happened often with the cheap-ass three button serial mice in my experience. Then we switched to the unbreakable PS/2 Microsoft mouse with scrollwheel which is probably one of the few best ball mice, I still have one. I did break the left button on a Microsoft optical mouse, due to some game. It was fine except for that.
A gamepad with single analog stick was easier to use : N64, Dreamcast. Goldeneye was the best console FPS with just one stick. Yes a second stick is useful sometimes I guess but the N64 gamepad is underrated, too bad it had that problem of eroding.
And its D-PAD was reliable, more than the few Playstation controllers I have at home (for use on PC in SNES emulation mostly). How annoying that we can have multiple gigabytes of RAM but a properly working D-PAD is harder to come by.
The hard part would rather be reliability and very fast deployment and fueling. A space launch can be prepared for weeks with many people working on it and failure is not a huge deal, a missile must work on short notice, preferably can be moved and failure is less of an option.
You left the part out where this may take three hours, during which browsing for drivers and programs may be a great security risk. There's even the bug where the SP1 of Windows 7 refuses to install (mine does, googled answers suggest it's a boot due to using dual boot/multiboot causing the damn thing to not recognize the 100MB "system partition" ; there is no solution besides grabbing a Windows 7 + SP1 warez iso and reinstalling) There's keeping up with antiviruses to know which "free" one is not pseudo-ransomware (deactivated after one year), my aforementioned borked Windows 7 install has AVG Free from 2011 which stays really free but I'd have to switch to another.
I guess you have fast CPU, SSD, iso with built-in SP1 and fast internet access to wired ethernet or strong wifi. Windows 98 was much faster to reinstall but back then you didn't really need updates and antivirus.. I was sure as hell ready for it too ( \WIN98 directory from the CD on the hard drive, Windows key known by heart, all drivers and programs ready on the hard drive and for good measure I loaded smartdrv.exe before running the installer from DOS, whether or not that was needed)
Tesla: use lithium-ion batteries and price it like a large studio flat. It is pretty successful and well executed, but it worked only because they specifically do not compete with regular cars. That makes it a lot like a luxury pre-WW1 electric car. The range is quite simply attained by brute-force use of batteries at enormous cost.
I'd wager there's more demand for Internet access in Africa now than 20 years ago, or in other places remote or deprived of infrastructure. The cost back then of getting a 486SX computer (or in 1997, a Pentium laptop), satellite transmission equipment, a way to power and maintain them would have been fantastical if you consider the market might be people without access to sanitation.
I once did the same to an iMac G5 and had trouble even figuring out how to turn the thing on. Then the firmware would silently boot the old OS X on it without showing an equivalent of the POST screen or "press del to enter set up", which reminds of non-PC home computers of the 80s. But in the end you could boot on CD-ROM by mashing the "c" key or something. I did not even try an OSX installer. "Appliance computer" that does everything on your behalf with software suite from the hardware vendor, that was a concept from the 80s.
Try using VLC with the video output set to "X11"? It's slow but free of bugs. i.e. that way you're sure it uses software rendering, and a proper one. Raw CPU power is then enough or can be enough depending on the kind of video.
The reading from outside to inside was maybe a legend, I read an explanation that the drive is read as normal but the data is stored near the edge, with garbage data filling in the otherwise unused inner portion (assuming the disc is not full). Such a simple arbitrary arrangement allows faster bandwith. Older consoles (Playstation, Sega Saturn, 3DO etc.) had a drive with Constant Linear Velocity : the data was constantly slow. In that situation you'll use the (inner) beginning of the disc first like your typical CD Audio or CD-R.
How do you turn off the blue bar with "Organize..." in the Windows 7 file manager? It seems you can't. Windows XP file manager was more modular and as for the rest of the OS you had msconfig, services.msc, tweakUI, control panel.
As I suspected grep printer -- * does work and I'm sure you know it. I'm not excusing the choice of names but that's a bit of a failure of Unix itself.
I remember that thing, on a small managed network with ldap and stuff. I had to nscd --invalidate every we added an user and the poor thing would never complain and always obey being invalidated.
I am impressed that OpenBSD is so righteously conservative they are just getting one of the security feature they are most famous for.
I hope developers of other systems would follow that example and I can't wait for someone to modify the linux kernel to support USB keyboards, or to modify Xorg to support 1024x768 resolution up from the previous maximum of 640x480.
I think it is even worse than that, they use an all-Intel laptop (perfectly one or two generations behind at any time so they don't suffer bugs) with GNOME 3 and stroke their throbbing egos with how they're setting the trend for Apple. "Apple is copying US!"
I mean, as root there's no "service networkmanager stop" or "/etc/init.d/networkmanager stop", and if you kill it then a worker process spawns it back. I could have tried to chmod -x the binary though. As is, I apt-get removed it on that particular OS (so I could do some raw wi-fi stuff) and thus virtually lost the ability to connect to a wireless network, as I didn't know how to do it the manual way.
It's very unfortunate than Skype requires pulseaudio if you don't run pulseaudio (that may be too polite words here) but in that case people might tend to use a webcam's mic, plug a USB headset (or just mic), or even use bluetooth. According to the propaganda that's where you need pulseaudio (which also has a cross-DE GUI to set a few basic things). I can imagine that with ALSA you'd have to write an ~/.asoundrc config file, configure the software with device names like "hw:1,0", or both.
I like that "three times smaller" assumes multiplication is the operation we're talking about, and having "smaller" instead of "bigger" means we should use the inverse operation of multiplication, not the inverse operation of addition. So, casual language is geekier than you. If people understood that more often, they would multiply percentages together when appropriate instead of mistakenly (and nonsensically) adding them.
After which there's wired ethernet, or attaching a 2.5" hard drive to USB 3 (which can power the drive with a single cable) ought to give some nice quite fast storage.
The things I’m most interested in are things that programmers have to manually take advantage of (or programming environments have to be redesigned to take advantage of) in order to use and as a result might not be using yet. I think this excludes things like Hyper-threading/SMT, but I’m not honestly sure.
That is what the article is really about and what it is answering. The answers seem comprehensive and useful, i.e. you can switch page size to reduce pressure on the TLBs if your application benefits from it, you can ignore the branch penalties due to the hardware being so efficient at running branches. Your old rat's nest mainframe did not run at over 1GHz with a million or however many transistors dedicated to OoOE and branches you dumbfuck.
I like networkmanager. I used to remove it, but that was on wired desktops where it isn't needed at all. On a Wifi desktop, the UI is great at least. The bad thing about it is disabling it is hard, short of uninstalling it (you need to look it up on the internet)
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happened often with the cheap-ass three button serial mice in my experience. Then we switched to the unbreakable PS/2 Microsoft mouse with scrollwheel which is probably one of the few best ball mice, I still have one.
I did break the left button on a Microsoft optical mouse, due to some game. It was fine except for that.
That's much lower than my first DSL connection and on par with a good one I'd say.
A gamepad with single analog stick was easier to use : N64, Dreamcast. Goldeneye was the best console FPS with just one stick. Yes a second stick is useful sometimes I guess but the N64 gamepad is underrated, too bad it had that problem of eroding.
And its D-PAD was reliable, more than the few Playstation controllers I have at home (for use on PC in SNES emulation mostly). How annoying that we can have multiple gigabytes of RAM but a properly working D-PAD is harder to come by.
The hard part would rather be reliability and very fast deployment and fueling. A space launch can be prepared for weeks with many people working on it and failure is not a huge deal, a missile must work on short notice, preferably can be moved and failure is less of an option.
or that they will delete all those files they "don't need" in c:\windows\system for that matter.
You left the part out where this may take three hours, during which browsing for drivers and programs may be a great security risk.
There's even the bug where the SP1 of Windows 7 refuses to install (mine does, googled answers suggest it's a boot due to using dual boot/multiboot causing the damn thing to not recognize the 100MB "system partition" ; there is no solution besides grabbing a Windows 7 + SP1 warez iso and reinstalling)
There's keeping up with antiviruses to know which "free" one is not pseudo-ransomware (deactivated after one year), my aforementioned borked Windows 7 install has AVG Free from 2011 which stays really free but I'd have to switch to another.
I guess you have fast CPU, SSD, iso with built-in SP1 and fast internet access to wired ethernet or strong wifi.
Windows 98 was much faster to reinstall but back then you didn't really need updates and antivirus.. I was sure as hell ready for it too ( \WIN98 directory from the CD on the hard drive, Windows key known by heart, all drivers and programs ready on the hard drive and for good measure I loaded smartdrv.exe before running the installer from DOS, whether or not that was needed)
Tesla: use lithium-ion batteries and price it like a large studio flat.
It is pretty successful and well executed, but it worked only because they specifically do not compete with regular cars. That makes it a lot like a luxury pre-WW1 electric car. The range is quite simply attained by brute-force use of batteries at enormous cost.
I'd wager there's more demand for Internet access in Africa now than 20 years ago, or in other places remote or deprived of infrastructure. The cost back then of getting a 486SX computer (or in 1997, a Pentium laptop), satellite transmission equipment, a way to power and maintain them would have been fantastical if you consider the market might be people without access to sanitation.
I once did the same to an iMac G5 and had trouble even figuring out how to turn the thing on. Then the firmware would silently boot the old OS X on it without showing an equivalent of the POST screen or "press del to enter set up", which reminds of non-PC home computers of the 80s. But in the end you could boot on CD-ROM by mashing the "c" key or something.
I did not even try an OSX installer. "Appliance computer" that does everything on your behalf with software suite from the hardware vendor, that was a concept from the 80s.
Try using VLC with the video output set to "X11"? It's slow but free of bugs. i.e. that way you're sure it uses software rendering, and a proper one. Raw CPU power is then enough or can be enough depending on the kind of video.
The reading from outside to inside was maybe a legend, I read an explanation that the drive is read as normal but the data is stored near the edge, with garbage data filling in the otherwise unused inner portion (assuming the disc is not full). Such a simple arbitrary arrangement allows faster bandwith. Older consoles (Playstation, Sega Saturn, 3DO etc.) had a drive with Constant Linear Velocity : the data was constantly slow. In that situation you'll use the (inner) beginning of the disc first like your typical CD Audio or CD-R.
How do you turn off the blue bar with "Organize..." in the Windows 7 file manager? It seems you can't.
Windows XP file manager was more modular and as for the rest of the OS you had msconfig, services.msc, tweakUI, control panel.
As I suspected grep printer -- * does work and I'm sure you know it. I'm not excusing the choice of names but that's a bit of a failure of Unix itself.
A bit weird that bash and sh don't have the $cwd variable (csh does)
I remember that thing, on a small managed network with ldap and stuff. I had to nscd --invalidate every we added an user and the poor thing would never complain and always obey being invalidated.
I am impressed that OpenBSD is so righteously conservative they are just getting one of the security feature they are most famous for.
I hope developers of other systems would follow that example and I can't wait for someone to modify the linux kernel to support USB keyboards, or to modify Xorg to support 1024x768 resolution up from the previous maximum of 640x480.
I think it is even worse than that, they use an all-Intel laptop (perfectly one or two generations behind at any time so they don't suffer bugs) with GNOME 3 and stroke their throbbing egos with how they're setting the trend for Apple. "Apple is copying US!"
I mean, as root there's no "service networkmanager stop" or "/etc/init.d/networkmanager stop", and if you kill it then a worker process spawns it back. I could have tried to chmod -x the binary though. As is, I apt-get removed it on that particular OS (so I could do some raw wi-fi stuff) and thus virtually lost the ability to connect to a wireless network, as I didn't know how to do it the manual way.
It's very unfortunate than Skype requires pulseaudio if you don't run pulseaudio (that may be too polite words here) but in that case people might tend to use a webcam's mic, plug a USB headset (or just mic), or even use bluetooth. According to the propaganda that's where you need pulseaudio (which also has a cross-DE GUI to set a few basic things).
I can imagine that with ALSA you'd have to write an ~/.asoundrc config file, configure the software with device names like "hw:1,0", or both.
I like that "three times smaller" assumes multiplication is the operation we're talking about, and having "smaller" instead of "bigger" means we should use the inverse operation of multiplication, not the inverse operation of addition. So, casual language is geekier than you.
If people understood that more often, they would multiply percentages together when appropriate instead of mistakenly (and nonsensically) adding them.
No but you can install such kind of SSD in there (a picture is worth a few dozen words)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/... or http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
After which there's wired ethernet, or attaching a 2.5" hard drive to USB 3 (which can power the drive with a single cable) ought to give some nice quite fast storage.
It's AES-NI, same as in the first 32nm Intel Xeon and successors, core i5 and i7, recent Core i3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
What about that part of the question?
The things I’m most interested in are things that programmers have to manually take advantage of (or programming environments have to be redesigned to take advantage of) in order to use and as a result might not be using yet. I think this excludes things like Hyper-threading/SMT, but I’m not honestly sure.
That is what the article is really about and what it is answering.
The answers seem comprehensive and useful, i.e. you can switch page size to reduce pressure on the TLBs if your application benefits from it, you can ignore the branch penalties due to the hardware being so efficient at running branches.
Your old rat's nest mainframe did not run at over 1GHz with a million or however many transistors dedicated to OoOE and branches you dumbfuck.
I like networkmanager. I used to remove it, but that was on wired desktops where it isn't needed at all. On a Wifi desktop, the UI is great at least. The bad thing about it is disabling it is hard, short of uninstalling it (you need to look it up on the internet)