It takes re-reading, but it is right. It was the same price point when it launched, but currently it is cheaper. Actually no it doesn't make sense, unless the GeForce 7900 GT has gone up in price. Has it?
Good in theory, but when I did just that with the problem I had installing sarge on a Sun UltraSPARC 1E but no-one ever replied! See my report here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg008 27.html
If anyone can give me a pointer I'd be really grateful, I still have the machine gathering dust at home.
Nice post, I've been meaning to look into this. The guide you link to is a little outdated though by the looks of it. At first glance it would seem easier to do this using VLC, where there is an option to increase the quality of the ffmpeg filter from the default 0 to 6, although having just tried this I don't notice any increase in CPU usage and the picture is of the same quality. What am I doing wrong?
A respected Dutch lecturer in Real-time systems I know recommends Alan Shaw "Real-time systems and software" ISBN: 0-471-35490-2. Personally I found it a bit heavy on the maths (he suggested I start out on Doing Hard Time ISBN: 0201498375), but if you're going on to do University research then you'd probably better get used to it!;-)
Not that I'm defending Microsofts Business practices, although I'd have to say that we could all learn something from Bill Gates, the guy is obviously successful in what he does.
Hey Osama is pretty succesful at what he does too. 'nuff said.
Exactly. Maybe the Centrino is slightly more efficient, but it comes down to VCore in the end, and if you're undervolting your XP-M to 1.25V or lower then it's only using up to 25 Watts, according to http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030507/.
I'm running a dual XP-M system and they're both volted at 1.35 VCore and running at 2400+ speed (1866MHz). Pretty comparable to the Centrino I'd say given the figures I've seen.
They're dirt chip at the moment, as are Socket A motherboards, and you don't need to spend money on the socket converter.
Dual-core will most likely render PPUs obsolete anyhow.
That's what I thought at first, but according to Ryan Shrout from PCperspective:
The information I have gotten from AGEIA seems to point out that while a single core CPU might be able to hand 200-300 rigid bodies, a dual core CPU could handle 400-600. Compared to the PhysX PPU, which can do over 15,000.
Apparantly the currently expected MSRP for this PCI card (vertices don't need as much bandwidth as textures etc) is $249-$299 and it's expected in Q4 this year.
Try http://www.silentpcreview.com/, although not strictly low power, there is obviously a lot of overlap with silent computing. I for one find it to be a good site with a solid scientific approach.
In terms of video cards, a guy further up posted saying XBitlabs have a good overview, although I can't find the link on their site...
My personal recommendation for low power would be the ATI 9600 (perhaps the mobile version), although it's arguably also low performance, but then it's all relative anyway.
OMG! Phulshof is absolutely right. According to the site he linked to the Netherlands has a Author/Copyright Law 1912 in which article 16b states that you can indeed *legally* make copies of someone elses CD/DVD collection, as long as you have paid the tax on the CDR/DVDR you use!!! The only exception is computer software, where you do need to be the owner to legitimately make a copy for your own use.
You do have to physically borrow the original CD/DVD though, which is what makes uploading illegal I guess.
Do other countries have this type of law too? I thought these laws usually only covered copies of your own collection...
I think you're confusing the decriminalisation of something because it's too costly to prosecute (as more or less everybody is doing it) with legality.
I'd be very interested to see a reference/link to the Dutch law which states you can make copies of copyrighted works that you do not own. I can read Dutch.
How does the Hoary one behave with a pre-existing Windows XP partition? I just did a bit of Googling and came across some people who were left with unbootable Windows partitions after installing previous versions of Ubuntu.
Interesting to see how the architecture differs so much, with BlueCat RT running the kernel as a thread and Monte Vista using a kernel patch.
Personally I think students should be exposed to these things, and not get locked-in to a vendor, so thanks for the ammo. I'll try and use it to broaden the(ir) horizons, although as I'm only the IT advisor and not a lecturer/author it might prove difficult...
I write them off now if they are using something like VxWorks
And what Open Source alternative to VxWorks would you recommend? I'm currently in a team developing educational content voor a Realtime course and the lecturers want to base it on VxWorks as they say it's the market leader.
Wonder how much power this thing soaks up and how much heat it puts out?
If you know one, you pretty much know the other. Of course a percentage goes into light (the whole point) and a little bit will surely go into some sort of zooming sound somewhere along the way, but as long as you're watching inside then generally all the power will end up as heat.
My own (barely) educated guess based on the bottom TFT-LCD on http://www.signetlcd.com/av_applications.html and accounting for difference in size and luminance put's it around the 600 Watts.
As several other people have mentioned just giving an empty operating system isn't going to turn your average family member on a great deal.
I'd focus on the content and give them something compact like http://www.geexbox.org/en/screenshot.html (which already has a Christmasy theme built in!) and then preload it with a few video and audio tracks and a couple of photos. Stick that on a mini CDR with a big clear warning about not using in slot loading drives and you've got a funky little card/present which just happens to run on some weird OS called Linux. Then your crazy scheme might just succeed in not pissing anybody off!!!;)
Ignorant? Hmmmmm, very mature of you to say so. But anyway, we've all been a teenager:
As has been mentioned you are off by an order of magnitude. I have a german widget which actually measures the wattage going through a plug. My nForce computer with Athlon XP2100+ uses in total 100Watts under full load and something like 95Watts when idling (which surprised me). My nForce2 with o/ced Athlon XP2400+ uses 150Watts under full load and again no less than 140Watts when idling.
I always like giving underclocking a go every now and again to see how low things will go. It's just as challenging/much fun as overclocking only your goal is silence instead of speed. Haven't made any wattage measurement of that yet.
If you want speed and low wattages/voltages, then I think the Intel Centrino laptop processor is 'market-leader' at the minute, although I doubt you could find separate ATX motherboards for it. The AMD Opteron with it's SOI technology also looks like a pretty energy efficient beast.
And of course if you're going to leave your computer on at least run a Grid client like www.climateprediction.net's. There wattage difference (from my measurements) really is minimal and their beta client is impressively stable already.
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It takes re-reading, but it is right. It was the same price point when it launched, but currently it is cheaper. Actually no it doesn't make sense, unless the GeForce 7900 GT has gone up in price. Has it?
Good in theory, but when I did just that with the problem I had installing sarge on a Sun UltraSPARC 1E but no-one ever replied! See my report here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg008 27.html
If anyone can give me a pointer I'd be really grateful, I still have the machine gathering dust at home.
What's this aural candy HQProcsoft? Google doesn't get me a single hit.
Nice post, I've been meaning to look into this. The guide you link to is a little outdated though by the looks of it. At first glance it would seem easier to do this using VLC, where there is an option to increase the quality of the ffmpeg filter from the default 0 to 6, although having just tried this I don't notice any increase in CPU usage and the picture is of the same quality. What am I doing wrong?
A respected Dutch lecturer in Real-time systems I know recommends Alan Shaw "Real-time systems and software" ISBN: 0-471-35490-2. Personally I found it a bit heavy on the maths (he suggested I start out on Doing Hard Time ISBN: 0201498375), but if you're going on to do University research then you'd probably better get used to it! ;-)
Exactly. Maybe the Centrino is slightly more efficient, but it comes down to VCore in the end, and if you're undervolting your XP-M to 1.25V or lower then it's only using up to 25 Watts, according to http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030507/.
I'm running a dual XP-M system and they're both volted at 1.35 VCore and running at 2400+ speed (1866MHz). Pretty comparable to the Centrino I'd say given the figures I've seen.
They're dirt chip at the moment, as are Socket A motherboards, and you don't need to spend money on the socket converter.
Apparantly the currently expected MSRP for this PCI card (vertices don't need as much bandwidth as textures etc) is $249-$299 and it's expected in Q4 this year.
The next Unreal engine uses it. I'm excited.
Found it: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati -powercons.html. Unfortunately they only looked at ATI chips. Looks like they haven't published part 2 yet.
I know what you mean!
Try http://www.silentpcreview.com/, although not strictly low power, there is obviously a lot of overlap with silent computing. I for one find it to be a good site with a solid scientific approach.
In terms of video cards, a guy further up posted saying XBitlabs have a good overview, although I can't find the link on their site...
My personal recommendation for low power would be the ATI 9600 (perhaps the mobile version), although it's arguably also low performance, but then it's all relative anyway.
OMG! Phulshof is absolutely right. According to the site he linked to the Netherlands has a Author/Copyright Law 1912 in which article 16b states that you can indeed *legally* make copies of someone elses CD/DVD collection, as long as you have paid the tax on the CDR/DVDR you use!!! The only exception is computer software, where you do need to be the owner to legitimately make a copy for your own use.
You do have to physically borrow the original CD/DVD though, which is what makes uploading illegal I guess.
Do other countries have this type of law too? I thought these laws usually only covered copies of your own collection...
I'd be very interested to see a reference/link to the Dutch law which states you can make copies of copyrighted works that you do not own. I can read Dutch.
Isn't it just a matter of time before Ubuntu gets too far ahead of Debian and severes the link?
I worry.
How does the Hoary one behave with a pre-existing Windows XP partition? I just did a bit of Googling and came across some people who were left with unbootable Windows partitions after installing previous versions of Ubuntu.
Interesting to see how the architecture differs so much, with BlueCat RT running the kernel as a thread and Monte Vista using a kernel patch. Personally I think students should be exposed to these things, and not get locked-in to a vendor, so thanks for the ammo. I'll try and use it to broaden the(ir) horizons, although as I'm only the IT advisor and not a lecturer/author it might prove difficult...
My own (barely) educated guess based on the bottom TFT-LCD on http://www.signetlcd.com/av_applications.html and accounting for difference in size and luminance put's it around the 600 Watts.
Which is what those crazy Brits refer to as having your beer googles on...
As several other people have mentioned just giving an empty operating system isn't going to turn your average family member on a great deal. I'd focus on the content and give them something compact like http://www.geexbox.org/en/screenshot.html (which already has a Christmasy theme built in!) and then preload it with a few video and audio tracks and a couple of photos. Stick that on a mini CDR with a big clear warning about not using in slot loading drives and you've got a funky little card/present which just happens to run on some weird OS called Linux. Then your crazy scheme might just succeed in not pissing anybody off!!! ;)
Hmmm, and getting dished up some 30 second outro animation makes it all a worthy investment of your time?
Sadly, I know exactly what you mean...
They might want to start stocking these wooden mice and cases from http://www.swedx.se/, although I don't think they're made from FSC wood...
Sort your link out please I'm interested :-)
Save energy -> here here!!! :-)
Ignorant? Hmmmmm, very mature of you to say so. But anyway, we've all been a teenager:
As has been mentioned you are off by an order of magnitude. I have a german widget which actually measures the wattage going through a plug. My nForce computer with Athlon XP2100+ uses in total 100Watts under full load and something like 95Watts when idling (which surprised me). My nForce2 with o/ced Athlon XP2400+ uses 150Watts under full load and again no less than 140Watts when idling.
I always like giving underclocking a go every now and again to see how low things will go. It's just as challenging/much fun as overclocking only your goal is silence instead of speed. Haven't made any wattage measurement of that yet.
If you want speed and low wattages/voltages, then I think the Intel Centrino laptop processor is 'market-leader' at the minute, although I doubt you could find separate ATX motherboards for it. The AMD Opteron with it's SOI technology also looks like a pretty energy efficient beast.
And of course if you're going to leave your computer on at least run a Grid client like www.climateprediction.net's. There wattage difference (from my measurements) really is minimal and their beta client is impressively stable already.