It kind of gives you a new perspective on where the "state-of-the-art" in the current 32-bit Wintel platform is. PCIe/1066MHz FSB/Prescott really don't buy you a whole lot except nice specs on a piece of paper (and a lot of excess heat). I really hope in the future, the mobo manufacturers will make a full-size ATX board with 2 or 3 PCI-X slots along with a standard CPU socket.
UNIX was designed under the guidelines of "do one thing well, do it quickly and get out of memory."
Those design decisions permeate UNIX and the *NIX community even today. When I read the newsgroups, I still see tips on how to do things that involve piping a file through 17 filters to do something that can be done on Windows with four mouse clicks.
As opposed to spending 1/2 an hour deciding which of the 17 multi-megabyte programs you have installed you should use to accomplish your task. Then you can click your mouse four times.
More worrysome is the thin protective layer next to the BD layer. The diagram is not to scale, but this outer layer is only 0.1mm. Kinda like the thickness of the label layer on the other side. If this outer layer is too thin/fragile, it will be as vulnerable as the label portion of CDs.
Athlon XP-M Bartons are multiplier unlocked so that saves you the first hurdle. XP-Ms also run cooler than a non-mobile variety. In order to get the A7V classic (mine's revision 1.02) to work with higher multipliers you need to use the "wire trick." Use the new multiplier DIP settings from this thread.
I got the CPU from newegg.com. I'm currently using an old Alpha heatsink. Using a more up-to-date variety will allow me to run it at 2.3/2.4GHz. Upgrade your BIOS to the latest beta--the BIOS doesn't detect the correct speed unless you set your FSB to non-100MHz. Benchmarking utilities will detect the correct speed.
I have an A7V classic that's been upgraded to a 2.2GHz Athlon XP-M. Quite reliable and far from obsolete.
But frankly, the S-presso has a long way to go if you think they're going to outdo Apple in "the way it looks matters department." It's too bad the G4 Cube never took off. That is what I would consider a living room toy. Minimalist and elegant. In contrast, the S-presso from the pictures looks like it is encased in cheap plastic made for a 5-year-old. Its shape doesn't look like it will complement components in a home-entertainment rack. If I had one of these puppies, it would probably be sitting behind a chair.
No, it was not. Many have said that the radiation levels emitted by cell phones were too low to have an adverse effect on cell functions. This recent study seems to contradict that reasoning.
Often, long threads with multiple thoughts require quoting. I see this problem on web forums. What the heck is this person replying to when the message is "Yes, you can do that, but be extra careful!!!!! I wiped my drive once." and there are 5 different procedures already posted.
I used to do 'net style quoting, too. But I gave up when I got too many messages in Outlook (had to use it initially because of calendaring/meeting scheduling). The other thing is quoting everything helps because it allows me to see the entire thread unsanitized. It takes more effort, but it is better to not have to rely on others to quote incorrectly what they thought was the correct context. If they quoted too little you have to ask for clarification.
I have a dual PII 450MHz at work that I use every day. It has a Matrox Millennium G200. It is definitely no P4, but most of my stuff is done on offsite servers, this is more than adequate. Well, until the corporate website folks started putting this stupid Flash-enabled doohicky on our header frame. What used to be adequate is now molasses slow whenever I open up IE (corporate-mandated). I don't have Flash installed on Firefox so that loads without a noticable delay. There's still a delay, but within my tolerance threshold.
But in IE I can check "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" and enforce that through a group policy and prevent a "normal" user from changing it. I have tried this and IE will not save encrypted pages. It will save an almost empty.html file but it will not display the contents. So bullshit on your bullshit.:)
But I can still save an encrypted page to disk using Firefox's File>Save. I cannot using IE. I personally like Firefox's behavior because if I can see it, I should be able to save it. Not being able to save it is a good option for those who want that behavior. And auto-clearing cache/cookies would be a great option to also have within FF's options.
Let's see how fast the Firefox coders implement these functionalties. I'd give it a week.
Maybe it's the bug + dirty cache syndrome. Counts are buffered for a set time/amount and then it sends results to a server somewhere. While counts are buffered, software bug occurs and either the box reboots or some supervisor/IT specialist mucks with the controls (rebooting or "resetting") losing votes.
Of course, I have no idea how those guys write their software so it's pure speculation. Just thinking up of a possiblity.
And what a killer-app. Dell was using WebObjects until Apple purchased NeXT. Rumor has it that it took Microsoft a lot of effort to replace WebObjects.
1. The NeXT optical disk was manufactured by Canon and had a 256MB capacity per side--NeXT sold single-sided media. 256MB for removable media was huge at that time. The trouble, though, was it was slow and produced loud clunks as its head was accessing, probably due to the use of a stepper head motor. My OD drive is dead due to non-use, but I'm sure the media is still fine. I still have some double-sided media (512MB) from Canon, but you had to flip the disk. 2. NeXT used a unified imaging model (Display Postscript for the screen and Postscript for print), but the GUI applications were written in Objective-C. Although a lot of applications have some sort of Postscript glue. Interface Builder was already a part of 1.0. 3. Most notable at that time was the inclusion of all these academia programs such as the complete Shakespeare's works, quotes, and the unabridged Webster dictionary (a lot of companies sold abridged, so you cannot search for f..k) with audio pronounciation. For me, the most enigmatic "app" was Allegro Common LISP--didn't know what to do with that. Yes, Mathematica was jaw-dropping. Not the graphing part, but that was impressive, too. First time I saw a program that solved integrals outputting intermediate steps.
Finally, the most powerful aspect of NeXT software architecture was its object-oriented model based on Objective-C. Obj-C's late binding was slower than C++'s early binding, but it allowed most applications to not break as the underlying framework was changed/modified/rev'ed. That was one of the problems with BeOS's C++-based OO framework at that time. You probably can have a C++ framework and not require recompiles of all your apps, but the framework would have to be very mature, something the Be framework could not be given the limited man-years it received.
Personally, I think Apple was correct in choosing NeXT technologies because of Obj-C's battle-tested framework.
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What? Oh, never mind, I thought you said there was an EMACS extension for FireFox.
Carbon fiber may be strong, but is brittle. Not a good choice to use in creating CDs/DVDs, in my opinion. Wouldn't want the disc to shatter when you're pulling it out of an especially stubborn case.
Ah, that's due to incompatibilities between your burner's writing strategy and your medial. This happened with my Pioneer 105 and some Ritek G05s. For some strange reason, the Pioneer would not write to G05s reliably. Although it verified correctly on the writer, my Pioneer DVD-ROM would not read it without any errors. This is with MS Windows and not P0/P1 errors, manifesting in an Explorer window not coming up or I cannot list the directory's contents using cmd.exe/bash.exe. And this was on media that was written several days prior. Changing from G05s to G04s made things work well again. I have many (around 80) Ritek G04s written over a year ago and they mount, read, and verify without any trouble on my DVD-ROM drive. Recently verified.
Don't be fooled. Ritek/Ridata is not a premium brand--they are a good brand. Lots better than something like Prodisc and KHypermedia. But they are not in the same league as Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, or MKM. I use Riteks, too.
DVD-Rs (DVDs) are actually more durable than CD-Rs (CDs). The reason being the upper layer of a CD-R (CD) comprises of a thin layer of lacquer that is easily scratched and damaged. DVD-Rs (DVDs) in contrast, has an upper layer of polycarbonate on top of the bottom polycarbonate with the data sandwiched in between.
So would software players be fully compliant if it included all the codecs? I guess it would be frustrating if you have a player that included only MPEG4 and cannot play a disc that is encoded in WMV9. Why not use just one codec as the standard and avoid potential confusion?
I have TightVNC installed on my Windows XP box. Most of the time I use Remote Desktop, but I have found that after I use RD, and I try to use VNC, all I get is a black screen. This is probably the screen saver of some sort. The black screen doesn't go away unless I login using RD while my VNC session is still active.
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It kind of gives you a new perspective on where the "state-of-the-art" in the current 32-bit Wintel platform is. PCIe/1066MHz FSB/Prescott really don't buy you a whole lot except nice specs on a piece of paper (and a lot of excess heat). I really hope in the future, the mobo manufacturers will make a full-size ATX board with 2 or 3 PCI-X slots along with a standard CPU socket.
As opposed to spending 1/2 an hour deciding which of the 17 multi-megabyte programs you have installed you should use to accomplish your task. Then you can click your mouse four times.
More worrysome is the thin protective layer next to the BD layer. The diagram is not to scale, but this outer layer is only 0.1mm. Kinda like the thickness of the label layer on the other side. If this outer layer is too thin/fragile, it will be as vulnerable as the label portion of CDs.
I got the CPU from newegg.com. I'm currently using an old Alpha heatsink. Using a more up-to-date variety will allow me to run it at 2.3/2.4GHz. Upgrade your BIOS to the latest beta--the BIOS doesn't detect the correct speed unless you set your FSB to non-100MHz. Benchmarking utilities will detect the correct speed.
I have an A7V classic that's been upgraded to a 2.2GHz Athlon XP-M. Quite reliable and far from obsolete.
But frankly, the S-presso has a long way to go if you think they're going to outdo Apple in "the way it looks matters department." It's too bad the G4 Cube never took off. That is what I would consider a living room toy. Minimalist and elegant. In contrast, the S-presso from the pictures looks like it is encased in cheap plastic made for a 5-year-old. Its shape doesn't look like it will complement components in a home-entertainment rack. If I had one of these puppies, it would probably be sitting behind a chair.
No, it was not. Many have said that the radiation levels emitted by cell phones were too low to have an adverse effect on cell functions. This recent study seems to contradict that reasoning.
Often, long threads with multiple thoughts require quoting. I see this problem on web forums. What the heck is this person replying to when the message is "Yes, you can do that, but be extra careful!!!!! I wiped my drive once." and there are 5 different procedures already posted.
I used to do 'net style quoting, too. But I gave up when I got too many messages in Outlook (had to use it initially because of calendaring/meeting scheduling). The other thing is quoting everything helps because it allows me to see the entire thread unsanitized. It takes more effort, but it is better to not have to rely on others to quote incorrectly what they thought was the correct context. If they quoted too little you have to ask for clarification.
I have a dual PII 450MHz at work that I use every day. It has a Matrox Millennium G200. It is definitely no P4, but most of my stuff is done on offsite servers, this is more than adequate. Well, until the corporate website folks started putting this stupid Flash-enabled doohicky on our header frame. What used to be adequate is now molasses slow whenever I open up IE (corporate-mandated). I don't have Flash installed on Firefox so that loads without a noticable delay. There's still a delay, but within my tolerance threshold.
Article states that many embedded systems still prefer to use it because of heat/power requirements.
But in IE I can check "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" and enforce that through a group policy and prevent a "normal" user from changing it. I have tried this and IE will not save encrypted pages. It will save an almost empty .html file but it will not display the contents. So bullshit on your bullshit. :)
But I can still save an encrypted page to disk using Firefox's File>Save. I cannot using IE. I personally like Firefox's behavior because if I can see it, I should be able to save it. Not being able to save it is a good option for those who want that behavior. And auto-clearing cache/cookies would be a great option to also have within FF's options. Let's see how fast the Firefox coders implement these functionalties. I'd give it a week.
Maybe it's the bug + dirty cache syndrome. Counts are buffered for a set time/amount and then it sends results to a server somewhere. While counts are buffered, software bug occurs and either the box reboots or some supervisor/IT specialist mucks with the controls (rebooting or "resetting") losing votes.
Of course, I have no idea how those guys write their software so it's pure speculation. Just thinking up of a possiblity.
And what a killer-app. Dell was using WebObjects until Apple purchased NeXT. Rumor has it that it took Microsoft a lot of effort to replace WebObjects.
Some corrections and clarification.
1. The NeXT optical disk was manufactured by Canon and had a 256MB capacity per side--NeXT sold single-sided media. 256MB for removable media was huge at that time. The trouble, though, was it was slow and produced loud clunks as its head was accessing, probably due to the use of a stepper head motor. My OD drive is dead due to non-use, but I'm sure the media is still fine. I still have some double-sided media (512MB) from Canon, but you had to flip the disk.
2. NeXT used a unified imaging model (Display Postscript for the screen and Postscript for print), but the GUI applications were written in Objective-C. Although a lot of applications have some sort of Postscript glue. Interface Builder was already a part of 1.0.
3. Most notable at that time was the inclusion of all these academia programs such as the complete Shakespeare's works, quotes, and the unabridged Webster dictionary (a lot of companies sold abridged, so you cannot search for f..k) with audio pronounciation. For me, the most enigmatic "app" was Allegro Common LISP--didn't know what to do with that. Yes, Mathematica was jaw-dropping. Not the graphing part, but that was impressive, too. First time I saw a program that solved integrals outputting intermediate steps.
Finally, the most powerful aspect of NeXT software architecture was its object-oriented model based on Objective-C. Obj-C's late binding was slower than C++'s early binding, but it allowed most applications to not break as the underlying framework was changed/modified/rev'ed. That was one of the problems with BeOS's C++-based OO framework at that time. You probably can have a C++ framework and not require recompiles of all your apps, but the framework would have to be very mature, something the Be framework could not be given the limited man-years it received.
Personally, I think Apple was correct in choosing NeXT technologies because of Obj-C's battle-tested framework.
What? Oh, never mind, I thought you said there was an EMACS extension for FireFox.
Carbon fiber may be strong, but is brittle. Not a good choice to use in creating CDs/DVDs, in my opinion. Wouldn't want the disc to shatter when you're pulling it out of an especially stubborn case.
Ah, that's due to incompatibilities between your burner's writing strategy and your medial. This happened with my Pioneer 105 and some Ritek G05s. For some strange reason, the Pioneer would not write to G05s reliably. Although it verified correctly on the writer, my Pioneer DVD-ROM would not read it without any errors. This is with MS Windows and not P0/P1 errors, manifesting in an Explorer window not coming up or I cannot list the directory's contents using cmd.exe/bash.exe. And this was on media that was written several days prior. Changing from G05s to G04s made things work well again. I have many (around 80) Ritek G04s written over a year ago and they mount, read, and verify without any trouble on my DVD-ROM drive. Recently verified.
You can get TYs for US$0.80 each so I don't think that's a killer with regards to price.
Don't be fooled. Ritek/Ridata is not a premium brand--they are a good brand. Lots better than something like Prodisc and KHypermedia. But they are not in the same league as Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, or MKM. I use Riteks, too.
DVD-Rs (DVDs) are actually more durable than CD-Rs (CDs). The reason being the upper layer of a CD-R (CD) comprises of a thin layer of lacquer that is easily scratched and damaged. DVD-Rs (DVDs) in contrast, has an upper layer of polycarbonate on top of the bottom polycarbonate with the data sandwiched in between.
You can also get some very nice hacked firmware on the Pioneers...
So would software players be fully compliant if it included all the codecs? I guess it would be frustrating if you have a player that included only MPEG4 and cannot play a disc that is encoded in WMV9. Why not use just one codec as the standard and avoid potential confusion?
I have TightVNC installed on my Windows XP box. Most of the time I use Remote Desktop, but I have found that after I use RD, and I try to use VNC, all I get is a black screen. This is probably the screen saver of some sort. The black screen doesn't go away unless I login using RD while my VNC session is still active.
Any way to remove/disable this black screen??