Actually, that's 10 MHz from spec. The 2400s run at 2.0 GHz on a 266 MHz FSB, with the Thoroughbred core. The 2500s are the lowest-end Barton cores, and they run at 1.833 GHz on a 333 MHz FSB. A Barton core running at 2.0 GHz can outperform a Thoroughbred core at 2.0 GHz--that's why the Thoroughbred 2.0 GHz is the 2400+ and the Barton 2.07 GHz is the 2800+ (I suspect a 2.0 GHz Barton would be a 2700+, but the only 2700+ chips I can find are Thoroughbred).
As a side note, my 2500+ Barton (overclocked) also runs 3 degrees Celsius cooler than my sister's 2400+ Thoroughbred (not overclocked) using the same copper heatsink and the same mobo, RAM, etc. to minimize variables.
I feel your pain with running wires. You should see my basement. It's a disaster from all my computer-related wiring. My parents aren't too thrilled, but they don't say much because they know if I don't have my network, I'll become a *very* unhappy camper.
My "high-tech" home should include broadband internet as the first, most important thing. Next would be a KVM switch thad did something unusual--it would come with wireless adapters for the PCs that draw their transmitting power from the USB so that I don't have to have a quarter mile of KVM cabling to have all my PCs hooked up to the switch. Third would be a plasma TV in the living room and each of the two bedrooms. A digital satellite system with a builtin DVR would be nice, too. And, hell, while we're at it, a 10-disc DVD changer (for watching all three Matrix movies and the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings movies all in one long session). And forget the concept of the remote controls we have now--instead, I want touchscreen panels embedded in the arms of my couch and chairs, ala Star Trek: The Next Generation. I want a voice recognition system, too, so that I don't have to do everything by hand. And finally, two fiber and two cat5e drops one stud away from each electrical drop, in every room except the bathroom (WiFi for there:) ).
Wrong. The Athlon XP 2500+ runs at 1.833 GHz, or 1833 MHz. I have the retail packaging of the chip to prove it. I currently have it overclocked to 2051.662 MHz (according to/proc/cpuinfo) on a Shuttle AK39N with 1 gig of Kingston DDR333. This was accomplished by adjusting the host clock frequency setting in the BIOS setup.
The overclockability of the chip is also motherboard and possibly RAM dependent as well. For example, if you buy a motherboard that doesn't have the 400 MHz FSB capability, or if you buy PC2700 (DDR333) instead of PC3200 (DDR400), forget about maximum overclocking--you have to experiment to find the happy mid point that everything can deal with. Trust me, I speak from experience.
We must not be in the "most" part then because I don't have pppd or PPPoE support in my kernel, only dhcpcd on my linux machine and I can pulg in the cat5 cable from the modem and dhcp gets an address and I can access the internet with no hassle.
I live in Jefferson County, Ohio (USA). In my particular area, SBC is the provider for phone and DSL services, and Comcast (or "CommieCrap" as it's so hatefully known here) is the cable provider. SBC has various prices for DSL, but currently I could get 384k DSL for $27/month for 12 months by signing a contract. The representatives on the phone tell me I can keep renewing this contract indefinitely (if you don't renew, the price jumps to $40/month). CommieCrap wants $45/month for 3.0Mbps downstream, 128kbps upstream cable IF you're a cable TV subscriber. If you're not a CATV subscriber, they want $55/month. That includes $3/month modem rental. Friends and neighbors tell me the CommieCrap cable internet is prone to periods of up to 2 hours without service as much as 3 days a week in the area, too.
So true. The Mario Bros. games were a perfect simplicity vs. challenging example. When I first received my NES, I received a bunch of games with it, one of which was the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo cartridge. It took me a couple of months to get past world 1-2 (I was 6 or 7 at the time), but it was challenging and fun, even though it did frustrate me that I kept dying.
Marble Madness was just plain fun. I could never find anyone that wanted to play against me though. I'd love to find that for the GameBoy, since my NES has long since bit the dust.
One title that you haven't mentioned that fits the bill is Pinball Quest. I have it for the NES. It had three different pinball tables that could be played by as many as 4 players at once using just one or two controllers, and it had an "RPG" mode where you played a pinball trying to rescue his princess. I have to admit I spent more time playing that game than I did playing all the incarnations of SMB for the NES.
Funny thing is that what we call simplicity now was far, far more advanced back then. Makes me wish there was an adapter I could get for my GameBoy Advance that would let me play my NES games in single player (or dual-player alternating on those games like that) on my GBA. I miss the classics like Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Super Mario Bros. (1, 2, and 3), Pinball Quest, etc. Oh, simplicity, I miss thee so...
I've owned two Logitech optical mice that are the same model (I can't remember the model offhand, but it's a $30 model) and used at least three others similar to it. Both of the ones I've owned have an extremely soft wheel click--in fact, I can barely feel the click at all--and the others are only marginally better. Some of Compaq's rebadged Logitechs are even worse, which is something I thought utterly impossible, although I have found one that had a proper feel to it. It was the mouse that came with my mother's Compaq Presario 5400US.
Humor me and make it a point to stop by the mouse display in your local Circuit City, CompUSA, etc. next time you go and find a MS Trackball Optical. Try its wheel out. I haven't found a person yet that doesn't prefer the feel of that wheel to any other brand's.
I use a Microsoft Trackball Optical (I hate M$, but I have to admit they make damn nice keyboards and mice). Actually I have 4 of them, one on each of my PCs. They provide a consistent feel on the scroll wheel, and the wheel is sufficiently large to pose as a 3rd button for me. There are also two extra buttons that are slim and long on the outside of the mouse--these are excellent for remapping things to the mouse. And they are very difficult to hit by accident, but not difficult to click on purpose.
On the other hand, I've found that the Logitech scroll wheels are far too soft and sometimes register as many as five scroll events when it should register only one. I will, however, admit that I haven't yet tried the model you speak of.
For regular mice, I've found the Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical the ideal mouse--its scroll wheel has an identical feel to the four Trackball Opticals that I have. It is a basic mouse with just two buttons and the scroll wheel that can act as a middle button. It's the ONLY non-trackball mouse I've ever found that fits my hand properly--all others are too small.
My post's parent was referring to the automatic updates, which are not part of any Windows 98/98SE installation I've ever seen. If the automatic updates ability is in 98SE, it's been backported since IE6SP1 was introduced.
Yes, it was introduced in the piece of crap stopgap known as Windows ME. Then XP came out with it, then SP3 added that feature to Win2k.
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Way to generalize. And settings spread out in Windows? I think not. 99.9% of anything you need to change can be accessed through the Control Panels or a simple file search for something to edit.
So, tell me where do I edit my database connections? And where do I turn off "personalized menus?" Where do I change my machine/network name? Where do I change my ipaddress/dns? Everyone of those are in different places.
All of those are in the Control Panel, if you care to pay attention. "Taskbar and Start Menu" is the proper applet in CP for turning off personalized menus, "Network and Dial-up Connections" or "Network" (depending on your Windows version) is the proper place to change your networking configuration, and, again depending on your windows version, the "System" or "Network" applets provide the ability to change your machine/network name.
Don't let your lack of knowledge let you assume that the way you know is the only way to do something. Even Windows provides multiple ways to configure things--some are just prettier/easier/quicker than others.
You have to be careful of that, though. I run Windows XP (hey, it was free, MSDN Academic Alliance has saved me about $3000 for M$ software), with all the latest patches installed. That includes Windows Media Player 9. When I installed the Nimo Codec Pack, WMP would crash on every file I tried to play, even MP3s and WMVs. After I uninstalled that codec pack, everything worked properly again.
You may be able to avoid the problem by using other media players, but I've yet to find a player for windows that plays non-DVD video properly in fullscreen mode while still playing smoothly.
There are actually a lot more rules than that. It usually takes a fan a full racing season to learn all the important ones. You already pointed out the major rules, but then there are templates that a car must match exactly with extremely small tolerances (less than 1/8 inch usually), there are car height requirements, and the list goes on. And on pit road there are 19 different things you can do wrong that will result in various penalties.
Unfortunately, every NASCAR game I've ever played doesn't take many of these things into account because the computer controls the car for you when you're on pit road. Granted, it has been a while since I played any racing games, but I doubt that things have changed much aside from prettier graphics and better simulated physics.
I find it absolutely amazing, though, that the games are good enough now that drivers can use them to orient themselves with the tracks they'll be racing at ahead of time. But if it works, hey, go for it.
Well, what's the point of football, soccer, baseball, basketball, etc? The same arguments can be made against them:
Football is basically a bunch of musclebound men running around on a grass field beating the hell out of each other chasing a brown oval-shaped "ball".
Baseball is people running in circles on a grass and dirt field hitting and chasing a white ball with red stitches in it.
Basketball is a bunch of people running back and forth on a wood floor chasing an orange ball.
Soccer is a bunch of people running back and forth on a grass field chasing a white and black ball.
"Hillbilly bumpercars" is an outdated view. NASCAR is a bunch of teams spending at least $200,000 per week to put a car on the track. Then there's the seven crew members allowed over the wall on pit road, the crew chief that makes the decisions, the spotters trying to keep the drivers out of accidents, etc. And half the time if you hit someone you're dragged into the "Principal's Office," a trailer where the NASCAR brass dole out monetary and championship point penalties for the stupidest things (get pissed off and say "Fuck off!" or "That dirty son of a bitch!" on the radio? $5,000 fine.)
Racing is a lot of work, and it's the fastest growing sport in the US. It's no more pointless or stupid than any of these other sports that people get so wrapped up in. So NASCAR drivers drive 500 miles and get nowhere. Players in other sports run around the whole game and never get anywhere. No real differences there. The biggest difference is with NASCAR you have 1 winner and 42 losers each race, but in other sports you have 1 winner and 1 loser each game
That's a huge difference in line count between the two versions. If XL is that good a language, it may be worth learning. Now maybe I can get that 1400-line C++ program I've been working on for a year to be less than 1000 lines!
2048x1536@24 or 32 bpp in 2D is possible on Radeons with no problems. In fact, ATI claims that 2048x1536@32bpp is maintainable in 3D with decent FPS rates, although most of their cards currently support 2048x1536 resolution at 60Hz (not like that bothers me, though; refresh rates higher than 65 Hz hurt my eyes). IIRC, Sony's 22-inch Trinitron monitors handle that resolution splendidly. I, personally, can't wait for 2048x1536 LCD displays!
for nanotech to become reality. That way we can become like the Borg with those nanoprobe things. You know, "You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." Then Gene Roddenberry and his writers will have had a semi-accurate prediction of the future.
If you're running linux, why should you care whether or not ATI's binary drivers suck? Use the "radeon" driver from XFree86. The Gatos project also provides open-source drivers for ATI cards.
I have not personally tried the Gatos project's drivers, but I find the XFree86 "radeon" driver to be rock-solid.
Decent Radeons are getting cheap too. Just a couple weeks ago I purchased a 64MB DDR AGP4x/2x Radeon 7000 with TV out and both VGA and DVI outputs for $60, before the $30 mail-in rebate from TigerDirect.
I should note I don't care about 3D performance as I'm not a gamer, so YMMV if you're going for 3D. Also, people bitch and moan about how horrid ATI's Windows drivers are, but in five years of owning nothing but ATI video cards I haven't had a minute's trouble with any of them. Nvidia, on the other hand...their drivers are so bad even in the Windows area that half the Windows games I used to play don't even display properly (parts of characters or objects missing, less than 30 fps, etc).
No, the management idiots think that their antiquated SysV code can still make them enough money that they could still survive no matter how badly they're bleeding elsewhere. I think that's been made quite clear over the course of this disaster.
I think the villian's name is a rather interesting choice. After all, Blitzkrieg ("lightning war" if memory serves) was the name given to the German air force's battle tactics--fly over, strike fast and hard to eliminate all the targets, and fly out. So is the supervillian supposed to be lightning-fast too?
And the best thing about the GBA is that you can still drop in your decade-old original GB cartridges and play them on the latest and greatest in portable gaming hardware. Even GB Color and Super GB cartridges work. You really don't find this kind of backward compatibility anywere else in the gaming world, which to me is quite impressive.
Now if someone would just come up with a way for me to play my NES games on a GBA I'd go out and buy myself another GBA and buy the family a couple as well. Some of those games STILL have excellent replay value...the original "Legend of Zelda" and "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" come to mind, along with countless others that are in a bunch of anti-static bags collecting dust in my closet.
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As a side note, my 2500+ Barton (overclocked) also runs 3 degrees Celsius cooler than my sister's 2400+ Thoroughbred (not overclocked) using the same copper heatsink and the same mobo, RAM, etc. to minimize variables.
My "high-tech" home should include broadband internet as the first, most important thing. Next would be a KVM switch thad did something unusual--it would come with wireless adapters for the PCs that draw their transmitting power from the USB so that I don't have to have a quarter mile of KVM cabling to have all my PCs hooked up to the switch. Third would be a plasma TV in the living room and each of the two bedrooms. A digital satellite system with a builtin DVR would be nice, too. And, hell, while we're at it, a 10-disc DVD changer (for watching all three Matrix movies and the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings movies all in one long session). And forget the concept of the remote controls we have now--instead, I want touchscreen panels embedded in the arms of my couch and chairs, ala Star Trek: The Next Generation. I want a voice recognition system, too, so that I don't have to do everything by hand. And finally, two fiber and two cat5e drops one stud away from each electrical drop, in every room except the bathroom (WiFi for there :) ).
That's MY high-tech home.
The overclockability of the chip is also motherboard and possibly RAM dependent as well. For example, if you buy a motherboard that doesn't have the 400 MHz FSB capability, or if you buy PC2700 (DDR333) instead of PC3200 (DDR400), forget about maximum overclocking--you have to experiment to find the happy mid point that everything can deal with. Trust me, I speak from experience.
We must not be in the "most" part then because I don't have pppd or PPPoE support in my kernel, only dhcpcd on my linux machine and I can pulg in the cat5 cable from the modem and dhcp gets an address and I can access the internet with no hassle.
I should also note that with the SBC DSL you also get unlimited access to SBC's dialup service for free, and they don't use PPPoE.
I live in Jefferson County, Ohio (USA). In my particular area, SBC is the provider for phone and DSL services, and Comcast (or "CommieCrap" as it's so hatefully known here) is the cable provider. SBC has various prices for DSL, but currently I could get 384k DSL for $27/month for 12 months by signing a contract. The representatives on the phone tell me I can keep renewing this contract indefinitely (if you don't renew, the price jumps to $40/month). CommieCrap wants $45/month for 3.0Mbps downstream, 128kbps upstream cable IF you're a cable TV subscriber. If you're not a CATV subscriber, they want $55/month. That includes $3/month modem rental. Friends and neighbors tell me the CommieCrap cable internet is prone to periods of up to 2 hours without service as much as 3 days a week in the area, too.
Marble Madness was just plain fun. I could never find anyone that wanted to play against me though. I'd love to find that for the GameBoy, since my NES has long since bit the dust.
One title that you haven't mentioned that fits the bill is Pinball Quest. I have it for the NES. It had three different pinball tables that could be played by as many as 4 players at once using just one or two controllers, and it had an "RPG" mode where you played a pinball trying to rescue his princess. I have to admit I spent more time playing that game than I did playing all the incarnations of SMB for the NES.
Funny thing is that what we call simplicity now was far, far more advanced back then. Makes me wish there was an adapter I could get for my GameBoy Advance that would let me play my NES games in single player (or dual-player alternating on those games like that) on my GBA. I miss the classics like Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Super Mario Bros. (1, 2, and 3), Pinball Quest, etc. Oh, simplicity, I miss thee so...
What's the fun in normal? We are geeks, after all.
Humor me and make it a point to stop by the mouse display in your local Circuit City, CompUSA, etc. next time you go and find a MS Trackball Optical. Try its wheel out. I haven't found a person yet that doesn't prefer the feel of that wheel to any other brand's.
On the other hand, I've found that the Logitech scroll wheels are far too soft and sometimes register as many as five scroll events when it should register only one. I will, however, admit that I haven't yet tried the model you speak of.
For regular mice, I've found the Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical the ideal mouse--its scroll wheel has an identical feel to the four Trackball Opticals that I have. It is a basic mouse with just two buttons and the scroll wheel that can act as a middle button. It's the ONLY non-trackball mouse I've ever found that fits my hand properly--all others are too small.
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My post's parent was referring to the automatic updates, which are not part of any Windows 98/98SE installation I've ever seen. If the automatic updates ability is in 98SE, it's been backported since IE6SP1 was introduced.
Yes, it was introduced in the piece of crap stopgap known as Windows ME. Then XP came out with it, then SP3 added that feature to Win2k.
Don't let your lack of knowledge let you assume that the way you know is the only way to do something. Even Windows provides multiple ways to configure things--some are just prettier/easier/quicker than others.
You may be able to avoid the problem by using other media players, but I've yet to find a player for windows that plays non-DVD video properly in fullscreen mode while still playing smoothly.
Just my $0.02
Unfortunately, every NASCAR game I've ever played doesn't take many of these things into account because the computer controls the car for you when you're on pit road. Granted, it has been a while since I played any racing games, but I doubt that things have changed much aside from prettier graphics and better simulated physics.
I find it absolutely amazing, though, that the games are good enough now that drivers can use them to orient themselves with the tracks they'll be racing at ahead of time. But if it works, hey, go for it.
- Football is basically a bunch of musclebound men running around on a grass field beating the hell out of each other chasing a brown oval-shaped "ball".
- Baseball is people running in circles on a grass and dirt field hitting and chasing a white ball with red stitches in it.
- Basketball is a bunch of people running back and forth on a wood floor chasing an orange ball.
- Soccer is a bunch of people running back and forth on a grass field chasing a white and black ball.
"Hillbilly bumpercars" is an outdated view. NASCAR is a bunch of teams spending at least $200,000 per week to put a car on the track. Then there's the seven crew members allowed over the wall on pit road, the crew chief that makes the decisions, the spotters trying to keep the drivers out of accidents, etc. And half the time if you hit someone you're dragged into the "Principal's Office," a trailer where the NASCAR brass dole out monetary and championship point penalties for the stupidest things (get pissed off and say "Fuck off!" or "That dirty son of a bitch!" on the radio? $5,000 fine.)Racing is a lot of work, and it's the fastest growing sport in the US. It's no more pointless or stupid than any of these other sports that people get so wrapped up in. So NASCAR drivers drive 500 miles and get nowhere. Players in other sports run around the whole game and never get anywhere. No real differences there. The biggest difference is with NASCAR you have 1 winner and 42 losers each race, but in other sports you have 1 winner and 1 loser each game
Just food for thought.
That's a huge difference in line count between the two versions. If XL is that good a language, it may be worth learning. Now maybe I can get that 1400-line C++ program I've been working on for a year to be less than 1000 lines!
2048x1536@24 or 32 bpp in 2D is possible on Radeons with no problems. In fact, ATI claims that 2048x1536@32bpp is maintainable in 3D with decent FPS rates, although most of their cards currently support 2048x1536 resolution at 60Hz (not like that bothers me, though; refresh rates higher than 65 Hz hurt my eyes). IIRC, Sony's 22-inch Trinitron monitors handle that resolution splendidly. I, personally, can't wait for 2048x1536 LCD displays!
And COBOL++Script in IE 9.0 (two revisions of Windows after Longhorn) to throw in the object orientation.
for nanotech to become reality. That way we can become like the Borg with those nanoprobe things. You know, "You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." Then Gene Roddenberry and his writers will have had a semi-accurate prediction of the future.
I have not personally tried the Gatos project's drivers, but I find the XFree86 "radeon" driver to be rock-solid.
Decent Radeons are getting cheap too. Just a couple weeks ago I purchased a 64MB DDR AGP4x/2x Radeon 7000 with TV out and both VGA and DVI outputs for $60, before the $30 mail-in rebate from TigerDirect.
I should note I don't care about 3D performance as I'm not a gamer, so YMMV if you're going for 3D. Also, people bitch and moan about how horrid ATI's Windows drivers are, but in five years of owning nothing but ATI video cards I haven't had a minute's trouble with any of them. Nvidia, on the other hand...their drivers are so bad even in the Windows area that half the Windows games I used to play don't even display properly (parts of characters or objects missing, less than 30 fps, etc).
Just my $0.02, though.
I think the villian's name is a rather interesting choice. After all, Blitzkrieg ("lightning war" if memory serves) was the name given to the German air force's battle tactics--fly over, strike fast and hard to eliminate all the targets, and fly out. So is the supervillian supposed to be lightning-fast too?
No, it means they go running around groping all the female mice.
Now if someone would just come up with a way for me to play my NES games on a GBA I'd go out and buy myself another GBA and buy the family a couple as well. Some of those games STILL have excellent replay value...the original "Legend of Zelda" and "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" come to mind, along with countless others that are in a bunch of anti-static bags collecting dust in my closet.