Copy protection usually includes code to make sure the game isn't tampered with; that includes viruses etc. Disabling debuggers is just part of preventing the exe being examined or modified; probably along with cryping the exe on disk.
These, I doubt 99.9% of users will even notice, but permanently disabling debuggers *and* virtual CD drives? Installing drivers? Not removing them when uninstalled? That's enough for me to classify your apps as scumware.
Doesn't look so bad on my TFT, but it's worse on my CRT. Really, you're better off mailing Taco or someone with suggestions for something better than making endless off-topic postings to every single IT article.
First step's a no-brainer; next one isn't too bad, after that you're hitting significant diminishing returns, with each 200MHz gap being a smaller proportion of the total clock, not to mention other things becoming more likely to bottleneck (IO; memory bandwidth, disk latency, network, PCI bus, etc).
Core differences are going to be minimal, and hypertransport's remained at 800MHz across the S940 range afaik, so the clocks *should* be a pretty accurate upper bound on the performance differences within each range.
For things like databases, sure; it's no good saying "This Xeon executes a single threaded set of db ops slower than this Opteron" when the usual workload of a database is to serve multiple clients at once; each thread might be quite significantly slower, but if you can run two of them per CPU at that speed you're not as behind as a single threaded benchmark might suggest.
Sure; Ruby, Python, LISP, SmallTalk, even Perl and PHP; these are dynamically typed languages, although they may also be dynamic in other ways (like with regard to run-time code generation and modification).
Not to be confused with scripting languages, which is more about a language's environment than the language itself; you can make C into a scripting language with the right tools, but you're not going to make it into a dynamic one without changing the language itself.
Because one day maybe they will stack multiple layers on a card. Maybe they'll come up with a larger form-factor (like CF Type 2 as used by microdrives), or maybe they'll turn into endpoints for access to remote storage (in which case 2TB suddenly looks rather small; I've got 1/4 that in my desktop already).
What are you gaining by using XHTML if you're just jumping through more hoops to make it work? You can only serve documents as text/html while they meet the compatability profile (does the W3C validator check that you followed *that*?), which basically tries to keep it looking to browsers like malformed but parseable HTML 4; and that's exactly how they handle it. How is that better than having them handle well formed HTML 4.01 Strict sent with the proper MIME type with no extra complications dealing with Accept headers and content types?
For the record, I once bothered to do it properly. HTML 4.01 Strict to most clients; XHTML 1.1 to clients which claim to accept it. Costs a bit of string matching, a small XSLT and a lot of testing.
The benefit? Uh, well, I got on the X-Philes and learnt some stuff about XHTML; namely that it's not really worth using in most circumstances.
RAID-0 = minimum of 2 drives. RAID-10 = minimum of 4 drives and really needs a more fancy RAID card than that £15 thing you picked up from eBuyer. RAID levels.
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You print out code lots? I don't; if I did I'd be sure to avoid using retarded software which won't let me change the printed ts.
Any other reasons I should be using spaces?
FreeBSD has dummynet; I'd guess OpenBSD has something similar.
Better make it pretty powerful if it's going to blow apart a 747 into bits small enough to only cause "minor damage".
Copy protection usually includes code to make sure the game isn't tampered with; that includes viruses etc. Disabling debuggers is just part of preventing the exe being examined or modified; probably along with cryping the exe on disk.
These, I doubt 99.9% of users will even notice, but permanently disabling debuggers *and* virtual CD drives? Installing drivers? Not removing them when uninstalled? That's enough for me to classify your apps as scumware.
I use CF as main storage for my iPAQ; for me that was the entire point of getting a SD WiFi card.
£42 for a 512M CF card. £70 for a 80x version. £76 for 1G. Similar prices at all the usual places.
There's a tradeoff between price, longevity, capacity and speed; I sure hope your 256M card's nice and fast with a lot of write cycles on it.
Doesn't look so bad on my TFT, but it's worse on my CRT. Really, you're better off mailing Taco or someone with suggestions for something better than making endless off-topic postings to every single IT article.
Personally, I recommend the tritanopic version.
My favourite presentation system. Shouldn't be difficult to add support in Firefox, Safari, etc; nothing in it that's not in the CSS spec.
240 = 1.4GHz, £145
242 = 1.6GHz, +£15 / +14% faster clock
244 = 1.8GHz, +£90 / +28%
246 = 2.0GHz, +£190 / +43%
248 = 2.2GHz, +£345 / +57%
250 = 2.4GHz, +£465 / + 71%
First step's a no-brainer; next one isn't too bad, after that you're hitting significant diminishing returns, with each 200MHz gap being a smaller proportion of the total clock, not to mention other things becoming more likely to bottleneck (IO; memory bandwidth, disk latency, network, PCI bus, etc).
Core differences are going to be minimal, and hypertransport's remained at 800MHz across the S940 range afaik, so the clocks *should* be a pretty accurate upper bound on the performance differences within each range.
For things like databases, sure; it's no good saying "This Xeon executes a single threaded set of db ops slower than this Opteron" when the usual workload of a database is to serve multiple clients at once; each thread might be quite significantly slower, but if you can run two of them per CPU at that speed you're not as behind as a single threaded benchmark might suggest.
Ruby is dynamic but strongly typed; PHP is also dynamic, but is weakly typed, i.e:
Sure; Ruby, Python, LISP, SmallTalk, even Perl and PHP; these are dynamically typed languages, although they may also be dynamic in other ways (like with regard to run-time code generation and modification).
Not to be confused with scripting languages, which is more about a language's environment than the language itself; you can make C into a scripting language with the right tools, but you're not going to make it into a dynamic one without changing the language itself.
"Higher priorities are maintainable and reliable code."
Which is why so many people develop with dynamic languages. Bloat isn't just at the runtime side of things; it's at development time too.
Guess your next system will be an AMD64.
Ogg WAV? :)
Maybe Matroska; foobar2000 supports that at least.
Because one day maybe they will stack multiple layers on a card. Maybe they'll come up with a larger form-factor (like CF Type 2 as used by microdrives), or maybe they'll turn into endpoints for access to remote storage (in which case 2TB suddenly looks rather small; I've got 1/4 that in my desktop already).
Prefix from FOLDOC.
Eh, widescreen? Olympus enable panorama mode in their cameras if you use an Olympus xD card; that's about it afaik.
What are you gaining by using XHTML if you're just jumping through more hoops to make it work? You can only serve documents as text/html while they meet the compatability profile (does the W3C validator check that you followed *that*?), which basically tries to keep it looking to browsers like malformed but parseable HTML 4; and that's exactly how they handle it. How is that better than having them handle well formed HTML 4.01 Strict sent with the proper MIME type with no extra complications dealing with Accept headers and content types?
For the record, I once bothered to do it properly. HTML 4.01 Strict to most clients; XHTML 1.1 to clients which claim to accept it. Costs a bit of string matching, a small XSLT and a lot of testing.
The benefit? Uh, well, I got on the X-Philes and learnt some stuff about XHTML; namely that it's not really worth using in most circumstances.
Intel, EE = Extreme Edition.
AMD, EE = Energy Effecient.
I like AMD's better.
How effecient is software RAID on something with lots of parity like RAID-5 or -10 compared with a decent hardware RAID card?
For that matter, which are the good IDE hardware RAID cards? Anyone have any recommendations?
RAID-0 = minimum of 2 drives. RAID-10 = minimum of 4 drives and really needs a more fancy RAID card than that £15 thing you picked up from eBuyer. RAID levels.
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Woa, are pound signs working now?
By running it in the closed environment of a VM? If you have an exploit for VMWare or Virtual PC which can compromise the host system we're all ears.
Er, no; it's a set of UI elements which happen to look like HTML ones. PHP-GTK's no more relevent here than any other language-toolkit combo.
File Properties -> Digital Signatures.
Should confirm it's signed and authenticated with the Microsoft certificates installed on your Windows setup.