I dont mind slashdot offering stuff I might actually like, streaming music, free code, new opensource products, games, new free services. And hell, icecast stream on a wifi relay with repeaters, of a music festival to an Apple Xserver running gentoo linux seems rather inventive.
Even thou some of the streams are too soft, good first step. Now if I could just find out what band is playing, and go check em out on garageband.com
Actually its more the way IDE spikes when your under heavy load. Having a dual cpu machine helps, scsi would be the ideal if the prices were no so high. Storagereview.com use to list how much CPU a HD would use under load. Sad to see that go.
I want to know if there will be dual boards out that are affordable. Currently the only options for a dual cpu environment is the P4 with hyper threading, Dual Xeon, or older AMD MP boards. All which are very affordable.
I've been using dual boards for awhile, then switched my workstations to a fast single CPU setup. What a mistake. With I/O taking so much CPU time, a dual setup is the best solution. I have not tried P4's hyper threading, but I wonder if thats the cheapest way to get the performance on a single CPU board.
AMD shouldn't abandon its MP CPU line. Wheres the MP chips with the 333mhz bus?
Also win2vnc works for the other direction. Windows to X.
BTW, i use a 4 port KVM, so I can share 1 21inch monitor with my laptop docking station/linux box/test box/sun box, works perfectly, and I bought OEM cables for 15 bux per pack for video/ps2 cables. KVM's rule.
For testing I play CS with 31 podbots with AI Enhancments on my workstation. I have CS Server running with admin mod/etc in the background, and another CS session for myself to play test.
CPU AMD XP1800, ATI9700/Audigy1, runs 100fps average on both server/client, but if I enable EAX it dips to 40's due to CPU load. Also AA turned on in the client doesnt seem to effect the server running in the background, so I run about 4x AA with 16x AF. (No trueform enabled)
But this is just for localized playing. Game hosting companies might use this 64bit machines. They need to run multiple copies on the same machine to turn a profit. We currently rent a CS server process at http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/ for a 24 users. I know they run at least 4 cs processes per server. You can tell by the way which your CS server uses ports 27015-27018, unless they bind a CS server to an IP. (Hey can I patent that? j/k)
Reading the p2p text something stood out that kinda shows the thought of some elected officals.
HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina
Songwriters can actually quantify their P2P piracy losses. By statute, a songwriter is both entitled and limited to collecting 8 cents for every digital phonorecord delivery of sound recordings containing her songs. Each illegal P2P download of a song robs the songwriter of that 8 cents.
Those 8 cents may not seem like much, but multiply 8 cents by the reported 3 billion monthly P2P downloads. It calculates out to $240 million a month. Even one-tenth of that amount represents real money to the 5,000 American songwriters.
Now another fact: If piracy profiteers were truly concerned about security and privacy threats to P2P users, they would address the security and privacy threats posed by the P2P networks themselves. A recent white paper by the University of Tulsa Center for Information Security details how KaZaA, Gnutella, and other popular P2P networks expose P2P users to spyware, Trojan horses, system exploits, denial of service attacks, worms, and viruses. A joint paper by Hewlett-Packard labs and the University of Minnesota details how the vast majority of P2P users are exposing personal information, such as credit card numbers, to every other P2P user. In fact, the United States courts, the House, and the Senate all block the use of public P2P networks because of the security concerns they pose.
So, they had to block p2p because they USED p2p programs. The madmen of washington.;)
Ive seen almost every HD, Motherboard or hardware go bad. Other than IBM and the bad batch of drives awhile ago, most seem pretty good. Just save your money and buy the cheapest oem you can get. (IMHO).
BTW, I waw a good deal on pricewatch, 200gig 7200RPM 8M WD's for 240 at newegg.
If they can make these beauties with a serial-ATA interface, I AM SOLD!
[snip] Speculation finally gave way to a real announcement on February 10th when Western Digital officially announced its Raptor Serial ATA drive. [/snip]
Yoper is a binary 686 arch distro, with rpm packages. Slackware is a small binary 386 arch distro, with tgz packages. Gentoo is a source distro for any architecture.
Gentoo is pretty fast, but damn you have to compile everything. It is fun to see which optimizations you can throw at the kernel, Xfree, kde and all. But I want an optimized build for AMD processors.
Maybe if someone had some spare time, do some benchmarks with P3/P4/XP compiled builds with SSE/MMX/3dnow/etc optimizations, could prove if specific builds are worth the hassle.
Thats what microsoft does for "Play Testing". They record ever word you say, and video tape it too. You have to talk out loud while you play. Kinda annoying, but you just let the little voice in your head speak out.
If you were any good at your job, you would have no trouble competing with other tech workers, H1B or not.
Actually, no. After you strip your company down to save money, the only thing left is employee wages. Most companies wont hire contractors at the end of the year due to the budget. They will also move call centers to save money. (Sometimes over seas...)
And now with the whole enron/worldcom bookkeeping problems. Its illegal to carry over 4th quarter projections to the 1st quarter, expect to see a rise in layoffs and lower wages to make up the loss.
GSM - ATTWS, Cingular, Tmobile. CDMA - Alltel, Sprint, Verizon. (Nextel is in there somewhere, dunno)
Lots of national GSM providers, some small local providers, and too many international providers.
I have both tmda and gsm phones, the only thing that has been holding me back from upgrading full to gsm, is I have too many extra hardware. Multiple car chargers, batteries, speakerphone, ear phone accessories. But those polyphonic ring tones and 16 bit color displays are really tempting to upgrade. Played around with uploading midi files to a polyphonic phone, freaking sweet.
Its really a phone issue, the T86i is better than the T68. The motorola t720 is better, but it has an external antenna. Would be nice if some company or website did some side by side testing for the consumers. Too many people get burnt by bad hardware, and think its the carriers coverage. But the consumer doesnt know the difference, they just want a phone that works.
Big difference, newer phones with Polyphonic sound, any tune will sound 100% better. Play wav's or midi's now, much better than the 1 note tunes that most phones have.
It actually a group of people doing it. I have been lucky enough to be targeted by them, and now I get their emails or varations on it daily. Not sure why my work email which never gets spam gets these.
The only thing I can think of is the foreign tech support offices I email. Or a vendor email list im on.
Nice thing about the lan parties lately, lots of prizes, both cash and computer hardware/software.
Here in Washington, we had GDFest and the IVGF in Seattle. GDFest claimed to be the biggest lan party on the west coast. Was cool, sponsered by ATI. ATI picked one guy, who snap a Leadtek 4600 in half, to win a ATI 9700. Snapped the thing in 2 pieces. NCGamers really ran a top class lanparty.
IVGF Just started this weekend, didnt hear about it till Thursday and all the slots where filled. Strange it wasnt on LanParty.com In fact, i dont think GDFest2003 was on it either. Really would of liked to have a chance to enter. $50,000 in prizes. Didnt realize it was the same people as GDFest.
Instead of Sears now shutting down it's spam operations (which I assume are incredibly popular) won't it just contract it out overseas through some shady company?
You can still sue Sears. Contracting out doesnt remove them from being responsible. Also if they contract out to commit crimes you can sue under the Rico act. Under the Rico act its 3x the ammount, so 1500 per spam. (IANAL, but It sounds good to me.)
I play around with lots of replacement shells on windows, and different window managers for xfree. With using multiple guis on multiple platforms all day, I'll share my thoughts.
The major problem with most guis, is speed. I want my data fast, I want to work fast. Heres some common problems I see.
1. Cut & Paste. I tend to use shift-insert/ctrl-insert more often than ctrl-x/c/v. Application tend to support which method the developer wants. Right mouse cut/paste/select all handy in windows, should be in more unix guis.
2. Taskbar, when having 20-30 applications open, i want quick access. Binding keys is ok for quick launch, but give me task bar, task list, or some other task type folder is really useful. Nice icons, animation is neat, but dont slow down my system, or get in the way.
3. Alt-tab. Pesky little windows key combo seems to be ingrained in my head. I love to alt-tab back to the last application. I know shift normally mean go backwards, but 3 key combos i tend to ignore.
4. Anti Aliased fonts. When you see them, its hard to go back to non-aliased fonts. Like seeing HDTV, its that much of a difference. BTW, terminal font is for terminals, I like the look of VGA font for my terms. Clear, easy to read, and a standard. Ansi VGA for terms only. (Linux console works, even use it on all my ssh programs.) Guess too much old school thinking ingrained in me, OS2 had the perfect font in its command shell.
5. Mouse, 5 buttons. For games or applications, having a button there makes a task quicker. (I know its not UI, but its input related..)
6. Pixel Snap. IceWM has it, and found a handy program for windows (allsnap) that does it. Make it easy to have multiple terminal windows open, and I dont have to align by hand.
7. Virtual Windows, neat idea, but I find myself wanting to see my apps on the screen. So I tile, and keep sections open that i need to see, most common, excel spreadsheets with datafill while i have open ssh working.
So having my little pics, it narrows my choices of which gui's I use. Mostly, Im sticking with WinXP with cygwin/putty for now. On the unix side, icewm or kde. Nice icewm is only 600K and does most of what I want. Blackbox can be configured with most of my choices also.
I think the biggest problem now is consistency, and these developers are working hard at adding options to fix that. And its only going to get Better.:)
I use Proxomitron to change my browser ident string. The only other method that gests me is java-script. I can re-write javascript code to trick sites, but java applets always detect which browser im using.
BTW, I read on the opera forum, people are hex-editing and removing Opera from the ident, to get around msn.
They just might have some killer story that would make a multimillions dollar release. And with awesome content, they might just hold off on release for a couple years till they have a engine worth to release to the public.
I saw the video of the game, the content looked good, the play looked worthwhile. But who knows, the programmers could be working on other projects till they see an engine worthy of Duke Nukem.
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Seems rather easy to replace.
I dont mind slashdot offering stuff I might actually like, streaming music, free code, new opensource products, games, new free services. And hell, icecast stream on a wifi relay with repeaters, of a music festival to an Apple Xserver running gentoo linux seems rather inventive.
Even thou some of the streams are too soft, good first step. Now if I could just find out what band is playing, and go check em out on garageband.com
Are the Dixie Chicks also banned from these streaming music channels from Texas?
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Well, let's see how fast this sumbitch'll go!
Actually its more the way IDE spikes when your under heavy load. Having a dual cpu machine helps, scsi would be the ideal if the prices were no so high. Storagereview.com use to list how much CPU a HD would use under load. Sad to see that go.
I want to know if there will be dual boards out that are affordable. Currently the only options for a dual cpu environment is the P4 with hyper threading, Dual Xeon, or older AMD MP boards. All which are very affordable.
I've been using dual boards for awhile, then switched my workstations to a fast single CPU setup. What a mistake. With I/O taking so much CPU time, a dual setup is the best solution. I have not tried P4's hyper threading, but I wonder if thats the cheapest way to get the performance on a single CPU board.
AMD shouldn't abandon its MP CPU line. Wheres the MP chips with the 333mhz bus?
Mostly wondering about Counterstrike. Wonder if Condition Zero (CS2) is going to have a mac port.
Does anyone know how Counterstrike runs under VP6? Would be nice to see someone test/benchmark games on VP6.
Also win2vnc works for the other direction. Windows to X.
BTW, i use a 4 port KVM, so I can share 1 21inch monitor with my laptop docking station/linux box/test box/sun box, works perfectly, and I bought OEM cables for 15 bux per pack for video/ps2 cables. KVM's rule.
For testing I play CS with 31 podbots with AI Enhancments on my workstation. I have CS Server running with admin mod/etc in the background, and another CS session for myself to play test.
CPU AMD XP1800, ATI9700/Audigy1, runs 100fps average on both server/client, but if I enable EAX it dips to 40's due to CPU load. Also AA turned on in the client doesnt seem to effect the server running in the background, so I run about 4x AA with 16x AF. (No trueform enabled)
But this is just for localized playing. Game hosting companies might use this 64bit machines. They need to run multiple copies on the same machine to turn a profit. We currently rent a CS server process at http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net/ for a 24 users. I know they run at least 4 cs processes per server. You can tell by the way which your CS server uses ports 27015-27018, unless they bind a CS server to an IP. (Hey can I patent that? j/k)
Reading the p2p text something stood out that kinda shows the thought of some elected officals.
;)
HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina
Songwriters can actually quantify their P2P piracy losses. By statute, a songwriter is both entitled and limited to collecting 8 cents for every digital phonorecord delivery of sound recordings containing her songs. Each illegal P2P download of a song robs the songwriter of that 8 cents.
Those 8 cents may not seem like much, but multiply 8 cents by the reported 3 billion monthly P2P downloads. It calculates out to $240 million a month. Even one-tenth of that amount represents real money to the 5,000 American songwriters.
Now another fact: If piracy profiteers were truly concerned about security and privacy threats to P2P users, they would address the security and privacy threats posed by the P2P networks themselves. A recent white paper by the University of Tulsa Center for Information Security details how KaZaA, Gnutella, and other popular P2P networks expose P2P users to spyware, Trojan horses, system exploits, denial of service attacks, worms, and viruses. A joint paper by Hewlett-Packard labs and the University of Minnesota details how the vast majority of P2P users are exposing personal information, such as credit card numbers, to every other P2P user. In fact, the United States courts, the House, and the Senate all block the use of public P2P networks because of the security concerns they pose.
So, they had to block p2p because they USED p2p programs. The madmen of washington.
Ive seen almost every HD, Motherboard or hardware go bad. Other than IBM and the bad batch of drives awhile ago, most seem pretty good. Just save your money and buy the cheapest oem you can get. (IMHO).
BTW, I waw a good deal on pricewatch, 200gig 7200RPM 8M WD's for 240 at newegg.
If they can make these beauties with a serial-ATA interface, I AM SOLD!
[snip]
Speculation finally gave way to a real announcement on February 10th when Western Digital officially announced its Raptor Serial ATA drive.
[/snip]
Did I miss something, the article says its SATA.
Ok, so.
Yoper is a binary 686 arch distro, with rpm packages.
Slackware is a small binary 386 arch distro, with tgz packages.
Gentoo is a source distro for any architecture.
Gentoo is pretty fast, but damn you have to compile everything. It is fun to see which optimizations you can throw at the kernel, Xfree, kde and all. But I want an optimized build for AMD processors.
Maybe if someone had some spare time, do some benchmarks with P3/P4/XP compiled builds with SSE/MMX/3dnow/etc optimizations, could prove if specific builds are worth the hassle.
Thats what microsoft does for "Play Testing". They record ever word you say, and video tape it too. You have to talk out loud while you play. Kinda annoying, but you just let the little voice in your head speak out.
If you were any good at your job, you would have no trouble competing with other tech workers, H1B or not.
Actually, no. After you strip your company down to save money, the only thing left is employee wages. Most companies wont hire contractors at the end of the year due to the budget. They will also move call centers to save money. (Sometimes over seas...)
And now with the whole enron/worldcom bookkeeping problems. Its illegal to carry over 4th quarter projections to the 1st quarter, expect to see a rise in layoffs and lower wages to make up the loss.
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Thoughts about Bush
GSM - ATTWS, Cingular, Tmobile. CDMA - Alltel, Sprint, Verizon. (Nextel is in there somewhere, dunno)
Lots of national GSM providers, some small local providers, and too many international providers.
I have both tmda and gsm phones, the only thing that has been holding me back from upgrading full to gsm, is I have too many extra hardware. Multiple car chargers, batteries, speakerphone, ear phone accessories. But those polyphonic ring tones and 16 bit color displays are really tempting to upgrade. Played around with uploading midi files to a polyphonic phone, freaking sweet.
Its really a phone issue, the T86i is better than the T68. The motorola t720 is better, but it has an external antenna. Would be nice if some company or website did some side by side testing for the consumers. Too many people get burnt by bad hardware, and think its the carriers coverage. But the consumer doesnt know the difference, they just want a phone that works.
Big difference, newer phones with Polyphonic sound, any tune will sound 100% better. Play wav's or midi's now, much better than the 1 note tunes that most phones have.
I have been chatting on IRC on my CDPD phone for years. But for a newer WAP phone, http://www.irssi.org/ has a wap module.
Just host your on webpage, its that easy.
It actually a group of people doing it. I have been lucky enough to be targeted by them, and now I get their emails or varations on it daily. Not sure why my work email which never gets spam gets these.
The only thing I can think of is the foreign tech support offices I email. Or a vendor email list im on.
Nice thing about the lan parties lately, lots of prizes, both cash and computer hardware/software.
Here in Washington, we had GDFest and the IVGF in Seattle. GDFest claimed to be the biggest lan party on the west coast. Was cool, sponsered by ATI. ATI picked one guy, who snap a Leadtek 4600 in half, to win a ATI 9700. Snapped the thing in 2 pieces. NCGamers really ran a top class lanparty.
IVGF Just started this weekend, didnt hear about it till Thursday and all the slots where filled. Strange it wasnt on LanParty.com In fact, i dont think GDFest2003 was on it either. Really would of liked to have a chance to enter. $50,000 in prizes. Didnt realize it was the same people as GDFest.
ammount and commit (I think my M key sticks.)
Instead of Sears now shutting down it's spam operations (which I assume are incredibly popular) won't it just contract it out overseas through some shady company?
You can still sue Sears. Contracting out doesnt remove them from being responsible. Also if they contract out to commit crimes you can sue under the Rico act. Under the Rico act its 3x the ammount, so 1500 per spam. (IANAL, but It sounds good to me.)
I play around with lots of replacement shells on windows, and different window managers for xfree. With using multiple guis on multiple platforms all day, I'll share my thoughts.
:)
The major problem with most guis, is speed. I want my data fast, I want to work fast. Heres some common problems I see.
1. Cut & Paste. I tend to use shift-insert/ctrl-insert more often than ctrl-x/c/v. Application tend to support which method the developer wants. Right mouse cut/paste/select all handy in windows, should be in more unix guis.
2. Taskbar, when having 20-30 applications open, i want quick access. Binding keys is ok for quick launch, but give me task bar, task list, or some other task type folder is really useful. Nice icons, animation is neat, but dont slow down my system, or get in the way.
3. Alt-tab. Pesky little windows key combo seems to be ingrained in my head. I love to alt-tab back to the last application. I know shift normally mean go backwards, but 3 key combos i tend to ignore.
4. Anti Aliased fonts. When you see them, its hard to go back to non-aliased fonts. Like seeing HDTV, its that much of a difference. BTW, terminal font is for terminals, I like the look of VGA font for my terms. Clear, easy to read, and a standard. Ansi VGA for terms only. (Linux console works, even use it on all my ssh programs.) Guess too much old school thinking ingrained in me, OS2 had the perfect font in its command shell.
5. Mouse, 5 buttons. For games or applications, having a button there makes a task quicker. (I know its not UI, but its input related..)
6. Pixel Snap. IceWM has it, and found a handy program for windows (allsnap) that does it. Make it easy to have multiple terminal windows open, and I dont have to align by hand.
7. Virtual Windows, neat idea, but I find myself wanting to see my apps on the screen. So I tile, and keep sections open that i need to see, most common, excel spreadsheets with datafill while i have open ssh working.
So having my little pics, it narrows my choices of which gui's I use. Mostly, Im sticking with WinXP with cygwin/putty for now. On the unix side, icewm or kde. Nice icewm is only 600K and does most of what I want. Blackbox can be configured with most of my choices also.
I think the biggest problem now is consistency, and these developers are working hard at adding options to fix that. And its only going to get Better.
I use Proxomitron to change my browser ident string. The only other method that gests me is java-script. I can re-write javascript code to trick sites, but java applets always detect which browser im using.
BTW, I read on the opera forum, people are hex-editing and removing Opera from the ident, to get around msn.
They just might have some killer story that would make a multimillions dollar release. And with awesome content, they might just hold off on release for a couple years till they have a engine worth to release to the public.
I saw the video of the game, the content looked good, the play looked worthwhile. But who knows, the programmers could be working on other projects till they see an engine worthy of Duke Nukem.
It worked for George Lucas.