Same thing here, but I have a 46" LCD HDTV and I also don't see a reason to upgrade. I'd get a blu ray player if my current DVD player died, and might actually buy a blu ray disc if it was the same price or only marginally more expensive, but if none of that comes to pass I'm sticking with DVDs.
I remember playing the original Warcraft. I surrounded the enemy's home base with archers having them hold their ground. So the computer would spit out a peon and it would instantly get killed. So I let it run for a day or so, yet the computer kept spitting out peons, proving it had infinite money. That rather annoyed me at the time to find that out. Of course the game was pretty easy with the correct strategy nonetheless, but it always made me wonder what other ways game AIs cheat.
WRT54GL here running tomato firmware: # uptime
20:00:54 up 44 days, 2:10, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I've NEVER had to restart it due to a lock up. I think I only restarted it 44 days ago because I updated to 1.19. Awww crap, 1.20 is out.:) The firmware is rock solid with pretty graphs and relatively easy to configure QoS if you know a little bit about tcp and ports and what not.
Supposedly the only 5 digit icq numbers are for Admins. Myself and about 3 friends all have 6 digits, but everyone of them stopped using it, and use aim or gtalk now. Just logged in with mine and it still works, but only 1 friend is online... heh.
Agreed, I'm amazed at home many ads are unintentionally blocked by noscript. And how few sites break because of it.
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Every tried running a local X server and running clients over the internet? I've done so many times and it's slow as molasses, at least when running oracle installers, which is where most of my experience comes from. Xvnc for me, thanks.
This is exactly what I did in Tomato. Everything is bulk, but I classified certain things as having greater priority, such as ssh, icmp, and all UDP (for gaming, I just marked all UDP ports as having higher priority since I don't run any high bandwidth applications on my network that actually use udp).
Exactly, I use an old pair of Sony tower speakers with a t-amp direct to my on board audio. I always try to use the onboard audio first, if it sucks, then I'll buy a sound card. But I always listen first and see how it sounds. I've built computers for other people that came with the most muddled sound cards I've heard, and I'd pop in a cheap YMF724/YMF744 card and it sounds fantastic. I used to always need to put a sound card in, but I haven't had to in the last two computers I've built for myself. At least now I know what to buy if I ever need one.
My last creative card was an SB Pro, work great in it's time. I probably still have it in a box somewhere.:)
I recently bought a Sennheiser gaming headset, which I'm quite fond of. These cans pick up every little subtle footstep games produce, nothing beats em for $60 or so.
Agreed, even though I don't have an upconverting player, my progressive scan DVD player looks pretty darn nice with the component inputs.
From what I hear, an upscaling dvd player wouldn't do me much good. I plan to upgrade to blue ray either when the players get cheap, or when my current dvd player dies. I tell you one thing tho--I haven't bought nearly as many dvds since the hi-def has gotten closer to mainstream.
Or free if I do it from home on my linux box that's already running as a file server. That can I can do all sorts of crazy scripting stuff that might not be easily possible in a shared environment.
I just deleted a smallish file (36K) and copied a shortcut to another folder. It happened instantly for me. Using Vista Home Premium, antivirus disabled.
It could be shitty virus scanners that are causing some of this. I know I was running CA Security Suite before, and it would add 4 seconds to opening an emails in thunderbird that contained image attachments.
I just tried a very unscientific test deleting a 3.3 meg exe file. Running Avast! Antivirus it takes about.5 seconds to delete--I could actually see it disappearing after selecting "yes" to confirm the delete. With antivirus disabled, the file is gone as soon as I select "yes".
Mind you, this is all on a fairly new Intel E6850 core 2 duo machine with a 10K RPM WD Sata Raptor drive and 3.5 gigs of ram.
God if I would have given up Debian years ago if I had to uninstall every beta or prerelease package I installed from sid. Why in God's name I don't give up Vista is beyond me. Oh... I know... games. And wine just isn't quite there yet.
The article doesn't mention anything about 1GB of kernel space. I think this misconception is what brings about your confusion. This 1GB figure can vary, video cards and other devices use it for memory mapped IO. Some machines need more of this address space, some need less, all depending on your hardware. But I don't pretend to be an expert operating system guru, so I could be wrong about this.
I've yet to use all my RAM, but as far as I know, if the OS knows about it, then anything can use it. I've only ever had enough junk running to show 60% usage. (right now I'm sitting at 30% 1068MB/3581MB, with very little running) It sounds like 32-bit Windows limits single processes to 2GB each, the positive integer space, to protect against poorly written programs that can't handle the negative integer addresses properly. Although certain programs can be marked to be allowed more memory if they are proven to behave.
I don't have PAE on. Everything I've read about it says that it's not worth the performance hit.
There's actually a 4GB limit that 32-bit versions of Windows can address. Your system BIOS, video card, and other devices use up this limit first, and then the rest of your physical RAM is mapped for use. I'm running a Geforce 8800GTS 320MB video card, if you have a 768MB or 640MB card, then you'll have less ram showing in Windows.
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Same thing here, but I have a 46" LCD HDTV and I also don't see a reason to upgrade. I'd get a blu ray player if my current DVD player died, and might actually buy a blu ray disc if it was the same price or only marginally more expensive, but if none of that comes to pass I'm sticking with DVDs.
You probably should. They're a bit on the bright and cartoony side for me... for a dungeon anyways...
I remember playing the original Warcraft. I surrounded the enemy's home base with archers having them hold their ground. So the computer would spit out a peon and it would instantly get killed. So I let it run for a day or so, yet the computer kept spitting out peons, proving it had infinite money. That rather annoyed me at the time to find that out. Of course the game was pretty easy with the correct strategy nonetheless, but it always made me wonder what other ways game AIs cheat.
So how does putting a computer in oil solve the heat problem in the server room? In this house we obey the law of thermodynamics.
WRT54GL here running tomato firmware:
# uptime
20:00:54 up 44 days, 2:10, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I've NEVER had to restart it due to a lock up. I think I only restarted it 44 days ago because I updated to 1.19. Awww crap, 1.20 is out. :) The firmware is rock solid with pretty graphs and relatively easy to configure QoS if you know a little bit about tcp and ports and what not.
Weird, according to icq that account no longer exists: http://www.icq.com/people/about_me.php?uin=57134
When I plug in my uin it works. Maybe old, inactive accounts are deleted?
Supposedly the only 5 digit icq numbers are for Admins. Myself and about 3 friends all have 6 digits, but everyone of them stopped using it, and use aim or gtalk now. Just logged in with mine and it still works, but only 1 friend is online... heh.
As soon as I shove this hot poker up my ass I'm going to chop my dick off.
I think we may have a winner. I also work from home and have been wanting to get a laptop myself to give my large lcd tv a try.
Agreed, I'm amazed at home many ads are unintentionally blocked by noscript. And how few sites break because of it.
Every tried running a local X server and running clients over the internet? I've done so many times and it's slow as molasses, at least when running oracle installers, which is where most of my experience comes from. Xvnc for me, thanks.
This is exactly what I did in Tomato. Everything is bulk, but I classified certain things as having greater priority, such as ssh, icmp, and all UDP (for gaming, I just marked all UDP ports as having higher priority since I don't run any high bandwidth applications on my network that actually use udp).
Works great.
yeah, but it's easy to compress "hahahahahahahhahahahaha"
I personally wouldn't expect them to support it, but I also wouldn't expect them to ban it.
My Dad's 1986 Camry got 42mpg on the highway. I've always wondered the same thing. Surely there's a market for light and not very powerful cars still.
Exactly, I use an old pair of Sony tower speakers with a t-amp direct to my on board audio. I always try to use the onboard audio first, if it sucks, then I'll buy a sound card. But I always listen first and see how it sounds. I've built computers for other people that came with the most muddled sound cards I've heard, and I'd pop in a cheap YMF724/YMF744 card and it sounds fantastic. I used to always need to put a sound card in, but I haven't had to in the last two computers I've built for myself. At least now I know what to buy if I ever need one.
:)
My last creative card was an SB Pro, work great in it's time. I probably still have it in a box somewhere.
I recently bought a Sennheiser gaming headset, which I'm quite fond of. These cans pick up every little subtle footstep games produce, nothing beats em for $60 or so.
Agreed, even though I don't have an upconverting player, my progressive scan DVD player looks pretty darn nice with the component inputs.
From what I hear, an upscaling dvd player wouldn't do me much good. I plan to upgrade to blue ray either when the players get cheap, or when my current dvd player dies. I tell you one thing tho--I haven't bought nearly as many dvds since the hi-def has gotten closer to mainstream.
I ran a web server, email server, teamspeak server, even a little quake 3 server on Comcast for years and no one said a thing to me.
Or free if I do it from home on my linux box that's already running as a file server. That can I can do all sorts of crazy scripting stuff that might not be easily possible in a shared environment.
Kinda like this? http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
I just deleted a smallish file (36K) and copied a shortcut to another folder. It happened instantly for me. Using Vista Home Premium, antivirus disabled.
.5 seconds to delete--I could actually see it disappearing after selecting "yes" to confirm the delete. With antivirus disabled, the file is gone as soon as I select "yes".
It could be shitty virus scanners that are causing some of this. I know I was running CA Security Suite before, and it would add 4 seconds to opening an emails in thunderbird that contained image attachments.
I just tried a very unscientific test deleting a 3.3 meg exe file. Running Avast! Antivirus it takes about
Mind you, this is all on a fairly new Intel E6850 core 2 duo machine with a 10K RPM WD Sata Raptor drive and 3.5 gigs of ram.
Maybe they didn't want to piss off Sam and Ivan Raimi since that line was stolen from Army of Darkness.
God if I would have given up Debian years ago if I had to uninstall every beta or prerelease package I installed from sid. Why in God's name I don't give up Vista is beyond me. Oh... I know... games. And wine just isn't quite there yet.
The article doesn't mention anything about 1GB of kernel space. I think this misconception is what brings about your confusion. This 1GB figure can vary, video cards and other devices use it for memory mapped IO. Some machines need more of this address space, some need less, all depending on your hardware. But I don't pretend to be an expert operating system guru, so I could be wrong about this.
I've yet to use all my RAM, but as far as I know, if the OS knows about it, then anything can use it. I've only ever had enough junk running to show 60% usage. (right now I'm sitting at 30% 1068MB/3581MB, with very little running) It sounds like 32-bit Windows limits single processes to 2GB each, the positive integer space, to protect against poorly written programs that can't handle the negative integer addresses properly. Although certain programs can be marked to be allowed more memory if they are proven to behave.
I don't have PAE on. Everything I've read about it says that it's not worth the performance hit.
There's actually a 4GB limit that 32-bit versions of Windows can address. Your system BIOS, video card, and other devices use up this limit first, and then the rest of your physical RAM is mapped for use. I'm running a Geforce 8800GTS 320MB video card, if you have a 768MB or 640MB card, then you'll have less ram showing in Windows.
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