I have a KT-7 and KT-7a RAID boards and they're incredibly sensitive to RAM, especially running memory interleave or any other BIOS speed option. Additional major factors: BIOS firmware versions and PCI card placement (the board shares slot IRQs with some of the embedded devices). Work out the details though and they're very solid. From the KT-7 now doing doing duty as a FreeBSD server:
You won't know that without measuring. Tests I've done on some on-board audio solutions showed signal to noise levels close to the theoretical minimum for 16 bit sound. A cheap CD player might not be any better than a good sound card.
As a full time radio engineer, I agree. We run dozens of workstations as newsroom audio editors and as machines are replaced are migrating to on-board audio, mostly Realtek's ACL650. It's cheaper and avoids Creative's nasty drivers (though I haven't tried an Audigy 2.) Our in-house measurements also show the Realtek on an Asus board performs much better than Extremetech's results, probably because ET's measurements are limited by the output tube and we (properly) short unused inputs before measuring.
Are you sure it was the Patriot Act behind the call? This sounds more like the "Know Your Customer" policy implemented during the Clinton presidency and covered on Slashdot in depth. It was passed as part of the War on Drugs to combat the last 'crisis threat to the American way of life'.
...which also meant that many legislators didn't read or understand the entire bill.
My recollection is that none of them read it. The Act wasn't distributed prior to the vote. That is passed with one (?) dissention says worlds about those who voted yes, none of it complimentary. They've gone on to do nothing about it for two years, only now, when the public is starting to realize just how little threat there really was and how much damage the Act has done to civil liberties, do these same "representatives" find the time to look through what they passed?
They voted based on polls, they're 'reconsidering' based on polls. Hindsight and principle are not factors.
Nothing personal meant, but seeing a two-word post of the difference between the concepts 'Austria' and 'Australia' modded +5 Informative scares the hell out of me.
Unless Lexus are falling from the sky into your yard the analogy doesn't make sense.
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My brother told me the same thing for years about the techo-mega-corp where he works. He couldn't aquiesce, it just wasn't in him, so he always worked hard and pulled company projects out of the fire time and again, isolated and often abused while his politically-savy peers reaped the benefits of advancement, approval and stock options. It was this way for almost twenty years, that is until the cutbacks came. When that happened it was the game players who were let go, at home unemployed and unemployable, complaining how they got screwed and life owes them a living, while my brother is fast moving up the Nortel ladder doing what he always did.
Competency is the best job guarantee you could possibly have. It may not always pay off immediately, but over the long haul it will keep you working.
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That has to be about the most trite thing I've read in all my life, unless it was meant as irony. Reducing the notion of an idea's value to fashion (Adam Smith is sooooo yesterday) is scarier than any Manifesto I've read.
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Actually, no. Twenty years in the labour force and I've never heard of an executive getting paid overtime. Working it, plenty. Compensated directly, never.
I think we should take more effort to educate more computer user than to blame microsoft everytime.
Not requiring special training is the end goal of Microsoft's OS. Pass the 'Mom Test', can 'gramma use it?', are refrains heard constantly on this forum. Are we now switching to 'RTFClippy' when Mom and Gramma click the wrong thing?
There really isn't an excuse to get nailed by this even for Windoze users for the most part, "executable file attachment from somebody I don't know" =! CLICK HERE.
Wrong for two reasons. First, many of these trojans propagate if you use one of Outlook's features, the preview pane. MS does it for you automagically, without user intervention. Just as importantly, that's the kind of user Microsoft targets. An OS which hides all the nuts and bolts, targets and trains neophyte users, but demands they know enough not to trip over the dangers to which its automatic features exposes them, is irrational and doesn't work. Sobig is today's proof of that.
And the next virus will contain auto-triggering links to executables on rooted boxes. The problem isn't with e-mail, it's with Microsoft's implementation. Make them legally liable again and watch how quickly this gets fixed.
I don't see anything here specific to OSS. Commercial software development undoubtedly suffers from the same maladies, except in that case disagreement doesn't generate innovation because forks aren't possible.
I can't begin to imagine the "personality chemistry" involved working with Steve Balmer or Larry Ellison. From what I've read of his writings, I'd work with Daniel Robbins any day.
Two reasons. The space and bandwidth savings of MP3 encoding are quickly becoming irrelevant. Arguing the audibility of MP3 encoding is a philisophical excercise when the process itself is unneccessary. (BTW, here's a story from the early days of the codec's design. After thousands of hours of scientific listening tests and algorithm tweaking, a demostration CD of the final result was sent to an official of one of the standards societies (as I recall.) He heard a previously undetected whislte tone in the music within minutes of listening that had slipped past all the previous tests.)
The second reason is MP3's are a 'fragile' format. Few people realize that the encoding process generates huge amounts of distrortion and noise , the magic is deftly hiding it beneath the remaining audio. Mpeg achieves it's high compression ratio by optimizing the 'hiding'. However, it only worlks under lab conditions. Compress or equalize the encoded audio afterwards and all bets are off, the artifacts risk becoming audible again.
Frame it as an ego thing if you want, but I see no reason to settle for fragile format that only saves storage space, the cheapest computer resource imaginable.
1. What the HELL were you protesters thinking by putting your arms around this guy and turning it into a photo-op for him?
I got to thinking afterwards what a masterful stroke SCO pulled by joining the protestors. Entering the fray 'in the spirit of fun', and getting the opposite side to join in, including at one point convincing one of the protestors to carry pro-SCO signs, reduced the anti-SCO position to 'all in fun' as well. Not to be taken seriously. You can bet though, the message the SCO signs carried - linux = communism, GPL = theft, OSS = Kazaa - resonated with a few less-informed people.
Pretending to extend the hand of friendship, SCO completely obliterated the anti-SCO message. Slick.
In an ideal world: yes. In the one where you and I live, where corporations buy legislation that is patently anti-society and against the very ideals that defined the birth of your nation (copyright didn't fit the original framework and was meant as a concession, limited to 17 years), then no. Harnessing the power of a government formerly by and for the people to enforce those laws is a further perversity. BTW, corporations don't vote. Yet.
Robocop. The world depicted in that movie is scarily prescient. Massive privitization of government services (law enformcement in the movie, prisons in the real world), government sell-out of citizens to the highest corporate bidder, crushingly inane TV considered uproariously entertaining ("I'd pay a dollar for that!" vs. 'reality' TV). Next up, Army Corporation and Navy Ltd.
I owe the Slashdot crowd an apology. Seeing that type of behaviour here, I thought it was a thousands high schoolers bashing away at a thousand library computers on their first, euphoric Internet high. But damn, professional adults stoop to this kind of bigoted, ad hominem baiting? Communism and Iraq? And France? Man, that's unbelievably depressing. All I can hope is potential future employers of these people see those signs before SCO does it's inevitable endo.
Oh bullshit, being witness to a crime in process has legal ramifications. Granted, no one will know that you saw and didn't report it, but saying it "it's none of your business", especially when it's his traffic being hijacked, is just incorrect.
It's all part of the shift away from 'public servants'. One look at the MP5's, black kevlar, full face shields and battering-ram vehicles becoming popular with law enforcement is the first clue. Recall the famous picture of the police 'rescuing' Eliane Gonzales under Reno's command to better grasp the direction goverment's pushing them towards.
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amd700# uptime 7:28PM up 23 days, 23:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
It was shut down to rewire the rack. It's never gone down on its own. (Yeah, I know. Not the most strenuous load.)
Turn off the devices you don't want in the BIOS. Best of both worlds.
You won't know that without measuring. Tests I've done on some on-board audio solutions showed signal to noise levels close to the theoretical minimum for 16 bit sound. A cheap CD player might not be any better than a good sound card.
As a full time radio engineer, I agree. We run dozens of workstations as newsroom audio editors and as machines are replaced are migrating to on-board audio, mostly Realtek's ACL650. It's cheaper and avoids Creative's nasty drivers (though I haven't tried an Audigy 2.) Our in-house measurements also show the Realtek on an Asus board performs much better than Extremetech's results, probably because ET's measurements are limited by the output tube and we (properly) short unused inputs before measuring.
Are you sure it was the Patriot Act behind the call? This sounds more like the "Know Your Customer" policy implemented during the Clinton presidency and covered on Slashdot in depth. It was passed as part of the War on Drugs to combat the last 'crisis threat to the American way of life'.
My recollection is that none of them read it. The Act wasn't distributed prior to the vote. That is passed with one (?) dissention says worlds about those who voted yes, none of it complimentary. They've gone on to do nothing about it for two years, only now, when the public is starting to realize just how little threat there really was and how much damage the Act has done to civil liberties, do these same "representatives" find the time to look through what they passed?
They voted based on polls, they're 'reconsidering' based on polls. Hindsight and principle are not factors.
Nothing personal meant, but seeing a two-word post of the difference between the concepts 'Austria' and 'Australia' modded +5 Informative scares the hell out of me.
Unless Lexus are falling from the sky into your yard the analogy doesn't make sense.
Competency is the best job guarantee you could possibly have. It may not always pay off immediately, but over the long haul it will keep you working.
That has to be about the most trite thing I've read in all my life, unless it was meant as irony. Reducing the notion of an idea's value to fashion (Adam Smith is sooooo yesterday) is scarier than any Manifesto I've read.
Actually, no. Twenty years in the labour force and I've never heard of an executive getting paid overtime. Working it, plenty. Compensated directly, never.
Not requiring special training is the end goal of Microsoft's OS. Pass the 'Mom Test', can 'gramma use it?', are refrains heard constantly on this forum. Are we now switching to 'RTFClippy' when Mom and Gramma click the wrong thing?
Wrong for two reasons. First, many of these trojans propagate if you use one of Outlook's features, the preview pane. MS does it for you automagically, without user intervention. Just as importantly, that's the kind of user Microsoft targets. An OS which hides all the nuts and bolts, targets and trains neophyte users, but demands they know enough not to trip over the dangers to which its automatic features exposes them, is irrational and doesn't work. Sobig is today's proof of that.
XP has a zip utility built-in. Is it still necessary to manually unzip in XP?
And the next virus will contain auto-triggering links to executables on rooted boxes. The problem isn't with e-mail, it's with Microsoft's implementation. Make them legally liable again and watch how quickly this gets fixed.
I can't begin to imagine the "personality chemistry" involved working with Steve Balmer or Larry Ellison. From what I've read of his writings, I'd work with Daniel Robbins any day.
The second reason is MP3's are a 'fragile' format. Few people realize that the encoding process generates huge amounts of distrortion and noise , the magic is deftly hiding it beneath the remaining audio. Mpeg achieves it's high compression ratio by optimizing the 'hiding'. However, it only worlks under lab conditions. Compress or equalize the encoded audio afterwards and all bets are off, the artifacts risk becoming audible again.
Frame it as an ego thing if you want, but I see no reason to settle for fragile format that only saves storage space, the cheapest computer resource imaginable.
Which, of course, proves being drunk and typing with your feet doesn't work.
I got to thinking afterwards what a masterful stroke SCO pulled by joining the protestors. Entering the fray 'in the spirit of fun', and getting the opposite side to join in, including at one point convincing one of the protestors to carry pro-SCO signs, reduced the anti-SCO position to 'all in fun' as well. Not to be taken seriously. You can bet though, the message the SCO signs carried - linux = communism, GPL = theft, OSS = Kazaa - resonated with a few less-informed people.
Pretending to extend the hand of friendship, SCO completely obliterated the anti-SCO message. Slick.
In an ideal world: yes. In the one where you and I live, where corporations buy legislation that is patently anti-society and against the very ideals that defined the birth of your nation (copyright didn't fit the original framework and was meant as a concession, limited to 17 years), then no. Harnessing the power of a government formerly by and for the people to enforce those laws is a further perversity. BTW, corporations don't vote. Yet.
Robocop. The world depicted in that movie is scarily prescient. Massive privitization of government services (law enformcement in the movie, prisons in the real world), government sell-out of citizens to the highest corporate bidder, crushingly inane TV considered uproariously entertaining ("I'd pay a dollar for that!" vs. 'reality' TV). Next up, Army Corporation and Navy Ltd.
I owe the Slashdot crowd an apology. Seeing that type of behaviour here, I thought it was a thousands high schoolers bashing away at a thousand library computers on their first, euphoric Internet high. But damn, professional adults stoop to this kind of bigoted, ad hominem baiting? Communism and Iraq? And France? Man, that's unbelievably depressing. All I can hope is potential future employers of these people see those signs before SCO does it's inevitable endo.
Oh bullshit, being witness to a crime in process has legal ramifications. Granted, no one will know that you saw and didn't report it, but saying it "it's none of your business", especially when it's his traffic being hijacked, is just incorrect.
It's all part of the shift away from 'public servants'. One look at the MP5's, black kevlar, full face shields and battering-ram vehicles becoming popular with law enforcement is the first clue. Recall the famous picture of the police 'rescuing' Eliane Gonzales under Reno's command to better grasp the direction goverment's pushing them towards.
Ah irony, the idiot's greatest hurdle after Grade Three. It was a comment on the 'GPL-Lover' term skool-boya.