The problem is that this is being more and more common.
Your having problems 2 years down the track. You will also have problems with Spore and GTA IV in 2 years. So your nagging for a week on message boards will go from a rare occurrence to having to do it for every game you buy.
There is also the minesweeper easter egg which turned the first pixel on the screen white or black depending if the square your hovering over has a mine or not.
And if I short two pins on one of the flash chips, all data is lost from all the chips.:P
What they are doing is getting a bunch of flash chips and using RAID 0 on them. One disk but with many chips in RAID 0 configuration hence the speed. A single flash chip cannot hit 1Gbps.
Yeah I agree its probably the biggest cause of piracy outside of the US - there just isnt any way to get it legally.
Over here in Australia its starting to get a bit better. For popular shows its gone from lagging by several months to lagging a week behind. My mind boggles at why they dont just skip the whole week thing and do it on the same day.
I mainly do it on my laptop so the HDD isnt as fast as desktops.
Still it does make a reasonable difference especially for big compiles. Try it out for yourself. Merging is significantly faster since its copying Ram to the hard drive instead of hard drive to hard drive.
Why would the calculations have to take in to account the hidden storage? Thats overhead for using SSD technology. Its unnecessary for any other storage.
Adding ram purely for disk cache will increase performance many times better than using SSDs. Cheaper too.
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I've never had problems with Xinerama and nVidia but yeah I suppose S3 could be problematic.
Personally I think I'll stick to Intel for the moment.
I'm not a gamer and as long as it handles KDE 4's compositing, then I'm happy.
Their drivers are stunning and they are completely open.
2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some really neat stuff for Intel cards.
Slashdotting a email server? I like. :D
The problem is that this is being more and more common.
Your having problems 2 years down the track.
You will also have problems with Spore and GTA IV in 2 years.
So your nagging for a week on message boards will go from a rare occurrence to having to do it for every game you buy.
Worked rather well for Spore.
There is also the minesweeper easter egg which turned the first pixel on the screen white or black depending if the square your hovering over has a mine or not.
Possibly because you pay dentists somewhat more?
Some dodgy ads prey on that. "Have you got back pain? A mild cough? A itchy toe? Well you need !"
But compared to a 90% efficient brushless electric motor, a ICE is kinda crappy.
And if I short two pins on one of the flash chips, all data is lost from all the chips. :P
What they are doing is getting a bunch of flash chips and using RAID 0 on them.
One disk but with many chips in RAID 0 configuration hence the speed.
A single flash chip cannot hit 1Gbps.
Erm my home server with four disks in RAID 5 (software RAID) handles wonderfully.
I've never seen the RAID take more than 2% CPU and write speeds are far faster than a single drive.
No, because their infrastructure is designed for web pages and email, not video.
Now that video is becoming mainstream they are 'managing' their networks to prevent overload.
What they arent doing is increasing capacity.
Yeah thats attempted murder, but thats with the intent to kill and more importantly thats using a weapon designed to kill.
This woman only teased a girl online.
No murder at all. No murder weapon - the girl killed herself.
There was no murder.
Her intent wasnt for her to commit suicide and tricking someone in to committing suicide isnt murder its Darwinism.
The lawyer wouldnt laugh at all.
He would only ask two questions: How far would you go and how big is your bank account. :P
Yeah I agree its probably the biggest cause of piracy outside of the US - there just isnt any way to get it legally.
Over here in Australia its starting to get a bit better.
For popular shows its gone from lagging by several months to lagging a week behind.
My mind boggles at why they dont just skip the whole week thing and do it on the same day.
Not sure what the problem with near matches is.
If the police cant get a direct match then they can still narrow it down significantly if a relative is in the database.
Its a minor privacy problem at most.
Chances are the near match person would be questioned anyway about the crime if there was a direct match.
Because they wouldnt have any profits anymore.
Much better to ask for free money. They'll probably get it too.
1.5gig of completely free memory + tempoary extensive data manipulation = perfect case for tmpfs.
Open ~5 Slashdot articles at the same time on a older computer and it grinds to a halt completely.
Yeah I get the "A script on this page is taking too long" message.
I mainly do it on my laptop so the HDD isnt as fast as desktops.
Still it does make a reasonable difference especially for big compiles. Try it out for yourself.
Merging is significantly faster since its copying Ram to the hard drive instead of hard drive to hard drive.
It becomes a very fast cdrom - read only.
Why would the calculations have to take in to account the hidden storage?
Thats overhead for using SSD technology. Its unnecessary for any other storage.
Adding ram purely for disk cache will increase performance many times better than using SSDs.
Cheaper too.
Do a test based on price.
$x,xxx worth of SAS/SCSI disks vs $x,xxx worth of SSD drives.
See which is faster then.
Thats the most realistic benchmark (for people without infinitely deep pockets).
70 years of doing what exactly?
Its entirely workload dependent.
I often do compiles (Gentoo) on a ram disk.
Linux desktop systems doesnt use anywhere near the amount of ram modern systems have so just make a tmpfs mount and the compiles fly. :)