That's right. I get about 5400 from an AMD 64 3200+, 1Gb Crucial RAM, AOpen FX5900, RAID0 Seagate SATA. But all these benchmark numbers are questionable. I mean, you start tuning for the benchmark, not for the overall experience.
My 5400 benchmark is only obtained at the expense of switching off AA and AF, so the edge rendering quality is shit. Who seriously uses it like that? I use AA x4 and AF x 4 normally, the 3DMark03 benchmark comes down to about 2800, it might drop to 3fps a couple of times (Nature), but the Wings of Anger section is absolutely stunning, with rates peaking in the 300+fps range.
So what gives? I've seen the 10000+ scores posted and think "Bet it's totally unbearable to watch".
I could easily set up a Slack9.1 box to do the same thing, but the electricity consumption, noise, space and admin aren't worth it.
Know the feeling!
I'm running Smoothwall Express 2 (GNU/Linux components) on my old PC, which is a tad overkill to protect a couple of machines. It would probably serve a small department or a couple of labs pretty well; it has snort, squid and so on and has a ssl-secured web interface for admin. Nice interface, good logging and traffic graphs, enough facilities to make it pretty useful, and fairly quick and easy to set up (I didn't R much of TFM). It nags you to check for updates regularly too. I'm kind of fond of it despite the negatives.
Luckily my new PC makes enough fan-noise to drown out the old one;)
Geezer, I'm cancelling a mod point here just to tell you that Kwacker riders are a breed apart.
I was a Yammy man myself. I had a decently quick 750 at one time and used to get creamed by the Kwacker crew on a regular basis. Bastards.
Respects to this crazy honey - she's got that heroic quality and a Mad Max landscape. Fantastic approach to living with a radioactive wasteland. "This is pompea last day sort of place." Shit, not half.
Did you d/l, compile and install the replacement modutils (I used module-init-tools-3.0-pre9)? The old modutils won't work with 2.6; if you haven't installed the new ones already, safest if you rename the old ones with a.old extension before you do (I think this lets the 2.4 kernel still work AFAIK - does for me).
Also, the build process has been simplified to
make
make install
make modules_install
(the modules compile concurrently with the kernel)
I've used 2.6.2, 2.6.2-mjb1 and 2.6.3 in SuSE 9 AMD64 so far with only a couple of SuSE specific errors.
Well funny you should say that, as the only 64-bit 2.6 kernel offering from Gentoo that I can find is experimental and they don't seem to be recommending 2.4 kernel 64-bit compiles.
I have 2.6.2 x86_64 compiled and running in SuSE 9 AMD64, the full works; I run the Gentoo exp 2.6 AMD64 as well, but there's not a lot there yet.
So your comment could do with fleshing out in detail a little, that's all.
I believe the sig (and expression) belongs to the Fast Wichita Outlaws (who wrote a great modem protocol front-end back in the DOS days) and more properly has an exclamation mark in the middle.
Don't agree with the troll rating meself, you have a point. I'd have said it applied more to Usenet (I remember being able to exchange comment with Marvin Minsky on a philosophy group once... a long time ago), but plainly I'm an old fart. Nonetheless, given random analysis of the things that excite the Slashdot populace, I'd say you might be onto something. But WTF, they might just learn some sliver of wisdom if we keep posting....:)
At my p.o.w., I maintain 2 Ultra 5s, one for primary DNS, the other (w/512Mb RAM) as an internal CP Firewall-1 box. Both run SunOS 5.8 stripped down and I'm not thinking of dumping them anytime soon.
Funny you should say that, but (considering the Apache article earlier), just run Netcraft against the UK Gov't Foreign Office website, www.fco.gov.uk.
(Well, when uptime.netcraft.com stops being Slashdotted)
Shocked me, too! Good old OS/2 - if it's good enough for a cruise missile, it's good enough for the FCO, what?
No. I take issue with you on this. Never mind the p.c. nonsense, everyone wants a roof over their head, clean water to drink, food in their belly and a bit of love and respect.
My colleagues at work are British, Irish, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi, Peruvian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Hong Kong Chinese, Sierra Leonian, Pakistani, Indian, and this is not an exhaustive list. I know that we're all much the same, from experience. Cultures smultures - our needs and desires are exactly the same. The social systems we were born into differ, but this is simply how history has panned out.
No joke! I'm the Senior Security Analyst for the organisation I work for and come January 5th, when we return to work, Microsoft will be named as the primary security risk we deal with. Period.
I take your point. Plainly, given the longevity of many of the buildings of Bam, nothing of the sort had ever been experienced by these people. This was an unexpected castrophe. I wish them well in their unhappy experience.
QUALity eQUALs eQUALity comes from Michael Fairchild and his book "ROCK PROPHECY : Sex and Jimi Hendrix in World Religions (the Original Asteroid Prediction & Microsoft Connection). OK, the guy is nuts on the face of it, but he does come out with some really good stuff. "The point is who is wrong and who is right, that's what the point is - not how many people" - Jimi
I note that you've been moderated as a troll. Fuck the ignorant moderator who did that.
You poor fightened little tossers. Dammit, just pick up on this ferchrissakes. Change society is the key, like he says. He's with the program. We have to pull our heads out of our asses and get to grips with this. Everyone is the same as everyone else and we live on the same planet. Brits, Americans are no better or worse than Iraqis, Iranians, North Koreans or any other nationals.
The dot com bollocks happened because too few people asked "where's the business plan?". That's all. A bit of common sense is all that's required.
You should have seen the bullshit Lyons came out with a couple of weeks ago, virtually libelling Groklaw, Slashdot / VA and anyone into Linux. The guy is such a total troll. Forbes should wise up and jettison the stupid wanker. Nobody can be that wrong about everything.
I wonder will he do any covers of songs by Shaka KHAAAAAAAAN!!!
I did stage monitors for Chaka Khan once ('86?) and discovered her ass starts just between her shoulder blades and stops just above her knees. What a phenomenal woman! Respect.
I only suggest that because snaps of tiny dork surrounded by lots green park can be pretty dull. Rooftops and stuff are far more interesting. However, say having got the thing up to 1000 ft or so and it nosedives, yes you're right, it could cause injuries. But you just hand the string to the most vacant looking person nearby. And of course, in my neighbourhood, sacrifice your gear to opportunists.
Don't know about the mental health of the author, but I did try LRP a couple of years ago on an old PC with 5 NICs plugged into it. It almost worked, AFAIR. Last time I looked, LRP had been abandoned.
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My 5400 benchmark is only obtained at the expense of switching off AA and AF, so the edge rendering quality is shit. Who seriously uses it like that? I use AA x4 and AF x 4 normally, the 3DMark03 benchmark comes down to about 2800, it might drop to 3fps a couple of times (Nature), but the Wings of Anger section is absolutely stunning, with rates peaking in the 300+fps range.
So what gives? I've seen the 10000+ scores posted and think "Bet it's totally unbearable to watch".
Obviously I just don't get it!
Know the feeling!
I'm running Smoothwall Express 2 (GNU/Linux components) on my old PC, which is a tad overkill to protect a couple of machines. It would probably serve a small department or a couple of labs pretty well; it has snort, squid and so on and has a ssl-secured web interface for admin. Nice interface, good logging and traffic graphs, enough facilities to make it pretty useful, and fairly quick and easy to set up (I didn't R much of TFM). It nags you to check for updates regularly too. I'm kind of fond of it despite the negatives.
Luckily my new PC makes enough fan-noise to drown out the old one ;)
I was a Yammy man myself. I had a decently quick 750 at one time and used to get creamed by the Kwacker crew on a regular basis. Bastards.
Respects to this crazy honey - she's got that heroic quality and a Mad Max landscape. Fantastic approach to living with a radioactive wasteland. "This is pompea last day sort of place." Shit, not half.
Did you d/l, compile and install the replacement modutils (I used module-init-tools-3.0-pre9)? The old modutils won't work with 2.6; if you haven't installed the new ones already, safest if you rename the old ones with a .old extension before you do (I think this lets the 2.4 kernel still work AFAIK - does for me).
Also, the build process has been simplified to
make
make install
make modules_install
(the modules compile concurrently with the kernel)
I've used 2.6.2, 2.6.2-mjb1 and 2.6.3 in SuSE 9 AMD64 so far with only a couple of SuSE specific errors.
hope this helps.... someone:) As ever, YMMV
I have 2.6.2 x86_64 compiled and running in SuSE 9 AMD64, the full works; I run the Gentoo exp 2.6 AMD64 as well, but there's not a lot there yet.
So your comment could do with fleshing out in detail a little, that's all.
I believe the sig (and expression) belongs to the Fast Wichita Outlaws (who wrote a great modem protocol front-end back in the DOS days) and more properly has an exclamation mark in the middle.
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Some profs doubt the reliability of the proposed voting equipment (!)
Don't agree with the troll rating meself, you have a point. I'd have said it applied more to Usenet (I remember being able to exchange comment with Marvin Minsky on a philosophy group once... a long time ago), but plainly I'm an old fart. Nonetheless, given random analysis of the things that excite the Slashdot populace, I'd say you might be onto something. But WTF, they might just learn some sliver of wisdom if we keep posting.... :)
Sheesh (tm)
I make no judgement.
At my p.o.w., I maintain 2 Ultra 5s, one for primary DNS, the other (w/512Mb RAM) as an internal CP Firewall-1 box. Both run SunOS 5.8 stripped down and I'm not thinking of dumping them anytime soon.
Obsolete? They're current, dammit! :)
Shocked me, too! Good old OS/2 - if it's good enough for a cruise missile, it's good enough for the FCO, what?
Wasn't that originally called the french wad?
My colleagues at work are British, Irish, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi, Peruvian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Hong Kong Chinese, Sierra Leonian, Pakistani, Indian, and this is not an exhaustive list. I know that we're all much the same, from experience. Cultures smultures - our needs and desires are exactly the same. The social systems we were born into differ, but this is simply how history has panned out.
Barry Lamar Bonds? Who he? (Ed.) ((c) Private Eye)
No joke! I'm the Senior Security Analyst for the organisation I work for and come January 5th, when we return to work, Microsoft will be named as the primary security risk we deal with. Period.
QUALity eQUALs eQUALity comes from Michael Fairchild and his book "ROCK PROPHECY : Sex and Jimi Hendrix in World Religions (the Original Asteroid Prediction & Microsoft Connection). OK, the guy is nuts on the face of it, but he does come out with some really good stuff. "The point is who is wrong and who is right, that's what the point is - not how many people" - Jimi
I note that you've been moderated as a troll. Fuck the ignorant moderator who did that.
The dot com bollocks happened because too few people asked "where's the business plan?". That's all. A bit of common sense is all that's required.
QUALity eQUALs eQUALity
You should have seen the bullshit Lyons came out with a couple of weeks ago, virtually libelling Groklaw, Slashdot / VA and anyone into Linux. The guy is such a total troll. Forbes should wise up and jettison the stupid wanker. Nobody can be that wrong about everything.
When George Melley was told that Jagger's wrinkles are "laughter lines", he said "Nothing's that funny".
I did stage monitors for Chaka Khan once ('86?) and discovered her ass starts just between her shoulder blades and stops just above her knees. What a phenomenal woman! Respect.
What was the article? Er...
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It's a bit Pythonesque, really. "The residents pass along here, through the rotating knives..."
Excellent site, thanks for the link. How did he get the stuff in the centre of Berkeley? That's admirable.
I presume that this is a shiny, all-new LRP?