Technically CCCP is fine, but if you draw the communist connection don't forget the Nazi's came to power there because the plutocrats weren't happy when Communism was voted for earlier and elected. The Nazi party was elected for its anti communist stance as I recall... they became more anti jewish as time went on, but originally their platform was supposedly anti communist, since the communists weren't very good for the German economy (or public view of it for that matter).
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I could be wrong but I recall from my 10 years ago of history that Germany was the first place where Communism was elected/took over office anywhere in the world.
About that long, they've been around. Sheesh. As I recall they're government funded in Germany, sorta gives all their "haxors" a place to get something constructive done... to some extent. As I recall also part of their tradeoff was that they help out in cases of national crises or criminal hunts if recruited... but that's just rumors I recall... I don't speak/read enough german to read all that stuff.
In reality they're a club of hackers, crackers and slackers who got themselves a national club... mostly dedicated to informing the unwashed masses that YES computer security and awesome highest tech ideas are NOT just for geeks... we're just better at it than most. I do recall they WERE indeed supposedly funded by the German gov't.
Lets see the US do that. hah, that will be the day:) Here they put 13 year old script kiddies in jail with spike the child molester and joe the violent mass murderer instead of teaching 13 year old SK proper computer ethics and skills and getting him into creative fun stuff instead of destructive stupid stuff... but then again, since when was the US gov't into anything OTHER than destructive stupid stuff??
Critique of certain things: Oh man I grew UP with Metroid 1... they better NOT fuck this up. Same goes for doom. I am tired of horror flicks. And DIABLO?! If they DO make a movie, Condor/Blizzard North had best go back to diablo 1... Diablo II lacked soul. It felt empty, except perhaps in Kurast. It just felt weak compared to its older sibling Diablo. The boss was good but moviewise, Tristram may be better... unless of course they make the demons convincing out in the deserts and the jungle... Hell could use some Diablo 1 help since it just "felt" more sinister.
Just some ideas, but my pleas go out as follows: -Diablo- PLEASE get the atmosphere right... -DiabloII- PLEASE get the demons big bad and scary. -Doom- scrap PG13, this is an R rated flick. Everyone who EVER played doom is over 17 now and can watch R rated stuff. -Duke3d- PLEASE scrap this and make Shadow Warrior instead:), Serious Sam couldn't hurt either, but I agree that the Los Angeles Pig Department must have its 15 minutes of fame:) -Metroid- well... just please don't cast some dumb blonde for Samus... I dunno about everyone else, but she was a badass not someone's love interest... Also if the motherbrain or the space pirates are human actors, then all is lost. Period.
Those are just my opinions but if we get jiggly plastic make up on cheesy looking masks and we call those people "space pirates" (ala the bad guys in Neverending story)... then half our fave games will look lower tech on the big screen than they did on our 12 inch viewable PS/2 monitors. (Those who played Doom in the old days should be familiar with that breed of hardware, Packard Bell used to attach them to their 386's).
And we all know just how bleeding edge doom actually was... god only knows, high speed SVGA graphics weren't something you could do anyday of the week (duke3d, shadow warrior) and before that, doom was as on the edge of tech as can be had, elevators, stairs, huge levels (huge not like the ones in some of today's games)... if the movies aren't at least as amazing as playing Hexen for the first time... then perhaps they need to hold onto the ideas for a few more years... or millenia.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I dunno about you, but would anyone think that perhaps Cybermage, Hexen, Heretic and Hexen II/Heretic II would make damn awesome games to convert to movies? Lets hear something from Raven, since those games were far deeper than a simple blast fest. (Plus, the characters could provide a bit of further depth to it, much like those of Diablo could if the movie folks translate them into personallities onscreen... of course they could just turn it into an excuse to put lots of sex and tons more blood and pixelized guts on the screen and we can call it a day with each movie, knowing that they will sell... as all excessive violence always does, and if not he sex will save it, since content rarely works these days.)
Actually it seems to be QUAKE 2, mostly because so was Heretic II, and I recall needing the Half Life powerVR library to make my old PowerVR card work with the Heretic II beta/demo.
The one from Quake did not work, the one from Quake II had bugs, but the one from Half Life worked closest until the Heretic II folks made their own.
All in all I'd say if drivers are any concern, the pvrgl.dll that worked with Q2, HL and Her2 Demo was the same file, even recommended on the Her2 demo FAQ (which specifically stated that both games were based on a heavilly modified Quake II engine), this FAQ being up at hexenworld/heretic2.net back in the day... If the architectures are that similar, perhaps there's something to that Q2 - HL "rumor".
So unless somehow for once Heretic II was ALSO based on Quake I (though I recall HEXEN II was based on Quake I, Heretic II/HL were based on Quake II.)
I thought I was the ONLY person who remembered the ORIGINAL and still FAVE night wasting phenomenon known as TEAM FORTRESS... and the Two Forts 4/5 maps... good god those were awesome. I miss those days. Nothing like sentry guns with nailguns and heat seekers, or those NASTY bioweapons... heh... or camping in the enemy spawn on 2 fort 4... until they made it so you couldn't enter the enemy spawn:)
Man those were the days.
1996 I believe if the dates on my CDR archives are correct:)... ahhh what a year.
Do not worry. A fine non racist non segregationist republican with "fine upstanding christian morals" like John Ashcroft will not let a petty thing like The Constitution stand in his way to power and glory (and mad moolah).
Remember folks, he's a rich white republican. Nothing can stop rich white republicans. Not even the truth or justice.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - feel free to mod as you will. I'm restating what most college kids and people from countries NOT brainwashed by corporate media know to be the truth.
And believe me I took your point. You've got one... unlike the moronic AC types on here. But we all know that Coward is the appropriate term of these weaklings.
Thanks for correcting my view there man.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - Especially here in america where we're all supposed to stand up for our beliefs, I can't BELIEVE how many on this board are so cowardly as to not even stand up for their own goddamn words. It's not like you're defying the government here and you'll be shot in secret. Youre in a PEER to PEER board. We're all supposed to be peers here. Act like it.
That's why I said we need to all STOP that shit. If just myself or Bob down the street stop doing the "RTFM luser" shit, then hell yeah, we can't get allies in big places cuz we're "user friendly". But if some of the even MORE vocal types than myself become helpful... well remember that word of mouth advertising deal? It rocks. And it does work. Look at the business models (that work) that all accept the fact that word of mouth advertising works admirably, and exponentially.
Having a great OS doesn't mean being user unfriendly. It just means we prefer to EDIT our entire system without depending on regedit.exe:) It also means that since us USERS are also the tech support, then we get to represent what our OS means to us... I know I'm repeating what many feel, but I thought it needed being said one more time. Feel free to mod.
Not really. They will get bought out or sucked into a "partnership" where all they believed in is gone, their leadership terminated or bought out, and buh bye anything and everything non RIAA. That is anything that COMPETES with them:)
My old ISP switched to FreeBSD from SunOS Sys V I believe, quite some years ago. Many others did as well.
Try looking up widomaker.com on any of the nmap spoof sites out there. Betcha you'll smile... they're running FreeBSD AND they are a significantly sizeable Hampton Roads ISP. I believe the MAJOR ISP in HR also uses BSD, but I'm not sure since I've not telnetted in for ages upon centuries (1997:) the place is VISINET
I am too lazy at the moment and too drowsy to check it myself. But I know for a fact wilma.widomaker.com is STILL running some version of free_bsd (unless they changed again VERY recently).
BSD's a capable OS, I'm not much of a user because I do a lot more hacked together work often, and BSD only ran my old file server/ httpd rig. My home boxen ran a mix of... uhmm... red hat, debian and mandrake. Oh and as usual LinuxPPC/YellowDog 2.x on the mac.
I'm going to ask?? Why are all you folks having such a Unix vs *nix vs BSD JIHAD?! If we are to compare ourselves to the arab world... Isn't microsoft our "evil west" and Bill Gates our "great satan" type figure?!? Jeez people, we're fighting each other so to speak, while Billy boy makes a killing and leaves us hanging. And I'll take my own advice here since I recently forgot it and got into a long argument (I hate getting sucked into politics). But, if we all coded more and flamed each other less, and if we helped out the newbies, I bet we'd start stealing from the REAL big user base out there... MICROSOFT's. If BSD dies its only ONE more corpse microsoft can have strewn over their Gates of Mordor. Linux didn't win that one. Gates did, and will. And who do you think is next?! Damn straight. Billy's gonna take us down one at a time. First the weaker ones... then the strong ones. And yes Linux is at the top of the OS food chain under Bill Gates own pet. We're all supposed to have a purpose. OSS. So get back to coding, thinking or designing something cool and stop flaming each other. I know its tempting, I couldn't resist it once or twice but I caught myself. If you do flame or troll, at least post some info, some resource links so we can check, and then get back to doing something fun or useful that doesn't piss off half the damn messageboard just for the sake of pissing them off. That's just immature and stupid. That IS why nobody pays attention to us. We're all a bunch of immature little kids in the bodies of adults screaming bloody murder upon Bill gates, george bush, osama bin laden and whoever wants to hear us. Too bad we're in a cave all of our own and they locked us in.
If BSD dies... let it die on its own. Gloating doesn't help anyone. Some people put a lot of effort in that project, and if you haven't you've no right to harp on them. If you never even USED BSD, then lay off until you have, and given it a very legitimate attempt to at least get the installer completed. Show some respect, just like Linux and even parts of windows, whether the ideas were stolen, litigated or created, they were STILL worked on by someone, usually someone brilliant. And until we each can surpass those people... whether in coding or marketing or design or even legalese, we need to shut the fuck up and show some respect. If you can't show some respect to those who gave us the nice toys we now use all the time and harp about, then perhaps you'd like to still be using punch cards!
So speaking of this, I'm getting back to my work. Try to do the same. And as for the individual who modded down that post describing the disillusionment with BSD, it makes much sense. Let it stand up, replace BSD with OSS and get on with it, because the problem facing BSD has nothing to do with good code or bad code. It has to do with the george bushes and saddam husseins of the OSS community Once they finish with BSD they'll move onto another project and tear that one apart as well. Just like slashdotte
You know... its good to be careful when dealing with upstarts... some of them upstarts from yesteryear you might recall... Dell, Microsoft, Apple... AOL?
You remember them right? I hear they pay good money these days. It probably would have been good to have gotten on their good sides when they started out... be they good, evil or downright draconian and satanic in their practices... being in good with Microsoft will probably have paid good money period... especially with possible return business... And whether dells suck or they rock for you, I'm sure being on their good side and doing a great job when they started out and first needed to expand woulda put you on thier top notch list for later.
"preferred contractor" I believe is the term used in the government. And I would know, I've done some work in construction for the gov't. Preferred contractors ALWAYS get the bids, unless an upstart can show absolutely better work for significantly less. Preferred contractors generally get that status doing ONE or two good major jobs or several smaller jobs. Once on that list you're guaranteed return work and even get return calls about upcoming jobs you might be able to perform. Even though our first contract with them was roughly a 10k project (and in construction for the gov't I'm sure you know 10k projects usually involve minute profits, barely worth the markup).
Thus do NOT dis those little jobs, do them right and you'll get return work that might be more to your caliber in skills and pay.
I've probably not done as much IT consulting as you, but I'm sure with your attitude it might explain why they're farming work to India. Even if those people's best often sucks, most of them try, so they can keep their jobs. Plus if the average programmer there is half as good as my mentor was during high school, I'd say we're doomed to lose all our jobs to be farmed out to India:) We're all about the money, they're all about staying alive... who do you think's gonna win that one?
-DaedalusHKX
PS - yep, I'm an unemployed programmer/networking geek... and guess what? I do office and construction work for a living... at least I'm in damn good shape thanks to lugging all that heavy crap around... how many OTHER geeks can claim that:)
I will look for the stuff... hopefully it works (otherwise an anonymous "w4r3z d00d" buddy of mine can get me OS X for bootup purposes (might be overkill on a 90 mhz PPC tho).
By the way. I am interested in that Kawaiinet thingie... leave details as a comment to my journal if necessary:)
Don't forget the heat spreader on the P4 DOES work well. The athlon is smaller and has a smaller contact surface hence the difficulty in dispersing heat. I'm sure there's more factors I'm not listing, but I'm not up for a hardware and thermodynamics lesson today. I haven't been in college for years.
Gimme details on the heatsinks, mounting mechanisms, pressure load, size of die vs size of contact surfaces (no fibbin, I know the P4 is almost twice as large in die size, and the heat spreader on the P4 is at least 1.25 square inches last I checked one out):)
The exact chips, clockspeeds, overclocks, temperature probes / internal diodes used (most athlon boards measure the air under the chip, I think only the nvidia ones to date use the diodes inside the XP chips), all that might make a big difference too. The air under the chip is the hottest since it never gets a chance to cool between heat spikes produced by CPU activity, so the die can be hotter at times, but gets cooled faster than the air inside the socket.
The P4 variant uses those clips doesn't it? Or are they both bolt through / spring loaded heatsinks? It has been a long time since I've messed with hardware, I've been dirt poor lately.
One last question: What software did you use to load up the CPU and to benchmark the temps and cpu loads? Can I see the output?
Dude I agree.. and forget homeland security and all that shit
KEVIN MITNICK... BEFORE terrorism was big... he was held for several years before even being charged... as I recall... if THAT isn't a violation of the constitution...
then THIS is:
I recall during my following of the case back some 4 years ago, or maybe 7 now... it IS 2003, I recall Kevin's exploits were inflated at the re-re-request of the investigators when the comapnies involved (Sun, AT&T, someone else I forgot) failed to provide BIG claims. The original total was several thousand dollars. The feds then got pissed off and re requested the research costs to be added to the price tag. That's when the claims went into the hundreds of thousands USD. Funny how our "justice" system works eh? The system wanted to make an example and he just happened to be the juiciest morsel the corporate demons could sacrifice to their desire to make an example of those smarter than themselves. After all, how GOOD can the FBI be, when it took a MASSIVE manhunt to catch ONE little hacker... imagine if there were a few thousand like mitnick, helping each other.:)
Look it up if you want, if freekevin.com is still around. I'm too lazy to look it up.
Hint... US Justice has not worked properly for most of this last century... we've won a freedom with hard fighting, and given up fifty because King George said so... Equal treatment under the law, in the USA is more equal for those with more capital. It is a capitalism after all. And with King George back in power, so much for all that fighting in the war of Independence (which as I recall, we won with FRENCH guns).
-DaedalusHKX
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Sure the Crusoe is slower than an Athlon at its clock speed but at 1ghz it blows the P4 out of the water.
That being said, VLIW is ahead of its time by at least 5 to 10 years. The idea is where all architectures will merge eventually. 32 bit, 64 bit, my ass... how about VLIW 256 bit (crusoe right now).
All transmeta has to do is optimize it. The idea is solid, and the chip is "slow" only because its an entry into the market. TM has only been around for a few years as opposed to Intel, AMD, Apple, Motorola and IBM (Power PC is their chip).
I would trade my loud ass, hotter than hell, and aggravating Athlon and my P4 (at 2.8 ghz its even worse than the 1.466 OC'ed athlon) for a dual or quad Astro when they come out... actually come to think of it, if I have the cash when that happens, I will. Then I can take my server with me in the car, and not worry about it cooking since it will run at about 6 to 8 watts per chip.
Reminds me of the 6 to 10 watts days of the heatsink only chips or heatsink-less 386's.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - Try a mini via c3 sometime... slower but makes for good portable computing.
Nope, sorry, it was a Wheel95 (tm) by Micro$tone (tm) running on a Tiree86 (tm)
Firestone might suck, but they DO make Bridgestone Potenza's too... in case you were wondering:-)
-DaedalusHKX
As usual an interesting post MsGeek... kudos.
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Just curious. Have you ever written a comment that wasn't insightful? (or accurate?)
Keep up the interesting posts (and I agree about the mac only because I am currently building a cluster of some 90 200 mhz supermacs, and a few dozen 120 to 100 mhz power pcs... I'm going for paralellism and 100% cheapness as opposed to actual performance:) (how else can you buy a cluster for under 100 bucks?)(USD).
I am quite impressed with how advanced they are compared to MY old 200 mhz pcs... not only fast on mac OS 9... but also much colder running than an equivalent 200 mhz intel/amd/cyrix based system.
Speaking of macs and floppies, the automatic floppy drives were quite neat.
Can you recommend what flavor linux I should use on the PPC's?
-DaedalusHKX
PS - currently YellowDog, and feel free to mod me offtopic if you want.
PPS - anyone have a clue as to how to bypass the need to keep a MAC OS partition on yellow dog PPC's pre imac/ppc Gx series?
Over and Over, I use them as background music, like I said in my original post...sort of relaxing (makes for a nice thing to stare at blankly for hours when I feel purposeless).
On the upside my linux rigs have had an uptime of about 120 days since I reinstalled (upgraded), with only ONE reboot because I managed to crash an app I was working on... however I've been using gTV in the background to play videofiles nonstop with no reboots for weeks (roughly 2 gigs of media files that are on my playlist) and the system's been playing the list non stop for about 2 weeks or more now...)
I'd say that's a good test run. And yes I've even had a windows XP rig that did great until it was brought under major stress and then it couldn't keep up and blue screened (I've managed to crash XP to BSOD 14 or so times since I got it... and then I gave it back in disgust)... its no more reliable than 2k or NT4.0 but it is prettier.
Considering this stuff's been running for a few weeks day and night with no reboot... I'd say linux is DEFINITELY up to the task... all we need is the codecs and player software.
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Technically CCCP is fine, but if you draw the communist connection don't forget the Nazi's came to power there because the plutocrats weren't happy when Communism was voted for earlier and elected. The Nazi party was elected for its anti communist stance as I recall... they became more anti jewish as time went on, but originally their platform was supposedly anti communist, since the communists weren't very good for the German economy (or public view of it for that matter).
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I could be wrong but I recall from my 10 years ago of history that Germany was the first place where Communism was elected/took over office anywhere in the world.
About that long, they've been around. Sheesh. As I recall they're government funded in Germany, sorta gives all their "haxors" a place to get something constructive done... to some extent. As I recall also part of their tradeoff was that they help out in cases of national crises or criminal hunts if recruited... but that's just rumors I recall... I don't speak/read enough german to read all that stuff.
:) Here they put 13 year old script kiddies in jail with spike the child molester and joe the violent mass murderer instead of teaching 13 year old SK proper computer ethics and skills and getting him into creative fun stuff instead of destructive stupid stuff... but then again, since when was the US gov't into anything OTHER than destructive stupid stuff??
In reality they're a club of hackers, crackers and slackers who got themselves a national club... mostly dedicated to informing the unwashed masses that YES computer security and awesome highest tech ideas are NOT just for geeks... we're just better at it than most. I do recall they WERE indeed supposedly funded by the German gov't.
Lets see the US do that. hah, that will be the day
-DaedalusHKX
Critique of certain things:
:), Serious Sam couldn't hurt either, but I agree that the Los Angeles Pig Department must have its 15 minutes of fame :)
Oh man I grew UP with Metroid 1... they better NOT fuck this up. Same goes for doom. I am tired of horror flicks. And DIABLO?! If they DO make a movie, Condor/Blizzard North had best go back to diablo 1... Diablo II lacked soul. It felt empty, except perhaps in Kurast. It just felt weak compared to its older sibling Diablo. The boss was good but moviewise, Tristram may be better... unless of course they make the demons convincing out in the deserts and the jungle... Hell could use some Diablo 1 help since it just "felt" more sinister.
Just some ideas, but my pleas go out as follows:
-Diablo- PLEASE get the atmosphere right...
-DiabloII- PLEASE get the demons big bad and scary.
-Doom- scrap PG13, this is an R rated flick. Everyone who EVER played doom is over 17 now and can watch R rated stuff.
-Duke3d- PLEASE scrap this and make Shadow Warrior instead
-Metroid- well... just please don't cast some dumb blonde for Samus... I dunno about everyone else, but she was a badass not someone's love interest... Also if the motherbrain or the space pirates are human actors, then all is lost. Period.
Those are just my opinions but if we get jiggly plastic make up on cheesy looking masks and we call those people "space pirates" (ala the bad guys in Neverending story)... then half our fave games will look lower tech on the big screen than they did on our 12 inch viewable PS/2 monitors. (Those who played Doom in the old days should be familiar with that breed of hardware, Packard Bell used to attach them to their 386's).
And we all know just how bleeding edge doom actually was... god only knows, high speed SVGA graphics weren't something you could do anyday of the week (duke3d, shadow warrior) and before that, doom was as on the edge of tech as can be had, elevators, stairs, huge levels (huge not like the ones in some of today's games)... if the movies aren't at least as amazing as playing Hexen for the first time... then perhaps they need to hold onto the ideas for a few more years... or millenia.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I dunno about you, but would anyone think that perhaps Cybermage, Hexen, Heretic and Hexen II/Heretic II would make damn awesome games to convert to movies? Lets hear something from Raven, since those games were far deeper than a simple blast fest. (Plus, the characters could provide a bit of further depth to it, much like those of Diablo could if the movie folks translate them into personallities onscreen... of course they could just turn it into an excuse to put lots of sex and tons more blood and pixelized guts on the screen and we can call it a day with each movie, knowing that they will sell... as all excessive violence always does, and if not he sex will save it, since content rarely works these days.)
Actually it seems to be QUAKE 2, mostly because so was Heretic II, and I recall needing the Half Life powerVR library to make my old PowerVR card work with the Heretic II beta/demo.
The one from Quake did not work, the one from Quake II had bugs, but the one from Half Life worked closest until the Heretic II folks made their own.
All in all I'd say if drivers are any concern, the pvrgl.dll that worked with Q2, HL and Her2 Demo was the same file, even recommended on the Her2 demo FAQ (which specifically stated that both games were based on a heavilly modified Quake II engine), this FAQ being up at hexenworld/heretic2.net back in the day... If the architectures are that similar, perhaps there's something to that Q2 - HL "rumor".
So unless somehow for once Heretic II was ALSO based on Quake I (though I recall HEXEN II was based on Quake I, Heretic II/HL were based on Quake II.)
-DaedalusHKX
I thought I was the ONLY person who remembered the ORIGINAL and still FAVE night wasting phenomenon known as TEAM FORTRESS... and the Two Forts 4/5 maps... good god those were awesome. I miss those days. Nothing like sentry guns with nailguns and heat seekers, or those NASTY bioweapons... heh... or camping in the enemy spawn on 2 fort 4... until they made it so you couldn't enter the enemy spawn :)
:)... ahhh what a year.
Man those were the days.
1996 I believe if the dates on my CDR archives are correct
-DaedalusHKX
PS - thanks for the reminiscing bud.
I'm still waiting on a 100.00 USD rebate on a hdd. Only rebates I've done are:
MAG 19 inch - $ 80.00 (receceived)
DLINK hub - $ 10.00 (not received)
Pacific Digital CDRW - $ 60.00 (not received)
Motorola Surfboard (cable)- $ 99.00 (received, long time)
Maxtor HDD - $150.00 (sent in a few weeks ago)
-DaedalusHKX
About time :)
Lets see if it actually helps deter them or if it just forces them to take different paths to annoying us further...
-DaedalusHKX
Do not worry. A fine non racist non segregationist republican with "fine upstanding christian morals" like John Ashcroft will not let a petty thing like The Constitution stand in his way to power and glory (and mad moolah).
Remember folks, he's a rich white republican. Nothing can stop rich white republicans. Not even the truth or justice.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - feel free to mod as you will. I'm restating what most college kids and people from countries NOT brainwashed by corporate media know to be the truth.
And believe me I took your point. You've got one... unlike the moronic AC types on here. But we all know that Coward is the appropriate term of these weaklings.
Thanks for correcting my view there man.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - Especially here in america where we're all supposed to stand up for our beliefs, I can't BELIEVE how many on this board are so cowardly as to not even stand up for their own goddamn words. It's not like you're defying the government here and you'll be shot in secret. Youre in a PEER to PEER board. We're all supposed to be peers here. Act like it.
That's why I said we need to all STOP that shit. If just myself or Bob down the street stop doing the "RTFM luser" shit, then hell yeah, we can't get allies in big places cuz we're "user friendly". But if some of the even MORE vocal types than myself become helpful... well remember that word of mouth advertising deal? It rocks. And it does work. Look at the business models (that work) that all accept the fact that word of mouth advertising works admirably, and exponentially.
:) It also means that since us USERS are also the tech support, then we get to represent what our OS means to us... I know I'm repeating what many feel, but I thought it needed being said one more time. Feel free to mod.
Having a great OS doesn't mean being user unfriendly. It just means we prefer to EDIT our entire system without depending on regedit.exe
-DaedalusHKX
Not really. They will get bought out or sucked into a "partnership" where all they believed in is gone, their leadership terminated or bought out, and buh bye anything and everything non RIAA. That is anything that COMPETES with them :)
-DaedalusHKX
My old ISP switched to FreeBSD from SunOS Sys V I believe, quite some years ago. Many others did as well.
:) the place is VISINET
... uhmm... red hat, debian and mandrake. Oh and as usual LinuxPPC/YellowDog 2.x on the mac.
Try looking up widomaker.com on any of the nmap spoof sites out there. Betcha you'll smile... they're running FreeBSD AND they are a significantly sizeable Hampton Roads ISP. I believe the MAJOR ISP in HR also uses BSD, but I'm not sure since I've not telnetted in for ages upon centuries (1997
I am too lazy at the moment and too drowsy to check it myself. But I know for a fact wilma.widomaker.com is STILL running some version of free_bsd (unless they changed again VERY recently).
BSD's a capable OS, I'm not much of a user because I do a lot more hacked together work often, and BSD only ran my old file server/ httpd rig. My home boxen ran a mix of
I'm going to ask?? Why are all you folks having such a Unix vs *nix vs BSD JIHAD?! If we are to compare ourselves to the arab world... Isn't microsoft our "evil west" and Bill Gates our "great satan" type figure?!? Jeez people, we're fighting each other so to speak, while Billy boy makes a killing and leaves us hanging. And I'll take my own advice here since I recently forgot it and got into a long argument (I hate getting sucked into politics). But, if we all coded more and flamed each other less, and if we helped out the newbies, I bet we'd start stealing from the REAL big user base out there... MICROSOFT's. If BSD dies its only ONE more corpse microsoft can have strewn over their Gates of Mordor. Linux didn't win that one. Gates did, and will. And who do you think is next?! Damn straight. Billy's gonna take us down one at a time. First the weaker ones... then the strong ones. And yes Linux is at the top of the OS food chain under Bill Gates own pet. We're all supposed to have a purpose. OSS. So get back to coding, thinking or designing something cool and stop flaming each other. I know its tempting, I couldn't resist it once or twice but I caught myself. If you do flame or troll, at least post some info, some resource links so we can check, and then get back to doing something fun or useful that doesn't piss off half the damn messageboard just for the sake of pissing them off. That's just immature and stupid. That IS why nobody pays attention to us. We're all a bunch of immature little kids in the bodies of adults screaming bloody murder upon Bill gates, george bush, osama bin laden and whoever wants to hear us. Too bad we're in a cave all of our own and they locked us in.
If BSD dies... let it die on its own. Gloating doesn't help anyone. Some people put a lot of effort in that project, and if you haven't you've no right to harp on them. If you never even USED BSD, then lay off until you have, and given it a very legitimate attempt to at least get the installer completed. Show some respect, just like Linux and even parts of windows, whether the ideas were stolen, litigated or created, they were STILL worked on by someone, usually someone brilliant. And until we each can surpass those people... whether in coding or marketing or design or even legalese, we need to shut the fuck up and show some respect. If you can't show some respect to those who gave us the nice toys we now use all the time and harp about, then perhaps you'd like to still be using punch cards!
So speaking of this, I'm getting back to my work. Try to do the same. And as for the individual who modded down that post describing the disillusionment with BSD, it makes much sense. Let it stand up, replace BSD with OSS and get on with it, because the problem facing BSD has nothing to do with good code or bad code. It has to do with the george bushes and saddam husseins of the OSS community Once they finish with BSD they'll move onto another project and tear that one apart as well. Just like slashdotte
You know... its good to be careful when dealing with upstarts... some of them upstarts from yesteryear you might recall...
:) We're all about the money, they're all about staying alive... who do you think's gonna win that one?
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Dell,
Microsoft,
Apple...
AOL?
You remember them right? I hear they pay good money these days. It probably would have been good to have gotten on their good sides when they started out... be they good, evil or downright draconian and satanic in their practices... being in good with Microsoft will probably have paid good money period... especially with possible return business... And whether dells suck or they rock for you, I'm sure being on their good side and doing a great job when they started out and first needed to expand woulda put you on thier top notch list for later.
"preferred contractor" I believe is the term used in the government. And I would know, I've done some work in construction for the gov't. Preferred contractors ALWAYS get the bids, unless an upstart can show absolutely better work for significantly less. Preferred contractors generally get that status doing ONE or two good major jobs or several smaller jobs. Once on that list you're guaranteed return work and even get return calls about upcoming jobs you might be able to perform. Even though our first contract with them was roughly a 10k project (and in construction for the gov't I'm sure you know 10k projects usually involve minute profits, barely worth the markup).
Thus do NOT dis those little jobs, do them right and you'll get return work that might be more to your caliber in skills and pay.
I've probably not done as much IT consulting as you, but I'm sure with your attitude it might explain why they're farming work to India. Even if those people's best often sucks, most of them try, so they can keep their jobs. Plus if the average programmer there is half as good as my mentor was during high school, I'd say we're doomed to lose all our jobs to be farmed out to India
-DaedalusHKX
PS - yep, I'm an unemployed programmer/networking geek... and guess what? I do office and construction work for a living... at least I'm in damn good shape thanks to lugging all that heavy crap around... how many OTHER geeks can claim that
HAHAHA... ahhhh... ehhh... oh sorry, couldn't help but let you know that Iptables comment was hilarious.
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Man YOUR_ASS has to be one sore ass receiving end of THAT much traffic
-DaedalusHKX
PS - yes I know, I'm sorry, but that SIG was just too funny.
you are looking for :)
-DaedalusHKX
I will look for the stuff... hopefully it works (otherwise an anonymous "w4r3z d00d" buddy of mine can get me OS X for bootup purposes (might be overkill on a 90 mhz PPC tho).
:)
By the way. I am interested in that Kawaiinet thingie... leave details as a comment to my journal if necessary
-DaedalusHKX
Don't forget the heat spreader on the P4 DOES work well. The athlon is smaller and has a smaller contact surface hence the difficulty in dispersing heat. I'm sure there's more factors I'm not listing, but I'm not up for a hardware and thermodynamics lesson today. I haven't been in college for years.
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Gimme details on the heatsinks, mounting mechanisms, pressure load, size of die vs size of contact surfaces (no fibbin, I know the P4 is almost twice as large in die size, and the heat spreader on the P4 is at least 1.25 square inches last I checked one out)
The exact chips, clockspeeds, overclocks, temperature probes / internal diodes used (most athlon boards measure the air under the chip, I think only the nvidia ones to date use the diodes inside the XP chips), all that might make a big difference too. The air under the chip is the hottest since it never gets a chance to cool between heat spikes produced by CPU activity, so the die can be hotter at times, but gets cooled faster than the air inside the socket.
The P4 variant uses those clips doesn't it? Or are they both bolt through / spring loaded heatsinks? It has been a long time since I've messed with hardware, I've been dirt poor lately.
One last question: What software did you use to load up the CPU and to benchmark the temps and cpu loads? Can I see the output?
-DaedalusHKX
Dude I agree.. and forget homeland security and all that shit
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KEVIN MITNICK... BEFORE terrorism was big... he was held for several years before even being charged... as I recall... if THAT isn't a violation of the constitution...
then THIS is:
I recall during my following of the case back some 4 years ago, or maybe 7 now... it IS 2003, I recall Kevin's exploits were inflated at the re-re-request of the investigators when the comapnies involved (Sun, AT&T, someone else I forgot) failed to provide BIG claims. The original total was several thousand dollars. The feds then got pissed off and re requested the research costs to be added to the price tag. That's when the claims went into the hundreds of thousands USD. Funny how our "justice" system works eh? The system wanted to make an example and he just happened to be the juiciest morsel the corporate demons could sacrifice to their desire to make an example of those smarter than themselves. After all, how GOOD can the FBI be, when it took a MASSIVE manhunt to catch ONE little hacker... imagine if there were a few thousand like mitnick, helping each other.
Look it up if you want, if freekevin.com is still around. I'm too lazy to look it up.
Hint... US Justice has not worked properly for most of this last century... we've won a freedom with hard fighting, and given up fifty because King George said so... Equal treatment under the law, in the USA is more equal for those with more capital. It is a capitalism after all. And with King George back in power, so much for all that fighting in the war of Independence (which as I recall, we won with FRENCH guns).
-DaedalusHKX
at 1 ghz the crusoe outperforms a 1 ghz P4 :)
my bad.
-DaedalusHKX
Sure the Crusoe is slower than an Athlon at its clock speed but at 1ghz it blows the P4 out of the water.
That being said, VLIW is ahead of its time by at least 5 to 10 years. The idea is where all architectures will merge eventually. 32 bit, 64 bit, my ass... how about VLIW 256 bit (crusoe right now).
All transmeta has to do is optimize it. The idea is solid, and the chip is "slow" only because its an entry into the market. TM has only been around for a few years as opposed to Intel, AMD, Apple, Motorola and IBM (Power PC is their chip).
I would trade my loud ass, hotter than hell, and aggravating Athlon and my P4 (at 2.8 ghz its even worse than the 1.466 OC'ed athlon) for a dual or quad Astro when they come out... actually come to think of it, if I have the cash when that happens, I will. Then I can take my server with me in the car, and not worry about it cooking since it will run at about 6 to 8 watts per chip.
Reminds me of the 6 to 10 watts days of the heatsink only chips or heatsink-less 386's.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - Try a mini via c3 sometime... slower but makes for good portable computing.
Nope, sorry, it was a Wheel95 (tm) by Micro$tone (tm) running on a Tiree86 (tm)
:-)
Firestone might suck, but they DO make Bridgestone Potenza's too... in case you were wondering
-DaedalusHKX
Just curious. Have you ever written a comment that wasn't insightful? (or accurate?)
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Keep up the interesting posts (and I agree about the mac only because I am currently building a cluster of some 90 200 mhz supermacs, and a few dozen 120 to 100 mhz power pcs... I'm going for paralellism and 100% cheapness as opposed to actual performance
(how else can you buy a cluster for under 100 bucks?)(USD).
I am quite impressed with how advanced they are compared to MY old 200 mhz pcs... not only fast on mac OS 9... but also much colder running than an equivalent 200 mhz intel/amd/cyrix based system.
Speaking of macs and floppies, the automatic floppy drives were quite neat.
Can you recommend what flavor linux I should use on the PPC's?
-DaedalusHKX
PS - currently YellowDog, and feel free to mod me offtopic if you want.
PPS - anyone have a clue as to how to bypass the need to keep a MAC OS partition on yellow dog PPC's pre imac/ppc Gx series?
Over and Over, I use them as background music, like I said in my original post.. .sort of relaxing (makes for a nice thing to stare at blankly for hours when I feel purposeless).
-Daedalus HKX
And yes I know gTV only plays singles and loops them. There are ways around this. -DaedalusHKX
On the upside my linux rigs have had an uptime of about 120 days since I reinstalled (upgraded), with only ONE reboot because I managed to crash an app I was working on... however I've been using gTV in the background to play videofiles nonstop with no reboots for weeks (roughly 2 gigs of media files that are on my playlist) and the system's been playing the list non stop for about 2 weeks or more now...)
I'd say that's a good test run. And yes I've even had a windows XP rig that did great until it was brought under major stress and then it couldn't keep up and blue screened (I've managed to crash XP to BSOD 14 or so times since I got it... and then I gave it back in disgust)... its no more reliable than 2k or NT4.0 but it is prettier.
Considering this stuff's been running for a few weeks day and night with no reboot... I'd say linux is DEFINITELY up to the task... all we need is the codecs and player software.
That's my 10 cents.
-DaedalusHKX