The best SDRAM adapter would be a couple of BX Chipset boards, and boot into linux and share out a ramdrive.
Sadly, the speed and I/O pins required to talk to even PC-100 SDRAM is out of the range of anything homebrew you could throw together. Unless you're some sort of FPGA master with a PC board factory in the backyard. Neat idea, but highly impractical.
So Ebay the SDRAM, buy some cheap DDR, and the Gigabyte card that's got DDR slots and a FPGA on it already.
(FPGA - Field Programable Gate Array)
Am I the only person that likes the Dreamcast controllers? I still play the heck out of my DC, and I've found the controllers to be a lot more comfortable than I expected.
Oh well, it's a dead system anyways, I'll just keep my two around and be glad we finally get consoles with decent texture filtering. (Yes, I mean you Playstation.)
Some of us can't stand to live that close to other people too. I need my yard and peace and quiet. Of course, I only live 3 miles from work anyways, and drive a little car that makes 35-40 mpg, so I'm doing just fine.
But the urban life isn't for all of us, I'd go nuts if I had to live in a big city.
Those are different though, the giant ISA cards of RAM are actually how you expanded the RAM in an XT. XT's were so slow, the memory bus and the ISA bus were the same thing. Oh, those were the days.
oooo, I missed that too. Thanks, I'll skip buying this one, maybe check it out by renting or borrowing. Of course, if they get a SNES emulator working on the DS, that's what mine will do most of the time. Back to Super Metroid for now.
If online play is anything like multiplayer in the demo, I'll pass on it. It's neat as a gimmic, but deathmatch isn't exactly what I want from a Metroid title.
That's because he couldn't afford to buy the optional TCP/IP stack for the SCO box after buying the Compiler.
(Shudders in memory of working on a SCO/MS Xenix box that had nothing but RS-232 "networking")
Hey, I'm a guy, and I'd love to get a chance to vote for and elect a female president. I just want it to be someone I trust and mostly agree with. I wonder how many people you could get to vote for a female third party candidate?
Actually, I've only seen this with small cases and processors like the A64 that support throttling. It can happen, but in the exact opposite of an overclockers computer.
I've actually seen temps like that on my new A64 when Cool and Quiet is enabled, so I was talking from personal experence. But this was also when I had the Radeon 9800XT sitting right next to the mobo temp sensor, with the newer X800XT I have, I get much lower mobo temps.
Except the "case" temp isn't sampling the air temp, it's coming from a chip attached to the motherboard. With good airflow around the processor, it's quite possible to have your CPU temp lower than the mobo temp.
How about abandoning all the terms and simply identifying yourself by your views? The whole "Ah, you oppose abortion, so you must be pro-death-penalty and a warmongerer" line drives me batty. I don't identify myself as a conservative. I don't identify myself as a liberal. I identify myself as a human. With issues. Big issues sometimes, but that's a long story and a lot of therapy...
Seriously though, if it weren't bad enough that people will try to pigeonhole others with these terms, so many people pigeonhole themselves too! "Well, I'm against the war in Iraq. That would make me a liberal. Does that really mean that I have to consider "Piss Christ" to be a work of art?" Great googly-moogly, people! Find where you stand. Stand there. Don't call names, whether it's at yourself or others.
Thank you. That's a great attitude to have, and while I'm sure I don't agree with you, and I'm sure my issues are different, we need more people to be able to discuss things without resorting to name calling.
But everytime I've thought about it, I can't come up with a better system. I think our founding fathers did a pretty good job with what they had to work with. Maybe one of these days us humans will come up with a better way of running things, but I haven't had the jolt of inspiration myself.
Who is using "WiMAX?" It's the biggest piece of marketing bullshit I've ever seen. I'm dealing with a company called Clearwire right now that's all up about their WiMAX solution. Except it's CDMA too. If you read the fine print it's called "WiMAX class service" but Intel paid them money to commit to WiMAX. The sales reps get really uneasy when you start asking them about if they'll ever want to switch us to WiMAX or not.
Now this isn't exactly a joke, but it's a true story.
My first real job was a lousy tech support job at the local computer store. I had a customer that swore up and down I was the reason her new computer didn't work and wanted to store to build her a completely new machine at no cost. Reloading the software on her machine wasn't good enough, she wanted a newer one.
Since I wouldn't jump right up and do this, she went to the store manager and yelled at him for about an hour. After which I got called into the office so he could chew me out. He got a good start at it, and after about 10 minutes, he asked me why I did what I did.
My reply was "There is a difference between bending over backwards for the customer and bending over forwards."
The manager turned bright red, pointed at the door, and as soon as I made it out of the office he laughed for about 20 minutes. And I never heard another word about the incident.
Firefox only prefetches links the site has tagged. So, it's not like you visit a page with Firefox and it starts downloading the whole site, unless the web designer is smoking something and tagged all the links with rel="prefetch".
So, whining about a feature that the website has to turn on is kinda pointless. You'd think the site would figure out how to count visitors BEFORE turning on prefetch right?
Read the FAQ and see what's really going on.
Removing dust is a good thing, however, do NOT vacuum it out with a normal vacuum. All that moving air and the plastic parts of the hose build up static electricity. Canned air is much safer, even if it is messier. Nothing worse cleaning out a semi working computer and ending up with a dead one.
At the same time I get my Republican Party back from the New Aged GOP that has started supporting Big Government, Business, and Big Spending.
The real question is, when will there be enough momentum to see some other parties get some power? I voted Libertarian last election since I refused to support the douche or the turd sandwhich. I have no faith in either of the parties, and I don't want to settle for one just to avoid the other.
Adaptec SCSI cards can be a pain to make work with Netware as well. At work we had to pull out a perfectly good RAID card when we updated Netware, since the driver for the new Netware only supports the latest hardware. Be one generation old and you're out of luck.
Patent licenses don't have to be a percentage. The patent owner can demand a flat fee. Fraunhofer could declare that RH would have to pay $10 for every copy of FC downloaded, and most likely make it stick. I just wish there was a single codec for all apps on our linux boxes so it was easier to fix on my own.
Because IA-64 has gone pretty much nowhere. It's ok at number crunching, but pretty much gets eaten alive in database server benchmarks. And it's expensive. If you can find pictures of one, you actually plug power right into the CHIP to feed it.
Intel's had to copy AMD's x86_64 because they can't sell the Itanium in enough volume to drive prices down. In the 64bit Desktop arena, AMD won hands down. Itanium might survive in the high end, but it's not going to be the cash cow Intel hoped for.
It would be nice to see something new on the desktop, but for now, x86 is still the good enough solution.
The problem is, a lot of the "standard" codec for compressing VoIP traffic, suck. If it was lossless compression, that'd be one thing, but in this day and age, we shouldn't have to compress voice traffic until it sounds like crap. I'd rather my phone calls didn't sound like my cell.
It's true, the Adaptec 1200 series are dumb psuedo raid, but the 2400 series are real raid cards. I looked at both and went with 3ware at work because of better linux support. I just wish it was fully hotswap.
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The best SDRAM adapter would be a couple of BX Chipset boards, and boot into linux and share out a ramdrive.
Sadly, the speed and I/O pins required to talk to even PC-100 SDRAM is out of the range of anything homebrew you could throw together. Unless you're some sort of FPGA master with a PC board factory in the backyard. Neat idea, but highly impractical.
So Ebay the SDRAM, buy some cheap DDR, and the Gigabyte card that's got DDR slots and a FPGA on it already.
(FPGA - Field Programable Gate Array)
I did have a moment of "how in the world can you use THIS" when I first looked at one, but now I have four of them sitting next to the TV.
Oh well, it's a dead system anyways, I'll just keep my two around and be glad we finally get consoles with decent texture filtering. (Yes, I mean you Playstation.)
But the urban life isn't for all of us, I'd go nuts if I had to live in a big city.
I haven't seen anything WiMax that's real. It's a marketing thing that's gotten out of hand.
On the other hand, I did get to play with Clearwire's gear, and it does actually work pretty well. Their TOS is evil though, read it carefully.
Umm, he's hallucinating, so it's not REALLY sauteed cockatrice. There's no telling what that poor @ ate in his potion induced state.
Those are different though, the giant ISA cards of RAM are actually how you expanded the RAM in an XT. XT's were so slow, the memory bus and the ISA bus were the same thing. Oh, those were the days.
oooo, I missed that too. Thanks, I'll skip buying this one, maybe check it out by renting or borrowing. Of course, if they get a SNES emulator working on the DS, that's what mine will do most of the time. Back to Super Metroid for now.
If online play is anything like multiplayer in the demo, I'll pass on it. It's neat as a gimmic, but deathmatch isn't exactly what I want from a Metroid title.
That's because he couldn't afford to buy the optional TCP/IP stack for the SCO box after buying the Compiler. (Shudders in memory of working on a SCO/MS Xenix box that had nothing but RS-232 "networking")
Hey, I'm a guy, and I'd love to get a chance to vote for and elect a female president. I just want it to be someone I trust and mostly agree with. I wonder how many people you could get to vote for a female third party candidate?
I've actually seen temps like that on my new A64 when Cool and Quiet is enabled, so I was talking from personal experence. But this was also when I had the Radeon 9800XT sitting right next to the mobo temp sensor, with the newer X800XT I have, I get much lower mobo temps.
Except the "case" temp isn't sampling the air temp, it's coming from a chip attached to the motherboard. With good airflow around the processor, it's quite possible to have your CPU temp lower than the mobo temp.
Thank you. That's a great attitude to have, and while I'm sure I don't agree with you, and I'm sure my issues are different, we need more people to be able to discuss things without resorting to name calling.
But everytime I've thought about it, I can't come up with a better system. I think our founding fathers did a pretty good job with what they had to work with. Maybe one of these days us humans will come up with a better way of running things, but I haven't had the jolt of inspiration myself.
http://www.digitemp.com/ for the software,
http://www.ibuttonlink.com/ to get the hardware.
Serial interface, and you can run sensors hundreds of feet away over cat5. Just remember to test the alerts if you roll your own system.
If you want to know more, let me know I'll see what I can do.
Who is using "WiMAX?" It's the biggest piece of marketing bullshit I've ever seen. I'm dealing with a company called Clearwire right now that's all up about their WiMAX solution. Except it's CDMA too. If you read the fine print it's called "WiMAX class service" but Intel paid them money to commit to WiMAX. The sales reps get really uneasy when you start asking them about if they'll ever want to switch us to WiMAX or not.
My first real job was a lousy tech support job at the local computer store. I had a customer that swore up and down I was the reason her new computer didn't work and wanted to store to build her a completely new machine at no cost. Reloading the software on her machine wasn't good enough, she wanted a newer one.
Since I wouldn't jump right up and do this, she went to the store manager and yelled at him for about an hour. After which I got called into the office so he could chew me out. He got a good start at it, and after about 10 minutes, he asked me why I did what I did.
My reply was "There is a difference between bending over backwards for the customer and bending over forwards."
The manager turned bright red, pointed at the door, and as soon as I made it out of the office he laughed for about 20 minutes. And I never heard another word about the incident.
Firefox only prefetches links the site has tagged. So, it's not like you visit a page with Firefox and it starts downloading the whole site, unless the web designer is smoking something and tagged all the links with rel="prefetch".
So, whining about a feature that the website has to turn on is kinda pointless. You'd think the site would figure out how to count visitors BEFORE turning on prefetch right?
Read the FAQ and see what's really going on.
Removing dust is a good thing, however, do NOT vacuum it out with a normal vacuum. All that moving air and the plastic parts of the hose build up static electricity. Canned air is much safer, even if it is messier. Nothing worse cleaning out a semi working computer and ending up with a dead one.
At the same time I get my Republican Party back from the New Aged GOP that has started supporting Big Government, Business, and Big Spending.
The real question is, when will there be enough momentum to see some other parties get some power? I voted Libertarian last election since I refused to support the douche or the turd sandwhich.
I have no faith in either of the parties, and I don't want to settle for one just to avoid the other.
Adaptec SCSI cards can be a pain to make work with Netware as well. At work we had to pull out a perfectly good RAID card when we updated Netware, since the driver for the new Netware only supports the latest hardware. Be one generation old and you're out of luck.
Patent licenses don't have to be a percentage. The patent owner can demand a flat fee. Fraunhofer could declare that RH would have to pay $10 for every copy of FC downloaded, and most likely make it stick. I just wish there was a single codec for all apps on our linux boxes so it was easier to fix on my own.
Intel's had to copy AMD's x86_64 because they can't sell the Itanium in enough volume to drive prices down. In the 64bit Desktop arena, AMD won hands down. Itanium might survive in the high end, but it's not going to be the cash cow Intel hoped for.
It would be nice to see something new on the desktop, but for now, x86 is still the good enough solution.
The problem is, a lot of the "standard" codec for compressing VoIP traffic, suck. If it was lossless compression, that'd be one thing, but in this day and age, we shouldn't have to compress voice traffic until it sounds like crap. I'd rather my phone calls didn't sound like my cell.
It's true, the Adaptec 1200 series are dumb psuedo raid, but the 2400 series are real raid cards. I looked at both and went with 3ware at work because of better linux support. I just wish it was fully hotswap.