Many people argue against it for economic reasons. In many cases, a larger monitor with a single (headed) video card configuration will offer more screen real estate, yet cost less.
Of course, if you've already got a large monitor, why not have more than one? And so on... I've got a multimonitor setup with 19's at home, and I love it much more than any single 21" I've ever used. The separate spaces seem easier to use -- code on one screen, debug info on the other, etc.
AFAIK, WiMP (not to be confused with WInaMP : ) only encodes MP3 up to 56kbps anyway. Its Fraunhofer/IIS codec is crippled with that low quality encoding bitrate, and the audio component of DivX;-) was a binary hack to uncripple it.
1. The BH6 was a uniprocessor motherboard, and I oughtta know, since I had one and used for Celeron overclocking until it died a few weeks ago. The CPU (Cel. 366A) lives on in a different BX board. The BP6 was the Abit board that could do dual PPGA Celerons, but it can't handle more than one FC-PGA processor of any kind.
2. There was never a PII 600. PII's maxed out at 450, then Intel moved over to the Katmai P3's, which were PII's in every respect, discounting the SSE extensions. Katmai effectively ran up to 550, although there were a handful of 600's, which were really just overclocked 550's that Intel shoved out the door as a preemptive strike against the Athlon. AMD countered with a 650 at launch time, and thus began The Chip Wars...
Don't get me wrong -- I have a dual P3-800 system and I love it. It's good at the kind of stuff that I like to do at my workstation. Beside it, I have a 1GHz Athlon, which is good in its own right for playing games (and running that icky Win98), and beside that is the old Celeron I mentioned, to serve them both with files, DNS, and all that other crap.
Who needs a dual board? No dual Celeron BP6 config can hold up to today's GHz uniprocessor systems, and most of them are a lot more stable than the BP6, especially that temperamental HPT366 controller.
Smart choices in the fans you DO use doesn't hurt, either.
PC Power & Cooling makes the 80mm Silencer fan. It is very quiet, but regardless of what their specs say, it does not push a lot of air. I eventually gave up on them as computer cooling devices, although recently I hacked it into switch on my home LAN in place of two very noisy 40mm fans.
In Europe, I guess Papst fans are "teh win", but I don't have any on hand to confirm this, other than a handful of lucky USians who found them through various chance incidents.
In the U.S., the best choice seems to be Panasonic's Panaflo line of fans, particularly the L1A variety. They seem to offer the best ratio of cfm to decibels and IIRC, this is accomplished with a patented "liquid bearing" technology. One or two of these fans a few feet away from you is barely, if at all noticeable. I swear by them.
What the site didn't do that every quiet PC deserves is to put grommets in the fan mounts (5/16" internal diameter, BTW). I've done it, and it seems to help.
I probably wouldn't be nearly so compulsive about PC noise if I didn't have three of them running in the same room and my apartment was a little bigger...
First of all, are you sure that you replied to the right comment?
HD's have been making huge jumps. Nobody's interested. While that 137GB Maxtor drive could hold a lot of pr0n, I have 35 mirrored gigabytes at home for _all of_ my personal storage/archives, not just pr0n, and I barely put a dent into it.
The end users that do need this kind of space are the ones with DV cams, but they need expensive SCSI disks to do things properly. I've seen people try it with striped IDE, but the SCSI solution always wins.
I had the same problem yesterday when I was searching for "quotes about Shakespeare". "to be or not to be" (with quotes) pulls up the proper category, but the first rsult it comes up with is the GNU homepage, because GNU's not Unix!. The second link is to Am I Hot or Not, BTW...
Strangely enough, it warns about "or", and if I want to use it in a search, it must be in CAPS, but then how do I search for something in ORegon? For some reason, it says nothing about "not", so I don't know what's up with their search terms anymore.
Exactly how does posting as an AC contribute any credibility to your flame, or was that the poinnt?
This boss character Jim hacked BSD and wrote drivers for the Winchester before you were even born, kiddo. He, like many Iowans, came to Minnesota because the only job opportunities there are in farming and meat packing. In 18 years, not one of the dozens of Iowans I have known has ever claimed ABC to be the first, yet it is the first thing out of the mouth of anyone who has ever gone to Iowa State.
You already corrected yourself, but I may as well cover this ABC thing, since it came up.
I've been a Minnesotan since I was about 7. I know many people from Iowa, and many of my friends have gone to Iowa State. 98% of all the people who think that ABC was the first just happen to be present or former IA State students. As a sampling: neither my friend Tom's parents (Iowa U grads), nor Jason, the h4x0r in my dept. from Quad Cities (no college), or his boss Jim (went to UIUC) believe ABC is the first, yet all are from Iowa, while all three classmates of mine that I know that went to IA State think it was. I can fish out more examples if you like, but I think that should illustrate the point.
Carbon dioxide would actually be the closest relative to silicon dioxide, but solid carbon dioxide (dry ice) would have to be kept cold, since its evaporation temp is somewhere near 0C. Of course, if you kept it under high pressure, you could keep the temperature low and overclock the hell out of it =)
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I'm somewhat ignorant of chemistry, but HO2 is neither water, nor possible with proton/electron bonding, since hydrogen has a +1 charge, and oxygen -2.
like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood
like goin up and not comin down
is just like the beat without the sound no sound
to the beat beat, ya do the freak
everybody just rock and dance to the beat
Thank you! I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on there. One little secret, though, is that he's actually pulling the whole thing off by running X off an OS/2 machine in Gdansk, Poland;)
I think this is "piss on email" day.
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And how is this worse than everyone needing to walk to someone else's cubicle, or calling someone on the phone to find that the person is at a meeting or going to the bathroom? You certainly can't attach the latest financial reports to a voicemail.
On the whole, IT definitely leverages your workforce and makes them more productive -- can you imagine how many jobs would be impossible to do without computers these days?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18397.htm l
I don't think the exam is purely about being object oriented. It's about learning all the language fundamentals. I should know -- I still have brain damage from the year of "computer science" I spent in high school with QBASIC and VBDOS. Nothing of importance was ever taught in that class, with the exception that you NEVER print a form feed character until you know that your code works...
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Of course, if you've already got a large monitor, why not have more than one? And so on... I've got a multimonitor setup with 19's at home, and I love it much more than any single 21" I've ever used. The separate spaces seem easier to use -- code on one screen, debug info on the other, etc.
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1. The BH6 was a uniprocessor motherboard, and I oughtta know, since I had one and used for Celeron overclocking until it died a few weeks ago. The CPU (Cel. 366A) lives on in a different BX board. The BP6 was the Abit board that could do dual PPGA Celerons, but it can't handle more than one FC-PGA processor of any kind.
2. There was never a PII 600. PII's maxed out at 450, then Intel moved over to the Katmai P3's, which were PII's in every respect, discounting the SSE extensions. Katmai effectively ran up to 550, although there were a handful of 600's, which were really just overclocked 550's that Intel shoved out the door as a preemptive strike against the Athlon. AMD countered with a 650 at launch time, and thus began The Chip Wars...
Don't get me wrong -- I have a dual P3-800 system and I love it. It's good at the kind of stuff that I like to do at my workstation. Beside it, I have a 1GHz Athlon, which is good in its own right for playing games (and running that icky Win98), and beside that is the old Celeron I mentioned, to serve them both with files, DNS, and all that other crap.
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PC Power & Cooling makes the 80mm Silencer fan. It is very quiet, but regardless of what their specs say, it does not push a lot of air. I eventually gave up on them as computer cooling devices, although recently I hacked it into switch on my home LAN in place of two very noisy 40mm fans.
In Europe, I guess Papst fans are "teh win", but I don't have any on hand to confirm this, other than a handful of lucky USians who found them through various chance incidents.
In the U.S., the best choice seems to be Panasonic's Panaflo line of fans, particularly the L1A variety. They seem to offer the best ratio of cfm to decibels and IIRC, this is accomplished with a patented "liquid bearing" technology. One or two of these fans a few feet away from you is barely, if at all noticeable. I swear by them.
What the site didn't do that every quiet PC deserves is to put grommets in the fan mounts (5/16" internal diameter, BTW). I've done it, and it seems to help.
I probably wouldn't be nearly so compulsive about PC noise if I didn't have three of them running in the same room and my apartment was a little bigger...
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HD's have been making huge jumps. Nobody's interested. While that 137GB Maxtor drive could hold a lot of pr0n, I have 35 mirrored gigabytes at home for _all of_ my personal storage/archives, not just pr0n, and I barely put a dent into it.
The end users that do need this kind of space are the ones with DV cams, but they need expensive SCSI disks to do things properly. I've seen people try it with striped IDE, but the SCSI solution always wins.
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I had the same problem yesterday when I was searching for "quotes about Shakespeare". "to be or not to be" (with quotes) pulls up the proper category, but the first rsult it comes up with is the GNU homepage, because GNU's not Unix!. The second link is to Am I Hot or Not, BTW...
Strangely enough, it warns about "or", and if I want to use it in a search, it must be in CAPS, but then how do I search for something in ORegon? For some reason, it says nothing about "not", so I don't know what's up with their search terms anymore.
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This boss character Jim hacked BSD and wrote drivers for the Winchester before you were even born, kiddo. He, like many Iowans, came to Minnesota because the only job opportunities there are in farming and meat packing. In 18 years, not one of the dozens of Iowans I have known has ever claimed ABC to be the first, yet it is the first thing out of the mouth of anyone who has ever gone to Iowa State.
Search Google for "World's First Computer" yourself:m puter&hl=en&lr=&safe=off
http://www.google.com/search?q=world%27s+first+co
(link shall be eaten by SpaceDot, the URL mangling Slashcode daemon)
Now go claim victory to all your friends, for I have been trolled, I have lost, and all that.
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I've been a Minnesotan since I was about 7. I know many people from Iowa, and many of my friends have gone to Iowa State. 98% of all the people who think that ABC was the first just happen to be present or former IA State students. As a sampling: neither my friend Tom's parents (Iowa U grads), nor Jason, the h4x0r in my dept. from Quad Cities (no college), or his boss Jim (went to UIUC) believe ABC is the first, yet all are from Iowa, while all three classmates of mine that I know that went to IA State think it was. I can fish out more examples if you like, but I think that should illustrate the point.
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I'm somewhat ignorant of chemistry, but HO2 is neither water, nor possible with proton/electron bonding, since hydrogen has a +1 charge, and oxygen -2.
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like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood
like goin up and not comin down
is just like the beat without the sound no sound
to the beat beat, ya do the freak
everybody just rock and dance to the beat
(copyright: the authors of the lyric in my URL
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/extra/sdmi-attack.ht
Is it out on Freenet yet?
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On the whole, IT definitely leverages your workforce and makes them more productive -- can you imagine how many jobs would be impossible to do without computers these days?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18397.ht
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