www.storagereview.com - I consider the website the best site for hard drive performance info and reviews, so far they have reviewed 81 hard drives. They also provide info about the latest hard drive, a forum for people with question, and look into hard drive technologies such as the effect of buffer size on hard drive performance. (and like any good website) Storage Review is frequently updated...
As for my personal experiences, my IBM 10.1 GB hard drive was dying and experience random shutdowns. I was able to pull my data off and restore from backups. IBM tech support was really helpful and I got a replacement within two weeks (it's a 14.4 GB) *grin*
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I too have a slow connection, here's what I do to make it faster:
If you are trying to move a slashbox... say... up 5 times, instead of clicking it, waiting for it to load and clicking it 4 more times and waiting to load, click it once, and then hit "reload" on your browser 4 times, make sure there is a pause in between so that about 1k of the page loads up. And Tada, the slashbox magically moved up 5 spots:)
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I'm using slackware with kernel 2.2.12, if u just force the insertion of the module, it will work even though it says wrong kernel version. It's working fine and so far nothing bad has happened.
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AMD NEEDS to find a way to get word of their chip out to consumers! To date I have only seen one Athelon in newspaper adds, surrounded by 7 or 8 PIII's! This had better change, AMD needs to make their chips not only better, but more popular!
Recently, I saw 3 full pages of AMD ads in PC Computing saying stuff like "Maximize Productivity" but I think the problem is that they are not making a name for themselves. People are mostly clueless and all they ever hear on TV is "intel inside" so when they go out to buy a computer, and they dunno what to get, they are gonna see an Athlon and a PIII sitting next to each other and go with the Intel computer simply because they have no idea what AMD is and will go with the Intel simply because of the brand name. Remember, technological superiority isn't gonna win every battle, you need to market your product (just ask micro$oft, hehe) What AMD needs is a TV campaign that will make the brand AMD and the processor ATHLON into something everyone recognizes.
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I've been looking at the hard drive industry and for the last two years I've been drooling at their hard drives all this time. First came the Deskstar 8... then the Deskstar 14... then the deskstar 22.... then the deskstar 34... and now the ultrastar 72. yes, we are all excited about these HUGE hard drives, but IBM has a tendency to announce them a long time before their release. And when they do release it, the OEMs such as DELL usually gets it first. Unless you got some inside connection with IBM or an OEM, I don't think you'll be able to get your hands on one of these babies for another six month.
BTW, IBM tech support was kind enough to replace my dead 10 gig with a 14.4 GB:)
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Panasonic has been making these for a while now, I remember reading about it a few years ago in an issue of PC computing. I believe they have really tough cases and their insides are well-padded and waterproof
btw - some of these stories lately have been kinda repetative:
AMD announces the xxx Mhz Athlon
Tom's hardware reviews the ______
Transmeta gets another patent
(MS/Dvorak/Whoever) spreading FUD about linux
amd - enough already - we know they can take kryotech's refregeration tech and make the athlon go beyond 800 Mhz
tom's hardware - so what? - plenty of websites out there are dedicated to computer hardware, why do they always post tom's reviews? stop being biased toward anand!:)
transmeta - patience, my friend, patience - stop speculating and wait for their product to come out.
fud - it's all lies - much of it is just misinformation for the misinformed, and dvorak's just in it for the ad revenues... "stop feeding trolls and don't read spam"
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Right... AIs build more complex AIs and then you get Minds that run our lives and can solve all of society's problems in about 5 milliseconds and then spend the rest of its time in Infinite Fun Space.
Anyway, I wonder how they will program AIs with morality... how will AIs decide what's wrong and what's right? What will AIs do when they read the human history and find out how humans have mistreated each other? What if the AI is evil and want to kill all humans, can an AI keep its thoughts secret? just wondering here...
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Now this chip is expensive & probably needs a new MB to take advantage of it. This is an expensive upgrade - so who will go for it?
Intel is trying to make everyone to upgrade to a i820 motherboard and trying to make everyone switch to RAMBUS ram. Plus the new coppermine cpus aren't cheap either, so what's the difference between an Intel and an AMD upgrade?
Graphics / Video people? Nope these people are most likely to be looking at a G4 Mac or SGI these days. Or at least an x86 with history of good FPU performance (intel)
True, a G4 can outperform a K7 at the same clock rate, but G4s are not going to reach 700 Mhz anytime soon, so a K7-700 will be faster than a G4-450 even though the G4 has a better fpu. Also, I admit AMD has a history of poor FPU performance. But the K7 changes all that. In case you haven't looked at the benchmarks, A K7 is generally 5%-15% faster at every FPU benchmark out there {expect maybe the intel benchmarks =) }
Gamers? Nope, this is probably too expensive - and after the history of bad fpu and wierd incompatibilities / crash bugs that AMD has, I cant see gamers going for it.
Weird incompatibilities: All Windows require is a few extra drivers / patches to get things going. Installing them is pretty much the same as installing windows, you just keep on clicking NEXT and YES. In Linux, I have yet to see any problems with my K6-2. and crashes and bugs - It's the Intel CPUs that can't add correctly and has that weird F00F bug. AMD cpus ARE NOT cheap, crappy pieces of technology that will fail you and fry your computer. For gamers, those who are on a budget would probably go fora celeron, but those who want the best they can get - a K7-700 is it. Nothing intel makes (right now) can pump out as many FPS as a K7, just look at the benchmarks, K7s pretty much make every quake lamer drool and...
Servers? I really can't see it. Intel are firmly established in the server space, and cant see that ending.
Well, AMD cpus do not have SMP capabilities yet, but as soon as that's developed, AMD cpus will (hopefully) be better. Afterall, they have a faster (200 Mhz, 400 Mhz), more advanced bus (EV6 vs GTL+), along with better cpus (700 Mhz + 128k L1 + up to 8 Meg L2 vs 600 Mhz + 32k L1 + up to 2 Meg L2).
Office workstations? Nope, they will continue to be mid ranged intel cheaps supplied in bulk by Compaq / IBM. There is no need for this power.
Right, and they don't need the latest PIII to "make their internet go faster" either. That's where the K6-2 and K6-3 comes in. K6-2s go up from 350 to 500 mhz and they are dirt cheap. K6-3s are way faster than celerons at interger (aka office) applications and they offer a decent performance / price ratio.
Consumer boxes? Nope too expensive.
Same for intel, their cpus are just as expensive.
Sure it's a nice bit of kit, but who exactly would buy one? The big manufacturers won't use them considering AMD's history of supply problems.
Well, when the K7 first came out, people couldn't by one because Compaq was buying up all the supplies... Who knows, maybe if AMD starts pumping out K7s... we'll see...
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Try using the netscape client customizing kit. I got the windoze version and played around with it. Now, my netscape logo links to slashdot and my help menu has only 4 or 5 items in it.
You can also change "my netscape" back to "the guide" and change its links around. I'm not really sure what else you can do, but it _should_ be possible to change the logo and stuff...
/. Netscape anyone?:)
And as for the preferences.js, the only useful one I found was the ability to change the number of simultanious connections (remember that from NS 3?) but I forgot exactly how to do it.
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I posted a message a few weeks back about K7 vs P3 vs G4... K7 has better SPECint and G4 has better SPECfp when compared at the same clock speed.
I don't have anything against apple, their computers are decent and looks good, but K7s are compatible with just about every piece of PC hardware while a Mac can't use PC components with the exception of hard drives, usb devices, and a few video cards. With K7 500 prices coming down to around $200-$250, they are quickly becoming affordable and their performance is excellent while Apple's G4s are behind schedule and costs more.
I'd really like to see linux take advantage of AMD's 3d-now technology. And when K7 SMP develops... intel's gonna be panicking...:)
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I have seen video cards with RAMBUS ram, back in the days when the S3 Virge ruled the world, some of the early Rendition cards used RAMBUS ram, I have the specs in an old computer magazine somewhere, but I need to goto school soon so I can't really look it up right now:(
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Wait a minute.... first, the G4 500 numbers are estimated, second, I have actual results for http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.ed u/CIC/summary/local/ where the K7 650's SPECfp score is 0.2 points higher than the one given by Archintosh, third... Maserati failed to mention the SPECint95 results:
At home I feel the new server is slightly faster than the old one (ok, can't really tell on a 28.8) but at school we have a T1 so I can get a feeling about how fast it's going and I have to say the response times are better but the site was unavailable for about 30 minutes right before noon today (PST).
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Actually, some stores {althought they don't have any in stock:( } are selling the Libretto 110 for around $1100, not bad eh?
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Alright, instead of making a mess with paint and iron filings, how about this?
Measure the dimensions of your case
Find a design you like
Find a printshop where they can print really big stickers
Print out a sticker for each side of the case you want to cover
Carefully unpeel the stickers
Slap them onto each side of the computer
Tada! No more boring, beige colored computer
Oh ya, make sure the front and back side has cutouts for drive bays/leds/ports/etc and that the side panels have cutouts where the airvents (if any) are.
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Interesting, I like the fact that it has the device bays on one side and the motherboard / addon cards on the other. Plus it has several fan mountings on the hard drive side. Now you can put in a few 10,000 RPM hard drives without worrying about overheating. The $154 price (without power supply) aint bad either.
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Hey, I love star trek and I got a miniture Enterprise-D to prove it, but I think Iain M. Banks is far more creative than the star trek writers.
First off, the ship names are better. In star trek, all the ship names are like "Enterprise," "Excelsior," and "Defiant" while the culture has more interesting names such as GCU Prosthetic Conscience (my fav) and GSV No Fixed Abode. Also, the characters in the Culture are also smarter. I remember in Excession where a bot, about to be destroyed, fakes a suicide attack but instead uses it's laser to burn an encoded message onto the enemy ship's hull. Kirk/Picard/Sisko/Janeway would never have thought of something like that! The aliens are also much more interesting (probably because they are part of a book, not a tv show - no need for puppets/models/customes) but just to give you an idea, see what an Idiran looks like. Finally, the idea of a hedonistic society where you got perfect genes, a built in PDA, and the abilitity to change hex sounds a lot more exciting than exploring space and meeting strange aliens that all look alike.
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I go to a fairly good school, with about half the kids taking at least 1 AP class and our academic teams going to state / national competitions. Our technology department has a large gov grant and every class room has at least 2 computers and the computer labs have 20 celeron 433s each. (while nearby schools only have 486s)
Unfortunately, our CS courses here suck like *beep!* CS / CS Honors / AP CS are offered here. CS doesn't actually teach programming and all kids learn to do is make webpages using netscape composer and adding little animation and crap by stealing javascript codes and images from other sites. CS Honors teaches a little bit of C++ to prepare kids for AP CS. But AP CS is a joke and we ended up with 67% of the students failing the AP test. (I got a 5 of course...)
Anyhow, I blame the teachers for this. None of our teachers are real CS people. The CS/CS Honors teacher used to be a math teacher while the AP CS teacher used to be a physics teacher. Either one of them knows anything about computers and if you ask them what PERL is they'll tell you it came out of an oyster.
Well, our CS classes are going nowhere, if someone is a real programmer and is willing to teach... perhaps you should come and take over... we have a lovely school and lots of technology waiting for you!:)
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When was the last time you saw a 486 motherboard that was upgradeable to a pentium? Or even a pentium motherboard that was upgradeable to a pentium 2?
I upgraded my old 486-33 to a Cyrix 5x86-120, which offered "pentium level performance", I'm currently using an AMD K6-2 300 on a super 7 motherboard - upgradable to a k6-3, which can beat a P3-500 in interger perfromance - and yes, you can plug in a pentium 166mmx into this motherboard if you feel like it, thus making it a pentium motherboard.
available for a starting price of 1599. If anyone out there tells me that is too much money to pay for a computer with a top of the line processor, Modem, Ethernet, Firewire, USB, 128-bit video card, and more
For $1599, you can also buy a top of the line DELL computer with a P3-500, more memory, more hard drive space, all those features except the firewire, and a better video card... oh wait, it comes with a MONITOR too! what about that G4? I don't see a monitor anywhere...
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Try Litestep - www.litestep.org - It's a NeXTStep clone that offers a virtual desktop similar to the kind of virtual desktops in linux. Also, some video cards may come with a virtual desktop program as part of their driver/software package.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, I think that's how it is, at least for mices... I saw an USB intellimouse with a USB to PS2 converter.
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www.storagereview.com - I consider the website the best site for hard drive performance info and reviews, so far they have reviewed 81 hard drives. They also provide info about the latest hard drive, a forum for people with question, and look into hard drive technologies such as the effect of buffer size on hard drive performance. (and like any good website) Storage Review is frequently updated...
As for my personal experiences, my IBM 10.1 GB hard drive was dying and experience random shutdowns. I was able to pull my data off and restore from backups. IBM tech support was really helpful and I got a replacement within two weeks (it's a 14.4 GB) *grin*
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I too have a slow connection, here's what I do to make it faster:
:)
If you are trying to move a slashbox... say... up 5 times, instead of clicking it, waiting for it to load and clicking it 4 more times and waiting to load, click it once, and then hit "reload" on your browser 4 times, make sure there is a pause in between so that about 1k of the page loads up. And Tada, the slashbox magically moved up 5 spots
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on RAMBUS, intel chipsets, ram manufactures, sdram, and all the other good stuff...
"i820 - the story of one failure"
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I'm using slackware with kernel 2.2.12, if u just force the insertion of the module, it will work even though it says wrong kernel version. It's working fine and so far nothing bad has happened.
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actually I already installed xmms (downloaded, using the thread aware? libs)
A better question would probably be _how_ to upgrade, which is covered in another thread...
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are there any features I would _really_ want / need, I'm quite happy with slackware 4, should I stick with it or upgrade to 7.0?
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AMD NEEDS to find a way to get word of their chip out to consumers! To date I have only seen one Athelon in newspaper adds, surrounded by 7 or 8 PIII's! This had better change, AMD needs to make their chips not only better, but more popular!
Recently, I saw 3 full pages of AMD ads in PC Computing saying stuff like "Maximize Productivity" but I think the problem is that they are not making a name for themselves. People are mostly clueless and all they ever hear on TV is "intel inside" so when they go out to buy a computer, and they dunno what to get, they are gonna see an Athlon and a PIII sitting next to each other and go with the Intel computer simply because they have no idea what AMD is and will go with the Intel simply because of the brand name. Remember, technological superiority isn't gonna win every battle, you need to market your product (just ask micro$oft, hehe) What AMD needs is a TV campaign that will make the brand AMD and the processor ATHLON into something everyone recognizes.
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I've been looking at the hard drive industry and for the last two years I've been drooling at their hard drives all this time. First came the Deskstar 8... then the Deskstar 14... then the deskstar 22.... then the deskstar 34... and now the ultrastar 72. yes, we are all excited about these HUGE hard drives, but IBM has a tendency to announce them a long time before their release. And when they do release it, the OEMs such as DELL usually gets it first. Unless you got some inside connection with IBM or an OEM, I don't think you'll be able to get your hands on one of these babies for another six month.
:)
BTW, IBM tech support was kind enough to replace my dead 10 gig with a 14.4 GB
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btw - some of these stories lately have been kinda repetative:
AMD announces the xxx Mhz Athlon
Tom's hardware reviews the ______
Transmeta gets another patent
(MS/Dvorak/Whoever) spreading FUD about linux
:)
amd - enough already - we know they can take kryotech's refregeration tech and make the athlon go beyond 800 Mhz
tom's hardware - so what? - plenty of websites out there are dedicated to computer hardware, why do they always post tom's reviews? stop being biased toward anand!
transmeta - patience, my friend, patience - stop speculating and wait for their product to come out.
fud - it's all lies - much of it is just misinformation for the misinformed, and dvorak's just in it for the ad revenues... "stop feeding trolls and don't read spam"
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Right... AIs build more complex AIs and then you get Minds that run our lives and can solve all of society's problems in about 5 milliseconds and then spend the rest of its time in Infinite Fun Space.
Anyway, I wonder how they will program AIs with morality... how will AIs decide what's wrong and what's right? What will AIs do when they read the human history and find out how humans have mistreated each other? What if the AI is evil and want to kill all humans, can an AI keep its thoughts secret? just wondering here...
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Now this chip is expensive & probably needs a new MB to take advantage of it. This is an expensive upgrade - so who will go for it?
Intel is trying to make everyone to upgrade to a i820 motherboard and trying to make everyone switch to RAMBUS ram. Plus the new coppermine cpus aren't cheap either, so what's the difference between an Intel and an AMD upgrade?
Graphics / Video people? Nope these people are most likely to be looking at a G4 Mac or SGI these days. Or at least an x86 with history of good FPU performance (intel)
True, a G4 can outperform a K7 at the same clock rate, but G4s are not going to reach 700 Mhz anytime soon, so a K7-700 will be faster than a G4-450 even though the G4 has a better fpu. Also, I admit AMD has a history of poor FPU performance. But the K7 changes all that. In case you haven't looked at the benchmarks, A K7 is generally 5%-15% faster at every FPU benchmark out there {expect maybe the intel benchmarks =) }
Gamers? Nope, this is probably too expensive - and after the history of bad fpu and wierd incompatibilities / crash bugs that AMD has, I cant see gamers going for it.
Weird incompatibilities: All Windows require is a few extra drivers / patches to get things going. Installing them is pretty much the same as installing windows, you just keep on clicking NEXT and YES. In Linux, I have yet to see any problems with my K6-2. and crashes and bugs - It's the Intel CPUs that can't add correctly and has that weird F00F bug. AMD cpus ARE NOT cheap, crappy pieces of technology that will fail you and fry your computer. For gamers, those who are on a budget would probably go fora celeron, but those who want the best they can get - a K7-700 is it. Nothing intel makes (right now) can pump out as many FPS as a K7, just look at the benchmarks, K7s pretty much make every quake lamer drool and
Servers? I really can't see it. Intel are firmly established in the server space, and cant see that ending.
Well, AMD cpus do not have SMP capabilities yet, but as soon as that's developed, AMD cpus will (hopefully) be better. Afterall, they have a faster (200 Mhz, 400 Mhz), more advanced bus (EV6 vs GTL+), along with better cpus (700 Mhz + 128k L1 + up to 8 Meg L2 vs 600 Mhz + 32k L1 + up to 2 Meg L2).
Office workstations? Nope, they will continue to be mid ranged intel cheaps supplied in bulk by Compaq / IBM. There is no need for this power.
Right, and they don't need the latest PIII to "make their internet go faster" either. That's where the K6-2 and K6-3 comes in. K6-2s go up from 350 to 500 mhz and they are dirt cheap. K6-3s are way faster than celerons at interger (aka office) applications and they offer a decent performance / price ratio.
Consumer boxes? Nope too expensive.
Same for intel, their cpus are just as expensive.
Sure it's a nice bit of kit, but who exactly would buy one? The big manufacturers won't use them considering AMD's history of supply problems.
Well, when the K7 first came out, people couldn't by one because Compaq was buying up all the supplies... Who knows, maybe if AMD starts pumping out K7s... we'll see...
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Try using the netscape client customizing kit. I got the windoze version and played around with it. Now, my netscape logo links to slashdot and my help menu has only 4 or 5 items in it.
/. Netscape anyone? :)
You can also change "my netscape" back to "the guide" and change its links around. I'm not really sure what else you can do, but it _should_ be possible to change the logo and stuff...
And as for the preferences.js, the only useful one I found was the ability to change the number of simultanious connections (remember that from NS 3?) but I forgot exactly how to do it.
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Why do they require a customized browser to sign up? I personally never signed up online, but wouldn't signing up for an ISP basicly be:
1> dial their 800 number
2> login as guest
3> goto their website
4> fill out the form
5> hit submit
6> receive an username/pw/local access number
???
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I posted a message a few weeks back about K7 vs P3 vs G4... K7 has better SPECint and G4 has better SPECfp when compared at the same clock speed.
:)
I don't have anything against apple, their computers are decent and looks good, but K7s are compatible with just about every piece of PC hardware while a Mac can't use PC components with the exception of hard drives, usb devices, and a few video cards. With K7 500 prices coming down to around $200-$250, they are quickly becoming affordable and their performance is excellent while Apple's G4s are behind schedule and costs more.
I'd really like to see linux take advantage of AMD's 3d-now technology. And when K7 SMP develops... intel's gonna be panicking...
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I have seen video cards with RAMBUS ram, back in the days when the S3 Virge ruled the world, some of the early Rendition cards used RAMBUS ram, I have the specs in an old computer magazine somewhere, but I need to goto school soon so I can't really look it up right now :(
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Wait a minute.... first, the G4 500 numbers are estimated, second, I have actual results for http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.ed u/CIC/summary/local/ where the K7 650's SPECfp score is 0.2 points higher than the one given by Archintosh, third... Maserati failed to mention the SPECint95 results:
CPU Int FP
K7 550 23.6/20.6
K7 600 27.2/21.6
K7 650 29.4/22.4
P3 550 22.2/15.0
P3 600 24.0/15.9
G4 450 21.4/20.4
G4 500 23.8/22.6***
please note: I estimated the G4 500's SPECint score by dividing the G4 450's score by 450 and then multiplying by 500, rounding up
the SPECfp95 estimate is from the Archintosh website...
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At home I feel the new server is slightly faster than the old one (ok, can't really tell on a 28.8) but at school we have a T1 so I can get a feeling about how fast it's going and I have to say the response times are better but the site was unavailable for about 30 minutes right before noon today (PST).
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Actually, some stores {althought they don't have any in stock :( } are selling the Libretto 110 for around $1100, not bad eh?
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Oh ya, make sure the front and back side has cutouts for drive bays/leds/ports/etc and that the side panels have cutouts where the airvents (if any) are.
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Interesting, I like the fact that it has the device bays on one side and the motherboard / addon cards on the other. Plus it has several fan mountings on the hard drive side. Now you can put in a few 10,000 RPM hard drives without worrying about overheating. The $154 price (without power supply) aint bad either.
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Hey, I love star trek and I got a miniture Enterprise-D to prove it, but I think Iain M. Banks is far more creative than the star trek writers.
First off, the ship names are better. In star trek, all the ship names are like "Enterprise," "Excelsior," and "Defiant" while the culture has more interesting names such as GCU Prosthetic Conscience (my fav) and GSV No Fixed Abode. Also, the characters in the Culture are also smarter. I remember in Excession where a bot, about to be destroyed, fakes a suicide attack but instead uses it's laser to burn an encoded message onto the enemy ship's hull. Kirk/Picard/Sisko/Janeway would never have thought of something like that! The aliens are also much more interesting (probably because they are part of a book, not a tv show - no need for puppets/models/customes) but just to give you an idea, see what an Idiran looks like. Finally, the idea of a hedonistic society where you got perfect genes, a built in PDA, and the abilitity to change hex sounds a lot more exciting than exploring space and meeting strange aliens that all look alike.
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I go to a fairly good school, with about half the kids taking at least 1 AP class and our academic teams going to state / national competitions. Our technology department has a large gov grant and every class room has at least 2 computers and the computer labs have 20 celeron 433s each. (while nearby schools only have 486s)
:)
Unfortunately, our CS courses here suck like *beep!* CS / CS Honors / AP CS are offered here. CS doesn't actually teach programming and all kids learn to do is make webpages using netscape composer and adding little animation and crap by stealing javascript codes and images from other sites. CS Honors teaches a little bit of C++ to prepare kids for AP CS. But AP CS is a joke and we ended up with 67% of the students failing the AP test. (I got a 5 of course...)
Anyhow, I blame the teachers for this. None of our teachers are real CS people. The CS/CS Honors teacher used to be a math teacher while the AP CS teacher used to be a physics teacher. Either one of them knows anything about computers and if you ask them what PERL is they'll tell you it came out of an oyster.
Well, our CS classes are going nowhere, if someone is a real programmer and is willing to teach... perhaps you should come and take over... we have a lovely school and lots of technology waiting for you!
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When was the last time you saw a 486 motherboard that was upgradeable to a pentium? Or even a pentium motherboard that was upgradeable to a pentium 2?
I upgraded my old 486-33 to a Cyrix 5x86-120, which offered "pentium level performance", I'm currently using an AMD K6-2 300 on a super 7 motherboard - upgradable to a k6-3, which can beat a P3-500 in interger perfromance - and yes, you can plug in a pentium 166mmx into this motherboard if you feel like it, thus making it a pentium motherboard.
available for a starting price of 1599. If anyone out there tells me that is too much money to pay for a computer with a top of the line processor, Modem, Ethernet, Firewire, USB, 128-bit video card, and more
For $1599, you can also buy a top of the line DELL computer with a P3-500, more memory, more hard drive space, all those features except the firewire, and a better video card... oh wait, it comes with a MONITOR too! what about that G4? I don't see a monitor anywhere...
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There is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
Try Litestep - www.litestep.org - It's a NeXTStep clone that offers a virtual desktop similar to the kind of virtual desktops in linux. Also, some video cards may come with a virtual desktop program as part of their driver/software package.