Actually, there is a VERY VERY nice HOWTO on how to overclock your Athlon to 1050 Mhz here . I do find it silly that you can clock it up to 750 with no additional cooling and that extra 50 Mhz requires a portable super-freezer. My guess is using the cooler (which is available seperate on kryotech's site.. The Kryotech Renegade) you could slap an Athlon 1050 in the box and have no stability problems whatsoever.
Being a child of the 80's I must agree with this. I am currently in college and I have a C Sci professor who refuses to accept code on disk. We need to print out everything including screen design forms, source, and output screens. No one knows what happens to it then, the theory is that he files it and instead of cleaning his filing cabinets he just buys new ones each year and stores the old ones in his garage. Forget recycling for this guy.
I think this is a good step for AMD. Their technology has been proven against Intel's chips (specifically the K6 vs Celery.. no contest here folks). As I understand it the G4 has some features that run quite nicely with LinuxPPC.
As for AMD, the K6-3 is a solid processor. The only AMD I've ever had a problem with was the 5x86-133 which was a few instructions short of running X, NT, and some proprietary system-level software. The news I've heard from the Athlon camp is good. After checking Intel's website all they could do was post an independant report of PIII vs Athlon that showed a slight edge to the Athlon. If Intel is admitting that Athlon is as good as a PIII (without the unique identifier) it's got to be a good chip. Nice work AMD!!!
It's exactly that.. another version of UNIX. What I don't understand is all this Linux vs BSD vs Solaris vs whatever other UNIX clones are out there. It's exactly like saying I eat oranges all the time (aka Micro$oft OS) that cost $95/orange. I found out that apples (UNIX clone) taste better and they're free. I tell all my friends, I tell my co-workers, etc that apples are better and free, some like them, some don't. Then, while I'm enjoying my apples, I get bombarded with granny smith apples, Washington apples, etc and I'm told that they all taste better. Well, an apple is an apple, and they're all free. So why write a book on something so insignificant anyway? BSD is UNIX. Linux is UNIX. I like UNIX. Problem solved.
Open source is the greatest thing since sliced bread. When a completely computer illiterate person hands me a 486 DX25 and wants it to perform tasks moistly dedicated to pentiums, I need to start shaving the fat off an application AND the OS to make it run as lean as possible. Under an OS like Win, MacOS or OS/2 I can tweak the code to an app but the fat from the OS itself still remains. So even though the app runs leaner the bulky OS won't. I must say that Open Source is important to all platforms, but moreso on an Open Source OS.
What's this about women looking for nerdy guys? I need a geeky woman who won't mind sleeping in the bathtub because the master bedroom is a dream computer lab and the microwave runs linux. Ahh.. the joys of being single:-)
I agree. I don't buy packs of stamps because I usually only need 1 about every 6 months or so. I only snail mail checks and small objects that are urgent. I don't recommend the computer illiterate totally ditching snail mail, but for the techie I guess I subconciously am anyway.
Normally I agree, but what's the fun of a hacker-owned OS like Linux if you don't do pointless things like port it to everything you can find. Moreso, those extra 486's I have laying around really would make a nice webserver if I tied them all into a beowulf. Am I obsessed with clustering? not really. Would it be a fun project? You betcha:-) Would I like to run a beowulf on PDAs? you betcha:-) Why? Because we can.
I agree that 12.5 m/s is pretty slow for a drive of any interface. The thing to remember is that for a prototype that's screaming. This drive definitely has uses even at its slow speed. It's faster than a CD-ROM drive, and if you look at the price on the drive (which will be highly inflated at first because it's new and cool, but will settle down)it far outweighs 7/14/21 drive tower assemblies. If you store all your CD-ROM's on this thing you will have a REALLY SUPER FAST Cd-ROM drive. And because it's a hot new prototype, many companies will try to grab their technology and create similar products with a lower cost, more space, and higher speeds. If nothing else, this drive creates competition in the drive market and that's really where this drive has its place. (for now at least)
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Actually, there is a VERY VERY nice HOWTO on how to overclock your Athlon to 1050 Mhz here . I do find it silly that you can clock it up to 750 with no additional cooling and that extra 50 Mhz requires a portable super-freezer. My guess is using the cooler (which is available seperate on kryotech's site.. The Kryotech Renegade) you could slap an Athlon 1050 in the box and have no stability problems whatsoever.
Being a child of the 80's I must agree with this. I am currently in college and I have a C Sci professor who refuses to accept code on disk. We need to print out everything including screen design forms, source, and output screens. No one knows what happens to it then, the theory is that he files it and instead of cleaning his filing cabinets he just buys new ones each year and stores the old ones in his garage. Forget recycling for this guy.
I think this is a good step for AMD. Their technology has been proven against Intel's chips (specifically the K6 vs Celery.. no contest here folks). As I understand it the G4 has some features that run quite nicely with LinuxPPC.
As for AMD, the K6-3 is a solid processor. The only AMD I've ever had a problem with was the 5x86-133 which was a few instructions short of running X, NT, and some proprietary system-level software. The news I've heard from the Athlon camp is good. After checking Intel's website all they could do was post an independant report of PIII vs Athlon that showed a slight edge to the Athlon. If Intel is admitting that Athlon is as good as a PIII (without the unique identifier) it's got to be a good chip. Nice work AMD!!!
It's exactly that.. another version of UNIX. What I don't understand is all this Linux vs BSD vs Solaris vs whatever other UNIX clones are out there. It's exactly like saying I eat oranges all the time (aka Micro$oft OS) that cost $95/orange. I found out that apples (UNIX clone) taste better and they're free. I tell all my friends, I tell my co-workers, etc that apples are better and free, some like them, some don't. Then, while I'm enjoying my apples, I get bombarded with granny smith apples, Washington apples, etc and I'm told that they all taste better. Well, an apple is an apple, and they're all free. So why write a book on something so insignificant anyway? BSD is UNIX. Linux is UNIX. I like UNIX. Problem solved.
Open source is the greatest thing since sliced bread. When a completely computer illiterate person hands me a 486 DX25 and wants it to perform tasks moistly dedicated to pentiums, I need to start shaving the fat off an application AND the OS to make it run as lean as possible. Under an OS like Win, MacOS or OS/2 I can tweak the code to an app but the fat from the OS itself still remains. So even though the app runs leaner the bulky OS won't. I must say that Open Source is important to all platforms, but moreso on an Open Source OS.
What's this about women looking for nerdy guys? I need a geeky woman who won't mind sleeping in the bathtub because the master bedroom is a dream computer lab and the microwave runs linux. Ahh.. the joys of being single :-)
I agree. I don't buy packs of stamps because I usually only need 1 about every 6 months or so. I only snail mail checks and small objects that are urgent. I don't recommend the computer illiterate totally ditching snail mail, but for the techie I guess I subconciously am anyway.
My first reaction is who will be the first to try and port Linux to their penguin credit card?
Actually, FAT 16 only supports 2GB partitions. You'd need 1,150 partitions to make full use of the space. That's a lot of drive letters :-)
Normally I agree, but what's the fun of a hacker-owned OS like Linux if you don't do pointless things like port it to everything you can find. Moreso, those extra 486's I have laying around really would make a nice webserver if I tied them all into a beowulf. Am I obsessed with clustering? not really. Would it be a fun project? You betcha :-) Would I like to run a beowulf on PDAs? you betcha :-) Why? Because we can.
I agree that 12.5 m/s is pretty slow for a drive of any interface. The thing to remember is that for a prototype that's screaming. This drive definitely has uses even at its slow speed. It's faster than a CD-ROM drive, and if you look at the price on the drive (which will be highly inflated at first because it's new and cool, but will settle down)it far outweighs 7/14/21 drive tower assemblies. If you store all your CD-ROM's on this thing you will have a REALLY SUPER FAST Cd-ROM drive. And because it's a hot new prototype, many companies will try to grab their technology and create similar products with a lower cost, more space, and higher speeds. If nothing else, this drive creates competition in the drive market and that's really where this drive has its place. (for now at least)