I seem to be having a similar problem with my PNY GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 x16 PCI-E card. It randomly happens after a few hours of playing Call of Duty 4 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where it seems the RAMDAC freaks out or something and I end up with random colored chasing four pixel long horiztonal lines covering the entire screen on both monitors (using a dual-monitor setup consisting of a viewsonic CRT at 1024x768 @ 85Hz via VGA port and a Dell Ultrasharp LCD at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz via DVI port) with lightning or strobing highlighting effects on particular scenes such as the clouds in the CoD4 main multiplayer menu.
Now to test to see if it's the GPU or RAMDAC (not sure if they're apart of the same chip) I take entire desktop screen shots and even ran FRAPS during the problem, and looked at the screen shots and video, nada. Doesn't show the problem at all (after I have rebooted of course) which means its the processs of getting the video to the monitors which the best of my knowledge would be the RAMDAC. The only fix is to close out the games and do a system suspend, wake back up, and restart the game. Always works and the problem won't return for at least another 30 minutes. Of course doing a full reboot works too, but takes longer to bring everything back up.:)
I have ran Everest to monitor both voltages and GPU tempature and it doesn't appear to be a voltage (seems to be constant and not going all over the place) or heat related issue. I would have already RMA'd to get a replacement card, but I am hesitant to RMA the card since well PNY is well known for its lack of a customer friendly RMA department and I could end up with a worse replacement card than the one I have now.
All ABIT motherboards I have ever owned had bad capacitors even though they claimed they didn't. I have owned the KT7E with the AMD Athlon XP 160++ and it ran OK for the first year and then ever since it couldn't run for more than a few days without becoming fubared. I then looked over the motherboard carefully and noticed the capacitors were going bad, so I went and got myself an NF7 nForce2 MB w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ and didn't even think about RMA'ing since I figured at the time the KT7E was pretty much aging anyway and I didn't care for VIA chipsets to begin with. The first NF7 had to be RMA'd cause it hardly ever posted fully even then the second the nvidia drivers loaded up for the AGP card (GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB AGP 8X) it crapped out. So, I did cross shipping which worked out great (had to pay full price up front for the board and then they would refund you the cost except shipping when they did receive the defective MB).
The board I received of the NF7 was in fact newer and had the 2.0 board revision with the new 400FSB chipset. Worked great for nearly two years and then again POST wouldn't go successfully. RMA'd again and this time I got back a motherboard that has memory issues. Try running Opera for half an hour and browsing around and get graphical glitches where half the window wouldn't render. Try playing Steam games and 1/3 of it wouldn't render and games crashed to desktop.
So, then I figured why not try replacing the 512MB stick I was using with 3x512MB newer from newegg. I did that and did not solve memory corruption issue. So then I tried with getting a GeForce 7600 GS 512MB AGP 8X to replace my aging GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB AGP 8X. No go, still memory corruption issues.
You might ask why didn't I RMA a third time? Well, I didn't notice the issues until two months later (was busy with college work to do any serious gaming or anything) when my warranty expired on the motherboard. So I suffered with that crap for a while then this past christmas I saved up enough I got myself an ASUS Maximus Extreme board with a Q6600, 2GB (2x1GB sticks) RAM, and a GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E x16 card, and I have been enjoying it ever since, but it hasn't been a year or two yet so I cannot vouch for how long lasting it is.:)
Somebody using Ogre3D has been working on a portal like project for nearly a year and has made pretty damn good progress for somebody who was new to game programming: http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37376
He also has a blog which seems quite lacking though.
Funny how this is slashdot and nobody has corrected parent's post about T1 speeds. Full T1s are rated at 1.5mbps (1,500,000 bits/sec) and do divide by eight to convert reasonably over to 187,500 Bytes (~183KBytes/sec) so not sure were you got the 197KB/sec from. Typical speeds of a T1 with TCP/IP overhead that I've seen is ~153KB/sec in real world uses.
So the total should be in a ~30.41 day (86,400 secs * 187,500 Bytes) is 492,642,000,000 Bytes (~459 GBytes) with zero overhead and etc... While in my real world observation it is (86,400 secs * 156,672 Bytes) is 411,643,772,928 Bytes (~383 GBytes) with TCP/IP overhead.
The site or the author is a complete joke. On one of their 42 more best free games lists they put Crystal Space and Delta3D engines on there. Seriously what the fuck?
Yeah where the hell is Tribes 2?! That game ran great on Linux and I absolutely loved it, and it still runs fine on latest Linux distributions like Debian. Yet they didn't list it cause it was released what seven years ago or something? I bought it from tuxgames online store back in the day and it did cost me a pretty penny (~$65 at the time w/ S&H) at the time around 2002, but then Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory came out for free sometime during the summer of 2003 and I spent more time on that for a few years off and on between it and Tribes 2. Descent 3 also had a native port done by the same guys who did Tribes 2 port Loki Games. Not sure how well D3 ran on Linux though since it wouldn't run worth a crap on Windows even.
I cannot believe they actually listed Eve-online, no where close to being a Linux game. They should have listed only games that were natively ported instead of the "oh it runs on Linux, kinda.." garbage.
The entertainment industry (Music: RIAA, Movies/TV:MPAA, Gaming: EA Games, etc..) wants it all it go subscription only so that they have complete control while the consumer has none. They want to either annually or monthly make you pay out of the nose so to speak for their "Intellectual property" of which according to them you're not buying the product instead you're licensing it.
I believe things are just going to get worse once the majority are convinced it's more "convenient" to just subscribe for movies, games, music and such instead of buying a hard copy. By then there won't be any alternatives to getting your fix of media except their "approved" subscription providers of content delivery services. Cause once they don't get their periodic payments they simply lock you out and only option you've got is pay to restore the subscription (of course there will be a re-activation fee). Then they'll start to decide on what content you'll get. Say they figure it's cheaper and easier just to provide music that is nothing more but remixes of past decade's music and not release anything unqiue or new until they feel they've squeezed every last penny possible out of it.
There's quite many different views to be taken on this whole subscription based media content and the reality is that they simply want to have complete control over their products and ultimately you as to what you've got access to, when, how, and limited iterations of playback without further payments.
Maybe I shouldn't post such dark discussions as they could be used as blueprints of world conquest by the entertainment industry.;)
Please kindly take that FUD and shove it right up your ass. The whole point of GPL v3 was to ensure your freedom of software modification to the hardware of which you own that uses GPL v3 code! So, sure yeah corps can use BSD software, but they sure as hell won't give a damn about giving anything back to the community and don't care if you want to make any modifications to it. They'll keep you locked out of it cause it's their Intellectual property and you as a consumer have no rights as far as they're concerned. Also look at it this way you've got some hardware which is getting old, but is still useful. The vendor dropped support and couldn't possibly care less about you unless you purchase their current line of products. Because they used BSD or any other code that uses a license of which doesn't force them to allow you to make personal modifications to your own hardware (that you bought and paid for) you're pretty much screwed on getting anything resolved.
How about every single Linux user out there that watches a DVD via mplayer, xine, VideoLAN Client, or any other open source DVD/multimedia player?
Most of them simply use libdvdcss in order to access CSS encrypted content.
I need help deciding, spend $1,500 on: A) Open source video card which uses a PCI[-X] port... B) Build a new gaming rig (MB, Q6600, 2GB DDR3, GeForce 8800 GTS, etc..)
Nielsen? As in the same damn Nielsen company that's responsible for basically all the good shows that people actually love getting canceled and the utter crap that keeps getting season renews that is basically watched by nobody except brainless zombies around...
So I assume they only accounted those who use the internet also use their television watch boxes and then used some obscure multiplier to get that number, right? Yeah I'm going to believe their statistics alright.
I saw it too when I read your post and refreshed the main page (got to love tabbed browsing). I had to refresh the main page twice to get it to show up correctly again with all today's posts. But yeah it only showed yesterday's posts when I originally hit refresh. I wonder if it is an internal cluster bug where an old cached generated page somehow got pushed forward and then overwritten a few moments later maybe? Who knows... CmdrTaco?
LEDs will work perfectly fine with AC, but they'll blink/flicker at the 60Hz or so of the alternating frequency (because LEDs are diodes, as in they only allow current to flow in one direction). Now if you hook up LEDs in a series make sure that the cathods ends connect to the non-cathods ends which I hope nobody is actually doing a series of LEDs instead of parallel because if you have say three LEDs and they consume 3 volts each, you'll need 9 volts to power them to get full light output.
Nearly every programmer, network administrator, and what have you I've talked to in this I.T. industry do NOT recognize IEC has an authority figure over redefining of nearly forty years of well known and understood meaning of byte size modifiers (kilobyte, etc..) as a base of two, not base of ten. It was the marketing departments of various storage vendors that started this confusion mess and for IEC to basically give in to these vendors (I wonder how much it cost them to pay off IEC) and IEC's reason of "confusion" is not founded and they can basically go fuck themselves as for as we care.
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I seem to be having a similar problem with my PNY GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 x16 PCI-E card. It randomly happens after a few hours of playing Call of Duty 4 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where it seems the RAMDAC freaks out or something and I end up with random colored chasing four pixel long horiztonal lines covering the entire screen on both monitors (using a dual-monitor setup consisting of a viewsonic CRT at 1024x768 @ 85Hz via VGA port and a Dell Ultrasharp LCD at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz via DVI port) with lightning or strobing highlighting effects on particular scenes such as the clouds in the CoD4 main multiplayer menu.
Now to test to see if it's the GPU or RAMDAC (not sure if they're apart of the same chip) I take entire desktop screen shots and even ran FRAPS during the problem, and looked at the screen shots and video, nada. Doesn't show the problem at all (after I have rebooted of course) which means its the processs of getting the video to the monitors which the best of my knowledge would be the RAMDAC. The only fix is to close out the games and do a system suspend, wake back up, and restart the game. Always works and the problem won't return for at least another 30 minutes. Of course doing a full reboot works too, but takes longer to bring everything back up. :)
I have ran Everest to monitor both voltages and GPU tempature and it doesn't appear to be a voltage (seems to be constant and not going all over the place) or heat related issue. I would have already RMA'd to get a replacement card, but I am hesitant to RMA the card since well PNY is well known for its lack of a customer friendly RMA department and I could end up with a worse replacement card than the one I have now.
All ABIT motherboards I have ever owned had bad capacitors even though they claimed they didn't. I have owned the KT7E with the AMD Athlon XP 160++ and it ran OK for the first year and then ever since it couldn't run for more than a few days without becoming fubared. I then looked over the motherboard carefully and noticed the capacitors were going bad, so I went and got myself an NF7 nForce2 MB w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ and didn't even think about RMA'ing since I figured at the time the KT7E was pretty much aging anyway and I didn't care for VIA chipsets to begin with. The first NF7 had to be RMA'd cause it hardly ever posted fully even then the second the nvidia drivers loaded up for the AGP card (GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB AGP 8X) it crapped out. So, I did cross shipping which worked out great (had to pay full price up front for the board and then they would refund you the cost except shipping when they did receive the defective MB).
The board I received of the NF7 was in fact newer and had the 2.0 board revision with the new 400FSB chipset. Worked great for nearly two years and then again POST wouldn't go successfully. RMA'd again and this time I got back a motherboard that has memory issues. Try running Opera for half an hour and browsing around and get graphical glitches where half the window wouldn't render. Try playing Steam games and 1/3 of it wouldn't render and games crashed to desktop.
So, then I figured why not try replacing the 512MB stick I was using with 3x512MB newer from newegg. I did that and did not solve memory corruption issue. So then I tried with getting a GeForce 7600 GS 512MB AGP 8X to replace my aging GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB AGP 8X. No go, still memory corruption issues.
You might ask why didn't I RMA a third time? Well, I didn't notice the issues until two months later (was busy with college work to do any serious gaming or anything) when my warranty expired on the motherboard. So I suffered with that crap for a while then this past christmas I saved up enough I got myself an ASUS Maximus Extreme board with a Q6600, 2GB (2x1GB sticks) RAM, and a GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E x16 card, and I have been enjoying it ever since, but it hasn't been a year or two yet so I cannot vouch for how long lasting it is. :)
Somebody using Ogre3D has been working on a portal like project for nearly a year and has made pretty damn good progress for somebody who was new to game programming:
http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37376
He also has a blog which seems quite lacking though.
MythTV doesn't enforce any DRM of any kind like the broadcast flag. Anybody familiar with MythTV knows that....
The anonymous reader who submitted the article figured it would take slashdot's editors that long to post it. ;)
'little people who look strange to us.'
Tom Cruise and the scientologists?
Newegg is one site I recall having such a feature way back then (they definitely still do now), but I could be wrong as how long they've had it.
ECV? Sounds like a STD..
I loved that Indiana Jones scene. ;)
Funny how this is slashdot and nobody has corrected parent's post about T1 speeds. Full T1s are rated at 1.5mbps (1,500,000 bits/sec) and do divide by eight to convert reasonably over to 187,500 Bytes (~183KBytes/sec) so not sure were you got the 197KB/sec from. Typical speeds of a T1 with TCP/IP overhead that I've seen is ~153KB/sec in real world uses.
So the total should be in a ~30.41 day (86,400 secs * 187,500 Bytes) is 492,642,000,000 Bytes (~459 GBytes) with zero overhead and etc...
While in my real world observation it is (86,400 secs * 156,672 Bytes) is 411,643,772,928 Bytes (~383 GBytes) with TCP/IP overhead.
Yes I do not use GiByte, etc... nor support them.
The site or the author is a complete joke. On one of their 42 more best free games lists they put Crystal Space and Delta3D engines on there. Seriously what the fuck?
Yeah where the hell is Tribes 2?! That game ran great on Linux and I absolutely loved it, and it still runs fine on latest Linux distributions like Debian. Yet they didn't list it cause it was released what seven years ago or something? I bought it from tuxgames online store back in the day and it did cost me a pretty penny (~$65 at the time w/ S&H) at the time around 2002, but then Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory came out for free sometime during the summer of 2003 and I spent more time on that for a few years off and on between it and Tribes 2. Descent 3 also had a native port done by the same guys who did Tribes 2 port Loki Games. Not sure how well D3 ran on Linux though since it wouldn't run worth a crap on Windows even.
I cannot believe they actually listed Eve-online, no where close to being a Linux game. They should have listed only games that were natively ported instead of the "oh it runs on Linux, kinda.." garbage.
The entertainment industry (Music: RIAA, Movies/TV:MPAA, Gaming: EA Games, etc..) wants it all it go subscription only so that they have complete control while the consumer has none. They want to either annually or monthly make you pay out of the nose so to speak for their "Intellectual property" of which according to them you're not buying the product instead you're licensing it.
;)
I believe things are just going to get worse once the majority are convinced it's more "convenient" to just subscribe for movies, games, music and such instead of buying a hard copy. By then there won't be any alternatives to getting your fix of media except their "approved" subscription providers of content delivery services. Cause once they don't get their periodic payments they simply lock you out and only option you've got is pay to restore the subscription (of course there will be a re-activation fee). Then they'll start to decide on what content you'll get. Say they figure it's cheaper and easier just to provide music that is nothing more but remixes of past decade's music and not release anything unqiue or new until they feel they've squeezed every last penny possible out of it.
There's quite many different views to be taken on this whole subscription based media content and the reality is that they simply want to have complete control over their products and ultimately you as to what you've got access to, when, how, and limited iterations of playback without further payments.
Maybe I shouldn't post such dark discussions as they could be used as blueprints of world conquest by the entertainment industry.
Please kindly take that FUD and shove it right up your ass. The whole point of GPL v3 was to ensure your freedom of software modification to the hardware of which you own that uses GPL v3 code! So, sure yeah corps can use BSD software, but they sure as hell won't give a damn about giving anything back to the community and don't care if you want to make any modifications to it. They'll keep you locked out of it cause it's their Intellectual property and you as a consumer have no rights as far as they're concerned. Also look at it this way you've got some hardware which is getting old, but is still useful. The vendor dropped support and couldn't possibly care less about you unless you purchase their current line of products. Because they used BSD or any other code that uses a license of which doesn't force them to allow you to make personal modifications to your own hardware (that you bought and paid for) you're pretty much screwed on getting anything resolved.
Reminds me of this Wii Fit parody.
:)
How about every single Linux user out there that watches a DVD via mplayer, xine, VideoLAN Client, or any other open source DVD/multimedia player?
Most of them simply use libdvdcss in order to access CSS encrypted content.
I need help deciding, spend $1,500 on:
:/
A) Open source video card which uses a PCI[-X] port...
B) Build a new gaming rig (MB, Q6600, 2GB DDR3, GeForce 8800 GTS, etc..)
Such a difficult choice, decisions decisions...
Nielsen? As in the same damn Nielsen company that's responsible for basically all the good shows that people actually love getting canceled and the utter crap that keeps getting season renews that is basically watched by nobody except brainless zombies around...
So I assume they only accounted those who use the internet also use their television watch boxes and then used some obscure multiplier to get that number, right?
Yeah I'm going to believe their statistics alright.
There might be cake involved I hear too..
Wait, wasn't cake a lie the last time?
Zune does not support PlaysForSure. Those people surely got screwed.
I saw it too when I read your post and refreshed the main page (got to love tabbed browsing). I had to refresh the main page twice to get it to show up correctly again with all today's posts. But yeah it only showed yesterday's posts when I originally hit refresh. I wonder if it is an internal cluster bug where an old cached generated page somehow got pushed forward and then overwritten a few moments later maybe? Who knows... CmdrTaco?
LEDs will work perfectly fine with AC, but they'll blink/flicker at the 60Hz or so of the alternating frequency (because LEDs are diodes, as in they only allow current to flow in one direction). Now if you hook up LEDs in a series make sure that the cathods ends connect to the non-cathods ends which I hope nobody is actually doing a series of LEDs instead of parallel because if you have say three LEDs and they consume 3 volts each, you'll need 9 volts to power them to get full light output.
Nearly every programmer, network administrator, and what have you I've talked to in this I.T. industry do NOT recognize IEC has an authority figure over redefining of nearly forty years of well known and understood meaning of byte size modifiers (kilobyte, etc..) as a base of two, not base of ten. It was the marketing departments of various storage vendors that started this confusion mess and for IEC to basically give in to these vendors (I wonder how much it cost them to pay off IEC) and IEC's reason of "confusion" is not founded and they can basically go fuck themselves as for as we care.
That's all I have to say about it.
Did anybody else have the urge to lookup Howard The Duck on IMDB after reading the parent? :)
Weird I know...
Exactly, the GNU license does not exist. But the Free Software Foundation does have licenses: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html