Intel distributed ten samples of this CPU, probably under condition that you do not talk to the press. (The first rule about Tejas is that there is no Tejas.) This is likely enforced by lawyers and promises of future access to demo units. I'd guess that each CPU is marked with a number or some other unique identifier: if the ID were photographed, Intel would know who leaked the pictures of its top secret processor and could take action.
with the increased use of Webmail based email servers, it is becoming more and more inconvenient to check it...
Huh? I find webmail to be very convenient. I can check my mail anywhere in a very secure manner: it's very easy to find a public machine that allows me to authenticate via https as opposed to one that has an ssh client. (I don't trust telnet since, years ago, some haX0rs set up a packet sniffer on our dorm ethernet and got oodles of passwords.)
Four years ago when I upgraded to an Athlon 800 with a VIA chipset I couldn't get my WinTV Go to work. Back then Hauppauge had a disclaimer on their website saying that their cards were tested with Intel chipsets, and that any incompatibilities were due to VIA choosing to not be 100% compatible with Intel's standard. (Yeah, right. Sounds like they just didn't want to test it on other platforms.) A couple years later I upgraded to a 1600+ and SiS chipset board and it worked again. If I were you, I'd double check the store's return policy before I buy a Hauppauge card for a non-Intel chipset board.
Although I'm typing this on a 3 gHz P4, the... delay... when loading a program or accessing a drive still bugs me. Back when I was in college (G3 days, four or five years ago), the Macs in our computer lab impressed the heck out of me on how responsive they were. (Probably because Apple designed the OS for a specific motherboard I/O layout.) Photoshop and other apps were objectively faster on the Intel machines, but psychologically they always seemed speedier on the Mac.
Good point. I live in Michigan but work twenty miles away in Indiana. The highest allowable speed limit in Michigan is 70; in Indiana it's 55. On my daily freeway commute I drive 75 - 80 mph in Michigan, and once I hit the border I drive 65 to avoid being hassled by The Man. The highway is the same and I could go 80 in Indiana were I not Being Kept Down.
However, I don't drive 100 mph. My utterly 3l33t decade-old Ford Taurus could probably get up to 90, but I'm not willing to deal with the consequences of driving like a maniac. My car tends to skid in the rain and snow even though it has new tires, which I found out after doing a 720 degree spinout in the middle of a snow-covered M-60 (luckily, no one was in the oncoming lane). I don't drive more than 80, mostly because the three minutes I save in getting somewhere isn't worth the risk of being entombed in a smoldering heap of metal (I'm funny that way). If I had a better car I might go a few mph faster, but that's about it: if hardcore Libertarians came into office and revoked all speed limits, I'd still drive 80.
When I was in grad school, the only place I could afford was in a rooming house that had two outlets per room, with every two rooms sharing a circuit. This wasn't a problem for everyone in the house except for me, with my two mini-refrigerators, microwave, and three computers that ran 24 / 7 (hey, they were servers, I couldn't just turn them off...)
Every once in a while the draw of opening the fridge (compressor kicks on) plus the HIGH microwave setting would blow the fuse. So whenever I wanted to eat something I either had to shut down the web server (yeah right) or check if the guy next door had saved whatever Microsoft Word document he was writing for class, just in case.
where are you gonna park 2+ computers in your dorm room and still have a flat work surface to do your math homework?
It's called The Library. Not only are there desks there, but you don't have to block out the ambient noise of three idling computers in an enclosed concrete 10' by 8' space.
This isn't so much overclocking as it is case modding; sorority chicks don't care if there's a Pentium III 600 mHz inside as long as it's in a sexy case.
Attractive Girl at the Bar: I'm drunk and you're thin. Wanna go home with me?
The only way I've seen (I also work in a computer shop) has nothing to do with overclocking; it's putting your heatsink on backwards. When the step on the heatsink is reversed with the step on the socket, you power on and less than two seconds later get a puff of smoke. It's hard to do, but we were gettings several processors per month RMA'd after Bob Newbie jammed the heatsink on upside down with a screwdriver. Finally we started including a slip of paper telling people not to do this, and warning them that it would void their warranty.
As for overclocking, I have no idea. (I run my processor at its intended setting, and am therefore not l33t.)
I work at a computer company with a number of Chinese who have "Americanized" their names; there's Ray, Johnny, Jane, etc. It reminds me of a stand up comic I saw years ago who said, "Black people are naming their kids Sheniqua and DeShawn. White people are naming their kids Britney and Dakotah. The only Americans with normal names like Theresa and James are Asian."
My first computer was purchased after mowing lawns for two summers and was an Apple ][+ with 48k and a 16k language card with a modem and dot matrix printer. It also came with that phosphor green screen.
You got the cash to buy all that swag from mowing lawns!?! In 1982 that had to have cost a couple grand. Man, either your neighbors paid far too much money for your services or you mowed a helluvalotta lawns. Were you wired on amphetemines the whole summer, covering a three state area and firing up the LawnBoy at three in the morning? At age ten I mowed all damn summer just to afford a Nintendo and a couple games.
I can fit my entire porn collection onto one floppy. The collection consists of a single picture, goat sex man, and I only keep that to send to people who need to be told that they are a pain in the backside.
Of all the floppy disks that have become unreadable due to bad sectors, why couldn't it be that one?
I work tech support at an Internet retailer, and we sell a lot of systems with plexiglass windows and case lights. One product we sell a lot of is a "Blue Cold Cathode Light." A few weeks ago I got a call by someone whose case light had burned out after a month of use and wanted a replacement.
The funny part? He had a slight pronunciation problem and kept referring to it as a "Catheter" Light.
"I've had this machine for only a month, and my cather stopped working."
"Excuse me?"
"My blue catheter light. My cold catheter. It burned out."
"Um, err, yeah... Let me transfer you to the RMA department. Hopefully they can relieve the extreme discomfort you must be experiencing."
But where do you find out about new artists if not in the mass media? I don't watch MTV, and the only non-teenybopper radio stations in my area are homogenized "classic rock" stations that play the same twenty tracks over and over.
Word of mouth doesn't really work, since my friends are as clueless as I am.
Oh, use the Internet? What, should I Google for "spank-ass music I should listen to" ? Unless you happen to find a post on alt.music.band-i-like which asks "what else are you listening to?" it's pretty hard to find new and interesting music.
The only way I've figured out is to see local bands and pay attention to the songs they cover. This way you find "second teir" bands-- not popular enough to be on MTV but well known enough that you can find their album in a record store-- but you still don't find truly alternative or underground music this way.
The Serial ATA hard drives are a step in the right direction. The way SATA handles data is more similar to ethernet cable than traditional ATA, so it doesn't require a massive ribbon cable. Once the drives become popular enough that power supply manufacturers include the thin power cable connector plugs (currently you have to use an adapter to the standard molex), this should clean up a lot of the "cable tangle" (and improve cooling to boot).
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I used to keep my computer on 24/7. Then I put it in my bedroom. Did I mention I have a big-ass server case with six fans? Nowadays, I'd rather wait the three minutes for boot-up and get a decent night's sleep; I'm funny like that.
Actually, when I was in college the hardest thing about setting up a LAN to share our DSL line was figuring out how to set up TCP/IP on my roommate's MacIntosh OS 7 machine. It took me about ten minutes to find the correct graphical application from the pulldown menu, while my Linux machine took about three seconds of text file hax0ring.
Geez, I first read the headline as "NASA Censors Web" and figured it was some juicy YRO story.
NOTE TO SELF: Do not drink heavily and browse Slashdot at the same time. When your judgment is so impaired that the grinning Tux icon starts looking sexy, it's time to put the cognac down.
I know what you mean: I have Webcam Wenches Refinancing my Mortgage and Cleaning my Septic Tank right now. I think they get all their energy from the Herbal Viagra.
Two years ago when people were afraid of anthrax spores being sent through the mail, the guitarist from the heavy metal band Anthrax claimed, tongue-in-cheek, that they were changing their name to avoid the bad publicity. They wanted a band name that was nonthreatening, he said, and were leanig toward calling the group "Box Full of Cuddly Kittens."
Actually, Holland may well criminalize all types of public smoking in public, which would drastically change their "coffee shop" culture. Instead they'll have to bake it into cookies or something.
I was a history major and I think the curriculum is mostly fine the way it is. In order to intelligently discuss why things happened, you first needs to know what happened. While analyzing, say, the Spanish American War, you need to know what events happened in what order and who was involved. Also, a basic, simplistic version of why things happened. This is what grade school and freshman / sophomore highschool history is for. Once you know the facts of the situation, you can begin examining those facts in the light of cultural development, economic considerations, perceived political consequences, attitudes of the day, etc. (upper-level highschool and college).
The problem is that normal (i.e. not honors level) junior and senior year history classes are often run by hardened, cynical teachers who want to get through the day with as little trouble as possible. (A lot of this is due to a lack of discpiline both in home and at the schools.) Rather than exerting a ton of effort to get their students to settle down, think on a topic, and discuss it intelligently, it is easier to have them read chapter seven and do the review questions.
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Intel distributed ten samples of this CPU, probably under condition that you do not talk to the press. (The first rule about Tejas is that there is no Tejas.) This is likely enforced by lawyers and promises of future access to demo units. I'd guess that each CPU is marked with a number or some other unique identifier: if the ID were photographed, Intel would know who leaked the pictures of its top secret processor and could take action.
A/S/L? A/S/L? A/S/L?
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Huh? I find webmail to be very convenient. I can check my mail anywhere in a very secure manner: it's very easy to find a public machine that allows me to authenticate via https as opposed to one that has an ssh client. (I don't trust telnet since, years ago, some haX0rs set up a packet sniffer on our dorm ethernet and got oodles of passwords.)
Four years ago when I upgraded to an Athlon 800 with a VIA chipset I couldn't get my WinTV Go to work. Back then Hauppauge had a disclaimer on their website saying that their cards were tested with Intel chipsets, and that any incompatibilities were due to VIA choosing to not be 100% compatible with Intel's standard. (Yeah, right. Sounds like they just didn't want to test it on other platforms.) A couple years later I upgraded to a 1600+ and SiS chipset board and it worked again. If I were you, I'd double check the store's return policy before I buy a Hauppauge card for a non-Intel chipset board.
Although I'm typing this on a 3 gHz P4, the... delay... when loading a program or accessing a drive still bugs me. Back when I was in college (G3 days, four or five years ago), the Macs in our computer lab impressed the heck out of me on how responsive they were. (Probably because Apple designed the OS for a specific motherboard I/O layout.) Photoshop and other apps were objectively faster on the Intel machines, but psychologically they always seemed speedier on the Mac.
However, I don't drive 100 mph. My utterly 3l33t decade-old Ford Taurus could probably get up to 90, but I'm not willing to deal with the consequences of driving like a maniac. My car tends to skid in the rain and snow even though it has new tires, which I found out after doing a 720 degree spinout in the middle of a snow-covered M-60 (luckily, no one was in the oncoming lane). I don't drive more than 80, mostly because the three minutes I save in getting somewhere isn't worth the risk of being entombed in a smoldering heap of metal (I'm funny that way). If I had a better car I might go a few mph faster, but that's about it: if hardcore Libertarians came into office and revoked all speed limits, I'd still drive 80.
Every once in a while the draw of opening the fridge (compressor kicks on) plus the HIGH microwave setting would blow the fuse. So whenever I wanted to eat something I either had to shut down the web server (yeah right) or check if the guy next door had saved whatever Microsoft Word document he was writing for class, just in case.
It's called The Library. Not only are there desks there, but you don't have to block out the ambient noise of three idling computers in an enclosed concrete 10' by 8' space.
Attractive Girl at the Bar: I'm drunk and you're thin. Wanna go home with me?
Atkins-Using Geek: I know UNIX.
AGATB: You're a eunuch? Eww...
As for overclocking, I have no idea. (I run my processor at its intended setting, and am therefore not l33t.)
I work at a computer company with a number of Chinese who have "Americanized" their names; there's Ray, Johnny, Jane, etc. It reminds me of a stand up comic I saw years ago who said, "Black people are naming their kids Sheniqua and DeShawn. White people are naming their kids Britney and Dakotah. The only Americans with normal names like Theresa and James are Asian."
You got the cash to buy all that swag from mowing lawns!?! In 1982 that had to have cost a couple grand. Man, either your neighbors paid far too much money for your services or you mowed a helluvalotta lawns. Were you wired on amphetemines the whole summer, covering a three state area and firing up the LawnBoy at three in the morning? At age ten I mowed all damn summer just to afford a Nintendo and a couple games.
Of all the floppy disks that have become unreadable due to bad sectors, why couldn't it be that one?
Where is my minority report!?!
The funny part? He had a slight pronunciation problem and kept referring to it as a "Catheter" Light.
"I've had this machine for only a month, and my cather stopped working."
"Excuse me?"
"My blue catheter light. My cold catheter. It burned out."
"Um, err, yeah... Let me transfer you to the RMA department. Hopefully they can relieve the extreme discomfort you must be experiencing."
Word of mouth doesn't really work, since my friends are as clueless as I am.
Oh, use the Internet? What, should I Google for "spank-ass music I should listen to" ? Unless you happen to find a post on alt.music.band-i-like which asks "what else are you listening to?" it's pretty hard to find new and interesting music.
The only way I've figured out is to see local bands and pay attention to the songs they cover. This way you find "second teir" bands-- not popular enough to be on MTV but well known enough that you can find their album in a record store-- but you still don't find truly alternative or underground music this way.
The Serial ATA hard drives are a step in the right direction. The way SATA handles data is more similar to ethernet cable than traditional ATA, so it doesn't require a massive ribbon cable. Once the drives become popular enough that power supply manufacturers include the thin power cable connector plugs (currently you have to use an adapter to the standard molex), this should clean up a lot of the "cable tangle" (and improve cooling to boot).
I used to keep my computer on 24/7. Then I put it in my bedroom. Did I mention I have a big-ass server case with six fans? Nowadays, I'd rather wait the three minutes for boot-up and get a decent night's sleep; I'm funny like that.
Actually, when I was in college the hardest thing about setting up a LAN to share our DSL line was figuring out how to set up TCP/IP on my roommate's MacIntosh OS 7 machine. It took me about ten minutes to find the correct graphical application from the pulldown menu, while my Linux machine took about three seconds of text file hax0ring.
NOTE TO SELF: Do not drink heavily and browse Slashdot at the same time. When your judgment is so impaired that the grinning Tux icon starts looking sexy, it's time to put the cognac down.
I know what you mean: I have Webcam Wenches Refinancing my Mortgage and Cleaning my Septic Tank right now. I think they get all their energy from the Herbal Viagra.
Two years ago when people were afraid of anthrax spores being sent through the mail, the guitarist from the heavy metal band Anthrax claimed, tongue-in-cheek, that they were changing their name to avoid the bad publicity. They wanted a band name that was nonthreatening, he said, and were leanig toward calling the group "Box Full of Cuddly Kittens."
D'Oh! Stupid typo. Remember kids, don't publicly smoke in public before posting to Slashdot: you'll make a tpyo and people will misunderestimate you.
Actually, Holland may well criminalize all types of public smoking in public, which would drastically change their "coffee shop" culture. Instead they'll have to bake it into cookies or something.
The problem is that normal (i.e. not honors level) junior and senior year history classes are often run by hardened, cynical teachers who want to get through the day with as little trouble as possible. (A lot of this is due to a lack of discpiline both in home and at the schools.) Rather than exerting a ton of effort to get their students to settle down, think on a topic, and discuss it intelligently, it is easier to have them read chapter seven and do the review questions.