Thats a good point. I guess the only way a firewall could help is if you setup another server (web or other) on another port and then only allowed selective access to that directory. Of course, a better approach (ando more secure) would be to only allow secret data to be accessible via the intranet or VPN. However, this isn't very likely since most small shops are hosted remotely and have multiple (100s) of web stores per server. Great point though firewalls would not help in this case.
What I can't believe is there were no memory benchmarks. How can you compare the nForce without doing memory benchmarks? The coolest thing about the chipset is the dual DDR channels.
Also, I would have liked to have seen was a GeForce 2 MX on a KT266A compared. I think anything that was using lots of memory bandwidth would have shown different numbers. Did you guys notice there was no 32-bit color depth for quake3? Oh well, little things aside it was still a good review though.
"Webmasters should know how to protect their files before they even start writing a Web site"
That quote sums up the exact problem. It's not googles fault for finding out what an idiot the web merchant was. As a matter of fact I thank google for exposing this problem. This is nothing short of gross negligence on the part of any web merchant to have any credit card numbers publicly accessible in any way. There is no reason this kind of information should not be under strong security.
To have a search engine discover this kind of information is dispicable, unprofessional, and just plain idiotic. As others have mentioned these guys need to get a firewall, use some security, and quit being such incredible fools with such valuable information. Any merchant who exposes credit card information through the stupidity of word documents, or excel spreadsheets on their public web server, or any non-secure server of any kind deserves to get sued into oblivion. Although, people usually don't like lawyers I'm really glad we have them in the US because they help stop this kind of stuff. Too many lazy people don't think its in their best interest to protect the identity, or financial security of others. I'm glad lawyers are here to show them the light:)
Hmm.. didn't know that. In comparison, the SH4 (SH7750) has 16 32-bit General Purpose Registers (GPR). Got the info from the hardware manual for the SH7750 off of Hitachi's site (pg 42). General purpose registers allow programmers to put info into a quick safe place that is near by. The GPRs aren't always necessary, but sometimes are useful for storing results of operations like add, mul, div, comparisons, etc.. More registers are useful because if you are out of general purpose registers then the programmers (or more likely compiler toolsets) other alternative is to use the stack which is stored in on chip memory if it can fit (~5ns), or off chip memory (at least 30-50ns penalty with external bus), or worst of all virtual memory (10,000ns not sure, but dont think ever. don't write compilers so not sure). However, that being said there are always tradeoffs and GPRs are not the only way to say one proc is better than another. Yes, more than four is better, but 16 isn't necessarily the end all solution. There are definitely many other architecture points to evaluate as well. These numbers are rough estimates so corrrect at will.
Well lets look at the system requirements, which as we all know are very conservative
Windows
* Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster)
* 64 MB RAM
* 26 MB of free hard disk space
Linux
* Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster)
* 64 MB of RAM
* 26 MB of free hard disk space
Since you probably can't upgrade your processor on your board maybe you should try and bump your RAM to 128MB or so? That would definitely help out. Otherwise I recommend you give Opera a shot. It's right up your alley and it works on Linux and Windows:)
Hey, cool. I used to work for the guys at GKG a few years back as a web developer when I lived in College Station, TX. Paul and Taylor are really nice guys. Glad to see things are worked out well for ya.
Hey good idea. I don't have a problem with any of the domain guys right now, but thanks for setting up the site. If I ever do (or anyone else I know does) I'll be sure and come your way.
Finally, a notebook that will capitalize on the farts from my tacos. No more dead batteries, no more charging at inopportune times. A seemingly endless supply of noxious power. My co-workers will be pleased.
Well if the compilers are indeed different that is still ok. C can read fortran objects as well. With a few changes in the way you write code you can link in objects from other compilers as long as you follow a few rules... so here are some refs..
Thanks so much. And just for the record I'm getting really sick of never having mod points. I do meta moderation, I post stories, I participate, but my freaking mod points are never there or are a fly by night phenomena. That being said I woulda modded you up if I coulda.. hehe
Well to begin with you may not want in this field at all. In that case go to grad school or get a job you like right off the bat. Your first job will have a direct influence on where you go once out of school. Also, with your CS skills you may consider getting an MBA and go the management route. It's always nice to have a technically proficient PHB:)
However, if you do want to stay in the field there are many other avenues which I'm sure you haven't explored. For example, a few years back I used to really love website design. I loved designing the dBs, the HTML, the scripts, and integrating it all together. Then I got tired of it. Now I like doing embedded programming on bare metal. To me it's fun to poke around with the bits and bytes and talking to the chip directly.
I guess the point of my story is that there are many, many different avenues you can take with a CS degree. You may have an unexplored passion for programming in an area you haven't thought of. Perhaps you like numerical analysis, compiler design, unix programming, scripting, embeddded programming, etc... There are so many different areas of programming. Maybe you like cars. You could do programming for the on board computer. Of course, you would need a background in thermo, etc.. but hey its definitely an applied programming art. The most important thing is to think outside the box, or in this case PC:)
Fsck you AC. I was just trying to post a useful link that might be useful in other situations as well. I knew what he meant. I was just supplying info on where the source of the correct info was. Who knows it might come in useful when your troll ass is bitching about how hard drive manufacturers are screwing us on GB hard drives when really your feable mind doesn't realize it is thinking in GiB. Now go back to writing your scripts little kiddie.
It's interesting that you brought this up, but really there is no ambiguity in the terminology only in how its used. Here is a good site for helping you out with all those binary multiples.
I think this is highly subjective, but I got my current job with a follow up call. Not a nagging once a week call, but one follow up call. I did very well in two interviews (I think) and the boss was quite excited at the conclusion of my second interview. However, after two - three weeks still no follow up call. Jealous that my roomies has gotten follow up calls I decided to make one of my own. Sure enough, they were happy to hear from me, apologized for not contacting me and I got the job:)
I think the follow up call after a few weeks is essential and shows that you really are interested in the job. In addition, I believe it shows that you are not just blanketing the earth with resumes.
Are those LEDs the ultra bright lights? I saw some very bright stop lights in Dallas, TX and I was wondering what the hell was up with them. The lights were also much greener and much more intense than the usual variety. Maybe they were the LEDs you were talking about
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You are letting your obvious bias get in the way of what is going on. AMD should have some sort of internal thermal protection system to stop this. The P3s do, the P4s have the best implementation. Price is not a factor here either. There are many, many very rudimentary amplifier chips and power regulators have thermal protection built in and they cost less than a dollar. I'm not expecting a throttling design like the P4, but at least a freeze like the P3 would be nice.
This isn't directed at you but I think its funny how a few months back everyone was bitching cuz the P4 would throttle back when hot.. hehe.. my how the times have changed. Guess, thats the difference between understanding and knee jerk reactions.
Where is the moderation fairy? Why does she only give me dust when there are lame stories to moderate. Please sprinkle thy dust into my hands so that I may bless this post.
Ahh.. or your Compaq mobo just went south on your pre-built computer and you are completely screwed because its proprietary. You can either suck it up and buy another computer or get anal raped at the service store where they want to sell you a P-200 mobo for $500 with labor cuz its proprietary. Then you can sit back for two weeks while your computer gets fixed and you have to constantly harass techs to get it done. For power supply rinse and repeat and expect to pay 1.5x - 2x for another proprietary part which only fits in Compaq's (or any other manuf) case.
However, on your homebrew you go down to Fry's and updgrade for $200. Or go on the Internet and drop that price to $150. The part is always there and always better than the one you had for less.. I'm smiling cuz ignorance isn't bliss:)
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P.S. Only recommended to those who know computers well. I'm buying my parents a Dell.
The Handera has a bunch of cutting edge features for the Palm platform and the display resolution is awesome. However, I *cannot* believe that they don't have a USB sync port.
I just bought a Belkin 4-Port KVM switch a while back for $100. There is a huge, huge difference in prices between stores. My local Fry's and Micro Age carried the same one for around $270. After cruising Pricewatch I bought mine at Harmony Computers. Gotta love the Internet.
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Too f*cking bad. Stop advertising it as unlimited and let us do what we will with our lines.
Amen brotha! You advertise xMB or xKB of bandwidth then hand it over. (I wish I could mod you up but I can't so I'm resorting to this)
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Thats a good point. I guess the only way a firewall could help is if you setup another server (web or other) on another port and then only allowed selective access to that directory. Of course, a better approach (ando more secure) would be to only allow secret data to be accessible via the intranet or VPN. However, this isn't very likely since most small shops are hosted remotely and have multiple (100s) of web stores per server. Great point though firewalls would not help in this case.
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What I can't believe is there were no memory benchmarks. How can you compare the nForce without doing memory benchmarks? The coolest thing about the chipset is the dual DDR channels.
Also, I would have liked to have seen was a GeForce 2 MX on a KT266A compared. I think anything that was using lots of memory bandwidth would have shown different numbers. Did you guys notice there was no 32-bit color depth for quake3? Oh well, little things aside it was still a good review though.
JOhn
"Webmasters should know how to protect their files before they even start writing a Web site"
:)
That quote sums up the exact problem. It's not googles fault for finding out what an idiot the web merchant was. As a matter of fact I thank google for exposing this problem. This is nothing short of gross negligence on the part of any web merchant to have any credit card numbers publicly accessible in any way. There is no reason this kind of information should not be under strong security.
To have a search engine discover this kind of information is dispicable, unprofessional, and just plain idiotic. As others have mentioned these guys need to get a firewall, use some security, and quit being such incredible fools with such valuable information. Any merchant who exposes credit card information through the stupidity of word documents, or excel spreadsheets on their public web server, or any non-secure server of any kind deserves to get sued into oblivion. Although, people usually don't like lawyers I'm really glad we have them in the US because they help stop this kind of stuff. Too many lazy people don't think its in their best interest to protect the identity, or financial security of others. I'm glad lawyers are here to show them the light
JOhn
Hmm.. didn't know that. In comparison, the SH4 (SH7750) has 16 32-bit General Purpose Registers (GPR). Got the info from the hardware manual for the SH7750 off of Hitachi's site (pg 42). General purpose registers allow programmers to put info into a quick safe place that is near by. The GPRs aren't always necessary, but sometimes are useful for storing results of operations like add, mul, div, comparisons, etc.. More registers are useful because if you are out of general purpose registers then the programmers (or more likely compiler toolsets) other alternative is to use the stack which is stored in on chip memory if it can fit (~5ns), or off chip memory (at least 30-50ns penalty with external bus), or worst of all virtual memory (10,000ns not sure, but dont think ever. don't write compilers so not sure). However, that being said there are always tradeoffs and GPRs are not the only way to say one proc is better than another. Yes, more than four is better, but 16 isn't necessarily the end all solution. There are definitely many other architecture points to evaluate as well. These numbers are rough estimates so corrrect at will.
JOhn
Well lets look at the system requirements, which as we all know are very conservative
:)
Windows
* Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster)
* 64 MB RAM
* 26 MB of free hard disk space
Linux
* Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster)
* 64 MB of RAM
* 26 MB of free hard disk space
Since you probably can't upgrade your processor on your board maybe you should try and bump your RAM to 128MB or so? That would definitely help out. Otherwise I recommend you give Opera a shot. It's right up your alley and it works on Linux and Windows
JOhn
Hey, cool. I used to work for the guys at GKG a few years back as a web developer when I lived in College Station, TX. Paul and Taylor are really nice guys. Glad to see things are worked out well for ya.
JOhn
Hey good idea. I don't have a problem with any of the domain guys right now, but thanks for setting up the site. If I ever do (or anyone else I know does) I'll be sure and come your way.
JOhn
Good point and well said. My bad.
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Finally, a notebook that will capitalize on the farts from my tacos. No more dead batteries, no more charging at inopportune times. A seemingly endless supply of noxious power. My co-workers will be pleased.
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Enjoy
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Thanks so much. And just for the record I'm getting really sick of never having mod points. I do meta moderation, I post stories, I participate, but my freaking mod points are never there or are a fly by night phenomena. That being said I woulda modded you up if I coulda.. hehe
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Well to begin with you may not want in this field at all. In that case go to grad school or get a job you like right off the bat. Your first job will have a direct influence on where you go once out of school. Also, with your CS skills you may consider getting an MBA and go the management route. It's always nice to have a technically proficient PHB :)
:)
However, if you do want to stay in the field there are many other avenues which I'm sure you haven't explored. For example, a few years back I used to really love website design. I loved designing the dBs, the HTML, the scripts, and integrating it all together. Then I got tired of it. Now I like doing embedded programming on bare metal. To me it's fun to poke around with the bits and bytes and talking to the chip directly.
I guess the point of my story is that there are many, many different avenues you can take with a CS degree. You may have an unexplored passion for programming in an area you haven't thought of. Perhaps you like numerical analysis, compiler design, unix programming, scripting, embeddded programming, etc... There are so many different areas of programming. Maybe you like cars. You could do programming for the on board computer. Of course, you would need a background in thermo, etc.. but hey its definitely an applied programming art. The most important thing is to think outside the box, or in this case PC
JOhn
Fsck you AC. I was just trying to post a useful link that might be useful in other situations as well. I knew what he meant. I was just supplying info on where the source of the correct info was. Who knows it might come in useful when your troll ass is bitching about how hard drive manufacturers are screwing us on GB hard drives when really your feable mind doesn't realize it is thinking in GiB. Now go back to writing your scripts little kiddie.
JOhn
It's interesting that you brought this up, but really there is no ambiguity in the terminology only in how its used. Here is a good site for helping you out with all those binary multiples.
JOhn
I think this is highly subjective, but I got my current job with a follow up call. Not a nagging once a week call, but one follow up call. I did very well in two interviews (I think) and the boss was quite excited at the conclusion of my second interview. However, after two - three weeks still no follow up call. Jealous that my roomies has gotten follow up calls I decided to make one of my own. Sure enough, they were happy to hear from me, apologized for not contacting me and I got the job :)
I think the follow up call after a few weeks is essential and shows that you really are interested in the job. In addition, I believe it shows that you are not just blanketing the earth with resumes.
JOhn
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Are those LEDs the ultra bright lights? I saw some very bright stop lights in Dallas, TX and I was wondering what the hell was up with them. The lights were also much greener and much more intense than the usual variety. Maybe they were the LEDs you were talking about
JOhn
You are letting your obvious bias get in the way of what is going on. AMD should have some sort of internal thermal protection system to stop this. The P3s do, the P4s have the best implementation. Price is not a factor here either. There are many, many very rudimentary amplifier chips and power regulators have thermal protection built in and they cost less than a dollar. I'm not expecting a throttling design like the P4, but at least a freeze like the P3 would be nice.
This isn't directed at you but I think its funny how a few months back everyone was bitching cuz the P4 would throttle back when hot.. hehe.. my how the times have changed. Guess, thats the difference between understanding and knee jerk reactions.
JOhn
Where is the moderation fairy? Why does she only give me dust when there are lame stories to moderate. Please sprinkle thy dust into my hands so that I may bless this post.
JOhn
Yeah, I hear ya... I thought RiserFS was just some gimmicky marketing tactic too cuz PalmOS was out with dB file system some time last century.
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Ahh.. or your Compaq mobo just went south on your pre-built computer and you are completely screwed because its proprietary. You can either suck it up and buy another computer or get anal raped at the service store where they want to sell you a P-200 mobo for $500 with labor cuz its proprietary. Then you can sit back for two weeks while your computer gets fixed and you have to constantly harass techs to get it done. For power supply rinse and repeat and expect to pay 1.5x - 2x for another proprietary part which only fits in Compaq's (or any other manuf) case.
:)
However, on your homebrew you go down to Fry's and updgrade for $200. Or go on the Internet and drop that price to $150. The part is always there and always better than the one you had for less.. I'm smiling cuz ignorance isn't bliss
JOhn
P.S. Only recommended to those who know computers well. I'm buying my parents a Dell.
So where do you live?
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The Handera has a bunch of cutting edge features for the Palm platform and the display resolution is awesome. However, I *cannot* believe that they don't have a USB sync port.
BTW, here is a good review on PDABuzz.
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I just bought a Belkin 4-Port KVM switch a while back for $100. There is a huge, huge difference in prices between stores. My local Fry's and Micro Age carried the same one for around $270. After cruising Pricewatch I bought mine at Harmony Computers. Gotta love the Internet.
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Anyone know if this will be discontinued too? I believe they acquired it when they acquired Xircom.
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