And writing music to USB thumb drive is painfully slow. Most ones will give you a few MB/s of write speed, and it is compounded by the fact you write some hundreds of file so there's slowdown at each "boundary" compared to the favorable case of writing a few big files.
A 128GB SD card might do well, if that's your main music collection you're fitting here. At least, it stays unchanged most of the time. You still have to not mind the slowness and at that cost you could have had a 256GB SSD in the laptop.
I would get a low-profile micro-ATX, so I can still have cards in it : at least the sound card and then whatever current or future need. no hardware dongles / external hardware, roomy for at least one 3.5 HDD and two 2.5HDD.
We'll engineer a very cheap, advanced bio nanotech super food that has the potential to replicate the device that generated it. We'll call that an "egg".
I assume the capsule is buried in the ground (perhaps TFA would tell me), that would probably be stable enough. Else, I'd look for a place people have been making cheese for centuries before active environment control systems.
Intel acts weird with the "tray price", on CPUs that only OEMs can get e.g. core i7 4950HQ is officially at $623 but it is speculated the OEM doesn't pay as much.
It would be possible but very unlikely. A laptop with dual NIC and a serial port would be fun to some people I'm sure, but you won't find it even though it's trivial to make one. So the chance of seeing a laptop with that server CPU and mandatory external GPU are zero.
But very interesting is they announce support for 2.5 Gbps ethernet. That's like a little suprise, a workaround to the semi-failure of 10G gaining traction. It can do 100 meters over CAT5e, from this old pdf http://www.ieee802.org/3/minut...
So, if it comes to fruition maybe 2.5 Gb does the trick and it could end up as a desktop/laptop standard (besides cooling, putting a controller on PCIe 1x 2.0 would be a no-brainer)
It's a "SoC" because the southbridge is integrated - with the northbridge also integrated but regular CPUs have had the northbridge for a while. USB, SATA and wired ethernet are in there but if you check the article and pictures there's no GPU or wifi!
If your motherboard supports 200MHz FSB instead of 166 (which might be a big if) then the CPU should run at 1.9GHz, which should not be terribly hard at all. That sempron was a rather quite underclocked Athlon XP, probably so they call sell it a tiny bit cheaper.
I had flash player 11.2 running on a Pentium III. Alright, I've researched the issue and these dumb nuts dropped SSE from one 11.2.x.x release to another! pitiful html5 performance matches what I've seen on another computer (VIA C7 at 1GHz, Windows 7). HTML5 video really has a hardware decoder in mind (cell phone hardware, recent GPU with recent and/or proprietary driver) or needs even more CPU brute force that flash did.
smtube player may be useful, it's a front-end to browse for youtube videos and then launch them in a video player (or to download them). I did not try firefox extensions much yet.
It's a conservative, "cover you ass" statement given that is not unreasoable considered the distro is meant for grandmas and joes not only computer geeks. The dist-upgrade from Mint 16 to 17 I did went good : 99.99% of everything went perfect and eventless, except there were a couple blocking issues that required me to do some "sysadmin" work. A "supported" upgrade from lenny to squeeze on a very simple desktop system required much more babysitting and pampering from me.
Now : what you miss is this is history, as Mint has concentrated on Ubuntu LTS and soon debian stable upgrades are now explicitly supported (if you start from Mint 17)
I've sort of liked conservatism on Electrolysis. Were it rushed there would have been much bitching about broken extensions and instability and especially, I'm not in a hurry to have it consume all CPU/RAM on every computer. We don't all have a low-powered quad core CPU and 8GB+ RAM, or have it on all computers. If in fact you have an option to disable/enable it, that will be best. Or I'd like a limit on max RAM use.
You might find dillo to be a fun browser, I've checked for CSS and it's easily disabled from the "tools" menu. If you use Windows you have to (attempt to) build it for Cygwin and X11 (though using putty and Xming to run it from a tiny linux VM would be faster done nowadays)
I do miss the days it was able to login to forums (a decade ago)
Yet the US manages to build nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors for ships and it operates them. Have the DOE and NNSA build and operate the civil nuclear plants, then both gains and risks are socialized. (I say that like it's nothing lol. armchair general comment.)
This comes out as a very good point for using Vulkan (which I thought would be called something like OpenGL 5.0, but well)
It's a nice suprise, though the downside may be the need for recent hardware. Article leaves out the minimum hardware feature level : is it restricted to Haswell and up? (that's the plan for DirectX 12). What is the status for Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and even Bay Trail Atom graphics : that is pretty important given the installed base.
Windows Server is in fact a desktop operating system too. What was called Citrix, then TSE, then RDS is a facility to push the Windows Server's desktop onto plain Jane office users and possibly your marketing execs. Though these days, it is possible to push a single app (I'd do that in a heartbeat if it was free as beer)
The thing I did is to make it prompt for the Admin password. That makes a lot more sense. Feel free to run as Admin/root if you want full rights all the time like on old computers.
Short 8+3 file names still are or still were included for DOS programs to use them, you know. I don't know what "My Documents" was like, but "Program Files" was PROGRA~1. Just don't mess with it from pure DOS mode. I once renamed Program Files from DOS (not a window under win9x) to back it up before reinstalling : ren PROGRAM~1 programs Then the directory was unreadable and I couldn't fix it. oops.
Anyway, we use spaces in file names daily and it is better than not having them. Unix-like has stupid warts too, try creating a file named "-r" in a directory full of important sub-folders then delete it.
Slashdot Mirror
And writing music to USB thumb drive is painfully slow. Most ones will give you a few MB/s of write speed, and it is compounded by the fact you write some hundreds of file so there's slowdown at each "boundary" compared to the favorable case of writing a few big files.
A 128GB SD card might do well, if that's your main music collection you're fitting here. At least, it stays unchanged most of the time. You still have to not mind the slowness and at that cost you could have had a 256GB SSD in the laptop.
... it only lacks a good web browser.
I would get a low-profile micro-ATX, so I can still have cards in it : at least the sound card and then whatever current or future need.
no hardware dongles / external hardware, roomy for at least one 3.5 HDD and two 2.5HDD.
We'll engineer a very cheap, advanced bio nanotech super food that has the potential to replicate the device that generated it. We'll call that an "egg".
I assume the capsule is buried in the ground (perhaps TFA would tell me), that would probably be stable enough. Else, I'd look for a place people have been making cheese for centuries before active environment control systems.
It's worse than that. The Raspberry Pi doesn't come with a clock.
Intel acts weird with the "tray price", on CPUs that only OEMs can get e.g. core i7 4950HQ is officially at $623 but it is speculated the OEM doesn't pay as much.
It would be possible but very unlikely. A laptop with dual NIC and a serial port would be fun to some people I'm sure, but you won't find it even though it's trivial to make one. So the chance of seeing a laptop with that server CPU and mandatory external GPU are zero.
But very interesting is they announce support for 2.5 Gbps ethernet. That's like a little suprise, a workaround to the semi-failure of 10G gaining traction.
It can do 100 meters over CAT5e, from this old pdf http://www.ieee802.org/3/minut...
So, if it comes to fruition maybe 2.5 Gb does the trick and it could end up as a desktop/laptop standard (besides cooling, putting a controller on PCIe 1x 2.0 would be a no-brainer)
Support AMD : get a Xeon-D motherboard and add an AMD graphics card to it!
It's a "SoC" because the southbridge is integrated - with the northbridge also integrated but regular CPUs have had the northbridge for a while.
USB, SATA and wired ethernet are in there but if you check the article and pictures there's no GPU or wifi!
If your motherboard supports 200MHz FSB instead of 166 (which might be a big if) then the CPU should run at 1.9GHz, which should not be terribly hard at all. That sempron was a rather quite underclocked Athlon XP, probably so they call sell it a tiny bit cheaper.
I had flash player 11.2 running on a Pentium III. Alright, I've researched the issue and these dumb nuts dropped SSE from one 11.2.x.x release to another!
pitiful html5 performance matches what I've seen on another computer (VIA C7 at 1GHz, Windows 7). HTML5 video really has a hardware decoder in mind (cell phone hardware, recent GPU with recent and/or proprietary driver) or needs even more CPU brute force that flash did.
smtube player may be useful, it's a front-end to browse for youtube videos and then launch them in a video player (or to download them). I did not try firefox extensions much yet.
It's a conservative, "cover you ass" statement given that is not unreasoable considered the distro is meant for grandmas and joes not only computer geeks.
The dist-upgrade from Mint 16 to 17 I did went good : 99.99% of everything went perfect and eventless, except there were a couple blocking issues that required me to do some "sysadmin" work.
A "supported" upgrade from lenny to squeeze on a very simple desktop system required much more babysitting and pampering from me.
Now : what you miss is this is history, as Mint has concentrated on Ubuntu LTS and soon debian stable upgrades are now explicitly supported (if you start from Mint 17)
I've sort of liked conservatism on Electrolysis. Were it rushed there would have been much bitching about broken extensions and instability and especially, I'm not in a hurry to have it consume all CPU/RAM on every computer. We don't all have a low-powered quad core CPU and 8GB+ RAM, or have it on all computers.
If in fact you have an option to disable/enable it, that will be best. Or I'd like a limit on max RAM use.
It would be interesting to run it under a nested X server (Xephyr)
That's quite a dramatic bug, at worst semi-faulty hardware.
You might find dillo to be a fun browser, I've checked for CSS and it's easily disabled from the "tools" menu.
If you use Windows you have to (attempt to) build it for Cygwin and X11 (though using putty and Xming to run it from a tiny linux VM would be faster done nowadays)
I do miss the days it was able to login to forums (a decade ago)
Yet the US manages to build nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors for ships and it operates them.
Have the DOE and NNSA build and operate the civil nuclear plants, then both gains and risks are socialized. (I say that like it's nothing lol. armchair general comment.)
This comes out as a very good point for using Vulkan (which I thought would be called something like OpenGL 5.0, but well)
It's a nice suprise, though the downside may be the need for recent hardware. Article leaves out the minimum hardware feature level : is it restricted to Haswell and up? (that's the plan for DirectX 12). What is the status for Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and even Bay Trail Atom graphics : that is pretty important given the installed base.
Android is the platform of choice for crapware and orphan OS installations without security updates. I'd choose Windows over it without thinking.
Linux/Unix hides filesystem structure (it's always /home/username, rather than C:/home/username on some systems and D:/username on others)
We do have a method for delivering universal sandboxed apps to the desktop and laptop, it's called the "java browser plug-in".
Windows Server is in fact a desktop operating system too. What was called Citrix, then TSE, then RDS is a facility to push the Windows Server's desktop onto plain Jane office users and possibly your marketing execs. Though these days, it is possible to push a single app (I'd do that in a heartbeat if it was free as beer)
"du jour" is what you're after : "of the day" while de jure means "by law"
The thing I did is to make it prompt for the Admin password. That makes a lot more sense. Feel free to run as Admin/root if you want full rights all the time like on old computers.
Short 8+3 file names still are or still were included for DOS programs to use them, you know. I don't know what "My Documents" was like, but "Program Files" was PROGRA~1.
Just don't mess with it from pure DOS mode. I once renamed Program Files from DOS (not a window under win9x) to back it up before reinstalling : ren PROGRAM~1 programs
Then the directory was unreadable and I couldn't fix it. oops.
Anyway, we use spaces in file names daily and it is better than not having them.
Unix-like has stupid warts too, try creating a file named "-r" in a directory full of important sub-folders then delete it.