However, Sony has at least pledged that the chip will be easy to control with C code, rather than requiring the hand-coding of large blocks of low-level assembler - one of the major difficulties of PlayStation 2 development, which tripped many projects up in the early days of the platform before coders began to specialise in that field.
Apparently, linuxense is saying, "Hey we don't have enough resources to test our OS's security. Let's stroke the egos of the hacker community and maybe we can trick them into working for us, for free. Free labor, woohoo!"
I disagree. How is this different than releasing a beta test to the Internet?
As far as not having enough resources...having someone OTHER than the people who developed the system test it only makes sense.
Lets test a program that I'm developing right now - just a single developer project, ~7000 lines of C++ code currently. I'll compile without *any* optimization on../configure: 11 seconds make: 4 minutes 11 seconds (~23 times longer)
I remember Borland's example programs (BGIDEMO.C) for example, taking less than 10 seconds to compile/build on a 386/33 with 2MB RAM. I know it was at least a couple thousand lines.
I may be biased since most PC ports of console games I've seen completely sucked (*cough* RalliSport Challenge *cough* - it was unplayable on a beefed-up PC but flies at 60fps on a lowly Xbox).
Compare the PC Doom 3 to the XBox Doom 3. Compare Rainbow 6 on PC as opposed to PS2
There are 'bad ports' but at the same time PC hardware is so much more powerful than current consoles, it's not funny.
I'd be more worried about them trying and then causing a huge radiation leak or something. I'd much rather be vaporized in a nuclear blast than die of cancer.
Why would they build one when they could BUY one. Could they? That's the real threat.
Home 1TB RAID Server CPU Athlon 3200+ $199 Frys 11x multiplier, should over clock to 2.6GHz easily Memory 1GB Corsair 4400C25 $275 Very fast at DDR466 Motherboard ASUS K8N-E Deluxe $149.99 Frys, 6 SATA RAID chips on Motherboard, 3GB memory Case SUPERMICRO Beige 4U Rackmount Chassis, Model "SC742T-550 Beige" $307.50 New Egg. Has 7 SATA backplane built in CD drive NEC 3500A $67 newegg or zipzoomfly system drive WD740GD $185 10000 rpm system drive Data drive Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB $149.99 ($.59/gig vs $.68/gig for 300GB) 5 of these bad boyz
total: $1933.48 or less than $2 per gig for RAID. Half the cost of white boxes and 1/3 the cost of anything from the channel.
We have 300-600,000 pages on most of ours. They probably print 500-1,000 pages a day each.
The fusers are $130 for a new, genuine HP unit. $85 for a 'rebuilt'. They generally last a very long time unless you ruin them by printing on paper with a staple or something in it. Don't ask me how that happens, but it does.
The other part these printers need every 100,000 pages or so are the feed rollers. They cost a buck or two each. The rubber grips on them wear smooth over time and you get paperjams.
Buy a LaserJet 4000 or 4050. If you want a faster one get a 4100.
They're cheap, last a long time, and they don't require much maintenance.
You can find them on eBay for $400 with very low page counts ( 100,000 pages)
They do PCL and Postscript. Get one with a JetDirect card so you can plug it in your LAN and you'll be all set. Works great with Linux, Mac, Windows...
Compare the video resolution of the Dreamcast to that of the PS2 and you'll understand why it needs more. 8MB vs 4MB. The PS2 has 32MB system RAM compared to the DC's 16MB system RAM. Both consoles have 2MB audio RAM.
I recently bought a laptop on eBay for $109, + $17 shipping.
Toshiba K6-2 350MHZ, 48MB RAM, 3.6GB HD, 12.1 TFT screen. Nice shape and it runs Damn Small Linux quite well. I actually loaded Slackware 9 on it for kicks and it ran pretty well using Fluxbox.
They key is memory. The PS2 (which came out earlier) doesn't have as much RAM as the GC for this type of thing. So the textures have to be less detailed, 8/4 bit instead of 24 bit, and they can't have as many polygons...
On the other hand, in some games it goes the OTHER way, the GC discs do not have as much space as the PS2's DVD discs, so sometimes the Gamecube version of a game has less detail.
Why does everyone want to sue microsoft for integrating product XXX into the OS, but nobody cares that Intel (and other companies) integrate sound, video, networking into their motherboards?
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Compare $50 of todays dollars with $50 in 1990!
Anyone remember paying $60 or $70 for a NES/SNES new release? Granted, you were paying for larger ROM chips...
Look at the budgets of some of todays games. Millions of dollars. How much of a budget do you think Megan Man or Castlevania had?
They have to make the costs up somewhere.
RHCE...Does IBM or Novell offer anything yet?
It's always best to certify for the job you have, or want to get.
However, Sony has at least pledged that the chip will be easy to control with C code, rather than requiring the hand-coding of large blocks of low-level assembler - one of the major difficulties of PlayStation 2 development, which tripped many projects up in the early days of the platform before coders began to specialise in that field.
The compilers aren't that good yet.
Apparently, linuxense is saying, "Hey we don't have enough resources to test our OS's security. Let's stroke the egos of the hacker community and maybe we can trick them into working for us, for free. Free labor, woohoo!"
I disagree. How is this different than releasing a beta test to the Internet?
As far as not having enough resources...having someone OTHER than the people who developed the system test it only makes sense.
Lets test a program that I'm developing right now - just a single developer project, ~7000 lines of C++ code currently. I'll compile without *any* optimization on. ./configure: 11 seconds
make: 4 minutes 11 seconds (~23 times longer)
I remember Borland's example programs (BGIDEMO.C) for example, taking less than 10 seconds to compile/build on a 386/33 with 2MB RAM. I know it was at least a couple thousand lines.
Progress?
A pop3 proxy works great. I recommened SpamBayes
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Ever hear of 3DFX's SLI?
I may be biased since most PC ports of console games I've seen completely sucked (*cough* RalliSport Challenge *cough* - it was unplayable on a beefed-up PC but flies at 60fps on a lowly Xbox).
Compare the PC Doom 3 to the XBox Doom 3. Compare Rainbow 6 on PC as opposed to PS2
There are 'bad ports' but at the same time PC hardware is so much more powerful than current consoles, it's not funny.
Silicon Graphics sells the Prism, you can get up to 6.1TB of RAM on some models.
I'd be more worried about them trying and then causing a huge radiation leak or something. I'd much rather be vaporized in a nuclear blast than die of cancer.
Why would they build one when they could BUY one. Could they? That's the real threat.
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The thing is, I don't have time to shop for and configure a RAID system myself, and I want a turnkey solution that will just work out of the box
You're paying $6,000 because Apple does the work for you.
I suppose you could get a tower PC, and fill it with hard drives and setup RAID. Cheaper? Yea. Reliable? Yea. But there's more to it than that.
I googled for 'building 1TB server'
http://www.martinandalex.com/blog/archives/2005/0
Home 1TB RAID Server
CPU Athlon 3200+ $199 Frys 11x multiplier, should over clock to 2.6GHz easily
Memory 1GB Corsair 4400C25 $275 Very fast at DDR466
Motherboard ASUS K8N-E Deluxe $149.99 Frys, 6 SATA RAID chips on Motherboard, 3GB memory
Case SUPERMICRO Beige 4U Rackmount Chassis, Model "SC742T-550 Beige" $307.50 New Egg. Has 7 SATA backplane built in
CD drive NEC 3500A $67 newegg or zipzoomfly
system drive WD740GD $185 10000 rpm system drive
Data drive Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB $149.99 ($.59/gig vs $.68/gig for 300GB) 5 of these bad boyz
total: $1933.48 or less than $2 per gig for RAID. Half the cost of white boxes and 1/3 the cost of anything from the channel.
Here's another article, more information
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/storage.html
There's also an iCard reciever for Gameboys that lets you tap into a live feed of information while you're at a track that supports it.
http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDis
I've done the same thing with modems, but never a NIC card. Interesting.
Here's a video of an octopus attacking a crab
Is it compatible with x86 in anyway?
What good is a new chip, no matter how fast it is, if you can't run anything on it?
How fast will this chip be at general purpose stuff? Who cares if it can do 100GFLOPS on a couple operations.
We have 300-600,000 pages on most of ours. They probably print 500-1,000 pages a day each.
The fusers are $130 for a new, genuine HP unit. $85 for a 'rebuilt'. They generally last a very long time unless you ruin them by printing on paper with a staple or something in it. Don't ask me how that happens, but it does.
The other part these printers need every 100,000 pages or so are the feed rollers. They cost a buck or two each. The rubber grips on them wear smooth over time and you get paperjams.
Buy a LaserJet 4000 or 4050. If you want a faster one get a 4100.
They're cheap, last a long time, and they don't require much maintenance.
You can find them on eBay for $400 with very low page counts ( 100,000 pages)
They do PCL and Postscript. Get one with a JetDirect card so you can plug it in your LAN and you'll be all set. Works great with Linux, Mac, Windows...
Compare the video resolution of the Dreamcast to that of the PS2 and you'll understand why it needs more. 8MB vs 4MB. The PS2 has 32MB system RAM compared to the DC's 16MB system RAM. Both consoles have 2MB audio RAM.
I recently bought a laptop on eBay for $109, + $17 shipping.
Toshiba K6-2 350MHZ, 48MB RAM, 3.6GB HD, 12.1 TFT screen. Nice shape and it runs Damn Small Linux quite well. I actually loaded Slackware 9 on it for kicks and it ran pretty well using Fluxbox.
They key is memory. The PS2 (which came out earlier) doesn't have as much RAM as the GC for this type of thing. So the textures have to be less detailed, 8/4 bit instead of 24 bit, and they can't have as many polygons...
On the other hand, in some games it goes the OTHER way, the GC discs do not have as much space as the PS2's DVD discs, so sometimes the Gamecube version of a game has less detail.
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Powweb works pretty well.
They only have ONE plan though.
2GB storage, 5GB (daily) transfer
$7.77 a month
Frontpage, email, php, mysql they have all that included.
Where is the remaining 15%? (Almost as much as nVidia). Don't tell they are Matrox's
VIA (S3) and SiS fill out the rest
Why does everyone want to sue microsoft for integrating product XXX into the OS, but nobody cares that Intel (and other companies) integrate sound, video, networking into their motherboards?