I don't think anyone still overclocks their video card. Some people may do it just for a day to see how it is, and you probably have several people with older cards. Outside of that, there is no real need to overclock.
I try to buy a card every year or so. Usually about one generation back from the top of the line. I also upgrade processors every 2 years, agian, a few models back from the top of the line. But I have found that staying too far back really limits the enjoyment I get out of gaming. No, the graphics don't make the plot any better, but I hate steping into a room of bad guys and having my game turn into a slide show.
Why does someone need a degree to work in IT? How is web-page design any different from building a house? How is cabling a network any different from cabling for electricity.
CCNA, RHCE, LPI, MCSE, PHP/MySQL, DHTML, etc could all be taught right next to welding. Anyone who cn learn the details of fixing a modern car could just as easily learn how to maintain a Cisco router.
I ask agian, why do you think people who have no college should be banished to the domain of "carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists"?
Me: Yeah, we store all the original media and licenses off-site. Desaster preparedness. You understand, right?
Them: Can you show us this site so we can complete our audit?
Me: It burned down.
Them: I see...
Could they PROVE you never bought the software? I guess they could check to see if the same key was used on multiple machies. But I have enterprise licensed disks. No need to enter a key on thoes.
Unless you just admit that this software is illegal, it could never be proven.
Kinda like we aren't interested in the ancient Egyptians? People all over the world (universe) come up with creative ways of solving problems. You can learn tons of stuff from studying other cultures. Advanced algorithms and next-gen spacecraft don't change the fact that studying simple things is cool.
>why wouldn't their technology enable them to remain completely undetected
Do you never have hardware failures? Does software/firmware tend to fail at the most inopertune time. Have you never worked in a place where human error caused an incident? Shit happens.
Vast distances and their lack of real contact could be explained by them not wanting to disrupt our progress. Just like *nix geeks, they want us to RTFM.
I worked at my companies Hell Desk for all of about 15 minutes. I asked a user to right click on the task bar and select minimize all. For a second, there was no sound at all. Then, out of no where, I heard thousands of clicking sounds.
I asked the guy if there was a problem, and he replied that he was just doing what I asked. I gave him about 10 more clicks before I yelled into the phone "I SAID TWO GODDAMN CLICKS! WTF IS ALL THAT CLICKING?".
Needless to say, he wasn't impressed with my people skills. The upshot is that the next day, I was transfered into Network Infrastructure with nary a lUser in sight.
The current spy birds do not stay active all the time. The spend most of their life in sleep mode. It would be too expensive to just let them roam over the earth seeing whatever happens to be in their FOV.
If you want to learn more about them, look up the "Keyhole Satallites" in google. You can take what is public knowledge and apply a dash of Moores Law to come up with some pretty scarry stats on the newest models. Although, I'd guess that the true power in the Keyhole birds lies in their ability to view in the infra red or ultra violette ranges. Or maybe even use lasers to pick up audio from space.
Disclaimer: I work with Cisco equipment most of the time. I also have worked with long-haul telecommunications gear like Fore Systems ATM, ADNX/Promina, and other gear.
First, having a 'master code' would be dumb. The master code would get out quickly and then you would have people shutting down equipment remotely. Even having a password based on the serial number of a specific peice of equipment would create a logistical nightmare.
Most of the equipment I have seen has a console port and a reset switch. If you reboot the equipment, you have about 15 to 30 seconds where you can drop in a break code. The break code will not clear the memory, but it does boot in a clean mode where you can reset passwords or make config changes.
Stephenson reads like a string of one-liners. His books are witty. Damn witty! Up until I read the Cryptonomicon, I had never had a book make me laugh so hard.
Unfortunately, his books seem to have weak closings.
Ever since AGP rolled out, most system builders have written off the first PCI slot.
The first reason is that the first PCI slot tends to conflict with the AGP slot in terms of resource managment. This may no longer be a problem, but old habits die hard.
The second reason is the damn heat-sink and fan is on the bottom of the card. I'll never figure this one out, but why did the hardware enginers do this? The heat from the heatsink rises back into the card and makes the ambient temp even hotter. Most people leave PCI 1 open to help dissapate this heat.
A third reason is that most people are not going to fill their slots anyway. Good mobos today have good sound, 10/100 NIC, and USB2 onboard. Add a good video card, and the rest of your slots are pretty much empty. Even if you add another card, just follow the urinal code. Never place 2 cards too close for comfort.
In short, the 2 card rule has been the de-facto standard for years now, why shouldn't nvidia embrace it for their own purpose?
It really seems like Bioware is 'forest-gumping' their way through this project.
I'm not a programmer, but this seems like such an easy task. They have the engine, the art, and the interfaces. The engine should be good to go. The movies should be re-encoded into another format that plays natively in Windows and Linux. The interface should use wrappers.
Hell, even the wankers using WineX have been running NWN for a while.
This should be a lesson for future projects. Don't try and bolt on functionality that was never intended. Either do it right (cross platform) from the start, or not at all.
Not everyone is dumb enough to try and work for a large company. Try reading "What color is my parachute" for tips on turning your knowledge into a job.
Here is how it breaks down:
You do a resume. You send it to HR at $SomeBigCompany. The guy reading it has a thick stack on his desk. The first thing he does is throw out anything that looks unprofessional. Pink stationary, non-standard paper size, handwritten or large fonts, anything that does not conform to the 'standard' resume format is tossed.
Next, he does a grep (or just looks) for MCSE, CCNA, A+, Masters, Batchlor, RHCE, CCNP, CCIE, etc... All the files are sorted in order from most certifications to least. Usually the top 10% are thrown away due to 'overqualification'.
Next, he does a prelim interview. This is to ask some basic questions and see if you fit into the 'company culture'. Anyone not wearing a conservative suit, nice tie, and SHINY shoes is never considered. Remember, this man knows nothing about technology.
Anyone who gets past this guy goes to a second interview with the boss of the section you will work in. This guy is most likely a program manager. He know something about what you will do, but is not an expert. He just wants to get a feel for wheather or not you will show up on time, work hard, and stay late when needed.
There is an alternative. Look for small companies. Call the local cable company and ask for a tour of the network shop. Geeks love to show off their stuff (clear cases, open source, etc..). Call some consulting firms and ask who does the installs for their clients. Get into a local computer/linux/d&d group and ask around.
You will find that other geeks tend to work in the tech sector. They will know if there is an opening in their company. They can get you directly through to the project manager. If you display competence, he will probably hire you.
Once you learn the networking system of getting hired, you will never do the whole resume trolling thing agian...
The down side to having a router and a switch is that there isn't a whole lot you can do with it.
At the basic level, you need at least 3 switches. One for location A, one for location B, and one to act as a 'Core' switch. At that point, you can start playing with VLANS.
Add a 2500 or 2600 series router and you can do 'router on a stick' routing between thoes VLANS. Add another router or two, and you can play with OSPF and EIGRP.
For the cost of all this crap, just spend $149 and get Boson Router Sim. It has 5002 switches with catalyst OS and 1900 series switches with IOS. It also has 800, 2500, and 2600 series routers.
Boson supports most of the commands and will even spit out a config file that can be uploaded into an actual Cisco router. You can also use it to buils HUGE networks. One of the things I do is give newbies a Class C block and have them allocate it for 20+ routers, 10+ switches, and 3 or 4 workstations over several VLANS. Usually makes them tear their hair out.
And the best part is that Boson can be had for less than the price of an e-bay router.
That's $500 if you can get their contact info. If you ask for the name and address of the legal dept of the company placing the call, the guy will likely hang up.
Then you have to convince a court to take the case. From what I remember, this involves time, a filing fee, and more time.
Because it's easier to use something like HP Openview, CiscoWorks, or MRTG to generate graphs on bandwidth usage. You can even use it to monitor things like requests per minute, messages in the mail que, cpu usage on individual boxen in a cluster, etc...
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I don't think anyone still overclocks their video card. Some people may do it just for a day to see how it is, and you probably have several people with older cards. Outside of that, there is no real need to overclock.
I try to buy a card every year or so. Usually about one generation back from the top of the line. I also upgrade processors every 2 years, agian, a few models back from the top of the line. But I have found that staying too far back really limits the enjoyment I get out of gaming. No, the graphics don't make the plot any better, but I hate steping into a room of bad guys and having my game turn into a slide show.
Wasn't there a test a while back that shows the AGP bus has little bandwidth back to the CPU?
The fact that the AGP bus was always intended as a one-way street will limit the options avalible to hackers.
This is getting really old
What if a show I want to record is on at the same time as the "promotional material"?
Does the user get the ultimate say?
I don't think thousands of users rushing to establish a connection to their poor web server was the multi-player game they had in mind.
Why does someone need a degree to work in IT? How is web-page design any different from building a house? How is cabling a network any different from cabling for electricity.
CCNA, RHCE, LPI, MCSE, PHP/MySQL, DHTML, etc could all be taught right next to welding. Anyone who cn learn the details of fixing a modern car could just as easily learn how to maintain a Cisco router.
I ask agian, why do you think people who have no college should be banished to the domain of "carpenters/plumbers/welders/machinists"?
I'd like to see that bitch cope with /etc/
Me: Yeah, we store all the original media and licenses off-site. Desaster preparedness. You understand, right?
Them: Can you show us this site so we can complete our audit?
Me: It burned down.
Them: I see...
Could they PROVE you never bought the software? I guess they could check to see if the same key was used on multiple machies. But I have enterprise licensed disks. No need to enter a key on thoes.
Unless you just admit that this software is illegal, it could never be proven.
Is that a Canadian measurment? More or less than than a metric ton?
How many "Library of Congress" units is in a shit ton?
Just today, I made an apointment for an ingrown toenail. It will be a week before I can see my doctor.
TriCare sucks!
As a civilian, I'd call several local clinics, find one with an opening, and probably be seen bt weeks end.
Yes, I'd pay more for it, but choice is a good thing. Well worth paying for.
>wouldn't care a whole lot about Earth
Kinda like we aren't interested in the ancient Egyptians? People all over the world (universe) come up with creative ways of solving problems. You can learn tons of stuff from studying other cultures. Advanced algorithms and next-gen spacecraft don't change the fact that studying simple things is cool.
>why wouldn't their technology enable them to remain completely undetected
Do you never have hardware failures? Does software/firmware tend to fail at the most inopertune time. Have you never worked in a place where human error caused an incident? Shit happens.
Vast distances and their lack of real contact could be explained by them not wanting to disrupt our progress. Just like *nix geeks, they want us to RTFM.
I worked at my companies Hell Desk for all of about 15 minutes. I asked a user to right click on the task bar and select minimize all. For a second, there was no sound at all. Then, out of no where, I heard thousands of clicking sounds.
I asked the guy if there was a problem, and he replied that he was just doing what I asked. I gave him about 10 more clicks before I yelled into the phone "I SAID TWO GODDAMN CLICKS! WTF IS ALL THAT CLICKING?".
Needless to say, he wasn't impressed with my people skills. The upshot is that the next day, I was transfered into Network Infrastructure with nary a lUser in sight.
The current spy birds do not stay active all the time. The spend most of their life in sleep mode. It would be too expensive to just let them roam over the earth seeing whatever happens to be in their FOV.
If you want to learn more about them, look up the "Keyhole Satallites" in google. You can take what is public knowledge and apply a dash of Moores Law to come up with some pretty scarry stats on the newest models. Although, I'd guess that the true power in the Keyhole birds lies in their ability to view in the infra red or ultra violette ranges. Or maybe even use lasers to pick up audio from space.
Sorry Mac users! The Army doesn't accept people with mental disabilities...
Just kidding... I love the Mac!
Seriously, I picked up a winxp keygen and ran off several hundred numbers. I never have a problem activating.
I'm so glad to see that your REAL copy doesn't work and my PIRATE copy works perfectly.
Life sucks, doesn't it?
So, If I turn off the power to my computer, the screen will stay at my desktop?
Tell me agian how you think this works?
So, what you are saying is this:
If my video card tells the LCD to turn this pixel teal, then it stays teal until the video card tells it otherwise.
I disagree. I think that every pixel is refreshed every 25ms. Very similar to the way a CRT scans. This would counter your "infinite FPS" theory.
What are you smoking....and can I have some?
Disclaimer: I work with Cisco equipment most of the time. I also have worked with long-haul telecommunications gear like Fore Systems ATM, ADNX/Promina, and other gear.
First, having a 'master code' would be dumb. The master code would get out quickly and then you would have people shutting down equipment remotely. Even having a password based on the serial number of a specific peice of equipment would create a logistical nightmare.
Most of the equipment I have seen has a console port and a reset switch. If you reboot the equipment, you have about 15 to 30 seconds where you can drop in a break code. The break code will not clear the memory, but it does boot in a clean mode where you can reset passwords or make config changes.
Stephenson reads like a string of one-liners. His books are witty. Damn witty! Up until I read the Cryptonomicon, I had never had a book make me laugh so hard.
Unfortunately, his books seem to have weak closings.
Ever since AGP rolled out, most system builders have written off the first PCI slot.
The first reason is that the first PCI slot tends to conflict with the AGP slot in terms of resource managment. This may no longer be a problem, but old habits die hard.
The second reason is the damn heat-sink and fan is on the bottom of the card. I'll never figure this one out, but why did the hardware enginers do this? The heat from the heatsink rises back into the card and makes the ambient temp even hotter. Most people leave PCI 1 open to help dissapate this heat.
A third reason is that most people are not going to fill their slots anyway. Good mobos today have good sound, 10/100 NIC, and USB2 onboard. Add a good video card, and the rest of your slots are pretty much empty. Even if you add another card, just follow the urinal code. Never place 2 cards too close for comfort.
In short, the 2 card rule has been the de-facto standard for years now, why shouldn't nvidia embrace it for their own purpose?
It really seems like Bioware is 'forest-gumping' their way through this project.
I'm not a programmer, but this seems like such an easy task. They have the engine, the art, and the interfaces. The engine should be good to go. The movies should be re-encoded into another format that plays natively in Windows and Linux. The interface should use wrappers.
Hell, even the wankers using WineX have been running NWN for a while.
This should be a lesson for future projects. Don't try and bolt on functionality that was never intended. Either do it right (cross platform) from the start, or not at all.
I agree with you completely.
However!
Not everyone is dumb enough to try and work for a large company. Try reading "What color is my parachute" for tips on turning your knowledge into a job.
Here is how it breaks down:
You do a resume. You send it to HR at $SomeBigCompany. The guy reading it has a thick stack on his desk. The first thing he does is throw out anything that looks unprofessional. Pink stationary, non-standard paper size, handwritten or large fonts, anything that does not conform to the 'standard' resume format is tossed.
Next, he does a grep (or just looks) for MCSE, CCNA, A+, Masters, Batchlor, RHCE, CCNP, CCIE, etc... All the files are sorted in order from most certifications to least. Usually the top 10% are thrown away due to 'overqualification'.
Next, he does a prelim interview. This is to ask some basic questions and see if you fit into the 'company culture'. Anyone not wearing a conservative suit, nice tie, and SHINY shoes is never considered. Remember, this man knows nothing about technology.
Anyone who gets past this guy goes to a second interview with the boss of the section you will work in. This guy is most likely a program manager. He know something about what you will do, but is not an expert. He just wants to get a feel for wheather or not you will show up on time, work hard, and stay late when needed.
There is an alternative. Look for small companies. Call the local cable company and ask for a tour of the network shop. Geeks love to show off their stuff (clear cases, open source, etc..). Call some consulting firms and ask who does the installs for their clients. Get into a local computer/linux/d&d group and ask around.
You will find that other geeks tend to work in the tech sector. They will know if there is an opening in their company. They can get you directly through to the project manager. If you display competence, he will probably hire you.
Once you learn the networking system of getting hired, you will never do the whole resume trolling thing agian...
The down side to having a router and a switch is that there isn't a whole lot you can do with it.
At the basic level, you need at least 3 switches. One for location A, one for location B, and one to act as a 'Core' switch. At that point, you can start playing with VLANS.
Add a 2500 or 2600 series router and you can do 'router on a stick' routing between thoes VLANS. Add another router or two, and you can play with OSPF and EIGRP.
For the cost of all this crap, just spend $149 and get Boson Router Sim. It has 5002 switches with catalyst OS and 1900 series switches with IOS. It also has 800, 2500, and 2600 series routers.
Boson supports most of the commands and will even spit out a config file that can be uploaded into an actual Cisco router. You can also use it to buils HUGE networks. One of the things I do is give newbies a Class C block and have them allocate it for 20+ routers, 10+ switches, and 3 or 4 workstations over several VLANS. Usually makes them tear their hair out.
And the best part is that Boson can be had for less than the price of an e-bay router.
That's $500 if you can get their contact info. If you ask for the name and address of the legal dept of the company placing the call, the guy will likely hang up.
Then you have to convince a court to take the case. From what I remember, this involves time, a filing fee, and more time.
Because it's easier to use something like HP Openview, CiscoWorks, or MRTG to generate graphs on bandwidth usage. You can even use it to monitor things like requests per minute, messages in the mail que, cpu usage on individual boxen in a cluster, etc...