No. 1 reason for an SMP desktop: There's *always* an IRQ available (rule of thumb). This results in a more responsive desktop under severe load. The reason for this is exactly that most apps don't use both processors:)
Personal reason no 1: I am using Gentoo, and compiling is _much_ faster naturally.
Personal reason no 2: Java development. Runs a shitload of threads, and applications feel much more responsive.
Apps that actually benefit from SMP: not many. But everything related to Graphics and Video (from CAD/3D modelling to post-production apps and mpeg encoders).
About the non-cutting edge technology: true. BUT for most of the applications (1st sense) i noted above, it is not about RAM *speed*, it is purely about the *amount* of RAM available. So FSB is not really an issue.
journalling isn't new - no fragmentation would be!
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As has been pointed out, the "we had journalling a long time ago MS losers" bashing has backfired.
What WOULD be a great innovation for the Windows world is a filesystem which does not suffer from fragmentation. (And this truly has been in the UNIX world for ages).
Colin McRae Rally: My driving style has never been the same. Seriously.
But the game I learned the most from was Quest for Glory I (a.k.a Hero's Quest, which was the original title). I _really_ learned a lot of English vocabulary from that game (and other Sierra Games, i.e. Space Quest III). (My Native Tongue is German, and believe it or not, words like "portcullis" are not in the English books they have here at school.)
Zelda64 - Ocarina Of Time: my roommate and I played it in parallel, after it we both bought an ocarina and learned how to play. Plus, we started to build an electronic gadget to control things like light switches of our appartment by playing the songs from the game on the ocarinas.
now if they only would build a decent laptop with around 700-1000MHz, along with the newer technology added, especially battery-wise, and sell it real cheap.
Please do. Parent and its child comments are very interesting and do contain a lot of info on what and what i not Linux, or MacOSX, or other things which might be considered hybrids, are all about, and, more importantly, what they are and what they are not.
Philosophiae Baccalaureus (bachelor of philosophy) Bachelor of Philosophy Packet Handling Buffer PCI Host Bridge Per Hop Behavior Player's Handbook (gaming) Pointy Haired Boss (Dilbert) Poly 2-Hydroxybutyrate Psycho Hose Beast
to the contrary to most of the above posters, I have always been buying the chepest RAM I could get, along with second-hand(!) brand-name RAM, and I have never ever had a single bad RAM chip since my 386 days. I always hadle my computer parts with extreme (some say paranoid) care for 'static I must add.
Save one occasion when I mixed four different kinds of SDRAM in a AMD K6/2 based system. And I talk different timing and clock specs, different number of chip on each RAM bar. I got segfaults and bluescreen al over, but removing _either_ bar fixed it.
You've obviously never played 'LeisureSuit Larry' then.
...or any of the Sierra OnLine or Lucasfilm adventures. Especially in the Lucasfilm ones, you always played skinny losers (Guybrush Threepwood anyone? Zak McKracken? Graham? Roger Wilco?).
King's Quest IV stars a female protagonist, and not a single sexist tone in that game. Unless you count her wearing a purple (no magenta!) dress as a stereotype. (Might be related to the series being written by a woman, inventor of the graphical advernture genre Robera Williams)
Celebration times come on! With slashdot now reporting speculations on future events, we can drop shit on Microsoft even before bad things have happened!
US-Army: We're terribly sorry, but unfortunately it has already been more than ten years since be bombed some brown people, so we will have to render our service unuseable for an unspecified amount of time.
Sorry, field-science, sorry, maritime travel and transportation, sorry you folks out there in the Sahara, Australian Outback or South-American rainforest. sorry Mercedes-Benz, sorry Motorola, sorry air-travel, you shouldn't be flying anyway during terror-level orange.
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DVD PLAYERS ARE HOT! And some more so than others...
Enter water-cooled DVD players!
I mean, I just saw a guy on TV yesterday who had a passive cooler on his friggin' NIC!
There is a gentoo app that does that.
It's a much improved version of emerge.
It's called app-science/engage.
Unfortunately it's not in portage yet.
well...
"If the problem persists, please contact the manufacturer"
you have clearly never expierienced the Amiga world.
... a beowulf cluster of those.
No, seriously. Imagine that!
No. 1 reason for an SMP desktop: There's *always* an IRQ available (rule of thumb). :)
This results in a more responsive desktop under severe load. The reason for this is exactly that most apps don't use both processors
Personal reason no 1: I am using Gentoo, and compiling is _much_ faster naturally.
Personal reason no 2: Java development. Runs a shitload of threads, and applications feel much more responsive.
Apps that actually benefit from SMP: not many. But everything related to Graphics and Video (from CAD/3D modelling to post-production apps and mpeg encoders).
About the non-cutting edge technology: true. BUT for most of the applications (1st sense) i noted above, it is not about RAM *speed*, it is purely about the *amount* of RAM available. So FSB is not really an issue.
I wonder if this [PDF!] cool new feature will help there.
Sounds a lot like "micro-rebooting" to me...
"Certainly worth a read."
Michael, you're getting almost as bad as... COMMANDER TACO! "Read" is NOT a noun, so you don't use an article as you would with one.
You don't use an articel with one, too. See?
uh yeah? well, how about defragging them then?
Also, perhaps another blocksize would help too.
As has been pointed out, the "we had journalling a long time ago MS losers" bashing has backfired.
What WOULD be a great innovation for the Windows world is a filesystem which does not suffer from fragmentation. (And this truly has been in the UNIX world for ages).
Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur
shouldn't that be "Quidquid lingua latina dictum est altum videtur"?
But the moon IS the US... Didn't you know?
Explains the lack of intelligence up there.
Colin McRae Rally:
My driving style has never been the same.
Seriously.
But the game I learned the most from was Quest for Glory I (a.k.a Hero's Quest, which was the original title).
I _really_ learned a lot of English vocabulary from that game (and other Sierra Games, i.e. Space Quest III). (My Native Tongue is German, and believe it or not, words like "portcullis" are not in the English books they have here at school.)
Zelda64 - Ocarina Of Time: my roommate and I played it in parallel, after it we both bought an ocarina and learned how to play. Plus, we started to build an electronic gadget to control things like light switches of our appartment by playing the songs from the game on the ocarinas.
Kudos to you, Sir Parent AC.
Very nice.
Can you also decypher which character takes a "surprise" come-back in the movie?
oh yes indeed.
now if they only would build a decent laptop with around 700-1000MHz, along with the newer technology added, especially battery-wise, and sell it real cheap.
Sony and Philips did that some time ago (2001) with what they called DDCD (double-density revisited...)
So what's the news?
Please do. Parent and its child comments are very interesting and do contain a lot of info on what and what i not Linux, or MacOSX, or other things which might be considered hybrids, are all about, and, more importantly, what they are and what they are not.
...which returns the following:
Philosophiae Baccalaureus (bachelor of philosophy)
Bachelor of Philosophy
Packet Handling Buffer
PCI Host Bridge
Per Hop Behavior
Player's Handbook (gaming)
Pointy Haired Boss (Dilbert)
Poly 2-Hydroxybutyrate
Psycho Hose Beast
boy, this is a _very_ geeky acronym.
to the contrary to most of the above posters, I have always been buying the chepest RAM I could get, along with second-hand(!) brand-name RAM, and I have never ever had a single bad RAM chip since my 386 days.
I always hadle my computer parts with extreme (some say paranoid) care for 'static I must add.
Save one occasion when I mixed four different kinds of SDRAM in a AMD K6/2 based system. And I talk different timing and clock specs, different number of chip on each RAM bar. I got segfaults and bluescreen al over, but removing _either_ bar fixed it.
You've obviously never played 'LeisureSuit Larry' then.
...or any of the Sierra OnLine or Lucasfilm adventures. Especially in the Lucasfilm ones, you always played skinny losers (Guybrush Threepwood anyone? Zak McKracken? Graham? Roger Wilco?).
King's Quest IV stars a female protagonist, and not a single sexist tone in that game. Unless you count her wearing a purple (no magenta!) dress as a stereotype. (Might be related to the series being written by a woman, inventor of the graphical advernture genre Robera Williams)
Still, Zak got his girl in the end.
there is a package called mplayerplug-in which provides a plugin for all netscape-compatible browsers (including opera).
So, are there any worthwhile implementations of X11 for i386 Linux apart from XFree86?
My brief googling did not turn up much useful information.
Experts expect it to be exploited heavily.
Celebration times come on!
With slashdot now reporting speculations on future events, we can drop shit on Microsoft even before bad things have happened!
I just tried this and wanted to warn others:
YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO TELL THE VERSION FROM THIS!
Microsoft must be saying something wrong!!!
I got a window popping up, the title was "Sorry - KDesktop", and then "winver" and "Could not run the specified command!"
So it's not woring. QED.
US-Army: We're terribly sorry, but unfortunately it has already been more than ten years since be bombed some brown people, so we will have to render our service unuseable for an unspecified amount of time.
Sorry, field-science, sorry, maritime travel and transportation, sorry you folks out there in the Sahara, Australian Outback or South-American rainforest. sorry Mercedes-Benz, sorry Motorola, sorry air-travel, you shouldn't be flying anyway during terror-level orange.