I just got a Presario R3000 (R3140US to be exact) and it's not bad.
Linux (slackware) runs just fine in 32bit mode. Even faster than the WinXP that came with it.
It's got the Nividia Video/sound chipsets, Broadcom wireless, RTL8139 ethernet, and modem built in. All I have working (the Broadcom needed the Linuxant driver but it's working like a charm).
I haven't tried the modem yet, but I may in the future.
To answer your question, Linux works fine in 32 bit mode on AMD64s. I'll let you know how 64bit Linux works when Slackware comes out with a AMD64 version.
...by 2 and not always 10!?!? I guess that's why pints, guarts, half-gallons and gallons were naturally derived as opposed to the metric units of capacity.
I guess that just helps the argument that the UK/US system is better in some ways than the metric system...
I mean, to be REALLY a metric type, A4 vs A5 vs A6 should all be powers of ten!!!
Get a thin peice of steel sheet metal (thinner the better) and mount it close (closer the better) to an electro-magnet (a coil of wire) but not touching.
That's a simple speaker and how many of the really cheap ear-phones work.
1) "For an automobile, first all of the fluids are drained from the car. For those fluids that can be (gasoline and oils, mainly), they are recycled back into the oil industry and other oil-based manufacturers (asphalt, and similar, mainly)."
If you ever walked around a junk yard, you'll see that there's MANY areas where large quantities of those fliuds end up spilled on the ground and soak in. Ususally a car will sit in a spot while they sell off the parts and strip it (usually many years) and the fluids just leak all over the ground. Also, the ground in and around the shop usually has more oil in it than Texas. The engine storage areas are generally worst than a Tar Pit.
2) The metal is mostly recycled and a good portion of the plastic but, the old paint get burned off (in the recycling process) and ends up in the air (in China and thus all over the world), and parts like brake pads, hoses and glass end up in a hole in the ground usually.
3) "These piles are then sent on by rail for recycling - generally via ship (not much smelting done here in the States anymore) to China or something, where they are re-smelted into raw materials which we buy back to make into - TADA! - new cars."...and the gasses and byproducts released by the smelting process is STILL a big source of pollution (even if it is in China).
It's so funny that people will buy cloth shopping bags to save a paper bag or two by getting a longer useful life from it but will not do the same with a car.
We Americans are always spouting about how this and that should be done to "save the enviroment". We need new laws, we need to make this illegal, we need to recycle, blah blah blah.
In reality, cars pollute the enviroment MOST when they are made. Think about all the chemicals released when all those plastics are made and molded. Same with the paints, fluids and metal forming. A 1960's fume belcher does not cause as much pollution as one new Prius (sp?) being made. The second most polluting time in a car's life is when it's scrapped.
This is true for MOST of the hardware products we buy yet, we always buy the disposable stuff and toss it when it acts up.
IF we REALLY cared about the enviroment, we'd demand products that were easily repairable that we could keep along time.
Hardware (like TVs) should be made so that modules could be upgraded (like generic computers). If you want stero sound, upgrade the sound card... If you want LCD, upgrade the tube module. Etcetera.
I'm thinking that the car (and other manufacturers) are purposely making cars too hard to fix in the hopes that people will just buy a new one. I'm sure it's a fine line between pissing off their customer with repair costs and encouraging them to buy a new car.
The old axles were Nash car axles/bearings. Disney bought them from Nash & American Motors and standardised all their rides using those axles and bearings. Disney finally bought the tooling from AMC to make thier own after AMC quit making them.
They have worked well for about half a century.
Funny how problems always occur AFTER metric conversions.:)
Apple didn't pioneer anything of the sort! My TRS-80s were Sliver, Black, & White! My Atari 400 & 800 were Brown and Orange! I have a Blue Kaypro! Commodores came in White and Brown! I had an old Honeywell computer that was bright Red!
iMacs didn't pioneer anything other than see-through cases and I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we could find 'prior art' for that also.
The sub $100 Trident was being compared to $400+ cards! They should have compared it to comparable priced cards which now would be a Radeon 7000-8000 series!
That test was a crock!
If you look at the Radeon 9000 Pro, it's at $149.00 at CompUSA ATM but that's not even a fair comparison! It started out new at $400 and has dropped in price. The Trident is starting at $100 and will probably drop into the 30s.
No card is worth it's introduction pricing and once it hits the below $50, I'd say it was a great deal!
I used NSI, Easyspace and Gandi and by far, Gandi is the BEST!!!! They are wonderful! The ONLY drawback is that what ever changes I make takes 24hours to appear because I'm in the US and they are in France. That dang DNS propagation time thing.
Slashdot Mirror
I use it on several of my servers to do basic configuration.
Stupid 2 minute posting rule!
I notice that Pioneer 10 was built using UK/US units whereas Beagle was built using metric.
It seems that NASA has had more success BEFORE the metric crap started being used.
www.metricsucks.com
8.345 roughly
That is if you use water as the reference substance.
And that is also assuming that you are speaking of weight on Earth. Otherwise it's 8.345pounds mass of water.
I just got a Presario R3000 (R3140US to be exact) and it's not bad.
Linux (slackware) runs just fine in 32bit mode. Even faster than the WinXP that came with it.
It's got the Nividia Video/sound chipsets, Broadcom wireless, RTL8139 ethernet, and modem built in. All I have working (the Broadcom needed the Linuxant driver but it's working like a charm).
I haven't tried the modem yet, but I may in the future.
To answer your question, Linux works fine in 32 bit mode on AMD64s. I'll let you know how 64bit Linux works when Slackware comes out with a AMD64 version.
Sorry to cut this short but, work calls
Once we start using the CO2 producing vehicles, we'll have more screams about global warming blah blah blah.
Face it, no matter what you do, someone will scream about it... So do what I do, tell everyone to PISS-OFF!
Now, if you'll pardon me, I'm going down to get a grease burger at McDonalds in my 1962 Buick Invicta that has NO polution controls. MU-HAHA HAHAHAHA!
...by 2 and not always 10!?!? I guess that's why pints, guarts, half-gallons and gallons were naturally derived as opposed to the metric units of capacity.
I guess that just helps the argument that the UK/US system is better in some ways than the metric system...
I mean, to be REALLY a metric type, A4 vs A5 vs A6 should all be powers of ten!!!
The first language I programmed in, Hex codes! definitely NOT English.
OP Codes are for wussies.
...the next version of Slackware is out. (YAWN)
on Win infected computers, I FIRST use fdisk and add a a 82 and 83 partition...
After that, using lynx, I install:
-Firefox
-any weird drivers I might need (that doesn't come with Slackware).
-Alsa
-Wine
-Open Office
After that, it's whatever.
http://users.ev1.net/~arfonrg/SimpleSpeaker.jpg
Get a thin peice of steel sheet metal (thinner the better) and mount it close (closer the better) to an electro-magnet (a coil of wire) but not touching.
That's a simple speaker and how many of the really cheap ear-phones work.
Having worked in junk yards, I can tell you that:
...and the gasses and byproducts released by the smelting process is STILL a big source of pollution (even if it is in China).
1) "For an automobile, first all of the fluids are drained from the car. For those fluids that can be (gasoline and oils, mainly), they are recycled back into the oil industry and other oil-based manufacturers (asphalt, and similar, mainly)."
If you ever walked around a junk yard, you'll see that there's MANY areas where large quantities of those fliuds end up spilled on the ground and soak in. Ususally a car will sit in a spot while they sell off the parts and strip it (usually many years) and the fluids just leak all over the ground. Also, the ground in and around the shop usually has more oil in it than Texas. The engine storage areas are generally worst than a Tar Pit.
2) The metal is mostly recycled and a good portion of the plastic but, the old paint get burned off (in the recycling process) and ends up in the air (in China and thus all over the world), and parts like brake pads, hoses and glass end up in a hole in the ground usually.
3) "These piles are then sent on by rail for recycling - generally via ship (not much smelting done here in the States anymore) to China or something, where they are re-smelted into raw materials which we buy back to make into - TADA! - new cars."
It's so funny that people will buy cloth shopping bags to save a paper bag or two by getting a longer useful life from it but will not do the same with a car.
We Americans are always spouting about how this and that should be done to "save the enviroment". We need new laws, we need to make this illegal, we need to recycle, blah blah blah.
In reality, cars pollute the enviroment MOST when they are made. Think about all the chemicals released when all those plastics are made and molded. Same with the paints, fluids and metal forming. A 1960's fume belcher does not cause as much pollution as one new Prius (sp?) being made.
The second most polluting time in a car's life is when it's scrapped.
This is true for MOST of the hardware products we buy yet, we always buy the disposable stuff and toss it when it acts up.
IF we REALLY cared about the enviroment, we'd demand products that were easily repairable that we could keep along time.
Hardware (like TVs) should be made so that modules could be upgraded (like generic computers). If you want stero sound, upgrade the sound card... If you want LCD, upgrade the tube module. Etcetera.
I'm thinking that the car (and other manufacturers) are purposely making cars too hard to fix in the hopes that people will just buy a new one. I'm sure it's a fine line between pissing off their customer with repair costs and encouraging them to buy a new car.
Just my 2cents.
That has got to be the dumbest looking game I have ever seen.
Why do I think of Africanized bees when I read this?
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If you're not using Slackware, then, uh, you suck, or something. Yeah!
The old axles were Nash car axles/bearings. Disney bought them from Nash & American Motors and standardised all their rides using those axles and bearings. Disney finally bought the tooling from AMC to make thier own after AMC quit making them.
:)
They have worked well for about half a century.
Funny how problems always occur AFTER metric conversions.
Apple didn't pioneer anything of the sort! My TRS-80s were Sliver, Black, & White! My Atari 400 & 800 were Brown and Orange! I have a Blue Kaypro! Commodores came in White and Brown! I had an old Honeywell computer that was bright Red!
iMacs didn't pioneer anything other than see-through cases and I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we could find 'prior art' for that also.
These same users are the ones who end up configuring their webserver with passwords such as "god" or "admin."
Crap! How'd did you guess my username AND password!?!
Besides, Linuxpackages.net has kept Slackware forums going the whole time..
Us Slackers now have 2 forums AND a mailing list...
WHOOO HOOOO!!!!
Here's the forums:
http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/
The sub $100 Trident was being compared to $400+ cards!
They should have compared it to comparable priced cards which now would be a Radeon 7000-8000 series!
That test was a crock!
If you look at the Radeon 9000 Pro, it's at $149.00 at CompUSA ATM but that's not even a fair comparison! It started out new at $400 and has dropped in price. The Trident is starting at $100 and will probably drop into the 30s.
No card is worth it's introduction pricing and once it hits the below $50, I'd say it was a great deal!
I used NSI, Easyspace and Gandi and by far, Gandi is the BEST!!!! They are wonderful! The ONLY drawback is that what ever changes I make takes 24hours to appear because I'm in the US and they are in France. That dang DNS propagation time thing.
I've seen stupid posts score higher than "SCORE:1"!!!
The parent post here is CORRECT and has many true points and deserves at least SCORE:3!!!
Score 1 PFFFT! My @$$!
...and thus a higher customer-base for MS products???
As someone correctly stated above...
'For those who think that Linux is ancient technology, I just have one word for you: "Micros~1"'