I only know about NT4 SMB systems and it won't let you use 2 processors if they aren't of the same speed, stepping and manufacturing plant. Though I know some people tweaked it to use different steppings. My guess is that using different CPUs under Linux also won't do...
Intel didn't officially go as far as 42Mhz with the PCI bus specs, so quite some manufacturers have created hardware that dislike PCI busses running on 37,5 or 42 Mhz (mobo speed 75/83). Common examples are the Voodoo II cards(in particular the ones from Creative), most S3 cards and (all?) Maxtor HD's.. On the latter, setting the busspeed higher causes busmastering transfers to fail and in the worse case you'll fry your interface.(afaik quite some IBM hd's also dislike it) Some mobo's have an extra jumper to set the PCI/AGP speed at a fixed rated (33Mhz). I'm running OCed Celerons since a year now (one 300 at 450 and one 300a at 450 at regular voltages) and it runs stable at 100mhz (= 33mhz PCI bus), though the xxxa series do require extra cooling because the cache chips tends to heat up a lot, when ocing.
I guess Seattle Film works or somother large photo processing establishment should start accepting CD-Rs to cash in on the gradual phazing out of film (if that is the case)...
1. The NSA and FBI would have built into any legislation allowing this a provision for tracking who votes for what party.
2. FRAUD. If a person who is an invalid is able to vote, there is no provision that says that he/her caretaker would not do the voting him/herself.
3. Uninformed people whould then be able to shape the future of the nation. People who don't care enoughto take 15 minutes to vote now shouldn't be voting in the first place.
I would actively oppose any attempt to do this in the USA.
Motor voter only makes it easier for states to compile lists of who registers democrat or republican. In the election last fall there was a drop in percentage of registered voters who actually voted because of motor voter. If people were too apathetic to register on their own they're too apathetic to vote on election day.
Well you've never tried to overclock a Cyrix (I know!!!! That was back when I didn't know anything)P150+ to 200MHz. Mine overclocked fine and ran fine and semi-stable but after about ten seconds you start smelling ugly smells but it still ran. One time I actually put a small box fan on it blowing straight from my AC vent and it ran for quite a while without crashing and all this with the default voltage. That was the most overclockable non Intel chip I've ever had. Too bad about the FPU on it though.
If you don't care enough to stand in line to vote, then don't vote. This "Give me convenience or give me death" attitude that people have in this country is really screwed. This is something you've probably heard over and over, but it's true - people fought, died and killed for the right to participate in a democracy, now people are too damn apathetic to get of their asses for an hour and go down to the polls and vote? Screw 'em. I'm as busy as anyone else, and I haul my ass down to the polls every time. When I move, one of the first things I do is register to vote. I don't think they should change a thing. The comment about the haves and have-nots is a good one as well - you can only get this priviledge if you're rich enough to have a home computer & an online account? That's hardly fair. Anyone can stand in line, and polls are open long enough for anyone to make it if they make the effort.
I took advantage of the X10 promotion at Slashdot and made the misake of giving them my email address. For the next 6 days they sent me the same advertisement every day. Email did not stop it. I needed to call them by telephone to get them to stop.
The Space Shuttle is designed to take some enormous beating. The actual flight-deck is designed to break away from the rest of the frame - just like the Challenger's did when the booster punctured the Main Fuel tank, causing the explosion.
NASA did asertain that the crew might have survived the blast - but most likely never regained their senses during their fall from the explosion altitude.
Cause of death was reportly the impact with the surface of the Atlantic ocean at speeds exceeding 600 Miles per Hour. Even with these forces, most of the nose section's structure stayed intact, even after impact with the ocean.
As for the astronauts themselves, they WERE wearing standard NASA spacesuits. Anyone who's worn one knows about it's construction. It's made of alternating layers of heat and radiation resistant material called Nomex - and Kevlar. THis is to prevent the suit from being comprimised if the astronaut were to be struck by the millions of micrometerorites (sp?) that circle the Earth. Kevlar is designed to prevent injury from BLUNT trauma - consistant with bullet impacts, and generalized impacts; which would include the high-speed impact with the water.
Their bodies WERE intact - or at least the spacesuits were. As for the vehicle - 65 percent (by author's estimate) of the nose section remained intact - even as the wreckage hit the ocean floor...
I totaly agree. Even with MiniDisk players you can record only once in digital. Right? Wrong. There are probably 10 black market md recording breakers. They work fine. Another option is hacked hardware, or software to get what you want.
Look at the facts:
1. There are hundreds of options, and millions of people trying to crack whatever the RIAA does.
2. Whatever the RIAA does will be seen as stupid and tyranical to the general populous. (please don't mind my spelling:)
3. What is that I hear? Rebellion? It seems that everyone with a computer is willing to rebel against something. How many car hackers have you ever heard of? Or maybe stove hackers? trying to get that slow car faster, or make that over cook hotter, or whatever. They just don't exist, or are being held as heros! But with computers they are hunted by "the man." Rebellion is the RIAA's worst nightmare.
That is just the way things are. Sorry RIAA, but we are rebelling, and you are the target! Millions of people's target. Do something smart, nothing at all.
I'm sorry, but as I stated before, hardware can always be changed. And if you aren't that crazy about soldering, just watch the web for black market portable MP3 players with much better technology than the corperate players. Sorry, but they have unleashed the beast, and this time, we are the beast.
Ummm... I'm sorry, but if you really want to play MP3's wherever you go, you don't need diamond to make one for you. The way the world is changing, it looks to me like more and more tech skills are going to be required, and fewer and fewer survival skills. I have friends that are building car and portable MP3 players, right now. So... if sony wants to do something as stupid as restrict the use of RIOs to some other format, hey, whatever. Our Netsocity will crack it. Our engineers will have a mod chip in days. Hell, our engineers will add 128MB of RAM to a RIO, then mod it. Sorry, but any change to software or hardware is simply an act of futility.
The only thing they can really do is scare tactics with college kids, and others. Making examples out of people. That is what will happen. But it won't change anything. A few people will be held... sure. I hope I am not one of them.
Niether of the options you have presented make any sense.
Price of a CD that isn't brand new and on promo discount: 16.99 That's 18.35 after the government gets thier 8% ok, so basicly 17$ for music 17$ - 1$ for the artist, and.01 to make the CD is still 15.98 for the record company! Lets say that 5 bucks of that (ha ha ha) goes to advertizing to sell MORE cds (yeah right). That gives the record company 10 bucks per CD. This just isn't right.
Here's the deal in my mind. Online record companies. This makes perfect sense. 5$ per "albumn", artist gets 2.50$, the "comany" gets 2.50 to maintian the site, maybe some illegal trading, but that is happening anyway with CDs, and bam! Sony is out of the music buisness, and all musicians are happy. Hell, with NET TV comming, we could all watch homegrown Videos on MTZ.com or something. In other words, music can be free!
What I don't understand about all this is WHY are the record companies making such a fuss about this when for YEARS people have been making tapes of anything and everything that is music. What's up with that? Well, eventually they had to narrow it down to people that sold these cassettes. Even SONY makes these blank cassettes for people to COPY! Ok, now we have CD burners.... MP3s... Umm... Digital? I guess that is the key... digital never gets bad.
If you are a musician, why not embrace the MP3 addiction people have and USE it. Start an online record company with everything an enthusist needs! Have you ever noticed that record companies sell the same albumn a few months later with B-sides on it to make more money? Come on! With an MP3 site, you could logon with a user ID, and download the B-Sides for free! Or a small added fee. This makes total sense, I am sorry to all the people apposed.
As far as illegal trading goes, YES! It will happen! It will happen till the end of time! but who wouldn't support thier favorite artist by sending them 5$ for a CD, that is less than a THIRD of what we pay now.
Well, my opinion is that MP3s and MDs are both MUCH better sounding than CD's. I am an audiophile, and I mostly use expensive headphones to test music, seeing as how I can't afford expensive speakers. I find that expensive headphones give you a clearer sound with no "road noise" or anything else. Some may say that this is the wrong way, but I don't care. I can certinly hear the difference between analog and digital recordings off of my MD player, and with the MP3 player (sonique 1.05), I can hear the difference in variable encoding, and pure 128 encoding. Personally, I think that DACs on MP3s and MDs are MUCH better than the old CD format. As far as I can tell, usually cds are converted, then amped to a certin degree from the analog signal, where as an MD or an MP3 is pure digital until it hits the speakers/headphones. Everyone tells me that they can "hear" the.05% loss in sound, but even if I can't I can cerinly hear the better quality in the 99.95%. The bass is clearer, the highs are sharper, and everything sounds more realistic.
In the early days of MP3, I heard the wierd, decoding sounds of MP3s as well, and I can still hear it in older versions of WinAMP, but not in sonique, and not with variable encoding rates.
Sorry, but I have to totaly disagree with you here that bought CD's sound better than MP3s.
NOW, in responce to the packaging of CD's, I sometimes buy CDs that I download because I want the case pictures, and to free up 70MB on the hard drive. I can understand it, but the wave of the future is web site like covers, and MP3 music to download.
Personally, I hope that a "record" company starts online, and distributes singles from albumns free, then you can buy the albumn for very litte, becuase of no packaging, and no manufacturing. This is one time when the corperate assmonkeys must bow down to the monster of technology.
At present, domain names serve multiple purposes as locations, directional signage, and brands, which is confusing people as to their inherent value.
A domain name is ultimately just a location. The exact name itself is unimportant if: people know who you are (brand) and can find you (signage).
Brands are created, they don't happen because you have a certain word as your url.
As search tools become more sophisticated, knowing the exact url/location becomes moot. I don't need to know a company's corporate HQ street address to do business with them -- soon the url address won't matter either. Having to know the url is actually a defect, from the customer's point of view.
All technological advances (and I don't just mean digital tech) result in:
- more power in the hands of those individuals that master the new tech - shifts in balances of power between groups - an ongoing arms race of tech and counter-tech (both physcial and meme) - unforeseen social and other consequences driven by emergent complexity issues spawned by the new tech ("things bite back")
This century's creation of the digital universe has created incredible new powers for individuals and institutions. It's also created unforeseen risks and consequences. In this the digital revolution is no different from the spread of other major tech "advances": invention of agriculture, writing, the stirrup, firearms, etc.
It's not as simple as blaming big orgs, the govmt, etc.
Did Eric Raymond really say that about Defcon? the "People who do real work don't bother with Defcon." statement? Maybe I've been missing something, but Defcon is a weekend conference, and "people who do real work" could take off a day or two to head down to LV to mix and mingle. As I recall, Bruce S. from Counterpane (of Blowfish lore) was an invited DefCon speaker a few years back, and I consider him as a person who does "real work". Persons involved in internet security usually find Defcon a great place to speak and talk about their topics of interest. So according to Eric Raymond, I don't "do real work" because I'm going to check out DefCon this year (a few days away from working on Waimea, which i consider to be real work). At first I thought I was wrong about Mr. Raymond.. After meeting him at a few conferences, he seemed like the kind of arrogant person who scoffs at people who don't recognize him or his contributions to the Open Source movement. As a person who admires his contributions, i have to be disappointed in his personality and character. For such a smart, intelligent person, Eric Raymond blows it by acting like a judgemental holier-than-thou jerk.
Screw Inprise. Years ago, Borland dropped their OS2 product like a hot potato and climbed directly in bed with Microsoft. Those of us who were servicing the (then) 20 million OS2 licenses were left stranded on the beach.
I wouldn't use a Borland product if it meant I had to write code on clay tablets in cuniform.
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Posted by SmashPHASE:
I only know about NT4 SMB systems and it won't let you use 2 processors if they aren't of the same
speed, stepping and manufacturing plant.
Though I know some people tweaked it to use different steppings. My guess is that using different CPUs under Linux also won't do...
Posted by SmashPHASE:
Intel didn't officially go as far as 42Mhz with
the PCI bus specs, so quite some manufacturers
have created hardware that dislike PCI busses
running on 37,5 or 42 Mhz (mobo speed 75/83).
Common examples are the Voodoo II cards(in particular the ones from Creative), most S3
cards and (all?) Maxtor HD's.. On the latter, setting the busspeed higher causes busmastering transfers to fail and in the worse case you'll fry your interface.(afaik quite some IBM hd's also dislike it)
Some mobo's have an extra jumper to
set the PCI/AGP speed at a fixed rated (33Mhz).
I'm running OCed Celerons since a year now
(one 300 at 450 and one 300a at 450 at regular
voltages) and it runs stable at 100mhz (= 33mhz PCI bus), though the xxxa series do require extra cooling because the cache chips tends to heat up a lot, when ocing.
Posted by Pushkin:
I guess Seattle Film works or somother large photo processing establishment should start accepting CD-Rs to cash in on the gradual phazing out of film (if that is the case)...
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
This would be a very bad thing.
1. The NSA and FBI would have built into any legislation allowing this a provision for tracking who votes for what party.
2. FRAUD. If a person who is an invalid is able to vote, there is no provision that says that he/her caretaker would not do the voting him/herself.
3. Uninformed people whould then be able to shape the future of the nation. People who don't care enoughto take 15 minutes to vote now shouldn't be voting in the first place.
I would actively oppose any attempt to do this in the USA.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Motor voter only makes it easier for states to compile lists of who registers democrat or republican. In the election last fall there was a drop in percentage of registered voters who actually voted because of motor voter. If people were too apathetic to register on their own they're too apathetic to vote on election day.
Posted by Open Matrix:
Well you've never tried to overclock a Cyrix (I know!!!! That was back when I didn't know anything)P150+ to 200MHz. Mine overclocked fine and ran fine and semi-stable but after about ten seconds you start smelling ugly smells but it still ran. One time I actually put a small box fan on it blowing straight from my AC vent and it ran for quite a while without crashing and all this with the default voltage. That was the most overclockable non Intel chip I've ever had. Too bad about the FPU on it though.
Posted by polar_bear:
If you don't care enough to stand in line to vote, then don't vote. This "Give me convenience or give me death" attitude that people have in this country is really screwed. This is something you've probably heard over and over, but it's true - people fought, died and killed for the right to participate in a democracy, now people are too damn apathetic to get of their asses for an hour and go down to the polls and vote? Screw 'em. I'm as busy as anyone else, and I haul my ass down to the polls every time. When I move, one of the first things I do is register to vote. I don't think they should change a thing. The comment about the haves and have-nots is a good one as well - you can only get this priviledge if you're rich enough to have a home computer & an online account? That's hardly fair. Anyone can stand in line, and polls are open long enough for anyone to make it if they make the effort.
Ok, I'm done ranting.
Posted by Justin:
Does it matter?
And I think you meant "You're"
Posted by edinct:
I took advantage of the X10 promotion at Slashdot and made the misake of giving them my email address. For the next 6 days they sent me the same advertisement every day. Email did not stop it. I needed to call them by telephone to get them to stop.
Posted by Assmodeus:
what if you have cateracts...those fuckin things will seriously alter the appearance of your irises....
Posted by Assmodeus:
the article said there was no keyboard...although maybe it matches your voiceprint to your eyes...
assmodeus
Posted by Ignorant_American_Bastard:
Mwahahahaha!!!! WEINER!
Posted by rdobbs:
The Space Shuttle is designed to take some enormous beating. The actual flight-deck is designed to break away from the rest of the frame - just like the Challenger's did when the booster punctured the Main Fuel tank, causing the explosion.
NASA did asertain that the crew might have survived the blast - but most likely never regained their senses during their fall from the explosion altitude.
Cause of death was reportly the impact with the surface of the Atlantic ocean at speeds exceeding 600 Miles per Hour. Even with these forces, most of the nose section's structure stayed intact, even after impact with the ocean.
As for the astronauts themselves, they WERE wearing standard NASA spacesuits. Anyone who's worn one knows about it's construction. It's made of alternating layers of heat and radiation resistant material called Nomex - and Kevlar. THis is to prevent the suit from being comprimised if the astronaut were to be struck by the millions of micrometerorites (sp?) that circle the Earth. Kevlar is designed to prevent injury from BLUNT trauma - consistant with bullet impacts, and generalized impacts; which would include the high-speed impact with the water.
Their bodies WERE intact - or at least the spacesuits were. As for the vehicle - 65 percent (by author's estimate) of the nose section remained intact - even as the wreckage hit the ocean floor...
Posted by viperx2:
:)
I totaly agree. Even with MiniDisk players you can record only once in digital. Right? Wrong. There are probably 10 black market md recording breakers. They work fine. Another option is hacked hardware, or software to get what you want.
Look at the facts:
1. There are hundreds of options, and millions of people trying to crack whatever the RIAA does.
2. Whatever the RIAA does will be seen as stupid and tyranical to the general populous.
(please don't mind my spelling
3. What is that I hear? Rebellion? It seems that everyone with a computer is willing to rebel against something. How many car hackers have you ever heard of? Or maybe stove hackers? trying to get that slow car faster, or make that over cook hotter, or whatever. They just don't exist, or are being held as heros! But with computers they are hunted by "the man." Rebellion is the RIAA's worst nightmare.
That is just the way things are. Sorry RIAA, but we are rebelling, and you are the target! Millions of people's target. Do something smart, nothing at all.
Viper-X2
Posted by viperx2:
I'm sorry, but as I stated before, hardware can always be changed. And if you aren't that crazy about soldering, just watch the web for black market portable MP3 players with much better technology than the corperate players. Sorry, but they have unleashed the beast, and this time, we are the beast.
Viper-X2
Posted by viperx2:
Ummm... I'm sorry, but if you really want to play MP3's wherever you go, you don't need diamond to make one for you. The way the world is changing, it looks to me like more and more tech skills are going to be required, and fewer and fewer survival skills. I have friends that are building car and portable MP3 players, right now. So... if sony wants to do something as stupid as restrict the use of RIOs to some other format, hey, whatever. Our Netsocity will crack it. Our engineers will have a mod chip in days. Hell, our engineers will add 128MB of RAM to a RIO, then mod it. Sorry, but any change to software or hardware is simply an act of futility.
The only thing they can really do is scare tactics with college kids, and others. Making examples out of people. That is what will happen. But it won't change anything. A few people will be held... sure. I hope I am not one of them.
Viper-X2
Posted by viperx2:
.01 to make the CD is still 15.98 for the record company! Lets say that 5 bucks of that (ha ha ha) goes to advertizing to sell MORE cds (yeah right). That gives the record company 10 bucks per CD. This just isn't right.
Niether of the options you have presented make any sense.
Price of a CD that isn't brand new and on promo discount:
16.99
That's 18.35 after the government gets thier 8%
ok, so basicly 17$ for music
17$ - 1$ for the artist, and
Here's the deal in my mind. Online record companies. This makes perfect sense. 5$ per "albumn", artist gets 2.50$, the "comany" gets 2.50 to maintian the site, maybe some illegal trading, but that is happening anyway with CDs, and bam! Sony is out of the music buisness, and all musicians are happy. Hell, with NET TV comming, we could all watch homegrown Videos on MTZ.com or something. In other words, music can be free!
What I don't understand about all this is WHY are the record companies making such a fuss about this when for YEARS people have been making tapes of anything and everything that is music. What's up with that? Well, eventually they had to narrow it down to people that sold these cassettes. Even SONY makes these blank cassettes for people to COPY! Ok, now we have CD burners.... MP3s... Umm... Digital? I guess that is the key... digital never gets bad.
If you are a musician, why not embrace the MP3 addiction people have and USE it. Start an online record company with everything an enthusist needs! Have you ever noticed that record companies sell the same albumn a few months later with B-sides on it to make more money? Come on! With an MP3 site, you could logon with a user ID, and download the B-Sides for free! Or a small added fee. This makes total sense, I am sorry to all the people apposed.
As far as illegal trading goes, YES! It will happen! It will happen till the end of time! but who wouldn't support thier favorite artist by sending them 5$ for a CD, that is less than a THIRD of what we pay now.
Viper-X2
Posted by viperx2:
.05% loss in sound, but even if I can't I can cerinly hear the better quality in the 99.95%. The bass is clearer, the highs are sharper, and everything sounds more realistic.
Well, my opinion is that MP3s and MDs are both MUCH better sounding than CD's. I am an audiophile, and I mostly use expensive headphones to test music, seeing as how I can't afford expensive speakers. I find that expensive headphones give you a clearer sound with no "road noise" or anything else. Some may say that this is the wrong way, but I don't care. I can certinly hear the difference between analog and digital recordings off of my MD player, and with the MP3 player (sonique 1.05), I can hear the difference in variable encoding, and pure 128 encoding. Personally, I think that DACs on MP3s and MDs are MUCH better than the old CD format. As far as I can tell, usually cds are converted, then amped to a certin degree from the analog signal, where as an MD or an MP3 is pure digital until it hits the speakers/headphones. Everyone tells me that they can "hear" the
In the early days of MP3, I heard the wierd, decoding sounds of MP3s as well, and I can still hear it in older versions of WinAMP, but not in sonique, and not with variable encoding rates.
Sorry, but I have to totaly disagree with you here that bought CD's sound better than MP3s.
NOW, in responce to the packaging of CD's, I sometimes buy CDs that I download because I want the case pictures, and to free up 70MB on the hard drive. I can understand it, but the wave of the future is web site like covers, and MP3 music to download.
Personally, I hope that a "record" company starts online, and distributes singles from albumns free, then you can buy the albumn for very litte, becuase of no packaging, and no manufacturing. This is one time when the corperate assmonkeys must bow down to the monster of technology.
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
That FAQ entry says:
- It's complicated.
- It takes some expensive hardware >IF YOU WANT REAL-TIME RECORD
Doesn't say anything that would block doing the compression in non-real-time or splitting it up among the processors of a cluster.
Posted by Jeff Martin:
It seems to be flooded right now with hits, I haven't been able to log in all day!
I certainly want to use borland on Linux....it only makes sense.
Posted by Mary CW:
At present, domain names serve multiple purposes as locations, directional signage, and brands, which is confusing people as to their inherent value.
A domain name is ultimately just a location. The exact name itself is unimportant if: people know who you are (brand) and can find you (signage).
Brands are created, they don't happen because you have a certain word as your url.
As search tools become more sophisticated, knowing the exact url/location becomes moot. I don't need to know a company's corporate HQ street address to do business with them -- soon the url address won't matter either. Having to know the url is actually a defect, from the customer's point of view.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
The Rio doesn't "make copies" it plays copies.
The laws that the US has regarding kiddie porn do not make it illegal to own a VCR simply because you can play an illegal tape on it.
>>the digital recording function of which is designed or marketed for the primary purpose of
We get around this portion because CD-RIPPING is not marketed as nor the primary function of most computers.
The RIAA is going to simply insure their own extinction.
LK
Posted by Mary CW:
All technological advances (and I don't just mean digital tech) result in:
- more power in the hands of those individuals that master the new tech
- shifts in balances of power between groups
- an ongoing arms race of tech and counter-tech (both physcial and meme)
- unforeseen social and other consequences driven by emergent complexity issues spawned by the new tech ("things bite back")
This century's creation of the digital universe has created incredible new powers for individuals and institutions. It's also created unforeseen risks and consequences. In this the digital revolution is no different from the spread of other major tech "advances": invention of agriculture, writing, the stirrup, firearms, etc.
It's not as simple as blaming big orgs, the govmt, etc.
Posted by Justin Cheung:
Did Eric Raymond really say that about Defcon? the "People who do real work don't bother with Defcon." statement? Maybe I've been missing something, but Defcon is a weekend conference, and "people who do real work" could take off a day or two to head down to LV to mix and mingle. As I recall, Bruce S. from Counterpane (of Blowfish lore) was an invited DefCon speaker a few years back, and I consider him as a person who does "real work". Persons involved in internet security usually find Defcon a great place to speak and talk about their topics of interest. So according to Eric Raymond, I don't "do real work" because I'm going to check out DefCon this year (a few days away from working on Waimea, which i consider to be real work). At first I thought I was wrong about Mr. Raymond.. After meeting him at a few conferences, he seemed like the kind of arrogant person who scoffs at people who don't recognize him or his contributions to the Open Source movement. As a person who admires his contributions, i have to be disappointed in his personality and character. For such a smart, intelligent person, Eric Raymond blows it by acting like a judgemental holier-than-thou jerk.
Posted by Reitzel:
Screw Inprise. Years ago, Borland dropped their OS2 product like a hot potato and climbed directly in bed with Microsoft. Those of us who were servicing the (then) 20 million OS2 licenses were left stranded on the beach.
I wouldn't use a Borland product if it meant I had to write code on clay tablets in cuniform.