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You do NOT want to take the legal and time responsibility for file sharing on your LAN. Simply make a statement that tells people not open file shares of any kind and that you take no responsibility whatsoever for anything found outside the official server, but also state that you don't have the time or resources to monitor the LAN for violations.
The thing that's awesome about LCD/Plasma/OLED displays is that, since they're continuously lit, they have no flicker even in conditions with very low refresh rates and poor response times. Does this new techology refresh pixels like a CRT does, or is it continuously lit?
That's not why the Soundblaster Live sucked. Resampling to 48Khz before DAC conversion is the standard way to operate a DAC. The problem was that the resmpler was BROKEN in the Soundblaster Live!-series of cards, resulting in significant, audible distortion in all but 48Khz sound signals. That, and the DAC just wasn't all that good even taking that into consideration. The drivers were awful too.
Your best bet, for both simplicity, functionality, and price, is a Linksys wireless router running the Sveasoft firmware. The extremely popular Linksys WRT54G 802.11g wireless router runs Linux, allowing easy customization with enhanced features. For basic functionality, a Linksys WRT54G can be had for under $50. The best you can get is a Linksys WRT54GS v1.0, which has more memory as well as Speedbooster technology.
You then flash the firmware of the router using freely available, open-source firmware such as that made by Sveasoft. I enjoy the Sveasoft firmware, as it contains a wealth of features, is easy to setup, and has good documentation. I would suggest that you download the firmware from a free mirror rather than subscribe, as Sveasoft has been known to engage in predatory business practices that it is best not to support.
Once you install the Sveasoft firmware, you will gain a new "QoS" tab in the router's configuration that allows you to prioritize certain types of traffic, certain MAC addresses, the wireless connection, and based on Ethernet ports.
I setup the Sveasoft Alchemy pre-7a firmware on my Linksys WRT54GS on a 6600/768 cable connection I share with two geeky, gamer, bittorrent-loving roommates. Even when we're all fighting to achieve maximum upload and download speeds with bittorrent, web-browsing is fast and games have no lag. This solution dramatically outperformed my expectations, it cost less than $100, and took less than 15 minutes to setup.
I think the same may have been true of the Duron - an Athlon with bad cache that's disabled, and/or one that won't run at the full Athlon bus speed.
Definitely not true for Athlons and Durons, the cores on the lower cache variants are physically smaller than the larger cache variants, proving that some transistors are actually gone.
I look forward to the day when I can have good netsex with an emo Internet girl without the resultant stalking, self-mutilation, and ritual murder. So lonely.
If the game had been made Xbox Live Enabled like all games will for the new system, it could have been patched through Live and this wouldn't be a problem.
CPUs are INSANELY cheap to manufacture, almost all of their price comes from the need to recoup on R&D and fab construction costs. It would be very easy for a manufacturer to sell them at a steeply discounted price in order for the publicity that being used in the Xbox2 will bring. HD-DVD drives were probably much more expensive in an actual dollars-per-unit way.
Again, RTFA. They describe the noise the system makes in the conclusion, and offer information on how to possibly reduce or control it. Also, how the heck can you expect them to possibly quantify how loud the system is? dBa meters that are in any way accurate are NOT cheap or easy to come by, not to mention that a dBa reading depends on how far you are from the system, where you're measuring from in relation to it, etc. There's simply now way to make a quantifiable measurement of the loudness of a system that's going to mean anything to anyone outside of a laboratory setting.
Intel's Pentium-M line is perfectly content to run fanless. It's used in laptops as part of the Centrino platform, though Intel plans to use dual-core Pentium-Ms as their future desktop CPU direction. AMD's Athlon 64 processors, while not nearly as efficient as the Pentium-M, suck down about half the power of an equivalent Pentium 4. They're perfectly happy running with a decently engineered heatsink and quiet fan. It's really only the Intel Pentium 4, with its 150W power dissipation on high end models, that is terrible for cooling. Every generation of P4 has used comparatively high amounts of power, the Prescott core just took it to extremes.
They DID talk about noise in the conclusion. It's loud, but you can alter the speed of the fans. Most of the noise apparently comes from the compressor, though.
A problem I have with a lot of Ask Slashdots is that even though a simple straightforward question is asked, readers are not satisfied to simply either answer the question that was asked, or not post a reply, but instead insist on a either answering a different question, or berating the person who asked the question.
Simply answering someone's questions is a very poor way to help them do what they want to do. In this case, I suspect that the original questioner MEANT something like "what is the cheapest, most portable, and easiest way to do foo." By telling us what foo is, we can come up with a better solution than they had even thought of.
For example, think of someone asking how to run a long run of CAT6 accross a highway in a safe, secure, and weather-proof manner. Rather than offering them methods of running CAT6 in this manner, suggesting that they instead use wifi and directional antennae would better meet their needs.
In the case where the original questioner DOES have the best solution in mind and just needs implementation advice, explaining the situation helps us know that they HAVE done their homework.
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They did. The models are from Blue Shift, the textures are all new.
with a modified version of the Tutalin core I belive
The CPU in the XboX is a 733Mhz Coppermine Celeron. The only difference between it and a regular Celeron is that it uses a 133Mhz FSB instead of 100Mhz. This doesn't necessitate a core change, just a different multiplier, which is set when the core is attached to the organic substrate that carries the pins.
But why is the Mac less popular? It's more expensive and less open than Wintel. This is what killed the platform. My argument is that the market picks the product that best fulfills its needs in every case.
Yes, for the market sectors where it's dominant. For servers, *NIX variants are superior, hence why they're so popular. For the average desktop user, Linux still isn't as good as Windows. It's not as easy to use or configure, and the applications still aren't there. Acknowledging this fact and working to close the gaps is how we'll catapault Linux into the mainstream, and several distros are working on this right now.
Betamax was the inferior technology. Sure it had higher image quality, but it didn't have sufficient playtime to hold feature length films, and it was significantly more expensive. By the time the playtime problem was resolved, VHS was already dominant, and the price difference was even more substantial.
Remember, the superior technology always wins. If a technology that appears to be superior loses, then you just need to think harder about what was wrong with it, or what was right with the competition.
I applaud your complete misunderstanding of the situation. A close reading of my post will note that I supported the banning of people the OP doesn't want on his forum. Attempting to get their ISP to ban their accounts is, on the other hand, unacceptable. Surely even you can see the difference between "I'm not going to let you say that on my forums, go away," and "You can't say that! I'm going to call $bigentity and get you in trouble!"
In the future, I suggest you look up the definitions of words before you quibble about their use. It will help you keep your foot out of your mouth. YHT. YHL. HAND.
Speech is not a hate crime. Hate speech, while repugnant, is one of the fundamental rights that every human being enjoys. If the OP wants to ban these people from HIS forums, he is completely within his rights. Trying to get them banned from their ISP is acting like some petulant child crying home to mommy after a playground slight.
Do you honestly feel that it's ever acceptable to censor someone in that manner? Why stop there, why not send abuse complaints every time someone flames you on a newsgroup? Or every time someone expresses an opinion you don't agree with? Banning them from YOUR website/forum is one thing, and is your prerogative. Trying to get people's accounts terminated at their ISP is another entirely. Repeat after me: "I do not like what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."
You're on crack if you think the average PC user could figure out The GIMP well enough to be effective with it. The GIMP is the perfect example of the so-called myths of Linux and open source software: difficult installation and difficult operation. Have you ever tried having multiple GTK-based applications installed in Windows? You're faced with having a different GTK version installed for each application. God forbid you try to use the latest version for everything, The GIMP won't even let you TRY to install it unless it detects EXACTLY the version of GTK it expects, need GTK-$blah-b and have GTK-$blah-c? Sucks to be you. Once you get The GIMP running, you're faced with a confoundingly huge number of mouseclicks on tiny, tooltip-less buttons to perform even a task as simple as opening a file or resizing an image.
You should know that arguing that price justifies the poor quality of The GIMP is a cop out. You can use Free Software to build a server that will operate much better than one based on thousands of dollars worth of software, and that requires even less administration. Why can't we get a free graphics suite that is at least ADEQUATE? Just because it's the only alternative doesn't make it well designed software. Go take a look at OpenOffice.org for an example of a free alternative to hugely expensive and complex commercial software that manages to actually be functional for an end user.
Amazing. Yet I use it all the time. Even on Windows. I will agree that it can be daunting - my daughter took a bit to warm up to it. Definate room for improvement. Hardly "worthless".
Please. The GIMP is powerful software hampered by a user interface that could hardly be worse if it was designed with the specific goal of confounding the user. Look at the filesystem navigation provided by GTK in the Open dialog, for example. It requires knowledge of relative pathing to even navigate upwards through the directory tree! There's no way to change the sort order of folders or filenames, or even view data other than the name. Compare this to the Open dialog provided by Notepad in Windows XP. It's a useability dream, powerful but also simple enough for new users to understand. Why the heck can't The GIMP act like this? Oh yeah, GTK. Remember, Photoshop is so popular not just because it's powerful, but because it's also well designed and intuitive.
And yes, while Qt is pretty nifty, it's not too common. And you seem to miss my point about consistency. Consistency is good, but as long as each application has a decent UI, inconsistency is only a minor annoyance. The use of terrible graphics toolkits like GTK, however, is what is going to keep Linux and Open Source apps out of the mainstream unless people get wise to the fact that an good user interface is a NECESSITY, not an extravagance.
GIMP is a fine replacement for Microsoft Photo Editor. The interface may not be as nice but it's a lot more capable. When a majority of home users begin migrating to Linux and corporations follow suit then Adobe will probably be more than happy to add a sweet front-end to GIMP.
GIMP is completely worthless for the end user. When you say that the interface "may not be as nice," what you mean is that the interface is so awful as to prevent anyone but the most technically minded and persistent from getting the software to do anything AT ALL. This stems primarily from the fact that GIMP uses (and indeed CAUSED) GTK.
GTK is the single largest barrier between cross-platform open source application and the end user. Developers seem to like it well enough that there are no commonly used alternatives, while it's poor enough to prevent people from actually using the software. Honestly, if we EVER expect Linux and open source applications to make it in userspace, we MUST develop a graphical toolkit that is consistent accross all applications and the OS GUI. If GTK is that toolkit, we might as well write Linux off right now. For all of its shortcomings, the Windows graphical system is EXCELLENT for consistency between the OS and all applications that use the native widgets. We need to emulate this sort of functionality.
ATI's drivers include OpenGL, Microsoft's do not. When you install a graphics card in Windows XP, the drivers it come with offer support for DirectX ONLY, as this is all Microsoft is willing to bundle with the OS. In order to get OpenGL support, you need to install the drivers from the manufacturer. Of course, you should be doing this for every piece of hardware in the system for optimal performance and stability.
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You do NOT want to take the legal and time responsibility for file sharing on your LAN. Simply make a statement that tells people not open file shares of any kind and that you take no responsibility whatsoever for anything found outside the official server, but also state that you don't have the time or resources to monitor the LAN for violations.
The thing that's awesome about LCD/Plasma/OLED displays is that, since they're continuously lit, they have no flicker even in conditions with very low refresh rates and poor response times. Does this new techology refresh pixels like a CRT does, or is it continuously lit?
That's not why the Soundblaster Live sucked. Resampling to 48Khz before DAC conversion is the standard way to operate a DAC. The problem was that the resmpler was BROKEN in the Soundblaster Live!-series of cards, resulting in significant, audible distortion in all but 48Khz sound signals. That, and the DAC just wasn't all that good even taking that into consideration. The drivers were awful too.
Your best bet, for both simplicity, functionality, and price, is a Linksys wireless router running the Sveasoft firmware. The extremely popular Linksys WRT54G 802.11g wireless router runs Linux, allowing easy customization with enhanced features. For basic functionality, a Linksys WRT54G can be had for under $50. The best you can get is a Linksys WRT54GS v1.0, which has more memory as well as Speedbooster technology.
You then flash the firmware of the router using freely available, open-source firmware such as that made by Sveasoft. I enjoy the Sveasoft firmware, as it contains a wealth of features, is easy to setup, and has good documentation. I would suggest that you download the firmware from a free mirror rather than subscribe, as Sveasoft has been known to engage in predatory business practices that it is best not to support.
Once you install the Sveasoft firmware, you will gain a new "QoS" tab in the router's configuration that allows you to prioritize certain types of traffic, certain MAC addresses, the wireless connection, and based on Ethernet ports.
I setup the Sveasoft Alchemy pre-7a firmware on my Linksys WRT54GS on a 6600/768 cable connection I share with two geeky, gamer, bittorrent-loving roommates. Even when we're all fighting to achieve maximum upload and download speeds with bittorrent, web-browsing is fast and games have no lag. This solution dramatically outperformed my expectations, it cost less than $100, and took less than 15 minutes to setup.
I think the same may have been true of the Duron - an Athlon with bad cache that's disabled, and/or one that won't run at the full Athlon bus speed.
Definitely not true for Athlons and Durons, the cores on the lower cache variants are physically smaller than the larger cache variants, proving that some transistors are actually gone.
I look forward to the day when I can have good netsex with an emo Internet girl without the resultant stalking, self-mutilation, and ritual murder. So lonely.
If the game had been made Xbox Live Enabled like all games will for the new system, it could have been patched through Live and this wouldn't be a problem.
CPUs are INSANELY cheap to manufacture, almost all of their price comes from the need to recoup on R&D and fab construction costs. It would be very easy for a manufacturer to sell them at a steeply discounted price in order for the publicity that being used in the Xbox2 will bring. HD-DVD drives were probably much more expensive in an actual dollars-per-unit way.
Again, RTFA. They describe the noise the system makes in the conclusion, and offer information on how to possibly reduce or control it. Also, how the heck can you expect them to possibly quantify how loud the system is? dBa meters that are in any way accurate are NOT cheap or easy to come by, not to mention that a dBa reading depends on how far you are from the system, where you're measuring from in relation to it, etc. There's simply now way to make a quantifiable measurement of the loudness of a system that's going to mean anything to anyone outside of a laboratory setting.
Intel's Pentium-M line is perfectly content to run fanless. It's used in laptops as part of the Centrino platform, though Intel plans to use dual-core Pentium-Ms as their future desktop CPU direction. AMD's Athlon 64 processors, while not nearly as efficient as the Pentium-M, suck down about half the power of an equivalent Pentium 4. They're perfectly happy running with a decently engineered heatsink and quiet fan. It's really only the Intel Pentium 4, with its 150W power dissipation on high end models, that is terrible for cooling. Every generation of P4 has used comparatively high amounts of power, the Prescott core just took it to extremes.
They DID talk about noise in the conclusion. It's loud, but you can alter the speed of the fans. Most of the noise apparently comes from the compressor, though.
A problem I have with a lot of Ask Slashdots is that even though a simple straightforward question is asked, readers are not satisfied to simply either answer the question that was asked, or not post a reply, but instead insist on a either answering a different question, or berating the person who asked the question.
Simply answering someone's questions is a very poor way to help them do what they want to do. In this case, I suspect that the original questioner MEANT something like "what is the cheapest, most portable, and easiest way to do foo." By telling us what foo is, we can come up with a better solution than they had even thought of.
For example, think of someone asking how to run a long run of CAT6 accross a highway in a safe, secure, and weather-proof manner. Rather than offering them methods of running CAT6 in this manner, suggesting that they instead use wifi and directional antennae would better meet their needs.
In the case where the original questioner DOES have the best solution in mind and just needs implementation advice, explaining the situation helps us know that they HAVE done their homework.
They did. The models are from Blue Shift, the textures are all new.
with a modified version of the Tutalin core I belive
The CPU in the XboX is a 733Mhz Coppermine Celeron. The only difference between it and a regular Celeron is that it uses a 133Mhz FSB instead of 100Mhz. This doesn't necessitate a core change, just a different multiplier, which is set when the core is attached to the organic substrate that carries the pins.
But why is the Mac less popular? It's more expensive and less open than Wintel. This is what killed the platform. My argument is that the market picks the product that best fulfills its needs in every case.
Yes, for the market sectors where it's dominant. For servers, *NIX variants are superior, hence why they're so popular. For the average desktop user, Linux still isn't as good as Windows. It's not as easy to use or configure, and the applications still aren't there. Acknowledging this fact and working to close the gaps is how we'll catapault Linux into the mainstream, and several distros are working on this right now.
Betamax was the inferior technology. Sure it had higher image quality, but it didn't have sufficient playtime to hold feature length films, and it was significantly more expensive. By the time the playtime problem was resolved, VHS was already dominant, and the price difference was even more substantial.
Remember, the superior technology always wins. If a technology that appears to be superior loses, then you just need to think harder about what was wrong with it, or what was right with the competition.
I applaud your complete misunderstanding of the situation. A close reading of my post will note that I supported the banning of people the OP doesn't want on his forum. Attempting to get their ISP to ban their accounts is, on the other hand, unacceptable. Surely even you can see the difference between "I'm not going to let you say that on my forums, go away," and "You can't say that! I'm going to call $bigentity and get you in trouble!" In the future, I suggest you look up the definitions of words before you quibble about their use. It will help you keep your foot out of your mouth. YHT. YHL. HAND.
Speech is not a hate crime. Hate speech, while repugnant, is one of the fundamental rights that every human being enjoys. If the OP wants to ban these people from HIS forums, he is completely within his rights. Trying to get them banned from their ISP is acting like some petulant child crying home to mommy after a playground slight.
Do you honestly feel that it's ever acceptable to censor someone in that manner? Why stop there, why not send abuse complaints every time someone flames you on a newsgroup? Or every time someone expresses an opinion you don't agree with? Banning them from YOUR website/forum is one thing, and is your prerogative. Trying to get people's accounts terminated at their ISP is another entirely. Repeat after me: "I do not like what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."
Great job getting the word out on that auction! (I am protected)
You're on crack if you think the average PC user could figure out The GIMP well enough to be effective with it. The GIMP is the perfect example of the so-called myths of Linux and open source software: difficult installation and difficult operation. Have you ever tried having multiple GTK-based applications installed in Windows? You're faced with having a different GTK version installed for each application. God forbid you try to use the latest version for everything, The GIMP won't even let you TRY to install it unless it detects EXACTLY the version of GTK it expects, need GTK-$blah-b and have GTK-$blah-c? Sucks to be you. Once you get The GIMP running, you're faced with a confoundingly huge number of mouseclicks on tiny, tooltip-less buttons to perform even a task as simple as opening a file or resizing an image.
You should know that arguing that price justifies the poor quality of The GIMP is a cop out. You can use Free Software to build a server that will operate much better than one based on thousands of dollars worth of software, and that requires even less administration. Why can't we get a free graphics suite that is at least ADEQUATE? Just because it's the only alternative doesn't make it well designed software. Go take a look at OpenOffice.org for an example of a free alternative to hugely expensive and complex commercial software that manages to actually be functional for an end user.
Amazing. Yet I use it all the time. Even on Windows. I will agree that it can be daunting - my daughter took a bit to warm up to it. Definate room for improvement. Hardly "worthless".
Please. The GIMP is powerful software hampered by a user interface that could hardly be worse if it was designed with the specific goal of confounding the user. Look at the filesystem navigation provided by GTK in the Open dialog, for example. It requires knowledge of relative pathing to even navigate upwards through the directory tree! There's no way to change the sort order of folders or filenames, or even view data other than the name. Compare this to the Open dialog provided by Notepad in Windows XP. It's a useability dream, powerful but also simple enough for new users to understand. Why the heck can't The GIMP act like this? Oh yeah, GTK. Remember, Photoshop is so popular not just because it's powerful, but because it's also well designed and intuitive.
And yes, while Qt is pretty nifty, it's not too common. And you seem to miss my point about consistency. Consistency is good, but as long as each application has a decent UI, inconsistency is only a minor annoyance. The use of terrible graphics toolkits like GTK, however, is what is going to keep Linux and Open Source apps out of the mainstream unless people get wise to the fact that an good user interface is a NECESSITY, not an extravagance.
GIMP is a fine replacement for Microsoft Photo Editor. The interface may not be as nice but it's a lot more capable. When a majority of home users begin migrating to Linux and corporations follow suit then Adobe will probably be more than happy to add a sweet front-end to GIMP.
GIMP is completely worthless for the end user. When you say that the interface "may not be as nice," what you mean is that the interface is so awful as to prevent anyone but the most technically minded and persistent from getting the software to do anything AT ALL. This stems primarily from the fact that GIMP uses (and indeed CAUSED) GTK.
GTK is the single largest barrier between cross-platform open source application and the end user. Developers seem to like it well enough that there are no commonly used alternatives, while it's poor enough to prevent people from actually using the software. Honestly, if we EVER expect Linux and open source applications to make it in userspace, we MUST develop a graphical toolkit that is consistent accross all applications and the OS GUI. If GTK is that toolkit, we might as well write Linux off right now. For all of its shortcomings, the Windows graphical system is EXCELLENT for consistency between the OS and all applications that use the native widgets. We need to emulate this sort of functionality.
ATI's drivers include OpenGL, Microsoft's do not. When you install a graphics card in Windows XP, the drivers it come with offer support for DirectX ONLY, as this is all Microsoft is willing to bundle with the OS. In order to get OpenGL support, you need to install the drivers from the manufacturer. Of course, you should be doing this for every piece of hardware in the system for optimal performance and stability.