The Athlon actually has a pretty average Watt/Flop ratio for a modern processor. The only one that really trounces it is the POWER series including POWER-PC. The Athlon 2600+ only uses 68.3W, compare this to a 2.4Ghz P4 which uses 66.2W and you see that they are in the exact same neighborhood. And if you include price into the equation the Athlon becomes the leader. Also if you had RTFA they explain that the side fans were moved to a stacked rear configuration for better airflow and redundency.
Netgear doesn't owe them anything more than Slashdot does for linking to the article. When you join this public internet of networks and offer publicly facing services (especially ones which are advertised broadly as being public like a major NTP reflector) you take on the responsibility and liabilty of offering those services and incur the costs at your own risk.
DHCP lease durations? Acting as a NTP cache so you can point your internal PC's to the router to get time? Getting the date so the webserver can tell you to check for updates? All of those and more can be done if the device autoconfigures itself with current date and time on bootup.
No name???
Guess you don't do much with CAD/CAM, Solidworks is one of the most featurefull CAD apps out there, its usefullness is second to only possibly CADIA. At my last job the physical design guys modified their AP encasement after running Solidworks simulations which pointed out non-optimal heatflow from the CPU to the case exterior. They built up the case from components whos exact thermal, electrical and other properties were in the materials database.
You are however correct that this was not a good test for workstation class machines.
Umm, give crackers some credit. Most use a disasembler or debugger to walk the code looking for anti-theft techniques, such a solution would be trivial to spot and work around. I once had a demo version of a product from a company that had gone out of business, the product was usefull but for whatever reason they had gone out of business before I found their product, so I used a debugger, windows call hook program, disk access watcher, and registry use watcher (most from winternals) to figure out the copy protection scheme that was limiting the product to 15 uses and disabled it by setting up a batch file to restore its counter file and registry count key to original value each time the app was run.
It is in the EU, so if the software house in question does any business in the EU they will need to remove this feature or face stiff penalties and fines including the possibility of halting of all EU business.
Outgoing firewalls of the normal variety won't stop it because the developers can just setup a website to capture the data and have the spyware app fill in the fields automagically, this will get through 95+% of normal firewalls. It will however be blocked by OS aware end user firewalls like Zone Alarm. Zone Alarm can be setup to block all unauthorized network connections at the winsock level so the connection never gets off the local PC.
Nope, that is an addon that ties Exchange Titanium into Office to allow not only chat but colaboritive document editing and other features. That is for companies that wish to keep chat inhouse and out of harm of industrial espionage and other things that internet based chat programs allow. It is also auditable for anyone in those industries where the FTC and SEC have dictated that all communications must be auditable.
I think you are confusing forks with money. Money predates history. We know that prehistoric peoples used things like coral, beads, and other small portable items to represent worth. In fact there has probably been money as long as there has been agricultural society, it is needed to represent future payments when the crops will become ripe for purchases made now.
Code monkey!?!?
Being an architect and manager for one of the worlds largest projects is not what I would call a code monkey! A code monkey is the fresh out of college kid who gets to maintain someone elses crap code and possibly add a single feature after a year if he is lucky, AC is the anti-codemonkey.
Other than areas that require a degree to advance (such as management and the MBA) most people with experience in the world of hard knocks will not bother with a masters. In general a masters is worth less in additional income than the same amount of time in experience. Of course masters in many cases are just consolation prizes for the people who's doctors thesis never gets completed =)
Deep blue WAS helped by some very good chess players both as coaches and as members of the Deep Blue team. Basically the match was Kasparov vs a bunch of way above average chess players and one really honkin fast chess computer as an aid. And Deep Blue was never dismantled, half of it is at the Smithsonian intact, the reason they don't have both towers is they simply didn't have room for it all.
Never, most of those instructions are used too infrequently and not repeated enough for FPGA's to be a good fit. The reconfigure times are just too high. The more general purpose SIMD instructions on most modern processors are good enough for most media work.
Computers can already make art. There are neural nets out there that have been fed basic rules about a field of art (painting or music are two I have seen), then unleashed on the web. They create a piece or artwork and then have the results voted on by visitors to the sites, the nets use the results of those votes as fitness scores for the next generation of creations.
Use fluorinert, although it was origionally developed for heart transplant surgery it has a long history of use in electronics cooling. The Cray 2 supercomputer was cooled with it because its large GA chips performance was dependant on their temperature. It's great because you can submerge everything in it because it is non-electrically conductive.
hmm, must be a monk or a monk in training. This is the first real answer to the guys question. The guy knows he probably should not do the work himself but he doesn't have the balls or the experience to get the money from the people who controll the purse strings. The above is definitly the way to aproach it, put it in active tense with highlight words that will catch the attention of the PHB, the beancounter, and the HR droids.
Foveon sucks, from dpreview: "Sensitivity is limited and image sharpness and color response seem to drop off at higher ISO's. More serious is the tendency to clip color in a highlight, something I've described as "color clipping" and "gray halos". At this stage it's unclear if this is a sensor issue...Unnatural blue skies / chromatic aberration sensitivity...Disappointing long exposure performance"
Basically they get a high theoretical MP count but their effective MP count is 1/3rd stated and those pixels are much more blurry than competing tech where it matters. Canon has by far the best prosumer imaging sensors.
Yeah but a MS Pro 1GB is ~$650, 1GB 15X CF is ~$350, add the fact that 4GB CF cards are going to be available any day now and it's pretty much no contest. Microdrives are horrible, they drain more powerfull, have slower transfer, and are less shock resistant, their only advantage is that they do not have the ~1K write limit that flash ram does.
Much more important than the aspect ration is whether the censor is full frame. The reason this is so important is that the non-full frame censors change the aparant zoom of the cameras lens.
I've had good experience with Reflections NFS from WRQ. I've also had good experience with their X server. They had incredible technical support people too.
I had an issue with their X server after win2k came out and we were piloting our new desktop. We ran dual heads on some of our engineering stations and some of the guys were having really weird problems. I call up and go through about a half hour of troubleshooting with their very knowledgable level 1 support people, no dice, so she puts me through to the lead developer of the product! He asks me some questions and then notes that he has had two other clients reporting similar problems and asks for some time to come up with a test case. He does and emails it to me before the next morning. I follow it and report the results, he then tests it in his own lab and figures out what happened. Turns out MS gives junk screen geometry back if you are running dual head and the task bar is anywhere but the bottom of the first display with autohide disabled, the effected engineers were longtime mac users and had their taskbars at the top of the window. He gave us the workaround and told us he would see if he could code in a fix for the next release. From that point on I got a cd with a prerelease of each version until the problem was solved to our satisfaction.
In fact SAMBA makes a BETTER print server than windows, at least if you add a little glue. Cisco systems has only two print admins for thousands of printers at hundreds of sites around the world, including many in manufacturing facilities that are absolutly mission critical (no labels or packing slips means nothing goes out the door). The man behind Cisco printing added a database and distributed printing system to SAMBA and made CEPS or Cisco Enterprise Printing System. We lost our local linux print server one day but other than a little longer queue time for large docs no one noticed because a remote print server took over the queue and handled all the functions from the failed unit. For more info see the Ceps project at sourceforge.
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Actually it's funny but the guys on the SAMBA team know more about the SMB protocol than anyone currently working for MS. I remember reading a tech conference note from one of the team members back before 2.0 went final and he had talked to one of the senior design guys from MS and the guy couldn't answer some questions about the reasoning behind the design of certain parts of SMB, he had simply inherited the codebase and designed extensions to it to do the new things for windows 2000, he knew very little about the history or design behind the overall protocol framework. Don't attribute to mallice what can be more easily explained by ignorance =)
The problem is none of the Unix filesystems do snapshots the right way for a client facing system. They all do a whole filesystem at a time snapshotting, not just change vectors. MS and Netapp on the other hand do it correctly and simply store the changes. This makes snapshots of infrequently changing data take up significantly less room. Veritas style snapshots are really aimed at datacenters that want to be able to backup their database to a certain point in time while not effecting the live system. The one thing MS does wrong is place the revisions in a FIFO buffer where the 64th oldest backup is always the one that gets pushed off, I would like to be able to do things like you can on the netapp and make hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly backups, with the MS solution you can only keep a couple days back if you want to do hourly backup points.
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The Athlon actually has a pretty average Watt/Flop ratio for a modern processor. The only one that really trounces it is the POWER series including POWER-PC. The Athlon 2600+ only uses 68.3W, compare this to a 2.4Ghz P4 which uses 66.2W and you see that they are in the exact same neighborhood. And if you include price into the equation the Athlon becomes the leader. Also if you had RTFA they explain that the side fans were moved to a stacked rear configuration for better airflow and redundency.
Netgear doesn't owe them anything more than Slashdot does for linking to the article. When you join this public internet of networks and offer publicly facing services (especially ones which are advertised broadly as being public like a major NTP reflector) you take on the responsibility and liabilty of offering those services and incur the costs at your own risk.
DHCP lease durations? Acting as a NTP cache so you can point your internal PC's to the router to get time? Getting the date so the webserver can tell you to check for updates? All of those and more can be done if the device autoconfigures itself with current date and time on bootup.
One no-name benchmark, and 3D Studio Max.
No name???
Guess you don't do much with CAD/CAM, Solidworks is one of the most featurefull CAD apps out there, its usefullness is second to only possibly CADIA. At my last job the physical design guys modified their AP encasement after running Solidworks simulations which pointed out non-optimal heatflow from the CPU to the case exterior. They built up the case from components whos exact thermal, electrical and other properties were in the materials database.
You are however correct that this was not a good test for workstation class machines.
Umm, give crackers some credit. Most use a disasembler or debugger to walk the code looking for anti-theft techniques, such a solution would be trivial to spot and work around. I once had a demo version of a product from a company that had gone out of business, the product was usefull but for whatever reason they had gone out of business before I found their product, so I used a debugger, windows call hook program, disk access watcher, and registry use watcher (most from winternals) to figure out the copy protection scheme that was limiting the product to 15 uses and disabled it by setting up a batch file to restore its counter file and registry count key to original value each time the app was run.
It is in the EU, so if the software house in question does any business in the EU they will need to remove this feature or face stiff penalties and fines including the possibility of halting of all EU business.
Outgoing firewalls of the normal variety won't stop it because the developers can just setup a website to capture the data and have the spyware app fill in the fields automagically, this will get through 95+% of normal firewalls. It will however be blocked by OS aware end user firewalls like Zone Alarm. Zone Alarm can be setup to block all unauthorized network connections at the winsock level so the connection never gets off the local PC.
Nope, that is an addon that ties Exchange Titanium into Office to allow not only chat but colaboritive document editing and other features. That is for companies that wish to keep chat inhouse and out of harm of industrial espionage and other things that internet based chat programs allow. It is also auditable for anyone in those industries where the FTC and SEC have dictated that all communications must be auditable.
Ever since the Phonecians invented money,
I think you are confusing forks with money. Money predates history. We know that prehistoric peoples used things like coral, beads, and other small portable items to represent worth. In fact there has probably been money as long as there has been agricultural society, it is needed to represent future payments when the crops will become ripe for purchases made now.
Code monkey!?!?
Being an architect and manager for one of the worlds largest projects is not what I would call a code monkey! A code monkey is the fresh out of college kid who gets to maintain someone elses crap code and possibly add a single feature after a year if he is lucky, AC is the anti-codemonkey.
Other than areas that require a degree to advance (such as management and the MBA) most people with experience in the world of hard knocks will not bother with a masters. In general a masters is worth less in additional income than the same amount of time in experience. Of course masters in many cases are just consolation prizes for the people who's doctors thesis never gets completed =)
Deep blue WAS helped by some very good chess players both as coaches and as members of the Deep Blue team. Basically the match was Kasparov vs a bunch of way above average chess players and one really honkin fast chess computer as an aid. And Deep Blue was never dismantled, half of it is at the Smithsonian intact, the reason they don't have both towers is they simply didn't have room for it all.
Never, most of those instructions are used too infrequently and not repeated enough for FPGA's to be a good fit. The reconfigure times are just too high. The more general purpose SIMD instructions on most modern processors are good enough for most media work.
Computers can already make art. There are neural nets out there that have been fed basic rules about a field of art (painting or music are two I have seen), then unleashed on the web. They create a piece or artwork and then have the results voted on by visitors to the sites, the nets use the results of those votes as fitness scores for the next generation of creations.
Go can't be purely brute forced, there are more possible games of Go then there are atoms in the universe!
Use fluorinert, although it was origionally developed for heart transplant surgery it has a long history of use in electronics cooling. The Cray 2 supercomputer was cooled with it because its large GA chips performance was dependant on their temperature. It's great because you can submerge everything in it because it is non-electrically conductive.
Bullshit!
Photovoltaics have a payback time in energy terms of around 1-1.5 years. Economic payback comes much later of course. See This and This one
hmm, must be a monk or a monk in training. This is the first real answer to the guys question. The guy knows he probably should not do the work himself but he doesn't have the balls or the experience to get the money from the people who controll the purse strings. The above is definitly the way to aproach it, put it in active tense with highlight words that will catch the attention of the PHB, the beancounter, and the HR droids.
Foveon sucks, from dpreview: ...Disappointing long exposure performance"
"Sensitivity is limited and image sharpness and color response seem to drop off at higher ISO's. More serious is the tendency to clip color in a highlight, something I've described as "color clipping" and "gray halos". At this stage it's unclear if this is a sensor issue...Unnatural blue skies / chromatic aberration sensitivity
Basically they get a high theoretical MP count but their effective MP count is 1/3rd stated and those pixels are much more blurry than competing tech where it matters. Canon has by far the best prosumer imaging sensors.
Yeah but a MS Pro 1GB is ~$650, 1GB 15X CF is ~$350, add the fact that 4GB CF cards are going to be available any day now and it's pretty much no contest. Microdrives are horrible, they drain more powerfull, have slower transfer, and are less shock resistant, their only advantage is that they do not have the ~1K write limit that flash ram does.
Much more important than the aspect ration is whether the censor is full frame. The reason this is so important is that the non-full frame censors change the aparant zoom of the cameras lens.
I've had good experience with Reflections NFS from WRQ. I've also had good experience with their X server. They had incredible technical support people too.
I had an issue with their X server after win2k came out and we were piloting our new desktop. We ran dual heads on some of our engineering stations and some of the guys were having really weird problems. I call up and go through about a half hour of troubleshooting with their very knowledgable level 1 support people, no dice, so she puts me through to the lead developer of the product! He asks me some questions and then notes that he has had two other clients reporting similar problems and asks for some time to come up with a test case. He does and emails it to me before the next morning. I follow it and report the results, he then tests it in his own lab and figures out what happened. Turns out MS gives junk screen geometry back if you are running dual head and the task bar is anywhere but the bottom of the first display with autohide disabled, the effected engineers were longtime mac users and had their taskbars at the top of the window. He gave us the workaround and told us he would see if he could code in a fix for the next release. From that point on I got a cd with a prerelease of each version until the problem was solved to our satisfaction.
In fact SAMBA makes a BETTER print server than windows, at least if you add a little glue. Cisco systems has only two print admins for thousands of printers at hundreds of sites around the world, including many in manufacturing facilities that are absolutly mission critical (no labels or packing slips means nothing goes out the door). The man behind Cisco printing added a database and distributed printing system to SAMBA and made CEPS or Cisco Enterprise Printing System. We lost our local linux print server one day but other than a little longer queue time for large docs no one noticed because a remote print server took over the queue and handled all the functions from the failed unit. For more info see the Ceps project at sourceforge.
Actually it's funny but the guys on the SAMBA team know more about the SMB protocol than anyone currently working for MS. I remember reading a tech conference note from one of the team members back before 2.0 went final and he had talked to one of the senior design guys from MS and the guy couldn't answer some questions about the reasoning behind the design of certain parts of SMB, he had simply inherited the codebase and designed extensions to it to do the new things for windows 2000, he knew very little about the history or design behind the overall protocol framework. Don't attribute to mallice what can be more easily explained by ignorance =)
The problem is none of the Unix filesystems do snapshots the right way for a client facing system. They all do a whole filesystem at a time snapshotting, not just change vectors. MS and Netapp on the other hand do it correctly and simply store the changes. This makes snapshots of infrequently changing data take up significantly less room. Veritas style snapshots are really aimed at datacenters that want to be able to backup their database to a certain point in time while not effecting the live system. The one thing MS does wrong is place the revisions in a FIFO buffer where the 64th oldest backup is always the one that gets pushed off, I would like to be able to do things like you can on the netapp and make hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly backups, with the MS solution you can only keep a couple days back if you want to do hourly backup points.