Actually to bust your bubble google doesn't buy "xeon" or any of those fancy dancy servers. They buy cheap residenal boxes and rely on redundancy. I remember seeing some google video with that. They blow way too many servers a day. But it's simply cheaper to replace the cheap servers then it is to buy a new super power ultra server.
My first impressions of it was not too good. I goto install it and it forces me to validate my XP install. For some stupid reason it passed:/. Anywho... it installs like a Service Pack (which pretty much what it is) and asks you to reboot.
I don't like the point that you can not have your file menu on the very top of the screen. Oviously the graphics are not done because the little box beside those tabs makes a new tab. The interface is very very quick. Switching tabs is extreamly quick. I also like that it has the middle button thingy so when you press it, a window opens up in a new tab.
It also comes with a totally cut off version of it's self (similar to the safe mode in firefox). Im guessing this is for pooched IE's that won't start or people who wish to browse with IE without plugins.
It's not piracy... it's for intresting information and people with tinfoil hats. It also has some background information on windows piracy... telling people how to pirate would be like putting the key on the site and a link to donwload windows.
That's why I went for the 939. I can upgrade to a Athlon 64 FX or a *core replacement. Although at a 1000 dollar CAD pricetag... I think im going to wait:/
The Mac Mini is for the market that wants a mac for cheap... face it...
You don't buy a mac for cheap computing power, you buy it for the experience. The lack of driver issues, spyware and other common Windows based problems.
I built my Athlon64 for 800 bucks it has
A Clear Case Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester core) 939
1gb of Dual Channel DDR400 Memory
ATI Radeon 9600XT All-In-Wonder
160gb IDE Maxtor HDD
Plextor 716-A DVD Burner
The rest you see (the fancy lights and do'dads) I got off ebay.
It's PC's expandablity which makes it so cheap. I can buy one part retail and the other off some joe off the Street. If I couldn't of gotten some of those parts off ebay I would of payed WAY more then what I did. I got the powersupply for 10 bucks off ebay. I got the Fans for 4 bucks off ebay. I got the Thermaltake Hardcano 9 off my friend for 20 bucks. The lights in it (blacklight and the blue one) 10 bucks. All those savings add up and you get WAY more then what you pay for. I don't see a big market of macs in "pieces".
I can't go buy a case... slap a G5 Motherboard in it... buy my own video card and sound card etc etc.
Of course you could build a mac like that but... do you see them often ?
btw, the only pieces of that PC purchased retail was the Athlon 64 chip , the Asus A8v Motherboard and the RAM.
Guess what... microsoft solved that with it's Corporate Version of Windows XP. (btw that's the copy you see on the internet and you might know it as "Devils0wn")
One key works for everyone. Remember the key FCKGW-yada yada;-).
But if you use the CD key thing as I mentioned above it changes the Windows XP to another key such as the one the anonymous user above gave, service pack 2 will install and there is no annoying blocking of Windows Updates.
Microsoft only wanted to stop the "casual pirater" considering every version of windows is already cracked. Not to sound like a mad pirate but to disable the activation is sadly VERY easy.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\WPAEvents
That's frickin it... the "Activate me crap" dies... and for all you tinfoil hats you don't need to reg your Windows XP. You think MS would of made it so easy if they didn't want people to pirate there OS. They would of made it so if some file isn't downloaded from there (encrypted of some kind) the OS simply won't work etc etc. No... it's some silly regestry hack that takes less then 2 minutes to do and lasts the lifetime of the product. I know that the activation thing I mentioned above works in Windows XP MCE and Windows XP x64, im not sure about XP Pro... if someone tries and has luck I wouldn't mind knowing.
"Arr me maties... you be looking for Windows XP for cheap. arr... me protect this copy like me treasure from beyond the sea. Arr... you need me copy of XP that costs you 10 dublins of gold... arr..."
Would you purchase somthing from a pirate on a street corner:)
Service Pack 2 is a breeze. I have the first copy of XP. All you have to do is Download this and copy it to the root of your C drive. Open up the "Command Prompt" and goto your root of the drive. Type in "cdkey xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" as in x's are your SP2 compatable CD key. Once you press enter you should see nothing come up. (if somthing does then find a working key). Once your CD key is changed then Goto this site and click "Download and Deploy Service Pack 2 for multiple Computers". Once you are done that install SP2 and your done.
Really offtopic... but winamp changed from 3 -> 5 because Winamp 3 + Winamp 2 = Winamp 5
Remember how much Winamp 3 sucked... but it had the cool media library and all the streaming TV but Winamp 2 was quick and snappy and "just worked". Well Winamp 5 was a combo between 2 and 3.
Well if your really intrested. I compiled KDE 3.3 in 4 days with make -j 3 . (of course that's only the base system and not all the packages and of course all the optimization flags for my CPU cranked)
That's of course on a Dual Pentium Pro. I compiled it and ran it for 3 days then got over it and went to windowmaker. I only compiled it for fun.
Now that machine sits headless in the corner folding protiens and hosting my crummy website
I don't know... I found it kind of intresting. Lets new users learn about some security. Also it lets older users like me to do a checkup and make sure im all upto date. (it's been along time since I messed around with my security)
Without this article I wouldn't of known about p0f and how cool it is. If you don't like the article then don't read it and quit bitchin. Just because it is not good for you doesn't mean it's not good for other people.
slap this in a proftpd.conf and open those ports and your FTP works behind a NAT. (If you choose to run a FTP server behind a NAT.
Of course you can choose different passive ports. I choose to keep mine near my actual FTP port. so if 8086 is my FTP port then 8087 - 8090 is my passive ports. Makes forwarding easier.:)
Wow... ive been looking for somthing to do this in windows for ages. I use Remote Desktop over my LAN all the time to fix computers and such or even just hop on to check somthing out now I can do it without the local user being booted off.
That's the one fucking thing I hate about Service Pack 2. After Windows Updates it WANTS to be restarted. Even if you tell it "No Fuckoff and Die" guess what... it comes right back in 5 minutes and if you keep ignoring it eventually I find it just reboots without asking you.
Yet my debian machine is kept upto date and it sits happy not rebooting every 35 seconds. Another "reboot" script I hated was Synamtecs one for Norton. I believe they changed it now, where you actually have a fucking choice.
The only way to stop norton from rebooting was to open Notepad and write some txt. Then it would goto shut down and you click cancel and it would stop. (yeah silly hack but it worked).
now im mad
Re:Still need floppies to flash your BIOS
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Not if you own an ASUS motherboard. All 3 of my Asus Motherboards can be flashed in windows with there handy "ASUS Update" Utility. It goes on the internet and finds the newest bios for your motherboard and from a click of a button backs it up and installs the new one. I don't know how "smart" it is to do from windows but worked fine for me on my Asus PII 350MHz and my Athlon 64 system.
The days of floppys are slowly deminishing. Heck I can boot my system off a USB Thumbdrive or a flashcard (connected through my printers flash card reader) if I wanted too. The only systems with floppy drive is my Pentium Pro and the floppy doesn't even work. I was looking at my pictures and noticed I still have the floppy cleaning thingy in it from like 2000.
Oh and out of my 50 some disks I bet you about 10 actually work.
Well... GTA Liberty City and GTA Vice City have a VERY similar engine. The only big difference I noticed was the shine on the cars when your driving and the tires had more detail. (there is oviously a shitload more but those are the first thing I noticed).
San Andreas looks like a totally new game. There is a ton of awsome heat effects (in midday in the city you see the heatwaves). The Rain looks alot nicer in SA too not just like "walls" of water like vice city. A ton of other little improvements.
What questions me is what's the next game going to be ? The Levels off the Second GTA:)
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas is really just all the levels in Grand Theft Auto 1.
I don't know if anyone at rockstar ever did solve this but wouldn't it be "Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City" etc etc.
Sort of, what if you had that big pipe seeding the download. This way if the pipe gets saturated atleast people can still get the download off other people. Sort of like a "overload protection". Ive been on some torrents with a fat seed pipe and it really speeds things up.
Well from reading previous posts on Opera. Opera makes most of it's money off it's Mobile Browsers. Alot of a phones now even have a "O" button. From what I herd Opera is the best Mobile Browser. Ive never used it (only the Linux version).
I believe tho it does make money. Or else how would it still be here ?
:)
Hope I could be of help
Re:Recommend your alternatives here
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Mplayer has a GUI. You need to compile the GUI in with mplayer.
There is a ton of nifty skins too. Ones that even look like Windows media player too. The good thing about mplayer is it takes advantage of whatever your system has to put out. My PPro 200Mhz has a Voodoo 5 5500 and I could actually use Glide for my video output. Nifty little program.
actually... to tell you the truth... my GeForce 4 MX 440 SE has been running without a fan for years. I played games like Half Life 2 and such for hours without any problems.
I know for a fact that chip couldn't handle without the fan for long... but how hard is it to get it to run at 1000RPM's just enough to keep the air moving. It's virtually silent. (not completely silent tho). That machine idle with the fans all on low is so quiet I have to look at the lights to see if it's even on. If it's REALLY quiet in the room you can JUST hear the HDD spinning and sometimes clicking
The CPU temps at 1GHz (which is with cool and quiet on is about 30c with the fan on 1000RPMs and runs about 35c with the fan off (you can turn the fan off on speedfan).
I know for a fact my tests arn't very accurate but I was only messing around... it does give me an idea to play around with stuff like that and get some graphs and numbers. See what I come up with.
I know also that I would never run without a fan that's just stupid. I was simply messing around to see "what I could do". I know if I stop the fan on my PPRo's for about 30 seconds that chips at 80c... if it's a single CPU system I have a MASSIVE heatsink for the PPRo's (the size of 2 PPRo chips but just for one) about 2 minutes it's at 80 and keeps rising.
I had a single CPU PPRo 256k running at one time and put that heatsink on and forgot to plugin the fan... I had a thermal gun thingy and it was showing 90c then the chip crashed of course. Im surprised I didn't break anything... I just rebooted and put the fan on and it was fine.
The way CPU's are going now is good. There not getting faster (not considerably) just getting cooler. I'll have to mess around with that more and get some graphs.
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Actually to bust your bubble google doesn't buy "xeon" or any of those fancy dancy servers. They buy cheap residenal boxes and rely on redundancy. I remember seeing some google video with that. They blow way too many servers a day. But it's simply cheaper to replace the cheap servers then it is to buy a new super power ultra server.
... and some googling lets me find the cool little program telling you more how google works.
:)
Wikipedia Article on Google
Ah
The Video
Hopefully ive been some help
Wow ... im almost impressed with it.
:/. Anywho ... it installs like a Service Pack (which pretty much what it is) and asks you to reboot.
... it seems safemode really doesn't want you to use it. You get a sound and that top bar flashes when you goto any site with it.
... It's IE 6 with tabs and a fucked up interface. I wonder what it will look like when it's done :)
My first impressions of it was not too good. I goto install it and it forces me to validate my XP install. For some stupid reason it passed
Once it's loaded the interface is fucked.
Screenshot
I don't like the point that you can not have your file menu on the very top of the screen. Oviously the graphics are not done because the little box beside those tabs makes a new tab. The interface is very very quick. Switching tabs is extreamly quick. I also like that it has the middle button thingy so when you press it, a window opens up in a new tab.
It also comes with a totally cut off version of it's self (similar to the safe mode in firefox). Im guessing this is for pooched IE's that won't start or people who wish to browse with IE without plugins.
Screenshot of Safemode
Well
All in all
solosoft
It's not piracy ... it's for intresting information and people with tinfoil hats. It also has some background information on windows piracy ... telling people how to pirate would be like putting the key on the site and a link to donwload windows.
:)
Solosoft
That's why I went for the 939. I can upgrade to a Athlon 64 FX or a *core replacement. Although at a 1000 dollar CAD pricetag ... I think im going to wait :/
But what's stoping someone from hosting the SP2 file on a torrent ? ...
... download one of those XP copys with SP2 intergrated into it :)
Just change your CD key to somthing which is accepted to install SP2 and go
Or heck you goto all this trouble
The Corp editions don't need activation
The Mac Mini is for the market that wants a mac for cheap ... face it ...
... slap a G5 Motherboard in it ... buy my own video card and sound card etc etc.
... do you see them often ?
You don't buy a mac for cheap computing power, you buy it for the experience. The lack of driver issues, spyware and other common Windows based problems.
I built my Athlon64 for 800 bucks it has
A Clear Case
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester core) 939
1gb of Dual Channel DDR400 Memory
ATI Radeon 9600XT All-In-Wonder
160gb IDE Maxtor HDD
Plextor 716-A DVD Burner
The rest you see (the fancy lights and do'dads) I got off ebay.
It's PC's expandablity which makes it so cheap. I can buy one part retail and the other off some joe off the Street. If I couldn't of gotten some of those parts off ebay I would of payed WAY more then what I did. I got the powersupply for 10 bucks off ebay. I got the Fans for 4 bucks off ebay. I got the Thermaltake Hardcano 9 off my friend for 20 bucks. The lights in it (blacklight and the blue one) 10 bucks. All those savings add up and you get WAY more then what you pay for. I don't see a big market of macs in "pieces".
I can't go buy a case
Of course you could build a mac like that but
btw, the only pieces of that PC purchased retail was the Athlon 64 chip , the Asus A8v Motherboard and the RAM.
Guess what ... microsoft solved that with it's Corporate Version of Windows XP. (btw that's the copy you see on the internet and you might know it as "Devils0wn")
;-).
u rrentVersion\WPAEvents ... the "Activate me crap" dies ... and for all you tinfoil hats you don't need to reg your Windows XP. You think MS would of made it so easy if they didn't want people to pirate there OS. They would of made it so if some file isn't downloaded from there (encrypted of some kind) the OS simply won't work etc etc. No ... it's some silly regestry hack that takes less then 2 minutes to do and lasts the lifetime of the product. I know that the activation thing I mentioned above works in Windows XP MCE and Windows XP x64, im not sure about XP Pro ... if someone tries and has luck I wouldn't mind knowing.
One key works for everyone. Remember the key FCKGW-yada yada
Wikipedia Article
But if you use the CD key thing as I mentioned above it changes the Windows XP to another key such as the one the anonymous user above gave, service pack 2 will install and there is no annoying blocking of Windows Updates.
Microsoft only wanted to stop the "casual pirater" considering every version of windows is already cracked. Not to sound like a mad pirate but to disable the activation is sadly VERY easy.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\C
That's frickin it
Hope ive been some help
Solosoft
Haha ... I can see it now ...
... you be looking for Windows XP for cheap. arr ... me protect this copy like me treasure from beyond the sea. Arr ... you need me copy of XP that costs you 10 dublins of gold ... arr ..."
:)
"Arr me maties
Would you purchase somthing from a pirate on a street corner
Not that I pirated my windows :/
Service Pack 2 is a breeze. I have the first copy of XP. All you have to do is Download this and copy it to the root of your C drive. Open up the "Command Prompt" and goto your root of the drive. Type in "cdkey xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" as in x's are your SP2 compatable CD key. Once you press enter you should see nothing come up. (if somthing does then find a working key). Once your CD key is changed then Goto this site and click "Download and Deploy Service Pack 2 for multiple Computers". Once you are done that install SP2 and your done.
Hopefully this is some help.
I liked GTA's "advertisements". They are witty and funny they also make fun of advertising in general.
I rather funny ads then boring ads.
ooo lookie lookie ...
:)
...
Fancy info on your little debate.
Should of read the website before you bitched
But of course since you know it all you could also edit it too
Really offtopic ... but winamp changed from 3 -> 5 because Winamp 3 + Winamp 2 = Winamp 5
... but it had the cool media library and all the streaming TV but Winamp 2 was quick and snappy and "just worked". Well Winamp 5 was a combo between 2 and 3.
Remember how much Winamp 3 sucked
It's the mouse. What I do to combat this is to simply flip the mouse upside down. It's a cheap hack but it works.
Well if your really intrested. I compiled KDE 3.3 in 4 days with make -j 3 . (of course that's only the base system and not all the packages and of course all the optimization flags for my CPU cranked)
That's of course on a Dual Pentium Pro. I compiled it and ran it for 3 days then got over it and went to windowmaker. I only compiled it for fun.
Now that machine sits headless in the corner folding protiens and hosting my crummy website
I don't know ... I found it kind of intresting. Lets new users learn about some security. Also it lets older users like me to do a checkup and make sure im all upto date. (it's been along time since I messed around with my security)
Without this article I wouldn't of known about p0f and how cool it is. If you don't like the article then don't read it and quit bitchin. Just because it is not good for you doesn't mean it's not good for other people.
#NAT Settings
:)
MasqueradeAddress 123.456.789.123
passivePorts 8087 8090
slap this in a proftpd.conf and open those ports and your FTP works behind a NAT. (If you choose to run a FTP server behind a NAT.
Of course you can choose different passive ports. I choose to keep mine near my actual FTP port. so if 8086 is my FTP port then 8087 - 8090 is my passive ports. Makes forwarding easier.
Wow ... ive been looking for somthing to do this in windows for ages. I use Remote Desktop over my LAN all the time to fix computers and such or even just hop on to check somthing out now I can do it without the local user being booted off.
If I had mod points they would be going here !!
That's the one fucking thing I hate about Service Pack 2. After Windows Updates it WANTS to be restarted. Even if you tell it "No Fuckoff and Die" guess what ... it comes right back in 5 minutes and if you keep ignoring it eventually I find it just reboots without asking you.
Yet my debian machine is kept upto date and it sits happy not rebooting every 35 seconds. Another "reboot" script I hated was Synamtecs one for Norton. I believe they changed it now, where you actually have a fucking choice.
The only way to stop norton from rebooting was to open Notepad and write some txt. Then it would goto shut down and you click cancel and it would stop. (yeah silly hack but it worked).
now im mad
Not if you own an ASUS motherboard. All 3 of my Asus Motherboards can be flashed in windows with there handy "ASUS Update" Utility. It goes on the internet and finds the newest bios for your motherboard and from a click of a button backs it up and installs the new one. I don't know how "smart" it is to do from windows but worked fine for me on my Asus PII 350MHz and my Athlon 64 system.
The days of floppys are slowly deminishing. Heck I can boot my system off a USB Thumbdrive or a flashcard (connected through my printers flash card reader) if I wanted too. The only systems with floppy drive is my Pentium Pro and the floppy doesn't even work. I was looking at my pictures and noticed I still have the floppy cleaning thingy in it from like 2000.
Oh and out of my 50 some disks I bet you about 10 actually work.
Well ... GTA Liberty City and GTA Vice City have a VERY similar engine. The only big difference I noticed was the shine on the cars when your driving and the tires had more detail. (there is oviously a shitload more but those are the first thing I noticed).
:)
San Andreas looks like a totally new game. There is a ton of awsome heat effects (in midday in the city you see the heatwaves). The Rain looks alot nicer in SA too not just like "walls" of water like vice city. A ton of other little improvements.
What questions me is what's the next game going to be ? The Levels off the Second GTA
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas is really just all the levels in Grand Theft Auto 1.
I don't know if anyone at rockstar ever did solve this but wouldn't it be "Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas" and "Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City" etc etc.
Sort of, what if you had that big pipe seeding the download. This way if the pipe gets saturated atleast people can still get the download off other people. Sort of like a "overload protection". Ive been on some torrents with a fat seed pipe and it really speeds things up.
:)
Well from reading previous posts on Opera. Opera makes most of it's money off it's Mobile Browsers. Alot of a phones now even have a "O" button. From what I herd Opera is the best Mobile Browser. Ive never used it (only the Linux version).
:)
I believe tho it does make money. Or else how would it still be here ?
Hope I could be of help
Mplayer has a GUI. You need to compile the GUI in with mplayer.
There is a ton of nifty skins too. Ones that even look like Windows media player too. The good thing about mplayer is it takes advantage of whatever your system has to put out. My PPro 200Mhz has a Voodoo 5 5500 and I could actually use Glide for my video output. Nifty little program.
Here is where you get the skins
Check em out. I never really used the GUI but some people like it for there video player.
actually ... to tell you the truth ... my GeForce 4 MX 440 SE has been running without a fan for years. I played games like Half Life 2 and such for hours without any problems.
... but how hard is it to get it to run at 1000RPM's just enough to keep the air moving. It's virtually silent. (not completely silent tho). That machine idle with the fans all on low is so quiet I have to look at the lights to see if it's even on. If it's REALLY quiet in the room you can JUST hear the HDD spinning and sometimes clicking
... it does give me an idea to play around with stuff like that and get some graphs and numbers. See what I come up with.
... if it's a single CPU system I have a MASSIVE heatsink for the PPRo's (the size of 2 PPRo chips but just for one) about 2 minutes it's at 80 and keeps rising.
... I had a thermal gun thingy and it was showing 90c then the chip crashed of course. Im surprised I didn't break anything ... I just rebooted and put the fan on and it was fine.
I know for a fact that chip couldn't handle without the fan for long
The CPU temps at 1GHz (which is with cool and quiet on is about 30c with the fan on 1000RPMs and runs about 35c with the fan off (you can turn the fan off on speedfan).
I know for a fact my tests arn't very accurate but I was only messing around
I know also that I would never run without a fan that's just stupid. I was simply messing around to see "what I could do". I know if I stop the fan on my PPRo's for about 30 seconds that chips at 80c
I had a single CPU PPRo 256k running at one time and put that heatsink on and forgot to plugin the fan
The way CPU's are going now is good. There not getting faster (not considerably) just getting cooler. I'll have to mess around with that more and get some graphs.
chris