Was that a question?, are you implying something hidden or were you expecting anything else?
It's well known Blizzard tests its own games on Wine. Linux gaming means you can run a couple Blizzard games, a couple Valve games, old emulators, bad card games and some limited retro-gaming here and there.
What do you mean? it comes with the Microsoft RDP client, sometimes a RDP server named "Remote Assistance" and of course Internet Exploiter:D Can even share a directory over the network by right-clicking on it. Well, if it was not buried by more wizards and login errors, I dunno.
Microsoft seems to have the decency of not including telnet by default these days. I remember being pissed by that once. Thanksfully about the only legitimate reason to use telnet was to login to your modem or router and this has been superceded by web interfaces. Or so I hope;), maybe some people rely on it in the enterprise - in a segregated control network to access whatever stuff, or in industry to access embedded/industrial stuff, not on the internet either. It's so crude I think of it as kind of a serial cable.
ftp is/ought to be considered deprecated, too. It will probably linger for ages because of legacy but I could read a nice detailed argument (and fun rant about security and creaking'oldness) that it's not even needed. http or ssh can do the job instead. There seems to be plenty (more tempered, concise) results with a "don't use ftp" Google search. Maybe ftp can be used for world readable, guest-user public archives and that's all.
I may be particularly lucky but I seem to hit ~10MB/s on a 100Mb LAN constantly, even when both ends are half-decent Pentium 3 level hardware. Seen an ssh transfer slow when using WinSCP, or worse with a ssh server run on *Windows* (I think that one just uses Cygwin) Even more fun there's Dokan sshfs you can run on Windows : slow but enough to play music and movie files from the linux remote host.
Slowest I've seen was downloading files with scp under MS-DOS, it was like 80KB/s but there was something wrong with that stupid TSR networking going on, as I had done the same 10x-20x faster on a slower PC before. If ssh is that slow for you you're maybe doing something wrong (like using a piece of shit Raspberry with data on ntfs-3g, inescapable USB networking and storage? I never tried that set up but it would be comical)
It's supported by Filezilla, anyway. I use that if I quickly need to transfer files to/from a linux box on a LAN, with only openssh-server needed on the other machine. It's also really easy to use for beginner/non-technical users, and is an apt-get install away on linux too.
One of my first experiences with linux was not being able to run ttyquake because it was too old. Linux has had changing APIs for a long time. Nowadays what peeves me though is my graphics card is slightly too old to run the Valve games - I'd be able to run them in Windows, as they target DirectX 9 there.
Never played OpenTTD or TTD yet but this reminds me of the pains of playing doom 1 and 2 in linux. I can't get music, except with the braindead "freepats" midi, which is low quality, entirely Free and Open.. and isn't even complete enough to play doom music, no drums or almost no drums and some other instruments are lacking. So the only workaround I have for now is to run the original games in Dosbox, where I get 320x200 and some slowdowns, but at least the midi goes to a synthesizer with a huge soundfont.
I'll maybe try DOS version of TTD to see what the fun is about, hoping the game does 640x480 at least.
You'll be probably dead in 30 years and I'll be probably alive in 50 years. Maybe it's just that you don't need to freak out anyway, and not freaking out is a more healthy lifestyle no matter what. BTW a really huge coronal mass ejection would do quite a mess, there was one such in 1859 only the only stuff it could knock down was telegraph lines. The horses and contemporary steam engines were safe.
I'm expecting dystopian changes to society, too : those caused by the occurrence in my lifetime of massive famine, war, disease due to AGW. That is plausible, or even probable.
The actual source code is this, from briffa_Sep98_d.pro http://wattsupwiththat.com/200... [wattsupwiththat.com] - you can decide for yourself whether this is "torture" or not, and whether this particular debate should be squelched:
Climate scientists are often accused of using misleading, uncorrected data : typically a blogger or forum reader writes that temperature datasets are invalid because of urban island heat effects, for one thing. But what actually happens is scientists discard such invalid data or apply a correction to it, when such effects are known. Enters "climategate" where a climate scientist uses corrected data not raw data, and he's reviled for doing so. Yes the correction is "artificial" and the published results are just an estimate, and it's just one piece of work that may make sense in a limited context and may be superseded by later, more accurate works.. because that's the nature of the work that could be done.
Really, random bloggers and lobbyists can chastise scientists for not using raw data in all times and contexts, but that shouldn't matter : the idea is nuts. Other times, the same people complain that the raw data is slanted. So which is it?
It's also useless anyway. He 3 is much harder to fuse than what we're trying to do already. Just do deuterium + tritium and forget about the rest. Alternatively if you insist so much on aneutronic fusion while not caring about the wasted expenses and energy, there's proton + boron fusion. Any fusion of stuff heavier than D + T would be done in the 22th century or later after D + T fusion or perfect energy storage have brought up a post-scarcity world anyway.
France too, but it's pointless for the consumer and even risky as leaving the State provider once to suscribe with a private one means you lose the regulated-by-law price rates forever. The State provider is technically now a private firm owned at 85% by the State. Funnily, the private providers and producers are heavily subsidized : wind power etc., the european-wide rule that wholesale wind/solar power always must be purchased first on the interconnect grids, and the State provider (by large the largest electricity producer in the world) is forced to sell much of its nuclear electricity at a loss to all its competitors.
So, really, a market was mandated by law foremost for compliance with european treaties, and they made one up. On the other hand the huge company maybe feels more free when they want to gobble up european actors or invest in Europe and the rest of the world. I've realized the company in question operates 73 nuclear reactors when you count the UK ones, that's a bit hilarious.
We used to have a nationalized grid with only one provider to choose from on the whole territory (hint : France). Now that it's been somewhat opened, prices are driven up. Traditionnally the prices are the same over the whole territory (at least for ordinary citizens and businesses), which is why slashdot discussions about expensive and cheap areas in the US read funny to me. Of course there's quite a scale difference, huge territories with varying climates and resources, federal administrations so I don't suggest Canada-wide or US-wide fixed prices make sense but I believe you have at least one example of that philosophy with postage stamps.
It's still limited to a 60Hz display, which is decent enough for many other games but in Q3 you will get your ass handed over by people playing on 85Hz or higher monitors.
Win 7 supports 2000 and XP drivers, if you run the 32bit version (which might be mandatory or desireable if your PC is that old). That's really exceptional support of ancient drivers, similar but (very) different to using linux - Windows supports old proprietary stuff while linux supports old open source stuff (unless support for your ancient graphics card is dropped from MESA or at worst Xorg)
Actually the first gens of Tesla cards (G80, GT200) were über-expensive even though they were not particularly useful, and then the two latter gens (Fermi, Kepler) were like 3x cheaper. Tesla is cheaper than high end Quadro (which is a superset of Tesla), AMD now is competing or intending to compete and Intel will with their next "many-core chip iteration. Geforce Titan (or even the GT640 gddr5) serves as a low entry point, it's the same as Tesla/Quadro minus the ECC (and minus the CAD OpenGL etc. stuff) so it can be used to develop GPGPU stuff, or number crunch if you don't need high integrity (offline 3D rendering, etc.)
It IS consumer shit, but versions where you can enable ECC and the clock/voltage profiles are toned down. BTW the ECC is not available on midrange FirePro and Quadro, or on older generations.
16GB of RAM is what will be found on the server/compute version of the Radeon R9 290X, around 300GB/s (minus 12.5% in bandwith and capacity for the jury-rigged ECC, I assume). Nvidia sells GPUs with 12GB of memory with similar bandwith right now. I take that the "16 gigs of fast ram" referred to that context.
It's an order of magnitude faster than CPU memory, bandwith-wise, and that bandwith makes the GPU useful in video games and other stuff.
Some people simply do it for gaming, you can even have two gaming seats (conceivably more). The feature of using a real vid card in a VM is typically called VGA passthrough, it's more finnicky and pissy than for regular cards or controllers because of the VGA BIOS that needs to be dealt with. It was first done on AMD motherboards (890FX and 9xx chipsets) under Xen 4.x I think, hard to run depending on the motherboard and vid cards ; from what I've heard it's easier with recent server/workstation motherboards and ESXi.
XMP is just some crap you can disable, like SPD auto-configuration (less fancy, earlier version of the same thing) - simply know your memory's specs, use a clock lower than or equal to the one it officially supports, increase the timing cycles by one notch, have 2T command rate and not 1T, even add +0.1 volt if your hardware is a bit crap.. This can turn decade old garbage from unbootable to stable (when you want to use more than one or two sticks). But you need at least a lowest end non-OEM motherboard, where all the settings arey available! It's the pre-built, OEM namebrand consumer stuff that is unfixable lol (e.g. I had to downgrade somebody's computer from 3GB to 2GB, because the BIOS doesn't expose any of this)
Otherwise I'm sure you're correct that the stuff you describe is helpful.. Blinking red light per HDD slot especially (unless you try to make that system up yourself and the red blink doesn't come up or the wrong disks gets blinking?:d)
About ECC on AMD consumer/gamer systems, it always gets mentioned but the feature is never advertised in motherboard manuals, BIOSes, support pages etc : what's the compatibility list exactly and how do you know the ECC feature is actually working? Else, Intel explicitly supports ECC on Core i3 (explicit non-support on i5, i7, Pentium etc.). Safe bet is maybe an i3 on a "professional" motherboard with a chipset named something like C202or C204 or C2xx.. and there, it's all consumer tech behind the scenes. I think you can even buy a redundant PSU for your beige tower, though it will cost as much as most of the PC's hardware ; serial console can be a management interface if you can boot but I think the "pro" desktop motherboard have actual management features too.
I have a little kernel bug (says it can't mount/tmp) and I have to select linux 3.8.0-32 kernel instead of 3.8.0-33 at boot every time, and I don't have the knowledge to configure grub 2 to do it for me, and I can't fix it because the internet connection went permanently down where the computer is. (well maybe/etc/default/grub has a entry to blacklist a kernel version or to force booting one, or I can switch to using grub legacy but might need the internet to install it).
I will probably give up on apt-get dist-upgrade (I thought these were security updates to the kernel, with maybe some rare critical bugfix)
I failed to run the linux version of doom 3, so I fell back on running it with Wine instead where it was flawless. Of course as often on linux, to accesss the console and weapons you need to set the keyboard to QWERTY so it's more like typing 'setxkbmap us&&wine doom3.exe' at the prompt, but it's almost there lol. (not 100% sure if that part applies to doom 3 but it does much often, including in random linux native games)
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Was that a question?, are you implying something hidden or were you expecting anything else?
It's well known Blizzard tests its own games on Wine.
Linux gaming means you can run a couple Blizzard games, a couple Valve games, old emulators, bad card games and some limited retro-gaming here and there.
What do you mean? it comes with the Microsoft RDP client, sometimes a RDP server named "Remote Assistance" and of course Internet Exploiter :D
Can even share a directory over the network by right-clicking on it. Well, if it was not buried by more wizards and login errors, I dunno.
Microsoft seems to have the decency of not including telnet by default these days. I remember being pissed by that once. Thanksfully about the only legitimate reason to use telnet was to login to your modem or router and this has been superceded by web interfaces. Or so I hope ;), maybe some people rely on it in the enterprise - in a segregated control network to access whatever stuff, or in industry to access embedded/industrial stuff, not on the internet either. It's so crude I think of it as kind of a serial cable.
ftp is/ought to be considered deprecated, too. It will probably linger for ages because of legacy but I could read a nice detailed argument (and fun rant about security and creaking'oldness) that it's not even needed. http or ssh can do the job instead. There seems to be plenty (more tempered, concise) results with a "don't use ftp" Google search.
Maybe ftp can be used for world readable, guest-user public archives and that's all.
I may be particularly lucky but I seem to hit ~10MB/s on a 100Mb LAN constantly, even when both ends are half-decent Pentium 3 level hardware. Seen an ssh transfer slow when using WinSCP, or worse with a ssh server run on *Windows* (I think that one just uses Cygwin)
Even more fun there's Dokan sshfs you can run on Windows : slow but enough to play music and movie files from the linux remote host.
Slowest I've seen was downloading files with scp under MS-DOS, it was like 80KB/s but there was something wrong with that stupid TSR networking going on, as I had done the same 10x-20x faster on a slower PC before.
If ssh is that slow for you you're maybe doing something wrong (like using a piece of shit Raspberry with data on ntfs-3g, inescapable USB networking and storage? I never tried that set up but it would be comical)
It's supported by Filezilla, anyway. I use that if I quickly need to transfer files to/from a linux box on a LAN, with only openssh-server needed on the other machine. It's also really easy to use for beginner/non-technical users, and is an apt-get install away on linux too.
One of my first experiences with linux was not being able to run ttyquake because it was too old. Linux has had changing APIs for a long time. Nowadays what peeves me though is my graphics card is slightly too old to run the Valve games - I'd be able to run them in Windows, as they target DirectX 9 there.
Never played OpenTTD or TTD yet but this reminds me of the pains of playing doom 1 and 2 in linux. I can't get music, except with the braindead "freepats" midi, which is low quality, entirely Free and Open.. and isn't even complete enough to play doom music, no drums or almost no drums and some other instruments are lacking.
So the only workaround I have for now is to run the original games in Dosbox, where I get 320x200 and some slowdowns, but at least the midi goes to a synthesizer with a huge soundfont.
I'll maybe try DOS version of TTD to see what the fun is about, hoping the game does 640x480 at least.
You'll be probably dead in 30 years and I'll be probably alive in 50 years. Maybe it's just that you don't need to freak out anyway, and not freaking out is a more healthy lifestyle no matter what.
BTW a really huge coronal mass ejection would do quite a mess, there was one such in 1859 only the only stuff it could knock down was telegraph lines. The horses and contemporary steam engines were safe.
I'm expecting dystopian changes to society, too : those caused by the occurrence in my lifetime of massive famine, war, disease due to AGW. That is plausible, or even probable.
The actual source code is this, from briffa_Sep98_d.pro http://wattsupwiththat.com/200... [wattsupwiththat.com] - you can decide for yourself whether this is "torture" or not, and whether this particular debate should be squelched:
Climate scientists are often accused of using misleading, uncorrected data : typically a blogger or forum reader writes that temperature datasets are invalid because of urban island heat effects, for one thing. But what actually happens is scientists discard such invalid data or apply a correction to it, when such effects are known. Enters "climategate" where a climate scientist uses corrected data not raw data, and he's reviled for doing so. Yes the correction is "artificial" and the published results are just an estimate, and it's just one piece of work that may make sense in a limited context and may be superseded by later, more accurate works.. because that's the nature of the work that could be done.
Really, random bloggers and lobbyists can chastise scientists for not using raw data in all times and contexts, but that shouldn't matter : the idea is nuts. Other times, the same people complain that the raw data is slanted. So which is it?
It's also useless anyway. He 3 is much harder to fuse than what we're trying to do already. Just do deuterium + tritium and forget about the rest.
Alternatively if you insist so much on aneutronic fusion while not caring about the wasted expenses and energy, there's proton + boron fusion. Any fusion of stuff heavier than D + T would be done in the 22th century or later after D + T fusion or perfect energy storage have brought up a post-scarcity world anyway.
Thanks. That must be why there's a word for that : star metallicity.
France too, but it's pointless for the consumer and even risky as leaving the State provider once to suscribe with a private one means you lose the regulated-by-law price rates forever. The State provider is technically now a private firm owned at 85% by the State. Funnily, the private providers and producers are heavily subsidized : wind power etc., the european-wide rule that wholesale wind/solar power always must be purchased first on the interconnect grids, and the State provider (by large the largest electricity producer in the world) is forced to sell much of its nuclear electricity at a loss to all its competitors.
So, really, a market was mandated by law foremost for compliance with european treaties, and they made one up. On the other hand the huge company maybe feels more free when they want to gobble up european actors or invest in Europe and the rest of the world.
I've realized the company in question operates 73 nuclear reactors when you count the UK ones, that's a bit hilarious.
We used to have a nationalized grid with only one provider to choose from on the whole territory (hint : France). Now that it's been somewhat opened, prices are driven up. Traditionnally the prices are the same over the whole territory (at least for ordinary citizens and businesses), which is why slashdot discussions about expensive and cheap areas in the US read funny to me.
Of course there's quite a scale difference, huge territories with varying climates and resources, federal administrations so I don't suggest Canada-wide or US-wide fixed prices make sense but I believe you have at least one example of that philosophy with postage stamps.
It's still limited to a 60Hz display, which is decent enough for many other games but in Q3 you will get your ass handed over by people playing on 85Hz or higher monitors.
1920x1080 sucks sometimes but I find it's somewhat better than 1024x768 anyway.
Win 7 supports 2000 and XP drivers, if you run the 32bit version (which might be mandatory or desireable if your PC is that old). That's really exceptional support of ancient drivers, similar but (very) different to using linux - Windows supports old proprietary stuff while linux supports old open source stuff (unless support for your ancient graphics card is dropped from MESA or at worst Xorg)
You might need changing the thermal paste, especially if it's the stuff that came with the processor's default heatsink.
Actually the first gens of Tesla cards (G80, GT200) were über-expensive even though they were not particularly useful, and then the two latter gens (Fermi, Kepler) were like 3x cheaper. Tesla is cheaper than high end Quadro (which is a superset of Tesla), AMD now is competing or intending to compete and Intel will with their next "many-core chip iteration. Geforce Titan (or even the GT640 gddr5) serves as a low entry point, it's the same as Tesla/Quadro minus the ECC (and minus the CAD OpenGL etc. stuff) so it can be used to develop GPGPU stuff, or number crunch if you don't need high integrity (offline 3D rendering, etc.)
It IS consumer shit, but versions where you can enable ECC and the clock/voltage profiles are toned down. BTW the ECC is not available on midrange FirePro and Quadro, or on older generations.
16GB of RAM is what will be found on the server/compute version of the Radeon R9 290X, around 300GB/s (minus 12.5% in bandwith and capacity for the jury-rigged ECC, I assume). Nvidia sells GPUs with 12GB of memory with similar bandwith right now. I take that the "16 gigs of fast ram" referred to that context.
It's an order of magnitude faster than CPU memory, bandwith-wise, and that bandwith makes the GPU useful in video games and other stuff.
Some people simply do it for gaming, you can even have two gaming seats (conceivably more). The feature of using a real vid card in a VM is typically called VGA passthrough, it's more finnicky and pissy than for regular cards or controllers because of the VGA BIOS that needs to be dealt with. It was first done on AMD motherboards (890FX and 9xx chipsets) under Xen 4.x I think, hard to run depending on the motherboard and vid cards ; from what I've heard it's easier with recent server/workstation motherboards and ESXi.
XMP is just some crap you can disable, like SPD auto-configuration (less fancy, earlier version of the same thing) - simply know your memory's specs, use a clock lower than or equal to the one it officially supports, increase the timing cycles by one notch, have 2T command rate and not 1T, even add +0.1 volt if your hardware is a bit crap.. This can turn decade old garbage from unbootable to stable (when you want to use more than one or two sticks). But you need at least a lowest end non-OEM motherboard, where all the settings arey available! It's the pre-built, OEM namebrand consumer stuff that is unfixable lol (e.g. I had to downgrade somebody's computer from 3GB to 2GB, because the BIOS doesn't expose any of this)
Otherwise I'm sure you're correct that the stuff you describe is helpful.. Blinking red light per HDD slot especially (unless you try to make that system up yourself and the red blink doesn't come up or the wrong disks gets blinking? :d)
About ECC on AMD consumer/gamer systems, it always gets mentioned but the feature is never advertised in motherboard manuals, BIOSes, support pages etc : what's the compatibility list exactly and how do you know the ECC feature is actually working?
Else, Intel explicitly supports ECC on Core i3 (explicit non-support on i5, i7, Pentium etc.). Safe bet is maybe an i3 on a "professional" motherboard with a chipset named something like C202or C204 or C2xx.. and there, it's all consumer tech behind the scenes. I think you can even buy a redundant PSU for your beige tower, though it will cost as much as most of the PC's hardware ; serial console can be a management interface if you can boot but I think the "pro" desktop motherboard have actual management features too.
I have a little kernel bug (says it can't mount /tmp) and I have to select linux 3.8.0-32 kernel instead of 3.8.0-33 at boot every time, and I don't have the knowledge to configure grub 2 to do it for me, and I can't fix it because the internet connection went permanently down where the computer is. (well maybe /etc/default/grub has a entry to blacklist a kernel version or to force booting one, or I can switch to using grub legacy but might need the internet to install it).
I will probably give up on apt-get dist-upgrade (I thought these were security updates to the kernel, with maybe some rare critical bugfix)
I failed to run the linux version of doom 3, so I fell back on running it with Wine instead where it was flawless. Of course as often on linux, to accesss the console and weapons you need to set the keyboard to QWERTY so it's more like typing 'setxkbmap us&&wine doom3.exe' at the prompt, but it's almost there lol. (not 100% sure if that part applies to doom 3 but it does much often, including in random linux native games)