Reinventing the wheel, applying for hundreds of silly patents while implementing and closing the stuff with the help of the DMCA is exactly the thing every company would d do, if they were a 98% monopolist.
Most dual booters will die, if they can't get access to their windows files. That's why I still have a fat partition on my disk.
When some software is put in the public domain, then all companies can use this software for free and therefore have money left to invest it for something else, thus creating work. When the software is closed and costs lots of money, the money is just transferred from the buyer to the seller. There is absolutely no wealth created anywhere inbetween. It's a zero-sum-game. Sorry.
(I think the idea, that the BSD may be better license for some things, is discussable, just your assumptions that closed source creates work and open source doesn't is wrong. It's correct, when you look exclusivly at the IT-sector, but it's not correct when you look at the customers too. Someone has to pay the bill).
with Oracle you won't get any kind of insurance. Read their "EULA" for details. The only thing you have with commercial software is "someone to blame". (OK, of course you can buy any kind of support from most commercial vendors, but you must pay a lot of money and the only thing you get is, that their support tries harder (e.g. faster)). Try to set an agreement with Oracle of someone else where they pay you any money you lose from their faults.
Say: 1 hour of downtime of your Oracle DB --> 60 people can't work, can't sell anything, can't help any customer; damage: 100K. Will Oracle pay this? Never. If 1 day of Oracle downtime ruins your business, will Oracle pay this? Never.
(Oracle is just an example here. Almost anything you can buy does have this problem of limited guarantee. There lies one of the big advantages of Open Source. It's like an old car that you can repair for yourself).
Various 350 EX. Only problem: Only sold in Japan and extremly expensive to deliver to the US or Europe.
There are some other *very* quiet internal PSUs on the market. Fortron has some new models available with 120 mm fans (a 120 mm fan moves nearly three times more air than a fan with 80mm running at the same speed, so the fans can run really slow). Engelking has a PSU, that only uses a fan, if it get's too hot (45 degrees celsius). With a moderate PC the fan will be off most of the time.
And like some others have already pointed out: Check out the forums at silentpcreview.com. Most of my knowledge regarding quiet PCs does come from these forums.
Especially when you launch the lean browser (Phoenix) *and* the lean e-mail client (Minotaur) the savings in RAM and startup time compared to the great big beast Mozilla won't be that big. (I haven't verified my claims so far).
Transmeta is impossible, cause there are no boards available. VIA is too slow.
One way ist too underclock und undervolt your CPU. Some guys at www.silentpcreview.com have their Athlons running fanless(!) at 850 MHz and 1,1 Volt core voltage. The CPU doesn't consume more than 15 watts then.
I've done some experiments with Mobile Athlon in normal desktop boards. But not with that great results. Check out the forums of silentpcreview.
You can't buy the CPU, cause you can't buy a board, where it fits. No standard socket, no bios support,...
Try to find a board, that supports AMD Mobile Athlon. This is much easier for the board manufacturer, it has the same socket and it only has to set core voltage, multiplier and FSB correctly.
You can see the results of my experiments in the forums on www.silentpcreview.com. Search for Mobile Athlon.
Check out the www.silentpcreview.com and especially their undervolting page and the forums. There are guys running Athlon at 800 MHz and 1,1 volt completely fanless. And an 800 MHz Athlon is faster than everything from VIA or Transmeta.
No, you have to buy the CrossOver Plugin from Transgaming. The Word viewer is supported for more than a year now. And you support the most serious threat to MS (IMHO).
If you are a bit more adventurous, try compiling and setting up WinE for yourself. It is possible to get the Word viewer up and running without spending a buck (but of course, spending a lot of time (when doing it yourself) or just some minutes (when buying the Transgaming stuff).
Bye egghat.
(I hate MS as you do, but your posting is just wrong...)
There are people over there at silentpcreview.com, that massivly underclock and undervolt their athlons and have them running at 800 MHz (real) with 1,1 volt. These CPU shouldn't consume much more than 20 watts. You can't built a fanless system with that, but you don't need active cooling for the CPU. One big and slow running fan at the bottom of the case and one slow fan for the PSU are enough to cool such a system.
You can plug the normal Mobile Athlon into a normal socket A. Your board just has to detect them correctly and set the core voltage to the desired low level. There are no boards, that support this officially, but inofficially some people have got this up and running.
At least some of the new models from AMD are not for the normal socket A, but for a smaller sized socket. So chances are even smaller, that you are able to get these running in a normal board.
There's a thread at silentpcreview.com (can't give the exact URL for the thread, cause the server is unreachable (at least for me) at the moment), where I discuss this. Search for egghat and mobile in the forums and you will find this thread.
No no, the number (I can't verify the correctness; blame AMD for making bad press releases) matters.
When the processor uses say 1 watt at 1 volt at 750 MHz and my notebook can support this: Hooray. If it uses 25 watts while running at 1500 MHz and 1,4 volt when the power cord ist plugged in: the notebook battery couldn't care less;-)
Of course, but with an estimated life time of 25 years, production doesn't matter much. Most experts estimate, that after 3-7 years solar panels are "energy positive", that means, they have produced more energy than production has consumed. Of course, one of the goals is to shorten that time as much as possible.
An electric engine for the city and one of the new, very efficient diesel engine otherwise. My Audi A2 TDI runs around 50 mpq (4,5 l/100 km), which is quite good.
Remember that electricity is not emission free unless it's solar power/wind or water. Emissions are just made somewhere else.
Bye egghat.
Diesel cat was first sold by Peugeot not Fiat
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It's in mass production and more than half of Peugeot-Citroens diesel models are equipped with their diesel cat.
Peugeot sells them for more nearly two years now and they were definitely they first to bring this technology to the masses. (I'm not sure, if this technology really counts as a cool innovation after being on the market for two years...).
Larry Page: "It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations. We wanted to annotate the web--build a system so that after you'd viewed a page you could click and see what smart comments other people had about it. But how do you decide who gets to annotate Yahoo? We needed to figure out how to choose which annotations people should look at, which meant that we needed to figure out which other sites contained comments we should classify as authoritative. Hence PageRank.
"Only later did we realize that PageRank was much more useful for search than for annotation..."
Now think about blogging with page ranking applied. Might be much more useful than normal blogging. As search engines with PageRank are compared to normal search engines.
Besides, MS has little to no history of suing for patent infringement.
That's simply cause they steal so often and invent so seldom. They didn't invent the GUI, they didn't invent their filesystem, the didn't invent the spreadsheat and even C# is a Java clone.
I'm sure they will sue, if they have something to protect (look at the X-Box modders) and have something to base their claims upon (DMCA in case of the X-Box; but perhaps a patent for an API would do fine also).
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Reinventing the wheel, applying for hundreds of silly patents while implementing and closing the stuff with the help of the DMCA is exactly the thing every company would d do, if they were a 98% monopolist.
Most dual booters will die, if they can't get access to their windows files. That's why I still have a fat partition on my disk.
Bye egghat.
No sorry, IMHO you are wrong too.
When some software is put in the public domain, then all companies can use this software for free and therefore have money left to invest it for something else, thus creating work. When the software is closed and costs lots of money, the money is just transferred from the buyer to the seller. There is absolutely no wealth created anywhere inbetween. It's a zero-sum-game. Sorry.
(I think the idea, that the BSD may be better license for some things, is discussable, just your assumptions that closed source creates work and open source doesn't is wrong. It's correct, when you look exclusivly at the IT-sector, but it's not correct when you look at the customers too. Someone has to pay the bill).
Bye egghat.
The new OS from Sharp is much better. Syncing works fine. Document tab is much better. No problems reported so far.
...).
...)
It's so good, that the OpenZaurus guys have to clone some of new ideas from Sharp (this is the first time that this isn't the other way round
But I second the feeling that Sharp launched a beta quality product (even after that did public beta testing with th 5000 model
Bye egghat.
Oh, OK,m I got that one wwong. Then my comment was somewhat offtopic M;-)
Bye egghat.
Don't want to be knit-picking,but ...
with Oracle you won't get any kind of insurance. Read their "EULA" for details. The only thing you have with commercial software is "someone to blame". (OK, of course you can buy any kind of support from most commercial vendors, but you must pay a lot of money and the only thing you get is, that their support tries harder (e.g. faster)). Try to set an agreement with Oracle of someone else where they pay you any money you lose from their faults.
Say: 1 hour of downtime of your Oracle DB --> 60 people can't work, can't sell anything, can't help any customer; damage: 100K. Will Oracle pay this? Never. If 1 day of Oracle downtime ruins your business, will Oracle pay this? Never.
(Oracle is just an example here. Almost anything you can buy does have this problem of limited guarantee. There lies one of the big advantages of Open Source. It's like an old car that you can repair for yourself).
Bye egghat.
Various 350 EX. Only problem: Only sold in Japan and extremly expensive to deliver to the US or Europe.
There are some other *very* quiet internal PSUs on the market. Fortron has some new models available with 120 mm fans (a 120 mm fan moves nearly three times more air than a fan with 80mm running at the same speed, so the fans can run really slow). Engelking has a PSU, that only uses a fan, if it get's too hot (45 degrees celsius). With a moderate PC the fan will be off most of the time.
And like some others have already pointed out: Check out the forums at silentpcreview.com. Most of my knowledge regarding quiet PCs does come from these forums.
Bye egghat.
Yepp. Dito for me.
Especially when you launch the lean browser (Phoenix) *and* the lean e-mail client (Minotaur) the savings in RAM and startup time compared to the great big beast Mozilla won't be that big. (I haven't verified my claims so far).
Bye egghat.
... in my desktop PC.
Transmeta is impossible, cause there are no boards available. VIA is too slow.
One way ist too underclock und undervolt your CPU. Some guys at www.silentpcreview.com have their Athlons running fanless(!) at 850 MHz and 1,1 Volt core voltage. The CPU doesn't consume more than 15 watts then.
I've done some experiments with Mobile Athlon in normal desktop boards. But not with that great results. Check out the forums of silentpcreview.
Bye egghat.
You can't buy the CPU, cause you can't buy a board, where it fits. No standard socket, no bios support, ...
Try to find a board, that supports AMD Mobile Athlon. This is much easier for the board manufacturer, it has the same socket and it only has to set core voltage, multiplier and FSB correctly.
You can see the results of my experiments in the forums on www.silentpcreview.com. Search for Mobile Athlon.
Bye egghat.
Check out the www.silentpcreview.com and especially their undervolting page and the forums. There are guys running Athlon at 800 MHz and 1,1 volt completely fanless. And an 800 MHz Athlon is faster than everything from VIA or Transmeta.
Bye egghat.
Oh Sh**! Of course I meant Codeweavers.
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And now I even supply a link to the product's homepage: Click Here!. Should have done that before
Bye egghat.
No, you have to buy the CrossOver Plugin from Transgaming. The Word viewer is supported for more than a year now. And you support the most serious threat to MS (IMHO).
...)
If you are a bit more adventurous, try compiling and setting up WinE for yourself. It is possible to get the Word viewer up and running without spending a buck (but of course, spending a lot of time (when doing it yourself) or just some minutes (when buying the Transgaming stuff).
Bye egghat.
(I hate MS as you do, but your posting is just wrong
There are people over there at silentpcreview.com, that massivly underclock and undervolt their athlons and have them running at 800 MHz (real) with 1,1 volt. These CPU shouldn't consume much more than 20 watts. You can't built a fanless system with that, but you don't need active cooling for the CPU. One big and slow running fan at the bottom of the case and one slow fan for the PSU are enough to cool such a system.
Bye egghat.
You can plug the normal Mobile Athlon into a normal socket A. Your board just has to detect them correctly and set the core voltage to the desired low level. There are no boards, that support this officially, but inofficially some people have got this up and running.
At least some of the new models from AMD are not for the normal socket A, but for a smaller sized socket. So chances are even smaller, that you are able to get these running in a normal board.
There's a thread at silentpcreview.com (can't give the exact URL for the thread, cause the server is unreachable (at least for me) at the moment), where I discuss this. Search for egghat and mobile in the forums and you will find this thread.
Bye egghat.
No journaling filesystem ?
...
Wasn't XFS from SGI designed for exactly this purpose (real time multimedia processing)?
I don't know, but I thought, that choosing XFS for my home theater has been a sensible decision
Bye egghat
A lot of electricity comes from oil, gas or coal. Same problem here. Even uranium doesn't fall from the sky (thank God for that ;-) ).
And remember, that a chain like buring oil in a power plant --> electricity --> transport --> battery --> electric engine is not highly efficient.
Burning the oil in your car/motor has a much higher efficiency.
Bye egghat.
No no, the number (I can't verify the correctness; blame AMD for making bad press releases) matters.
;-)
When the processor uses say 1 watt at 1 volt at 750 MHz and my notebook can support this: Hooray. If it uses 25 watts while running at 1500 MHz and 1,4 volt when the power cord ist plugged in: the notebook battery couldn't care less
Bye egghat.
Of course, but with an estimated life time of 25 years, production doesn't matter much. Most experts estimate, that after 3-7 years solar panels are "energy positive", that means, they have produced more energy than production has consumed. Of course, one of the goals is to shorten that time as much as possible.
Bye egghat.
12 new Athlon Mobile models, which will go down to 1 volt core voltage and use not more than 1 watt (!).
Check here
The 1 watt number is from a Heise article.
Bye egghat.
... IMHO.
An electric engine for the city and one of the new, very efficient diesel engine otherwise. My Audi A2 TDI runs around 50 mpq (4,5 l/100 km), which is quite good.
Remember that electricity is not emission free unless it's solar power/wind or water. Emissions are just made somewhere else.
Bye egghat.
It's in mass production and more than half of Peugeot-Citroens diesel models are equipped with their diesel cat.
...).
Peugeot sells them for more nearly two years now and they were definitely they first to bring this technology to the masses. (I'm not sure, if this technology really counts as a cool innovation after being on the market for two years
Peugeot has some background info availyble here
Bye egghat.
From the article
Larry Page: "It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations. We wanted to annotate the web--build a system so that after you'd viewed a page you could click and see what smart comments other people had about it. But how do you decide who gets to annotate Yahoo? We needed to figure out how to choose which annotations people should look at, which meant that we needed to figure out which other sites contained comments we should classify as authoritative. Hence PageRank.
"Only later did we realize that PageRank was much more useful for search than for annotation..."
Now think about blogging with page ranking applied. Might be much more useful than normal blogging. As search engines with PageRank are compared to normal search engines.
Bye egghat.
Besides, MS has little to no history of suing for patent infringement.
That's simply cause they steal so often and invent so seldom. They didn't invent the GUI, they didn't invent their filesystem, the didn't invent the spreadsheat and even C# is a Java clone.
I'm sure they will sue, if they have something to protect (look at the X-Box modders) and have something to base their claims upon (DMCA in case of the X-Box; but perhaps a patent for an API would do fine also).
Bye egghat.
Quite cool, check it out here!
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But if you don't like weired looks of your neighbours, don't play it in the subway
Bye egghat.
No, not really. Nothing that compares to 1024 bit 3des or what we computer users think, what's secure.
But you're right that this isn't the killer app for the masses, although some people might like it.
Bye egghat.