The benchmark you cite shows better performance for DDR SDRAM on intel's solutions than on the athlon system, which leads me to believe that it is possibly cpu-dependent.
That would be because the FSB on the Athlon system is only 266(133 x2) [333 (166 x 2) on the new Athlons]whereas the FSB on the P4 is 533(133 x 4). The P4 simply has more available bandwidth 4.2 GB/s versus 2.1 Gb/s [2.6 for the newer Athlons]. Read here for how RAM bandwidth is calculated http://www.ocsystem.com/calmemban.html also http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/u pgrade12_02_02.asp .
I agree that much of the documentation for OSS is poorly written. But on the otherhand, an intutive interface would make the need for documentaion less important. IMHO Slackware is flawed because it does not address either the need for good documentaion or the need for a good intuitive interface.
I am kinda getting that impression about many slashdot users. Doing something the difficult way is never a sign of intelligence. Why spend hours configuring X when there are utilities which will do this for you in several seconds? Computers are supposed to be tools to increase productivity. Any software which decreases productivity is flawed by design.
If it wasn't for the arrogance of much of the Linux base, linux would have a much greater penetration into the corporate market as well as the home users desktop. A point and click install interface is not just for the newbies, highly experienced users benefit from the increased usability because they knwo that usuability and ease of use does not mean that power has to be sacrificed.
I personally use Mandrake because it is easy. I lost that desire to screw around and tweak operating systems a long time ago and the thrill of installing linux kinda goes away after several dozen installs.
Mandrake is not going out of business, they are seeking protection from their creditors and will reorganize their business model. Bankruptcy allows a good business to overcome a mistake which would normally destroy the company. Selling enhancements to a free product is a good business model and one which can be highly profitable. The core of Mandrake is solid, it is the other avenues Mandrakesoft took to increase revenues which have faltered.
Looking at Mandrakesoft's investors, Vivendi is a major investor in the company and has deep pockets. Why do you think a relatively obscure French company can get highly visible and valuable shelf space at US stores like CompUSA.
I find the "Mandrake is for newbies" comments on Slashdot worse FUD than anything Microsoft puts out. Mandrake is a Linux distro and can be as easy or as difficult as on wants to make it. Nobody has to use or even install the the usability features of Mandrake and experienced users can do an expert text based install and create EXACTLY the system they want. This is not to mention that ease of use != newbie. Many highly experienced users prefer the simplicity which Mandrake offers knwoing that underneath it is Linux and can be adminstered either through the convenient supplied interface or via the command line ro by directly editing the configuration files.. Once you have gotten past the NEWBIE stage of impressing yourself with Linux, you realize it is just another OS spending hours configuring a machine is a waste fo time since that time could be spent actually doing something productive with the system.
Seriously, if it takes a moderately computer literate person several hours to configure X on the system, then either the software is broken, or the documentation is poorly written.
Because something takes hours to figure out doesn't mean it is difficult. It just means the documentation is poorly written. IMHO Slackware embodies everything that is wrong with Linux and highlights everything which will cause Linux to fail as a desktop OS. Slackware is the AMISH of Linux.
The fact is that 9/11 happened because of the US's unconditional support for Israel. And it isn't because the people of the US decided that we like israel, most Americans could give a rat's ass about Israel. 5 billion dollars buys a lot of weapons for Israel to go about killing Palestinian children. Did you know the IDF is a bunch of baby-killers? Did you know the IDF BULLDOZES the homes of SUSPECTED militant? Yes, Israel is killing civilians, not just civilinas, but fscking refugees. Well as long as you approve of your government providing unconditional support and approval of the Israeli genocide against the palestinians, then you will have to live in fear of someone again attackign the source of Israel's power. I don't approve of my government condoning and supporting baby-killers or the mass slaughter of refugees.
You are being lied to by your own government and you do not have the balls to stand up and stop it. But do not worry, one day your government will decide there is a need for a regime change at your house and they will come and take all your personal rights away. Who is going to protect you fromt he government which you so empowered but were either too lazy or too afraid to control.
spends time on putting down the US and its policies and seems to follow a theme of blame America for anything bad in the world
For the most part, America IS to blame. And since it is all done in the name of Democracy and the American people, YOU are to blame.
Heh, it seems that the problem is that you can't write well. If you could I would not have misunderstood you as badly as I supposedly did. Your original post referred to people taking advantage about the misery of others, the consultants. My point is that the ones taking advantage of the handicapped are NOT the consultants.
It seems that I was extremely specific in what I said. It seems you made inferences with no logic or reasoning behind them.
My point is that I have witnessed a great deal of so called "web accessibility consultants" who were nothing more than secodn rate developers using "accessibility" as an excuse for their lack of abilities.
How about documenting these claims? For my amusement, post some URLs that show you doing this noble work for the betterment of the web.
How about you popping into alt.html and CIWAH and finding out.
And you know what, I have writing web pages for ~5 years, but that is not all. I also administer a Dead Rat server (for Apache/PHP/MySQL), maintain over 30 Winblows workstations and run a Multimedia Lab so excuse me I am not an expert in everything but my webpages are for the most part serviceable (at least they render).
Great I developed and maintain the company website which generates 500,000 monthly uniques and 17 million page views. I am an expert in website development. I also maintain the company's network which includes several *nix based file servers,smtp servers, dns server, vxml system, and 40 local win 98 workstations among other things.
1) I NEVER claimed to be an accessiblity expert, I just pointed out the they are not the "low-lifes" (your words) here.
There is no such thing as an "accesibility expert" it is a self annoited title for certain people who discovered that their Lynx friendly webpages were also friendly towards screen readers. They are the scum of the webdevelopment world. The top developers build accessible websites without the fanfare and bravado and nobody could tell the difference. There are two parts, sensible logical layout and valid html. It is an area which does not require "accessibility consultants." What that area needs is more experienced developers showing the kids that sites can be made accessible with minimal effort. Bottom line is that this is not rocket science, it is simple HTML coding.
2) That link is a pissy little homepage that I knocked out in 5 minutes. I should have run Tidy on the page but for a stupid little PERSONAL home page but why bother when I have so much other work to do?
Why bother!!! Why bother putting it up at all if you do not make it usable by all? Then there is the sense of pride that a task was done properly. Tidy would not catch the error I pointed out, only experience would and rather than taking this as a personal attack, take it as a elarning experience and knowledge that you can pass on to others in order to help make the web a less hostile place for disabled people. There are a lot of things which I strongly disagree with in regards to 508 and the WAI, but there are also some aspects which assist and help any device accessing that website which I strongly urge all people who place websites on public servers to do.
You can't because I didn't. I will admit that I have not thought about accessibility as much as I should and I can start doing so from now on, but don't accuse me of being unfriendly to the blind.
Perhaps you should know who exactly you are speaking to before you start slinging shit at them. You do not know me and if you had something to say about my comment of "accessibility experts being low-lifes," you should have asked for further clarification rather than attacking me.
The page in question is unfriendly towards blind people as well as anyone who uses a non-visual user agent. Whether it was deliberate or not is irrelevant. but, like I said, I do spend alot of time teaching and assiting peopel in "proper web development," and hopefully I have helped you understand the need for appropriate alt text on image objects.
1) Sorry abuout the "idiot" remark. I posted first thing in the morning so I was a little harsher than I could have been.
Sorry I accused you of wearing tutus:-)
2) What is up with the moderation here? Being labeled flamebait for calling someone an idiot is a little "Politically Correct".
Calling someone an idiot is flamebait especially if it gets flames in response.
3) I noticed that you were not hesitant in using some ad hominems (sp?) there. If calling you an "idiot" is flamebait the you calling me "a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch" is too...
That was the flame in response to the flamebait. maybe a moderation of flame would be appropriate, but then there would be alot of posts Score5:Flame. Moderating the flamebait kinda inhibits people from initiating flamefests. In other words, I would not have tossed a flame at you had you not initiated it.
Perhaps you haven't noticed that there is a big difference between people providing full time life saving services and talentless losers who runs a webpage through Bobby and bills a client for "accessibility services."
I have seen hundreds of these "accessibility consultants" and they are nothign more than second rate developers using disabled people as a scapegoat for their own lack of ability.
1. Where the fsck did I say anything about "bells and whistles"
2. Where pricesly did I say anyone was directly assisting the handicapped themselves?
What I really want to know is why a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch like yourself has the balls to call soemone an "idiot" when you obviously cannot even read.
It is put up or shut up time. What have YOU donated to make the web a better place?
Gee, only thousands of hours teaching newbies how to code HTML properly. Now I suppose I will spend a few more moments teaching another newbie.
Your webpage http://de7.hccs.edu/ben/ has several egregious errors on it which are extremely hostile towards disabled people. You have 5 hyperlinked images which have alt="". These occur directly after the words "Good Stuff" are written. A person using a screen reader will have absolutely no clue where those "good stuff" image links go to or what they entail. The proper accessible way is to use short descriptive alt texts on the image tag so that people using non-visual browsers will know what they are.
It is really pathetic that some people make a living off of other peoples' misery and suffering. They are the lowest of the low-life on the internet and most of them only pretend to champion the cause for disabled people because it gives them a justification for their poor development and design skills.
A truly successful developer/designer would DONATE their time to making the www a better place for all.
Hey, look it is the self proclaimed genius. You are not even intelligent enough to worthy of my time discussing, debating or trolling. At first I thought you had some glimmer of intelligence worthy of a good troll, but that quickly turned out to be nothing more than reflection of light off of the debris of insanity locked inside your head.
Maybe I am just lucky to be at an oeganization which truly values what the IT department has to offer. Most often we are given the problem to find a solution for and present several solutions to TPTB. Ultimately it is TPTB who make the final decisions, but the decision is based upon choices which we already know that will fit into our infrastructure. I have seen what happens when a PHB makes a decision simply for the sake of making a decision and it is often never a pretty sight.
A sysadmin is a part of company management and any company who makes decisions and orders their sysadmin to follow those orders is assured of having a pretty fscked network and a huge waste of company resources. A manager is not a person who manages people, a manager manages company resources and in the case of the admin, it is usually the resources IT infrastructure. A good sysadmin can save his/her company huge sums of money. As the article pointed out, the pinheads determine the requirements of the company and the budget, the sysadmin should determine the best implementation. The only reason the pinheads try and order the sysadmin is because they do not understand the technology and by ordering the sysadmin to implement their decision, the pinheads can attempt to demonstrate superiority in an area they are clearly inferior at.
I kinda feel sorry for any company which lets unknowlegdable people make decisions for the experts to implement.
VESA SVGA confomrance doe snot require any special hardware or logic, the card must meet certain display requirements of resolution, color depth and refresh rates. The card has to be VESA SVGA compliant of VGA compliant in order to work with system bioses since the bios does not load any video card drivers. It is these same modes you access under DOS and under Linux if there are no drivers for the card.
If you disable PnP in the bios, it will not allow IRQ sharing which is also a major cause of instability on older motherboards and Win XP.
Soundcard, SB16 emulation on any SB card should be available and if it is not, then chances are the card will not work under Linux if there are no linux drivers since the only other way to get it to work is via SB16 mode..
Legacy support in hardware is an important part of the success of the x86 platform. Advanced features of the hardware may not be available, but the basic functionality will be there.
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I don't see how any card will not be VESA SVGA or VGA compliant and still be usable. VESA only describes a minimum ruleset for SVGA compliance and there is absolutely no need for any card maker to avoid offering VESA compliance modes on their card
It is not an accelerated game. If standard DOS SVGA drivers will not work on your card then your card is not VESA SVGA compliant and will have problems with many other programs and games.
DOS.... who would have thought that something as simple as installing a real copy of DOS and some real mode drivers, or creating a real DOS bootdisk with real mode drivers would make playing an antique game easy on a modern OS.
We bought one of the Walmart's OSless PC's a few months back. I was fairly impressed witht eh sytems for the cost. It was a basic Athlon ZP 1800 with 256mb DDR PC2100, 40 GB HDD and 4x CDWriter. IIRC it was $488. The board in the system was an MSI km266. The MSI KM266 is kinda like a highly integrated KT266 board and gives you most of the overclocking fucntions that the KT266 and KT 333 borads from MSI offer. mandrake 8.1 installed on the system like it was made specially for it.
The ddr which came witht he system was a bit of a surprise, it was unbranded, but took aggressive memory timing (2-2-5-2-4) and cas 2. Pushing the FSB up to 136+ gave me 2GB/s memroy bandwidth in Sandra which made the onboard s3 graphics fairly decent.
The case was not the most attractive thing in the world, but it was damn sturdy and the quality seemed on par with cases from Antec.
Even with Windows, these machines are a great bargain and offer quality parts whcih exceed anything you can expect to get from Dell or Gateway costing a few hundred more.
Is it less prone to media errors like regular IDE devices are. Also, does it lower CPU usage? IIRC the actual drive media is the same for scsi and IDE drives, only the electronics are different.
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That would be because the FSB on the Athlon system is only 266(133 x2) [333 (166 x 2) on the new Athlons]whereas the FSB on the P4 is 533(133 x 4). The P4 simply has more available bandwidth 4.2 GB/s versus 2.1 Gb/s [2.6 for the newer Athlons]. Read here for how RAM bandwidth is calculated http://www.ocsystem.com/calmemban.html also http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/u pgrade12_02_02.asp .
I am kinda getting that impression about many slashdot users. Doing something the difficult way is never a sign of intelligence. Why spend hours configuring X when there are utilities which will do this for you in several seconds? Computers are supposed to be tools to increase productivity. Any software which decreases productivity is flawed by design.
If it wasn't for the arrogance of much of the Linux base, linux would have a much greater penetration into the corporate market as well as the home users desktop. A point and click install interface is not just for the newbies, highly experienced users benefit from the increased usability because they knwo that usuability and ease of use does not mean that power has to be sacrificed.
I personally use Mandrake because it is easy. I lost that desire to screw around and tweak operating systems a long time ago and the thrill of installing linux kinda goes away after several dozen installs.
Mandrake is not going out of business, they are seeking protection from their creditors and will reorganize their business model. Bankruptcy allows a good business to overcome a mistake which would normally destroy the company. Selling enhancements to a free product is a good business model and one which can be highly profitable. The core of Mandrake is solid, it is the other avenues Mandrakesoft took to increase revenues which have faltered.
Looking at Mandrakesoft's investors, Vivendi is a major investor in the company and has deep pockets. Why do you think a relatively obscure French company can get highly visible and valuable shelf space at US stores like CompUSA.
I find the "Mandrake is for newbies" comments on Slashdot worse FUD than anything Microsoft puts out. Mandrake is a Linux distro and can be as easy or as difficult as on wants to make it. Nobody has to use or even install the the usability features of Mandrake and experienced users can do an expert text based install and create EXACTLY the system they want. This is not to mention that ease of use != newbie. Many highly experienced users prefer the simplicity which Mandrake offers knwoing that underneath it is Linux and can be adminstered either through the convenient supplied interface or via the command line ro by directly editing the configuration files.. Once you have gotten past the NEWBIE stage of impressing yourself with Linux, you realize it is just another OS spending hours configuring a machine is a waste fo time since that time could be spent actually doing something productive with the system.
Seriously, if it takes a moderately computer literate person several hours to configure X on the system, then either the software is broken, or the documentation is poorly written.
Because something takes hours to figure out doesn't mean it is difficult. It just means the documentation is poorly written. IMHO Slackware embodies everything that is wrong with Linux and highlights everything which will cause Linux to fail as a desktop OS. Slackware is the AMISH of Linux.
The Osborne was the first followed by the Kaypro II.
You are being lied to by your own government and you do not have the balls to stand up and stop it. But do not worry, one day your government will decide there is a need for a regime change at your house and they will come and take all your personal rights away. Who is going to protect you fromt he government which you so empowered but were either too lazy or too afraid to control.
spends time on putting down the US and its policies and seems to follow a theme of blame America for anything bad in the world
For the most part, America IS to blame. And since it is all done in the name of Democracy and the American people, YOU are to blame.
It seems that I was extremely specific in what I said. It seems you made inferences with no logic or reasoning behind them.
My point is that I have witnessed a great deal of so called "web accessibility consultants" who were nothing more than secodn rate developers using "accessibility" as an excuse for their lack of abilities.
How about documenting these claims? For my amusement, post some URLs that show you doing this noble work for the betterment of the web.
How about you popping into alt.html and CIWAH and finding out.
And you know what, I have writing web pages for ~5 years, but that is not all. I also administer a Dead Rat server (for Apache/PHP/MySQL), maintain over 30 Winblows workstations and run a Multimedia Lab so excuse me I am not an expert in everything but my webpages are for the most part serviceable (at least they render).
Great I developed and maintain the company website which generates 500,000 monthly uniques and 17 million page views. I am an expert in website development. I also maintain the company's network which includes several *nix based file servers,smtp servers, dns server, vxml system, and 40 local win 98 workstations among other things.
1) I NEVER claimed to be an accessiblity expert, I just pointed out the they are not the "low-lifes" (your words) here.
There is no such thing as an "accesibility expert" it is a self annoited title for certain people who discovered that their Lynx friendly webpages were also friendly towards screen readers. They are the scum of the webdevelopment world. The top developers build accessible websites without the fanfare and bravado and nobody could tell the difference. There are two parts, sensible logical layout and valid html. It is an area which does not require "accessibility consultants." What that area needs is more experienced developers showing the kids that sites can be made accessible with minimal effort. Bottom line is that this is not rocket science, it is simple HTML coding.
2) That link is a pissy little homepage that I knocked out in 5 minutes. I should have run Tidy on the page but for a stupid little PERSONAL home page but why bother when I have so much other work to do?
Why bother!!! Why bother putting it up at all if you do not make it usable by all? Then there is the sense of pride that a task was done properly. Tidy would not catch the error I pointed out, only experience would and rather than taking this as a personal attack, take it as a elarning experience and knowledge that you can pass on to others in order to help make the web a less hostile place for disabled people. There are a lot of things which I strongly disagree with in regards to 508 and the WAI, but there are also some aspects which assist and help any device accessing that website which I strongly urge all people who place websites on public servers to do.
You can't because I didn't. I will admit that I have not thought about accessibility as much as I should and I can start doing so from now on, but don't accuse me of being unfriendly to the blind.
Perhaps you should know who exactly you are speaking to before you start slinging shit at them. You do not know me and if you had something to say about my comment of "accessibility experts being low-lifes," you should have asked for further clarification rather than attacking me.
The page in question is unfriendly towards blind people as well as anyone who uses a non-visual user agent. Whether it was deliberate or not is irrelevant. but, like I said, I do spend alot of time teaching and assiting peopel in "proper web development," and hopefully I have helped you understand the need for appropriate alt text on image objects.
1) Sorry abuout the "idiot" remark. I posted first thing in the morning so I was a little harsher than I could have been.
Sorry I accused you of wearing tutus :-)
2) What is up with the moderation here? Being labeled flamebait for calling someone an idiot is a little "Politically Correct".
Calling someone an idiot is flamebait especially if it gets flames in response.
3) I noticed that you were not hesitant in using some ad hominems (sp?) there. If calling you an "idiot" is flamebait the you calling me "a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch" is too...
That was the flame in response to the flamebait. maybe a moderation of flame would be appropriate, but then there would be alot of posts Score5:Flame. Moderating the flamebait kinda inhibits people from initiating flamefests. In other words, I would not have tossed a flame at you had you not initiated it.
I have seen hundreds of these "accessibility consultants" and they are nothign more than second rate developers using disabled people as a scapegoat for their own lack of ability.
1. Where the fsck did I say anything about "bells and whistles"
2. Where pricesly did I say anyone was directly assisting the handicapped themselves?
What I really want to know is why a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch like yourself has the balls to call soemone an "idiot" when you obviously cannot even read.
It is put up or shut up time. What have YOU donated to make the web a better place?
Gee, only thousands of hours teaching newbies how to code HTML properly. Now I suppose I will spend a few more moments teaching another newbie.
Your webpage http://de7.hccs.edu/ben/ has several egregious errors on it which are extremely hostile towards disabled people. You have 5 hyperlinked images which have alt="". These occur directly after the words "Good Stuff" are written. A person using a screen reader will have absolutely no clue where those "good stuff" image links go to or what they entail. The proper accessible way is to use short descriptive alt texts on the image tag so that people using non-visual browsers will know what they are.
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You have
Should be
Oh, you said SUCCESSFUL developer/designer. Never mind...
Coming from someone who cannot even write accessible webpages, what a joke.
"Open Standards" and licensing fees do not go together too well. Obviously it it neither open nor standard if there are licensing fees involved.
A truly successful developer/designer would DONATE their time to making the www a better place for all.
Read your journal
Hey, look it is the self proclaimed genius. You are not even intelligent enough to worthy of my time discussing, debating or trolling. At first I thought you had some glimmer of intelligence worthy of a good troll, but that quickly turned out to be nothing more than reflection of light off of the debris of insanity locked inside your head.
Maybe I am just lucky to be at an oeganization which truly values what the IT department has to offer. Most often we are given the problem to find a solution for and present several solutions to TPTB. Ultimately it is TPTB who make the final decisions, but the decision is based upon choices which we already know that will fit into our infrastructure. I have seen what happens when a PHB makes a decision simply for the sake of making a decision and it is often never a pretty sight.
I kinda feel sorry for any company which lets unknowlegdable people make decisions for the experts to implement.
It's especially rewarding when the little user you are pushing around is a programmer.
Which you will probably see more of as more and more companies get sick and tired of spam from email harvesters.
VESA SVGA confomrance doe snot require any special hardware or logic, the card must meet certain display requirements of resolution, color depth and refresh rates. The card has to be VESA SVGA compliant of VGA compliant in order to work with system bioses since the bios does not load any video card drivers. It is these same modes you access under DOS and under Linux if there are no drivers for the card.
If you disable PnP in the bios, it will not allow IRQ sharing which is also a major cause of instability on older motherboards and Win XP.
Soundcard, SB16 emulation on any SB card should be available and if it is not, then chances are the card will not work under Linux if there are no linux drivers since the only other way to get it to work is via SB16 mode..
Legacy support in hardware is an important part of the success of the x86 platform. Advanced features of the hardware may not be available, but the basic functionality will be there.
I don't see how any card will not be VESA SVGA or VGA compliant and still be usable. VESA only describes a minimum ruleset for SVGA compliance and there is absolutely no need for any card maker to avoid offering VESA compliance modes on their card
It is not an accelerated game. If standard DOS SVGA drivers will not work on your card then your card is not VESA SVGA compliant and will have problems with many other programs and games.
DOS.... who would have thought that something as simple as installing a real copy of DOS and some real mode drivers, or creating a real DOS bootdisk with real mode drivers would make playing an antique game easy on a modern OS.
The ddr which came witht he system was a bit of a surprise, it was unbranded, but took aggressive memory timing (2-2-5-2-4) and cas 2. Pushing the FSB up to 136+ gave me 2GB/s memroy bandwidth in Sandra which made the onboard s3 graphics fairly decent.
The case was not the most attractive thing in the world, but it was damn sturdy and the quality seemed on par with cases from Antec.
Even with Windows, these machines are a great bargain and offer quality parts whcih exceed anything you can expect to get from Dell or Gateway costing a few hundred more.
Is it less prone to media errors like regular IDE devices are. Also, does it lower CPU usage? IIRC the actual drive media is the same for scsi and IDE drives, only the electronics are different.
Has anyone used these Addtronics IDE -> SCSI ?