It's trivial enough to use a thumb-drive sized USB reader that makes it a thumb drive, to use on arbitrary hardware like desktops and laptops. A stash of old SD would serve me, currently. I've put a debian CD on my USB drive : I had to use dd, else the installer couldn't read the drive it launched from. So over 90% of the space is wasted and I'm out of a USB drive.
Now, what if we fast-forward several years and you find yourself putting a UFS card into such a thumb drive reader : unless the card is garbage, it should be very decent and reliable enough to run a desktop OS from (be it bare metal or a VM). You can already use the best USB 3 drives for that but they vary a lot (in performance or protocol) so it's better to look for a specific model. You can just use half-decent SD too but better keep things simple (like debian and lxde, ext2 noatime, no swap)
One issue is copying music files on low end SD. It's slow and there's a small pause between small files, so figure copying 2000MB at something just over 2MB/s, while waiting so you can leave.
It might be a better idea to try higher end SD but that doesn't come free.
If price is a primary concern then don't buy anything. You still can get by on a 15-year-old desktop.if you download youtube video or use software to open them in external player. If you want to play recent games.. then you need more performance than needed for 480p video editing or running VMs.
" It seems the problem isn't the card, but forcing the card into a configuration that it wasn't designed for."
This is exactly the issue, but the nvidia launches have had AMD worried about benchmark results so they chose a power/clocking profile that is too much for the board as it was designed. So they're backpedaling and offering a setting to make the card a few percents slower in the driver revision talked about in the blurb. The car analogy is a car making company made a small fuck up.
With 1GB RAM your browser will easily fill 80% of it. Best if everything else fits under 100MB, plus a graphics you can hopefully get down to 32MB or something not too large.
You're right, but with money viewed as bartering, maybe that enable simplistic representations. It's like, money is there so you can be a consumer at Walmart, Starbucks, or any goods or services. I give you money and you give me instant gratification. That's really what it's for most times. The argument about origin of money, I guess it's there to denounce that or to point out that it misses some depth in the relationship. The relationship could be more human, fuzzy, longer term and money is there to settle accounts. E.g. some say, work so that you can repay your debt to society. That'll bring taxes, pay into social security, enable a little bit of economic activity for other people but it's as non-descript as you get. Even hard line capitalistic US types think of "welfare recipient" as the greatest insult although they get "robbed" of their money to support them very indirectly. In some way, full employment capitalism e.g. some idealized US / Western Europe from the 60s or early 70s where almost everyone is middle class and you very rarely get robbed or ripped off, that's a society where lay people aren't jumping at each other's throat all the time. So it's big house vs small house or big car vs small car, big deal. I guess the Star Trek fiction is extrapolated from that, it would just about work if oil stayed virtually free and there was endless cheap, nice land to build on, and if magically the whole Earth was like that.
The greedy finance capitalists do know about endless forms of assets, money, loans, debt, and byzantines "securities" and "futures" and crap.
The 'fuck you' was removal of the checkbox to disable javascript, and the one to disable pictures. *That* sucks donkey balls, even if it's something you'd very rarely use ; maybe you're referring in part to that? If I want to "break" the web it's my call and I also know about Firefox profiles, even running two of them concurrently. Australis is rather benign, since you can have a title bar, a menu bar and remove unwanted icons.
It's likely using the RX 480's architecture (which will maybe receive slight tweaks) Saying that because it's actually quite close to that of Xbox One and PS4, and going all the way back to the Radeon 7970. Same overall design with different configurations, bandwith saving improvements etc.
Windows has a fast and advanced graphics subsystem with hot-plug drivers, while we're still waiting for Wayland, not knowing if it will catch up to Windows 7.
I want to mention that graphics cards do exist that allow the GPU to be virtualized, in a way that allows the GPU to be used by multiple guests - as if you had 2, 4, 8, 16 etc. virtual GPUs. Geforce GRID has done that for a while, but very "enterprisey" - it's complete systems in rackmounts for the server room, only.
AMD is joining allowing to use just a card. I'm discovering the final card right now. Up to 16 users on a GPU, the price is high since it's in the "pro" series with the optimizations for CAD software etc., so $2399 for something based on Radeon R9 380. http://www.tomsitpro.com/artic... Oh crap, there aren't video outputs! ha.
The next step after verbal or tacit debts to your neighbors was recorded debt, i.e. you go to see a Sumerian king or high level official to get it written, as the stakes (10 bushels of wheat, oxen etc.) are bigger and law enforcement will be useful. That still exists, if today there exists a debt relationship between two private individuals they may go see an attorney and make it acknowledged that Alice owes $1000 to Bob.
This would be the origin of money. Later, money (as a simple treasure, stash of metals) would could as a very acceptable way to repay debts. Valuable and universally useful commodities like salt are to be considered as such a money. Later this was made into coins under the authority of more powerful kings ruling over bigger territories. Later still banknotes passed off as money but in fact embody debt (things were written on it, to the effect of something like "the bank owes you 1000 coins", a version of it is just a nobleman who writes "I, the Earl [or countess] of Whatbuckshire, need to pay 10 pounds so I in earnest gave this piece of paper to this guy. I urge you to please pay his due on my behalf. Signed, Earl John J. Watson of Whatbuckshire". Banknotes were even eventually defined as "legal tender" by powerful nations with assorted national/central bank that issued them.
Instead of a communism/capitalism dichotomy, I rather see a continuum. The early, low-civilization, low tech, unenforced way still exists as "You came to visit me and brought a pack of beer. Next time maybe I'll buy you a beer at the bar. And I don't even need to tell you. I keep this at internal monologue, if that".
The barter story was invented after the fact by some well off century man who lived in modern comfort, since in 7000 BC no one had something of enough value to give on the spot for a goat, and even if you give your knife in exchange for the goat, what are you going to do then? Cut things with your teeth?
Linux may be partly at fault : switching graphics card driver requires you to at least kill and restart Xorg, whereas Windows is amazingly able to switch graphics. Example : you install Windows 7 on a crappy laptop. It's stuck at 1024x768 and you growl a little. After wasting time waiting for Windows Update, you install the Intel graphics driver from Windows Update ; the screen blinks to black for a tenth of a second, then you can select 1440x900 and your 3D graphics is fast.
At least, the problem of Windows in a VM switching between VESA and real graphics may be covered. I get your concern and that ideal set up is very complex. Thinking it should be easier if you give linux a permanent, separate GPU (integrated or otherwise) then either use dual monitors or a dual input monitor or a hardware DVI/VGA etc. switch. And then, it would be better if there existed some software signaling to make a monitor change input. I've thought of an "offending", but likely easiest set up : Windows would be the sole user of the GPU and keyboard/mouse, at all times. The linux VM always runs, but you use its desktop and apps "remotely" through the likes of VNC, X2GO, X11 etc. When you reboot Windows (or you make it crash) you're stuck with looking at crap instead of using your desktop linux, but Linux is still running unaffected and none the wiser. (But non persistent remote sessions are killed, so you need persistent ones)
But with game consoles, chromebooks and ipads you run some risks too, like ipad can't read or write a picture to/from a USB drive, Chromebook can't print etc. (whereas linux may be unable to scan but at least able to print and the scanner/printer combo still does copies)
Hell, there's even the Intel automatic driver upgrading wizard, or many 3rd party auto-upgrading driver wizards. The task was to install Intel's IDE/SATA controller driver on an older, slow as shit laptop. The auto-upgrader wizards are good for grinding the hard drive and showing a blue bar, but they didn't do anything. Manual installation of driver downloaded from web site (made slightly hard by wizardy web pages) worked and made drive reads 10MB/s faster.
If you're crazy enough or don't mind the waste you could set up a Windows VM with USB 2.0 support, give it the dongle and install router or proxy software on it. Or an ethernet bridge. Well, a smartphone can be used as a ghetto wifi card in the same way, if it "tethers" over USB.
Specifically I know about some of these USB dongles, the cheap TP Link ones that do one channel of 802.11n. (not ac) The linux support they give is an archive and "build this and use this on Ubuntu 14.04 with linux 3.16 kernel"
Now I remember that USB crash with a particular flash drive. Or the semi-failed (at times) ethernet, which is in my case unimportant given the available PCI slots to plug in a 15-year-old NIC if needed. I get your grief but this motherboard nearly 10-year-old is unkillable. It was when full ATX low end without graphics was still common. Even if all on-board hardware save for PS/2 ports were to fail I could still find a way to use it anyway. The PC was inspired by S-100 and Apple II.
Awesome thanks, seen it's a work in progress with 3D acceleration planned. (and that there are win 7 / win XP drivers). I'll wait. Even if I had to do software GPU rendering on an old tired PC to get low res at 30 fps on late 90s games that'd be awesome. I remember coming across it (well, SPICE) and dismissing it or not finding much info. The name conflict with electronics modeling software is dumb.
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It's trivial enough to use a thumb-drive sized USB reader that makes it a thumb drive, to use on arbitrary hardware like desktops and laptops.
A stash of old SD would serve me, currently. I've put a debian CD on my USB drive : I had to use dd, else the installer couldn't read the drive it launched from. So over 90% of the space is wasted and I'm out of a USB drive.
Now, what if we fast-forward several years and you find yourself putting a UFS card into such a thumb drive reader : unless the card is garbage, it should be very decent and reliable enough to run a desktop OS from (be it bare metal or a VM). You can already use the best USB 3 drives for that but they vary a lot (in performance or protocol) so it's better to look for a specific model. You can just use half-decent SD too but better keep things simple (like debian and lxde, ext2 noatime, no swap)
It might be more reliable, and also can be used for both removable and fixed storage.
One issue is copying music files on low end SD. It's slow and there's a small pause between small files, so figure copying 2000MB at something just over 2MB/s, while waiting so you can leave.
It might be a better idea to try higher end SD but that doesn't come free.
If price is a primary concern then don't buy anything. You still can get by on a 15-year-old desktop.if you download youtube video or use software to open them in external player.
If you want to play recent games.. then you need more performance than needed for 480p video editing or running VMs.
Sorry, it's about running a demanding game or two, which you can hardly blame the user for.
" It seems the problem isn't the card, but forcing the card into a configuration that it wasn't designed for."
This is exactly the issue, but the nvidia launches have had AMD worried about benchmark results so they chose a power/clocking profile that is too much for the board as it was designed. So they're backpedaling and offering a setting to make the card a few percents slower in the driver revision talked about in the blurb.
The car analogy is a car making company made a small fuck up.
Ironically, they were reports of X99 and 990FX motherboards killed, so high end boards aren't sized for oversized PCIe slot current either.
For the 6pin, no need to give a crap.
A 400W PSU is likely fine.
With 1GB RAM your browser will easily fill 80% of it. Best if everything else fits under 100MB, plus a graphics you can hopefully get down to 32MB or something not too large.
You're right, but with money viewed as bartering, maybe that enable simplistic representations. It's like, money is there so you can be a consumer at Walmart, Starbucks, or any goods or services. I give you money and you give me instant gratification. That's really what it's for most times.
The argument about origin of money, I guess it's there to denounce that or to point out that it misses some depth in the relationship. The relationship could be more human, fuzzy, longer term and money is there to settle accounts. E.g. some say, work so that you can repay your debt to society. That'll bring taxes, pay into social security, enable a little bit of economic activity for other people but it's as non-descript as you get. Even hard line capitalistic US types think of "welfare recipient" as the greatest insult although they get "robbed" of their money to support them very indirectly.
In some way, full employment capitalism e.g. some idealized US / Western Europe from the 60s or early 70s where almost everyone is middle class and you very rarely get robbed or ripped off, that's a society where lay people aren't jumping at each other's throat all the time. So it's big house vs small house or big car vs small car, big deal. I guess the Star Trek fiction is extrapolated from that, it would just about work if oil stayed virtually free and there was endless cheap, nice land to build on, and if magically the whole Earth was like that.
The greedy finance capitalists do know about endless forms of assets, money, loans, debt, and byzantines "securities" and "futures" and crap.
The 'fuck you' was removal of the checkbox to disable javascript, and the one to disable pictures.
*That* sucks donkey balls, even if it's something you'd very rarely use ; maybe you're referring in part to that?
If I want to "break" the web it's my call and I also know about Firefox profiles, even running two of them concurrently.
Australis is rather benign, since you can have a title bar, a menu bar and remove unwanted icons.
It's likely using the RX 480's architecture (which will maybe receive slight tweaks)
Saying that because it's actually quite close to that of Xbox One and PS4, and going all the way back to the Radeon 7970. Same overall design with different configurations, bandwith saving improvements etc.
Windows has a fast and advanced graphics subsystem with hot-plug drivers, while we're still waiting for Wayland, not knowing if it will catch up to Windows 7.
Don't RTFA. The pictures are unremarkable too, I'm sure we'll get some interesting ones but later.
I want to mention that graphics cards do exist that allow the GPU to be virtualized, in a way that allows the GPU to be used by multiple guests - as if you had 2, 4, 8, 16 etc. virtual GPUs.
Geforce GRID has done that for a while, but very "enterprisey" - it's complete systems in rackmounts for the server room, only.
AMD is joining allowing to use just a card. I'm discovering the final card right now. Up to 16 users on a GPU, the price is high since it's in the "pro" series with the optimizations for CAD software etc., so $2399 for something based on Radeon R9 380.
http://www.tomsitpro.com/artic...
Oh crap, there aren't video outputs! ha.
It's likely not a coincidence that Napoleon was known for doing power naps. He must have at least took the advice given in the summary.
* What I wrote in the Sumerian king story should even read as "as the stakes : 10 bushels of wheat, oxen, house, field etc. are bigger"
The next step after verbal or tacit debts to your neighbors was recorded debt, i.e. you go to see a Sumerian king or high level official to get it written, as the stakes (10 bushels of wheat, oxen etc.) are bigger and law enforcement will be useful. That still exists, if today there exists a debt relationship between two private individuals they may go see an attorney and make it acknowledged that Alice owes $1000 to Bob.
This would be the origin of money. Later, money (as a simple treasure, stash of metals) would could as a very acceptable way to repay debts. Valuable and universally useful commodities like salt are to be considered as such a money. Later this was made into coins under the authority of more powerful kings ruling over bigger territories. Later still banknotes passed off as money but in fact embody debt (things were written on it, to the effect of something like "the bank owes you 1000 coins", a version of it is just a nobleman who writes "I, the Earl [or countess] of Whatbuckshire, need to pay 10 pounds so I in earnest gave this piece of paper to this guy. I urge you to please pay his due on my behalf. Signed, Earl John J. Watson of Whatbuckshire". Banknotes were even eventually defined as "legal tender" by powerful nations with assorted national/central bank that issued them.
Instead of a communism/capitalism dichotomy, I rather see a continuum. The early, low-civilization, low tech, unenforced way still exists as "You came to visit me and brought a pack of beer. Next time maybe I'll buy you a beer at the bar. And I don't even need to tell you. I keep this at internal monologue, if that".
The barter story was invented after the fact by some well off century man who lived in modern comfort, since in 7000 BC no one had something of enough value to give on the spot for a goat, and even if you give your knife in exchange for the goat, what are you going to do then? Cut things with your teeth?
Linux may be partly at fault : switching graphics card driver requires you to at least kill and restart Xorg, whereas Windows is amazingly able to switch graphics. Example : you install Windows 7 on a crappy laptop. It's stuck at 1024x768 and you growl a little. After wasting time waiting for Windows Update, you install the Intel graphics driver from Windows Update ; the screen blinks to black for a tenth of a second, then you can select 1440x900 and your 3D graphics is fast.
At least, the problem of Windows in a VM switching between VESA and real graphics may be covered.
I get your concern and that ideal set up is very complex. Thinking it should be easier if you give linux a permanent, separate GPU (integrated or otherwise) then either use dual monitors or a dual input monitor or a hardware DVI/VGA etc. switch. And then, it would be better if there existed some software signaling to make a monitor change input.
I've thought of an "offending", but likely easiest set up : Windows would be the sole user of the GPU and keyboard/mouse, at all times. The linux VM always runs, but you use its desktop and apps "remotely" through the likes of VNC, X2GO, X11 etc.
When you reboot Windows (or you make it crash) you're stuck with looking at crap instead of using your desktop linux, but Linux is still running unaffected and none the wiser. (But non persistent remote sessions are killed, so you need persistent ones)
But with game consoles, chromebooks and ipads you run some risks too, like ipad can't read or write a picture to/from a USB drive, Chromebook can't print etc. (whereas linux may be unable to scan but at least able to print and the scanner/printer combo still does copies)
Hell, there's even the Intel automatic driver upgrading wizard, or many 3rd party auto-upgrading driver wizards. The task was to install Intel's IDE/SATA controller driver on an older, slow as shit laptop.
The auto-upgrader wizards are good for grinding the hard drive and showing a blue bar, but they didn't do anything. Manual installation of driver downloaded from web site (made slightly hard by wizardy web pages) worked and made drive reads 10MB/s faster.
If you're crazy enough or don't mind the waste you could set up a Windows VM with USB 2.0 support, give it the dongle and install router or proxy software on it. Or an ethernet bridge.
Well, a smartphone can be used as a ghetto wifi card in the same way, if it "tethers" over USB.
Specifically I know about some of these USB dongles, the cheap TP Link ones that do one channel of 802.11n. (not ac)
The linux support they give is an archive and "build this and use this on Ubuntu 14.04 with linux 3.16 kernel"
Now I remember that USB crash with a particular flash drive. Or the semi-failed (at times) ethernet, which is in my case unimportant given the available PCI slots to plug in a 15-year-old NIC if needed.
I get your grief but this motherboard nearly 10-year-old is unkillable. It was when full ATX low end without graphics was still common.
Even if all on-board hardware save for PS/2 ports were to fail I could still find a way to use it anyway. The PC was inspired by S-100 and Apple II.
Selling high end hardware and a high end OS, to run hardware-independent and OS-independent Java?
Awesome thanks, seen it's a work in progress with 3D acceleration planned. (and that there are win 7 / win XP drivers). I'll wait. Even if I had to do software GPU rendering on an old tired PC to get low res at 30 fps on late 90s games that'd be awesome.
I remember coming across it (well, SPICE) and dismissing it or not finding much info.
The name conflict with electronics modeling software is dumb.
By all means feel free to wait for 18.1, 18.2, 19 etc.