Congratulations on making a life for yourself in this area. I too live in the Chicago/IL area, and I hate it.... I been thinking it is the grass is greener syndrome, but now I am unshure. Perhaps I'll feel better once I get some of my writings on it out, but right now I just feel bogged down and trapped, like a tremendous weight is laying on top of my coffin, which just happens to be chained shut and underwater. Perhaps if I get a new job, I will perk up, or perhaps I won't, I never seem to know. Well, if ya ever are in the area of Medinah, IL... email me if you wanna find out, and feel like getting a couple ppl together to play Quake, QuakeII, Half-Life and Tribes, shoot me off an email, we are always looking for people to join us. AND social event of the highest geek caliber, well not highest but high for the gaming geek, hit Chicon as far as we know, the largest Chicago area Quake tourney / LAN party yet. About 300 people at the Ramada Inn on North Avenue in Glendale Heights..... Well good luck guys, wanna help a fellow geek find a job? argh
There is slashnet, fire up ircII or your respective irc client and goto irc.slashnet.org, and type/list for channels. =) If you have any problems with IRC send me an email, I can help ya out with it.
Rob, I absolutely love what you've done, functionally it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The look of it is going to take a little bit of getting used too, but great work Rob
As far as displaying articles goes, in displaying the articles and comments, when it either lists comments (in the case of popular articles) or when it just displays threaded comments, I think it would be a good idea to throw in the score along with the posters name, time, etc. Possibly aide in the reading of articles, without sorting the whole thing by score..... Sometimes its funny to read something entirely pathetic. I tend to have quite a few laughs as a result of some extraneously off topic posts. (Self esteem boosters- i.e. someone is more of a moron then me) just my 2 tenths of a cent
Might wanna try #movieworld also, I just happen to help run that channel. We usually have good stuff on our dump sites, and things get continually ripped by members.
I noticed some of those results too. I am thinking that a governing body isn't involved with this process. Several other VERY strange results permeated the benchmarks. I downloaded the results and will keep em around just for kicks.
What happened to American Computer Corporation's plans to release SSD drives that were near the cost of a standard magnetic hard disk drive. I remember reading about it. Course something could be said for the fact that the company claimed the technology was taken from aliens, and that AT&T invented the transistor by reverse-engineering parts from the Roswell crash..... but hey, everyone is a bit eccentric sometimes
GPS does work well in heavily forested areas. I was in the Superior National forest in Northern Minnessota with my GPS, a Magellan 4000XL that I spent 300 dollars on, and I was recieving signals frojm 8-10 satellites the whole time I was up there. BTW I still have a waypoint stored in my GPS of a nice lil clifftop in the Boundary Waters Canoe area.
Yeah the RIVA 128is a VERY nice card for the money. You can pick up OEM for like, 50-60 bucks now, and 70 bucks for an 8mb AGP version. It's D3D, (I know windows...) for those of us that have to boot Windows for some games, is still very nice. X Windows absolutely loved it too. I was using SuSE's XServer for the longest time, XSuSE_nVidia or something, but will prolly move to standard XFree now.... Especially since my version is fairly old =)
Does anyone remember the URL that pointed to a page by Alan Cox I believe about migrating to kernel 2.2 and the necessary utilities you need to update? I need to goto this kernel, and I have *some* outdated stuff on my box. Libs and whatnot are up to date, but I believe I need new net-utils and all those fun things.
The K7's FPU is supposed to absolutely stomp intel's. It is supposedly able to execute 3 instructions per clock cycle, not to mention the 3DNow support. From what I've read so far, this will be AMD's best FPU ever, and the best X86 FPU we have seen. Now it stands to reason to take into consideration the fact that 3DNow support might fade with katmai on the horizon, but the fact that developers are using it now, with katmai 2 months away says that we might have both of these technologies simultaneously on the market. And of course the K7's integer performance will just completely smoke. then there is the 200mhz FSB. Think about that for compiling, 1.6GB/sec pipe to your 1GB+ of RAM, oh did they mention SMP support. This is major drool factor here folks.
Intel also had to fab the cache memory for the Xeon chips, and their facilities are not setup to manufacture cache efficiently. Previous chips/mobo's farm the cache memory production to small Asian companies that merely make cache.
The K7 will not launch at 30% of the cost of the equivalent Intel chip like AMD usually does, but it will be somewhere around 800 dollars, or so I've heard. That is still far better then a Xeon is now, and what a Xeon will be in 6 months. Shure it isn't launching at under 400 bucks as AMD usually does, but it is going to be one hell of a chip. Needless to say I want to have a dual/quad K7 system just for the hell of it.
I coulda sworn I saw him smoking a white rock before he started spouting these comments... =) I don't know if you know the type, but my friend is one of those people that thinks he's a GREAT deal cooler then he actually is, and tends to spout of complete nonsense that he thinks is TRUE. We have discussed some real topics before, but the conversation usually degenerates into some kinda bull shit facts that he seems to pull out of his ass. I have been secretely trying to re-educate him, and it seems to be working. I told him where to get his news, I told him I would help him learn what the hell linux is, etc etc etc
I'm actually considering giving BSD a shot, not to replace linux, but for something else to learn. How different is BSD from linux, i.e. is there a point to my endeavor..... I've gotten into some major discussions on IRC about BSD, and it seems like people that are "in the know" (in quotes because its BS) claim that Linux is insecure, and that the various BSDs are alot more secure. From info I've collected, I think the only one that is more secure then Linux _out of the box_ is OpenBSD, but your Linux box can be much more secure then that with a little bit of work. But I could be completely wrong..... Thats just my experience so far. Also on a side note, I got a rumour from my friend that M$ is working on M$-Linux. He said it will be OSS, but have a M$ designed GUI, but that GUI will also be OSS. He said essentially its the Windows GUI running on top of the Linux kernel. He also said that Win apps will run through it no problem. I basically told him to quite spouting BS, that this would never happen, the community wouldn't allow it to happen, then he tried to tell me that Linus was working on it. I told him to shut up and went to class. Now if this isn't food for thought I don't know what is. I keep on seeing images in my head of a linux BSOD...... *fear*
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Congratulations on making a life for yourself in this area. I too live in the Chicago/IL area, and I hate it.... I been thinking it is the grass is greener syndrome, but now I am unshure. Perhaps I'll feel better once I get some of my writings on it out, but right now I just feel bogged down and trapped, like a tremendous weight is laying on top of my coffin, which just happens to be chained shut and underwater. Perhaps if I get a new job, I will perk up, or perhaps I won't, I never seem to know. Well, if ya ever are in the area of Medinah, IL... email me if you wanna find out, and feel like getting a couple ppl together to play Quake, QuakeII, Half-Life and Tribes, shoot me off an email, we are always looking for people to join us. AND social event of the highest geek caliber, well not highest but high for the gaming geek, hit Chicon as far as we know, the largest Chicago area Quake tourney / LAN party yet. About 300 people at the Ramada Inn on North Avenue in Glendale Heights..... Well good luck guys, wanna help a fellow geek find a job?
argh
There is slashnet, fire up ircII or your respective irc client and goto irc.slashnet.org, and type /list for channels. =) If you have any problems with IRC send me an email, I can help ya out with it.
Rob, I absolutely love what you've done, functionally it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The look of it is going to take a little bit of getting used too, but great work Rob
As far as displaying articles goes, in displaying the articles and comments, when it either lists comments (in the case of popular articles) or when it just displays threaded comments, I think it would be a good idea to throw in the score along with the posters name, time, etc. Possibly aide in the reading of articles, without sorting the whole thing by score..... Sometimes its funny to read something entirely pathetic. I tend to have quite a few laughs as a result of some extraneously off topic posts. (Self esteem boosters- i.e. someone is more of a moron then me)
just my 2 tenths of a cent
its a self fulfilling prophecy
=)
Might wanna try #movieworld also, I just happen to help run that channel. We usually have good stuff on our dump sites, and things get continually ripped by members.
try here for info: Movieworld
I noticed some of those results too. I am thinking that a governing body isn't involved with this process. Several other VERY strange results permeated the benchmarks. I downloaded the results and will keep em around just for kicks.
Goto ebay, and enter the search terms human soul...
I came up with 4 hits. Items are no longer available, but they are in the engine.....
btw, url is http://accpc.com/tcapdisplay.htm
btw, URL is
What happened to American Computer Corporation's plans to release SSD drives that were near the cost of a standard magnetic hard disk drive. I remember reading about it. Course something could be said for the fact that the company claimed the technology was taken from aliens, and that AT&T invented the transistor by reverse-engineering parts from the Roswell crash..... but hey, everyone is a bit eccentric sometimes
GPS does work well in heavily forested areas. I was in the Superior National forest in Northern Minnessota with my GPS, a Magellan 4000XL that I spent 300 dollars on, and I was recieving signals frojm 8-10 satellites the whole time I was up there. BTW I still have a waypoint stored in my GPS of a nice lil clifftop in the Boundary Waters Canoe area.
Yeah the RIVA 128is a VERY nice card for the money. You can pick up OEM for like, 50-60 bucks now, and 70 bucks for an 8mb AGP version. It's D3D, (I know windows...) for those of us that have to boot Windows for some games, is still very nice. X Windows absolutely loved it too. I was using SuSE's XServer for the longest time, XSuSE_nVidia or something, but will prolly move to standard XFree now.... Especially since my version is fairly old =)
Does anyone remember the URL that pointed to a page by Alan Cox I believe about migrating to kernel 2.2 and the necessary utilities you need to update? I need to goto this kernel, and I have *some* outdated stuff on my box. Libs and whatnot are up to date, but I believe I need new net-utils and all those fun things.
The K7's FPU is supposed to absolutely stomp intel's. It is supposedly able to execute 3 instructions per clock cycle, not to mention the 3DNow support. From what I've read so far, this will be AMD's best FPU ever, and the best X86 FPU we have seen. Now it stands to reason to take into consideration the fact that 3DNow support might fade with katmai on the horizon, but the fact that developers are using it now, with katmai 2 months away says that we might have both of these technologies simultaneously on the market. And of course the K7's integer performance will just completely smoke. then there is the 200mhz FSB. Think about that for compiling, 1.6GB/sec pipe to your 1GB+ of RAM, oh did they mention SMP support. This is major drool factor here folks.
Intel also had to fab the cache memory for the Xeon chips, and their facilities are not setup to manufacture cache efficiently. Previous chips/mobo's farm the cache memory production to small Asian companies that merely make cache.
The K7 will not launch at 30% of the cost of the equivalent Intel chip like AMD usually does, but it will be somewhere around 800 dollars, or so I've heard. That is still far better then a Xeon is now, and what a Xeon will be in 6 months. Shure it isn't launching at under 400 bucks as AMD usually does, but it is going to be one hell of a chip. Needless to say I want to have a dual/quad K7 system just for the hell of it.
I coulda sworn I saw him smoking a white rock before he started spouting these comments... =)
I don't know if you know the type, but my friend is one of those people that thinks he's a GREAT deal cooler then he actually is, and tends to spout of complete nonsense that he thinks is TRUE. We have discussed some real topics before, but the conversation usually degenerates into some kinda bull shit facts that he seems to pull out of his ass. I have been secretely trying to re-educate him, and it seems to be working. I told him where to get his news, I told him I would help him learn what the hell linux is, etc etc etc
I'm actually considering giving BSD a shot, not to replace linux, but for something else to learn. How different is BSD from linux, i.e. is there a point to my endeavor..... I've gotten into some major discussions on IRC about BSD, and it seems like people that are "in the know" (in quotes because its BS) claim that Linux is insecure, and that the various BSDs are alot more secure. From info I've collected, I think the only one that is more secure then Linux _out of the box_ is OpenBSD, but your Linux box can be much more secure then that with a little bit of work. But I could be completely wrong..... Thats just my experience so far. Also on a side note, I got a rumour from my friend that M$ is working on M$-Linux. He said it will be OSS, but have a M$ designed GUI, but that GUI will also be OSS. He said essentially its the Windows GUI running on top of the Linux kernel. He also said that Win apps will run through it no problem. I basically told him to quite spouting BS, that this would never happen, the community wouldn't allow it to happen, then he tried to tell me that Linus was working on it. I told him to shut up and went to class. Now if this isn't food for thought I don't know what is. I keep on seeing images in my head of a linux BSOD...... *fear*