I'll have an unconventional advice.. The new ivy bridge Celeron is only a dual core, but a very fast one (probably similar to a core 2 duo E8600), uses very little power and sold at about 40 euros. Because Intel CPUs use little power (even high end ones) a piece of crap mobo works fine. So, a piece of crap mobo, a Celeron G1610 and one stick of 4GB ddr3 males for a nice system I think, and can take a further upgrade to any core i5 model. Have a recent mobo if possible, because older ones, while fully compatible, ship with a BIOS that has to be updated before being able to run an ivy bridge.
I usually like AMD CPUs mind you, I have an Athlon II X2 which was marvelous three years ago but on the very low end AMD has stagnated for too long, they sell dual core CPUs more expensive and slower than Intel ones.
Video ram isn't fully mapped to system addressing space. There's only a 256MB window, as far as I know, per GPU. So, on a system with one 256 or 512MB graphics card you might have 3.5GB usable memory, on a system with two 256MB graphics cards in SLI you might have 3.25GB usable memory, and on a system with a 2GB graphics card.. back to 3.5GB.
Well you can get 4GB of ddr1 for more than 16GB cost you. And if you have two memory slots, that will be 2GB ddr1 for most than the cost of your 8GB, pissed down into an old desktop. But funnily, Windows 7 runs fine on old hardware, I've seen it usable on a 10 year old PC with 768MB ram, I installed a 10 year old XP driver for the radeon 9200 on it and it ran UT at a very high framerate, Warcraft III decent at 1024x768 high detail.
Those are specific electrical problems. You need a combination of an early mobo and specific gas-guzzling cards to have the electrical PCIe spec violated, I think that doesn't happen anymore and hasn't for a few years. In doubt, get something low power but still fast, Radeon 7750 or GTX 650.
Of course it sucks for games, the CPU is way too much underclocked. But this is an affordable tiny, low watts PC with supported graphics (good linux drivers, will still work on Ubuntu 16.04) and at least it can run TF2 at all. My PC is more powerful, bigger, has less RAM (stuck on ddr2 with two working slots) and can't run TF2 due to my graphics card being too old.
With that Zbox though you will be stuck running old games or maybe cross plaftorm indie games that also appear on Android.. At least Counterstrike 1.6 was semi-officially released on Steam very recently. If you think it sucks, don't buy it, you just need something bigger and with more watts - though an Intel i3 at 1.8GHz (same chip) could have been put in there, only the PC would be about $100 more expensive because Intel sells that at a premium.
I'll have to get a USB SIM reader, they're about $10 but have to be ordered over the internet. I've been postponing this for long because those $10 (or rather 10 euros plus shipping) are meaningful to me, but if I have one, here's insta backup of any kind of phone (dumb or less dumb). Writing the contact repertory from PC to SIM card should be doable too.
The chip itself just never dies, just like the chip on a debit card. It goes on for years and years with a large number of plugging/unplugging if needed. Biggest danger is that of losing your phone (with work and sex opportunities that were in it).
It's now becoming customary that the ISP's provided "box" (the named used in French) doubles as a public Wifi hotspot on a seggregate IP. The catch is you need your own code that your ISP gives you (SFR, Orange, Free) then you can leech from other people's Internet if they have the same provider as you and you're paying your bills and your hotspot is enabled.
It's not a big catch, obviously! These codes circulate freely, in violation of the TOS. Of course operators are pricks and only give you HTTP, SSL and FTP (so if you're a geek you may need a host with ssh accessible on port 21 somewhere). But Free.fr doesn't care and is the prefered ISP for leeching. They even let you torrenting!
This is all better than what's in the article. Asking people to wide open their home or small business LAN is asking for disaster : accessing Windows share, even unprotected read/write ones, using up all your network (wireless and internet connection), sitting outside your house and dumping your movies for hours.. and that's the relatively innocuous stuff. Instead my ISP has worked out the security and QoS already. I even have the hotspot as the only WiFi enabled in my place. It's not like my beige tower needs wireless access.
Long and short term memories are very different beasts, I think that when you get old you're likely to keep almost all your long term memory but the short term ability gets poor or very poor. So in your daytime, you would have a lot less things to remember actually.
When old, you probably get back to much "ritual" behavior too (something very natural in the animal rein), i.e. waking up at a fixed time, doing similar errands in the morning, preparing soup at 7 PM (whatever your granny routine is). Then, all your activity slows down. You spend (and consume) less energy, eat quite less I think, and probably have less need for sleep due to that slower functioning body. That's what I think to know about old age, perhaps there are nice books that deal with this topic. Lol, I hope I'll be alive long enough to be old and to suffer moderate enough pains.
I would say it has probably been known for centuries or more, even. This isn't the first time I see a study like this on slashdot : universally known fact of life discovered by a team of scientists (though, I don't remember what it was about!). I won't discard it as meaningless : it's pretty interesting to witness scientific findings, with all rigor and instrumentation techniques etc. rediscovering something your grand-grandmother could probably have told you.
Yes, the difference in energy required to reach orbit is enormous.. Though I don't think you can quite orbit at 120km, there must be terrible atmospheric drag there.
What's notable is that all the talks about space tourism in the US : they're mostly about achieving that same kind of suborbital roller-coaster that breaks an arbitrary 100km threshold. Making it cheap is probably the interesting part, I wonder if the Iranian version of this was cheap (taking your time to build a boring old rocket domestically), or expensive (throw money at the problem to build that boring old rocket instead of trying e.g. a cheap space plane thing).
What I happen to think sadly is such rollercoaster trips for millionnaires are pointless and a waste of resources! Color me uninterested. Unless you do useful things (probing the high atmosphere, have a quick look at cosmic rays related stuff etc.)
but how many vid cards do you have, and do you have a VGA or DVI switch, or monitor with dual inputs, or both. This looks perfect but you need quite some hardware with few clue as to what vid cards are compatible. Can I have a AMD 970 mobo, nvidia card (such as geforce 210) for dom0 on the PCIe 16x@4x (and running a full linux desktop on dom0), nvidia or AMD card for the domU (GTX 6xx or radeon 7xxx)?
Do I need a SSD to run it? I run my OS on an old IDE drive (data, not/home on a 160GB one) and have a stack of those if I want to try something different. If I want to try it, and PC-BSD 9.1 or Linux Mint 14 KDE should be awesome OSes, I'd like to have the databases enabled (interfaced with whatever IM/mail/contacts/"PDA" stuff) as it's like the main feature of KDE along with kio slaves. But if I invest time into using it (after learning how to disable the animations crap and the tabbed start menu), and it turns into a slow piece of crap then I will have wasted my time. I dumped Windows 7 because it did too much I/O and that was on a 1TB drive.
I had to reboot lately, because Firefox was a zombie process and still taking 1.5G of memory. Its parent was init. For the first time, I did a kill -1 -9 to see what happens (kills everything but init) this gives you a black screen and losing all input to do anything with the computer. I should haved killed init to see what happens lol.
Doing something without reboot is also a test on your admin skills (I'm sure a user barely able to edit/etc/fstab will just reboot instead of doing a mount -a, and so on.)
I run a perfectly good VGA monitor and all my available spare displays are VGA. Nothing wrong with running a decade old monitor if that's what you have. While so far I only run PCs this thing could be cool for some uses and VGA + HDMI actually covers most everything pretty nice (what if you borrow a projector and only have readily available VGA cables)
Over the Pi, you get a much better CPU, more USB and a real ethernet. The main weakness is probably the 512MB ddr3, without swapping. Easy to fill the memory with web browsing alone.
Easy to throw a web interface? I had installed Apache and looked at the kilometer long configuration file and was horrified. I installed a Webdav but thought it looked pretty useless. Fucked around to try to find a usable "web file manager" but I didn't found anything great and don't really know how to install them. Maybe on Windows you could get a setup.exe that set ups everything. Sorry, I don't know how throwing a web interface is "easy", I know a fuck ton about computers and some administration but I have no web dev experience.
At least anyone can use Filezilla (Windows does apply)
So, your rebuttal is you recently bought some mid range, almost high end (for the CPU) hardware. Your point of view amounts to being right if you spend money and being wrong if you don't spend it.
Meanwhile, my PC is about 3 year old and never could run Crysis 1 well, because I could not spend a few hundreds to boost it enough. I even bought a recent midrange card (gt240 gddr5), which was incredibly more powerful than what I had before but it was still too slow. Other specs : Athlon II X2 245, 2GB ddr2, nforce 5 mobo, 1TB hard drive (since dead).
Pro-tip : garlic is very healthy, it helps your immune system, it is even so powerful it can prevent worms in a dog's shit. So, I use it as an alternative to hygiene, and it makes pasta more enjoyable.
Umm you don't need a credit card to live, this seems to be a US thing. I'm French and we just have a small, agreed on negative balance at the bank and/or take an ad hoc loan. No credit card involved, though quite some people fall for it anyway and become "super-indebted". Most people carry a smartcard that can only pay with money you have at the bank. And negative balance up to half your monthly income can be pretty much free of charge.
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But if your CPU is underwater, and I think a 2.2GHz K8 definitely is, you're only going to look at pretty high res pictures with a slow framerate.
I'll have an unconventional advice.. The new ivy bridge Celeron is only a dual core, but a very fast one (probably similar to a core 2 duo E8600), uses very little power and sold at about 40 euros. Because Intel CPUs use little power (even high end ones) a piece of crap mobo works fine. So, a piece of crap mobo, a Celeron G1610 and one stick of 4GB ddr3 males for a nice system I think, and can take a further upgrade to any core i5 model. Have a recent mobo if possible, because older ones, while fully compatible, ship with a BIOS that has to be updated before being able to run an ivy bridge.
I usually like AMD CPUs mind you, I have an Athlon II X2 which was marvelous three years ago but on the very low end AMD has stagnated for too long, they sell dual core CPUs more expensive and slower than Intel ones.
Video ram isn't fully mapped to system addressing space. There's only a 256MB window, as far as I know, per GPU. So, on a system with one 256 or 512MB graphics card you might have 3.5GB usable memory, on a system with two 256MB graphics cards in SLI you might have 3.25GB usable memory, and on a system with a 2GB graphics card.. back to 3.5GB.
Well you can get 4GB of ddr1 for more than 16GB cost you. And if you have two memory slots, that will be 2GB ddr1 for most than the cost of your 8GB, pissed down into an old desktop. But funnily, Windows 7 runs fine on old hardware, I've seen it usable on a 10 year old PC with 768MB ram, I installed a 10 year old XP driver for the radeon 9200 on it and it ran UT at a very high framerate, Warcraft III decent at 1024x768 high detail.
Those are specific electrical problems. You need a combination of an early mobo and specific gas-guzzling cards to have the electrical PCIe spec violated, I think that doesn't happen anymore and hasn't for a few years. In doubt, get something low power but still fast, Radeon 7750 or GTX 650.
But this "jailbreaking" term is tiring, it's in effect a pedantic and not so subtle way of boasting about owning an iphone.
Of course it sucks for games, the CPU is way too much underclocked. But this is an affordable tiny, low watts PC with supported graphics (good linux drivers, will still work on Ubuntu 16.04) and at least it can run TF2 at all. My PC is more powerful, bigger, has less RAM (stuck on ddr2 with two working slots) and can't run TF2 due to my graphics card being too old.
With that Zbox though you will be stuck running old games or maybe cross plaftorm indie games that also appear on Android.. At least Counterstrike 1.6 was semi-officially released on Steam very recently.
If you think it sucks, don't buy it, you just need something bigger and with more watts - though an Intel i3 at 1.8GHz (same chip) could have been put in there, only the PC would be about $100 more expensive because Intel sells that at a premium.
I'll have to get a USB SIM reader, they're about $10 but have to be ordered over the internet. I've been postponing this for long because those $10 (or rather 10 euros plus shipping) are meaningful to me, but if I have one, here's insta backup of any kind of phone (dumb or less dumb). Writing the contact repertory from PC to SIM card should be doable too.
The chip itself just never dies, just like the chip on a debit card. It goes on for years and years with a large number of plugging/unplugging if needed. Biggest danger is that of losing your phone (with work and sex opportunities that were in it).
That PC probably has a 300W PSU but uses about 50 watts or something. It's idling all day under automatic underclocking.
It's now becoming customary that the ISP's provided "box" (the named used in French) doubles as a public Wifi hotspot on a seggregate IP. The catch is you need your own code that your ISP gives you (SFR, Orange, Free) then you can leech from other people's Internet if they have the same provider as you and you're paying your bills and your hotspot is enabled.
It's not a big catch, obviously! These codes circulate freely, in violation of the TOS.
Of course operators are pricks and only give you HTTP, SSL and FTP (so if you're a geek you may need a host with ssh accessible on port 21 somewhere).
But Free.fr doesn't care and is the prefered ISP for leeching. They even let you torrenting!
This is all better than what's in the article. Asking people to wide open their home or small business LAN is asking for disaster : accessing Windows share, even unprotected read/write ones, using up all your network (wireless and internet connection), sitting outside your house and dumping your movies for hours.. and that's the relatively innocuous stuff.
Instead my ISP has worked out the security and QoS already. I even have the hotspot as the only WiFi enabled in my place. It's not like my beige tower needs wireless access.
Long and short term memories are very different beasts, I think that when you get old you're likely to keep almost all your long term memory but the short term ability gets poor or very poor. So in your daytime, you would have a lot less things to remember actually.
When old, you probably get back to much "ritual" behavior too (something very natural in the animal rein), i.e. waking up at a fixed time, doing similar errands in the morning, preparing soup at 7 PM (whatever your granny routine is).
Then, all your activity slows down. You spend (and consume) less energy, eat quite less I think, and probably have less need for sleep due to that slower functioning body. That's what I think to know about old age, perhaps there are nice books that deal with this topic. Lol, I hope I'll be alive long enough to be old and to suffer moderate enough pains.
I would say it has probably been known for centuries or more, even. This isn't the first time I see a study like this on slashdot : universally known fact of life discovered by a team of scientists (though, I don't remember what it was about!). I won't discard it as meaningless : it's pretty interesting to witness scientific findings, with all rigor and instrumentation techniques etc. rediscovering something your grand-grandmother could probably have told you.
Yes, the difference in energy required to reach orbit is enormous.. Though I don't think you can quite orbit at 120km, there must be terrible atmospheric drag there.
What's notable is that all the talks about space tourism in the US : they're mostly about achieving that same kind of suborbital roller-coaster that breaks an arbitrary 100km threshold. Making it cheap is probably the interesting part, I wonder if the Iranian version of this was cheap (taking your time to build a boring old rocket domestically), or expensive (throw money at the problem to build that boring old rocket instead of trying e.g. a cheap space plane thing).
What I happen to think sadly is such rollercoaster trips for millionnaires are pointless and a waste of resources! Color me uninterested. Unless you do useful things (probing the high atmosphere, have a quick look at cosmic rays related stuff etc.)
You already have a gas-guzzling GPU, and a PSU that is more than powerful enough for it.
but how many vid cards do you have, and do you have a VGA or DVI switch, or monitor with dual inputs, or both.
This looks perfect but you need quite some hardware with few clue as to what vid cards are compatible. Can I have a AMD 970 mobo, nvidia card (such as geforce 210) for dom0 on the PCIe 16x@4x (and running a full linux desktop on dom0), nvidia or AMD card for the domU (GTX 6xx or radeon 7xxx)?
Do I need a SSD to run it? I run my OS on an old IDE drive (data, not /home on a 160GB one) and have a stack of those if I want to try something different.
If I want to try it, and PC-BSD 9.1 or Linux Mint 14 KDE should be awesome OSes, I'd like to have the databases enabled (interfaced with whatever IM/mail/contacts/"PDA" stuff) as it's like the main feature of KDE along with kio slaves. But if I invest time into using it (after learning how to disable the animations crap and the tabbed start menu), and it turns into a slow piece of crap then I will have wasted my time. I dumped Windows 7 because it did too much I/O and that was on a 1TB drive.
I had to reboot lately, because Firefox was a zombie process and still taking 1.5G of memory. Its parent was init. For the first time, I did a kill -1 -9 to see what happens (kills everything but init) this gives you a black screen and losing all input to do anything with the computer. I should haved killed init to see what happens lol.
Doing something without reboot is also a test on your admin skills (I'm sure a user barely able to edit /etc/fstab will just reboot instead of doing a mount -a, and so on.)
I run a perfectly good VGA monitor and all my available spare displays are VGA. Nothing wrong with running a decade old monitor if that's what you have.
While so far I only run PCs this thing could be cool for some uses and VGA + HDMI actually covers most everything pretty nice (what if you borrow a projector and only have readily available VGA cables)
Over the Pi, you get a much better CPU, more USB and a real ethernet. The main weakness is probably the 512MB ddr3, without swapping. Easy to fill the memory with web browsing alone.
This is really what these guys are going through!
it's gross, but he could have done a lot worse!
btw there's sshfs on Windows, I thought it would be pedantic to mention it but it exists albeit a bit slow.
Easy to throw a web interface? I had installed Apache and looked at the kilometer long configuration file and was horrified. I installed a Webdav but thought it looked pretty useless. Fucked around to try to find a usable "web file manager" but I didn't found anything great and don't really know how to install them. Maybe on Windows you could get a setup.exe that set ups everything. Sorry, I don't know how throwing a web interface is "easy", I know a fuck ton about computers and some administration but I have no web dev experience.
At least anyone can use Filezilla (Windows does apply)
So, your rebuttal is you recently bought some mid range, almost high end (for the CPU) hardware. Your point of view amounts to being right if you spend money and being wrong if you don't spend it.
Meanwhile, my PC is about 3 year old and never could run Crysis 1 well, because I could not spend a few hundreds to boost it enough. I even bought a recent midrange card (gt240 gddr5), which was incredibly more powerful than what I had before but it was still too slow. Other specs : Athlon II X2 245, 2GB ddr2, nforce 5 mobo, 1TB hard drive (since dead).
Pro-tip : garlic is very healthy, it helps your immune system, it is even so powerful it can prevent worms in a dog's shit. So, I use it as an alternative to hygiene, and it makes pasta more enjoyable.
Umm you don't need a credit card to live, this seems to be a US thing. I'm French and we just have a small, agreed on negative balance at the bank and/or take an ad hoc loan. No credit card involved, though quite some people fall for it anyway and become "super-indebted". Most people carry a smartcard that can only pay with money you have at the bank. And negative balance up to half your monthly income can be pretty much free of charge.