There are already plenty of N routers that run dd-wrt, as someone above posted a link to. I think for instance, the Linksys WRT610N or something like that.
It's possible that he's implying that N routers will kill any b or g routers that are within range of its network by drowning out their signals, or something like that. I don't know whether there's any truth to that, as I have yet to experience or want an N router myself.
This is a good question, I'd like to know as well. I check every now and then and see a bunch of random login attempts that look like brute force (eg. root login attempts when we have root login disabled) but I don't really know whether I should be worried.
You don't know what you're talking about. This isn't about running PhysX on an ATI card, this is about running PhysX on an nVidia card while an ATI card runs the graphics. Disabling PhysX in that situation is ridiculous.
The AMD64 ISA has a bunch more registers and stuff that you can't access when running in x86 mode, so if nothing else it would be advantageous to be able to actually use the hardware that's on your chip. Also, these days RAM is dirt cheap; I have 6 gigs of RAM in my desktop and it cost me less than $100. Couldn't do that with 32 bit.
Yeah, the mods here are really WTFing me right now. The three posts in this thread talking about why SO is better than Ask/. are all modded funny. But also, it's much easier to navigate SO looking for answers than/..
Oh, cool. I guess that's not really a 100% confirmation, but otherwise he probably could not have done it so far. Unless you have specific sources that have found out that it is MIPS? Kind of interested as to why they went with MIPS versus ARM. That's pretty cool though; I guess most universities, including mine, usually use MIPS to teach assembly language/machine organization, so it's interesting to see actual products using MIPS. I guess this joins the N64 and PSP as MIPS powered consoles?
Yeah, but the iPlayer plays regular 640x480 videos in normal formats. I've used moonshell, tuna-vids, and ds-video, and they all work decently, but encoding the media is a pain in the ass. But technically, the DS can play video of course. The iPlayer device just lets it work better. I don't own one, but I do want to buy one.
It's not an ARM9. The iPlayer cartridge is designed to play videos, and has its own faster CPU on the cartridge. It's unknown what kind of CPU it is at the moment though, but people have been guessing that it could be over 300mhz.
Well, I rarely use Office programs at all really, and when I do it's usually a small assignment that I'll just print out and turn in. If I need to share something with others, I'll either use Google Docs or export to PDF. If I actually ever needed to interoperate with others, I might care but most of the time I don't. I'm planning on learning LaTeX for anything more serious though.
Yeah, I really don't know what's wrong with Firefox on my laptop. It might have something to do with frequency scaling, or I might have something wrong with my profile.
Eh, I was joking mostly. I really don't know why I got modded insightful, if I were metamodding I would disagree with that. In any case, I actually use MS Office (blasphemy, I know) because I can get it cheap and I actually like 2007.
Yeah, actually for me Firefox seems to plateau around 200MB, so I don't have many problems with Firefox on my desktop (6 GB total RAM). Strangely, on my laptop with 3GB RAM and a CPU in the same family, Firefox is ridiculously slow, and I have no idea why. Actually, the same goes for eclipse on my desktop and laptop. Meh.
Can you really attribute the Unix philosophy to Torvalds? I mean, the fact that Linux started as a Unix clone kind of goes against attributing that to Linus.
Uh, it's not unsourced, it's definitely a phone. http://maemo.nokia.com/features/phone/ . Nokia just likes to call them mobile computers, because that's what they are at some level. And Nokia has definitely said that it's a phone numerous times. Why would they complain about carriers otherwise?
Well, with the Core 2 series I think Intel finally got cooler CPUs. All I know is that my Turion laptop has horrible heat dissipation issues (but it's a 12" tablet convertible, so it sort of makes sense). Plus some of the nVidia chipsets that the Turions were paired with are poorly engineered for heat dissipation so it compounds the problem in mine. But I don't think AMD has ever been really better in the mobile CPU department since Pentium M came out. I've decided that I'll probably keep buying AMD desktop CPUs, but for laptops I'll probably have to go with Intel unless AMD really gets their act together.
Yeah, or otherwise the case is very strangely designed and it becomes hard to put anything in it. After I built my first computer I was so happy at the amount of space I had to put in a graphics card and the amazing removable drive bays that I decided never to buy an OEM computer again. The worst thing is that OEMs rip you off on upgrades. Probably at any point in time, you can buy a $200 graphics card that will play anything and is pretty close to top of the line. However, the OEMs will try to sell you a $50 card for $150 or something, which is ridiculous.
And I don't know if you're a game developer, but I'd guess you aren't, because you aren't really seeing it from a game developer's perspective. If nVidia comes out with nvidia-cool-thing extension to OpenGL, and ATI returns with ati-spiffy-shine extension which is almost the same but subtly incompatible, do you go through the trouble of writing two separate rendering paths for these new features, or do you just forget it until there's a standardized way of doing it across all cards? That's the whole point of having a standard API. The idea of extensions is neat technologically, but in practice it's a pain in the ass.
The same thing happens in web browsers - each browser (except IE) has been adopting HTML5 features one by one, but it's not worth developing for these new features until you can be sure that you will be accessible to a large number of people. See the recent drama/bullshit over the <video> tag and codecs. The end result is that no one can use <video>, because Firefox and Opera support Theora, Safari supports h264, and Chrome supports both, and of course IE supports nothing.
Uh, no it's not. You can build a far better machine yourself for say $400-500 than HP or Dell will give you. Sure, they might give you more hard drive space or something, but they'll use a shitty no-name PSU that will blow up after a few years or a crap motherboard with a locked down BIOS, and the RAM is almost always much slower than the maximum speed your motherboard will take, despite the fact that the faster RAM is only a few dollars more expensive. It's just not worth it. Especially if you aren't going to buy an OS and are just going to run Linux. And in my experience, prebuilt computers are hell to upgrade.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the last release of OpenGL (3.0?) basically was made to have feature parity with DirectX 10(.1?) and the next release will be designed to have feature parity with 11. So basically at this point OpenGL is just playing catchup, but it's not like they're that far behind anymore.
That price is unsubsidized. If you noticed, it has the unsubsidized iPhone price right after, which is $750 apparently. All phones cost much less after carrier subsidies.
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There are already plenty of N routers that run dd-wrt, as someone above posted a link to. I think for instance, the Linksys WRT610N or something like that.
It's possible that he's implying that N routers will kill any b or g routers that are within range of its network by drowning out their signals, or something like that. I don't know whether there's any truth to that, as I have yet to experience or want an N router myself.
This is a good question, I'd like to know as well. I check every now and then and see a bunch of random login attempts that look like brute force (eg. root login attempts when we have root login disabled) but I don't really know whether I should be worried.
You don't know what you're talking about. This isn't about running PhysX on an ATI card, this is about running PhysX on an nVidia card while an ATI card runs the graphics. Disabling PhysX in that situation is ridiculous.
The AMD64 ISA has a bunch more registers and stuff that you can't access when running in x86 mode, so if nothing else it would be advantageous to be able to actually use the hardware that's on your chip. Also, these days RAM is dirt cheap; I have 6 gigs of RAM in my desktop and it cost me less than $100. Couldn't do that with 32 bit.
Yeah, the mods here are really WTFing me right now. The three posts in this thread talking about why SO is better than Ask /. are all modded funny. But also, it's much easier to navigate SO looking for answers than /..
Oh, cool. I guess that's not really a 100% confirmation, but otherwise he probably could not have done it so far. Unless you have specific sources that have found out that it is MIPS? Kind of interested as to why they went with MIPS versus ARM. That's pretty cool though; I guess most universities, including mine, usually use MIPS to teach assembly language/machine organization, so it's interesting to see actual products using MIPS. I guess this joins the N64 and PSP as MIPS powered consoles?
Yeah, but the iPlayer plays regular 640x480 videos in normal formats. I've used moonshell, tuna-vids, and ds-video, and they all work decently, but encoding the media is a pain in the ass. But technically, the DS can play video of course. The iPlayer device just lets it work better. I don't own one, but I do want to buy one.
It's not an ARM9. The iPlayer cartridge is designed to play videos, and has its own faster CPU on the cartridge. It's unknown what kind of CPU it is at the moment though, but people have been guessing that it could be over 300mhz.
Well, I rarely use Office programs at all really, and when I do it's usually a small assignment that I'll just print out and turn in. If I need to share something with others, I'll either use Google Docs or export to PDF. If I actually ever needed to interoperate with others, I might care but most of the time I don't. I'm planning on learning LaTeX for anything more serious though.
Yeah, I really don't know what's wrong with Firefox on my laptop. It might have something to do with frequency scaling, or I might have something wrong with my profile.
Eh, I was joking mostly. I really don't know why I got modded insightful, if I were metamodding I would disagree with that. In any case, I actually use MS Office (blasphemy, I know) because I can get it cheap and I actually like 2007.
Yeah, actually for me Firefox seems to plateau around 200MB, so I don't have many problems with Firefox on my desktop (6 GB total RAM). Strangely, on my laptop with 3GB RAM and a CPU in the same family, Firefox is ridiculously slow, and I have no idea why. Actually, the same goes for eclipse on my desktop and laptop. Meh.
Hmm, I'm an eclipse user but I shudder to think of the slowness that marrying eclipse and OO.o would bring about.
Oh yes, git is awesome. I'm looking forward to a time when no one uses SVN anymore.
Can you really attribute the Unix philosophy to Torvalds? I mean, the fact that Linux started as a Unix clone kind of goes against attributing that to Linus.
Uh, it's not unsourced, it's definitely a phone. http://maemo.nokia.com/features/phone/ . Nokia just likes to call them mobile computers, because that's what they are at some level. And Nokia has definitely said that it's a phone numerous times. Why would they complain about carriers otherwise?
Pentium 4 Prescott cannot be beat in that regard.
Well, with the Core 2 series I think Intel finally got cooler CPUs. All I know is that my Turion laptop has horrible heat dissipation issues (but it's a 12" tablet convertible, so it sort of makes sense). Plus some of the nVidia chipsets that the Turions were paired with are poorly engineered for heat dissipation so it compounds the problem in mine. But I don't think AMD has ever been really better in the mobile CPU department since Pentium M came out. I've decided that I'll probably keep buying AMD desktop CPUs, but for laptops I'll probably have to go with Intel unless AMD really gets their act together.
This is basically my point, and partially why I don't run Linux full time.
Yeah, or otherwise the case is very strangely designed and it becomes hard to put anything in it. After I built my first computer I was so happy at the amount of space I had to put in a graphics card and the amazing removable drive bays that I decided never to buy an OEM computer again. The worst thing is that OEMs rip you off on upgrades. Probably at any point in time, you can buy a $200 graphics card that will play anything and is pretty close to top of the line. However, the OEMs will try to sell you a $50 card for $150 or something, which is ridiculous.
Actually, the latest release is apparently 3.2.
And I don't know if you're a game developer, but I'd guess you aren't, because you aren't really seeing it from a game developer's perspective. If nVidia comes out with nvidia-cool-thing extension to OpenGL, and ATI returns with ati-spiffy-shine extension which is almost the same but subtly incompatible, do you go through the trouble of writing two separate rendering paths for these new features, or do you just forget it until there's a standardized way of doing it across all cards? That's the whole point of having a standard API. The idea of extensions is neat technologically, but in practice it's a pain in the ass.
The same thing happens in web browsers - each browser (except IE) has been adopting HTML5 features one by one, but it's not worth developing for these new features until you can be sure that you will be accessible to a large number of people. See the recent drama/bullshit over the <video> tag and codecs. The end result is that no one can use <video>, because Firefox and Opera support Theora, Safari supports h264, and Chrome supports both, and of course IE supports nothing.
Uh, no it's not. You can build a far better machine yourself for say $400-500 than HP or Dell will give you. Sure, they might give you more hard drive space or something, but they'll use a shitty no-name PSU that will blow up after a few years or a crap motherboard with a locked down BIOS, and the RAM is almost always much slower than the maximum speed your motherboard will take, despite the fact that the faster RAM is only a few dollars more expensive. It's just not worth it. Especially if you aren't going to buy an OS and are just going to run Linux. And in my experience, prebuilt computers are hell to upgrade.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the last release of OpenGL (3.0?) basically was made to have feature parity with DirectX 10(.1?) and the next release will be designed to have feature parity with 11. So basically at this point OpenGL is just playing catchup, but it's not like they're that far behind anymore.
That price is unsubsidized. If you noticed, it has the unsubsidized iPhone price right after, which is $750 apparently. All phones cost much less after carrier subsidies.