"Have you even tried a multi-core or SMT processor? Linus (yes him) posts on RWT forums and he frequently fawns over the difference SMT/HT makes in user experience."
He's right, and it does not matter who is the CPU maker. I have an Athlon X2 4200+ dual-core machine that I built (runs SuSE 10.0) , and have put in some butt time on a dual 2.8 Xeon Irwindale machine that I also built (but it is not mine, I just run it in a lab, and it runs FC5) I have used a Pentium D 820 machine a very small amount (XP Pro), and also a dual 2.0 G5 PowerMac (Mac OS 10.4.)
In all of the cases, the second CPU really does make a big difference in the user experience if you have multiple apps open, which I certainly do and most people do also unless they are gamers. I would say that the Windows machine benefitted most from the second core as Windows tends to bog down for a while after a load has been removed as it has to process the delayed tasks, and the second core did these while the first one was working.
Yes, I consider myself a tech enthusiast and know my way around most things electronic (and mechanical) pretty well. I would not be posting here if I wasn't.
But to make a blanket statement that people who are techies have poor health habits is absurd. I go run, ride the bike, and go lift very often- I have at least 40 minutes of hard physical activity a day. I ran a half-marathon in under an hour and a half and put up 235 pounds on the bench for anybody who doubts me. I also rarely eat fast food. I bet I can out-run and out-lift whatever journalist wrote that crap, as well as be able to keep my computer rid of Viagra pop-up ads.
This kind of crap sickens me like it should sicken 95% of the other tech people who are not in any worse of shape than the average non-techie desk jockies and couch potatoes.
Me too. I am running a brand-new ABIT KN8 board and the NIC would just blink on and off after about 12 hours' use with the forcedeth driver. Shutting down the computer did not stop it from blinking- only switching off the pSU did. The nvnet driver is rock-solid, though.
I would agree with you in the desktop and home arena, but I strongly disagree with Linux being the "little kid" in the server space. Last time I checked, roughly 2/3 of all Web servers ran Apache, with most of them running it on Linux (the rest BSD and a few OS X and some UNIX boxes.) MS IIS has about 1/6 of that market, so if MS was going to slap Linux down, they should have started there before it dwarfed MS's market share.
I think that Apple more fits in line as the MS non-competitor to keep the DOJ happy. Apple does not really compete in the same segment that MS does and Apples are priced a lot higher than a generic x86 with Windows. Linux can and does run on anything with RAM and a CPU, and it directly challenges MS in many areas. Microsoft has tried to slap down Linux in the past and has not been too terribly successful. We'll see how this one unfolds.
That is about the smartest thing I have seen Microsoft do in a long time- compete.
They tried suing the opposition (SCO v. IBM) and that didn't work. They tried the FUD campaign ("Get The Facts") and that didn't work. They tried locking in file formats- that only didn't work all that well but got them sued (Samba) and a lot of backlash (State of Massachusetts.)
Now if Microsoft can or will do anything constructive with what they learn from Hilf and his crew is yet to be seen, but it's a step in the right direction for Microsoft and to some extent, the entire industry (when a giant farts, everyone's gonna smell it.)
Hmm. I have a professor that likes FC4 as well. However, it seems to have not given him any problems on his 20 machines, or else he has fixed them and nobody's the wiser. A couple people in his class have D/Led and installed FC4 and have had awful problems with it regarding MP3 support, so I generally point them to SuSE 10.0 and the Guru/Packman repositories.
Well, to answer both your post and the GPP, SuSE is available as a dual-layered DVD in the retail box. There are torrents for it that are legal too- you can search for it at the torrent sites (hey, they actually DO have some legal stuff!) It is good to have all kinds of install media available. SuSE has a mini net-install boot ISO, 5 CD sets (only for i386, AFAIK), 32- and 64-bit DVDs, and that 32/64-bit DL DVD.
No, I think that he laments the dearth of software on that one XP CD. I mean, you sometimes can't even install it without sticking in a RAID/SATA floppy! And then when it is installed, you have to install all of your drivers, office suite, applications, etc. ad nauseum.
I for one appreciate the large amount of pre-installed stuff. I just wish that GCC would be installed by default as it almost never is.
:D Me too. I ripped all of my CDs as.flac files starting a few years ago and haven't come across an MP3 in a while. However, streaming QuickTime and WMV9 formats *SUCK.*
If they actually do this, here's what will happen (and the same would happen no matter who is in power):
1. They pass the bill for the program with about 50 riders on it. Result: Plans for broadband Internet start and vendors in the districts of the senior politicians that proposed and passed this bill get no-bid contracts for networking equipment, which they sell for 10x the market rate. Also, somebody gets a statue, a fish pond, and a bridge to nowhere in their district.
2. The funding bill for the Intrenet program gets passed, but this time with 100 riders. The *AAs get a rider that mandates TCPA, HDCP, and whatnot because their lobbyists had to be bought off so that the funding could pass and make the incumbent party look good for getting it passed. Oh, and there are still many "regular" $1000 toilet seat pork-barrel deals in this bill too.
3. The telecom companies sue the government for billions for unfair competition. The project is tied up for five years while this happens and a bunch of lawyers get rich. The outcome is that the tiered Internet proposal by B(ell)S(outh) is allowed in exchange for the public broadband. The public broadband is also limited to 256K by the settlement as to not compete directly with BS and the other monopoly data providers.
4. The project gets completed ten years late at ten times the original cost. Most of us are on 20Mbps+ fiber at that time and few use the public 256K broadband. The project still gets hundreds of millions in funding every year even though it is almost never used.
Well, it all depends on what kind of server. Consumer-grade routers can be had for $50 and their ~200MHz CPUs handle routing a WAN connection to 4 100Mbit Ethernet NICs and generally wireless too with little problem. Gigabit units are about $150-200 and generally have 8 or more GbE LAN NICs and their hardware isn't that much more powerful than the 100Mbit routers' are. I'd get a router or switch instead of a Epia unit if all you're going to do is use it as a router. Or use that old decomissioned computer to do your routing.
Now if it is a file server, that makes a little more sense, especially if you need it to be in effect a slightly-more-powerful NAS box. Old computers generally balk at using large HDDs, and the Epia can handle SATA drives.
Eh, well, mobile chips have a Tmax of about 95-100C, but most desktop chips generally are toast at 65-75C. I would imagine passively-cooled chips like the Eden probably are in the former category as fanless units tend to run hotter than actively-cooled parts.
My 2.2GHz P4-M can get up to 100C and idles at 65C at 1.2GHz, while my 2.2GHz Athlon 64 4200+ can get up to only 65-70C and idles at about 26-27C (a couple of degrees above room temp.)
I let my friends on my network as long as they ask and possibly let me skip out on chipping in on the pizza every once in a while. But otherwise I have MAC filtering and WEP set up (yeah, my laptop is old and the car doesn't support WPA) to keep people from dragging my IP all over the P2P networks and child porn sites. Sharing is good, but you can go a little overboard with it and screw yourself over.
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Well, for Vista 64-bit, most every driver has to be rewritten anyway. That's why XP 64-bit had about nobody use it- no drivers.
He's right. My old laptop makes that noise whenever I push a lot through a network interface (something more than half of the maximum bandwidth.)
"Have you even tried a multi-core or SMT processor? Linus (yes him) posts on RWT forums and he frequently fawns over the difference SMT/HT makes in user experience."
He's right, and it does not matter who is the CPU maker. I have an Athlon X2 4200+ dual-core machine that I built (runs SuSE 10.0) , and have put in some butt time on a dual 2.8 Xeon Irwindale machine that I also built (but it is not mine, I just run it in a lab, and it runs FC5) I have used a Pentium D 820 machine a very small amount (XP Pro), and also a dual 2.0 G5 PowerMac (Mac OS 10.4.)
In all of the cases, the second CPU really does make a big difference in the user experience if you have multiple apps open, which I certainly do and most people do also unless they are gamers. I would say that the Windows machine benefitted most from the second core as Windows tends to bog down for a while after a load has been removed as it has to process the delayed tasks, and the second core did these while the first one was working.
Doubt me if you want to, but you'd be wrong. Have you ever run an half-marathon?
Yes, I consider myself a tech enthusiast and know my way around most things electronic (and mechanical) pretty well. I would not be posting here if I wasn't.
But to make a blanket statement that people who are techies have poor health habits is absurd. I go run, ride the bike, and go lift very often- I have at least 40 minutes of hard physical activity a day. I ran a half-marathon in under an hour and a half and put up 235 pounds on the bench for anybody who doubts me. I also rarely eat fast food. I bet I can out-run and out-lift whatever journalist wrote that crap, as well as be able to keep my computer rid of Viagra pop-up ads.
This kind of crap sickens me like it should sicken 95% of the other tech people who are not in any worse of shape than the average non-techie desk jockies and couch potatoes.
Me too. I am running a brand-new ABIT KN8 board and the NIC would just blink on and off after about 12 hours' use with the forcedeth driver. Shutting down the computer did not stop it from blinking- only switching off the pSU did. The nvnet driver is rock-solid, though.
No, this is more like edible plants are patented and he has to break the law to grow some carrots by and for himself.
I would agree with you in the desktop and home arena, but I strongly disagree with Linux being the "little kid" in the server space. Last time I checked, roughly 2/3 of all Web servers ran Apache, with most of them running it on Linux (the rest BSD and a few OS X and some UNIX boxes.) MS IIS has about 1/6 of that market, so if MS was going to slap Linux down, they should have started there before it dwarfed MS's market share.
I think that Apple more fits in line as the MS non-competitor to keep the DOJ happy. Apple does not really compete in the same segment that MS does and Apples are priced a lot higher than a generic x86 with Windows. Linux can and does run on anything with RAM and a CPU, and it directly challenges MS in many areas. Microsoft has tried to slap down Linux in the past and has not been too terribly successful. We'll see how this one unfolds.
That is about the smartest thing I have seen Microsoft do in a long time- compete.
They tried suing the opposition (SCO v. IBM) and that didn't work. They tried the FUD campaign ("Get The Facts") and that didn't work. They tried locking in file formats- that only didn't work all that well but got them sued (Samba) and a lot of backlash (State of Massachusetts.)
Now if Microsoft can or will do anything constructive with what they learn from Hilf and his crew is yet to be seen, but it's a step in the right direction for Microsoft and to some extent, the entire industry (when a giant farts, everyone's gonna smell it.)
Didn's MS already have to patch Vista for the WMF exploit?
Hmm. I have a professor that likes FC4 as well. However, it seems to have not given him any problems on his 20 machines, or else he has fixed them and nobody's the wiser. A couple people in his class have D/Led and installed FC4 and have had awful problems with it regarding MP3 support, so I generally point them to SuSE 10.0 and the Guru/Packman repositories.
Then who just made us dinner upstairs? I think you meant to say that nobody on Slashdot has girlfriends.
So you're saying the French stink?
Well, to answer both your post and the GPP, SuSE is available as a dual-layered DVD in the retail box. There are torrents for it that are legal too- you can search for it at the torrent sites (hey, they actually DO have some legal stuff!) It is good to have all kinds of install media available. SuSE has a mini net-install boot ISO, 5 CD sets (only for i386, AFAIK), 32- and 64-bit DVDs, and that 32/64-bit DL DVD.
No, I think that he laments the dearth of software on that one XP CD. I mean, you sometimes can't even install it without sticking in a RAID/SATA floppy! And then when it is installed, you have to install all of your drivers, office suite, applications, etc. ad nauseum.
I for one appreciate the large amount of pre-installed stuff. I just wish that GCC would be installed by default as it almost never is.
:D Me too. I ripped all of my CDs as .flac files starting a few years ago and haven't come across an MP3 in a while. However, streaming QuickTime and WMV9 formats *SUCK.*
Naw, you want LOW version numbers because all of the really good cutting-edge stuff has low numbers, such as Xgl, Beagle, etc.
Konqueror (v. 3.5.0 and later) has AdBlock, same as Firefox does. But it is automatically built into the browser and not a separate extension :D
Good. I am sure RMS would approve of the term :D
If they actually do this, here's what will happen (and the same would happen no matter who is in power):
1. They pass the bill for the program with about 50 riders on it. Result: Plans for broadband Internet start and vendors in the districts of the senior politicians that proposed and passed this bill get no-bid contracts for networking equipment, which they sell for 10x the market rate. Also, somebody gets a statue, a fish pond, and a bridge to nowhere in their district.
2. The funding bill for the Intrenet program gets passed, but this time with 100 riders. The *AAs get a rider that mandates TCPA, HDCP, and whatnot because their lobbyists had to be bought off so that the funding could pass and make the incumbent party look good for getting it passed. Oh, and there are still many "regular" $1000 toilet seat pork-barrel deals in this bill too.
3. The telecom companies sue the government for billions for unfair competition. The project is tied up for five years while this happens and a bunch of lawyers get rich. The outcome is that the tiered Internet proposal by B(ell)S(outh) is allowed in exchange for the public broadband. The public broadband is also limited to 256K by the settlement as to not compete directly with BS and the other monopoly data providers.
4. The project gets completed ten years late at ten times the original cost. Most of us are on 20Mbps+ fiber at that time and few use the public 256K broadband. The project still gets hundreds of millions in funding every year even though it is almost never used.
Well, it all depends on what kind of server. Consumer-grade routers can be had for $50 and their ~200MHz CPUs handle routing a WAN connection to 4 100Mbit Ethernet NICs and generally wireless too with little problem. Gigabit units are about $150-200 and generally have 8 or more GbE LAN NICs and their hardware isn't that much more powerful than the 100Mbit routers' are. I'd get a router or switch instead of a Epia unit if all you're going to do is use it as a router. Or use that old decomissioned computer to do your routing.
Now if it is a file server, that makes a little more sense, especially if you need it to be in effect a slightly-more-powerful NAS box. Old computers generally balk at using large HDDs, and the Epia can handle SATA drives.
Eh, well, mobile chips have a Tmax of about 95-100C, but most desktop chips generally are toast at 65-75C. I would imagine passively-cooled chips like the Eden probably are in the former category as fanless units tend to run hotter than actively-cooled parts.
My 2.2GHz P4-M can get up to 100C and idles at 65C at 1.2GHz, while my 2.2GHz Athlon 64 4200+ can get up to only 65-70C and idles at about 26-27C (a couple of degrees above room temp.)
Tell THAT to the *AAs and see what kind of response you get...
I let my friends on my network as long as they ask and possibly let me skip out on chipping in on the pizza every once in a while. But otherwise I have MAC filtering and WEP set up (yeah, my laptop is old and the car doesn't support WPA) to keep people from dragging my IP all over the P2P networks and child porn sites. Sharing is good, but you can go a little overboard with it and screw yourself over.
Last time I checked, the figure was about 8-9%. Not a huge number, but not a little one either.