There was a time when saying you had a Sun meant you weren't just 1337, but respectable, a power user.
Well, instead of saying you have a Sun, instead say you have a Sun SPARC. Turns the same heads: n00bs say "what's a SPARC" and knowledgable people say "whoa, cool".
I have an I8x0 series sound chip (Dell Inspiron 5150) and it wokrs OK except it seems not to be able to vary the sample rate... in the Unreal 04 demo, all the vehicle engine sounds just idle instead of following motion. Not sure if this is Unreal or the driver but I'd point my finger at the driver.
You know you're a computer nut when:
1) your bedroom has more computers in it than Google's early setup, and is much less organized.
I have 15 in here now. 12x10' room. I pity the power wiring in here.
One Pentium II is running in a case built entirely of STANDARD lego (not duplo). Deja vu all over again.
Incedentally, I use DistCC, and can muster the CPU power equivalent to an 8GHz P4...
Funny, the system I'm on is pretty similar to that dual PII, minus the hotswap supplies and SCSI drives. 'Cept this is home assembled.
ECS P6LX2-A motherboard 2xIntel PII 333MHz 4x66MHz DIMM slots (max 128MB each, 512 max total, 512 PC100/133 installed and used as low-latency 66) 1xAIC-7880 built in (ultra+wide capable but unused) 2x3DFX Voodoo Banshee 16MB cards (1 AGP, 1 PCI) 1xMaxtor 30GB 5400RPM IDE HDD 2xgeneric CD-ROM drives (8x, 40x) 1xHomemade dual channel PWM fan speed controller 2xTurbine-style fans <b>tie-wrapped to CPUs</b> (30CFM each!) 1xAntec 250W ATX PSU
... Running Gentoo Linux of course. Win2K actually doesn't run on it! Win2K b0rks with 333MHz CPUs insalled, on a pair of mismatched 233&266 CPUs it's fine.
It put me back $26 to assemble, using (mostly new) parts I had 8-)
Works for me as my main linux desktop, dual head on 24" SiliconGraphics and 17" NEC monitors.
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Shouldnt that be... 1963 PRINT "Conceived: 1963" 1964 PRINT "Born: 1964" 2004 END
Why does this remind me of Toy Story 2?
Hmmm. www.howstuffworks.com just found out how a good slashdotting works...
Is there any other kind? (besides stenography and the like)
More importantly, does it run Linux?
Not to mention the animator might suddenly suffer a fatal heart attack.
I wonder if the UT04 announcer, when running the benchmarks, said "Holy Sh*t!!!"... It definitely seems applicable here.
Dude, if they did Porche would have one hell of a business.
"I can't believe it's not Windows!"
FrisT p0st!!!11! No, seriously, that is way cool. Using a distributed setup to break a commercial code at the company's request!
Well, instead of saying you have a Sun, instead say you have a Sun SPARC. Turns the same heads: n00bs say "what's a SPARC" and knowledgable people say "whoa, cool".
It sure works for me, I own two SPARCs
Really? I thought the binary was called "mozilla-bin"... shouldn't that be killall -SEGV mozilla-bin?
Stats track you!
So, um, when are they gonna build that subwoofer assembly into headphones?
I thought that Ferrari was introducing a car that drives like a plastic trike.
D) All of the above, before hitting a BSOD.
I have an I8x0 series sound chip (Dell Inspiron 5150) and it wokrs OK except it seems not to be able to vary the sample rate... in the Unreal 04 demo, all the vehicle engine sounds just idle instead of following motion. Not sure if this is Unreal or the driver but I'd point my finger at the driver.
Nope. They're identical. They work find in Linux either way, and either way Win2K doesn't like 'em.
I had a long talk with M$ and they couldn't figure it out. The mobo manufacturer didn't reply to me.
Is it just me or did everyone else misread that as "Metallica noise" and think: dang, those guys have good CDs up there...
You know you're a computer nut when: 1) your bedroom has more computers in it than Google's early setup, and is much less organized. I have 15 in here now. 12x10' room. I pity the power wiring in here. One Pentium II is running in a case built entirely of STANDARD lego (not duplo). Deja vu all over again. Incedentally, I use DistCC, and can muster the CPU power equivalent to an 8GHz P4...
... KICBM?
or GMissile?
Beta testers are sure gonna be a hard thing to find when bugs crop up.
It's called Windows with DRM.