dual G5-2GHz PowerMac (both CPUs): 498 single P4 2GHz: 192 single P4 2.66GHz: 255 single P4 3.2GHz (extrapolated): 307 Not only did the score of the G5 with both CPUs make me say "Holy shit" out loud in front of my comp (seriously!), but it also kicks the piss out of the P4! So, Apple does have one of the fastest machines around!
so two 2.0 GHz cpus are faster than a single 3.2 GHz cpu? i fail to see why this is surprising.
The benchmark heavily favours DX-9 parts and NVDA's existing lineup was/is getting smoked in the benchmark by it's main (only) competitor. They decided to go on the offensive and try to kill off this benchmark. The 30 person company that produces 3D Mark have stood their ground against the multi-billion dollar NVDA. NVDA instead of admitting that their Pixel Shader is quite slow when running against 2.0 specs insteads tries to decieve and FUD their way out of it.
other people have mentioned this, but take a look at hardocp's 3dmark03 article. nvidia's speed with dx9 pixel shaders isn't measured in most of the tests, so the benchmark is largely irrelevant to all those arguments.
personally, i get the feeling that futuremark is embarrassed that nvidia found it so trivial to cheat in their benchmark and are trying to save face. but that's just my take on the whole thing.
This seems like a fairly expensive way to make a cluster. $200 for each PS2 and $200 for each Linux kit? That comes out to $26,000. You could buy computers with more RAM and faster processors (than a 400MHz MIPS) for about the same amount.
the benefit comes with problems that can be highly optimized to work on the ps2's vector processor. for pure vector operation, the graphics system in the ps2 provides better bang for the buck than chips with less specific capabilities. it doesn't do much, but what it does, it does it pretty quickly.
while i don't know about the use of different sounds to liven things up, we do know that doom3 is engineered to take advantage of 6.1 surround sound. they wanted to create as emersive an environment as possible, and so spent a lot of time makeing the sound believable. trent reznor of nine inch nails was even brought onboard to share his expertise.
Anyone else noticed that contrary to what AMD would like you to believe by the 3000+ model naming, the intel pentium 4 3.06Ghz performed mcuh better than AMD 3000+ in every benchmark.
it's worth noting that the p4 didn't win every benchmark. different benchmarks stress different abilities of the cpu. they did a lot of tests, but they didn't pick their tests to show off the strenghts of the athlon xp vs. the strengths of the hyperthreaded p4.
in a more pointed showdown, it becomes obvious that the p4's huge clock-speed-boosting pipeline is either a big advantage or a nasty handicap depending on the benchmark being used. in a well-written program where the cpu can correctly guess most of the branches (quake3), the p4 will come out on top. in a program with lots of mispredictions (serious sam, unreal tourney), the athlon looks better because it doesn't take as long to refill its pipeline. that said, tom's benchmarks were comprised much more of the former than the latter.
and the athlon's designation doesn't have anything to do with p4 clockspeed, but someone already said that.
It's reasonably fast at what it does, so it will run Doom 3 at a decent framerate.
in a.plan update from a few months ago, john carmack said this:
Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom.
Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks.
Given that the speed of this thing is 1/10th current chips, I doubt the PRC will be running current Windows versions.
i installed windows xp professional on a pentium 200 about a year ago. with 128 MB of ram, it really wasn't that bad... once everything loaded. it took a while to boot up, or launch ie, but once the program you were using was in memory, the sytem ran pretty well for web browsing, im'ing, and ssh.
two weeks ago, we had a big hulabaloo here at uiuc.edu because of this. all the win2k/xp machines on all of campus still running the messenger service got a popup describing how great our lives would be if only we had a diploma from a non-accredited university. most of the "administrative" users assumed it was a virus and panicked. then three more of the same came in this morning.
i just wish windows would log things like the origin of said messages so the abuse could be addressed at its source.
Oh, boy. You just took that hook, line, and sinker, didn't you? What exploits are running around on a default version of Windows 2000 that would cause problems with your network?
Answer: NONE.
The culprit you're looking for is IIS...
Having worked on dorm computers, the bigger problem with win2k and winxp is usually the presence of an administrator account with no password. There's a good number of exploits out in the wild that use the absence of an administrator password to take over machines, presumably for DDoS. I'm not certain, but I think that if you tell the installer there will be only one person using the win2k/xp system, it skips the part where it prompts you to set a password for administrator.
You must really lucky. I get like 40 spams a week. No joke.
YMMV, but most of my yahoo spam came from 2 allegedly opt-in email promotion companies. following the links at the bottom of the messages stopped the spam.
i'm a bit confused as to why this particular preview was deemed better than all the others with the same information. hardocp.com posted their preview on the 8th and added another segment on the 10th (other sites reviewed it in the same timeframe, but hardocp is the one i read). so this particular ti4200 preview is old news. slashdot keeps wandering into the hardware news arena, but doesn't seem to pay quite enough attention to do it well.
as i see it, the problem lies in students' view of computers as music storage devices rather than tools to do classwork. napster/audiogalaxy/kazaa/whatever is now seen as the primary use for a computer in a dorm room, and the students with those computers, being the unwashed masses of the internet, will often leave the default settings on, sharing all the files they download. large numbers of people doing that will slow down any internet connection.
but that's not it. because this is how the students see their computers to be used, they expect that the campus resources for internet access should be adjusted for their obviously non-academic activity. this sense of entitlement is at the root of the problem. without all the people who only know their pc as a souped-up jukebox, there would be plenty of bandwidth for legitimate use.
that may sound pretty out there -- i'm just speaking as someone who's seen the cycle of network saturation leading to a blocked ip or rate limited port too many times.
...is combated pretty well just by the program's default configuration to share the download directory. the majority of morpheus/kazaa/gnutella/etc users either don't know that they're sharing files or don't care.
i see this a lot at school when people wonder why their connection was rate limited. almost always, if the person doesn't know why their computer did a lot of traffic, it's because they installed a p2p filesharing program, downloading some stuff, and left it running with all their downloads shared. given the current state of the p2p filesharing userbase, i don't think any drastic measures really need to be taken to ensure availability of files.
that said, i was surprised to note that limewire allows you to control who can download from your machine according to the number of files they have shared. so even if it's not required to keep the system running well, at least one of the more popular programs already has a system in place to reward those who contribute.
resgarding to the idea of a plane that takes off using fuel cells and sustains flight with solar power (valid given the relative immaturity of fuel cells and their small power capabilities for something like a cross-country flight), it doesn't seem like something that'd find commecial success. with more restrictions on what you can bring on the plane with you these days, planes that need to fly through at least patches of direct sunlight are just going to annoy their passengers. there are enough reasons to for flights to be late now*. why introduce another one?
*my favorite was when i was flying on a smaller outfit, and our plane couldn't get into the terminal and unload because the union workers were on their mandatory breaks and when they got back serviced the big airlines (which arrived after us).
different formats will likely make you happier. wma, mp3, ogg, and the like are all lossy compression schemes, so they discard some audio information when you encode the sound into their format.
there are other options, though, that use lossless compression, so what you get from the file is the same as what's on the cd. there are a few out there, but shorten is the only format i can remember. it's widely used for trading live recordings where the fans want the best possible quality without sending.wav files to each other.
The few times I've seen an ATM (banking station, not network pipe) crash, it was running OS/2. I can't say why, not having used it, but it seems to be pretty reliable in its role doing bank transactions & verification all day.
seems to me that $20,000 is an awful lot to pay for the ability to reliably run softmodems in linux...almost like we're trying to beat the corporations more than accomplishing the goal.
with the prevalence of high speed connections these days, i find it odd that we're seeing a big surge for a (slowly) dying technology. linux users tend to be people who value their connection enough to get dsl or a cable modem.
i guess my observations of the current state of technology are a bit skewed by living in a college town where every apartment has "T1 Ethernet" (ha), so i'd be interested in hearing what others think about the worth of modem development.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is actually primarily a single player game. You play an army ranger who wakes up in a mysterious german castle. You fight your way out, see firsthand the nasty secret weapons of the nazi's, and (presumably) play a major role in destroying the nazi regime. So there is a rather extensive single player story to the game.
However, with the sucess of Half-Life (decent multiplayer on its own even before team fortress and counterstrike), they're including a rather sophisticated multiplayer side to the game. I got the impression that it was a side project...just another selling point to what looks to be an excellent game.
At work I've got a GeForce3... does anyone know of a good fan (read: the card won't melt away) that's quiet? The high pitched noise coming from the original fan is driving me nuts.
not a fan recommendation, but i've found that a little bit of acoustic foam on the inside of a case does wonders to get rid of higher frequency fan noise. i put some on the inside of my case, and it's done wonders to keep the noise from my 7500 rpm cpu fan under control.
it's a pretty easy install, too. just wipe the dust off the case metal, spray on some 3M spray adhesive, and put the foam there. reassemble the case and you're done.
i got my foam at 2cooltek.com if you're interested in investigating further (store -> case supplies and coolers -> case mod supplies).
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You do realize that the _desktop_ is controlled by Nautilus, and thus you really can't close it without killing it, right?
nautilus can be run with the --no-desktop option to lighten it up a little bit. it makes it usable with fluxbox on a dual ppro 200 for me.
dual G5-2GHz PowerMac (both CPUs): 498 single P4 2GHz: 192 single P4 2.66GHz: 255 single P4 3.2GHz (extrapolated): 307
Not only did the score of the G5 with both CPUs make me say "Holy shit" out loud in front of my comp (seriously!), but it also kicks the piss out of the P4! So, Apple does have one of the fastest machines around!
so two 2.0 GHz cpus are faster than a single 3.2 GHz cpu? i fail to see why this is surprising.
The benchmark heavily favours DX-9 parts and NVDA's existing lineup was/is getting smoked in the benchmark by it's main (only) competitor. They decided to go on the offensive and try to kill off this benchmark. The 30 person company that produces 3D Mark have stood their ground against the multi-billion dollar NVDA. NVDA instead of admitting that their Pixel Shader is quite slow when running against 2.0 specs insteads tries to decieve and FUD their way out of it.
other people have mentioned this, but take a look at hardocp's 3dmark03 article. nvidia's speed with dx9 pixel shaders isn't measured in most of the tests, so the benchmark is largely irrelevant to all those arguments.
personally, i get the feeling that futuremark is embarrassed that nvidia found it so trivial to cheat in their benchmark and are trying to save face. but that's just my take on the whole thing.
This seems like a fairly expensive way to make a cluster. $200 for each PS2 and $200 for each Linux kit? That comes out to $26,000. You could buy computers with more RAM and faster processors (than a 400MHz MIPS) for about the same amount.
the benefit comes with problems that can be highly optimized to work on the ps2's vector processor. for pure vector operation, the graphics system in the ps2 provides better bang for the buck than chips with less specific capabilities. it doesn't do much, but what it does, it does it pretty quickly.
while i don't know about the use of different sounds to liven things up, we do know that doom3 is engineered to take advantage of 6.1 surround sound. they wanted to create as emersive an environment as possible, and so spent a lot of time makeing the sound believable. trent reznor of nine inch nails was even brought onboard to share his expertise.
Anyone else noticed that contrary to what AMD would like you to believe by the 3000+ model naming, the intel pentium 4 3.06Ghz performed mcuh better than AMD 3000+ in every benchmark.
it's worth noting that the p4 didn't win every benchmark. different benchmarks stress different abilities of the cpu. they did a lot of tests, but they didn't pick their tests to show off the strenghts of the athlon xp vs. the strengths of the hyperthreaded p4.
in a more pointed showdown, it becomes obvious that the p4's huge clock-speed-boosting pipeline is either a big advantage or a nasty handicap depending on the benchmark being used. in a well-written program where the cpu can correctly guess most of the branches (quake3), the p4 will come out on top. in a program with lots of mispredictions (serious sam, unreal tourney), the athlon looks better because it doesn't take as long to refill its pipeline. that said, tom's benchmarks were comprised much more of the former than the latter.
and the athlon's designation doesn't have anything to do with p4 clockspeed, but someone already said that.
in a
so a gf4mx will run doom, but it won't be pretty.
echo "PHP is \"built for the web\".";
so long as we're talking about being built for the web, shouldn't it be more like this?
echo "PHP is "built for the web".";
Given that the speed of this thing is 1/10th current chips, I doubt the PRC will be running current Windows versions.
i installed windows xp professional on a pentium 200 about a year ago. with 128 MB of ram, it really wasn't that bad... once everything loaded. it took a while to boot up, or launch ie, but once the program you were using was in memory, the sytem ran pretty well for web browsing, im'ing, and ssh.
for those who felt the responses lacking, he recently did an interview with the onion's av club. it's quite a bit more insightful than this piece.
two weeks ago, we had a big hulabaloo here at uiuc.edu because of this. all the win2k/xp machines on all of campus still running the messenger service got a popup describing how great our lives would be if only we had a diploma from a non-accredited university. most of the "administrative" users assumed it was a virus and panicked. then three more of the same came in this morning.
i just wish windows would log things like the origin of said messages so the abuse could be addressed at its source.
Oh, boy. You just took that hook, line, and sinker, didn't you? What exploits are running around on a default version of Windows 2000 that would cause problems with your network?
Answer: NONE.
The culprit you're looking for is IIS...
Having worked on dorm computers, the bigger problem with win2k and winxp is usually the presence of an administrator account with no password. There's a good number of exploits out in the wild that use the absence of an administrator password to take over machines, presumably for DDoS. I'm not certain, but I think that if you tell the installer there will be only one person using the win2k/xp system, it skips the part where it prompts you to set a password for administrator.
a friend of mine had his computer lock up and noticed that his hard drive was in flames, apparently due to faulty wiring in the pcb.
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~atwell/toast/
it didn't hurt anything other than the power supply (apparently overloaded from the short), but i'm told it was a harrowing experience.
You must really lucky. I get like 40 spams a week. No joke.
YMMV, but most of my yahoo spam came from 2 allegedly opt-in email promotion companies. following the links at the bottom of the messages stopped the spam.
i'm a bit confused as to why this particular preview was deemed better than all the others with the same information. hardocp.com posted their preview on the 8th and added another segment on the 10th (other sites reviewed it in the same timeframe, but hardocp is the one i read). so this particular ti4200 preview is old news. slashdot keeps wandering into the hardware news arena, but doesn't seem to pay quite enough attention to do it well.
i'm a bit confused by the given equation:
$ = MHz * 2($/MHz)
$ = 2*$*(MHz/MHz)
$/$ = 2
1 = 2
am i misinterpreting it? if so, i'd appreciate a quick pointer to my mistake.
as i see it, the problem lies in students' view of computers as music storage devices rather than tools to do classwork. napster/audiogalaxy/kazaa/whatever is now seen as the primary use for a computer in a dorm room, and the students with those computers, being the unwashed masses of the internet, will often leave the default settings on, sharing all the files they download. large numbers of people doing that will slow down any internet connection.
but that's not it. because this is how the students see their computers to be used, they expect that the campus resources for internet access should be adjusted for their obviously non-academic activity. this sense of entitlement is at the root of the problem. without all the people who only know their pc as a souped-up jukebox, there would be plenty of bandwidth for legitimate use.
that may sound pretty out there -- i'm just speaking as someone who's seen the cycle of network saturation leading to a blocked ip or rate limited port too many times.
...is combated pretty well just by the program's default configuration to share the download directory. the majority of morpheus/kazaa/gnutella/etc users either don't know that they're sharing files or don't care.
i see this a lot at school when people wonder why their connection was rate limited. almost always, if the person doesn't know why their computer did a lot of traffic, it's because they installed a p2p filesharing program, downloading some stuff, and left it running with all their downloads shared. given the current state of the p2p filesharing userbase, i don't think any drastic measures really need to be taken to ensure availability of files.
that said, i was surprised to note that limewire allows you to control who can download from your machine according to the number of files they have shared. so even if it's not required to keep the system running well, at least one of the more popular programs already has a system in place to reward those who contribute.
...is a lyric from Man, it's So Loud in Here, from They Might Be Giants' new album, Mink Car.
They revamped the airport completely,
now it looks just like a nightclub,
everyone's excited and confused...
go gnome!
resgarding to the idea of a plane that takes off using fuel cells and sustains flight with solar power (valid given the relative immaturity of fuel cells and their small power capabilities for something like a cross-country flight), it doesn't seem like something that'd find commecial success. with more restrictions on what you can bring on the plane with you these days, planes that need to fly through at least patches of direct sunlight are just going to annoy their passengers. there are enough reasons to for flights to be late now*. why introduce another one?
*my favorite was when i was flying on a smaller outfit, and our plane couldn't get into the terminal and unload because the union workers were on their mandatory breaks and when they got back serviced the big airlines (which arrived after us).
different formats will likely make you happier. wma, mp3, ogg, and the like are all lossy compression schemes, so they discard some audio information when you encode the sound into their format.
.wav files to each other.
there are other options, though, that use lossless compression, so what you get from the file is the same as what's on the cd. there are a few out there, but shorten is the only format i can remember. it's widely used for trading live recordings where the fans want the best possible quality without sending
The few times I've seen an ATM (banking station, not network pipe) crash, it was running OS/2. I can't say why, not having used it, but it seems to be pretty reliable in its role doing bank transactions & verification all day.
seems to me that $20,000 is an awful lot to pay for the ability to reliably run softmodems in linux...almost like we're trying to beat the corporations more than accomplishing the goal.
with the prevalence of high speed connections these days, i find it odd that we're seeing a big surge for a (slowly) dying technology. linux users tend to be people who value their connection enough to get dsl or a cable modem.
i guess my observations of the current state of technology are a bit skewed by living in a college town where every apartment has "T1 Ethernet" (ha), so i'd be interested in hearing what others think about the worth of modem development.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is actually primarily a single player game. You play an army ranger who wakes up in a mysterious german castle. You fight your way out, see firsthand the nasty secret weapons of the nazi's, and (presumably) play a major role in destroying the nazi regime. So there is a rather extensive single player story to the game.
. html) and a video I found somewhere with interviews of the developers.
However, with the sucess of Half-Life (decent multiplayer on its own even before team fortress and counterstrike), they're including a rather sophisticated multiplayer side to the game. I got the impression that it was a side project...just another selling point to what looks to be an excellent game.
All this is based on my interpretation of the information on the official site (http://www.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/home
At work I've got a GeForce3... does anyone know of a good fan (read: the card won't melt away) that's quiet? The high pitched noise coming from the original fan is driving me nuts.
not a fan recommendation, but i've found that a little bit of acoustic foam on the inside of a case does wonders to get rid of higher frequency fan noise. i put some on the inside of my case, and it's done wonders to keep the noise from my 7500 rpm cpu fan under control.
it's a pretty easy install, too. just wipe the dust off the case metal, spray on some 3M spray adhesive, and put the foam there. reassemble the case and you're done.
i got my foam at 2cooltek.com if you're interested in investigating further (store -> case supplies and coolers -> case mod supplies).