Ahhh, the old Borland C/C++ IDEs... i recall programming in BC/C++ 3.2, and the IDE was something i really missed when i moved on. Sometimes you felt like you were running QBasic - the debugger was so well integrated...
TASM was nice aswell.
It's a good point, but then again, Debian was always the NetBSD of Linux: it ran on everything and it ran well - there's a reason for them to be so anal about the "stable" branch, it really is stable. You can always get the unstable one (which is damn fine in my experience), or move to some apt-based distro if you want to be on the bleeding edge of things.
For guys mantaining stuff like Sparc servers or developing on ARM it was a great choice.
Well, SuSe will be the one with the nice cardboard box, Ubuntu will be like Debian but with packages newer than 10 years old, Gentoo the distro for nerds and nerds-wannabes and Mandrake will have... the magic (for newbies;)
Seriously, it's a good point. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but of all the "major" distros, Debian was pretty much the one which offered good support for exotic architectures - specially if you wanted to build a server, it's always been rock solid. It's sad.
I actually did during the FW incident - another good test of stability was running a compile of a large program (say, X.Org) and see if it completed or not.
Most of the problems with that motherboard were memory related, IIRC.
I heard about it, and funnily enough, it never gave me an issue. Not once - the only time it fucked up was once when i tried to flash the BIOS to enable FastWrites, which my nVidia card didn't like much (hanged the system regularly).
As for the idiotic (agreed:)) taped heatsink thing, i agree. I fixed it myself once when i tried to overclock the thing, but the system is dead stable in stock velocities for me, even with the sink for asthetic purposes. My K7S5A has been running nonstop for 11 months now.
Great, so two irrelevant branches of an obsolete architecture are once again pin-compatible.
They aren't - in fact, it has two sets of chipsets to control both cpu's (Intel for Intels' and SiS for AMDs').
OEMs have plenty of reason to like this board. Now you can offer both AMD and Intel systems and don't have to bother about buying separate motherboards in bulk for both - with separate support.
I don't know about the rest, but my experiences with ECS boards (K7S5A mainly, a hidden gem) have been very positive. Nice prices aswell; if they price this one right it could sell like hotcakes among OEM sellers.
For the rest (end users who build their own systems), it's a fix to a problem that doesn't really exists.
There's options, you know. XFCE 4 is a "Gnome-lite" desktop enviroment, but i find it more confortable to use than Gnome itself, never mind much, much, MUCH more bloatless. It's been my desktop of choice for a year now, and i don't see myself going back.
Gnome is nice, but (atleast in this particular topic), Eugenia has a point. We keep hearing how Gnome focuses on usability and user-friendliness and then they come up with stuff like those awful file dialogs, or the damn bloat, which makes the system crawl running a few apps.
I haven't tried Gnome for a couple of version revisions now, but XFCE gives me what i want and does the job fine.
How good are these? I remember reading a lot of lovely things about S3 DeltaChrome series (owned by VIA), but never got to see a videocard sporting that chip.
It could come as an option out of the box. Recording conversations in which you're involved is NOT illegal (as far as i know) - and it could actually be very useful in certain situations.
Yeah, probably not the best example i can come p with... the BSD TCP/IP had the so called "slow start" bug, and some BSD variants even crashed with the "Ping of death" (a.k.a WinNuke).
Still, there's a lot of quality BSD code used outside BSD systems, both in other OSS systems and comercial ones.
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Come on ! Visual C++ has had an IDE for what, twelve years ? and Borland C++ 15 ?
This one is quite good...
Ahhh, the old Borland C/C++ IDEs... i recall programming in BC/C++ 3.2, and the IDE was something i really missed when i moved on. Sometimes you felt like you were running QBasic - the debugger was so well integrated...
TASM was nice aswell.
It's a good point, but then again, Debian was always the NetBSD of Linux: it ran on everything and it ran well - there's a reason for them to be so anal about the "stable" branch, it really is stable. You can always get the unstable one (which is damn fine in my experience), or move to some apt-based distro if you want to be on the bleeding edge of things.
For guys mantaining stuff like Sparc servers or developing on ARM it was a great choice.
Well, SuSe will be the one with the nice cardboard box, Ubuntu will be like Debian but with packages newer than 10 years old, Gentoo the distro for nerds and nerds-wannabes and Mandrake will have... the magic (for newbies ;)
Seriously, it's a good point. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but of all the "major" distros, Debian was pretty much the one which offered good support for exotic architectures - specially if you wanted to build a server, it's always been rock solid. It's sad.
Is it April the 1st already?
It is SO not. It's much uglier.. and... eh... it has a "Launch" button. Do you see a foot anywhere? I-didn't-think-so-mister!
Obligatory Penny Arcade link here.
Oh, wait, site's Slashdotted. Never mind!
Amazing, a video link in Slashdot that managed to max my ADSL download (at 100kb/s).
PS: Thanks for the link!
I actually did during the FW incident - another good test of stability was running a compile of a large program (say, X.Org) and see if it completed or not.
Most of the problems with that motherboard were memory related, IIRC.
Doesn't matter - the Intel customer gets intel, and the AMD customer gets AMD, and both get it cheap. Both will run (presumibly) good enough for OEM.
I heard about it, and funnily enough, it never gave me an issue. Not once - the only time it fucked up was once when i tried to flash the BIOS to enable FastWrites, which my nVidia card didn't like much (hanged the system regularly).
:)) taped heatsink thing, i agree. I fixed it myself once when i tried to overclock the thing, but the system is dead stable in stock velocities for me, even with the sink for asthetic purposes. My K7S5A has been running nonstop for 11 months now.
As for the idiotic (agreed
Great, so two irrelevant branches of an obsolete architecture are once again pin-compatible. They aren't - in fact, it has two sets of chipsets to control both cpu's (Intel for Intels' and SiS for AMDs').
OEMs have plenty of reason to like this board. Now you can offer both AMD and Intel systems and don't have to bother about buying separate motherboards in bulk for both - with separate support.
I don't know about the rest, but my experiences with ECS boards (K7S5A mainly, a hidden gem) have been very positive. Nice prices aswell; if they price this one right it could sell like hotcakes among OEM sellers.
For the rest (end users who build their own systems), it's a fix to a problem that doesn't really exists.
Don't sweat it - he's just trolling. "Investor" is not a bad word. Unlike, say, "lawyer"...
I hear the Phantom will launch with... (suspense)... Duke Nukem Forever. Ooooh boy, i can't hardly wait!
Yes, i could - i just fucked up. English is my second language, i need sleep and clients have been bugging me all day now.
Lighten up guys.
Yes, but with a twist. Ba-bing!
There's options, you know. XFCE 4 is a "Gnome-lite" desktop enviroment, but i find it more confortable to use than Gnome itself, never mind much, much, MUCH more bloatless. It's been my desktop of choice for a year now, and i don't see myself going back.
Gnome is nice, but (atleast in this particular topic), Eugenia has a point. We keep hearing how Gnome focuses on usability and user-friendliness and then they come up with stuff like those awful file dialogs, or the damn bloat, which makes the system crawl running a few apps.
I haven't tried Gnome for a couple of version revisions now, but XFCE gives me what i want and does the job fine.
How good are these? I remember reading a lot of lovely things about S3 DeltaChrome series (owned by VIA), but never got to see a videocard sporting that chip.
I guess you haven't seen the preview of "Madagascar" then... and if you haven't, you should :) Hillarious stuff, i'm eagerly waiting. For this and W&G!
Penguins are evil!
Bad phrasing - you will be able to find them :) The CPU is brand new.
You can find them, for these and the Pentium-M. They're not cheap though - neither the motherboards nor the processors.
If you want to keep it affordable, you'll have to check Transmeta or VIA, though they lack a bit in performance.
It could come as an option out of the box. Recording conversations in which you're involved is NOT illegal (as far as i know) - and it could actually be very useful in certain situations.
Yeah, probably not the best example i can come p with... the BSD TCP/IP had the so called "slow start" bug, and some BSD variants even crashed with the "Ping of death" (a.k.a WinNuke).
Still, there's a lot of quality BSD code used outside BSD systems, both in other OSS systems and comercial ones.