For network card, you should also consider Intel EtherExpress 100. From what I heard, It's been supported for the longest time and it's driver is the most mature.
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I know I'm still using my 5 year old 486 as a firewall, mail server, ftp server, web server, samba server, dns server, nfs server, etc. All thanks to Linux.
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Re:Say NO to SCAMBUS..uh, RAMBUS
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Dude, have you seen any P4 memory benchmark? They outperform SDR and DDR based Athlon and P3 systems by a factor of three or four - all thanks to the memory subsystem.
It's too bad these benchmarks are useless, as 99% of applications don't require anywhere near as much bandwidth, and are in fact hurt by Rambus's high latency. The one exception, as you pointed out in your other comment, is scientific computing. Other, more realistic benchmarks showed a different picture. I especially liked the ones where 1GHz P3 beat 1.5GHz P4:-)
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Re:Let me be a karma whoring p4 lover...
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Uhhm, please pull your head out of your ass and re-read my comment. Specifically I said that the performance increase has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. It is due solely to the Rambus memory. For that matter, if you could put Rambus memory into an Athlon board, you'd see the same increase. In fact, the Athlon system would be even faster than the P4. And speaking of FPU -- it has been shown to be abyssmal in P4. Even P3 outperforms P4 on FPU! ___
Re:Let me be a karma whoring p4 lover...
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Thing is though, the increase you are seeing is due to Rambus memory, not the CPU. And there are *very* few applications where higher bandwidth of Rambus matters. In 99% of applications the, the higher latency of Rambus totally negates any performance gain you might get due to higher bandwidth.
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Re:Bandwith and SMP and of course ....
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My question is, how will the P4's increased bandwith-usage/demand affect an SMP-system?
I can answer this question: it won't. Because P4 does not support SMP, and the future incarnations will not add SMP support any time soon. But yeah, if they ever do, the performance would be abyssmal. Especially compared to AMD where each CPU has a *dedicated* 266MHz bus, instead of sharing it with all other CPUs like Intel. Intel will definitely have to fix this. Come SMP boards for Athlons and I doubt that even extreme marketing will be able to save Intel.
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You are comparing AMD's current products to Intel's future/unreleased/imaginary products. Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? Currently AMD beats Intel in both price and performance hands down. Intel will have better CPUs you say? Well, AMD is not going to sit idly either. They will shrink the die to.13 microns, improve the core (Palomino, followed by Thoroughbred), and (guess what?) release Sledgehammer! Yes, *that* Sledgehammer, the first 64-bit x86 CPU. I say the first because it looks like Merced (err, I mean "Itanium" or whatever it's called this week) will never see the light of day. It is what, 3 years late now and still counting.... ___
Just a few months ago, one of the Microsoft GUI guy (the Clippy's creator no less!) came to my universify and gave a talk about how important the office assistant is to newbies. And now they are killing it? Hmmm.... I guess, just like MS Bob, the Clippy is "ahead of its time". ___
Why is it that every windows troll blames every single crash on "bad drivers". Why can't you just admit that windows is buggy? Never mind that it took 3 service packs just to make NT4 semi-stable. Never mind that the entire windows 95 line is just a big hack. It's always the drivers' fault.
Though I'm sure drivers are _sometimes_ responsible, it is by far not always the case. For the record, I own an ATI card. Windows crashes daily, Linux doesn't.
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Re:Did anyone expect another outcome?
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there is a *huge* difference though. Sony is a very large company with enough money to develop the console and pay for the advertising campaign. Even before Playstation, every Joe Shmoe knew what Sony is. The very name of the company is usually associated with quality, though overpriced, products. Now tell me who knows what Indreama is. The name of the company is interesting though -- kind of underscores that it existed only in a dream.
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Sony already owns the console market. Even Sega is dead, and it has quite a few nice games. Did anyone really expect a completely new gaming platform to be successful when it has no existing games and is made by a totally unknown company?
Out of all the dot-coms that went out of business this year, 99% should not have been in business in the first place. You can think os the current death toll as a sort of cleansing of the market.
Mach5 is not 5000 mph or 5000 fps as many have suggested. It is 5000 km/h. You know, kilometers, the unit of length that the rest of the world uses but US somehow refuses to acknoledge? But hey, it doesn't even surprise me any more after NASA crashed a satellite because they fucked up unit conversion... ___
Shut up! Those morons with too much money bring the costs down for the rest of us who are not gullible enough to get the cutting-edge wiz-bang hardware. ___
OK, somebody please explain this to me. Why don't they just use mpeg? Why do they insist on using a proprietary format? What advantage does it give them? ___
The EULA says something to the effect "to the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law Microsoft hereby disclaims all damages yada yada yada...". The key word (or phrase rather) is "to the maximum extent permitted". It would seem to me that all you need to do is sue them in a state where such disclaimer is not permitted. ___
The bootup time is about the same as that of windows but you don't need to boot as often:-)
Including the bootup logo patch?
You mean the kind of logo windows displays at boot? It already exists. But I find it kind of useless.
How about getting DMA mode working on all the IDE controllers out there and having them intelligently configure themselves (I've lost more than one disk to hdparm tweaking).
How about getting all HD manufacturers to properly support the ATA specs?
How about making my mp3's not get choppy when my system starts swapping? (short of needing to apply rtlinux patches and nice --19'ing mpg123).
Huh? ever heard of buffer? (-b switch for mpg123). It's never choppy if you use a 512k buffer. And you don't need to nice it to -19 either.
How about including a kflushd that's smart about laptops?
What is that supposed to mean?
I can't imagine that the same schedule() used to handle Apache and Oracle would do the same job as running GNOME..
Why not? Seems to work pretty well right now. (same with windows, btw).
Why not try ditching LILO for GRUB?
Huh? And how the hell are you gonna boot Linux? That's like saying "why not try ditching NT boot loader".
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It is my understanding that aurora doesn't happen in the south. This has to do with the earth's magnetic field. At the north pole the magnetic field is negative (I think) and it causes those positively charged particles from the sun to glow. The opposite magnetic field is at the south pole and it doesn't cause the glow. Of course I may be totally wrong on this. ___
The problem is that the way some of the microsoft licenses are written when you enter into them
you give Microsoft the right to inspect you for software license compliance
Ah, but that does not give them the right to audit you. This clause of the contract is bull shit and would be thrown out by the first judge who looked should the matter ever go to court. Even FBI needs to obtain a search warrant to enter your premises. No matter what garbage they try to put in the contract, you can still safely say "piss off" when they threaten to audit you. Similarly, if they put a clause in their license that says "by using this software you agree to surrender your first born child", this clause would be unenforcible. ___
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... or just trolling? here are the current DDR prices. $90 for 256MB module. The rest of this post is similarly BS.
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For network card, you should also consider Intel EtherExpress 100. From what I heard, It's been supported for the longest time and it's driver is the most mature.
Where did you get a 2U case?
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It was released waaaay before 96 and it included multiplayer. I can't remember if Wolfenstein did, so Doom might not even be the first.
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I know I'm still using my 5 year old 486 as a firewall, mail server, ftp server, web server, samba server, dns server, nfs server, etc. All thanks to Linux.
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It's too bad these benchmarks are useless, as 99% of applications don't require anywhere near as much bandwidth, and are in fact hurt by Rambus's high latency. The one exception, as you pointed out in your other comment, is scientific computing. Other, more realistic benchmarks showed a different picture. I especially liked the ones where 1GHz P3 beat 1.5GHz P4 :-)
BTW, do you work for Intel?
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Uhhm, please pull your head out of your ass and re-read my comment. Specifically I said that the performance increase has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. It is due solely to the Rambus memory. For that matter, if you could put Rambus memory into an Athlon board, you'd see the same increase. In fact, the Athlon system would be even faster than the P4. And speaking of FPU -- it has been shown to be abyssmal in P4. Even P3 outperforms P4 on FPU!
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Thing is though, the increase you are seeing is due to Rambus memory, not the CPU. And there are *very* few applications where higher bandwidth of Rambus matters. In 99% of applications the, the higher latency of Rambus totally negates any performance gain you might get due to higher bandwidth.
Oh, btw, redo your benchmark taking price/performance into account...
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I can answer this question: it won't. Because P4 does not support SMP, and the future incarnations will not add SMP support any time soon. But yeah, if they ever do, the performance would be abyssmal. Especially compared to AMD where each CPU has a *dedicated* 266MHz bus, instead of sharing it with all other CPUs like Intel. Intel will definitely have to fix this. Come SMP boards for Athlons and I doubt that even extreme marketing will be able to save Intel.
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Did anyone else claim otherwise? All the article said was that random access is 4 times as bad on P4.
Nice troll though.
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Especially since Dell is the only large vendor that still refuses to sell AMD....
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You are comparing AMD's current products to Intel's future/unreleased/imaginary products. Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? Currently AMD beats Intel in both price and performance hands down. Intel will have better CPUs you say? Well, AMD is not going to sit idly either. They will shrink the die to .13 microns, improve the core (Palomino, followed by Thoroughbred), and (guess what?) release Sledgehammer! Yes, *that* Sledgehammer, the first 64-bit x86 CPU. I say the first because it looks like Merced (err, I mean "Itanium" or whatever it's called this week) will never see the light of day. It is what, 3 years late now and still counting....
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I heard it'll be $300, and MS will take a $200 loss on every console sold.
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Just a few months ago, one of the Microsoft GUI guy (the Clippy's creator no less!) came to my universify and gave a talk about how important the office assistant is to newbies. And now they are killing it? Hmmm.... I guess, just like MS Bob, the Clippy is "ahead of its time".
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Why is it that every windows troll blames every single crash on "bad drivers". Why can't you just admit that windows is buggy? Never mind that it took 3 service packs just to make NT4 semi-stable. Never mind that the entire windows 95 line is just a big hack. It's always the drivers' fault.
Though I'm sure drivers are _sometimes_ responsible, it is by far not always the case. For the record, I own an ATI card. Windows crashes daily, Linux doesn't.
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there is a *huge* difference though. Sony is a very large company with enough money to develop the console and pay for the advertising campaign. Even before Playstation, every Joe Shmoe knew what Sony is. The very name of the company is usually associated with quality, though overpriced, products. Now tell me who knows what Indreama is. The name of the company is interesting though -- kind of underscores that it existed only in a dream.
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Sony already owns the console market. Even Sega is dead, and it has quite a few nice games. Did anyone really expect a completely new gaming platform to be successful when it has no existing games and is made by a totally unknown company?
Out of all the dot-coms that went out of business this year, 99% should not have been in business in the first place. You can think os the current death toll as a sort of cleansing of the market.
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Mach5 is not 5000 mph or 5000 fps as many have suggested. It is 5000 km/h. You know, kilometers, the unit of length that the rest of the world uses but US somehow refuses to acknoledge? But hey, it doesn't even surprise me any more after NASA crashed a satellite because they fucked up unit conversion...
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take a look at stunnel (www.stunnel.org)
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Shut up! Those morons with too much money bring the costs down for the rest of us who are not gullible enough to get the cutting-edge wiz-bang hardware.
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OK, somebody please explain this to me. Why don't they just use mpeg? Why do they insist on using a proprietary format? What advantage does it give them?
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The EULA says something to the effect "to the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law Microsoft hereby disclaims all damages yada yada yada...". The key word (or phrase rather) is "to the maximum extent permitted". It would seem to me that all you need to do is sue them in a state where such disclaimer is not permitted.
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So, did she help you? :-)
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It already does work.
How about improving boot up time?
The bootup time is about the same as that of windows but you don't need to boot as often :-)
Including the bootup logo patch?
You mean the kind of logo windows displays at boot? It already exists. But I find it kind of useless.
How about getting DMA mode working on all the IDE controllers out there and having them intelligently configure themselves (I've lost more than one disk to hdparm tweaking).
How about getting all HD manufacturers to properly support the ATA specs?
How about making my mp3's not get choppy when my system starts swapping? (short of needing to apply rtlinux patches and nice --19'ing mpg123).
Huh? ever heard of buffer? (-b switch for mpg123). It's never choppy if you use a 512k buffer. And you don't need to nice it to -19 either.
How about including a kflushd that's smart about laptops?
What is that supposed to mean?
I can't imagine that the same schedule() used to handle Apache and Oracle would do the same job as running GNOME..
Why not? Seems to work pretty well right now. (same with windows, btw).
Why not try ditching LILO for GRUB?
Huh? And how the hell are you gonna boot Linux? That's like saying "why not try ditching NT boot loader".
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It is my understanding that aurora doesn't happen in the south. This has to do with the earth's magnetic field. At the north pole the magnetic field is negative (I think) and it causes those positively charged particles from the sun to glow. The opposite magnetic field is at the south pole and it doesn't cause the glow. Of course I may be totally wrong on this.
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Ah, but that does not give them the right to audit you. This clause of the contract is bull shit and would be thrown out by the first judge who looked should the matter ever go to court. Even FBI needs to obtain a search warrant to enter your premises. No matter what garbage they try to put in the contract, you can still safely say "piss off" when they threaten to audit you. Similarly, if they put a clause in their license that says "by using this software you agree to surrender your first born child", this clause would be unenforcible.
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