That's why music while working helps. Depending on what I'm coding, different music works. Sometimes heavy Fear Factory leaning into the Slipknot side of things, sometimes just Coldplay or the Kaiser Chiefs. Also has the handy function of blocking out natter from co-workers.
There is no such architecture as AMD64. If you mean x86_64, use its proper name. Additionally, AMD make x86 CPUs. Intel make pseudo x86, IA32 CPUs (pseduo because it no longer is the same as the x86 architecture).
Interestingly, my Athlon64 runs an old, OLD game called Tyrian. A Pentium I runs it. Yet a P4 doesn't. Strange.
Part of AMD's lure is that you can buy better CPUs for less money than you can with Intel.
AMD should position itself as the more expensive, elite brand. Not the sucker underdog.
That would be a bad thing. All they need to do is publicise the fact that, if you want good gaming performance (*cough*Dell XPS ad*cough*) the CPU to go for is AMD. If you want high performance servers, the CPU to go for is AMD. If you want a machine that will work even if you get a rogue application trying to suck 100% CPU time, has better security, performs FAR better than the equivalently clocked Intel (my S754 Athlon64 2800+ blows the Intel Celeron 1.7GHz away - both are budget CPUs), and has evidence to back it up, they'll be doing a fair bit better methinks.
" Our solution to the problem to the anti-virus problem was the Windows version of ClamAV. It has a nice outlook plugin that protects from e-mail based virus and we set a schedule to scan the disk every night. There is no "resident shield" in ClamAV but to be honest they rarely do any good anyway."
Oh, the number of times my AVG res shield has saved my computer from Skynet, MyDoom, other assorted Trojans... AVG's a joy to use. It's light, it's fast, it's free (for personal use). And you get free updates. Usually at least one update a day.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the iPod connect as a USB Mass Storage device? If it does, then just mount the damn thing to/mnt/ipod/ or somesuch. My Muvo got picked up as/dev/sda1 if I remember right, your results will probably vary depending on distro, kernel and software packages (I've not got around to fiddling with automount but I imagine that would have something to do about a storage device appearing).
Also, regarding the parent(s); good for you. Just goes to show that even computer newbies can handle Linux given the same kind of help you'd normally get on a Windblows system.
The average slashdotter isn't going to go buy a celeron notebook (lets go with plain old celeron, when they sucked) when there are vastly superior Pentium M notebooks available.
"When" they sucked?
I have a Willamette core (Celeron, 1.7GHz) downstairs. The reason it's not in use is because it idled in the high 50s (celsius). Under load: mid 70s.
In other words, my comp was close to burnout point before I switched.
Second, why would you want to buy a Pentium M when there's the vastly superior Turion64 to use? Dynamic underclocking (as in from 1.8GHz to about 600MHz when it's not in use), Athlon64 architecture (memory bandwidth + low latency, here I come), much more bang for buck (hey, if it works for the desktop CPUs, why not the notebook?)
And last I checked, the Turion's power consumption figures were below that of the Pentium M.
And before someone comes out and says AMD sucks... Currently in my system is a CPU only 100 MHz faster (base; it's currently clocked to 1980MHz, but base is 1.8GHz, and that's where these tests were done). Yet somehow, it can complete the highest SuperPi test in UNDER HALF THE TIME. Celeron? 54 minutes. AMD? 21 minutes. (Approximated.)
HL2 jumped in performance, from sitting at 30fps AND LOWER at 640x480, all low, to 30fps plus at 800x600, all high, with the installation of the AMD.
The ones they've had a "hard time finding" are their own.
The only reason we haven't heard of any discovery is pure and simple - just about all the weapons in Saddam's arsenal were given/sold to him by the US, the UK, Germany, France and a few others.
They wouldn't want to lose face by admitting that the WMDs he had were theirs.
* Phone rings.
What the fuck ye want? * Loud bass thumping can be heard in the background.
I'm calling --
Wassup, innit?! Fuckin' have it!
Excuse me?
Wot? Aw, sorry mate, watching the box. OH YOU FUCKING TWATS! * You hang up the phone... If you have any sense.
For pities' sake, PARTITION. YOu rule out a nice partition *JUST* for your documents. All of your documents go on there.
Side bonus? You can wipe your system drive and your documents won't be affected, you further optimise your hard drive by not wasting so many clusters...
You always know where your documents are going to be. If it ain't in your documents, it ain't there.
That's one of the things I hate about OEM came-installed-on-the-comp setups... They rarely, if ever, give you the install CD for the software that came with, so you can't just blank the hard drive, and you can't partition it because the fs is 'fragged seven ways to sunday...
Find several hundred square kilometers of unused space. Process the land until it is fit to support plantlife.
Create a large forest.
Why would it work?
Because trees are the biggest fucking CO2 processors. Heck, keep some UV lamps on them during nighttime and you can probably avoid some of the CO2 generation.
Or find a way to put them up in the arctic; nearly 24/7 sunlight. ^.^
Well, if you remove any references to America...
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Seriously.
Take a step back. Remove America from the picture.
How many countries OTHER than the US and Japan enjoy Anime? Answer: quite a few.
After glancing over most of the rest of the comments, a few things keep jumping out at me.
1) The plots were too confusing....That's usually because the people who watch them have a rudimentary ability to follow and understand concepts.
Blood: The Last Vampire. Completely sudden entry into the world depicted within, little or no background story. Yet it explains itself very well. The main character is a girl who is told by the government to kill targets who are supposed to be these creatures (the name eludes me at the moment). She gets more targets. She goes to kill them. Insert basic horror movie plot.
I've seen more than one person that watched it be completely confused by that film. Still escapes me as to why.
2) The Japanese think 14 year old girls are the sexiest thing going. Well, given that the usual audience for anime is 12-16 year olds, it figures that they'd use characters that would appeal to that age group. Duh.
Neon Genesis Evangelion, though, uses just 14 year olds. But it explains why. Because all those children were born on the day of the Second Impact. Ba-bum.
3) The plots are too repetetive. Really? Compare the Gundam Wing series to the Endless Waltz OVA. Or the GitS film to the GitS:SAC series. Or Princess Mononoke (a Studio Ghibli production) to Spirited Away (also a Studio Ghibli production). While both of these are fantasy films, the storylines are vastly different. Yet they're made by the same company. And they're in the same genre. Sh[l]ock horror.
In reality, anime is vastly varied. Sure, within a series they might use the same concepts over a lot. But what entertainment show can say that they don't? *cough*Star Trek*cough* Spatial Anomaly. Subspace distortion. Away team trapped. Prime Directive violation. Infection. Invasion. Repeat. So let's compare that to something like Dragonball Z, since everyone seems to be using that as one of the main examples. Fight. Train. Subplot. Fight. Train. Fight. Train. Fight. Subplot. Character death. Train. Train. Fight. Character revival. Train. Fight. And so on....But that's one series......Oh, nevermind. Roll on the flames.
If I recall correctly, MS hasn't come up with anything really original in the past 5 years. At least.
Most of their "new developments" are either buyouts, outsourced development, funded development (which then led to a buyout) or just plain stolen. May I direct your attention to DOS, Windows 3.1, NT...
Yeah, that's what rechargeable batteries are for. I have a stack of 1800/2000mAh NiMH batteries, as well as a fair few alkalines that have been re-used well over a dozen times. The annoying thing is, I got this charger ages ago and I can't find another one - it recharges alkalines. Much useful.
For pity's sake, do the books. The X-Wing series, 'I, Jedi', Shadows of the Empire, The Bounty Hunter series. Heck, do short films based on some of the 'Tales From' (e.g. Tales From Jabba's Palace etc) books.
The books already have the characters, good plot etc etc etc. No real writing required, only the conversion from novel to script, and Stackpole and Allston could probably be hired to do that;)
...Plus you need to connect the CLK/A with the diametrically opposed BLA-TTR, and if they don't have a ZAP license, they're stuffed. 'course, it's all academic if they don't hookup the KFJ grid to the PVH, because then nothing'll get routed properly...
Couldn't resist. Too many acronyms in that post.
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Uhhhh.... What forced update? I'm still sitting on XP SP1.
That's why music while working helps. Depending on what I'm coding, different music works. Sometimes heavy Fear Factory leaning into the Slipknot side of things, sometimes just Coldplay or the Kaiser Chiefs. Also has the handy function of blocking out natter from co-workers.
There is no such architecture as AMD64. If you mean x86_64, use its proper name. Additionally, AMD make x86 CPUs. Intel make pseudo x86, IA32 CPUs (pseduo because it no longer is the same as the x86 architecture).
Interestingly, my Athlon64 runs an old, OLD game called Tyrian. A Pentium I runs it. Yet a P4 doesn't. Strange.
AMD don't make Xeons.
Ever played MGS1? Middle of the Psycho Mantis fight, the screen cuts out to "AV1" in the topleft. Screen comes back. A few seconds later, same thing.
Sidenote: use the second controller for that guy. Makes it lots easier.
That would be a bad thing. All they need to do is publicise the fact that, if you want good gaming performance (*cough*Dell XPS ad*cough*) the CPU to go for is AMD. If you want high performance servers, the CPU to go for is AMD. If you want a machine that will work even if you get a rogue application trying to suck 100% CPU time, has better security, performs FAR better than the equivalently clocked Intel (my S754 Athlon64 2800+ blows the Intel Celeron 1.7GHz away - both are budget CPUs), and has evidence to back it up, they'll be doing a fair bit better methinks.
" Our solution to the problem to the anti-virus problem was the Windows version of ClamAV. It has a nice outlook plugin that protects from e-mail based virus and we set a schedule to scan the disk every night. There is no "resident shield" in ClamAV but to be honest they rarely do any good anyway."
Oh, the number of times my AVG res shield has saved my computer from Skynet, MyDoom, other assorted Trojans... AVG's a joy to use. It's light, it's fast, it's free (for personal use). And you get free updates. Usually at least one update a day.
After a couple of hours of wrestling with VBA I want to go nuke Redmond. And I'm a reasonable, dweeby, not-so-pacifistic nerd.
Besides which, if they want to lower violence, maybe they should stop trying to stir up frenzies in the local population with shock media etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the iPod connect as a USB Mass Storage device? If it does, then just mount the damn thing to /mnt/ipod/ or somesuch. My Muvo got picked up as /dev/sda1 if I remember right, your results will probably vary depending on distro, kernel and software packages (I've not got around to fiddling with automount but I imagine that would have something to do about a storage device appearing).
Also, regarding the parent(s); good for you. Just goes to show that even computer newbies can handle Linux given the same kind of help you'd normally get on a Windblows system.
"When" they sucked?
I have a Willamette core (Celeron, 1.7GHz) downstairs. The reason it's not in use is because it idled in the high 50s (celsius). Under load: mid 70s.
In other words, my comp was close to burnout point before I switched.
Second, why would you want to buy a Pentium M when there's the vastly superior Turion64 to use? Dynamic underclocking (as in from 1.8GHz to about 600MHz when it's not in use), Athlon64 architecture (memory bandwidth + low latency, here I come), much more bang for buck (hey, if it works for the desktop CPUs, why not the notebook?)
And last I checked, the Turion's power consumption figures were below that of the Pentium M.
And before someone comes out and says AMD sucks... Currently in my system is a CPU only 100 MHz faster (base; it's currently clocked to 1980MHz, but base is 1.8GHz, and that's where these tests were done). Yet somehow, it can complete the highest SuperPi test in UNDER HALF THE TIME. Celeron? 54 minutes. AMD? 21 minutes. (Approximated.)
HL2 jumped in performance, from sitting at 30fps AND LOWER at 640x480, all low, to 30fps plus at 800x600, all high, with the installation of the AMD.
The ones they've had a "hard time finding" are their own.
The only reason we haven't heard of any discovery is pure and simple - just about all the weapons in Saddam's arsenal were given/sold to him by the US, the UK, Germany, France and a few others.
They wouldn't want to lose face by admitting that the WMDs he had were theirs.
Exception: chavs.
* Phone rings.
What the fuck ye want?
* Loud bass thumping can be heard in the background.
I'm calling --
Wassup, innit?! Fuckin' have it!
Excuse me?
Wot? Aw, sorry mate, watching the box. OH YOU FUCKING TWATS!
* You hang up the phone... If you have any sense.
Read the caption, it tells you.
Ye gods, could you cram any more advertising into that page?!
Big Brother won't censor that, they're making too much money off it .
Partition.
For pities' sake, PARTITION.
YOu rule out a nice partition *JUST* for your documents. All of your documents go on there.
Side bonus? You can wipe your system drive and your documents won't be affected, you further optimise your hard drive by not wasting so many clusters...
You always know where your documents are going to be. If it ain't in your documents, it ain't there.
That's one of the things I hate about OEM came-installed-on-the-comp setups... They rarely, if ever, give you the install CD for the software that came with, so you can't just blank the hard drive, and you can't partition it because the fs is 'fragged seven ways to sunday...
Find several hundred square kilometers of unused space. Process the land until it is fit to support plantlife.
Create a large forest.
Why would it work?
Because trees are the biggest fucking CO2 processors. Heck, keep some UV lamps on them during nighttime and you can probably avoid some of the CO2 generation.
Or find a way to put them up in the arctic; nearly 24/7 sunlight. ^.^
Seriously.
...That's usually because the people who watch them have a rudimentary ability to follow and understand concepts.
...But that's one series... ...Oh, nevermind. Roll on the flames.
Take a step back. Remove America from the picture.
How many countries OTHER than the US and Japan enjoy Anime?
Answer: quite a few.
After glancing over most of the rest of the comments, a few things keep jumping out at me.
1) The plots were too confusing.
Blood: The Last Vampire. Completely sudden entry into the world depicted within, little or no background story. Yet it explains itself very well. The main character is a girl who is told by the government to kill targets who are supposed to be these creatures (the name eludes me at the moment). She gets more targets. She goes to kill them. Insert basic horror movie plot.
I've seen more than one person that watched it be completely confused by that film. Still escapes me as to why.
2) The Japanese think 14 year old girls are the sexiest thing going.
Well, given that the usual audience for anime is 12-16 year olds, it figures that they'd use characters that would appeal to that age group. Duh.
Neon Genesis Evangelion, though, uses just 14 year olds. But it explains why. Because all those children were born on the day of the Second Impact. Ba-bum.
3) The plots are too repetetive.
Really?
Compare the Gundam Wing series to the Endless Waltz OVA.
Or the GitS film to the GitS:SAC series.
Or Princess Mononoke (a Studio Ghibli production) to Spirited Away (also a Studio Ghibli production). While both of these are fantasy films, the storylines are vastly different. Yet they're made by the same company. And they're in the same genre. Sh[l]ock horror.
In reality, anime is vastly varied. Sure, within a series they might use the same concepts over a lot. But what entertainment show can say that they don't? *cough*Star Trek*cough*
Spatial Anomaly.
Subspace distortion.
Away team trapped.
Prime Directive violation.
Infection.
Invasion.
Repeat.
So let's compare that to something like Dragonball Z, since everyone seems to be using that as one of the main examples.
Fight. Train. Subplot. Fight. Train. Fight. Train. Fight. Subplot. Character death. Train. Train. Fight. Character revival. Train. Fight.
And so on.
You only just noticed?
If I recall correctly, MS hasn't come up with anything really original in the past 5 years. At least.
Most of their "new developments" are either buyouts, outsourced development, funded development (which then led to a buyout) or just plain stolen. May I direct your attention to DOS, Windows 3.1, NT...
"Rivaling PCs"? ...
Rivaling?
I take it you've been living under a rock for the past month or so. Because only then could you say that.
First: nVidia RSX. Is it on PC? No. Is it in the PS3? Yes.
Second: Cell. Is it on PC? No. Is it in the PS3? Yes.
Unless you're talking about the '360, Next-gen systems are whooping the PCs back into the stone age.
Yeah, that's what rechargeable batteries are for. I have a stack of 1800/2000mAh NiMH batteries, as well as a fair few alkalines that have been re-used well over a dozen times. The annoying thing is, I got this charger ages ago and I can't find another one - it recharges alkalines. Much useful.
Wow. You guys are behind the times, the UK's had this for...Oooh, months at least. 8520, changed names to Genie not too long ago IIRC.
For pity's sake, do the books. The X-Wing series, 'I, Jedi', Shadows of the Empire, The Bounty Hunter series. Heck, do short films based on some of the 'Tales From' (e.g. Tales From Jabba's Palace etc) books.
;)
The books already have the characters, good plot etc etc etc. No real writing required, only the conversion from novel to script, and Stackpole and Allston could probably be hired to do that
...Plus you need to connect the CLK/A with the diametrically opposed BLA-TTR, and if they don't have a ZAP license, they're stuffed. 'course, it's all academic if they don't hookup the KFJ grid to the PVH, because then nothing'll get routed properly... Couldn't resist. Too many acronyms in that post.
No, Prometheus from Stargate SG-1. The big ship made by the USAF. Mweeehehee.
...aka BC-303. All welcome the [false] gods.