LinkSys announced that they would release a DVD player that played DivX, and would include an 802.11g wireless connector for playing said DivX content over the network.
If you read the linked article, they tested that 5.1% of computers had one of FOUR pieces of spyware, based on their NETWORK traffic. They then claim that this means that 5.1% of computers have spyware.
There are tens of thousands of pieces of spyware, many of which don't use or need special network access. The study is bad.
In the gaming industry the term that a product has "Gone gold" means the golden master has been produced and is ready for duplication. This term has been commonly used for years. For proof, go look up the announcements for major games over the past few years that a game has gone gold. They're not referring to having sold a certain number of copies.
Does it install itself onto your PC without your permission? No.
Does it gather personal information and send it to Google? No.
Does it run secretly in the background, with no way to remove it save an anti-spyware tool? No.
Does it allow you to access anything you couldn't access without it? No.
How is this spyware again? Or even a security threat? As another poster pointed out, this tool doesn't access anything you couldn't access through Explorer.
What's this, is Slashdot helping to spread FUD?!? Say it ain't so!
You're confusing AVR (Auto voltage regulation) with simply kicking over to battery on dirty power.
The APC unit does indeed let you control what voltage levels will send it to battery. In fact, they let you set this range to be MORE SENSITIVE than the filtering it's supposed to do.
AVR actually boosts or trims the voltage without going to battery. Unfortunately, while it's advertised as a cure-all power filter by most UPS companies, in reality they only filter out the largest of spikes or drops.
Problem is they don't advertise the info (range) beforehand, I only got the info via their techsupport.
If the info had been published beforehand, I might certainly have purchased a different UPS. I thought that by buying APC I was getting the best; it might be the best quality, but it's certainly not the best performance. So it looks like my PSU is going to be doing most of the filtering... I've got dirty power here that has killed a whole bevy of PSUs, including the Antec TruePower Gold 330w that I had before this one. I've replaced it with an Antec TruePower Gold 430w, hopefully this one lasts a bit longer. (Lost the bill on the 330w, so I couldn't claim it under warranty)
Anyhow, at least the RS1500 lets you add the battery pack for 3x the runtime. I might get that just for the heck of it.
Just don't think you're getting power filtering in a UPS; unless it's an "online" model and costs thousands of dollars, you're NOT.
I bought an APC RS1500 ($400 CDN, 1500va), thinking it'd do power filtering. Well, it does, except that it doesn't do power filtering within a 35w range, if I recall correctly.
According to APC, on 120v power, it has to go above 138v before it tries to filter by cutting voltage by 12% (Not dynamic, it just cuts whatever it gets by 12%). If it drops below 98v, it just boosts it by 12%. That's it.
And in the case of the dog-orgasm, the president joked about it, acting as if it were true. Once he's done that, I don't think it's libelous anymore, since he's said publicly that it's true, even if he was joking:p
Back in the day of Steam v1 (A closed-beta system most people never used), Valve had planned for Steam to be exclusively subscription. And up until recently, they had planned to offer a subscription option to HL2.
Apparently they decided to abandon these plans, at least temporarily, and are not currently offering any subscription-based packages. However it's possible that the EULA dates back to a period where they were planning on it.
So, some will say it's a waste of time to hack then and mod them in this manner, but once they're dirt cheap in pawn shops and Ebay, you'll thank the modders.
I highly doubt that enough significant advances will be made in Pear to make OSX usable on a P3 700. The best we'll be able to do at native or near-native speed, no matter how cheap the xbox gets, will be linux, or possible Windows XP once Microsoft Research finishes the modified Windows XP kernel for Xen.
This particular "mod" (If it even qualifies as such) is useless, and not very impressive. They're simply running OSX in an emulator, something you can do on any linux machine.
There are quad-opteron 1U boxes... So currently 6u of space can hold twice as many Opterons as these Cray units (24 Opterons with normal servers, 12 Opterons with the 6u Cray). The rapidly approaching introduction of dual-core Opterons would allow 48 opteron cores in the space this 12 opteron Cray.
Yes, the Cray has many extras, (The FPGAs for example?), but for pure power, you might be better off with normal servers.
To be fair, the game still runs better under WINE than natively; the native version reportedly supports only about half the mainstream videocard out there (No ATI support), whereas unless I'm mistaken under WINE it will run on either.
This is great and all, but where is the SDK that Id promised would be available "immediately" after 1.1 went final (Which it did, about a week ago)
The SDK should be of a higher priority than a linux client; DooM 3 already runs under Linux under WINE, but mod teams can't do any serious work without the SDK.
My warrenty is with the store. I can mail it to them or drop it off myself (2 hour drive away). It's not from a smaller laptop company, it's from a retail store (http://shoprbc.com)
Considering from order to shipping was under 5 days, repair would likely be speedy as well.
They should. But if Dell should offer Linux (or no OS) as an option for their PCs instead of the dominant OS for the platform, why shouldn't Apple offer Linux (or no OS) for their PCs instead of the dominant platform?
My comment was made partially in jest, to show that Apple did the same thing as Dell by not providing a choice.
There are whitebook notebooks out there to cover every possible need. Most notebook manufacturers don't make their notebook themselves, not even Apple.
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LinkSys announced that they would release a DVD player that played DivX, and would include an 802.11g wireless connector for playing said DivX content over the network.
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Press release: http://www.linksys.com/press/press.asp?prid=142&c
The product was announced in Q1 CY 2004. It was slated to be released in Q1 CY 2004. it's now Q4 CY 2004.
It was announced as if it was almost on the market, they said 2-3 months you could purchase it. Here we are 10 months later, not a peep.
If you read the linked article, they tested that 5.1% of computers had one of FOUR pieces of spyware, based on their NETWORK traffic. They then claim that this means that 5.1% of computers have spyware.
There are tens of thousands of pieces of spyware, many of which don't use or need special network access. The study is bad.
In the gaming industry the term that a product has "Gone gold" means the golden master has been produced and is ready for duplication. This term has been commonly used for years. For proof, go look up the announcements for major games over the past few years that a game has gone gold. They're not referring to having sold a certain number of copies.
Does it install itself onto your PC without your permission? No.
Does it gather personal information and send it to Google? No.
Does it run secretly in the background, with no way to remove it save an anti-spyware tool? No.
Does it allow you to access anything you couldn't access without it? No.
How is this spyware again? Or even a security threat? As another poster pointed out, this tool doesn't access anything you couldn't access through Explorer.
What's this, is Slashdot helping to spread FUD?!? Say it ain't so!
You're confusing AVR (Auto voltage regulation) with simply kicking over to battery on dirty power.
The APC unit does indeed let you control what voltage levels will send it to battery. In fact, they let you set this range to be MORE SENSITIVE than the filtering it's supposed to do.
AVR actually boosts or trims the voltage without going to battery. Unfortunately, while it's advertised as a cure-all power filter by most UPS companies, in reality they only filter out the largest of spikes or drops.
Problem is they don't advertise the info (range) beforehand, I only got the info via their techsupport.
If the info had been published beforehand, I might certainly have purchased a different UPS. I thought that by buying APC I was getting the best; it might be the best quality, but it's certainly not the best performance. So it looks like my PSU is going to be doing most of the filtering... I've got dirty power here that has killed a whole bevy of PSUs, including the Antec TruePower Gold 330w that I had before this one. I've replaced it with an Antec TruePower Gold 430w, hopefully this one lasts a bit longer. (Lost the bill on the 330w, so I couldn't claim it under warranty)
Anyhow, at least the RS1500 lets you add the battery pack for 3x the runtime. I might get that just for the heck of it.
Just don't think you're getting power filtering in a UPS; unless it's an "online" model and costs thousands of dollars, you're NOT.
I bought an APC RS1500 ($400 CDN, 1500va), thinking it'd do power filtering. Well, it does, except that it doesn't do power filtering within a 35w range, if I recall correctly.
According to APC, on 120v power, it has to go above 138v before it tries to filter by cutting voltage by 12% (Not dynamic, it just cuts whatever it gets by 12%). If it drops below 98v, it just boosts it by 12%. That's it.
And in the case of the dog-orgasm, the president joked about it, acting as if it were true. Once he's done that, I don't think it's libelous anymore, since he's said publicly that it's true, even if he was joking :p
Exactly, and if Kyle's opinion is that a product is not good, or "sucks", then as I understand it that's free speech for you.
Back in the day of Steam v1 (A closed-beta system most people never used), Valve had planned for Steam to be exclusively subscription. And up until recently, they had planned to offer a subscription option to HL2.
Apparently they decided to abandon these plans, at least temporarily, and are not currently offering any subscription-based packages. However it's possible that the EULA dates back to a period where they were planning on it.
FF3 US was FF6 JP.
They're referring to the JP FF3, for the NES (Famicom)
The DS port will likely have greatly upgraded graphics; the shots of FF3's port to the WonderSwan reminded me of FF6's graphics quality.
So, some will say it's a waste of time to hack then and mod them in this manner, but once they're dirt cheap in pawn shops and Ebay, you'll thank the modders.
I highly doubt that enough significant advances will be made in Pear to make OSX usable on a P3 700. The best we'll be able to do at native or near-native speed, no matter how cheap the xbox gets, will be linux, or possible Windows XP once Microsoft Research finishes the modified Windows XP kernel for Xen.
This particular "mod" (If it even qualifies as such) is useless, and not very impressive. They're simply running OSX in an emulator, something you can do on any linux machine.
My bad. In this case the Cray unit is just as dense as three quad opteron servers.
However, that might change if dual-core opterons are introduced and Cray doesn't take advantage of them.
My math shows this to be a 6u unit (72/12=6)
There are quad-opteron 1U boxes... So currently 6u of space can hold twice as many Opterons as these Cray units (24 Opterons with normal servers, 12 Opterons with the 6u Cray). The rapidly approaching introduction of dual-core Opterons would allow 48 opteron cores in the space this 12 opteron Cray.
Yes, the Cray has many extras, (The FPGAs for example?), but for pure power, you might be better off with normal servers.
To be fair, the game still runs better under WINE than natively; the native version reportedly supports only about half the mainstream videocard out there (No ATI support), whereas unless I'm mistaken under WINE it will run on either.
This is great and all, but where is the SDK that Id promised would be available "immediately" after 1.1 went final (Which it did, about a week ago)
The SDK should be of a higher priority than a linux client; DooM 3 already runs under Linux under WINE, but mod teams can't do any serious work without the SDK.
Good site to ask around is notebookforums.com
I don't see anything there you can't get in a whitebook. You might have to look around to find a Quadro FX in a Centrino though.
The whole reason I chose a whitebook was that no mainstream vendor like Dell offered a Radeon 9700 Mobility in a Centrino at a decent price.
That's a dead link for both IE and Firefox (Session expired)
My warrenty is with the store. I can mail it to them or drop it off myself (2 hour drive away). It's not from a smaller laptop company, it's from a retail store (http://shoprbc.com)
Considering from order to shipping was under 5 days, repair would likely be speedy as well.
They should. But if Dell should offer Linux (or no OS) as an option for their PCs instead of the dominant OS for the platform, why shouldn't Apple offer Linux (or no OS) for their PCs instead of the dominant platform?
My comment was made partially in jest, to show that Apple did the same thing as Dell by not providing a choice.
About a month ago? They still seem to be the centrino of choice on notebookforums.
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Perhaps you might get more up-to-date info on their Canadian or US sites:
http://www.bizcom-ca.com/
http://www.bizcom-us
Bizcom, BTW, is owned by Compal, and distributes their notebooks in North America.
There are whitebook notebooks out there to cover every possible need. Most notebook manufacturers don't make their notebook themselves, not even Apple.
I think the question would be then, trying buying a Mac without Mac OS X :p
I'm referring to smaller stores; I bought from ShopRBC.com, a retail store in Ottawa. I got the RBC Centrino (Compal CL56).
The spot that companies normally put their logo is even blank, if only I can find a sticker to fit there.