True, true - IBM did supply the memory chips... forgot about that... the SRAMs weren't the sole cause (when improperly used, most anything can be an issue), but they were a factor. IBM has such a wide array of technology products (many on the cutting edge) that it is tough for almost any large system to use them somewhere... heck, EMC has used IBM drives in their arrays before:)
Was the S/390 - the new models are eServer zSeries (including the z900)... no more slashes, just big red "e"s and lots of other uncapitalized letters...
Now that seems a lot more useful - things that guess too much at the user's intent are quite annoying... my Wife started typing on her laptop yesterday, and all of a sudden "Hey Skipper! It looks like you are typing a letter!!! Want some help?!!! I can *write this for you *copy one of your old, unrelated notes into this one *correct anything I don't understand as a word (includes most of the known English language) or *pester you until you manage to disable this option (option removed with Nifty Doorways service pack 17"
As if the FTC/SEC/EU would let that happen... since HP and Compaq effectively decided to self-diminish, the "merger" of the two largest commercial Un*x server companies would probably raise a few eyebrows... something about a Parker Brothers' game, I believe...
A timer doesn't really solve the problem... if one were to push one's mouse to the edge and leave it there (as I mentioned, just slam it to one side to get the pointer out of the way) the mouse stays there for a fairly long time... I'm just pointing out a (known) basic flaw.
As long as you can turn that feature off, I wouldn't mind them including it:) That has got to be one of the single most annoying features for me... I routinely slam my mouse off to the side when I need to read a large chunk of text, and if things started moving, that's not so nice... maybe once you are at the end, being able to switch to the next desktop with a specific mouse button would be nice (especially with a 4+ button trackball). I never use the desktop selector on the KPanel (minimize 99% of the time), but I usually have the pager up, and I often switch desktops with Ctrl-F#...
It's all just personal preference. Auto-window raise drives me insane, too... working at someone else's login when they have auto-raise makes me want to throw the mouse through the screen:-)
I have a BH6, which aside from an AsusP2B, has been the most rock-solid board I've ever owned... as with all boards, it does help to have quality memory in it (I've only ever run reg/ECC ram in this one).
It shouldn't be too long after KDE3 is released that there would be rpms available for 8.2, and I'd venture a guess that they would make their way into the Mandrake Update sites - I know it doesn't solve the problem for standalone or low bandwidth machines, but this is one of the continuing issues - distro X is released just before the next full release of (KDE/Gnome/Mozilla/XFree/Tuxracer/ls)... Trying to coordinate between the various distros and every major project is, at this time, well beyond what can be easily done... moving targets for kernels, compilers, browsers, desktop enviornments, X servers, etc, etc, etc, etc cause enough problems when limited to their own little worlds.
The relative abundance of bandwidth and CD burners makes releases a little easier - you have most of what you want in a distro, and chances are you can download the updates, or someone you know can get them and burn them for you.
I'll agree on this one - my wife is going into teaching - she was in the top 3 in her HS class, great test scores... started in college in biology/biophysics. While there she worked with an outreach program at a grade school with disadvanteged youth in the classrooms. She decided teaching would be more personally rewarding than bio, and changed over to psych/elementary ed... she's already run into a little bit of the troubles in her classroom field experiences, but she loves the time she gets to spend with the kids.
Many of us have the intelligence necessary to teach (whether it be K->12 or college), but it takes a the right personality, especially with the younger children (something I don't have, but my wife does). It is a special gift to have both. A good teacher can really make a huge difference in a child's development (something I know from my own childhood), and it is sad that some of the best people for the job get driven out by the administrative junk, and even more sad that more are lost to other, higher paying careers that (honestly) don't have as much of a positive impact on the world.
My wife let her career forcus change because of what would be rewarding to her, not to her pocketbook. We should all be so lucky to have that choice and be able to take it.
Depending on your enviornment... I have a few different machines all hooked up to a KVM switch (ps/2). Now, a couple of the systems support USB (one only recently after the NT4->W2k switchover), and the others have broken (Via) or non-existant (Alpha) USB ports... Even if I did switch, I'd need to invest in a new KVM, cables, and new kb/trackball - I haven't found anything as good as my Logitech Trackman Marble (pre-mouse-wheel)...
I also use serial cables for connecting to the UPS (no direct net module yet, and no USB support on the real ones), interfacing with my 6811 and 68332 EVBs, etc, etc..
I disable my USB ports and IDE controllers to save interrupts, which leaves me more than enough...
Not all non-profits have tax-deductable status... there are certain cases, but it isn't automatic. Most contributions to educational charities are tax-deductable... The FoP is a non-profit, but contributions are not deductable (this goes for most of the law-enforcement non-profits) - on the other hand, donations to the VFW and National Arson Prevention are deductable...
Relevant links can be found here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/15/225321 2
I know what you mean - I've spent a good portion of time recently parsing through compiled code (with two versions of a compiler) to make sure things were properly optimized in both (of course, they weren't). The tricks we must play to speed up memory copies with the least instructions possible... mmmmm. At least it was on a full register set machine (PowerPC 740)... Thank goodness for all of those GPRs:)
A some restaurants, they don't require signatures for purchases under $50... not too bad. That, and pay-at-the-pump systems don't require sigs, either... gas and food - what else do you need?
Re:How to modem accelerate as a webmaster
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Not sure why you think they are faked... Viewing the page in my browser, it has already been decompressed. Here are the steps.
Page open in browser (Netscrape in my case) I saved off the page (File->Save As) listed the size with an ls -l (size = 366858) verified with an editor (ez) that the file was uncompressed html. gzip [file] ls -l file.gz (size = 66240 18% of original size is easily in range for HTML docs)
...used the two numbers and a speed of 5kB to estimate simple case transfer times. I used 'time' on gzip to obtain system time spent on that task. Pretty easy to replicate. I suggest you give it a try.
Re:How to modem accelerate as a webmaster
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If the pages are static content, A) can be relieved with caching of the gzipped pages. If you are generating dynamic content (via DB lookups, etc), you'll have more of a hit, but relative to the the lookup time, the gzipping is fairly quick.
B) you may be stuck with, but on a P100/64MB playing 192kb MP3s while surfing to a fairly involved site (say 500kB/page) the time saved over the link will more than make up for the decompression (yes, I've tried this myself). There was a large discussion on this quite some time ago (probably close to a year), and if the proc isn't pegged on the server, the client still saves time...
Quick numbers for an actual page (366858 bytes): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/ 04/204622 6&mode=nested Raw page transfer: 366858 Bytes/(5kB/s) = ~71.65s
Gzip time:.3us on a 375Mhz PPC RS/6k with.7 load Transfer time: 66240 Bytes / (5kB/s) = ~12.94s So, unless the client will spend more than a minute to decompress this file, you will be saving time... decompressing a few.gif/.png/.jpgs for a page will be just as costly...
I've used the Rayovac Renewals in my dig cam, portable CD/headphone amp... they last pretty well. Fairly close in runtime to a regular alkaline, and they last for ~40 full charges (and usually another 30 decent charges after that). I've been impressed, and apparently saved a lot of money (on a small scale - no new car from these).
If there are a few choice in cameras that would meet your needs, I'd suggest one that takes standard size batteries... it does pay off in the long run...
...geez - that sounds like an ad... but I really do like them, and am using some as I write this (mmmm, good headphones with a headphone amp == happiness).
Nope, especially in embedded systems based on C/C++... nothing like infinite memory and automatic garbage collection by the sillicon these days... we have that, right? Oh...
Re:Something that isn't pointed out enough
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>Navapsvc @ 10.998K
Norton Antivirus seems to take up exponentially more memory each release... kind of a pain it you are memory limited.
Just another note - Get ECC memory. It costs a few bucks more, but if your chipset supports it (and almost all do since the BX) it is well worth it in the long run. A cheap, effective increase to data integrity is always a Good Thing.
Yeah - I compared my video cards, and my old WD 512k ISA video card beats out the new nVidia cards by a large amount in terms of total number and size of chips... the memory chips are all in sockets (so they stand off the card quite a bit) and the capacity of each chip is apparently horribly small (by todays standards) so it looks like I have 512 chips for 512k of memory:) That's a *lot* of dimensions... too bad my monitor is flat, or I'd hook that card up and zoom through time and space.
As for the cutting disks on the rotary tool... skip the "Heavy Duty" disks... they aren't much better than the standard stone cutting disks (which is why they come in packs of 20-40).
Get the fiberglass reinforced disks (~$1/disk). They cut through stainless steel without wearing much, and they *don't crack*.
Re:don't follow their instructions word for word..
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>kepp it away from the electronics.
Like the horribly sensitive GMR heads on any newer HD... or the (less sensitive but still damagable) controller card on the back of the drive.
Use a good static bag (silver, not black web, pink, blue, or bubble wrap). Fold the end over... Also, doing this in winter means you should artificially raise the humidity in the room (low RelHumidity leads to a lot of ESD and far more dust problems).
>Wouldn't that give a better approximation of how good a card would be when you need that extra grunt to ge tyou through the thick scenes?
Yes it would:
Some of the reviews use benchmarks of certain games, with scripted "worst-case scenarios"... with Quake, people often tested with a "crusher" playback file, which was a capture of a really massive battle scene with many rockets, players, etc... the average fps on that demo is a pretty good lower bound... I'm sure that people have constructed similar scenarios for Q3, UT, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc... Maybe checking through the reviews at TomsHardware or AnandTech would reveal some of these... I haven't been keeping up on all of the benchmarks for the last year or so.
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True, true - IBM did supply the memory chips... forgot about that... the SRAMs weren't the sole cause (when improperly used, most anything can be an issue), but they were a factor. IBM has such a wide array of technology products (many on the cutting edge) that it is tough for almost any large system to use them somewhere... heck, EMC has used IBM drives in their arrays before :)
Actually, TI was fabbing the UltraSPARC IIIs (check out the news items about the L2 cache issues, etc)...
In fact, TI has fabbed for Sun since 1988... you can find it in the press releases on Sun's site, or google for it.
Was the S/390 - the new models are eServer zSeries (including the z900)... no more slashes, just big red "e"s and lots of other uncapitalized letters...
Now that seems a lot more useful - things that guess too much at the user's intent are quite annoying... my Wife started typing on her laptop yesterday, and all of a sudden "Hey Skipper! It looks like you are typing a letter!!! Want some help?!!! I can *write this for you *copy one of your old, unrelated notes into this one *correct anything I don't understand as a word (includes most of the known English language) or *pester you until you manage to disable this option (option removed with Nifty Doorways service pack 17"
(apologies to www.ubersoft.net)
As if the FTC/SEC/EU would let that happen... since HP and Compaq effectively decided to self-diminish, the "merger" of the two largest commercial Un*x server companies would probably raise a few eyebrows... something about a Parker Brothers' game, I believe...
A timer doesn't really solve the problem... if one were to push one's mouse to the edge and leave it there (as I mentioned, just slam it to one side to get the pointer out of the way) the mouse stays there for a fairly long time... I'm just pointing out a (known) basic flaw.
As long as you can turn that feature off, I wouldn't mind them including it :) That has got to be one of the single most annoying features for me... I routinely slam my mouse off to the side when I need to read a large chunk of text, and if things started moving, that's not so nice... maybe once you are at the end, being able to switch to the next desktop with a specific mouse button would be nice (especially with a 4+ button trackball). I never use the desktop selector on the KPanel (minimize 99% of the time), but I usually have the pager up, and I often switch desktops with Ctrl-F#...
:-)
It's all just personal preference. Auto-window raise drives me insane, too... working at someone else's login when they have auto-raise makes me want to throw the mouse through the screen
I have a BH6, which aside from an AsusP2B, has been the most rock-solid board I've ever owned... as with all boards, it does help to have quality memory in it (I've only ever run reg/ECC ram in this one).
It shouldn't be too long after KDE3 is released that there would be rpms available for 8.2, and I'd venture a guess that they would make their way into the Mandrake Update sites - I know it doesn't solve the problem for standalone or low bandwidth machines, but this is one of the continuing issues - distro X is released just before the next full release of (KDE/Gnome/Mozilla/XFree/Tuxracer/ls)... Trying to coordinate between the various distros and every major project is, at this time, well beyond what can be easily done... moving targets for kernels, compilers, browsers, desktop enviornments, X servers, etc, etc, etc, etc cause enough problems when limited to their own little worlds.
The relative abundance of bandwidth and CD burners makes releases a little easier - you have most of what you want in a distro, and chances are you can download the updates, or someone you know can get them and burn them for you.
I'll agree on this one - my wife is going into teaching - she was in the top 3 in her HS class, great test scores... started in college in biology/biophysics. While there she worked with an outreach program at a grade school with disadvanteged youth in the classrooms. She decided teaching would be more personally rewarding than bio, and changed over to psych/elementary ed... she's already run into a little bit of the troubles in her classroom field experiences, but she loves the time she gets to spend with the kids.
Many of us have the intelligence necessary to teach (whether it be K->12 or college), but it takes a the right personality, especially with the younger children (something I don't have, but my wife does). It is a special gift to have both. A good teacher can really make a huge difference in a child's development (something I know from my own childhood), and it is sad that some of the best people for the job get driven out by the administrative junk, and even more sad that more are lost to other, higher paying careers that (honestly) don't have as much of a positive impact on the world.
My wife let her career forcus change because of what would be rewarding to her, not to her pocketbook. We should all be so lucky to have that choice and be able to take it.
Depending on your enviornment... I have a few different machines all hooked up to a KVM switch (ps/2). Now, a couple of the systems support USB (one only recently after the NT4->W2k switchover), and the others have broken (Via) or non-existant (Alpha) USB ports... Even if I did switch, I'd need to invest in a new KVM, cables, and new kb/trackball - I haven't found anything as good as my Logitech Trackman Marble (pre-mouse-wheel)...
I also use serial cables for connecting to the UPS (no direct net module yet, and no USB support on the real ones), interfacing with my 6811 and 68332 EVBs, etc, etc..
I disable my USB ports and IDE controllers to save interrupts, which leaves me more than enough...
In the online documentation for 8.1, you can find the security info in the reference guide:
h tm l/x5054.html
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/81/en/ref.
Not all non-profits have tax-deductable status... there are certain cases, but it isn't automatic. Most contributions to educational charities are tax-deductable... The FoP is a non-profit, but contributions are not deductable (this goes for most of the law-enforcement non-profits) - on the other hand, donations to the VFW and National Arson Prevention are deductable...
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Relevant links can be found here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/15/22532
I know what you mean - I've spent a good portion of time recently parsing through compiled code (with two versions of a compiler) to make sure things were properly optimized in both (of course, they weren't). The tricks we must play to speed up memory copies with the least instructions possible... mmmmm. At least it was on a full register set machine (PowerPC 740)... Thank goodness for all of those GPRs :)
A some restaurants, they don't require signatures for purchases under $50... not too bad. That, and pay-at-the-pump systems don't require sigs, either... gas and food - what else do you need?
Not sure why you think they are faked...
Viewing the page in my browser, it has already been decompressed. Here are the steps.
Page open in browser (Netscrape in my case)
I saved off the page (File->Save As)
listed the size with an ls -l (size = 366858)
verified with an editor (ez) that the file was uncompressed html.
gzip [file]
ls -l file.gz (size = 66240 18% of original size is easily in range for HTML docs)
...used the two numbers and a speed of 5kB to estimate simple case transfer times. I used 'time' on gzip to obtain system time spent on that task. Pretty easy to replicate. I suggest you give it a try.
If the pages are static content, A) can be relieved with caching of the gzipped pages. If you are generating dynamic content (via DB lookups, etc), you'll have more of a hit, but relative to the the lookup time, the gzipping is fairly quick.
/ 04/204622 6&mode=nested /(5kB/s) = ~71.65s
.3us on a 375Mhz PPC RS/6k with .7 load .gif/.png/.jpgs for a page will be just as costly...
B) you may be stuck with, but on a P100/64MB playing 192kb MP3s while surfing to a fairly involved site (say 500kB/page) the time saved over the link will more than make up for the decompression (yes, I've tried this myself). There was a large discussion on this quite some time ago (probably close to a year), and if the proc isn't pegged on the server, the client still saves time...
Quick numbers for an actual page (366858 bytes):
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03
Raw page transfer: 366858 Bytes
Gzip time:
Transfer time: 66240 Bytes / (5kB/s) = ~12.94s
So, unless the client will spend more than a minute to decompress this file, you will be saving time... decompressing a few
I've used the Rayovac Renewals in my dig cam, portable CD/headphone amp... they last pretty well. Fairly close in runtime to a regular alkaline, and they last for ~40 full charges (and usually another 30 decent charges after that). I've been impressed, and apparently saved a lot of money (on a small scale - no new car from these).
If there are a few choice in cameras that would meet your needs, I'd suggest one that takes standard size batteries... it does pay off in the long run...
...geez - that sounds like an ad... but I really do like them, and am using some as I write this (mmmm, good headphones with a headphone amp == happiness).
>memory leaks are not important anymore.
Nope, especially in embedded systems based on C/C++... nothing like infinite memory and automatic garbage collection by the sillicon these days... we have that, right? Oh...
>Navapsvc @ 10.998K
Norton Antivirus seems to take up exponentially more memory each release... kind of a pain it you are memory limited.
Just another note - Get ECC memory. It costs a few bucks more, but if your chipset supports it (and almost all do since the BX) it is well worth it in the long run. A cheap, effective increase to data integrity is always a Good Thing.
Yeah - I compared my video cards, and my old WD 512k ISA video card beats out the new nVidia cards by a large amount in terms of total number and size of chips... the memory chips are all in sockets (so they stand off the card quite a bit) and the capacity of each chip is apparently horribly small (by todays standards) so it looks like I have 512 chips for 512k of memory :) That's a *lot* of dimensions... too bad my monitor is flat, or I'd hook that card up and zoom through time and space.
As for the cutting disks on the rotary tool... skip the "Heavy Duty" disks... they aren't much better than the standard stone cutting disks (which is why they come in packs of 20-40).
Get the fiberglass reinforced disks (~$1/disk). They cut through stainless steel without wearing much, and they *don't crack*.
>kepp it away from the electronics.
Like the horribly sensitive GMR heads on any newer HD... or the (less sensitive but still damagable) controller card on the back of the drive.
Use a good static bag (silver, not black web, pink, blue, or bubble wrap). Fold the end over... Also, doing this in winter means you should artificially raise the humidity in the room (low RelHumidity leads to a lot of ESD and far more dust problems).
>Wouldn't that give a better approximation of how good a card would be when you need that extra grunt to ge tyou through the thick scenes?
Yes it would:
Some of the reviews use benchmarks of certain games, with scripted "worst-case scenarios"... with Quake, people often tested with a "crusher" playback file, which was a capture of a really massive battle scene with many rockets, players, etc... the average fps on that demo is a pretty good lower bound... I'm sure that people have constructed similar scenarios for Q3, UT, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc... Maybe checking through the reviews at TomsHardware or AnandTech would reveal some of these... I haven't been keeping up on all of the benchmarks for the last year or so.