There is no such thing as a 1.2ghz via c3 processor.
However, there is such a thing as a VIA Cyrix 1.2 GigaPRO. It is clocked at 800mhz. Here's the info on it (I just so happen to be running a box with one of these):
shorty dev # cat/proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 800.148 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1572.86
Clock speed really doesn't matter, anyway. Well, it's not as important a benchmark as Intel would have you think.
If a processor running at 4ghz can only do half the operations per clock cycle that a 2ghz processor can do, than it's no better than the 2ghz processor, and probably worse due to larger instruction pipelines, etc.
The fact that Intel has relied on this "Mhz Myth" has really killed sales of their Centrino (Pentium M) line of processors. Consumers see the (comparatively low) ghz ratings on the Centrinos (typically about 1.5ghz) and compare them to laptops with less expensive P4's (typically running between 2.5 to 3.5ghz) and wonder why anyone would pick the Centrinos.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car MONORAIL! What'd I say? Monorail! What's it called? Monorail! That's right! Monorail!
You can still get a free iPod mini, from http://www.freeiPods.com/ Apparently they've shipped quite a few of them already. You can check out the details (there's quite a community going on about it) at http://www.freeipodguide.com
Many people seem to be under the impression that the iPod is an mp3 player. That's not entirely true - it plays AAC files (mpeg2) not MP3 files (mpeg1layer3). The MP3 files are converted to AAC files before they hit the iPod, IIRC (I could be wrong about this)
What's the significance? AAC files have copyright protection built in, something which MP3's lack.
I read TFA, but I couldn't seem to figure out what exactly Real Networks did - did they hack the iPod firmware to actually play MP3 files, or did they figure out the copy protection Apple uses on it's AAC files. Anyone venture a guess?
Gentoo's various scripts rely on the fact that/bin/sh is usually symlinked to/bin/bash. With 3.0, when invoked as/bin/sh, bash behaves as it should for the first time, which caused some problems. (which are now fixed, by the way)
I think mainly their delaying for two reasons: WOW64 and driver support.
Having played with the beta of XP64 on my laptop, I can tell you that the driver support on XP64 absolutely sucks. There are hardly any drivers, and good luck finding any for older/abnormal hardware.
WOW64, if you're not familiar with the acronym, means windows on windows 64. It's basically their "emulator" (it's more of an interpreter) to run code not compiled for 64 bit. Instead of going the FreeBSD route and allowing for both 32 and 64 bit programs to run at the same time (props for freebsd), Microsoft decided to go with an emulator - which happens to suck horribly, and freeze alot.
Your best bet for the AMD64 extentions is FreeBSD, hands down.
I fail to see the advantage of his box. It weighs a ton, is really loud, and it doesn't add any functionality. You'll notice if you RTFA that he didn't actually take apart gameboy guts and stick it in his box, but rather relies on the GG's GBP to run DMG/GBC/GBA games.
By combining all of Ninny's consoles together in one box he's created a bloated piece of eyecandy that has the functionality of a newt. (XBOX anyone?)
I fail to see any instance in which he's used any special electrical abilities at all, and his carpentry is pretty shotty too.
It would have been cooler if he had integrated the guts of his consoles into a tv - for instance - he could use the tape portion of a tv/vcr combo for the NES, and place the guts of the other consoles around in the empty space around the crt for a truely useful conglomeration.
How is this stuff that matters?
All your iBase are belong to robot?
Their website includes a NS5 "configurator" which basically miscolors renders of their "robot". What if I wanted some actual information on the movie, instead of their silly make believe robot?
Most of the crackers i've come into contact with were from eastern europe, or asia. Truth be told, most of the organized cracking groups are German.
Of course, this begs the question: What is cracking?
I'm referring to it as it's most commonly taken today, the reversal of antipiracy measures on software. However, the term cracker really refers to someone who can break past security measures into servers...
I wish the article explained the differences in the terminology, else you might suspect something very different from the truth!
In soviet russia, we use pencil.
What happened to the millions of dollars spent on NASA's space pen that writes underwater and such?(I use mine for crosswords:) )
Wasn't it Sun who recently suffered a major blow to their java language, when it was discovered that the java interpreter that ran on their own operating system (Solaris) was slower than the interpreter created for windows?
So Microsoft is being forced to change their software again, for violating someone or other's patent. Maybe if they'd stick to better business practices they wouldn't be paying some noname company over 500 million dollars... of course they *can* afford it.
I use a program called goldmine to manage contacts as well as interactions with them. It stores them in a (db3) database file, and you can add custom filters, etc, to it. I find it quite helpful
The MPAA has also elected (I think) to stop sending out dvd screeners to academy members - giving smaller films less of a chance at an oscar - just to prevent piracy.
Finally a mobile player that supports the OGG Vorbis file format!
I own a creative jukebox, but I don't use it that often mainly because it doesn't support ogg files (which most of my music is now encoded as)
Ever since I found out about the OGG file format i've been encoding my music to it. I sensed immediately that I got better sound quality with it - and I was right. http://ekei.com/audio/ has links to various comparisons, and in general the OGG encoder handles the mid range much better than, say, lame mp3. This is great because afaik headphones don't have the greatest highs...
I can remember with much warmth in my heart the last time I tried BeOS on my desktop. Ah, the heartwarming partition-in-a-file. Oh, the wonderfully slow bootstrap. I remember how no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any sound or network support. And yet, the hours I spent playing with the tabs on top of the windows (you could move and stack them, much like some newer linux wm's) seemed to make up for all it's downfalls.
Bottomline: I'd buy a BeOS system, only if I wouldn't have to be the one to get it to work properly.
Yes, of course, but that's just a third party hacked client, much like what Kazaa is suing the RIAA over.
(Of course I use it myself, but that goes without saying)
... that Kazaa started fighting back. I knew those tactics that the RIAA was using (clients that messed up the network, clients that introducted viruses, etc) were on the border of legality - I had almost forgotten that Kazaa (unlike gnutella) is a privately owned network... or protocol... or something.
Kudos to Kazaa... now if they only got rid of their spyware...
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Clock speed really doesn't matter, anyway. Well, it's not as important a benchmark as Intel would have you think.
If a processor running at 4ghz can only do half the operations per clock cycle that a 2ghz processor can do, than it's no better than the 2ghz processor, and probably worse due to larger instruction pipelines, etc.
The fact that Intel has relied on this "Mhz Myth" has really killed sales of their Centrino (Pentium M) line of processors. Consumers see the (comparatively low) ghz ratings on the Centrinos (typically about 1.5ghz) and compare them to laptops with less expensive P4's (typically running between 2.5 to 3.5ghz) and wonder why anyone would pick the Centrinos.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car MONORAIL!
What'd I say? Monorail!
What's it called? Monorail!
That's right! Monorail!
ah that loveable Lyle Lanley...
You can still get a free iPod mini, from http://www.freeiPods.com/
Apparently they've shipped quite a few of them already.
You can check out the details (there's quite a community going on about it) at http://www.freeipodguide.com
Many people seem to be under the impression that the iPod is an mp3 player. That's not entirely true - it plays AAC files (mpeg2) not MP3 files (mpeg1layer3). The MP3 files are converted to AAC files before they hit the iPod, IIRC (I could be wrong about this)
What's the significance? AAC files have copyright protection built in, something which MP3's lack.
I read TFA, but I couldn't seem to figure out what exactly Real Networks did - did they hack the iPod firmware to actually play MP3 files, or did they figure out the copy protection Apple uses on it's AAC files. Anyone venture a guess?
Gentoo's various scripts rely on the fact that /bin/sh is usually symlinked to /bin/bash. With 3.0, when invoked as /bin/sh, bash behaves as it should for the first time, which caused some problems. (which are now fixed, by the way)
I think mainly their delaying for two reasons: WOW64 and driver support.
Having played with the beta of XP64 on my laptop, I can tell you that the driver support on XP64 absolutely sucks. There are hardly any drivers, and good luck finding any for older/abnormal hardware.
WOW64, if you're not familiar with the acronym, means windows on windows 64. It's basically their "emulator" (it's more of an interpreter) to run code not compiled for 64 bit. Instead of going the FreeBSD route and allowing for both 32 and 64 bit programs to run at the same time (props for freebsd), Microsoft decided to go with an emulator - which happens to suck horribly, and freeze alot.
Your best bet for the AMD64 extentions is FreeBSD, hands down.
It doesn't look like 1.0 to me, it looks like Windows Beta 0.98.0.68. Somehow I think whoever posted the summary rounded up...
I fail to see the advantage of his box. It weighs a ton, is really loud, and it doesn't add any functionality. You'll notice if you RTFA that he didn't actually take apart gameboy guts and stick it in his box, but rather relies on the GG's GBP to run DMG/GBC/GBA games. By combining all of Ninny's consoles together in one box he's created a bloated piece of eyecandy that has the functionality of a newt. (XBOX anyone?) I fail to see any instance in which he's used any special electrical abilities at all, and his carpentry is pretty shotty too. It would have been cooler if he had integrated the guts of his consoles into a tv - for instance - he could use the tape portion of a tv/vcr combo for the NES, and place the guts of the other consoles around in the empty space around the crt for a truely useful conglomeration. How is this stuff that matters?
... now Microsoft will just have to buy out the pre-existing patent holders, just like in the old days
All your iBase are belong to robot? Their website includes a NS5 "configurator" which basically miscolors renders of their "robot". What if I wanted some actual information on the movie, instead of their silly make believe robot?
Most of the crackers i've come into contact with were from eastern europe, or asia. Truth be told, most of the organized cracking groups are German.
Of course, this begs the question: What is cracking?
I'm referring to it as it's most commonly taken today, the reversal of antipiracy measures on software. However, the term cracker really refers to someone who can break past security measures into servers...
I wish the article explained the differences in the terminology, else you might suspect something very different from the truth!
In soviet russia, we use pencil. What happened to the millions of dollars spent on NASA's space pen that writes underwater and such?(I use mine for crosswords :) )
Did the smartest thing it could have done given the situation - offload the transfer to the google cache!
If only they could harness this "laser" technology to allow consumers to burn dvds faster. Oh well.
Wasn't it Sun who recently suffered a major blow to their java language, when it was discovered that the java interpreter that ran on their own operating system (Solaris) was slower than the interpreter created for windows?
So Microsoft is being forced to change their software again, for violating someone or other's patent. Maybe if they'd stick to better business practices they wouldn't be paying some noname company over 500 million dollars... of course they *can* afford it.
I use a program called goldmine to manage contacts as well as interactions with them. It stores them in a (db3) database file, and you can add custom filters, etc, to it. I find it quite helpful
The MPAA has also elected (I think) to stop sending out dvd screeners to academy members - giving smaller films less of a chance at an oscar - just to prevent piracy.
there was a remote control so you could fast-forward professors in the lecture hall. Man they're boring!
Finally a mobile player that supports the OGG Vorbis file format! I own a creative jukebox, but I don't use it that often mainly because it doesn't support ogg files (which most of my music is now encoded as) Ever since I found out about the OGG file format i've been encoding my music to it. I sensed immediately that I got better sound quality with it - and I was right. http://ekei.com/audio/ has links to various comparisons, and in general the OGG encoder handles the mid range much better than, say, lame mp3. This is great because afaik headphones don't have the greatest highs...
It's too bad the damn power companies havn't spent some time improving their boot times... it took them like a week to restore my power *grumble*
I can remember with much warmth in my heart the last time I tried BeOS on my desktop. Ah, the heartwarming partition-in-a-file. Oh, the wonderfully slow bootstrap. I remember how no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any sound or network support. And yet, the hours I spent playing with the tabs on top of the windows (you could move and stack them, much like some newer linux wm's) seemed to make up for all it's downfalls.
Bottomline: I'd buy a BeOS system, only if I wouldn't have to be the one to get it to work properly.
Yes, of course, but that's just a third party hacked client, much like what Kazaa is suing the RIAA over. (Of course I use it myself, but that goes without saying)
... that Kazaa started fighting back. I knew those tactics that the RIAA was using (clients that messed up the network, clients that introducted viruses, etc) were on the border of legality - I had almost forgotten that Kazaa (unlike gnutella) is a privately owned network... or protocol... or something. Kudos to Kazaa... now if they only got rid of their spyware...