I suspect that your problem here is cooling. 7200RPM drives run much hotter than their 5400RPM equivalents. Although it requires more case real estate, you should provide proper spacing between drives, and some active cooling (a fan or something more fancy).
This is not a new issue, either. Nearly every distro dumped XFree86 when they started acting this way. They forked it and now we have X.org. (XFree86 is completely dead now.) OpenBSD ditched Apache for the same reason.
<sarcasm>Which is why the Apache project is dead, and everyone is currently using the OpenBSD httpd.</sarcasm>
Yeah, these days, as long as the compiler supports the processor/architecture, it really doesn't matter. Even better, if you're using a truly high-level language, it all becomes irrelevant. Perl doesn't care about your architecture.
Right now, I'm working on a multiprocessor embedded project, with a DSP, an 8051 clone, and a PC/104 (x86) system for display/data logging. I used to think that the x86 architecture was bad, but after getting stuck with a couple of Harvard architecture systems, I'm loving the x86. I still miss the 6510/6502 processor; now there was a processor with character!:-)
I'm the first to admit that I don't *like* the x86 architecture from an idealistic viewpoint, but it does the job and most of the other architectures are either becoming or actually irrelevant...
I somehow doubt you are the first... I've often wondered what the engineers at Intel were smoking back in the seventies. Low level/assembler programming on any of the 8051/8080/8086/etc (the popular "old school" Intel processors) reveals a LOT of architectural gotchas. Memory addressing on 80x86 processors is, well, "interesting".
It is also quite interesting to note that starting with the Pentium (or was it 80486?) Intel basically threw out the oddball CISC architecture and ran the whole thing as a RISC processor with the x86 arch emulated in microcode.
I really wish one of the nicer RISC processors had really taken off, but unfortunately the 8086 model achieved critical mass (thanks M$!). You're right, though... low cost, and wide availability have been a good thing overall, even if we end up stuck with a hairy architecture. Haven't looked "under the hood" at the 64-bitters yet (too busy hacking 8051 code!), but I hope the situation has improved.
Finn Clark had a solution similar to this in his Finn Fang Foom series. "Boy travels to past. Boy meets girl. Gets girl pregnant. Boy has sex-change operation. Boy, now girl, travels back in time. Meets boy, gets pregnant. Gives birth to boy. Boy travels to past..."
Nah... the Hauppage WinTV cards are just shite. If my computer locks up, resets, won't boot, or whatever, the problem is usually solved by pulling the card / disabling the drivers / not using it / etc. Ahh well...
As a manager, just ask yourself a few questions. Might some employee have "conveniently" installed Office on some machine hidden away in some dark corner, without getting an extra license. Perhaps you misplaced the paperwork that came with one of your machines, including, say, the Windows license? Perhaps you, or an employee, violated some obscure section of one of the myriad of license agreements, and there is evidence to prove it? Do you really know for sure? Is it worth the risk if you are wrong? After thinking long and hard, I'm sure many managers will decide to simply buy the upgrades and be done with it.
On my computer here (Celeron433), Mozilla created a new window in four seconds. If your attention span is shorter than four seconds, you have more problems than your choice of web browsers.
Message 23 seems pretty interesting too. "Truly, you only see what you want to see, and for this reason, people must be destroyed, because although they can see, they are yet blind." Truly freaky shit.
Of course, any numerologists in the audience might now be totally freaked out by the fact that messages 7 and 23 are significant...
Erm, no? The people behind this law might be stupid, but they're not THAT stupid. They specifically allow this. Doing otherwise might cause a massive outcry -- precisely what they DON'T want.
Hate to burst your bubble there, but a "wav" file ripped off of a CD is an exact copy a track from that CD. Unless your CD is scratched beyond belief or your ripper is worthless, there will be no loss in quality whatsoever. Any "audiophile" claiming that they can tell the difference between a CD and a "wav" file is full of it.
Of course, somebody could come along and point out that you could encode a "wav" file at 8000 Hz, 8-bit, mono -- that would indeed sound worse than a CD (or most MP3's, for that matter), but hey...
The only problem with that is that a *lot* of schools (esp. those in the midwest USA) seem to think that "teamwork and good exercise habits" are the *only* important thing for a growing child to learn. RR&R seem to get forgotten about in the eternal quest to win the sectionals.
EVIL DRIVES!:-) I've also noticed a few of my drives recently failing to insert the tray when I pushed on it... they also failed to read discs, too... hmmm...
What in the world is linen service? I'm just about to start my fourth year at Tri-State Uni, and I've never heard of such a thing. Of course, when they got the dorms "wired", I just *knew* I had to live on-campus.:-)
I remember having several dreams about Grandia (back when I was playing it). I would "play" for several hours at a time, completing adventures that didn't even exist! Afterwards, when I was actually *playing* the game, I remember being disappointed by the comparitively low quality of the stories.:-)
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I suspect that your problem here is cooling. 7200RPM drives run much hotter than their 5400RPM equivalents. Although it requires more case real estate, you should provide proper spacing between drives, and some active cooling (a fan or something more fancy).
<sarcasm>Which is why the Apache project is dead, and everyone is currently using the OpenBSD httpd.</sarcasm>
These days? Oh, to be so young...
Yeah, these days, as long as the compiler supports the processor/architecture, it really doesn't matter. Even better, if you're using a truly high-level language, it all becomes irrelevant. Perl doesn't care about your architecture.
:-)
Right now, I'm working on a multiprocessor embedded project, with a DSP, an 8051 clone, and a PC/104 (x86) system for display/data logging. I used to think that the x86 architecture was bad, but after getting stuck with a couple of Harvard architecture systems, I'm loving the x86. I still miss the 6510/6502 processor; now there was a processor with character!
I somehow doubt you are the first... I've often wondered what the engineers at Intel were smoking back in the seventies. Low level/assembler programming on any of the 8051/8080/8086/etc (the popular "old school" Intel processors) reveals a LOT of architectural gotchas. Memory addressing on 80x86 processors is, well, "interesting".
It is also quite interesting to note that starting with the Pentium (or was it 80486?) Intel basically threw out the oddball CISC architecture and ran the whole thing as a RISC processor with the x86 arch emulated in microcode.
I really wish one of the nicer RISC processors had really taken off, but unfortunately the 8086 model achieved critical mass (thanks M$!). You're right, though... low cost, and wide availability have been a good thing overall, even if we end up stuck with a hairy architecture. Haven't looked "under the hood" at the 64-bitters yet (too busy hacking 8051 code!), but I hope the situation has improved.
Erm, Kent State? (Hint: The National Guard).
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought this...
Finn Clark had a solution similar to this in his Finn Fang Foom series. "Boy travels to past. Boy meets girl. Gets girl pregnant. Boy has sex-change operation. Boy, now girl, travels back in time. Meets boy, gets pregnant. Gives birth to boy. Boy travels to past..."
Nah... the Hauppage WinTV cards are just shite. If my computer locks up, resets, won't boot, or whatever, the problem is usually solved by pulling the card / disabling the drivers / not using it / etc. Ahh well...
> Just my $.002
A couple more posts like that, and you can buy shares in WorldCom!
As a manager, just ask yourself a few questions. Might some employee have "conveniently" installed Office on some machine hidden away in some dark corner, without getting an extra license. Perhaps you misplaced the paperwork that came with one of your machines, including, say, the Windows license? Perhaps you, or an employee, violated some obscure section of one of the myriad of license agreements, and there is evidence to prove it? Do you really know for sure? Is it worth the risk if you are wrong? After thinking long and hard, I'm sure many managers will decide to simply buy the upgrades and be done with it.
On my computer here (Celeron433), Mozilla created a new window in four seconds. If your attention span is shorter than four seconds, you have more problems than your choice of web browsers.
Message 23 seems pretty interesting too. "Truly, you only see what you want to see, and for this reason, people must be destroyed, because although they can see, they are yet blind." Truly freaky shit.
Of course, any numerologists in the audience might now be totally freaked out by the fact that messages 7 and 23 are significant...
A suicidal pilot taking a fully loaded plane down with him? How often does that happen? I'll take my chances with that one.
Well, I can think of one example...
Actually, you can target whoever you like, just as long as you don't care about PR.
Tactical nuclear strikes. :-) Just as long as there are cheap (relatively) sources of nuclear weapons any cash-starved gov't can have 'em. :-)
Erm, no? The people behind this law might be stupid, but they're not THAT stupid. They specifically allow this. Doing otherwise might cause a massive outcry -- precisely what they DON'T want.
Hate to burst your bubble there, but a "wav" file ripped off of a CD is an exact copy a track from that CD. Unless your CD is scratched beyond belief or your ripper is worthless, there will be no loss in quality whatsoever. Any "audiophile" claiming that they can tell the difference between a CD and a "wav" file is full of it. Of course, somebody could come along and point out that you could encode a "wav" file at 8000 Hz, 8-bit, mono -- that would indeed sound worse than a CD (or most MP3's, for that matter), but hey...
I would just like to take this moment to thank IBM for their continued support of free software. :-)
The only problem with that is that a *lot* of schools (esp. those in the midwest USA) seem to think that "teamwork and good exercise habits" are the *only* important thing for a growing child to learn. RR&R seem to get forgotten about in the eternal quest to win the sectionals.
EVIL DRIVES! :-) I've also noticed a few of my drives recently failing to insert the tray when I pushed on it... they also failed to read discs, too... hmmm...
What in the world is linen service? I'm just about to start my fourth year at Tri-State Uni, and I've never heard of such a thing. Of course, when they got the dorms "wired", I just *knew* I had to live on-campus. :-)
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Pathetically low signal strength. FUD campaign to make people believe cable converters were actually necessary. Sky's-the-limit pricing.
Solution: Pizza box dish.
Better Solution: C-Band.
I remember having several dreams about Grandia (back when I was playing it). I would "play" for several hours at a time, completing adventures that didn't even exist! Afterwards, when I was actually *playing* the game, I remember being disappointed by the comparitively low quality of the stories. :-)
Grandia was a fun game, I should play it again...
You could always set the SCMS bit low with a pocket knife... :-)