1. Police notice suspect activities from a number of wi-fi connections in (insert area name here) owned by computer illiterate people. 2. Police start their own 'open' wi-fi connections in this area. 3. Police start videotaping people who come around this area and gather information about the people they notice coming to wi-fi connection. 4. They realize one is pretty good with computers. 5. They get a warrant and surprise this hacker at 5AM in his mother's basement. 6. Hacker has no time to destroy evidence form his machines and it's caught. 7. ???? 8. Hacker gets his ass pounded after he becomes Big John's bitch in prison.
Forgot to mention that it houses about 1 TB (mdam RAID6) of music, videos and pictures that are streamed to my HTPC, smartphone and laptop. It runs a few services like iTunes, SSH, Privoxy and Apache in separate VMs. While it's not a pure server it does do a lot of server stuff. I should call it Servstation!
But let's not kid ourselves: if you were building a server from scratch today (not late 2010), you wouldn't use Sandy Bridge?
Just finished building my linux server/workstation. I needed cores and cheap. Picked up a Phenom II X6 1090T for about 160$, motherboard for 100$ (supports Bulldozer, has lot of SATA ports), 8 GB RAM for about 80$, rest of pieces I had them. 340$ total. For that, I can barely get a 2500K with some shitty motherboard. The 2600K is about 320$. And since I'll be doing mostly programming, running virtual machines and just normal PC use (browsing, videos, etc...) I need as many physical cores as possible (even if IPC is low) vs less cores and more IPC. Also, this build allows me to upgrade processor later on with an 8 core bulldozer if I ever need it.
PS: My dual core gaming rig is getting a 2500K + Asus Maximus Gene IV upgrade. As others said it: Best tool for the job.
- On new Sandy Bridge laptops, booting always caused hangs. I couldn't boot Linux (Arch or Ubuntu) if I had the power brick connected. Hanging is just one issue, another one is that the network card is unable to connect to the network. Also, if you dual boot, Windows might tweak with cards settings and when you reboot into Linux, it still hangs or simply can't connect to network. Solution is complete power off and rebooting without power brick being on. I even tried de-activating ASPM and didn't work (pcie_aspm=off). Only thing working as you mentionned is pcie_aspm=off, at least for me!
90% of the world MUST be masochists. But seriously, until someone offers a better, cheaper, and more useful OS than Windows, people will use Windows.
What do you mean you can't install and configure Linux? What do you mean you don't have $1200 to drop on an Apple macbook?
Ubuntu: - Installer asks me about my time zone, user name and password. Everything else can be done on autopilot. - Once booted, if there are restricted drivers, I got a popup telling me to install them if I want. Install is a two button click: (1) Install, (2) Reboot. All this 'massive' configuration is done.
Windows: - Installer is pretty much similar to Ubuntu, minor inquiries. - Once booted, a lot of hardware doesn't work and I have to install drivers for everything including silly things like CPU driver and various system bus drivers and sometimes even sound cards. - My other option is, to insert the motherboard's driver CD and pray to Jeebus that it doesn't install a bunch of bloatware and crapware along my drivers. Oops, too late, even Asus are bundling garbage like Symantec Total Absolute Maximum Super Duper Security suite (30 day trial version) with their driver CDs. Oh, and there is no way to skip this installation if you chose the CD way because Asus wants you to secure your computer, honest! - Once drivers are taken care of, I have to get some security software and install it. I have to stop a bunch of services that are not needed (I am looking at you Remote Registry and Telephony!).
But yes, keep telling yourself that installing and configuring Linux is such a complicated task.
I bought my Sager laptop with an option 'No Operating System'. High end Sandy Bridge stuff with high end NVidia laptop video card. Not to mention I build my PCs myself, again, no windows comes with them.
I had a PS3, tried the whole "ditch PC gaming for consoles" trend. Didn't work for me for many reasons: - Don't like console controller. I could never get used to it. - No complex strategy games like Civilization, no good RTS games, very few decent RPG games. - No good MMOs.
So I got a new SB 2500K rig, never been happier. Steam/Impulse are fantastic, and new PC hardware is not expensive at all (unless you want to go into multi screen / Extreme CPU setups). For the common layman like me, a midrange quad core with a midrange video card is all I need.
Except two or three high speed HDDs in a RAID configuration will outperform a SSD on most tasks, and cost about 10x less.
Of course, however... (1) SSDs own platter drivers in random read/write. What people do on their machines? Mostly random reads/writes! (2) SSDs consume less power, are dead silent, have no moving parts. (3) You can't cram three 15k SCSI drives into a MacBook. Well... maybe you could but it would look very funny and be way less portable.
you can get 2 TB HDD for that price or 146 GB 15K HDDs as well.
Western Digital VelociRaptor WDBACN3000ENC-NRSN 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive is about $200 as well.
I know, eh! I decided to put a 3.5 inch high performance desktop drive into my laptop.
First problem: Hard drive didn't fit. Solution: Duct tape it to the laptop, wire SATA cables. Option two would have been cramming it into the chassis somehow.
Second problem: Voltage. Vast majority of laptops don't have 12 Volt SATA lines. Solution: Wire some more cables from an adapter of some sort!
Third problem: Laptop now looks really funky with the duct taped hard drive. Oh and is much heavier! Solution: Don't know, any suggestions?
But hey, I managed to do it! Cramming a desktop drive into a laptop!
Spoken like someone who never used one SSD. I was exactly like you, dismissing SSDs as hype. Until I got an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB for less than 100$. My opinion has shifted dramatically, yes windows boots up fast, but it's not just that. Every program installed on SSD boots fast, the system is much snappier, it almost feels like it was an iPad, wake up from sleep takes less than a second. As for price / GB, yes it's steep, but if you keep only applications and OS on the SSD, the price is well worth it.
I don't beleive Sony are that dumb. A backdoor pretty much opens the PS3 not just to Sony but hackers and most importantly malware writers. PS3 botnet anyone?
I am working on a first generation Intel dual core, 2 GB of RAM and Windows XP. I am expected to run Virtual Box with about 2 VMs and up to 2-3 instances of Visual Studio. While this is work, it's a pain in the ass to work on a shitty machine like this. I would love to be able to work on my laptop that is light years ahead of this piece of shit, performance wise. Of course, IT doesn't want it. Not everyone is lucky to work on machines that can get the job done.
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1. Police notice suspect activities from a number of wi-fi connections in (insert area name here) owned by computer illiterate people.
2. Police start their own 'open' wi-fi connections in this area.
3. Police start videotaping people who come around this area and gather information about the people they notice coming to wi-fi connection.
4. They realize one is pretty good with computers.
5. They get a warrant and surprise this hacker at 5AM in his mother's basement.
6. Hacker has no time to destroy evidence form his machines and it's caught.
7. ????
8. Hacker gets his ass pounded after he becomes Big John's bitch in prison.
Forgot to mention that it houses about 1 TB (mdam RAID6) of music, videos and pictures that are streamed to my HTPC, smartphone and laptop. It runs a few services like iTunes, SSH, Privoxy and Apache in separate VMs. While it's not a pure server it does do a lot of server stuff. I should call it Servstation!
But let's not kid ourselves: if you were building a server from scratch today (not late 2010), you wouldn't use Sandy Bridge?
Just finished building my linux server/workstation. I needed cores and cheap. Picked up a Phenom II X6 1090T for about 160$, motherboard for 100$ (supports Bulldozer, has lot of SATA ports), 8 GB RAM for about 80$, rest of pieces I had them. 340$ total. For that, I can barely get a 2500K with some shitty motherboard. The 2600K is about 320$. And since I'll be doing mostly programming, running virtual machines and just normal PC use (browsing, videos, etc ...) I need as many physical cores as possible (even if IPC is low) vs less cores and more IPC. Also, this build allows me to upgrade processor later on with an 8 core bulldozer if I ever need it.
PS: My dual core gaming rig is getting a 2500K + Asus Maximus Gene IV upgrade. As others said it: Best tool for the job.
To be clear, the Sandy Bridge chipset has integrated graphics, not the CPU, but you can't have one without the other is the point.
No. GPU is on the CPU, like Llano.
And lose the plug-in AdBlock Plus? - No thank you!
AdBlock Plus for Chrome.
causing hangs in rare cases
- On new Sandy Bridge laptops, booting always caused hangs. I couldn't boot Linux (Arch or Ubuntu) if I had the power brick connected. Hanging is just one issue, another one is that the network card is unable to connect to the network. Also, if you dual boot, Windows might tweak with cards settings and when you reboot into Linux, it still hangs or simply can't connect to network. Solution is complete power off and rebooting without power brick being on. I even tried de-activating ASPM and didn't work (pcie_aspm=off). Only thing working as you mentionned is pcie_aspm=off, at least for me!
Let's see Florian Muller spin this ...
a very rich user experience over the web that was cross platform.
You keep using those words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
Time to do an Apple and bring back Gates?
Bring back the man who had to be begged by J. Allard to take the internet seriously? Gates has as much lack of vision as Ballmer.
90% of the world MUST be masochists.
But seriously, until someone offers a better, cheaper, and more useful OS than Windows, people will use Windows.
What do you mean you can't install and configure Linux? What do you mean you don't have $1200 to drop on an Apple macbook?
Ubuntu:
- Installer asks me about my time zone, user name and password. Everything else can be done on autopilot.
- Once booted, if there are restricted drivers, I got a popup telling me to install them if I want. Install is a two button click: (1) Install, (2) Reboot. All this 'massive' configuration is done.
Windows:
- Installer is pretty much similar to Ubuntu, minor inquiries.
- Once booted, a lot of hardware doesn't work and I have to install drivers for everything including silly things like CPU driver and various system bus drivers and sometimes even sound cards.
- My other option is, to insert the motherboard's driver CD and pray to Jeebus that it doesn't install a bunch of bloatware and crapware along my drivers. Oops, too late, even Asus are bundling garbage like Symantec Total Absolute Maximum Super Duper Security suite (30 day trial version) with their driver CDs. Oh, and there is no way to skip this installation if you chose the CD way because Asus wants you to secure your computer, honest!
- Once drivers are taken care of, I have to get some security software and install it. I have to stop a bunch of services that are not needed (I am looking at you Remote Registry and Telephony!).
But yes, keep telling yourself that installing and configuring Linux is such a complicated task.
Windows RAM drive. Works great with browser temporary data. You can use junctions to map adobe temporary folders to your RAM drive.
I bought my Sager laptop with an option 'No Operating System'. High end Sandy Bridge stuff with high end NVidia laptop video card. Not to mention I build my PCs myself, again, no windows comes with them.
Better luck next time, try again.
I'm not going to run out and replace my $100 2TB external backup with one of these any time soon.
I am not going to run out and replace my minivan that I use to ferry my four kids and wife with a two seater sports car any time soon!
Same controller.
Secure OS's are only as good as the software running on it without administrator privileges.
There, fixed it for ya.
I had a PS3, tried the whole "ditch PC gaming for consoles" trend. Didn't work for me for many reasons:
- Don't like console controller. I could never get used to it.
- No complex strategy games like Civilization, no good RTS games, very few decent RPG games.
- No good MMOs.
So I got a new SB 2500K rig, never been happier. Steam/Impulse are fantastic, and new PC hardware is not expensive at all (unless you want to go into multi screen / Extreme CPU setups). For the common layman like me, a midrange quad core with a midrange video card is all I need.
No mention of the i7 2600K that is 1/3d price for pretty much the same performance minus a few very thread oriented tests.
Except two or three high speed HDDs in a RAID configuration will outperform a SSD on most tasks, and cost about 10x less.
Of course, however ... ... maybe you could but it would look very funny and be way less portable.
(1) SSDs own platter drivers in random read/write. What people do on their machines? Mostly random reads/writes!
(2) SSDs consume less power, are dead silent, have no moving parts.
(3) You can't cram three 15k SCSI drives into a MacBook. Well
Never had any issues with my Vertex 2 waking up from hibernation.
$200 for 80gb?
you can get 2 TB HDD for that price or 146 GB 15K HDDs as well.
Western Digital VelociRaptor WDBACN3000ENC-NRSN 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive is about $200 as well.
I know, eh! I decided to put a 3.5 inch high performance desktop drive into my laptop.
First problem: Hard drive didn't fit.
Solution: Duct tape it to the laptop, wire SATA cables. Option two would have been cramming it into the chassis somehow.
Second problem: Voltage. Vast majority of laptops don't have 12 Volt SATA lines.
Solution: Wire some more cables from an adapter of some sort!
Third problem: Laptop now looks really funky with the duct taped hard drive. Oh and is much heavier!
Solution: Don't know, any suggestions?
But hey, I managed to do it! Cramming a desktop drive into a laptop!
Spoken like someone who never used one SSD. I was exactly like you, dismissing SSDs as hype. Until I got an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB for less than 100$. My opinion has shifted dramatically, yes windows boots up fast, but it's not just that. Every program installed on SSD boots fast, the system is much snappier, it almost feels like it was an iPad, wake up from sleep takes less than a second. As for price / GB, yes it's steep, but if you keep only applications and OS on the SSD, the price is well worth it.
I don't beleive Sony are that dumb. A backdoor pretty much opens the PS3 not just to Sony but hackers and most importantly malware writers. PS3 botnet anyone?
Apparently the problem is with SATA ports 2-5, at least for mobile motherboards. Every desktop board is affected.
My bad, wrong choice of words. iOS supports multitasking but Apple won't allow it.
I am working on a first generation Intel dual core, 2 GB of RAM and Windows XP. I am expected to run Virtual Box with about 2 VMs and up to 2-3 instances of Visual Studio. While this is work, it's a pain in the ass to work on a shitty machine like this. I would love to be able to work on my laptop that is light years ahead of this piece of shit, performance wise. Of course, IT doesn't want it. Not everyone is lucky to work on machines that can get the job done.