I used to have an Antec 550W PSU, powering my WS with a K8WE, and 2 mid range Opterons.. and for a while I thought having to wait 20-30s before my PC would start after pressing the power button is *normal*
Apparently not so, the moment I got a PC Power and Cooling 850W PSU, the system powers up immediately.
At this point I still do not have any explaination for it, but seeing all those capacitors on the K8WE, perhaps it needs to *charge* them all up somehow before starting, and the old PSU is just too short of juice to do that?
Just a crazy explaination with no basis behind it probably, but the fact remains, a good PSU matters! Get a good PSU for your PC today!
*PS: I'm not from PC Cooling, but their PSUs really made me change the way I look at offerings from "Antec" and other such brands, I used to think Antec was great... but I did learn that it really is just a rebadged ChannelWell.
All this is nice and interesting, but you speak as though the rest of the world are fools.
I mean, if you look at the pace at which mods for various consoles in the past came out, and I can tell you there were VERY interesting mods in the first generations which involves arcane chip soldering and booting up with weird discs and so on..
How the hell did people figure them out, you might wonder.. people WILL figure them out. The Chinese *will* do that. There is a huge financial incentive to do that, and it will be a cold day in hell before China starts embracing the American DRM standards. If anything they will make their own! (No way will they trust you guys that much)
So, the outlook probably is not as gloom as you put it. And do learn some Chinese, it is one dictatorship to another, not much difference if you ask me.
Google for "6600GT infinite loop" and you will see what I mean. I have a 6600GT OC from BFG sitting *right here* on my desk, and why isn't it in my computer? Well, it seems like nVidia is staffed with whores who can't even code a device driver properly!
An equivalent ATI card *just works*. Period.
Infinite loop indeed, what did they do, outsource their driver development to munkeys in India? Total waste of my money, never again.. nVidia.
Fortunately, I've converted to the Mac, so I don't have to worry about stupid things like having a choice in graphics cards.
So you don't like choice?
Tell me again when your kids are forced to be Christians and have to learn all about Creationism in school.
You might be intellectually lazy, but having the right to exercise choice is important for any free thinking human being. I for one do NOT welcome that choice hating/locked down system architecture overlord in Steve Jobs.
blank passwords are not allowed for remote logins. But I'm sure you knew that right? Because you know SO much about Windows, huh... just dont let the facts get in the way of a "me too" rant
That's default behaviour, but that too can be changed...
As someone mentioned in an earlier comment, the ability to have access to every printed work, song, piece of video, work of art, is essentially a Library of Alexandria on a scale that will boggle the mind. In my view, working against the ability we have to assemble such a wondrous and useful new system is like spitting in the face of progress and knowledge.
Not to be a flamebait, but what are you, a communist?
I'm talking about providing the Intel builds of OSX in a VMware.vmdk image to developers, instead of providing a $2,499 hardware kit that does the same thing for developers who do not need direct access to the physical hardware to complete their ports.
Because the same machines probably which has a "retail value!" of $2,499 probably costs USD$699 and are "loaned" to the devs for 2 years for a fee of USD$999....
But, Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
Spread this list around guys:) Let's help make it a wee bit more economical for them!
A Mac G5 - which is what we were comparing - will boot faster than a PC with AV software. 'Glorious happy fantastic sunshine and lollypops vision' is all in your head. At least in this instance. No one is attacking your platform, put the gun down. He just said the AV software most PCs must have to be safe kills the boot time.
You reckon?
My dual opteron box boots Windows in 20 seconds, the delays from AVG Free is virtually zero.
Next please, oh, and please take your outdated piece of crap of a computer to the nearest recycling centre please.
Nothing stinks more than Mac fanbois who just can't accept the fact that PPC macs are SLOW. Wake up from Steve's RDF fanboi... smell the coffee... Steve is switching to Intel CPUs soon. The Mhz myth was all a big myth...
But could it run modern software, and would it come with all the bells and whistles of most macs these days? (i.e. dvd + rw (if you elect) + firewire + apple's service (if you've ever called up a Dell support line you'd realize being able to just walk into your local Apple store or get REAL people to support your product is worth its weight in gold)
Come over to Appletalk.com.au, you will see for yourself the number of disgruntled customers who have their laptops in service for.. *gasp* 3 months!
Worth their weight in gold... NOT.
Apple is just another major corporation out to repossess YOUR gold for THEIR cheap junk. Suck it.
Now imagine a world where Microsoft requires a locked TCPA chip to boot a future version of Windows. Basically they will speak unto Dell thusly: "If you want to sell Windows you will stick this chip on each and every motherboard. And if you don't want to pay the whitebox chopshop price for licenses you will join our co-op marketing program which requires you stick this chip on ALL motherboards you sell. No exceptions. Hey bitch, you already give Intel the same 100% loyalty so now you serve TWO masters. Starting today you no longer sell Dells, you sell Windows Workstations with Intel Inside and if you don't like that I have the same contract manufacturers you job your actual work out to ready to make em for me direct and a bunch of Indians ready to roll on deploying an ecommerce site to sell them through."
You reckon?
Considering that Dell has already made clear its desire to bundle OSX with its systems.. if Microsoft did propose such hard terms for Dell, what makes you think that they would not make Apple an offer that they just can't resist?
How much does Apple make from those hardware currently? At best a stately 20%, that's 400 bucks for a top of the line workstation, woah, I'm SO juicing in my pants right now... NOT.
If they make just 50 bucks from each license they sell to Dell, and probably restrict Dells to some terms where they are unable to compete with Apple inhouse hardware based on some stylistic factor or something... THAT my friends, is what will make Steve, his wife, his daughter, and a whole lot of others, cream their collective underpants.
You'd be surprised at how many people out there are using five- to eight-year-old machines and are still resisting upgrading. Walk into any Apple Store, and you've got a good chance at seeing an old G3 iMac or a clamshell iBook or a G4 Cube being worked on, still in working condition and doing everything its owner needs it to do
Users will upgrade more bloody often if Apple's margins are not so bloody high.
Well on the scale of one company, probably very little would happen, espically with something as relitively unimportant as older MIPS architecture (it's not nearly as popular as it used to be). However over all China will have to play by international trade rules. They are a WTO member, something they like wince it gives them much easier access to foriegn markets, and as such the WTO wields some authority. While it's questionable if the US alone could cause enough economic trouble (espically given the reciporical trouble that would happen) with tarriffs/bans, it's no question that if all WTO members did the same China would have no choice but to change.
Will never happen..
Tragedy of the commons, you guys just can't resist the notion of not being able to buy that $30 DVD player.
*gasp* What will happen if Americans can't buy their cheap DVD players and fill their minds with numb and dry American entertainment? Perhaps they will realise what a screwed up place their world is becoming, and actually do something about it!
The only way your government can keep you in the dark is probably to keep numbing your minds, keep you all fat and contented.. and I'll leave you to find out the rest.
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Let's hope they never deploy this where I work!
I don't mind! It'd be one real reason to move more and get more muscles on my mouse arm!
Ah good, now that she has been saved, she can spend the rest of her life paying back the cost of the system!
Afterall she is living on "borrowed" time!
***Bzzzt***
Wrong, The Rio Karma uses a Hitachi drive, whereas the iPod uses a Toshiba drive. I'll gladly tear apart an iPod and a Karma to prove my point.
Please contact me for more info on where you can send me the said money, thank you.
so why don't you marry him?
Incompatible genitals
What is a google?
:)
"Google is your friend"
Definitely dual processor systems.
I used to have an Antec 550W PSU, powering my WS with a K8WE, and 2 mid range Opterons.. and for a while I thought having to wait 20-30s before my PC would start after pressing the power button is *normal*
Apparently not so, the moment I got a PC Power and Cooling 850W PSU, the system powers up immediately.
At this point I still do not have any explaination for it, but seeing all those capacitors on the K8WE, perhaps it needs to *charge* them all up somehow before starting, and the old PSU is just too short of juice to do that?
Just a crazy explaination with no basis behind it probably, but the fact remains, a good PSU matters! Get a good PSU for your PC today!
*PS: I'm not from PC Cooling, but their PSUs really made me change the way I look at offerings from "Antec" and other such brands, I used to think Antec was great... but I did learn that it really is just a rebadged ChannelWell.
All this is nice and interesting, but you speak as though the rest of the world are fools.
I mean, if you look at the pace at which mods for various consoles in the past came out, and I can tell you there were VERY interesting mods in the first generations which involves arcane chip soldering and booting up with weird discs and so on..
How the hell did people figure them out, you might wonder.. people WILL figure them out. The Chinese *will* do that. There is a huge financial incentive to do that, and it will be a cold day in hell before China starts embracing the American DRM standards. If anything they will make their own! (No way will they trust you guys that much)
So, the outlook probably is not as gloom as you put it. And do learn some Chinese, it is one dictatorship to another, not much difference if you ask me.
You can actually buy those cheap chinese calculators that you see sales people use..
They have huge number keys for the numerals and +-*/ and =, and THAT'S IT!
Oh no you don't! Nice try, but you aren't gonna get away from math!
We'll just ban graphing calculators and make you guys do it the harder way!
I will avoid the nVidia cards like the plague.
Google for "6600GT infinite loop" and you will see what I mean. I have a 6600GT OC from BFG sitting *right here* on my desk, and why isn't it in my computer? Well, it seems like nVidia is staffed with whores who can't even code a device driver properly!
An equivalent ATI card *just works*. Period.
Infinite loop indeed, what did they do, outsource their driver development to munkeys in India? Total waste of my money, never again.. nVidia.
Fortunately, I've converted to the Mac, so I don't have to worry about stupid things like having a choice in graphics cards.
So you don't like choice?
Tell me again when your kids are forced to be Christians and have to learn all about Creationism in school.
You might be intellectually lazy, but having the right to exercise choice is important for any free thinking human being. I for one do NOT welcome that choice hating/locked down system architecture overlord in Steve Jobs.
That is why you should not whoreship 6 and all of man's earthly creations!
Worship the *7* today, buy the all new nVidia Geforce 7800 which easily has a fill rate exceeding 7777 MTexels/s!
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
Addison.Wesley.Professional.Rootkits.Subverting.th e.Windows.Kernel.Jul.2005.eBook-DDU.chm
blank passwords are not allowed for remote logins. But I'm sure you knew that right? Because you know SO much about Windows, huh... just dont let the facts get in the way of a "me too" rant
That's default behaviour, but that too can be changed...
As someone mentioned in an earlier comment, the ability to have access to every printed work, song, piece of video, work of art, is essentially a Library of Alexandria on a scale that will boggle the mind. In my view, working against the ability we have to assemble such a wondrous and useful new system is like spitting in the face of progress and knowledge.
Not to be a flamebait, but what are you, a communist?
Welcome to capitalism.
What percent of Playstation owners do you think had mod chips? I can't imagine it's significantly greater than zero.
In asia the situation is such that your post would have to be rewritten as..
What percent of Playstation owners do you think had mod chips? I can't imagine it's significantly less than a hundred - zero.
I'm talking about providing the Intel builds of OSX in a VMware .vmdk image to developers, instead of providing a $2,499 hardware kit that does the same thing for developers who do not need direct access to the physical hardware to complete their ports.
Because the same machines probably which has a "retail value!" of $2,499 probably costs USD$699 and are "loaned" to the devs for 2 years for a fee of USD$999....
There is also the issue of no DRM...
But, Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
Spread this list around guys
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A Mac G5 - which is what we were comparing - will boot faster than a PC with AV software. 'Glorious happy fantastic sunshine and lollypops vision' is all in your head. At least in this instance. No one is attacking your platform, put the gun down. He just said the AV software most PCs must have to be safe kills the boot time.
You reckon?
My dual opteron box boots Windows in 20 seconds, the delays from AVG Free is virtually zero.
Next please, oh, and please take your outdated piece of crap of a computer to the nearest recycling centre please.
Nothing stinks more than Mac fanbois who just can't accept the fact that PPC macs are SLOW. Wake up from Steve's RDF fanboi... smell the coffee... Steve is switching to Intel CPUs soon. The Mhz myth was all a big myth...
But could it run modern software, and would it come with all the bells and whistles of most macs these days? (i.e. dvd + rw (if you elect) + firewire + apple's service (if you've ever called up a Dell support line you'd realize being able to just walk into your local Apple store or get REAL people to support your product is worth its weight in gold)
Come over to Appletalk.com.au, you will see for yourself the number of disgruntled customers who have their laptops in service for.. *gasp* 3 months!
Worth their weight in gold... NOT.
Apple is just another major corporation out to repossess YOUR gold for THEIR cheap junk. Suck it.
Now imagine a world where Microsoft requires a locked TCPA chip to boot a future version of Windows. Basically they will speak unto Dell thusly: "If you want to sell Windows you will stick this chip on each and every motherboard. And if you don't want to pay the whitebox chopshop price for licenses you will join our co-op marketing program which requires you stick this chip on ALL motherboards you sell. No exceptions. Hey bitch, you already give Intel the same 100% loyalty so now you serve TWO masters. Starting today you no longer sell Dells, you sell Windows Workstations with Intel Inside and if you don't like that I have the same contract manufacturers you job your actual work out to ready to make em for me direct and a bunch of Indians ready to roll on deploying an ecommerce site to sell them through."
You reckon?
Considering that Dell has already made clear its desire to bundle OSX with its systems.. if Microsoft did propose such hard terms for Dell, what makes you think that they would not make Apple an offer that they just can't resist?
How much does Apple make from those hardware currently? At best a stately 20%, that's 400 bucks for a top of the line workstation, woah, I'm SO juicing in my pants right now... NOT.
If they make just 50 bucks from each license they sell to Dell, and probably restrict Dells to some terms where they are unable to compete with Apple inhouse hardware based on some stylistic factor or something... THAT my friends, is what will make Steve, his wife, his daughter, and a whole lot of others, cream their collective underpants.
You'd be surprised at how many people out there are using five- to eight-year-old machines and are still resisting upgrading. Walk into any Apple Store, and you've got a good chance at seeing an old G3 iMac or a clamshell iBook or a G4 Cube being worked on, still in working condition and doing everything its owner needs it to do
Users will upgrade more bloody often if Apple's margins are not so bloody high.
*ducks*
Well on the scale of one company, probably very little would happen, espically with something as relitively unimportant as older MIPS architecture (it's not nearly as popular as it used to be). However over all China will have to play by international trade rules. They are a WTO member, something they like wince it gives them much easier access to foriegn markets, and as such the WTO wields some authority. While it's questionable if the US alone could cause enough economic trouble (espically given the reciporical trouble that would happen) with tarriffs/bans, it's no question that if all WTO members did the same China would have no choice but to change.
Will never happen..
Tragedy of the commons, you guys just can't resist the notion of not being able to buy that $30 DVD player.
*gasp* What will happen if Americans can't buy their cheap DVD players and fill their minds with numb and dry American entertainment? Perhaps they will realise what a screwed up place their world is becoming, and actually do something about it!
The only way your government can keep you in the dark is probably to keep numbing your minds, keep you all fat and contented.. and I'll leave you to find out the rest.
you must not be old enough to remember when Japan was going to buy everything.
Except back then America was blooming, and actually meant something to the world.
Please jog my memory, but what did America last produce and manufacture again? I'm talking about culture.. NOT.