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  1. Re:Palladium on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    WARNING: This product has Digital
    Rights Restriction capabilities.
    For more information, visit:
    http://(insert URL here)

    BTW, it was DownHillBattle.org, as someone else said, and they also offered their labels in .pub (MS Publisher) and .pdf formats.

  2. Re:if only.. on Implant a Chip in Your Head · · Score: 1

    bugmenot.com?

    It finds logins for all sorts of sites (there's even a /. login).

  3. Re:Ringtones? on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    Yes, even my bottom-of-the-line Nokia 3588i supports polyphonic ringtones (not that Sprint allows it on their Vision service, so no downloading, but...) Pretty much everything that supports ringtones anymore supports polyphonic ringtones.

  4. Re:Right answer, wrong question. on Tracking Changes to a Windows System? · · Score: 1

    Why compare filesystem and registry changes when you can just automatically fix them?

    Faronics Deep Freeze is the way to go. BTW, how do you disable it? My college is running it, and they run their boxes at 800x600 with the XP theme, and Opera gets wiped every time...

  5. Re:Goodbye Intel... on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 1

    A Pentium M is as much (or less) a Pentium III than a Pentium III is a Pentium Pro.

    The Pentium M is derived from the P6 architecture used by the Pentium Pro, II, and III (and Celerons based on the last two), and could possibly be considered a member of that family, but is not a Pentium III. For one, it is the first P6 to ever have a pipeline longer than 10 stages (it is estimated to be 14), to run on a quad-pumped bus (a power-optimized version of the Pentium 4 bus - it will actually run on a standard P4 chipset), and to support SSE2. The branch predictor is also taken from (AFAIK) Northwood, and various other performance-enhancing tricks from NetBurst CPUs are used to make up for the lengthened pipeline (which still isn't NEARLY as long as ANY NetBurst) and propel it far ahead of the other P6 CPUs. There are also many new power conserving technologies, including the fact that not all of the cache needs to be powered - only 32KB blocks.

    What does this boil down to? It's a CPU with P6 roots, but almost all of the tricks from the NetBurst bag (meant to just get those CPUs on a par with P6, but when applied to P6, make it KICK ASS), and some new tricks to make it take less power (occasionally at the cost of performance).

  6. Re:Goodbye Intel... on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 1

    Read the name again, and note that he used Presshot in his post, meaning that he was making fun of certain cores.

    Split the name apart if you still don't get it - non cona.

    If you STILL don't get it, note that you yourself said it's delayed.

    And, if you don't get it yet, look at this:
    non means that something isn't something. The delays mean it doesn't exist yet, and could be vaporware, hence Noncona.

  7. Re:Looks like... on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 1

    What about for interoperability, and the fact that they didn't reverse engineer the No Execute part of it, so they didn't even reverse engineer the access control mechanism that they didn't already have since the 80386?

  8. Re:Looks like... on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 1

    While the AMD 386 was still strongly based on the Intel/AMD/Harris 286, it WAS an AMD design. If you want non-Intel-based designs, you have to go to the NexGen-designed K6 (almost called Nx686, but AMD bought them out).

  9. Re:"all but surpassed" on KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    And get rid of that awful wanna-be Helvetica font.

    While I agree that Helvetica looks bad, Arial's the wanna-be - Microsoft was one of the ones to develop it.

  10. Re:All BUT surpassed? on KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there actually a program that ran Windows 98SE on top of Linux, for running Windows apps as natively as possible?

  11. Re:"all but surpassed" on KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Make an F sound like you would saying the F in fuck, then say asterisk, then make the CK sound?

  12. Re:Try Wal-Mart on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's for the motherboard, PSU, case, and MAYBE optical drives. No CPU, no RAM, no HDD - those are underneath the server's link.

  13. Re:Consider vmware.. on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 1

    WHAT???? Bochs emulates the x86 CPU! What about Plex86 (http://plex86.sourceforge.net/), if you want to run Linux?

  14. Re:A solution?? on First Look At S-ATA Optical Storage Drive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My KHyperMedia 52x24x52x has "Seamless Link" or something like that, and while it was $39, the next week OfficeMax had it free after rebate.

    Unfortunately, it appears to have a nasty habit of killing the secondary IDE channel (but not primary, even when plugged in as the only device), and then soon killing the i810's graphics on my Trigem Cognac (don't ask...) Another of the same model in the same order ON THE SAME MODEL OF BOARD didn't do that...

  15. Re:Timing it right could be tricky on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 1

    Actually, they "run" them by turning them green.

  16. Re:ok? on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here it is: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/modtips/story/0 ,24330,3646402,00.html

  17. Re:ok? on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep, Yoshi made an EPIA TC box, in which the case was done with wood veneers (it WAS wooden, though - the veneers just made it not look like he used plywood)...

  18. Re:Considering MS loses money on each one... on Xbox Price Drop Doubles Sales, Sony To Follow? · · Score: 1

    It's actually a 733MHz Coppermine Celeron at 133MHz FSB (133*5.5) - in a weird 370-pin socket that isn't at all shaped like the old Socket 370. The GPU is a GeForce 3 based chip. Keep in mind, it's a custom mobo, too. I'd say, in the quantities MS is ordering, they might not be making a loss, but they're definitely not making a profit.

  19. Re:I disagree on Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall · · Score: 1

    I'll call a P4 RISC-like - it's translated from the x86 instruction set to a RISC-like instruction set before execution.

  20. Re:Someone ... on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1

    TrrrrROLL!!!!

    BTW, I kinda like the simplicity of that site. Myself, I'd make my site have more features, but...

  21. Re:question on Intel To Make A Greener Microprocessor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    8080 processor, actually. The 8086 is a 16-bit extended version of the 8085, which is an enhanced 8080 meant as an answer to Zilog and their Z80, and the 8080 and 8085 should be considered the only 8-bit x86s. I didn't include the 8008, because I don't know if the 8080 is code-compatible with it. If so, the x86 family should also include the 8008.

  22. Re:Terminal Services on A Network Attached Windows Box? · · Score: 1

    But, RDP has better compression and is encrypted

    For local LAN stuff, you don't need much compression. You haven't happened to have heard of TightVNC (or Ultr@VNC on Winboxes), have you? As for encryption, you've already got SSH - do VNC over SSH. The main advantage for RDP is that it automatically mounts your printers and (AFAIK) some drives on the computer you connected to, and that it is hooked into the OS. Ultr@VNC doesn't do QUITE all of that, but it does give you file transfer and graphics driver hooks (the driver hooks are simply for getting the info into Ultr@VNC before it hits the video card, speeding things up - the effects can be seen from a TightVNC client, but the file transfer and chat are only accessible from the Ultr@VNC client (which does run under Wine, if you need it on Linux - a few bugs, but usable)).

  23. Re:VNC? on A Network Attached Windows Box? · · Score: 1

    TightVNC + file transfer + chat + custom display driver hack for 2000/XP = Ultr@VNC. I've found it to be faster than RealVNC, even over a 100Mb connection, meaning that there's more than TightVNC compression going on there (100Mb, for VNC purposes, could be considered almost unlimited bandwidth if there's only one VNC server and one client - file size doesn't matter with that much bandwidth).

  24. Re:Wireless on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Of course, I should have never let someone else buy hardware for me - the v4 is what I have...

  25. Re:Wireless on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Linksys WPC11 v4 - rtl8180 chipset, is a BITCH to get working under Linux, doesn't work that well on Windows.

    Linksys WPC11 v3 - Prism chipset, easy on Linux, works on Windows.