It's not so great, if you need SMP you still cant beat two or more physical CPUs.
In this scheme, the pipeline is split into two and two concurrent threads run in it. Which is pretty neat, but hurts performance in some situations.
- Cache latency is basically doubled, as two VCPUs now fight over access to the cache
- Pipeline depth is shortened for either given VCPU, which hurts code that was optimized for the longer pipelines (lots of matrix math, MMX stuff).
It's a cool development in CPU design, but it has a ways to go, and the OS needs to be aware of it. You should be able to 'shut it off' in code on the fly, if you want to dedicate 100% real CPU to a given task.
But not for long, since he's been prohibited from working with computers, eventually his circa-1995 insights will be as useless as a how-to-vulcanize-your-tires manual.
I've never seen anything admirable about him. I've read no impressive technical feats, just a confidence man on the phone tricking you into revealing your networks passwords. If he was gathering SSN's or credit card numbers over the phone, would everyone be as impressed?
His motivations are irrelevant to me as well. If I came home to find my house broken into, I'd be no less pissed because the intruder swore he just did it for 'the thrill' of kicking my door in.
So, time to be modded down for an unpopular opinion. But Mitnick is no hero IMO, nonetheless.
Adult video stores *everywhere* (around here there's a ton just called 'discount video outlets', with a handful of old regular VHS tapes and enormous 'adult' rooms)
The internet
Now 3G wireless phones
How long until MS's new watches have porn being broadcast straight to your wrist?
Can the porn market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough porn already"?
The future of the automobile industry will probably be in modular components that are replaced when they break, rather than repaired - much like other newer incarnations of consumer goods like TV sets and VCRs.
So what happens when every trip to the shop turns into a 400$ bill for a new $MODULE, rather than a 30$ repair to an existing part?
I'm just thinking of what happens to insurance primarily - where the tons of tiny claims keep the big ones in check, or all the trips to the shop that are just paid out of pocket (like the 30$ fixes I mentioned earlier).
I got into the most ridiculous argument over the weekend with a flaky chick who fancies herself a savior of the earth. She got into a rant about how I should feel ashamed that I use oil to heat my house, burning it and creating pollution, while she has an electric furnace.
Eventually I gave up trying to explain how all her electric system does is centralize the source of pollution to the power plant. She seemed oblivious to the fact that millions of tons of coal go up in smoke to make that electricity.
I didn't even bother to bring up the fact that my furnace is much more efficient, and that all the work and money I put into upgrading my homes insulation over the last year means that the furnace fires up for at most an hour or two a day.
She probably would have gone through the roof if I told her I planned on removing the 2 electric water heaters in place now, replacing with one larger oil-fired heater.
Sure, she's a flake. But there are plenty of flakes out there, ready to hop behind the wheel of a brand new hydrogen car, completely oblivious to how much energy it actually takes to drive. All they understand is 'steam comes out instead of smoke so it's saving the planet!'.
They dont, they patented the methods of reading in the penstrokes, not the strokes themselves.
Sounds like a bunch of hoo-haw. To me, it seems they're using Jots engine, but tweaking it to support Graffiti penstrokes. Why else would they call it Graffiti 2 and not Jot?
It would have been one post if they had bothered to get their facts straight in the first place instead of jumping to the usual 'down with corporate america' conclusions.
The great thing about user submitted news is that you can avoid the journalistic nuisance of fact-checking, and just blame the submitter for any false info.
You forgot the step where you solder SMD resistors to the card to unlock the rest of the memory bus, and keep your fingers crossed that the extra logic you just enabled wasn't faulty in the first place (which is why it was placed on the 9500 and not the 9700).
Clocking it higher isn't the whole story, it's not a 9700 Pro until you unlock the other half of the memory bus.
It works, but I've heard as many failure stories as I have successes.
Yeah, but the latest all-in-wonder (I believe you're talking the 9700 Pro incarnation?) costs a pretty penny.
Savage makes nice cheap chipsets, and they frankly perform well enough for most everything you'd want them to do. They'll most definately worm their way onboard, as well, which would bode well for extremely small form factor devices (Flex-ATX stufflike Shuttles spacewalker series).
A tiny little HDTV-ready media/gaming shoebox sounds tasty to me.
Nothing they ever make will win the power/features war, but they do well in the pricing arena.
I don't even bother with any of that. I start with a Slackware basic install, just to get linux on my machine, then upgrade/install what I need from the source tarballs.
I just set up a machine over the weekend, just installed enough from the slackware disc to get a command prompt, then compiled the latest kernel/mods, samba and squid on my 'compiling' linux machine, then copied over the binaries and configurated them.
I generally use linux in fileserver/router/firewall/proxy types of situations, and have never tried to run it on a desktop. Which would be a big hassle if I wanted to keep a myriad of little apps up to date.
I've no doubt the difficulties/inconsistancies of upgrading the various distributions is a big factor keeping the masses on windows.
>> It caused crashes (Grip for whatever reason seamed to lock up the desktop), problems (not working on reiserFS), more crashes (NVidia drivers crash when rendering 3D continuiously)
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But I cant use SDRAM at all. My shiny new P4 rig only has slots/support for DDR. I know some mobos can support both, but even then it's an either/or situation.
I don't want to give up the performance of my DDR or the cost-effective size of SDRAM. I want the best of both worlds.
What's the barrier to a setup like I proposed? It's a tiered memory structure anyways, cache-RAM-HDD.. So why not Cache-Faster RAM-Slower (cheaper) RAM-HDD? Or, cache-Fast RAM-Slow RAM Emulating HDD
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It's not so great, if you need SMP you still cant beat two or more physical CPUs.
In this scheme, the pipeline is split into two and two concurrent threads run in it. Which is pretty neat, but hurts performance in some situations.
- Cache latency is basically doubled, as two VCPUs now fight over access to the cache
- Pipeline depth is shortened for either given VCPU, which hurts code that was optimized for the longer pipelines (lots of matrix math, MMX stuff).
It's a cool development in CPU design, but it has a ways to go, and the OS needs to be aware of it. You should be able to 'shut it off' in code on the fly, if you want to dedicate 100% real CPU to a given task.
Yeah
SMP support has existed since NT 4.
If you use NT 4 MP edition, 2k Pro or XP pro, HT just works if you have the hardware.
Linux had to change to accomodate it, as it bypasses the original system BIOS with it's own code.
So what you meant to say was "once again Linux plays catchup to MicroSoft, but only about a year or so later this time, and not 5-10."
>> Does SMP support automatically allow benefits from Hyperthreading
Yes
HT essentially partitions out the CPUs pipeline into two pipelines executing concurrently: That is, two CPUs on the same die.
"The Intel Xeon processor introduces a new technology called Hyper-Threading (HT) that makes a single processor behave like two logical processors."
I'm glad we can get this sort of up-to-the-decade insight here on slashdot.
Of course the article goes on "Linux is faster on an SMP system".
Blows my mind. HyperThreading in Intel Xeons, what's next? HyperThreading in Pentium 4s?
And now he's going to try and profit from it.
But not for long, since he's been prohibited from working with computers, eventually his circa-1995 insights will be as useless as a how-to-vulcanize-your-tires manual.
I've never seen anything admirable about him. I've read no impressive technical feats, just a confidence man on the phone tricking you into revealing your networks passwords. If he was gathering SSN's or credit card numbers over the phone, would everyone be as impressed?
His motivations are irrelevant to me as well. If I came home to find my house broken into, I'd be no less pissed because the intruder swore he just did it for 'the thrill' of kicking my door in.
So, time to be modded down for an unpopular opinion. But Mitnick is no hero IMO, nonetheless.
I got PPV porn channels available on my TV
Phone sex hotlines
Magazines in every 7-11/gas station/mens rooms.
Adult video stores *everywhere* (around here there's a ton just called 'discount video outlets', with a handful of old regular VHS tapes and enormous 'adult' rooms)
The internet
Now 3G wireless phones
How long until MS's new watches have porn being broadcast straight to your wrist?
Can the porn market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough porn already"?
The future of the automobile industry will probably be in modular components that are replaced when they break, rather than repaired - much like other newer incarnations of consumer goods like TV sets and VCRs.
So what happens when every trip to the shop turns into a 400$ bill for a new $MODULE, rather than a 30$ repair to an existing part?
I'm just thinking of what happens to insurance primarily - where the tons of tiny claims keep the big ones in check, or all the trips to the shop that are just paid out of pocket (like the 30$ fixes I mentioned earlier).
By a fat unshaven hippie who refuses to use deodorant or shampoo because it might be tested on animals?
I should think not.
It's like electric heating/stoves/etc in homes.
I got into the most ridiculous argument over the weekend with a flaky chick who fancies herself a savior of the earth. She got into a rant about how I should feel ashamed that I use oil to heat my house, burning it and creating pollution, while she has an electric furnace.
Eventually I gave up trying to explain how all her electric system does is centralize the source of pollution to the power plant. She seemed oblivious to the fact that millions of tons of coal go up in smoke to make that electricity.
I didn't even bother to bring up the fact that my furnace is much more efficient, and that all the work and money I put into upgrading my homes insulation over the last year means that the furnace fires up for at most an hour or two a day.
She probably would have gone through the roof if I told her I planned on removing the 2 electric water heaters in place now, replacing with one larger oil-fired heater.
Sure, she's a flake. But there are plenty of flakes out there, ready to hop behind the wheel of a brand new hydrogen car, completely oblivious to how much energy it actually takes to drive. All they understand is 'steam comes out instead of smoke so it's saving the planet!'.
Hello, I'm an electric car. I can't go very fast, or very far, and if you drive me everyone will think you're gay!
They dont, they patented the methods of reading in the penstrokes, not the strokes themselves.
Sounds like a bunch of hoo-haw. To me, it seems they're using Jots engine, but tweaking it to support Graffiti penstrokes. Why else would they call it Graffiti 2 and not Jot?
n/t
It would have been one post if they had bothered to get their facts straight in the first place instead of jumping to the usual 'down with corporate america' conclusions.
The great thing about user submitted news is that you can avoid the journalistic nuisance of fact-checking, and just blame the submitter for any false info.
Coming soon to a warez group near you: Linux!
VIA Eden (mini-itx.com)
Shuttle FV-25
That's just two off the top of my head.
Heck, just do a search on pricewatch, there are many many boards with integrated tv-out features.
You forgot the step where you solder SMD resistors to the card to unlock the rest of the memory bus, and keep your fingers crossed that the extra logic you just enabled wasn't faulty in the first place (which is why it was placed on the 9500 and not the 9700).
Clocking it higher isn't the whole story, it's not a 9700 Pro until you unlock the other half of the memory bus.
It works, but I've heard as many failure stories as I have successes.
Yeah, but the latest all-in-wonder (I believe you're talking the 9700 Pro incarnation?) costs a pretty penny.
Savage makes nice cheap chipsets, and they frankly perform well enough for most everything you'd want them to do. They'll most definately worm their way onboard, as well, which would bode well for extremely small form factor devices (Flex-ATX stufflike Shuttles spacewalker series).
A tiny little HDTV-ready media/gaming shoebox sounds tasty to me.
Nothing they ever make will win the power/features war, but they do well in the pricing arena.
I don't even bother with any of that. I start with a Slackware basic install, just to get linux on my machine, then upgrade/install what I need from the source tarballs.
I just set up a machine over the weekend, just installed enough from the slackware disc to get a command prompt, then compiled the latest kernel/mods, samba and squid on my 'compiling' linux machine, then copied over the binaries and configurated them.
I generally use linux in fileserver/router/firewall/proxy types of situations, and have never tried to run it on a desktop. Which would be a big hassle if I wanted to keep a myriad of little apps up to date.
I've no doubt the difficulties/inconsistancies of upgrading the various distributions is a big factor keeping the masses on windows.
They should only link to personal sites if the owner of the site submitted it.
This is why no-link lists exist (/. was bitching about them yesterday).
They do it because they can, but it's ignorant. It's like writing someones phone number on the mens room wall.
Where'd you last use them?
I swear, you'd lose your head if it wasn't attached at the shoulders.
Not even that, it goes to charity in the form of CDs, IIRC..
So the school doesnt get $20,000 (number i made up), they get 1,000 CDs which the industry values at $20 apiece.
I may be wrong. Who cares.
>> It caused crashes (Grip for whatever reason seamed to lock up the desktop), problems (not working on reiserFS), more crashes (NVidia drivers crash when rendering 3D continuiously)
Warning.
You have violated the Slashdot Linux Zealot Act of 2003 by stating that Mandrake linux crashed.
Please repost your comment, replacing Mandrake with Microsoft and Grip with Outlook, or we will be forced to notify the authorities.
Objectivity regarding Open Source software will not be tolerated.
But I cant use SDRAM at all. My shiny new P4 rig only has slots/support for DDR. I know some mobos can support both, but even then it's an either/or situation.
I don't want to give up the performance of my DDR or the cost-effective size of SDRAM. I want the best of both worlds.
What's the barrier to a setup like I proposed? It's a tiered memory structure anyways, cache-RAM-HDD.. So why not Cache-Faster RAM-Slower (cheaper) RAM-HDD? Or, cache-Fast RAM-Slow RAM Emulating HDD
MTBF ratings have gone up, not down, on consumer level drives, though.
Any business that risks crucial data on the basis of a statistic like MTBF deserves what's coming to them.
There is no substitute for a sound backup policy and/or RAID arrays.
Linux. No need for a point or news, there's a manditory percentage of /. stories that have to be about linux somehow.
Just say something like "Linux is amazing" or "Microsoft sucks" if you want to be modded up on this thread.