This indelible ID is not going to be "The guy who posted that thought inspiring message the other day." It is going to be "THX-1138."
How are you? That's nice, can I interest you in useless consumables?
Community identity is good, but global identity only breeds "User specific ad banners."
The real question is: Would you have made the decision to post if I could have just clicked on your post to get your name, address, IP, phone and social security numbers?
Licensing surfers would change the internet from a sort of cafe, where ideas are exchanged freely into a kind of mega-mall, where faceless corporations separate you from your money in exchange for junk that you don't really need.
It seems to me that even with the benefit of "the specs" ATI video always seems to be "acceptable" or "functional" instead of "really nice" (ala TNT) or "great".
I will continue to use Nvidia products, but I will refrain from calling people who buy ATI stuff names;-)
A lot of people give a lot of hot air to Open Source in general and Linux in particular.
Nvidia did a very nice thing by providing an optimized, glx version of the SVGA X server for the TNT cards. 3Dfx has recently made some moves in this area, but I still tend to think they are "closed thinkers" (GLIDE).
The question, what has ATI done for me lately? Why should I even consider giving them my money?
This is a typical response from an Anonymous Coward:
CNET is a VERY "Microsoft oriented" site, and the author is clearly contrasting Linux with "normal" (read: Microsoft) OSes.
It is not that we constantly say "Uh, MS does that too!" it is that the FUD mongers continuously, vaguely accuse anything non-MS as being "inferior" when it is plain that it is in fact, superior in nearly every substantive way.
I too tire of "M$ Sux" posts, but that is not what mine was.
The internet is the ultimate free market. If you want Linux and Netscape to succeed in this market, boycott sites that use proprietary extensions. If you really care make sure that the executives involved know that you are boycotting them.
I don't think that writing the webmaster will make any difference. He answers to his boss, not to stockholders.
It never ceases to amaze me the way a certain segment of Open Source enthusiasts seem to feel that other people should do what they (that is they the enthusiasts) think is right. In my experience people do not respond well to being told what the should do. Microsoft is never going to stop breaking protocols because a bunch of people on Slashdot (who, by the way, are not their customers) keep saying they should.
A better conceived approach would be to convince business running web sites that using non-open features on their web pages is against their interests. Microsoft (and others) will be forced to be open because it will be the correct business decision.
Microsoft is always going to behave as a business, you may stop gnashing your teeth now.
I have a DVD (Pioneer 303s) and a CD ROM (Burner, Plexwriter) on my 7890. I can boot CDs from either drive.
I do not know if there is a spec for bootable DVDs. The spec for bootable CDs is called "El Torrito" and is an extention to iso 9660. I don't think that there is any similar spec for DVD's. (What do they use, UFS or something like that?)
That is a very nice explanation, and I am clearly not as familiar with electrical engineering as you are. I am sure that many are grateful that you corrected me, but my post was about over-clocking, not the nuances of what happens when "upping the regulated voltage to the chip" from an engineering point of view.
My point, however, is that when "upping the regulated voltage to the chip" it runs hotter, whether you consider it from a chemistry, physics (Classical or modern) EE, or jackass-in-the-garage-with-a-soldering-iron point of view.
So a chip that is cooler at its rated speed and voltage has more "headroom" for over-clocking.
-P
PS. I would consider my point of view (both in general and in my original post on this topic) to be the jackass-in-the-garage-with-a-soldering-iron point of view;-)
I think that what will happen is that the "big guys" will spend less time coding. But "many hands make light work."
Think about Linus. In the very early days he did it ALL by himself. Now he does very little coding (as far as I understand).
I think this pattern will "trickle down" to other big name developers, who will find themselves being the "executives" of their project or area of development.
You very neatly missed my point. Why dream about a portable with 128mb ram or any of those other specs? I HAVE 128mb ram in my home system, and with a nice little, realistic, portable I can have access to all of it.
My point was: Why lug cpu, storage, and batteries to drive it all, and have to worry about "synching" and all of the nonsense that goes with it, when you can just reach out and "be" at your home or work system from anywhere! Why quibble about the 33MHz processor, when you can SSH to a system with dual PII 400? (Okay, you got me, I don't have my second proc yet. You have to admit, though, nice dramatic effect.)
Obviously the specs you described will not be realistically available in the next 18 months. The system I described is quite possible today.
Why? Who cares how fast the proc is. SSH to my home box . . . 400mhz and 26gb of HDD. Great for typing notes in class, coding on the subway/bus, even reading slashdot with lynx!
-Pete
Moderator, read the top again before you moderate me "off topic". Pleeeease don't kill my karma!
It is a real pet peeve of mine when people multiply their clock by number of CPUs, and then claim that is there "speed." This is WRONG.
If my friend and I want to go somewhere, and we take seperate cars, and drive 60mph, we dont get there in half the time. Therefore we are not driving at 120mph.
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I have only set up X under Redhat, and so with the advantage of xf86config.
I have installed it on about half a dozen systems, with quite different monitors (from a very bad 15 inch to at quite nice 20 inch trinitron.)
I have never had a problem, BUT I have ALLWAYS LOOKED UP THE SPECS for the monitor and entered the CORRECT values for both V and H refresh.
Perhaps the key here is to RTFM.
-Peter
PS: This is intended as a serious post. Just because I use the phrase RTFM does not make it a troll!!
What happend to the word "bionic" is it politically incorrect and I am just out of it?
Chip in his eye sounds like a cross of "Chip on his shoulder" and "Plank/speck in his eye."
How can I explain . . .
This indelible ID is not going to be "The guy who posted that thought inspiring message the other day." It is going to be "THX-1138."
How are you? That's nice, can I interest you in useless consumables?
Community identity is good, but global identity only breeds "User specific ad banners."
The real question is: Would you have made the decision to post if I could have just clicked on your post to get your name, address, IP, phone and social security numbers?
Licensing surfers would change the internet from a sort of cafe, where ideas are exchanged freely into a kind of mega-mall, where faceless corporations separate you from your money in exchange for junk that you don't really need.
Maybe BBSes will make a comeback after all.
-Peter
Resistance is force.
If you are pushing down, and it is not moving, it must be pushing back up.
Just ask I. Newton.
-Peter
PS. I am in the "Robot Arm" camp. I think that this will be the ultimate solution.
Okay, that is a reasonable answer.
;-)
It seems to me that even with the benefit of "the specs" ATI video always seems to be "acceptable" or "functional" instead of "really nice" (ala TNT) or "great".
I will continue to use Nvidia products, but I will refrain from calling people who buy ATI stuff names
-Peter
It is nice in a free market to vote with your $$.
A lot of people give a lot of hot air to Open Source in general and Linux in particular.
Nvidia did a very nice thing by providing an optimized, glx version of the SVGA X server for the TNT cards. 3Dfx has recently made some moves in this area, but I still tend to think they are "closed thinkers" (GLIDE).
The question, what has ATI done for me lately? Why should I even consider giving them my money?
This is a typical response from an Anonymous Coward:
CNET is a VERY "Microsoft oriented" site, and the author is clearly contrasting Linux with "normal" (read: Microsoft) OSes.
It is not that we constantly say "Uh, MS does that too!" it is that the FUD mongers continuously, vaguely accuse anything non-MS as being "inferior" when it is plain that it is in fact, superior in nearly every substantive way.
I too tire of "M$ Sux" posts, but that is not what mine was.
-Peter
Can you believe the FUD mongering?
"On the down side, Linux's upgrade schedule--which never is etched in stone--has slipped a little in the last few months."
What is the author contrasting this with?
Oh, I know, it's that "etched in stone" NT 5 . . . I mean Windows 2000 (or is it 2001?) release date.
-Peter
The internet is the ultimate free market. If you want Linux and Netscape to succeed in this market, boycott sites that use proprietary extensions. If you really care make sure that the executives involved know that you are boycotting them.
I don't think that writing the webmaster will make any difference. He answers to his boss, not to stockholders.
It never ceases to amaze me the way a certain segment of Open Source enthusiasts seem to feel that other people should do what they (that is they the enthusiasts) think is right. In my experience people do not respond well to being told what the should do. Microsoft is never going to stop breaking protocols because a bunch of people on Slashdot (who, by the way, are not their customers) keep saying they should.
A better conceived approach would be to convince business running web sites that using non-open features on their web pages is against their interests. Microsoft (and others) will be forced to be open because it will be the correct business decision.
Microsoft is always going to behave as a business, you may stop gnashing your teeth now.
-Peter
I have a DVD (Pioneer 303s) and a CD ROM (Burner, Plexwriter) on my 7890. I can boot CDs from either drive.
I do not know if there is a spec for bootable DVDs. The spec for bootable CDs is called "El Torrito" and is an extention to iso 9660. I don't think that there is any similar spec for DVD's. (What do they use, UFS or something like that?)
-P
Actually I did mean before the famous post. As I understand it was bootable (at least on HIS computer!) at that point.
I also think he did much more on a day by day basis from the original post to 1.0 then he has been lately.
Of course this is all based on highly questionable sources on the internet!
Anyway, I stand behind the idea that it is a "normal" open source phenomenon for the "key" developer(s) to become the "manager(s)" of an OSS project.
-Peter
That is a very nice explanation, and I am clearly not as familiar with electrical engineering as you are. I am sure that many are grateful that you corrected me, but my post was about over-clocking, not the nuances of what happens when "upping the regulated voltage to the chip" from an engineering point of view.
;-)
My point, however, is that when "upping the regulated voltage to the chip" it runs hotter, whether you consider it from a chemistry, physics (Classical or modern) EE, or jackass-in-the-garage-with-a-soldering-iron point of view.
So a chip that is cooler at its rated speed and voltage has more "headroom" for over-clocking.
-P
PS. I would consider my point of view (both in general and in my original post on this topic) to be the jackass-in-the-garage-with-a-soldering-iron point of view
Hmm, if it is cooler, it can take more voltage and still run reasonably cool.
If it can take more voltage it can almost certainly be heavly over-clocked.
1GHz anyone?
I think that what will happen is that the "big guys" will spend less time coding. But "many hands make light work."
Think about Linus. In the very early days he did it ALL by himself. Now he does very little coding (as far as I understand).
I think this pattern will "trickle down" to other big name developers, who will find themselves being the "executives" of their project or area of development.
You very neatly missed my point. Why dream about a portable with 128mb ram or any of those other specs? I HAVE 128mb ram in my home system, and with a nice little, realistic, portable I can have access to all of it.
My point was: Why lug cpu, storage, and batteries to drive it all, and have to worry about "synching" and all of the nonsense that goes with it, when you can just reach out and "be" at your home or work system from anywhere! Why quibble about the 33MHz processor, when you can SSH to a system with dual PII 400? (Okay, you got me, I don't have my second proc yet. You have to admit,
though, nice dramatic effect.)
Obviously the specs you described will not be realistically available in the next 18 months. The system I described is quite possible today.
-Peter
I don't even want color. What I want . . .
Is a portable telnet (actually SSH) box.
Specs:
- fold out "full size" keyboard. I have seen what I want on TV, about 4x4x.5 inches folds out then "squeezes" together to align the keys properly.
- "half height" 80 column display (wide aspect ratio.
- Build in cellular/modem for data connection.
The whole thing folds to 4x4x1.8 or so.
Why? Who cares how fast the proc is. SSH to my home box . . . 400mhz and 26gb of HDD. Great for typing notes in class, coding on the subway/bus, even reading slashdot with lynx!
-Pete
Moderator, read the top again before you moderate me "off topic". Pleeeease don't kill my karma!
So, China can buy the presidency. Big companies can buy Congressmen and Senators.
BUT, if I say "Vote for Skippy Dolittle" on my web page I am "subverting the political process."
Anyone notice that this is a Fibre Channel drive? I doubt even the hardest core MP3 junkies will be adding a FC controller to their systems.
Better of with a pair of 50GB LVD drives, more space and less $$ (when you take the conrtoller into account)
-Pete
The point is that MHz is a CLOCK that can be MESURED with an O-scope. If your bus is 1MHz, and you have 1 million of them, your clock is STILL 1MHz
Jesus help me!
-Peter
I apologize for hitting the wrong button.
A.C.,
Get a login if you are going to talk shit, bitch.
-Peter
It is a real pet peeve of mine when people multiply their clock by number of CPUs, and then claim that is there "speed." This is WRONG.
If my friend and I want to go somewhere, and we take seperate cars, and drive 60mph, we dont get there in half the time. Therefore we are not driving at 120mph.
Aaaargh.
-Pete
Holy Cow! I forgot, I have a USR external with dip switches.
I stand corrected.
By the way, does anyone know if there is a connection between U.S. Robotics and Asimov's (fictional) U.S. Robots?
You know I miss dip switches. They were great. Never got lost, never needed an extra. But, I haven't seen any since my 286.
I'm not sure that a dip switch tool is such a great selling point. (Though I am sure that it is efficent to put one on the tool.)
-Pete
By the way, the sync (Slashdot radio's swell host) streams (well, at least a couple of months ago streamed) this video.