It's not Pi day in .au
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Since.au uses the logical format of least significant to most significant, day, month, year. I think most to least is more logical, to match our base10 numbering system, but month, day, year is just not logical.
Remember the old games where you had to "waggle" the joystick to make a guy run faster? The sports games, etc.
I had one on my C64 which had a commando that needed to run, jump and use the monkey/ladder bars and quickly as possible. One day I was playing it with the CRAP joystick that came with the white C64 and the handle snapped right off the base while I was playing this game. Resorting to the other joystick of the two, I found that the handle was really well weighted so that you could just hold the base and roll it left and right quickly making the handle move really quickly side to side.
Remember the kids in the arcades pulling their school jumpers over their palm to allow rubbing across the buttons really quickly for those games?
If you're into driving games, that's cool. But if you're into driving and would like to play something unbeleivably realistic, Grand Prix Legends is second to none. This is one game where the claims of realism is true.
GPL (Grand Prix Legends), Starcraft Brood War, Falcon4, Rainbow6, Halflife and 3DS Max are the only reasons my PC is haunted by Microsoft.
If all these games (and upcoming games as good as them) are available with native Linux versions, I would not have to cope with MS.
As good as the PS2 looks, I'll always need mouse controlled games. Does it have mouse support?
Many years ago, closer to the discovery of.au by Capt. Cook, the Aboriginals of Cape York (right up the top) rather had a penchant for Chinese food. Err, rather, they had a taste for the Chinese that ran the washing business', etc amongst the gold rushes.:) Pitty they did'tn have a bottle of chiantee (?) back then.;)
But the original poster is obviously not going to use just striping. If he's getting 40G's and redundancy out of 4 20G drives, then he is obviously using RAID 0+1.
Perhaps RAID 5 is just as good or perhaps a little faster than performing a stripe of two disks plus an additional mirror of those? And perhaps having 60G instead of 40G will outweigh a minor speed difference if any.
No offense intended to the first poster. I would'nt doubt that he has written some great posts that deserved a score of 3 and some interesting ones at that.
But how did that post get a "3, interesting"?
Anyway, something I find interesting is that the guy at the link says "7) Desolder the BIOS chip from the card.", Huh? It is clearly a socketted EEPROM of sorts. Why desolder it? Is the socket covering the SMD resistor? If so, can't the plastic just be cut away more easily?
I've been soldering on and off since leaving school 12 years ago, doing it for the Navy, etc and I would'nt like to be desoldering a 32pin socket without a desoldering gun. Doing it with wick or a sucker is surely not going to be as easy as just removing the chip and cutting the plastic.
Absolutely right. Otherwise, the majority of the USA would be charged for "possession of burglary or theft tools" for owning firearms, even though most of them will never use them to rob a bank or person. Owning and using tools like L0phtcrack is not a crime, using them to commit a crime is well... commiting a crime.
I've used a Cassiopeia. It's kinda cool, but terribly buggy.
Starting out with a stable kernel is a fine start. MS just does'nt offer such a beast, after using Linux for 2 years on MANY different machines from i486DX33/8Mb to PII300/256Mb, I think I am experienced enough to say Linux is FAR more stable than anything M$ has to offer. I have only ever experienced ONE system hang, when I tried to run one HDD at -X66 and another at -X34 on the same IDE bus. I don't think anyone who has lived with both MS OS' and Linux can be blamed for thinking that the Yopy is going to be better due to its stable foundations. I really hope that they do it right, and keep Linux name out of the mud that M$ has never been able to squirm out of.
If stability, customizability:), and speed is comparable to the Linux that I know, then the Yopy should be great.
I've used Wince, it sucks worse than it's bigger brothers. For now, I'll take my Apple Message Pad any day.
That quote to me sounds like they're trying to crawl up the stock market or be prepared to do so.
Patents make a product look even better as an investment as they appear to be able to lock out the competition. When a company boasts of patents it reeks of BUY OUR STOCKS, WE'RE A GOOD BUY!
our own shit! Basically, they don't want us having access to our own digital perfect media. Crypto from storage to display! No middle man. And if there is a middle man, he is being watched! Sorry Intel, I'm not buying this shit, nor will my next CPU or chipset have Intel stamped anywhere on it. It'll be AMD/Athlon and Transmetta all the way. Rage Against The Fucking Machine!
"SMP support in Windows is way ahead as compared with Linux..."
Windows 2000? Linux distro/version?
How about a comparison of NT4.0 SMP versus Linux 2.2.9, eh?...
Although both NT and Linux serve more than twice as many dynamic pages with four CPUs as they do with one, NT in SMP mode is still just under half as fast as Linux with only one CPU.
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186-1/
So does that make the SMP in Linux 2.2.9 more than 4 times faster than NT4.0 SMP?
Then we have Linux 2.4 coming! And with Intel's support of upcoming CPU's...:)
:) Come on people, stand up, say your names, be prepared to have legit journalists to approach you in the real world. OK, I can only speak from what I have witnessed as PC/telecoms (network/PABX) support role for the Australian Stock Exchange and Sydney's Technical And Further Education Information Technology Beauro. Never an admin, to a minute extent a little admin assistance at the ASX backup/dev site changing passwords, restarting queues, etc along with my support role for about 100 developers. Basically, I watched DEC Unix and VMS servers running on Alpha's and Vax's staying up for the duration of my contracts whilst NT3.51/4.0 staff servers on DEC Alpha's and DEC PC's, falling over every couple of months. No bullshit, just a real difference in reliability between real OS' against the glossy toy.
It is not fair to say "With 16-bit audio, the best S/N ratio you can hope for is 96db" because it only applies to the conversion of 16bit samples to an analog signal. Interpolation of 16bit samples to a higher bit depth and then converted via a DAC of that bit depth will not lead to a better 20kHz sine wave, but it will lead to a better SNR.
Take a look at many high end CD players! The Yamaha CDX-1060 has an SNR of 120dB and many go higher. Ever heard of over sampling?
The maximum frequency a human can hear is a sinewave at that frequency. Any waveform other than a sinewave at that maximum frequency is made up of a sine at that base frequency plus many other higher frequency sines. Those higher frequency sines are removed by our ears and guess what else? Digital sampling used in audio recording. Low pass filters that match the best human ears have to offer. So there is no quality lost that a human could possibly perceive.
It is true that digital sampling is limited by resolutions in the time and amplitude domains being sampling frequency and sampling resoluton in bits. But analog recording is limited in frequency and by noise, added to this by the medium and then added to this again by the amplification. In the analog world, these issue compound the problem each time.
Digital audio gets a limit hit at the recording stage and then those limits stay largly unchanged though the medium and then the output stage to your ears. But thankfully for us, the limits imposed on digital recording for CD's and the like are beyond the limits of our own ears.
Analog is better than digital in theory only if you do not consider the limits of analog electronics and storage.
Why not avoid the environment all together and do what I and many others do, some of which don't realise it.
Use far less amplification leading to far less distortion and noise, resolve incredible channel seperation and block out more ambient noise whilst creating little...
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Since .au uses the logical format of least significant to most significant, day, month, year.
I think most to least is more logical, to match our base10 numbering system, but month, day, year is just not logical.
Not impossible.
The Australian Stock Exchange Trading Floor had that many big screen TV's per PC for stock price display to the brokers on the floor.
It was done with custom hardware. It was however only text based, looking like teletext.
But given custom hardware...
Remember the old games where you had to "waggle" the joystick to make a guy run faster? The sports games, etc.
I had one on my C64 which had a commando that needed to run, jump and use the monkey/ladder bars and quickly as possible. One day I was playing it with the CRAP joystick that came with the white C64 and the handle snapped right off the base while I was playing this game. Resorting to the other joystick of the two, I found that the handle was really well weighted so that you could just hold the base and roll it left and right quickly making the handle move really quickly side to side.
Remember the kids in the arcades pulling their school jumpers over their palm to allow rubbing across the buttons really quickly for those games?
Man they sucked.
If you're into driving games, that's cool. But if you're into driving and would like to play something unbeleivably realistic, Grand Prix Legends is second to none. This is one game where the claims of realism is true.
GPL (Grand Prix Legends), Starcraft Brood War, Falcon4, Rainbow6, Halflife and 3DS Max are the only reasons my PC is haunted by Microsoft.
If all these games (and upcoming games as good as them) are available with native Linux versions, I would not have to cope with MS.
As good as the PS2 looks, I'll always need mouse controlled games. Does it have mouse support?
Hopefully he won't see a bunyip!
Many years ago, closer to the discovery of .au by Capt. Cook, the Aboriginals of Cape York (right up the top) rather had a penchant for Chinese food. Err, rather, they had a taste for the Chinese that ran the washing business', etc amongst the gold rushes. :) Pitty they did'tn have a bottle of chiantee (?) back then. ;)
But the original poster is obviously not going to use just striping. If he's getting 40G's and redundancy out of 4 20G drives, then he is obviously using RAID 0+1.
Perhaps RAID 5 is just as good or perhaps a little faster than performing a stripe of two disks plus an additional mirror of those? And perhaps having 60G instead of 40G will outweigh a minor speed difference if any.
No offense intended to the first poster. I would'nt doubt that he has written some great posts that deserved a score of 3 and some interesting ones at that.
But how did that post get a "3, interesting"?
Anyway, something I find interesting is that the guy at the link says "7) Desolder the BIOS chip from the card.", Huh? It is clearly a socketted EEPROM of sorts. Why desolder it? Is the socket covering the SMD resistor? If so, can't the plastic just be cut away more easily?
I've been soldering on and off since leaving school 12 years ago, doing it for the Navy, etc and I would'nt like to be desoldering a 32pin socket without a desoldering gun. Doing it with wick or a sucker is surely not going to be as easy as just removing the chip and cutting the plastic.
Apparently not. :)
Can the preformatted tag be used in /. to do this?
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Absolutely right. Otherwise, the majority of the USA would be charged for "possession of burglary or theft tools" for owning firearms, even though most of them will never use them to rob a bank or person. Owning and using tools like L0phtcrack is not a crime, using them to commit a crime is well... commiting a crime.
You can set that up for yourself if you like.
Click on Preferences and then Customize Comments. Those trolls will be gone for good if you like.
What trolls!
I've used a Cassiopeia. It's kinda cool, but terribly buggy.
:), and speed is comparable to the Linux that I know, then the Yopy should be great.
Starting out with a stable kernel is a fine start. MS just does'nt offer such a beast, after using Linux for 2 years on MANY different machines from i486DX33/8Mb to PII300/256Mb, I think I am experienced enough to say Linux is FAR more stable than anything M$ has to offer. I have only ever experienced ONE system hang, when I tried to run one HDD at -X66 and another at -X34 on the same IDE bus. I don't think anyone who has lived with both MS OS' and Linux can be blamed for thinking that the Yopy is going to be better due to its stable foundations. I really hope that they do it right, and keep Linux name out of the mud that M$ has never been able to squirm out of.
If stability, customizability
I've used Wince, it sucks worse than it's bigger brothers. For now, I'll take my Apple Message Pad any day.
Nice try. :)
That quote to me sounds like they're trying to crawl up the stock market or be prepared to do so.
Patents make a product look even better as an investment as they appear to be able to lock out the competition. When a company boasts of patents it reeks of BUY OUR STOCKS, WE'RE A GOOD BUY!
"from a personal computer or set-top box to digital displays"
From this, it is obviously only targetted to digital displays. VGA and the likes are analog.
This crypto is not to stop people in vans reading your email, it is to stop you from making a digital copy of some media that you own.
If I want to make a backup copy, well guess what Intel, I'll do whatever the fuck I want with what I own. I dare you to come into my home and stop me.
our own shit! Basically, they don't want us having access to our own digital perfect media. Crypto from storage to display! No middle man. And if there is a middle man, he is being watched! Sorry Intel, I'm not buying this shit, nor will my next CPU or chipset have Intel stamped anywhere on it. It'll be AMD/Athlon and Transmetta all the way. Rage Against The Fucking Machine!
Apple is pissed off with the usage of their Trademark, most likely being used to pretty up another hardware and software platform.
/. to stop using it.
They could probably ask
"SMP support in Windows is way ahead as compared with Linux ..."
:)
Windows 2000? Linux distro/version?
How about a comparison of NT4.0 SMP versus Linux 2.2.9, eh?...
Although both NT and Linux serve more than twice as many dynamic pages with four CPUs as they do with one, NT in SMP mode is still just under half as fast as Linux with only one CPU.
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186-1/
So does that make the SMP in Linux 2.2.9 more than 4 times faster than NT4.0 SMP?
Then we have Linux 2.4 coming! And with Intel's support of upcoming CPU's...
"In a GUI, you can have multiple control panels open at once. A command line forces you to work one at a time."
Crap. If you beleive this, you know little.
:) Come on people, stand up, say your names, be prepared to have legit journalists to approach you in the real world. OK, I can only speak from what I have witnessed as PC/telecoms (network/PABX) support role for the Australian Stock Exchange and Sydney's Technical And Further Education Information Technology Beauro. Never an admin, to a minute extent a little admin assistance at the ASX backup/dev site changing passwords, restarting queues, etc along with my support role for about 100 developers. Basically, I watched DEC Unix and VMS servers running on Alpha's and Vax's staying up for the duration of my contracts whilst NT3.51/4.0 staff servers on DEC Alpha's and DEC PC's, falling over every couple of months. No bullshit, just a real difference in reliability between real OS' against the glossy toy.
It is not fair to say "With 16-bit audio, the best S/N ratio you can hope for is 96db" because it only applies to the conversion of 16bit samples to an analog signal. Interpolation of 16bit samples to a higher bit depth and then converted via a DAC of that bit depth will not lead to a better 20kHz sine wave, but it will lead to a better SNR.
Take a look at many high end CD players! The Yamaha CDX-1060 has an SNR of 120dB and many go higher. Ever heard of over sampling?
The maximum frequency a human can hear is a sinewave at that frequency. Any waveform other than a sinewave at that maximum frequency is made up of a sine at that base frequency plus many other higher frequency sines. Those higher frequency sines are removed by our ears and guess what else? Digital sampling used in audio recording. Low pass filters that match the best human ears have to offer. So there is no quality lost that a human could possibly perceive.
It is true that digital sampling is limited by resolutions in the time and amplitude domains being sampling frequency and sampling resoluton in bits. But analog recording is limited in frequency and by noise, added to this by the medium and then added to this again by the amplification. In the analog world, these issue compound the problem each time.
Digital audio gets a limit hit at the recording stage and then those limits stay largly unchanged though the medium and then the output stage to your ears. But thankfully for us, the limits imposed on digital recording for CD's and the like are beyond the limits of our own ears.
Analog is better than digital in theory only if you do not consider the limits of analog electronics and storage.
"Digital/analog has absolutely nothing to do with "quality"."
Yeah it does, it is far easier and cheaper to make a high quality audio system using digital as a medium than it is via analog.
With digital, add one bit and your quality doubles, with analog mediums, to double your quality you have to work a damn lot harder.
Why not avoid the environment all together and do what I and many others do, some of which don't realise it.
Use far less amplification leading to far less distortion and noise, resolve incredible channel seperation and block out more ambient noise whilst creating little...
Headphones!