All "P4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition" does is point out the part isn't a standard P4, not really obfuscating anything.
"Athlon 64 3200+" is somewhat misleading, but we grant them some marketing leeway to pave over technical differences.
"Athlon FX-51" is outright annoying for a 2.2Ghz "extreme edition" part, just like the bonkers Opteron names like 240/242/244/246 for the dual proc 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0Ghz versions. Maybe cars don't have their horsepower stamped into their model names, but the frequency of a part is a very important factor after the type of a part in this market. I don't appreciate their attempts at obfuscation.
Its not always worth the effort of researching then ordering parts only to deal with the occasional DOA part and various sources of support for hardware issues when prepackaged prevalided machines using essentially the same components you would buy are available for about the same or lower price point.
I keep an eye on sites like Ben's Bargain Center, where really good deals from vendors like Dell are brought to the budget conscious geek's attention. I recently picked up a pair of 2.4Ghz 800Mhz FSB dual channel DDR P4s from Dell for less than 500$ each, and I'm very pleased with the machines. They are petite yet expandible, made of standard quality components, neat, silent, stable and fast. The one I use as a Windows box boots into XP before my monitor warms up. Which is another thing, essentially free Windows licenses, which is nice when I need to use Windows. And Linux has no problems on the machine, aside from a bit of difficulty during install since most of the hardware is quite new compared to the aging Debian install disks, like a new unrecognized rev of the Intel eepro.
My main machine is an upgraded Compaq W8000, which was a great deal back when I bought over a year ago. For 700$, I had picked up a great case with a 500W power supply, an i860 SMP motherboard worth at least 500$ itself, a P4 Xeon 1.7Ghz which was at least 150$, 18GB 10k SCSI drive which was over 200$ at the time, and the other necessary parts short of memory and video.
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I would take your post seriously if you had mentioned what part you believed Microsoft would play in the world of competing 64-bit extensions.
WXP for the Althon 64 is well on its way, as seen in the linked HotHardware review. Will Microsoft and the driver writing departments at hardware firms put up with a stealth announcement of another set of 64-bit extensions?
But could we find ways to engage kids within risk groups and help them find useful outlets for their talent, so they could receive positive feedback and recognition for their work instead of getting their kicks unleashing their work on the world?
Something occurred to me when reading this. What if we need these kiddie's to do what they do today? These recent news makers are relatively harmless compared to the worst that can happen. If you've read/. long enough, you've seen the suggestions of what a really malicious virus/worm could do. Would you rather see the systems of those ill prepared to maintain them all knocked right offline by a premature brute, or would you rather let them silently fall prey to those with a real agenda?
We should regard the issues we have today as the side effects of a vaccine. A little bit of uneasiness now, but protection from all but the most determined adversary. And the law already completes the vaccine analogy by punishing those who are caught actually perpetrating the crime. Outlawing the vaccine of full disclosure itself is just as silly as it would be to skip those childhood vaccinations.
Microsoft probably "studied the [XYZ] system closely and produced a system that operated in the same way" as many times as anyone else has.
Does MSN + Messenger remind you of anything? I'm sure AOL feels that the plot of their book was comandeered and wouldn't mind thwacking MS again to pay off more of their debt.
How about.NET? Who saw that and didn't think Java?
I'm sure there are even less generic examples that are just not occuring to me at the moment.
I'm sure most crawler's will be tweaked to ignore this place holder. Imagine all the bandwidth & indexing storage that would be lost on all those broken links to mispelled or expired domains even before pulling a stunt like the one you describe.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but wouldn't that already be a problem with servers that do negative responsecaching? Granted, filling the negative cache with crap is less troublesome than the presumably more utilized positive cache, but I can't see how this would cause DNS servers to drop left and right.
We do blacklists for spam because it originates from multiple moving targets.
Verisign is neither multiple nor moving. Instead of sullying our libraries with this stupidity, put your effort into beating Verisign into submission to common decency.
tugrul@duality:~$ telnet dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80 Trying 64.94.110.11... Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> c Connection closed. tugrul@duality:~$ telnet it.really.is.a.wildcard.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80 Trying 64.94.110.11... Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> c Connection closed. tugrul@duality:~$
I don't drive, and I've never filled a tank, so I've never thought about the gas tax.
I read the original comment through the lens of a/. stereotype, and I was just itching to pounce on the freeloading atmosphere amongst some here. The rest of my point still stands:)
I'm sorry, but if I use my Packet8 (or Vonage if I had that) phone to call another Packet8 (or Vonage) customer we don't ever touch the phone system.
How do you know it doesn't ever touch the phone system? Do the VoIP providers peer with each other and route around the existing phone system when its not needed?
If EVERYONE had a broadband connection tommorrow, EVERYONE would have a Vonage/Packet8 phone and all calls would be VoiP to VoiP and free worldwide.
I doubt they would have the existing Vonage phones... can those phones work independantly of Vonage and "call" an IP address? Its sorta like product activation, once the company outlives its usefulness, the phones will more likely have to be scrapped. Unless they create a fee driven dyndns like service and provide static phone numbers for dynamic IP users.
The LEGACY Interface Vonage/Packet8 provides is the reason I can cancel my overpriced deprecated phone service and only use my $19.95/month unlimited long distance to US/Canada VoiP.
So, you don't want to pay for it, but still want to be able to called people on this "deprecated" service.
An electric car's usefulness is independant of gas or internal combustion cars. VoIP services like Vonage are useless without the existing phone network. Would you pay 40$ a month to call another person on a broadband link? No, because you can do it for free.
So Vonage is allowed to consume resources in the existing phone network, like phone numbers and use of the last mile lines to normal phones, yet skirt the fees that keep the system, and Vonage's only source of value, running? I think not.
I wish I had mod points, because this comment is so on the mark. I can't believe I had to read this far down the page to see this expressed.
Every penny Vonage earns is in its bridging of two existing networks, and it shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose the regulations it likes from both networks.
How did they manage to get phone #s allocated to them without getting hit with these fees in the first place is beyond me. Somebody care to shed light on that process?
Well, all the modifications to the kernel are available to us since anything less would be a violation of GPL. It should be possible to build a kernel that can coexist with the binary Broadcom module.
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Doesn't seem like anyone else has.
OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz.torrent
I don't get how they intend to limit the downloads to just Mandrake Club members. Its a lot easier to pass on a few hundred KB .torrent file than ISOs.
All "P4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition" does is point out the part isn't a standard P4, not really obfuscating anything.
"Athlon 64 3200+" is somewhat misleading, but we grant them some marketing leeway to pave over technical differences.
"Athlon FX-51" is outright annoying for a 2.2Ghz "extreme edition" part, just like the bonkers Opteron names like 240/242/244/246 for the dual proc 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0Ghz versions. Maybe cars don't have their horsepower stamped into their model names, but the frequency of a part is a very important factor after the type of a part in this market. I don't appreciate their attempts at obfuscation.
Its not always worth the effort of researching then ordering parts only to deal with the occasional DOA part and various sources of support for hardware issues when prepackaged prevalided machines using essentially the same components you would buy are available for about the same or lower price point.
I keep an eye on sites like Ben's Bargain Center, where really good deals from vendors like Dell are brought to the budget conscious geek's attention. I recently picked up a pair of 2.4Ghz 800Mhz FSB dual channel DDR P4s from Dell for less than 500$ each, and I'm very pleased with the machines. They are petite yet expandible, made of standard quality components, neat, silent, stable and fast. The one I use as a Windows box boots into XP before my monitor warms up. Which is another thing, essentially free Windows licenses, which is nice when I need to use Windows. And Linux has no problems on the machine, aside from a bit of difficulty during install since most of the hardware is quite new compared to the aging Debian install disks, like a new unrecognized rev of the Intel eepro.
My main machine is an upgraded Compaq W8000, which was a great deal back when I bought over a year ago. For 700$, I had picked up a great case with a 500W power supply, an i860 SMP motherboard worth at least 500$ itself, a P4 Xeon 1.7Ghz which was at least 150$, 18GB 10k SCSI drive which was over 200$ at the time, and the other necessary parts short of memory and video.
I would take your post seriously if you had mentioned what part you believed Microsoft would play in the world of competing 64-bit extensions.
WXP for the Althon 64 is well on its way, as seen in the linked HotHardware review. Will Microsoft and the driver writing departments at hardware firms put up with a stealth announcement of another set of 64-bit extensions?
... China's own attempts at a cpu. With Linux and a good plan, these nations will only be a recompile away from ditching Intel.
But could we find ways to engage kids within risk groups and help them find useful outlets for their talent, so they could receive positive feedback and recognition for their work instead of getting their kicks unleashing their work on the world?
/. long enough, you've seen the suggestions of what a really malicious virus/worm could do. Would you rather see the systems of those ill prepared to maintain them all knocked right offline by a premature brute, or would you rather let them silently fall prey to those with a real agenda?
Something occurred to me when reading this. What if we need these kiddie's to do what they do today? These recent news makers are relatively harmless compared to the worst that can happen. If you've read
We should regard the issues we have today as the side effects of a vaccine. A little bit of uneasiness now, but protection from all but the most determined adversary. And the law already completes the vaccine analogy by punishing those who are caught actually perpetrating the crime. Outlawing the vaccine of full disclosure itself is just as silly as it would be to skip those childhood vaccinations.
According to this ExtremeTech article about this cpu, its L3.
The gaming-optimized Pentium 4 contains 2 Mbytes of level-3 cache, and will work with existing "Springdale" and "Canterwood" chipsets, Burns said.
I wonder when Netcraft is going to acknowledge and adjust its database to ignore bogus domains.
... with 1MB of L3. The results weren't that exciting.
Microsoft probably "studied the [XYZ] system closely and produced a system that operated in the same way" as many times as anyone else has.
.NET? Who saw that and didn't think Java?
Does MSN + Messenger remind you of anything? I'm sure AOL feels that the plot of their book was comandeered and wouldn't mind thwacking MS again to pay off more of their debt.
How about
I'm sure there are even less generic examples that are just not occuring to me at the moment.
I'm sure most crawler's will be tweaked to ignore this place holder. Imagine all the bandwidth & indexing storage that would be lost on all those broken links to mispelled or expired domains even before pulling a stunt like the one you describe.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but wouldn't that already be a problem with servers that do negative response caching? Granted, filling the negative cache with crap is less troublesome than the presumably more utilized positive cache, but I can't see how this would cause DNS servers to drop left and right.
Already answered here
We do blacklists for spam because it originates from multiple moving targets.
Verisign is neither multiple nor moving. Instead of sullying our libraries with this stupidity, put your effort into beating Verisign into submission to common decency.
Its odd given that we just found out spelling isn't *that* important =P
tugrul@duality:~$ telnet dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> c
Connection closed.
tugrul@duality:~$ telnet it.really.is.a.wildcard.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> c
Connection closed.
tugrul@duality:~$
This is just evil
MRAM @ How Stuff Works
MRAM @ whatis.techtarget.com
MRAM @ Webopedia
MRAM @ German Wikipedia
I don't drive, and I've never filled a tank, so I've never thought about the gas tax.
/. stereotype, and I was just itching to pounce on the freeloading atmosphere amongst some here. The rest of my point still stands :)
I read the original comment through the lens of a
I'm sorry, but if I use my Packet8 (or Vonage if I had that) phone to call another Packet8 (or Vonage) customer we don't ever touch the phone system.
How do you know it doesn't ever touch the phone system? Do the VoIP providers peer with each other and route around the existing phone system when its not needed?
If EVERYONE had a broadband connection tommorrow, EVERYONE would have a Vonage/Packet8 phone and all calls would be VoiP to VoiP and free worldwide.
I doubt they would have the existing Vonage phones... can those phones work independantly of Vonage and "call" an IP address? Its sorta like product activation, once the company outlives its usefulness, the phones will more likely have to be scrapped. Unless they create a fee driven dyndns like service and provide static phone numbers for dynamic IP users.
The LEGACY Interface Vonage/Packet8 provides is the reason I can cancel my overpriced deprecated phone service and only use my $19.95/month unlimited long distance to US/Canada VoiP.
So, you don't want to pay for it, but still want to be able to called people on this "deprecated" service.
An electric car's usefulness is independant of gas or internal combustion cars. VoIP services like Vonage are useless without the existing phone network. Would you pay 40$ a month to call another person on a broadband link? No, because you can do it for free.
So Vonage is allowed to consume resources in the existing phone network, like phone numbers and use of the last mile lines to normal phones, yet skirt the fees that keep the system, and Vonage's only source of value, running? I think not.
I wish I had mod points, because this comment is so on the mark. I can't believe I had to read this far down the page to see this expressed.
Every penny Vonage earns is in its bridging of two existing networks, and it shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose the regulations it likes from both networks.
How did they manage to get phone #s allocated to them without getting hit with these fees in the first place is beyond me. Somebody care to shed light on that process?
Emacs is a great O/S. But what it needs is a good text editor.
It does have a good text editor, vi.
Well, all the modifications to the kernel are available to us since anything less would be a violation of GPL. It should be possible to build a kernel that can coexist with the binary Broadcom module.