My point exactly. It can't swap (no HDD, R/O root and no network), so when it hits the end of memory it will panic. Therefore, if it isn't panicking, then it isn't a memory constraint that is making it's slow.
The reason adding memory makes a PC faster is that it reduces swapping, unless is it is actually faster RAM (CAS2 etc). This thing can't swap, so that line of reasoning is pointless.
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From halfway down that page, some facts about carbon fiber:
It's flammable. Carbon Fiber doesn't make a good firewall.
It's conductive. Watch out for wires and electrical devices.
It's not heat proof. Watch out for hot engine/exhaust parts and maintain a safe distance.
The conductive is probably bad, and depending on the heat part, that might also be bad (my Toshiba Satellite puts out enough heat that I can't actually put it on my lap).
Just how much resolution do you need to see that one is bigger than the other? An independent size-reference (like a CD, for instance) in the pictures would have been useful - not at a higher resolution though.
The sites I go back to, I go back for the content. They are typically weblog/journals or actual information of some sort (reference, reviews, FAQs, whatever).
Flash in particular seems to coincide with either content-free sites, or incomprehensible "artistic" navigation. Java and Javascript I don't have a particular grudge against, apart from speed (Java) and security (Java and JavaScript) issues.
Anyway, I can't get broadband for $40/mo, and last time I looked, there was a fairly significant downturn in the last 18 months in the PC market.
actually, in the last few days, Dan Potter (developer of KOS) has figured out enough of the HIT-300 Ethernet Adaptor (different incompatible Sega ethernet - don't know why) to get dc-load running on it. Presumably that means that either of NetBSD or Linux will have that same support soon, if they don't already.
A HIT-300 is nearer $100 to buy, and seem a bit more available from people like LikSang.
[bleh - a month after I paid my $150 for a BBA:) ]
I'm pretty sure that the DC linux can't swap (no read/write media). So if you haven't got a network connection, and it's not panicking as it runs out of memory, then memory isn't the problem. The SH4 in the DC is not that fast by PC standards.
It'd look like this or this or this. There are loads of these things, and everyone who makes them thinks they are hot stuff. Thay ain't that cheap, though.
Do you think so?
I got a copy when I got my first Unix account (not machine) at college, and I found it very helpful. I can see that it wouldn't so good if you are supposed to be adminning your own system.
[rant]I miss the days of large shared unix systems. There was a sense of community among the users at a site that isn't there today.[/rant]
Not linux specific (thankfully!), and pretty CLI-oriented, the Unix Power Tools book is something I found really good for learning the neat wrinkles in things like the shell, sed and awk. It's organised as lots of half-page articles which are densely cross-referenced, a little like the Effective C++ series by Scott Meyers or Effective Perl by Joeseph Hall. Published by O'Reilly - it's not an animal book though - it's much bigger. Good for dipping.
dig's output is typically easier to deal with using awk or grep and the manpage for it says as much, but I don't know why you'd want to actively stop using nslookup (I use dig - I just prefer it).
presumably you weren't using Word 6, then. That was a buggy piece of crap on Win3.x. I agree that I don't think I've ever see DOS crash (as in, the prompt, while not running a 3rd party app), however.
I have been pondering the 286 in the corner, and an old WP5.1 install I have kicking around, just for amusement. The only drag will be having to fool around with packet drivers and LAN manager to get networking going.
and also, as was pointed out to me last week, APT is now available for RPM-based systems too. It's not bad, although not quite as seamless as on debian, yet.
Quantum used to make a multi-headed drive like that, known as the 'Chinook', after the helicopter with a pair of rotors. It was reputed to be very fast at the time (1990 or so, IIRC).
From a recent trawl of photo.net, looking for some sort of SLR-like digital camera(don't bother, they're too expensive:( ), I found that it's more like: It's only art if it involves silver halides. It's OK to use darkroom techniques to 'fiddle' with a print, but unspeakably evil to scan a print and do the same with Photoshop, or god forbid, use CCDs to capture the original image.
Part of the reasoning is technical (most CCDs don't have the range of tone that film can deal with), but most of it is pure superstition.
[can anyone recommend a decent sub-$1000 digital camera for playing with manual-SLR-like photography - manual focus, macro, long exposure...?]
I bought a DivaPlayerjust before christmas, partly because it was cheap ($70 with 32Mb built-in, and a CF slot), and partly because it was pretty much the only device I could find that took CF - I already have a few 64Mb CF cards for my camera and my PDA.
It takes a FAT-formatted CF card, and also acts as a USB-connected drive - no special software at all! It also will record voice notes as 8Khz WAVs onto the same media.
The sound quality is... OK, but a bit noisy. It's probably about the same as a good cassette walkman, but not as good as my MD walkman. I think that's noise in the output stages, because the same files sound MD/CD quality on my PC through the same headphones.
[the site linked above also has the NEX-II that someone else recommended for OK prices]
CompactFlash storage has an IDE interface (more or less). There are cheap adapters to use CF as an IDE device on any motherboard - intended for embedded systems. The adapter has no components on it - it's purely a wiring harness for the different sized plugs, and a jumper for master/slave.
This shows as a small harddisk in your BIOS, and anything that believes the BIOS should work, and boot from it. I just got one, and started playing with it for a couple of applications (silent X Terminal, firewall), and so far I have DOS booting really quickly, and LRP almost working.
SSDs (at least CompactFlash, and I think SmartMedia) wear out eventually though.
They have a clever internal controller to spread the wear over the gates in the device, but they will eventually fail. The number of write/erases is not that high either: something like 100,000 I think. Depending on your application that is nothing.
Agreed, that it beats having an actual mechanical whirring thingy in your pocket. Well, actually...
His only current bitch is he hasn't found a firewire adapter for his PC
Huh? Wave a stick around, and you'll probably hit a few 1394 cards... or does the EOS use some 'special' firewire? Regular firewire cards start at about $30. You can get a Creative Audigy soundcard with one built-in port for about $70. [doing rough conversions from £ to $]
heh - shake your head yes, and nod your head no, was one that confused me for a while:-) My employer has used overseas development several times with mostly reasonable results. 'Mostly', because when the time came for us to do maintenance on some of the outsourced code, it had a somewhat, errr, haphazard style.
but EVERYTHING is fake in china.[...] The problem is VERY VERY large.
So when you pay $2 for the 'added value' of a nike shirt, you're not getting the real thing? Good lord, that is a problem. How can people expect to have their clothes imbue them with a certainty about their lifestyle, and their values, when they were made in a different malaysian factory from the 'real' one?
It's a good thing clothing has souls, or we'd really be in trouble.
What about the IBM/Motorolla PowerPC chips? American made, and more efficient per cycle than Intel's chips (except for maybe the Itanium).
I don't think "American Made" is a significant point when deciding on a processor...
Where does one get ATX-format boards and processors to be able to build these ultra-quiet, ultra-fast marvels? (Seriously - I like quiet PCs, but I don't much like Macs, so that would be a nice LinuxPPC box, potentially).
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didn't HAL store things on those funky glass-like blocks, anyway? It's been a while since I saw 2001
My point exactly. It can't swap (no HDD, R/O root and no network), so when it hits the end of memory it will panic. Therefore, if it isn't panicking, then it isn't a memory constraint that is making it's slow.
The reason adding memory makes a PC faster is that it reduces swapping, unless is it is actually faster RAM (CAS2 etc). This thing can't swap, so that line of reasoning is pointless.
The conductive is probably bad, and depending on the heat part, that might also be bad (my Toshiba Satellite puts out enough heat that I can't actually put it on my lap).
Shame about the resolution, though ...
Just how much resolution do you need to see that one is bigger than the other? An independent size-reference (like a CD, for instance) in the pictures would have been useful - not at a higher resolution though.
The sites I go back to, I go back for the content. They are typically weblog/journals or actual information of some sort (reference, reviews, FAQs, whatever).
Flash in particular seems to coincide with either content-free sites, or incomprehensible "artistic" navigation. Java and Javascript I don't have a particular grudge against, apart from speed (Java) and security (Java and JavaScript) issues.
Anyway, I can't get broadband for $40/mo, and last time I looked, there was a fairly significant downturn in the last 18 months in the PC market.
a BBA is going to set you back 150-200,
:) ]
actually, in the last few days, Dan Potter (developer of KOS) has figured out enough of the HIT-300 Ethernet Adaptor (different incompatible Sega ethernet - don't know why) to get dc-load running on it. Presumably that means that either of NetBSD or Linux will have that same support soon, if they don't already.
A HIT-300 is nearer $100 to buy, and seem a bit more available from people like LikSang.
[bleh - a month after I paid my $150 for a BBA
I'm pretty sure that the DC linux can't swap (no read/write media). So if you haven't got a network connection, and it's not panicking as it runs out of memory, then memory isn't the problem. The SH4 in the DC is not that fast by PC standards.
It'd look like this or this or this. There are loads of these things, and everyone who makes them thinks they are hot stuff. Thay ain't that cheap, though.
You can get regular rackmount monitors too. (and TFT ones of those).
Do you think so?
I got a copy when I got my first Unix account (not machine) at college, and I found it very helpful. I can see that it wouldn't so good if you are supposed to be adminning your own system.
[rant]I miss the days of large shared unix systems. There was a sense of community among the users at a site that isn't there today.[/rant]
Not linux specific (thankfully!), and pretty CLI-oriented, the Unix Power Tools book is something I found really good for learning the neat wrinkles in things like the shell, sed and awk. It's organised as lots of half-page articles which are densely cross-referenced, a little like the Effective C++ series by Scott Meyers or Effective Perl by Joeseph Hall. Published by O'Reilly - it's not an animal book though - it's much bigger. Good for dipping.
dig's output is typically easier to deal with using awk or grep and the manpage for it says as much, but I don't know why you'd want to actively stop using nslookup (I use dig - I just prefer it).
LOL :)
:)
surely that would be 1627545 17/64 Gz though?
presumably you weren't using Word 6, then. That was a buggy piece of crap on Win3.x. I agree that I don't think I've ever see DOS crash (as in, the prompt, while not running a 3rd party app), however.
I have been pondering the 286 in the corner, and an old WP5.1 install I have kicking around, just for amusement. The only drag will be having to fool around with packet drivers and LAN manager to get networking going.
and also, as was pointed out to me last week, APT is now available for RPM-based systems too. It's not bad, although not quite as seamless as on debian, yet.
= 2000000000 Hz. Metric.
:)
and how much is that in imperial hertz?
Quantum used to make a multi-headed drive like that, known as the 'Chinook', after the helicopter with a pair of rotors. It was reputed to be very fast at the time (1990 or so, IIRC).
[it was Conner, not Quantum - here's a page about it]
From a recent trawl of photo.net, looking for some sort of SLR-like digital camera(don't bother, they're too expensive :( ), I found that it's more like: It's only art if it involves silver halides. It's OK to use darkroom techniques to 'fiddle' with a print, but unspeakably evil to scan a print and do the same with Photoshop, or god forbid, use CCDs to capture the original image.
Part of the reasoning is technical (most CCDs don't have the range of tone that film can deal with), but most of it is pure superstition.
[can anyone recommend a decent sub-$1000 digital camera for playing with manual-SLR-like photography - manual focus, macro, long exposure...?]
I bought a DivaPlayerjust before christmas, partly because it was cheap ($70 with 32Mb built-in, and a CF slot), and partly because it was pretty much the only device I could find that took CF - I already have a few 64Mb CF cards for my camera and my PDA.
It takes a FAT-formatted CF card, and also acts as a USB-connected drive - no special software at all! It also will record voice notes as 8Khz WAVs onto the same media.
The sound quality is... OK, but a bit noisy. It's probably about the same as a good cassette walkman, but not as good as my MD walkman. I think that's noise in the output stages, because the same files sound MD/CD quality on my PC through the same headphones.
[the site linked above also has the NEX-II that someone else recommended for OK prices]
CompactFlash storage has an IDE interface (more or less). There are cheap adapters to use CF as an IDE device on any motherboard - intended for embedded systems. The adapter has no components on it - it's purely a wiring harness for the different sized plugs, and a jumper for master/slave.
This shows as a small harddisk in your BIOS, and anything that believes the BIOS should work, and boot from it. I just got one, and started playing with it for a couple of applications (silent X Terminal, firewall), and so far I have DOS booting really quickly, and LRP almost working.
SSDs (at least CompactFlash, and I think SmartMedia) wear out eventually though.
They have a clever internal controller to spread the wear over the gates in the device, but they will eventually fail. The number of write/erases is not that high either: something like 100,000 I think. Depending on your application that is nothing.
Agreed, that it beats having an actual mechanical whirring thingy in your pocket. Well, actually...
His only current bitch is he hasn't found a firewire adapter for his PC
Huh? Wave a stick around, and you'll probably hit a few 1394 cards... or does the EOS use some 'special' firewire? Regular firewire cards start at about $30. You can get a Creative Audigy soundcard with one built-in port for about $70. [doing rough conversions from £ to $]
I actually meant that 'any hope of selling your old kit' was what you had to lose by ever-faster and ever-cheaper processors :)
and other communication difficulties,
:-) My employer has used overseas development several times with mostly reasonable results. 'Mostly', because when the time came for us to do maintenance on some of the outsourced code, it had a somewhat, errr, haphazard style.
heh - shake your head yes, and nod your head no, was one that confused me for a while
but EVERYTHING is fake in china.[...] The problem is VERY VERY large.
So when you pay $2 for the 'added value' of a nike shirt, you're not getting the real thing? Good lord, that is a problem. How can people expect to have their clothes imbue them with a certainty about their lifestyle, and their values, when they were made in a different malaysian factory from the 'real' one?
It's a good thing clothing has souls, or we'd really be in trouble.
What about the IBM/Motorolla PowerPC chips? American made, and more efficient per cycle than Intel's chips (except for maybe the Itanium).
I don't think "American Made" is a significant point when deciding on a processor...
Where does one get ATX-format boards and processors to be able to build these ultra-quiet, ultra-fast marvels? (Seriously - I like quiet PCs, but I don't much like Macs, so that would be a nice LinuxPPC box, potentially).