Building an SMP system can be cheap. You just gotta know where to look for help (comp.periphs.mainboards.tyan). It's as simple as:
1. Buy two $50 Athlon XP 1600 chips
2. Buy Tyan S2466 760MPX board
3. Buy up to two 1gb sticks non-ecc non-reg ddr ram (or you can go the ecc route if you want to max it out at 4gb)
4. SMP!
LiveDVD in there (ala LiveCD) and you've got quite a big a workspace. Or better yet, ditch the optical drive, drop a bunch of ram in, and have the boot off net, downloading the entire OS into ram.
In my case, I tried upgrading to 3.2.1-r6 after doing an install and setting up xfce. After upgrading my packages to the latest and installing r6, I rebooted. *poof* my system ground to a halt after boot the kernel, and acted as if the hard drive hadn't been mounted. None of the daemons would start.
The 10/100BT Ethernet jack is next to the modem jack, which is to the right of the modem jack. The modem jack and Ethernet jacks are to the left of the sound miniplug jacks, and to the right of the two firewire plugs. Hope this helps.
The Slashdot effect is to giving everyone a 1'x1' mirror and telling them to reflect sunlight at a specific point. The first 10 mirrors don't do much, but after several thousand it can do some nasty things which could be considered organized crime if it occured in a public place like Times Square.
Mod me Off Topic if you feel that way, but the Slashdot effect is similar to an organized server-under-thousands-of-magnifying-glasses.
Same here, but I'm really wishing they'd just have gone ahead and dropped the not-so-new Ti 4200 for notebooks. They'll probably impliment a new version with it in the next 3 monthes, but it's a real shame they didn't put it in this time round.
Every try opening 5 articles in XP? IE doesn't have tabs, so you have to either use ALT+TAB or click on the IE box on the taskbar and find the window you wish to view. Phoenix may not be faster with one window, but if you ever try fast switching between 8 windows of the same application without tabs, you're in for some deep water. Sure, it's going to be in the next version of IE, but by then maybe Mozilla/Phoenix will have something that again makes for good compensation.
a decent engine technology is developed so travel to and from Mars is faster. And once you can test your equipment in the local solar system, you can start sending out scout ships. We're basically stuck here until then, since current engines are so slow that it's horrendously expensive to make trips to Mars.
Bah. Forget the harder-to-prove things. Go for easy things that are obvious like smog over major metropoliton areas such as Los Angelos, and the fact that during period after 9-11 when civilian air traffic was halted that temperatures dropped. Then again, those could be signs of global warming. But they're easier to prove to be caused by Humans than say, El Nino in North America.
You could easily start doing things that qualify as "changing the weather" by building cars that not only qualify for zero-emissions standards, but have onboard air cleaners to get rid of the smog.
Don't forget that there's no such thing as "piracy" when it comes to duplicating intellectual property - piracy only applies when something physical is taken. What the double-speakers at the RIAA are saying in English is "copyright infringement" plain and simple. Don't let them lull you into thinking what goes around on peer to peer nets is piracy. These dolts want you to think of their product as physical when you aquire it illegally, but demand special execptions saying it's not physical.
If your box is fast enough to play Quicktime in the first place, then it should be fast enough to compile mplayer overnight. Even a 200Mhz Pentium Pro can compile Mplayer overnight.
This kind of IP thievery has always been a hallmark of east Asian technology. At least the Japanese improved on the tech they took. The Chinese can't seem to even beat an 8 year old tech.
Last time I checked, most of the world's motherboards were designed and often fabbed in Taiwan, a democratic "fork" from the Communist mainland. Most likely, there's at least one component of some kind in you're computer that was made in Taiwan.
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How Mass E-Mail Ads Fueled a Holiday Gift Craze
If there's a teeny-tiny remote-controlled race car under the tree a few days from now, you're at the tail end of a long chain of events that turned this toy from hot to white hot in just a matter of months.
How popular are the little remote-controlled cars, sold under various brand names? Well, RadioShack recently limited purchases to two per customer. KB Toys had only three left at its Pentagon City store earlier this week. And the Discovery Channel Store ran out of them even before Thanksgiving and rush-ordered more from various factories in Asia. Guess what: Discovery's about to sell out again.
"Our plan was that this would be the big toy for next year," said Ken Cutler, senior vice president of Illinois-based Hobbico Inc., which distributes one brand of the cars. "But this phenomenal craze kind of happened real fast."
And like so much else in the Internet age, it also happened globally and with an assist from e-mail. Like just about everything in the toy world, mini-racers are a source of claims and counterclaims by rival companies. But if one toy manufacturer gets its way, the frenzy may subside as quickly as it began.
They're called ZipZaps, Z-Car, MicroSizers, Micro Blast Racers, I-Racer -- or more generically, remote-controlled mini-cars. Most of them are made in China, and they cost $10 to $50.
The story begins more than two years ago in Japan, where innovative toymaker Tomy Co. produced a speedy remote-controlled car the size of a matchbox with a motor smaller than the end of a pinkie. Tomy called it the BitChar-g (pronounced bit-char-GEE). The car's claim to fame, besides its size: It recharged in 45 seconds, instead of the hours it took most earlier remote-controlled cars to recharge for only a few minutes of play time.
Soon the two-inch-long cars were being raced on makeshift obstacle courses at Japanese bars and atop desks in Tokyo's executive suites. They quickly became a pan-Asian phenomenon, with uniformed schoolchildren competing on playgrounds.
The buzz was too much for U.S. toy companies and distributors to resist. Mini-cars began arriving at mass retailers and hobby shops in this country as early as this past spring. RadioShack had its ZipZaps, KB its MicroSizers -- and many knockoff artists in Asia tried to catch the wave, creating an explosion: minis, minis everywhere.
Including in just about every American's You've Got Mail box.
And that's when something interesting happened. There's some argument about this, but the daily barrage of e-mail ads -- two, three, eight a day to the same recipient -- seems to have pumped up awareness of the cars. That's right: Rather than siphon sales from the shopping malls, all that spam seems to have driven consumers to the stores looking for "that cute little car I saw online."
This symbiosis doesn't surprise some retailers.
"It goes without saying that we are benefiting from some of the guerrilla marketing that's going on," said Pam Rucker, a spokeswoman for the Discovery Channel Store.
Nor is it news to mass e-mailers, the electronic equivalent of telemarketers, without the dinnertime interruption.
"Retailers get a free ride from guys like us," said John Nesbit, vice president of Chicago area Internet marketing firm Penn Media, whose business now includes buying the knockoff mini-cars from a Hong Kong factory and selling them on the Internet. Penn Media sends millions of mini-car e-mails a day. "We go out and promote the living daylights out of something and the retailers get some of that benefit."
To extend its reach further, Penn Media pays 25 contractors to send the ads to millions of e-mail addresses they have purchased from various Web sites.
to match it's other abilities. I run OpenZaurus on my SL-5500 and I can pick a kernel to use all the ram for swap, 48 swap / 12 storage, etc. This thing's biggest drawback is it only has 32mb of RAM, and my SL-5500 is pretty slow on some applications like the TKC apps when it only has 32mb of swap to chew on.
you can easily setup the latest newfangled $350 video card in Windows, but to do so on Linux requires (1)decent drivers and (2) knowledge of the XFree86 conf file. ATI has the opportunity to really push Nvidia out of the arena by offering a ncurses-based and X-based config tool for owners of their graphics cards, since the closest thing on the Nvidia side is NVOption, which works, but is currently in it's infancy as it can't help you setup an X config file from scratch for a new configuration. Again, you don't have this problem on Windows, even though the Windows video card config tool can be quirky sometimes.
Why don't they just read some of the e-books freely available on ibiblio instead? IMHO, very few people are going to tune into this reading of the kernel source after it ceases to be a gimmick.
isn't going to be available for the NV30, will it? I don't think it will, because all the Tom's articles I've seen about it only discuss it supporting OpenGL 1.?2?
Slashdot Mirror
Building an SMP system can be cheap. You just gotta know where to look for help (comp.periphs.mainboards.tyan). It's as simple as:
1. Buy two $50 Athlon XP 1600 chips
2. Buy Tyan S2466 760MPX board
3. Buy up to two 1gb sticks non-ecc non-reg ddr ram (or you can go the ecc route if you want to max it out at 4gb)
4. SMP!
One of each. You can run one of two Athlon MP chips on a 760MP/X chipset-based board. I dunno about the Xeons, but I assume the same.
Too bad my library closes a 9pm.
LiveDVD in there (ala LiveCD) and you've got quite a big a workspace. Or better yet, ditch the optical drive, drop a bunch of ram in, and have the boot off net, downloading the entire OS into ram.
No, we'll just buy our stuff from stores based in Canada.
In my case, I tried upgrading to 3.2.1-r6 after doing an install and setting up xfce. After upgrading my packages to the latest and installing r6, I rebooted. *poof* my system ground to a halt after boot the kernel, and acted as if the hard drive hadn't been mounted. None of the daemons would start.
use gcc-3.2.1-r6. It really fscks up Gentoo installations, and I don't think it's all that healthy for other distros either.
The 10/100BT Ethernet jack is next to the modem jack, which is to the right of the modem jack. The modem jack and Ethernet jacks are to the left of the sound miniplug jacks, and to the right of the two firewire plugs. Hope this helps.
Actually it does, you just have to have Phoenix .5 or Mozilla 1.2.1r?. I've run flash applets with both.
Do you enjoy posting articles that contain flamebait?
they'll have to use the income from the sale on e-bay to buy a new web server after this Slashdotting.
The Slashdot effect is to giving everyone a 1'x1' mirror and telling them to reflect sunlight at a specific point. The first 10 mirrors don't do much, but after several thousand it can do some nasty things which could be considered organized crime if it occured in a public place like Times Square.
Mod me Off Topic if you feel that way, but the Slashdot effect is similar to an organized server-under-thousands-of-magnifying-glasses.
Same here, but I'm really wishing they'd just have gone ahead and dropped the not-so-new Ti 4200 for notebooks. They'll probably impliment a new version with it in the next 3 monthes, but it's a real shame they didn't put it in this time round.
Every try opening 5 articles in XP? IE doesn't have tabs, so you have to either use ALT+TAB or click on the IE box on the taskbar and find the window you wish to view. Phoenix may not be faster with one window, but if you ever try fast switching between 8 windows of the same application without tabs, you're in for some deep water. Sure, it's going to be in the next version of IE, but by then maybe Mozilla/Phoenix will have something that again makes for good compensation.
a decent engine technology is developed so travel to and from Mars is faster. And once you can test your equipment in the local solar system, you can start sending out scout ships. We're basically stuck here until then, since current engines are so slow that it's horrendously expensive to make trips to Mars.
Bah. Forget the harder-to-prove things. Go for easy things that are obvious like smog over major metropoliton areas such as Los Angelos, and the fact that during period after 9-11 when civilian air traffic was halted that temperatures dropped. Then again, those could be signs of global warming. But they're easier to prove to be caused by Humans than say, El Nino in North America.
You could easily start doing things that qualify as "changing the weather" by building cars that not only qualify for zero-emissions standards, but have onboard air cleaners to get rid of the smog.
Don't forget that there's no such thing as "piracy" when it comes to duplicating intellectual property - piracy only applies when something physical is taken. What the double-speakers at the RIAA are saying in English is "copyright infringement" plain and simple. Don't let them lull you into thinking what goes around on peer to peer nets is piracy. These dolts want you to think of their product as physical when you aquire it illegally, but demand special execptions saying it's not physical.
If your box is fast enough to play Quicktime in the first place, then it should be fast enough to compile mplayer overnight. Even a 200Mhz Pentium Pro can compile Mplayer overnight.
until they write a narractive about their server being Slashdotted and Lucas' lawyers suing them?
This kind of IP thievery has always been a hallmark of east Asian technology. At least the Japanese improved on the tech they took. The Chinese can't seem to even beat an 8 year old tech.
Last time I checked, most of the world's motherboards were designed and often fabbed in Taiwan, a democratic "fork" from the Communist mainland. Most likely, there's at least one component of some kind in you're computer that was made in Taiwan.
Powered by . . . Spam? How Mass E-Mail Ads Fueled a Holiday Gift Craze If there's a teeny-tiny remote-controlled race car under the tree a few days from now, you're at the tail end of a long chain of events that turned this toy from hot to white hot in just a matter of months. How popular are the little remote-controlled cars, sold under various brand names? Well, RadioShack recently limited purchases to two per customer. KB Toys had only three left at its Pentagon City store earlier this week. And the Discovery Channel Store ran out of them even before Thanksgiving and rush-ordered more from various factories in Asia. Guess what: Discovery's about to sell out again. "Our plan was that this would be the big toy for next year," said Ken Cutler, senior vice president of Illinois-based Hobbico Inc., which distributes one brand of the cars. "But this phenomenal craze kind of happened real fast." And like so much else in the Internet age, it also happened globally and with an assist from e-mail. Like just about everything in the toy world, mini-racers are a source of claims and counterclaims by rival companies. But if one toy manufacturer gets its way, the frenzy may subside as quickly as it began. They're called ZipZaps, Z-Car, MicroSizers, Micro Blast Racers, I-Racer -- or more generically, remote-controlled mini-cars. Most of them are made in China, and they cost $10 to $50. The story begins more than two years ago in Japan, where innovative toymaker Tomy Co. produced a speedy remote-controlled car the size of a matchbox with a motor smaller than the end of a pinkie. Tomy called it the BitChar-g (pronounced bit-char-GEE). The car's claim to fame, besides its size: It recharged in 45 seconds, instead of the hours it took most earlier remote-controlled cars to recharge for only a few minutes of play time. Soon the two-inch-long cars were being raced on makeshift obstacle courses at Japanese bars and atop desks in Tokyo's executive suites. They quickly became a pan-Asian phenomenon, with uniformed schoolchildren competing on playgrounds. The buzz was too much for U.S. toy companies and distributors to resist. Mini-cars began arriving at mass retailers and hobby shops in this country as early as this past spring. RadioShack had its ZipZaps, KB its MicroSizers -- and many knockoff artists in Asia tried to catch the wave, creating an explosion: minis, minis everywhere. Including in just about every American's You've Got Mail box. And that's when something interesting happened. There's some argument about this, but the daily barrage of e-mail ads -- two, three, eight a day to the same recipient -- seems to have pumped up awareness of the cars. That's right: Rather than siphon sales from the shopping malls, all that spam seems to have driven consumers to the stores looking for "that cute little car I saw online." This symbiosis doesn't surprise some retailers. "It goes without saying that we are benefiting from some of the guerrilla marketing that's going on," said Pam Rucker, a spokeswoman for the Discovery Channel Store. Nor is it news to mass e-mailers, the electronic equivalent of telemarketers, without the dinnertime interruption. "Retailers get a free ride from guys like us," said John Nesbit, vice president of Chicago area Internet marketing firm Penn Media, whose business now includes buying the knockoff mini-cars from a Hong Kong factory and selling them on the Internet. Penn Media sends millions of mini-car e-mails a day. "We go out and promote the living daylights out of something and the retailers get some of that benefit." To extend its reach further, Penn Media pays 25 contractors to send the ads to millions of e-mail addresses they have purchased from various Web sites.
to match it's other abilities. I run OpenZaurus on my SL-5500 and I can pick a kernel to use all the ram for swap, 48 swap / 12 storage, etc. This thing's biggest drawback is it only has 32mb of RAM, and my SL-5500 is pretty slow on some applications like the TKC apps when it only has 32mb of swap to chew on.
you can easily setup the latest newfangled $350 video card in Windows, but to do so on Linux requires (1)decent drivers and (2) knowledge of the XFree86 conf file. ATI has the opportunity to really push Nvidia out of the arena by offering a ncurses-based and X-based config tool for owners of their graphics cards, since the closest thing on the Nvidia side is NVOption, which works, but is currently in it's infancy as it can't help you setup an X config file from scratch for a new configuration. Again, you don't have this problem on Windows, even though the Windows video card config tool can be quirky sometimes.
Why don't they just read some of the e-books freely available on ibiblio instead? IMHO, very few people are going to tune into this reading of the kernel source after it ceases to be a gimmick.
isn't going to be available for the NV30, will it? I don't think it will, because all the Tom's articles I've seen about it only discuss it supporting OpenGL 1.?2?