and it's not a new search engine, it's just a new interface as far as I can see. I just did a search on altavista.com and on raging.com, exact same results.
-------------------------------- off topic, but i have to say it:
this dumba$$ leech at my high school made it to MIT, yet today on the AP statistics test, the question asked him to draw an ellipse and he drew a parabola! (no, he wasn't doing that for fun, he honestly did not know what an ellipse was!) WTF? how does a dumba$$ like that get into MIT and also get the regent scholarship from Berkeley while I get rejected by both schools? $$#$!#%%$@%%
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the scary part about this, is that alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem really exists, and I just thought it was a joke. I was actucally looking for the alt.binaries.spam.teenfem, portman covered in raw can meat Mmmmm
that is alright, on the fun side of things, this newsgroup is now wondering why they have 600X the request for portman pics, and the "normals" are getting confused on if "Hot grits in the pants" is a viable option that really shoul be acted out and not just expessed.
ok, trolls, remember that requests goes to alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem.d, not alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem... see their website for more info
Zetetic Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.
Elench A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
actually, there is a 2.06 version of pkzip for dos, it's licensed to ibm and pkware confirmed it's existence when i emailed them about it:
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.06 01-24-94 Copr. 1989-1994 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. IBM LICENSED VERSION PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
PKZIP/h[1] for basic help PKZIP/h[2|3|4] for other help screens.
Usage: PKZIP [options] zipfile [@list] [files...]
Simple Usage: PKZIP zipfile file(s)... | | | Program ----------------- | | | | New zipfile to create ---------- | | File(s) you wish to compress ----------
The above usage is only a very basic example of PKZIP's capability.
Press 2 for more options (including spanning & formatting), press 3 for advanced options, 4 for trouble shooting options, any other key to quit help.
then pkware came out with "pkzip command line" (last year?) which is a 32 bit windoze program (along with long file name support and stuff...) but it keeps the command line interface from the dos version of pkzip.
_______________________________________________ Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done.
consider the Pinnacle hdtv card, they have a comparison of their card with the Hauppauge card on their website. One of their advantages is that the Pinnacle card supports a resolution of 1080 while the Hauppauge downmixes everything to 480
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ATI has done it before, they too the ATI Rage Pro and optimized the drivers on it... creating the ATI Rage Pro Turbo video card which is the exact same card as the Rage Pro, but with a different driver which is optimized for Winbench 3D. It got much higher scores in winbench 3d but no performance increase in real world apps like quake2. see this link on tom's website for more info
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not only that, it also tests the stability of the system. i have been running the quake 3 timedemo on my linux system continously for the last month and the computers hasn't crashed yet! let's see you do that with windoze!
(=
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i have a 105 key logitech internet keyboard with 17 extra internet keys (for a grand total of 122 keys (= ) and i couldnt figure out what to do with the extra keys in linux (in windoze it used the logitech software drivers in order to work)
then i found the scan codes for the extra keys and now in linux a row of internet keys are used to switch to consoles 1-6 (havent figure out what to do with the other 11 internet keys)
anyhow, it seems the keys work through some kind of software in windows, in *nix, we can figure out the keyboard scancode and use these extra keys on the keyboard for other purposes (such as rm -rf/)
p.s. is extrans (html tags to text) not working?
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So now that Microsoft has been proven both good and evil, are they an oxymoron? Or does it work like antimatter/matter annihilation, and most of Redmond just vaporized?
i'm not sure if this is true, but i heard somewhere that micro$oft used to be called 'unlimited limited' and 'unincorporated incorporated'... if that turns out to be true, then i guess m$ really is an oxymoron =)
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i wrote a nice long reply, then netscape crashes, so:
ya, society that's what i meant yes, i'm a bit ignorant (stuck in high school and all) but i certainly am not sexist, of course i believe women have just as much potential as men, but based on my own experiences, i have yet to see a girl play quake (even among the geeky girls at school - they are science/math geeks, not computer geeks)
re: ps - I have female friends, they dont play computer games all that much, thus i dont really talk to them about it (although now i will just to get an answer) and getting a GF is a great idea, if I can just stop being shy!
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a lot of women likes things stable while men oftentimes like to explore and tinker. this is why males like things such as engineering, technology, and gadgets more than women. This is true in the classroom where a lot more males take eecs classes (or just look at the male:female ratio in silicon valley) or in the car shop where you are going to see guys working on cars rather than gals. so basicly men are more into technology (yes i know there are lots of gal chicks out there who dig linux =) but in general, there are more guys on the computer than girls. also, guys tend to like violent games like first action shooters or your favorite real time strategy game. gals on the other hand... are generally more into less violent games (arcade, that barbie crap - please don't flame me for this, i'm a guy clueless about girls and i have no idea what kind of games girls play, i could be wrong, but i have not seen any girls at my school play quake, so based on personal experience, i can only imagine gals playing arcade games or something barbie related) but looking at the male:female ratio when it comes to games, there's a much bigger male market than female market. that's why female oriented gaming advertising has failed, because of the smaller market... also, the programmers developing games are usually guys, they really don't have the insight into what girls want...
I think more females need to get into computer, games, and technology. there's a huge market for games that girls would like, and i think it can boom as soon as something think of a killerapp for girls + computer + games, something along the lines of guy + k7 800 + quake 3, except it's girl-oriented.
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after watching the transmeta webcast, I'm suddenly more conscious about power usage - remember that ATA hard drives control the laptop market (you don't see any 2.5 inch scsi hard drives, do you?) and ATA hard drives generally use less power. (I remember people telling me a computer with many scsi hard drives generally need to start the hard drives one at a time just to not overload the power supply) Oh, and scsi hard drives, especially, the 10000 rpm ones, emit a lot of noise and heat (requires some kind of cooler - more noice) whereas ATA hard drives get warm at most (leiz feels his IBM 7200 rpm hard drive, did not burn his finger)
.....
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please, do not immediately say I don't know what I'm talking about, I do (somewhat, no real life scsi experience, but i do have a 3rd generation seagate barracuda in the garage)
ata hard drives have historically been slower than scsi hard drives. But recently, they have been catching up. ATA/IDE drives now use busmastering and dma, making the cpu utilization less. The speed of the interface has also been increasing, up to 66 mb/s, beating ultrawide scsi 2 which was state of the art about two years ago before lvd scsi arrived. Of course, this is just the interface itself, the actually speed still depend on the hard drive itself. A few years back, IDE hard drives were running at 5200/5400 rpm and had 128k/256k buffers. Currently, IDE hard drives run up to 7200 rpm and has 2 megs of buffers and a 10 gb/in^2 areal density, whereas SCSI hard drives have up to 10000 rpm (giving them lower latency and stuff) and a 4/8 meg buffer (mostly on AV optimized models) but only a 3.3 gb/in^2 areal density. Anyway, the point of all that was to say IDE hard drives are catching up.
Back to the interface: scsi can go up to 45 devices per card (3 channel UW card, 15 devices per channel) or more realisticly - 15 devices per card, on a single channel UW scsi card - totally beats IDE's 4 devices per card/motherboard limitaion. but what about those ABIT motherboards with 4 ide channels or the ability to add on a PCI ide card? you can argue this will use up all the irqs but PCI irqs can be shared. Then there's USB/Firewire, which allows up to 127 and 63 devices respectively. USB ports are standard on all PCs since around 97 and they can be used for low speed pheripherals such scanners or zip drives. Firewire is available on various compaq/other name brand pcs, as well as some Macintoshes and can be added onto any pc through a firewire card (adaptec makes them AFAIK and they are commercially available) and firewire has the bandwidth to support high speed hard drives and other pheripherals. With all this, shouldn't scsi be obselete by now? (Yes, I know scsi hard drives are still the fastest, adn I understand SCSI is necessary for hardware raid 5, and SCSI hard drives have a higher MTBF - all of this is critial to mid/high end servers) but what about the low end server / workstation market? (where price may be an issue, btw, I'm ruling out the home pc market because the _ordinary_ user doesn't have 5 hard drives and a scanner, and a cd burner, and etc, etc)
which brings me to my next point: scsi is incredibly expensive. yes, there are cheap (7200 rpm) scsi hard drives out there (still $200+ though) and there are cheap scsi controllers (tekram - $170 aint bad) but 7200 rpm scsi hard drives dont give the performance advantage to justify the additional price (10000 rpm hard drives start at $350) and the tekram scsi cards (they provide linux drivers, cool eh) are only up to 80 mb/s, not 160 mb/s (the new adaptec cards - which are REALLY expensive - the scsi card alone can buy 20gb - 30gb worth of IDE hard drives) so looking at the cost effectiveness of the scsi hard drives - they are not really worth it for low end servers / workstations now are they? (the cost is worth it for high end servers, especially if they run anything critial where maybe a business is depending on the speed and reliability)
just a little note: by "workstations" i'm also including people's high end machines and those ultimate gaming rigs...
now, back to slacking off, for I've got senioritis maximus =)
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don't forget the fridge, the man's gotta eat... and what about the shower? well... since he's all buy himself, i suppose he can do without the shower =)
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looking at the specs of different sized fans (they are all made by sunon) a 120 mm fan has about 3X the airflow of a 80mm fan (standard sized fans) perhaps putting one of those puppies near your cpu can help take the heat out of your case. (although 120 mm fans may not fit into your case - maybe you can hack it somehow?)
Also, if you need a quiet power supply, try www.pcpowercooling.com
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"If you deface a Web site of a company that is making $18 million dollars a day, you are committing a pretty serious crime," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Yarbrough.
Wait, aren't many web companies losing money? from yesterday's articles, someone said Amazon.com loses money on every book sold. So if someone hack their site and stop the business transactions, wouldn't the cracker be saving the company money? =)
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I am surprised napster is _suing_ someone instead of being sued. Considering the fact that napster itself barely seems legal as it is, I'm also surprised that RIAA haven't shut napster down yet.
And what exactly would be the harm of releasing the source code for napster? As long as it only transfers mp3s and it is not used to transmit viruses and trojans, it is safe to use. If napster is really serious about protecting its users, it should open up the source and let people work together to fit napster's security problems (if any, surely there's gotta be a bug somewhere) instead of hiding the source, having someone discovering the bug, exploiting the system from three weeks, and then napster respond with a patch.
just my $100/5000
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Slightly offtopic, but when intel "releases" a 700+ Mhz chip, it's not actually AVAILABLE on the market... right now, you can buy an 700 Mhz Athlon but you'll have a much harder time finding a 733 P3.
Btw, the athlon is definately faster, the P3 is based on the P2 core which is a few years old (Klamath was released in 97?) P2 +.18 um process + higher clock speed + onchip cache + SSE = P3 while the K7 is a completely new design and it's specs are far superior to those of the P3.
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ya, you are right, by webserver I meant something like slashdot. A person has to be crazy to use a 1Ghz computer with 10,000 rpm hard drives just to run a website called "welcome to my homepage" =)
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Actually, hard drive speed have been increasing (thus the need for faster interfaces - U2W SCSI / ATA66) One important factor in hard drive speed is the spindle speed of the hard drive. I have a few 5400 and 7200 rpm hard drives. The 5400 rpm hard drives are kinda warm after a few hours of use, but the 7200 rpm drives gets hot after a few hours of use. Now a 10000 rpm (currently the fastest afaik) hard drives... most of them require fans to keep them cool or at least some decent air flow. If you try to go any faster... say... 12000 rpm or 14000 rpm, umm... well... I think the hard drive will probably need it's own refrigiration device. =)
The importance of hard drive speed also depends on what you do. If you are running a webserver or maybe a database where you constantly need to access the data, then hard drive speed is very important. But if you are say... playing quake, then hard drive speeds are not that important because the hard drive is only used to load up the game into memory, once all the data is in memory, then the performance is mostly determined by the cpu speed and the video card.
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I have 192 megs of ram and my computer constantly swap in and out of the swap file. The buffer/cache sometime gets as big as 100+ megs, any ideas why? any idea how I can turn down the cache size?
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>Does anybody else here remember the Edge3D?
ya, sure, my neighbor has one, it's got a Nvidia NV1? chipset, it's sitting in the garage somewhere rotting away.
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Elench
A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
why bother using raging.com when altavista have had a text only search available at http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query? text since like the beginning of time?
and it's not a new search engine, it's just a new interface as far as I can see. I just did a search on altavista.com and on raging.com, exact same results.
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off topic, but i have to say it:
this dumba$$ leech at my high
school made it to MIT, yet today
on the AP statistics test, the
question asked him to draw an
ellipse and he drew a parabola!
(no, he wasn't doing that for
fun, he honestly did not know
what an ellipse was!) WTF? how
does a dumba$$ like that get
into MIT and also get the regent
scholarship from Berkeley while
I get rejected by both schools?
$$#$!#%%$@%%
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Elench
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- security focus is taking about the Netpliance i-opener
- hollywood bitchslap has a link to the review of keeping the faith
- linux.com tuneup has some old tip bash history
- geek in space is on "Mellow Trancey Version"
btw, extrans (html tags to text) doesnt work (at least in preview mode)Zetetic
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Elench
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the scary part about this, is that alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem really exists, and I just thought it was a joke. I was actucally looking for the alt.binaries.spam.teenfem, portman covered in raw can meat Mmmmm
that is alright, on the fun side of things, this newsgroup is now wondering why they have 600X the request for portman pics, and the "normals" are getting confused on if "Hot grits in the pants" is a viable option that really shoul be acted out and not just expessed.
ok, trolls, remember that requests goes to alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem.d, not alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem... see their website for more info
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Elench
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Spitfire is the name of a british WWII era airplane.
I too dislike the name Duron, it rhymes with moron. and celeron... "sell and run" it sounds so cheap...
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Elench
A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
actually, there is a 2.06 version of pkzip for dos, it's licensed to ibm and pkware confirmed it's existence when i emailed them about it:
/h[1] for basic help PKZIP /h[2|3|4] for other help screens.
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.06 01-24-94
Copr. 1989-1994 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. IBM LICENSED VERSION
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
PKZIP
Usage: PKZIP [options] zipfile [@list] [files...]
Simple Usage: PKZIP zipfile file(s)...
| | |
Program ----------------- | |
| |
New zipfile to create ---------- |
|
File(s) you wish to compress ----------
The above usage is only a very basic example of PKZIP's capability.
Press 2 for more options (including spanning & formatting), press 3 for
advanced options, 4 for trouble shooting options, any other key to quit help.
then pkware came out with "pkzip command line" (last year?) which is a 32 bit windoze program (along with long file name support and stuff...) but it keeps the command line interface from the dos version of pkzip.
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Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done.
consider the Pinnacle hdtv card, they have a comparison of their card with the Hauppauge card on their website. One of their advantages is that the Pinnacle card supports a resolution of 1080 while the Hauppauge downmixes everything to 480
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Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done.
ATI has done it before, they too the ATI Rage Pro and optimized the drivers on it... creating the ATI Rage Pro Turbo video card which is the exact same card as the Rage Pro, but with a different driver which is optimized for Winbench 3D. It got much higher scores in winbench 3d but no performance increase in real world apps like quake2. see this link on tom's website for more info
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not only that, it also tests the stability of the system. i have been running the quake 3 timedemo on my linux system continously for the last month and the computers hasn't crashed yet! let's see you do that with windoze!
(=
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i have a 105 key logitech internet keyboard with 17 extra internet keys (for a grand total of 122 keys (= ) and i couldnt figure out what to do with the extra keys in linux (in windoze it used the logitech software drivers in order to work)
/)
then i found the scan codes for the extra keys and now in linux a row of internet keys are used to switch to consoles 1-6 (havent figure out what to do with the other 11 internet keys)
anyhow, it seems the keys work through some kind of software in windows, in *nix, we can figure out the keyboard scancode and use these extra keys on the keyboard for other purposes (such as rm -rf
p.s. is extrans (html tags to text) not working?
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1. the entry level pc is a celeron 500 / k6-2 500 right now, not a P3/K7 700, that's more of a midrance pc.
2. the transmeta cpu is competing on the MOBILE market, not the desktop market, so it's not competing with the latest athlon or sledgehammer.
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So now that Microsoft has been proven both good and evil, are they an oxymoron? Or does it work like antimatter/matter annihilation, and most of Redmond just vaporized?
... if that turns out to be true, then i guess m$ really is an oxymoron =)
i'm not sure if this is true, but i heard somewhere that micro$oft used to be called 'unlimited limited' and 'unincorporated incorporated'
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homer also has an intel cpu in his head.
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i wrote a nice long reply, then netscape crashes, so:
ya, society that's what i meant
yes, i'm a bit ignorant (stuck in high school and all) but i certainly am not sexist, of course i believe women have just as much potential as men, but based on my own experiences, i have yet to see a girl play quake (even among the geeky girls at school - they are science/math geeks, not computer geeks)
re: ps - I have female friends, they dont play computer games all that much, thus i dont really talk to them about it (although now i will just to get an answer) and getting a GF is a great idea, if I can just stop being shy!
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
this is just how i see it:
a lot of women likes things stable while men oftentimes like to explore and tinker. this is why males like things such as engineering, technology, and gadgets more than women. This is true in the classroom where a lot more males take eecs classes (or just look at the male:female ratio in silicon valley) or in the car shop where you are going to see guys working on cars rather than gals. so basicly men are more into technology (yes i know there are lots of gal chicks out there who dig linux =) but in general, there are more guys on the computer than girls. also, guys tend to like violent games like first action shooters or your favorite real time strategy game. gals on the other hand... are generally more into less violent games (arcade, that barbie crap - please don't flame me for this, i'm a guy clueless about girls and i have no idea what kind of games girls play, i could be wrong, but i have not seen any girls at my school play quake, so based on personal experience, i can only imagine gals playing arcade games or something barbie related) but looking at the male:female ratio when it comes to games, there's a much bigger male market than female market. that's why female oriented gaming advertising has failed, because of the smaller market... also, the programmers developing games are usually guys, they really don't have the insight into what girls want...
I think more females need to get into computer, games, and technology. there's a huge market for games that girls would like, and i think it can boom as soon as something think of a killerapp for girls + computer + games, something along the lines of guy + k7 800 + quake 3, except it's girl-oriented.
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
after watching the transmeta webcast, I'm suddenly more conscious about power usage - remember that ATA hard drives control the laptop market (you don't see any 2.5 inch scsi hard drives, do you?) and ATA hard drives generally use less power. (I remember people telling me a computer with many scsi hard drives generally need to start the hard drives one at a time just to not overload the power supply) Oh, and scsi hard drives, especially, the 10000 rpm ones, emit a lot of noise and heat (requires some kind of cooler - more noice) whereas ATA hard drives get warm at most (leiz feels his IBM 7200 rpm hard drive, did not burn his finger)
.....
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
please, do not immediately say I don't know what I'm talking about, I do (somewhat, no real life scsi experience, but i do have a 3rd generation seagate barracuda in the garage)
ata hard drives have historically been slower than scsi hard drives. But recently, they have been catching up. ATA/IDE drives now use busmastering and dma, making the cpu utilization less. The speed of the interface has also been increasing, up to 66 mb/s, beating ultrawide scsi 2 which was state of the art about two years ago before lvd scsi arrived. Of course, this is just the interface itself, the actually speed still depend on the hard drive itself. A few years back, IDE hard drives were running at 5200/5400 rpm and had 128k/256k buffers. Currently, IDE hard drives run up to 7200 rpm and has 2 megs of buffers and a 10 gb/in^2 areal density, whereas SCSI hard drives have up to 10000 rpm (giving them lower latency and stuff) and a 4/8 meg buffer (mostly on AV optimized models) but only a 3.3 gb/in^2 areal density. Anyway, the point of all that was to say IDE hard drives are catching up.
Back to the interface:
scsi can go up to 45 devices per card (3 channel UW card, 15 devices per channel) or more realisticly - 15 devices per card, on a single channel UW scsi card - totally beats IDE's 4 devices per card/motherboard limitaion. but what about those ABIT motherboards with 4 ide channels or the ability to add on a PCI ide card? you can argue this will use up all the irqs but PCI irqs can be shared. Then there's USB/Firewire, which allows up to 127 and 63 devices respectively. USB ports are standard on all PCs since around 97 and they can be used for low speed pheripherals such scanners or zip drives. Firewire is available on various compaq/other name brand pcs, as well as some Macintoshes and can be added onto any pc through a firewire card (adaptec makes them AFAIK and they are commercially available) and firewire has the bandwidth to support high speed hard drives and other pheripherals. With all this, shouldn't scsi be obselete by now? (Yes, I know scsi hard drives are still the fastest, adn I understand SCSI is necessary for hardware raid 5, and SCSI hard drives have a higher MTBF - all of this is critial to mid/high end servers) but what about the low end server / workstation market? (where price may be an issue, btw, I'm ruling out the home pc market because the _ordinary_ user doesn't have 5 hard drives and a scanner, and a cd burner, and etc, etc)
which brings me to my next point:
scsi is incredibly expensive. yes, there are cheap (7200 rpm) scsi hard drives out there (still $200+ though) and there are cheap scsi controllers (tekram - $170 aint bad) but 7200 rpm scsi hard drives dont give the performance advantage to justify the additional price (10000 rpm hard drives start at $350) and the tekram scsi cards (they provide linux drivers, cool eh) are only up to 80 mb/s, not 160 mb/s (the new adaptec cards - which are REALLY expensive - the scsi card alone can buy 20gb - 30gb worth of IDE hard drives) so looking at the cost effectiveness of the scsi hard drives - they are not really worth it for low end servers / workstations now are they? (the cost is worth it for high end servers, especially if they run anything critial where maybe a business is depending on the speed and reliability)
just a little note: by "workstations" i'm also including people's high end machines and those ultimate gaming rigs...
now, back to slacking off, for I've got senioritis maximus =)
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
don't forget the fridge, the man's gotta eat...
and what about the shower? well... since he's all buy himself, i suppose he can do without the shower =)
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www.2cooltek.com, talk to 2cool and he's a nice friendly guy and he'll be glad to help ya out.
my advice is to use bigger fans:
120mm 108 cfm 42 dba
92mm 44 cfm 33 dba
80mm 36 cfm 32 dba
60mm 19 cfm 31 dba
50mm 9 cfm 30 dba
40m 7 cfm 27 dfa
looking at the specs of different sized fans (they are all made by sunon) a 120 mm fan has about 3X the airflow of a 80mm fan (standard sized fans) perhaps putting one of those puppies near your cpu can help take the heat out of your case. (although 120 mm fans may not fit into your case - maybe you can hack it somehow?)
Also, if you need a quiet power supply, try www.pcpowercooling.com
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
"If you deface a Web site of a company that is making $18 million dollars a day, you are committing a pretty serious crime," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Yarbrough.
Wait, aren't many web companies losing money? from yesterday's articles, someone said Amazon.com loses money on every book sold. So if someone hack their site and stop the business transactions, wouldn't the cracker be saving the company money?
=)
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I am surprised napster is _suing_ someone instead of being sued. Considering the fact that napster itself barely seems legal as it is, I'm also surprised that RIAA haven't shut napster down yet.
And what exactly would be the harm of releasing the source code for napster? As long as it only transfers mp3s and it is not used to transmit viruses and trojans, it is safe to use. If napster is really serious about protecting its users, it should open up the source and let people work together to fit napster's security problems (if any, surely there's gotta be a bug somewhere) instead of hiding the source, having someone discovering the bug, exploiting the system from three weeks, and then napster respond with a patch.
just my $100/5000
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Slightly offtopic, but when intel "releases" a 700+ Mhz chip, it's not actually AVAILABLE on the market... right now, you can buy an 700 Mhz Athlon but you'll have a much harder time finding a 733 P3.
.18 um process + higher clock speed + onchip cache + SSE = P3 while the K7 is a completely new design and it's specs are far superior to those of the P3.
Btw, the athlon is definately faster, the P3 is based on the P2 core which is a few years old (Klamath was released in 97?) P2 +
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ya, you are right, by webserver I meant something like slashdot. A person has to be crazy to use a 1Ghz computer with 10,000 rpm hard drives just to run a website called "welcome to my homepage" =)
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Actually, hard drive speed have been increasing (thus the need for faster interfaces - U2W SCSI / ATA66) One important factor in hard drive speed is the spindle speed of the hard drive. I have a few 5400 and 7200 rpm hard drives. The 5400 rpm hard drives are kinda warm after a few hours of use, but the 7200 rpm drives gets hot after a few hours of use. Now a 10000 rpm (currently the fastest afaik) hard drives... most of them require fans to keep them cool or at least some decent air flow. If you try to go any faster... say... 12000 rpm or 14000 rpm, umm... well... I think the hard drive will probably need it's own refrigiration device. =)
The importance of hard drive speed also depends on what you do. If you are running a webserver or maybe a database where you constantly need to access the data, then hard drive speed is very important. But if you are say... playing quake, then hard drive speeds are not that important because the hard drive is only used to load up the game into memory, once all the data is in memory, then the performance is mostly determined by the cpu speed and the video card.
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I have 192 megs of ram and my computer constantly swap in and out of the swap file. The buffer/cache sometime gets as big as 100+ megs, any ideas why? any idea how I can turn down the cache size?
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