Yes, except that they haven't put Linux on it in any way, shape or form.
You've just been misled by another hopelessly retarded Slashdot summary.
And it looks like you've wasted a perfectly good troll on it as well. Never mind - there's bound to be another opportunity in the future and it will give you some time to work on the spelling as well!
Ever try streaming a Divx over 10/100 still being able to access teh net at the same time?
Yes, actually. And it's no problem at all because an average DivX movie is probably only about 1 to 2 megabits per second. If that's enough to bog down your LAN then there is something seriously wrong with your setup.
And to return to the original point, Gigabit is not necessarily an advantage for gaming since it will on average tend to have larger TX/RX buffers. And if you're using jumbo frames that's not going to help much either. Gigabit is optimised for throughput rather than latency.
Not to mention that most consumer level Gigabit hardware is total shit. In fact I would put money on you probably having Realtek chipsets in all of your boxes. Which is probably why "teh net" is so slow for you.
I'm guessing that New Scientist published it as a joke, Reuters picked it up a few days later and now Slashdot has as usual swallowed it like a cheap whore.
Firing ultrasound pulses into the brain to achieve sensory stimulation? Right.
Sneak preview of the next Slashdot story:
Slashcrap has written to inform us that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary. What a staggering omission! Just goes to show that open projects like the Wikipedia aren't the only ones providing potentially dubious information!!
Now I like a good troll as much as the next man, but the grandparent has to be the most pathetic, imcompetent attempt at a troll that I have ever had the misfortune to witness.
I mean for fucks sake didn't you notice that Slashdot puts the actual domain in square brackets after the URL? I suppose it's an easy mistake to make - after all it's only been happening for about the last 3 fucking years.
I can only assume that excessive voluntary exposure to Goatse has permanently affected the poor little troll's eyesight.
I just wonder how many threats Karpersky labs does found and not announcing because of people like you. Who are them? Oh, just another crooks, going for money!
You statements about Symbian bringing this on themselves by charging so much to sign executables are perfectly valid, but the one above is just bullshit.
Kaspersky _are_ well known for scaremongering and nothing you can say is going to change that. Remember the recent "OMFG teh Internet is DOOMED!!!11!!1" statements from their CEO? What happened with that? Is the Internet still working?
And since you decided to launch a personal attack on the original poster, I'm going to do the same. You sound Russian. And to have such strong views about the company I would suggest that you must have some kind of relationship with them. I think you're shilling.
One example being the Tyan S2895 which uses dual nForce4 chipsets to achieve true 16x pci-e in SLI mode.
The Tyan is an insanely specified server board with something like 40 PCI-E lanes is it's basic config. It's not like that because Nvidia wouldn't release specs. It's like that so you can run several high performance workstation level video cards. I don't even think it uses two NForce 4 chipsets, I think you've just misunderstood the specs. Do you have evidence to the contrary Mr Coward?
And considering I spent months hunting and waiting for a true 16x pci-e SLI solution I am a little disappointed in nVidia for waiting so long.
Now this is just funny.
Are there any cards that can fully exploit a 16 lane PCI-E slot available? No.
Are there going to be in the near future? No.
So why are you so desperate to get hold of a motherboard that supports it? Because you don't really know what you're talking about. You just want to be fully buzzword compliant, even if it costs you thousands.
Ummm, those are what we call "pictures". If you can find a kindergarten teacher in your neighbourhood, they could (probably) explain the concept to you.
Goatse doesn't use any browser holes to perpetrate his particular brand of education as far as I'm aware. Although I'm sure he would be more than willing to use your hole if he came across you on one of your regular visits to the Blue Oyster Club.
Apologies, it looks like it was me that didn't read the article properly. My initial understanding was that he had reimplemented the original project in both Java and Ruby in order to remove any bias. Reading it again, I'm not so sure.
That said, he does deal with your point in the first few paragraphs of the article.
As an aside, I hope I don't get put on a "You have been temporarily forbidden from posting" holiday for speaking out against the editors (do any of you guys know the editors actually do this now?) but I think it had to be said.
I doubt it. The incredible lameness and lack of integrity of the Slashdot editors is now so obviously apparent to any onlookers, that persuing this policy nowadays would result in a Slashdot readership of approximately 1. And that would hurt the Ad revenue.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early... but let's face it, it's going to be another appallingly lame April Fool, so frankly, I wouldn't bother.
Also, seeing it early just means you'll get bored of it sooner because you're going to see it duped at least 3 times over the next 24 hours.
I can't help thinking that the people who have bought Slashdot subscriptions are the same type of people who buy penis pills from spammers.
Although the analogy breaks down somewhat when you consider that the pill merchants probably have at least some kind of QA process. They wouldn't want to send out the same order more than once for instance.
I suspect RFC 4042 will make a cameo on the Slashdot homepage today as well.
I very much doubt it. The chances of any Slashdotter appreciating the humour in that one is practically nil. Mainly because the amount of humour is also practically nil.
They spend a whole paper talking about a new Unicode format they've come up with that gives a more efficient representation on architectures with 9bit bytes (yes, they exist - see the PDP11).
And I guess that's the whole joke 'cos there sure as fuck ain't anything else funny in it. Some people have far too much time on their hands (says someone who just spent 15 minutes criticising someone elses April fools day joke on Slashdot).
Those are all great, but to me, I want to know if Tiger has another "new feature": Does it make my computer feel faster?
Absolutely! Tiger will be around 50% faster for most tasks than 10.3.
Please note that this isn't because 10.3 was slow and inefficient and there were lots of easy improvements to be made. No, it's because....ummm, errr.. Look over there - Free IPods!!
I like it - short, full of technical sounding gibberish but with just enough "OSX R0xors LOL!!11!1" thrown in at the end to thoroughly hook the Apple zealots. Informative indeed!
First, if you are that worried about your download limit, then why don't you just use a text based browser?
Yeah, I can see the type of people who sign up for a 1GB/month ADSL service rushing to download Lynx. I expect they'll even compile it themselves! Maybe contribute some patches.
Or even just stop searching constantly.
Great idea! Everyone can change their behaviour to conform to your ideas. Are you a right wing Christian by any chance?
Second, as someone above mentioned, google only does this for certain searches. Not every crazy search is going to be prefetched.
That makes it alright then! I'm sure they wouldn't screw up in a way that could inconvenience or harm anyone. And if they did, I'm sure they'd respond to criticism and change the behaviour. Just like they have with the new Google Groups!
On the other hand I had to setup sever based off of FC3 yesterday and out of the box it required to download 450MBish of stuff broken into 150+ individual downloads.
OK. So the Win2k3 download was about 300MB and the Red Hat patches came to 450MB. Fair point.
Except that the Windows Service Pack only updated Windows. Whereas the Red Hat patches updated about 150 apps, going by your figures.
So it's not really an apples for apples comparison. Unless that 450MB of patches were just for the Kernel and essential system libraries. Although knowing Red Hat's "kitchen sink" approach to their kernel packages I guess it's possible.
You have an ADSL line with a really stingy cap (for instance BT in the UK offer a cheap service with a 1GB/month cap). I'm sure their customers will be happy about downloading pages they won't read.
You're a web admin that pays a lot for bandwith. I bet they'll be really happy that lots of people will be downloading their pages without ever looking at them.
You're at work surfing through a proxy that does filtering / logging and there are some dubious sites that get pre-fetched for you. Enjoy getting sacked for something you didn't do!
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm struggling to see any drawbacks to this great new technology!
Yahoo got that yet? Last i checked they didn't, which means you got to go through all of Yahoo's webmail interface.
If you sign up for a yahoo.co.uk account, you get free POP3 and SMTP access.
Unfortunately they scan every e-mail you send for fucking ridiculous made-up words like "burglarized", so if you're actually American you'll get busted pretty quick.
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I've been around a number of G5 towers running 30" Cinema Displays, as I work at a retail store.
It is not unheard of for a G5 to have a bad midplane.
It is unheard of. Macs do not have faults, only defective users.
You should be fired for suggesting otherwise. I hope you and your family starve.
Your type make me sick.
I know that all right-thinking Mac users will agree with me on this.
They put Linux on it, and you're still wining.
Yes, except that they haven't put Linux on it in any way, shape or form.
You've just been misled by another hopelessly retarded Slashdot summary.
And it looks like you've wasted a perfectly good troll on it as well. Never mind - there's bound to be another opportunity in the future and it will give you some time to work on the spelling as well!
Ever try streaming a Divx over 10/100 still being able to access teh net at the same time?
Yes, actually. And it's no problem at all because an average DivX movie is probably only about 1 to 2 megabits per second. If that's enough to bog down your LAN then there is something seriously wrong with your setup.
And to return to the original point, Gigabit is not necessarily an advantage for gaming since it will on average tend to have larger TX/RX buffers. And if you're using jumbo frames that's not going to help much either. Gigabit is optimised for throughput rather than latency.
Not to mention that most consumer level Gigabit hardware is total shit. In fact I would put money on you probably having Realtek chipsets in all of your boxes. Which is probably why "teh net" is so slow for you.
As a bonus current AOL members wil receive a wireless AP when signing-up for the service.
Excellent! Everyone in their neighbourhood will be getting free VoIP as well then!
....a pretty obvious time-lagged April Fool?
:
I'm guessing that New Scientist published it as a joke, Reuters picked it up a few days later and now Slashdot has as usual swallowed it like a cheap whore.
Firing ultrasound pulses into the brain to achieve sensory stimulation? Right.
Sneak preview of the next Slashdot story
Slashcrap has written to inform us that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary. What a staggering omission! Just goes to show that open projects like the Wikipedia aren't the only ones providing potentially dubious information!!
Goatse link, be careful
Now I like a good troll as much as the next man, but the grandparent has to be the most pathetic, imcompetent attempt at a troll that I have ever had the misfortune to witness.
I mean for fucks sake didn't you notice that Slashdot puts the actual domain in square brackets after the URL? I suppose it's an easy mistake to make - after all it's only been happening for about the last 3 fucking years.
I can only assume that excessive voluntary exposure to Goatse has permanently affected the poor little troll's eyesight.
Over time the GPL (not LGPL) has the effect of infecting all softare with the GPL due to improper mixing of software components.
No. The improper mixing of GPL'd software would, over time, have the effect of infecting all software with the GPL.
It's the "improper mixing" bit that's the problem (or to put it another way - ripping off GPL'd software).
And if you need this whole "cause & effect" thing explained in more detail, please don't hesitate to let me know.
So company A has 20 years of IP, AND all the GPL'd code they care to use, while company B has no IP at all.
What has the GPL got to do with this? The problem is that Company B has no IP.
Of course, Company B can use GPL'd or BSD'd or whatever code in their products. Would they be better off if they couldn't?
Oh fuck it. This post was going to be longer but I can't even work out what you're trying to say.
I just wonder how many threats Karpersky labs does found and not announcing because of people like you. Who are them? Oh, just another crooks, going for money!
You statements about Symbian bringing this on themselves by charging so much to sign executables are perfectly valid, but the one above is just bullshit.
Kaspersky _are_ well known for scaremongering and nothing you can say is going to change that. Remember the recent "OMFG teh Internet is DOOMED!!!11!!1" statements from their CEO? What happened with that? Is the Internet still working?
And since you decided to launch a personal attack on the original poster, I'm going to do the same. You sound Russian. And to have such strong views about the company I would suggest that you must have some kind of relationship with them. I think you're shilling.
In Soviet Russia, scares monger Kaspersky.
One example being the Tyan S2895 which uses dual nForce4 chipsets to achieve true 16x pci-e in SLI mode.
The Tyan is an insanely specified server board with something like 40 PCI-E lanes is it's basic config. It's not like that because Nvidia wouldn't release specs. It's like that so you can run several high performance workstation level video cards. I don't even think it uses two NForce 4 chipsets, I think you've just misunderstood the specs. Do you have evidence to the contrary Mr Coward?
And considering I spent months hunting and waiting for a true 16x pci-e SLI solution I am a little disappointed in nVidia for waiting so long.
Now this is just funny.
Are there any cards that can fully exploit a 16 lane PCI-E slot available? No.
Are there going to be in the near future? No.
So why are you so desperate to get hold of a motherboard that supports it? Because you don't really know what you're talking about. You just want to be fully buzzword compliant, even if it costs you thousands.
http://www.goatse.org/mirror
http://www.tubgirl.com
Still think you're happy with Firefox?
Ummm, those are what we call "pictures". If you can find a kindergarten teacher in your neighbourhood, they could (probably) explain the concept to you.
Goatse doesn't use any browser holes to perpetrate his particular brand of education as far as I'm aware. Although I'm sure he would be more than willing to use your hole if he came across you on one of your regular visits to the Blue Oyster Club.
See, I won't click on your link which will, most likely, make IE dance around my screen lobing new window into the air.
And yet you're happy with IE despite the fact that you live in fear of clicking on certain URLs?
You must be using a definition of "happy" of which I was not previously aware.
Seems that the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed is still the most important factor in a desktop system.
:
Apart from the fact that your above statement is total crap, there is a contradiction in your justification
despite cpu clockspeed or memory latencies.
You don't think that memory latency/ bandwith is as important as FSB? What do you think the FSB is for if not communicating with system memory?
Slow memory on a fast bus is still slow memory.
I can't help suspecting that the memory in your system has gold plated heat spreaders and multi-coloured blinkenlights.
Apologies, it looks like it was me that didn't read the article properly. My initial understanding was that he had reimplemented the original project in both Java and Ruby in order to remove any bias. Reading it again, I'm not so sure.
That said, he does deal with your point in the first few paragraphs of the article.
Isn't this all covered in the actual article?
Surely a Slashdotter wouldn't comment without actually reading the article would they? Even though the article text was posted in a comment?
No, I just can't bring myself to believe it. There must be some other explanation.
As an aside, I hope I don't get put on a "You have been temporarily forbidden from posting" holiday for speaking out against the editors (do any of you guys know the editors actually do this now?) but I think it had to be said.
I doubt it. The incredible lameness and lack of integrity of the Slashdot editors is now so obviously apparent to any onlookers, that persuing this policy nowadays would result in a Slashdot readership of approximately 1. And that would hurt the Ad revenue.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early ... but let's face it, it's going to be another appallingly lame April Fool, so frankly, I wouldn't bother.
Also, seeing it early just means you'll get bored of it sooner because you're going to see it duped at least 3 times over the next 24 hours.
I can't help thinking that the people who have bought Slashdot subscriptions are the same type of people who buy penis pills from spammers.
Although the analogy breaks down somewhat when you consider that the pill merchants probably have at least some kind of QA process. They wouldn't want to send out the same order more than once for instance.
I suspect RFC 4042 will make a cameo on the Slashdot homepage today as well.
I very much doubt it. The chances of any Slashdotter appreciating the humour in that one is practically nil. Mainly because the amount of humour is also practically nil.
They spend a whole paper talking about a new Unicode format they've come up with that gives a more efficient representation on architectures with 9bit bytes (yes, they exist - see the PDP11).
And I guess that's the whole joke 'cos there sure as fuck ain't anything else funny in it. Some people have far too much time on their hands (says someone who just spent 15 minutes criticising someone elses April fools day joke on Slashdot).
Those are all great, but to me, I want to know if Tiger has another "new feature": Does it make my computer feel faster?
Absolutely! Tiger will be around 50% faster for most tasks than 10.3.
Please note that this isn't because 10.3 was slow and inefficient and there were lots of easy improvements to be made. No, it's because....ummm, errr.. Look over there - Free IPods!!
Oh, well trolled sir!
I like it - short, full of technical sounding gibberish but with just enough "OSX R0xors LOL!!11!1" thrown in at the end to thoroughly hook the Apple zealots. Informative indeed!
First, if you are that worried about your download limit, then why don't you just use a text based browser?
Yeah, I can see the type of people who sign up for a 1GB/month ADSL service rushing to download Lynx. I expect they'll even compile it themselves! Maybe contribute some patches.
Or even just stop searching constantly.
Great idea! Everyone can change their behaviour to conform to your ideas. Are you a right wing Christian by any chance?
Second, as someone above mentioned, google only does this for certain searches. Not every crazy search is going to be prefetched.
That makes it alright then! I'm sure they wouldn't screw up in a way that could inconvenience or harm anyone. And if they did, I'm sure they'd respond to criticism and change the behaviour. Just like they have with the new Google Groups!
On the other hand I had to setup sever based off of FC3 yesterday and out of the box it required to download 450MBish of stuff broken into 150+ individual downloads.
OK. So the Win2k3 download was about 300MB and the Red Hat patches came to 450MB. Fair point.
Except that the Windows Service Pack only updated Windows. Whereas the Red Hat patches updated about 150 apps, going by your figures.
So it's not really an apples for apples comparison. Unless that 450MB of patches were just for the Kernel and essential system libraries. Although knowing Red Hat's "kitchen sink" approach to their kernel packages I guess it's possible.
Unless :
You have an ADSL line with a really stingy cap (for instance BT in the UK offer a cheap service with a 1GB/month cap). I'm sure their customers will be happy about downloading pages they won't read.
You're a web admin that pays a lot for bandwith. I bet they'll be really happy that lots of people will be downloading their pages without ever looking at them.
You're at work surfing through a proxy that does filtering / logging and there are some dubious sites that get pre-fetched for you. Enjoy getting sacked for something you didn't do!
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm struggling to see any drawbacks to this great new technology!
Yahoo got that yet? Last i checked they didn't, which means you got to go through all of Yahoo's webmail interface.
If you sign up for a yahoo.co.uk account, you get free POP3 and SMTP access.
Unfortunately they scan every e-mail you send for fucking ridiculous made-up words like "burglarized", so if you're actually American you'll get busted pretty quick.
Does anyone know of a (free) linux vnc client that does resolution scaling?
vncserver -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT
Seriously, that's the way to do it.
Scaling would either look awful without anti-aliasing or suck up lots of CPU time with anti-aliasing.