So, I've been running a AMD Mobile Athlon XP Barton (link) in my desktop for about a year, in a standard Socket A motherboard (NForce2 based). It is easily overclockable, and runs cooler than my previous main CPU, an Athlon XP 1800.
Is the PentiumM that much better, or is it just the CPU du jour?
I'm convinced that this is a great idea. Everybody on GMT... no more "is that eastern or central time?" Just say "call me at 20:00" and everybody is on the same page.
People accept that they have to pay for electricity, phone, but the internet should be free?
Where I live, I am charged by the utility company for the amount of electricity that I use. I am charged by the phone company for the phone calls I make. However, I am not charged by the number of bits that I transfer over my internet connection.
So many are used as just "monitors" or "displays" without the need for a tuner... What would be the cost difference to produce a "monitor" with several Composite or S-Video inputs that would could be hooked up to external tuners or VCR's or console systems?
Really? I don't think anyone in my family is planning on getting rid of their analog TV, and none have plans to get a HD set. Any each household has at least 2 TV's and they are watched several hours a day.
I'll have to let them and lots of other people know that their TV's aren't going to work soon.
Well, to start with, install Linux correctly. If you have an existing Windows partition, you probably want to use the Linux tool resizentfs (or ntfsresize or whatever it's called) that comes on most distribution's install CD's, unless you have partition magic or something like that. Most modern Linux distributions' install programs will automatically put your Window's partition into the boot loader so it is a menu option when booting.
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone needing to install a service pack to boot, but then again, I don't spend much time following all of the problems with Windows...
Absolutely. I think a satellite would be very useful, since a lot of the atmosphere (ionosphere, etc) have some (negative) effect on radio waves. Having the receiver outside of the atmosphere would alleviate a lot of these "problems" and give the SETI folks a better environment.
Now we just have to figure out how to get such a huge dish up there...
...can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometers per second
Well, that's nice. Except that "34 kilometers per second" is not a measure of acceleration. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, according to Wikipedia. Velocity, of course, is the measurement of the rate and direction of motion.
Two major transitions for Mac: 68K to PowerPC. Next Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Now time for third transition. Transition to Intel-based Macs. Developers Now. Next year for users. "Because we want to make the best computers for our customers." No G5 PowerBook yet. Future products can't be build on IBM of PowerPC. Intel has performance and better performance per watt. Intel delivers much better performance per watt. Starting next year the first Macs with Intel processors. Shipping by next WWDC. Mostly complete by 2007 WWDC. Complete by the end of 2007.
So, it sounds like one of the driving reasons for this is the performance-per-watt for Intel is higher than the G5/G4/PPC processors.
Regardless of cooling method, everything is still generating the amount of heat. If we can reduce the amount of heat generated by having more efficient components, we'll be better off.
What I have never understood is why servers virtually always have AC power supplies.
I've wondered that, too. Every time the power is coverted between AC, DC, and the voltage level, there is some loss, so it's less efficient to do all of these conversions. I think having a UPS-oriented power supply would be a Good Thing, where you can hook up some external battery pack for the backup.
At a previous job, we used some Unix machines that were completely fault tolerant, including backup processors, backup network cards, and backup power supplies with batteries. Yes, the enclosure had 2 power supplies, with batteries in the bottom of the enclosure. It was a monster. Then again, it cost $50k-$100k for a couple of hundred MHz, but it ran forever. Or until the software died.
So what someone really needs to do is make a sailplane that can do it in a time between 24 and 36 hours... then the sun can be up for the entire flight.
This would obviously require flying westward... Would there be any contention with the jet stream (mentioned above) that would make this impossible?
You could just set up CUPS to print to a PDF file. Basically, it involves installing ghostscript to get the ps2pdf executable, and installing a PDF ppd file (Google for "distiller ppd").
When I read this in the article, I wondered to myself, "How can I assemble a physical set of things into a one-dimensional wall?" And as I think about it more, a wall can't really be one-dimensional...
As it says on the PTC's web site, it's the parents' responsibility to decide what children are able to watch. It then goes on to say that all of the sex, violence, etc is having a negative effect on children. So, it sounds like what they are really saying is that parents aren't effective in their responsiblity.
Why should TV stations change their programming because parents aren't effective? Stupid! What's next? "My skin got burned from being out in the sun too long. Let's eliminate the sun..."
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So, I've been running a AMD Mobile Athlon XP Barton (link) in my desktop for about a year, in a standard Socket A motherboard (NForce2 based). It is easily overclockable, and runs cooler than my previous main CPU, an Athlon XP 1800.
Is the PentiumM that much better, or is it just the CPU du jour?
I'm convinced that this is a great idea. Everybody on GMT... no more "is that eastern or central time?" Just say "call me at 20:00" and everybody is on the same page.
Well, it is cheaper at Amazon:
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So many are used as just "monitors" or "displays" without the need for a tuner... What would be the cost difference to produce a "monitor" with several Composite or S-Video inputs that would could be hooked up to external tuners or VCR's or console systems?
That article is about analog TV broadcasts. It doesn't say anything about analog TV signals, such as on cable, etc.
I'll have to let them and lots of other people know that their TV's aren't going to work soon.
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone needing to install a service pack to boot, but then again, I don't spend much time following all of the problems with Windows...
I found it interesting that my CDMA-based cell phone puts out, on average, 1mW or less. reference
Absolutely. I think a satellite would be very useful, since a lot of the atmosphere (ionosphere, etc) have some (negative) effect on radio waves. Having the receiver outside of the atmosphere would alleviate a lot of these "problems" and give the SETI folks a better environment.
Now we just have to figure out how to get such a huge dish up there...
Well, that's nice. Except that "34 kilometers per second" is not a measure of acceleration. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, according to Wikipedia. Velocity, of course, is the measurement of the rate and direction of motion.
I don't think it's so difficult to have effective spam blockage.
On my server at home, I use Sendmail with DNSBL. It's current set up with ordb, dsbl, and spamhaus.
Additionally, I use procmail and the nkvir rules to weed out other nasty things.
If you want to know more, use google.
At least we'll have another Unix-based OS running on x86 hardware to prove to the masses that it's MS's OS that is the problem...
xbit-labs review of Athlon 64 venice
This shows that the AMD's use less power than Intel's, and the rest of the article shows that the performance is comparible.
How did Apple decide to go with Intel, if performance per watt is so important?
Regardless of cooling method, everything is still generating the amount of heat. If we can reduce the amount of heat generated by having more efficient components, we'll be better off.
I've wondered that, too. Every time the power is coverted between AC, DC, and the voltage level, there is some loss, so it's less efficient to do all of these conversions. I think having a UPS-oriented power supply would be a Good Thing, where you can hook up some external battery pack for the backup.
At a previous job, we used some Unix machines that were completely fault tolerant, including backup processors, backup network cards, and backup power supplies with batteries. Yes, the enclosure had 2 power supplies, with batteries in the bottom of the enclosure. It was a monster. Then again, it cost $50k-$100k for a couple of hundred MHz, but it ran forever. Or until the software died.
You could just set up CUPS to print to a PDF file. Basically, it involves installing ghostscript to get the ps2pdf executable, and installing a PDF ppd file (Google for "distiller ppd").
Here's one page that describes the procedure: Using CUPS backend to create PDF virtual printer
Right, so the soccer mom on the phone with the kids in the back throwing stuff round must have an equivent blood-alcohol level of like 0.3%...
When I read this in the article, I wondered to myself, "How can I assemble a physical set of things into a one-dimensional wall?" And as I think about it more, a wall can't really be one-dimensional...
As it says on the PTC's web site, it's the parents' responsibility to decide what children are able to watch. It then goes on to say that all of the sex, violence, etc is having a negative effect on children. So, it sounds like what they are really saying is that parents aren't effective in their responsiblity.
Why should TV stations change their programming because parents aren't effective? Stupid! What's next? "My skin got burned from being out in the sun too long. Let's eliminate the sun..."