>The annoying bit is that so many of them are AT instead of PS/2 (good luck even finding PS/2 ports on modern hardware, now it is just 4 USB ports in the back).
Electricially it's the same interface; adapters are dirt cheap, or solder a PS/2 plug on.
And decent motherboards still come with PS/2 (and LPT, and serial). Bottom-end cheap h/w drops them to save cents.
Eh, there are many people who run with Flash blocked by default. Not a lot of the 'net breaks - and those sites that do break are generally pretty clueless anyway.
Except there are some sites that really make it hard because the usual 'click to run Flash' icon doesn't come up on them (no, I haven't researched why). For example, bandcamp just tells you to go install Flash (or disable your blocker).
2xGTX260 are in theory about 1.5TFLOPS so that's welcome fuel on the fire:)
You can also configure common settings using the BOINC preferences and Einstein@home preferences pages. It seems common to use "location" to set up different preferences for different hosts, e.g. I use "home" setting for machines which are only good for GPU work, "work" for CPU-only systems and the "default" setting for both CPU/GPU (plus "school" settings for experimentation).
Also AIUI the latest client will use all your GPUs as long as they have identical capabilities - so it should use both your GTX260's. You do have to twiddle the XML for stuff like mixed GPU usage, but I've never found the drivers stable enough for that to work well (at least on my ragtag fleet of PCs). I'd hazard a guess it would get tricky if you throw "GPU utilization" into the mix (i.e. running multiple work units on the same GPU, which can speed things up - see the benchmarks thread). Anyway, sounds like you're doing more advanced stuff after one night than anything I've attempted to date.
As to the rate, it's increasing at 1.3Tflop per sec per hour, so yes, it's an acceleration. Even if it has slowed a bit...now about 0.8Tf/s/h (i.e. the rate of the acceleration is decreasing).
The XKCD reminds me of a story that back in the 18th century, people wanting to know if the moon was inhabited used their telescopes to look for signal fires.
Autoattendant here is a 486/66 on 2.4 33.2; running 24x7 for the last zillion years. Boots and runs diskless.; highly power-efficient, hard to see any reason to replace it.
Seems to recall the MSF timecode box (a 386sx) does boot to linux, but pretty sure that's still on DOS 5.00.
Indeed, still good here in the UK. You can build a Loran receiver that'll feed the PC soundcard at the cost of a few pennies, and get highly accurate time info from it to boot.
Absolute madness to kill off such a simple, reliable system.
But since GPS is so expensive by comparison, there's plenty of money to pay lobbyists with...
If a Next keyboard is the same as an AT PC keyboard, this is a trivial hack; you can do it with a PC LPT port (it's a single bit TTL signal that just needs a bit of waggling).
Much harder now there are no simple I/O ports on a PC.
Pretty sure Ortek made the Northgate (I've got a couple) though to my taste the MCK142-Pro is even better. ALT-Fx/Ctl/Fx is so much easier with F-keys on left (MCK142 also has F-key duplicate row above the keyboard, plus 24 programmable keys above that). Bought a bunch of them many years ago and they'll probably outlast me.
Though the oldest keyboard here is on a Nascom One; 2Mhz Z80, 768 bytes RAM free, still works (swapped it for a motorbike back in '77 or '78, missed it enough I bought it back later).
>On that computer, they placed a ZIP archive entitled "Georgian-Nato Agreement." He took the bait, which caused the investigators' own spying program to be installed.
Cockup or conspiracy? Probably cockup - but quite likely they'll discover they've made more by hanging on to cash for a few extra days than this will cost them in customers.
I switched off NW/RBOS when I (banked with them since 1978) joined their online banking and saw.asp in their URL.
YYYY.MM.DD makes sense because it's sort-friendly (see ISO8601 for more details). Irregular and arbitary numbering schemes cause confusion, inefficiency, and errors, which the SI system reduces.
DD.MM.YYYY at least has the units ranked in ascending order of size.
MM.DD.YYYY is a constant source of amusement (and irritation) to the rest of the world.
Well, I hope you can trust it more than the previous version. The problem being that any kind of an upgrade (of OS level, or even an SP) would cause the machine to forget about the stripe/mirror disks.
We first found out about this on a big server - it lost all the important "mirrored" (hah!) disks but the other disks (containing unimportant stuff) were just fine.
Having no wish to install WinME to try it, what hapens if you put BootGui=0 into your MSDOS.SYS file? (for those who don't know, this means the system boots to a command prompt rather than autostarting Windows). Also, does LOGO=0 in the same file suppress the graphical display?
Personally, I used to love the way old versions of Win9x said "It is now safe to turn your computer off" - and if you typed MODE CO80 blind at that point, you got the C:\> prompt....go ahead, find an old W9x and try it!
I work at a Linux-friendy company and....
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1) Can you survive outside Visual Studio? 2) Which edition of the "C programming Language" did you learn from? (trick question) 3) Which kernel version do you use?
...and if you get offered a job, they point at the tie you're wearing to the interview and say "You won't be needing that!"
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Is this the source of this story? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704
If no-one's using the M2070s, a project like Einstein@home certainly could.
>The annoying bit is that so many of them are AT instead of PS/2 (good luck even finding PS/2 ports on modern hardware, now it is just 4 USB ports in the back).
Electricially it's the same interface; adapters are dirt cheap, or solder a PS/2 plug on.
And decent motherboards still come with PS/2 (and LPT, and serial). Bottom-end cheap h/w drops them to save cents.
Eh, there are many people who run with Flash blocked by default. Not a lot of the 'net breaks - and those sites that do break are generally pretty clueless anyway.
Except there are some sites that really make it hard because the usual 'click to run Flash' icon doesn't come up on them (no, I haven't researched why). For example, bandcamp just tells you to go install Flash (or disable your blocker).
The point is, this story is about as new as "people die in cars".
2xGTX260 are in theory about 1.5TFLOPS so that's welcome fuel on the fire :)
You can also configure common settings using the BOINC preferences and Einstein@home preferences pages. It seems common to use "location" to set up different preferences for different hosts, e.g. I use "home" setting for machines which are only good for GPU work, "work" for CPU-only systems and the "default" setting for both CPU/GPU (plus "school" settings for experimentation).
Also AIUI the latest client will use all your GPUs as long as they have identical capabilities - so it should use both your GTX260's. You do have to twiddle the XML for stuff like mixed GPU usage, but I've never found the drivers stable enough for that to work well (at least on my ragtag fleet of PCs). I'd hazard a guess it would get tricky if you throw "GPU utilization" into the mix (i.e. running multiple work units on the same GPU, which can speed things up - see the benchmarks thread). Anyway, sounds like you're doing more advanced stuff after one night than anything I've attempted to date.
Good call on the meaning of 'tera' :)
As to the rate, it's increasing at 1.3Tflop per sec per hour, so yes, it's an acceleration. Even if it has slowed a bit...now about 0.8Tf/s/h (i.e. the rate of the acceleration is decreasing).
E@h is GPL V2 actually. Thinking of something else?
The XKCD reminds me of a story that back in the 18th century, people wanting to know if the moon was inhabited used their telescopes to look for signal fires.
Autoattendant here is a 486/66 on 2.4 33.2; running 24x7 for the last zillion years. Boots and runs diskless.; highly power-efficient, hard to see any reason to replace it.
Seems to recall the MSF timecode box (a 386sx) does boot to linux, but pretty sure that's still on DOS 5.00.
Indeed, still good here in the UK. You can build a Loran receiver that'll feed the PC soundcard at the cost of a few pennies, and get highly accurate time info from it to boot.
Absolute madness to kill off such a simple, reliable system.
But since GPS is so expensive by comparison, there's plenty of money to pay lobbyists with...
If a Next keyboard is the same as an AT PC keyboard, this is a trivial hack; you can do it with a PC LPT port (it's a single bit TTL signal that just needs a bit of waggling).
Much harder now there are no simple I/O ports on a PC.
Pretty sure Ortek made the Northgate (I've got a couple) though to my taste the MCK142-Pro is even better. ALT-Fx/Ctl/Fx is so much easier with F-keys on left (MCK142 also has F-key duplicate row above the keyboard, plus 24 programmable keys above that). Bought a bunch of them many years ago and they'll probably outlast me.
Though the oldest keyboard here is on a Nascom One; 2Mhz Z80, 768 bytes RAM free, still works (swapped it for a motorbike back in '77 or '78, missed it enough I bought it back later).
>I mean is anybody REALLY taking that brand new i3 or AMD quad with 4Gb of RAM and slapping XP on it?
Yes; XP is just less hassle all round. So it gets installed *preferentially* here (on brand new kit, rather more powerful that i3's too).
The story may be a teaser, but that's how the world works.
Eventually you can't buy a better Coke (no matter how much money you have).
We're getting past the age of people building their own X (where X=PC in this case).
I'm a CEO, and I disagree (especially the bit about being better dead).
Perhaps because we work with stuff that's not point'n'click, where cleverness and experience counts for more than lines of code.
From the story:
>On that computer, they placed a ZIP archive entitled "Georgian-Nato Agreement." He took the bait, which caused the investigators' own spying program to be installed.
Elite, wasn't he? Infected by a ZIP file...hmm.
Cockup or conspiracy? Probably cockup - but quite likely they'll discover they've made more by hanging on to cash for a few extra days than this will cost them in customers.
I switched off NW/RBOS when I (banked with them since 1978) joined their online banking and saw .asp in their URL.
>Google has said little publicly about its capabilities, preferring not to give attackers any insights into the system's inner workings.
YYYY.MM.DD makes sense because it's sort-friendly (see ISO8601 for more details). Irregular and arbitary numbering schemes cause confusion, inefficiency, and errors, which the SI system reduces.
DD.MM.YYYY at least has the units ranked in ascending order of size.
MM.DD.YYYY is a constant source of amusement (and irritation) to the rest of the world.
Well, I hope you can trust it more than the previous version. The problem being that any kind of an upgrade (of OS level, or even an SP) would cause the machine to forget about the stripe/mirror disks. We first found out about this on a big server - it lost all the important "mirrored" (hah!) disks but the other disks (containing unimportant stuff) were just fine.
Having no wish to install WinME to try it, what hapens if you put BootGui=0 into your MSDOS.SYS file? (for those who don't know, this means the system boots to a command prompt rather than autostarting Windows). Also, does LOGO=0 in the same file suppress the graphical display?
Personally, I used to love the way old versions of Win9x said "It is now safe to turn your computer off" - and if you typed MODE CO80 blind at that point, you got the C:\> prompt....go ahead, find an old W9x and try it!
...the sort of questions that come up at interview time are:-
1) Can you survive outside Visual Studio?
2) Which edition of the "C programming Language" did you learn from? (trick question)
3) Which kernel version do you use?
...and if you get offered a job, they point at the tie you're wearing to the interview and say "You won't be needing that!"
It's caused by poor coding...after you get the time structure in 'C', the years is the number of years since 1900...you should print this as:-
printf("The year is %4u",year+1900);
...and not...
printf("The year is 19%2u",year);
....as the latter rolls over to 19100.