He didn't crosspost, he used a perl script to hit each group one at a time - there would be no link between each message other than the name woudl be the same I doubt any newsreader would detect that it was the same message (as the ID would be different).
The main problem with Spam over other forms of mass marketing is that the person who receives it effectively has to pay for it. With say TV advertising, billboards or snail-mail, the marketer has to spend large €€€'s getting it to the end-user, whereas for the spammer they pay a little bit for a long long list of emails - or write their own crawler to do it for them - and then send all the mails over time. Snail mail is generally better targeted as well - I don't care much about getting Green Cards for living in the US given that I live thousands of km's away from it, but the fact that Tescos has a special offer on donuts could be quite useful.
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Actually - the reason it chokes is because people use the Windows Format tool - it adds a bootsector onto the disk that simply prints out the message "Invalid System Disk". If the bootsector was all 0s, then the BIOS correctly skips past it. This is a bug in Windows, not a bug in the BIOS.
Actually - they said "If we can engineer the costs of a socketed/chip carrier version with CPU to be no more than 15% above the price of a soldered-in CPU equivalent then we will consider producing these versions." - i.e. it would cost them substantially more to introduce socketed versions, which makes sense - Sockets are expensive, and they add a degree of unreliability to the board iteself. Having said that, I too would much prefer if they released a version with a socketed CPU, and will not be purchasing this board until they do... The "Linux only" version looks appealing too, as I personally don't see the point of OS4 - OS2 was nice when I used it, but I don't see how they will attain even 50% compatibility with the old Amiga Apps, which would mean that OS4 would have to start from scratch. I'd much rather stick with the Linux version.
Yeah - I noticed this Sun Blade thing, but what I don't like is that they are somehow charging $695 for a basic 10/100 NIC. This strikes me as a little costly, to say the least...
Also, anyone know of the European availability of these beasts?
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The PS2 can read Burned CD's - at least the European model can. I don't know about booting from them or anything, but it can definately read CD-R audio discs - plays them without any problems.
The "I" in RAID used to stand for Inexpensive, this is true. However it changed more recently to stand for Independent, primarily because of the high cost of decent RAID compatible disks.
The main reason why I would stick with SCSI in a RAID environment over IDE is bus-disconnects - A SCSI drive can just disconnect itself from the bus and get all the data, freeing the bus for other drives to access it, whereas standard IDE doesn't (at least the versions I have ever used don't). This is why CD Copying disk -> disk where they are both on the same channel with IDE is dangerous!
Yes, but CsCl is another form of salt. It is an alkali metal which has formed an ionic bond with a non-metal...which if memory serves correctly is the definition of salt (been a long time since I've done chemistry).
Because it is slow...take a simple Hello World app - java takes 2 seconds just to start up, whereas C starts immediately - winner == C.
Ok - so the VM overhead accounts for that. So how about GUI apps - hmmm - which would win there? I've yet to see a Java GUI run as fast as C -- therefore the winnder is C again. (Anyone like to come up with a like-for-like example of where a C GUI is slower than the equivelant Java one)?
Next let's compare File I/O - load a 10 MB file in both....last time I did this the Java app took several seconds, whereas the C version performed
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Well first you'd have to find a m/board with 2 AGP slots - which is not the easiest thing in the world.
After that though, sure you can put two cards in at the same time for Windows (>=98).
As for Linux - I believe Xinerama lets you do the same kind of thing, though I've never experimented with it (not had two cards around since XFree 4 came around).
No they haven't. Most PPV programming still has the "C" symbol beside the programme description, indicating that you can't record it. There are workarounds (usually TBC correctors), but it just gets messy - it uses the same stuff that stops you taping a DVD -- though that doesn't work on my TV-output box with my PC - can tape as many DVD's as I'd like.
Then why does AMD's website always compare HyperTransport to PCI/PCI-X etc., rather than current motherboard interconnect technology (whatever that is?)
That's what I was meaning - the fact that HyperTransport is considered a direct competitor to 3GIO, but yet AMD supports 3GIO as well - seems like a conflict of interests. Are they planning on dropping HyperTransport, or marketing it in some sector that 3GIO won't be used (though given the prevelance of PCI2.x, I'd be surprised with this kind of move!)
It is done by a consortium, led by Intel - but not run exclusively by them - even AMD are on board with it. I think you can safely assume that a published spec will be available (if one is not already around?).
One thing I was wondering though - is what use is HyperTransport? I always thought that it was marketed as a replacement bus architecture, but I guess not given that they want 3GIO as well!
A few points here. (MD is quite popular here in.ie land). Firstly, the ability to live-record onto MD is quite useful, which most (all?) Mp3 players can't do at any decent bitrate. Secondly, with MDLP, you can fit up to 320 minutes on a disc, so depending on how hard you choose to compress, you can fit much more onto the disks.
Also, CD-RW disks are very fragile, so if using 8cm disks, chances are they'd have to be boxed up like MD disks, invalidating the size/compatibility arguments.
Finally, I have never seen a CD-RW disk that can be re-recorded several thousand times without needing to be thrown out!
1GHz PIII
128MB RAM (144pin DIMM), expandable to 512MB
8xDVD-ROM
20GB HDD
10/100 ethernet
56K modem
12.1 TFT
8-32MB 3D video (using shared RAM)
USB
2.5 Hour Battery life:-(
So aside from battery/firewire/video-out, I think I prefer this one! (Advent 6412).
The iBook costs IEP 1,470 here, whereas the Advent costs IEP 1,599...so it does cost a little more...
From the looks of an old version of perl I have here - They used to support GPL:
C:\users\default>perl -v
This is perl, version 5.001
Unofficial patchlevel 1m.
Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall
Win32 port Copyright (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Developed by hip communications inc., http://info.hip.com/info/
Perl for Win32 Build 108
Built Jul 14 1996@19:14:37
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.
Of course, 1995 was a long time ago in internet time!
Their kernels are special RedHat version (same with SuSE), but they also include the source code to these patched versions.
And what do you mean by "Other distributions copied Red Hat???" Some of the other distros may use some of the Red Hat features, but to say that in such a general form is definately not true! (what has Slackware / Debian got to do with RH??)
Depends on the player....budget players can't handle them, but most half decent players will work fine on them, with a couple of restrictions (only plays out through SCART/Composite Video, Genlocking doesn't work, so data-on-screen doesn't get shown, that kinda stuff)...
Er, Windows has a command line (not a particularly good one though), Win9x is even Command line based until a call to 'win.com' to open up a GUI screen (kinda like a poor-mans X, don't you think??)
Also - since when has a stick-shift automobile been a specialist interest vehicle? Probably about 80% of the cars here are stick-shift (a.k.a. manual gearbox). Granted, in the U.S., this may be the case - but believe it or not, the world doesn't stop at New York and start again at Los Angeles:)
Because the 460 watt minimum was determined by taking the peak rate of *all* devices in the system. You'd probably get away with less if you stagger the startup of hard drives and things (old systems used to do this - I think most SCSI drives let you do it as well).
NVidia drivers are free (as in cost), and they do provide the source code as well, though you aren't allowed to change/redistribute the code. I don't know how hard they'd enforce this though.
You'll find the drivers at http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.h tml
Judging from the benchmark results - the GF3 doesn't strike me as a particularly good buy right now...I doubt there will ever be a GLX driver that will make use of these new shaders on the chip - as it would seem that the code must be customized particularly for a particular game. As graphics-card-specific hacks are quite rare in linux, I doubt that the GF3 will ever become the graphics card of choice for it (especially given that you have to go and download a kernel module before it'll even work in 3D!!)
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He didn't crosspost, he used a perl script to hit each group one at a time - there would be no link between each message other than the name woudl be the same I doubt any newsreader would detect that it was the same message (as the ID would be different).
The main problem with Spam over other forms of mass marketing is that the person who receives it effectively has to pay for it. With say TV advertising, billboards or snail-mail, the marketer has to spend large €€€'s getting it to the end-user, whereas for the spammer they pay a little bit for a long long list of emails - or write their own crawler to do it for them - and then send all the mails over time.
Snail mail is generally better targeted as well - I don't care much about getting Green Cards for living in the US given that I live thousands of km's away from it, but the fact that Tescos has a special offer on donuts could be quite useful.
Actually - the reason it chokes is because people use the Windows Format tool - it adds a bootsector onto the disk that simply prints out the message "Invalid System Disk". If the bootsector was all 0s, then the BIOS correctly skips past it. This is a bug in Windows, not a bug in the BIOS.
Actually - they said "If we can engineer the costs of a socketed/chip carrier version with CPU to be no more than 15% above the price of a soldered-in CPU equivalent then we will consider producing these versions." - i.e. it would cost them substantially more to introduce socketed versions, which makes sense - Sockets are expensive, and they add a degree of unreliability to the board iteself.
Having said that, I too would much prefer if they released a version with a socketed CPU, and will not be purchasing this board until they do...
The "Linux only" version looks appealing too, as I personally don't see the point of OS4 - OS2 was nice when I used it, but I don't see how they will attain even 50% compatibility with the old Amiga Apps, which would mean that OS4 would have to start from scratch. I'd much rather stick with the Linux version.
Oh right - they didn't put on the page that a NIC was included - which did surprise me a little. I would only need one of course!
It is tempting to get one - and if I ever see one available in the Dublin area, I'd be very tempted to get it!
Yeah - I noticed this Sun Blade thing, but what I don't like is that they are somehow charging $695 for a basic 10/100 NIC. This strikes me as a little costly, to say the least...
Also, anyone know of the European availability of these beasts?
The PS2 can read Burned CD's - at least the European model can. I don't know about booting from them or anything, but it can definately read CD-R audio discs - plays them without any problems.
The "I" in RAID used to stand for Inexpensive, this is true. However it changed more recently to stand for Independent, primarily because of the high cost of decent RAID compatible disks.
The main reason why I would stick with SCSI in a RAID environment over IDE is bus-disconnects - A SCSI drive can just disconnect itself from the bus and get all the data, freeing the bus for other drives to access it, whereas standard IDE doesn't (at least the versions I have ever used don't). This is why CD Copying disk -> disk where they are both on the same channel with IDE is dangerous!
Yes, but CsCl is another form of salt. It is an alkali metal which has formed an ionic bond with a non-metal...which if memory serves correctly is the definition of salt (been a long time since I've done chemistry).
and given that hash is another name for cannabis - it can be interpreted as C on drugs :-)
Because it is slow...take a simple Hello World app - java takes 2 seconds just to start up, whereas C starts immediately - winner == C.
Ok - so the VM overhead accounts for that. So how about GUI apps - hmmm - which would win there? I've yet to see a Java GUI run as fast as C -- therefore the winnder is C again. (Anyone like to come up with a like-for-like example of where a C GUI is slower than the equivelant Java one)?
Next let's compare File I/O - load a 10 MB file in both....last time I did this the Java app took several seconds, whereas the C version performed
Well first you'd have to find a m/board with 2 AGP slots - which is not the easiest thing in the world.
After that though, sure you can put two cards in at the same time for Windows (>=98).
As for Linux - I believe Xinerama lets you do the same kind of thing, though I've never experimented with it (not had two cards around since XFree 4 came around).
No they haven't. Most PPV programming still has the "C" symbol beside the programme description, indicating that you can't record it. There are workarounds (usually TBC correctors), but it just gets messy - it uses the same stuff that stops you taping a DVD -- though that doesn't work on my TV-output box with my PC - can tape as many DVD's as I'd like.
Then why does AMD's website always compare HyperTransport to PCI/PCI-X etc., rather than current motherboard interconnect technology (whatever that is?)
That's what I was meaning - the fact that HyperTransport is considered a direct competitor to 3GIO, but yet AMD supports 3GIO as well - seems like a conflict of interests. Are they planning on dropping HyperTransport, or marketing it in some sector that 3GIO won't be used (though given the prevelance of PCI2.x, I'd be surprised with this kind of move!)
It is done by a consortium, led by Intel - but not run exclusively by them - even AMD are on board with it. I think you can safely assume that a published spec will be available (if one is not already around?).
One thing I was wondering though - is what use is HyperTransport? I always thought that it was marketed as a replacement bus architecture, but I guess not given that they want 3GIO as well!
A few points here. (MD is quite popular here in .ie land). Firstly, the ability to live-record onto MD is quite useful, which most (all?) Mp3 players can't do at any decent bitrate. Secondly, with MDLP, you can fit up to 320 minutes on a disc, so depending on how hard you choose to compress, you can fit much more onto the disks.
Also, CD-RW disks are very fragile, so if using 8cm disks, chances are they'd have to be boxed up like MD disks, invalidating the size/compatibility arguments.
Finally, I have never seen a CD-RW disk that can be re-recorded several thousand times without needing to be thrown out!
1GHz PIII :-(
128MB RAM (144pin DIMM), expandable to 512MB
8xDVD-ROM
20GB HDD
10/100 ethernet
56K modem
12.1 TFT
8-32MB 3D video (using shared RAM)
USB
2.5 Hour Battery life
So aside from battery/firewire/video-out, I think I prefer this one! (Advent 6412).
The iBook costs IEP 1,470 here, whereas the Advent costs IEP 1,599...so it does cost a little more...
From the looks of an old version of perl I have here - They used to support GPL :
C:\users\default>perl -v
This is perl, version 5.001
Unofficial patchlevel 1m.
Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall
Win32 port Copyright (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Developed by hip communications inc.,
http://info.hip.com/info/
Perl for Win32 Build 108
Built Jul 14 1996@19:14:37
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.
Of course, 1995 was a long time ago in internet time!
Their kernels are special RedHat version (same with SuSE), but they also include the source code to these patched versions.
And what do you mean by "Other distributions copied Red Hat???" Some of the other distros may use some of the Red Hat features, but to say that in such a general form is definately not true! (what has Slackware / Debian got to do with RH??)
Depends on the player....budget players can't handle them, but most half decent players will work fine on them, with a couple of restrictions (only plays out through SCART/Composite Video, Genlocking doesn't work, so data-on-screen doesn't get shown, that kinda stuff)...
Er, Windows has a command line (not a particularly good one though), Win9x is even Command line based until a call to 'win.com' to open up a GUI screen (kinda like a poor-mans X, don't you think??) :)
Also - since when has a stick-shift automobile been a specialist interest vehicle? Probably about 80% of the cars here are stick-shift (a.k.a. manual gearbox). Granted, in the U.S., this may be the case - but believe it or not, the world doesn't stop at New York and start again at Los Angeles
Because the 460 watt minimum was determined by taking the peak rate of *all* devices in the system. You'd probably get away with less if you stagger the startup of hard drives and things (old systems used to do this - I think most SCSI drives let you do it as well).
NVidia drivers are free (as in cost), and they do provide the source code as well, though you aren't allowed to change/redistribute the code. I don't know how hard they'd enforce this though.h tml
You'll find the drivers at http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.
Andrew
Judging from the benchmark results - the GF3 doesn't strike me as a particularly good buy right now...I doubt there will ever be a GLX driver that will make use of these new shaders on the chip - as it would seem that the code must be customized particularly for a particular game. As graphics-card-specific hacks are quite rare in linux, I doubt that the GF3 will ever become the graphics card of choice for it (especially given that you have to go and download a kernel module before it'll even work in 3D!!)
Andrew