Do you think that would of really worked, and the serial number couldn't be spoofed easily? Trying to uniquely identify computers using a serial number in the processor would work as well as trying to identify them by MAC address.
At home, I find the distro's still have many seeders so long as it's a current release - and it's pretty easy to max the DSL at over 200kb/s. Older distro's like Redhat 9.0 will go very slow, if at all. At school (where Bittorrent is limited to 1-2kb/s max), I can get onto mirrors hosted by nearby universities and download them at 1-2MB/s. It's awesome.
Sweet christ...move out of mom's basement and learn what it is like to kiss a girl. There is ZERO reason to keep these ancient systems running. Recycle the things or donate them to a museum.
Does anyone have any valid complaints against the PS/2 ports other than the fact they are old? They work, they do everything I need, and they do it well. I see no reason for them needing to go.
Also, keep in mind that if they ditched the PS/2 ports, you would have to add 2 more USB ports to get back to where you started (that is 4 free USB ports after hooking up keyboard/mouse).
For things like Photoshop, I have seen a 500Mhz machine with 512MB of Ram and a decent (Matrox) video card kick the crap out of much faster machines with less than 256MB and Intel graphics. Load up one of those Via boards with enough memory and you'll be fine for most anything but games.
The problem is that the computer would be so ridicilously expensive, that you could afford to configure something totally outragous in the PC world, and save enough money to build two of them.
The reason why Pentium-M is as performant as it is is in part because it has 2MB of on-die cache. Don't expect miracles from a chip that has a half or even one fourth of that.
My AMD Athlon XP only has 256KB of L2 cache, you insensitive clod!
That's not that bad power usage at all. Remember, a lot of current laptops (as in just about any low to lower midrange model, as well as many "desktop replacement" models) have a full desktop chip crammed in there. The exact same chips that put out 75W+ in your desktop computer. Just like this Toshiba with a full blown Northgate 2.0Ghz P4. Oh wait...ow...my leg...!
It's exciting to finally see AMD come out with some chips that can compete with the Pentium M in power usage though - the XP M just wasn't quite there.
In addition, ASUS, Averatec, BenQ, MSI and Packard Bell are among the leading, global computer manufacturers who have indicated they will support AMD Turion 64 mobile technology.
Packard Bell?!? Is this some kind of joke? I thought they died about the time the PII came out.
As opposed to having a $300,000 house (morgaged, and 2nd morgage), owing $25,000 each on two cars, $60,000 in credit card debt, and $30,000 in old student loans...
Back in the late 80's they were pretty terrible cars (mechanically - they seem reasonably well designed). But the people I know now that still have then swear by them, and their vans give them very little trouble.
I think it's just that all the lousy ones have long since been recycled into Toyotas, and the cream of the crop is all that's left.
A lot depends on the genre. With the music I like, people tend to not think of things like individual tracks or songs so much - but rather mixes or sets that usually run 60-80+ minutes.
Getting music is only "free" if your time and effort are worthless: if it's easier, faster and of higher quality to get the new Beck record from iTunes , it's worth it to purchase legitimately than to try and get it other ways.
iTunes may be fast and easy, but I would hardly call it higher quality. Perhaps better than the average Kazaa encode, I guess.
For something relatively mainstream like Beck, if I want fast, easy, high quality, and free, it's off to usenet. With a little patience in lurk mode (assuming it's not currently posted as I type), I would have the new album in a high quality rip with little fuss at all.
I'd say a good video game is what is cheapest. A game like Diablo II costed about $50 (when it was new) - and combined with Battle.net (free), provided many months of entertainment. I still play it now and then. I'm sure I'm well under $0.05/(hour of entertainment) on that one alone. Basically any video game with huge replay value is going to be incredibly cheap. I know I've gotten every penny's worth out of games like SimCity 2000, GTA 3, and Mario Kart too.
And then, there are free games too. Like isketch.net, or my all-time favorite, Truck Dismount. Can't beat free!
I am reminded of a story of the early days in the Chrysler-Benz merger; the Chrysler top execs would drive to meetings in a Chrysler van (they called it "the clown car"), whereas the Benz execs would show up in all sorts of fancy vehicles.
What are you saying? That what Chysler gets done with a single vehicle, takes a fleet of Mercedes?
Oftentimes, maximize puts parts of the window under the dock, which means I have to resize it again. It's broken as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, maximize comes from the word maximum. So if I maximize a window, it should take up the maximum area (as in the whole screen). Maybe Apple should call it optomize or something.
Freedos should be ported over to PPC. You know, I would love to see the look on an Apple zealot's face if I was to whip out a new Powerbook, turn it on, and have it boot up to a C:\> prompt.
Was it really cracking? From what I read in the article, someone got a letter from another school, and noticed that Harvard's system was very simular. They knew the form of the URL needed for the school they got the letter from (since the school gave it to them). They wondered if they could use a simular URL at Harvard's site - and it worked. This isn't anything like cracking into some secured, private system at Harvard. It's basically retrieving information that was already published on the internet - just a bit tricky to find.
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Do you see that LED on the front panel of just about every PC floppy drive ever made? Do you have any idea what that is for?
That's strange, considering that Netscape never released Netscape Navigator 5 (skipping straight from 4.78 to 6.0).
Do you think that would of really worked, and the serial number couldn't be spoofed easily? Trying to uniquely identify computers using a serial number in the processor would work as well as trying to identify them by MAC address.
At home, I find the distro's still have many seeders so long as it's a current release - and it's pretty easy to max the DSL at over 200kb/s. Older distro's like Redhat 9.0 will go very slow, if at all. At school (where Bittorrent is limited to 1-2kb/s max), I can get onto mirrors hosted by nearby universities and download them at 1-2MB/s. It's awesome.
Sweet christ...move out of mom's basement and learn what it is like to kiss a girl. There is ZERO reason to keep these ancient systems running. Recycle the things or donate them to a museum.
But maybe he wants something he can depend on?
The point of Small Form Factor computers is to be small. Hence the word "Small" in the name. The rest is up to you.
Tell me again why Apple doesn't put FM in the iPod?
Because an FM tuner is a feature, and the iPod is not about features.
From my experience, you'll be fine so long as you don't try to use that single PCI slot :)
Does anyone have any valid complaints against the PS/2 ports other than the fact they are old? They work, they do everything I need, and they do it well. I see no reason for them needing to go.
Also, keep in mind that if they ditched the PS/2 ports, you would have to add 2 more USB ports to get back to where you started (that is 4 free USB ports after hooking up keyboard/mouse).
For things like Photoshop, I have seen a 500Mhz machine with 512MB of Ram and a decent (Matrox) video card kick the crap out of much faster machines with less than 256MB and Intel graphics. Load up one of those Via boards with enough memory and you'll be fine for most anything but games.
The problem is that the computer would be so ridicilously expensive, that you could afford to configure something totally outragous in the PC world, and save enough money to build two of them.
The reason why Pentium-M is as performant as it is is in part because it has 2MB of on-die cache. Don't expect miracles from a chip that has a half or even one fourth of that.
My AMD Athlon XP only has 256KB of L2 cache, you insensitive clod!
That's not that bad power usage at all. Remember, a lot of current laptops (as in just about any low to lower midrange model, as well as many "desktop replacement" models) have a full desktop chip crammed in there. The exact same chips that put out 75W+ in your desktop computer. Just like this Toshiba with a full blown Northgate 2.0Ghz P4. Oh wait...ow...my leg...!
It's exciting to finally see AMD come out with some chips that can compete with the Pentium M in power usage though - the XP M just wasn't quite there.
In addition, ASUS, Averatec, BenQ, MSI and Packard Bell are among the leading, global computer manufacturers who have indicated they will support AMD Turion 64 mobile technology.
Packard Bell?!? Is this some kind of joke? I thought they died about the time the PII came out.
As opposed to having a $300,000 house (morgaged, and 2nd morgage), owing $25,000 each on two cars, $60,000 in credit card debt, and $30,000 in old student loans...
Yes.
they certify the MATH is correct.
...10% of $125,000.00 is $12,499.999675475885...
Hmm, what if I file on my old Pentium I?
Back in the late 80's they were pretty terrible cars (mechanically - they seem reasonably well designed). But the people I know now that still have then swear by them, and their vans give them very little trouble.
I think it's just that all the lousy ones have long since been recycled into Toyotas, and the cream of the crop is all that's left.
A lot depends on the genre. With the music I like, people tend to not think of things like individual tracks or songs so much - but rather mixes or sets that usually run 60-80+ minutes.
Getting music is only "free" if your time and effort are worthless: if it's easier, faster and of higher quality to get the new Beck record from iTunes , it's worth it to purchase legitimately than to try and get it other ways.
iTunes may be fast and easy, but I would hardly call it higher quality. Perhaps better than the average Kazaa encode, I guess.
For something relatively mainstream like Beck, if I want fast, easy, high quality, and free, it's off to usenet. With a little patience in lurk mode (assuming it's not currently posted as I type), I would have the new album in a high quality rip with little fuss at all.
Video games.
I'd say a good video game is what is cheapest. A game like Diablo II costed about $50 (when it was new) - and combined with Battle.net (free), provided many months of entertainment. I still play it now and then. I'm sure I'm well under $0.05/(hour of entertainment) on that one alone. Basically any video game with huge replay value is going to be incredibly cheap. I know I've gotten every penny's worth out of games like SimCity 2000, GTA 3, and Mario Kart too.
And then, there are free games too. Like isketch.net, or my all-time favorite, Truck Dismount. Can't beat free!
I am reminded of a story of the early days in the Chrysler-Benz merger; the Chrysler top execs would drive to meetings in a Chrysler van (they called it "the clown car"), whereas the Benz execs would show up in all sorts of fancy vehicles.
What are you saying? That what Chysler gets done with a single vehicle, takes a fleet of Mercedes?
Oftentimes, maximize puts parts of the window under the dock, which means I have to resize it again. It's broken as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, maximize comes from the word maximum. So if I maximize a window, it should take up the maximum area (as in the whole screen). Maybe Apple should call it optomize or something.
Yes, but it's DOS on a Mac!
Freedos should be ported over to PPC. You know, I would love to see the look on an Apple zealot's face if I was to whip out a new Powerbook, turn it on, and have it boot up to a C:\> prompt.
Can you name a single big brand box maker that sells a "linux ready" PC for less than the same model loaded with Windows?
Piracy aside, every single PC I build is cheaper with Linux than it is with Windows.
Was it really cracking? From what I read in the article, someone got a letter from another school, and noticed that Harvard's system was very simular. They knew the form of the URL needed for the school they got the letter from (since the school gave it to them). They wondered if they could use a simular URL at Harvard's site - and it worked. This isn't anything like cracking into some secured, private system at Harvard. It's basically retrieving information that was already published on the internet - just a bit tricky to find.