also put this in the freezer, and am currently waiting for it to stop working after about 8 months in the rain (see http://joshwaller.tk for the "rusty 486" link, and freezer pics are in my gallery)
The case and parts will simply be the cheapest possible parts they could get away with using, and still maintain semi decent quality without the parts being broken when they got them.
Not really true. A C3-800 is about the speed of a P2-350/400 at most things, but because the Hard Drive and the rest of the system is more modern than most P2 systems, the C3 systems seem much quicker.
http://www.joshwa1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcs_mini_i tx_intro.htm
Do you use support from Microsoft for those NT4 servers anyway? Surely you'll still be able to get security fixes, so why worry whether it's "officially" supported or not? Anyway, the support for NT4 Server lasts longer anyway...
I'm sure they do the actual manufacture of the PCBs, and CPUs in extreme dust free, clean environments, but just the assembling of the computer / putting the parts together does not need to be dust free, otherwise all the "whitebox" PCs would not work and there would be no market for those PCs. (Whitebox meaning all the PCs made by small shops from parts, etc, which is currently the biggest PC seller)
Is it what the manufacturers think we want? The traditional Hard Drive is still the main componant in the PC slowing everything down, yet the manufacturers still keep increasing CPU, and BUS speeds and increase noise and heat levels.
Why are Microsoft seemingly seeking to stop spam, when there own hotmail service is the most spam prone email service I have ever used. I get about 10 spams into my inbox everyday, (and another 30 into my junk mail folder), even though I have fairly high "so called" spam protection enabled!
Compare that to my yahoo account, in which I have never ever recieved any spam in the 12months that I've been using it...
surely Microsoft are doing something wrong somewhere? How is it that Yahoo can make it so that I recieve ZERO spam, and Hotmail can't?
the internet is slow enough already? why make it slower by putting it on slow computers? next you'll be wanting it porting to the even less alive Atari machines.
true - if wine was built in to all linux versions, so they could run windows apps out of the box, linux vendors would be laughing all the way to their non-existent bank (since they don't charge money), and microsoft would be very angry.
Redhat 7 was slower than Windows 95 on an old P133, and Redhat 8 seems slower than Windows 2000 on a Via Epia 800.
If they could have a super fast gui that installs and only uses 250mb, then we'd be less obsessed by how big our hard drives are and how fast our processors are, and be able to spend less money on equipement, and more money on other things:)
I know this goes against what Linux seems to be about, but if Linux was developed solely by Redhat (chosen only because I recently had much more success with Redhat 8 than Mandrake 9), then there would be much more uniformity (sp?) - all users would know exactly what Linux looked like, there would be much more credibility for it, because everybody would be working on the same pie.
Other features that Linux could do with is the colour calibration stuff that Apple does, plus postscript fonts etc, so what you see, when printed out is exactly the same as it is on screen.
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also put this in the freezer, and am currently waiting for it to stop working after about 8 months in the rain (see http://joshwaller.tk for the "rusty 486" link, and freezer pics are in my gallery)
you mean the foveon sensor: http://www.foveon.com/X3_tech.html
The case and parts will simply be the cheapest possible parts they could get away with using, and still maintain semi decent quality without the parts being broken when they got them.
Not really true. A C3-800 is about the speed of a P2-350/400 at most things, but because the Hard Drive and the rest of the system is more modern than most P2 systems, the C3 systems seem much quicker. http://www.joshwa1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcs_mini_i tx_intro.htm
Do you use support from Microsoft for those NT4 servers anyway? Surely you'll still be able to get security fixes, so why worry whether it's "officially" supported or not? Anyway, the support for NT4 Server lasts longer anyway...
I'm sure they do the actual manufacture of the PCBs, and CPUs in extreme dust free, clean environments, but just the assembling of the computer / putting the parts together does not need to be dust free, otherwise all the "whitebox" PCs would not work and there would be no market for those PCs. (Whitebox meaning all the PCs made by small shops from parts, etc, which is currently the biggest PC seller)
But if you wanted 3 NICs (so that you could have a Red, Green and Orange zone) you'd be out of luck as there's only 1 PCI slot.
http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1 296
Is it what the manufacturers think we want? The traditional Hard Drive is still the main componant in the PC slowing everything down, yet the manufacturers still keep increasing CPU, and BUS speeds and increase noise and heat levels.
Why are Microsoft seemingly seeking to stop spam, when there own hotmail service is the most spam prone email service I have ever used. I get about 10 spams into my inbox everyday, (and another 30 into my junk mail folder), even though I have fairly high "so called" spam protection enabled!
Compare that to my yahoo account, in which I have never ever recieved any spam in the 12months that I've been using it...
surely Microsoft are doing something wrong somewhere? How is it that Yahoo can make it so that I recieve ZERO spam, and Hotmail can't?
(also why do I have bad karma?)
the internet is slow enough already? why make it slower by putting it on slow computers? next you'll be wanting it porting to the even less alive Atari machines.
true - if wine was built in to all linux versions, so they could run windows apps out of the box, linux vendors would be laughing all the way to their non-existent bank (since they don't charge money), and microsoft would be very angry.
Redhat 7 was slower than Windows 95 on an old P133, and Redhat 8 seems slower than Windows 2000 on a Via Epia 800.
:)
If they could have a super fast gui that installs and only uses 250mb, then we'd be less obsessed by how big our hard drives are and how fast our processors are, and be able to spend less money on equipement, and more money on other things
I know this goes against what Linux seems to be about, but if Linux was developed solely by Redhat (chosen only because I recently had much more success with Redhat 8 than Mandrake 9), then there would be much more uniformity (sp?) - all users would know exactly what Linux looked like, there would be much more credibility for it, because everybody would be working on the same pie. Other features that Linux could do with is the colour calibration stuff that Apple does, plus postscript fonts etc, so what you see, when printed out is exactly the same as it is on screen.
so what? who cares what a pentium one is like compared to a p4 3ghz?