My home server/internet gateway is a Pentium MMX at 200MHz, with a 100 Mb/s NIC. With SCP (default options, server sending), I can transfer at 8Mb/s. With RCP, at 25 Mb/s
Well since it seems to have support for about 5% of my apps and about 75% of my hardware, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree. Are you talking about Vista or Linux?:) Linux. Vista seems to have support for about 75% of his apps and about 5% of his hardware.
Wow, Slashdot ate my whole comment besides that link... A bug? A bug indeed, and it is yours, apparently you can't code in HTML:P You probably did a typo in a closing tag. Anyway, There's a reason why we have a "preview" button;)
Google has called Yahoo/Microsoft merger bad for the future of the internet Yeah, but who wants an Internet anyway ? Certainly not Microsoft, MPAA or RIAA...
Microsoft would prefer a controlled^Wsecured Microsoft(r) Inter-Network, let's call it MSN for short:P
They can link to a page with img tags just like everyone else has been doing for the last 15 years or so. And let the idle process go up to 98% ? No way !
But as it's short, many people might want to get a 2nd or 3rd ride. To the point more and more people are in the line, and maybe some are twice in the line !
I find it amazing how MS is eager to cut the branch it's sitting on these times. I thought VBA was one of the major reasons for businesses to not switch to alternatives : because they developped in-house lots of VBA code to achieve some tasks, that would tie them to the MS-Office suite.
Given that I used the "hyperthreading" term at least twice in the original message, yes, it's a safe bet that I've already heard about it;) Agreed, I just somehow got stuck in the thread to the lintux post and didn't read your original one before answering:) And I hadn't anything more than the good post of RzUpAnmsCwrds
Now I could add about the point of the complexity (even though I guess you did understand) : the dispatcher becomes the bottleneck. IIRC, a similar bottleneck happened in the original P4 design, where you would have 5 integer pipelines, and the instruction decoder could only feed three of them by cycle.
What you're describing is called Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), most commonly know as Hyper Threading (HT) in the Intel world.
I suggest you read the wikipedia link.
Problems with that are :
Yes, it is more complex (the algorithm of allocating pipes dynamically is hard to implement in hardware)
A problem going up to the OS scheduling level is that there's often one "master" thread, and a "slave" that only gets the pipes not consumed by the master. Remember that pipes might do other operations : integer, floating, memory...
As far as I know, real world performance in SMT is not that great an improvement over the non-SMT performance of the chip.
nobody wants to use magnetic over solid state anyway Oh, but I've heard that magnetic data has a warmth and nuanced feeling that SSD harsh data doesn't have... Already that magnetic drives weren't all that good to start with...
Yes, I suspect that the author's idea of the "standard" keyboard layout everyone is expecting (*) is the 101 keys AT keyboard... that came later than all the keyboards of the list...
And I also find more and more difficult to find a keyboard with the standard 104-keys layout, or better. I have nothing against more key if they're not getting in the way (I used unix keyboards with more than 120 keys that were usable), but most keyboard models you can find now have annoying "features".
Examples : - F keys default to multimedia keys, there's a fn key misplaced (on one model, right in the place of the left ctrl, which in turn is shifted to the right, and you get a smaller space bar - delete key in place of ins + del - power keys moving down the 6 keys editing block so "up" and "end" are next to each other - editing block as 3 rows x 2, unusual and cramped layout, sometimes the left key does "cross" under the shift key, with a shorter right ctrl
Not about the layout, but there are also more and more "slim" keyboard using the laptop technology. Standards full stroke keyboard have a way better feedback.
(*) which isn't even an argument to say that a different layout is inherently bad
I see Apple products, add-ons for Apple products, Wii, TiVo, PSP... Where are Vista, Zune 2 ? XBox360 ? (admittedly, more of a fit for past year lists)
If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that. Ever heard of Miguel de Icaza ?:)
I have asked the guy doing our PCs installations, so I can give you more details... It's a tx1000. There are xp drivers on the website, but they don't cover the onboard nVidia chipset, and this one doesn't seem fully supported in XP. At least the ethernet port doesn't work.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called for data to be stored in 'universally accessible formats'. Plain old paper, then ? Maybe microfilm ? Or carved on stones, good for durability:)
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My home server/internet gateway is a Pentium MMX at 200MHz, with a 100 Mb/s NIC.
With SCP (default options, server sending), I can transfer at 8Mb/s.
With RCP, at 25 Mb/s
You probably did a typo in a closing tag. Anyway, There's a reason why we have a "preview" button
With a few more creative accounting methods like these, they could get Yahoo! for free :P
Anyway, are the many Microsoft patents on software or accounting methods ?
Microsoft would prefer a controlled^Wsecured Microsoft(r) Inter-Network, let's call it MSN for short
But as it's short, many people might want to get a 2nd or 3rd ride.
To the point more and more people are in the line, and maybe some are twice in the line !
I find it amazing how MS is eager to cut the branch it's sitting on these times.
I thought VBA was one of the major reasons for businesses to not switch to alternatives : because they developped in-house lots of VBA code to achieve some tasks, that would tie them to the MS-Office suite.
And I hadn't anything more than the good post of RzUpAnmsCwrds
Now I could add about the point of the complexity (even though I guess you did understand) : the dispatcher becomes the bottleneck. IIRC, a similar bottleneck happened in the original P4 design, where you would have 5 integer pipelines, and the instruction decoder could only feed three of them by cycle.
I suggest you read the wikipedia link.
Problems with that are :
Already that magnetic drives weren't all that good to start with...
Yes, I suspect that the author's idea of the "standard" keyboard layout everyone is expecting (*) is the 101 keys AT keyboard... that came later than all the keyboards of the list...
IBM PC keyboards
Comments on the layout
And I also find more and more difficult to find a keyboard with the standard 104-keys layout, or better. I have nothing against more key if they're not getting in the way (I used unix keyboards with more than 120 keys that were usable), but most keyboard models you can find now have annoying "features".
Examples :
- F keys default to multimedia keys, there's a fn key misplaced (on one model, right in the place of the left ctrl, which in turn is shifted to the right, and you get a smaller space bar
- delete key in place of ins + del
- power keys moving down the 6 keys editing block so "up" and "end" are next to each other
- editing block as 3 rows x 2, unusual and cramped layout, sometimes the left key does "cross" under the shift key, with a shorter right ctrl
Not about the layout, but there are also more and more "slim" keyboard using the laptop technology. Standards full stroke keyboard have a way better feedback.
(*) which isn't even an argument to say that a different layout is inherently bad
Can we all agree that they have similar glyphs but are different characters / graphemes ?
This is not actually part of the list. The Seattle Times has the annoying habit of concatenating a few infomercials below some articles.
I see Apple products, add-ons for Apple products, Wii, TiVo, PSP...
:P
Where are Vista, Zune 2 ? XBox360 ? (admittedly, more of a fit for past year lists)
Tech-gifts lists confirm it : MS is dying
That's the kind of things that can happen when you're your own main competitor.
It's perfectly plausible that Microsoft got fed up with Microsoft and joined the W3C as a consequence.
as all computers are used to commit copyright infringements, this effectively means the prohibition of computers, right ? :P
Espionnage agencies are using new technologies to achieve their goals. So what ?
Spying/Intelligence (gathering information) is as old as wars are (already Sun Tzu was talking about that). It's in no way specific to a "cold war".
Yes, I also found funny that while IBM, Sun, Apple, Adobe all made in that list, our visionary Bill Gates and his "road ahead" failed to be there.
;)
But I guess there was a MICROS~1 on a SMB/NetBIOS domain controller on an IPX/SPX network all along
I have asked the guy doing our PCs installations, so I can give you more details...
It's a tx1000.
There are xp drivers on the website, but they don't cover the onboard nVidia chipset, and this one doesn't seem fully supported in XP. At least the ethernet port doesn't work.
Or carved on stones, good for durability
I'm sorry, I did a mistake, It's an HP Pavillion...
:P
We usually have Dells, but that specific laptop had been bought outside of the usual circuit.
Now go and mod down the 2nd point of my original post...
1) 2000 and XP have the same drivers.
2) We have a Dell laptop at work for which we're unable to find XP drivers, it comes only with Vista drivers.