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  1. Re:where does that leave performance freaks like m on Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M · · Score: 1

    yeah or at least very close considering I have seen benchmarks that put a 1.6 ghz pentium M in aboout the same performance arena as a 2.4 ghz pentium 4 so maybe a little lower. but the new one comes with or so they say 64bit extensions. as well as an increased ipc or so I would imagine then the fact of the matter is their will be dual and quad core chips available so yeah it probably will compete plus burn less juice

  2. Re:Valenti and DVD Players on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I would Imagine Their could be a way of writing a player that could either be installed under Windows or Linux not both using a liscence and setup scheme similar to multiplatform games like ut2003/4 etc. it would even be a simple matter of writing one dll which plugs into wmp in winxp or into the Xine dll loader under Linux a simple cheap solution

  3. Re:For me, its the optical zoom ability on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 1

    try the Samsung Digimax 240 has a 2mp sensor 3x optical zoom and a 2x digital zoom using the samsung shd lens (whatever that is) great pics for under 130 U.S. dollars

  4. Re:Why were MP ever such a big deal? on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 1

    I totaly agree, even the walmart specials, I mean the digital portrait center thingy makes a beautiful print from my samsung digimax 240 and it has a 2 mp resolution ccd

  5. Re:keeping beer cool on Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award · · Score: 1

    I heard a similar technique was used by some of the troops in vietnam only they used gasoline and an airhose higher rate of evaporationyielded cooler beer

  6. pc Hardware? on x86 Commodity-Hardware Router? · · Score: 1

    Love the thought but pc hardware is hardly up to mission critical status even with a stable OS on it ata drives fail cpu's overheat junk ram corrupts data a company of 3000+ people cant afford to have downtime from that crap chipset or failed ram and can afford to by something that is more likely to last

  7. Re:Global Flyer on SpaceShipOne Back in Action · · Score: 1

    looks like a V-1 with long wings and fuel pods yeah I know it is not but it kinda looks like it

  8. Re:Where's the games at? on Expert Opinions On Linux Gaming's Future · · Score: 1

    what do you mean unstable? I've been running Nvidia hardware and drivers for years and have never had one single issue aside from needing to disable apic (motherboard issue) not driver issue
    a pci geforce2 mx200, agp geforce2 mx 400, agp geforcefx 5200ultra. on everything from a K6-2, duron, and an AthlonXP, My newest system the athlon is even overclocked sometimes I even overclock the 5200ultra with NVclock and its still
    reletively stable.

  9. what? on Fault Tolerant Shell · · Score: 1

    /bin/sh! ain't good enough for you, huh? why not make one of them new fangled gui shells why back in the day assembly was state of the art now you want a fault tolerent shell interpreter. bah weakness.

  10. Re:It will take more than just any game, on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 1

    Cube, that game engine is nice. runs fast needs better AI but makes a decent FPS. Though It is available all over the os field so it is not linux exclusive

  11. Re:hmmph on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    actualy localy the jama is the Jamestown Area Medical Association

  12. Re:hmmph on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    well it just seems that the bad doctors all get funneled into the local hospital. as far as I know they are not even members of the AMA only the local JAMA

  13. Re:hmmph on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    you have obviously never met doctors medical ones i mean that work at a small hospital in western New york, after attempting to double and triple bill you they still insist that you never paid for that operation that you never had. then when you do need them they screwup and make a bad situation worse like in my case I went to the MD for an ingrown toenail and he drove the needle of lydocain into the joint causing pain even three years later. also a dialysis patient was nearly killed when they pumped her blood onto the ground on accident (happened twice in 10 year span different patients)amongst other incidents. I know this probably is not the norm but in jamestown bad things have happened too often.

  14. Re:sco binary Licences on SCO Postpones Lawsuit, Now Threatening Two · · Score: 1

    actually all I was trying to point out was the fact that the sco licences, oh never mind

  15. now the war begins on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 3, Funny

    down with linux... uh I mean windows...um no.. uh...hmm!...down with cp/m cause everyone knows flash mx for cp/m sucked

  16. sco binary Licences on SCO Postpones Lawsuit, Now Threatening Two · · Score: 1

    The Ultimate vaporware

  17. the way its worded on SCO Licenses Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    would lead me to believe they are ignoring older lawsuit regarding bsd since the licence covers any possible contingency of ip violation almost every system that even remotely resembles unix is at stake boy if they win I.T. will be set back thirty years at least

  18. can u say OMAP on Is the x86 Ready for Consumer Appliances? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TI's Omap processor; low cost, high performance(some bench it to be as fast as 400 mhz xscale)ARM core+dsp+controls for various subsystems such as usb, serial, sd/mmc, etc.
    got a 126mhz model in a palm zire 21 runs for
    12 hours continuusly on a single charge.
    and it has a native linux port as well as various codecs that use the dsp for acceleration 2d/3d. also unlike the XSCALE this chip has builtin coprocessor and 192k L1/L2 cache as well as a 1.5mb cache all done on 90nm process

  19. I often wonder on Arctic Ice Holds Much CO2 · · Score: 1

    if the whole global warming/greenhouse effect is not merely a cycle since we know that at several points in history the earth has been much warmer or much colder than it is at present. now I am not saying humanity has played its part in this warming trend but what we need is good hard evidence that the process is not completely natural. since I am not an ecologist this is just mumbling

  20. on a similar note on Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress · · Score: 1

    definitely offtopic though, I started work on porting linux to a royal Linea8 pda; www.royalinfo.com but had to stop since their was no real documention of hardware specs aside from 40mhz processor (of unknown type)8mb ram and os stored in user upgradeable flash I did this to add value to a solid pda that had no real hope of getting any new apps for itany body have any clue as to what is in this thing?

  21. I no longer care on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 1

    thats right until SCO truly proves that they own all of linux (which won't happen till the gpl is struck down) I will still be booting my GNU/Linux boxen and I am quite certain that unless they write some obligatory patch that allows them to shutdown any "unlicenced" box. as will most of /.ers'. but I do have to say this is the most entertainment I have had since I read the hitchhiker trilogy. maybe in ten years they (being second rate film studios)will make a great made for tv movie on the sco vs IBM/linux debacle; something on the order of that apple flick a few years back. sweet! they could make it an action film like the song said "lawyers, guns, and money" woot

  22. Great but does it run on How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux · · Score: 1

    Doom III?

  23. Re:64 processors = 1.5 Cells on How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux · · Score: 1

    the geforce4 ti 4600 when fully loaded with matrix math is said to hit the teraflop mark but
    i guess that only helps for non programmeables
    wonder what the ati r300 and nv3x chips could hit
    in a programmed useage

  24. Re:You know it's time to get a new processor... on ATI Radeon 9800 Pro vs. NVidia GeForce 5900 · · Score: 1

    Yeah my first system was a p 133 49 mb ram and a 16 mb voodoo 3 (running at 166mhz) man that was the shiznit ran great gotta love the old voodoos

  25. Porous silicon? on Light-Producing Nanotubes Could Mean Faster Chips · · Score: 1

    I read a few years back that porous silicon emits
    light when a current is passed through it so this article lies when it says that silicon does not emit light