I bought a tyan motherboard (Tiger MP, Dual Athlon) about a year ago. The first one was dead on arrival (wouldn't post at all, regardless of what I did) so I had to RMA it. The one that I got in replacement worked but had some funky problems with the IDE controller, but it would post and let me install my OS of choice so I just dealt with the problems. After about 8 months of solid use the IDE controller finally crapped out for good and I have to RMA the board again. I have a friend that has the same motherboard, and after a few months of use it wouldn't run in dual cpu mode, so he's using it as a single processor workstation now.
I realize that this may not have anything to do with the capacitor problem mentioned in the story, but I don't think I'll be buying any more tyan motherboards.
I've been using ABIT products almost exclusively since I first started building computers at home and at work, and I have been totally satisfied with their quality and features. The few times I've used ASUS stuff I've been annoyed with little things like mislabeled IDE controller ports.
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DSL Rising
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I get my dsl through speakeasy.net and I couldn't be happier. for $59/month I get a very fast, stable connection with two static IP's and a buttload of other stuff. Additional static IP's are only $2.95/month. They don't care what you do with your connection, and I just got a newsletter from them encouraging me to hook up some wireless network gear and share my connection with the rest of my neighborhood. And to top it all of they gave me my choice of a PS2 or Xbox when I signed up with them.
BTW, if you want to sign up and give me some referral money go
here.
One thing that Firefly got right was that whenever the camera was in the vacuum of space there was no sound. That's one thing that's always bugged me about sci-fi shows.
I use an iPaq to read ebooks
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I've been using an ipaq to read ebooks lately. As the review said, the books are available in MS Reader, HTML and Palm formats. A backlit PDA is almost the perfect device to read ebooks. I've gotten so used to reading them on my ipaq that I prefer them to dead tree books.
I actually work at a Navy base that is scheduled to be transitioned to this new network. The initiative is called NMCI (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet). From everything I hear this project has been one big cluster f*** from day one. My base was scheduled to be transitioned over a year ago but delays have pushed it back so far that we're not even supposed to start for at least another year.
This whole thing is such a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
Wow, I guess somebody figured that since ars could surive one slashdotting you'd hit them with not one but two stories on/.'s front page at the same time.
I've got a six year old boy at home, he's not terribly gentle with CD's yet (he is learning tho). I use a program called bindwrite to make perfect 1:1 copies of the games that I legally purchase. I then place the original up in the closet. I've made working copies of Diablo II, Dungeon Siege and NWN with this program. I've used the copy of Diablo II to connect to battle.net with no problems. You just need a CDRW drive capable of writing sub-channel data, I've been using a plextor 40/12/40 drive.
Quake 3 is still being used as a benchmark because there are still games being released that use the Q3 engine.
However, Anandtech's review of the 9700 has some benchmarks that include the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine. There are also some cool CPU scaling charts in there. Epic has been providing Anandtech with build of the UT2003 engine for quite some time. All of their recent reviews include UT2003 numbers.
"I look forward to a future when everyone is at least part computer, technology is embraced, and the worst and most dangerous jobs (e.g., soldiering) will be performed by mindless clones grown for the task rather than real people."
This may seems a little idealistic of me, but, why not look forward to a future where we don't NEED mindless clones to fight for us. Never mind that mindless clones would make an absolutely horrible, incompetent army.
Not sure if you read the article, but here a good quote:
"Indeed, very little nonengineered corn is segregated from high-tech varieties during the U.S. harvest, and that portion sells at a premium to organic food processors and others."
I like the way ppl see conspiracy everywhere. Are you wearing your tinfoil hat so the CIA can't read your mind?
the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe is the same guy that told his people that it was OK to kill white farmers and take their land. He also rigged the last election to keep himself in power. I'm not suprised that he'd ignore the starvation of his own people to show the world how 'powerful' he is.
As I see it, the R250 and R300 are ATI's answer to the GF4 line. The Radeon 8500 was meant to compete with the GF3 line but that hasn't stopped everyone from comparing it to the GF4's. Now the R300 will be out a few months before nvidia's next part, why not compare it to current cards.
If you don't compare it to current cards you don't have a frame of reference for how powerful the new cards are.
The windows cd would still be required (as it should be) - I'm not trying to circumvent that at all - I just wonmder what's involved in unpacking the files from cd and "installing" (copying) to disk...
I disagree with this. Making it mandatory that the CD be in the drive while you play is the stupidest form of copy protection there is. This is a perfect example of screwing over the majority of customers just to stop a few incompetent people from copying a CD. Anyone with any brains at all can download a crack from any number of sites to remove the CD check. I do it all the time with games that I have paid for.
I've copied plenty of games and given those copies to my friends in the past. In my experience the only thing that has kept me from doing that is when the game ships with a CD key that you need to play online. I'm not going to give someone my cdkey and then run the risk of not being able to play whenever I want to.
no shit. I checked that wonderful box right around the time metallica was suing napster. I believe it was his childish rant about the unfairness of it all that pushed me over the edge.
What about the rest of you that have katz blocked? do you remember the story that broke the camel's back?
I'm 27, and I have a 6 year old boy. IMO on of the best things about having children is the ready-made excuse to play with toys. I've bought him a lot of the newer generation of transformers. I really hope they reissue the first generation toys. I had a huge collection of them that was raided by my brothers when I joined the marines.
Granted, you won't notice any difference past your monitors refresh rate. But there are a lot of reasons to have a much higher frame rate. When you do a benchmark you are getting the AVERAGE framerate, there are times when the actual framerate is much lower than this. I figure if I can keep my average framerate above 100fps then it shouldn't dip below my refresh rate.
One other things is that you might be able to get 200-300fps in quake3 right now, but some benchmarks of the new Unreal engine on anandtech show that those same cards that are spanking the q3 engine will be spanked by the new unreal engine. And I don't imagine the new Doom engine will be any easier. Having extra horsepower now helps when the newer games come out.
"If they need a real example of a system that works, they need look no farther than Half-Life or Quake3 -- they can be played on LANs without authentication, but by and large, you need a licensed copy to play on the Internet."
Diablo 2 and ANY of the Blizzard games can be played on a LAN and on the internet. But if you want to play on battle.net with thousands of people to play with you need to authenticate.
I've played D2 plenty of times with my brother who lives in New Hampshire, and I live in Washington state. As long as you have an IP you can play with anyone else that has an IP.
"It's not real smart, IMHO, to lower a pickup and mod it to hell, but the guys that do that like the way it looks. They aren't doing it so their vehicle will be faster. Just so it will look better.
That is what these guys are doing. Let them have their fun. I wouldn't do it, but I like the way it looks."
I think the analogy to lowering a truck to make it look better not faster doesn't quite fit. This is more like putting sand into the pistons because you like the sound it makes.
This is a destructive mod. It would be STUPID to try this unless you're in a clean room.
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"I'm completely against silly software patents, like the 1-click one, but I think that AvantGo deserves this one. "
Perhaps AvantGo does deserve this one, but if you allow one company to patent an idea than you must also allow others to do the same. Who determines just how "silly" one idea is over another? Some overworked, underinformed patent office employee?
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I bought a tyan motherboard (Tiger MP, Dual Athlon) about a year ago. The first one was dead on arrival (wouldn't post at all, regardless of what I did) so I had to RMA it. The one that I got in replacement worked but had some funky problems with the IDE controller, but it would post and let me install my OS of choice so I just dealt with the problems. After about 8 months of solid use the IDE controller finally crapped out for good and I have to RMA the board again. I have a friend that has the same motherboard, and after a few months of use it wouldn't run in dual cpu mode, so he's using it as a single processor workstation now.
I realize that this may not have anything to do with the capacitor problem mentioned in the story, but I don't think I'll be buying any more tyan motherboards.
I've been using ABIT products almost exclusively since I first started building computers at home and at work, and I have been totally satisfied with their quality and features. The few times I've used ASUS stuff I've been annoyed with little things like mislabeled IDE controller ports.
I get my dsl through speakeasy.net and I couldn't be happier. for $59/month I get a very fast, stable connection with two static IP's and a buttload of other stuff. Additional static IP's are only $2.95/month. They don't care what you do with your connection, and I just got a newsletter from them encouraging me to hook up some wireless network gear and share my connection with the rest of my neighborhood. And to top it all of they gave me my choice of a PS2 or Xbox when I signed up with them.
BTW, if you want to sign up and give me some referral money go here.
One thing that Firefly got right was that whenever the camera was in the vacuum of space there was no sound. That's one thing that's always bugged me about sci-fi shows.
I've been using an ipaq to read ebooks lately. As the review said, the books are available in MS Reader, HTML and Palm formats. A backlit PDA is almost the perfect device to read ebooks. I've gotten so used to reading them on my ipaq that I prefer them to dead tree books.
I actually work at a Navy base that is scheduled to be transitioned to this new network. The initiative is called NMCI (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet). From everything I hear this project has been one big cluster f*** from day one. My base was scheduled to be transitioned over a year ago but delays have pushed it back so far that we're not even supposed to start for at least another year.
This whole thing is such a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
I have kids. they can destroy CD's like you wouldn't believe.
Wow, I guess somebody figured that since ars could surive one slashdotting you'd hit them with not one but two stories on /.'s front page at the same time.
It's society's own apathy that's going to wind up allowing ..AA to kill digital content.
In other news, scientists in Florida have discovered a cure for apathy, but no one seems to care.
The short answer is: yes you can.
I've got a six year old boy at home, he's not terribly gentle with CD's yet (he is learning tho). I use a program called bindwrite to make perfect 1:1 copies of the games that I legally purchase. I then place the original up in the closet. I've made working copies of Diablo II, Dungeon Siege and NWN with this program. I've used the copy of Diablo II to connect to battle.net with no problems. You just need a CDRW drive capable of writing sub-channel data, I've been using a plextor 40/12/40 drive.
Quake 3 is still being used as a benchmark because there are still games being released that use the Q3 engine.
However, Anandtech's review of the 9700 has some benchmarks that include the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine. There are also some cool CPU scaling charts in there. Epic has been providing Anandtech with build of the UT2003 engine for quite some time. All of their recent reviews include UT2003 numbers.
"I look forward to a future when everyone is at least part computer, technology is embraced, and the worst and most dangerous jobs (e.g., soldiering) will be performed by mindless clones grown for the task rather than real people."
This may seems a little idealistic of me, but, why not look forward to a future where we don't NEED mindless clones to fight for us. Never mind that mindless clones would make an absolutely horrible, incompetent army.
Let me start by saying that I'm lazy.
Now that that's out of the way, could you please post your template here so I don't have to find/make one?
Thanks.
Not sure if you read the article, but here a good quote:
"Indeed, very little nonengineered corn is segregated from high-tech varieties during the U.S. harvest, and that portion sells at a premium to organic food processors and others."
I like the way ppl see conspiracy everywhere. Are you wearing your tinfoil hat so the CIA can't read your mind?
the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe is the same guy that told his people that it was OK to kill white farmers and take their land. He also rigged the last election to keep himself in power. I'm not suprised that he'd ignore the starvation of his own people to show the world how 'powerful' he is.
As I see it, the R250 and R300 are ATI's answer to the GF4 line. The Radeon 8500 was meant to compete with the GF3 line but that hasn't stopped everyone from comparing it to the GF4's. Now the R300 will be out a few months before nvidia's next part, why not compare it to current cards.
If you don't compare it to current cards you don't have a frame of reference for how powerful the new cards are.
The windows cd would still be required (as it should be) - I'm not trying to circumvent that at all - I just wonmder what's involved in unpacking the files from cd and "installing" (copying) to disk...
I disagree with this. Making it mandatory that the CD be in the drive while you play is the stupidest form of copy protection there is. This is a perfect example of screwing over the majority of customers just to stop a few incompetent people from copying a CD. Anyone with any brains at all can download a crack from any number of sites to remove the CD check. I do it all the time with games that I have paid for.
I've copied plenty of games and given those copies to my friends in the past. In my experience the only thing that has kept me from doing that is when the game ships with a CD key that you need to play online. I'm not going to give someone my cdkey and then run the risk of not being able to play whenever I want to.
no shit. I checked that wonderful box right around the time metallica was suing napster. I believe it was his childish rant about the unfairness of it all that pushed me over the edge.
What about the rest of you that have katz blocked? do you remember the story that broke the camel's back?
I'm 27, and I have a 6 year old boy. IMO on of the best things about having children is the ready-made excuse to play with toys. I've bought him a lot of the newer generation of transformers. I really hope they reissue the first generation toys. I had a huge collection of them that was raided by my brothers when I joined the marines.
provide the best 'bung for the buck'
Isn't that what a lot of prostitutes try to offer?
I know this is off-topic and possibly even trollish, but hell, what's the use of having karma if you don't spend some every now and then.
Sound like flamebait but I'll reply anyway.
Granted, you won't notice any difference past your monitors refresh rate. But there are a lot of reasons to have a much higher frame rate. When you do a benchmark you are getting the AVERAGE framerate, there are times when the actual framerate is much lower than this. I figure if I can keep my average framerate above 100fps then it shouldn't dip below my refresh rate.
One other things is that you might be able to get 200-300fps in quake3 right now, but some benchmarks of the new Unreal engine on anandtech show that those same cards that are spanking the q3 engine will be spanked by the new unreal engine. And I don't imagine the new Doom engine will be any easier. Having extra horsepower now helps when the newer games come out.
"If they need a real example of a system that works, they need look no farther than Half-Life or Quake3 -- they can be played on LANs without authentication, but by and large, you need a licensed copy to play on the Internet."
Diablo 2 and ANY of the Blizzard games can be played on a LAN and on the internet. But if you want to play on battle.net with thousands of people to play with you need to authenticate.
I've played D2 plenty of times with my brother who lives in New Hampshire, and I live in Washington state. As long as you have an IP you can play with anyone else that has an IP.
"This guy truly deserves the patent. He seems like a person who would use it responsibly..."
Which means he won't get it.
"It's not real smart, IMHO, to lower a pickup and mod it to hell, but the guys that do that like the way it looks. They aren't doing it so their vehicle will be faster. Just so it will look better.
That is what these guys are doing. Let them have their fun. I wouldn't do it, but I like the way it looks."
I think the analogy to lowering a truck to make it look better not faster doesn't quite fit. This is more like putting sand into the pistons because you like the sound it makes.
This is a destructive mod. It would be STUPID to try this unless you're in a clean room.
"I'm completely against silly software patents, like the 1-click one, but I think that AvantGo deserves this one. "
Perhaps AvantGo does deserve this one, but if you allow one company to patent an idea than you must also allow others to do the same. Who determines just how "silly" one idea is over another? Some overworked, underinformed patent office employee?
Software patents in general are a Bad Thing.
Go here if you want screen shots. The link on the story post was just for the download.
If you follow the link to OS News there's a link to the left for screenshots and a bunch of other stuff