Wrong. Solid state memory has MORE failures per time period. Check out the IBM chipkill memory whitepaper. IBM has decided that multiword ECC simply isn't enough. To get acceptable reliability you need multiword ECC AND RAID across modules.
Uh, the difference of native SATA vs EIDE with a SATA bridge chip has nothing to do with what you posted. Btw native SATA will be cheaper than even normal EIDE because the electronics are actually simpler. Chances are all of the SATA drives you have at this point are EIDE with the bridge chip since this is one of the first drives with a native chip (Raptor 10K was the first AFAIK).
I have shell on my old dialup ISP's Sun machines, have for over a decade now. Many shared webhosting farms run on Linux on x86 and if you have CGI you basically have shell since you can run arbitrary code. Also any place that does development work under Unix probably gives their developers shell access (duh). So I would say there are a lot of places that give more than just the inner circle monks of IT shell access.
I remember rendering the trainstation demo on my 486-SX25. Thing took 7 days to complete at 800*600 3 ray no AA. Today I can render that image at 1600*1200 insane ray level with full multipass AA and it will only take seconds. Kind of puts computing performance increases into perspective.
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Sorry but the only one of those that got lighting even close to correct is the fourth one. The first one was looking good until I looked at the rocks under the waters surface and they looked more like watercolors than renderings.
Mirabilis was never going to charge for ICQ. The ICQ service was basically a minimal cost highly sucessful advertisement for their corporate product. It turns out that it was so sucessful that AOL thought it would be a valid rival to their own IM service so they bought em. Btw I agree that they should roll the VC feature into a value add for AOL for Broadband. Since most of the AOL IM clients are probably run by people who don't use AOL and never will use them as their primary ISP their best bet would be to shuffle them towards their product that is already all about value add.
Yep, that and the damn commercials my cable company has been shoving down my throat to try to disuade me from switching to satelite. They are so full of BS and outright lies that I threatened to leave them if they didn't stop showing the ads and had all my friends do the same. They scaled the ads WAY back but unfortunatly didn't stop em.
A new kitchen can easily cost as much and you spend maybe a couple hours a day in there. You spend 4-9 hours a day in the bedroom. I personally think the money would be better spent on a good nights sleep then a pretty kitchen.
Dude I used Mozilla for several years on a P2-266 laptop with 192MB ram and a P2-300 desktop with 512MB and neither one was unusable. My guess is you need more ram.
Sounds like something's broken with your setup. I middle click on a pdf and acrobat plugin starts downloading the pdf in a new tab, and even in the background =) I assume xpdf can be made to do the same thing if setup correctly.
Nah, DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE just means you can't refile on that exact same damage. SCO can find things to sue about for years to come if they have cash. To be truely done with them they either have to run out of money or the parties they are suing have to win an injunction against SCO baring them from bringing suit against a named list of potential litigants.
No, the point of hyperthreading is to expose functional units that are not being used by the main process('s) running on the physical CPU. If you naively schedule everything across both 'CPU's' you will end up with stupid things like running parallel versions of a tight integer loop which is already maxing out the integer calculation units thus polluting the data cache and stalling the pipe MUCH more often which is a BAD thing on the P4. For more info on scheduler tweaks to accomodate HT I suggest you see this LK post by one of the Linux scheduling gods =)
Actually there will be little gain for most modern cellphones since basically none of them use a tradition whip antenna. In fact some have no aparant antenna because they use a fractal antenna built into the PCB of the controll board!
That's cool but it's not true for all four way systems. Like I said there are a good number of systems that don't report their CPU's correctly and hence you end up with the situation I described. Trust me I've worked as a tech for some of the world's largest companies including IBM Global Services so I see a LOT more systems then your typical IT person.
Yes, but if you had a 4 ways system with HT enabled you would really only be using the first two CPU's and their HT units, the other two physical processors would be doing nothing. Not to mention that the OS and older apps will naively balance across all 4 'CPU's' evenly despite the fact that the HT units are not fully capable processors and in fact can easily degrade performance by trashing the contents of the instruction and more importantly data cache. MS claims that windows 2000 will properly use the physical processors before the logical ones if the system is written to Intel BIOS specs but my real world experience says that there aren't a lot of correctly configured systems because I've had to restage 4 way servers from Dell, IBM, and HP and 2 way workstations from HP and Dell.
XP Pro understands hyperthreading fine, and in fact will work with a machine with dual hyperthreading CPU's. What won't work is 2k Pro. Also note that 2k3 server standard reduced the max number of physical CPU's to two for standard edition whereas it had been 4 in previous iterations of NT. Btw don't use hyperthreading on win2k even if you have enough processor licenses because it will balance evenly across the hyperthreading CPU's not realizing that they are really there for spare capacity and hence trash the instruction cache.
The "soap box" is an American term for the place that a public speaker stands. It dates back to the early twentieth century when orators would stand up on pile of boxes on a corner in order to be better heard and able to see the crowd.
Well if you had ever been to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania you would know why 3D maps are needed. On a traditional map it might look like two roads are close and parallel when in fact they are seperated by 100m of elevation!
This is why 802.11a is great for the next couple years. The cost of the MAC is expensive enough to keep cheap crap like walkie talkies and cheap portable phones out of the spectrum. But the cost of 802.11a computer equipment isn't significantly more expensive than g equipment, best of all you can get tri-mode client adapters to work outside your home network and setup a 11a home base station.
Would be cool as a disk space analysis tool, height could be disk space used and light intensity frequency of access, that way you could spot old data taking up lots of room as dark sky-scrapers. In fact that would be damn cool as the interface to a hierarchical storage system!
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. linky
This was for a previous IE link related exploit. When MS is telling not to use their product in the most basic manner expected of the product then it should be painfully obvious that the product is broken.
Most audio production apps can take advantage of SMP. Even if his can't the extra CPU will be used by the OS for I/O and system processing. Add to that the fact that the most common CPU hogging thing is effects modules which are seperate processes and you can see where SMP helps. I just built a dual Opteron rig for a friend of mine, only 4GB of ram but he has slots for 4 more GB and he already has beta 64bit plugins. The machine I built him should last him until the hardware starts to get flaky in 3-5 years.
SPECfpBase2000 and SPECintBase2000 cover almost everything usefull you can do with a computer. Btw the problem with FPGA's is that gate reconstruction times are so slow that you REALLY have to be doing a lot of something for it to make sense, like compressing an entire movie, and even then you might be able to do 90+% of the speed by using assembly and vector ops. Add to that the fact that FPGA's have a limited number of rewrite cycles and generally uses different fab processes and it gets to be pretty stupid for most applications.
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Wrong. Solid state memory has MORE failures per time period. Check out the IBM chipkill memory whitepaper. IBM has decided that multiword ECC simply isn't enough. To get acceptable reliability you need multiword ECC AND RAID across modules.
Uh, the difference of native SATA vs EIDE with a SATA bridge chip has nothing to do with what you posted. Btw native SATA will be cheaper than even normal EIDE because the electronics are actually simpler. Chances are all of the SATA drives you have at this point are EIDE with the bridge chip since this is one of the first drives with a native chip (Raptor 10K was the first AFAIK).
I know, but the DX was ~ twice as much money at the time.
I have shell on my old dialup ISP's Sun machines, have for over a decade now. Many shared webhosting farms run on Linux on x86 and if you have CGI you basically have shell since you can run arbitrary code. Also any place that does development work under Unix probably gives their developers shell access (duh). So I would say there are a lot of places that give more than just the inner circle monks of IT shell access.
I remember rendering the trainstation demo on my 486-SX25. Thing took 7 days to complete at 800*600 3 ray no AA. Today I can render that image at 1600*1200 insane ray level with full multipass AA and it will only take seconds. Kind of puts computing performance increases into perspective.
Sorry but the only one of those that got lighting even close to correct is the fourth one. The first one was looking good until I looked at the rocks under the waters surface and they looked more like watercolors than renderings.
Mirabilis was never going to charge for ICQ. The ICQ service was basically a minimal cost highly sucessful advertisement for their corporate product. It turns out that it was so sucessful that AOL thought it would be a valid rival to their own IM service so they bought em. Btw I agree that they should roll the VC feature into a value add for AOL for Broadband. Since most of the AOL IM clients are probably run by people who don't use AOL and never will use them as their primary ISP their best bet would be to shuffle them towards their product that is already all about value add.
Yep, that and the damn commercials my cable company has been shoving down my throat to try to disuade me from switching to satelite. They are so full of BS and outright lies that I threatened to leave them if they didn't stop showing the ads and had all my friends do the same. They scaled the ads WAY back but unfortunatly didn't stop em.
A new kitchen can easily cost as much and you spend maybe a couple hours a day in there. You spend 4-9 hours a day in the bedroom. I personally think the money would be better spent on a good nights sleep then a pretty kitchen.
Dude I used Mozilla for several years on a P2-266 laptop with 192MB ram and a P2-300 desktop with 512MB and neither one was unusable. My guess is you need more ram.
Sounds like something's broken with your setup. I middle click on a pdf and acrobat plugin starts downloading the pdf in a new tab, and even in the background =) I assume xpdf can be made to do the same thing if setup correctly.
Nah, DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE just means you can't refile on that exact same damage. SCO can find things to sue about for years to come if they have cash. To be truely done with them they either have to run out of money or the parties they are suing have to win an injunction against SCO baring them from bringing suit against a named list of potential litigants.
No, the point of hyperthreading is to expose functional units that are not being used by the main process('s) running on the physical CPU. If you naively schedule everything across both 'CPU's' you will end up with stupid things like running parallel versions of a tight integer loop which is already maxing out the integer calculation units thus polluting the data cache and stalling the pipe MUCH more often which is a BAD thing on the P4. For more info on scheduler tweaks to accomodate HT I suggest you see this LK post by one of the Linux scheduling gods =)
Actually there will be little gain for most modern cellphones since basically none of them use a tradition whip antenna. In fact some have no aparant antenna because they use a fractal antenna built into the PCB of the controll board!
That's cool but it's not true for all four way systems. Like I said there are a good number of systems that don't report their CPU's correctly and hence you end up with the situation I described. Trust me I've worked as a tech for some of the world's largest companies including IBM Global Services so I see a LOT more systems then your typical IT person.
Yes, but if you had a 4 ways system with HT enabled you would really only be using the first two CPU's and their HT units, the other two physical processors would be doing nothing. Not to mention that the OS and older apps will naively balance across all 4 'CPU's' evenly despite the fact that the HT units are not fully capable processors and in fact can easily degrade performance by trashing the contents of the instruction and more importantly data cache. MS claims that windows 2000 will properly use the physical processors before the logical ones if the system is written to Intel BIOS specs but my real world experience says that there aren't a lot of correctly configured systems because I've had to restage 4 way servers from Dell, IBM, and HP and 2 way workstations from HP and Dell.
XP Pro understands hyperthreading fine, and in fact will work with a machine with dual hyperthreading CPU's. What won't work is 2k Pro. Also note that 2k3 server standard reduced the max number of physical CPU's to two for standard edition whereas it had been 4 in previous iterations of NT. Btw don't use hyperthreading on win2k even if you have enough processor licenses because it will balance evenly across the hyperthreading CPU's not realizing that they are really there for spare capacity and hence trash the instruction cache.
The "soap box" is an American term for the place that a public speaker stands. It dates back to the early twentieth century when orators would stand up on pile of boxes on a corner in order to be better heard and able to see the crowd.
Well if you had ever been to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania you would know why 3D maps are needed. On a traditional map it might look like two roads are close and parallel when in fact they are seperated by 100m of elevation!
This is why 802.11a is great for the next couple years. The cost of the MAC is expensive enough to keep cheap crap like walkie talkies and cheap portable phones out of the spectrum. But the cost of 802.11a computer equipment isn't significantly more expensive than g equipment, best of all you can get tri-mode client adapters to work outside your home network and setup a 11a home base station.
It's there in more updated Mozilla builds since it was applied against trunk. ..rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
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Would be cool as a disk space analysis tool, height could be disk space used and light intensity frequency of access, that way you could spot old data taking up lots of room as dark sky-scrapers. In fact that would be damn cool as the interface to a hierarchical storage system!
You only THINK you are joking:
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself.
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This was for a previous IE link related exploit. When MS is telling not to use their product in the most basic manner expected of the product then it should be painfully obvious that the product is broken.
Most audio production apps can take advantage of SMP. Even if his can't the extra CPU will be used by the OS for I/O and system processing. Add to that the fact that the most common CPU hogging thing is effects modules which are seperate processes and you can see where SMP helps. I just built a dual Opteron rig for a friend of mine, only 4GB of ram but he has slots for 4 more GB and he already has beta 64bit plugins. The machine I built him should last him until the hardware starts to get flaky in 3-5 years.
SPECfpBase2000 and SPECintBase2000 cover almost everything usefull you can do with a computer. Btw the problem with FPGA's is that gate reconstruction times are so slow that you REALLY have to be doing a lot of something for it to make sense, like compressing an entire movie, and even then you might be able to do 90+% of the speed by using assembly and vector ops. Add to that the fact that FPGA's have a limited number of rewrite cycles and generally uses different fab processes and it gets to be pretty stupid for most applications.