and how many have gigabit? I only see one with it listed
Funny - when I look at it, it shows the Linksys 310N, 320N, 350N, 500N, as well as the Buffalo WZR-G144NH all have gigabit.
Last time I checked, that makes 5, not 1.
Actually, upon second look, there's six. I didn't expect to find that information in the "notes" column when the first place I found it was in the "Ethernet port count" column in one of the first rows there.
I was going to fix the page, but can't be bothered to create an account I'll never use again.
I've got a newish WRT54GL running Tomato, and after the initial reflash and setup it hasn't been rebooted yet. Current uptime is... ~170 days. This one is on UPS because it's convenient, so I won't be surprised if it hits a couple years uptime without breaking a sweat.
Before that I had a BEFW11S4 which I've never once needed to reboot, aside from physically moving it from one home to another a few times, and I've had that router a good 4 or 5 years. It wasn't on UPS most of the time, but that was never a problem.
GPUs (of the past) are basically just massively parallel floating point units. I think the OP meant to say that they lacked integer operations and double precision floats in the beginning.
What Nvidia card is this? I have a (stock) passively cooled 7950 GT, but I haven't been able to find any newer cards that come stock passively cooled and aren't junk (ie, low-mid end cards at best). Unless you mean watercooled, but I'd rather stay away from that.
Maybe because (from what I can tell), IDA and DDA only boosted one core by ~200 MHz or less, TFS suggests that Turbo Boost can take one core of a 1.73 GHz chip to 3.06 GHz, which is substantially better. Maybe that's why people are noticing now?
You have to be kidding, this has been going on for a year on my server. They did nothing to fix it, just took our money. Their reputation in England is worse than toilet water at the moment. I dont care what their terms of service say, spending between 30 minutes and over two hours trying to get into instances for around a year is totally unacceptable.
So cancel your subscription? Dollars speak louder than words.
RAID 1 has much less reliability than RAID 6. Assume a typical case: one disk totally fails. You then start to reconstruct - in a RAID 1 scheme a single sector error will result in the rebuild failing. Not great.
In RAID 6 you start the rebuild and you get a single sector error from one of the drives you're rebuilding from. At that point you've got yet another parity scheme available (in the form of the RAID 6 bit) that figures out what that sector should have been and then continues the rebuild. Then you go back and decide what to do about that drive that had the second error.
No, if you have 4 drives (the minimum useful amount for RAID 6), then you have 3 drives to read from when reconstructing a failed drive in RAID 1. If the read fails on the first drive you're reading from, you move on to the second and third to reconstruct the drive, which is much better reliability than having only dual parity.
Have you tried Game!? It meets your criteria and in fact, having a limited number of turns per day is built right in as a method of leveling the playing field.
By far the best part of Slashdot 2.0 is that you can open up replies inline instead of having to jump to a new page (possibly in a new tab). Everything else is mostly a wash, although I hate how they've forced a specific font on the comments and front page. There's a reason I set Bitstream Vera Sans as the default font and the font to use for all the font families...
Sony... of... Europe? Seriously, I can understand not expanding the acronym in the title, but maybe something in the summary? I have no idea what SOE expands to in this particular context.
The progression to more and more draconian DRM and more invasive advertising has been steady for at least the last decade. Though, it's worth noting that the Battle.net lobby has had ads in it since the beginning, it would seem that this combined with the no LAN play in SC2 is a real kick in the nuts for gamers. Though as you noted, the best way to be heard is to vote with your feet, Game! for example is both free and ad free. (shameless plug)
Depends on the box... Install XP SP0 from original media on a brand new Thinkpad and let me know how it goes for you (hint: it won't go well, if you can get it to install at all). Even if you get newer XP media, you'll still need to do a ton of tweaking to get anything close to reasonable performance.
If you really want a fair comparison, buy your laptop from a vendor that preloads Linux (there are many, try Google).
As a counterpoint, I bought a Thinkpad T60 (15" 1400x1050 screen, Radeon X1400, Core 2 Duo T7400, 2G RAM) back when they were new, and with the (standard for that model) 9 cell battery, I could easily get 5-6 hours under normal usage without bothering to do any power related tweaking. Of course this was using Linux, I have no idea what 'doze would get on the same hardware... I don't tarnish nice hardware.
I don't know about you, but I don't consider 6 hours of battery life poor. Even less powerful laptops today rarely get half that (see the summary, for example).
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Everything done with JavaScript so far has sucked filthy penises.
Google Maps Streetview works pretty well for me. Certainly beats a crappy flash plugin that messes up webpage input!
I'm looking forward to GPU accelerated video through javascript + OpenGL ES.
Unfortunately, the street view portion of Google Maps is Flash. The rest is not, however.
Yet. No doubt they're working on it.
and how many have gigabit? I only see one with it listed
Funny - when I look at it, it shows the Linksys 310N, 320N, 350N, 500N, as well as the Buffalo WZR-G144NH all have gigabit.
Last time I checked, that makes 5, not 1.
Actually, upon second look, there's six. I didn't expect to find that information in the "notes" column when the first place I found it was in the "Ethernet port count" column in one of the first rows there.
I was going to fix the page, but can't be bothered to create an account I'll never use again.
...and how many have gigabit? I only see one with it listed, most of the others don't list port speed at all.
I've got a newish WRT54GL running Tomato, and after the initial reflash and setup it hasn't been rebooted yet. Current uptime is... ~170 days. This one is on UPS because it's convenient, so I won't be surprised if it hits a couple years uptime without breaking a sweat.
Before that I had a BEFW11S4 which I've never once needed to reboot, aside from physically moving it from one home to another a few times, and I've had that router a good 4 or 5 years. It wasn't on UPS most of the time, but that was never a problem.
Maybe you have bad luck?
GPUs (of the past) are basically just massively parallel floating point units. I think the OP meant to say that they lacked integer operations and double precision floats in the beginning.
Psst: He's talking about Youtube, not Mashable.
What Nvidia card is this? I have a (stock) passively cooled 7950 GT, but I haven't been able to find any newer cards that come stock passively cooled and aren't junk (ie, low-mid end cards at best). Unless you mean watercooled, but I'd rather stay away from that.
Maybe because (from what I can tell), IDA and DDA only boosted one core by ~200 MHz or less, TFS suggests that Turbo Boost can take one core of a 1.73 GHz chip to 3.06 GHz, which is substantially better. Maybe that's why people are noticing now?
Remember? You can still find them on new machines sold today!
You have to be kidding, this has been going on for a year on my server. They did nothing to fix it, just took our money. Their reputation in England is worse than toilet water at the moment. I dont care what their terms of service say, spending between 30 minutes and over two hours trying to get into instances for around a year is totally unacceptable.
So cancel your subscription? Dollars speak louder than words.
No, if you have 4 drives (the minimum useful amount for RAID 6), then you have 3 drives to read from when reconstructing a failed drive in RAID 1. If the read fails on the first drive you're reading from, you move on to the second and third to reconstruct the drive, which is much better reliability than having only dual parity.
Have you tried Game!? It meets your criteria and in fact, having a limited number of turns per day is built right in as a method of leveling the playing field.
By far the best part of Slashdot 2.0 is that you can open up replies inline instead of having to jump to a new page (possibly in a new tab). Everything else is mostly a wash, although I hate how they've forced a specific font on the comments and front page. There's a reason I set Bitstream Vera Sans as the default font and the font to use for all the font families...
Sony... of... Europe? Seriously, I can understand not expanding the acronym in the title, but maybe something in the summary? I have no idea what SOE expands to in this particular context.
The progression to more and more draconian DRM and more invasive advertising has been steady for at least the last decade. Though, it's worth noting that the Battle.net lobby has had ads in it since the beginning, it would seem that this combined with the no LAN play in SC2 is a real kick in the nuts for gamers. Though as you noted, the best way to be heard is to vote with your feet, Game! for example is both free and ad free. (shameless plug)
Only with sufficiently good random number generation.
Wired ethernet. Not only is it vastly more secure, it's also an order of magnitude or two faster than wireless.
Depends on the box... Install XP SP0 from original media on a brand new Thinkpad and let me know how it goes for you (hint: it won't go well, if you can get it to install at all). Even if you get newer XP media, you'll still need to do a ton of tweaking to get anything close to reasonable performance.
If you really want a fair comparison, buy your laptop from a vendor that preloads Linux (there are many, try Google).
As a counterpoint, I bought a Thinkpad T60 (15" 1400x1050 screen, Radeon X1400, Core 2 Duo T7400, 2G RAM) back when they were new, and with the (standard for that model) 9 cell battery, I could easily get 5-6 hours under normal usage without bothering to do any power related tweaking. Of course this was using Linux, I have no idea what 'doze would get on the same hardware... I don't tarnish nice hardware.
I don't know about you, but I don't consider 6 hours of battery life poor. Even less powerful laptops today rarely get half that (see the summary, for example).
No. He's referring to the (native) proprietary Nvidia drivers and the (native) proprietary ATI drivers.
Welcome to 2009, IE has ~60% usage and falling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Would that be 0% uptime?
No.
Your bank account's balance is an entry in a database.