"6 GHz! That's two times faster than my 3GHz!" when in reality it won't be nearly that fast?
Let's hope Intel focuses on the bottlenecks with the 2MB+ cache and the 4GHz bus rather than get in a GHz war. AMD already rates its CPUs with a "performance equivalent" clock speed rating. How long before the number of GHz is irrelevent to the speed a processor?
Maybe we need a stardard CPU benchmark. Something that shows perfomance and not statistics. Something where more == better.
How about floating point operations per second? Or bogomips?
And if you want to have even more fun with XP's ntp servers, check out the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Servers.
Add a string value, give it a number, and set its data to the ntp server of your choice. Ta-da!
Standard disclaimer applies: back up the registy beforehand. I am not responsible if your computer crashes or blows up or something.
All right! It's coming in at nearly 70 KB/s. It did max out my DSL at 100 KB/s for a while. Thanks! I was wondering where the links to aol's servers were.
Now if only this link wouldn't get/.ed until I finish...
No, it appears that Microsoft will stop developing OE seperately. Which leaves things open for a Hotmail interface as a part of Windows. I don't like the idea. An interface to a spam-infested web mail system that you can't remove. Yuck.
The death of an open protocol is the real headline here, but both the journalist & the story submitter seem to have missed it.
Just to make it clear, I did notice Microsoft's casual dismissal of IMAP, but I didn't mention it for journalistic reasons. I reported the facts; this discussion inteprets them. I do agree, however, that stopping OE development is stupid and replacing it with Hotmail is really stupid, but I left that for the reader.
So you see, there can be journalistic neutrality on Slashdot!
Use (and support) the Open Relay Database. These people maintain a free service to blacklist mail from open relays. I can't attest for the service myself, but I've heard good things about it.
For other software, it might be in the 8.1 release, with some minor feature enhancements and fixes. But no, AOL skips right over the incrementals. 6.0 to 7.0 to 8.0. Why bother with the.0 at the end? I don't get it.
I've heard that the next major desktop Windows release, Longhorn, will ship in 2005. How many Linux kernel patches, new distros, and releases in general will come out in that time? A lot, and not all will be bugfixes, some will add functionality.
To me it seems as if Microsoft's effort for security and stability is an attempt for them to catch up.
Preferences link at right, exclude stories section, Caldera check box. Every story thus far has had the Caldera topic, and every Caldera story is the whole SCO/IBM thing, so it would be safe to exclude it.
The beauty of this is that it can be applied to anything you don't like or are not interested in as well.
I dislike spam a lot, but you have to love it spam when spam occurs so spam often everywhere. I spam counted no fewer spam than 15 references to spam in the spam article.
I can just hear it start: "Spam, spam, spam, spam..."
(Anyone who didn't get that needs to watch more Monty Python. They coined the term.)
...and it runs Red Hat 7.3 well enough. I won't even try any Windows version above 98 SE (which works, but I never use it). It even runs X, albiet veeerrryyy sloooowwwly. Try getting a webserver to run on Windows 98. It doesn't have the network capability. I'm not going to post the link though, it might get/.ed.;)
I don't care for Windows, but it is the most advanced mouseless UI there is. You can do everything without even having a mouse plugged in at all.
Hmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with the mysterious two keys on my keyboard that look suspicously like the Windows logo...
Getting back on topic, I don't really care for advanced features. My keyboard just has to be full sized. I hate keyboards that cut the shift, backspace, or even the enter key to make their design fit in a smaller space, or to make room for that blasted Windows key. This may be necessary for laptops, but it shouldn't for desktops!
The proteins are where the fun is at
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Not to undermine the significance at mapping the genes, but they're the first step. The next is proteins, the building blocks of life described in DNA. They do everything, so naturaly they are being studied closely by biologists and drug companies.
So what if there is fewer genes than expected? It means that the means of describing protiens is not linear. Protiens can fold four different ways, offering many different structural combinations.
The highest level biological system we understand completely is a species of yeast. For a human, the interactions that make the system work are almost unimagineably complex, because there are so many variables. We're just beginning to model them accurately.
Unfortunately, patience is a rare commodity in today's fast pace society. More and more trailers give away the entire plot to keep people with short attention spans interest. What's the point of seeing the movie when you know what will happen?
On the other hand, if the movie has a lot of depth, action, and insight into philosophy and morals, it will be worth seeing anyway. The Matrix has all of these, in my opinion.
By the way, what is this HotDog HTTPD in the headers of the download? Never heard of it.
Z80s are still being used. My Texas Instruments TI-86 runs on a Z80 class processor at 6MHz.
And about Apple, I doubt they will switch in the near future. Maybe they will in the long term, keeping their options open just in case, but Apple software runs on Apple Hardware. I'm not a Mac user, but that much is clear.
I have found both PBS and National Public Radio to be professional and complete in their coverage. (Both these are public US networks.) I don't know about unbiased, but not being biased is idealistic in the media. About all the media can do is to present as many sides of an issue as possible as accurately as possible.
... it means you can copy applications instead of reinstalling them
Boy, that would be nice. Nearly every program I know of is linked to serveral dlls and writes half a dozen registry entries. Including the actual files, that's three things to keep track of. Not fun when you need a program working now.
I wonder where this Global Assembly Cache will be stored, if not the registry. I hope it isn't, the registry is bloated enough as it is.
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"6 GHz! That's two times faster than my 3GHz!" when in reality it won't be nearly that fast?
Let's hope Intel focuses on the bottlenecks with the 2MB+ cache and the 4GHz bus rather than get in a GHz war. AMD already rates its CPUs with a "performance equivalent" clock speed rating. How long before the number of GHz is irrelevent to the speed a processor?
Maybe we need a stardard CPU benchmark. Something that shows perfomance and not statistics. Something where more == better.
How about floating point operations per second? Or bogomips?
And if you want to have even more fun with XP's ntp servers, check out the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Servers.
Add a string value, give it a number, and set its data to the ntp server of your choice. Ta-da!
Standard disclaimer applies: back up the registy beforehand. I am not responsible if your computer crashes or blows up or something.
Now if only this link wouldn't get /.ed until I finish...
No, it appears that Microsoft will stop developing OE seperately. Which leaves things open for a Hotmail interface as a part of Windows. I don't like the idea. An interface to a spam-infested web mail system that you can't remove. Yuck.
Just to make it clear, I did notice Microsoft's casual dismissal of IMAP, but I didn't mention it for journalistic reasons. I reported the facts; this discussion inteprets them. I do agree, however, that stopping OE development is stupid and replacing it with Hotmail is really stupid, but I left that for the reader.
So you see, there can be journalistic neutrality on Slashdot!
Use (and support) the Open Relay Database. These people maintain a free service to blacklist mail from open relays. I can't attest for the service myself, but I've heard good things about it.
Everything helps in fighting the war on spam.
For other software, it might be in the 8.1 release, with some minor feature enhancements and fixes. But no, AOL skips right over the incrementals. 6.0 to 7.0 to 8.0. Why bother with the .0 at the end? I don't get it.
Oh well, more cds for nomoreaolcds.com
For those of you who prefer Gnutella, here's a magnet link:
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:I222WLXEM5JZ7PTBFSALQA7LBW X5LCNV.MFCP752L3CMH7QTS57USLQ6VKSKU5ZUSNZLO3GI&dn= dctf-1.wmv
Merely cut and paste into magnet-capable P2P apps like Shareaza
And it actually has sources!
I've heard that the next major desktop Windows release, Longhorn, will ship in 2005. How many Linux kernel patches, new distros, and releases in general will come out in that time? A lot, and not all will be bugfixes, some will add functionality.
To me it seems as if Microsoft's effort for security and stability is an attempt for them to catch up.
I must not be awake yet: any /. user can tell you that the preferences link is on the LEFT side... oh well, you get my point.
Preferences link at right, exclude stories section, Caldera check box. Every story thus far has had the Caldera topic, and every Caldera story is the whole SCO/IBM thing, so it would be safe to exclude it.
The beauty of this is that it can be applied to anything you don't like or are not interested in as well.
I dislike spam a lot, but you have to love it spam when spam occurs so spam often everywhere. I spam counted no fewer spam than 15 references to spam in the spam article.
I can just hear it start: "Spam, spam, spam, spam..."
(Anyone who didn't get that needs to watch more Monty Python. They coined the term.)
...and it runs Red Hat 7.3 well enough. I won't even try any Windows version above 98 SE (which works, but I never use it). It even runs X, albiet veeerrryyy sloooowwwly. Try getting a webserver to run on Windows 98. It doesn't have the network capability. I'm not going to post the link though, it might get /.ed. ;)
I don't care for Windows, but it is the most advanced mouseless UI there is. You can do everything without even having a mouse plugged in at all.
Hmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with the mysterious two keys on my keyboard that look suspicously like the Windows logo...
Getting back on topic, I don't really care for advanced features. My keyboard just has to be full sized. I hate keyboards that cut the shift, backspace, or even the enter key to make their design fit in a smaller space, or to make room for that blasted Windows key. This may be necessary for laptops, but it shouldn't for desktops!
Not to undermine the significance at mapping the genes, but they're the first step. The next is proteins, the building blocks of life described in DNA. They do everything, so naturaly they are being studied closely by biologists and drug companies.
So what if there is fewer genes than expected? It means that the means of describing protiens is not linear. Protiens can fold four different ways, offering many different structural combinations.
The highest level biological system we understand completely is a species of yeast. For a human, the interactions that make the system work are almost unimagineably complex, because there are so many variables. We're just beginning to model them accurately.
Complexity of life is more than just genes.
Unfortunately, patience is a rare commodity in today's fast pace society. More and more trailers give away the entire plot to keep people with short attention spans interest. What's the point of seeing the movie when you know what will happen?
On the other hand, if the movie has a lot of depth, action, and insight into philosophy and morals, it will be worth seeing anyway. The Matrix has all of these, in my opinion.
By the way, what is this HotDog HTTPD in the headers of the download? Never heard of it.
Z80s are still being used. My Texas Instruments TI-86 runs on a Z80 class processor at 6MHz.
And about Apple, I doubt they will switch in the near future. Maybe they will in the long term, keeping their options open just in case, but Apple software runs on Apple Hardware. I'm not a Mac user, but that much is clear.
I have found both PBS and National Public Radio to be professional and complete in their coverage. (Both these are public US networks.) I don't know about unbiased, but not being biased is idealistic in the media. About all the media can do is to present as many sides of an issue as possible as accurately as possible.
Boy, that would be nice. Nearly every program I know of is linked to serveral dlls and writes half a dozen registry entries. Including the actual files, that's three things to keep track of. Not fun when you need a program working now.
I wonder where this Global Assembly Cache will be stored, if not the registry. I hope it isn't, the registry is bloated enough as it is.