Sure, benchmarking a single app on an SMP system often makes little to no performance difference, but SMP is fantastic if you are a heavy multitasker and work with several apps at once.
My first SMP system was a dual Pentium 133Mhz box. After that I never went back to a single proc... until the Pentium 4 came out. It's disappointing that this chip does not support SMP (except for the Xeon line). P4 hyperthreading helped bring back some SMP goodness, but it's still not as good as two real chips.
The built-in firewall is still a "good thing" for corporate desktops. It isn't a nightmare for any IT shop that has a clue, because it is fully administerable using Group Policy.
Those white servers in the first pic are Dell PowerEdge 4100s if I'm not mistaken. Funny how the square Dell logo was removed and it says they were donated by Intel.
Drivers and applications don't crash operating systems.
Applications don't crash Windows, but drivers certainly can. Drivers run at the privileged ring-0 (just like the kernel) and can do anything they want. Linux is the same as Windows in this regard.
I've sometimes done that exact thing... but I stopped. With SpamAssassin and RBL checking, I get very little spam nowadays anyway. Plus I'm not sure what you can really do if you find out "BobsComputers" gave out your info. Is it really worth your time pursuing companies that gave away your email address?
I fully agree, but it's still better to enable it than NOT enable it. And it should be used with other security methods like MAC filtering and disabling SSID broadcasts. Using all three is your best bet for consumer gear. If you want real security you can go with Cisco equipment, but who has the $$$ for that at home?
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Really? From the article:
"The dual-core Athlon 64 runs at a clock-speed of 2.4 GHz ... "
2.4GHz is the speed of an Athlon 64 3400+ processor. I don't see a drop in clock speed here...
Sure, benchmarking a single app on an SMP system often makes little to no performance difference, but SMP is fantastic if you are a heavy multitasker and work with several apps at once.
My first SMP system was a dual Pentium 133Mhz box. After that I never went back to a single proc... until the Pentium 4 came out. It's disappointing that this chip does not support SMP (except for the Xeon line). P4 hyperthreading helped bring back some SMP goodness, but it's still not as good as two real chips.
Personally I can't wait for dual core CPUs!
The built-in firewall is still a "good thing" for corporate desktops. It isn't a nightmare for any IT shop that has a clue, because it is fully administerable using Group Policy.
ROFL...that's farking hilarious!
And I'm a real nerd so I don't watch NFL. That's like sports or something.
Can someone post this in a format that doesn't suck ass?
They're always hiring. And if you screw up a burger, it only costs the company about $0.17.
Mozilla eating the MSN butterfly.
I'd rather have it eating the IE icon, but this is close enough.
hey sexy
Those white servers in the first pic are Dell PowerEdge 4100s if I'm not mistaken. Funny how the square Dell logo was removed and it says they were donated by Intel.
I have a 5MB MFM drive in my garage.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
The difference between SP6 and SP6a are minimal. SP6a only fixed an obscure problem with Lotus Notes. SP7 doesn't exist.
Win2K SP3 is fine, yes, but so is SP4.
WinXP SP2 I have tried and it hasn't broken any apps that I use.
Almost without fail the even numbered SP's have broken features ...
Let's test your theory... NT4 SP6: works great. Win2K SP4: works great. XP SP2: not out yet.
I don't know what you base your inverse Star Trek odd/even rule on, but it's not the same thing I've experienced with service packs.
and their $86M payment to SCO is just to cover the $699/each licensing fee.
What I want to know is when 2.0.40 will be released. rc6 has been out for over 18 months...
Drivers and applications don't crash operating systems.
Applications don't crash Windows, but drivers certainly can. Drivers run at the privileged ring-0 (just like the kernel) and can do anything they want. Linux is the same as Windows in this regard.
Does this mean MS will finally put newsgroup support in the full Outlook product? About freakin' time.
...I would have to agree.
Agreed. IMO Antec makes some of the best power supplies. I use several Antec 330W ones at work in P4 systems.
PC Power and Cooling is very good, but their supplies are more expensive than Antec and are usually noisier.
LOL... no, not quite a G3 proc. It doesn't need much because it has a dedicated MPEG encoder/decoder.
/proc/cpuinfo
# cat
processor : 0
cpu : IBM 403GCX
clock : 54MHz
revision : 20.1
bogomips : 53.86
machine : Teleworld Customer Device
I find this quite interesting since my TiVos are running Linux 2.1.24. I thought SCO only had a problem with 2.4+?
# uname -a
Linux (none) 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 #8 Wed May 8 15:38:27 PDT 2002 ppc unknown
I couldn't agree more... posting a VNC link? What the hell?
I've sometimes done that exact thing... but I stopped. With SpamAssassin and RBL checking, I get very little spam nowadays anyway. Plus I'm not sure what you can really do if you find out "BobsComputers" gave out your info. Is it really worth your time pursuing companies that gave away your email address?
I fully agree, but it's still better to enable it than NOT enable it. And it should be used with other security methods like MAC filtering and disabling SSID broadcasts. Using all three is your best bet for consumer gear. If you want real security you can go with Cisco equipment, but who has the $$$ for that at home?