These benchmarks help alot, I bet I'll play HL2 more than doom3 due to CS Source. So after I see benchmarks on ATI vs Nvidia on HL2, I can use the combined scores from both game to pick the best all around GFX card. Nvidia might own in Doom3, but Nvidia always seems to be better on ID games only. ATI seems to be better on Unreal and HL.
Hurry up and weight. Myself I want to wait for a dual PCI Express board before I upgrade, and I dont see any out yet. So no hurry to upgrade *YET*.
Linux has been a contender in the desktop market for a long time now. For anyone with more than 2 brain cels to rub together....
I remember back when I had an Amiga, writing scripts in arexx, working with the CLI. I went to a Commodore users group, and some people didnt even know what the CLI was. They could load games from floppy and play, no setup, no tweaking drivers, etc. They didnt even use the desktop, it was a game machine only.
This is the original joe six pack/mom test, and to be honest, Linux/BSD isn't there *YET*. Mac OSX is pretty good about setup and ease of use, but they install on limited hardware.
But that being said, this is major piece to getting Linux as a desktop replacement, license software.
We use lots of shared drives, remote desktop applications, X traffic, moving core files, database dumps, email with very large attachments (exchange to boot).
We migrated to 100meg, it was like night and day, and we still need more. We finally got 1gig to IT's network, and still to slow to push files with lots of users.
We have a burstable OC192 to our 2nd remote datacenter, OC48/12's to the smaller datacenters. But this is for production networks that need bandwidth, not desktop usage.
Also, my buddy in Japan just told me he got 100Meg DSL, the stuff you can do when bandwidth isn't a concern. Already Internet TV stations popping up there, amazing. Can't wait for this to catch on in the US. I just upgraded to 6M DSL from speakeasy, and its too fast for fileplanet.
I did mention it was a Windows issue.;) But IDE still spikes more CPU than loading of programs over ethernet. You can turn off auto-start and other registry commands to make explorer.exe more cpu friendly, but the system still has more CPU spike on loading off IDE.
The normal IDE drives are fore CDroms only, most HD's go on the Raid controller (even if you dont do raid). That seperates it, like you said.
USB floppy, so I can unplug it when I dont need it. Still OS's out there you need a floppy for.
This is one reason I like samba shares, loading/saving fles over TCP takes less CPU than IDE. (In windows)
IDE sucks the life out of PC, even newer 3ghz+ pc's still pause when you put in a floppy or eject a cdrom in windows.
I can put a bunch of slow IDE's in a pentium 2 box, and over TCP no performance hit loading/saving files. (In windows)
BTW, this is also how bootless terminals or low class cpu's can be so smooth. My laptop on the network has slow HD IDE issues, so I put apps on the server and load, quicker and more space.
I think this is the reason I like the new Intel HT cpu's, anything to get rid of the slow factor of IDE under windows, throw more time slices at it.
Updating DNS for MX records everytime for dynamic DNS services sounds like a lot of overhead when you have thousands of subscribers.
I'm more worried about the sending email through your local ISP when you host your domain on a hosting service senario. Most hosting ISP's will need to offer user/pass enabled smtp to send email, which they currently don't.
Also, this won't stop Zombie email spam attacks.
Fix a few problems, and it would be a doable solution, otherwise is just blocks smaller ISP's emails. Lame.
Thats what pisses me off about Hatch and everyone else who strangles patents and copyrights. Everything new is based off older technology, the reason we had the.dot com and tech industry today is improving technology. Nothing is truly created without building some sort of experience.
Something has to change in the USA, we cant keep passing laws when theft is already a law. If you pirate something, thats covered by hundreds of laws. Personal use needs to be made law, if this keeps following, we won't own anything anymore, everything will be licensed, that can be revoked at any moment.
Thats what scares me about DRM, it takes ownership away, and makes me pay continously for something I should be able to buy for a smaller profit.
We all loose, and nobody sees it. - http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
Well, I was IRC'ing on my phone back a few years ago using T9 over CDPD on ATT Wireless.
Now I'm playing with UMTS A845 Motorola phone in Seattle, bigger screen, just waiting fo the SSH client or a new updated IRC client. Thing has 64 megs, just need an SDK to compile IRC.
BTW, Wonder if my ISP will hate me for that link..:)
You don't need insurance to have a License, its just illegal to drive without insurance. Maybe Florida has some wierd laws about it, after the last election, shows how messed up the Florida DOL is.
We put in an irc bot in an rss channel, that makes short url's. Its just spits out short url's, and it announces new rss news. Just click on the RSS news link in xirc and it opens up in mozilla.
I think part of the problem is people would post the same URL's for news all day, and everyone was saying "OLD NEWS". Rather annoying when people work 8-12 hours a day, its new News to them.
Actually, that is pretty important as theres is no Service Pack 2 XP Cd out. If you install on an open Internet connection, you can be infected before you download the updates. Even our work lan wasnt protected, soon as I plugged my laptop in for updates it was infected, and I had to clean it off. (Ya, ya, zone alarm....) I guess the default XP firewall turned on would at least be some protection.
I think its worth picking up a cheap network router or wireless router so you can have NAT firewall to filter your PC. 802.11b routers are on sale for 20 bux that have NAT built in. Pretty cheap, and then you can update your PC before it gets infected.
I have all service packs merged into my Win2k on CD, but WinXP only has the default SP1 without the updates for a year. So, the unplug or firewall your Internet connection is pretty important.
I was admining an old SCO server years ago (i feel dirty) and the home directory was a shared directory/home/dispatch for a couple hundred users.
I was deleteing a user, and told it to remove the users directory. The shared directory was deleted with it...Lucky an older and wiser Sys-admin had a cron-job backup of the directory (just in case)...
Hardware wise, I've lost multiple monitors to game resolution changes. Nothing like a monitoring changing resolution and pop, sizzle, nothing... Has to be my worse fear about monitors that anytime they could die when changing resolution and refresh rate.
Also, Bought a linksys wireless 802.11b/g router, flashed it, poof, dead. Right after the 30 day return policy. Its still sitting on my shelf as I need to mail it in for repair....
Bought a new DVD/VCR combo, tried to use a wet cloth to pull off the damn sticky advertisement on the front, managed to wipe off some of the paint. Some damn strong sticky glue on electronics, how stupid.
We use all types of telco hardware running private OS's in a production enviroment. We patch on a regular basis, because there is no way to load test this hardware. Enabling new functionality or modifing the enviroment pops up new problems, new software upgrades on connected resources can spring up new problems on a daily basis.
Its amazing, its like whack a mole, it never gets stable. You spend your time fixing one problem to move onto a new one that pops up with some new feature or alteration becomes production.
Linux wants to be the OS of choice for production enviroments, 5 nine hardware for critical applications need some kind of testing.
Don't think of a webserver, think of a dozen servers talking multiple protocols to each other over multiple mediums all changing the data in realtime. Its easy for memory leaks, timing issues, or corruption to appear.
I guess its good to be a vendor, since the customer will have to pay support contracts to the end of time.
This is why I laugh at IBM's "Servers are self healing" commericals, while its nice in theory, they make too much money off contracts.
I'm sitting here trying to get this to work on IE, Mozilla and Firefox then I read the bottom of the page.
The following browsers are not affected: * Mozilla Firefox 0.9 for Windows * Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 for Windows * Mozilla 1.7 for Windows * Mozilla 1.7 for Linux
All my browsers are allready patched! Even IE was patched.
I've had 2 viewsonic monitors burn out on me, but I've been buying viewsonic for years. But my 19 inch burned out, and my 21 inch has alignment problems.
Time to go with another vendor, since im still using tubes. I'll switch to LCD's when 20 inch LCD's dont ghost.
tell me why I would want to look at my document while it's twisted sideways?
If you only have 1 window open at a time, it would be useless. If you have multiple windows, shrinking or moving at an angle keeps them in view. Being able to zoom out and still keep it visible gives more desktop space.
Wonder what multiple videos would look like, if any movement the window could be enlarged. You could do all kinds of interesting new things with this type of desktop, if its not staticly rendered.
Xwnc is a mix of Xvnc and XDarwin. It draws nothing on your screen, every things is drawn into pixmaps.
Does this mean its not-updated in realtime, just static pictures?
The whole thing about 3d desktops, the windows need to be still functioning, so you the monitor windows are still functioning. Most seem to only use pictures, just snapshots, a very cheap and completly useless.
Looks cool, but hung on the live cd on my nforce2 board, amd 2600 off the board's internal IDE drives. Stopped at the PCI scanning stage.
Screenshots look cool, but guess my hardware isn't supported.
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Umm...offtopic, but I still feel constrained to reply: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "mockumentary". It is not real life. It is a carefully collected montage of video clips designed to preach to the choir.
Your post hits many things people just repeat, incorrectly as gospel.
1. Fahrenheit 9/11 is fiction. 2. Using ad hominem attacks.
Fahrenheit 9/11 has valid points it builds to make the movie. So yes, they might be magnified, but they are magnified FACTS. There are people who will say they are only half facts or half truths, but the point remains, the actions and inactions in the movie are FACT.
Also.
It's not a ad hominem attack, when you discuss a persons actions, not who he is, and still think he is objectionable. Ad hominem is attacking the person BECAUSE you find him "Personally" objectionable.
Ad hominem is the perfect straw man escape argument, you can never argue about a man you don't like. But then people who do stupid and foolish things can never be talked about without calling the conversation "ad hominem" what freaking Circle logic.
You should be able to argue a persons actions you find personally objectionable, without people saying you are using "ad hominem" attacks.
So, President Bush hired criminals, is backed by criminals, consults with criminals, runs companies with criminals and terrorist money, lies, and ruins our country. But I'm sure hes a nice fellow to drink a beer with...
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That's a scary bill, I don't think it will pass, its too vague.
But, I'm getting tired of hearing how some elected fuck nut bought and paid for by special interests are introducing a bill to fuck over Americans.
Key word, ELECTED OFFICAL.
How can I hope for the best for America, when they want to re-elected people like this over and over. When questioning our presidents actions is Un-American? When watching a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 can make your blood boil, and still people don't do anything.
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One of the duties of being a Sys-admin is giving out passwords/access for vendors. You need to poke fun at them for all the outages.
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Also one vendor pissed me off, so I used a competing vendor as a password. example, "3yC!sc0"
But then, its funny you spend that much time coming up with entertaining passwords and the hardware only supports telnet.
These benchmarks help alot, I bet I'll play HL2 more than doom3 due to CS Source. So after I see benchmarks on ATI vs Nvidia on HL2, I can use the combined scores from both game to pick the best all around GFX card. Nvidia might own in Doom3, but Nvidia always seems to be better on ID games only. ATI seems to be better on Unreal and HL.
Hurry up and weight. Myself I want to wait for a dual PCI Express board before I upgrade, and I dont see any out yet. So no hurry to upgrade *YET*.
Linux has been a contender in the desktop market for a long time now.
For anyone with more than 2 brain cels to rub together....
I remember back when I had an Amiga, writing scripts in arexx, working with the CLI. I went to a Commodore users group, and some people didnt even know what the CLI was. They could load games from floppy and play, no setup, no tweaking drivers, etc. They didnt even use the desktop, it was a game machine only.
This is the original joe six pack/mom test, and to be honest, Linux/BSD isn't there *YET*. Mac OSX is pretty good about setup and ease of use, but they install on limited hardware.
But that being said, this is major piece to getting Linux as a desktop replacement, license software.
We use lots of shared drives, remote desktop applications, X traffic, moving core files, database dumps, email with very large attachments (exchange to boot).
:)
We migrated to 100meg, it was like night and day, and we still need more. We finally got 1gig to IT's network, and still to slow to push files with lots of users.
We have a burstable OC192 to our 2nd remote datacenter, OC48/12's to the smaller datacenters. But this is for production networks that need bandwidth, not desktop usage.
Also, my buddy in Japan just told me he got 100Meg DSL, the stuff you can do when bandwidth isn't a concern. Already Internet TV stations popping up there, amazing. Can't wait for this to catch on in the US. I just upgraded to 6M DSL from speakeasy, and its too fast for fileplanet.
Speed kills
I did mention it was a Windows issue. ;) But IDE still spikes more CPU than loading of programs over ethernet. You can turn off auto-start and other registry commands to make explorer.exe more cpu friendly, but the system still has more CPU spike on loading off IDE.
The normal IDE drives are fore CDroms only, most HD's go on the Raid controller (even if you dont do raid). That seperates it, like you said.
USB floppy, so I can unplug it when I dont need it. Still OS's out there you need a floppy for.
This is one reason I like samba shares, loading/saving fles over TCP takes less CPU than IDE. (In windows)
IDE sucks the life out of PC, even newer 3ghz+ pc's still pause when you put in a floppy or eject a cdrom in windows.
I can put a bunch of slow IDE's in a pentium 2 box, and over TCP no performance hit loading/saving files. (In windows)
BTW, this is also how bootless terminals or low class cpu's can be so smooth. My laptop on the network has slow HD IDE issues, so I put apps on the server and load, quicker and more space.
I think this is the reason I like the new Intel HT cpu's, anything to get rid of the slow factor of IDE under windows, throw more time slices at it.
Updating DNS for MX records everytime for dynamic DNS services sounds like a lot of overhead when you have thousands of subscribers.
I'm more worried about the sending email through your local ISP when you host your domain on a hosting service senario. Most hosting ISP's will need to offer user/pass enabled smtp to send email, which they currently don't.
Also, this won't stop Zombie email spam attacks.
Fix a few problems, and it would be a doable solution, otherwise is just blocks smaller ISP's emails. Lame.
Thats what pisses me off about Hatch and everyone else who strangles patents and copyrights. Everything new is based off older technology, the reason we had the .dot com and tech industry today is improving technology. Nothing is truly created without building some sort of experience.
Something has to change in the USA, we cant keep passing laws when theft is already a law. If you pirate something, thats covered by hundreds of laws. Personal use needs to be made law, if this keeps following, we won't own anything anymore, everything will be licensed, that can be revoked at any moment.
Thats what scares me about DRM, it takes ownership away, and makes me pay continously for something I should be able to buy for a smaller profit.
We all loose, and nobody sees it.
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http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
ATT Wireless launched UMTS also.
Well, I was IRC'ing on my phone back a few years ago using T9 over CDPD on ATT Wireless.
:)
Now I'm playing with UMTS A845 Motorola phone in Seattle, bigger screen, just waiting fo the SSH client or a new updated IRC client. Thing has 64 megs, just need an SDK to compile IRC.
BTW, Wonder if my ISP will hate me for that link..
Something sounds fishy.
You don't need insurance to have a License, its just illegal to drive without insurance. Maybe Florida has some wierd laws about it, after the last election, shows how messed up the Florida DOL is.
We put in an irc bot in an rss channel, that makes short url's. Its just spits out short url's, and it announces new rss news. Just click on the RSS news link in xirc and it opens up in mozilla.
I think part of the problem is people would post the same URL's for news all day, and everyone was saying "OLD NEWS". Rather annoying when people work 8-12 hours a day, its new News to them.
Lots of uses for IRC other than chat.
I have about a dozen IE only sites at work, where our IT peeps (who get microsoft perks) use plugins, scripts or even .net that you must use IE.
One such work order system works flawlessly under mozilla, I had to use proxomitron to re-write the javascript code on the fly to get it to work.
If someone writes a plugin thats IE only, most likely microsoft is there somewhere, with its fingers in the mix.
Actually, that is pretty important as theres is no Service Pack 2 XP Cd out. If you install on an open Internet connection, you can be infected before you download the updates. Even our work lan wasnt protected, soon as I plugged my laptop in for updates it was infected, and I had to clean it off. (Ya, ya, zone alarm....) I guess the default XP firewall turned on would at least be some protection.
I think its worth picking up a cheap network router or wireless router so you can have NAT firewall to filter your PC. 802.11b routers are on sale for 20 bux that have NAT built in. Pretty cheap, and then you can update your PC before it gets infected.
I have all service packs merged into my Win2k on CD, but WinXP only has the default SP1 without the updates for a year. So, the unplug or firewall your Internet connection is pretty important.
I was admining an old SCO server years ago (i feel dirty) and the home directory was a shared directory /home/dispatch for a couple hundred users.
I was deleteing a user, and told it to remove the users directory. The shared directory was deleted with it...Lucky an older and wiser Sys-admin had a cron-job backup of the directory (just in case)...
Hardware wise, I've lost multiple monitors to game resolution changes. Nothing like a monitoring changing resolution and pop, sizzle, nothing... Has to be my worse fear about monitors that anytime they could die when changing resolution and refresh rate.
Also, Bought a linksys wireless 802.11b/g router, flashed it, poof, dead. Right after the 30 day return policy. Its still sitting on my shelf as I need to mail it in for repair....
Bought a new DVD/VCR combo, tried to use a wet cloth to pull off the damn sticky advertisement on the front, managed to wipe off some of the paint. Some damn strong sticky glue on electronics, how stupid.
We use all types of telco hardware running private OS's in a production enviroment. We patch on a regular basis, because there is no way to load test this hardware. Enabling new functionality or modifing the enviroment pops up new problems, new software upgrades on connected resources can spring up new problems on a daily basis.
Its amazing, its like whack a mole, it never gets stable. You spend your time fixing one problem to move onto a new one that pops up with some new feature or alteration becomes production.
Linux wants to be the OS of choice for production enviroments, 5 nine hardware for critical applications need some kind of testing.
Don't think of a webserver, think of a dozen servers talking multiple protocols to each other over multiple mediums all changing the data in realtime. Its easy for memory leaks, timing issues, or corruption to appear.
I guess its good to be a vendor, since the customer will have to pay support contracts to the end of time.
This is why I laugh at IBM's "Servers are self healing" commericals, while its nice in theory, they make too much money off contracts.
I'm sitting here trying to get this to work on IE, Mozilla and Firefox then I read the bottom of the page.
The following browsers are not affected:
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9 for Windows
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 for Windows
* Mozilla 1.7 for Windows
* Mozilla 1.7 for Linux
All my browsers are allready patched! Even IE was patched.
I've had 2 viewsonic monitors burn out on me, but I've been buying viewsonic for years. But my 19 inch burned out, and my 21 inch has alignment problems.
Time to go with another vendor, since im still using tubes. I'll switch to LCD's when 20 inch LCD's dont ghost.
a way to store all my pr0n!
I was thinking the same thing, but I wasn't going to say it. Kudo's!
These guys buy their 3d engines from Destineer Studios, who made the Halo engine. Guess it could be one kick ass tractor game.
tell me why I would want to look at my document while it's twisted sideways?
If you only have 1 window open at a time, it would be useless. If you have multiple windows, shrinking or moving at an angle keeps them in view. Being able to zoom out and still keep it visible gives more desktop space.
Wonder what multiple videos would look like, if any movement the window could be enlarged. You could do all kinds of interesting new things with this type of desktop, if its not staticly rendered.
Xwnc is a mix of Xvnc and XDarwin. It draws nothing on your screen, every things is drawn into pixmaps.
Does this mean its not-updated in realtime, just static pictures?
The whole thing about 3d desktops, the windows need to be still functioning, so you the monitor windows are still functioning. Most seem to only use pictures, just snapshots, a very cheap and completly useless.
Looks cool, but hung on the live cd on my nforce2 board, amd 2600 off the board's internal IDE drives. Stopped at the PCI scanning stage.
Screenshots look cool, but guess my hardware isn't supported.
Umm...offtopic, but I still feel constrained to reply: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "mockumentary". It is not real life. It is a carefully collected montage of video clips designed to preach to the choir.
Your post hits many things people just repeat, incorrectly as gospel.
1. Fahrenheit 9/11 is fiction.
2. Using ad hominem attacks.
Fahrenheit 9/11 has valid points it builds to make the movie. So yes, they might be magnified, but they are magnified FACTS. There are people who will say they are only half facts or half truths, but the point remains, the actions and inactions in the movie are FACT.
Also.
It's not a ad hominem attack, when you discuss a persons actions, not who he is, and still think he is objectionable. Ad hominem is attacking the person BECAUSE you find him "Personally" objectionable.
Ad hominem is the perfect straw man escape argument, you can never argue about a man you don't like. But then people who do stupid and foolish things can never be talked about without calling the conversation "ad hominem" what freaking Circle logic.
You should be able to argue a persons actions you find personally objectionable, without people saying you are using "ad hominem" attacks.
So, President Bush hired criminals, is backed by criminals, consults with criminals, runs companies with criminals and terrorist money, lies, and ruins our country. But I'm sure hes a nice fellow to drink a beer with...
That's a scary bill, I don't think it will pass, its too vague.
But, I'm getting tired of hearing how some elected fuck nut bought and paid for by special interests are introducing a bill to fuck over Americans.
Key word, ELECTED OFFICAL.
How can I hope for the best for America, when they want to re-elected people like this over and over. When questioning our presidents actions is Un-American? When watching a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 can make your blood boil, and still people don't do anything.
Seems like the Dark Ages.