Given that the default fan thresholds of the 8200 are VERY aggressive w.r.t. power management (i.e. they run the CPU *damn hot* and you should NOT be slowing down the fans compared to the BIOS defaults), I don't think this is the reason for your long battery life with the 8200.
But I can confirm that my battery life with my I8200 is comparable to, if not better than, under Windows.
Power management features I use:
cpufreq (Both speedstep-ich and p4-clockmod as modules - Load speedstep-ich, set the "powersave" governor to step down the voltage/speed, then load p4-clockmod to drop the clock speed even more. I've been running my P4-M 1.7 at 600 MHz lately, it's more than responsive enough for AIM and web browsing.)
nvclock (Does not support mobile chipsets out of the box, but I disabled the code that causes nvclock to not touch mobile chipsets and it works fine on my GeForce 4 Go 440. I'm assuming the devs of nvclock disabled this because it's an overclocking tool and overclocking mobile GPUs is a bad idea, they forgot that mobile users might actually want to UNDERCLOCK their GPUs...)
Get LOTS of memory. Enough to allow you to disable swap. If you have swap enabled, it seems that even with an idle machine, it'll page stuff in/out just enough to FUBAR any attempts to make the HD sleep.
During recording with my PVR-350, I cannot notice ANY visible CPU usage other than an occasional small "blip", with my 1.1 GHz Athlon TBird.
Avermedia M179s go for about $80, and OEM PVR-250s (somewhat different than the retail ones, it's the "Media Center" version) can be found for $88 on eBay pretty often.
My PVR-350 is some of the best money I've ever spent on my machine.
1) If you wire in parallel with the sensors with a high-impedance sensor, you won't affect its existing operation.
2) 99% of the sensors themselves are very well documented for diagnostic purposes. For example, I can tell you that the oxygen sensor used in late-80s/early 90s Chrysler vehicles ranges from 0-5v depending on air/fuel ratio, with 0.8-0.9v being the optimal level, less being lean, and higher being rich.
3) Not that difficult
4) Again, not that difficult. Most of these sensors are either pulse generators or linear analog sensors with a range of 0-5v or 0-12v.
The other option is to use the OBDII diagnostic port of the computer, and possibly any other ports available. (For example, on a lot of Chrysler vehicles from the late 80s to the late 90s, they used a bus called CCD for Chrysler Collision Detection. Most people think this means some sort of detection of a physical collision, but it actually refers to collision detection in the network access sense.)
The CCD bus is basically 8N1 serial at a somewhat oddball bitrate (I forget exactly, but it's 10 kilobits/sec and can be created by an integer divisor of an 8 MHz clock), plus some weirdo access control stuff that isn't necessary if you just want to read the bus. Uses differential signalling.
MythTV works well with the pcHDTV HD-2000 ATSC tuner board for recording of ATSC transmissions.
Once I get my antenna up out of the attic and onto the roof, this is the Next Step for my Myth box. (Right now my reception is too borderline to think about buyin another HD card, I was dumb and blew $300 on a MyHD...)
MythTV satisfies all of those except one
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And adds much, much more.
Multiple tuners - There are people on the MythTV mailing list who run *quadruple* PVR-250 hardware MPEG encoders in their backend box.
Realtime encoding/decoding - See above. MythTV works great with the following boards: Hauppauge PVR-x50 Yuan MPG600 Avermedia M179
Remotes: Myth works great with my PVR-350's remote.
Family friendly - Set up the box right, and all you need is a power cycle to reset a Myth box too.
The only disadvantage is you need to deal with it if there's a failure.
Advantages over a cable/sat box: Add as much hard drive space as you want. The average cable/sat PVR box comes with a 40-80 gig HD. I have 200.
Standard filesystem and file format - My Myth box stores standard MPEG-2 program streams on an ext3 filesystem. Cable/sat PVR systems do everything they can to keep you away from the video. I can burn my Myth files directly to DVD with a 5-line shell script. (The Myth devs are working on integrating this functionality into Myth)
Ability to stream over a network: TiVo's latest entries into this arena are client-only. If you want, you can set up a Myth backend server in your basement, and have thin clients on every TV in your house you want to watch video on. Now that the Hauppauge MediaMVP is out, expect support for it to be integrated into Myth within 2-3 months. That's $85 per additional frontend, folks.
a) Don't use Mandrake. It has always been too bleeding-edge in my opinion. I have twice tried Mandrake, and both times they failed to even install due to the fact that Mandrake likes to use hdparm parameters generally considered dangerous. In both cases Mandrake would try to enable a feature not supported by the machine's HD or IDE chipset and hang the machine. I've never had that problem with Redhat. b) There seem to be some issues with some of the patches Mandrake puts into their stock kernels and ivtv. Not a problem if you always compile a custom kernel like myself though.:)
RH9 and Fedora Core 1 are both very well supported by Axel Thimm's ATrpms add-ons, which include myth.
Another thing: Do NOT use a FAT32 partition for your video storage. Myth assumes you have a sane filesystem without a 2GB filesize limit.
The only drivers for ATI that allow you to play modern games are their binary-only Catalyst drivers. (One acronym: S3TC) Which blow chunks compared to NV's binary-only drivers.
I believe S3TC is one of the major factors in why BOTH ATI and NV are binary-only. I know it's the reason given for ATI's open-source drivers not being able to run UT2K3. Sadly, there aren't really any acceptable alternatives to S3TC.
I still won't buy ATI. Sure it's faster, but given their driver quality track record, it's like swapping the engine from a Viper into a Yugo. Wicked fast until you crash.
Yes, I'm an *extremely* unhappy former ATI customer. I will NEVER buy one of their cards again.
I think that in ALL respects, the GC is more powerful than the N64.
The N64 was likely not truly 64-bit. Using funky techniques to decide the number of bits a system has is old hat in the console industry.
I believe one system (Atari Jaguar???) was marketed as a "128-bit" system, when in the PC world it would have been considered a 16-bit or 32-bit system.
In the PC world, the usual rule is the size of the GP registers. Anyone who makes "larger" claims is usually accused of false advartising.
AMD could easily call the Athlon a 128-bit or 256-bit CPU (Due to data bus width) if they were going by console industry rules.
I don't think the N64 was really 64-bit, at least not by the same definition used to deem the Cube as 32. Most likely both were 32-bit systems (CPUs with 32-bit-wide GPRs). The 64 may have had a 64-bit data path in the graphics subsystem (Modern standards of GPUs have 128 or 256-bit wide datapaths or more, and almost surely the Gamecube is a 128-bit or 256-bit system by the definition of bit width used to define the N64 as a 64-bit system. When both are 32-bit systems if using the PC industry definition.)
Whether it is more or less convenient than going to a store and buying a CD is iffy.
Now, iTMS is FAR more convenient than either approach, and is not nearly as overpriced as CDs either.
Most importantly, I can buy just that "one track" I like, rather than paying for 10 songs, only one of which I actually like.
If only the cable companies would learn this too. The reason I don't have cable is because basic cable isn't worth the (minimal) cost because I can get BETTER quality over-the-air (ATSC tuner), and because I don't want to pay $40/month just to add the 2-3 channels I like and 30 channels (10 of them being ESPN and relatives) I don't care about. If I could pay for basic cable and then subscribe to the 2-3 channels I want for a few bucks a pop, I'd call up Cablevision in a heartbeat.
Let's face it. There are plenty of people who will NEVER buy a Mac.
If I ever buy one, it'll be used. (If only iTunes 4 would run on some of the cheaper used Macs...)
But iTMS can be (and already has proven to be) a major cash cow for Apple.
And so has the iPod... Many people who in the past never would have bought an Apple product have bought an iPod. I've been seriously considering doing so myself, and being able to buy music for it with iTMS would probably push me over the edge on that decision.
Preventing an SCO employee from jumping ship by denying them a job opportunity *benefits SCO*.
Although a poster below made a good point - This could be intentional to avoid intellectual property problems. SCO noncompete agreements might likely make their employees ineligible to apply for employment at ChrisD's company in the first place.
That said, the wording of the statement on ChrisD's website is immature and vengeful.
More proper wording which I would accept is, "Due to intellectual property issues and conflicts of interest, we regret that we cannot hire former employees of the Santa Cruz Operation at this time."
" But 100 other people download albums and burn them instead of buying the CD. It is quicker for me to download and burn an album then to go to the store...and cheaper...so there isnt even much of a reason NOT to (aside from morals...but we all lost those a long time ago). "
Which is why the RIAA is stupid for not looking at the success of the iTunes Music Store.
Every attempt the RIAA has made at legitimate music downloading has proven to be LESS convenient for the user than the hassle of driving to a store and buying an overpriced CD with 10 crap filler tracks and one good song.
Apple got it right. All the convenience, none of the guilt.
Now if only us PC users could use it. (I know, I know, coming soon to a PC near you, but why the hell didn't Apple just make it web-based to begin with?)
Probably one of the issues requiring a carrier was that the capsule's exact splashdown location was not known, requiring the recovery fleet to have extensive search capabilities.
With modern technology, the capsule can tell the recovery fleet where it is.
I would hope that Lilly is extremely stringent about screening.
Genetic engineering (The first commercially successful genetically engineered organisms were insulin-producing bacteria), products that are INJECTED by their users...
A "bad apple" at Sears can't exactly do much damage terrorist-wise. A "bad apple" at Ford is no worse than their management. (Three words: fuel tank design) A "bad apple" at Lilly = thousands or even millions of people poisoned or made sick by tainted medicine.
"That was when IBM laid off 8,000 employees, in the beginning of 2001 -- and yes, we were still hiring the whole time. I remember interviewing new candidates just after hearing that one of my colleagues was getting the axe. Bizarre. In fairness to the management, however, I will say that during that first round it was pretty much all deadwood that got chopped, unlike the second round. "
Note that "dead wood" does not always mean a bad employee - It could also mean they were unfortunate enough to be working for a business unit that wasn't doing so well.
A previous posted mentioned that Global Services (Essentially IBM Consulting) couldn't hire people fast enough and was doing extremely well. The flipside of this is that other parts of IBM were not doing so well. (*coughcoughDeathstarscoughcough*)
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Given that the default fan thresholds of the 8200 are VERY aggressive w.r.t. power management (i.e. they run the CPU *damn hot* and you should NOT be slowing down the fans compared to the BIOS defaults), I don't think this is the reason for your long battery life with the 8200.
But I can confirm that my battery life with my I8200 is comparable to, if not better than, under Windows.
Power management features I use:
cpufreq (Both speedstep-ich and p4-clockmod as modules - Load speedstep-ich, set the "powersave" governor to step down the voltage/speed, then load p4-clockmod to drop the clock speed even more. I've been running my P4-M 1.7 at 600 MHz lately, it's more than responsive enough for AIM and web browsing.)
nvclock (Does not support mobile chipsets out of the box, but I disabled the code that causes nvclock to not touch mobile chipsets and it works fine on my GeForce 4 Go 440. I'm assuming the devs of nvclock disabled this because it's an overclocking tool and overclocking mobile GPUs is a bad idea, they forgot that mobile users might actually want to UNDERCLOCK their GPUs...)
Get LOTS of memory. Enough to allow you to disable swap. If you have swap enabled, it seems that even with an idle machine, it'll page stuff in/out just enough to FUBAR any attempts to make the HD sleep.
During recording with my PVR-350, I cannot notice ANY visible CPU usage other than an occasional small "blip", with my 1.1 GHz Athlon TBird.
Avermedia M179s go for about $80, and OEM PVR-250s (somewhat different than the retail ones, it's the "Media Center" version) can be found for $88 on eBay pretty often.
My PVR-350 is some of the best money I've ever spent on my machine.
Pretty similar to my setup.
WinTV-PVR 350, 200GB HD, DVD burner, but for software I'm running MythTV instead.
I'm surprised Slashdot would mention Beyond TV without mentioning Myth, which is just as good (if not better) and runs under Linux.
1) If you wire in parallel with the sensors with a high-impedance sensor, you won't affect its existing operation.
2) 99% of the sensors themselves are very well documented for diagnostic purposes. For example, I can tell you that the oxygen sensor used in late-80s/early 90s Chrysler vehicles ranges from 0-5v depending on air/fuel ratio, with 0.8-0.9v being the optimal level, less being lean, and higher being rich.
3) Not that difficult
4) Again, not that difficult. Most of these sensors are either pulse generators or linear analog sensors with a range of 0-5v or 0-12v.
The other option is to use the OBDII diagnostic port of the computer, and possibly any other ports available. (For example, on a lot of Chrysler vehicles from the late 80s to the late 90s, they used a bus called CCD for Chrysler Collision Detection. Most people think this means some sort of detection of a physical collision, but it actually refers to collision detection in the network access sense.)
The CCD bus is basically 8N1 serial at a somewhat oddball bitrate (I forget exactly, but it's 10 kilobits/sec and can be created by an integer divisor of an 8 MHz clock), plus some weirdo access control stuff that isn't necessary if you just want to read the bus. Uses differential signalling.
Dell's 1800FP is usually one of the cheapest DVI-capable monitors available.
When I bought it about a year ago, I paid $530ish for it.
The cheapest non-Dell 17" LCD with DVI I could find was over $600.
So I paid $70 less, got DVI, and got an extra inch of diagonal...
No one supports HDTV PVR at this point in time.
MythTV works well with the pcHDTV HD-2000 ATSC tuner board for recording of ATSC transmissions.
Once I get my antenna up out of the attic and onto the roof, this is the Next Step for my Myth box. (Right now my reception is too borderline to think about buyin another HD card, I was dumb and blew $300 on a MyHD...)
And adds much, much more.
Multiple tuners - There are people on the MythTV mailing list who run *quadruple* PVR-250 hardware MPEG encoders in their backend box.
Realtime encoding/decoding - See above. MythTV works great with the following boards:
Hauppauge PVR-x50
Yuan MPG600
Avermedia M179
Remotes: Myth works great with my PVR-350's remote.
Family friendly - Set up the box right, and all you need is a power cycle to reset a Myth box too.
The only disadvantage is you need to deal with it if there's a failure.
Advantages over a cable/sat box:
Add as much hard drive space as you want. The average cable/sat PVR box comes with a 40-80 gig HD. I have 200.
Standard filesystem and file format - My Myth box stores standard MPEG-2 program streams on an ext3 filesystem. Cable/sat PVR systems do everything they can to keep you away from the video. I can burn my Myth files directly to DVD with a 5-line shell script. (The Myth devs are working on integrating this functionality into Myth)
Ability to stream over a network: TiVo's latest entries into this arena are client-only. If you want, you can set up a Myth backend server in your basement, and have thin clients on every TV in your house you want to watch video on. Now that the Hauppauge MediaMVP is out, expect support for it to be integrated into Myth within 2-3 months. That's $85 per additional frontend, folks.
I agree with most of your points, except:
:)
a) Don't use Mandrake. It has always been too bleeding-edge in my opinion. I have twice tried Mandrake, and both times they failed to even install due to the fact that Mandrake likes to use hdparm parameters generally considered dangerous. In both cases Mandrake would try to enable a feature not supported by the machine's HD or IDE chipset and hang the machine. I've never had that problem with Redhat.
b) There seem to be some issues with some of the patches Mandrake puts into their stock kernels and ivtv. Not a problem if you always compile a custom kernel like myself though.
RH9 and Fedora Core 1 are both very well supported by Axel Thimm's ATrpms add-ons, which include myth.
Another thing: Do NOT use a FAT32 partition for your video storage. Myth assumes you have a sane filesystem without a 2GB filesize limit.
The previous guy could have owed a LOT of people money.
i.e. each of those calls could have been from a different company.
Which sucks, but isn't harassment.
Lie AND call from:
a) A payphone
b) A caller-ID-blocked phone (which the original author said he did)
No it doesn't.
Due to intellectual property issues, there are no open-source drivers that support S3TC.
"working perfectly" implies that it can run a modern game like UT2K3 - Which the open-source drivers can't.
Your only option for UT2K3 (And likely Doom3 when it comes out) are either NV's or ATI's closed-source drivers. And NV's Linux drivers are FAR better.
The only drivers for ATI that allow you to play modern games are their binary-only Catalyst drivers. (One acronym: S3TC) Which blow chunks compared to NV's binary-only drivers.
I believe S3TC is one of the major factors in why BOTH ATI and NV are binary-only. I know it's the reason given for ATI's open-source drivers not being able to run UT2K3. Sadly, there aren't really any acceptable alternatives to S3TC.
'nuff said.
I still won't buy ATI. Sure it's faster, but given their driver quality track record, it's like swapping the engine from a Viper into a Yugo. Wicked fast until you crash.
Yes, I'm an *extremely* unhappy former ATI customer. I will NEVER buy one of their cards again.
Some of the "worst offenders" will send the offending attachment back.
So the reply is larger (original message + "we found a virus" stuff) AND it potentially spreads the virus to an uninfected machine.
I think that in ALL respects, the GC is more powerful than the N64.
The N64 was likely not truly 64-bit. Using funky techniques to decide the number of bits a system has is old hat in the console industry.
I believe one system (Atari Jaguar???) was marketed as a "128-bit" system, when in the PC world it would have been considered a 16-bit or 32-bit system.
In the PC world, the usual rule is the size of the GP registers. Anyone who makes "larger" claims is usually accused of false advartising.
AMD could easily call the Athlon a 128-bit or 256-bit CPU (Due to data bus width) if they were going by console industry rules.
I don't think the N64 was really 64-bit, at least not by the same definition used to deem the Cube as 32. Most likely both were 32-bit systems (CPUs with 32-bit-wide GPRs). The 64 may have had a 64-bit data path in the graphics subsystem (Modern standards of GPUs have 128 or 256-bit wide datapaths or more, and almost surely the Gamecube is a 128-bit or 256-bit system by the definition of bit width used to define the N64 as a 64-bit system. When both are 32-bit systems if using the PC industry definition.)
True, it is cheaper.
Whether it is more or less convenient than going to a store and buying a CD is iffy.
Now, iTMS is FAR more convenient than either approach, and is not nearly as overpriced as CDs either.
Most importantly, I can buy just that "one track" I like, rather than paying for 10 songs, only one of which I actually like.
If only the cable companies would learn this too. The reason I don't have cable is because basic cable isn't worth the (minimal) cost because I can get BETTER quality over-the-air (ATSC tuner), and because I don't want to pay $40/month just to add the 2-3 channels I like and 30 channels (10 of them being ESPN and relatives) I don't care about. If I could pay for basic cable and then subscribe to the 2-3 channels I want for a few bucks a pop, I'd call up Cablevision in a heartbeat.
Let's face it. There are plenty of people who will NEVER buy a Mac.
If I ever buy one, it'll be used. (If only iTunes 4 would run on some of the cheaper used Macs...)
But iTMS can be (and already has proven to be) a major cash cow for Apple.
And so has the iPod... Many people who in the past never would have bought an Apple product have bought an iPod. I've been seriously considering doing so myself, and being able to buy music for it with iTMS would probably push me over the edge on that decision.
Preventing an SCO employee from jumping ship by denying them a job opportunity *benefits SCO*.
Although a poster below made a good point - This could be intentional to avoid intellectual property problems. SCO noncompete agreements might likely make their employees ineligible to apply for employment at ChrisD's company in the first place.
That said, the wording of the statement on ChrisD's website is immature and vengeful.
More proper wording which I would accept is, "Due to intellectual property issues and conflicts of interest, we regret that we cannot hire former employees of the Santa Cruz Operation at this time."
Mr. Codemonkey has been submitting resumes without success?
If they're applying for a job at a Linux company, shouldn't it be painfully fucking obvious that they're TRYING TO JUMP SHIP?
Why benefit SCO by making it *HARDER* for their employees to jump ship?
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But 100 other people download albums and burn them instead of buying the CD. It is quicker for me to download and burn an album then to go to the store...and cheaper...so there isnt even much of a reason NOT to (aside from morals...but we all lost those a long time ago). "
Which is why the RIAA is stupid for not looking at the success of the iTunes Music Store.
Every attempt the RIAA has made at legitimate music downloading has proven to be LESS convenient for the user than the hassle of driving to a store and buying an overpriced CD with 10 crap filler tracks and one good song.
Apple got it right. All the convenience, none of the guilt.
Now if only us PC users could use it. (I know, I know, coming soon to a PC near you, but why the hell didn't Apple just make it web-based to begin with?)
Yeah. Tell him to get a full-time skill or enroll in college.
Then tell him he's not allowed to use his one marketable skillset.
Probably one of the issues requiring a carrier was that the capsule's exact splashdown location was not known, requiring the recovery fleet to have extensive search capabilities.
With modern technology, the capsule can tell the recovery fleet where it is.
I would hope that Lilly is extremely stringent about screening.
Genetic engineering (The first commercially successful genetically engineered organisms were insulin-producing bacteria), products that are INJECTED by their users...
A "bad apple" at Sears can't exactly do much damage terrorist-wise. A "bad apple" at Ford is no worse than their management. (Three words: fuel tank design) A "bad apple" at Lilly = thousands or even millions of people poisoned or made sick by tainted medicine.
Is SOP nearly anywhere in the corporate world.
Sad but true.
"That was when IBM laid off 8,000 employees, in the beginning of 2001 -- and yes, we were still hiring the whole time. I remember interviewing new candidates just after hearing that one of my colleagues was getting the axe. Bizarre. In fairness to the management, however, I will say that during that first round it was pretty much all deadwood that got chopped, unlike the second round. "
Note that "dead wood" does not always mean a bad employee - It could also mean they were unfortunate enough to be working for a business unit that wasn't doing so well.
A previous posted mentioned that Global Services (Essentially IBM Consulting) couldn't hire people fast enough and was doing extremely well. The flipside of this is that other parts of IBM were not doing so well. (*coughcoughDeathstarscoughcough*)