Hmm, but I kind of like the idea of essentially the Hitch Hikers guide cobbled together out of free content plus ultra cheap hardware plus something like wi max. If the $100 dollar laptop is possible, and I'm skeptical, then you could imagine making something truly ubiquitous.
And even if $100 is a bit optimistic, you'd sell ads on 5% of the screen and/or you charge for the wi max and use that to subsidise the hardware cost. So people could have a device that would surf the net, pick up webmail and browse e-books. Hell, they could use it for VOIP too, and chuck away their cellphones. You should look at it as a platform like the PC rather than an ebook reader though
What about a free e-book reader financed by advertising?
We need to get a pervasive, ad financed network too, imagine WiMax on steroids. Then you could read your e-book GET A FREE IPOD streamed over the net without paying a penny. Isn't advertising DOES YOUR COMPUTER HAVE SPYWARE CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT wonderful?
Problem with Crucial is that you can go into a random PC shop in Europe, they'll have generic Ram and a bunch of brands you've never heard of but no Crucial. And I guess some of them were a bit optimistic about labelling it as DDR333. It was a while ago though, when 333Mhz front speed buses were bleeding edge.
But still, if Nvidia and Asus had tested properly, the Bios would have a blacklist of DRAM chips, and run them with slower timings.
Have you tried to force the speed? I had problems with a Netgear router and some network cards.
If you force the speed to 100Mb rather than Autodetect, it will often work.
But I agree that NVidia chipsets have some dodgy integrated peripherals - I used to get stuttering sound from the A7N8X onboard sound, so I disabled it and plugged in a cheapo Creative generic card. The firewire is pretty much unusable after SP2 - it's a 50/50 thing whether it will recognise my firewire/USB external disk, so I use USB instead. The worst thing is that I bought some no name DDR333 memory. The machine was unstable until I underclocked it to 266.
It's a shame really, Intel processors may be a bit more expensive and slower, but I never had any issues with their chipsets. Ok, they tend to have less onboard stuff, but given how cheap it is to buy cards, it's not really a problem.
You can never stop someone technically knowledgeable enough to mod the code themselves... if they are determined enough to be a dick, that is. The thing is, most people don't know how to do it, and most of those who do don't want to be dicks. What you have left is a small numbers of sociopathic fucks who aren't worth worrying about.
You want to be careful saying that sort of thing here.
Chips "small enough to fit in your ear", that get "lost" make me suspicious for some reason. Have you had a lot of headaches and a strange desire to vote Republican since you lost the PQI iStick by any chance?
You could should first ask Gator^WClaria for a MEEELION DOLLARS just to not write the code. And then write it anyway, and shop 'em to the German computer police.
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Hmm, remember teh Lordz Prayer. I've marked the relevant line.
Our Father, who Pwnz heaven 0f da 1337z , j00 r0ck! May all 0ur base someday be belong to you! May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven. Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe. And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us. Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the fbi off our backs, we'd appreciate it. For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever,
Strange thing is, I have a free virus scanner, and all the viruses it's found are email attachments in spam. Even if I didn't have one, it's pretty obvious what email attachments are unsafe, based on sender and file extension. I use Thunderbird but even Outlook Express will stop you running executable email attachments - VBS, SCR, EXE, PIF and so on.
I reckon the whole virus threat is hype quite frankly. And you can block 100% of current Windows exploits with the built in firewall. Once again, I'm overprotected since I have a NAT router as well.
You mean Evil rootkit installing, spying, granny using bittorrent to download non copyrighted information sueing through their damn puppets in the MPAA and the Republican Party.... snip 5 minute rant
....and where do you think the NAZIS bought their WALKMEN? Bastards! title Silver Disk With DRM'ed Music Tracks On It into your CD player
I refuse to say their name. Problem is, no one has the slightest idea what I'm talking about.
Mind you if these architectures weren't protected by patents, the companies that invented them would be driven out of business by cloners in China and so on.
Sparc is screwed as an architecture I reckon. It lagged behind the other Riscs in terms of performance, and now Sun have started to make Opteron x86-64 boxes. Given time, I think they'll move over to it across the line.
It's a shame really, Sparc is a really elegant architecture on paper. And x86-64 is a pile of hacks. Still, it's a high performance pile of hacks, and I predict that all desktop machines and servers will use it eventually. Embedded is a different world of course.
As to Sun, I can't see what they're trying to do. They used to be Sparc+Solaris+server grade IO. If you take away Sparc and stop charging for Solaris or offering Linux boxes instead, I can't see how they'll make money. Lots of people have Sparc+Solaris servers though and they need support and new hardware, so it won't kill them for a while, but you have to wonder what the long term plan is.
No, you don't have to pay any royalties to Sun, LEON was developed using the SPARC V8 manual from SPARC International and a licence to develop hardware based on the manual.
Back in 1997, SPARC International required a one-time licence fee of $99 to allow you to design a processor according the SPARC manual. Jiri Gaisler did indeed purchase this licence, so LEON was legally developed. The architecture licence has now been abolished, and designing SPARC processors can be done without any licences what so ever. This is indeed why Jiri Gaisler has selected SPARC, just see how many times Intel, MIPS and ARM have sued companies that developed processors using their architecture.
So it looks like Sparc has already been cloned. It's an older version of Sparc, but the one time license fee makes it look as if they never really tried to close the architecture, unlike everyone else.
Mind you, an FPGA Sparc will run at a fairly low clock rate compared to a custom chip, so it's not ideal for a desktop application. And for embedded stuff, I'd suspect that the code density will be too low and the core size too high compared to Arm. And if you can afford to make the custom chips, an Arm license is probably not too bad.
If you're doing an FPGA, the vendor has a bunch of royalty free cores, which are hopefully fairly optimised for the design.
As you add more states, it becomes less noise resistant.
E.g 2 states, with 0V = 0 and the supply voltage as 1 gives you immunity to noise at less than half the supply voltage. But there are chips that have more than 2 logic levels. MLC flash chips use 4 for example.
And just with normal logic gates you can get extra states, there's a so called "tri state" when the output is disabled for example. You need this so that devices on a bus which are not selected can allow the active devices to talk. But I think the popularity of binary signalling is mostly that it's noise resistant.
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Microsoft wrote a page describing how to change to a valid serial number
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328874
You still have to Google for a keygen to get that valid serial number though.
You can make a slipstream CD with XP and SP2 applied.
e aming.htm
That way when you install it on other machines, they are SP2'd from the start.
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2000_xp_sp_slipstr
Will it have BLUE LEDS inside the clear cover.
g ital_goes_flashy_with_lighted_hard_drive/index.htm l
Joking, but strangely it's not impossible
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/14/western_di
\\if you strobed the blue leds, you could make the platter look stationary.
Hmm, but I kind of like the idea of essentially the Hitch Hikers guide cobbled together out of free content plus ultra cheap hardware plus something like wi max. If the $100 dollar laptop is possible, and I'm skeptical, then you could imagine making something truly ubiquitous.
And even if $100 is a bit optimistic, you'd sell ads on 5% of the screen and/or you charge for the wi max and use that to subsidise the hardware cost. So people could have a device that would surf the net, pick up webmail and browse e-books. Hell, they could use it for VOIP too, and chuck away their cellphones. You should look at it as a platform like the PC rather than an ebook reader though
What about a free e-book reader financed by advertising?
We need to get a pervasive, ad financed network too, imagine WiMax on steroids. Then you could read your e-book GET A FREE IPOD streamed over the net without paying a penny. Isn't advertising DOES YOUR COMPUTER HAVE SPYWARE CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT wonderful?
Problem with Crucial is that you can go into a random PC shop in Europe, they'll have generic Ram and a bunch of brands you've never heard of but no Crucial. And I guess some of them were a bit optimistic about labelling it as DDR333. It was a while ago though, when 333Mhz front speed buses were bleeding edge.
But still, if Nvidia and Asus had tested properly, the Bios would have a blacklist of DRAM chips, and run them with slower timings.
Have you tried to force the speed? I had problems with a Netgear router and some network cards.
If you force the speed to 100Mb rather than Autodetect, it will often work.
But I agree that NVidia chipsets have some dodgy integrated peripherals - I used to get stuttering sound from the A7N8X onboard sound, so I disabled it and plugged in a cheapo Creative generic card. The firewire is pretty much unusable after SP2 - it's a 50/50 thing whether it will recognise my firewire/USB external disk, so I use USB instead. The worst thing is that I bought some no name DDR333 memory. The machine was unstable until I underclocked it to 266.
It's a shame really, Intel processors may be a bit more expensive and slower, but I never had any issues with their chipsets. Ok, they tend to have less onboard stuff, but given how cheap it is to buy cards, it's not really a problem.
This page is the most accurate biography I've seen of him anywhere. Highly recommended.
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/000472.html
Yeah, the FAPPers will get TOSsed off.
I support copyright since it's the only thing that makes the GPL legally enforceable.
You can never stop someone technically knowledgeable enough to mod the code themselves... if they are determined enough to be a dick, that is. The thing is, most people don't know how to do it, and most of those who do don't want to be dicks. What you have left is a small numbers of sociopathic fucks who aren't worth worrying about.
You want to be careful saying that sort of thing here.
More, but in a good way.
Yeah, it reminds me of a joke about ultra male English drivers.
I break the speed limit, tailgate and drive after 3 pints. But it's ok, because I'm a good driver with a very fast car.
Testosterone poisoning I call it.
I'll stick to floppies myself.
Chips "small enough to fit in your ear", that get "lost" make me suspicious for some reason. Have you had a lot of headaches and a strange desire to vote Republican since you lost the PQI iStick by any chance?
You could should first ask Gator^WClaria for a MEEELION DOLLARS just to not write the code. And then write it anyway, and shop 'em to the German computer police.
Hmm, remember teh Lordz Prayer. I've marked the relevant line.
Our Father, who Pwnz heaven 0f da 1337z , j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven.
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the fbi off our backs, we'd appreciate it.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever,
3N74H .
Eloquent words, eh?
The SOBER worm wreaks havok, but if you uploaded some spyware to one of the pseudorandom domains, you could profit from it, hence reaping havok.
You mispelled ' too, it's 'I'm better than you'
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Strange thing is, I have a free virus scanner, and all the viruses it's found are email attachments in spam. Even if I didn't have one, it's pretty obvious what email attachments are unsafe, based on sender and file extension. I use Thunderbird but even Outlook Express will stop you running executable email attachments - VBS, SCR, EXE, PIF and so on.
I reckon the whole virus threat is hype quite frankly. And you can block 100% of current Windows exploits with the built in firewall. Once again, I'm overprotected since I have a NAT router as well.
You mean Evil rootkit installing, spying, granny using bittorrent to download non copyrighted information sueing through their damn puppets in the MPAA and the Republican Party ....
....and where do you think the NAZIS bought their WALKMEN? Bastards! title Silver Disk With DRM'ed Music Tracks On It into your CD player
snip 5 minute rant
I refuse to say their name. Problem is, no one has the slightest idea what I'm talking about.
MIPS is patented.
e rview
Clones of it need to skip some instructions, LWL and SWL.
http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/mips/ov
People tried to add support for a cloned Mips chip to GCC, but the patch was rejected on the grounds that "it wasn't a Mips part"
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-11/msg00371.html
Mind you if these architectures weren't protected by patents, the companies that invented them would be driven out of business by cloners in China and so on.
Sparc is screwed as an architecture I reckon. It lagged behind the other Riscs in terms of performance, and now Sun have started to make Opteron x86-64 boxes. Given time, I think they'll move over to it across the line.
It's a shame really, Sparc is a really elegant architecture on paper. And x86-64 is a pile of hacks. Still, it's a high performance pile of hacks, and I predict that all desktop machines and servers will use it eventually. Embedded is a different world of course.
As to Sun, I can't see what they're trying to do. They used to be Sparc+Solaris+server grade IO. If you take away Sparc and stop charging for Solaris or offering Linux boxes instead, I can't see how they'll make money. Lots of people have Sparc+Solaris servers though and they need support and new hardware, so it won't kill them for a while, but you have to wonder what the long term plan is.
http://www.leox.org/docs/faq_MLleon.html
So it looks like Sparc has already been cloned. It's an older version of Sparc, but the one time license fee makes it look as if they never really tried to close the architecture, unlike everyone else.
Mind you, an FPGA Sparc will run at a fairly low clock rate compared to a custom chip, so it's not ideal for a desktop application. And for embedded stuff, I'd suspect that the code density will be too low and the core size too high compared to Arm. And if you can afford to make the custom chips, an Arm license is probably not too bad.
If you're doing an FPGA, the vendor has a bunch of royalty free cores, which are hopefully fairly optimised for the design.
The cool thing is that whenever anyone mentions playfullyclever, it'll just post the above +5 debunking comment and get moderated up for it.
As you add more states, it becomes less noise resistant.
y mp/nvmts_2002/docs/12/12_dan_p.pdf
E.g 2 states, with 0V = 0 and the supply voltage as 1 gives you immunity to noise at less than half the supply voltage. But there are chips that have more than 2 logic levels. MLC flash chips use 4 for example.
http://klabs.org/richcontent/MemoryContent/nvmt_s
And just with normal logic gates you can get extra states, there's a so called "tri state" when the output is disabled for example. You need this so that devices on a bus which are not selected can allow the active devices to talk. But I think the popularity of binary signalling is mostly that it's noise resistant.