Let's say you don't have an idea of a whole new product but rather a new process or way of doing things. Kind of like drinking some milk and realizing, "This would totally rock with some chocolate syrup!" Or if that's too much like an actual product, "A process by making a cassette tape translucent, thereby enabling the user to have a more acurate assessment of how much tape is left on the cassette." Or how about the genius that got tape counters to count in human readable time instead of 0000-9999? What do you do with an idea like that?
You'd be suprised how effective this is. I got spam WITHIN AN HOUR after "updating" monster.com with a unique address. Blam, shut that off. Conversely most sites remain spam free. Except the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, where I got a spontaneous spam message to it's unique address after not getting any email at that address at all for over a year.
That is a myth.
"Magnetic fields and magnetic storage media do mix, as long as the field isn't really amazingly strong.
The field has to be really strong, because it has to exceed the coercivity of the magnetic coating on the storage device. Hard drive platters have a coercivity of a few thousand Oersteds, which means a field of the same number of Gauss is needed to demagnetise them. The ferrite magnet on a computer's PC speaker, assuming it's not shielded, will have a surface field strength of only about a thousand Gauss, so it won't endanger hard drive data even if the drive's right next to it. Even 10,000 Gauss rare earth magnets can't wipe a hard drive if they're not sitting on top of it."
No you won't. Infoworld got it right.....A BIOS change will be required, but otherwise the chips will work in the same sockets as single-core Opterons, he said.
Opterons don't work in Socket 939 as per the OP's question, only S 940. This implies that if he got a 939 motherboard there's a good chance his motherboard won't support them.
Could AMD design them for S 939? Sure. But if they're going to I wonder why they specifically phrased it as working with Opteron boards.
Will this be socket 939 or should I try to hold out another year to buy?"
You'll need a new motherboard.
The DDR memory interface appears to wrap around both L2 caches, meaning that it looks like both cores have their own 128-bit memory interface; whether or not both memory controllers will be enabled is another thing, but if this is true we have a number of implications to talk about.
If dual core Opterons do indeed have two memory controllers, the pincount of dual core Opterons will go up significantly - it will also make them incompatible with current sockets. AMD is all about maintaining socket compatibility so it is quite possible that they could only leave half of the memory controllers enabled, in order to offer Socket-940 dual core Opterons. AMD isn't being very specific in terms of implementation details, but these are just some of the options.
He didn't actually start with a Camero, just a Camero funny car type shell for looks. Then he stuck the WRX engine in the custom frame he built. He didn't swap out the Camero engine for the WRX engine.
RMS was recommending GNU/LinEx as the only totally free distro.
RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, (Update from RMS: GNU/LinEx is non-free), the distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's the only installable distribution that consists entirely of free software.
1 RMS provided us with this update on GNU/LinEx: The developers told me that GNU/LinEx included only free software, but after this interview was published, people from GNU Spain and others have checked it and found non-free programs in it. I therefore cannot recommend GNU/LinEx at present. I hope that this problem will be corrected. Meanwhile, once again there is no installable GNU/Linux distribution that we can endorse; all of them include or recommend non-free software.
This is because there is a great deal of TRUST that needs to be placed in an IT professional. A CCNA/MCSE/BLAH Blah blah says nothing about your trustworthyness as an individual but someone whom the company already trusts vouching for you says a lot about your character.
A company would rather hire an individual who they think they can trust over an individual who may be technically superior to the other every day of the week.
GFFX 5900 To 5950 Mod:
We've heard about this GFFX 5900 to 5950 mod all weekend. People are flashing their video BIOS to get a 5900 card to think it is a 5950. The mod does almost nothing for performance but it does look like it helps with overclocking. I tried this mod myself and it gave no performance increase at all, and oddly enough it didn't help my overclocking either, so keep that in mind if you decide to try this on your own.
*UPDATE* I have had a few readers send me e-mail saying the same thing about this "mod". Once they flashed the BIOS on their VGA card, no drivers would install. Flashed it back to the original and the drivers still wouldn't install. I advise you again....do not attempt these types of mods unless you are willing to risk your card. Even the best of BIOS flashes can go bad and leave you with a dead card.
Was it "demo'd" by having it boot up and download a game online, or was it "demo'd" by convieniently already being setup. If it was the later how do you know it wasn't just a fake gui over a "normal" computer?
I still have a... S3 'Da Vinci' Virge, and for it's purposes it's worked great.
I take it that one of the purposes that you use that Virge for is not 3d acceleration. The Virge's hardware acceleration was so poorly performing that most games actually ran faster in software mode. It was the worlds first "3D Decelerator", and actually slowed down the computers it was in. You'd probably be amazed at the difference if you scrounged up an old Voodoo I and stuck it in that machine.
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whoops, math is only off $600 so no mistake. I guess that's what I get for rushing to FP something with a link in it.
it actually went for $170,000 but there was an 18% buyers premium for the acution I guess they're sort of adding that in (although the math's still wrong). Here's the auction: http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=6545186641
Let's say you don't have an idea of a whole new product but rather a new process or way of doing things. Kind of like drinking some milk and realizing, "This would totally rock with some chocolate syrup!" Or if that's too much like an actual product, "A process by making a cassette tape translucent, thereby enabling the user to have a more acurate assessment of how much tape is left on the cassette." Or how about the genius that got tape counters to count in human readable time instead of 0000-9999? What do you do with an idea like that?
Celeron, Xeon, pa1mOne, Sprint Vision, OnStar, Toyota Scion, Dasani, Febreeze, HP Pavilion. Saturn VUE, Meridia, Zyprexa, etc.
I don't know half the brands on this page but they all make me want to puke. Page of Jibba Jabba.
You'd be suprised how effective this is. I got spam WITHIN AN HOUR after "updating" monster.com with a unique address. Blam, shut that off. Conversely most sites remain spam free. Except the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, where I got a spontaneous spam message to it's unique address after not getting any email at that address at all for over a year.
That is a myth. "Magnetic fields and magnetic storage media do mix, as long as the field isn't really amazingly strong. The field has to be really strong, because it has to exceed the coercivity of the magnetic coating on the storage device. Hard drive platters have a coercivity of a few thousand Oersteds, which means a field of the same number of Gauss is needed to demagnetise them. The ferrite magnet on a computer's PC speaker, assuming it's not shielded, will have a surface field strength of only about a thousand Gauss, so it won't endanger hard drive data even if the drive's right next to it. Even 10,000 Gauss rare earth magnets can't wipe a hard drive if they're not sitting on top of it."
2. Utilize unsecured Wireless Access Points to provide 100% annonymity.
3. Make checks payable to Myron Tereshchuk.
4. D'oh!
Opterons don't work in Socket 939 as per the OP's question, only S 940. This implies that if he got a 939 motherboard there's a good chance his motherboard won't support them.
Could AMD design them for S 939? Sure. But if they're going to I wonder why they specifically phrased it as working with Opteron boards.
You'll need a new motherboard.
The DDR memory interface appears to wrap around both L2 caches, meaning that it looks like both cores have their own 128-bit memory interface; whether or not both memory controllers will be enabled is another thing, but if this is true we have a number of implications to talk about. If dual core Opterons do indeed have two memory controllers, the pincount of dual core Opterons will go up significantly - it will also make them incompatible with current sockets. AMD is all about maintaining socket compatibility so it is quite possible that they could only leave half of the memory controllers enabled, in order to offer Socket-940 dual core Opterons. AMD isn't being very specific in terms of implementation details, but these are just some of the options.
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BSD-style based distribution
* NetBSD® Runs on practically everything; highly scaleable.
* MirOS BSD a NetBSD/OpenBSD hybrid for the skilled EU sys admin; new.
Linux® based distribution
* Conectiva Brazilian-based distro with a world-wide following using RPMs.
* Arch Linux a Canadian distro; i-686 optimised.
* Ark Linux an EU Redhat-based distro using ISOs.
* Buffalo Linux a cut-down Vector/Slackware-based distro with ISOs.
* JoLinux a Brazilian distro based on Slackware using ISOs.
* Lycoris Linux a desktop friendly environment for novices.
* Magic Linux when native Chinese-support is desired using ISOs.
* OneBase Linux a meta distribution.
* OpenNa Linux when security matters.
* Peanut Linux an 85MB base.
* Plamo Linux best for native Japanese support; Slackware based.
* Rubyx Linux object-oriented ruby is its scripting language.
* Slax Live Linux a small Slackware source-based distro.
* Source Mage a source-based distro aimed at linux magicians (sys admins) with a social contract.
* Sorcerer Linux a source-based distro aimed at linux wizards (sys admins).
* Yoper Linux a new down-under (New Zealand) distro.
NO, I haven't left anything off of the list.
He didn't actually start with a Camero, just a Camero funny car type shell for looks. Then he stuck the WRX engine in the custom frame he built. He didn't swap out the Camero engine for the WRX engine.
Next time he brings his homemade tron costume to a convention he really must remember to bring his roll of quarters with him as well.
It says, "Be sure to drink you're Ovaltine!"
A company would rather hire an individual who they think they can trust over an individual who may be technically superior to the other every day of the week.
yes. That's the guy. He had all sorts of other whacked out ideas as well.
Those features were really designed for CAD programs. They were faster than software mode, which the Virge was not.
lol, I guess that's what happens when there's only pronouns in a thread.
Was it "demo'd" by having it boot up and download a game online, or was it "demo'd" by convieniently already being setup. If it was the later how do you know it wasn't just a fake gui over a "normal" computer?
What a joke, this is nothing like the Quadro mod that actually unlocked hidden features, this mod actually hurts your real world game performance.
I like it how it is magically able to overclock more with the new bios as well. What a joke.