Also, I think that the reason why we still all have a keyboard is that it's a device that's practically as good as it can get. I don't mean QWERTY, Dvorak, or some other layout, but the keyboard device, of the normal size and type. If something does eventually replace the keyboard I think it'll be some kind of mental control interface, because I doubt it's possible to type much faster than we can already, and voice recognition will always be slower.
LianLi PC-68 case. 2 intake fans in front, 1 exhaust fan on top, 1 exhaust fan on back. Enermax 460W PS, 1 intake fan on bottom, 1 exhaust fan on back. GeForce 2 MX 400, 1 fan. Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card. 2 hard disks: SAMSUNG SV4003H (5400 RPM), Maxtor 6Y080L0(7200 RPM), placed in front of the intake fans. Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M) motherboard. 2x2000+ CPUs, original fans and heatsinks. 1 GB ECC DDR RAM
The top of the case is noticeably hot. The Lian Li thermometer shows 56.9C and 52.8C, measured at the heatsink. BIOS gives temperatures of about 60C. Ambient temperature here (Spain) is quite high, can easily get to 30-35C.
I'm currently considering better fans, or maybe even water cooling, but the motherboard has no holes for heavy heatsinks.
HT will probably give you next to no benefit. If I understand correctly, it uses the idle parts of a CPU to emulate a second one. This might give you a bit more of speed, say 5%, but I've seen benchmarks where it turned out that it slowed things down. I doubt it'll ever get half as good as a real SMP system.
Yeah, I'm planning to install some better cooling later. At the moment I just use the fan and heatsink that came with the CPUs. I'm putting it off a bit though, those heatsinks required a quite scary amount of force to put them on.
I have here a dual Athlon MP 2000+. The temperature measured at the heatsinks is 56C and 62C. The difference is because one has arctic silver on the heatsink and the other the AMD thermal pad stuff.
Anyway, this thing gets amazingly hot. A bit more, and I couldn't hold my hand on top of the case, and it's got 9 fans in it! When I enter the room I notice that it's noticeably hotter than the rest of the house, even though that the computer is near an open window.
Now, it's really nice to use. Everything is *smooth* and I should not need to upgrade any time soon. When I do it'll probably be a dual system too.
The second is arguably false since MS rarely (if ever) uses BSD software
root@alice root # cd/mnt/w2k/WINNT/system32 root@alice system32 # strings ftp.exe | grep -i regents @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
I think an automatic version of this should be possible. Of course doing it with a router would be more effective, but I think that making a client that asks how fast your line is, or measures the speed and add some delays to make it go a bit slower would be almost as effective.
I have DSL too, and can upload and download at maximum speed at the same time.
The trick is to simply configure a router between your DSL modem and network to slow things down a bit. Works great, and you can also give a priority to some ports, which can make things much smoother.
I just don't get it when people I know point to some famous person and say "Oooh, he's so cool! I want to be famous too!". With the current media, if I suddenly became famous I'd dig a hole in the ground and hide there.
Of course he's upset. Who'd like having an article like that being written about them, and people in all countries discussing everything that was said about him. I think he should sue the journalist. If he doesn't have enough money he could get a paypal account, I'm pretty sure there are people who understand how disgusting that crap was and would be willing to help.
Just try to read the article. "...which is 6 years old, monochrome only and is mostly proof of concept". Turning this into something usable would take a good skill and quite a lot of time that he very possibly doesn't have.
That's because GHz is not really a measure of speed. It may work with the same CPU family but that's about it. MHz based comparison between Intel and AMD, or AMD and Sun are completely useless.
IMHO the real benchmark is work done per $. I don't care if the machine has 1 CPU, 2, or 64. I don't care either if each works at 500Mhz or at 20Ghz. If one of them gets the work done and has a low cost, that's the one I want.
What's that supposed to mean? That we should just feel happy things aren't as bad here as in China, and ignore things like the DMCA? That's exactly the kind of mentality that allows crap like what's going on in China to happen.
Wrong. I know you're trolling, but I'll explain just in case somebody falls for it. SCO would have showed the evidence if it had any. By law, you can't collect damages unless you tell the offender what they have done wrong and try to avoid further damage if possible.
To explain it simply, if I'm selling furniture, and my provider of nails forgets about my order, I can't just stop working for a year, lose lots of money and then sue the provider for lost earnings. Now, if I tell the provider, and order my nails from somewhere else, I can collect.
SCO still hasn't explained anything, and seems to have been quiet about this issue for a long time. Why? Because they have no proof.
I wrote a small library with some of my most used code, and one of the things it has is a logging class. It can log to disk or SQL, and in case of failure it will buffer the messages in memory and display a message on the screen. When the problem is solved (say, disk space is freed) it will write the buffer to disk. If that doesn't happen then it will start dropping messages after a while.
Well, I'll explain the problem I see with all this. God knows everything. He knew what would happen. Yet he punishes his own creation for something it couldn't avoid doing.
Imagine I'm some biologist that manages to create a new specie of animal. It's fairly intelligent, let's say smart enough to understand simple statements and orders, but also very aggressive. Now, I come to this creature and tell it "Sit here quietly and don't hurt anybody". Then my student, who I knew who was a moron since a long time ago, goes and kicks it.
Of course, it gets angry and fails to follow my orders, and even though I knew it couldn't obey them, because I just made it that way. Then I go and punish the creature for something that wasn't really its fault.
Now, this experiment might make sense if you have a twisted mind, or want to set a cruel experiment about psychology, but there's no way I can see it being done by an infinitely good creator.
Well, how come Satan appeared from one of his angels? Couldn't he just have done it so that it didn't happen? For now the conclusion I'm coming to is that God isn't 100% good.
Why put the tree there at all? Since he knows it all he would already know what would have happened.
Why flood the whole earth and punish innocent people when he knew it wouldn't work?
And the original sin comes from God as well. After all he created the angel who turned evil, and created Adam and Eve who fell to the temptation. Again, this doesn't seem fair. If he couldn't just avoid creating Satan, then he probably isn't perfect. Very powerful maybe, but not perfect.
Of course that all can be dismissed with the magical "God works in misterious ways", but I don't like that explanation.
1. That's not an argument against IPv6, that's an argument against buying Cisco routers for IPv6.
2. IPv4 space is running out. US has 80% of the address space, and soon every cell phone will have an address. How about that?
3. IPv6 has a larger address space, which means that routing can be organized much more logically. With some planning, the address could encode the country, city, etc, and make a *smaller* routing table.
4. That's a point I guess, but who cares? If you're worried about that you could use compression and UDP.
My mom told me (because I forgot) that when we came to Spain and didn't speak the language yet my parents had to go for a while, and decided to leave us with a neighbour. This guy turned to be rather odd, and among other things he decided to watch a porn movie in front of us. I was 10 by then, and my brother was 6.
Well, all that happened was that we seemed to find it really funny and with delight explained to our parents what the man and the woman were doing in the movie. I mean, I just don't know how any damage can be caused by that. We saw that and found it funny. I'm sure that most children also have that kind of reaction. It's not like we needed visits to a psychoterapist after that. It was all forgotten soon, and I even forgot about it until my parents mentioned it once.
My own opinion, if you want it, is that porn is very unlikely to be harmful to children, at least in some noticeable way, unless it's some really twisted kind of it.
IIRC, it was originally something like "TreeFS", but somebody had already trademarked that. So they switched to something that was unlikely to be already taken.
I'm considering trying to write a game during the summer. What would be the best format to use? I have two in mind, MNG and C16 (very simple format used in Creatures games). C16 is basically an encoding of the count of transparent pixels, followed by the count of opaque pixels and the data, and so on. There's a libc16 somewhere on sourceforge.
What do developers generally use for storing graphics for games? Do they roll their own fast to draw format like C16, or use something like MNG, PNG or even BMP?
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It looks too small to be comfortable.
Also, I think that the reason why we still all have a keyboard is that it's a device that's practically as good as it can get. I don't mean QWERTY, Dvorak, or some other layout, but the keyboard device, of the normal size and type. If something does eventually replace the keyboard I think it'll be some kind of mental control interface, because I doubt it's possible to type much faster than we can already, and voice recognition will always be slower.
Weird. This is what I've got:
LianLi PC-68 case. 2 intake fans in front, 1 exhaust fan on top, 1 exhaust fan on back.
Enermax 460W PS, 1 intake fan on bottom, 1 exhaust fan on back.
GeForce 2 MX 400, 1 fan.
Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card.
2 hard disks: SAMSUNG SV4003H (5400 RPM), Maxtor 6Y080L0(7200 RPM), placed in front of the intake fans.
Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M) motherboard.
2x2000+ CPUs, original fans and heatsinks.
1 GB ECC DDR RAM
The top of the case is noticeably hot. The Lian Li thermometer shows 56.9C and 52.8C, measured at the heatsink. BIOS gives temperatures of about 60C. Ambient temperature here (Spain) is quite high, can easily get to 30-35C.
I'm currently considering better fans, or maybe even water cooling, but the motherboard has no holes for heavy heatsinks.
HT will probably give you next to no benefit. If I understand correctly, it uses the idle parts of a CPU to emulate a second one. This might give you a bit more of speed, say 5%, but I've seen benchmarks where it turned out that it slowed things down. I doubt it'll ever get half as good as a real SMP system.
Yeah, I'm planning to install some better cooling later. At the moment I just use the fan and heatsink that came with the CPUs. I'm putting it off a bit though, those heatsinks required a quite scary amount of force to put them on.
Yeah, dual CPUs produce a *lot* of heat.
I have here a dual Athlon MP 2000+. The temperature measured at the heatsinks is 56C and 62C. The difference is because one has arctic silver on the heatsink and the other the AMD thermal pad stuff.
Anyway, this thing gets amazingly hot. A bit more, and I couldn't hold my hand on top of the case, and it's got 9 fans in it! When I enter the room I notice that it's noticeably hotter than the rest of the house, even though that the computer is near an open window.
Now, it's really nice to use. Everything is *smooth* and I should not need to upgrade any time soon. When I do it'll probably be a dual system too.
There you go. BSD code in Windows 2000.
By increasing the amount of even data.
I think an automatic version of this should be possible. Of course doing it with a router would be more effective, but I think that making a client that asks how fast your line is, or measures the speed and add some delays to make it go a bit slower would be almost as effective.
I have DSL too, and can upload and download at maximum speed at the same time.
The trick is to simply configure a router between your DSL modem and network to slow things down a bit. Works great, and you can also give a priority to some ports, which can make things much smoother.
I just don't get it when people I know point to some famous person and say "Oooh, he's so cool! I want to be famous too!". With the current media, if I suddenly became famous I'd dig a hole in the ground and hide there.
Of course he's upset. Who'd like having an article like that being written about them, and people in all countries discussing everything that was said about him. I think he should sue the journalist. If he doesn't have enough money he could get a paypal account, I'm pretty sure there are people who understand how disgusting that crap was and would be willing to help.
Just try to read the article. "...which is 6 years old, monochrome only and is mostly proof of concept". Turning this into something usable would take a good skill and quite a lot of time that he very possibly doesn't have.
That's because GHz is not really a measure of speed. It may work with the same CPU family but that's about it. MHz based comparison between Intel and AMD, or AMD and Sun are completely useless.
IMHO the real benchmark is work done per $. I don't care if the machine has 1 CPU, 2, or 64. I don't care either if each works at 500Mhz or at 20Ghz. If one of them gets the work done and has a low cost, that's the one I want.
What's that supposed to mean? That we should just feel happy things aren't as bad here as in China, and ignore things like the DMCA? That's exactly the kind of mentality that allows crap like what's going on in China to happen.
Wrong. I know you're trolling, but I'll explain just in case somebody falls for it. SCO would have showed the evidence if it had any. By law, you can't collect damages unless you tell the offender what they have done wrong and try to avoid further damage if possible.
To explain it simply, if I'm selling furniture, and my provider of nails forgets about my order, I can't just stop working for a year, lose lots of money and then sue the provider for lost earnings. Now, if I tell the provider, and order my nails from somewhere else, I can collect.
SCO still hasn't explained anything, and seems to have been quiet about this issue for a long time. Why? Because they have no proof.
What substantial claim? They couldn't decide on whether the violation was in the kernel or somewhere else, and still haven't shown any evidence.
There's no contradiction, as annoying as SCO is that doesn't make it impossible for them to be right about the DR-DOS lawsuit.
I wrote a small library with some of my most used code, and one of the things it has is a logging class. It can log to disk or SQL, and in case of failure it will buffer the messages in memory and display a message on the screen. When the problem is solved (say, disk space is freed) it will write the buffer to disk. If that doesn't happen then it will start dropping messages after a while.
Well, I'll explain the problem I see with all this. God knows everything. He knew what would happen. Yet he punishes his own creation for something it couldn't avoid doing.
Imagine I'm some biologist that manages to create a new specie of animal. It's fairly intelligent, let's say smart enough to understand simple statements and orders, but also very aggressive. Now, I come to this creature and tell it "Sit here quietly and don't hurt anybody". Then my student, who I knew who was a moron since a long time ago, goes and kicks it.
Of course, it gets angry and fails to follow my orders, and even though I knew it couldn't obey them, because I just made it that way. Then I go and punish the creature for something that wasn't really its fault.
Now, this experiment might make sense if you have a twisted mind, or want to set a cruel experiment about psychology, but there's no way I can see it being done by an infinitely good creator.
Well, how come Satan appeared from one of his angels? Couldn't he just have done it so that it didn't happen? For now the conclusion I'm coming to is that God isn't 100% good.
Why put the tree there at all? Since he knows it all he would already know what would have happened.
Why flood the whole earth and punish innocent people when he knew it wouldn't work?
And the original sin comes from God as well. After all he created the angel who turned evil, and created Adam and Eve who fell to the temptation. Again, this doesn't seem fair. If he couldn't just avoid creating Satan, then he probably isn't perfect. Very powerful maybe, but not perfect.
Of course that all can be dismissed with the magical "God works in misterious ways", but I don't like that explanation.
Doesn't make sense. Perfect means perfect. Something that fails isn't perfect.
Related to that, if God is perfect, how come Satan appeared? Woudln't that be because God isn't perfect after all?
According to my calculations, 64 bits of memory would cost around 0.00000119 euro.
Now, 2^64 bits would be considerably more expensive.
Troll.
1. That's not an argument against IPv6, that's an argument against buying Cisco routers for IPv6.
2. IPv4 space is running out. US has 80% of the address space, and soon every cell phone will have an address. How about that?
3. IPv6 has a larger address space, which means that routing can be organized much more logically. With some planning, the address could encode the country, city, etc, and make a *smaller* routing table.
4. That's a point I guess, but who cares? If you're worried about that you could use compression and UDP.
My mom told me (because I forgot) that when we came to Spain and didn't speak the language yet my parents had to go for a while, and decided to leave us with a neighbour. This guy turned to be rather odd, and among other things he decided to watch a porn movie in front of us. I was 10 by then, and my brother was 6.
Well, all that happened was that we seemed to find it really funny and with delight explained to our parents what the man and the woman were doing in the movie. I mean, I just don't know how any damage can be caused by that. We saw that and found it funny. I'm sure that most children also have that kind of reaction. It's not like we needed visits to a psychoterapist after that. It was all forgotten soon, and I even forgot about it until my parents mentioned it once.
My own opinion, if you want it, is that porn is very unlikely to be harmful to children, at least in some noticeable way, unless it's some really twisted kind of it.
IIRC, it was originally something like "TreeFS", but somebody had already trademarked that. So they switched to something that was unlikely to be already taken.
I'm considering trying to write a game during the summer. What would be the best format to use? I have two in mind, MNG and C16 (very simple format used in Creatures games). C16 is basically an encoding of the count of transparent pixels, followed by the count of opaque pixels and the data, and so on. There's a libc16 somewhere on sourceforge.
What do developers generally use for storing graphics for games? Do they roll their own fast to draw format like C16, or use something like MNG, PNG or even BMP?
Microsoft should just be happy that people are using Windows, even if it's pirated.