With this kind of thing, I expect that jerks would start sending you HTML e-mails that are made up for hundreds of subframes (each subframe being a page.)
That's why you block HTML email (that, and HTML doesn't belong in email)...procmail is your friend.
He claims that 'Superdell's Personal Model' is the absolute fastest Windows-based machine on the planet and it has top of the line parts, and if you can tell him how to make it better, he'll pay you $1000.
The fact that he built it around a P4 is a dead giveaway that he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Dual Athlon MPs (or XPs if you're willing to ignore AMD's compatibility guidelines) on a Tyan Thunder K7 will blow his setup out of the water (and it comes with dual Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI and dual 3Com NICs on-board, too).
I probably shouldn't respond to such a blatant troll, but here goes anyway...
SCSI is dead.
Suuure...whatever you say, boss.
For most consumer and single-user environments, IDE is plenty fast enough. Even in the small server market, IDE is adequate.
The key word here is "adequate." It gets the job done, but as soon as you get beyond single-user bitty-boxen, IDE gets bogged down under load. SCSI tends to hold up better when you have dozens of people banging away at a database (to name one common example). It also handles more drives per interface (7 or 15 vs. 2), so it's more practical for massive amounts of storage that need multiple drives (whether RAID or JBOD).
SCSI won't be around as a serious disk option for much longer, I suspect.
You would suspect incorrectly...hell, it wasn't a couple of months ago that I set up a new server for my previous employer with three 18GB Ultrastars in a RAID-5 configuration. Try setting up 10krpm or 15krpm IDE drives in RAID-5...you can't, because the drives don't exist.
(The storage I use at home is a mix of IDE and SCSI. The x86 boxen got IDE because it was cheap (though the 100GB Western Digital I bought recently is now in a FireWire case so I can schlep it between home and work). The Apples (a IIGS and a Mac Quadra 610) got SCSI because it's what they expect. I'll be building a "new" server soon with a pair of P!!!-500s that was given to me...the motherboard I bought for them has onboard UW SCSI, so I might snag a Barracuda or three from the local used-parts place and see how Linux runs on SMP.)
Not to mention that USB has killed SCSI for things like scanners.
Maybe, but that doesn't stop my ScanJet 3c from working. (It won't work under WinXP, but I have no plans to switch to that. It works under Linux and Win2K, and that's enough.)
(FWIW, I have lots of stuff that plugs in through serial, parallel, or SCSI. I even have a device now that uses FireWire (a hard drive, and I'd strongly consider a DV camcorder over VHS-C or 8mm, if I needed one). I've never bought anything that used USB, though...already had a nice SCSI scanner, SCSI Zip, various AT/serial/PS/2 keyboards and mice, etc.)
Some superglue manufacturers offer a thicker type that doesn't run quite as eagerly as the liquid type. It is more the consistency of model airplane glue so you have more control as to where the glue actually goes.
When I read the article, I wondered why they didn't just cut out a smallish piece of tape and use that to cover over the holes. A sliver of electrician's tape ought to stick to the processor package fairly well and would keep the conductive ink out of the holes. You could then use Scotch tape over it to mask off the pads for the conductive ink; I would think that the edge of the electrician's tape would be no problem for the ink to cover. It would seem to be much more foolproof than trying to plug the holes with glue.
Another possibility might be to just route the ink around the holes...it's a bit tricker than making a straight line, but steady hands, a fine-tipped paintbrush, and a magnifier ought to do the trick
try doing a little investigation before you just blurt out some random stupidity.
Investigate something before you post about it? Have you forgotten that this is/., where you post first and ask questions later (especially if it's an opportunity to bash Microsoft)?
AMD is leading the market and producing technology that is faster, more reliable, and cheaper.
Everything I've heard about AMD mobos is that they are *less* reliable than the Intel ones.
If you slap a GHz Duron on a PC Chips motherboard, don't be too surprised if you run into problems. The same can be said if you stick a P4 on a PC Chips motherboard (does PC Chips even make P4 motherboards?). Whether you get your processors from AMD, Intel, or somebody else doesn't make any difference if you stick it on a crappy motherboard.
I've bought only AMD processors for years now (starting with a K6-200), and I've never had any problems with the systems in which they were used. It's the result of not getting the absolute cheapest motherboards and other components for these systems. I've seen plenty of Intel-based systems crash and burn, but they were usually dollar-engineered boxen with shitty motherboards (usually PC Chips and similar, though I've had a few MSI boards go south as well).
(I could make some wisecrack about the FDIV bug or the 820 MTH SDRAM compatibility debacle, but I won't.:-) )
I pay them C$40 per month for speeds that are no better than dial-up except in the middle of the night.
It's statements like this that make me glad I'm on DSL.
Around here (Las Vegas), it's the other way around. It's DSL that's flaky as hell and cable-modem service that's fairly reliable. A week rarely goes by that the DSL at work doesn't either go down or get bogged down to where it's unusable. The cable modem I have at home, OTOH, will keep hauling the mail (figuratively and literally) for months at a stretch, and it doesn't get bogged down (except by crap such as Nimda and Code Red that too many lusers allowed to infect their systems).
You can burn a perfect copy of a CD for your friend. Your friend can burn a perfect copy for his/her friend. And so on and so forth.
In this case, there will be some quality loss over time, but it's minimal.
Um...if it's a perfect copy, where does the loss occur? If you're using something decent to rip your CDs and it makes a perfect copy every time (no unrecoverable damage to any of the CDs in the chain), then by definition there is no loss and the thousandth CD ought to be identical to the first (assuming that all of the tracks are copied in the original order). If your ripping software isn't so hot, it could introduce errors...but then we're no longer dealing with a perfect copy.
Sometimes i`m watching a film, then i just sit bolt upright and go `fuck! what channel is this on?`.
One press of a button on the TiVo remote will give you that info...channel, program name, and plot summary (assuming that the TV show in question has a plot, of course:-| ). After a while, though, you really don't care what channel it's on as you stop watching live TV and wait for TiVo to record it so you can blow through the commercials.
For example, our local station used to carry Star Trek TNG in syndication. After the first few years they started popping up their logo for a couple of seconds during the opening scene of the show and then it would disappear and be gone for the rest of the show. Now the logo is on constantly and only disappears for commercials.
It's even worse now that TNG is on TNN (do they have exclusive rights to it?). I was going to archive it from my TiVo, but just putting a "bug" in the lower right corner wasn't enough for them. They run a black bar across the lower eighth or so of the screen with their logo on one side and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" spelled out to about a third of the way across the screen. It doesn't go away, and the video wasn't resized to fit into the reduced vertical space...they just blot out the bottom part of the screen altogether. I unblocked TNN specifically for this show, but they've ruined it. I need to see if these guys are still running it (they carried TNG when it first showed, and for years afterward).
I believe the somewhat plausible explanation for "faster internet" is that windows media player has SSE and SSE2 optimizations
Beyond a certain point (that was passed some time ago), though, even that fails to matter. Cranking out 1e6 fps in Quake doesn't matter when you're playing streaming video which is to be rendered at no more than 30 fps. Your connection to the Internet is the limiting factor; a 2-GHz P4 isn't going to make your POS 56K winmodem deliver cable-modem download speeds.
There are applications that need all the speed they can get. It's not the stuff that Intel runs in its ads, though.
How childish...and I guess you think Nutscrape wouldn't splooge itself? I threw K-meleon at it and it tried to go into the same "death spiral" as IE. Thankfully, Win2K's task manager is pretty good about killing errant programs...didn't need to reboot or anything. It's a wonder you didn't set it up to load goatse.cx into each of the windows.
www.jerks.com...at least that much is appropriate. Get a life.
(So what if I'm offtopic? The crack-addict moderators will probably find something on-topic to mod down before they get to this message. Besides, when your karma is at 50, the only way to go is down...)
The rest of us, the people doing actual work, have given up caring about CPU speed.
Define "actual work." Those of us who work with digital video (editing, compression, or whatever) will take all the speed we can get.
That said, even if Intel does produce a 3-GHz processor, what will its real-world performance be like? We know their current 2-GHz P4 runs no faster than an Athlon running somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5 GHz, and I doubt that AMD will be standing still for the next year. It's also worth remembering which company actually had 1-GHz processors to sell and which company was only able to announce future availability.
I'm picturing several unfortunate legal interns paging though hundreds and hundreds of really old slashdot posts trying to figure out what all the chatter about Gnomes and Gnus has to do with anything...
The first goatse.cx or comp-u-geek troll they stumble across will send them running away...or maybe not. (Hey, these are Hollyweird types we're talking about.)
The latest version of TiVo allows you to hit a +30 second button. It's sort of a hack/easter egg thing, but it's there.
Speaking of Easter eggs and TiVo 2.5, go into the system information screen and hold down Channel Down. It demonstrates what kinds of geeks the TiVo people really must be.:-)
It's still just a matter of convenience/ efficiency. If they were serious, and were on solid legal ground, they should outlaw VCRs. Or at least, make them so that you can't hook up machines to make duplicate tapes.
...not to mention the dual-deck VCRs that have been produced over the years. (Hell, there's even a unit now from Go Video that combines a DVD player and a VCR. It won't dub DVDs to tape, though, so what's the point? I'll stick with my Apex AD600A with region-free/Macrovision-free ROM, thankyouverymuch...and if I didn't have that, I still have a Macrovision scrubber floating around somewhere...arrrrr, me mateys...)
This case is about the fact that ReplayTV 4000 allows users to share recordings over the internet.
That may be the case...but who here hasn't loaned a friend a tape with the latest episode of $TV_SHOW that he missed? It's not much of a stretch to go from that to sending a show to someone you know...it's not like a ReplayTV box will have an onboard Gnutella/Freenet/whatever server.
(In somewhat related news, v2.5.1 came through to my TiVo a couple of nights ago. I had to reinstall the NIC driver and ExtractStream, but it appears that TiVo didn't dick around with the system to try to break ExtractStream as some people feared might happen. In fact, it might actually be running better now than it did before. w00t!)
And language isn't always known for it's logic. The prefix di does mean two in some instances. Hydrogen-dioxide for one. We don't call it Hydrogen-bioxide do we?
I thought it was dihydrogen monoxide that people were all worked up about...
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I thought I'd give it a try. Especially when I saw how small the download file was (less than 4MB).
I guess what I was hoping for was the lightweight, fast, and standards based Netscape that NS 6.x was supposed to be. Well, what I found out was that it is nothing of the kind. In fact, it doesn't even really work.
Hmm...just grabbed the newest version, and while it doesn't seem any faster (or slower) than IE (maybe that's what a 1.2-GHz Athlon will do for you:-) ), it had no problem picking up my Favorites contents or talking to my company's ad-filtering Squid. It rendered the pages I threw at it nearly identically to IE. Throw in URL auto-completion and the Google toolbar and it'd be a pretty good replacement for IE. (Oh, and Backspace needs to return to the previous page...just noticed that, aside from scrolling with the arrow keys, there's no keyboard navigation at all as pressing Alt-Whatever to open a menu does nothing. Hmm...maybe it does still have some issues...but what do you want from a pre-1.0 product?)
Funny, I've found the last batch of 4.7s to be pretty darn stable. IE 5 crashes like a mofo all the time
What color is the sky on your world? Here on Earth, IE 5.x (under Win2K at least) is about as solid as you can get. IE 6 doesn't crash either, but it has some annoying link-bar behavior (open two windows and click a link in the link bar in one window; the page will come up in the other window). Even the Nutscrape advocates I know of around here (both of them) will admit that 4.7x is a crash-prone POS.
Back when I was running Win98, IE 5.x rarely crashed. It had issues with/. when I had mod points to burn (all the drop-down boxes to mark posts as funny/insightful/troll/etc. next to each post confused the layout engine), but closing the window with the problem would clear it up.
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That, and Notepad STILL can't open files bigger than about 640 KB."
Um, I don't know what version of notepad.exe you run, but mine handles several megabyte files just fine. Uh, get with the times?
Besides, the limit for Notepad used to be 64K, not 640K.
Notepad also does replace now, where before it only had find, and it handles Unicode as well as ASCII.
It's already been done, along with gcc, most of the other GNU stuff, and other programs. (I submitted a patch for id3ed to get it to compile under Cygwin...it and a disposable shell script generated with some macros in joe make fixing the tags in hundreds of mp3z much easier than anything else I've seen for Windows. The same stuff also works in Linux, of course.)
Now I need to check and see if someone's ported tcsh yet...
Yes, Windows 95 was supposed to be a complete rewrite, no DOS whatsoever. I wonder if XP has a file called IO.SYS somewhere in the system directories...
It doesn't...I just had someone check. The Win2K system I'm using right now, OTOH, does have c:\io.sys and c:\msdos.sys, but they're zero-length files (Win2K was a clean install, not an upgrade from Win9x).
The PVR function of the WinTV-HD software is quite weak, but I can record MPEG-2 transport streams to the hard drive as long as I do not use the component output mode.
Some quick questions:
Are the streams saved by this card usable (editable, playable, etc.) in other programs without much fuss?
Does the PVR function also work with analog channels, or will it only record from digital channels? (Analog recording would require either an MPEG encoder on the card or software-based MPEG encoding, vs. just dumping the received MPEG stream from a digital channel to a file.)
I'm currently using a TiVo with a NIC to grab TV shows and archive them to SVCD. It works, but it's somewhat cumbersome and it doesn't always work. I was thinking of snagging something along the lines of an All-in-Wonder Radeon to add video capture capability as I'm fairly sure it'll handle analog TV just fine...but if the WinTV-HD can do both analog and digital, it would seem to make more sense to go that way.
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(The storage I use at home is a mix of IDE and SCSI. The x86 boxen got IDE because it was cheap (though the 100GB Western Digital I bought recently is now in a FireWire case so I can schlep it between home and work). The Apples (a IIGS and a Mac Quadra 610) got SCSI because it's what they expect. I'll be building a "new" server soon with a pair of P!!!-500s that was given to me...the motherboard I bought for them has onboard UW SCSI, so I might snag a Barracuda or three from the local used-parts place and see how Linux runs on SMP.)
Maybe, but that doesn't stop my ScanJet 3c from working. (It won't work under WinXP, but I have no plans to switch to that. It works under Linux and Win2K, and that's enough.)(FWIW, I have lots of stuff that plugs in through serial, parallel, or SCSI. I even have a device now that uses FireWire (a hard drive, and I'd strongly consider a DV camcorder over VHS-C or 8mm, if I needed one). I've never bought anything that used USB, though...already had a nice SCSI scanner, SCSI Zip, various AT/serial/PS/2 keyboards and mice, etc.)
Another possibility might be to just route the ink around the holes...it's a bit tricker than making a straight line, but steady hands, a fine-tipped paintbrush, and a magnifier ought to do the trick
I've bought only AMD processors for years now (starting with a K6-200), and I've never had any problems with the systems in which they were used. It's the result of not getting the absolute cheapest motherboards and other components for these systems. I've seen plenty of Intel-based systems crash and burn, but they were usually dollar-engineered boxen with shitty motherboards (usually PC Chips and similar, though I've had a few MSI boards go south as well).
(I could make some wisecrack about the FDIV bug or the 820 MTH SDRAM compatibility debacle, but I won't. :-) )
You say that like there's something wrong with that idea. Mutt rocks!
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There are applications that need all the speed they can get. It's not the stuff that Intel runs in its ads, though.
www.jerks.com...at least that much is appropriate. Get a life.
(So what if I'm offtopic? The crack-addict moderators will probably find something on-topic to mod down before they get to this message. Besides, when your karma is at 50, the only way to go is down...)
That said, even if Intel does produce a 3-GHz processor, what will its real-world performance be like? We know their current 2-GHz P4 runs no faster than an Athlon running somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5 GHz, and I doubt that AMD will be standing still for the next year. It's also worth remembering which company actually had 1-GHz processors to sell and which company was only able to announce future availability.
(In somewhat related news, v2.5.1 came through to my TiVo a couple of nights ago. I had to reinstall the NIC driver and ExtractStream, but it appears that TiVo didn't dick around with the system to try to break ExtractStream as some people feared might happen. In fact, it might actually be running better now than it did before. w00t!)
Back when I was running Win98, IE 5.x rarely crashed. It had issues with /. when I had mod points to burn (all the drop-down boxes to mark posts as funny/insightful/troll/etc. next to each post confused the layout engine), but closing the window with the problem would clear it up.
Notepad also does replace now, where before it only had find, and it handles Unicode as well as ASCII.
Now I need to check and see if someone's ported tcsh yet...
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Are the streams saved by this card usable (editable, playable, etc.) in other programs without much fuss?
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Does the PVR function also work with analog channels, or will it only record from digital channels? (Analog recording would require either an MPEG encoder on the card or software-based MPEG encoding, vs. just dumping the received MPEG stream from a digital channel to a file.)
I'm currently using a TiVo with a NIC to grab TV shows and archive them to SVCD. It works, but it's somewhat cumbersome and it doesn't always work. I was thinking of snagging something along the lines of an All-in-Wonder Radeon to add video capture capability as I'm fairly sure it'll handle analog TV just fine...but if the WinTV-HD can do both analog and digital, it would seem to make more sense to go that way.