh, wait./usr/local is not in the default LD_LIBRARY_PATH! Looks like they weren't expecting anyone to compile anything, even though I installed build-essentials.
Now, I want to rip a CD. Whoops. ffmpeg is not compiled with MP3 encoding by default. The ubuntu wiki says that you have to compile ffmpeg to enable MP3 encoding. See what I mean about compiling?
What else doesn't work? Oh, the vnc package doesn't work. Only tightvnc works. At this point, I'm ready to quit and use Gentoo, which always works once you get the USE flags right and have enough patience.
I'm half-convinced that any binary-based distro will have a boatload of problems, since everything in Linux is changing so fast. What Ubuntu should do is to create an "emerge-like" tool; this will give people who can't run the binary an option to easily compile it themselves.
I know gentoo gets a bad press, but I think frankly it's the most user-friendly distro around; better than ubuntu! It's true. I have installed Gentoo on my home machine, and Ubuntu on my dad's box. Gentoo has the most complete documentation EVER. Anything you can think of, there is an ebuild, and step-by-step docs in the wiki or forums. Whereas, on Ubuntu, if you want to do something that they didn't think of (and there is a long list of things), you're totally SOL.
With Gentoo, I find the wiki is constantly updated and is a one-stop shop to get information on ANYTHING. Just cut-and-paste the steps from the wiki onto the cmdline, and you're done!
I disagree with the poster above. I have been to China and am a Malaysian. While it's true that water is safe to drink mostly, I find that the bacteria in the water is different from that in the US. Therefore, if you've been in the US for a long time, you are almost guaranteed to get some stomach irritation when you drink tap water in a 3rd world country. I generally recommend guests from US to drink bottled water when they visit.
Washing/sanitizing silverware with tea when eating in Chinese restaurants is partly cultural, and also partly because the restaurants usually wash silverware by hand and they aren't very clean. It is normal to do this in normal street-side restaurants.
You're wrong. I just installed Xubuntu on my dad's computer with OO. OO takes up most of the memory when running (A hefty 128MB!!!), but Xubuntu is lightweight enough to handle it. It's great; I don't have to constantly run 3 different versions of spyware checkers anymore...
I totally agree. I've used Ubuntu, Debian and currently use Gentoo on my mythbox. My experience is that when you want to do something on Debian/Ubuntu that "they" didn't think of, it's supremely difficult. Also there is very little documentation. Compare this to Gentoo's wiki and forums. You can find almost anything there; my current system has less "hacks" to make it work than it had when I was on Debian/Ubuntu.
I find that Gentoo's tree is the most well maintained among the few; it contains the most packages (I don't have to point sources.list to someone else's website that is sometimes down...) I'm really pretty happy with the way Gentoo works.
I don't have a desktop anymore. Both myself and my wife use laptops, and the living room contains a heavy duty Linux box with Mythtv on it. When I need to do something heavy duty, I ssh/vnc to that box. Otherwise, the laptop is great. The only drawback is games... but I'm only pretty much playing MAME nowadays.
How is this informative?? The dual core chip Intel is shipping (smithfield) IS one die, with 2 cores. Actually, this is inferior to MCM packages with 2 dies, as it is difficult to get 2 cores side-by-side with equal performance/power. And yield goes down when you have to have a single large die.
Re: sharing I/O bandwidth. Intel has to do this because they don't have a built-in MCH. It has *nothing* to do with "selling chips with 2 normal P4 dies on them".
Re: Amd's offering. AMD doesn't have to change their design because they have a MCH onboard. That's why the number of pins can remain the same. On the flip side, if you change memory type, you'll have to throw away the chip. It's called engineering tradeoffs, and both companies do it.
Arrgh... practically every point in the above post is misleading or wrong, and it get's modded to +5.
Apparently YOU haven't heard that this only applies to US citizens... since these boys are illegal aliens (what INS calls them!), they wouldn't qualify.
I received a letter from Cornell informing me of this fact when I was applying for undergrad there. It makes sense, since if they didn't have a separate pile for US citizens & foreign students, more than half their intake would be foreign students.
So, they have two standards; one for US citizens, and one for foreign students.
FPGA is a packaging type. PGA stands for Pin Grid Array. I'm not sure what F stands for:)
It's definitely not a Fully Programmable Gate Array...
Device drivers have a loong way to go.
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I'll probably get modded to oblivion for this, but the support of wifi for linux is dismal. Many cards don't work, and those that work, many features don't work (like WEP!!). This is obviously no fault of the community, since they're doing their best to reverse engineer hardware, but asking people to create AP's using Linux when most cards don't even FUNCTION is a little weird.
(I know what I'm talking about. I've bought 2 wifi cards for my Mythtv box, and both only work partially, even though they're reported as "working" by the HW compatibility list).
You are right on. For quite some time now, the US has actually been benefitting due to Asians buying US company's goods. For example, Intel now sells more chips in Asia than in the US (check the latest financial report on intc.com). Frankly, people and businesses in the US have been benefitting from the global economy (more market) till now. If all Asians stopped buying US products tomorrow, the US economy would drop by ~40%, and that is a BAD Thing.
The current shift of jobs is just a shift to even out the fact that many US company's sales have been largely funded outside the US for quite some time now.
If you've worked with vortex tubes before (I have) you'll know that they are NOISY. That's because you have to pump air in at certain velocity/psi to get the desired cooling effect. It's useful to use as air cooling of processors (We use it in our labs), but water cooling is much better because water absorbs heat faster, and is quieter. Of course, you have problems with leak-testing, etc. All part of the usual engineering tradeoffs.
Uhh.. the bad thing is that Intel chips are guarenteed. I forget how long, but I think ~ 3-5 years. Replacing OC'ed chips at your own dime is not a good thing.
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It may be true that bombing the lights out of Iraq may be the way to PREVENT further terrorist attacks, but how do you know this is true? IMHO, bombing other countries generates more hate, which fuels terrorist training camps, and terrorist funding.
What happens if there is another attack after the war on Iraq? Will the US bomb Saudi Arabia next?
Regardless, the world is watching very carefully on America's actions after the war. A lot of effort and publicity into rebuilding will help the US gain favour and slow down terrorist attacks. However, most probably there will be none (when have you last seen any news on Afghanistan?)
I find it amusing that Americans think that the reason why terrorists target them is because of their freedom. Only American media believes that. Everyone else in the world knows that the reason is because of American administration foreign policy, which tries to: 1. Shove democracy down countries throats, even if they don't want it; by using forceful tactics. 2. Topple and encourage rebels to topple regimes to set up "US-friendly" governments.
The Swiss and other European countries (and also Canada) enjoy pretty much the same level of freedom as the US. Why are these countries not a target for terrorist attacks, then? Hint: It has nothing to do with freedom.
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Are you sure? On my desktop, firefox itself takes up a good 300MB if you have ~ 5 tabs and keep it open for abit. I have 2GB, and frequently bump into swap.
It's clear to me now! Microsoft is Terran, Apple are the Protoss and Linux is the Zerg...
Ehh, have you TRIED x11 piped over SSH from one side of the planet to the other? It's not even usable. That's why projects like NX exist.
The TDP is max power. This is due to 2 reasons:
1. Max power is very transient; unless you're running some power virus program, it's dumb to design your thermal solution to max power when it is only achieved for a couple of miliseconds.
2. Most processors (not sure for chipsets) have throttling that bring down the frequency/voltage of the processor in the case that you're actually running a power virus program.
In short, designing a thermal solution for max power is over engineering; and not needed. TDP is based on the power dissipated while running "intensive applications".
This is daft. My pocketpc (HTC Trinity) can play youtube videos using the flv plugin on TCPMP. And yes, battery life is longer than ten minutes. There is no stuttering whatsoever. Does anyone on Slashdot even have a smartphone?
That's psycho. Assuming a 50k price for Porsche's and Intel's current employee count of 80k, that's a 4 billion dollar investment right there, or half a year of profit. You really think that would be a rounding error?? I can see that now... umm... board of directors, our profits dropped by 50% this year, but employee morale is through the roof! Yeah, right.
Do your math next time.
I just wiped Gentoo from my box and installed Feisty. It is buggy as heck. Recently, there was a kernel upgrade that forced all PCs with ICH5 and SATA drives to not boot. http://dschneller.blogspot.com/2007/06/beware-of-u buntu-kernel-2620-16.html I have had tons of problems getting the NVIDIA driver to not crash; ubuntu has it's own nvidia-glx & co. modules, and I can't download NVIDIA's latest versions. I'm stuck with "nv" at this point.
Ubuntu also doesn't come with any compiler. You have to apt-get build-essentials. What is with that? Sooner or later (usually sooner), everyone has to compile something if they run Linux. Oh, wait. /usr/local is not in the default LD_LIBRARY_PATH! Looks like they weren't expecting anyone to compile anything, even though I installed build-essentials.
Now, I want to rip a CD. Whoops. ffmpeg is not compiled with MP3 encoding by default. The ubuntu wiki says that you have to compile ffmpeg to enable MP3 encoding. See what I mean about compiling?
What else doesn't work? Oh, the vnc package doesn't work. Only tightvnc works. At this point, I'm ready to quit and use Gentoo, which always works once you get the USE flags right and have enough patience.
I'm half-convinced that any binary-based distro will have a boatload of problems, since everything in Linux is changing so fast. What Ubuntu should do is to create an "emerge-like" tool; this will give people who can't run the binary an option to easily compile it themselves.
I know gentoo gets a bad press, but I think frankly it's the most user-friendly distro around; better than ubuntu! It's true. I have installed Gentoo on my home machine, and Ubuntu on my dad's box. Gentoo has the most complete documentation EVER. Anything you can think of, there is an ebuild, and step-by-step docs in the wiki or forums. Whereas, on Ubuntu, if you want to do something that they didn't think of (and there is a long list of things), you're totally SOL.
With Gentoo, I find the wiki is constantly updated and is a one-stop shop to get information on ANYTHING. Just cut-and-paste the steps from the wiki onto the cmdline, and you're done!
I disagree with the poster above. I have been to China and am a Malaysian. While it's true that water is safe to drink mostly, I find that the bacteria in the water is different from that in the US. Therefore, if you've been in the US for a long time, you are almost guaranteed to get some stomach irritation when you drink tap water in a 3rd world country. I generally recommend guests from US to drink bottled water when they visit.
Washing/sanitizing silverware with tea when eating in Chinese restaurants is partly cultural, and also partly because the restaurants usually wash silverware by hand and they aren't very clean. It is normal to do this in normal street-side restaurants.
You're wrong. I just installed Xubuntu on my dad's computer with OO. OO takes up most of the memory when running (A hefty 128MB!!!), but Xubuntu is lightweight enough to handle it. It's great; I don't have to constantly run 3 different versions of spyware checkers anymore...
I totally agree. I've used Ubuntu, Debian and currently use Gentoo on my mythbox. My experience is that when you want to do something on Debian/Ubuntu that "they" didn't think of, it's supremely difficult. Also there is very little documentation. Compare this to Gentoo's wiki and forums. You can find almost anything there; my current system has less "hacks" to make it work than it had when I was on Debian/Ubuntu.
I find that Gentoo's tree is the most well maintained among the few; it contains the most packages (I don't have to point sources.list to someone else's website that is sometimes down...) I'm really pretty happy with the way Gentoo works.
I don't have a desktop anymore. Both myself and my wife use laptops, and the living room contains a heavy duty Linux box with Mythtv on it. When I need to do something heavy duty, I ssh/vnc to that box. Otherwise, the laptop is great. The only drawback is games... but I'm only pretty much playing MAME nowadays.
This is bullshit. Most of the leakage is currently subthreshold.
My nipples are offended by your comment.
Um, the twin towers are in Malaysia, not Indonesia. They are different countries, with Malaysia being vastly richer.
MythTV now has (of the last few months, I think) manual recording. I set it to record every Mon night on Lifetime for my wife.
How is this informative?? The dual core chip Intel is shipping (smithfield) IS one die, with 2 cores. Actually, this is inferior to MCM packages with 2 dies, as it is difficult to get 2 cores side-by-side with equal performance/power. And yield goes down when you have to have a single large die.
Re: sharing I/O bandwidth. Intel has to do this because they don't have a built-in MCH. It has *nothing* to do with "selling chips with 2 normal P4 dies on them".
Re: Amd's offering. AMD doesn't have to change their design because they have a MCH onboard. That's why the number of pins can remain the same. On the flip side, if you change memory type, you'll have to throw away the chip. It's called engineering tradeoffs, and both companies do it.
Arrgh... practically every point in the above post is misleading or wrong, and it get's modded to +5.
Apparently YOU haven't heard that this only applies to US citizens... since these boys are illegal aliens (what INS calls them!), they wouldn't qualify.
I received a letter from Cornell informing me of this fact when I was applying for undergrad there. It makes sense, since if they didn't have a separate pile for US citizens & foreign students, more than half their intake would be foreign students.
So, they have two standards; one for US citizens, and one for foreign students.
FPGA is a packaging type. PGA stands for Pin Grid Array. I'm not sure what F stands for :)
It's definitely not a Fully Programmable Gate Array...
Hi,
I'll probably get modded to oblivion for this, but the support of wifi for linux is dismal. Many cards don't work, and those that work, many features don't work (like WEP!!). This is obviously no fault of the community, since they're doing their best to reverse engineer hardware, but asking people to create AP's using Linux when most cards don't even FUNCTION is a little weird.
(I know what I'm talking about. I've bought 2 wifi cards for my Mythtv box, and both only work partially, even though they're reported as "working" by the HW compatibility list).
You are right on. For quite some time now, the US has actually been benefitting due to Asians buying US company's goods. For example, Intel now sells more chips in Asia than in the US (check the latest financial report on intc.com). Frankly, people and businesses in the US have been benefitting from the global economy (more market) till now. If all Asians stopped buying US products tomorrow, the US economy would drop by ~40%, and that is a BAD Thing.
The current shift of jobs is just a shift to even out the fact that many US company's sales have been largely funded outside the US for quite some time now.
If you've worked with vortex tubes before (I have) you'll know that they are NOISY. That's because you have to pump air in at certain velocity/psi to get the desired cooling effect. It's useful to use as air cooling of processors (We use it in our labs), but water cooling is much better because water absorbs heat faster, and is quieter. Of course, you have problems with leak-testing, etc. All part of the usual engineering tradeoffs.
Uhh.. the bad thing is that Intel chips are guarenteed. I forget how long, but I think ~ 3-5 years. Replacing OC'ed chips at your own dime is not a good thing.
It may be true that bombing the lights out of Iraq may be the way to PREVENT further terrorist attacks, but how do you know this is true? IMHO, bombing other countries generates more hate, which fuels terrorist training camps, and terrorist funding.
What happens if there is another attack after the war on Iraq? Will the US bomb Saudi Arabia next?
Regardless, the world is watching very carefully on America's actions after the war. A lot of effort and publicity into rebuilding will help the US gain favour and slow down terrorist attacks. However, most probably there will be none (when have you last seen any news on Afghanistan?)
I find it amusing that Americans think that the reason why terrorists target them is because of their freedom. Only American media believes that. Everyone else in the world knows that the reason is because of American administration foreign policy, which tries to:
1. Shove democracy down countries throats, even if they don't want it; by using forceful tactics.
2. Topple and encourage rebels to topple regimes to set up "US-friendly" governments.
The Swiss and other European countries (and also Canada) enjoy pretty much the same level of freedom as the US. Why are these countries not a target for terrorist attacks, then?
Hint: It has nothing to do with freedom.