Imagine NataLie Portman covered in high-temperature superfluidity grits!
In Russiua new matter creates you!
1. Create new type of matter
2. Write press release
3. ?
4. Prodfit!
In Korea only old people use high-temperature superfluidity matter.
Oh yeah, cowboy neal is also made out of this new type of matter.
On a more serious note, I have always been a fan of particle science and although we can't yet see anything one can immediatly commercialize this into just has to look at things like lasers. Laser was around for 10-20 years before we found anything practical to use em in. In 40 years we might see this kind of technology in something? What do you guys+the occasional girl of slashdot predict?
You have to have been stuck under a rock. You had mods from the mid 80s. Mods was THE way to get music on your computer up until mp3. Originally mod was a 4channel format used mostly on amiga, but as pc users got soundcards it spread there as well, and one got improved formats like XM and s3m. Notable tools for tracking (making mods) are Streamtracker and Fasttracker.
Actually, in a lot of countries residental 10megabit and up is getting more and more common. Where I come from you can get up to 50megabit, and in korea, only old people use 50megabit. There's also adsl2 and various other fiber solutions. Right now I am at college, and i got a shared 100mbit connection. The best my neighbour has done on BT-dls was over 8000k/sec...
It's the same in Norway too. Doors that move outwards make a lot more sense. You can have more stuff inside the room without having problems with getting the door up. Imagine having a babywagon, a door swinging in would make it a lot harder. I've actually never even seen a door that swings inwards, to me it sounds impractical, more dangerous and plain silly.
In Norway, we have the following:
million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard. One doesn't run out of "names"" as fast as they do over in the states:-). Using anything other than this is backwaterish, when will the US stop using their feet to measure length?
I got 2 21" EiZO monitors and a 19" LCD and the LCD is just crap compared to these two babies. Some people detect motion and flicker better than others, and I find the 60Hz update rate of LCD apalling when scrolling text, and on just about every LCD monitor I've seen it gets quite blurry too. My 1600*1200 babies at 100HZ is a lot smoother. A lot of people will spout stuff like "4ms omfg lcd is teh ownz" and similar. This is a mean measurement for the time it takes to get within 95% of the target value going from white to black or from some shade of grey. What's a lot more interesting is the worst case scenario, and that is a LOT more than 4ms. For now CRTs still rule flat screen displayes when it comes to image quality, especially if you happen to use more than one resoltion, like I do. I really think LCD will be the first in a line of many different flat panel solutions and will as time passes be seen as a fad, replaced with much better quality displays technologies. Oled springs to mind. Seing how a lot of my friends praising LCD sat with 60Hz on their monitors, even if it could do 85, and didn't notice, I don't put a lot of faith in their praise of LCD.
They're not burned, instead they are electrocuted, gassed or get lethal injections. Well, people do get burned alive, but that's just foreigners, and it seems they don't count.:-) All is fair in love and the war against terrorism.
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What controllers should you look for for a new machine? Do you need one costing 2-4000 NOK (300-500USD) to maintain uptime and data integrity without losing speed? In this test we will look at some of the options and the results when building a good system.
Published May 13.
Most modern motherboards has some form of S-ATA. Both desktop and servers. One of the most common is the Silicon Image 3114. This is a 4 port SATA with alledged RAID-capabilities.
In almost all cheap SATA-controllers they tout raid capabilities. This is a half-truth. These controllers can as just about ever other controller be used in a RAID-array, but most of the work is done in the OS. In windows, mostly in the driver. Rumor has it one should look for raid 5 capabilities if one is looking for a true hardware raid solution (as in transparent to the rest of the hardware). Whether this is correct is not known since GNU/Linux has RAID5 support in software. The road ahead should be short. [idomatic expressiob, doesn't make much sense in Norwegian either in this context.]
[2 controllers' pics]
In this test we will look at different controllers. The aforementioned Sil 3114 is one of those cheap ones with fake hardware raid. How well does it do compared to a much more expensive SCSI setup. Is SATA so good that expensive SCSI setups is only useful in special cases?
Thanks to Nextron for a machine, several controllers and other equipment. And also thanks to MPX for the loan of several Adaptec controllers.
[Next page]
[I will skip most of the redundant translating]
Fire diskport -> four disk ports.
[The comment about the 1.5 GiB memory is about finding a faulty chip.]
enhet -> unit
[long text]
This pretty server has almost all one needs in its small cabinet. It comes with "speed-couplings" [hard to translate] for SATA-disks, so the test with the SCSI controllers is done with an external SCSI cabinet and a PSU. The barebone system kan be delivered with SCSI if needed or one can add this oneself.
With it's 6 angry [slightly different conotations in Norwegian] and tiny little fans I would recommend being in the same room. Noicy like a small machine room. [as in say a boat].
[Next page]
David. This chip has several Goliaths to fight.
* SiL 3114
On most controllers one sees this one or it's little brother. 3112 is often used as an interface to the disks. Simple controller with no RAID caps in HW.
* Megaraid. 150-4
This one has two 3112 chips for the SATA part and 64MiB ECC cache and an intel processor. It is not low profile but has a nice space saving design. Supports Raid 0,1,5 and 10.
* Megaraid 320-1
Low profile SCSI, internal and external connector. Has the GC08302 procsessor. Supports RAID 0,1,10,5,50.
* Adaptec 2130SLP.
Low profile. Internal and external connector. Has a staggering 128 MiB DDR Cache. Supports RAID 0,1,10,5,50 and JBOD.
*Adaptec 2410SA
Low profil SATA with two 3112 chips for SATA support, comes with 64 MiB cache. Supports 0,1,5,10 and JBOD.
[Rant about "true" RAID and level 0 and JBOD with link to a guide.]
The different controllers has support for various functions. LSI controllers tout their "on the fly" changes in the array, changing of raid-type without losing data and similar. Adaptec focuses on SNMP and a lot of the same as LSI. What one needs is up to the reader. The four "external" controllers come with various cables, manuals and CDs.
[Next page]
During the test we used 50GB partitions. Sata disks were almost 3.5 times as big as the SCSI ones, and under this test the file system etc should change the results due to different physical size. It's not really possible to compare it directly, since the disks are quite different, we're looking for patterns in how te configs behave, not only if SATA can compare with SCSI.
Saw it "live" at the Gathering this year, he was a few rows away. It looked really good, and good size too. I remember his last case, the tux one too. I wonder what he will do to top this next year, maybe a bsd daemon? Would be cool, since it has so many difficult details. Maybe a whipping tail for disk activity or something.:-)
You are correct, 0day is also a commonly used specifier for how old a release may be to still be an allowed upload. Most sites that carry 0day have a 0day-today symlink in the root, kinda like the old BBSes had. In the old days people had to rip and compress games etc, the 0day scene still goes by those ideals. One also has 0sec and 0min. 0min isn't that much used and 0sec is a bit odd, it genereally means as fast as possible, no more than a minute really. New groups on slow sites are given more leeway as to how fast a release needs to be considered 0sec. Siteops nuke backfilled releases at their own discretion.
Ok, I can elaborate a little bit more. I may have a bit more insider info than most.
Cracktro: Small yet impressive extra introduction in games/installers made by the crackers to show their skills.
site/box/shell/crax0rlamers: crackers who crack games are ok in the scene, those who crack sites and similar are not accepted. Both are crackers, but different types.
0day: Small software releases ripped to be as small as possible. Mostly utils and games, but also porn, ebooks, pda and many other things. Basically, all that isn't pure media files or a form of iso.
pftp: Well know shelltrade/fxp tool used by a lot of people in the scene. Highly efficient at moving files to/from sites. The encryption used in the original release is quite trivial and easy to crack. The woof-patch, although not very well distributed adds blowfish and SHA256 crypto to make up for this.
It's not really my problem that your knowledge of the topic isn't that strong. I would never post like you did in a thread about nucelar physics.:-)
Hehe, those are more or less the same. You'll find a lot of the demoscene people also do warez. A lot of groups in the demo scene also do warez and vice verca. As an example, take a look at the credits list in Fairlight's TG03 demo Tatsu. (Great party btw). They credit Myth, Deviance, Razor1911 and many others. It is a known fact that the demoscene came from the warez scene due to cracktros. Some of the site/box/shell/crax0rlamers also have ties into the 0day part of the scene. Those kinds of malicious crackers are shunned by sceners, being a huge security risk. Guy gets busted, feds find his pftp-nonwoof, cracks bookmarks, voila, loads of sites to bust. I know some people who do dabble in "the scene" and according to them, that "the scene"-series is fucking ridiculous.
No, you're wrong. Two objects CAN occupy the same XY coordinates and have different Z coordinates. The simplest example is shooting rockets that pass over you. For most things, the engine doesn't allow it as it would cause too many problems, how do you kill a cacodemon directly above you etc. But the engine does allow it. Another nice example would be that you can easily jump over a dead body. Doom is definetly 3d.
I've got to disagree with you there when it comes to Doom. First of all, SSG, plasma, rocket and BFG are all worth carrying. The rl is the least useful actually. Chaingun also has it's uses. The game isn't 2.5d, you can't have half a dimension. It's 3d, but the engine just has some limitations on what kind of geometry it can draw. You're also contradicting yourself with regards to BFG. Personally I find Doom to be the best deathmatch experience ever. It was created for lan play, didn't have to restrict itself to internet friendly ways of doing things, like slow player speeds or avoiding dead-on accurate instant weapons firing rapidly. It also didn't have to invent so much new stuff that's really just crap in order to stand out from the crowd. Bionic pulse rifles? Shrink rays? Nope. Just good weapons. The fact that there were over 54 maps for doom released just this week says it all about the degree of perfection.
And for the record, I won a Radeon 9600 XT in a doom 2 tournament _yesterday_.
I live in Norway too, and what you are sauing is not true. _Handguns_ are more or less outlawed, but other types, such as hunting rifles are not. Norway is one of the countries in the world with the most guns per person. These are however large rifles and other hunting guns, things that are impractical for school massacres etc. And noone has stupid weaponry like machine guns or pistols. Those make no sense for hunting, and would there be an invasion I reckon you could use rifles more efficiently for sabotage than pistols. There is also VERY strict gun control. Seing how the amount of gun-violence is VERY low, I think our system is FAR superior to the antquated mess they got in the US.
Actually, it was removed in 1.2 i think. It's a feature that was only present in versions around 0.98-0.99 to 1.1 or so. Lee Killough's page at http://www.rome.ro/lee_killough/versions/index.htm l even has a way to get 1.1 doom. I've been thinking about doing some dosbox-experimenting with this version. Imagine plaing 3-monitor doom!
I wonder, is doom the first example of a multi-monitor game. Has to be the first fps to have such a feature. (yes, i know, we're talking about 2 extra networked pcs used as dumb terminals, but at the time, noone had the cpu for rendering the gameworld three times.)
Oops, I forgot what I was actually gonna post about while checking the urls. What I want to know is if there are any other good free tools for win* OSes? Something open source would be cool:-)
We all know spyware is a fucking waste of both resources and internet bandwidth, please do everyone a favour and install either Ad Aware from http://www.lavasoft.de/ or Spybot Search & Destroy from http://www.spybot.info/.
If you happen to run an OS where these aren't supported (everything but win*) just ignore this post:-).
I think I saw this one. Wasn't it about some comic book obsessed guy? I also remember something about swinging a baby around by it's umbellicle cord. What I remember the most is that these are 90 minutes of my life i will never get back. And I agree on the "can it get any worse thoughts". It did, all the time.
I reckon that if you wrote a script, using your way of logic, we would definetly have one of the worst movies ever made. One that is "within the limits of film physics" and has a lot of quantum level wrap around.
Yes, Norway is in fact the country implementing the EU-regulations the most (EU countries included) . We have a trade agreements etc with the EU, and we implement all the EU directives.
We really should have joined EU a long time ago, and I find it absurd to not be in it. One can only hope.:-)
If you want me to elaborate more, just reply, i can cite numerous examples, but I'd rather be on-topic to the post. But al in all, I agree with the grandparents post, it could smell trouble when the EU-DMCA comes into play....
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Imagine NataLie Portman covered in high-temperature superfluidity grits!
In Russiua new matter creates you!
1. Create new type of matter
2. Write press release
3. ?
4. Prodfit!
In Korea only old people use high-temperature superfluidity matter.
Oh yeah, cowboy neal is also made out of this new type of matter.
On a more serious note, I have always been a fan of particle science and although we can't yet see anything one can immediatly commercialize this into just has to look at things like lasers. Laser was around for 10-20 years before we found anything practical to use em in. In 40 years we might see this kind of technology in something? What do you guys+the occasional girl of slashdot predict?
You have to have been stuck under a rock. You had mods from the mid 80s. Mods was THE way to get music on your computer up until mp3. Originally mod was a 4channel format used mostly on amiga, but as pc users got soundcards it spread there as well, and one got improved formats like XM and s3m. Notable tools for tracking (making mods) are Streamtracker and Fasttracker.
Actually, in a lot of countries residental 10megabit and up is getting more and more common. Where I come from you can get up to 50megabit, and in korea, only old people use 50megabit. There's also adsl2 and various other fiber solutions. Right now I am at college, and i got a shared 100mbit connection. The best my neighbour has done on BT-dls was over 8000k/sec...
It's the same in Norway too. Doors that move outwards make a lot more sense. You can have more stuff inside the room without having problems with getting the door up. Imagine having a babywagon, a door swinging in would make it a lot harder. I've actually never even seen a door that swings inwards, to me it sounds impractical, more dangerous and plain silly.
In Norway, we have the following: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard. One doesn't run out of "names"" as fast as they do over in the states :-). Using anything other than this is backwaterish, when will the US stop using their feet to measure length?
I got 2 21" EiZO monitors and a 19" LCD and the LCD is just crap compared to these two babies.
Some people detect motion and flicker better than others, and I find the 60Hz update rate of LCD apalling when scrolling text, and on just about every LCD monitor I've seen it gets quite blurry too. My 1600*1200 babies at 100HZ is a lot smoother.
A lot of people will spout stuff like "4ms omfg lcd is teh ownz" and similar. This is a mean measurement for the time it takes to get within 95% of the target value going from white to black or from some shade of grey. What's a lot more interesting is the worst case scenario, and that is a LOT more than 4ms.
For now CRTs still rule flat screen displayes when it comes to image quality, especially if you happen to use more than one resoltion, like I do. I really think LCD will be the first in a line of many different flat panel solutions and will as time passes be seen as a fad, replaced with much better quality displays technologies. Oled springs to mind. Seing how a lot of my friends praising LCD sat with 60Hz on their monitors, even if it could do 85, and didn't notice, I don't put a lot of faith in their praise of LCD.
They're not burned, instead they are electrocuted, gassed or get lethal injections. Well, people do get burned alive, but that's just foreigners, and it seems they don't count. :-) All is fair in love and the war against terrorism.
My own comments are inside []-brackets.
Bolded text:
What controllers should you look for for a new machine? Do you need one costing 2-4000 NOK (300-500USD) to maintain uptime and data integrity without losing speed? In this test we will look at some of the options and the results when building a good system.
Published May 13.
Most modern motherboards has some form of S-ATA. Both desktop and servers. One of the most common is the Silicon Image 3114. This is a 4 port SATA with alledged RAID-capabilities.
In almost all cheap SATA-controllers they tout raid capabilities. This is a half-truth. These controllers can as just about ever other controller be used in a RAID-array, but most of the work is done in the OS. In windows, mostly in the driver. Rumor has it one should look for raid 5 capabilities if one is looking for a true hardware raid solution (as in transparent to the rest of the hardware). Whether this is correct is not known since GNU/Linux has RAID5 support in software. The road ahead should be short. [idomatic expressiob, doesn't make much sense in Norwegian either in this context.]
[2 controllers' pics]
In this test we will look at different controllers. The aforementioned Sil 3114 is one of those cheap ones with fake hardware raid. How well does it do compared to a much more expensive SCSI setup. Is SATA so good that expensive SCSI setups is only useful in special cases?
Thanks to Nextron for a machine, several controllers and other equipment. And also thanks to MPX for the loan of several Adaptec controllers.
[Next page]
[I will skip most of the redundant translating] Fire diskport -> four disk ports.
[The comment about the 1.5 GiB memory is about finding a faulty chip.]
enhet -> unit
[long text]
This pretty server has almost all one needs in its small cabinet. It comes with "speed-couplings" [hard to translate] for SATA-disks, so the test with the SCSI controllers is done with an external SCSI cabinet and a PSU. The barebone system kan be delivered with SCSI if needed or one can add this oneself.
With it's 6 angry [slightly different conotations in Norwegian] and tiny little fans I would recommend being in the same room. Noicy like a small machine room. [as in say a boat].
[Next page] David. This chip has several Goliaths to fight.
* SiL 3114
On most controllers one sees this one or it's little brother. 3112 is often used as an interface to the disks. Simple controller with no RAID caps in HW.
* Megaraid. 150-4
This one has two 3112 chips for the SATA part and 64MiB ECC cache and an intel processor. It is not low profile but has a nice space saving design. Supports Raid 0,1,5 and 10.
* Megaraid 320-1
Low profile SCSI, internal and external connector. Has the GC08302 procsessor. Supports RAID 0,1,10,5,50.
* Adaptec 2130SLP.
Low profile. Internal and external connector. Has a staggering 128 MiB DDR Cache. Supports RAID 0,1,10,5,50 and JBOD.
*Adaptec 2410SA
Low profil SATA with two 3112 chips for SATA support, comes with 64 MiB cache. Supports 0,1,5,10 and JBOD.
[Rant about "true" RAID and level 0 and JBOD with link to a guide.]
The different controllers has support for various functions. LSI controllers tout their "on the fly" changes in the array, changing of raid-type without losing data and similar. Adaptec focuses on SNMP and a lot of the same as LSI. What one needs is up to the reader. The four "external" controllers come with various cables, manuals and CDs.
[Next page] During the test we used 50GB partitions. Sata disks were almost 3.5 times as big as the SCSI ones, and under this test the file system etc should change the results due to different physical size. It's not really possible to compare it directly, since the disks are quite different, we're looking for patterns in how te configs behave, not only if SATA can compare with SCSI.
For the test we used bonnie++ and dbecnh. [links]
Nonnie++ was us
Wil Wheaton's alias here is clevernickname I think.
Saw it "live" at the Gathering this year, he was a few rows away. It looked really good, and good size too. I remember his last case, the tux one too. I wonder what he will do to top this next year, maybe a bsd daemon? Would be cool, since it has so many difficult details. Maybe a whipping tail for disk activity or something. :-)
You are correct, 0day is also a commonly used specifier for how old a release may be to still be an allowed upload. Most sites that carry 0day have a 0day-today symlink in the root, kinda like the old BBSes had. In the old days people had to rip and compress games etc, the 0day scene still goes by those ideals. One also has 0sec and 0min. 0min isn't that much used and 0sec is a bit odd, it genereally means as fast as possible, no more than a minute really. New groups on slow sites are given more leeway as to how fast a release needs to be considered 0sec. Siteops nuke backfilled releases at their own discretion.
Ok, I can elaborate a little bit more. I may have a bit more insider info than most.
:-)
Cracktro: Small yet impressive extra introduction in games/installers made by the crackers to show their skills.
site/box/shell/crax0rlamers: crackers who crack games are ok in the scene, those who crack sites and similar are not accepted. Both are crackers, but different types.
0day: Small software releases ripped to be as small as possible. Mostly utils and games, but also porn, ebooks, pda and many other things. Basically, all that isn't pure media files or a form of iso.
pftp: Well know shelltrade/fxp tool used by a lot of people in the scene. Highly efficient at moving files to/from sites. The encryption used in the original release is quite trivial and easy to crack. The woof-patch, although not very well distributed adds blowfish and SHA256 crypto to make up for this.
It's not really my problem that your knowledge of the topic isn't that strong. I would never post like you did in a thread about nucelar physics.
Hehe, those are more or less the same. You'll find a lot of the demoscene people also do warez. A lot of groups in the demo scene also do warez and vice verca. As an example, take a look at the credits list in Fairlight's TG03 demo Tatsu. (Great party btw). They credit Myth, Deviance, Razor1911 and many others. It is a known fact that the demoscene came from the warez scene due to cracktros. Some of the site/box/shell/crax0rlamers also have ties into the 0day part of the scene. Those kinds of malicious crackers are shunned by sceners, being a huge security risk. Guy gets busted, feds find his pftp-nonwoof, cracks bookmarks, voila, loads of sites to bust. I know some people who do dabble in "the scene" and according to them, that "the scene"-series is fucking ridiculous.
No, you're wrong. Two objects CAN occupy the same XY coordinates and have different Z coordinates. The simplest example is shooting rockets that pass over you. For most things, the engine doesn't allow it as it would cause too many problems, how do you kill a cacodemon directly above you etc. But the engine does allow it. Another nice example would be that you can easily jump over a dead body. Doom is definetly 3d.
I've got to disagree with you there when it comes to Doom. First of all, SSG, plasma, rocket and BFG are all worth carrying. The rl is the least useful actually. Chaingun also has it's uses. The game isn't 2.5d, you can't have half a dimension. It's 3d, but the engine just has some limitations on what kind of geometry it can draw. You're also contradicting yourself with regards to BFG. Personally I find Doom to be the best deathmatch experience ever. It was created for lan play, didn't have to restrict itself to internet friendly ways of doing things, like slow player speeds or avoiding dead-on accurate instant weapons firing rapidly. It also didn't have to invent so much new stuff that's really just crap in order to stand out from the crowd. Bionic pulse rifles? Shrink rays? Nope. Just good weapons. The fact that there were over 54 maps for doom released just this week says it all about the degree of perfection.
And for the record, I won a Radeon 9600 XT in a doom 2 tournament _yesterday_.
I live in Norway too, and what you are sauing is not true. _Handguns_ are more or less outlawed, but other types, such as hunting rifles are not. Norway is one of the countries in the world with the most guns per person. These are however large rifles and other hunting guns, things that are impractical for school massacres etc. And noone has stupid weaponry like machine guns or pistols. Those make no sense for hunting, and would there be an invasion I reckon you could use rifles more efficiently for sabotage than pistols. There is also VERY strict gun control. Seing how the amount of gun-violence is VERY low, I think our system is FAR superior to the antquated mess they got in the US.
Actually, it was removed in 1.2 i think. It's a feature that was only present in versions around 0.98-0.99 to 1.1 or so. Lee Killough's page at http://www.rome.ro/lee_killough/versions/index.htm l even has a way to get 1.1 doom. I've been thinking about doing some dosbox-experimenting with this version. Imagine plaing 3-monitor doom!
I wonder, is doom the first example of a multi-monitor game. Has to be the first fps to have such a feature. (yes, i know, we're talking about 2 extra networked pcs used as dumb terminals, but at the time, noone had the cpu for rendering the gameworld three times.)
I'd suggest moving to Norway. Downloading is legal as I've understood it, and entrapement is not legal either.
Personally, I got an old and LARGE 386 server from HP as a nightstand next to my bed. Quite sturdy and gives my bedroom that geeky/functional look.
Oops, I forgot what I was actually gonna post about while checking the urls. What I want to know is if there are any other good free tools for win* OSes? Something open source would be cool :-)
We all know spyware is a fucking waste of both resources and internet bandwidth, please do everyone a favour and install either Ad Aware from http://www.lavasoft.de/ or Spybot Search & Destroy from http://www.spybot.info/.
:-).
If you happen to run an OS where these aren't supported (everything but win*) just ignore this post
I think I saw this one. Wasn't it about some comic book obsessed guy? I also remember something about swinging a baby around by it's umbellicle cord. What I remember the most is that these are 90 minutes of my life i will never get back. And I agree on the "can it get any worse thoughts". It did, all the time.
I reckon that if you wrote a script, using your way of logic, we would definetly have one of the worst movies ever made. One that is "within the limits of film physics" and has a lot of quantum level wrap around.
Yes, Norway is in fact the country implementing the EU-regulations the most (EU countries included) . We have a trade agreements etc with the EU, and we implement all the EU directives.
:-)
We really should have joined EU a long time ago, and I find it absurd to not be in it. One can only hope.
If you want me to elaborate more, just reply, i can cite numerous examples, but I'd rather be on-topic to the post. But al in all, I agree with the grandparents post, it could smell trouble when the EU-DMCA comes into play....
Umm, are you recommending she becomes a script kiddie, this is slashdot you know. You've GOT to be trolling :-)