I hate to say it, but both computers suffer from problems such as lock-ups, random reboots, and other compatability issues, especially when playing directx games. I bought the second board (and chip) because the first one did not work. I even bought the board that TomsHardware recommended as the best athlon board at the time (MSI K7-Master S).
The AMD chip is faster, but my Intelly friends have had NONE of the problems I have had
Sounds like you more than likely have crappy components somewhere in your systems. I have a bunch of Athlon systems at work and one at home, and they've never given me any trouble at all. They've actually been more stable than some of the P!!! systems that we also have at work. That the Athlons are mostly systems I built myself from carefully-selected parts (chipsets involved are the AMD 760, AMD 760MPX, and nVidia nForce) and the P!!!s are mostly HP Pavilions reinforces this point.
(The home system is a 1.0-GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) on a Biostar M7MIA with a mix of Crucial and Mushkin DDR SDRAM, ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon, 3Com 3C905C, Tekram DC315U Ultra SCSI, SIIG UDMA100, and no-name FireWire controller. Two of the work systems are 1.4-GHz Athlon XPs (1600+) on MSI K7N420 Pros with generic DDR SDRAM and onboard everything (added no-name FireWire to one and a generic RTL8139 to the other). Another work system is a dual 1.6-GHz Athlon MP (1900+) with Crucial registered ECC DDR SDRAM, ATI Radeon, integrated 3Com 3C920, and a PCI sound card. Three of the four systems run Win2K Pro SP2, while one of the nForce systems runs Linux From Scratch. I've also got the home system set up so it can load SuSE from a FireWire hard drive. Note that neither VIA nor Creative Labs appear anywhere in the descriptions above...well, the M7MIA uses the VIA 686B southbridge, but that's all, and it hasn't given me any problems. Come to think of it, the VIA chipsets I've used with various K6-* processors in the past haven't given me much grief either.)
I just bought myself an athlon XP 1800+, and a day later i am regretting it. AMD markets these processors as 1800Mhz CPUs, when in actual fact they are just 1500Mhz CPUs.
Bullshit. AMD has been more than forthcoming with its view that "megahertz über alles" is a Bad Idea. 1800 isn't the speed at which the processor runs. It's a performance metric that happens (for the time being) to track rather closely with what a P4 at X MHz will deliver, but the processor can deliver that performance at a slower clockspeed. Get a clue before you post next time, go back under your bridge, and consider yourself LARTed.
As more and more applications are made available which are optimized for the pIV we'll really start to see this chip shine.
That does absolutely nothing to improve the performance of older apps that you might have...apps for which you might well have forked over a considerable amount of money. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if, in those early benchmarks, the P4 had been able to at least keep up with the P!!!, let alone the Athlon. In particular, I recall how people ragged on the K6-series processors for their FPU performance. I wonder why similar noise hasn't been made regarding the P4's subpar x87 FPU performance.
Cheaper prices are all good, but I still don't see any reason to switch away from AMD.
Laptops are nice moble phones are too. However I have yet to find a REAL use for a pda. Is it just me?
I track mileage with mine. I also use it to read e-books, and I can use Plucker to grab certain websites and carry them around for reference. It also has a few games loaded up for killing time, and I used to read/reply to email on the go with it back when I used Lookout Express on the desktop (anybody know how to sync Palm's mail app to a mail spool directory or (maybe) an IMAP server directly?).
It's also good for note-taking (took all my class notes with it one semester...and I used Grafitti for that, though a keyboard would've been nice to have), and it's easier to store and look up phone numbers and addresses in my Palm than in a cellphone.
Given what happened the last time all the guns were rounded up in your country, I would think you would've learned your lesson by now.
You probably hint on the founding myth of the United States, where an armed militia fought the English colonial army.
It's no myth. Bellesiles was a fraud, in case you haven't heard yet.
I don't see how armed people would have fought the nazi regime
IIRC, didn't the Nazis have some trouble dealing with the Warsaw ghetto, where the locals had managed to procure some small arms for themselves?
when that regime was supported by a majority of those people of that time
Was it? I'd think the people didn't have much of a choice in the matter, once they gave up the ability to defend themselves: "do as der Führer says, or we'll put a bullet in your head." Besides, when is a majority opinion ever of any relevance anyway when it comes to your rights? I don't know if prewar Germany was a democracy, but the United States sure as hell isn't—and I'm grateful that it isn't. Democracy, after all, is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
And a recent event, where someone got his training and weapons via a shooting club, rather speaks against the general availibilty of guns.
My experience is that you won't find a more polite or upstanding group of people than at the gun range. Since everybody is in possession of firearms of varying degrees of potential lethality, people tend to be on their best behavior—an illustration of the axiom that "an armed society is a polite society."
I don't deny that there are psychopathic individuals in society whose rights ought to be restricted. It does not follow, however, that the rights of law-abiding citizens should be infringed on account of a few "bad apples." Should your free-speech rights be infringed because somebody might say something that would cause offense? Should your right to peaceably assemble be infringed because a few rabble-rousers might go on a rampage through downtown and bust up a few shop windows? If your answer to these questions is "no," then you logically cannot justify infringing the right to keep and bear arms.
ESR, who is, as you all know a strange mix of valuable open source contributor and condemnable weapons idiot.
...as opposed to a sheep who does whatever Big Brother tells him to do and who expects Big Brother to save his weak ass when the sh*t hits the fan? Given what happened the last time all the guns were rounded up in your country, I would think you would've learned your lesson by now.
The Alt-keypad trick only works for 8-bit characters, AFAIK. You can copy characters out of Character Map (in Win2K/XP, not Win9x...Win9x's Character Map doesn't grok Unicode) and paste them into whatever you're typing, though: , , etc. (I think the first is "da" and the second is "nyet"...saw something that looked like that in a banner ad on a Russian website recently.)
If all else fails and you're editing HTML, you can escape the character entries, so that (for instance) gets entered as да.
However, when you get a Chieftec case, you usually just get the case. When you get an Antec, you get the case plus one of Antec's high-quality power supplies installed.
This varies from one reseller to the next. I have a couple of Chieftec DX-01WDs at home. The one purchased at PC Club came with an Enermax 330W power supply and two or three case fans. The one purchased from Newegg came with some power supply I'd never heard of (replaced it with the Enermax 330W supply from the system that was moving into it) and no case fans (bought a couple @ PC Club to fix that).
(Then again, the price out the door @ PC Club was a little under 2x what I paid for the same case @ Newegg...)
Certification agencies (which include VeriSign) ensure that encoded names are not misleading and that the registration corresponds with the correct real-world entity.
Yeah, that's why a couple of Israeli college students were unable to register mirsoft.com (spelled "miсrоsoft")...oh wait a minute, what were they saying again?
Mebbe, but The Book (1984, that is... but you know that already, right?) has it his way
So it is that way in the book (didn't have to dig too far into it, either...page 7 of the paperback that I have). 1984 isn't the kind of book I keep on the shelf at work. I stand corrected.
Well I think it's pretty damn annoying and presumptuous for one. And it's probably just the start. I don't really wanna sit down and see the annoying "Would you like to change channels to record our spam or stay on the current channel?" prompt everytime I sit down. I turned off the auto-recommendations just because of this.
FWIW, this stuff usually comes through at zero-dark-hundred. Unless you're a night owl, you'll never see it switch over to record this stuff. As for the "suggestions" feature, it's tracked down a few movies I wouldn't have otherwise known were on (Fahrenheit 451 and Colossus: The Forbin Project come to mind as a couple of examples). It beats browsing the listings every week.
(I didn't particulary care for the Lexus promo TiVo ran a while back...I have zero interest in rice burners and wouldn't buy one even if I had Bill Gates' fortune. I think the Beeb doing a promo of one of its shows through TiVo is a better use of this capability than ads for products that don't have much to do with TV or entertainment.)
If you don't want this stuff to be recorded, you can uncheck the channel on which it arrives in the "Channels You Receive" list.
The only problem with this is that TiVo delivers its stuff through the Discovery Channel, which is one of the few channels on most cable systems that has stuff you might actually want to watch. It'd be better if they used one of the many channels you can do without...something like Lifetime, HGTV, or QVC.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Dammit, you beat me to it...but isn't the second line "Slavery is Freedom"? The grammar established by the first and third lines is something like "<contradiction><bad-thing> is <good-thing>." (I think that's kinda what the BNF would look like, at least...my books are at home, and I don't write compilers for a living.:-) )
Another note, one will not be able to use a version of XP with a stolen key to get the update, and since I refuse to pay for XP, I wouldn't be able to upgrade, so it's a moot point anyway.
Given that a WinXP keygen exists, I somehow doubt that they'd be able to block everybody who's running a warez'd WinXP...unless they've built up a database of the millions of CD keys they've issued and check against that. (I suppose that wouldn't be too big a task...but what are the odds they've done that?)
(Not that it matters to me anyway. I tried XP, determined that it sucked, and went back to Win2K. I haven't run across anything yet that needs WinXP to run.)
The one in the system tray is a bluish green (or is it greenish blue?), while the ones in all the taskbar buttons (I have 8 Mozilla windows open right now) are blue. Maybe it's really a chameleon.
You know, this isn't necessarily a gaffe. Although a bullet has lots of kinetic energy, because of its low mass it doesn't have a high momentum. Also, bullets tend to pass through people rather than lodging in them so they may not transfer all their momentum.
That depends on how the bullet is designed. If I load my gun with FMJ ammo, the bullet will more than likely sail right through people, walls, etc. for some distance. If I load with JHP, though, the first impact will cause the bullet to spread out and form rough edges. This will create a bigger, more jagged hole, and there's a reduced risk of collateral damage from the bullet continuing past its target.
Have you even looked at the interface being discussed? It's not a nasty windows-within-windows situation, but rather tabs along the top of the page. It's actually pretty nice.
This subthread is about Opera and its MDI interface, not Mozilla and its tabbed interface. FWIW, I tried tabs (in Mozilla) for a few minutes yesterday. I came to the conclusion that they're a waste of space within the browser window, and switching between tabs with the keyboard is cumbersome (thought at first that it was impossible, but someone posted the oddball key combination that's used). I'll stick with SDI so I can switch between pages with Alt-Tab.
Am I missing an undocumented keyboard shortcut here?
Ctrl-PageUp/PageDn
...which isn't exactly the most intuitive or ergonomic keyboard shortcut. It's like using Alt-Left to go back. (Fortunately Mozilla has also copied IE's usage of Backspace to go back to the previous page.) I guess I'll leave tabs disabled and keep using Alt-Tab to switch between windows...
Can it get rid of those stupid animations that show up on top of the page you are trying to read?
If you're talking about stuff like text that follows the cursor around, I'm not aware of anything available for any browser that will shut those off...except maybe a.44 Magnum fired at the idiots who create such abhorrences. (That'll only keep more of them from being created, though.)
Care to give some actual examples? My copy of Mozilla has been great at rendering CSS for a looooong time.
One example I stumbled across today is Politech. It looks like there should be two columns of links (a navbar down the left side and a list of links to the right), but the list of links gets rendered on top of the navbar. I've put a dump of what it looks like here. (I'm using Mozilla 1.0RC2.)
Try running Squid with some ad filtering added on. You can have it replace Flash with a 1x1 transparent GIF, a window-closing JavaScript, null JavaScript, or (with some minor editing of the original program) a null HTML file. It also works with any browser and can be deployed on your desktop or on a server that filters ads for your entire home or office.
Opera's had MDI browsing for quite some time. I still don't know why IE doesn't.
IE doesn't use MDI because MDI is evil. I don't want a full-screen browser window (with its own subwindows for each page) that obscures whatever other apps you have open at the same time. That kind of interface is so Windows 3.1.:-P
(Yes, I know that MDI is optional in the current version of Opera. That said, I've gotten used to the ability to disable certain JavaScript "features" (the ones exploited by pop-up ads and their ilk) in Mozilla...I have "open unrequested windows," "move or resize existing windows," "raise or lower windows," and "change status bar text" unchecked. I didn't see that fine-grained a selection in Opera. I haven't seen a pop-up since I started using Mozilla...before that, I was constantly tweaking my ad-filtering Squid proxy so that pop-ups requested by IE would be redirected to a local auto-close script.)
Mozilla's (and thus Netscape's) tabs are entirely optional.
Besides, they work much better than the usual "MDI" interfaces - it's just an usual browser window with an added tab row, easily resizable!
Can you switch between tabs with the keyboard? I just tried reenabling tabs...while you can switch between apps with Alt-Tab (which I use all the time) and you can switch between subwindows in MDI apps with Ctrl-Tab, there doesn't appear to be any way to use the keyboard to switch from one tab to another with the keyboard. (You could use the mouse, but mouse-only control of a feature is ghey...almost as ghey as web browsers that use MDI.)
Until there's a keyboard shortcut for it, I'll stick to no tabs and use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. "Taskbar clutter" means nothing to me as I almost never use the taskbar as anything more than an indicator of how many windows I have open.
There are numerous plugins which work with Netscape 6.x that do not work with Mozilla 1rc2 .
Some examples:
- Flash 5 (I recently needed it to play in a scavenger hunt)
Is there a reason you need an old version of Flash installed? Flash 6 works OK for me, but it took some persuasion. Macromedia didn't want to provide the correct download link, but you should be able to download and install the Flash 6 installer from this link. You should also make sure that npswf32.dll is in your Mozilla plugin directory when the install is complete.
- Microsoft OLE plugin, so you can view MS Mediaplayer clips without switching to IE
Windows Media plays inside Mozilla with no problems if you use this plugin. There are three files that you'll need to copy from %systemroot%\system32 (IIRC) into the Mozilla plugin directory: npdsplay.dll, npwmsdrm.dll, and npdrmv2.dll.
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Sounds like you more than likely have crappy components somewhere in your systems. I have a bunch of Athlon systems at work and one at home, and they've never given me any trouble at all. They've actually been more stable than some of the P!!! systems that we also have at work. That the Athlons are mostly systems I built myself from carefully-selected parts (chipsets involved are the AMD 760, AMD 760MPX, and nVidia nForce) and the P!!!s are mostly HP Pavilions reinforces this point.
(The home system is a 1.0-GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) on a Biostar M7MIA with a mix of Crucial and Mushkin DDR SDRAM, ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon, 3Com 3C905C, Tekram DC315U Ultra SCSI, SIIG UDMA100, and no-name FireWire controller. Two of the work systems are 1.4-GHz Athlon XPs (1600+) on MSI K7N420 Pros with generic DDR SDRAM and onboard everything (added no-name FireWire to one and a generic RTL8139 to the other). Another work system is a dual 1.6-GHz Athlon MP (1900+) with Crucial registered ECC DDR SDRAM, ATI Radeon, integrated 3Com 3C920, and a PCI sound card. Three of the four systems run Win2K Pro SP2, while one of the nForce systems runs Linux From Scratch. I've also got the home system set up so it can load SuSE from a FireWire hard drive. Note that neither VIA nor Creative Labs appear anywhere in the descriptions above...well, the M7MIA uses the VIA 686B southbridge, but that's all, and it hasn't given me any problems. Come to think of it, the VIA chipsets I've used with various K6-* processors in the past haven't given me much grief either.)
Bullshit. AMD has been more than forthcoming with its view that "megahertz über alles" is a Bad Idea. 1800 isn't the speed at which the processor runs. It's a performance metric that happens (for the time being) to track rather closely with what a P4 at X MHz will deliver, but the processor can deliver that performance at a slower clockspeed. Get a clue before you post next time, go back under your bridge, and consider yourself LARTed.
That does absolutely nothing to improve the performance of older apps that you might have...apps for which you might well have forked over a considerable amount of money. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if, in those early benchmarks, the P4 had been able to at least keep up with the P!!!, let alone the Athlon. In particular, I recall how people ragged on the K6-series processors for their FPU performance. I wonder why similar noise hasn't been made regarding the P4's subpar x87 FPU performance.
Cheaper prices are all good, but I still don't see any reason to switch away from AMD.
I track mileage with mine. I also use it to read e-books, and I can use Plucker to grab certain websites and carry them around for reference. It also has a few games loaded up for killing time, and I used to read/reply to email on the go with it back when I used Lookout Express on the desktop (anybody know how to sync Palm's mail app to a mail spool directory or (maybe) an IMAP server directly?).
It's also good for note-taking (took all my class notes with it one semester...and I used Grafitti for that, though a keyboard would've been nice to have), and it's easier to store and look up phone numbers and addresses in my Palm than in a cellphone.
It's no myth. Bellesiles was a fraud, in case you haven't heard yet.
IIRC, didn't the Nazis have some trouble dealing with the Warsaw ghetto, where the locals had managed to procure some small arms for themselves?
Was it? I'd think the people didn't have much of a choice in the matter, once they gave up the ability to defend themselves: "do as der Führer says, or we'll put a bullet in your head." Besides, when is a majority opinion ever of any relevance anyway when it comes to your rights? I don't know if prewar Germany was a democracy, but the United States sure as hell isn't—and I'm grateful that it isn't. Democracy, after all, is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
My experience is that you won't find a more polite or upstanding group of people than at the gun range. Since everybody is in possession of firearms of varying degrees of potential lethality, people tend to be on their best behavior—an illustration of the axiom that "an armed society is a polite society."
I don't deny that there are psychopathic individuals in society whose rights ought to be restricted. It does not follow, however, that the rights of law-abiding citizens should be infringed on account of a few "bad apples." Should your free-speech rights be infringed because somebody might say something that would cause offense? Should your right to peaceably assemble be infringed because a few rabble-rousers might go on a rampage through downtown and bust up a few shop windows? If your answer to these questions is "no," then you logically cannot justify infringing the right to keep and bear arms.
The Alt-keypad trick only works for 8-bit characters, AFAIK. You can copy characters out of Character Map (in Win2K/XP, not Win9x...Win9x's Character Map doesn't grok Unicode) and paste them into whatever you're typing, though: , , etc. (I think the first is "da" and the second is "nyet"...saw something that looked like that in a banner ad on a Russian website recently.)
If all else fails and you're editing HTML, you can escape the character entries, so that (for instance) gets entered as да.
This varies from one reseller to the next. I have a couple of Chieftec DX-01WDs at home. The one purchased at PC Club came with an Enermax 330W power supply and two or three case fans. The one purchased from Newegg came with some power supply I'd never heard of (replaced it with the Enermax 330W supply from the system that was moving into it) and no case fans (bought a couple @ PC Club to fix that).
(Then again, the price out the door @ PC Club was a little under 2x what I paid for the same case @ Newegg...)
Yeah, that's why a couple of Israeli college students were unable to register mirsoft.com (spelled "miсrоsoft")...oh wait a minute, what were they saying again?
So it is that way in the book (didn't have to dig too far into it, either...page 7 of the paperback that I have). 1984 isn't the kind of book I keep on the shelf at work. I stand corrected.
FWIW, this stuff usually comes through at zero-dark-hundred. Unless you're a night owl, you'll never see it switch over to record this stuff. As for the "suggestions" feature, it's tracked down a few movies I wouldn't have otherwise known were on (Fahrenheit 451 and Colossus: The Forbin Project come to mind as a couple of examples). It beats browsing the listings every week.
(I didn't particulary care for the Lexus promo TiVo ran a while back...I have zero interest in rice burners and wouldn't buy one even if I had Bill Gates' fortune. I think the Beeb doing a promo of one of its shows through TiVo is a better use of this capability than ads for products that don't have much to do with TV or entertainment.)
The only problem with this is that TiVo delivers its stuff through the Discovery Channel, which is one of the few channels on most cable systems that has stuff you might actually want to watch. It'd be better if they used one of the many channels you can do without...something like Lifetime, HGTV, or QVC.
Dammit, you beat me to it...but isn't the second line "Slavery is Freedom"? The grammar established by the first and third lines is something like "<contradiction><bad-thing> is <good-thing>." (I think that's kinda what the BNF would look like, at least...my books are at home, and I don't write compilers for a living. :-) )
Given that a WinXP keygen exists, I somehow doubt that they'd be able to block everybody who's running a warez'd WinXP...unless they've built up a database of the millions of CD keys they've issued and check against that. (I suppose that wouldn't be too big a task...but what are the odds they've done that?)
(Not that it matters to me anyway. I tried XP, determined that it sucked, and went back to Win2K. I haven't run across anything yet that needs WinXP to run.)
The one in the system tray is a bluish green (or is it greenish blue?), while the ones in all the taskbar buttons (I have 8 Mozilla windows open right now) are blue. Maybe it's really a chameleon.
That would explain why the former squid at a previous job put away an entire pot of coffee every day...:-)
That depends on how the bullet is designed. If I load my gun with FMJ ammo, the bullet will more than likely sail right through people, walls, etc. for some distance. If I load with JHP, though, the first impact will cause the bullet to spread out and form rough edges. This will create a bigger, more jagged hole, and there's a reduced risk of collateral damage from the bullet continuing past its target.
This subthread is about Opera and its MDI interface, not Mozilla and its tabbed interface. FWIW, I tried tabs (in Mozilla) for a few minutes yesterday. I came to the conclusion that they're a waste of space within the browser window, and switching between tabs with the keyboard is cumbersome (thought at first that it was impossible, but someone posted the oddball key combination that's used). I'll stick with SDI so I can switch between pages with Alt-Tab.
If you're talking about stuff like text that follows the cursor around, I'm not aware of anything available for any browser that will shut those off...except maybe a .44 Magnum fired at the idiots who create such abhorrences. (That'll only keep more of them from being created, though.)
One example I stumbled across today is Politech. It looks like there should be two columns of links (a navbar down the left side and a list of links to the right), but the list of links gets rendered on top of the navbar. I've put a dump of what it looks like here. (I'm using Mozilla 1.0RC2.)
Try running Squid with some ad filtering added on. You can have it replace Flash with a 1x1 transparent GIF, a window-closing JavaScript, null JavaScript, or (with some minor editing of the original program) a null HTML file. It also works with any browser and can be deployed on your desktop or on a server that filters ads for your entire home or office.
IE doesn't use MDI because MDI is evil. I don't want a full-screen browser window (with its own subwindows for each page) that obscures whatever other apps you have open at the same time. That kind of interface is so Windows 3.1. :-P
(Yes, I know that MDI is optional in the current version of Opera. That said, I've gotten used to the ability to disable certain JavaScript "features" (the ones exploited by pop-up ads and their ilk) in Mozilla...I have "open unrequested windows," "move or resize existing windows," "raise or lower windows," and "change status bar text" unchecked. I didn't see that fine-grained a selection in Opera. I haven't seen a pop-up since I started using Mozilla...before that, I was constantly tweaking my ad-filtering Squid proxy so that pop-ups requested by IE would be redirected to a local auto-close script.)
Can you switch between tabs with the keyboard? I just tried reenabling tabs...while you can switch between apps with Alt-Tab (which I use all the time) and you can switch between subwindows in MDI apps with Ctrl-Tab, there doesn't appear to be any way to use the keyboard to switch from one tab to another with the keyboard. (You could use the mouse, but mouse-only control of a feature is ghey...almost as ghey as web browsers that use MDI.)
Until there's a keyboard shortcut for it, I'll stick to no tabs and use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. "Taskbar clutter" means nothing to me as I almost never use the taskbar as anything more than an indicator of how many windows I have open.
Is there a reason you need an old version of Flash installed? Flash 6 works OK for me, but it took some persuasion. Macromedia didn't want to provide the correct download link, but you should be able to download and install the Flash 6 installer from this link. You should also make sure that npswf32.dll is in your Mozilla plugin directory when the install is complete.
Windows Media plays inside Mozilla with no problems if you use this plugin. There are three files that you'll need to copy from %systemroot%\system32 (IIRC) into the Mozilla plugin directory: npdsplay.dll, npwmsdrm.dll, and npdrmv2.dll.