Ah, but for my Via chipset, I had to go download all of the motherboard drivers, or 98 wouldn't let me use DMA or AGP... (fixed in SE)...
I had this nagging problem with my DVD drive under Windows... the checkbox was checked, but it never put the drive into DMA mode... of course, there's no error logs in 98 to let you know about that...
One you have to do yourself, and you can verify that it works, the other sometimes works easier, but you can't tell whether or not it happens to work (and why).
That's about right... for my home desktop, I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 all sorts of stuff, easily done. Of course, it is hiding behind a (Redhat or BSD) firewall (along with my Windows boxen... Amazing what is up and running by default on some of these distros... BIND!? I can't imagine a generic desktop setup that *really* depends on bind running locally (not that it comes pre-configured to do anything anyway). There are a lot of things that, yes, you can remove, but sometimes the time/hardfile tradeoff is well in faor of avoiding the thousands of choices and just throwing it all on... not the greatest idea from a security standpoint, but for a default setup, that's what you get... I thought I had a point... maybe not...
>Second, upload speeds on a cable modem really sucks. 17K/s isn't fun.
Yup, but tell that to somebody on a 56k dialup 8^)
I'm still waiting for my employer to support the VPN tunnel through DSL, so I can switch to that instead of my cable modem... right near the switch, too, so if I actually had the $$, I could get a big horkin' DSL pipe...
Well, the bigger issue about this is passing on a potential condition to someone (via the sperm bank) that is unaware of the condition. Prior knowledge of many medical conditions allows one to use a larger set of prevention, and can aid a doctor in diagnosing a problem at an earlier stage, when it can be treated more easily. If the sperm bank had this knowledge, and the to-be-parents that chose 'him' were aware of this, they may or may not have made the same decision, but they would have been aware, and that is what makes the bigger difference.
If I know that there is a history of (alzheimers/heart problems/cancer/asthma) in my family, should I not have children, since sometime late in their life, they might have to deal with these problems (assuming no advances in medicine)? I don't think that's the case. Would I anonymously donate my seed without it being accompanied by the proper information. No, I don't think that is right, either.
A family that I know had two children, the second of whom had Cystic Fibrosis. After consultation with their doctor, it was found that the chances of any of their children being affected was about 25%. They went ahead and had a third child, who was healthy, but they took that chance, because of the joys of being a parent, and the fact that they could provide a good life for their children, even if a life was shortened by a disease.
Tough decisions, and a lot of ethics. A perfect race may seem great, but what will we sacrifice to get there?
If you are 18-34, you shouldn't need Viagra... of course, just seeing Bob Dole on those commercials is enough to shut things down for an extended period of time...
I agree that good defaults are important, but KDE's default is set to look like 95/98, thus making the transition easier for the inexperienced beginner (who has, most likely, used Windows before). It would seem to be a more likely setup, at least at first.
>Rad-hardened memory isexpensive and the more RAM you have the more likely you are to experience SEUs (Single Event Upsets - where radiation flips a bit in RAM causing corruption)
Which is why just about any mission critical device uses ECC memory - takes care of those single bit errors without a delay... but only if that area is read before a second bit gets corrupted. Hence RAM scrubbing (RW all of the memory over a period of time, cleaning out any single bit errors. Good stuff.
Actually, no... except for the memory, you are not overclocking the PCI and AGP, or the rest of the board. 100 MHz is a standard speed, and the whole system should be very happy with that. Speeds like 75 and 83 would be a problem, since the standard divisors don't work there, but 100 is the way things "should be now". 4.5 * 66 = 300 4.5 * 100 = 450. That's why the Celeron 300a was/is one of the easiest overclocking chips. You can hit a nice speed point without overclocking anything but the CPU (unless you use PC-66 memory.... but that's just dumb).
Can the Mac boot off of the firewire disk? I didn't think it was able to at this point.
Also, the firewire disks themself are usually not up to the task of keeping up with quality digital recording (lots of extra RAM will help alleviate this, but there's no guarantee). The whole Firewire -> IDE bridge is a little clunky in terms of speed. If you can, stream all digital recording to a SCSI stripe set, if not a true RAID array (a little drop in write performance with the RAID setup as opposed to the stripe, but hey - you don't want to lose that perfect take!).
U2 SCSI runs LVD, so there shouldn't be a problem with distance (<12m)... PowerPC chips are amazingly power efficient compared to the x86 line, and I'd like to see more (PC type) machines besides the Macs being made with them (and low-end RS/6k machines).
Like I mentioned in another post, a U2W card, 5 drives, external enclosure, and 20 ft cable is cheaper than a 1GB ss drive... and you get 40 times the capacity...
On a normal PC SCSI host adapter, there is no distinction between internal and external drives - everything is done by the IDs. U2 LVD will let you run a (total) length of 12meters without regeneration. Should be plenty to get out of the way.
As for CD drives... get a Plextor (no I don't work for them). They are built amazingly solid, and the utility package they send you with the drive (for Windows) lets you limit the spin rate and set the spin down time. My 40x Wide UltraPlexMax is quieter than any 20x+ IDE CD drive I've been around, and if you set it down to 20x, 12x, or lower, it's nearly unnoticable. Good stuff, extra $$$.
The Quantum solid-state drive costs about $3-5k (depending if you are an OEM or not) for a 1GB drive... ouch. Much cheaper to buy 5 U2W 9 7200RPM drives, an external cabinet, and a 20-30 foot cable...
I've done a bunch of digital recording with PCs... the best way is to just have the head (KVM) in the room with you, and the rest in a separate room, but taking the drives to another room usually solves most of the problem.
I have a newer IBM 7200rpm drive that is far quieter than almost all of the 5400 drives I've had. Quiet seeks, very little spin noise. Very nice. The 5400rpm version of the same capacity point is dead silent... I can't even hear it seek with the case off...
The problem with ecstacy is that it damages your seratonin and dopamine paths in the brain. As my Psychopharmacology professor mentioned, you get a little fun now for a whole lot of severe depression later in life. Neurotransmitter balances are rather delicate in the brain, and if you happen to destroy a whole bunch of receptors... well, you are going to be a very depressed middle-aged person some day (assuming age < 30)... it only takes one time to blow away parts of your brain. Far more dangerous than cocaine in that respect (cocaine just plays with dopamine, not seratonin levels).
Note that France has the second highest rate of alcoholism as a culture/country. Granted, they don't binge drink, and don't have nearly as many alcohol related deaths (far fewer cars/people than the U.S.A. also).
The U.S. tends to be overly reactive to just about everything, due to one or more vocal minorities that manage to convince a lot of people that things are very very wrong... it's a tough place sometimes. You feel strange hugging a good friend who happens to be another guy, just because of what some people might think, or take a walk with my cousin (a pretty blond 13 years old), since someone might think I'm some sort of perv or child molester... pretty scary what people have made us worry about...
I'm in the US... lived in NJ, NY, and MN for extended time periods. The Anime club at the engineering/cs school I attended wasn't nearly as popular as I thought it would be, having heard all of this hype. A vocal minority of the nerd segment, but there seems to be a lot of non-nerds who like it as well - that was my point.
I've asked for people to point me toward good Anime, but everyone says that it'll cost a fair chunk... must be not-for-TV anime they are referring to...
Oooh, somebody who doesn't think enough of themself to even log in calls me a worthless sack of crap. Go back to alt.flame...
I know Anime happens to be popular, but it doesn't seem to be more popular with nerds than it does with elementary school children or even your average joe college. Non-nerd specific = not really/. material, IMNSHO.
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Ah, but for my Via chipset, I had to go download all of the motherboard drivers, or 98 wouldn't let me use DMA or AGP... (fixed in SE)...
I had this nagging problem with my DVD drive under Windows... the checkbox was checked, but it never put the drive into DMA mode... of course, there's no error logs in 98 to let you know about that...
One you have to do yourself, and you can verify that it works, the other sometimes works easier, but you can't tell whether or not it happens to work (and why).
Compile the right chipset into the kernel, then play with hdparm.
That's about right... for my home desktop, I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 all sorts of stuff, easily done. Of course, it is hiding behind a (Redhat or BSD) firewall (along with my Windows boxen... Amazing what is up and running by default on some of these distros... BIND!? I can't imagine a generic desktop setup that *really* depends on bind running locally (not that it comes pre-configured to do anything anyway). There are a lot of things that, yes, you can remove, but sometimes the time/hardfile tradeoff is well in faor of avoiding the thousands of choices and just throwing it all on... not the greatest idea from a security standpoint, but for a default setup, that's what you get...
I thought I had a point... maybe not...
>Second, upload speeds on a cable modem really sucks. 17K/s isn't fun.
Yup, but tell that to somebody on a 56k dialup 8^)
I'm still waiting for my employer to support the VPN tunnel through DSL, so I can switch to that instead of my cable modem... right near the switch, too, so if I actually had the $$, I could get a big horkin' DSL pipe...
Well, the bigger issue about this is passing on a potential condition to someone (via the sperm bank) that is unaware of the condition. Prior knowledge of many medical conditions allows one to use a larger set of prevention, and can aid a doctor in diagnosing a problem at an earlier stage, when it can be treated more easily. If the sperm bank had this knowledge, and the to-be-parents that chose 'him' were aware of this, they may or may not have made the same decision, but they would have been aware, and that is what makes the bigger difference.
If I know that there is a history of (alzheimers/heart problems/cancer/asthma) in my family, should I not have children, since sometime late in their life, they might have to deal with these problems (assuming no advances in medicine)? I don't think that's the case. Would I anonymously donate my seed without it being accompanied by the proper information. No, I don't think that is right, either.
A family that I know had two children, the second of whom had Cystic Fibrosis. After consultation with their doctor, it was found that the chances of any of their children being affected was about 25%. They went ahead and had a third child, who was healthy, but they took that chance, because of the joys of being a parent, and the fact that they could provide a good life for their children, even if a life was shortened by a disease.
Tough decisions, and a lot of ethics. A perfect race may seem great, but what will we sacrifice to get there?
But red meat is so tasty... I couldn't give it up... that and I've never been a big fan of vegetables.
Better make it Vegan, while you're at it - milk and cheese are pretty costly in the grain dept, too...
Either one is acceptable these days...
If you are 18-34, you shouldn't need Viagra... of course, just seeing Bob Dole on those commercials is enough to shut things down for an extended period of time...
I agree that good defaults are important, but KDE's default is set to look like 95/98, thus making the transition easier for the inexperienced beginner (who has, most likely, used Windows before). It would seem to be a more likely setup, at least at first.
>Rad-hardened memory isexpensive and the more RAM you have the more likely you are to experience SEUs (Single Event Upsets - where radiation flips a bit in RAM causing corruption)
Which is why just about any mission critical device uses ECC memory - takes care of those single bit errors without a delay... but only if that area is read before a second bit gets corrupted. Hence RAM scrubbing (RW all of the memory over a period of time, cleaning out any single bit errors. Good stuff.
Actually, in KDE 1.x you could move the close button (and the others) to whichever side you wanted, and/or remove them. Pretty easy.'
Actually, no... except for the memory, you are not overclocking the PCI and AGP, or the rest of the board. 100 MHz is a standard speed, and the whole system should be very happy with that. Speeds like 75 and 83 would be a problem, since the standard divisors don't work there, but 100 is the way things "should be now". 4.5 * 66 = 300 4.5 * 100 = 450. That's why the Celeron 300a was/is one of the easiest overclocking chips. You can hit a nice speed point without overclocking anything but the CPU (unless you use PC-66 memory.... but that's just dumb).
300 => 450 = stable motherboard speeds.
>I'm not the kind of person who would pay thousands of dollars to trick out a lousy car with a stereo system and 18 racing stripes...
;-p)
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phenomenon...
(currently running two Celeron 300a s @450/464, a PMMX 200 @ 250/266 and a K6-2 500 @ 500
Can the Mac boot off of the firewire disk? I didn't think it was able to at this point.
Also, the firewire disks themself are usually not up to the task of keeping up with quality digital recording (lots of extra RAM will help alleviate this, but there's no guarantee). The whole Firewire -> IDE bridge is a little clunky in terms of speed. If you can, stream all digital recording to a SCSI stripe set, if not a true RAID array (a little drop in write performance with the RAID setup as opposed to the stripe, but hey - you don't want to lose that perfect take!).
U2 SCSI runs LVD, so there shouldn't be a problem with distance (<12m)... PowerPC chips are amazingly power efficient compared to the x86 line, and I'd like to see more (PC type) machines besides the Macs being made with them (and low-end RS/6k machines).
Like I mentioned in another post, a U2W card, 5 drives, external enclosure, and 20 ft cable is cheaper than a 1GB ss drive... and you get 40 times the capacity...
Donuts are the natural sugar compliment to caffeine in the form of coffee or Dew... mmmmm, cream filled...
On a normal PC SCSI host adapter, there is no distinction between internal and external drives - everything is done by the IDs. U2 LVD will let you run a (total) length of 12meters without regeneration. Should be plenty to get out of the way.
As for CD drives... get a Plextor (no I don't work for them). They are built amazingly solid, and the utility package they send you with the drive (for Windows) lets you limit the spin rate and set the spin down time. My 40x Wide UltraPlexMax is quieter than any 20x+ IDE CD drive I've been around, and if you set it down to 20x, 12x, or lower, it's nearly unnoticable. Good stuff, extra $$$.
The Quantum solid-state drive costs about $3-5k (depending if you are an OEM or not) for a 1GB drive... ouch. Much cheaper to buy 5 U2W 9 7200RPM drives, an external cabinet, and a 20-30 foot cable...
I've done a bunch of digital recording with PCs... the best way is to just have the head (KVM) in the room with you, and the rest in a separate room, but taking the drives to another room usually solves most of the problem.
I have a newer IBM 7200rpm drive that is far quieter than almost all of the 5400 drives I've had. Quiet seeks, very little spin noise. Very nice. The 5400rpm version of the same capacity point is dead silent... I can't even hear it seek with the case off...
4. Web-forum post
5. Usenet post
6. there is no power number 6
7. MacInsider article
8. Jon Katz article
9. never telling anybody
Sounds good, I'll tell my congressman to get that tacked on as a rider to the next random bill ;-)
The problem with ecstacy is that it damages your seratonin and dopamine paths in the brain. As my Psychopharmacology professor mentioned, you get a little fun now for a whole lot of severe depression later in life. Neurotransmitter balances are rather delicate in the brain, and if you happen to destroy a whole bunch of receptors... well, you are going to be a very depressed middle-aged person some day (assuming age < 30)... it only takes one time to blow away parts of your brain. Far more dangerous than cocaine in that respect (cocaine just plays with dopamine, not seratonin levels).
Dehydration or not, I wouldn't mess with that...
I got a laugh out of it...
Note that France has the second highest rate of alcoholism as a culture/country. Granted, they don't binge drink, and don't have nearly as many alcohol related deaths (far fewer cars/people than the U.S.A. also).
The U.S. tends to be overly reactive to just about everything, due to one or more vocal minorities that manage to convince a lot of people that things are very very wrong... it's a tough place sometimes. You feel strange hugging a good friend who happens to be another guy, just because of what some people might think, or take a walk with my cousin (a pretty blond 13 years old), since someone might think I'm some sort of perv or child molester... pretty scary what people have made us worry about...
I'm in the US... lived in NJ, NY, and MN for extended time periods. The Anime club at the engineering/cs school I attended wasn't nearly as popular as I thought it would be, having heard all of this hype. A vocal minority of the nerd segment, but there seems to be a lot of non-nerds who like it as well - that was my point.
I've asked for people to point me toward good Anime, but everyone says that it'll cost a fair chunk... must be not-for-TV anime they are referring to...
How are namespaces one of the 'good things'?
Oooh, somebody who doesn't think enough of themself to even log in calls me a worthless sack of crap. Go back to alt.flame...
/. material, IMNSHO.
I know Anime happens to be popular, but it doesn't seem to be more popular with nerds than it does with elementary school children or even your average joe college. Non-nerd specific = not really