As far as cooling those ultra hot 60-MHz and 66-MHz Pentium processors: Yeah it was difficult, but all the idiots that used the same heatsink and fan combos that were designed to cool a 66-MHx i486 processor got what they deserved when their 66-MHZ Pentium processors overheated. Putting a computer together isn't like working with legos, you know. A little reading would have gone a LONG way in preventing the meltdowns.
The FDIV bug impacted 60-MHz, 66-MHz, 75-MHz, 90-MHz and 100-MHz Pentium processors.
The 120-MHz Pentium processor was the first processor to *not* have the FDIV bug impacting it.
Have you looked at the Hauppauge WinTV-D card?
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm
It looks like it will do what you want.
I have used one of their old PCI WinTV cards for a couple of years, and I really like it.
And No, I don't work for them.
If the BSA obtains a court order that forbids the business from deleting software from their computers, and allowing the agents of the BSA to perform an audit for unlicensed software, I would recommend highly that you obey that court order.
You see, the police are the strong arm of the government regarding criminal matters. The BSA isn't looking for criminal prosecution. The BSA is looking for civil damages. For a civil matter, the police are not needed for a court order to be served.
I dunno. Not all processor failures cause halt conditions. some failures just provide inaccurate results.
**NEWS FLASH**
SETI (Search for ExtraTerristerial Intelligence) reports that signs of intelligent life found in space! Full details to follow shortly
**NEWS FLASH**
SETI (Search for ExtraTerristerial Intelligence) reports that their earlier report of finding signs of intellignet life in space is inaccurate. Apparently, the innacuracy is due to an overclocked processor. SETI Officials made the following statement "Ironicly, participation in the SETI@HOME program does not seem to require terristerial intelligence."
This type of processor failure (Where inaccurate results are generated) is much more common that you might want to believe with overclocked processors, overclocked chipsets and overclocked memory.
Intel wrote off a quarter of a Billion dollars replacing 60-100MHz Pentium Processors a few years back because of the FDIV fuction of the FPU would on certain situations give erronious results.
Of course, not all tasks take advantage of or require that level of precision. Who cares if your railgun is not 100% accurate at 300M? A bunch of quake heads, that's who! Are these quake heads likely candidates for overclocking their processor/chipset/memory? You betcha!
Citrix Server + persistant internet connection (DSL in my case) + Compaq Aero 8000 + Citrix WinCE ICA Client + CPDP modem = A thing of beauty (If you like NT4)
You see, Windows NT Terminal Server *IS* a multi-user, multi-processing, remote display-enabled system.
But it's a heckuva lot more expensive than Linux!!!
By extention doesn't hold water in the courts. You bought the computer through retail, knowing full well that the bundles software was included in the price. If you didn't want the software, you didn't have to purchase the hardware.
I've had DSL from USWest now QWest for almost a year now. Dynamic IP isn't such a pain with the help of a dynamic DNS provider (PLUG) www.iy.org (/PLUG)
The only recommendation that I'd have with QWest is don't get the internal modem. Spend the extra $$$ and get the external Cisco router. You see, the internal card (Intel 2100) to the best of my knowledge has no software support other than Windows. (Win2000 drivers are still in beta)
The only real downside is if you need support, you will be calling Stream International in Portland, OR as they are the outsource company for QWest. For those that do not have experience with this fine company, 1st level support technitians there haven't the technical skills (yet) to get a real technical job with a real company. The Q/A sessions can be very tiresome if you have a problem.
I had a driver problem with the 2100. Apparently, the driver for NT will not install properly if the boot drive is not C: and the system directory is not \winnt Both of which are not the default for most Citrix installs. Well, the good folks at Stream have never heard of Terminal Server before, so they were utterly useless. I hope that the report eventually made it's way back to Intel. (you never know)
The US Supreme Court does not answer to the public. They do not answer to the President. They do not answer to either house of Congress. The only thing that can force a justice out of the supreme court is death.*1
If the Supreme Court rules against something, the only thing that can be done is for Congress to pass a law. If the law is ruled unconstitutional, then they have to pass a constitutional amendment. This is exceedingly difficult (as it should be, IMHO.) The other way to change the "unconstitutionality" of a law is to post a sympathetic judge to the court once a vacancy has occured. This is also not very easy with today's 2 party duopoly.
So, the checks and balences against the Supreme Court are very difficult to enact, verses the checkes and balances for the other 2 branches of the USA government.
The court moves slowly, but when it moves, it moves mountains.
--Joe Goldmeer
*1 This is not in any way, shape or form advocating that anyone attempt to harm or kill anyone, including members of the Supreme Court. If you do so, you will be caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law, and I won't care. so there, neah!
The victims of microsoft's monopoly practices are not the average joe. No, the victims are the Dells, Compaqs, Gateways and official distributors. This is true in almost every jurisdiction. If you purchase something from Best buy or Fry's Electronics, the transaction is between you and best Buy or Fry's Electronics, not you and Microsoft.
Some states have laws written in such a way that this does not apply. In those states, the victims my well include individuals that purchased boxed products from distribution.
Of course you have a choice. You can buy a comuter without Microsoft software if you try hard enough. You may find that it is cheaper in the long run to just purchase whatever hardware you want, remove any software that you may not have need of, and install the software that you use.
Now, if you can enter into an agreement with the hardware manufacturer for support options after you have altered the purchased system is another matter.
Do not think that you have no choice. Just because you don't like the chioces, doesn't mean that there aren't any.
licensing is not government intervention. It's a contract between private parties. If the contract between private parties is based on laws or customs, it's still an agreement between 2 parties.
Of course if you fail to come to a mutual agreement on the terms of the contract, then the only option is not not enter into it.
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Really off topic, but regarding militia...
According to the Constitution of the State of Arizona, Article 16 Section 1
1. Composition of militia
Section 1. The militia of the state of Arizona shall consist of all able-bodied male citizens of the state between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and of those between said ages who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, residing therein, subject to such exemptions as now exist, or as may hereafter be created, by the laws of the United States or of this state.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/const/16/1.htm
So, all able bodied males from 18-49 are in the militia! How's that one grab ya!
I don't think you can be legally (by the constitution) held responsible to testify against yourself in a trial.
You can have your documents (Yes, the files on your hard drive are documents) subponead. Just as if your ledger is inside a safe, the courts can make you open the safe to get the ledger, you can be forced to unencrypt your documents.
Failure to do so is considered to be contempt of court. There is no maximum amount of jail time for contempt of court.
In related news, the Moral Majority is contemplating on using this type of punishment for prostitutes, adulterers and homosexuals (where homosexual behavior is ilegal such as Arizona "Crime Against Nature")
I'll grant you that my examples are a bit on the side of irrelevant, but not much. You are still punishing someone for the actions of someone else.
If you want to consider the Joe User example, allowing bandwidth to be used illegally is akin to standing in your garage, watching a thief steal your car. You do nothing to stop him, you don't report him to authorities, you just go inside after he's gone. Later, that car is used in a bank robbery. Joe User becomes an accessory to robbery. This is because Joe User wasn't really robbed--by doing nothing to stop a thief, and by not reporting it to the authorities, he was giving implicit permission for the thief to take his car.
No, it is more like while you are at work, someone steals your car and commits a robbery. You are unaware that your car was taken and used to commit an offense.
If you are going to be owned with the intent of DDOS, the Script Kiddie will likely not be very noticable to the average Joe User.
Not all broadband connections have the blinking light visual notification. My DSL is an internal PCI card. (I would have bought the external router, but My wife ordered it as a suprise) (Love ya sweetie)
Joe User should not have to monitor his computer's connection 24x7 to ensure that someone else isn't gaining illegal access. You don't punish the cracked, punish the cracker.
Well, I can't figure out your druggie question, but...
Open your yelow pages.
Look under Equipment Rental.
Rent a backhoe.
Operate said backhoe.
Easy as pie!
Joe User DESERVES to have his bandwidth taken away from him
BS!
I suppose that Joe User deserves to have his valuables taken away because he didn't lock his door. I suppose Jane User deserved to be sexually assulted because she dressed in a provocative way. I suppose that Joe User deserves to lose his driver(1) liscence because he got carjacked. I don't think so!
You are advocating punishing someone for the actions of someone else. How should you be punished if I cut you off in traffic?
Here is a cluestick. Beat yourself.
--Joe Goldmeer
(1)I have gotten ~10 free beers at bars by challenging a new friend to produce a drivers liscence. You see, in my state (Arizona) it says DRIVER liscence, not driverS liscence. It's a sucker bet, but I'm not above that.
Do you have *any* clue about how to go about testing 10,000 microprocessors? How manu op codes are there? How many op code combinations? Now figure out the permutations for each pipeline, for each stage of the pipeline.
It's not like they can use a logic probe here, guy. How many millions of transistors are there?
What is the retail cost per transistor?
It's not like they are testing light bulbs here. They are marketing (arguably) the most complex consumer grade device known to man.
Now, I agree that a serious enough eratum needs to be addressed by replacing the microprocessor. But less serious errata can and should be addressed with software, microcode, or BIOS workarounds.
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As far as cooling those ultra hot 60-MHz and 66-MHz Pentium processors: Yeah it was difficult, but all the idiots that used the same heatsink and fan combos that were designed to cool a 66-MHx i486 processor got what they deserved when their 66-MHZ Pentium processors overheated. Putting a computer together isn't like working with legos, you know. A little reading would have gone a LONG way in preventing the meltdowns.
The FDIV bug impacted 60-MHz, 66-MHz, 75-MHz, 90-MHz and 100-MHz Pentium processors.
The 120-MHz Pentium processor was the first processor to *not* have the FDIV bug impacting it.
-Joe
They had cache. L1 cache. They did not have L2 cache. Not on die, not off die, not on the motherboard.
To call them cacheless is wrong.
-Joe
Have you looked at the Hauppauge WinTV-D card?
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm
It looks like it will do what you want.
I have used one of their old PCI WinTV cards for a couple of years, and I really like it.
And No, I don't work for them.
-Joe
You see, the police are the strong arm of the government regarding criminal matters. The BSA isn't looking for criminal prosecution. The BSA is looking for civil damages. For a civil matter, the police are not needed for a court order to be served.
Of course, IANAL.
I was using the most commonly known example of microprocessors yeilding inaccurate results to illustrate how important this can be.
And the sad thing is, that inaccurate results due to operation outside of specifications goes unnoticed my most.
-Joe
**NEWS FLASH**
SETI (Search for ExtraTerristerial Intelligence) reports that signs of intelligent life found in space! Full details to follow shortly
**NEWS FLASH** SETI (Search for ExtraTerristerial Intelligence) reports that their earlier report of finding signs of intellignet life in space is inaccurate. Apparently, the innacuracy is due to an overclocked processor.
SETI Officials made the following statement "Ironicly, participation in the SETI@HOME program does not seem to require terristerial intelligence."
-Joe
Intel wrote off a quarter of a Billion dollars replacing 60-100MHz Pentium Processors a few years back because of the FDIV fuction of the FPU would on certain situations give erronious results.
Of course, not all tasks take advantage of or require that level of precision. Who cares if your railgun is not 100% accurate at 300M? A bunch of quake heads, that's who! Are these quake heads likely candidates for overclocking their processor/chipset/memory? You betcha!
Oh well, my 2... -Joe
You forget the Microsoft tax...
This card does MPEG 1 OR MPEG 2 compression in real time (processor speed needed)
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It will allow you to pause live TV as well as timeshifting.
It comes with a TV guide.
It uses standard hard drives.
On pricewatch, it's $270.
The software in the box only works with 98, ME and 2000
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_rad
You see, Windows NT Terminal Server *IS* a multi-user, multi-processing, remote display-enabled system.
But it's a heckuva lot more expensive than Linux!!!
-Joe
You still have a chioce.
The only recommendation that I'd have with QWest is don't get the internal modem. Spend the extra $$$ and get the external Cisco router. You see, the internal card (Intel 2100) to the best of my knowledge has no software support other than Windows. (Win2000 drivers are still in beta)
The only real downside is if you need support, you will be calling Stream International in Portland, OR as they are the outsource company for QWest. For those that do not have experience with this fine company, 1st level support technitians there haven't the technical skills (yet) to get a real technical job with a real company. The Q/A sessions can be very tiresome if you have a problem.
I had a driver problem with the 2100. Apparently, the driver for NT will not install properly if the boot drive is not C: and the system directory is not \winnt Both of which are not the default for most Citrix installs. Well, the good folks at Stream have never heard of Terminal Server before, so they were utterly useless. I hope that the report eventually made it's way back to Intel. (you never know)
--Joe Goldmeer
The US Supreme Court does not answer to the public. They do not answer to the President. They do not answer to either house of Congress. The only thing that can force a justice out of the supreme court is death.*1
If the Supreme Court rules against something, the only thing that can be done is for Congress to pass a law. If the law is ruled unconstitutional, then they have to pass a constitutional amendment. This is exceedingly difficult (as it should be, IMHO.) The other way to change the "unconstitutionality" of a law is to post a sympathetic judge to the court once a vacancy has occured. This is also not very easy with today's 2 party duopoly.
So, the checks and balences against the Supreme Court are very difficult to enact, verses the checkes and balances for the other 2 branches of the USA government.
The court moves slowly, but when it moves, it moves mountains.
--Joe Goldmeer
*1 This is not in any way, shape or form advocating that anyone attempt to harm or kill anyone, including members of the Supreme Court. If you do so, you will be caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law, and I won't care. so there, neah!
The victims of microsoft's monopoly practices are not the average joe. No, the victims are the Dells, Compaqs, Gateways and official distributors. This is true in almost every jurisdiction. If you purchase something from Best buy or Fry's Electronics, the transaction is between you and best Buy or Fry's Electronics, not you and Microsoft.
Some states have laws written in such a way that this does not apply. In those states, the victims my well include individuals that purchased boxed products from distribution.
--Joe
Now, if you can enter into an agreement with the hardware manufacturer for support options after you have altered the purchased system is another matter.
Do not think that you have no choice. Just because you don't like the chioces, doesn't mean that there aren't any.
Of course if you fail to come to a mutual agreement on the terms of the contract, then the only option is not not enter into it.
According to the Constitution of the State of Arizona, Article 16 Section 1
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/const/16/1.htmSo, all able bodied males from 18-49 are in the militia! How's that one grab ya!
You can have your documents (Yes, the files on your hard drive are documents) subponead. Just as if your ledger is inside a safe, the courts can make you open the safe to get the ledger, you can be forced to unencrypt your documents.
Failure to do so is considered to be contempt of court. There is no maximum amount of jail time for contempt of court.
The only two that I can think of require seperate, add on equipment.
Add some hidden cameras thought the neighbours' apartments, and you have a possible crime.
Add a VCR or DVD player, move the television next to the window, and you may be violating copyright. (public viewing)
Aside from that I cannot see how use of a television can be a part of a crime.
Don't hold on to your ears, folks...
Whew! Well, on to the next article...
I mean after "nuff said" there isn't anything more to say. I'm suprised that this post was even accepted, because well, "nuff" is "nuff"...
No, it is more like while you are at work, someone steals your car and commits a robbery. You are unaware that your car was taken and used to commit an offense.
If you are going to be owned with the intent of DDOS, the Script Kiddie will likely not be very noticable to the average Joe User.
Not all broadband connections have the blinking light visual notification. My DSL is an internal PCI card. (I would have bought the external router, but My wife ordered it as a suprise) (Love ya sweetie)
Joe User should not have to monitor his computer's connection 24x7 to ensure that someone else isn't gaining illegal access. You don't punish the cracked, punish the cracker.
Joe Goldmeer
Well, I can't figure out your druggie question, but...
Open your yelow pages.
Look under Equipment Rental.
Rent a backhoe.
Operate said backhoe.
Easy as pie!
BS!
I suppose that Joe User deserves to have his valuables taken away because he didn't lock his door. I suppose Jane User deserved to be sexually assulted because she dressed in a provocative way. I suppose that Joe User deserves to lose his driver(1) liscence because he got carjacked. I don't think so!
You are advocating punishing someone for the actions of someone else. How should you be punished if I cut you off in traffic?
Here is a cluestick. Beat yourself.
--Joe Goldmeer
(1)I have gotten ~10 free beers at bars by challenging a new friend to produce a drivers liscence. You see, in my state (Arizona) it says DRIVER liscence, not driverS liscence. It's a sucker bet, but I'm not above that.
Do you have *any* clue about how to go about testing 10,000 microprocessors? How manu op codes are there? How many op code combinations? Now figure out the permutations for each pipeline, for each stage of the pipeline.
It's not like they can use a logic probe here, guy. How many millions of transistors are there?
What is the retail cost per transistor?
It's not like they are testing light bulbs here. They are marketing (arguably) the most complex consumer grade device known to man.
Now, I agree that a serious enough eratum needs to be addressed by replacing the microprocessor. But less serious errata can and should be addressed with software, microcode, or BIOS workarounds.
Joe Goldmeer