It doesn't happen as often, but back in the day id coded games cross-platform, and certainly beyond casual games.
Sort of. But really they're just chucking polygons to a graphics card, that's not too big of a deal. It took a while to get Doom and Quake on the Mac. Linux Doom came out pretty quickly but if I rememeber you couldn't even use the mouse, and when you could it sucked.
You should see what Rackspace wants to increase your monthly fees by, if you increase your server RAM from 24GB to 48GB. I figured even if they want to charge us 'Dell Prices' for the upgrade, hell even 'Apple prices' , I'd be fine with that. But they want to increase your fee EVERY MONTH because you have a more powerful server.
Our data has grown 50% in the last 24 months, and buying 48GB would have been incredibly expensive at the time. But I wasn't here so I didn't get to spec out the machine and just ship it to them.
We simply block traffic from China, Russia, South America, and a couple other countries based on IP. Cuts down on spam, scans/bots, and we don't have any customers from there anyway.
Dell has offered that resolution on laptops since the Pentium III days. Now the world has gone crazy with 1366x768 or whatever that horrible, glossy, wide-screen resolution is.
Being able to upload a file via FTP might be all you need to run an exploit and get root access. Or download the password file. Maybe get the password by sniffing an FTP session that is also used in another part of the system.
Very underpowered for Quake. The 100MHz+ 486's kind of worked, but you really needed at least a Pentium 75MHz or better.
486/66 was fine for Doom, though... Then again he said it was an upgraded 486/33 so it probably wasn't at it's full potential and probably had a shit video card.
I configured a PC this morning, Dell wants $820 for the 8GB RAM option. This isn't a server with ECC memory, just a desktop. Crucial charges $219 for the 8GB kit. A 1TB hard drive is $219! I can buy 3 of them for that price.
And like it was already said, you can't get over 3GB or 4GB without buying the high-end machine with all the other expensive options you don't want.
But, it's hard to beat Dell when you want to order 25 computers and need them here by Thursday. And for $499 you get a decent speced machine with a 3-year warranty.
The left/right movement inside the Flash game isn't very good. There's too long of a delay. It sounds minor, but it throws the game off a lot. Just like some of the home-made Mario Brothers clones, if the gameplay feel when running and jumping isn't PERFECT, it's very bad. 'Close' doesn't even feel right.
Good! The Internet was founded on free and open access.
For the first year or two I was using a (very limited) free dial-up shell. Otherwise I would have never been able to get online. I live my access point open, I've had hundreds of users over the last few months.
Get out of here. Find a Mac Mini, iMac, or Power Mac from a manufacturer like Dell, Lenovo, Sony, HP. Match it spec for spec and have just as clean of a design.
Go ahead, I'll wait. You can't even get a dual quad from Dell for the same price as Apple.
PDF's are fun. Some are too complex to print on many printers. Or you get strange bugs with certain printer drivers such as characters and spacing being completely wrong.
It's mentioned that the PS3 is replacing '6 Dell servers'
What are the specs on these servers? Are older Pentium 4 servers being replaced, or are they newer machines?
Then again, if a new Dell server (dual quadcore for example) could do the job all on it's own, thats' $3,000 compared to $600 for the PS3. Impressive showing, and a good use of the specialized hardware that the Cell brings to the table.
For the cell, they took the # of PS3's and multiplied it by 8 to get # of active CPU's. Shouldn't they have multiplied by 6, since one isn't active and one is reserved?
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It doesn't happen as often, but back in the day id coded games cross-platform, and certainly beyond casual games.
Sort of. But really they're just chucking polygons to a graphics card, that's not too big of a deal. It took a while to get Doom and Quake on the Mac. Linux Doom came out pretty quickly but if I rememeber you couldn't even use the mouse, and when you could it sucked.
Dell is very cheap (except for disk drive upgrades), very fast, and their on-site, same-day service is excellent.
You should see what Rackspace wants to increase your monthly fees by, if you increase your server RAM from 24GB to 48GB. I figured even if they want to charge us 'Dell Prices' for the upgrade, hell even 'Apple prices' , I'd be fine with that. But they want to increase your fee EVERY MONTH because you have a more powerful server.
Our data has grown 50% in the last 24 months, and buying 48GB would have been incredibly expensive at the time. But I wasn't here so I didn't get to spec out the machine and just ship it to them.
We simply block traffic from China, Russia, South America, and a couple other countries based on IP. Cuts down on spam, scans/bots, and we don't have any customers from there anyway.
An un-loaded gun is pretty useless.
Half the time, ex-military also means ex-Kentucky trailer dweller.
Dell has offered that resolution on laptops since the Pentium III days. Now the world has gone crazy with 1366x768 or whatever that horrible, glossy, wide-screen resolution is.
Being able to upload a file via FTP might be all you need to run an exploit and get root access. Or download the password file. Maybe get the password by sniffing an FTP session that is also used in another part of the system.
Duke also had more colors than green and brown.
Very underpowered for Quake. The 100MHz+ 486's kind of worked, but you really needed at least a Pentium 75MHz or better.
486/66 was fine for Doom, though... Then again he said it was an upgraded 486/33 so it probably wasn't at it's full potential and probably had a shit video card.
They don't have the manpower and budget to setup, much less maintain all those machines.
I configured a PC this morning, Dell wants $820 for the 8GB RAM option. This isn't a server with ECC memory, just a desktop. Crucial charges $219 for the 8GB kit. A 1TB hard drive is $219! I can buy 3 of them for that price.
And like it was already said, you can't get over 3GB or 4GB without buying the high-end machine with all the other expensive options you don't want.
But, it's hard to beat Dell when you want to order 25 computers and need them here by Thursday. And for $499 you get a decent speced machine with a 3-year warranty.
The left/right movement inside the Flash game isn't very good. There's too long of a delay. It sounds minor, but it throws the game off a lot. Just like some of the home-made Mario Brothers clones, if the gameplay feel when running and jumping isn't PERFECT, it's very bad. 'Close' doesn't even feel right.
Other than that, it's very impressive.
Good! The Internet was founded on free and open access.
For the first year or two I was using a (very limited) free dial-up shell. Otherwise I would have never been able to get online. I live my access point open, I've had hundreds of users over the last few months.
Get out of here. Find a Mac Mini, iMac, or Power Mac from a manufacturer like Dell, Lenovo, Sony, HP. Match it spec for spec and have just as clean of a design.
Go ahead, I'll wait. You can't even get a dual quad from Dell for the same price as Apple.
Microsoft is dominating Sony in the console market, overheating 360's or not.
PDF's are fun. Some are too complex to print on many printers. Or you get strange bugs with certain printer drivers such as characters and spacing being completely wrong.
The 3DNow! miniGL drivers for graphics cards would give the K6 chips a 25-30% boost in FPS, putting them right with the Pentium II at the time
It's mentioned that the PS3 is replacing '6 Dell servers'
What are the specs on these servers? Are older Pentium 4 servers being replaced, or are they newer machines?
Then again, if a new Dell server (dual quadcore for example) could do the job all on it's own, thats' $3,000 compared to $600 for the PS3. Impressive showing, and a good use of the specialized hardware that the Cell brings to the table.
For the cell, they took the # of PS3's and multiplied it by 8 to get # of active CPU's. Shouldn't they have multiplied by 6, since one isn't active and one is reserved?
Wait until you hear about the benefits of cocaine and opium!
Time passes, and nowadays a cellphone has more power than that machine. That's progress.
Yea, but have you used a cell phone lately? The UI's are so slow you'd think they had the power of a original IBM PC.
Don't most American Express cards have no pre-set spending limit?
And take about 4GB of RAM.
the T1 provider can oversell their upstream bandwidth - and often do.
If you buy from Bob's telco reselling inc, yes. But not from say AT&T