Once you start pushing the performance envelope with the ARM core, your performance-per-watt advantage will become less pronouced.
The ARM processor looks so good in your benchmark because it is really not asking much of the silicon at all. Increase the ARM processor's clock rate to 3ghz, and you will need to add:
1) More cache to prevent memory core starvation 2) More voltage to make the silicon transistors switch faster.
This will cause the ARM processor to create a LOT more heat.
The key will be to find an acceptable performance level that doesn't work the silicon hard so you don't consume a lot of power. x86 or ARM, it doesn't really matter.
Use trusted friends and family as your unwilling victims (ahem... testers)
At least at first, because simply getting it loaded onto many different computers will start showing the defects you have missed.
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This isn't a post to bash Vista or AoC, just pointing out the similarities between the two.
Both had horrendously terrible releases, and while the products may have ended up reasonably solid after much fixing and tweeking, nothing is going to fix the bad release publicity.
Maybe this is a message to publishers that releasing a half-finished product, then fixing it later, is really a terrible terrible idea that should be avoided at all costs. Microsoft certainly is trying VERY HARD to avoid the mistakes of vista with windows 7, even though they are quite similar OSes.
Without the semi-random input from a human, would computer chess programs eventually simply play a half a dozen different games (based off the more psudo-random beginning moved)
I don't know anything about chess programs though, so I could be wrong with how my gut says they should behave.
There is nothing stopping a linux virus/malware program running as the user.
Most of the things you want a botnet for DON'T require root access on the infected machines
Not to mention that many privilige escallation bugs get found on linux, any unpatched bug could let a malware program elevate its own permission to root and install systemwide.
Yes, why would chinese business go to the effort of replicating the functionality of western devices when their government can just demand we give the source code to the devices.
Expect to see more Sorny goods if this goes ahead!
What browser silently allows unverfied certificates?
Sure, if I get hacked and my web browser replaced by a cracked version, then it could happen. No security can even be perfect because you do have to make some basic assumptions.
Assuming that Man in the middle attacks are too difficult to perform is a very dangerous assumption to make.
You should get a proper certificate signed by a CA. With a proper certificate, the end user's web browser can verify that your certificate did actually come from your web server, and not some other random computer pretending to be your web server.
The reason why browsers complain about self-signed SSL certificates is not because they are self-signed, it is because they cannot be verified as coming from your web server. If you set up your own root certificate and install it into your user's web browsers, then it stops complaining.
If browsers stopped complaining about certificates they cannot verify, I'd definitely NEVER use the web for anything secure ever again.
Of course, that is a damn good point that I didn't get around to saying:)
Also a standard hardware setup greatly reduces the cost of repair/support. The classroom guru doesn't need to learn 15-30 different laptop designs, he/she just has to learn how to use/repair/support that one design.
Comparing an old laptop to the OLPC laptop is not a good idea:
The OLPC devices are much better then most other laptops because:
1) High quality automatic WI-FI meshing. 2) Very long battery life. 3) Usable out in bright sunlight. 4) Highly durable and reliable design, with no moving parts.
The only thing the old laptops can compete in is performance. Performance is only a small, co-incidental factor in designing a rugged laptop for children.
You should download and use the correct CD for the license sticker on the computer you are fixing.
If you have HOME OEM, you install a copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home OEM.
If you have HOME retail, you install a copy of Microsoft Windows XP home Retail.
And so forth. Then you can use the OEM key on the computer, and activate it legitimately with Microsoft. No reason to ever use a corporate copy on any machine with an OEM license.
First of all, you should join a guild.... there are plenty of small, casual guilds that like to socialise. Once you are in a guild, other people will stop harrassing you to join their guild.
Second of all, install a mod that automaticly declines party invitations.
Of course its Intel's best performing desktop processor. It is not like the P4 has set the bar particularly high, with the unfavourable heat production these processors have. Maybe if the P4 scaled as well as Intel initally hoped for, it would be a more difficult task to design a better processor.
> Also, running a strong magnet over the hard drive would erase the password as it erased the files, > keeping the files safe, but also allowing you to erase the whole drive, and use it again without knowing > the password.
If you had a magnet strong enough to do it without deforming the drive completely, you would wipe the servo data (information used by the drive to determine where the heads are) along with the data. This would turn the drive into a brick, best used for holding papers down.
In a perfect would, with unlimited oil, you would be correct. The supply of oil will expand and prices will fall until the oil companies are making only a modest profit. However, this is not a perfect world. For construction and geological reasons, the supply of oil is simply unable to expand quickly enough to cover demand. Since demand is higher then supply, the price of oil increases.
Also, oil is demand inelastic. When people are faced with petrol price rises, people don't really reduce their petrol usage. They just suck it up and whinge about it. So the price has to go up much further to make supply meet demand.
There are not meant to be any wild cats in australia. In the Australian environment, they do a lot of damage because most of the wildlife simply doesn't have a defense against predators like cats and foxes.
Wild cats, in Australia at least, need to be shot whenever possible to protect other native species. Its not pretty, its not nice, and it not really fair either, but there is little alternative.
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Once you start pushing the performance envelope with the ARM core, your performance-per-watt advantage will become less pronouced.
The ARM processor looks so good in your benchmark because it is really not asking much of the silicon at all. Increase the ARM processor's clock rate to 3ghz, and you will need to add:
1) More cache to prevent memory core starvation
2) More voltage to make the silicon transistors switch faster.
This will cause the ARM processor to create a LOT more heat.
The key will be to find an acceptable performance level that doesn't work the silicon hard so you don't consume a lot of power. x86 or ARM, it doesn't really matter.
Many of the solar coatings used on windows are electtrically conductive.
This was probably why the glass was absorbing a lot of the FM radio energy.
The hardest parts of doing this will be the TCP/IP stack and drivers to connect to the internet.
The messages are not long/require lots of screen realestate or memory.
It certainly scores *cool* points for making exceptionally OLD hardware do very new things, but it doesn't score points for difficulty or complexity.
But if someone finds it useful, then it wasn't a waste of time.
Use trusted friends and family as your unwilling victims (ahem ... testers)
At least at first, because simply getting it loaded onto many different computers will start showing the defects you have missed.
This isn't a post to bash Vista or AoC, just pointing out the similarities between the two.
Both had horrendously terrible releases, and while the products may have ended up reasonably solid after much fixing and tweeking, nothing is going to fix the bad release publicity.
Maybe this is a message to publishers that releasing a half-finished product, then fixing it later, is really a terrible terrible idea that should be avoided at all costs. Microsoft certainly is trying VERY HARD to avoid the mistakes of vista with windows 7, even though they are quite similar OSes.
As a programmer, I am quite facinated.
Without the semi-random input from a human, would computer chess programs eventually simply play a half a dozen different games (based off the more psudo-random beginning moved)
I don't know anything about chess programs though, so I could be wrong with how my gut says they should behave.
It could also be simply that people become better at spelling as they age.
I know I am far better at spelling now then 12 years ago when I left high school.
There is nothing stopping a linux virus/malware program running as the user.
Most of the things you want a botnet for DON'T require root access on the infected machines
Not to mention that many privilige escallation bugs get found on linux, any unpatched bug could let a malware program elevate its own permission to root and install systemwide.
I also have a quad core, with 4 gig of ram and a velociraptor boot/app drive.
Openoffice still took about 8 seconds to start without quickstarter.
Thats WAY too long when I used to be able to open Office 97 in about 3 seconds on a 486.
Haha,
Yes, why would chinese business go to the effort of replicating the functionality of western devices when their government can just demand we give the source code to the devices.
Expect to see more Sorny goods if this goes ahead!
What browser silently allows unverfied certificates?
Sure, if I get hacked and my web browser replaced by a cracked version, then it could happen. No security can even be perfect because you do have to make some basic assumptions.
Assuming that Man in the middle attacks are too difficult to perform is a very dangerous assumption to make.
You should get a proper certificate signed by a CA. With a proper certificate, the end user's web browser can verify that your certificate did actually come from your web server, and not some other random computer pretending to be your web server.
The reason why browsers complain about self-signed SSL certificates is not because they are self-signed, it is because they cannot be verified as coming from your web server. If you set up your own root certificate and install it into your user's web browsers, then it stops complaining.
If browsers stopped complaining about certificates they cannot verify, I'd definitely NEVER use the web for anything secure ever again.
Yep, it is a small display, but it does 800x600 fine in colour, more in greyscale.
Main memory is 256meg of ram, not 256kb, which is plenty for most reasonably complex software.
Storage is 1gig, but it is flash ram based and doesn't suffer the same mechanical problems standard drives do.
There are tradeoffs, but the software they run is DESIGNED to handle them, which makes the system perfectly usable.
Of course, that is a damn good point that I didn't get around to saying :)
Also a standard hardware setup greatly reduces the cost of repair/support. The classroom guru doesn't need to learn 15-30 different laptop designs, he/she just has to learn how to use/repair/support that one design.
Comparing an old laptop to the OLPC laptop is not a good idea:
The OLPC devices are much better then most other laptops because:
1) High quality automatic WI-FI meshing.
2) Very long battery life.
3) Usable out in bright sunlight.
4) Highly durable and reliable design, with no moving parts.
The only thing the old laptops can compete in is performance. Performance is only a small, co-incidental factor in designing a rugged laptop for children.
You should download and use the correct CD for the license sticker on the computer you are fixing.
If you have HOME OEM, you install a copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home OEM.
If you have HOME retail, you install a copy of Microsoft Windows XP home Retail.
And so forth. Then you can use the OEM key on the computer, and activate it legitimately with Microsoft. No reason to ever use a corporate copy on any machine with an OEM license.
try http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-677-1-au todecline.html
... its pretty old. Hopefully its simple enough that it still works even after all this time.
You may have to enable out of date mods to get it to work
Those problems are easy to solve.
.... there are plenty of small, casual guilds that like to socialise. Once you are in a guild, other people will stop harrassing you to join their guild.
First of all, you should join a guild
Second of all, install a mod that automaticly declines party invitations.
Of course its Intel's best performing desktop processor. It is not like the P4 has set the bar particularly high, with the unfavourable heat production these processors have. Maybe if the P4 scaled as well as Intel initally hoped for, it would be a more difficult task to design a better processor.
> Also, running a strong magnet over the hard drive would erase the password as it erased the files,
> keeping the files safe, but also allowing you to erase the whole drive, and use it again without knowing
> the password.
If you had a magnet strong enough to do it without deforming the drive completely, you would wipe the servo data (information used by the drive to determine where the heads are) along with the data. This would turn the drive into a brick, best used for holding papers down.
In a perfect would, with unlimited oil, you would be correct. The supply of oil will expand and prices will fall until the oil companies are making only a modest profit. However, this is not a perfect world. For construction and geological reasons, the supply of oil is simply unable to expand quickly enough to cover demand. Since demand is higher then supply, the price of oil increases.
Also, oil is demand inelastic. When people are faced with petrol price rises, people don't really reduce their petrol usage. They just suck it up and whinge about it. So the price has to go up much further to make supply meet demand.
I am also seeing many cheap, good, AMD based laptops on the shelves of local shops.
AMD isn't simply going to let intel have the laptop business without a fight.
The reason why no new refinaries have been built is that there is not enough crude oil capacity to utilize any new development.
You don't get it, do you?
There are not meant to be any wild cats in australia. In the Australian environment, they do a lot of damage because most of the wildlife simply doesn't have a defense against predators like cats and foxes.
Wild cats, in Australia at least, need to be shot whenever possible to protect other native species. Its not pretty, its not nice, and it not really fair either, but there is little alternative.
36 hours .... that nothing.
.... 36 hours is not something you would brag about.
My nokia 1100 easily lasts a week on standby, with occasional use, between recharges.
That is decent battery life